[Count of Monte Cristo] Love and hatred

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Although there is not much information available, Mei Tess has established a relationship with this girl who calls herself "Mity" anyway, and has taken the first successful step.

She wanted to ask a few more insignificant questions to shorten the distance between them, but her strong curiosity drove her to ask the one she wanted to know most—who is the owner of the castle?

"I can't answer you," Mitty said blankly, "because I've never met him. Meteors are not qualified to serve their masters. This is the rule."

Mei Tess certainly suspected that Mitty was just prevaricating herself, but what she said didn't seem like a lie.

The atmosphere fell into a brief silence.

Mitty turned around, ready to extinguish another torch on the ledge opposite the barred window.Mei Tess keenly noticed that Mitty's hands were shaking, and suddenly a terrible thought crawled into her mind.

"The torch on the opposite side of the cell is actually a countdown, am I right?" She was determined to speak out, "When all the torches are extinguished, the master of the castle will execute me."

Seemingly frightened by Mei Tess' words, Mitty covered her mouth and ran away, which made Mei Tess worry that her guess was right.

It took a long time for Mitty to come back this time, and she slowly approached the cell, as if she had made up her mind.

"Speak," Mei Tess encouraged, "if you want to talk, I will be a good listener. This is a secret between us, and no one else will know."

Mitty finally spoke, and this time she confides all the secrets in her heart.She said she had to go to four cells a day to deliver food, because the fifth cell was empty and there was a woman in it, but after the torches across the cell were all extinguished, the woman was dragged out of the cell and never came back. .

Mei Tess opened her eyes wide. The woman Mitty said was dead. She knew it, she knew it, because she heard the last scream.

"Are they just sitting there waiting to die?" Mei Tess asked suspiciously.

"My lost sister Anna is locked in the cell downstairs, and there are other girls..." the girl cried and told Mei Tess, "They tried their best to lure the guard to open the door, but he didn't even look at them One glance."

Mei Tess couldn't help suspecting that it wasn't just his tongue that had been cut off, or that he was too afraid of the master of the castle, so this method wouldn't work at all.

"Why don't you just steal the key and save your sister?" Mei Tess asked back.

"I don't have a chance," Mitty explained. "Besides, that would break the rules. We're all going to die..."

Rules, rules again.Plum Tess frowned tightly, the so-called rules had become an invisible shackle, tightly imprisoned Mitty, and she couldn't persuade her to break the rules.

So she tentatively asked, "Is there any way to help us escape without breaking the rules?"

"I heard that there is a key hidden somewhere in the cell," said Mitty in a suspicious tone, "but no one has managed to find it, maybe it doesn't exist at all..."

key?Plum Tess searched the room, and the most likely place to hide the key was the stone table inlaid with the astrolabe.There are two large and small rings on the astrolabe. The five planets around the star on the ring can be moved. It is likely that it is a mechanism. Move the planets to the correct position, and the disk will open.

But to find the right position, you must find the law.Mei Tess suddenly remembered that Mitty said that there are five cells in total, what if they correspond to the planets on the astrolabe one by one?

"Mity, I promise you that if I can escape successfully, I will definitely save your sister and other girls." Mei Tess took the girl's hand, "But I can't do all this without your help. Can you help me without breaking your rules?"

The girl hesitated for a few seconds, then finally nodded.She explained the structure of the cell at Mei Tess' request, but Mei Tess needed more precise information.

"Can you draw pictures?"

"will not."

"Then go back to the spiral staircase, start from the spiral staircase, measure the number of steps it takes to each cell, and then come back and tell me, okay?"

Mitty is very snappy to do.

Plum Tess quickly found the pattern based on the information provided by Mitty.The three stars on the small circle corresponded to the three cells downstairs, and the two stars on the larger circle corresponded to the two cells on her floor.She arranged the planets according to the position of the cell, forming an arrow pointing directly at the relief of the sun god on the opposite side.

"Bang", facing the crisp sound of the firing pin, the disk really opened, but what was hidden inside surprised Plum Tess.

It was not a key at all, but a dagger.

Mei Tess held the jeweled dagger in her hand and looked at it, her amber eyes sparkling.If this is the "key" that must be used to open the cell, she must take a risk.In that case, she first had to find a way to introduce the cell boss who kept the real key into the cell door.

"What would happen if the girl in the prison committed suicide?" Mei Tess asked Mitty tentatively.

"The guard will drag her away, maybe throw her out, and let the wild beasts eat her," the girl cried, "The guard's injury is almost recovered, and I will be transferred today...but I My sister's flame is going out, and I don't want her to suffer the same fate. God, who will save us?"

No one can save us, a part of Mei Tess murmured, but ourselves.

She decided to take a gamble.

Plum Tess took two more torches to make her final preparations.Before the guards arrived, she cut her finger, wiped the blood around her mouth, and lay on the edge of her bed, pretending to be dead.

At first the guards ignored her, but when they came next time, the guards found that she was still lying there in the same posture.

After a long silence, Mei Tess heard a piercing screech.He opened the door, he really opened the door.

Plum Tess tried her best to adjust her breathing, but her heart began to beat wildly uncontrollably. She only hoped that the guards would not notice anything.She lightly touched the dagger hidden in her waist, if possible, she hoped not to use it.

"This is my only chance," she told herself.

When the guard stretched his hand to her mouth to test her breath, Mei Tess suddenly threw the dust that had been collected with great difficulty into his eyes, then pushed him down violently, and struggled to run out of the cell door.

But the guards soon caught up.Plum Tess raised her elbow for a sharp blow, but a blow of that magnitude did nothing but irritate the guards.

The two wrestled together, and during the struggle, Mei Tess touched the dagger hidden in her waist again. "Don't make me do that," she begged.However, at the moment when her life was at stake, she still clenched the dagger tightly and stabbed fiercely at the enemy's flank.

The guard stared at the wound in disbelief, let out a soft sigh, and then fell down slowly.

Plum Tess withdrew the dagger and untied the key from his waist with unusual calmness.It wasn't until she ran out of the cell door and locked the seriously injured guard inside that she collapsed on the ground because she couldn't stand still because of fear.

She turned her head away from those accusing eyes.Then she put the bloody dagger back into the scabbard, and held the bunch of keys she snatched in her palm.

Freedom is at hand, she wants to leave, she must leave!

Plum Tess struggled to stand up, stole a torch from the statue of the sun god, and ran towards the unknown darkness at the end of the corridor.