Chapter 3610: Trap

On the third level of the asylum's underground prison, the gravity crystal layer fell, sealing the cell. Inside, Deceiver · Pisiwo looked confused, still not understanding what had happened until now.

After several guards adjusted the equipment in the cell, they started the one-way ventilation valve, which also meant that Deceiver · Pisiwo's asylum life officially began.

Along with Deceiver · Pisiwo, Banshee was also sent to the third level of the underground prison. Having completed the transaction, she was clearly in a good mood. Having been in this cell for nearly ten years without being able to go out, being able to move freely in the courtyard on the surface for two hours every week now was a great improvement. Moreover, this was more convenient for her prison break plan.

That's right, whether it was Banshee, Lion King, Angry Shark, or Mind Master, they had never given up the idea of escaping from their hearts. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to bear the infinite loneliness in the cell. As for Hatred, this guy was special; he didn't seem to want to go out, but rather felt quite comfortable staying here.

Hatred was sentenced to more than 1 million years in prison, which was actually not very likely to be implemented. The probability of the Alliance existing for more than 1 million years was too low. It was likely that when the Alliance perished, new forces would still lock Hatred up, and it would continue like this.

It was highly likely that the replacement of forces would be like flowing water, and the only thing that wouldn't change was Hatred always being in prison. It made sense; as long as it wasn't a cult-type force, they would lock up this guy who had destructive tendencies and powerful strength.

After confirming there were no omissions, several guards walked out. The armed personnel of the entire asylum were composed of three parts: guards, caregivers, and watchmen.

The guards were responsible for the main entrance and the surrounding walls, sentry posts, etc. Their individual strength wasn't very strong, but they were good at collective combat and had rich experience in dealing with attacks from other organizations. Don't think that the asylum was a peaceful place. The Dark God Sect had attacked here many times, which was why the Iron-blood heavy artillery on the courtyard sentry posts was installed.

Compared to the guards' expertise in collective combat, the caregivers were all experts in single combat. They were usually responsible for taking care of those patients with supernatural mental illnesses and going out to escort criminals, escorting them from all over the Alliance to the asylum.

Finally, there were the watchmen, whose workplace was on the first to third levels of the underground prison. After the criminals were escorted here, they were handed over to them for custody.

After the watchmen left, Deceiver · Pisiwo in the cell was still in a state of soul-searching. He sat on the not-so-soft bed, staring blankly at the gravity crystal layer that was tens of centimeters thick.

Deceiver · Pisiwo didn't know what being locked in the Twilight Asylum represented, so much so that he hadn't heard of this asylum before. This was normal. Those who knew the special nature of this asylum were either people from the underground forces or high-level officials of the Alliance. Like Deceiver · Pisiwo, a swindler, he couldn't come into contact with this aspect.

"New guy, good physique. When I was transferred from the monastery, I lay on the bed for half a year before I could walk slowly."

The neighbor Angry Shark spoke. Between the two was a half-meter-thick gravity crystal layer, which could serve the purpose of mutual monitoring, and letting the criminals here monitor the Abyss-spawn was the same principle.

"What?"

Deceiver · Pisiwo didn't understand what Angry Shark said. He was escorted here directly from the Suto City Tribunal and hadn't heard of any monastery. And in his view, what era was it now, and there was actually a monastery?

"You didn't go to the monastery?"

Angry Shark looked at Deceiver · Pisiwo in confusion. The conversation between the two attracted the attention of Lion King, Banshee, and Mind Master. As for Hatred, he was still hanging upside down there.

"No, what monastery?"

"This......"

Angry Shark and Lion King looked at each other and discovered the unusual nature of this matter. Seeing that the two stopped talking, Deceiver · Pisiwo, who was already full of panic, became even more panicked. He asked for no reason:

"What crimes did you commit? I...... I am a swindler."

At this point, Deceiver · Pisiwo sighed. He originally wanted to make himself sound fierce, but seeing his messy hair and listless spirit in the mirror, he simply laid out his background.

"Swi...... ndler?"

