Chapter 40 Chapter Thirty-Nine

I watched nervously as D put on his own mask as well. "So where are you going?" I asked hesitantly, "Didn't you just say you didn't want to go out?" "I've changed my mind," he shrugged. "I'm going to find Siegfried to confirm my guess." "and then?" "Back to you before the danger comes." He blinked. "You mean, you will come to protect me?" I frowned, "Or do you need me to protect you?" "Both." D smiled slightly, "so before that, please protect me from meeting Heath, and from fighting birds."

"What if I met them?" I asked impatiently. "Use your mask. Try to avoid those black robes, the birds will not find you. And Heath," he paused, "before Lotbal recovers his memory, it should be possible to hide it." "What about after Lotbar recovered his memory? They're twins." I remember reading in the tree that twins have what's known as "telepathy."Even if I were truly blessed and Hiss wasn't around when I found Lotbar, it's absolutely impossible for him to be ignorant of the transformation of his twin brother. "After Lotbar regains his memory." D slowly repeated my sentence word by word, he looked into my eyes intently, "We will just resign ourselves to fate."

My heart skipped a beat.I suddenly found that the other party was not as confident as he seemed.His appearance is for me to see, to make me feel at ease.In fact, he, like me, is completely unable to predict the future direction. "I really can't picture it for you." D heard my thoughts, and he said to me, "I, like you, have no idea what will happen in the next second. But I can only be sure of one thing— That is, no matter how difficult the process is, we will be together in the end. No matter life or death, nothing in the world can separate us.” I sincerely hope he is telling the truth.Even if it is unnecessary comfort.Because right now, I need them so much.

But when I watched D open the iron lock of the prison door without a sound, a strange thought suddenly came to my mind again. Silver would not be ignorant of D's abilities.Of course he thought that the shackles and chains would not hold him at all.So that's why he randomly locked the two of us together?Because what he was waiting for was the moment when we broke out of prison?What is his conspiracy? But having said that, the image of Sylph that stays in my mind is always the heroic figure of him and I crossing into the flames on a flying horse, a wind elf who dances for freedom with life—is he really on the side of Heath?Is he really our enemy?

Before I could figure it out, my mind was quickly occupied by another problem—a decidedly more pressing one, and that was: I suddenly realized that there was no one around us. At this moment, we are standing in the depths of the narrow and dark corridor of the dungeon, and the doors on both sides are crowded together like pigeon cages, but there is silence here.In fact, I haven't heard any sound since I came here.Which is weird, because the brick walls don't do much to insulate the sound.What's more, the echo can spread far. I still remember those nightmarish voices.The last time I was here, this corridor was like a terrifying and deep passage, which could not be seen to the bottom at a glance, storing all the sounds on the stone wall, as if pressing the bread of the whole mill into a tin can the size of a fingernail, and then Hard into your ears.

An explosive suffocation.That's how I felt last time.But this time there was nothing.All the cells in front of me were empty.Where did the prisoners go?Could it be that after Sylph came to power, the world was amnesty, and all prisoners were freed?But five years have passed since then.In the past five years, under the governance of the nine "Tiranos", the war-torn Evergreen Kingdom is peaceful and stable, so that the people all over the country do not pick up things on the road, and do not close their doors at night?It's unbelievable. I looked up inquiringly, but my companion was equally puzzled by it.He shook his head and gestured for me to be quiet.He dragged me on tiptoe through the dark tunnels of the dungeon, around swarms of rampaging black rats and water-soaked nooks, and up the narrow, empty staircase.

The sudden light made my vision white.My eyes gradually adjusted to the light outside, and I was horrified to see the gray and white shrike staring at us in front of the prison door for a moment. I tried my best to swallow the exclamation that was about to come out.I thought of myself wearing a mask right now.The mask Mr. Mario gave me before he died. D is correct, if this magical mask can confuse those terrible shadows in the "Void Realm", then there is no reason why it can't deceive a trivial jailer in the "Land of Evergreens".I stretched out my hand cautiously, reconfirming that my mask was securely on my face, then stood on tiptoes, inhaled desperately, flattened my body into a sheet of paper, and walked through the narrow gap between the Shrike and the dungeon door. narrow gap.

D did the same.The two of us flickered past the dungeon door as if we were actually wearing some magical invisibility cloak.The Shrike found nothing. He rubbed his eyes and yawned, then leaned against the gate and dozed off. I took a deep breath, squinted my eyes under the strong light, and surveyed the dangerous world in front of me. Before I walked out of the dungeon, I was anxious because the previous five years here had passed without a trace. But thankfully not this time.The few hours of darkness in the ground did not seem to cause more changes on the surface.The giant glasshouse for the birds is still the same.I breathed a sigh of relief again.Under the collage mosaic of metal and stained glass, unidentifiable exotic flowers and plants are blooming everywhere.

D squeezed my hand to express his emotion.Or simply tell me to "be careful".In any case, after a short farewell ceremony, he disappeared behind a bush of golden-orange phoenix flowers.It took away a burst of floral fragrance that seemed to be dripping with honey, and fell on my masked face. So I was left alone in the world.I hate this. But I hated my constant need for him even more.I am Odell the Devil.I'm not a human girl who needs his attention everywhere.I am not Emily.I can obviously do well on my own, but every time I'm with him, I become weak.become pathetic.become no longer myself.

However, if nerd Siegfried can become a WindClan bodyguard, if even Emily who knows nothing about this world can continue to survive, then there will be no reason for me to still hide under the shelter of D Down. Maybe D just left me (temporarily) because he knew this.Not long ago, I entered the "Invisible Kingdom" alone and got the last token of the elemental spirit; and the subsequent experience in the "Void Realm" further illustrated this point-the mask I wear on my face now is proof.As much as he may not want to admit it, he must know that there is nothing I can do without him.

I clenched my fist so hard that the ring on my ring finger hurt my hand. I have to make myself strong. I had to be a real Lotterbal. I must wake him up.