Chapter 421: The Strongest Team Trapped in a Trap
Kira admitted it very generously. There was nothing to be embarrassed about such a thing. Besides, the person in front of him was not a stranger but a peer. He knew his personality very well, so there was no need to hide it.
"Hey~ That's really weird!"
"What's wrong?" Hearing Kira's sudden voice, the two asked curiously.
"According to the instructions of the magic tracker, Erza and the others seem to have run very far... What's going on?"
Kira pointed to the magic tracker in his hand, which showed Erza's name and two red dots. One of the red dots was constant, representing himself, and the other was flashing, representing Erza.
"Oh my god! You even have something like this? With such a powerful thing in your hand, wouldn't you be able to control the whereabouts of those girls in the guild at any time?! As expected, you are the legendary stalker, right?"
Disper snatched the tracker from Kira's hand and tapped the button repeatedly, and saw the names on it kept changing, from "Erza" to "Natsu", "Lucy" and others, to familiar names such as "Mira" and "Makarov", and then to "Jellal", "Ulrutia" and other people he had heard of but had never seen, and he immediately exclaimed.
Compared to Disper's shouting, Kurnuki seemed much calmer. He only glanced at the magic tracker that Disper regarded as a "pervert's artifact" and ignored it. For dragons, their noses are more useful than any magic props.
"Given their strength, they shouldn't be unable to catch up or defeat us."
"Well... Based on my years of experience, the most likely possibility is that they defeated those guys, and then learned from them that the dark guild had kidnapped other people, so they ran to rescue them."
After listening to Kira's speculation, Dispe and Kurnuki also thought it made sense: "It sounds like this is indeed their style..."
"Let's go and see if there's anything we can help with. Hmm... I wonder if there's a dark guild of the same level as the 'Ballam Alliance' in Kiltina's magic world."
The wizards in the Fairy Tail world all have a halo when they appear, so even though Kira is 100% confident in the strength and luck of Erza and the others, if they really meet a strong enemy, they will most likely be beaten first.
Thirty minutes later, Kira and the other two slowly arrived at their destination, which was a forest outside the town.
Deep in the forest, there is a tavern that looks very dark. A series of monster skulls are hung at the door, and there are a lot of scary patterns in red and black.
The most distinctive feature is a huge green snake sculpture and its two lantern-sized eyes.
Disper thought for a moment and said, "Hmm... If I remember correctly, the dark guild that the blacksmith's nephew just mentioned is called ' One-eyed Snake', right? It seems that the people they kidnapped are hiding here."
Kira looked at the magic tracker in his hand, nodded and said, "Erusa and the others are in there too, but... why are they not making any noise?"
"Is he being tricked? I heard that the people in the dark guild here are quite capable, and they can buy a lot of things on the black market that are not normally available."
"What can't be bought? Conscience and moral integrity?"
Disper blurted out: "I think that kind of thing can be bought!"
"Oh my god! You actually managed to connect?!" Kira exclaimed in disbelief, "And I can't even refute the idea that 'it can be bought'... Damn it! I didn't expect you to be this kind of person!!"
Kurnuki, who was standing by, listened quietly to the conversation between Kira and Disper. After the two of them finished, he said in his usual cold tone, "I say, you two..."
"We are not brothers!" ×2
"…I want to ask, aren't you going in?"
"No hurry, no hurry...wait until we find out the situation clearly."
"It's still early... Let's get some sleep first."
While Kira, Disper and Kurnuki were looking at the dark guild outside the tavern, Erza slowly opened her eyes in the basement of the tavern.
An arrogant voice came: "Hey, you bastard woman, are you finally awake?"
Hearing the voice, Erza's mind suddenly became clear and she recalled what happened before.
Half a day ago, under strong suspicion, she led Natsu and others to catch up with those suspicious big men on the street. Originally, Natsu was going to rescue them directly, but was stopped by Erza, saying that "the other party can't have only so many people, we should follow them to their lair and then take action", and the others agreed with this suggestion.
Finally, the group followed here, the tavern of the dark guild "One-eyed Snake".
But what they didn't expect was that the other party had already discovered Erza and her group following them on the road, so they immediately activated the mechanism after entering the tavern.
