I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 35

Lu Mi put away his terminal and turned to look at the mutants lying on the ground.

He was about to leave temporarily, and it seemed inappropriate to leave these creatures here. However, killing them all to prevent them from escaping seemed too cruel.

Seemingly sensing the faint killing intent in his gaze, the incapacitated mutants on the ground struggled to stand up again.

However, strangely, they did not attack this time, but it was clear that they had not given up in despair. They just stubbornly stared at the silver-eyed young man not far away, as if to prove something, as if to deny some absurd emotion in their hearts.

Lu Mi glanced at the plant that was crawling at his feet, then looked at the other mutants with red eyes, and suddenly lost interest, putting down his silver spear.

“Follow me,” he said indifferently, but with an undeniable authority.

“…” The tense mutants were stunned for a moment, and their constricted pupils suddenly enlarged like an owl’s.

Seeing this, the silver-eyed young man suddenly smiled, as if sighing, as if regretting.

This scene was like a stray dog that had secretly followed a human into the house, but was thrown out by the homeowner who came back to his senses. While seemingly unintentionally licking its wounds, its eyes revealed a vulnerability that it had not even noticed.

And now, he just opened the door again, and the stray dogs were incredulous and stunned.

“You don’t have to come,” the silver-eyed young man regained his indifferent appearance and calmly said, “But you can’t leave here, otherwise…”

He didn’t finish his sentence, but the warning was self-evident.

After saying that, Lu Mi turned and left on his own, seemingly not caring at all whether these mutants would run away on their own, or…

Confident that even if they really wanted to run, they wouldn’t succeed?

For some reason, the suffocation in the mutants’ chests became more severe, and they took a few rough breaths, tremblingly supporting their bodies.

The plant-like mutant, which was calmly crawling next to Lu Mi’s trouser leg, just subconsciously looked back and was frightened by the staggering monster army coming from behind.

The plant-like mutant let out a small scream, but it attracted the attention of the other mutants, who all looked at it, casting an incredibly brutal and ferocious glance.

Too, too scary…!

The plant-like mutant shivered and clung tighter to Lu Mi’s thigh.

Were these monsters crazy? Even in such an unstable state of severe injury, they still wanted to follow behind the lord–such terrifying persistence, and those burning red eyes as if to burn everything…They must want revenge!

Wuwu, Lord Lu Mi, you must hold on, don’t show any flaws for them to take advantage of!

And the silver-eyed young man walking at the front, listening to the plant’s squeaky screams, and the rustling sounds and heavy panting behind him, revealed a faint smile in his eyes.

He was wrong, he thought faintly. That was not a hyena, but a domestic dog that was gradually being tamed…

…..

Since the elevator had already broken down in the first wave of monster attacks, all that was left was an empty vertical passage.

Fortunately, this level of climbing was not too difficult for anyone present.

“My, my Tartarus prison…!”

As Lu Mi passed the sixth floor, he heard a mournful howl.

At this time on the middle three floors, most of the people left were prisoners who couldn’t escape, and the prison guards had almost all been taken away by Scott.

So he curiously propped up the passage and took a look inside, and found that the other party was Smith, the chief consultant who had originally led them into the prison.

“Hey, Smith, your prison is finished!” The prisoners locked on both sides laughed.

These prisoners had not received the effects targeting the mutants, so they could not break through the cage barrier, but this did not prevent them from taking pleasure in others’ misfortune.

Some people even showed ecstatic expressions, excitedly egging on. “Those incompetent prison guards can’t be relied on at all! Smith, why don’t you let us out, let us help you, how about it?”

The coaxing voice reached Smith’s ear, but he seemed to have not heard it at all, mumbling some nonsense in a daze.

This riot involving almost the entire prison was no longer an accident, but a major event! Whether Tartarus can still exist afterwards is another matter, but like him who is appointed by the headquarters, he will definitely be punished by the headquarters!

What would happen then, would he die? He–would he die?!

The huge panic almost gripped his entire mind, but at this moment, a vaguely familiar voice suddenly came.

“Chief Consultant Smith.”

That voice was undoubtedly in his memory, but it was obviously not one of the seedlings he had marked as important, so it was like an insignificant passerby.

But for some reason, immersed in the fear of his own end, Smith inexplicably raised his head.

The silver-eyed young man, didn’t know when he had come to him, looked down at him from a high position. From those silver eyes, Smith saw himself sitting paralyzed on the ground, his embarrassed appearance, and his face smeared with tears.

However, seemingly indifferent to his current appearance, the silver-eyed young man asked in an unchanged expression. “Do you know where the warden is?”

