After finishing a cigarette, footsteps and the sound of metal moving were heard behind the locked small iron door, and then it opened from the inside.

Arabelle threw the cigarette to the ground, stomped it out, and looked toward the iron gate.

The two minions who came out were the ones who had just been beaten by Arabelle. Their wounds had been simply bandaged. Although the wound of the one who was kicked in the face by Arabelle was sprayed with some unknown medicine, it was still slightly swollen.

At this time, the look they gave Arabelle was no longer frivolous and teasing as at the beginning, but was replaced by respect... or fear.

“Can I come in now?” Arabelle asked gently this time.

"Of course, of course!" The two minions nodded and bowed repeatedly, but after Arabelle walked into the iron gate, they stopped Howard.

"You can't go in," the two minions said. "The leader only allowed Lord Viper to see him."

Howard looked at Arabelle and said, "It's up to you what we should do."

Arabelle pondered for a moment, then kicked the two minions in the face.

"Oh! You... why are you hitting us again?" The two minions fell to the ground, covering their faces, their voices almost filled with tears. "The leader only said he wanted to see you. No matter how much you hit us, we wouldn't dare let him in!"

"I know the rules here. Untrustworthy individuals who wish to see your boss must be blindfolded and have their hands tied. Although your boss only asked to see me, he didn't explicitly say he refused to see him. It's in accordance with the rules for me to tie him up and bring him to see your boss," Arabelle said, tearing a strip of cloth from the hem of his shirt. "This blow to you two will show that you've resisted. This way, even if I bring him in and your boss gets upset, he won't blame you. This is for your own good."

"Hmm? Did you ask for my consent before you kidnapped me?" Howard stared at Arabelle with wide eyes.

Arabelle's words stunned the two minions. They looked at each other and felt that what Arabelle said made some sense, so they stopped wailing and got up from the ground, but they all unconsciously moved away from Arabelle.

"Do you have any other suggestions?" asked Arabelle.

Both of them shook their heads like rattles.

"Very good." Then Arabelle tore the cloth in her hand in two again. She kept stretching the cloth to both sides with both hands. The cloth was pulled in her hands and made a cracking sound like a whip. The two minions were frightened and stepped back again.

Then Arabelle looked at Howard, "Come on, reach out."

No no no I didn't agree to play bondage games with you!

Howard stepped back and waved his hands.

Unexpectedly, just as Howard finished his thought, the two minions around him who had been beaten twice booed. Arabelle raised her eyebrows and said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

bad!

Howard quickly covered his mouth and accidentally said what he was thinking.

Then Arabelle raised her leg and hit the two troublemakers for the third time.

Two minutes later, Howard had his hands tied and his eyes blindfolded. It would have been perfect if a piece of cloth had been stuffed into his mouth.

Perhaps because Arabelle was angry at the previous complaint, the rope tied around Howard's hands was particularly tight, cutting into his flesh and causing some pain.

Then Howard was led inside, but he missed a step and fell forward after taking only two steps, finally bumping into the back of the person walking in front of him.

Howard helped the man to stand up. His left hand touched the man's left arm and felt the texture of steel and machinery. It seemed to be Arabelle.

Then Howard heard Arabelle's voice: "Why didn't you two keep an eye on him even after he came down the stairs?"

Then Howard heard the two minions scream for the fourth time.

Howard secretly felt sorry for the two minions in his heart, because he knew that if he asked them to kill someone, they might be good at it, but if he asked them to take care of someone, it would be difficult for them.

Because of this little episode, Arabelle also realized that these two people were unreliable, so she used her mechanical left arm to hold Howard's hand and personally took Howard inside.

However, Arabelle did not show much concern for Howard. She treated him more like a human pendant. Howard missed several steps when going down the stairs, but he did not fall because Arabelle held him up. Similarly, Arabelle did not remind Howard when turning, but "dragged" him to a new path.

Because he was deprived of his eyesight, Howard's hearing became the main source of information for his brain, so the brain's computing power for hearing gradually increased, and Howard's ears became more and more sensitive.

At first, Howard walked down a long downward staircase, which was obviously located behind the bar, because Howard could hear the noise in the bar coming from the front, left and right after passing through the wall. But as Howard continued to go down, the sound in the bar gradually became transmitted from above to Howard's ears, until it was drowned out by the new sound.

Then Howard heard the rumble of an engine. At the same time, the downward staircase reached its end. Howard stepped onto the ground, but the structure of the ground had changed. The previous step had felt like stone, but now it felt like a layer of iron mesh suspended in the air. As the engine turned, the iron trembled slightly. As he advanced, Howard heard the sound of a valve releasing air several times.

After a while of walking on the iron fence and turning several times, Arabelle finally stopped, and then Howard heard the sound of metal bolts moving.

"Now go down the ladder," Arable said, and released Howard.

So Howard squatted down and groped on the ground with his hands, and finally touched an arc-shaped hole. He felt deeper and felt two hollow iron rods with a metallic texture.

These should be the iron bars on both sides of the ladder. Howard grabbed the metal bars on both sides with both hands and carefully stretched his legs into the hole.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here to catch you." Arabelle's voice came from below. Judging from the voice, the hole should not be deep, and the space below is relatively small, because Arabelle's words echoed.

Howard reached the bottom of the cave, his feet once again touching solid ground. Arabelle then led him forward. Howard initially concluded he was in a tunnel. He could feel the ground curvature slightly beneath his feet, his footsteps echoed clearly, and the walls were very close. Most importantly, Howard couldn't sense any air circulation. The air along this stretch was hot and humid, mingling with the smell of moss and mold.

After walking in the pipe for a long time, Howard analyzed that the pipe should be connected to other places, because Howard could feel the breeze blowing from the side several times, which obviously meant there was an exit leading to the outside world. However, Arabelle did not take Howard out of those exits.

Finally, after walking for about ten minutes, Howard felt the curvature of the floor under his feet disappear, and the air became dry and cool. Then Howard's nose twitched slightly, and he smelled a new smell, which came from engine oil and gunpowder.

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