Chapter 3393 The collapse of the star vault (nineteen)
Chapter 3393 Collapse of the Stars (19)
The tribesman who spoke another voice in the room was probably an elder. He seemed to be interrogating or even torturing Xuri: "You have walked so far with them. You must know something. Is this a weapon? Dangerous? Will it destroy us?"
"Um...I, I really don't know!" Xuli let out a miserable scream while answering vaguely: "I don't have enough time to find out all their details!"
"Stupid!" the elder yelled, and then made a loud voice, as if giving Xuli a slap: "The task given to you has not been completed! I only know that I am making excuses! It seems that the education is not enough!"
The air froze for half a second.
"Then, let's educate again." The elder's voice became deeper and more sinister.
"Wait, wait! No! Don't! Give me another chance! I will... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"
Xury's words suddenly turned into a shrill scream, which sent chills down Elaine's spine. Although he knew that the birdmen could make relatively sharp screams, the screams were so sharp that Elaine would never be able to hear them in his life.
This is the first time I have heard it. If I hadn’t been in extreme pain, I would never have let out such a terrifying scream.
The only thing the White Lion boy could guess from the screams was that Xori was undergoing some kind of horrific torture.
Must go...
"Going to save Brother Xury." Bailey suddenly said it, interrupting Elaine's thoughts.
"Really, do you really want to go?" Elaine wondered. Half of his mind thought that Xuri deserved this end, and the other half of his mind thought that he wanted to save others.
"No matter what, save him first." The little fox insisted: "If brother Xuli is [civilized] and loses himself, it will definitely be a loss for us, isn't it?"
The white lion boy frowned, unable to refute.
"I, I will go." He then said: "I, I will deal with that elder... Edmund, take Bailey with you to check other rooms on this floor to make sure there is no one else except the elder.
Come and hinder us."
Elaine asked Bailey to follow Edmund because he didn't want Bailey to see the possible bloody scenes. He could even imagine Xury lying bloody on the execution platform, tortured until his flesh and blood were blurred.
.
"I understand, Your Highness." Edmund seemed to be able to guess Elaine's thoughts: "I will get this done. Your Highness, please be careful. Their elders may be difficult to deal with."
"Yeah." Elaine nodded.
The only way he could think of was to sneak attack the elder who was busy interrogating him from behind. If the sneak attack was successful, he should be able to defeat the enemy with one blow.
Even if the sneak attack fails and makes too much noise, they should not be discovered by the guards on the first and second floors in a short period of time.
——The reason is very simple. The elders must have confessed to the guards from the beginning when they tortured Xuli here. Zuoli just shouted so shrillly and loudly that he did not alert the guards on the first and second floors, which proves that the guards
I will ignore the movement on the fifth floor for the time being.
He asked Edmund and Bailey to set off first, and then he moved slowly with the lightest steps, carefully approaching the room filled with Xury's screams.
When Elaine peeked his head in from the door, the stalker elder even turned his back to him, concentrating on torturing the young Hayato, completely unaware of Elaine's approach.
But Elaine still didn't want to risk getting close to the elder. He could sneak attack the elder from a distance of five yards, so there was no need to risk getting close to his opponent.
His method of sneak attack is of course to use that silent lion's roar.
That's right. By pouring magic into sound waves, and then concentrating the sound waves at one point and releasing them, you can produce huge destructive power. And because the sound waves hit and are released at one point, he won't even make any noise when he roars, only his lion's roar.
Only the target hit will suffer strong sonic damage.
Elaine took a deep breath and prepared to roar. Of course, he did not intend to kill the elder, so he controlled the power of the lion's roar as much as possible and only used the minimum output to roar.
"Huh." Physically, he just let out a breath, which was considered a lion's roar. He could barely hear the roar, but the roar turned into some kind of ball of distorted air that was so fast that it could barely be seen with the naked eye.
It hit the stalker elder and accurately exploded on the back of the half-murloc's head.
"Huh?" The half-murloc who was torturing Xuli suddenly let out a groan and fell down.
...Does this count as putting down that elder?
Bang! Then the half-fish man's head suddenly exploded, and dark blue fish blood splashed out.
"Oh... Oops, Oops..." Elaine covered his face. This unexpected incident was completely beyond his imagination. He had obviously roared with the lowest power, but he didn't expect that he still smashed the elder's head.
Is this... going to be bad? Maybe it will provoke an all-out war between them and the stalkers?
But what happened happened, and there was no way to undo it. Elaine decisively refused to think about it and turned her attention to the execution platform in this dark room.
There, the boy Hayato was lying quietly with his back to Elaine. Because Xuri's hands, feet and neck were fixed to the execution platform by some kind of shackles made of ice, Xuri should not be able to turn around at this moment.
Looking back at Elaine, maybe he still doesn't know what happened.
His screams stopped. I don't know if he noticed that the elder did not continue to torture him, or if he had fainted from the pain. In short, he was very quiet.
And Elaine also saw Xury's destroyed body, and he understood what the so-called "enlightenment" was all about.
——It’s Bingzhi!
The sharp ice pick, which was only half the size of the little finger, was pierced into Zuoli's shoulders, back, waist, and even hips. It pierced the flesh and was fixed on the body. The wounds were not actually deep, and the damage was not serious, but
Extremely insulting.
No, it may not be right to say that the damage is not serious. After all, the ice pick has penetrated an inch deep into the body, so it should be very painful. Moreover, this ice pick is made of magic. Not only did it not melt because it absorbed Xuri's body temperature, but it continued to freeze and absorb
It grew larger after receiving the blood of Hayato boy. As the ice pick grew larger, it tore the flesh near the wound, causing the wound to expand at the same time. Frozen flowers of blood bloomed near the wound, looking weird and tragic.
