Chapter 542: Gods Of Subspace
The Death Prison, the Nether God Fortress.
Night enveloped the land. The fortress's black silhouette loomed like a massive, crouching beast in the shadows. It resembled an ancient terror biding its time. Piercing, blood-curdling screams echoed frequently from the depths of the fortress, creating a chilling symphony of death that sent shivers down one’s spine.
This was the most terrifying place in the Jiepeng Empire. It was the dwelling place of the God of Death. Lives came to an end within these walls at every moment.
The Nether God Fortress was divided into four distinct areas: the outer zone, the middle zone, the inner zone, and the underground zone. The outer, middle, and inner zones imprisoned criminals of varying degrees of guilt and danger, from the least to the most severe. However, the underground zone was a realm of eternal damnation, designated specifically for prisoners from Great Xia. No one who entered the underground zone had ever walked out alive.
Additionally, the underground area housed a secret facility, a forbidden laboratory known as the Land of Creation. Within this laboratory, unspeakable and inhumane experiments explicitly outlawed by the Star Council were conducted.
The raw materials for these experiments were prisoners brought here from Great Xia, cruelly referred to as Maruta. These individuals were treated like expendable supplies as they were subjected to unimaginable physical and psychological torment.
Earlier today, the underground zone of the Nether God Fortress had received a new batch of prisoners; sixteen in total. They were all covert operatives from the Great Xia Dragon Group who had been captured while operating within the borders of Jiepeng.
After being tasked with the mission to rescue Tan Zhenwei and Zhou Rulong, the Great Xia Dragon Group had conducted a series of intensive nationwide maneuvers over the past ten days. These movements had significantly increased their exposure risk. When the Jiepeng Temple and the Inquisition joined forces, the search and capture operations had intensified, inevitably leading to the exposure and the subsequent capture of Dragon Group members.
Among those captured was the Doctor. The Urawa Base City had eventually succumbed to the relentless searches conducted by the Inquisition. The Doctor had deliberately exposed himself to shield Poison Wolf and others, including Chong Chong, who had not yet been fully modified by the Orochi-01 project. He had distracted the Inquisition’s Realm of Traces team, buying time for his team before finally being captured after a prolonged pursuit.