Train to Moscow.
Ellisted's spirit was already in danger, he had just experienced a battle royale.
He knew better than to what awaited him ahead, but Ellisted continued to move forward.
Finally, some light appeared in the foul-smelling passage in front of them. Those lights seemed to be guiding the people who were looking for the green spring to find the source of life.
Ellisted stretched out his hand, as if he had begged for something and could not wait to grab it. He climbed up, following layer after layer of railings, and his dirty hand touched the manhole of the sewer at the last moment.
Just as he was about to climb up, a pair of feet stepped on his hands, and severe pain spread from his hands to his brain nerves.
Then the boy stretched out his exaggerated voice like a shrill clown, saying with a half-smile, "Well, look who we saw. A mouse. Ha! A little mouse. A little mouse that crawled out of the sewer."
Hagen grabbed the man up, mercilessly and without hesitation, like a cat catching a mouse.
Then he threw the man to the ground, and Ellisted's head hit the stone, which was extremely sharp.
Ellisted felt a little wet on the back of his head, and his head hurt. That stuff might be his own blood.
Ellisted was a little confused at this moment. To be more precise, he started to become confused from the sewer and from the moment he smelled the stench.
Looking at the other person's painful expression, Hagen smiled happily. He had no intention of showing any pity to Ellisted. He squatted down, patted Ellisted's face and then squeezed it hard.
"You are Jiang's companion, right? Is your name Ellisted? Are you back to find that crazy woman?"
Ellisted's head was groggy and he couldn't hear what Hagen was saying. He wanted to shake Hagen off. Hagen's arrogant smile was a little double in his sight, and his clown makeup was doubled up, so blurry that he couldn't see clearly. Although he couldn't see clearly, Ellisted could hear the word Tana.
Ellisted finally came to his senses and wanted to break free from the clown boy's restraints, but he didn't expect that he would not be able to take action before he started.
The masked monster that had been chasing him before appeared. The masked monster clenched its fist, with a black glove wrapped around it. Ellisted also saw some tiny red tentacles appearing in its fist, and then the fist smashed down into his solar plexus from top to bottom.
Only then did Ellisted realize that he had been careless. He was too anxious and worried about Tana's danger. When he fell into a coma, he spoke vaguely to Jiang who could not hear him.
I'm sorry... I don't know if I can go back.
Hagen stood up, his face changed, and he kicked the unconscious guy with anger, then turned to Iris and said.
"Lord Stanford wants this human, hush, bring him to Stanford, Iris, go, go.
But, did you put some potion in the sewer? He looks like he's been on drugs, blurry and crazy, like a mad dog."
Iris didn't answer him, and Hagen didn't care about such things. He just asked casually. He looked at the wellhead and frowned. The crazy woman kept saying that Ellisted was here, so where did Jiang go after escaping?
Now that the amusement park is empty, where can he go alone? What should he do alone? When he thought of this, Hagen's face froze. He realized that he was worried about Jiang Kexin. He rubbed his face and forced himself to be gloomy.
He simply couldn't do what Earl Stanford said these days, and he was reluctant to let his love fall into painful struggle.
To put it bluntly, Hagen is like a kidnapped good dog. After being rewarded with an illusory candy, he can never go back to his previous vicious appearance.
He changed from a wolf to a good dog, but now his master doesn't want him anymore.
Hagen squatted down and covered his face. The more he thought about it, the sadder he became. The more he thought about it, the more confused he became. He could no longer control himself. Some tiny tentacles emerged from his face. They wanted to come out and roam freely.
He wanted to take Jiang back to his nest.
Iris ignored what Hagen was doing, and he didn't bother to pay attention.
He simply bent down and grabbed the unconscious person's feet and walked forward like he was dragging an animal.
As Iris moved, two bloodstains were dragged onto the ground. The bloodstains grew longer and longer, stretching away from the sewer manhole...
When Ellisted woke up again, what he saw was not the man in clown makeup, nor the assassin, nor the masked monster, but a beautiful, elaborate and warm interior, a room full of fragrance.
It was as if the masked monster he had seen before was just an illusion.
Thinking of this, his head suddenly hurt unexpectedly, but other than the pain, there were no other adverse reactions.
Before Ellisted could react, a man wearing a white wig and slowly cutting an apple turned his chair and looked at Ellisted.
Ellisted noticed that he seemed to have mysophobia. He wore white gloves and held a silver knife and fork in both hands. Perhaps because Ellisted stared at him for too long, the man finally spoke.
He began in a medieval accent, "Sir, I noticed you were in a hurry. You seemed to be worried about something."
"Don't be afraid, don't worry, let's talk about it in detail. I won't hurt you, I can help you. Your name is... Ellisted, right?"
As he said this, he picked up the apple with one hand and put it into his mouth. It looked like a warm scene, but it was strangely terrifying.
It's as cold as a robot imitating a human.
Ellisted raised his head upon hearing this, his eyes were cold, he had come back to his senses from the confusion and fatigue, he didn't know who the person opposite was but he knew that the masked monster and the boy in clown makeup were obviously from the same faction as him, so Ellisted would not give them a good face.
