Chapter 142: Prison Cell (Updated)

"I was really scared to death." Agger complained, "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you have strong mental strength? You almost became stupid or died! Do you know how terrifying that is?"

Looking at the excited Agger who had completely lost his composure, Bai Jiyue said honestly: "I don't know."

"...Are you choking me on purpose?!" Agger stroked his chest, picked up the kettle hanging beside the bamboo basket and drank a sip of water. He finally calmed down and explained to them.

The spiral pattern represents darkness itself. Using it to paint windows can not only block light well, but also give the private space a "dark" flavor and prevent the invasion of dark creatures.

Most people will not be affected by a pattern, and are happy to use it to make their lives more convenient. Only some special people can see things that others cannot see, which can cause dementia or death. Agger has seen people go crazy just by looking at the spiral pattern.

According to statistics, these people's mental abilities are different from those of ordinary people. They have been able to see things that others cannot see since childhood, and are also very sensitive to the existence of dark creatures.

Agger said: "...You are so lucky. If I were not here, you would be finished."

Bai Jiyue didn't like the tone of claiming to be a benefactor, and she believed that in the end, she still had to rely on her own spiritual sense, so she pouted and said, "If it weren't for your glasses, I wouldn't be able to see this pattern."

The black paint was too dark, and the fire was not very bright, so she had not seen it before.

Then he said, "And you look so scared. If I really get infected, you will be affected, right?"

She glanced at the speechless Agger, and it seemed to be true.

Ji Weihang, who had been listening quietly, asked: "Will this cause long-term damage to her spirit?"

Agre said simply, "I don't know. After all, we don't have anyone to observe for a long time. Most people will go crazy on the spot, and few can be rescued." He glanced at Bai Jiuyue, "She can withstand this kind of pressure, so her spirit should be stronger than others."

Even if a cultivator's spiritual power is lowered, it is definitely much stronger than that of an ordinary person.

Bai Jiuyue hummed complacently, saying that it was because her spiritual awareness was strong that she survived.

After this little episode, their relationship became much closer. Agger looked at the watch on his wrist and said, "She is so special, the possibility of you joining the guild is even greater. Let's go while it's still early."

Ji Weihang and Bai Jiuyue also have watches. They were originally taken from the best employee on the 33rd floor by Bai Jiuyue. He uses them back and forth between the building blocks and no one knows if they are still accurate. He will show them to the merchants at the smuggling guild when the time comes.

Ji Weihang closed the fireplace door, and Bai Jiuyue turned his back to the window and put on night vision glasses.

They put on their "masks" again.

Agger stretched out his left hand behind him and Bai Jiuyue held it. After Ji Weihang adjusted the direction of his weapon, he held Bai Jiuyue's left hand with his right hand.

Open the door and walk into the darkness.

Bai Jiuyue finally saw clearly the environment they were in.

They were on a road lined with wooden houses like the one they had come from.

The ground was flat, solid dirt, and the faint sound of stepping on it was swallowed up by the silent darkness.

Going forward along this avenue, we gradually saw a fountain square with statues, but the fountain had long been dry. Next to the square was a two-story brick house, which was very conspicuous among the houses.

Circumventing some dirty and smelly garbage piles, Agger led them to the two-story house and then pulled the long rope beside the door.

After a moment, the wooden door opened.

They walked from one darkness into another.

After the door was closed, the candlesticks hanging on the wall lit up, and several faces looked at the three people at the door.

"Ager, who did you bring?" the oldest woman in brown clothes, who looked to be over sixty years old, asked in a low voice.

Agger untied his cloak and hung it on the hook by the door, and placed the bamboo basket in the other corner, which was lined with similar bamboo baskets.

"Two newcomers, I want to know the secrets, they have good abilities, I brought them here for Big Sister to see. One of them has a strong mental strength, he just saw the black pattern, and his spirit has not collapsed yet."

The brown-dressed woman glanced at the two of them, and then said, "My eldest sister is in a meeting in the conference room."

As the woman in brown stepped aside, the other two also made way for the stairs.

Agger led them towards the stairs, and along the way they could see closed doors in the spaces on both sides of the stairs.