According to what Sholun had said before, the chief warden usually operated on the upper three floors. But the upper three floors were floors that others were not allowed to step on without reason, and even Sholun had only been there a few times, but Smith, as the chief consultant – although his own strength was weak, but because he was appointed by the headquarters of the extraordinaries, he was nominally on the same level as the chief warden. So he was the most likely person to know.

“The chief warden? There’s no chief warden… Where is there a chief warden, we’re all going to be finished, haha…”

Smith looked at the blurry figure in front of him, laughing and crying, his mind in a daze.

“…” Lu Mi didn’t speak.

“Hey, bro, don’t ask him, ask us! We know where the chief warden is, as long as you press the red button outside, I’ll tell you how about it?”

The red button was marked with the words “high voltage” that a three-year-old child could understand, used to capture prisoners who escaped from the cell door, and would instantly fill the space outside the cell with electricity.

The prisoners laughed, telling their clumsy lies as if they were teasing, and the cell was instantly filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Roar——

Just then, a sudden beast roar made the entire cell fall silent.

Everyone’s body stiffened abruptly, then slowly looked towards the elevator passage where the silver-eyed young man came from.

They saw a mutant crawling out of the passage, the twisted muscles of the beast making the passage emit a sound of unbearable collapse, only able to support it with difficulty.

The silver-eyed young man turned his head, “Didn’t I tell you to wait in the passage?”

You? There was no time to think about the meaning of the words.

That unexpected tone made the silent crowd’s pupils shrink, moving their trembling gazes towards him.

The mutant that had just managed to crawl out of the passage glanced at the young man, then walked to the red button that the prisoner had just pointed out, opened its mouth and bit down directly.

Zzz——!

The splashing current instantly filled the space of the sixth floor.

Smith, who was sitting paralyzed on the ground, shook all over, his body twitched as the current passed through, smoke came out of his mouth, and the rest of the prisoners in the cell, who should not have been within the range of the electric attack, were also included in the attack category because of the destroyed button.

Only Lu Mi was safe and sound, standing in the sudden fireworks seemed even strangely beautiful.

On the other side, the beast-like mutant spat out the broken button, and the hard hair on its body absorbed all the current in the air.

This was undoubtedly a mutant with the power to control lightning, the swallowed current gave it strength again, the wounds on its body healed quickly, and the hair stood up like sharp thorns.

Then, the thunder beast suddenly opened its bright eyes, and in the surroundings of thunder light, it regained its majestic appearance.

For the first time, the people in the cell felt that the shield that imprisoned them gave them a sense of security, more of it was the inability to understand the scene in front of them.

——Weren’t those mutants supposed to have broken out of the cell door and escaped to the lower level!? How could they follow behind this human who isn’t even a formal prison guard and come back!?

The shock of incomprehension was clearly visible in everyone’s eyes, and their trembling lips couldn’t squeeze out a word for a long time.

The thunder beast squinted its eyes in satisfaction, but its gaze glanced in Lu Mi’s direction as if it was not there, like a peacock showing off its strength and power to the other party.

However, the silver-eyed young man’s face showed no particular reaction, which made the thunder beast lengthen its face and sneeze fiercely.

At the same time, more and more mutants poured out from the elevator passage——

If it was just shock before, now it was downright “holy sh*t!”.

“This…!” Their pupils were shaking one by one.

Countless numbers at a glance, the mutants who were bathed in blood seemed to have just experienced a bloody battle, but the dripping wounds did not make them weak, but more like devils crawling out of hell, cold and sharp, no entry for the living.

“What…happened outside?” What are these monsters doing!? Why didn’t they escape from Tartarus!

And the silver-eyed young man just turned to them indifferently, “This also counts as pressing the button, so can you tell me now?”

“…” The crowd fell into a dead silence, and they even lost the courage to look at him, and their sweat slid down crazily under the gaze of many monsters.

This, this person, this kind of thing…!

“I know!” Smith suddenly woke up, grabbed Lu Mi’s clothes corner fiercely, “The chief warden is in area one on the ninth floor! You…these monsters…how did you do it? Did you catch them all? You…”

Smith was talking nonsense, his face flushed, and even under the gaze of the mutants, he was shaking like a sieve, as if he had caught the last straw.

However, Lu Mi just looked at him, not knowing whether it was pity or something else. Then, the silver-eyed young man gently said thanks, and walked towards the elevator passage as he had come. The mutants behind him turned their heads and followed, not leaving a step.