"Oh, no, no, my dear friend, there is no need to be so hostile to me. Let us speak frankly, my friend. You know who I am, and you can call me Count."
Count Stanf stood up, walked behind Ellisted, and then bent down. The white wig hung on Ellisted's face. Ellisted pursed his lips without saying a word, and there was an unusual light in Count Stanf's eyes.
His voice was deep and powerful, as if it could penetrate the strongest armor.
"My friend, you are now in trouble and in great difficulty, and I can help you. All I ask is not much, but a little loyalty. A simple oath to promise that no matter what happens in the days to come, you will remember the favor I have shown you today."
Ellisted's heart beat faster and he bit his lip, a little hesitant. He knew who was on the other side. Isn't the word "earl" obvious? This is what he heard at the beginning: Earl Stanford will bring a stranger to the ball.
And he is the earl, the boss.
Ellisted's face was in a state of struggle. He admitted that what the earl said made him very excited.
After all, this is equivalent to the boss handing you the method to pass the level with both hands.
But he didn't believe it was that simple. So what did Stanford want? Ellisted thought vaguely, and he actually already had the answer in his heart.
But he still asked without holding out hope. What if things weren't what he thought?
"I have nothing to give you, and why should we need your favor."
Count Stanford stroked his white gloves and laughed. As if mocking Ellisted's knowing question, he casually opened the curtains that had been closed all the time. At this moment, it was still pitch black outside the window, but people here could hear some noise and clamor.
The monsters' noise gradually turned into human laughter and conversation.
Lord Stanford slowly opened the curtains and sighed deeply, his voice low and powerful.
"You know deep down that once you enter this amusement park, there's no getting out. We're trapped in an eternal cycle, a never-ending celebration that's held us captive for years. And none of you who enter, whether intentionally or unintentionally, can easily leave. But I, I have the power to set you free."
A sly smile played on his lips, his eyes gleaming with arrogance. "You hold in your hands what I need, and you can easily give it to me. You came here to find that poor woman, right? She's with me, but you gave me what I need."
Stanford's smile was filled with unquestionable authority. "Tell me Jiang Kexin's whereabouts, and swear to never pursue him again, or meet him again. Regardless of whether you've ever met Jiang Kexin before, you only need to tell me whether you accept this deal or reject it."
Ellisted's lips trembled slightly. It was said before that there were three ways to pass a copy. One of them was to honestly complete the requirements of one's background or indigenous people, and the second one Ellisted might have already encountered, and the boss just let it go.
In fact, if he had to choose, Ellisted would definitely choose this method. Why not do it if he can pass the level easily?
According to what he said before, before he knew Jiang Kexin, he would have made the choice without hesitation. Anyway, the person he had to give up was not Tana, so he had no reason to hesitate.
But now, when faced with the boss's tempting proposal, he did not make a choice immediately but instead fell into a dilemma.
Despite the turmoil in his heart, he maintained a calm appearance.
At this time, it’s not that he is very loyal or cares about Jiang Kexin, it’s just that he doesn’t have enough chips.
Count Stanf saw it and smiled cruelly. He waved his hand and asked Iris to bring the crazy woman in. Count Stanf's order was like a declaration of fate. With his gesture, Iris brought a tortured woman into the room.
Her arrival was accompanied by the thud of heavy boots and the rustle of her chains, sounds that woven into a mournful symphony in the air.
Then Ellisted saw that the once radiant Tana was covered with scars, those scars were so eye-catching, and her face was full of fear, like the trembling of a mouse being dragged into the sunlight.
Elised trembled and asked, "What did you do to her?"
No one paid any attention to him, except for the occasional sound of Stanford playing with his gloves.
These images and sounds were like knives cruelly cutting Ellisted's heart, increasing Ellisted's equal level of pressure to another place.
Tana was still confused. She didn't know that Ellisted had arrived. She could only see that what was in front of her was an illusion that she feared, or maybe it was already a reality for Tana.
She made terrified noises from time to time and curled up like a weak animal. It turned out that even people who thought they were strong would become pitiful when faced with fear.
As Ellisted watched, he never imagined that this was what a living person would look like when he went crazy.
He couldn't help but struggle against the unnecessary ropes. Stanford didn't tie him up at all. Ellisted didn't pay attention to so many details. Earl Stanford let him do what he wanted. He didn't let Ellis stop him. He just leaned against the chair and smiled faintly.
When Ellisted did this, Lord Stanford knew he had won the game.
Then Ellisted staggered down from the chair. He didn't care about the mess and mud on his body. He crawled forward, pressing his fingers on the ground inch by inch, and then he reached Tana. Tana was limp and dirty. There was no light on her face, and fear was deep in her eyes.
Ellisted touched her tremblingly, and Tana's face was so cold that Ellisted could feel the coldness even when he touched it.
When he touched her face, the balance that had only tilted slightly officially tilted. Ellisted hesitated and trembled as he said, "I will never meet Jiang Kexin again. Giving up on him means Tana and I can leave, right? Is that right? Then... I—will."
