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"Hasebe?!

What are you doing here? "

Hasebe saw that they were members of the first team, so he didn't have time to stop them. He quickly asked, "Where is Lord Tachika?

You weren't hurt by that shameless guy, right? "

"Shameless guy …?"

Shan Mo Che Guoguang's eyes widened. "So the person who went out with us and went missing with Lord Tachika …"

"It's not me!"

When Hasegawa saw this, he was even more anxious. "Someone pretended to be me. When I received the order from Rika, I was on my way to the formation room. That person knocked me out when I wasn't paying attention. When I woke up, you were already out of the formation!"

"Then Lord Tachika's situation, isn't it very dangerous?"

The Five Tigers Retreat trembled in fear. They didn't even notice that the cubs were about to run far away. "What, what should we do …" He was so anxious that he was about to cry. Maeda's gentle persuasion didn't work.

"Shanmuqie, you said that Lord Tachika is missing." Shan Mo Che Guoguang was sensitive to the words used by Yamato. "What is going on?"

Shan Mo Che Guoguang couldn't help but close his eyes and frown in pain.

It was his responsibility. As the captain, if he could have discovered Hasebe's abnormality earlier, if he could have taken Tachika through the gap, if he could have held Tachika's hand first —

"Hey."

The king, who had been offline for a long time, suddenly spoke. Everyone thought that he had already gone to carry out his demolition plan.

The rich magic was restlessly spreading. If a follower of Chaldea saw the king like this, they could only pray that they could escape in time, because this was the sign of the king's extreme displeasure.

But he said this:

"There is a limit to being ignorant.

If that's not a responsibility you should bear, then you're bringing shame to your master by carrying it on your own accord! "

Shan Mo Che Guoguang was stunned. He didn't have time to think carefully about the meaning of the king's words. He said again, "This King doesn't allow you to apologize.

Before This King changes his mind, hurry up and report the ins and outs of what happened! "

After the king finished speaking, he crossed his arms and stood in front of Mountain Elder. This was the best the king could do. If he still didn't understand the deeper meaning, the king didn't plan to waste any more words. Later, the king would also blast him.

But Shanmuqie was obviously a smart person. He quickly hid his self-reproach and told everyone the whole process of Tachika's disappearance. in detail.

"A compression mechanism in the middle?

A sudden big crack???? "

Tsurumaru Kuninaga broke out in a cold sweat. The 'prank' of the master of this place was much worse than his. "Was the dungeon always such a dangerous place?"

"It shouldn't be like that …" Yi Yizhen refuted based on his vague memory. "Heavensguard Pavilion is indeed a defensive fortress, but the dungeon was originally used to store all kinds of weapons and shelters. It's impossible to set up such a dangerous mechanism."

"Then what if someone modified the dungeon?"

The Smiling Green River's words silenced everyone.

"We can't rule out that possibility."

Horikawa Kunihiro agreed. "I think that what we should do now is to contact Fox's Aid and ask it to send a special agent from the Government of the Time to help us. But the time that would take …"

"Naive.

The enemy won't give you time. "

The king snorted at Horikawa's suggestion and turned to Heavensguard Pavilion.

"Take This King to the floor where Tachika disappeared. This King has his own way."

42

"Aiya, work is getting more and more troublesome.

I'm just a fox. Don't you think that the lords think too highly of me? "

Fox's Aid, whom Tachika had called out to, was sprawled on a desk. Even with his favorite fried tofu in front of him, he couldn't lift his spirits. If only his ears could droop, he would have evolved into a lop-eared fox.

"Hey, hey …" Another fox with a similar physique placed a large stack of documents on his desk. "Lord Fox's Aid, please cheer up. There's a new report to read."

"Lord Fox Aid," Fox's Aid's beady eyes were about to turn into a pair of question marks. "What do you think the lords above have in mind?"

"They want us to cooperate with the Divine Inquisitor and supervise the progress of the project. These two tasks don't overlap, and there's no need to do both at the same time."

The masked fox known as Fox Aid lowered his tail and spoke with a slightly serious tone, "This is not something for us to speculate about. Lord Fox's Aid, please mind your words."

"But it's really contradictory."

Fox's Aid muttered in a low voice, "If the commander-in-chief is just trying to wipe out all the time-traveling armies, why bother doing this?"

"This is work, Lord Fox's Aid."

Turning a blind eye to Fukuoshisuke's complaints, Fukuoshisuke removed the oily tofu from his table. "I'll take your snacks first. I'll let you enjoy them after I finish my work."

"Whoa, give them back to me!"

However, Fox Aid slipped away quickly and closed the door before leaving.

Fox's Aid gave up and began to read the document on the top of the stack.

"There are so many documents to deal with, and the one assigned to me recently is a newcomer who's full of problems. The higher-ups are really merciless when ordering me around."

It used its front paw to leave a paw print on the page that needed to be annotated. "The higher-ups also asked me to pay special attention to this newcomer. His name is … Tachika Fujimaru?

His background is not small. This is the first time I've seen an inquisitor who has overused her Reiki in less than a month … "

However, he took his work seriously and went to the underground city obediently. This made Fox's Aid feel a lot better. It hadn't thought about how to continue if the other party was unwilling to do the work.

