Godslayer: My Forbidden Ruins Master

The night was as dark as ink, and a fierce wind whipped up torrential rain, lashing the rugged rocky beach surrounding the fasting place like countless whips.

Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan, like two soaking wet quails, huddled behind a huge rock that could barely shield them from the wind and rain, shivering from the cold.

"Ah...ah sneeze!"

Baili Pangpang rubbed his sore nose, looking at the prison walls in the distance, which appeared even more imposing and terrifying in the wind and rain. His face was long and his voice was trembling with tears:

"Old Cao... do you think we've successfully smuggled ourselves in? This godforsaken place doesn't even have a dog hole to crawl through! Look at that electric fence, 'sizzling' all over, if I, Fatty, were to touch it, I'd probably turn into a... roasted whole pig!"

Cao Yuan ignored him; his sharp, hawk-like eyes were fixed on a watchtower on the outer wall of the prison, which was faintly visible in the wind and rain.

Ever since they reached this point, the searchlights on the tower have swept over the area where they were hiding more than once.

Every time a bright beam of light brushed past him, Baili Pangpang's heart leaped into his throat.

"No...don't look at Lao Cao..." Fatty was almost crying. "There must be snipers up there. Maybe...maybe they've already spotted us, and they're holding night vision goggles, admiring us two drowned rats...and figuring out whether to shoot us in from the left temple or the right..."

Cao Yuan frowned.

The situation was worse than he had anticipated.

The fasting place was impenetrable.

Forcing your way in is tantamount to suicide.

As for Baili Pangpang's terrible idea of ​​"getting caught and sent in"...

Cao Yuan glanced at the fat man's terrified face and for the first time felt that this utterly awful idea... seemed to be the only option.

“Fatty,” Cao Yuan’s voice sounded unusually calm amidst the wind and rain, “Do you remember what you said?”

"Huh? What did I say?" Baili Pangpang looked completely bewildered.

"He was caught." Cao Yuan said succinctly.

Baili Pangpang's face instantly fell, his fat trembling: "Old Cao! You're serious?! I... I was just joking! What if they don't lock us up and just 'deal with' us on the spot?!"

“There’s no other way.” Cao Yuan’s tone left no room for doubt. “This prison has no weaknesses. The only ‘door’ is being caught and taken inside.”

He paused, looking at the fat man's almost tearful expression, a hint of seriousness creeping into his voice:

“Fatty, listen up. If we get caught, they’ll definitely search us. Your [Free Space] absolutely cannot be discovered. Find a way… to move the most important things out and hide them before they search you.”

Baili-Fatty's face turned pale. Of course, he knew the importance of the [Free Space]. It contained not only all his treasures, but also the key tools for their operation, and... their last trump card to save Lu Xuan in case of failure!

"But... but where can I hide it?" Fatty looked around, but there was nothing there except for the slippery rocks and the cold seawater.

Cao Yuan's gaze fell on the fat man's round belly, then slowly moved down, finally settling on a certain unspeakable place, his eyes becoming somewhat strange.

Baili Pangpang followed his gaze and instantly understood what was happening. His face turned from white to green, then from green to purple. Finally, he clenched his legs tightly together, his hands gripping his back, and his voice trembled:

"Old Cao! You...you're not human!!"

“This is the only way,” Cao Yuan said expressionlessly. “Either we take a gamble and pin our hopes on the prison’s ‘humane management,’ or we turn around and jump back into the sea now and pray we can swim back alive.”

Baili Pangpang shuddered violently as he looked at the black waves churning behind him, which resembled the gaping maw of a demon.

Swim back? That would be like feeding the sharks.

"Done!"

Finally, the fat man gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and revealed a tragic expression as if he were going to his execution. "For my brothers, I...I'll risk it all! But Lao Cao, you have to promise me that when we get out of here, you have to treat me to...a hundred meals...no!A thousand meals at Haidilao! And the highest-end kind!"

"Okay." Cao Yuan nodded, a hint of approval finally showing in his eyes.

"Then... how do we get 'discovered'?" The fat man wiped the rain off his face and asked with a look of grim determination.

Cao Yuan looked up and glanced at the watchtower.

