Chapter 28

There was a map of the dungeon in the archive room. In addition to the office and rest areas, it also marked the numbers of the areas where prisoners were held.

There were three areas in total, marked 1, 2, and 3, but the design of the dungeon seemed a bit strange, making Uchiha Gin, who was naturally accustomed to symmetry, feel very uncomfortable.

Simply finding the location of the area marked 2, Uchiha Gin took the scroll and went out.

Cell No. 2 was relatively close to the archive room. After walking for a few minutes, Uchiha Gin arrived in front of an iron fence door, guarded by two Uchiha clansmen.

"Who goes there?"

Listening to the familiar voice, the more Uchiha Gin looked at these two Uchiha clansmen, the more familiar they seemed.

"Aren't you on patrol? Why are you in the dungeon again?"

Recognizing their identities, Uchiha Gin asked curiously. These two Uchiha were the two patrol clansmen he had just met when he returned to the clan grounds. He didn't expect to meet them here again.

"It's over!"

Uchiha Tiedan's heart was filled with despair. Uchiha Gin had actually chased him to the dungeon to take revenge.

Not knowing Uchiha Gin yesterday, he heard from his teammates that the person he almost provoked was that "evil" Uchiha Gin.

Afraid of being retaliated against, he applied that night to be transferred to a remote post. He didn't expect that on his first day on the job, this "devil" would come to his door.

"Cuihua, I'm sorry. I hope you don't stay a widow for me; be happy."

Uchiha Tiedan, who closed his eyes, had a tragic expression of being at the mercy of others.

"What are you dazed for? Open the door for me; I'm here to verify the prisoners."

Looking at one of the Uchiha clansmen who had his eyes closed and was muttering something.

The other had wandering eyes, as if he hadn't seen him. Uchiha Gin, not knowing what they were imagining, said impatiently.

"Huh? You're not here for me?"

Hearing Uchiha Gin's words, Uchiha Tiedan, who had closed his eyes waiting for death, opened his eyes in confusion.

"Why would I look for you? I'm busy. Hurry up."

"Tiedan, hurry up and open the door for Lord Uchiha Gin."

The other Uchiha clansman pushed Uchiha Tiedan, who was close to the door lock. Waking up like a dream, he hurriedly took out the key, opened the door, and let Uchiha Gin in.

"How inexplicable."

The behavior of this Uchiha clansman named Tiedan made Uchiha Gin confused,

"Where is Kaguya Zhangzhu's cell?"

"My lord, I'll lead you there."

Giving the dull Uchiha Tiedan a reassuring look, the other Uchiha clansman took the initiative to lead the way for him.

Following this clansman, Uchiha Gin entered the dungeon's prison area for the first time.

On both sides were rows of wooden fences, which looked fragile, but each one was pasted with the Uchiha clan's unique fire charms.

Without the corresponding technique to remove them, anyone who touched them rashly would be immediately wrapped in flames, resulting in minor burns at best and being burned to ash at worst.

Following their footsteps, the prisoners imprisoned on both sides began to become restless,

"Evil Uchiha, have the guts to let me go and see if I don't beat you into meat paste..."

The irritable type.

"Ouch, this guy has delicate skin and tender flesh; I really want to press him under me..."

The perverted type.

"Kill me quickly, kill me quickly!!!"

The mentally broken type.

For a time, the prison was like a frying pan, with all kinds of sounds one after another. But on Uchiha Gin's side, it wasn't just the cursing of these people.

"Host's combat detected; Heartsteel chest accumulation initiated."

"Host's combat detected..."

"Host's combat detected..."

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The Heartsteel prompt sound hadn't stopped since he entered this prison, repeating in his mind like an infinite loop.

Everyone here was full of desire to fight him, this Uchiha. Wouldn't this be a lush field of leeks?

Temporarily suppressing the surprise in his heart, he followed the clansman to the innermost cell, where a middle-aged man with his hands and feet tied tightly was imprisoned, his body as thin as a stick.

The tied hands and feet were bent at irregular angles, with gray hair and two classic red Kaguya clan eyebrows dotted above his brows.

"He is Kaguya Zhangzhu. Lord Gin, be careful. Although his chakra is sealed, we cannot suppress his taijutsu, so we can only keep him hungry and break his hands and feet."

The clansman on the side explained.

