I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 32

“The bottom three levels are the closest to the exit of the entire prison. Although under normal circumstances, no disturbance would reach here, once it happened, we had to be the last line of defense.”

“Any escape of a criminal is a disgrace to the prison, I will not allow such a thing to happen!”

Sholun, who was walking in the front, had a cold tone and a determined look.

Lu Mi noticed that all the prison guards they encountered on the road had a look of fear and trepidation. It seemed that the reputation of this warden here was quite intimidating.

“What do we need to do?” he asked calmly.

“Ah, right, let me think…” Sholun slowly smiled, “Although I really want you to participate in the execution and torture work—”

Anbo and the other two extraordinaries couldn’t help but change their expressions.

“But after all, you have no experience, I’m afraid you can’t handle it.” Sholun leisurely added the second half of the sentence, “So, let’s start with the most basic patrol. Just so happens that two prison guards died in the 18th area the day before yesterday, and we are short of hands now.”

………

“From now until dawn tomorrow…” Anbo looked at the timetable and simple map in his hand, “The range is large, it seems we have to act separately, where have you decided to go?”

Speaking of which, after Sholun briefly explained the points to note to them and gave them temporary passes, he was called away by another prison guard to deal with things. He seemed to be very busy.

Lu Mi scanned the entire map and pointed to one place, “I’ll go here.”

Coincidentally, the passages between the layers were unique, and the passage owned by the second layer was in the 18th area, which was where Lu Mi chose.

The prison guard who stayed here registered everyone’s choices and also distributed a small booklet of prison guard rules to each person.

“Don’t worry, there will be resident prison guards everywhere. If you encounter any trouble, just go to the nearest post to find them.” The prison guard comforted the few people who were anxious.

Lu Mi thought to himself, how could they really entrust such important work to a few newcomers like them? Apart from the original sentries, there were probably other patrolmen. Their existence seemed more like optional observers.

Then, Anbo created a small group with their terminal accounts for easy contact, and they each rushed to their chosen patrol routes.

“Save me, save me!”

“Let me out, I don’t want to die here!”

“I want to appeal to the headquarters, I was wronged, is there anyone who can hear me…”

Sure enough, after leaving the main road they had been on, they saw the real prison.

The cries and wails of the prisoners gradually came from both sides of the road. They could faintly hear the prison guards shouting at them to shut up, as well as various sounds of beatings.

[Ding——Authentication passed.]

The soldier at the sentry post saw that Lu Mi had safely passed through the security gate, and continued to stand in place without looking sideways, without any intention of asking another question.

Lu Mi continued to walk deeper into the prison while looking down at the map.

After leaving the initial noisy section, the latter half gradually became quiet.

“Hey, listen to these footsteps… It doesn’t seem like the prison guards who used to come?”

In the spacious row of prisons, a low discussion voice faintly came.

“Could it be a newcomer!” Another voice trembled with excitement, “That’s great, I love playing with newcomers the most!”

“…This madman is sick again, it’s really bad luck.” A few other voices of disgust were drowned in the darkness.

At this time, Lu Mi finally slowly entered everyone’s field of vision, and everyone looked up with either malice or indifference.

The next moment, they had to admit that the young man with silver eyes in front of them was unexpectedly beautiful, as if the dark prison had suddenly lit up.

Some people’s eyes couldn’t help but condense, and there was an additional interest in their eyes, and some others had a slightly meaningful exploration.

It was really strange, he didn’t even wear the prison guard’s uniform, would Sholun really let outsiders who didn’t belong to the prison get involved in his territory? Or did this person have something special…

Thinking of this, they couldn’t help but hold back, planning to wait and see.

Bang——!

A heavy thud suddenly came from a cell, and a prisoner with the number 43 on his prison uniform was pleading for help from the young man with silver eyes in a panic, “Mr. Prison Guard, I’m not feeling well, my arm….It seems to have been bitten by something…”

As he spoke, he stretched his arm out of the gap in the prison, as if to show the young man.

No one spoke, everyone watched this scene with either mockery or indifference, they knew this madman couldn’t help it.

These people focused their eyes on the young man with silver eyes, as if expecting his reaction.

Lu Mi just glanced at the strange flush on the man’s face, and spoke lightly, “If I remember correctly, Article 128 of the Prison Rules states that prisoners are not allowed to carry any weapons, tools, or unauthorized items. It seems you have violated this rule.”

After he finished speaking, without looking at the other’s reaction, he directly took out his terminal and dialed a number.

“…Hello?” The other end was quickly connected, and the person’s voice seemed to reveal a hint of surprise, “You ran into trouble so soon? I thought you could hold on a little longer.”

Everyone’s faces changed when they heard the voice coming from the other side.

And Lu Mi spoke in his usual tone, “I encountered a prisoner with the number 43, he may be carrying a prohibited weapon on his body, I suggest sending someone to check his left index finger and fingernail.”

“……”

“I understand.” Sholun was silent for a while before he spoke again in a serious tone, “I will handle this matter. If there are similar situations in the future, just tell me directly, I will not reject any of your communications.”

Then Lu Mi took the terminal away from his ear, deliberately switched it to speaker mode, and slightly turned towards the stunned number 43.

The next second, Sholun’s voice came from inside – “It seems that my prison guards are not very useful, number 43. This time I will personally entertain you, look forward to it.”

The terminal then hung up.

“……”

The prison fell into silence.

Number 43, whose face had been flushed, turned pale at this moment.

