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Arga clutched the vine tightly.The spike pierced his palm, bleeding.

They are all too familiar with how to say and how to make the other party soften and obey.Arthur said again: "The birdcage is out of control, do you want me to die here?"

He held Alka's hand tightly, not letting Alka take even half a step back.

Alga suddenly asked, "What if I don't open the door?"

Arthur didn't hesitate for a moment: "Then I will replace you as the 'cage master'."

"I see. This is what you really mean. I know you have long wanted to replace me." Alga nodded, "I knew it a long time ago, I should have known it a long time ago..."

"...Open the door!!!" Arthur yelled, "Let me go, please!"

Alga's eyes were red: "I became the owner of this 'birdcage' because of you. You said you would stay with me in this place forever. Are you lying to me?"

Arthur didn't want to tangle with him on this issue at all. "Alga, let me go. As long as I live in this ghost place for a while longer, I will miss you and love you forever." At the end of his speech, his hands became stronger and he begged in a low voice, "Brother..."

Alga never thought that she would really face such a choice.

He either allows Arthur to leave, or grants Arthur death.There is no other way to keep Arthur in the "birdcage" and continue to be controlled by Algar.

People who stay in the "birdcage" for a long time will have a huge change in their feelings about life and death.

Alga has always thought so, but when faced with Arthur's request, he found himself still hesitating.

He couldn't do anything to Arthur, so he turned to adventurers for help.

You couldn't do it before, and you can't do it now.Even thinking that he would personally deprive this person of his own blood of his life, Arka's chest seemed to be suffocating, and his heart was tightly clenched in pain.

He decided to ask Arthur one last question.He has to make a choice based on Arthur's answer.

"...will always think of me?" Alga asked.

There was ecstasy on Arthur's face, and he kept nodding.

Alga knew that her brother was a simple-minded man, and that he was not good enough at deceiving others.

But Arga raised her finger and pointed in the direction of the river.

"Go ahead," he said, "I'll open the door for you."

He expected Arthur to hug him in parting, or at least a brotherly hug would do.But Arthur didn't at all.

Like a prisoner who has stolen the key to the prison door, Arthur jumped from the roof of the palace without looking at him again.As he expected, the vines were like Algar's incarnation, and they caught him in time, preventing him from getting hurt.

The fire was so great in the field that the people who were still alive rushed towards the palace.They shouted Algar's name and reached out to pull Arthur.The vines also blocked people's hands for him.Arthur ran all the way, and his figure quickly disappeared into the thick black smoke.

After the vines on the stone house retracted into the ground, something else grew out of the ground.

Its buds glow slightly, and the light gray rosebuds are attached to the new vines, quickly entwining the stone house densely.

Yu Zhou grabbed Fan Xing's hand and cut his palm to draw blood.Fan Xing didn't feel any pain, he moved his fingers to squeeze out the blood.But this time the light gray vines were no longer afraid of Fan Xing's blood.

They stretched continuously, but they didn't show any aggressiveness, they just stretched towards the dried fish lying in Yu Zhou's hood.

The dried fish was terrified, bouncing back and forth in the hood.

Fan Xing suddenly said, "What are you afraid of? Didn't they help you find your heart?"

Yugan: "I... I don't want that Lao Shizi's heart."

Fan Xing: "I remembered. When we were sleeping in that room before, these vines also appeared. They didn't want to attack us, but they wanted to get close to you, dried fish."

The dried fish swam out from the hood, and the fish's eyes widened.Beside it, light gray roses bloom wildly one after another.

"What, what are you doing?" Yugan muttered, "I don't know them."

Fan Xing took out the "heart" from Liu Yingnian's backpack, and threw it in his hands a few times.The vines of light gray roses immediately clung to Fan Xing.Fan Xing suddenly raised his hand and threw the ball to the fisherman's hat.The fisherman's hat narrowly took it, and sure enough, the vines all turned around again, surrounding the fisherman's hat.

Yugan: "...they protect the heart and remind me that my heart is here?"

Fan Xing: "Ask me, it's better to ask your rattan friend."

Yugan muttered again: "Don't talk to strange vines."

It is afraid of its own heart, and it doesn't even like these vines, so it twists its tail and retracts into Yu Zhou's hand.

A slight cracking sound suddenly sounded under his feet.

Immediately, everyone's feet were empty: the roof of the stone house was pried loose by vines and collapsed.

Everyone fell heavily, only Yu Zhou, who was hiding the dried fish in his hand, was hooked by the vines and gently put on the ground.

"What's that?" Liu Yingnian, who was lying on the ground like a dog chewing shit, pointed to the corner of the wall.

The stone engraved with the name "Alga Arthur" was glowing slightly.The light radiated from the name, so piercing that people could barely open their eyes.

Jiang Xiao reacted the fastest, rolled on the spot, and pressed his hand on the glowing stone.

"It's the door... it's the door!" she cried. "Alga has opened the door!"

