Chapter 1078: Chapter 1078

"Actually, there’s nothing much,"

Ruilin shook her head; looking at He Ao, she said with some emotion,

"At the entrance of the Ordinance Department, that ’K’ relief was made under my supervision. On the day it was finished, I stood alone in front of that relief, making perhaps the first wish of the lower class, ’I hope the people of the lower class can have enough to eat.’"

As she spoke, she smiled, "After making that wish, I felt incredibly naive and foolish. It was more of an unrealistic fantasy than a wish,"

She paused for a moment, looking at the dark corridor ahead, "But I never thought that such a ’wish’ could actually one day come true."

"Throughout history, many human wishes have been unrealistic, such as flying in the sky, lighting up the night, or crossing seemingly boundless oceans,"

He Ao walked slowly through the corridor, looking at the ’Detention Room’ sign overhead, and said calmly, "Breaking mountains, reclaiming lands, and even entering the realm of the heavens that only gods could traverse, it’s these unrealistic wishes that have step by step pushed civilization towards the places they imagined."

Ruilin looked up at the young man in front of her, listening to his words.

Although she couldn’t accurately recall these things in her mind, the youth’s words still evoked her thoughts.

For some reason, she remembered the gunfire in the pool of blood in the Ordinance Department.

Perhaps, the moment one steps out, even the most impossible things could hold hope for success.

Thus, the impossible became possible.

She stopped in her tracks, looked at the ’Detention Room’ sign above her head; passing this sign would lead into the detention area.

She took a deep breath, steadied her emotions, and followed the steps of the young man in front of her into the detention area.

"Is Riley in this detention area?"

She looked at He Ao’s back, asking softly.

"Don’t hold too much hope,"

He Ao shook his head, softly saying, "The situation might not be optimistic."

In Super Memory’s perception, Riley’s condition was odd; she was awake but her mind was empty, devoid of any thoughts.

Even if her memory had been altered, as long as she was still capable of thinking, her mind shouldn’t be completely devoid of thoughts.

Hearing He Ao’s response, Ruilin momentarily stunned, then she nodded earnestly, "It’s okay, Mr. Hao Yi, I’m already very grateful that you helped me up to this point. Whatever the outcome Riley faces, that is her fate. You don’t need to worry about her, and I am prepared to face any outcome."

At this moment, the two had reached the corner at the end of this corridor.

He Ao turned his head to glance at the female warrior beside him, feeling that she might have misunderstood something.

He opened his mouth, about to say something, when suddenly a loud shout came from afar, "They’re here! They’ve escaped from the factory area."

He Ao turned his head towards the direction of the sound, on the other side of the corner was a spacious fan-shaped hall.

Densely packed Guards were standing in this hall, aiming their firearms at He Ao and Ruilin, and behind this hall, there were steps extending upwards, seemingly towards ’Heaven.’

At the top of the steps was a tightly closed large iron gate.

Three large characters were branded on the iron gate: ’Detention Room.’

These Guards filled the hall, appearing to be sieging He Ao and Ruilin, yet also seemed to be guarding the staircase behind them.

"By the order of the Guard,"

The one who just spoke seemed to be the captain of the Guards, loudly declared, "Leave no survivors."

He Ao shifted his gaze, looking at the soldiers who had their fingers on the triggers.

Then with a calm expression, he said almost without hesitation, "Fire!"

Immediately, Ruilin raised the machine gun in her hands.

He Ao lifted the blade in his hand and took a step forward.

Accompanied by a sudden burst of gunfire in the hall, splashes of fresh blood covered the entire spacious hall.

These blood splatters were like flowers blooming in the air, spreading across a bloody ’flower path’ suspended mid-air.

As the last petal withered from the air, He Ao’s footsteps already stood at the towering staircase, he lifted his foot, and step by step climbed towards the top of the stairs.

Around the corner of the corridor, Ruilin had already emptied the ammunition of the machine gun in her hand and gazed blankly at the figure in front.

In fact, the majority of people in this hall had died at the hands of that young man.

These guards were not ordinary people from the Ordinance Department; each guard possessed a physique and strength far beyond ordinary people.