"The kitchen is on the right, and the living room is on the left." Agger introduced casually, and then said, "The eldest sister is the leader of our smugglers. She doesn't like to beat around the bush. Just make your demands directly. If you have equal value, she will propose equal terms of the transaction."

Ji Weihang asked, "How long has your guild been established?"

Agger said: "Maybe several decades, I don't know."

Bai Jiyue asked: "Were you born here?"

Agger said vaguely: "...I guess so."

"Don't you have a security department and a public security office here?" Ji Weihang asked.

Agger said, "Those are the things from other blocks. We don't have them, and darkness rules everything."

As we stepped onto the second floor, we heard more voices talking.

There were quite a few people on the second floor. The middle area seemed to be a leisure area. Some people sat in a circle with lanterns as the center, reading books or newspapers, while others sat cross-legged in the corner, playing cards or card games in a low voice.

The corridor led to two sides, each with two closed doors.

The entire second floor is filled with sound insulation sponges, obviously the best sound insulation treatment has been done.

"Sister Qiqi, has the eldest sister finished the meeting?" asked Ager.

Someone who was playing a card game said without looking up, "If you need anything to see her, just go to Room 1. Some people will thank you if you interrupt the meeting now."

Agre, who was familiar with the guild, understood everything. He winked at the two men to follow him, walked to the end of the corridor covered with black plush carpet, and gently pulled the thick rope beside the door.

After a moment, the door opened and welcomed the three people in.

To their surprise, they were used to seeing all kinds of faces along the way and thought that the residents here were all women with clear faces, but they did not expect that the eldest sister of the guild was actually made of mist.

After learning the purpose of the two people's visit from Ager, the guild leader asked the others in the room to get out, asked them to sit down, and then said, "Are you interested in the operation of our organization?"

Hit the nail on the head.

This is not their stated reason, but it is indeed a question that they are really interested in.

Ji Weihang sat next to the eldest sister and said, "To run such an organization in this building block for a long time, it must have resources from other building blocks, right? I'm curious, with this relationship, why don't you leave here? Agre said you can't leave."

The guild elder sister leaned back in her chair, and Ji Weihang could feel the scrutiny in her eyes.

There was silence in the space for a moment, and the guild elder sister said: "Indeed, most of our organization's resources come from other building blocks, and we can also communicate with other levels. If you want to leave, we can do it.

"But are the living conditions of other building blocks any better? Why do they have to leave their hometowns and seek a living elsewhere?"

After hearing this, Bai Jiuyue subconsciously thought of the word "makes sense" in her mind, and then looked at Ager. It turned out that he was lying when he said he didn't know how to leave.

Agger accepted her gaze with confidence.

Ji Weihang pondered for a moment and said, "I see. I underestimated your determination and ability."

The guild elder sister blew out a breath, as if she was impatient, and said, "Don't say these polite words, your purpose is far more than this, right? There has never been a powerful player who didn't want to destroy the building blocks."

Ji Weihang: "So what is your opinion on this?"

The guild elder sister said sarcastically, "No player has ever succeeded."

Bai Jiuyue thought: That’s because he didn’t meet us.

Guild Sister: "But you give me a different feeling...

"So, I can't take the risk."

She raised her hand and pressed somewhere on the wooden table, and they were immediately tied up tightly by ropes that shot out from the chair.

Agger opened his mouth, but in the end said nothing.

The guild elder sister stood up and said to the member who opened the door, "Take him away and keep him under guard."

Ten minutes later, the two men, who were forced to change into coarse clothes, looked at each other across the wooden fence.

The lights on the wall were dim and could not illuminate the environment where the two people were.

Bai Jiyue stretched out his hand through the gap in the wooden fence and asked, "Why didn't you resist, senior?"

She wanted to resist just now, but Ji Weihang winked at her and she had to give up.

Ji Weihang was checking the cell and said, "If they resist, the noise will be too loud and it will easily lead to trouble."

Bai Jiuyue thought about it and agreed. If they started a fight in a place like this, if they accidentally broke the house, they might attract dark creatures and be wiped out.

"But it's not your style not to resist." Bai Jiyue said, "Did you discover something?"

Ji Weihang had finished looking. There was nothing in the cell except a wooden bed, thin bedding, and a wooden barrel.

