30. If you give Dameng, I will give women's clothing!
Perhaps he hadn't communicated with anyone for a long time, or perhaps he was too hungry. The bearded man spoke very slowly and vaguely, forcing Xiao Cangshu and the two players who came over to listen closely.
The bearded man is called Ken, a native of Louvre City. Like most of the prisoners, he was caught in the dungeon near the dark forest.
He's been here for a year and six months, in real time not the six-hour clock.
Most of the prisoners had either given up by this time, died of hunger, or were discovered after escaping.
Ken was an exception. He planned to escape, but not through some stupid route, such as escaping while doing labor or attacking a jailer... and all the prisoners who did that died.
Opposite them is the dungeon manager, the terrifying dark wizard.
As a former teacher with a noble status, Ken had more brains. So a month after he was captured, he began to plan a way to escape from the dungeon.
The first was the mines and pools. After more than ten days of investigation, he determined that there was no access to the outside world.
Then there was the cafeteria and the exit of the East Ward. Observing secretly, he found that the mummy chefs all left through the coffins in the cafeteria, and the East Ward was heavily guarded. How tight was it? Ken couldn't even approach that passage.
In other words, he has no idea what the exit looks like.
At the end of each day, the jailers escort the prisoners back to their cells and lock the cell doors. There are also jailers who pass by every once in a while, so the only coffin in the cafeteria that seems to have some hope is out of reach.
Every possibility was rejected, and Ken's heart gradually sank to the bottom. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life in a depressing, crowded, hopeless dungeon, but it seemed that he had no other choice.
Even the bosses could only act as prisoners and respect the jailer, let alone him who had a peaceful personality.
This kind of despair lingered in the heart, and Ken and most of the prisoners who had no hope were getting thinner and thinner. Until one day, the leader of Ken's cell brought in a new younger brother, and Ken, who had always been unwilling to participate, was kicked out of the cell as an outsider by the leader.
The jailer, who had received the favor from the boss, took Ken to the deepest cell in Area B.
It's dark and humid here, with water droplets hanging on the uneven rock walls. The cells next door are vacant. The nearest life is tens of meters away, and it's even far away from torches.
No matter how much clothes you wear or how much hay you lay out, you can't stop the coldness from penetrating into your bones.
But he knew that his hope had come.
On the second day after arriving here, Ken hid the sharp stones found in the mine in his hair and successfully evaded the jailer's search.
After returning, he couldn't wait to restart the most difficult of his escape plans: the Big Excavation Project.
As the name suggests, dig out the birthplace.
He chose the spot where the toilet was placed.
A theoretically safest place. Maybe the jailer would check the cell on a whim, but he would never check there. Just in case, he never even emptied the toilet. There was always half full of dark yellow urine and sinking.
Floating pieces of debris exuded an unbearable stench.
The ground and walls are all one piece of rock, and no one would want to dig out an exit—including the jailer.
This gave Ken a very good chance, because the jailer's patrol would never go here.
Having regained hope, Ken began to squeeze out his physical strength, wrapping the small stones he brought back from the mine every day with a layer of cloth, and digging into the ground without making any sound.
After a year in the dungeon, he dug a fist-sized gap in the rock.
In the second and third years, he worked day and night to deepen the gap.
Twenty centimeters, thirty centimeters...
On the last day of the third year, after spending the New Year set by the dark wizard: resting all day and eating enough black bread, Ken received his own New Year gift.
With a slight noise, his piece of stone sank into the rock. When he took it up, there was a little bit of soil at the bottom.
After three years, he finally dug through nearly 40 centimeters of rock.
As a price, he lost twenty pounds and could no longer bend his finger joints.
This is why he eats slowly and strangely.
During this period, prisoners were occasionally captured. They were sent here because they offended a certain leader or jailer.
Ken had to pause for a while, and as time went by, they were either driven crazy by the environment here, or they begged other bosses and were taken away. No boss would be satisfied with the lack of men.
So Ken was still alone, and no one discovered his little secret.
At that time, he took some soil and put it to the tip of his nose to smell it. In addition to the odor of urine that penetrated, there was also a peculiar smell of earth.
Ken recognized it. It was a kind of gray clay. This clay layer is distributed 7 to 20 meters underground.
In other words, the dungeon location is within this range.
Ken, who was looking excited, drew a white mark on the edge of the hole, starting from one edge of the hole and ending at the other edge, forming a circle.
As long as he digs a circle along the white seal and hollows out the clay at the bottom, he only needs to stand on it and step on it, and a hole that can pass through as an adult will be formed.
In the next three years, Ken continued to work hard to complete this task. At the same time, he secretly kept the overall structure of the East Prison District in mind while working, so as to avoid digging into areas that should not be dug after the big excavation plan started.
During his break just a month ago, he finally connected the circle, which was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, end to end.
After jumping on it and stepping on it dozens of times, there was a cracking sound and Ken's figure suddenly dropped several centimeters.
He succeeded.
It was very difficult to move dozens of kilograms of rocks, and then jumped into the hole and stepped on the warm soil.
The big excavation plan officially begins.
Ken began to dig at a speed of a few centimeters per day, and the clay and sand he dug out were spread evenly on the ground, and the remaining tsk was smeared on his body and taken out during labor hours.
For a noble mysophobia... forget it, his mysophobia disappeared when he was caught in the dungeon.
However, he soon discovered that his body was getting weaker and weaker.
Long-term malnutrition and overexertion made his body unable to support it any longer.
At this time, the hole was only over one meter deep, and less than two meters were dug out in the selected direction.
Reluctantly, he decided to start looking for his companions. At this moment, three people from Xiao Cang Shu jumped into sight.
In fact, Xiaocangshu had already noticed them before he noticed them.
As an old prisoner, Ken clearly knows that only the newly captured prisoners are the most resistant to this place and have the strongest desire to survive.
But he didn't touch it rashly. He couldn't take risks, not even a little bit.
And it was also at this time that Xiaocangshu took the initiative to lift it.
After a day of testing, Ken decided to choose them as his helpers.
"My dungeon number is b1099, find a way to get to me."
With the last words, Ken wiped his mouth and beard, ignored Uncle Appendice's two plates, stood up and left.
[The main mission has been updated]
The system prompts the three players to look at each other and see the joy in each other's eyes.
The main mission has finally made critical progress.
