I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 33

Most of the prison guards in the eighteenth area had gone to the third floor through the elevator for support, so Lu Mi and his group hardly saw anyone on their way.

It wasn’t until they arrived at the elevator that they found another group of people coming out of it.

This group was less than ten people, four of whom were carrying a not-so-large box. They were taken aback when they saw Lu Mi and the others.

“Who are you?” Before the others could react, Lu Mi, having glanced at their warning suits, suddenly asked.

The group quickly responded, “In response to Lord Sholun’s previous request, we are delivering medical supplies to the interrogation room on the second floor. If there’s nothing else, please make way, we’re in a hurry.”

“He’s not on the second floor now, just leave the stuff here, we’ll give it to him,” Lu Mi said without even lifting his eyelids.

Anbo and the others couldn’t help but look at Lu Mi uneasily, seemingly puzzled that he would intervene in this matter, after all, they were just interns.

However, what these people didn’t know was that at this moment, Lu Mi’s gaze was drifting towards the abyss creature detention area not far from here, and his ears were echoing with the excited cries of the plant-like creature from before—

“Oh, oh, oh, it’s here, it’s here! This is the smell my little buddy was talking about…”

What followed was a sudden descent into gibberish, as if gradually falling into unconsciousness.

Lu Mi’s gaze towards the box suddenly became more profound.

As for that group of people, they hesitated for a moment, their eyes drifted a few times, and then the leader changed his tune, “I suddenly remembered, we seem to have remembered wrong! This is to be sent to the third floor interrogation room, not the second floor, since Lord Sholun is not on the second floor now, we might as well go find him.”

After saying that, the group quickly turned back to face the elevator, intending to carry the box away again.

However, Lu Mi lifted his right leg and stepped directly on the box, knocking it heavily back to the ground with one foot.

“I said, leave the stuff,” his calm words were not to be questioned, he swept a cold glance at the few people, “or you can stay too.”

“……”

“Hey, Lu… Lu Mi…” Anbo cautiously opened his mouth, but immediately closed it again after receiving a glance from Lu Mi — no, no matter what, there must be a reason, he had to believe in his benefactor…Hmm!

In the end, the group of people was forced to leave the box behind and left in a huff.

The leader retreated back into the elevator, and not until the elevator door completely closed and he escaped from the gaze of the silver-eyed youth did the sweat on his forehead start to pour out in large quantities. “It’s…it’s over!” His heart was pounding wildly, feeling guilty and scared, “Quickly contact Lord Scott, tell him that the plan for the second floor has gone awry!”

“What’s wrong with this box?” After the group of people left, Anbo, looking at Lu Mi who was checking the box, realized something belatedly and was taken aback.

Click——

Lu Mi directly unlocked the box and opened it.

Inside were bag after bag, each sealed with some unknown gas. There was nothing written on the bags to indicate what was inside, nor did they know whether the “medicine” mentioned by those people was true.

However, for Lu Mi, who could hear the sound waves of the abyss creatures, he clearly noticed that the cries of the plant-like creature became sharper instantly, and at the same time, a huge colliding sound came from the detention area on the second floor.

The sound was heard by all three of them, including Anbo. Their pupils contracted, and they looked in the direction of the detention area in horror, but all they could see was a deep darkness.

Then, there were successive sounds of colliding, as if more creatures were waking up from their cells and starting to attack the shield.

Thud—— Lu Mi quickly closed the box again.

After a while, the “bang bang bang” colliding sound in the darkness gradually subsided.

“…What is this?” Anbo’s heart was pounding, he realized something and showed an incredulous expression.

“It’s a gas that makes monsters excited.” Lu Mi glanced at the box and locked it in a room next to him.

Stimulant? Anbo thought subconsciously, in some interrogations of criminals or treatments to keep criminals alive, related drugs would indeed be used…What the hell!

——Without opening, it had such a strong targeted effect on the abyss creatures in the cell, if it was opened, what would happen? I’m afraid the whole second floor would fall into a riot, and by then, who knows if those cells could stop those frenzied monsters?

For some reason, when he thought of the word “riot”, Anbo’s heart suddenly missed a beat, and the feeling of unease became stronger and stronger.

