Lin Yu did not think Nightless Sky Yong Shang was lying to him.
He simply felt that the situation here was indeed different from what Nightless Sky Yong Shang had described.
There was no battle taking place here—the entire area of the "Authority Taboo," the section making up one-third of the Middle Ring, was quiet. Without the "Partition Wall," it was no different from that small area where the elves were imprisoned.
One had to know that the area where the elves were kept had only become so quiet because just one elf was active outside.
Of course, the silence at this moment could also be explained.
After all, Nightless Sky Yong Shang had mentioned that one had to remain absolutely concealed while moving through the Middle Ring, and that one had to remain quiet at night as well.
But...
Even if there was no battle, how did those people overcome the "punishments"?
There were no screams, wails, sounds of vomiting, peals of laughter, or anything of the sort...
So Lin Yu could not help asking the question in his heart. "Even if no one is fighting, there should still be people undergoing 'punishment,' right...? Could they really endure punishments tailored specifically for them?"
"Or... is no one being punished right now, with all the punishments taking place during the day?"
Facing Lin Yu's question, Nightless Sky Yong Shang shook his head.
"No, they don't happen during the day. Everyone's punishments occur randomly..."
"It's just that most of the prisoners in the Middle Ring really can endure those punishments, as you said. Saying that they can endure them isn't quite accurate. It's that everyone can do it. They can force themselves to face the physical or soul-deep pain that was originally impossible to overcome without making any instinctive sounds."
"Perhaps