Lion King was shocked. He looked up and down at Deceiver · Pisiwo, secretly feeling that this brother was a ghost talent. He must have swindled hundreds of billions of Gulang to be locked in the third level of the asylum's underground prison. Having nothing to do, Lion King asked:

"How much did you swindle?"

"After the Tribunal's statistics, a total of more than 70 million Gulang."

"Hmm?!"

Angry Shark cast a gaze, looking up and down at Deceiver · Pisiwo, as if seeing a rare animal.

Seeing the gazes of Lion King, Angry Shark, Banshee, and Mind Master, Deceiver · Pisiwo suddenly wasn't so panicked anymore. He observed the expressions of several people after hearing that he swindled 70 million Gulang. They seemed to be stunned by him? This made him think, was this place not as terrifying as he imagined? Were several cellmates just light criminals?

After confirming these, Deceiver · Pisiwo felt more composed in his heart and actually had the leisure to chat with his cellmates. He looked at Lion King and found that this guy was tall and strong, nearly five meters tall. He didn't know how this silly big guy got in.

"Several, what did you do?"

While speaking, Deceiver · Pisiwo had already crossed his legs.

"Me? Illegal gathering."

Lion King laughed while speaking. His so-called illegal gathering was forming the Ghost Gang, which had tens of thousands of members at its peak.

Deceiver · Pisiwo laughed: "Illegal gathering? Sounds good, just a thug who formed a gang?"

"Cough~, can also be understood this way."

Lion King's smile was even wider. He was almost driven crazy by being locked here, so he didn't feel half angry at Deceiver · Pisiwo's attitude.

"What gang did you form?"

"Ghost Gang, all things of the past. The gang I painstakingly managed for more than ten years was uprooted by the Hunters in a few days."

Hearing Lion King mention the Ghost Gang, the smile on Deceiver · Pisiwo's face faded, and his sitting posture became upright. The more he looked at Lion King, the more familiar he felt. Finally, this face in his retina overlapped with the newspaper headline photo from a few years ago.

Deceiver · Pisiwo realized the seriousness of the matter again. He looked at Angry Shark and asked: "Then what did you do?"

"Me? I'm a pirate."

"Pirate......"

Deceiver · Pisiwo was even more panicked in his heart. In his view, pirates were all desperate people, and this shark face looked more and more like the Pirate King · Angry Shark among the Four Sea Kings. He had seen the other party's wanted order.

"Lady, what about you?"

Deceiver · Pisiwo still held a few chances of luck.

"I disguised myself as a high-ranking councilor and achieved some of my own wishes."

Hearing this, Deceiver · Pisiwo's head buzzed. His gaze turned to the Mind Master, and he began to recall carefully.

With a "thud," Deceiver · Pisiwo slid from the edge of the bed and fell to the ground. He finally knew why he felt familiar after seeing the Mind Master's face just now. When he was young, he had seen the wanted order for the cult leader Mind Master posted all over the city.

Ghost Gang boss, Pirate King, impersonating a high-ranking councilor, cult leader. Now Deceiver · Pisiwo knew what crimes his four cellmates had committed, and at the same time, a question arose in his heart: compared to these human demons, why was he, a swindler, locked up with these people?

"No...... it's not, it must be a mistake somewhere. I am wronged. I shouldn't be locked in here!"

Deceiver · Pisiwo patted the gravity crystal layer, trying to call the watchmen over.

"Mr. Pisiwo, you are just receiving mental treatment. This is not a prison."

Banshee spoke.

"My spirit is fine!"

Deceiver · Pisiwo had already begun to be hysterical.

"No, those documents were all signed by you personally, Mr. Pisiwo."

While Banshee was speaking, her appearance changed rapidly, and finally turned into Fern the lawyer. Seeing this, Deceiver · Pisiwo retreated in shock and finally fell to the ground by accident.

The projection on the wall was frozen because Su Xiao pressed the pause button, maintaining the image of Deceiver · Pisiwo falling to the ground, full of horror.

In the office, Bahar saw the embarrassed appearance of Deceiver · Pisiwo in the picture and couldn't help but ask: "Boss, is this guy really the Deceiver? Is he the one who betrayed the Law-Breaker faction?"

"Correct."