Smith looked at the young man’s departing figure with a mad expression, his face twisted into a grin, dragging his trembling legs that couldn’t stand up and laughing wildly, “It’s not over yet! My prison is not over, he is the new Tartarus! Hahaha——”

The other prisoners looked at Smith, who seemed to be delirious and paranoid, with a strange and pitying look.

The prison uniforms soaked in cold sweat made them speechless, and after a while, someone came to their senses from their stupor.

“Do you know what I just saw?”

A question out of nowhere, but got a murmured reply from a person who was also deeply shocked, “What?”

“A shepherd and his lambs.”

Many of those locked up here were once extraordinaries, they knew all too well what this scene, which did not belong to the ordinary world, meant.

A shepherd and his lambs, walking in hell as if walking in heaven, like a sweeping yet silent pilgrimage.

“Unprecedented, the new extraordinary——”

“Has it been born…”

That was a realm that no one had reached before, commanding the monsters of another world with a human body, or perhaps a god!?

At this moment, everyone’s hearts were filled with unprecedented regret, their eyes trying their best to capture the figure that had just left, but they were firmly blocked by the shield and could no longer see.

Why did time allow them to be born in this era, but also prevent them from participating or even conveying it! What will the world be like in the future…!

Lu Mi, who had already left, naturally wouldn’t know about some people’s regrets, he made his way to the ninth floor.

And at this time, he finally understood why the upper three floors were different from other places.

——This place was simply a lava hell.

It was not the still unobstructed passage, the ground, except for the path that had been opened up, was actually filled with scorching lava.

He was sure that this lava was not an illusion, but real heat, the kind that would severely injure or even kill an ordinary person if they fell into it or touched it.

Visibly, the material of the ground here was also different from other places, which reminded him of the uneven red rock of the abyss.

The scorching lava kept splashing, the surrounding temperature was terrifyingly hot, as if it could easily peel off a piece of skin.

Could prison guards really survive in such a place.

Just as this thought flashed through Lu Mi’s mind, a laser cannon suddenly shot from the other end of the ninth floor.

The robot that slowly walked out flashed with dense data, and then the screen showed a scarlet color——

[Confirm current highest command: Eliminate all invaders]

Lu Mi easily dodged this attack, then knowingly looked at the increasingly large cold shells coming out of the darkness, “Is the guardian of this floor a robot? Sholun didn’t say I would be attacked…”

Perhaps it wasn’t that he didn’t say it, but that Sholun hadn’t expected it. The passcode Sholun gave him could open all the gates on the upper three floors, it was the highest authority Sholun himself held, but these robots were obviously not within his authority.

And just then, a mirror that Lu Mi carried with him suddenly heated up, he threw out the silver spear with a wave of his hand while dodging, and took out the mirror in his spare time.

The silver spear that flew out was full of sparks and lightning, stringing up the robot that was about to attack.

“What’s wrong.” Lu Mi looked at the two fairy species that suddenly appeared in the mirror.

And at this moment, the two fairy species were undoubtedly extremely excited, “We felt the little master’s breath!”

“Little master?” Lu Mi thought for a while, and gently oh, “The little master of the fairy species?”

“Yes, there’s no mistake, the little master is here!” Left Law and Right Law’s voices broke slightly, the two of them had been wandering in this world for many years just to find the young master, and they never thought they would detect a familiar breath here!

Could it be that following Lu Mi was actually an arrangement from heaven long ago!

However, Lu Mi frowned slightly, it seemed that the little master of the fairy species was probably locked up here–being locked up in such a place for so many years…

He looked at the tearful expressions of Left Law and Right Law, and in the end, he didn’t say anything to hit them, “If that’s the case, then you go find him. I’ll go find the chief warden first, and then meet up with you.”

Rationally analyzing, the chief warden’s side seemed more urgent, and was his first priority.

However, considering the unclear situation on the ninth floor, Lu Mi let the other mutants follow Left Law and Right Law.

The mutants: “…That’s just as well! We didn’t particularly want to follow you anyway, hmph! Damn it!”

When the silver-eyed youth made it clear that he wanted to act alone, the pride of the mutants didn’t allow them to continue sticking to him like a dogskin plaster.

“Um…can we go now? Over here…” Left Law timidly reminded the mutants, the aura of his kin was in this direction.

So these mutants should stop staring in the other direction like a wife waiting for her husband, Lu Mi had already gone far!

Right Law: “Shush, Left Law! Don’t provoke them!”

On the other hand, Lu Mi, who had left the main force, was heading towards Area One alone, dealing with the robots who wanted to attack him along the way like a peerless warrior.

