Chapter 733: Secret Rendezvous
Chapter 733: Secret Rendezvous
At night, Lindsey quietly sneaked out of his room.
There were servants working in the castle during the night as well.
However, with his Stealth Mode activated, he moved through the shadows unseen by ordinary people, naturally avoiding detection.
As for the artisans and guards in the castle, the former worked in the dark, and the latter had designated patrol routes. Even the strongest among them were only around Phase Five Awakened, and they couldn't detect Lindsey, who was deliberately hiding.
Thus, Lindsey made his way to the right side of the castle garden, where a slanted corridor led to an inner corridor.
Next to the well-laid stone steps, a path of overlapping stones extended inward.
Lindsey opened his map.
The Thief's Trap Installation Guide had already marked the information.
"Move the second stone slab on the left, and there's a handle underneath. Turn it clockwise to open the passage."
Following the map's instructions, Lindsey found the corresponding stone slab.
But after pulling out the stone, he didn't turn the mechanism handle.
The method of opening the underground passage was straightforward.
However, Lindsey was extremely cautious.
He considered that it was the dead of night, and while his stealth was effective, opening the passage would undoubtedly attract the attention of other Awakened with the noise.
"No, I must keep the sound down."
"..."
Lindsey pondered for a few seconds.
He then abandoned the regular passage entrance and, referring to the underground passage's path, went to a dark corner blocked by a wall where no guards patrolled.
Clang, clang, clang—
Lindsey took out a block of material from his sack and constructed a completely enclosed earthen mound in the corner.
Once the inner and outer spaces were completely isolated, and sound propagation was hindered, Lindsey activated the Builder's Hand and began to dig vertically downward.
Bang... Bang... Bang...
In the darkness, only faint sounds could be heard. With artisans already working in the castle, no one noticed these subtle noises.
Hidden in the darkness, Lindsey moved with extra care.
After digging out enough space to accommodate his body, he dismantled the cover above and continued digging downward while filling in the original stone slabs overhead to ensure no traces were left on the ground.
Continuing downward, he dug through the castle's foundation and into the soil about three meters deep.
Suddenly, Lindsey's feet felt empty, and his young body began to fall.
"I've dug through!" Lindsey exclaimed with a delighted expression.
In less than half a second, he adjusted his posture mid-fall, and by the time his body landed, his feet were firmly on the ground.
Before him was a pitch-black, lightless secret tunnel leading into the distance.
Snap—
Lindsey equipped the Multi-Functional Survival Gear, illuminating the tunnel with a five-meter radius of light.
He took a step forward.
Lindsey: 【Alice, things are going smoothly on my end. Let's meet up in the passageway, shall we?】
Alice: 【No problem, I've just found the entrance too.】
Lindsey: 【You can dig a hole right above the passageway. That way, no one will even notice the sound of the passage being opened.】
Alice: 【Good idea.】
...
Lindsey continued through the pitch-black passage, only hearing the rustling of his footsteps on the dirt and stones.
After more than ten minutes, his keen senses detected faint footsteps coming from the opposite direction.
Lindsey quickened his pace, and when something new appeared in his line of sight, he instinctively reacted:
"Holy crap!"
Lindsey was startled, or rather, surprised but not afraid.
The reason was simple.
As expected, Alice was approaching from the other side of the passage.
However, emerging from the darkness was not the beautiful girl Lindsey was familiar with, but a construction foreman with a catfish-like head.
Imagine—in the pitch-black tunnel.
A humanoid creature with a fish head and eerie, glowing eyes emerges from the darkness, startling even an ordinary person.
Across from them, Alice's tone is far from calm.
She opens her fish-like mouth and points a delicate hand at Lindsey, her fishy voice sounding incredulous, "You... Lindsey?"
"Me?"
Lindsey points to himself, bewildered.
Then he realizes the issue—he's still disguised as a child, just as he has been for the past few days, and it doesn't match Alice's memory of him either.
Lindsey explains with a hint of guilt, "I disguised myself to search for the spaceship in the castle, right?"
Alice stares at Lindsey with her eerie fish eyes, "So, did you find it?"
"..."
"........"
"Here, let me update your Survival Construction module."
Lindsey extends the module's duration for Alice.
During this time, Alice also asks for some food, resolving her dietary issues for the past few days.
The two confirm their plan once more.
After four days without results, they plan to leave Silver City.
They each turn back the way they came, their silhouettes gradually fading into the darkness.
As Lindsey walks back, he ponders the situation, feeling helpless about the future, "Four days..."
"In these few days, I haven't heard anything about Leaf Haiya having a history of using spaceships from the artisans, guards, or servants in the castle. It's probably still a long shot to find one in Silver City..."
Hum—
At that moment, Lindsey's footsteps halt.
Walking through the underground passage, he suddenly senses a powerful Essence aura from outside. The owner makes no attempt to hide their strength, clearly a Seventh Stage presence!
"Seventh Stage!"
"This Essence definitely doesn't belong to the Organizer, and it's filled with a wild aura, like... a Dragonbeast?"
Lindsey stands in the darkness, frozen in place.
Unable to take another step towards the castle, he directly opens his friends list.
Lindsey: [Alice?]
Alice: [I sense it too! It's the aura of a powerful beast, and it's rapidly approaching this floating island!]
Lindsey: [Let's meet up first!]
Alice: [Aren't you going to search for the spaceship in the castle?]
Lindsey: [There are priorities—I've been searching for three days here, and the chances of finding a spaceship were already slim. Now that things have changed, it's not the time to waste effort on this!]
Lindsey and Alice switch from stealth mode to full-on action.
This takes just over a minute.
The two meet in the passage, looking vastly different from before.
Lindsey silently restores his body to its adult form, and Alice removes her catfish headgear, facing the world with the stance of a Righteous One.
"..."
Their reunion is wordless, communicated only through their eyes.
Without a word, they work together, digging a straight tunnel through the ceiling to reach the surface.
Boom—
The once-dark sky is transformed.
The floating clouds are now brightly lit, casting shadows on each other.
In the east, a massive figure like a sun rushes towards them.
Whether it's the dark clouds, the air, or the floating island's land, everything is bathed in the scorching heat of this 'sun', emitting a gradually burning, fiery aura!
(End of Chapter)
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