Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Reinhardt walked to the bookshelf and picked up a book from it. He pulled it out and there was a slight "click" sound from the bookshelf. The sound of the mechanism being activated was particularly harsh in the quiet office.

With a loud bang, the inner wall of the office opened and a steel-structured elevator appeared.

This elevator is the only access to the basement, which is three hundred meters underground and connected to the depths of the execution facility.

Without this elevator, even if the prisoners escaped from the underground prison, they would be besieged by the execution authorities.

The elevator descended rapidly, and the surroundings fell into darkness.

After entering the elevator, Rudolph and Carl's heartbeats obviously quickened.

"Why, a little worried?"

Lin Yi looked at the two of them and found that except for Reinhardt, the three confidants he brought with him also showed some signs of panic.

"It would be a lie to say I'm not scared... The basement of the execution facility is one of the most terrifying places in the empire's legends."

In the legends of the Empire, the basement of the execution chamber is a forbidden place that even the most vicious criminals would be terrified.

Not only are the most dangerous criminals in the history of the empire imprisoned there, but there are also countless unsolved secrets and forbidden experiments buried there.

Rumor has it that no one who has stepped into that darkness has ever escaped unscathed.

Their names were erased, their existence was completely forgotten, and only the horror stories passed down by word of mouth remained, as if silently warning every fool who tried to pry into the truth.

The mechanical sound of the elevator echoed in the narrow space, and the sound of the gears meshing was like the roar of some giant beast, giving people a suffocating feeling of oppression.

"If you feel scared, you don't have to leave the elevator later. You can just go back."

After Lin Yi said this, Rudolph laughed. Having come to this damn place, who would be willing to quit?
Even if the result is death, Rudolph is ready to see what kind of horror exists in this damn place.

The speed of the elevator gradually slowed down and finally stopped in dead silence.

What appeared in front of everyone was a huge alloy door nearly five meters high.

There are three keyholes in the lower middle part, and a line of words is engraved above, which is the oldest text in the empire.

'We walk in darkness for those who long for peace - Xiu Luosnanle.'

This line of words was like a key, instantly opening the door to Lin Yi's memory.

He recalled an interesting story that Su Xiao had once told him—the three Chinese national football team brothers actually went to dig up Xiu Losnanle's grave.

It would have been fine if they just dug up a grave, but they ended up digging out a formidable boss.

What is even more ridiculous is that this Xiu Losnanle is actually Harold's ancestor.

In the previous world progress, Lin Yi's predecessor led the sanatorium to hunt down the three brothers of the national football team in Zul City, but those three guys were slippery like loaches and they were not caught until the end of the world progress.

Lin Yi took out three keys from his arms and inserted them into the keyholes respectively.

As soon as the key was inserted, before he could turn it, the key in the keyhole began to rotate automatically, making a mechanical "click, click" sound.

Seeing this, Lin Yi took two steps back. With a muffled bang, the metal door slowly opened, and there was darkness inside the gap.

It seemed that I heard the sound of a door opening, and suddenly there was a sound of objects colliding inside.

Bang, bang, bang...

Muffled sounds came from the depths of darkness. Such regular sounds were obviously caused by the collision of living creatures.

"Legend. Is it true?" Carl's brows twitched slightly, and there was an unconcealable tremor in his voice.

Carl once thought that these were just exaggerated rumors, but the scene before him forced him to believe it - those rumors were actually true.

"This is not only a storage room, but also a prison at the deepest part."

As for how long the prison sentence is, there is only one kind of sentence in this prison, which is to be imprisoned until death.

Unlike the four underground floors of the sanatorium, every prisoner held here is extremely dangerous.

Their utilization value is extremely low, or even worthless, so they are imprisoned here forever.

They have no names, no identities, and even the traces of their existence have been completely erased.

The reason why they were not executed directly was entirely because the imperial high-level officials were unsure whether there would be a day in the future when these "monsters" would be needed.

So, they were imprisoned in this dark underground, waiting for the "opportunity to be exploited" that might never come.

Under the gaze of everyone, Reinhardt walked towards the depths of the basement.

After seeing Reinhardt's face clearly, several Phantoms who were hitting the cage stopped what they were doing.

They knew Reinhardt, the man who followed the terrifying knife man last time.

"Where's that scary knife man? Is he dead?"

A Spectre who was sitting in the cell without moving opened his eyes and looked at Reinhardt. After he spoke, the rest of the Spectres all fell silent.

Carl and Rudolf followed Lin Yi to Reinhardt's side. After seeing the face of this ghost clearly, they felt their hearts skip a beat.

As if he couldn't believe his eyes, Carl carefully counted the number of eyeballs on the other person's head.

“Seventeen-Eyed Phantom…” Carl’s voice was almost squeezed out of his throat, with a slight tremor that was difficult to conceal.

Lu and his companions had never imagined that such a terrifying existence was imprisoned in the basement of the execution agency.

Phantoms of this level are considered to be the most advanced nightmare-level creatures even in the legends of the empire.

Their existence itself is a disaster.

