[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste":3,"chapter-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-248":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Pain Immunity: Worried the Villains Aren’t Twisted Enough",{"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},687832,922,"Chapter 248: Getting Involved and Being Fed","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-248",248,"\u003Cp>\"Do you get it now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Antong had launched her own brand of b******t, and he wasn’t even sure what he was supposed to understand at this point—but might as well let the other person fill in the blanks themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... what should I be understanding...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cutter looked a little lost as he spoke, his eyes empty, like his mind was somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tsk.\" Xie Antong found this kind of troublesome. This guy clearly didn’t know how to fill in the blanks on his own. Judging by his face, she’d have to give him a little push.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So her brain kicked into high gear, quickly cobbling together a line of reasoning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This person, he’s one of us. Do you remember what he said at the end?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was tortured to death in front of everyone, but he still said he was a spirit, that he would appear again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was all to build momentum—for you! When you show up again, you’ll be a living legend!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cutter’s face had already been hidden in his clothes. Ever since Lu Ce started speaking near the end, he had pulled his features inward and concealed them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know, I know. But me...?...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cutter's voice sounded timid and uncertain. He didn’t really dare to think about this kind of thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breaking out of prison was supposed to be a team effort, and those two words sounded like they should involve stealth and secrecy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from the look of things… that guy... seemed to want him to charge in head-on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could he really do that? Was that even normal? He’d never encountered this kind of thing in any game before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time it was Hell Mode. Maybe Hell Mode just worked differently…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, something about it didn’t feel right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His plan, his preparations, had all been hijacked and then made public. Now it felt like he owed something, like he had to follow the other guy’s lead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was that fair?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instinctively, he looked down at the floor in front of him—only for Xie Antong’s next words to land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re counting on you. After observing you for a few days, we believe you’ve got the potential to become the key to this game.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We sacrificed a teammate just to help build you up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We hope you won’t let us down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cutter: ......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know why, but he felt a massive pressure suddenly land on his shoulders. It almost made him buckle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this emotional manipulation or what…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that guy really did seem to be dead...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright then. Looks like your organization’s got quite a few people in this game.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Any follow-up plans?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plans? Of course there weren’t any yet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Xie Antong instinctively believed \"Sin\" couldn’t really die, this kind of thing still needed confirmation and coordination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether he was still alive was a critical variable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait for our message. No rush.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She casually tossed out a stalling tactic, smoothing over everything again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, can you still talk?\" She didn’t expect much, but she still tried to contact “Sin.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her All-Knowing Eye had clearly seen the prison guard dragging the nearly dead “Sin” toward a room she had never been able to probe before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way that door opened was weird. The guard did something to it, then just slammed right into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then—he was gone...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, the All-Knowing Eye couldn’t get in that way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no response from the other side, of course, since the headset had already been stuffed into the backpack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, no one could guarantee their headphones would stay on while getting every bone in their body broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’d have to be superhuman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, Lu Ce was using sheer logic to suppress the effects of the Jealousy Mask, stopping himself from blurting out anything that might provoke the guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, the key was to observe the “feeding.” That might be the prison’s biggest secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he decided to keep playing dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After lying quietly for a few minutes, the prison guard didn’t say a word, just twisted and turned through a maze of hallways and headed to some unknown basement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, without a second thought, he casually tossed the nearly dismembered Lu Ce aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he hit the floor, a green glow flared up. Lu Ce felt his body being lifted again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From all directions, some less-than-one-meter-tall creatures came running over, holding him up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take good care of him. Don’t let him die so easily!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Keep him alive a bit longer. How you do it is up to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came the sound of leather shoes walking away, growing more distant. Lu Ce figured the guard had left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still hasn’t learned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving me alone again—just like yesterday.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, Lu Ce’s body could barely move, but since he wasn’t feeling any pain, he could still try to activate any muscle that was technically usable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bottle of high-grade potion rolled out of his backpack. Lu Ce nudged it up with his chest, flipped it in the air, and bit the cap off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the guard had been waiting for his begging and screaming, his mouth had been left completely unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With just one high-grade potion, his injuries began healing rapidly. Bones fused back together, muscles reconnected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His twisted limbs straightened with a snap and started wriggling and stretching involuntarily, like a puppet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That sensation—of his limbs moving on their own—he’d only experienced once before, during Greed Overload.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it didn’t even feel new.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During all this, the short little creatures kept carrying him forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they progressed, the light grew brighter and brighter, like stepping into an elven forest. Everything was bathed in green light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a strange smell started assaulting his nose. The stench was so overwhelming that even Lu Ce—who’d never felt pain—found himself nauseated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t a rotting smell, but something indescribable. Like every scent in existence had been mixed together and amplified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sensation made Lu Ce want to puke. And that was saying something, given his tolerance. Anyone else might’ve passed out already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dim green light revealed a terrifying sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hanging on the surrounding walls were human-shaped things—no longer recognizable as people, but still vaguely human. Tubes pierced their bodies everywhere. Some of them... were even still alive?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bones had all been crushed. Adult bodies had been forcefully crammed into containers barely holding ten liters!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stretching on as far as the eye could see, these “people” dangled from the walls. Some even had flickers in their eyes—clearly still alive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the tubes were connected to the walls. Who knows what was being pumped in or out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So this... this is the feeding, huh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1114,"2026-06-02T09:03:27.233Z",1,"novelbin.me","b8efe6ea1caed56cfebe9f35515423aee702e1e1b4e60d4660bb316b43aab825","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-249","pain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-chapter-247",867,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpain-immunity-worried-the-villains-aren-t-twiste-cover.jpg"]