"It's very simple."

As he spoke, he suddenly stood up from behind the rock and waved with all his might in the direction of the watchtower.

then……

He also took out a beautifully packaged box of imported chocolates from his backpack and held it high.

Baili Pangpang was completely dumbfounded when he saw this scene.

"..."

On the watchtower.

A sniper dressed in special operations gear and with camouflage paint on his face is observing with great interest the two "interesting" targets on the rocky beach below through a high-powered night vision scope.

"Calling tower, calling tower. This is 'Eagle Eye One'. Two unidentified individuals detected in my surveillance area... uh... gesticulating wildly?"

The sniper's voice carried a hint of confusion.

He had been observing these two guys for a long time.

One was as fat as a ball, the other as sharp as a knife.

They looked like inexperienced illegal immigrants.

Especially that fat guy, his cowardly appearance, almost wetting his pants in fear, was textbook perfect.

"One of them... seemed to be... trying to sell me chocolate?" The sniper's lips twitched involuntarily.

He had served in the army for so many years, guarding the border and arresting drug dealers, but he had never seen such an outrageous scene.

The tower commander's icy voice came through the communicator: "Eagle Eye One, the acting warden has ordered that during Level 1 alert, any trespassers must be killed on the spot without warning!"

"receive."

Sniper's eyes instantly turned cold, and his finger lightly touched the trigger.

The crosshairs of the scope were firmly positioned between Cao Yuan's eyebrows.

With just the slightest movement...

Just then, he saw through the scope that the fat man suddenly jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and then...

He lay down on the ground cleanly and efficiently in a prostrate position.

Raise both hands high and clasp them behind your head.

The movements were so precise, it was as if they had been practiced ten thousand times in a police academy.

Immediately afterwards, the wiry man holding the chocolate also slowly and helplessly put down the chocolate and raised his hands as well.

Sniper: "..."

"Tower, tower, Hawkeye One requests instructions." The sniper called again, his voice tinged with a mixture of amusement and exasperation. "Target... has given up resistance and surrendered. Over."

There was a few seconds of silence on the communicator.

Immediately following, the tower commander's voice, also tinged with disbelief, rang out: "...Received. Remain in place and await further instructions."

……

Central Tower, Warden's Office.

Lu Xuan sat leisurely in his boss's chair, the huge monitoring screen in front of him clearly displaying the real-time footage transmitted by the "Eagle Eye One" scope.

When Lu Xuan saw the chubby figure skillfully surrendering with his hands on his head, and Cao Yuan's face filled with "life is meaningless," he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"These two clowns..."

He smiled and shook his head, but a hint of warmth lingered in his eyes.

That's really loyal.

They even came up with such a terrible idea just to come in and find me.

Forget it, I won't tease them anymore.

He turned his head and glanced at Xie Yu, who stood beside him like a statue, his eyes faintly red.

“Warden Xie,” Lu Xuan said casually, “give your men an order. Tell them that you’ve caught two ‘important believers’ attempting to smuggle themselves in, and that you need to interrogate them personally. Have them bring them… directly here.”

"Yes, Master," Xie Yu replied emotionlessly, then picked up the communicator and relayed the order word for word in his authoritative and cold voice.

"Furthermore," Lu Xuan added, a mischievous smile spreading across his face, "tell the kitchen to prepare a grand feast. Sixteen dishes, eight meat and eight vegetable, using the best ingredients. Send them to the office. Tell them... I want to reward my subordinates for their meritorious capture."

"Yes, Master."

The order was relayed again.

The entire logistics system of the fasting place immediately sprang into action because of this sudden and extremely extravagant order.

Lu Xuan leaned back in his chair, watching the two figures shivering in the wind and rain on the screen, awaiting their fate. His smile deepened.

He couldn't wait to see the interesting expressions on these two guys' faces when they were brought here and saw him and the table full of food.

……

"Get up! All of you, get up!"

Several fierce-looking prison guards, armed with assault rifles, jumped off a high-speed speedboat and roughly pressed the muzzle of their guns against the back of Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan's heads.

"Go! Hurry up! Do you want to get shot while you're dawdling?!"