You know, the Fifteen-Eyed Phantom is already considered the most terrifying enemy in the history of the Zul Empire.

Their appearance is often accompanied by endless killing and destruction, and every appearance will plunge the empire into great panic.

And there are only a handful of ghosts who can reach the level of sixteen eyes.

The birth of each sixteen-eyed ghost means that the fate of the empire will face unprecedented threats.

Therefore, once the trace of the Sixteen-Eyed Phantom is discovered, the Zul Empire will spare no effort to strangle it.

Su Xiao once encountered a sixteen-eyed phantom here. According to the historical records of the Zul Empire, the phantom was named Faldir.

It has not done anything evil, and even lives a very low-key life, carefully hiding its existence.

However, its power was too great, so great that it made the imperial high command uneasy.

Sometimes, being powerful itself is a sin.

The previous parliamentarians sent out a large army without hesitation and launched a siege on Fadil in a small town.

In that battle, more than 200,000 Imperial soldiers were killed, 2,768 Awakeners were killed, and the entire town was almost razed to the ground.

Eventually, Fadil was captured alive and imprisoned in the basement of the execution facility.

The reason why the parliament was willing to pay such a heavy price was because Fadil's power was too terrifying.

Once it decides to assassinate Parliament, the power of the Empire will be unable to stop it.

In order to nip the threat in the bud, Parliament chose the most extreme measures.

Later, Fadil died at the hands of Su Xiao. The reason was simple: he had been imprisoned in the basement for too long, which had driven him crazy.

Reinhardt shook his head. "Deputy Commander? He won't die that easily. But he's not here now. I'll take care of things here."

A hint of disappointment flashed across the eyes of the Seventeen-Eyed Ghost, but he quickly regained his composure.

Its eyes swept over Lin Yi and the others, and finally stopped at Lin Yi: "Interesting, I thought a dangerous person left, but I didn't expect another one to come."

This seventeen-eyed ghost is named Dubois Bertram. In the history of the Zul Empire, its name has long been completely erased, without even a trace left.

The existence of the Seventeen-Eyed Phantom is so terrifying that the mere appearance of its name in the book is enough to cause endless panic and chaos.

And DuBois-Butterlem has been imprisoned here for nearly two hundred years.

After the establishment of the Zul Empire, the remaining phantom forces continued to stir up trouble in secret.

The most powerful force among them is the remnant of the Phantom Royal Family that once ruled the continent. And Dubois Bertram is the descendant of this royal family.

This is also the reason why it was able to break through its limits and become a seventeen-eyed ghost - it exhausted all the resources left by its ancestors and stepped into a realm that no one had ever reached before.

That year, DuBois-Bertlem launched an all-out war between ghosts and humans.

Its power was so terrifying that the empire had to abandon half of its borders and dispatch nearly two million troops to besiege it.

Surprisingly, the strange beast clan did not take the opportunity to attack the human empire.

The Beast Clan knew that if they rescued Dubois Bertram and waited for him to recover his strength, the Beast Clan would likely become the next target of the Phantom Force.

It is such a simple truth that the strange beast would naturally understand.

Therefore, they chose to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between the two tigers, waiting for the two sides to decide the winner before making any plans.

The battle lasted for fifteen days.

In fifteen days, the Zul Empire urgently mobilized one million troops from the border and mobilized the entire country to fight against Dubois Bertram.

The top leaders of the empire saw through the intentions of the Beast Tribe, but they had no choice - if they did not do their utmost to eliminate Dubois Bertram, the entire empire would fall into an abyss from which there would be no recovery.

The result of the war was that 840,000 soldiers were killed, 6,541 awakened ones fell, and the casualties exceeded one million.

This battle almost hollowed out the foundation of the Zul Empire, plunging this once powerful empire into unprecedented weakness.

In order to avoid the complete collapse of the kingdom, the Zul Empire had to shrink its strength and give up more than half of the territory it originally occupied on the continent.

Today, the territory of the Zul Empire has shrunk by half compared to its heyday.

In current historical records, the disaster is blamed on a full-scale attack by the Beast Tribe.

The history books state: "Two hundred years ago, the Beast Tribe launched a general attack on the Zul Empire, resulting in heavy casualties to the empire. For the safety of its people, the Zul Empire had to shrink its forces." The name of Dubois Bertram had long been completely erased.

The reason why the Zul Empire did not kill the culprit was simple. They wanted to study the secret of the Seventeen-Eyed Phantom from Dubois Bertram's body.

From ancient times to the present, the existence of the Seventeen-Eyed Phantom is almost a legend.

And Dubois-Bertlem is probably the only ghost to reach this level.

Its power and its secrets are both a threat and an irresistible temptation to the Zul Empire.

The top leaders of the empire hope to find the ultimate weapon to fight against the ghost forces by studying it, or even master power beyond the limit.

Two hundred years later, DuBois-Bertlem's power had declined considerably.

After not eating for a long time and being in a dark environment, even a seventeen-eyed ghost could not avoid having an abnormal mental state.

