A strange world

Chapter 208 Chapter 61. Don’t give up hope

An old orc walked into the room and sat in front of the deputy wardens.

"Have you been imprisoned in the dungeon for 20 years?" The deputy warden flipped through the prisoner's information.

"Yes... Mr. Deputy Warden, I realize the mistake I made..."

The deputy wardens looked at each other and rejected his request to be released from prison.

"Well done! Orcs are like that, they never know their mistakes..."

Some nobles in the audience said, and others whispered, "Does the dungeon have such a rule?" They thought the guy thrown into the dungeon would die within a few days.

As the old orcs walked out of the room, they saw the high wall that was said to have been miraculously raised in just one week.

The prisoners are called the old orc Freeman. The prisoners include humans, as well as centaurs, elves, and gnolls, foreign races familiar to the Dechaso mercenary group.

As the carriage escorting the new prisoners drove into the high wall, the prisoners gathered around and bet on who would be the first to collapse: they would get the price of their impulses in the dungeon - endless regrets left for the rest of their lives.

The prisoners in the dungeon thought of him one after another and fell into sad silence.

The first lesson the dungeon guards taught the new prisoners was the cruelty of the dungeon. A new prisoner couldn't stand the darkness of the dungeon and screamed. He was dragged out of the room by the deputy warden. After the ladies said "Oh my God" He was beaten to death. The remaining new prisoners remained silent.

The next day, Andy and the prisoners went to the canteen to prepare meals and picked out maggots. Old Zoron took them and fed them to the baby birds he had picked up a few days ago.

The nobles found this very vivid, but the prisoners found it unreal. They had no independent cells, no canteen, no brown rice, not even maggots.

The story continues. Freeman got to know Andy and learned that he was in prison for murdering his wife and being an adulterer, but he insisted that he was innocent. Andy suffered a lot in the dungeon. As a businessman, he struggled to adapt to the dirty work in the dungeon. Sometimes he had to fend off the invasion of the most vicious criminals - but there were three of them.

Andy refuses to admit defeat, so he always fights back when trouble comes... sometimes winning, but mostly losing.

The nobles were boasting that they would slit the attackers' throats with daggers, the prisoners were laughing, and Lady Mia was wondering whether to let the children continue watching.

Andy's misery continues until a turning point occurs: a group of prisoners are selected to clean the high walls of the dungeon. This is their only chance to see the outside.

No matter whether they are nobles or mercenaries, children or prisoners, they all hope that Andy can escape from the dungeon at this time. But Andy used another way to escape from here: on the high wall, the deputy warden was complaining that a batch of his goods was lost by the caravan and he lost a lot of money. Andy told him that the caravan's goods had signed a contract, and if the goods were lost, they would be required to pay three times the compensation, and promised to help the deputy warden get the compensation back, and the price was just to buy them a beer..."

The prisoners sat on the high wall, overlooking the vast city of Betar, as if the city and freedom were at their feet, each holding a glass of beer. The sun shines on their shoulders, as if they are free.

Andy sat not far away, watching them enjoying their beers with a strange smile on his face. This smile is the same as that of many viewers in front of the magic image: a happy and beautiful smile.

It seems that everything is starting to get better, the life in the dungeon no longer makes the audience feel depressed, and the nobles no longer chatter, but concentrate on the story.

Andy met the three brothers again and he was beaten half to death, but they failed again. Then the deputy warden broke the legs and ribs of the three brothers. Then the deputy warden introduced Andy to the warden and asked him to make false accounts for the warden.

After being sheltered and appreciated, Andy discovered that the warden had a magic stone from "The Fall of the Wizard's Tower". He secretly took the magic stone away, then locked himself up on the second floor and screened "The Wizard" for all the prisoners in the square. Fall of the Tower".

This time the prisoner audience can finally say: they have actually experienced it.

The cost of doing this was that Andy was imprisoned for a week, but he was still liked by everyone, the prisoners, the jailers, the deputy warden, the warden, they needed Andy's smart mind. Andy also insisted on applying to the city government to open a library in the dungeon. Except that he was still in the dungeon, Andy never seemed to lose his freedom.

But a piece of bad news came: Old Zollen, who had been released from prison, died of suicide...

Freeman, who has also been locked up in a dungeon for decades, feels the same way. He said: "Old Zoren can't leave here. He no longer adapts to the outside world. The high walls in the dungeon are interesting... When you first come in, you hate the surroundings. The high wall; slowly, you get used to living here; eventually, you will find that you have to rely on it to survive."

Life always goes on. On the tenth year after Andy came to the dungeon, and on the sixth year when he insisted on applying to the City Lord's Mansion, he got a response: Ms. Winter sponsored the dungeon library.

Annan tilted his head slightly at this time and saw a curve on Mrs. Winter's hazy and noble profile.

Time is measured in years, and Andy seems to be accustomed to the life in the dungeon just like Freeman.

But there is a kind of bird that should not be kept in a cage, because every one of its wings is stained with the glory of freedom. Andy found the real culprit who killed his wife and adulterer, but he refused because the warden was worried that the false accounts would be exposed.

When the audience was worried about Andy, the magical image revealed the truth at the end: a tunnel that Andy had been digging with a pickaxe for nineteen years.

On a thunderstorm night, Andy crawled into the tunnel, got into the manure pit, and hit the fence with rocks as the thunder fell. Every thunder and knock seemed to ring in the hearts of the audience.

Finally, when the dirty Andy climbed out of the cage leading to the outside of the dungeon and stretched out his arms to face the pouring rain, the cheers in the auditorium were like thunder.

The story continues. When applying for release from prison in the 40th year, a relieved Freeman said: "I feel deeply guilty about what I have done all the time... This is not because I am here, nor is it to please you. Looking back, How I want to say something to the stupid young man who committed the crime, tell him how I feel now, and tell him that there are other ways to solve the problem. But I can't do it... You can reject it, I give up."

The application was unexpectedly approved. But Freeman is different from Andy, who always holds hope. His hope has long been extinguished. He has experienced everything that old Zoron has experienced. When he was about to end his life like old Zoron, he remembered Andy's When I came to the address mentioned in the letter, I found a letter with the address and a travel fee under a fence.

Under the watchful eyes of the prisoners in the dungeon, the future citizens of Xingyue Bay, the mercenaries, and the nobles, Freeman trekked to the place Andy called the land of freedom, called Xingyue Bay. On the beautiful and dreamy blue ocean and white sandy beach, Freeman saw Andy, who was barefoot and with his sleeves rolled up, jumping out of a small wooden boat and walking towards him.