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Chapter 276 The Underground Cage Sees the Light of Day Again (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
While Warden Julius was facing off against the four members of the Phantom Troupe.

Taking advantage of the commotion caused by the crows, Shiori silently arrived at a secluded corner of the Hokkaido Special Ability Prison.

Robert, holding a cell phone, followed beside him, scratching his mechanical head with a somewhat bewildered expression. From the phone, the hacker's youthful voice kept coming through:

“These bastards have set up a very strong network defense. It would take me at least ten minutes to hack into the prison system’s control center, but that’s too slow. So I’ll hack into the monitors first and tell you Rukawa Chiba’s exact location. You can head there.”

"Also, I've already had Tong Zizhu disguise herself as a prison insider and go to the underground control room. Tong Zizhu can open many of the complex underground mechanisms for us; as for the simpler ones, I can quickly crack them in a short time, so I don't need her."

Qi Yuanli listened silently, his hands in the pockets of his black trench coat, walking calmly beneath the flock of crows.

He went underground through a dark tunnel.

Although this prison is touted as a military base and appears imposing on the surface, it's all just a facade. The truly heinous criminals are imprisoned underground, and most of the buildings on the surface are merely for show.

"Found him. Rukawa Chiba is locked in a solitary cell at the deepest part of the tenth basement level. You'll have to go through a whole bunch of defense systems to reach him," the hacker said. "Like infrared protective nets that trigger laser scanning if you step on them, etc... well, that's a piece of cake for the leader!"

A flock of crows flew in from behind Qi Yuanli and entered the narrow underground passage, where they found a silver-white metal elevator at the end.

Immediately afterwards, he and Robert were enveloped by a flock of crows and disappeared from the spot.

The crow landed inside the elevator car, and Qi Yuanli, who had switched places with the crow, naturally led Robert into the elevator that led underground. Robert felt dizzy; he still wasn't used to being carried by the leader's supernatural abilities.

During this special period, only the warden's ID can activate this elevator.

"hacker."

Qi Yuanli looked at the elevator's control panel; every button was locked.

"I heard it, I heard it, tenth basement level, tenth basement level..." the hacker muttered on his phone. "Let me see... Hmm, all done."

As a chilling blue light gradually emanated from the control panel, the elevator plummeted rapidly as if out of control. Violent sparks flew from the friction between its edges and the air.

Robert felt even more dizzy and lay on the ground, retching violently.

A short while later, the elevator stopped.

When the metal doors of the elevator car opened, what came into view was a long, seemingly endless passageway and a tightly sealed infrared protective net.

Qi Yuan grabbed Robert's shoulder and leaned against the elevator wall. The flock of crows that had been planted inside the elevator swept forward, rushing through the passageway like a whirlwind and lightning, heading towards the deepest part.

From a distance, the flock of crows looked like a giant, black python crawling forward.

With a deafening roar, the giant python formed by the flock of crows rampaged wildly, triggering the infrared protection system time and time again, and blinding lasers shot out from the pits on both sides of the wall.

The flock of crows resembled a black behemoth, its flesh stripped away under the laser beams, but the dangerous beams never managed to reach its internal organs. In the end, after losing thousands of crows, only two remained and flew to the end of the passageway.

Seeing this, Qi Yuan grabbed Robert's shoulder and switched places with one of the crows.

When he stood at the end of the passageway, behind him lay the corpses of millions of crows, piled up into a river of blood and black feathers, flowing gurgling through the passage. Unable to detect any life, the infrared device fell completely silent.

Qi Liyuan looked up, expressionless, at the metal door directly in front of him, then lowered his head, observing the dimly lit control panel while asking the cartoon hacker on his phone screen:
"Hacker, can you open it?"

“I can’t open it. This thing can’t be unlocked with a password, but Tong Zizhu has already entered the central control room.”

As the hacker spoke, he brought up the monitoring interface of the central control room on his phone.

Tong Zizhu, disguised as a white-robed worker, stormed in and, with a swift stroke of his knife, knocked out the defenseless workers one by one.

Then, under the hacker's command, she manipulated the console.

Qi Yuanli turned his gaze away from his phone, and a moment later, the control device next to him suddenly emitted a green light, and the door in front of him rose upwards.

He went inside. Robert followed behind, gagging, still not recovered from the discomfort caused by the elevator's rapid descent.

Behind the sliding door was another sliding door. A total of five doors opened one by one with Tong Zizhu's help.

The next instant, Qi Yuanli saw dozens of guards. They were crouching in the passageway ahead, holding rifles, raising their guns, and simultaneously pulling the triggers, unleashing a barrage of bullets at his body.

Qi Yuanyuan pulled Robert by the shoulder, and the crows swarmed forward.

At the same time, a smoke grenade was suddenly thrown from Robert's hand and exploded on the ground. In an instant, a fog enveloped the entire passageway, and flocks of crows appeared and disappeared in the fog.

