Little Barney paused for a moment, his eyes wandering.
It's like recalling the past.
After hearing this, the members of the Guard behaved differently:
Samir sneered, Belletti and Nye remained silent, Tardin snorted coldly, Bree squeaked anxiously, and Cannon, who was walking at the end, even let out a glum expression.
I saw Naji holding the torch in pain, and the flames flickered:
"Barney, please... after we go out, can we just... forget it?"
Little Barney's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, as if he couldn't understand:
"never mind?"
Naki hummed, and the words spread in the passage, with a vague feeling of nothingness:
"You know, find a place, spend the rest of your life quietly, forget about Sak'el, forget about him..."
Listening to the conversation between the two, Thales suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not quite right.
Sure enough, the next moment, Barney's voice suddenly rose to a high pitch!
"Forget him?"
His steps paused for a few seconds, and the team behind him also became confused.
"What about the thirty-seven brothers who died in prison?"
Just listen to Little Barney snorting bitterly:
"What should we do with those who died in Fuxing Palace?"
"What about the old captain, Tony, and my father?"
He clutched his sword and shield tightly, his voice filled with unspeakable misery and anger:
"Your Majesty and Your Highnesses...what should they do?"
"What about the blood shed by the kingdom back then?"
Naji was stunned by him and fell silent for a while.
Belletti patted Little Barney on the shoulder worriedly. The latter shook his head, indicating that he was fine, and then continued to move to follow Samir.
However, just when the worried Thales thought everything was back to normal, Naki's faint voice came again:
"But Barney, have you ever thought about those people who died, they might..."
Naki paused and said with deep unbearability:
"Maybe they don't want to see us repaying each other unjustly and killing each other... Maybe they just want to rest in peace, just want us to be safe and sound, and just want everything to go with the wind..."
Thales frowned.
The atmosphere is getting worse and worse.
"Naki," Tardin couldn't help but say:
"Stop talking."
Naki was silent.
Little Barney's humming came.
"Gone with the wind..."
He looked deeply at the torch beside him, slowly becoming confused, then becoming determined again:
“When my father had his arms broken and all his blood drained out, and he was lying silently on the red-stained floor tiles with painful eyes open like a wild dog on the roadside, covered under piles of corpses, he
It doesn’t look like it’s gone with the wind.”
Barney Jr.'s words were full of anger and pain.
The breathing in the passage became disordered.
"There are also the tortures, everything we have endured, and the pain we have faced over the past ten years or so, more than forty people..."
"For more than ten years, the illusions you have seen with your eyes open and closed, the past you have dreamed of, and the future you have imagined..."
"Think again, Sak'el is the culprit of all this, but he escapes the responsibility, deceives the world, and gets away with it..."
"Ask yourselves, Naki, you..."
"Can we really let all this go away with the wind?"
"Then you can live the rest of your life with peace of mind and confidence?"
Every word he said made everyone in the guard slightly moved.
"No."
"At least I can't."
"And this isn't fratricide either."
Little Barney said softly.
"The moment when he, when Sak'el abandoned his oath, betrayed the late king, and raised the butcher's knife to us," Little Barney drew out his sword blade and said coldly, as if he had abandoned the last trace of emotion:
"He is no longer our brother."
The coldness inside and outside his words made Naji shudder slightly.
"We will do our best to find him, catch him, and hunt him by any means, no matter the mountains, rivers, oceans, ends of the earth, or hell on earth." Following the footsteps, Little Barney's sword edge crossed the wall, bringing up the relationship with him.
The same terrible grinding sound:
"We will force Sak'el to answer, let him witness his fate, and watch how his crimes and debts back then are repaid one by one..."
At that moment, Barney gritted his teeth:
"Betraitors must pay the price."
Naki's voice sounded again, this time with a hint of anxiety and pleading: "But, Barney!"
"Whether it is your father or the old captain, they will not want such revenge..."
"Naki!" Tardin seemed like he could no longer stand Naki's untimely persuasion:
"Shut up!"
But little Barney seemed to be aroused by Naki, and he sneered:
"revenge?"
"No, this is definitely not just revenge."
Little Barney looked at the darkness ahead with frosty eyes:
"This is the responsibility of us survivors, our obligation, our burden, and the meaning of our lives."
"Only in this way can we face our hearts without shame and regret day and night in the future."