The fire by the river was not that big, and Arthur had already vaguely seen the shadow of the stone house.

He only needs to climb another low wall and he can reach it.

He has even seen that the stone house is faintly glowing.

The door was about to open, and Arthur felt ecstasy. He ran faster, completely ignoring the sounds and movements around him.

When asking Algard, Arthur thought about what he should do if Algar refused.Arthur also wants to be the cage master, he wants to be the real king, not a puppet controlled by Alga.He's going to imprison Algar in turn, just as Algar always wanted.

But he was relieved.Alga was willing to let him go, and there was nothing more gratifying than that.He believes that his ability is enough to let him live in other "birdcages" like a fish in water.He has already forgotten how painful it was to toss and turn between the "birdcages" in the past, and the peaceful days have given him the capital of self-satisfaction: he can even surrender the "cage master" Arga, what can't he do?

When crossing the low wall, Arthur vaguely heard a strange wind behind him.He didn't stop, the stone house was ahead, and it was glowing, which was the signal for the door to open.

——With a pop, Arthur was pinned on the spot.

The flagpole flew from the palace and pierced his chest.On the top of the flagpole, the flag embroidered with two roses was only half burnt.

Alga fell from the sky.The fire spread to the palace, and people were blocked on the Flying Star Cliff by the fire at both ends, but he ignored it.

"It's okay, you will come back to life." Alga touched Arthur's face and whispered comfortingly, "Arthur, everyone will come back to life, and we will continue to live happily in this 'birdcage'. The commotion will soon be over. Calm down, be good, okay?"

Arthur was speechless, and he still maintained the posture of being pierced by the flagpole, half kneeling on the scorched ground.Behind Alga, the stone house glowed brighter, and the door was fully opened.

"Don't lie to me in the future. Instead of missing me in other 'cages', we'd rather be together forever." Alga said, "After you come back to life, we'll be..."

"Brother..." Arthur spoke in the gap between moans that seemed to be leaking.He held Alga with his weak fingers, and the soft strength reminded Alga suddenly of when he was very young, he held Arthur who had just learned to walk, looking for snails on the spring meadow.

Alga bowed her head and listened: "What?"

"...I...I want to...go home..."

Arthur stopped breathing, his hand growing cold in Alga's.

Arga held Arthur's body, and the belated pain finally overwhelmed him.He burst into tears.

In the stone house, the light from the door began to fade.

Jiang Xiao, Liu Yingnian and the fisherman's hat who touched the light disappeared as if they were sucked in by the light.Fan Xing urged Yu Zhou, and laughed at him: "Reluctant to leave here? How about I accompany you?"

Yu Zhou never wanted to respond to any of his words.When he touched the stone with the lettering, the dried fish suddenly jumped in his palm, and the fish turned its head up, looking at the gray sky through the exposed roof.

Yu Zhou also raised his head, but was pushed by Fan Xing.

When the light of the stone disappeared completely, the aura of Yu Zhou and Fan Xing also disappeared.

In the smoky gray sky, a huge hand pierced through the clouds and slowly pressed down.

Shadows fell over the weeping Alga and the corpse of Arthur in his arms.He was startled, and when he looked up, the hand was already close at hand.

"Please! Let me go! Let us go!" cried Alga.

The owner of the giant hand spoke in a low voice, making it difficult to distinguish the gender, which made everyone in the birdcage's ears ringing: "The things you were asked to keep, you failed to keep them well, and the adventurers stole them instead."

Alga hugged Arthur tightly, and said hoarsely, "You only told me that there was something hidden in the 'birdcage', but you didn't say where it was hidden! You didn't intend to let me know..."

Laughter came from all directions.It is not the laughter of one person, but the laughter of thousands of people.

"I have given you many things, Arga." The voice echoed in the fireworks-filled "Birdcage", "Thank you for keeping important things for me, I even allow you to set your own rules in the 'Birdcage', You are allowed to turn adventurers who might threaten you into children. This is a gift I have never given to any cage master. But what will you give me in return? Arga, are all human beings as shameless and despicable as you?"

Alga yelled wildly: "You never said that if that thing is gone, you will destroy my 'birdcage'!"

"Whose 'birdcage'?" The man also laughed, "Your 'birdcage'? Who is the real bird in this 'birdcage', Arga, don't you understand?"

Alga couldn't answer, he hugged Arthur's body, his voice panicked, his expression crazy: "You don't make sense at all!"

"Why do you have to reason with the ants?" the man said, "It's time to recycle."

The palm was pressed down.

The movement is light, like brushing a speck of dust off the table.

When the palm was raised again, Arga and Arthur were gone. The houses, scenery, and aborigines in the "Birdcage" all disappeared after a snap of the fingers, as if smashed into pieces.There were sighs and chuckles of relief from the aborigines in the air.

The "birdcage" has become a vast blank.

The pitch-black corridor was exactly the same as Yu Zhou remembered.I can't tell the direction, there seems to be a gap in the top of my head, and the air is cold.