"I'm just a little curious about how they will treat us. If they want to detain us, where will they detain us?" Ji Weihang said, "Look here, is there anything special?"

Bai Jiyue said: "What's so special about it? It's dirty, as if many people have lived here..."

Seeing her hesitant tone, I knew she understood. Ji Weihang said, "Yes, many people have lived here... Are there so many people who need to be detained here?"

The possibility of conflict between the local residents and the smuggling guild is very small, and if the smuggling guild has detained many players, why? It is impossible that all players who come here have the intention to destroy the building blocks.

There shouldn't be that many players who would happen to encounter smugglers and be brought to the base camp.

There are only four cells here, and there are no other prisoners except them.

Bedding and barrels were ready before they came in, even in other empty cells.

Are they always preparing supplies to wait for "guests"? From what Agger said before, cloth is a very scarce material here. So are they just wasting four sets of bedding on prisoners who may come at any time?

Why should they be so kind to the prisoners? Wouldn't it be better to just freeze them to death? Not to mention that the temperature here is not actually low enough to freeze people to death.

Bai Jiyue thought for a moment and did not continue the topic. Instead, he talked about something that seemed unrelated to the topic: "The sixty-sixth floor is very different from the other floors.

"First of all, there is neither a security department nor a public security office here. Although I don't know what the security department and the public security office actually represent, since it is the 'highest authority' recognized by the God of Highways, why would they bypass this level?

“There are no official rules here. Is it related to the non-existence of the Ministry of Security and the Public Security Bureau?

“Secondly, the smuggling guilds have almost monopolized all sources of survival on this floor.

"Since darkness is the theme of this level, why is there no God of Darkness? Wouldn't He consciously defend His territory like the God of Highways?

"If the smuggling guilds that see us, who want to destroy the Blocks, as their enemies, are subordinates of the God of Darkness, why do they still hide from the dangers of darkness? Why don't they have the right to forgive the darkness?

"If the God of Darkness doesn't exist, then darkness is just pure darkness? If that's the case, how can the shadows erode so many layers? It's very strange.

“Again, Agger said before that houses must have windows, and he was very confident. All the way here, every house has windows.

"Normal people don't have an obsession with having windows in their house, nor do they take it for granted, especially when having windows means more danger.

"And in this place, that seems to be the general idea, otherwise every house wouldn't have windows. It's a very strange point.

"Finally, the situation on this floor is the opposite of the other floors. The NPCs with faces are the majority, and the NPCs without faces are a very small minority. The NPC without a face is still the most important one, the one who gives orders."

After a pause, Bai Jiyue looked at Ji Weihang in the cell opposite: "Senior, do you also think that we are close to the center of the building block?"

Ji Weihang looked at the dim candlelight beside him and whispered, "Fear of darkness is human instinct."

Bai Jiyue suddenly had an idea. The moment she figured out all the clues, she almost wanted to shout out loud, but she finally held back and whispered excitedly, "I understand! I understand!"

As if reflecting her excitement, the cell door slammed open and a strange young man in a familiar guard uniform walked in.

There were bloody footprints on the stairs behind the young man, and his boots were splattered with blood. He looked at the two people in the cell indifferently and pulled out the pistol from his waist.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

The smile on Bai Jiuyue's face disappeared completely, and turned into surprise: "A Quan, you left the 23rd floor? Is the God of Highway willing to let you go?"

Her mind raced, all their weapons had been taken away, leaving them with nowhere to run, defend, or attack in the cell.

Is she going to fail here just when she has figured it out? This is her first game!

Definitely not! She tried to think hard. Ah Quan was a puppet of the God of the Road. If she couldn't knock him down with one blow, they would be the ones who would be in trouble.

Is her spiritual power strong enough to defeat the opponent with one blow?

Noticing that Ji Weihang's hand behind his back was pointing in a certain direction, she turned her eyes and understood, full of confidence.

There is still a chance!

The time it took for a series of thoughts to go through her mind was only two seconds in reality.

Ah Quan raised his gun, pointed it at Ji Weihang, and said coldly:

"Not only can I leave the twenty-third floor, I can also leave this damn game soon."

A gunshot rang out.