Ellisted deliberately avoided the important issues.
Earl Stanford pressed the glove on his hand nonchalantly. There was a pen on the glove. He pressed a button and the pen emitted a red light. He was not in a hurry about Jiang Kexin's whereabouts. He had always wanted to say that.
Earl Stanford emphasized it again, with a strange tone in his voice. "Are you going to abandon Jiang Kexin?"
Ellisted was still trying to comfort Tana. He looked anxious to comfort Tana, thinking that he would take Tana to the space for treatment after passing the level, and everything would be fine for them. So he didn't pay close attention to the strangeness in Stanf's tone. He thought Stanf just didn't hear clearly, so Ellisted repeated it again.
He said, "Yes, to abandon him."
"Can you let us go?" Before Ellisted could say this, Stanf pressed the pause button on his pen. He was playing with the pen with satisfaction. This was the technology left behind by the mercenaries when they came to attack them. The original purpose of this recorder was to steal the information of this dimension.
But now Earl Stanford is using this technology to record Jiang Kexin's companions giving up on him.
Earl Stanford smiled cruelly and happily. No one would carelessly abandon this fact, and he would tell Jiang Kexin such a painful thing when he caught him back.
Then he would play the recording day and night when Jiang Kexin broke down in bed, and when Jiang Kexin was about to cry and couldn't bear it, he would tell her again and again, I love you the most, everyone in this world will abandon him but I won't.
As for these two humans, Stanf took back the recorder with disdain. He would not let go of these two humans who had betrayed his little human and his loved ones, and they were no longer of any use to him.
Stanford turned and left. Ellisted and Tana were still hugging each other. In the end, Ellisted was choking up while hugging Tana. He bargained in a low voice.
He choked and said, "...Can you please not hurt him, he is just..."
It's already this late and you still think you have the power to bargain. Stanford was impatient and beckoned back at him.
Iris was stunned. He stared down at Ellisted. Ellisted was in a trance. Iris was trembling with pleasure. He blocked the knife with both hands and then moved his hands down. The knife went straight into his chest.
It was as easy as cutting a watermelon in half, with the blood, flesh and internal organs all cut evenly. The fat inside was all yellow in color, and there were some small red spots in the fat.
Blood spurted out like water from a lost pipe, scattering on the ground like flowers scattered by a fairy. In addition, some blood was stained on Iris's black gloves. Iris tore off the black covering at some point, and the tentacles licked the scattered blood contentedly.
No matter how lucky humans are, this is the end. Tana was stunned. The corpse in front of her was straight and straight. The body she was holding just now was split into two. The hot blood fell on Tana's face, and hallucinations appeared in front of Tana again.
[Tana's SanCheck: 9/20 The sanity check submitted this time was successful, fixing the crazy dentist phobia.
san=20-3=17】
Inspiration check result: 1d100=37/70 "Success"
It went very smoothly. What did you see?
But it was different from before. Tana saw Ellisted. Ellisted was squatting down, holding the knife in both hands and stabbing downwards. Then the monster dentist who had been pestering her was stabbed to death. Tana shouted happily, "Ellisted, Ellisted, you are finally here..."
Then Tana looked down with hatred, wanting to see what the monster doctor who was stabbed to death by Ellisted looked like.
But she didn't see the monster doctor, but she vaguely saw a lot of teeth. When she saw the teeth, Tana remembered that she seemed to have no teeth again, and these teeth were just right for her to install.
Then she said to Ellisted in front of her, "Don't go yet, Ellisted, don't go yet. Let me put my teeth back on first, otherwise those monsters will hit me again."
Tana groped on the ground and tried to stuff a bunch of crooked teeth into her mouth.
After inserting it, Tana now had a tooth. She felt comfortable and then she lowered her head to see where the tooth came from and where the monster doctor killed by Ellisted had gone.
As a result, when Tana looked at the teeth carefully, the teeth and the monster doctor turned into the appearance of Ellisted. The teeth were Ellisted's flesh and blood, the monster doctor was Ellisted, and the Ellisted she saw before was Iris.
Tana screamed and beat herself hard, muttering, "This is all fake, fake, I'm still hallucinating."
As soon as she opened her mouth to speak, the pieces of meat and intestines in her mouth fell to the ground. The masked monster next to her was looking at her behavior with its head tilted, puzzled.
Tana calmed down from her crazy behavior and repeated her previous actions. She didn't understand why she had just screamed. She looked up and saw Ellisted. He was looking at her, so Tana said to Ellisted.
"Ellisted, don't go. Wait for me, my teeth." After saying this, she continued to repeat her actions, picking up teeth from the ground. The sticky and bloody things filled Tana's mouth. She kept repeating this until Ellisted's flesh bulged her stomach and blue veins appeared...
[Tana's SanCheck: 30/17 Sorry, the sanity check you submitted this time failed. Please be more careful.
San = 17-7 = 10... Losing 17 points in one day. I'm sorry you're going to die in this hallucination.
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