You are my wife, don't doubt it!

“I can’t see clearly.”

"No, what's that look you have?" Xiao Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"It's very dark with only a few torches lighting it up. I'm lucky enough to see that it's a person." Shen Jie said angrily.

"Tell me what you can see."

"The man who got beaten...has very strong abdominal muscles..."

"Abdominal muscles? That's fine, he's not the one we're looking for."

"You two! What are you doing?"

"!!" Suddenly a voice startled Xiao Yao.

He turned his head and was stunned.

"Zhou Qi? I finally found you!" Xiao Yao shouted.

"She is Zhou Qi?" Shen Jie asked as she walked down with the help of the wall.

Zhou Qi was seen wearing light makeup, with her hair tied up behind her head, wearing a neat suit, black stockings and high heels. She looked a generation older than before. Although she was only of medium build, she had a condescending aura in front of Xiao Yao.

"Let me see your student ID." Zhou Qi stretched out his hand, and there was no hint of recognition of Xiao Yao in his tone.

"No? New here?"

Looking at Zhou Qi's eyebrows, clothes and behavior, Xiao Yao suddenly realized that the person in front of him was not Zhou Qi, but the same robot called Sekel that he met yesterday.

I didn't recognize the head that was chopped off by an axe yesterday, but now that I think about it, isn't that Zhou Qi's face?

What is the relationship between Zhou Qi and this place?

By the way, the Zhou Qi that I met at Qiangui KTV is actually also a Seckel?

"What should we do?" Shen Jie hooked Xiao Yao's little finger and asked in a low voice.

"If you haven't registered yet, please come with me to complete the formalities." It seemed that Sekel's request did not take into account the possibility of being rejected at all.

"Anyway, we can't follow her way of thinking. We got fooled last time." Xiao Yao answered Shen Jie as he followed her.

Shen Jie nodded.

Before Xiao Yao could finish the second half of the sentence, "But you can't use force. This guy was hit on the head with an axe and he's fine.", Shen Jie suddenly kicked Zhou Qi in the back of the head.

It's over! Xiao Yao secretly groaned in his heart.

Normally, a normal person would fall down if hit by this.

Unfortunately, Seker is not a normal person.

"Run!" Xiao Yao pulled Shen Jie's hand, but Shen Jie had already fallen down.

Then, Xiao Yao’s eyes went dark.

Alas, it’s the same old same old.

……

……

……

……

A mouthful of cold water choked his throat, mud and sand sprayed out of his nose, and the fishy aftertaste instantly made his brain clear again.

"Are you awake?"

The voice came from the person who was holding him from behind.

"Stand up straight, I really don't have any strength left." It was Shen Jie.

Xiao Yao quickly found his legs and let them get into the role.

In order to support the unconscious Xiao Yao and prevent him from drowning, Shen Jie kept holding him and keeping his face above water.

This made her look a little disheveled, with a few strands of wet hair sticking to her forehead and her makeup smudged.

Xiao Yao felt both grateful and distressed—Huh? Wait, she actually wore makeup? Xiao Yao didn't notice it at all.

The girl's chest and below were submerged in dirty water - in fact, dirty might be more of an imagination, because the room was dark and visibility was not high.

Then, Xiao Yao felt waves of pain coming from the wound on his right arm.

"Where are we?"

"Prison...prison." Shen Jie replied with chattering teeth.

Ah, yes.

A dungeon lit by torches, with iron cages inside, iron handcuffs and crosses hanging on the walls... and water that reaches up to one's waist?

From the neighboring room not far away came the sounds of whipping and screaming.

Xiao Yao finally remembered what happened: "You are too reckless...?"

Shen Jie opened her mouth to retort, but in the end she said nothing.

"How long have I been unconscious?"

"I don't...know," Shen Jie continued to chatter, "...it should be...a few hours, right?"

Have you been supporting me for the past few hours? Xiao Yao was somewhat emotional and a little bit surprised.

"That's right!" he shouted, "Didn't the priest give us a teleportation scroll..."

"If you put it in your trouser pocket, it would have been soaked and rotten a long time ago," Shen Jie interrupted him: "Do you think I can't think of it?"

"Why don't you memorize it?"

Shen Jie's eyes widened, and she looked like she was about to explode with anger, but in the end she just said coldly: "Yes, it's all my fault."

"I'm sorry." Xiao Yao finally noticed that the girl's face had turned pale due to the cold and her lips were purple.

It is said that it is summer in Shanghai now, so even if there is a big temperature difference between day and night, it would not cause hypothermia to this extent.

But in this world, there is no logic.

"You can wear my coat..." Xiao Yao looked at Shen Jie's wet black sports vest that stuck to her body and made this suggestion in a casual way.

"What's the point of wearing wet clothes..."

"Then what should we do now..." Xiao Yao asked the question halfway and swallowed the word "what should we do" back into his stomach.

If you ask girls everything, then what else do you need me for?

He tried to "walk" in the water to the door of the dungeon and check it, only to find that his left foot was locked by something.

"Is the water level rising all the time?" Xiao Yao discovered another more serious problem.

"..." Shen Jie was no longer able to speak.

Well, let's assume that the water level won't rise. In that case, at least we won't freeze to death if we make it to dawn. The prison should at least provide food. Right? Right...

"Hmm..." Shen Jie looked a little dazed.

"Don't sleep! You can't fall asleep now!"