"At this time, Lord Tachika should have returned to This Pill with the Funerary Deities, right?"

Fox's Aid said to itself as it flipped to the next document. "If you encounter any difficulties, please call on me immediately. I'll be able to help with my performance as much as possible …"

Speaking of the devil, the emergency communicator on the desk rang loudly. Fox's Aid quickly put down its work and picked it up.

"Hello, this is Fox's Aid."

Knowing that no one would see it, it still adjusted the mask on its face and spoke in a business-like tone, "May I ask if you need to pay … Eh?"

The words of the person on the other side of the phone were like a bolt from the blue.

"Lord Tachika, missing?"

43

The temperature in the cell seemed to be dropping continuously. After less than an hour, Tachika was shivering from the cold and had to pretend to be fat.

"Hmm?

I don't feel cold. It's … my leg!

It hurts! It hurts! "It shouted exaggeratedly as it hugged its leg. Tachika wasn't lying. It really hurt to sprain your ankle!

Count glanced at Tachika indifferently, and he immediately confessed.

"Although, it's a little cold …"

Count shook his head as if he was disappointed. "You …" He sat on the edge of the bed and gave most of his cloak to Tachika. "As my accomplice, you should have some self-awareness. I won't come to save you if you insist."

"Liar." Tachika hugged the cloak and rubbed it fiercely.

"You're here now, aren't you?"

"That's because you called me, right?"

"Pfft, Edmond dared to do it but didn't dare to admit it."

The two were still bickering when suddenly there was a polite knock on the heavy cell door. It was completely different from before.

"Distinguished guests, Tachika Fujimaru and Edmond Dantès, sorry to have kept you waiting."

It was a mixture of mechanical and human voice, and it was impossible to tell who it was just by listening.

Li Xiang put away her laughing and joking expression and calmly replied, "It can't be considered a long wait.

It's just that you didn't ask us to come here just to let us stay in this unpresentable room, right? "

"This is our negligence. I'm very sorry."

The person outside the door unlocked the switch, allowing the two of them to see his true appearance. It was actually a mechanical doll. There were no facial features where a human face should be, only a small mouth for making sounds.

It was wearing a modified military uniform, a long black wig that almost reached its waist, and a slightly funny military cap with a papaya pattern on its head.

Without Count's reminder, Tachika instantly understood all the clues he had mentioned before.

This doll was obviously a replica of "Oda Nobunaga".

"In order to make up for our rudeness, the master specially arranged a welcome banquet and asked me to invite the two guests. Please be sure to attend."

Tachika pondered for a moment, and after getting Count's approval, he said, "Then please lead the way."

…

The passage changed from a dark environment to a bright torch every few steps. Tachika finally saw the various scenes in the passage — chimeras, mechanical dolls, all kinds of weapons and equipment, all of which carried the shadow of "that person."

Oda Nobunaga's portrait, Oda Nobunaga's pen and paper, Oda Nobunaga's favorite tea set … Everything related to her was placed in the window sill built inside the wall. Together with the tightly sealed transparent glass, this was simply a large Oda Nobunaga Memorial Hall.

Hey, hey, this is an extreme nobu chef no matter how you look at it!

Fortunately, it was Count and not Hasebe who fell down with him, or he would have been doomed before he even reached the top!

Before Tachika had enough, the doll had already arrived at the destination.

Different from the narrow and cold cell, the "banquet hall" was very spacious, if that was how it should be called — a test bench that traversed the space, piled with all kinds of research equipment, test tube racks, beakers, alcohol lamps, drying tubes … Everything one could think of.

The largest transparent chamber in the farthest place was filled with unknown liquids. Bubbles bubbled and turned the broken human limbs. The traffic lights on the control devices were constantly flashing, and the gears and dials were monotonously turning.

All kinds of raw materials were thrown everywhere, and the floor and walls were covered with traces of liquid gas, like a graffiti of death art.

The stone dolls stopped on both sides of the "banquet hall" like robots without batteries. A large number of magic stones were placed beside them, and they could pull up another stone doll at any time.

And the owner of all the items here was busy beside a huge reaction furnace. While putting in materials, he muttered to himself, "That's right. That's right.

"Not enough, not enough, not enough … I need more materials …!"

Huh, a mad scientist?!

The sound of someone entering interrupted the man's movement. His body stiffened for a few seconds, and he slowly turned around.

"Master of Chaldea, I've heard a lot about you.

It took me some time to prepare, so please be magnanimous and forgive me. "

His silver hair stood up like a cluster of gray flames at the back of his head, and the few strands of black hair in between were particularly conspicuous.

He was wearing a brown suit, with a bellflower pattern on the collar and necktie, which symbolized the Mingzhi family.

He looked well-dressed, but on his chiseled face, his slender eyebrows were filled with calculation, and his facial muscles were slightly twitching. The corners of his mouth were curled up in a paranoid and crazy manner, revealing his true nature.

"If you say so, I'll look petty if I'm angry."

Tachika seemed to be good-natured and smiled.