"It seems that they don't want Jhin to leak the secrets of Ash Town, so they sent many guards away, which is good for us!" I said.
"Now is not the time to be so optimistic." One-eye curled his lips and was the first to get into the hole.
"Wait! It's not completely safe yet!" Di's warning had no effect, and the one-eyed figure had disappeared from the entrance of the cave.
After waiting for a while, we heard One Eye inside saying to himself, "It's so dark in here."
After confirming that One Eye was safe, we breathed a sigh of relief and entered the passage of the secret warehouse together.
"It's impossible to tell the direction in such a dark environment, and we don't know where the warehouse is. Isn't it too reckless to just come in like this!" Di's tone was reproachful.
I couldn't see One Eye's expression clearly, but I heard him humming softly. I shook my head secretly and heard Di's voice, "This is a fork in the road, where should we go?"
Gradually getting used to the darkness in front of me, I saw that the passage ahead had indeed divided into two roads. One Eye said from the side, "We will search every passage. If we encounter guards, I will take action and kill them!"
"Can you stop talking about killing people all the time!" Di Zhen was angry.
I was listening, and suddenly an idea flashed in my mind. I stopped the two people from arguing and said, "Fortunately, the two guards who passed by just now made our search much more difficult."
"Oh, what should I say?" One Eye was very interested in my words.
I replied: "From the content of their conversation, we can tell that they just came from the warehouse."
"I understand." Di Xi said, "As long as we go in the direction where the previous conversation came from, we can find the warehouse."
"Be careful, although these two guards have left, there must be others there!" One Eye said in a deep voice, and I was a little surprised by his calmness at the moment. Perhaps because the hope of rescuing Jhin was so close, he was finally willing to calm down and go all out to do it. Our team finally had the drive to unite, which also gave me real confidence in this rescue.
After walking around a corner, I saw a faint light coming from ahead.
"Be careful! We're already here!" I warned in a low voice and heard voices coming from the exit of the passage ahead.
The voice was not unfamiliar, it was that of the mayor and the priest. This is enough for us to confirm that there is the legendary secret warehouse. The other two and I quietly approached and saw a corner where the three of us could hide at the entrance of the warehouse. One Eye was not reckless this time and hid in a corner without waiting for me to remind him.
We followed, listening with bated breath to the sounds coming from the warehouse. The conversation between the priest and the mayor seemed to have ended, leaving only the sound of heavy and tired breathing, and a weak moan from time to time, which seemed to be Jhin's voice.
"It's Jin!" Di couldn't hold his breath, but One Eye whispered from the side, "Calm down! Listen to the situation inside first, I don't want to fail at this moment!"
The mayor's voice came from inside, old and sad, "I finally caught you! You should have thought that one day, you would have to pay for your crimes!"
"What price?" Jhin answered in a low voice, but still with undisguised ridicule, "Huan's death is his own fault! If he didn't insist on fighting me, how could he die!"
"It was you who killed him!" the mayor shouted. "It was you who forced him to make that bet with you. My only nephew might still be able to inherit my position as mayor in the future, but now it's because of you. Died under the paws of a ferocious beast!”
"What a joke! He was the one who proposed the bet. It wasn't enough to lose to me in the duel, but he wanted to bet on who could escape from the beast. The mayor's power is so powerful that he can actually turn right and wrong!" Jhin said here. Almost laughing out loud.
"Shut up!" the mayor yelled, "You are an alien, why should you compare with my nephew? You..."
The mayor was so angry that his breathing was disordered and he coughed violently. The coughing sound lasted for a long time, getting more intense each time, as if he was about to cough out his internal organs. Finally, the coughing stopped, and the mayor seemed to have no strength to speak anymore, just panting rapidly.
"Okay, let's end the chat here." The priest said calmly, with an invisible majesty in his tone, "We invite you to come over, but actually there are other important things."
"Are you sure this is a invitation?" Jhin said unwillingly.
I heard the priest's voice pacing slowly, and after a moment, she spoke, "How many people know about what's going on here?"
"Are you referring to the destruction of Ash Town?" Jhin sneered, as if asking the mayor: "You're not surprised at all. It turns out you were also involved in this matter?"
The priest said leisurely: "I have made contact with the giant. As long as we sacrifice the entire Gray Town, the mayor's disease can be cured, and he can gain eternal life!"
"Do you believe this kind of thing?" Jhin asked, "Giants are an evil race. How could they reach such an agreement with you? Even if you can, do you want to use the lives of the entire Gray Town in exchange for your own life?"
The mayor finally recovered from his coughing and said: "Giants are omnipotent. I believe you have heard how terrifying they are after being on the run for so long. Anyway, my life is about to end. As long as I can survive, what will I do?" I believe it all. Even if I fail, there will still be so many people buried with me!"
"You are so crazy, you actually want to kill everyone for your own selfishness!" Jhin became angry and cursed: "Despicable and selfish people like you don't deserve to live in this world!"
"You can scold me all you want! You will die in front of us anyway!" the mayor sneered.
Jhin suddenly burst out with a scream of agony, as if he was being brutally tortured by the mayor. The mayor's laughter came from inside, accompanied by bouts of coughing. It sounded twisted and weird, with a hint of inexplicable horror.
"Let's do it! Rescue Jin!" Di couldn't hold back and persuaded us.
One-eye showed a smile as if he was looking forward to death, and said: "It seems that in the end we have to fight hard!"
I couldn't think of a better way at the moment, so I gritted my teeth and was about to get up and rush inside.
"Wait!" the priest suddenly said.
The screams and laughter stopped.
"Do you want to stop me?" the mayor said dissatisfied.
"I still have a few words to ask him, please leave first." The priest's tone was as calm as ever.
"Is there anything you can't ask in front of me?" the mayor asked suspiciously, "Is there something else you're hiding from me?"
"It's just some private matters that you don't want others to know." The priest's voice showed a trace of fluctuation, "Leave here, otherwise the blessing of the giant will pass you by."
This sentence caught the key point of the mayor. He gave a heavy "hum" and walked towards the passage.