With their hands cuffed behind their backs, Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan were pushed and shoved by prison guards as they were forced onto the speedboat.

The speedboat cut through the waves and headed deep into the steel behemoth.

All the way, Baili Pangpang's legs were trembling.

As he stepped onto the steel corridor inside the fasting facility and saw the beast-like prisoners casting malevolent glances at him from the cells on either side, he felt his chrysanthemum shrink into a budding sunflower.

terrible!

The way these guys were looking at him was as if they wanted to devour him alive!

"It's over...it's over, it's over..." the fat man groaned in a low voice to Cao Yuan beside him, "Old Cao, I feel...I feel like I'm going to lose my innocence! My chrysanthemum...it's trembling! It's warning me!"

Cao Yuan's expression was even more solemn than his, but his eyes were unusually calm.

"Shut up," he uttered coldly.

He used to be a part of this place and was used to those looks.

But... what he couldn't understand was why they were being taken directly to the core area of ​​the prison.

Moreover, judging from the demeanor of these prison guards, they seem to be...very important?

“Listen, Fatty,” Cao Yuan’s voice was low and rapid-fire, “something’s not right. We weren’t put in regular cells, but taken directly to the central tower. That’s where the warden’s office is.”

"Huh? That...that's a good thing, isn't it? It means we're at a high level!" the fat man said innocently.

"Fools!" Cao Yuan cursed, exasperated. "This means we've been targeted! Either we're enemies of some important figure, or... we know too many secrets and are going to be silenced!"

Baili Pang's face turned white in an instant.

"Then...what should we do?" His voice was trembling with tears.

“Wait for my signal,” Cao Yuan’s eyes hardened. “I’ll create chaos. You take the opportunity to run, run as far as you can! Remember, find Lu Xuan! Tell him…”

What should we tell him?

Cao Yuan suddenly couldn't continue speaking.

Tell him, did we risk our lives to save him?

This is a big joke.

"Oh no...this is really bad..." The fat man was completely terrified.

He's now kicking himself for it.

It's all my fault! What a terrible idea I came up with!

Not only did they fail to rescue Lu Xuan, they also lost themselves and Cao Yuan, two key players!

Now, I have lost more than I gained!

The two of them, filled with fear and wild thoughts, were escorted by prison guards through one heavy alloy gate after another.

Finally, they arrived at a massive door, resembling the door of a bank vault, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen.

"Get in!"

The prison guard shoved them roughly.

The massive alloy door behind them closed silently and slowly.

"Click."

The sound of the lock clicking shut was like a death knell, sending Baili Pangpang's heart sinking to the bottom.

It’s over.

This must be the execution ground.

He closed his eyes, ready to face the judgment of death, and even began to think about how to entrust those hundreds of terabytes of "learning materials" to a destined person after his death.

however……

The expected torture and cold gun barrels did not materialize.

instead……

A rich, mouthwatering aroma of food, mixed with the mellow scent of coffee, wafted into his nostrils.

Ok?

illusion?

Is this... the legendary "Road to the Underworld"? Are there restaurants there?

Baili Pang cautiously opened one eye.

Then, he and Cao Yuan, who was standing next to him ready to fight to the death, froze on the spot.

What did they see?

A spacious and bright office, decorated like a presidential suite in a five-star hotel.

Outside the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, the night view is filled with wind and rain.

In the center of the office, a long dining table covered with a pristine white tablecloth was laden with... a bountiful, steaming, and fragrant meal...

Sixteen dishes!

Braised lion's head meatballs, Dongpo pork knuckle, steamed grouper, spicy crayfish, Peking duck...

Eight meat dishes and eight vegetable dishes, not a single dish is missing!

On the warden's executive chair, a symbol of supreme power, a familiar figure in a blue and white striped "hospital gown" sat with his legs crossed, a cup of coffee in his hand, a mocking smile on his face, watching them with leisure.

Who else could it be but Lu Xuan?!

"..."

Baili Pang blinked, then blinked hard again.

Even Cao Yuan's perpetually icy face cracked as if he had seen a ghost.

The two of them stood there dumbfounded, their mouths agape, their minds blank, completely bewildered!

This……

What the fuck...

What's going on?!