The pain must have been beyond imagination. Zuoli's back was already covered in blood and flesh, and his lower body was even more of a mess.
Elaine couldn't help but reach out and touch one of the ice picks, trying to pull it out. The moment his hand touched it, he realized that something was wrong, and countless thoughts were attacking his mind.
[Obey us.] [No resistance.] [You are a slave.]
[You are humble.] [You are humble.] [You are a waste.]
[If you disobey, you will die.] [If you obey, you will live.]
Thousands of vicious insults and scoldings poured into Elaine's mind, making him almost faint. He quickly let go of the hand that touched the ice pick, and those disgusting sounds disappeared instantly.
Then Elaine understood, this is [enlightenment].
What is poured into the ice pick should be something like a spell or hypnosis. Through physical contact and continuous infliction of pain, [education] can directly inject these "information" into people's minds. The amount of information is huge.
, can almost destroy the human mind.
Everyone in the world has their own [Absolute Domain], a biological barrier for self-protection. It is precisely because of the protection of the [Absolute Domain] that hostile mages cannot use harmful spells to attack people from within.
hurt others.
Directly using magic to ignite someone's body is an exaggerated thing that only exists in movies and novels, and is impossible in reality.
Of course, [Absolute Domain] is not invincible and can be eroded by mental attacks such as hypnosis and illusion. Moreover, if the body is damaged or in great pain, [Absolute Domain] will also become relatively weak.
Then those mental attacks will have an opportunity.
This is exactly the principle of [education]. Use severe torture to damage the body of the indoctrinated person, weaken the mind of the indoctrinated person, and then poison the spirit of the indoctrinated person by instilling spells. As long as the torture continues, no matter who it is in the end
Everyone will give in.
Elaine glanced at the body of the stalker elder on the ground. He was even more sure that he had killed the wrong person. These crazy half-mermaids were dangerous, and they were much more cruel than Elaine imagined.
Another elder had previously told Elaine and the others in prison that he wanted to [civilize] them. Their plan was probably the same thing: to make Elaine and the others surrender through torture and hypnosis, and finally to kill Elaine and the others.
Brainwash them and make them slaves to the Stalkers.
Just thinking that what happened to Xury might happen to him made the white lion boy angry. He decided to treat the stalkers as enemies and no longer tolerate their actions.
"Elder...Sir?" As if feeling that the torture was not getting any further, Xuli asked in a low voice: "Already, is it enough? I...I promise I will be obedient...please, please stop [the indoctrination]?"
Elaine did not speak, but quietly walked around to the other side of the execution platform and appeared in front of Xury.
"Hello, Mr. Xury." He whispered: "First of all, don't, don't shout. If you dare to make too much noise, I will knock you out immediately. If you dare, dare to shout at the guards."
Tell the truth and I will kill you."
Xuri was quite surprised when he saw Elaine. He originally wanted to say something, but was stunned because of his surprise. Coupled with Elaine's words, the young Hayato was even more unable to respond.
"Of course, then, if you really want me to save you, just answer my questions honestly." Elaine continued.
"...How is the elder?"
Snap! Elaine slapped Xury hard.
"I, I'm not allowed to speak before I ask you a question." The white lion boy said coldly.
Xury was silent again.
"I, I want to ask you a question: Why did you betray us?" Elaine asked without emotion.
"I didn't betray you... you and I have never been on the same side." The Blue Falcon boy replied in a low voice, "I am loyal to the Yat people, haven't you seen it yet?"
"You, you are [loyal] to them?" The White Lion boy couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Why, why do you look more like an animal they raise? You, you say you are loyal to them, but they treat you as
What is it?"
Xury then remained silent.
"He, they have raised you like an animal and have used you for thousands of years. He, they don't treat you as a human being at all. You have been washed. Have you been brainwashed? You actually say you are loyal.
For them?"
"That's not the point..." Hayato boy hummed.
"Then, what's the point?" Elaine became even more angry: "So you, you are willing to be [educated] and have these ice picks pierce your body and pierce your flesh to pieces? You, you are really willing."
cheap!"
"No." Xuli replied in a low voice: "Maybe it's because of my physical constitution. Their [education] is of no use to me. They just think it's useful, so they continue to [educate] me again and again."
Elaine has long been immune to Xury's lies: "Who are you lying to? For example, if you are immune to their [civilization], why should you help them? You, you are so willing to be a slave? Your servility is related to life.
Are you here?"
"I, no, am, their, slave!" Hayato boy retorted word by word.
"You, you seem to be their dog slave." Elaine said: "Ming, you were given a chance to follow us and be free, but you didn't cherish it. You, you betrayed us and chose to come back to be their slave.
slave!"
Xury stopped talking.
"I was right, why didn't you say anything?" The white lion boy became even more angry: "Say! Are you their dog slave?!"
"I, no, yes!" Xuli replied stubbornly.
"Then why did you betray us!"
Xury was silent again.
"Say it!" Elaine slapped the boy Hayato again.
"...Because you will destroy Atlantis!" Xuri roared: "You are the people in the prophecy, and you will destroy Atlantis! In this way, won't everyone's home be gone?!"
"What prophecy! Nonsense! It's all superstition!" Elaine also said angrily: "I have no intention of destroying this place! You can stay in this humble little home, who cares?!
And their home is destroyed, so what does it matter to you? Can’t you just escape?! They treat you like dirt! Do you really like to be other people’s slaves?!”
"I, no, am, their, slave!" Hayato boy retorted angrily again.
"Then why on earth!? Why do you want to help them save their home!! Wouldn't it be great if this place was destroyed?!"
"No!" Xuri yelled, "If this place is destroyed...if this place is destroyed, won't the miko-sama be destroyed along with her!"
——I don’t care whether those Art people live or die, but I must protect Lady Lisanna!!"