Chapter 37

Familiar voice.

Someone was forcefully pounding on the metal gate, and there were steel beasts roaring in the cell. "Newcomers, welcome to Prison No. 18!"

Qingchen sat up on the hard bed, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

He silently repeated in his mind, "Newcomers, welcome to Prison No. 18."

For some reason, the moment he returned, Qingchen genuinely felt a surge of joy and excitement in his heart.

Here, there were people he knew, familiar rules, and hopes for the future.

It seemed he belonged to the Inner World, not the Outer World.

Here, there were no painful memories to recall, and no one to worry about.

He only needed to move forward, and every direction was new.

He looked down at his arm and was taken aback.

Reversion countdown: 160:20:09.

Subtracting the time he spent sleeping, this countdown was actually seven days!

This was unexpected. Qingchen had already gotten used to the 48-hour countdown, but the rules had suddenly changed.

Why?

Was there a pattern?

It seemed the rules of reversion still needed to be explored.

Qingchen approached the metal gate, which opened as if to welcome him precisely.

The prisoners in the corridor bowed slightly to greet him as they saw him.

Compared to the Outer World, this place felt more like his home turf.

Qingchen stood in the corridor and greeted Lu Guangyi from a distance, who immediately understood.

After all the prisoners had lined up and gone downstairs, Lu Guangyi immediately began to control the new prisoners.

He knew this was Qingchen's intention.

Although this would anger the other two factions and might lead to conflict, he had entered Prison No. 18 to pave the way for Qingchen.

Being a vanguard meant having the resolve of a vanguard; once across the river, there was no turning back.

Success meant living, failure meant death; glory came at the cost of one's life.

At that moment, Uncle Li also tacitly approved of Lu Guangyi's actions, seemingly curious about what Qingchen planned to do.

Today, seven new prisoners arrived.

When Lu Guangyi was dealing with the new prisoners, six of them seemed to be repeat offenders and chose to accept their fate.

Experienced prisoners knew that enduring was the best option; resistance would only make things worse.

However, when Lu Guangyi was about to catch the last new prisoner, that prisoner kept dodging.

But this prisoner had no mechanical limbs, and with his ordinary physical condition, how could he possibly outrun those steel beasts?

Just as Lu Guangyi was about to catch him, the new prisoner panicked: "Don't touch me! What are you grabbing me for, damn it!"

This guy kept running and dodging, cursing all the while: "Don't mess with me! I'll slap you to death, you damn thing!"

Qingchen: "???"

The authentic Sichuan dialect stunned him. In the Inner World, there were no dialects; everyone spoke Mandarin!

Not only was Qingchen stunned, but Lu Guangyi and the others were also bewildered: "What the hell is this guy saying? Can you understand him?"

Everyone looked at each other: "We can sort of understand, but not completely."

When everyone in the world spoke the same accent, a dialect stood out as extremely out of place…

Qingchen quickly realized this guy was a穿越者 (穿越者 means "穿越者" in Chinese, which translates to "穿越者" in English, but in this context, it means "穿越者" (time traveler))!

Because Qingchen himself spoke Mandarin, and Mandarin was relatively widespread in Luocheng, he had never realized that dialects were the biggest risk of exposing the Outer World…

At this moment, Qingchen could even imagine what situations those time travelers with dialects would face.

But how did this guy, speaking Sichuan dialect, end up in Prison No. 18? According to the patterns Qingchen and He Xiaoxiao had summarized, only 19 cities in the country had a high density of time travelers, and they seemed to end up in roughly the same place, so it should be someone from Luocheng who would end up here…

Was his summary of the pattern wrong? Was the landing point random?

No, there must be a special case.

He glanced at the three people downstairs, including Uncle Li, whose expressions had clearly changed, becoming serious.

Qingchen felt that as long as the other party wasn't an idiot, they would notice something from these consecutive incidents.

People in the Inner World would eventually learn about the Outer World, because there were too many time travelers!

Uncle Li watched the commotion nearby and turned to Lin Xiaoxiao, saying, "Go and catch him, interrogate him thoroughly, including the previous Huang Jixian and Liu Dezhu. I think they might be from the same place."

"Understood," Lin Xiaoxiao said solemnly.

The unique Sichuan dialect made Uncle Li connect all the strange events that had occurred recently.

This time, he didn't sit idly by but directly ordered Lin Xiaoxiao to act.

As soon as he spoke, the Sichuan man collapsed, falling into a nightmare.

Lin Xiaoxiao walked up to Lu Guangyi and calmly said, "Move aside, give him to me."

However, even in the face of someone like Lin Xiaoxiao, Lu Guangyi stood his ground, saying, "Only our boss can decide."

He turned to look at Qingchen, who was still in the shadows of the third-floor corridor.

The prisoners were stunned; wasn't Lu Guangyi the boss? Who else could be the boss?

Only at this moment did the prisoners around Lu Guangyi realize that Qingchen wasn't just a lucky young man who had befriended Uncle Li by chance.

He was a true god.

Surnamed Qing, and Lu Guangyi's boss!

Thinking of this, many prisoners who had once had designs on Qingchen shivered involuntarily.

As long as one lived on the Eastern Continent of this world, no one could ignore the massive presence of the Qing family.

This was an era where everyone lived in the shadow of the five major conglomerates.

In normal times, people could indulge in pleasure.

But when they encountered this massive presence, they would recall the fear of being dominated by the conglomerates in their lives.

No one could escape it.

Lin Xiaoxiao smiled at Lu Guangyi, "You dared to stand up to me even knowing my boss's identity. You've got some backbone, that's good."

Qingchen didn't want to make things difficult for Lu Guangyi, so he nodded to let him go.

Lin Xiaoxiao pushed through the crowd and carried the Sichuan man out with one hand.

Qingchen watched as the heavy metal gate slowly lifted for Lin Xiaoxiao and then closed after he passed through.

It seemed that Uncle Li and the others could move freely in and out of Prison No. 18!

But if they could move freely, why didn't they leave?

He slowly went downstairs and sat opposite Uncle Li: "Where did Lin Xiaoxiao go?"

"Something unexpected happened," Uncle Li said, hugging a large cat. "Although I don't know what it is yet, it seems to be something beyond my imagination. In the past, if there were consecutive unidentified people around me, I would think someone had a well-planned scheme to get something from me. But this time, it's different. They have no plan, and they seem to... have no brains."

Qingchen was silent for a long time after hearing this.

At this moment, Qingchen realized he didn't have much time left.

Leaving aside the Sichuan compatriot, Liu Dezhu would definitely not withstand Lin Xiaoxiao's interrogation.

First, Liu Dezhu was just a sheltered student with weak willpower.

Second, Lin Xiaoxiao had the mysterious ability to induce nightmares, which could make people reveal the truth without realizing it during interrogation.

The exposure of the Outer World was inevitable and would happen soon.

But he could do nothing.

He had the score of a canon, but he knew that against someone as decisive as Uncle Li, a score couldn't change anything.

Qingchen could only wait.

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Thank you, Fojugood, for becoming a Silver Grand Alliance member of this book. Boss, you are generous, and may you have a life as vast as the sea and as long as the mountains.