Su Xiao wasn't surprised by Deceiver · Pisiwo's embarrassed appearance. The other party hadn't awakened past life memories yet and was in the panic and trepidation as a swindler.

What Su Xiao had to do now was to let Deceiver · Pisiwo awaken past life memories. The other party was on the third level of the asylum's underground prison. Not to mention that he was the weakest among the six traitors, even the undying trait Abyss-spawn couldn't escape from here and was finally eliminated by Su Xiao.

However, there was one point: after Deceiver · Pisiwo recovered his past life memories, he had to control the other party immediately. Otherwise, once the other party committed suicide, it would be equivalent to escaping. At that time, trying to find where Deceiver · Pisiwo reincarnated would be extremely difficult.

Su Xiao continued to

Su Xiao continued to engrave on the contract parchment on the table. What he was creating was a spiritual confinement technique. He was quite professional in this regard; this really wasn't because he was eager to learn, but because he was forced to be.

The root system of the Overgrowth Frenzy, Ancient Masks, Bloodthirsty Battle Armor, the essence spirits of various evil gods, the physical tissues of various bizarre existences, Ancient God soul blood, Source Blood, and even dangerous objects—all these things were stored in Su Xiao's storage space. If they weren't sealed properly, who knew what might happen. Over time, this had honed Su Xiao's increasingly refined techniques for confinement.

Especially after beginning to come into contact with "Daddy-tier" artifacts, his techniques and knowledge in this area were forced to rise by a major level. It wasn't that he wanted to master them, but that he truly couldn't function without doing so. Much of his experience was gained through failure and the price paid.

Some seemingly miraculous abilities, once one reaches a high tier and understands the principles behind them, are not difficult to crack. For example, the reincarnation ability; if this ability were completely impossible to crack, the Void Spirit Race that originally possessed it would not have perished.

Su Xiao took out a Soul Crystal Core. Using a whole one felt a bit wasteful; the technique on this parchment only needed the pure soul energy of about three-quarters of a Soul Crystal Core. After thinking for a moment, he bit down on the Soul Crystal Core in his hand with a 'crack'.

It could only be said that it was worthy of being a Soul Crystal Core with higher quality soul energy; the taste was incomparable to Soul Crystals. After Su Xiao took another bite and felt the amount was about right, he crushed the Soul Crystal Core in his hand with a 'click'. The Soul Crystal Core, now turned into fragments, was absorbed by the contract parchment on the table.

Recently, Su Xiao discovered that the contract parchment was simply a major hidden benefit provided by Reincarnation Paradise to Hunters and Qiyuezhe. This item had strong carrying capacity, high material tier, and was not very expensive. Using it to carry contracts was only a part of its function; it was also an excellent medium for carrying techniques, small-scale formations, and the like.

As it absorbed the soul energy, the triangular technique on the parchment emitted a faint light. When black-blue smoke drifted from it, Su Xiao solidified it.

The principle of this technique was very simple: since the Reincarnator achieved reincarnation through the escape of their soul body, one only needed to trap the Reincarnator's soul within their physical body, so that even if the opponent died, their soul body could not escape.

Rolling up the parchment on the table, Su Xiao took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha, and headed straight for the third floor of the dungeon.

A moment later, the gravity alloy door ahead opened. Su Xiao followed the stairs downward, walked into the third floor of the dungeon, and pressed one hand against the sensor device on the wall beside him.

After multiple checks including life wavelength, aura attribute, and soul fluctuations, the highest clearance for the third floor of the dungeon was activated. As Su Xiao adjusted it, the gravity crystal walls of all the cells turned from transparent to pitch black, and the sound sensor devices were also turned off.

Su Xiao stopped in front of the cell where the Deceiver, Pisiwo, was located. After opening the door, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha followed him in. Baha, who entered last, slammed the gravity crystal layer shut, turning the place into a sealed room.

The Deceiver, Pisiwo, stood up from the bed. Looking left and right, he could not hide his panic.

"Sit."

After Su Xiao sat down, he pointed to the chair one meter opposite. The Deceiver, Pisiwo, shook his head. A moment later, with Amu's 'help', he was pressed down onto the seat.