Naji no longer responded seriously. He just swallowed his throat and said in a low mood:
"Is it."
A little confused and sad.
At this moment, Samir stopped.
"We found it."
He said hoarsely.
Thales was startled and quickly looked up, only to find that they had arrived in a brand new room.
Everyone also recovered from the unpleasant conversation just now and looked around in amazement. Even as prisoners, they had never had the opportunity to visit the bottom floor of the prison.
Under the light of the fire, the room seemed very empty. There was nothing on the ground except fallen wood and stones. However, there was an empty shelf leaning against the wall, the material of which was unknown.
Obviously, there used to be countless shelves here, storing an extremely abundant amount of supplies.
The storage room of the Alchemy Tower.
but now……
"Where's the exit?" Little Barney looked at the empty walls and asked doubtfully.
Samir looked serious and walked straight to the wall opposite the passage:
"See this wall?"
"If Ricky is right, this is a door."
Samir exhaled, excitement rising in his eyes:
"The exit is hidden here. When the entire underground bunker is unfortunately lost and the remaining mages retreat to the storage room, they can still have a last resort to escape."
Everyone, including Thales, came forward in surprise and touched the dusty wall.
It's rough to the touch and has a long history.
This huge, empty wall without any joints is actually...
A door?
"Now, we just need to find that special, hidden keyhole," Samir said in a hopeful tone:
"Open this door..."
He turned to Thales:
"Since you can release them, Your Highness."
"I believe the key must be with you?"
Everyone looked towards Thales.
Samuel's aggressive gaze made Thales very uncomfortable.
But the priority was at hand, so the young man just hummed softly, took out the strange long key from his arms, and handed it to Samir.
But something unexpected happened.
The moment Thales stretched out his palm, his other hand quickly came to the side!
In full view of the royal guards, he snatched the key with his bare hands!
The sudden change shocked everyone.
"Boom!"
The person who snatched the key stepped forward without hesitation, bumped away from Nai and Tardin, distanced himself, turned around and raised his sword, panting and looking at the stunned people.
What?
Thales looked at the man in surprise.
He believed that it wasn't that the guards couldn't react, but that they didn't expect it at all...
Why... could it be him?
But Barney was the first to react. He subconsciously shouted the name of the robber:
"Naki!"
"What are you doing?"
In front of Thales, he was extremely shocked to see the talkative Naki of the royal guard, who had always seemed lively and interesting, holding the dungeon key in one hand and the sword in the other, looking at the rest of the guard tremblingly.
It's as if a boundary has been drawn away from them.
Tai Naki.
It's him.
"I'm sorry, Barney," Naki shivered. His face was full of pain and hesitation, and he looked straight at Barney with complex hatred:
"but……"
Naji breathed tremblingly, his eyes empty:
"But I can't, I can't let you open this door."
The surprised Thales noticed that Naki was very abnormal at this moment.
Contrary to his humor and optimism when we first met him, he looked pale and his eyes were gloomy.
It's like a different person.
Little Barney looked at him in disbelief:
"What?"
Naji took a deep breath, his eyebrows twitched, his cheeks twitched, as if he was fighting something, and his words were neither coherent nor logical:
"Sorry! Everyone!"
I saw him shouting loudly, the tip of his sword trembling and pointing at everyone:
"But I can't let you, especially Barney... go up."
This turn of events left the rest of the royal guard stunned.
Samir's brows were furrowed, Tardin and Nye looked at each other worriedly, Bree's whining became more and more impatient, Cannon seemed to have seen a ghost, and Belletti gritted her teeth.
"Naki...what's wrong with you? Are you sick again?" Taldin tried his best to tighten the tension in his tone and asked tentatively.
fall ill?
Thales's heart tightened.
Naki looked at the nervous Tardin, pain and regret first showing in his eyes.
A second later, his twitching cheeks curved and he smiled strangely:
"Haha, maybe, but I think I am... I just can't stand it anymore."
Unbearable?
Seeing the extremely abnormal Naki, everyone in the guard was in an uproar.
Belletti wanted to approach him quietly, but was forced back by Naki's trembling sword tip.
"Naji, what happened?" Nai asked gloomily.
Naki shivered again. He stared at the key in his hand and then looked at Barney.
"What happened? What happened?"
He raised his head and showed an ugly and painful smile:
"I just, I can't, I can't let this idiot Barney go out and mess up everything...everything is fine..."
