Chapter 574: You Say What Crime You Committed?

You Say What Crime You Committed?

"Form up! Kill... uh uh... uh..."

Before the words could even come out, the squad leader fell down, covering his neck in horror.

He died without figuring out how an intruder who was locked to the ground by countless sword tips appeared in front of him in the blink of an eye.

He couldn't figure out what the silver light that flashed on the other party's hand was, which could so accurately leave him with a few seconds of consciousness before death.

"Boom—"

The corpse fell to the ground, blood splashing everywhere.

With the sound of the corpse falling, Cheng Shi moved. He appeared behind every knight present like a blood foam shadow sprayed from the corpse, brought out a stream of light with a surgical knife, turned and left without any nostalgia.

In the blink of an eye, a scarlet long mark appeared on the necks of all the knights. This eye-catching red line intertwined with the blood foam sprayed in the air and the refracted silver light that had not yet disappeared, as if it had been drawn out of thin air, and at a certain moment, together with the light hum in Cheng Shi's throat, played a passionate movement of fate change.

And the ending note of this movement was a series of "bang bang bang bang" falling sounds.

At this moment, the elegant clown sang 【Fate】 and paid tribute to 【Death】 with a gorgeous performance.

But the performance hadn't ended yet, because the support from the lower level arrived.

Cheng Shi watched a team of knights emerge from the stair passage again, shouting "Order is above" and rushing toward him. He sighed helplessly, set up his posture again, and prepared to go on stage to perform continuously.

But just then, his support also arrived.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"

A rush of arrow sounds rang out, and an arrow curtain like a rainstorm shot over from the direction Cheng Shi came.

The arrows carried terrifying 【Decay】 power, and the moment they shot into the bodies of the garrison knights, they decayed their vitality, turning the hit ones into dry corpses with white skin, flesh disappearing and bones protruding, and appearance decaying.

The most terrifying thing is that there is more than one such dry corpse, but a pile!

All the knights rushing in front of Cheng Shi were decayed by this sudden twilight. However, they didn't die yet. They fell to the ground powerlessly, clutching their wounds. The fragile bones in their bodies couldn't even withstand this degree of falling, making a piece of crisp breaking sound.

"......"

Cheng Shi was stunned. He looked back in astonishment, only to see that Yu Mu, who had been refined into a tree servant by Hong Lin, appeared at the door at some point, and was now slowly approaching him while maintaining the posture of drawing a bow and arrow.

To be honest, if He hadn't seen the miserable state of the knights first, just looking at the way the other party approached, Cheng Shi even thought the other party was coming to hit him.

Fortunately, it's a helper!

His expression was happy and then black. He didn't care about the old knights who were lying on the ground and couldn't struggle to get up anymore, but bowed his head and started picking up the dice on the ground.

"You say, if you had come a few seconds earlier, would I have lost a floor of dice? This thing is hard to get, use one less one..."

At this time, Yu Mu is just a tree servant and wouldn't act like Qu Yan to help Cheng Shi pick up dice. His order is to protect Cheng Shi, so He only pays attention to possible dangers around him.

Cheng Shi saw that the other party had no reaction, pouted, quickly picked up the dice, cleared a path among many old knights who couldn't move, and continued to walk to the lower level. As for these knights who didn't die, they might be about the same as dead.

"Follow."

"Follow me."

Cheng Shi walked very fast. Since there were thugs in the dungeon, there was naturally no need to continue playing the knight and wasting time.

Although the prisoners locked in the Howling Iron Prison were all death row inmates, there were differences among them. Just when he bumped into that group of knights, Cheng Shi discovered that the death row inmates on this level had dull eyes and were completely indifferent to the commotion on the ground, clearly having lost their souls to torture and interrogation.

He did not know if all the prisoners in this prison were like this. If they were, then his trip down here would have been a total joke.

He led the Tree Servant down several levels quickly, resolving a few more waves of knights heading to the upper levels to provide support along the way. It wasn't until he reached about the 7th level of the dungeon that Cheng Shi suddenly discovered a few acquaintances in the vast prison cell.