"Deceiver, you and I actually have no personal grievances, but our factions are hostile."

Su Xiao spoke in a calm tone.

"What..."

Just as the Deceiver, Pisiwo, opened his mouth, Su Xiao used his index and middle fingers to hold a "Thorn of Mercy" and pierced the Deceiver, Pisiwo's throat. The excruciating pain from his soul made the Deceiver, Pisiwo, freeze all over.

Su Xiao took out the contract parchment, unfolded it, and activated it. The technique faced the center of the Deceiver, Pisiwo's chest. A black-blue mark appeared in the very center of the Deceiver, Pisiwo's chest. Until this mark disappeared, the Deceiver, Pisiwo, could not reincarnate.

The Deceiver, Pisiwo, grabbed his own face with both hands and let out a heart-wrenching scream, but the scream lasted only two seconds before coming to an abrupt end. The pupils in his eyes began to split and then reconverge. A burst of soul power erupted with him at the center.

"Holy crap!"

Baha exclaimed, its eagle claws scratching white marks into the floor before it could withstand the impact and not retreat.

"The situation in this life seems not too good, but being able to wake up is better than anything."

The Deceiver moved his neck. After feeling the sharp pain in his neck, he subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to pull it out.

Another "Thorn of Mercy" appeared between Su Xiao's fingers. The next instant, this "Thorn of Mercy" sank into the Deceiver's glabella. His eyes widened to the limit, and his pupils began to struggle, rolling upward.

The Deceiver let out a painful roar. Having just awakened the memories of his past lives, he still thought he could quickly resolve the trouble at hand, only to be taught a lesson on the spot.

"You!"

The Deceiver's pupils turned into the glowing white that represented the soul system. Two "Thorns of Mercy" were repelled from his neck and glabella. He glared at Su Xiao, just about to speak, but felt a faint sense of familiarity.

'It's okay, since you've joined us, you're one of our own. The Arcane Eternal Star won't dare to do anything to you.'

Everything felt like a lifetime ago. The tall figure who once said these words seemed to be standing in front of him, which made the Deceiver fall backward off his chair in shock. He scrambled to the corner of the wall, his back pressed against it, and shouted in shock and anger: "You are all dead, no one is alive! I saw it with my own eyes, I saw you perish with my own eyes! It's impossible, it's impossible!"

The Deceiver waved his hands wildly in front of him, as if Su Xiao were a bubble he had imagined, and could be dispersed just by waving his arms a few times.

"It wasn't me! It wasn't that I wanted to betray you all back then. For the sake of the Spirit Race, I had no choice but to choose that way."

The Deceiver gasped for air. One moment he was crying bitterly, the next he was pointing fingers in anger.

"The Spirit Race perished. It is said that the last few dozen members of the Spirit Race were all drained of their reincarnated mixed blood by the spellcasters."

As soon as Su Xiao said this, the Deceiver, curled up in the corner, became furious and said: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Don't you know about this? That's why you were scared into hiding here."

Su Xiao said this with seventy percent speculation and thirty percent improvisation. In his heart, he had already roughly guessed what was going on.

"Sit there and talk. Think carefully about how you got in, and where this is."

Su Xiao's tone remained calm. Hearing this, the Deceiver narrowed his eyes and began to recall the memories of this life. When he recalled key memories such as financial fraud, lawyers, and the insane asylum, his cheeks twitched. Finally, he asked in disbelief:

"This is... the lowest level of the Dusk Insane Asylum? The asylum dungeon built to imprison Abyss-spawned creatures back then?!"

Recalling this, the Deceiver actually began to laugh somewhat maniacally.

A moment later, the Deceiver sat in the corner with his head hung for a while. He looked up at Su Xiao, then smiled and said: "I know now. You became a Law-Breaker through inheritance, that is, a new generation of Law-Breaker. New Law-Breaker, you look down on me too much. Even if I am a traitor, I still..."

The Deceiver's words stopped halfway because the Su Xiao opposite him had released his full aura. A giant blood beast crouched behind Su Xiao, its two vertical pupils, along with Su Xiao's own eyes—two pairs of eyes, one above the other—all looking coldly at the Deceiver.

