"Help! Help!!" shouts came from the depths of the prison.
"Hmm...?" The guard outside the door hummed, feeling very strange. Because the cry sounded like the cry of his own people, but there were clearly three outsiders locked up in the prison.
"Go and have a look?" "Let's have a look." The shouts continued, and the two guards finally couldn't bear it anymore, so they opened the door and walked into the prison.
"What's wrong?" The guards walked casually towards the cell and looked inside through the ice wall of the cell.
"Help!" Unexpectedly, there were two stalkers lying in the cell. One of them said: "Prisoner, escaped! They knocked us unconscious and tied us here! When I woke up, it was like this! Save me
go out!"
The two guards looked at each other in surprise, then looked at the dark cell.
"There are three prisoners?" one of them asked.
"Three." Another person confirmed: "Now, there is not one left!"
Not only did the prisoners in the cell disappear, but there were also two stalkers locked up. It was obvious that the prisoners had found some way to escape from the prison and locked up the guards who were on guard before!
"Oops! How is that possible?" one of the guards said in shock.
"Anyway! I must inform you!"
"I'll go! You save people!"
"Rescue people first, let's go together!" The guards opened the door made of ice blocks in the cell. If they were made of ice blocks, they came over and opened the shackles of the two half-murlocs in the cell.
"You guys, are you okay?"
"Well, it's okay." Edmund moved his arms: "Thank you...and please go to sleep!"
Before he alerted the two guards, one of them gave them a hand knife from behind the head, knocking the two guards down easily.
"No, I didn't expect it to go so smoothly..." Elaine also moved his arms (now he also transformed into a stalker) and took the key from the fainted guard: "Here, here is the solution for you.
Unshackles, Queeg."
"Oh!" The cloud-patterned leopard appeared in the darkest corner of the cell.
He does not have the ability to be invisible. It's just that the cell is too dark, and his body will become translucent when he uses [Void]. As long as he is motionless, it will be difficult to detect. The two guards just didn't notice it when they were panicking.
Translucent Queeg is also a normal thing.
Keys made of ice cubes and shackles made of ice cubes... These half-mermaids are really versatile, using their abilities in meaningless places. While Elaine complained in her heart, she also opened Queeg's shackles.
"What should they do?" Leopard got up and pointed at the two knocked unconscious guards. Those half-murlocs will wake up in about ten minutes, right?
"I have a good idea." Edmund followed suit and used the Stalker's ability to create ice cubes, plug the mouths of the guards, and then made shackles without keys at all, freezing the two guards in place.
In a corner of the prison.
"Door, what if the guard at the door disappears...?" Elaine asked.
"I can make their ice statues," Edmund replied: "As long as I deflect the light on the surface of the ice statues, I can simulate various colors and materials. From a distance, they should be no different from real guards, no.
You can’t tell if you get close.”
Is it really so smooth...Elaine wondered. However, Edmund, who had transformed into a stalker, was already quite familiar with the control of ice magic, and his use of spells might even be more sophisticated than that of real stalkers.
Using ice sculptures to make lifelike dummies to delay time is just a piece of cake.
"Yes, we must find Bailey first. Of course, we must also retrieve our equipment." Elaine turned to look at the leopard: "Outside, it's still their night outside, and it's still very dark. But Queeg, you are in this situation
Aren't you afraid of being seen running around?"
"I'm looking for a place to hide." Queeg replied, "Don't worry."
There are so many buildings in that city, and there must be many dark corners to hide in. In addition, Queeg's body can become translucent, so it will not be easy for stalkers to find Queeg in the dark. Finally,
In the worst case, even if Queeg is discovered, he is still in the subspace, invincible, and can even pass through walls. There should be nothing the stalkers can do against Queeg.
"Okay, okay, you hide, we will meet you after we find Bailey and the equipment." Elaine subconsciously tugged on her scarf, which was the holy cloth: "This, this is the record."
Although the stalkers stripped off Elaine's equipment and even their clothes, they failed to take away Elaine's holy cloth. This sacred object has its own consciousness and recognizes Elaine as its owner, and others can take it away no matter what they want.
Can't come down.
"But isn't this too conspicuous?" Edmund looked at Elaine's red scarf: "Aren't the stalkers very short of fabric? Most of them only wear a piece of crotch cloth? His Royal Highness is wearing this extra,
It’s like claiming to them that he is a big shot like an elder..."
"Then, then..." Elaine took off the holy cloth without thinking, took off his pants as well, then wrapped the holy cloth around his waist and used it as a crotch cloth. He even used the holy cloth as a crotch cloth.
Change the color of the cloth to an inconspicuous white.
"Then, isn't that a sacred object..." A drop of sweat broke out on Queeg's forehead: "He actually used the sacred object as underwear..."
"So, what? It's just a piece of cloth." Elaine retorted, even tearing off a fragment from the holy cloth and giving it to Edmund: "Do you want to wrap it around too?"
"I have it, no thank you." Unexpectedly, Edmund had already taken a piece of crotch cloth from the two guards and was now busy wrapping it himself.
"Then, is that the crotch cloth worn by someone else? Isn't it too, too dirty?!" Elaine showed a bewildered look.
"Now is not the time to worry about this." Edmund wrapped up his crotch cloth calmly. This guy will definitely get jock worms in the future...
"But Your Highness," Edmund placed two ice statues pretending to be guards at the door of the cell, and then poked his head out to observe: "Do you know where to find His Highness Bailey? In such a big city?"
"Sir, let's look for it first?" Elaine wondered, really having no clue.
He looked at the underwater city outside. This city should be the sixth floor of the underground maze, the city where the Art people (stalkers) lived. Elaine and the others had obviously escaped from the city and headed to the seventh floor underground.