The reason they dared to be so arrogant was because they had all survived a round from Sholun. Perhaps due to some kind of sentiment, Sholun would never interrogate the same person twice, and from then on, he would hand it over to other prison guards.

In fact, anyone who had been interrogated by Sholun would never forget that terror. Who knew…!

Who knew that this newcomer would have a direct way to contact Sholun, you know, not even those senior prison chiefs necessarily have! Not only that, Sholun also made an exception for this, to “entertain” a past prisoner again…

Everyone looked at the young man with silver eyes who calmly put away the terminal, and they were startled into a cold sweat, very glad that they had not rashly bumped into him. Although they didn’t know what the relationship between Sholun and him was, this person was clearly not the ordinary prison guards of the past, when did such a powerful person come to the prison?!

Lu Mi picked up the half-read map again and continued to move towards the divided route.

This time, both sides of the road were silent, and everyone watched the young man with silver eyes gradually disappear at the end of the corridor, even the prison guards who were sent to take away number 43 couldn’t turn their heads.

About ten minutes later, Lu Mi arrived at a special area marked on the map.

This was the elevator from the second floor to the third and first floors. Thick steel bars blocked the elevator layer by layer, and it could not be opened without special instructions.

Next to the elevator was an area for detaining abyss creatures. He looked inside through the transparent glass and found that the second floor was detaining some D-level or E-level monsters with lower danger levels.

“Could you be that lord…?”

Just as Lu Mi was about to turn around and leave, a special sound wave came from inside the glass cover.

A plant-like creature crawled out from behind the simulated red rocks of the abyss in the prison, and said to Lu Mi tremblingly.

Lu Mi glanced at the surrounding surveillance, and then replied with mental power, “Do you know me?”

The plant-like creature was immediately moved to tears, and couldn’t contain its excitement!

“When I was in the abyss, I had the privilege of seeing you and your subjects from afar, and I dared not forget your figure. I didn’t expect to see you again here——!”

It cried out with genuine emotion, and every branch was convulsing madly. It didn’t find it strange that Lu Mi would appear here, knowing that those great beings with heavenly powers could go anywhere, it wasn’t something it had the right to ask.

Lu Mi looked at it curiously, “How long have you been here?”

“Half a year, wuwuwu——lord, I haven’t done anything, I was caught as soon as I came to this world, now I just want to go home. When I leave this prison, could you spare me? Please!”

The plant stretched out its vines and made a difficult bowing motion.

But Lu Mi’s focus was not here, “Leave?” He raised an eyebrow, “Can you get out of there?”

“No, not now.” The plant-like creature said, “But our race has a special way of communication, a few days ago my little friend on the fourth floor told me that we will soon have a chance to escape from here.”

It knew well that if Lu Mi intended to stop it, not to mention it, probably no one would be able to leave then, so at this moment it felt as if it had a great mission – it was now carrying the future of countless compatriots, it all depended on whether it could persuade Lu Mi now!

In the end, Lu Mi didn’t get more information from this plant, it seemed that it didn’t actually know the specific situation.

By the time evening came, the four of them gathered together again.

Lu Mi noticed that apart from Anbo who was still calm, the expressions of the other two were not very good. It was clear that they had encountered some unexpected situations during their first patrol.

They didn’t have the mood to exchange any insights. They were as nervous now as they were happy when they arrived. Thinking about the nearly half a month to come, they couldn’t help but feel even more fearful. So after hastily eating dinner, everyone dispersed. Now they could have a short rest time to replenish their physical strength and spirit for the arrival of tomorrow.

And just at dawn that day, Lu Mi was awakened by a loud alarm, suddenly opening his eyes from the bed.

[Warning——! Warning——]

[Monster number cg5567 has escaped from the fourth floor and has now reached the twentieth area of the third floor! Please prepare for interception and defense immediately on the lower three floors!]

[Repeat! Number…]

“Darn! What’s going on in the middle of the night, are those people on the fourth floor eating shit!”

“Quick, quick, quick, don’t sleep, everyone gather!”

“What’s the situation on the third floor now, what does the warden say!?”

There was a clamor everywhere, as if overnight, this huge and cold prison was suddenly ignited.

Lu Mi pushed open the door, just to see Anbo and others hurriedly dressing and running over, surrounded by equally hurried prison guards.

Anbo and the other two weaved through the chaotic crowd, panting as they came up to ask Lu Mi, “What do we do now?”

Ever since the arena incident, the few of them had subtly taken Lu Mi as the leader, and at this moment they also instinctively sought his opinion at the first moment.

Lu Mi looked around, the busy prison guards obviously didn’t have time to arrange for these few exchange students, they all just brushed past them.

Lu Mi said, “With the strength of that warden, it shouldn’t be difficult to deal with just one monster.”

Sure enough, after a while, a prison guard shouted loudly, “cg5567 has been intercepted by Warden Sholun in the fourth area of the third floor!”

At this point, Anbo and the others also breathed a sigh of relief, “It seems that it’s okay, we can go back to rest…”

“No, you’re wrong.” Lu Mi suddenly spoke at this moment, his gaze looking straight up, as if he could see the scenery of the upper layer through the ceiling.

It wasn’t over yet…He could feel that countless breaths were gradually becoming restless…

The young man with silver eyes suddenly turned and walked in a direction, with Anbo and the others hurriedly following behind.

Anbo: “Wait a minute, where are you going at this time?”

Lu Mi: “The elevator door.”

An exceptionally long night began.