As he passed through the detention area, he surprisingly found a group of old acquaintances—

“It’s you! It’s you, the human!”

A familiar voice called out to him.

Lu Mi paused for a moment, stopped for a second, and saw that the one locked inside was actually a high-ranking mutant he had defeated in the abyss in the past.

However, the mutant’s human form was somewhat unfamiliar, until it gritted its teeth and shook its body, transforming from a handsome man into a griffin-like beast, Lu Mi suddenly realized.

“Oh, long time no see.” Lu Mi casually nodded, “I really didn’t expect to see you here. Why aren’t you guarding your territory in the abyss, but instead came to the human world to sit in jail?”

This mutant had a good impression of strength in his initial memory. If all the creatures in the ninth floor were of this strength, that would be a quite terrifying force.

No wonder the headquarters of the Extraordinaries were guarding Tartarus so strictly, he was beginning to understand now.

“It’s all because you defeated me back then. I, who was seriously injured, couldn’t deal with the guys around me who were eyeing me like a tiger, so I had to escape through the abyss rift–but I was picked up by a group of humans before my injuries healed!”

When it came to the past, the griffin had a heart attack, and the look of grief and indignation on his face was almost impossible to hide. He was a dominant force in the Abyss, but after meeting this human, he went downhill all the way!

Ah, this…

Lu Mi blinked, “I remember you were the one who provoked me at that time.”

The griffin bristled instantly, “That’s because I heard…”

“Hmm?” Lu Mi waited for the other party’s next sentence, and also glanced at the map on the side with divided attention. Ah, Area One is to the left ahead…

“That’s because I heard that you would contract the mutants you defeated! We thought that even if we failed, it wouldn’t be a disgrace to join your ranks according to the iron rule of survival of the fittest in the Abyss, who knew—!”

The one who spoke was actually another mutant next to the griffin, which made the griffin look over sharply, “What? Barbarian Snake? How come I’ve never heard about this from you?!”

Barbarian Snake sneered, the pattern of the mutant beast spread like a tattoo on his cheek, “You think everyone is as stupid as you, hanging their failures on their lips every day, loudly proclaiming?”

“You!” The griffin was about to curse, but then reacted, looking at the other cells in a daze, “You guys wouldn’t also be…”

The ninth floor was filled with the most powerful mutants in all of Tartarus.

As these words fell, excluding the early ones–those old monsters who had been imprisoned here hundreds of years ago, two-thirds of the new blood that had entered here in recent years gave a response.

“I smell a familiar scent…”

“A familiar, unforgettable figure…who has been appearing repeatedly in my chaotic dreams, who is it?”

“Roar! It’s that person! The one who left a mark on my body, making me unable to forget forever…!”

Awakened, it was time to hunt!

As more and more mutants, either bored to sleep or blocking out external perceptions, were startled, they woke up from their muddled hell and finally noticed the silver-eyed youth who was passing by in a hurry.

Lu Mi: “..…”

Even though he was confident that he could handle everyone if they all attacked him, for some reason, he felt a bit scared at this moment.

The silver-eyed youth spoke expressionlessly. “At that time, I was not contracting with everyone.”

In the later period, the gradually becoming salted fish youth also gradually learned to understand the pursuit of the Abyss mutants. Early on, of course, he had to grasp every bit of strength to survive, but later when he had the capital to choose, he would mostly let those mutants go free, even if they were the ones who provoked first.

Probably like the old cadres who started drinking tea every day, they no longer had the heavy killing intent of the past and decided to start being a good person.

“—Then why didn’t you choose me!”

The same words came from the mouths of at least a dozen different powerful mutants.

Lu Mi: “…”

Lu Mi took a breath and calmly said, “I have something to do, I’ll go first.”

Mutants: “!!!”

Just as the mutants were staring with red eyes at the slowly departing figure of the youth, the whole of Tartarus suddenly shook violently, and then, all the mechanical gates suddenly opened all at once.

Lu Mi frowned, “Did the prison’s program system lose control?”

No, not just the program system, the magma on the ground began to boil, and even overflowed a little bit from the drainage pipes, overflowing towards the ground of the passage.

The silver-eyed youth quickly pondered for a moment, then picked up his silver spear, stepped on the rocks exposed in the lava river with a few jumps, and went deeper.

The left-behind mutants looked at the cage opening slowly corroded by the lava, while using their huge bodies to tear the small opening, they silently looked in the direction where the silver-eyed youth disappeared.

Their hearts, which they thought had died after entering here, were finally surging crazily again at this moment—

Why can’t you just look at me properly?