The lava world advanced, and they even defeated the leader of the lava world and found the exit to the seventh floor. Unexpectedly, they were captured and brought back to this hellish place.
Elaine remembered that he had a used teleportation device left in the stairwell at the entrance to the sixth underground floor.
When they successfully passed through the seventh underground floor, Edmund and the others must have set up a new teleportation device in the stairwell of the seventh underground floor - they used that to return to the surface.
So what should we do now? Go to the stairwell on the sixth or seventh floor to find a teleportation device, and use that to teleport back to the surface?
No. Since Xury has betrayed them, Elaine should still think that it would be better for the teleportation device to be exposed. Whether it is the teleportation device in the stairwell of the seventh underground floor or the camp on the surface, there must be stalkers by now.
He's on guard right now.
Xuri probably didn't know that there was another old teleportation device in the stairwell on the sixth floor, but it was of no use. There must be stalkers guarding the stairwell, making it difficult to get close.
Really, what should we do? Should we force a breakthrough and use the teleportation device to return to the surface?
Elaine didn't know whether Bailey was caught and imprisoned separately, or whether he escaped successfully. The little fox might be imprisoned in a prison in this underwater city, or he might still be hiding in a corner of the ruins of the surface city.
Which side is the correct answer, and how can we find Bailey?
Just when Elaine was confused and anxious, Edmund pushed him gently: "Your Highness, be careful, someone is approaching here!"
Yes, Elaine also noticed it. A short stalker approached here under the cover of night. This was a bit bad. If the man got closer, he wouldn't have discovered that the guard at the cell door was an ice sculpture, right? Edmund put the
No matter how lifelike the ice sculptures are, they are still dummies that cannot speak, right?
"Let's pretend to be guards and go over to check those who approach. If something goes wrong, knock him out immediately and put him in a cell?" Edmund suggested.
"This is the only way." Elaine only hoped that the matter would not be exposed so soon. If the entire underwater city was under martial law, their plan to find Bailey would be severely limited.
The short half-mermaid approached. And Elaine saw that the man's crotch cloth was very ordinary white. He should not be a big shot like an elder, but just a commoner. In the middle of the night, a commoner was close to him.
What is the intruder's cell for? A guard? A substitute?
Elaine and Edmund winked at each other and approached the civilian.
"Stop, civilian!" Elaine was not good at speaking, so the interrogation was left to Edmund: "What are you doing here at night?"
Edmund is trying to imitate the strange, fragmented accents that stalkers usually use when speaking, but Elaine doubts that Edmund has imitated it. It shouldn't reveal his secret, right?
"I am..." The stalker just started to speak, and immediately paused, and then suddenly burst into laughter: "What are you doing, brother? And Uncle Edmund? You managed to escape."
?"
Elaine was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Bai, Bailey?! How could you..."
"Shhh!! - It's an illusion, it's an illusion!" The little fox stuck out his tongue, and in a short moment he released the illusion and showed his true face (actually, that was not his true face, he was using the illusion in front of Edmund)
The appearance of a lion cub appeared (also an illusion), and then he transformed back into his stalker form.
"Oh, illusion..." Elaine breathed a sigh of relief: "Did you rely on this to take advantage of the chaos and escape?"
"That's it. When they attacked the camp, I just felt anxious and hid in the shadow of the building to relieve myself. Then I saw them knocking Uncle Queeg unconscious. I knew it would be a matter of time before they caught you, big brother.
Just use illusions to transform and hide, then take advantage of the chaos to sneak into their team and follow them all the way to the city."
"Use, use the transmission device?"
"No, you have to walk. They don't seem to know how to operate the teleportation device, so they just walked all the way." Bailey shrugged: "But they have a shortcut from the ground to the city, so take the elevator."
(Oh my god...!)
Elaine's heart went cold. Sure enough, the surface was not safe. They had just been lucky and hadn't encountered the stalkers who came out to investigate at night!
When he thought that the group of half-mermaids could take the elevator to the surface at any time and sniff around their camp on the surface at night, the white lion boy felt tremendous pressure.
"By the way, I even sneaked into their city. I also found out where they imprisoned you." Bailey continued to laugh: "Am I very powerful?~ Praise me, praise me. Praise me." "
"Great, we were still worried about how to find His Highness Bailey, but we didn't expect that you took the initiative to find us." Edmund smiled bitterly: "But how did you see through our disguise at a glance?"
"You can't hide the smell of vanilla on your eldest brother even if you want to." Bailey said, "You guys were bored in the dungeon and you just broke out in a sweat, right?"
This child really got it right. Elaine blushed with embarrassment: "I, am I so smelly..."
"It's not smelly, it's just a fragrance." The little fox consoled him, "It smells so good that I want to bite my big brother, hee hee."
Elaine drooped his head: "No, don't lie to me..."
"Anyway, big brother, why don't you think of a way to get rid of this smell on your body first? It's impossible for stalkers to have this kind of body odor. If they are smelled, their secrets will be revealed in an instant." Bailey added.
"What, how to wash it?"
"While the lights dimmed, I secretly walked around the city for a while. There are many uninhabited empty houses in the suburbs here. It's better for us to hide in them first. Big Brother can use water in a place where no one can see. Take a shower."
"Very good, I'll follow too." Queeg followed over quietly, remaining [invisible] and hiding behind Elaine.
He probably thought that others wouldn't be able to see him, who was translucent, from a distance. The risks of this kind of gambling were so scary that it made Elaine very uneasy.
"This way, hurry up!" Bailey was also afraid that someone would see Queeg, so he led everyone towards the building nearby.