Yu Zhou stood motionless when he suddenly grabbed the dried fish: "You saw it too, right? The moment we came in just now, a hand fell from the sky..."

Fan Xing walked behind him: "What hand? My hand?" He leaned on Yu Zhou's shoulder: "It hurts so much, you don't feel bad at all for cutting someone's hand and using their blood."

Yu Zhou pushed him away, and sat next to Liu Yingnian with a dark face.

Liu Yingnian was stunned, hugging his backpack and not saying a word.Seeing that he was depressed, Yu Zhou turned his head and heard him muttering softly: "...if the next 'birdcage' is this kind of place... I might as well sit here until I die..."

Back and forth and upside down, full of complaints.At the end, he suddenly became excited, took off his glasses and wept softly.

Yugan was very sympathetic: "Don't cry." It patted the top of Liu Yingnian's head with its fish tail: "You cry so ugly."

Liu Yingnian had a runny nose and tears stuck in his throat, neither was crying nor not crying.

No one is in an easy mood.Although he escaped from this birdcage by accident, no one knows what will happen to the next "birdcage".

In order to make everyone happy, Jiang Xiao began to talk about the interesting "birdcage" she had experienced before.

There is a "birdcage" whose owner is a 12-year-old girl. Her "birdcage" is a huge playground. As long as she wins the games in the playground, she can leave.

There is a "birdcage" whose cage owner likes to collect things, as long as the adventurer leaves something that can be given to him on his body, he will open the door.What Jiang Xiao gave was her school badge. The man was very surprised, he had never seen such a small rectangular school badge.The school badge only has the name of the high school that Jiang Xiao attended, Linjiang Middle School.The man put it away very cherished, and personally sent Jiang Xiao to the door.

Some "birdcages" are like a long river.Adventurers take a boat across a long and beautiful river, and when they arrive at the pier, they can leave.Jiang Xiao didn't see the cage owner. Some adventurers wanted to stay in the "bird cage", but those who boarded the dock would be forced to push into the door.The cage owner seems to only want to share the beautiful scenery with others, and does not want anyone to stay in this scenery.

Before Jiang Xiao entered Wujiao Town, he lingered in a strange "birdcage" for a long time. The cage owner of "Birdcage" is a writer who specializes in writing weird and strange stories.He asked everyone who entered the "Birdcage" to tell him a story, but he had heard too much, and if the story didn't make him feel fresh, he wouldn't let people leave.

Liu Yingnian stopped crying: "What story did you tell?"

Jiang Xiao: "I finally told one thing that happened to me. He thought it was very interesting and let me go."

This time it was Yu Gan's turn to ask, "So what's the story?"

It was rare for Yugan to put on a studious attitude, but Jiang Xiao ignored him at all. "Let's go," she said.

Five doors opened in the darkness.The fisherman's hat asked Liu Yingnian, "You're not leaving, are you?"

Liu Yingnian: "Don't go. The next one will definitely be a disgusting 'birdcage'! I won't go! I won't play anymore!"

No one persuaded him, Jiang Xiao waved at him by the door, and stepped into the door first.The fisherman hat nodded as a farewell, and chose a door.

Yu Zhou and Fan Xing were left.

Fan Xing changed into his own clothes, took off the little strawberry headband and tied it on the bone of the dried fish.Yu Zhou said: "If you don't plan to leave, then you can give me the dried fish's heart and my notes."

Liu Yingnian fumbled in his backpack for a long time when he suddenly trembled.

Snow fell in the gap above the head.

He immediately jumped up: "I, I, I, too."

Yu Zhou: "Okay, let's go together."

Liu Yingnian put on his backpack and stammered: "Thank you for waiting for me. Yu Zhou, yes, I'm sorry, I lied to you in Wujiao Town. I actually... I... I actually..."

He shut his mouth tightly again.

Yu Zhou patted him on the shoulder, and walked into a door with Yugan.

The sound of rain was overwhelming.

After the glare disappeared, Yu Zhou found that they were standing under the same roof.

This is a city with high-rise buildings, Yu Zhou suddenly felt a sense of steadfastness: at least this is a familiar feature of the times.

Behind them is the station exit, and several people seem to have just arrived in the city, just like tourists.

"There is someone on the opposite side." Yugan reminded.

Across a deserted road, someone was standing on the opposite side of the road with a big black umbrella.When someone approached and the umbrella was raised, Yu Zhou was a little surprised: in front of him was a boy in a sports uniform, black-rimmed glasses, and an ordinary face with no memory.

"Hello, I am the cage owner of this 'bird cage'." The boy said, "Adventurers, please answer me a question, if the answer is 'don't want', you can turn around and enter the station, I will open it for you to go to the next one The door of the 'birdcage'."

Behind them, there was indeed a glimmer of light.

When Yu Zhou was dubious, the boy continued: "If the answer is 'yes', please stay and help me find someone."

Ulcer Volume III

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