Xiao Yao put his arm around Shen Jie's shoulders.

The young man hugged the girl tightly in his arms. He had no evil thoughts of taking advantage of her. He just wanted to share some of his body temperature with her, and more.

"I'm sorry..." Xiao Yao said, "I'm really sorry."

The girl seemed to nod, but also seemed not to. In the darkness, Xiao Yao could only hear her breathing.

"Talk to me too, and don't fall asleep." Xiao Yao reminded.

In fact, even he himself could feel his body temperature rapidly draining away.

He felt very cold, his hands and feet were shaking uncontrollably, and it was hard to tell how clear his consciousness was.

"I'm also... sorry..." Shen Jie finally spoke again.

"Huh?" Xiao Yao said.

"Some time ago, I treated you like that," Shen Jie said, "Do you really have to let others know about it?"

"It's okay, it doesn't matter, anyway," Xiao Yao actually didn't care, but pretended to be carefree and said: "You will be my wife sooner or later anyway, why should I be in a hurry?"

The girl leaned her head on Xiao Yao's chest and smiled weakly: "We are all going to die here together, and you are still so slick."

"It might be nice to die with you." Xiao Yao blurted out, not knowing how much of his words were true or false.

"I just don't like people like you." Shen Jie said quietly.

"What?" Xiao Yao was stunned.

"Nothing." Shen Jie closed her eyes.

"We won't die," Xiao Yao encouraged her, "We will get out of here, live to be over 30, and live...watch Shen Tianyun grow up day by day from a baby to a big girl, and then..."

"Tianyun, Shen Tianyun..." Shen Jie chewed on the name, as if there was some magic in it: "If we die here, history will be changed, and there will be no Shen Tianyun anymore, right?"

"Varied--"

"...You are right, we will not die." Shen Jie's voice suddenly became louder.

"Um……?"

"This is... the world of ideas, or the world of spirit, right?" Shen Jie's eyes sparkled. "If that's the case, why should we be dominated by other people's cognition and will?"

"That's right!" Xiao Yao shouted.

"We will survive. The daughter of the Shen family will not die in a place like this." Shen Jie announced: "We will leave here and rescue all your classmates, and then, and then..."

Before Xiao Yao could finish hearing what she said "and then", the girl in his arms broke free.

He heard the sound of anklets breaking, and then saw Shen Jie walking towards the door of the dungeon.

"Be careful..." Xiao Yao tried his shackles, but they still didn't move.

"Ay, Ay, Thou art we, we art thou." Another voice sounded out of nowhere in the air, but it was obviously not Shen Jie's voice.

Xiao Yao felt that the English she spoke had the accent of ancient English aristocrats. Then the owner of the voice revealed her true form: a translucent shadow, wearing a blood-red robe, a crown covered with twelve-colored gems and inlaid with a golden cross, and a colorful rose with red outside and white inside in her hand, tightly pressed under her chin.

"This is..." Xiao Yao murmured.

Shen Jie raised her head and saw a layer of light on the phantom, illuminating the dim water dungeon.

A small badge appeared in her palm, floating in the air. On the front of the badge was a portrait that was exactly the same as the translucent shadow, with the words "Mary Tudor" written below.

"Mary...what?" Shen Jie held the badge and turned it over. On the back of the badge was a white marble sculpture of a chess piece called the "Queen". The sculpture of the queen on the chess piece was vivid and lifelike, like a real person, with a strong Renaissance flavor.

"My bloodline and pride are all integrated into the crown," said Shen Jie.

"What did you say?" Xiao Yao shouted.

The reason why they had to shout so loudly was because the entire dungeon was shaking and making a rumbling sound.

The phantom in a blood-red robe spoke Old English which Xiao Yao could not understand, and lit a fire, causing the wooden door of the dungeon to burn. However, Xiao Yao did not feel any burning sensation, only a sense of warmth.

Then his shackles began to loosen and the wooden door fell down with a loud bang.

The shadow and the flame disappeared, and he saw Shen Jie climbing to the "shore" by herself, with her wide-leg pants filled with water flowing like a waterfall. The water flowed into her dad's shoes, overflowed, and fell into the water. Under the light of the extinguished fire, the wet white shoes and socks reflected a bright light.

"Wait for me too! Hey!"

Chapter 60 Fragments of Memory

2022-12-31

Xiao Yao tried several times but failed to climb up, and finally had to rely on Shen Jie to pull him up.

When the two left the dungeon and began looking for a way out, they discovered that this was simply a dark maze.

The narrow passage was dark and damp. The walls were slippery within reach of fingers. The iron bars and chains were rusted. The smell of iron and blood in the air mixed with the smell of tetanus. There were still puddles of water of varying depths on the ground. Xiao Yao could hear Shen Jie, who was walking in front of him, making "puff" and "puff" sounds of water coming out of her shoes with every step she took.

"Try to go up as far as possible, that should be good, right?" A drop of cold water fell on Xiao Yao's forehead, making him shiver.

"I think so." Shen Jie held a small flame in the air in her right hand, using it as a torch to illuminate a little bit of the road ahead.

"So, you are a great wizard now?" Xiao Yao sighed, "It really is like a game. It's a pity that I don't know how to bring out my knight ability."

"I can't tell you, and I can't either..." Shen Jie felt uncomfortable with the wet clothes sticking to her body, but there was nothing she could do now: "Didn't you get the Don Quixote badge earlier than me?"