"It's fine. Open the door; I'll go in and ask him."

Hearing that the other party not only had his chakra sealed but also his hands and feet broken, Uchiha Gin immediately put his heart in his stomach and urged the clansman to open the door.

"Yes."

Although it was stipulated that the cell door could not be opened, the other party was Uchiha Gin. Knowing that his arm couldn't twist the thigh, he obediently opened the cell door.

"Your name is?"

"Little one is Uchiha Lu Cha."

The clansman named Uchiha Lu Cha hurriedly introduced himself.

"Okay, Uchiha Lu Cha, you go outside first. I'll interrogate this prisoner alone."

"But..."

Uchiha Lu Cha hesitated. The risk of this kind of thing was too great. If something happened to Uchiha Gin, his head would definitely not be saved.

"Rest assured, the guy inside has difficulty moving. I'll just ask a few questions from the door far away."

Uchiha Gin comforted him.

"All right, then Lord Gin, be careful. If the other party has any unusual movements, please call out immediately."

Uchiha Lu Cha left tactfully.

Uchiha Gin entered Kaguya Zhangzhu's cell. The middle-aged man sitting on the straw mat opposite heard movement and slowly raised his head. His turbid eyes had no vitality, like a puppet.

"Kaguya Zhangzhu?"

Frowning at the Kaguya clansman who was as dull as a wooden chicken opposite, Uchiha Gin tried to ask.

"..."

The other party seemed to turn a deaf ear to his question.

"According to the file records, you were captured because you murdered Uchiha clansmen on a mission six years ago."

Flipping through the scroll in his hand, Uchiha Gin continued.

"Then, do you know about the incident six years ago when your Kaguya clan raided our Uchiha clan's grounds?"

Finding that the other party seemed to be autistic, Uchiha Gin, who wouldn't give up, asked his question.

"Ah? Hehehe ah ah ah ah!"

As if triggering some keyword, Kaguya Zhangzhu's soulless expression suddenly became strange upon hearing this sentence. First, he gave a few weird laughs, and then he seemed to be terrified as if he had seen a ghost.

A trace of clarity flashed in his dull eyes. Looking at Uchiha Gin standing in the distance, he slowly raised his bound hands.

The next moment, the system's prompt sound rang in Uchiha Gin's mind again.

"Host's combat detected; Heartsteel chest accumulation initiated."

Without a second's hesitation, Uchiha Gin immediately took a step back. At the same time, tiny bone spurs shot out from Kaguya Zhangzhu's fingertips, all nailing into the position where Uchiha Gin had just stood.

"Actually hiding a Kekkei Genkai."

Uchiha Gin, who had escaped a disaster, looked at the bone spurs deeply nailed into the bricks and stones in front of him, and said with lingering fear.

Kaguya Zhangzhu's data didn't say he possessed Kekkei Genkai ability; it was probably a trump card hidden after being captured.

Strangely, why had he hidden it for so long, only to easily expose it to an ordinary Uchiha like me whom he was meeting for the first time?

Seeing that the first strike failed, Kaguya Zhangzhu pointed his hands at Uchiha Gin again, repeating the same trick.

But this time it wasn't so easy. As Uchiha Gin exerted force under his feet, his fist, wrapped in the Strength of a Hundred, smashed straight toward Kaguya Zhangzhu, who was still brewing the next wave of bone spurs.

【Shikotsumyaku: Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets】

Facing another wave of bone spurs shooting toward him, Uchiha Gin didn't choose to dodge, but instead gathered more chakra on his fist.

With a muffled sound, Kaguya Zhangzhu's bone spurs were all knocked down by his iron fist, and this punch also hit the other's chest without suspense.

Kaguya Zhangzhu's chest, already thin and withered from torture, was dented by this punch, and Uchiha Gin's fist was stuck on the other's bones.

Just as Uchiha Gin was puzzled that his move had hit so easily, Kaguya Zhangzhu, whose face revealed bloodthirsty madness, raised his head, looked at him with a weird smile, and a hoarse voice came from his blood-spitting mouth,

"Caught you."

【Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Larch】

Uchiha Gin, stuck by the broken bones in his chest, had his face change drastically. He discovered that a huge, white bone flower had bloomed in the dented chest, and countless frantically growing ribs were stabbing toward his face.

(End of chapter)