This time, the burly man did not close the door. Instead, he wedged his foot into the doorframe and slowly walked toward the jailer.
He first patted the door and said softly, “Thanks.”
Then, he grabbed the jailer’s baton and kicked out at the man’s knee!
“You dare attack a public official?!” The jailer couldn’t accept the fact that he had been kicked. “Help! Jailbreak!”
Unfortunately, no other jailers were able to respond to him.
He looked back.
Clack, clack, clack, clack—
All the doors seemed to have developed minds of their own, unlocking themselves impatiently.
The prisoners, whose fury had already reached its breaking point, finally found an outlet for their emotions. With bloodshot eyes, they charged toward the jailer!
As they fought, they shouted their protests regardless of the pain.
“Heaven and Earth are heartless! Officials force the people to rebel!”
“We want out! We want to breathe the fresh air of freedom! We want human rights, equality, and dignity!”
“We need to take a dump!”
This was a riot that happened to hit the exact emotional tipping point of every prisoner.
Venerable Ye and the Punishment Official had never expected that their originally seamless scheme would become a counterattack point for someone with a cheat code.
The jailers were fully equipped and their strength was not suppressed, so naturally, they would not be defeated by these unarmed prisoners.
However, these prisoners were all insane…
You can never guess how hysterical people with diarrhea can be.
They were willing to take risks and make huge sacrifices just to relieve their stomachs.
They wanted to go out and see a Doctor.
The extreme pain made them feel like they didn’t have long to live anyway.
Since they were dead whether they went out or not, if no Doctor helped them recover, they would rather die on the path to freedom.
“Disgusting,” Jiang Ke’er said as she put on the gas mask she used during Pill Refining.
This Venerable Ye really was unscrupulous.
But with the chaos reaching this level, Venerable Ye would surely not continue to sit idly by.
He had to complete his scheme as soon as possible, or else some idle Cultivator Human Rights Organization would bother him incessantly.
Venerable Ye’s urgency was Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn’s chance for survival.
But while the opposition had a plan, she had one of her own.
It all depended on the coordination outside.
Half a day ago—
“There is an Internal Bomb in Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn’s stomach, the kind that can blow up an entire city,” Jie Shui said.
When they attempted the jailbreak at midnight last night, they successfully made contact with Jiang Ke’er and learned about the situation inside the prison.
“Understood. But your injuries…” Si Lian looked at the wounds on Jie Shui and the others, finding them troublesome.
The Bagpipe Squad’s original plan was to feign a jailbreak, go in to meet with Jiang Ke’er, and then quickly retreat, eventually leaving while pretending to be heavily injured.
As a result, they were beaten into being truly heavily injured within seconds.
If Qiao Xiaoxian hadn’t been keeping watch outside the prison and happened to notice them, providing timely assistance, they might have been gone.
“Charging in recklessly for a jailbreak… who exactly came up with such an arrogant plan?” Si Lian felt an immense headache.
Jie Shui avoided the subject.
“When you made contact, did Qing Yi say anything else?”
“Qing Yi ordered one more thing. We need to move immediately…”
“What is it?”
“Evacuate all members of the Demon Race from the city.”
The Punishment Official was given the cold shoulder.
He was anxious to report Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn’s abnormality to Venerable Ye, but Venerable Ye had hidden himself in his room for half a day.
A Soundproof Barrier blocked his anxious shouts.
He didn’t know why Venerable Ye was being so cautious as to lock himself in his room, or what major matter deserved such treatment.
However, he could never have guessed that the powerful Honored One was currently kneeling—kneeling toward a Sound Transmission Crystal.
“I will certainly do my utmost to carry out what you have said, Sir,” Venerable Ye’s tone was humble.
“Rest assured, Sir. According to my plan, even if that Qing Yi isn’t blown to death, once Si Lian is killed or heavily injured by the blast, I can easily go over and kill her… I just don’t quite understand why that Little Monster, who is only in the Four Symbols Realm, is worth so much of your attention?”
(Blood Pills, Luo’e, Dai Tian… more than a dozen Sect Leaders were bankrupted because of her, and some even had their entire sects wiped out, with only the Sect Leaders themselves narrowly escaping because they weren’t present,) the young voice sighed. (No one knows what happened that day at the Taiming Sect, but everything started because of her. She is a jinx; you must deal with her carefully.)
Venerable Ye frowned in thought.
Few people could attract this person’s attention, yet he had mentioned the name “Qing Yi” several times today.
Qing Yi…
Speaking of which, the scouts he placed in the city had already found the tracks of the other three members of the Bagpipe Squad.
Jie Shui, Lin Gang, and A Miao were all under his surveillance, but only that Qing Yi was nowhere to be found.
Where could she be?
“I will continue to report the situation in the city to you regularly. This month’s tribute has already been submitted. Thank you…”
Before Venerable Ye could finish his sentence, the other party coldly hung up the communication.
Venerable Ye gave a bitter smile, expressing understanding. After all, the other person probably received reports from countless Honored Ones, City Lords, and Sect Leaders every day; being in a rush was only natural.
He removed the Soundproof Barrier and pushed open the door.
The Punishment Official’s raspy, anxious shouts came from outside, and a messenger was standing beside him.
“You speak first,” Venerable Ye said, looking at the messenger.
“There’s a riot in the prison! Something went wrong with the doors, and all the prisoners have escaped!”
Venerable Ye was stunned.
He could completely imagine how hysterical those escaping prisoners were after his plan had been put into motion.
This was bad.
“Understood. You are dismissed.” Venerable Ye did not rush to the prison.
Instead, he sent the messenger away first and looked at the Punishment Official.
“Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn talks to herself occasionally, as if she’s speaking to someone,” the Punishment Official said.
Venerable Ye stroked his chin and fell into deep thought. Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
“So that’s how it is!”
Venerable Ye rushed to the prison immediately.
He didn’t want to delay any longer; he had already suffered heavy losses for this revenge.
If Gan Ruǎnruǎn continued to be difficult, he would drop all pretenses—he had just realized that if he killed Gan Ruǎnruǎn, there was a high probability that Si Lian would come to collect her body.
After all, what conflict can’t be resolved by death?
Of course, the success rate of the plan would be eighty percent lower that way, because a corpse would more easily arouse suspicion.
No one suspects a living person of exploding, but corpse explosions are a common trick among Cultivators.
Consider it a last resort.
The riot inside the prison was instantly silenced by the arrival of an Honored One. Venerable Ye blocked his sense of smell and watched indifferently as the prisoners obediently walked back to their rooms one by one.
Then, he walked toward Subterranean Level 2.
Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn’s face was already green, unable to endure the environment any longer.
“I want to get out!” Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn said hoarsely.
“What? Changed your mind?” Venerable Ye looked at Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn with a smile, his heart ecstatic.
“I told you, a prison is not a good place.”
Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn nodded.
Venerable Ye personally escorted Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn out of the prison.
During the process, he cautiously probed the situation in Gan RuÇŽnruÇŽn’s lower abdomen.
Excellent. There were no signs of tampering; he could even feel the faint, intimidating aura around the Trigger Net.
Hah, Si Lian.
I’m still the winner.