He had a very anxious and regretful look on his face, “Wouldn’t it have been better if we had caught that group of people just now?”

Lu Mi looked at the elevator floor number that was constantly rising, and a secret smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth, “I didn’t let them go.”

In the darkness, a small, almost imperceptible shadow darted out and quickly followed the people in the elevator.

“Failed? What do you mean by failed?”

Somewhere, a man stared fiercely at the terminal in his hand, suppressing the ups and downs of his chest, and said word by word.

“I deliberately released cg5567 to lure Sholun to the third floor, and most of the police force on the second floor was also drawn to support the third floor — under the current situation where the entire second floor is almost vacant, I only asked you to find a hidden place to puncture those bags!”

The man gritted his teeth, “Just this! You actually tell me you can’t do it!!?”

“Lord Scott, I’m very sorry!! But… but as soon as we got out of the elevator, we ran into a group of exchange students, one of whom had silver eyes and was determined not to let us pass…..He seemed to have noticed something…”

The speaker’s tone was a bit incredulous. He was too nervous at the time, and now thinking back, the gaze of the silver-eyed youth looking down at him at that time seemed to see through him completely!

“Exchange student…silver eyes…” Scott’s eyes were gloomy, and he slowly recited in an ambiguous tone, “It seems that the plan has encountered some variables that I didn’t expect…”

“Then Lord Scott, what about us now?”

“Give up the lower three floors.” Scott quickly regained his composure and decisively said, “Anyway, the arrangements for the other floors are already in place, you guys retreat first.” Then, he thought of the person in charge of the lower three floors and sneered, “Sholun, consider yourself lucky!”

………

Ding ——

The elevator door opened, and Lu Mi and the others slowly stepped out.

“I-I-I-I, I say…Shouldn’t we go back quickly…” One of the four-person group stammered.

Anbo helplessly looked at the two people other than him and Lu Mi.

During this time, he had almost understood the character of these two remaining people. One was called Aji, the other was called Xiao Tuo, both of them came from the same extremely remote sector, usually low-profile, and seemed a bit timid and scared.

“You don’t have to come with us.” Anbo gestured to the elevator that hadn’t closed yet, “It’s still not too late to go back to the second floor.”

“How can that be!” Aji stuttered, “We are a team!”

After saying that, he looked at Lu Mi, who was in front of him and didn’t care about them, with admiration and trepidation. Although no one had said it explicitly, Lu Mi, who was always calm and showed reliable strength, had undoubtedly become the backbone in everyone’s heart.

Xiao Tuo nodded vigorously in agreement on the side.

So Anbo no longer cared about the two of them, and turned to look at Lu Mi as if consulting, “This is already the fourth floor, which belongs to the middle three floors, those prison guards probably won’t let us wander around here.”

More than that, the person in charge of the middle three floors was not Sholun, if they were discovered, they might be controlled as suspicious persons, by then even Sholun might not be able to fish them out!

Thinking about it now, Anbo felt that the four of them were really crazy! They easily did what other exchange students had never done, was it really because of the courage given by Lu Mi!?

“Why is there no one? Where are those prison guards?”

After entering the fourth floor, the group quickly noticed something wrong here. Perhaps because of the escape of cg5567, it was a mess here, and there was no one in sight.

Not only the prison guards…

Lu Mi felt for a moment, and even the prisoners were gone.

Then, sensing the shadow left on the target, he turned his head and quickly walked towards a passage, the others had no time to think about this weird situation, and hurriedly followed.

“——It’s them!” In no time, the four of them found the group of people from before.

Hearing the footsteps coming from behind, the group couldn’t help but look back, and then saw the familiar faces of Lu Mi and the others, and immediately showed a ghostly expression.

Damn, why is it you guys again!?

The leader subconsciously shivered and directly pulled out a laser gun. However, faster than his action was a silver spear already pressed against his chest.

The silver-blue cold weapon was emitting a dazzling light in this dark prison, but the cold light at the tip of the spear was emitting a chilling sharpness.

“We don’t know anything!” The leader’s throat was dry, “We are just ordinary fourth-floor prison guards!”