Yet, before that young man, they were still no different than ants that could be easily crushed by hand.

At this moment, the corpses of those who had died had already begun to ’decay’ rapidly.

He Ao, however, did not look back, and now he stood in front of a metal door, staring at the large iron door before him without hesitation and kicked out.

Accompanied by a booming sound, the entire iron door was torn from the wall and crashed to the ground.

Dust flew everywhere.

At this moment, Ruilin had already thrown the empty machine gun on the ground, crossed the blood-stained floor, and charged towards He Ao.

He Ao’s figure passed through the smoke and entered the ’detention room’ sealed behind the door.

This space was somewhat larger than He Ao had anticipated.

Although its door was only a bit taller than a person, the interior space seemed to be several dozen meters wide, and walls covered in gold powder extended from all four square sides of this space, meeting at a huge pointed top nearly a hundred meters from the ground.

Standing inside this immense space felt like standing inside a giant pyramid.

Compared to such a massive space, He Ao’s body seemed as minuscule as an ant.

Bright light shone down from the slanted walls of this pyramid, illuminating the entire space as if it were daylight.

He Ao looked up at the top.

Multiple levels of empty iron cages hung from above the pyramid, densely packed nearly filling the space at the top of the pyramid.

Every iron cage hung with a helmet, and at the same time, there were various other items in the cages.

There were clearly pieces of modern shirts, as well as some grey-brown garment corners.

Under that bright light, the edges of these iron cages were tinged with dark red, the color of dried blood.

However, it was still vaguely visible that some fresh blood was still smeared on the cages.

This meant that not long ago, there might still have been people in these cages.

Judging from the timing, these people were probably gone before He Ao arrived.

While He Ao looked up at those iron cages, a huge mechanical noise sounded from ahead.

At the far end shadowed by those cages, a huge elevator platform descended from the sky, with a man dressed in prisoner’s clothes, wearing handcuffs and shackles, standing on the platform, looking down at He Ao below.

He leaned on the railing of the elevator platform, lowered his head, looking at He Ao below, and laughed loudly, "that someone would actually break through to here."

He swiveled his head from side to side, seemingly sizing up He Ao’s face carefully, smiling, "You don’t seem to be from the lower layers, nor are you a human sacrifice we brought back from the outside, my friend."

The huge elevator platform was slowly moving towards He Ao, "I have been observing you all along, my friend. You seem to come from the real world. Did you enter the lower layer, and then through it, come to the upper layer? If so, does it mean that old geezer down there has already kicked the bucket?"

He gazed at He Ao, "Despite being an old-fashioned, stubborn, foolish, and disgusting man, that old Geezer managed the lower layer quite well. If he were still around, he wouldn’t have let you come up so easily."

He slightly raised his hands, shaking the chains in his hands, "My friend, I am not curious about how you crossed the boundary between the upper and lower layers, as long as you could enter the City of Rong Guang, crossing the boundary isn’t much of an issue."

He narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at He Ao, "So, can you tell me the method you used to enter the City of Rong Guang?"

The cage hanging from the ceiling trembled slightly, like wind chimes brushed by a cold wind, emitting a sharp, piercing scream.

An immense, far beyond ordinary B-level pressure emanated from that ’high above’ Prisoner, enveloping He Ao.

At this moment, a series of rapid footsteps came from behind He Ao.

Ruilin finally climbed up the staircase, passing through the door He Ao had kicked apart, and saw the brightly illuminated pyramid and the empty cages hanging underneath it.

"Are these cages for holding the ’missing people’?"

She lifted her head, looking at those cages, "Where are those missing people?"

"If you are looking for those missing people,"

A rough laugh resounded overhead, "Then I’m sorry, lady, you will never find them again."

Ruilin lifted her head, looked in the direction of the voice, and saw the Prisoner standing on the elevator platform.

At this moment, the Prisoner shrugged his shoulders, opened his hands, seeming to express great ’regret’ that Ruilin couldn’t find her relatives.

Ruilin clenched the bronze sword in her hand in an instant.

