Chapter 135: Let Us Scatter Some Chaos
Meanwhile, over at the tattooed prisoner’s cell...
The inmate was stunned by something he couldn’t have envisioned in his most surreal dreams. Emerging out of thin air right before his eyes—as if born from the very heart of nothingness—a massive leather pouch materialized, holding no less than hundreds of technological plastic cards! They were all dyed an eerie, suspicious gray, their edges emitting a faint purple glow—a subtle magical aura imperceptible to standard human eyes without intense focus and keen scrutiny.
At that exact moment, Cain’s telepathic voice hissed inside the chambers of his mind with absolute authority and firmness:
{Place one of those cards against your lock and your door will slide open instantly... but move only upon my direct signal! You are not permitted to take a single step without my explicit command... Do you understand me clearly?}
The tattooed man swallowed hard and fast, his throat bone-dry as he replied telepathically in a tone brimming with obedience and awe:
[Understood completely, my lord!... At your command.]
Meanwhile, inside the adjacent cell... Cain offered a swift nod to Lucy.
With a swift, smooth movement of Lucy’s index finger, the light bulb hanging from the ceiling went completely dark, shrouding the room in pitch black. In the very next second, two glowing dimensional portals opened silently before Cain and Lucy.
Through these gateways, Cain and Lucy looked upon two brave volunteers from the Ian family who had agreed to remain in the cell in their place. The two individuals were currently held in isolated holding units elsewhere in the facility, separated by a vast distance.
Prior to the transfer, Lucy sent a precise, delicate pulse of magic through the walls from her hand. The pulse instantly and temporarily paralyzed the surrounding surveillance cameras in the area without triggering the automated security network or alerting the alarm systems!
The moment the two volunteers stepped through the dimensional portal into Cain and Lucy’s cell, Lucy activated her glamour spell once more. In the blink of an eye, their attire transformed into the exact sanitation uniforms worn by Cain and Lucy!
Immediately afterward, Cain and Lucy stepped through two entirely different dimensional portals. They chose to split up across the building, each taking a distinct route so they could comb all the subterranean corridors and sectors with greater efficiency, avoiding unnecessary bloodshed or taking the lives of the guards.
They were fully aware that reaching "Darren’s" high-security block would be no simple stroll. Thus, they needed to ensure emergency alarms detonated across every floor simultaneously to unleash total chaos and distraction among the security forces. Exploiting that brief temporal window before external military reinforcements arrived was their single golden opportunity for total success!
Once Cain and Lucy reached their respective target sectors deep underground...
Lucy stood composed and serene. Through her magical perception and her spiritual bond with Cain, she sensed that they were separated by ten full subterranean levels deep within the earth!
Cain’s voice echoed through the mental link: {Begin now, Lucy!}
A broad, thrilling smile crossed Lucy’s lips, and with a agile wave of her hand...
WHEEEEEEN!... WHEEEEEEN!...
The entire building erupted as first-degree emergency and urgent recall alarms blared simultaneously across multiple floors and sectors!
The security forces threw themselves into complete disarray. Roughly ninety percent of the armed guards present on Lucy’s floor abandoned their posts and patrol sweeps, sprinting frantically to respond to the high-level emergency calls echoing from the other levels!
Cain capitalized on this sweeping mayhem. As the cell doors unlocked to reveal their escape, the few remaining guards took notice and rushed forward to regain control—a scenario playing out identically on Lucy’s level!
Yet the guards were completely unprepared for the massive shock that followed...
Suddenly, and in perfect unison, the doors of all neighboring cells swung completely open! As the inmates poked their heads out and realized only a handful of bewildered soldiers stood before them, professional hitmen and hardened gang members pounced like predators, surrounding the guards and disarming them of their firearms within seconds!
However, the facility’s security sensors recorded the physical conflict immediately. Red emergency warning lights bathed the prison corridors in a bloody glow, accompanied by muffled, heavy sirens!
An elderly prisoner with a severe scar running over his eye and dressed in gray prison garb snatched up one of the rifles. He slammed the butt of the weapon against the floor in frustration, snarling:
"Damn it, how frustrating!... It looks like reinforcements are already coming back! And these cursed cybernetic weapons can’t even be fired by us because they’re DNA-locked to these bastards!... No matter, take these guards as hostages and let’s move right now! There’s a massive security breach in this facility, and we have to exploit it if we want any chance of breaking out!"
Hearing the veteran inmate’s command, the prisoners felt a surge of adrenaline. Emboldened by the chaos, they surged forward in a massive wave, rushing toward the upper floors to hunt for exit routes!
Meanwhile, Cain remained standing with quiet dignity inside his location. He reopened the telepathic link with the tattooed prisoner—who had noticed the sudden disappearance of the guards and the eerie silence descending on the corridor—and issued a decisive command:
{Begin your work now!}
The tattooed man did not waste a single second. He pulled out one of the gray cards and pressed it directly against the electronic lock of his cell door...
CLICK!...
The crisp sound of the automatic mechanism disengaging echoed clearly in his ears!
Before his astonished eyes, the heavy iron door swung open, revealing the vast corridor lying completely unobstructed before him! He swore in his heart with absolute resolve that he would finally see the light of freedom after endless imprisonment...
His smile widened in victory as he hurried out of his cell carrying the pouch. He rapidly swiped the glowing gray cards across neighboring cell doors one after another, the locks releasing in a rapid, mechanical sequence!
As for the few guards remaining in that specific hallway, they were already lying unconscious on the floor, lulled into a deep slumber by a subtle sleep spell, while the rest had fled to answer the frantic recall calls lighting up their radios...
And right there, in the heart of that dark subterranean corridor, one of the greatest, largest, and most audacious mass jailbreaks in human history officially began.
Would you like the narrative to focus next on Cain finding Darren’s cell in the deepest sector, or Lucy dealing with the cybernetic robot units responding to the containment breach?