Although Hao Ren did not know whether Lockmadon truly possessed logic that humans could understand, or whether it really had runaway emotions such as fear and regret that could be clearly described, there was one thing he could be certain of: it had definitely been caught completely off guard by what was happening before it.
This indestructible prison, this prison that had been continuously corroded and weakened for ten thousand years yet had never collapsed, had actually been breached so easily, with the opening even leading directly to the outer universe.
The moment the rift was torn open by the oscillations, Lockmadon realized that something was wrong and that a trap was waiting for it. However, the powerful suction generated by the spatial rift, combined with its brief stupefaction, left it no time to correct its mistake. What made that mistake even harder to undo was the incomparably powerful pulling force that surged out after the rift opened—the twenty-two large-scale Gravitational Field generators deployed throughout the universe. These generators were used to capture small celestial bodies moving at high speed through space. Their power could well be imagined!
Even with all its wondrous abilities and illogical power, Lockmadon found it difficult to break free of these engineering devices' restraints for the moment.
If Gorton had opened a passage directly from the start, or if someone had removed the prison barrier of the Forgotten Abyss beforehand, Lockmadon definitely would not have fallen for it. It would have sensed the trap immediately and detected the dangers spread throughout the outside world through its demigod-level intuition. Since that was the case, why not turn the idea around—let Lockmadon open the door itself!
All Gorton and Hao Ren had done was unlock the padlock on the door, leaving it merely ajar.
But Lockmadon was