He Ao’s words just now gave her an ominous premonition, and now this Prisoner’s words virtually completely dashed her hopes.

A broad palm rested on her shoulder, and a gentle voice sounded from behind her, "Your sister is not dead yet."

Ruilin was slightly taken aback.

She turned to look at He Ao, momentarily feeling a bit embarrassed.

She also realized that He Ao had just said that the situation was amiss, not that Riley was in danger and close to death.

After a brief ’interaction’, she had roughly understood the character of this ’Mr. Hao Yi’ before her.

Although this gentleman did not blink while killing, she could distinctly feel that he was a kind and generous man.

This feeling was a bit strange, but indeed it was the fact.

Between this man dressed as a Prisoner and He Ao, she was more willing and more resolute in trusting He Ao.

She sheathed her bronze sword, looking towards He Ao.

"Wait for me at the doorway."

He Ao released his hand from Ruilin’s shoulder, casually speaking.

Compared to the fight between B-levels, Ruilin was still a bit fragile; it was best if she didn’t get hurt here, as she had another mission to fulfill.

Ruilin gently nodded, slowly retreating to the stairs by the doorway.

"Oh, my dear friend,"

The prisoner above, seeing his provocation fail and somewhat bored, sneered, "You don’t seem very confident in yourself, do you think you can hold on for a while?"

He Ao, staring at the prisoner, didn’t speak, but simply reversed the invisible sword blade in his hand.

At that moment, the prisoner’s words suddenly quieted down.

He understood the ’indifference’ in the young man’s eyes.

His provocations and mocking, in the eyes of the other party, were nothing more than a clown on stage desperately trying to attract attention.

His self-perceived powerful force and crafted oppressive aura were worthless in the eyes of the other.

"You arrogant fellow,"

He opened his mouth, hissing loudly, the empty cages also shaking violently with his voice,

"You refuse to reveal your secrets, I will make you willingly confess,"

He looked up at the cages shaking with his voice and shouted, "See these cages? I’ve once imprisoned one person after another in them. I hung them up in the sky, leaving them with no support,

"When they are tired, unprepared, these cages would drop without warning. The human instinct about falling would wake them up, making them live in perpetual fear.

"I have many methods, these practical techniques will surely ’satisfy’ you.

"No matter how resolute one is, under endless torment, their will shall break, Transcendents are no exceptions."

He lowered his head, gazing intently at He Ao, "I will give you a unique VIP treatment, make you never forget the days under my control, I will pry open your mouth, forcing you to confess everything."

His voice gradually lowered again, dragging out slowly, the suspended cages began to shake violently,

"You will pay for your arrogance, do you think by killing that Old Geezer from the lower floors, you can defeat me? Let me tell you, killing that old man is as easy as flipping my hand, and so is killing you.

"Of course, I won’t kill you, I will chop off your limbs, imprison you, and you will crawl on the ground, humbly begging me to kill you."

He Ao looked at the prisoner’s flushed cheeks, listening to his somewhat crazed words, slightly puzzled.

He hadn’t said anything yet, had he?

He thought about it, gripping the Shadowless Sword in his hand, looked at the prisoner, and calmly said,

"Did you break your defense?"

The prisoner, waving the chains that bound his hands, collided with the bars, making a crisp sound, "I’m going to kill you!!!"

Didn’t he just say he wouldn’t kill anyone?

Why are the fierce words so inconsistent?

Feeling the confusion in He Ao’s eyes, the prisoner standing on the elevator platform completely lost his temper.

He directly tore off the bars on the elevator platform, fiercely throwing the entire bars at He Ao.

He Ao lifted the Shadowless Sword, cleaving the flying bars in two.

At that time, the prisoner who jumped down from the elevator platform was already hot on his heels.

The shape of his muscles already swelling on his body, a terrifying oppressive aura also spread from him.

Right from the start, he seemed to bring his body to a peak state, greatly surpassing the oppressive aura of the chief priest from the lower levels.

He raised his fist, his fist covered with a dense metallic substance, smashing towards He Ao’s forehead.

He seemed prepared to resolve He Ao with his overwhelmingly suppressive power.