[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-cell-prison":3,"chapter-my-cell-prison-my-cell-prison-chapter-2048":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Cell Prison",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1208454,1562,"Chapter 2042 - 2039: Obsession","my-cell-prison-chapter-2048",2048,"\u003Cp>The special squad has been established,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abe is ready to let loose, using his beast sensing and true dragon vision to scour the Holy City for intruders who have undergone ’craniotomy’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Abe was about to step out of the alley,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Dong suddenly lowered his voice, speaking in a tone unique to demons:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Captain Abe, you just said you’re ready to sacrifice for the Holy City, correct?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s right...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In that case, directly execute the ’Mythical Skull Woman’ you just sealed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abe took out the spherical object wrapped in dragon scales from his waist and said righteously:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I plan to hand over this mythical skull to the Knight Headquarters,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to have the Secret Language Knight Order, or the Mechanical God Sect, analyze it effectively and quickly find a way to identify and deal with Skull Girls efficiently.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Han Dong shook his fingers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need, apart from your Behemoth Knight Group, many other knight orders in the city are already focusing on the issue of ’Skull Girls’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lot of them will naturally choose to hand over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since you’ve already prepared to sacrifice, why not do something more practical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also mentioned just now... In our pair, you would be responsible for killing Skull Girls throughout the mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the skulls having internal connections, your kills will draw the attention of a King-level entity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once you kill enough, the ’big head’ behind will emerge... Although a Captain of your level can’t deal with it, if you can pass on valuable information before your death, it would mean a lot to the Holy City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, if an entity lurking in the shadows can’t be found, it might overturn the battle at a critical moment, even drowning the final ray of light.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abe pondered on this suggestion,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>his gaze suddenly turned fierce,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with a beast blade sliced down, swoosh! The head he had just sealed was removed and directly chopped to bits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood mist scattered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What is this...curse?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Dong’s real demon eye caught a kind of colorless, shapeless conceptual substance flowing out from the deceased Skull Woman, attaching itself to Abe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abe also felt a chilling sensation from an ice cellar, a feeling originating from a nook in the Holy City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This perception did not frighten Abe; instead, it made him more resolute about Han Dong’s suggestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Captain Abe, can you remove your armor and shirt?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Blood Prison Curse just sensed a curse homology, some secret curse artifices seem to attach to your body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There might be a direct display on your skin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright then...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some reason, Abe had an inexplicable sense of a fondness and trust toward this new companion,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once his shirt was fully removed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavy dragon scale silver armor fell to the ground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abe’s body exuded a strong masculine aura,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost perfect muscle distribution, yet marred by various types of scars,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Underneath the skin, neatly arranged dragon scales were hidden,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one stared at Abe’s abs, they could faintly make out a fully formed beast, white-haired, ten-eyed, hundred-tailed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Dong’s attention fell on the back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A marking \"curse mark\" had been branded on Abe’s body surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A spine-chilling \"human head mark\" emerged between his spine, just fitting a segment of vertebrae.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Han Dong estimated,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the heads cover the entire spine,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or when a formation or drawing constructs on the back, it signifies a \"complete mark\", the mid-level entity lurking in the Holy City will reveal itself, leading to its extermination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The number of heads? Just as I suspected, killing a certain number will draw out the big one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looks like we need to hurry... catch up before the other captains and vice-captains, and gather enough heads on Captain Abe.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t any hesitation on Abe’s face,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he nodded before putting on the armor again, then voiced a request of his own:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>before we officially hunt the skulls, I need Han Dong sir to help with something small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have two peer companions who may need help... I acted alone this time to meet up with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are both women and quite special, likely to be targeted by Skull Girls.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t mind, Captain Abe, you arrange it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Follow me...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the captain, Abe could connect mentally to the information network laid by the Holy Ring, obtaining basic situational info around the Holy City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One piece of info showed that at the medicine market in Samay Civilian Area there were suspected mythical skulls, having caused the deaths of numerous knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There seems to be one elite knight of the Doomsday Knight Brigade still restraining it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two rushed to the location as fast as possible,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Matching the information given,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black market hidden between densely packed buildings was already a river of blood,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside piled up the massacred civilians’ corpses, and over twenty knights who had come to assist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Notably, the female corpses’ heads were all missing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the market was filled with highly flexible poisonous spider silk, capable of forming formations. Once touched, it would curse and imprison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These silk strands only serve to delay, with most already cut,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A special Skull Woman—more accurately, a mass of Skull Women—was moving in the market... completely different from before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Mythical Skull Woman became the center,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any female she killed quickly undergoes \"transformation\", detached heads stick face-to-face, forming a collective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, it formed a mass grouping of hundreds of heads,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below, hung only a normal-sized female body,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The proportion between head and body, roughly 50:1, quite contrary... Floating in the market, a deeply uncanny scene, she was searching for the final target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In one corner of the market,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman with a half mask and eight spider legs growing from her back was curled in the corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not that she didn’t want to flee,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But escaping wasn’t possible,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body had already been hit multiple times, covered with tongue-shaped pierce wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These corporeal wounds were just superficial, truly threatening her was the ’out of control effect’ these wounds carried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many drained potion vials rolled on the ground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By continuously consuming special potions, she suppressed the ’skull effect’ within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously using a sewing-like method,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spider silk continually pierced neck’s skin, multi-layer stitching was applied, using such crude physical means to prevent head separation...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, any movement or action leads to accelerating loss of control response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Squeak~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the door and windows were simultaneously opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heads of women staring with copper bell-like eyes glared at the woman in the deepest corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From their mouths extended highly penetrating tongues carrying out-of-control effects,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Found~you~!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as words fell, countless tongues shot out,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman long prepared for sacrifice, though her gaze carried slight regret... Perhaps an important heart knot hadn’t been resolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Nicholas~ currently you must be confronting higher-level out-of-control ones with the Old Kings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it’s a pity we can’t meet again...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon closing her eyes, she recalled the familiar silhouette once standing before her,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blood splattered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liquids and supple tongues collided against her skin,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening eyes to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An unknown youth she had never seen landed before her,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood wall he controlled, just cut off all incoming tongues,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A white-haired youth, wielding a beast blade, had slashed into the Skull Woman’s body, tearing apart many heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agonizing screams echoed in the black market alleys,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her attention wasn’t on Abe but was focused on this unknown youth’s back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Possibly an emotional surge right before death,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unintentional she called out:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nicholas...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This call,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled the youth in shock, quickly checking himself for signs of being kicked out of the game.\u003C\u002Fp>",1267,"2026-06-03T14:09:28.297Z",1,"novelbin.me","4b1bf1718fc4c75e20fa51615b7ca0d74c74ce1580565f8122b997314062553d","my-cell-prison-chapter-2049","my-cell-prison-chapter-2047",2176,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-cell-prison-cover.jpg"]