95: A knocking sound from the depths of hell, the whispers of prisoners!

Lin Yuan and Su Wanqing exchanged glances.

Both saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

"You heard it?" Lin Yuan lowered his voice.

Su Wanqing nodded, her expression solemn. "It's directly below us."

"Interesting."

The boredom on Lin Yuan's face vanished, replaced by the excitement of a hunter discovering prey.

"Let's go, let's go down and see."

He wrapped his arm around Su Wanqing's waist again.

"I can manage myself." Su Wanqing coldly pushed his hand away, frost swirling around her body as she hovered steadily in the air.

"Tsk, so unromantic."

Lin Yuan pouted, and the Thunder Falcon Wings on his back vibrated slightly, taking the lead as he plunged into the deeper darkness.

Su Wanqing followed close behind.

Fifteen hundred meters.

Two thousand meters.

The prison cells on the surrounding cliff walls were still empty, but the chilling aura grew increasingly dense.

And the "clang... clang... clang..." knocking sound became clearer and clearer.

"Roar—!"

Suddenly, a roar came from below.

The sound was filled with brutality and madness, like a beast that had broken free from its shackles.

Immediately after.

"Ahhh—help me!"

"Monster! Don't come any closer!"

"Kill! Kill them all!"

All sorts of sounds surged up from below.

There were roars unlike any earthly creature.

There were also human voices mixed with fear and despair.

These sounds blended together, as if below them was not an ancient prison, but a battlefield that had just experienced a massacre.

Lin Yuan and Su Wanqing's speed simultaneously slowed down.

"What... what's going on?" Lin Yuan's brows finally furrowed.

"The report never mentioned this kind of situation." Su Wanqing's voice also carried a hint of tension. "According to records from the past fifty years, this place should have been completely silent."

"That only means our report is a version someone wanted us to see."

Lin Yuan sneered.

Qin Family.

These two words surfaced in his mind.

"There might be energy readings of B-class or higher below. Should we retreat first and request backup?" Su Wanqing suggested.

This was the safest approach.

"Retreat?"

Lin Yuan smiled.

"Since we're already here, how can we let Director Zhou's painstaking efforts go to waste if we don't go down and take a look?"

He stretched his wrists, his joints cracking with a series of "crackle" sounds.

"Besides, my A-class equipment isn't just for show."

"Let's go! I want to see what kind of monsters are truly hidden down here!"

He suddenly accelerated, transforming into a streak of light, and plunged straight down!

Su Wanqing watched his disappearing back, sighed helplessly, and could only follow.

They descended several hundred more meters.

They arrived at a massive underground cavern.

On the floor of the cavern, there were twisted, struggling monsters everywhere!

These monsters varied in form and were impossible to categorize.

Some resembled bloated lumps of flesh stitched together from countless corpses, their surfaces covered in mouths.

Others were grotesque half-human, half-spider creatures, brandishing their segmented limbs and tearing at each other.

And some were simply puddles of writhing black sludge, constantly devouring everything around them.

They were fighting, roaring, and slamming their bodies against the surrounding rock walls in a frenzy.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The crisp knocking sound came from amidst this chaos.

These creatures were generally D-class to C-class in strength, and their numbers... were in the hundreds!

"Abyss creatures!"

When Su Wanqing saw the monsters, she recognized the energy attributes of these creatures.

This was from the same source as the Abyss invasion previously encountered in Jiangcheng City!

"Is this place... connected to the Abyss Demon Realm?"

Lin Yuan was also dumbfounded.

The scene before his eyes was practically a living scroll of Hell.

He finally understood what Director Zhou, that old fox, meant by "special."

C-class safe zone?

This was a C-class Abyss breeding ground, damn it!

"No, that's not right."

Lin Yuan's gaze pierced through the chaotic monster horde, locking onto the very center of the cavern.

There, a platform built from black rock stood tall.

On the platform, a massive bronze pillar rose from the ground, covered in incomprehensible runes.

And the "clang, clang" knocking sound came from there.

A person was firmly bound to the bronze pillar by dozens of thick chains.

That person... or rather, that creature.

Half of its body was still human-like, but emaciated and pale-skinned.

The other half of its body was completely covered in black matter, with sharp claws and tentacles, emanating a dense Abyss aura.

Its head was bowed, its face unclear.

It was using its only still-movable human arm to pick up a stone and repeatedly strike the chains in front of it.

"Clang... clang... clang..."

Tirelessly.

"Half-transformed body..." Su Wanqing's voice carried a hint of tremor.

Humans eroded by Abyss energy, but not completely dead, would transform into these inhuman, ghost-like monsters.

They would endure suffering more terrifying than death, forever lost between sanity and madness.

Just then.

As if sensing their arrival.

Among the chaotic monster horde below, several C-class monsters suddenly raised their heads, staring intently at Lin Yuan and Su Wanqing, who were hovering in mid-air.

"Roar!"

The next second, they roared and swiftly climbed up the rock wall towards the two of them!

"Seeking death!"

A cold light flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes, and he was about to act.

"Hey!"

A hoarse, dry voice suddenly came from below.

It was the fellow chained to the pillar.

It raised its head.

Half of its face was a withered human face, the other half a hideous demonic visage.

Only in the eyes that belonged to its human side, a glimmer of... rationality flickered?

It looked at Lin Yuan and Su Wanqing, letting out a strange, rasping laugh.

"Another... running dog... of the Dragon Shield Bureau..."

Its voice was intermittent.

"Get out!"

"You are not welcome here!"

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow.

Huh, someone in this hellhole can still reason?

Though it didn't sound very friendly.

He descended, maintaining a safe distance from the other party.

"Who are you? Why are you imprisoned here?"

"Who am I?"

The half-human, half-demon creature laughed wildly, causing the chains on its body to clatter.

"I... am the Qin Family's... abandoned son!"

"I... am the Supervising Officer of the Abyss of Suppressing Prison!"

It raised its head, glaring fiercely at Lin Yuan.

"You... all deserve to die!"

"The Qin Family! The Dragon Shield Bureau! Everyone deserves to die!"

"Kill you all! Kill all the monsters!"

It fell into a frenzy, struggling madly, banging its head against the bronze pillar.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

From the prisoner's fragmented words, Lin Yuan and Su Wanqing heard information that could overturn everything.

The Qin Family's abandoned son?

Supervising Officer?

What... what exactly is going on?

The deranged prisoner suddenly stopped moving.

It stared fixedly at Lin Yuan, then parted its lips, revealing a smile uglier than a cry.

"Want to know the truth?"

"Come down."

"Come down... I'll tell you everything..."