Erza and the others didn't know that they had been exposed, so they followed them to the tavern and broke in. They didn't expect that there were many traps here, and what they didn't expect was that there was a potion that could make people sleep. Because Natsu rushed around, they all fell into the trap.
“This…this is…?!”
Erza's eyes widened in surprise instantly, because not only were her hands handcuffed behind her back, but her neck, wrists, and ankles were shackled, and her waist was wrapped with three or four layers of iron chains. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break free, and she couldn't even use magic.
"It's the Demon-Sealing Cuffs!"
As she was already familiar with this kind of thing, Erza immediately realized what was restraining her, and her face was filled with annoyance: "Damn it! I was so careless!!"
The arrogant voice sounded again: "Careless? It's not you who was careless! It's my trap that was too perfect!! Hahahaha!!!"
But Erza didn't even look at it, she just looked around to survey the surrounding environment.
This was an iron prison. Not only himself, Natsu and others were locked in the cage, but there were also a bunch of unfamiliar children and women. Apart from that, there was nothing else. Even the sacks used to hold people were thrown outside the prison.
At this time, Natsu and the others were still in a coma, and like him, they were tied up with magic shackles and chains, and even Happy and Xia Lulu were locked in an iron cage. Happy was sleeping soundly, with a faint saliva in his mouth, and anyone could tell what he was dreaming about.
As for the children and women, they were ordinary people, so they seemed to be chained and handcuffed. They were awake, but they curled up in fear, not daring to speak or look up at anyone.
"Is this really the kidnappers' hideout? Don't be afraid, we'll be able to get out soon!" Erza shouted to comfort those powerless people.
When hearing Erza's voice, these people had only three reactions: the first one looked up at her with a hopeful light in their eyes; the second one still had a gloomy expression and shook his head at her; the third one ignored her and continued to keep his head down in silence.
The less responsive the people were, the more pale and thin they looked. Erza saw this and immediately knew: these people must have been tied up here for a while, so they lost the will to resist. However, judging from their condition, the people in this place did not seem to have used whipping or other punishments on them.
The arrogant man's voice sounded for the third time: "Hey!! Woman!! I'm talking to you, do you hear me!! Kneel down and beg for mercy, and I will consider treating you a little better~"
"This really... reminds me of a bad experience..." Erza sighed, murmured something, and then shouted loudly, "Natsu!! Gray!! Lucy!! Wendy!! Get up!!!"
After several shouts, Natsu and the others woke up one by one, and then shook their heads for a while, and finally regained consciousness. After realizing the situation around them, they started shouting again.
"Lucy~ Is it morning yet?"
"No! Natsu, wake up! We are tied up!"
"Nani?! Where is this place?"
"It must be those guys' lair!"
"I seemed to smell something, and then I fainted..."
"It's sleep smoke!"
"Damn it!! Can't use magic?! Are they magic-sealing handcuffs?"
After a commotion, Natsu and Gray stood up and shouted, "You bastards! Let us out now!"
Unexpectedly, the two of them suddenly stood up, which triggered a chain reaction: Natsu dragged Lucy beside him to the ground, and Gray dragged Erza to the ground.
"ah!!!"
Plop! Plop!
"What's going on?! What did you two do?!"
“This… this is…”
After a closer look, they discovered that the chains of several people were entangled together: the chain and the shackles were originally one. It passed through the two round holes on one person's handcuffs, wrapped around the body twice, then passed through the shackles on another person's feet, then went back to their own body and wrapped around twice, and finally handcuffed back to the wrists.
In this way, one person 's handcuffs were connected to another person's leg cuffs, and finally formed a loop, connecting all of them together.
In this way, their range of movement will be limited (they have to move with the main group), and they can only maintain a sitting or lying position (once someone's handcuffs are too high, someone will fall to the ground because the chain is not long enough). Because the number of people in a set is an odd number (five), they cannot move by the "one standing and one falling" method.
The way they are connected is like this: Natsu (feet) - Erza (hands/feet) - Gray (hands/feet) - Wendy (hands/feet) - Lucy (hands/feet) - Natsu (hands)
“What kind of weird way of tying is this?!!!”×5