"Sit."

Su Xiao pointed to the chair opposite. The Deceiver in the corner twitched his eyes. Having confirmed the look, this was someone he couldn't beat even in his prime, let alone now that he had just awakened the memories of his past lives.

Through the Deceiver's few words just now, Su Xiao had roughly guessed the other party's origin. Previously, he thought the Deceiver had first defected to the Arcane Eternal Star before obtaining the reincarnated mixed blood and becoming a Reincarnator.

Now it seemed that was not the case. The Deceiver was originally of the Spirit Race, and the reincarnation ability was innate to him. After the Spirit Race fell out with the Arcane Eternal Star, they suffered retaliation planned by Serphilia.

Under those circumstances, for the Spirit Race to continue to survive, defecting to the Law-Breakers was the only choice. Although Law-Breakers were few, there were other forces within the Law-Breaker faction, such as the Sintes Dwarves or allies like the Demon Race.

Facing the defection of the Spirit Race, the Law-Breaker faction had no reason to refuse, nor was there any need to refuse a small force that hated the Arcane Eternal Star. Later, when the Law-Breaker faction faced defeat, the Deceiver, representing the Spirit Race, defected again to the Arcane Eternal Star.

At that time, the Arcane Eternal Star seemed to be winning, but in fact, it was all relying on bluffing to maintain the situation. In addition, the Arcane Eternal Star had just destroyed the Sintes Dwarves and needed to show that they would not completely exterminate everyone, so that allies of the Law-Breakers like the Demon Race would not fight them to the death. The defection of the Deceiver, representing the Spirit Race, just happened to achieve this effect, so the Arcane Eternal Star accepted the Spirit Race's defection.

"Hehehehe, you might not believe it if I tell you the truth. For so many years, I have been afraid. Actually, I knew that such a powerful Law-Breaker, how could the inheritance be cut off? Sure enough, the Law-Breaker has come looking for me."

The Deceiver calmed down in a somewhat neurotic way. Come to think of it, he had been living in fear for so many years. Although death was now approaching, he suddenly felt at ease and relaxed. Having reincarnated for so many lives, he had already begun to wander aimlessly. Instead, he often thought of the various worlds that the Law-Breaker, Arcas, had taken him to.

"Do it. Your Law-Breaker's Magic Blade can easily kill me."

The Deceiver looked like he was waiting to welcome death.

"You wish."

As Baha spoke, it landed on Su Xiao's shoulder and continued: "I'll give you two choices. 1. Be sent to the monastery..."

"I choose the second one."

The Deceiver didn't hesitate at all. He knew clearly what kind of hellish place the monastery was.

"Very well. Tell us where the other five traitors are."

"How do you know there are six of us in total?"

The Deceiver looked suspiciously at Su Xiao and Baha.

"Cut the crap. Where are the other traitors? Excluding you, the remaining five traitors—the Informant, the Thief, the Mystic, the Defector, and the Betrayer—where are they?"

After Baha asked this, it was ready to contact the monastery side. But who would have thought that the Deceiver had no intention of holding out at all, but instead confessed everything he knew. Come to think of it, if he had been strong-willed back then, he wouldn't have become a traitor.

First was the Informant, Thorn. According to the Deceiver, the Informant, Thorn, was in a nightmare, but specifically which nightmare region, he did not know.

Regarding this, Su Xiao was not worried. With his sanity value of over 1800 points, even if he entered a nightmare region, he would have an advantage even on the enemy's home turf.

Excluding the Informant, Thorn, the Mystic was located in the Saint Lan Kingdom. The Deceiver didn't know the specifics, only that over there, the Mystic was known as the Black Rose.

What truly made the Deceiver fearful were the Defector and the Betrayer. According to the Deceiver, the Defector was in a vast desert, having become the Sand King of a desert kingdom. That place was at the westernmost edge of this continent's map. Even when the Alliance and the Northern Empire were at war, it didn't reach that far; it was simply too far away.

In terms of overall strength, the Alliance and the Northern Empire were similar. The desert kingdom's military power was stronger than the Saint Lan Kingdom's, but its economic and technological development lagged far behind the Saint Lan Kingdom. As for accomplishments in art and culture, it could not be compared to the Saint Lan Kingdom.

