Smack! Smack! Smack!
Scarface Bro was like... something, slapping Yu Xiaogang across the face while brainwashing him.
Yu Xiaogang had truly been broken by Scarface Bro's training—his heart collapsing, his body in pain, his head buzzing.
"Jie Ge..."
"Jie Ge isn't coming..."
"Jie Ge... no! That's not it... no!!"
Pain!
Too painful!
Just as Yu Xiaogang was in extreme agony, having been trained by Scarface Bro to the point where he was about to completely forget Jie Ge, a loud bang suddenly rang out from outside.
In the corridor outside the cell, two Prison Guards were knocked unconscious and sprawled crookedly on the floor.
"Xiao Gang!"
A familiar, soul-stirring voice reached Yu Xiaogang's ears. His entire mind jolted, and he felt as though he were hallucinating.
Yu Xiaogang abruptly turned his head and saw a man in Spirit Hall guard armor walking toward him through the dim corridor of the Heavenly Prison.
No!
Yu Xiaogang violently shook his head. Impossible... Jie Ge had already forgotten him. Jie Ge would not come back, and Jie Ge would not come to save him.
Crack~
Only when the man reached the cell door and severed its chain with a single slash did Yu Xiaogang come back to his senses and stare straight at him.
Jie Ge drew closer and closer, his features becoming clearer in Yu Xiaogang's vision, until he stood before him and reached out to pull him into his embrace.
Only then did Yu Xiaogang gradually begin to believe it all...
"J-Jie Ge, is that you?"
"It's me."
"It's me, Xiao Gang."
Holding Yu Xiaogang, Jie Ge spoke with tenderness and self-reproach. "I'm sorry, Xiao Gang. I came too late."
"Waaah!!"
At that moment, Yu Xiaogang cried like a child in Jie Ge's arms.
Jie Ge had come to save him!