"Two hundred years... is really a long time." Dubois Bertram's eyes swept across Lin Yi and Reinhardt, and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Do you know? In this dark cage, time is the cruelest enemy. It devours your strength bit by bit, and wears away your will until you completely collapse."

Neither Lin Yi nor Reinhardt had any intention of responding to Dubois-Bertlem's mumbling.

The two men walked straight past the cell area and returned to the previous corridor.

Carl and the other four people behind them were not as calm as them. This trip to the basement completely overturned their cognition.

Metal pillars as thick as buckets blocked the way, and it was pitch black behind.

On the metal rack near the gate, there are various items, each of which emits a faint light, and the quality ranges from gold to legendary.

Some of these items are equipment, and some are disposable items, but they have two things in common: first, they cannot be taken out of this world by any means; second, they are accompanied by great side effects when used.

These things are called "relics" by the Empire, which are the special props that Reinhardt used before.

A simple 'relic' cannot be used directly, nor does it have any special abilities. It needs to be 'processed' to become a storable, powerful relic.

The lives of 5000 to 20000 civilians are roughly equal to the cost of making a relic. Due to unknown reasons, ghosts cannot be used as fillers for "relics". All "relics" are passed down from the Dark Ages.

The current empire has long since strictly prohibited the creation of "relics", but in that era, human life was worthless, and any cruel means were considered reasonable as long as they could deal with the ghosts.

The so-called Dark Ages was the period when ghosts ruled the continent.

In that era, human life had no value and thousands of people were ruthlessly sacrificed every day.

The specific situation is similar to that of the Southern Witch Kingdom on the Witch Continent - for witches, killing thousands of people a day is just a common thing.

This extreme oppression naturally gave rise to extreme means for human resistance.

In order to fight against the Phantom, they would do anything, even at the cost of their own lives.

With the rise of the Zul Empire, the inhumane manufacturing process of "relics" was completely banned.

Nowadays, not to mention making a "relic", even finding out how to make it will result in the death penalty.

There is a ring in front of Lin Yi. This ring is called "Oath of the Dead". Those who use it can gain temporary immortality, but the price is that the user's vitality will be gradually devoured until complete death.

Lin Yi did not touch the ring, but took a metal earring from the metal rack and threw it to Rudolph.

This pair of earrings is called "Silent Whisper", and you can roughly guess its effect from the name.

The wearer can completely eliminate his own voice, while being able to hear any subtle sound within a hundred meters around him.

At the same time, the wearer can also temporarily "silence" the target's vocal cords, making it unable to make any sound. It can be said to be a magical weapon for assassination.

Its side effects are equally obvious - long-term wearing will cause the user's hearing to gradually deteriorate, and may eventually lead to complete deafness.

This kind of relic has the least side effects among all the relics.

Most of the other relics not only have mediocre effects, but also have side effects so strong that they are unbearable.

Carl picked and chose in front of the metal rack and finally found a rusty knife.

Although it looks unremarkable, this knife is considered a special equipment in the Samsara Paradise and is even a legendary one.

This knife is called "Blood Sacrifice Blade". Its effect is simple and cruel - the user can convert his own blood into power, and the attack power will be greatly enhanced.

The price is that the user's blood will continue to be lost until he dies from excessive blood loss.

As for Lin Yi, he spent a long time selecting in front of the metal rack, and finally picked up a disposable item whose only side effect was the loss of health points.

Anyway, he probably won't need this thing, so just treat it as a backup option.

At the same time, the three confidants behind Reinhardt also selected relics that suited them.

As awakened ones, they have the ability to sense the general functions of these relics, so they can naturally choose the relics that best suit them.

"This is your last chance. Return the relics now, take 10,000 gold and leave. After you sign the confidentiality agreement, I will provide you with new identities."

"..."

Silence, still the same silence as last time.

Shortly after Lin Yi led Reinhardt into the basement, a deafening explosion suddenly came from the execution ground.

A huge hole was blown in the cell where the three strong men were imprisoned. Amid the smoke and dust, the three men quickly fled from this hellish place.

At the same time, a similar explosion occurred in the cell where members of the Black Crow Chamber of Commerce were held.

Several members of the Black Crow Chamber of Commerce took the opportunity to escape and disappeared into the shadows of the execution agency.

Bonnie sat in the office and put down the detonator in her hand.

Of course, they have to put on a complete show. If only three strong men escape, the Shadow Council will definitely become suspicious.

Therefore, Bonnie deliberately released a few more members of the Black Crow Chamber of Commerce to make this "accident" look more real.

Among the members of the Black Crow Chamber of Commerce who escaped, someone will "accidentally" overhear a crucial piece of information - Legion Commander Reinhardt and Lin Yi went to an unknown place and are not in the execution agency at the moment.

This news was the best time for them to escape.

A minute later, the prisoners in the destroyed cells scattered, and at this time, the members of the execution agency finally arrived.

Bonnie couldn't help cursing when she saw what was happening. It was hard to believe that she had blown up all these cells herself. (End of this chapter)