Actually, they weren't that familiar, because these few people were exactly the four teammates Cheng Shi had seen when the trial began. Not a single one was missing, and they were currently hanging neatly on iron-cast racks.

Of course, besides these four, many other people were locked on this level, but the other prisoners were far less "lively" than these four, as they seemed to be attempting to untie themselves in an effort to break out of prison.

However, these few people looked exhausted, as if they had already failed many times.

After seeing this scene, Cheng Shi was amused. He turned back to the corridor, stripped a set of knight's armor, put it on, and then casually wiped some blood on his face, refreshing the dried and solidified bloodstains. With a shift in his aura, he pretended to be injured and stumbled toward the four of them.

The four people, who were trying to break their wrists to escape, saw the knight who had just gone to provide support fleeing back with a face full of blood. Everyone's heart sank, and their faces were filled with solemnity.

They didn't know what had happened outside. They had hoped to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but now it seemed that while the chaos had arrived, the opportunity was gone again.

Four pairs of eyes from the four people kept staring at the approaching Cheng Shi, secretly on guard. Cheng Shi was the same; he approached stumbling, slightly lowering his head to cover his eyes, but his gaze never left his teammates.

After watching for a while, he discovered that these people were definitely not mediocre. Even if their scores weren't enough to reach the peak, they were at least experts around 2000.

It was just that these experts now seemed to be shackled by the chains of 【Order】, having lost all their innate abilities.

A good opportunity. If he didn't extort them, he would be doing a disservice to this heaven-sent chance.

He lowered his head to hide the smile in the corners of his eyes, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and said with a hoarse voice:

"To think someone intends to provoke the authority of the Grand Executioner; they are simply courting death. With 【Order】 above, they will certainly not succeed.

Such a thing has never happened in the Howling Iron Prison. Today, only the four of you were locked in. Speak, do the intruders on the ground have anything to do with you?"

"No, it has absolutely nothing to do with us!" All four people were terrified. Among them, a tall, thin man shook his head frantically and said, "Sir Knight, I am also a believer of 【Order】! I know nothing about what happened in the Tribunal today. I have been wronged!"

"Wronged? Heh, the Howling Iron Prison never wrongs any death row inmate. Do you not know what crime you committed?"

"I am truly wronged!" This player who believed in 【Order】 was about to cry. "I am just too devout toward 【Order】. I think of admiring the majesty of the judges every moment, so I stole an identity to audit the Tribunal and let the radiance of the Benefactor cleanse my soul. Yes, I am indeed not a Katerou person, but... I didn't commit any crime! I don't even know what the Crime of Lin Renyu is, my lord!"

"?"

What the hell?

The Crime of Lin Renyu?

Is it the Lin Renyu I'm thinking of?

Good fellow, he got sentenced directly?

No wonder Lin Renyu could hate Chen Shu to that extent. Using his name to cause trouble everywhere, it turns out he was "immortalized in history" like this.

This is too cool, but I just don't know what kind of crime this Crime of Lin Renyu actually is.

The other three players were also echoing, one after another expressing that they were also wronged, that they were not Lin Renyu at all, nor did they know such a person, and they had been caught and brought in while confused.

Cheng Shi almost couldn't hold back his laughter after hearing this. He feigned a look of contemplation, appearing as if he were truly re-examining the other party's defense. Seeing that there was a chance, the four players immediately became enthusiastic.

One of the slightly sturdy, short men said with an excited face:

"My lord, the intruders definitely have nothing to do with us. Think about it, if it had anything to do with us, how could we have surrendered in the Tribunal? With this strength, we would have definitely resisted. We are truly wronged, and we want to appeal to the Tribunal.

But we have no way to appeal in this Howling Iron Prison. We can only beg you to help us and pass a word upward. Of course, we definitely won't let you help for nothing. I still have some in my pocket..."