Compared to the Mystic, Black Rose, of the Saint Lan Kingdom, and the Defector, the Sand King, of the desert kingdom, the one the Deceiver feared most was the Betrayer. No one knew his name, and no one knew his origin. Currently, the Deceiver didn't know the other party's location either. In the Deceiver's own words, he was too busy hiding from the other party to dare to go and investigate.

Why was the Deceiver so afraid of the Betrayer? It was because the Thief had died at the hands of the Betrayer.

"You mean, the Thief is dead?"

Su Xiao took out the Hunter's List. The three characters for "Thief" on it had not disappeared. In this way, as long as he found the soul remnants of the Thief, he could obtain the corresponding 500 ounces of Space-Time Power on the Hunter's List. And the fact that the Thief's name hadn't disappeared perhaps meant that the Thief's soul remnants were still there, just that he didn't know exactly where.

"I've said everything I know. Give me a quick death."

"Not for now."

Su Xiao spoke. Hearing this, the Deceiver felt anger. He had already reincarnated to the point of aimlessness, and now he only sought a quick death, yet he was refused.

"My Blade's Magic Spirit is currently digesting the origin power of an Abyss-spawned creature, so I can't kill you for the time being."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, the Deceiver was very puzzled. He asked: "You tell me this, aren't you afraid that I..."

"Don't overestimate yourself. Your bounty is 200 ounces of Space-Time Power, only half of the Informant's bounty, one-third of the Mystic's, one-fourth of the Defector's, and not even one-seventh of the Betrayer's."

"Don't say any more."

The Deceiver interrupted.

"Get some rest. In a few days, I'll come back to kill you."

Leaving these words behind, Su Xiao walked out of the dungeon. After exiting the third floor of the dungeon, he headed straight for the central elevator.

A few minutes later, Su Xiao returned to his office on the third floor. Sitting behind his desk, he began to think about his next strategy. First, the number of traitors to deal with had been reduced from six to five. Currently, he had basically handled the Deceiver; the remaining ones were the Informant, the Mystic, the Defector, and the Betrayer.

The Informant was in a nightmare region. In this regard, among the Four God Religions, the Dark God Religion was more professional. There were many members of the Dark God Religion on the second floor of the dungeon, and they were all key members. When the time came, he could find one and have them search for traces of the nightmare region in this world.

As for the Mystic, that is, the Black Rose, this person was in the Saint Lan Kingdom. This would require a long journey. He needed to handle the situation around him first before arranging things over there.

As for the Defector, he would have to head to the desert kingdom. After hunting down the Black Rose, he would then go to hunt down this Sand King.

As for the final Betrayer, this person's traces were the hardest to find and could only be shelved for now. There was no doubt that among this group of traitors, the Betrayer was the strongest.

His train of thought became increasingly clear. Su Xiao looked at the wooden box on the table. This was delivered to the insane asylum ten minutes ago. After the person delivered this item, they turned into black bees and flew away.

Su Xiao opened the wooden box and found an arm inside. Picking up the photo next to the arm, the kidnapped family of the old Dean was all in it.

One didn't need to think to know that this was done by the Vice Dean, Yesinger. This was a provocation against Su Xiao and a trap to make him lose his position as Dean. Originally, Su Xiao wanted to deal with the Informant in the nightmare region first, but now it seemed he had to arrange for the Vice Dean, Yesinger, first.

Su Xiao took the "Sun Ring" out of his storage space. He said to Baha: "Baha, contact the people from the Sun God Religion."

Su Xiao looked at the "Sun Ring" floating in front of him, repeatedly warning himself in his heart that when cooperating with the Sun God Religion, he must hold back. The current situation was that he hadn't even met those bishops of the Sun God Religion; he had only let Baha send the 【Sun Holy Medicine】. His faction favorability over there had already reached Friendly: 7260/8500 points. This posture was very wrong.

PS: (Tomorrow is Sunday, I'll take a day off. One day off a week, otherwise, with Feiwen's current body, I won't be able to hold up.)