Chapter 357: Prison Night Talk
Lin Ye predicted the location where the woman would dodge.
Without any unnecessary words, Lin Ye threw the second stone.
The woman barely dodged the stone, but the third stone arrived right after.
This time, the woman couldn't dodge in time, and the stone hit the back of her head.
Because he had thrown stones continuously, the force behind the third stone was average, so Lin Ye followed up with a fourth stone.
Only then was the woman completely dealt with.
After dealing with the woman, Lin Ye began exploring the camp. Aside from some suspicious jerky, there wasn't anything noteworthy in the camp. On the woman's body was a hard card, resembling a membership card from some bathhouse.
Lin Ye took a few decent stones and left the camp. Reminded by these prisoners, he decided to find a safe place to enter the prison.
Such a place wasn't hard to find, after all, he had walked for three hours in the Black Prison earlier.
He just needed to find a hidden spot where no one would go. Lin Ye quickly found a hidden corner by a wall. Unless someone specifically went to touch it, passing prisoners would have a hard time discovering such a nook existed here.
He still hadn't discovered any other creatures besides prisoners and mushrooms in the Black Prison, otherwise, he'd also have to worry about his body being bitten by rats.
Lin Ye closed his eyes and entered the prison. Opening his eyes, he saw the nun in the cell opposite.
The nun smiled and made eye contact with Lin Ye, which raised a question in his mind.
Had she been sitting there the whole time, staring at an empty cell, or did she know Lin Ye would enter at this moment?
Lin Ye didn't think this was a coincidence. Whichever it was, the nun was somewhat problematic.
"This is the deity's guidance."
The nun, as if seeing through Lin Ye's thoughts, answered the question he hadn't voiced.
However, this phrase was a common line used by clergy to fool people, so Lin Ye wasn't sure about her true thoughts.
Fortunately, he was also a member of the clergy.
"Can't the deity guide us out of the Black Prison?"
Alice appeared beside Lin Ye. Lin Ye grabbed Alice's right hand and used the concept of runes to open the cell door.
The prison guard seemed to have changed his lock for a new one.
"What a cute little girl. Is this your sister?"
The nun tossed a blue candy to Alice, not answering Lin Ye's question.
"Thank you, Sister Nun."
Alice happily caught the candy, but she didn't eat it, instead putting it in her pocket.
"She is an illusion born from a certain accident, similar to an unplanned pregnancy."
Lin Ye casually explained.
"Then, do you need me to help you eliminate it?"
The nun said with a smile.
"Not for now. She's still relatively obedient. Do you want to come along?"
Lin Ye pulled Alice out of the cell. The guard not far away glanced at him.
This time, the guard didn't approach. Lin Ye felt this was the same guard whose head he had chopped off earlier.
"Sister, I still need to continue receiving the deity's guidance, so I won't run around."
The nun said with a smile.
"Then, see you later."
Lin Ye pulled Alice away from the cell block. The moment they left that corridor, Alice transformed into the nun.
"I am the strange nun who always fake-smiles. There isn't a single truthful word from my mouth. When you have no more use, I will stab you in the back."
The nun brought her face close to Lin Ye's and said with a smile.
"Your smile is too normal;
it lacks the exquisiteness of the nun's smile."
Lin Ye revealed a smile identical to the nun's, startling her and making her take a step back.
"...You are ten times scarier than her, at least."
The nun's expression stiffened;
she didn't even know what expression to make.
"Liking to fake-smile isn't a bad thing. She saved me once. As long as she doesn't stab me, we are companions escaping the Black Prison. Even if she stabs me, I will forgive her once, and we'll call it even."
Lin Ye liked using addition and subtraction to handle such problems because it was simple and didn't require overthinking.
"Suit yourself. How should we handle this candy?"
The nun handed the candy to Lin Ye.
Lin Ye tore off the wrapping paper and threw the candy into his mouth.
"Is that okay? Eating something from that fake-smiling nun?"
A prisoner stood in the center of the exercise yard, his gaze following Lin Ye's movements.
"It's fine. I actually really dislike owing others things. If this candy is problematic, then we can call it even. Unfortunately, it's just a candy with a strange taste."
Lin Ye also looked at that prisoner. The distance between them was gradually closing.
"You shouldn't have killed those prisoners."
As Lin Ye passed by the prisoner, the other spoke.
"Then you should have stopped them when they came to cause trouble for me."
Lin Ye didn't turn his head, but he would act before the other could make a move.
"They weren't my people, so naturally, I don't care about their lives or deaths. There's no problem with you killing them, but the impact caused by killing them is something you'll have to handle yourself."
The prisoner showed no intention of taking action.
"What impact does killing them have? If you don't plan to give me complete information, then I won't care about any damn impact. If you all have objections, you can come together;
it'll be convenient for me to handle you all at once."
Lin Ye's tone was flat. The other hiding information was understandable, but since they came to communicate, they should at least show some sincerity. Otherwise, it would be better to just fight directly.
"...Tonight, three hours from now, gather at the prison exit. As long as you dare to come, we will show corresponding sincerity. If you don't come, you will become the enemy of all prisoners. We are not the trash under that bitch's command."
After saying this, the prisoner disappeared.
"What should we do? Are we going tonight? If we go, I need to rest for a while."
The nun felt that prisoner had ill intentions.
"Feels like an eighty percent chance it's a trap. The possibility of them accepting me is less than twenty percent."
As a Trap Master, Lin Ye naturally wouldn't step into such an obvious trap. However, there would definitely be some change at the prison gate at night, and this change might be related to escaping the Black Prison.
"So we stand them up? With me here, you can kill all the other prisoners inside the prison, but I can't help outside."
The nun could sense the strength of the other prisoners. Although these people all possessed some mental energy, they couldn't compare at all to Lin Ye who used the concept of runes.
"Let's walk around the prison first. If there's no gain, we'll go take a look tonight."
Lin Ye pulled the nun and walked through the entire prison. At regular intervals, some powerful guards would spawn near Lin Ye, but as long as they ran back to the cells, those guards would disappear.
"I can't take it anymore. If I eat any more, my stomach will burst."
The nun clutched her stomach. To help her last longer, Lin Ye would prepare a portion of food for her at regular intervals.
"Then let's stop here. There's only an hour left until the agreed time. Are you okay?"
Lin Ye walked through the entire prison but couldn't find anything related to the Abyssal Eye. It seemed that thing only appeared at night.
"No problem. Who do you want to go with tonight?"
The nun was also getting tired of this bloated body.