Lu Mi ignored him, and went straight to the point, “What’s going on with this fourth floor, where are those prison guards, where are the prisoners?”

“Prison, prison guards…” They looked at each other.

Lu Mi directly threw the silver spear out with a backhand, made a deep mark on the wall next to him, and then pressed it back on the man’s chest, “Although many of the prison chiefs here are extraordinaries, you guys are just ordinary people, right? You’d better think clearly before answering.”

The leader shivered a bit, put the laser gun that he had half pulled out back, “The prison guards all went with Lord Scott to catch the escaped cg5567, they should be with Warden Sholun now. As for the prisoners, a day ago Lord Scott had them all moved to the fifth floor.”

Anbo: “Lord Scott?”

The leader looked at him, “Lord Scott is the person in charge of the fourth to sixth floors, that is, the middle three floors.”

Unexpectedly, there is such a thing…Anbo subconsciously looked at Lu Mi. That Lord Scott and Sholun were both high-ranking officials in the prison, so now…could there really be some misunderstanding? No way!

“You seem to be in a hurry?” Lu Mi’s expression remained unchanged, and he thoughtfully swept over the other’s face, “You’re still hiding something, if you don’t say it, I can stay here with you all the time.”

“..…”

A faintly anxious atmosphere came from the group of people. Suddenly, the leader opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the next instant, he abruptly pulled out a laser gun and fired a shot at the opposite side.

“Watch out!” Anbo shouted loudly and quickly rolled to one side.

Lu Mi dodged this attack by moving to the side, and at the same time, the foot of his spear brought up a gust of wind, neatly hitting the man’s knee. The leader’s expression suddenly twisted, and he knelt on the ground in pain.

The others took the opportunity to run in a certain direction.

Listening to the chaotic footsteps leaving behind him, the mentality of the leader who was left here alone changed instantly, and he yelled anxiously at Lu Mi and the others, “This place is about to explode soon! Please let me go, you guys should also hurry up and escape!”

“Explode!?” Hearing such shocking news, Aji and Xiao Tuo were dumbfounded.

“Yes,” the leader was literally racing against time, “When the time comes, the entire fourth floor will be blown open! Now there’s at most four minutes left!”

Anbo’s heart was shaken, but he still had some sense, and immediately turned his gaze at Lu Mi.

The silver-eyed youth lowered his eyes and thought for a second, then looked up at the leader, “You have a way to leave here, take me with you.”

It wasn’t a question, it wasn’t a discussion, it was like a command. This time, the leader didn’t refuse, and under the restraint of Aji and Xiao Tuo on his left and right, he limped and quickly moved in the direction where the others had escaped earlier.

About two or three minutes later——

“This is it!” The leader led them to a wall on the fourth floor, and an excited expression appeared on his face.

At this time, the group of people who had escaped earlier were also here, but at the moment of life and death, they were frantically equipping themselves with protective suits for parachuting.

At the same time, a small door that had been opened appeared in front of everyone.

It was only about one person high, and one person could barely squeeze out at a time. And outside this small door, it was actually the outside of the prison!

The scenery of thousands of meters high was presented to everyone through the small door, the very close mid-air thick chain that hung up the inverted pyramid prison, and the howling wind made several people almost unstable.

Anbo saw the green color of a large area of vegetation on the ground, and opened his mouth incredulously, “The only exit of Tartarus should be the big door on the first floor.”

Even the small skylights of the prison are seemingly unobstructed, but they actually come with a laser net. And besides the skylights, any floor’s passage to the outside world is absolutely not allowed!

But now was not the time to say this, Anbo looked at the group of people who had already equipped their parachutes, “Should we also…”

Boom——!

Suddenly, a huge shock came from a distance.

The surroundings began to shake violently, and after that, there was a louder and intense boom. The entire fourth floor began to shake crazily, and constantly collapsing bricks and stones fell from the top and hit the ground.

“It’s the explosion!.. The explosion has started!” The leader’s expression was excited, and like a madman, he broke free from the two people who were restraining him, and randomly picked up another parachute to put on.