"I can't let him just go up there and do whatever he says."
"Whether it's for the living or the dead."
When Little Barney heard this, he looked at him with a livid face.
Thales still looked at Naki in front of him in shock.
This member of the vanguard was the first to come to him during the rescue.
A moment ago, he was still normal, wasn't he? He was still arguing with Barney about revenge or letting go, but why now...
"Naki?"
According to his previous experience of appeasing Sak'el, Thales handed the sword to Quick Rope, carefully raised his hands, indicating that he was not hostile, and said gently:
"Listen to me and calm down, okay? So what did you see..."
But it was okay if he didn't speak. As soon as he spoke, Naki trembled again and turned his head to Thales!
"Your Highness, why?" Naji's face was distorted, and his words were slightly crying.
Thales was stunned.
In front of him, Naki was looking at him with an expression he couldn't imagine.
Just like... believers begging for salvation.
Also like... a helpless mortal who is disappointed with life.
His eyes were full of despair and contradiction.
This made him confused.
"Why?" Thales asked subconsciously.
Naji clearly looked desperate, but he forced himself to laugh and said miserably:
"We are all obviously prepared to spend the rest of our lives in this desperate hell and die silently..."
His voice became hoarse and hoarse, with a throat-breaking breath:
"But why, why do you have to be cruel and indifferent to appear here, in this hell?"
"Your Highness!"
"Why do you have to come to us!"
Naki became more and more excited as he spoke, and the tip of the sword kept shaking. Belletti had to pull Thales back a little.
"Why are we...sent back to this unbearable, extremely ugly world again?"
Thales looked at him blankly.
Why?
What is he saying?
"Naki!"
After experiencing shock and confusion, little Barney finally couldn't bear it anymore, and his impatience turned into anger:
"Don't forget to hand over the keys. We are pressed for time and have heavy responsibilities!"
Little Barney's eyes were on fire and he gritted his teeth and said:
"No matter what you are crazy about, but for eighteen years we have stood here, not just for ourselves, not just for our own feelings!"
"If you still have any respect for the deceased and your brothers and sisters..."
But beyond everyone's expectations...
"That's enough, Quill Son of a Bitch Barney!"
Naki, who had always been fearful and submissive to Chief Vanguard Officer Barney, suddenly exploded at the next moment!
Naki was so emotional that he yelled back hysterically:
"You worthless bastard! Damn paranoid! The most cruel and unscrupulous murderer!"
Little Barney was immediately stunned.
kill……
murderer?
For a moment, the resolute and courageous pioneer officer was also confused.
Under everyone's unbelievable gaze, Naji looked ferocious and struggled with his movements.
"Eighteen years..."
He raised the blade of his sword and uttered a few words through gritted teeth:
"I've had enough of your self-righteousness and smartness..."
Naki stared hard at the shocked Barney, pointing his sword directly at him:
"I'm fed up with your endless preaching and declarations day and night..."
Naji took a deep breath, as if to express all his unbearable anger and anger, and roared loudly:
“I’m fed up with your role model of perseverance and carrying the load forward!”
Naji's eyes were red and filled with tears, and he was breathing harshly, as if he was sobbing or angry.
Everyone in the guard seemed to have never seen Naki like this before, and everyone was caught off guard.
But looking at him like this, Thales had doubts in his heart.
wrong.
The guilt of the river of hell floods into the brain.
Thales began to force himself to think back.
Think back to things that weren't normal.
From him came the Prison of Bones.
All factors, all things, all logic...
wrong.
From the moment he met Sak'el, Naki's attitude was very wrong...
No.
Not just there.
Earlier.
Earlier!
"Naki."
At this moment, Thales said in a daze:
"that song."
Naji's expression of pain and struggle froze:
"What?"
His shoulders were shaking violently, his face changed drastically, and his breathing was irregular.
Thales remembered.
He finally realized what was wrong.
In front of everyone, the young man breathed in a daze and expressed his guess word by word:
"Sak'el just said that he is the only person who knows the truth..."
"And all the bad luck started when he failed to persuade the old late King Eddie to prevent him from marrying Queen Fiosa, an old friend who was actually a magician..."
Naji trembled when he heard this!
"but……"
Thales's voice was also trembling slightly, as if he thought of something terrible:
"But that song," Thales looked at him blankly:
"But that song you sang to comfort Cannon when we first met across the cell..."