Mary nodded heavily.

Lin Wu said: "If that's the case, how come no one in the prison found out? Prison breakout is no small matter."

Mary said bitterly: "All the prison guards are the same as him, in cahoots with him, how could they possibly be in charge?!"

"Then you shouldn't want to kill him. Don't you want to leave here? If you want to, this Rat Master has the background and can do it. You should have a good relationship with him so that he can take you away when the time comes." Lin Wu said unmoved.

"I……"

Mary choked, rolled her eyes, and said, "Are you stupid?!"

"……What did you say?"

Lin Wu narrowed his eyes slightly.

Mary was still unaware, and very boldly stretched out her hand to hook Lin Wu's shoulder and whispered: "That's escaping from prison! What a big deal! If you are discovered, you will really be sentenced to life imprisonment, or even other punishments! So of course Master Shu won't make a big fuss, nor will he let many people know. With his character, I guess he will just sneak away alone when the time comes."

"Besides, there are so many prisoners who are close to him. Even if he really has a guilty conscience and takes people away, he will only take his confidants. How can it be my turn? I can't get out anyway. Besides, who knows if he will cover up the fact that he escaped from prison and kill all the prisoners who might know about it? Even if he doesn't do it, I might go crazy and commit suicide like the other female prisoners. Then of course I have to seize the opportunity to kill him!"

His tone was firm and his emotions were rich, as if the words "Everything I said is true" were engraved on his forehead.

Lin Wu glanced at her, shook his shoulders and dropped her hand, and said, "You've said so much, I'm just curious about one thing."

"What?"

"You hate Lord Rat, but does he know you? Does he have any impression of you?"

Mary's face froze for a moment, then she quickly recovered and said, "Of course I don't know. How could I dare to let him know? If he found out that I knew so many of his secrets, I would have been dead long ago."

Lin Wu looked at her, "So what did you do before you came in?"

"This is not important. I was just an unknown little person before!"

Mary said casually, then looked at Lin Wu expectantly.

"I can show you a little bit of my sincerity first. Be careful these few days and don't eat or drink anything of unknown origin. I have observed many people and it seems that Master Rat controls prisoners in this way. I'm afraid you have been fooled. If you don't want to be controlled by him, you have to work with me so that Master Rat can tell you how to solve this problem. Our cooperation will benefit both of us, and we can leave together when the time comes!"

Lin Wu looked at her with dark and cold eyes, which made Mary feel a little uneasy and she stepped back unconsciously.

The next moment, Lin Wu's expression relaxed as usual, as if what happened before was just her illusion.

"I need to think about it." Lin Wu said.

Mary's eyes lit up, "Okay!"

"However," Lin Wu said, changing the subject, "the sincerity you showed doesn't seem to be enough."

Mary was slightly stunned, and immediately asked: "What else do you want?"

Lin Wu pointed at the pile of smelly clothes in the laundry room and said calmly, "I need to concentrate on thinking. Working will affect my thinking."

"Then I'll do it!"

Mary went over excitedly without thinking, as if Lin Wu would decide to agree to her in the next second.

The other person would look up at her from time to time, and then Lin Wu would curl up the corners of her mouth to reveal a fake smile.

Mary worked even harder.

In the evening, the prison warden came to check the registration. Lin Wu, with his hands in his pockets, listened calmly to Mary's breathless words saying that they did it together.

The prison warden looked at the two people with obvious contrast in confusion, said nothing, and took them away.

In order to get Lin Wu's "answer" sooner, Mary wrote the 3,000 words of ideological education for her in the evening.

Lu Guichi, who was unable to write the story no matter how hard he tried, was very envious. After returning to the cell, he immediately asked Lin Wu how he managed to find someone to write it for him.

Lin Wu told Lu Guichi what happened in the afternoon.

Lu Guichi: "Wow - I've never seen anyone as stupid as her. Can't she see that you will never agree to her request?"

Lin Wu shrugged. "Anyway, I said I would consider it. I didn't lie to her."

But Lin Wu has the good quality of never lying.

"By the way, where's Bo Ning?"

"He... I don't know either. I haven't seen him since dinner, and I didn't pay close attention." Lu Guichi had just finished speaking when footsteps were heard outside the cell.

Lin Wu and Lu Guichi stood up and stared at the door. The person who came in was the Bai Ning they had just mentioned.

"My goodness, are you invisible? Why can't I see you at all? Where have you been?" Lu Guichi asked.

Bo Ning did not answer, but looked outside vigilantly, closed the cell door, came in and whispered to the two men: "I followed that Rat Lord to District D tonight. Guess what I saw?"

"What?"

"I saw Master Rat stop at the edge of the prison wall in Area E, and then jumped into the ground! There is a secret passage leading down there!"

Bo Ning pondered and continued, "Then I used the contact information Captain Xu gave me to contact an informant in Area E. I asked about the place and learned that there was an underground air-raid shelter built during the war decades ago. It almost ran through the five major areas of the outer prison and could accommodate thousands of people for emergency shelter at the same time! After the war, it was abandoned."

"The informant also said that the place is not in use now. Because three years ago, someone entered there by mistake, and died suddenly overnight after coming out. There were a few bloody words at the scene of death: There is a ghost inside, and anyone who enters will die. Some prison guards did not believe in it and went in to investigate, but they did not come out. The body was found a few days later, right at the entrance."

"This attracted quite a bit of attention in Area E at the time, but when the warden sent people to investigate, they ran out in terror not long after entering, saying they saw a ghost inside. Since then, the air-raid shelter has been completely abandoned, and no one has entered it since.

When Lin Wu heard this, she remembered that she had wanted to ask this question in the afternoon, but she was so busy working that she forgot to ask.

She asked, "What else did you find?"

Bo Ning said, "Master Rat stayed in there for about fifteen minutes before coming out. He was alone during the whole process and I didn't see anyone else. I was afraid he would notice me, so I didn't get too close to him. I don't know what he was doing."

"Wu Wu knows this!" Lu Guichi said quickly.

Bo Ning looked at Lin Wu in surprise.

Lin Wu told him what Mary said in the afternoon, and finally said: "If there is really a ghost in there, how come this Rat Lord is fine? There are no real ghosts in this world. The ghost rumor must have been spread deliberately by someone at the time. And Rat Lord came in three years ago. Maybe there is some connection between them. It is also possible that what I heard them doing last night is related to this air-raid shelter."