Lu Mi put away his silver spear, looked at the passage behind him, and the faint fire and smoke were rapidly approaching from all directions.

He grabbed the leader who hadn’t had time to put on the parachute with one hand, lifted the collar of the other’s clothes with one hand, and said to Anbo and the others, “Follow me.”

Then, Lu Mi walked directly to the small door, first looked at the exceptionally spectacular thick chain that spanned the air not far away, and then flicked his wrist to summon a black shadow chain from the shadow, and wound it around the thick chain in the air outside.

At a height of a thousand meters, it was dizzying to look down, and the violent storm stirred up the two people’s robes.

“You, what are you going to…”

The leader’s heart was pounding, and the extremely uneasy words hadn’t been spoken yet, the next second, Lu Mi jumped out with a leap.

“Ah————!” The man’s sharp scream cut through the air, and the wind howled past.

Lu Mi, with the help of the shadow chain, swung like a swing in the sky at a height of a kilometer, then swung over most of the arc and landed steadily on the thick chain that hoisted the inverted pyramid prison.

The view was spinning crazily, the wind was blowing in his face, and the thick chain was slightly shaking.

As Lu Mi let go, the leader instinctively hugged the chain in his hand, with a very embarrassed face-down posture, hugging the chain under him. He only felt that his heart was no longer his own, as if it had jumped out of his body, his face was cold and wet, and he realized that he was already in tears.

Then, Lu Mi looked at the people who were still in the small door staring at him in shock, and quickly said, “Next.”

In the end, Anbo, three people plus the leader, all stood on the thick chain outside the inverted pyramid, shivering in the gale.

Boom——!

In the increasingly intense explosions, the explosion finally broke open the wall of the fourth floor, and blew a huge gap in the prison from the small door as the origin.

Rolling smoke and heat waves surged out of Tartarus, and in an instant, the leader was smoked with a gray face and coughed madly while hugging the chain.

And just then, with a cry of surprise from Aji, several people noticed——

The group of people who had parachuted before had now become small black dots, and at this moment, those small black dots suddenly exploded one after another, like fireflies dotted in the thick smoke, and fell suddenly.

The leader seemed to be stunned all of a sudden, his pupils suddenly dilated.

Lu Mi looked down and saw this scene, sighed imperceptibly, and then said to the leader who was in a daze, “It seems that your lord didn’t plan to let you guys leave.”

“…”

When the explosion gradually passed, the people were able to return to the fourth floor with the help of Lu Mi.

Now the fourth floor had been completely destroyed, leaving only a piece of broken walls, and gale kept pouring in from the huge gap that was blown out.

Anbo looked at the intact ceiling above his head with lingering fear, “Fortunately, the upper and lower floors don’t seem to have been blown through.”

But——

Lu Mi calmly said, “In this way, the fourth floor is now the largest ‘door’ of the entire prison.”

The abrupt words of the silver-eyed youth made everyone’s hearts chaotic again, they all looked at him, and their breathing suddenly became rapid.

Lu Mi: “As long as you reach the fourth floor, you can leave this prison unimpeded.” He said, looking at the distraught leader, “Your lord must have arranged it this way, right? Which floors have that kind of gas?”

“I don’t know….I’m not in charge of the other floors…” After a while, the leader spoke hoarsely, his eyes red, “But the explosion is the signal for the plan to start…”

Anbo’s eyes widened suddenly, “That means——!”

[Warning! Prisoner number SA2238 has escaped from the twelfth area of the fifth floor, please prepare for interception and defense work for all prison guards in the middle three floors!]

[Warning, prisoner number WE764 from the fifth floor…]

[Warning, prisoner number YU73446 from the sixth floor…]

One after another, the alarm sounds came from the remaining broadcasts.

Later, as if more and more information could not be finished, the electronic sound of the broadcast appeared disordered and stuck.

A few breaths later, the electronic sound turned into a human voice, shouting hoarsely, “There is a large-scale riot of unknown cause in the middle three floors, the current police force may not be able to support for long, requesting other floors to support quickly!”

Anbo looked at Lu Mi blankly, “Are those monsters coming?

Lu Mi picked up his silver gun, “They’re already here.”