The guards fired wildly in terror at the dappled crows through the smoke, ultimately leading to a scene of fratricide. Bullets pierced their own men's bodies. Soon, a large group of guards fell, the survivors having their throats slit with playing cards.

In the deathly silence, a raven spread its wings and flew over the bloody sea of ​​corpses, entering the room behind the guards, then scattering into a feather. The figures of Qi Yuanli and Robert appeared at the center of the feather.

Qi Yuanli looked up and saw a huge room. The four walls of the room were transparent, allowing a clear view of what was inside.

A slicked-back man dressed in a black and white prison uniform was sitting in the center of the transparent room reading a book, with a wooden chair beneath him.

Rukawa Chiba raised an eyebrow, adjusted his frameless glasses, looked up at Qi Yuanli, and met his deep gaze.

"Long time no see," Qi Yuanli said silently, his lips moving. Since sound cannot penetrate transparent walls, he could only convey his meaning through lip movements.

Rukawa Chiba was taken aback for a moment, then smiled slightly and said silently, "Captain, you really came to find me."

His eyes, hidden behind his glasses, were filled with suppressed fervor. In fact, after so many years in the Phantom Troupe, what Rukawa Chiba wanted most was to dissect the leader's head and see what this unfathomable man was thinking.

Rukawa Chiba's special ability is to sense emotions. However, he cannot fathom Qi Yuanli's emotions. This person rarely experiences emotional fluctuations, like a saint without desires, yet his methods and actions are more cruel and ruthless than anyone else's.

This contrast made Rukawa Chiba unable to resist, otherwise he would never have stayed in the Phantom Troupe for so many years.

On the phone, the hacker warned: "Captain, it's best not to go in. This dilapidated room is full of explosive traps. As soon as any life form other than Rukawa Chiba is detected to enter, it will be triggered immediately, blowing everyone and even the entire underground tenth floor to ashes."

“Then we’ll just let him come out on his own,” Qi Yuanli said expressionlessly.

Upon hearing this, Robert rubbed his still slightly dizzy head, placed his hand on the wall of the corridor, and created a door connecting to the cell.

Rukawa Chiba was slightly taken aback, and when he turned his head, he saw a door appear on the transparent wall.

He rose from his chair and walked towards the door. He went through it and came to Chrysler and Robert's side.

“Welcome back… Doctor.” Robert put his hand on Rukawa Chiba’s shoulder and greeted him. “It’s been a while since I’ve seen you. Did you perform emotional removal surgery on other people in prison? Or have you learned to behave yourself? To be honest, I’ve been wearing this robotic helmet all this time just to prevent you from eyeing my head.”

Finally, Robert raised his hand and patted his robot's head, making a sound like hitting a bucket.

“There aren’t many opportunities to perform surgery in prison.” Rukawa Chiba took off his glasses, revealing his deep-set eyes. “But once I’m out of prison, I should get active again, lest my skills become too rusty.”

He casually tossed his glasses on the ground and turned to look at the room where he had been staying for several days.

A few days ago, the warden suddenly brought him here. This is the safest place in the entire prison, but also the most difficult to enter. It's so boring that it can make a person want to bite their tongue and commit suicide.

Rukawa Chiba asked, "What number am I in the Phantom Troupe? You don't need anyone, so you wouldn't be looking for me."

“Number 5… There was an unlucky guy who died in the miniature garden before, and we don’t even know how he died.” Robert shrugged, and a metallic voice came from under his mechanical head.

“Let’s go, Robert, Rukawa… the others are still waiting for us up there.” Kiyoshi Yuki put his hands in his trench coat pockets and said calmly.

Robert raised his hand again and touched the wall of the passageway, creating a door that connected to the land.

"Damn, things are really bad out there, Radish Head, don't get scared when you go out." The hacker's startled voice suddenly came from the phone.

"What's this?" Rukawa Chiba looked at the boy in the overalls on the phone.

“A new member. A 13-year-old prodigy, we all call him ‘Hacker’,” Robert said.

"Hello, hacker," said Rukawa Chiba.
"Hello, doctor, I've heard so much about you," the hacker said. "We have a very noisy cat in our group, could you perform some kind of surgery on it?"

"Be careful, or the young lady might castrate you." Robert said, then put away his phone.

As the three spoke, Qi Yuanli had already passed through the portal in the wall. When they left the tenth basement level of the Hokkaido prison, sunlight streamed in. The whole world was in chaos.

The iron-gray buildings were riddled with holes, the ground was full of ravines, and waste paper and sand were scattered everywhere.

Suddenly, they spotted a huge shark.

A massive, dark blue shark, three hundred meters long, opened its enormous jaws under the scorching sun, letting out a deafening roar, with a tsunami-like black tide behind it.

"The Eternal Abyss Shark... How did it get here?" Qi Yuanli murmured to himself.

　Ask for monthly ticket orz
　　
　
(End of this chapter)