Proxy Hand and Fire Giver

Cheng Shi walked quickly, and soon the two of them bypassed a large area of shacks with Cencha buildings and women standing in front of the doors, and arrived near a huge, simple mud house. He glanced at the so-called prison cell with its door wide open, roof damaged, and one wall even half collapsed, and was speechless.

If this can be considered a prison, then the prisoners inside must be of very high quality, otherwise why wouldn't they run away?

Seeing this, the Blind Man smiled and said:

"The various forces involved in the Door of Falling are mostly vying for resources in the connection between the underground Surface. Therefore, unless necessary, they generally do not waste resources to support 'idle people'."

Most of the prisoners here are sent to do hard labor in the mines, and only those who affect the mining efficiency but are still useful are temporarily detained in certain prisons.

Those who are imprisoned will not leave easily in order to survive. They will always try to make a living in this place. As long as they can endure until their sentence is over, they will be able to go back to do the work they are supposed to do.

So we are lucky today; apparently, there are a few lucky people locked up in this... prison.

Cheng Shi knew, of course, that there were several older brothers locked up inside, but his expression still became somewhat strange after hearing this.

He felt the Blind Man was mocking him, but the problem was that what the man said wasn't wrong, only the tone was a little off. So he stopped and didn't rush inside. Instead, he turned back to look at the Blind Man, asking curiously:

"You know so much about this place, all from that person from the History School?"

The Blind Man was taken aback, then smiled and nodded, "Yes, Xin Xin has managed the History School very well."

"..."

Listen to this: a Deception Believer has run an organization that digs up Memory of the Isle of Hope very well.

So it seems I'm not the only blasphemer in this game!

There were no guards outside the earthen prison, but there were indeed several "prisoners" inside. When Cheng Shi cautiously pushed open the door and went in, the first thing he saw was seven or eight burly men lying on the ground, completely drunk.

The ground was a mess, with wine barrels and food scraps scattered everywhere. The stench of fish and alcohol hit the air, making Cheng Shi shiver.

Dude, how can an open-air house smell this bad? Are you guys drinking alcohol or urine?

Helplessly, he covered his mouth and nose and looked around. After scanning the huge mud house twice, he found that apart from the few drunk and unconscious men in front of him, there was no one else in the prison.

At this moment, the Blind Man also came in. Seeing the chaotic scene, she frowned, Cheng Shi, covered her nose, and said in a muffled voice:

"It's time for the Fate Weaver. Let's bestow upon them a Mind-Awakening Spell, Cheng Shi."

?

Cheng Shi's lips twitched slightly, thinking to himself, what does the matter of the Fate Weaver have to do with my Today's Warrior?

I came in wearing a warrior's vest; I don't have any Priest skills right now.

However, if you're just using it to refresh yourself, you don't necessarily need magic; physical methods are just as effective.

So Cheng Shi smiled, and a Scalpel flew out of his sleeve, piercing the thigh of the drunken man closest to him with a "whoosh".

The big man cried out in pain and suddenly woke up. Before he could even get up, he clutched his thigh and howled in agony. He kept rolling around, pressing the mess beneath him like a grinding wheel. Before long, an even stronger stench spread out again.

Cheng Shi's expression changed slightly, and he immediately took a step back away from the scene. The Blind Man stared in disbelief at Cheng Shi's actions, unable to recover for a long time.

"You..."

"Huh? That's strange. You can't see it, but you can't smell it either? Don't you think it stinks?"

"..."

For a moment, the Blind Man was in a daze. If it weren't for the fact that her "vision" was different from that of ordinary people and that she could clearly see that the person in front of her was Cheng Shi, she would have thought that this teammate was a twin brother of some Chosen of God surnamed Chen.

"What you're doing will only reduce our efficiency in gathering information, Cheng Shi."

The Blind Man sighed helplessly, took out a small bottle of potion from his spatial storage, and threw it at the rolling giant. The potion exploded on the giant's body, instantly healing his injuries and bringing him back to his senses.

He stopped wailing, stared with bewildered eyes at the woman wrapped in black cloth in front of him, then at the man in the distance with a playful expression, and blinked in confusion.

"Who are you...?"

"Just a passerby. I saw you were stabbed and came in to save your life," Cheng Shi replied shamelessly. "No need to thank me. It's what I should do as Fire Giver."

"?" The burly man, whose Memory was in disarray, was even more confused. What was the Fire Giver?

He scratched his head, frowned, and asked in confusion, "What are you doing here?"

The Blind Man looked rather helpless. Just as she was about to ask a serious question, Cheng Shi interrupted her, saying, "We're freelance writers, here to find some news material. Has anything strange happened in town lately?"

Upon hearing this, the burly man paused for a few seconds, seemingly remembering his identity and what had just happened. His face suddenly darkened, and he abruptly sat up, looking at Cheng Shi and the Blind Man with unfriendly eyes, and said with annoyance:

"What are you? Did you come here to laugh at us?"

Go away and play somewhere else. Being locked up here is stifling enough; I don't have time to waste with you guys...

Before he could finish speaking, a gleaming Scalpel swished past his trousers and stuck into the ground between his legs.

The burly man shuddered violently and immediately changed his tune, saying, "The thing I have plenty of is time. What do you want to know?"

Cheng Shi and the Blind Man were amused by the big man's opportunistic nature. Cheng Shi chuckled and stepped forward again, taking out a Scalpel and twirling it between his fingers.

"I told you, tell me what interesting things have happened in town lately. If you do well, you might still be saved. If not... even my throwing knives aren't always accurate."

The big man's face hardened, and he immediately began to talk non-stop, from family matters to mining scandals, from power struggles to the arrival of outsiders. He told almost everything he could, and after he finished, he was covered in cold sweat as if he had been pulled out of the water, and he almost collapsed from exhaustion.

Cheng Shi and the Blind Man man listened intently for a long time, their brows furrowing more and more as the conversation progressed. The man talked a lot, but it was really not informative. It was all just trivial matters, neither interesting nor useful.

Cheng Shi curled his lip in annoyance at the end, silenced the other person's murmurs with his Scalpel, and then asked directly:

"How did you get in here? What crime did you commit?"

Da Hanyu paused for a moment, then said awkwardly, "The woman who slept in the shack had no money to pay, so Arad locked her up."

"?"

Cheng Shi frowned. He could tell what the woman in the shack represented from the tone of the other person's voice. He immediately thought of the shack area he had just bypassed. So that was what kind of place it was.

The Blind Man frowned as well. "Who is Arad?"

"The mining team leader, the Proxy Hand, is in the upper echelons of the Door of Falling," the burly man said tremblingly.

Cheng Shi was still wondering what the Proxy Hand was when the Blind Man beside him began to explain.

"An organization that plunders resources underground for Surface powers. They have cooperated with the Tower of Reason for a long time and monopolized some scarce underground resources."

Therefore, this Trials is taking place in the middle of the Civilization Era, a period when the Proxy Hand was active.

Cheng Shi nodded in sudden realization, then looked at the big man curiously and asked, "Your discipline is quite good. Is the shack also an asset of the Proxy Hand?"

"No..."

"?" Cheng Shi was taken aback. "No? You took advantage of someone else's property for free, and ended up being locked up by your own people? Well, your Proxy Hand is quite law-abiding, huh?"

The burly man shrank back sheepishly and said awkwardly:

"No, it's not that... Although it's someone else's property, the woman I slept with is Arad's sister. I didn't have money to give her, so she caused trouble at the mine, and as a result, Arad locked me up."

"???"