Yang Yao and Lin Ruixue had been close friends in the same class.
Combined with the unique social structure of the Southern Abyss Realm, where the overwhelming majority of Southern Abyss people had no parents and traditional concepts of family did not exist, their relationship resembled that of family more than ordinary classmates.
Therefore, when Shen Xiaobai saw that Yang Yao had escaped trouble and had not gone looking for Lin Ruixue first, but had come to him instead, he could not help feeling touched.
But that feeling did not last long before Yang Yao interrupted it.
"I snatched these spirit energy guns, but they're bound to the guards' personal spirit brains. We can only use them after unlocking them. See if you can seize control of these two spirit brains?"
Yang Yao flashed into the cell, then handed two thumbnail-sized chips to Shen Xiaobai.
They were precisely the personal spirit brains taken from the illegal facility's guards. Like the spirit energy guns, though, the spirit brains were smeared with blood, apparently torn straight off their skin.
Shen Xiaobai had clearly been flattering himself. Yang Yao had come to him first only so he could crack the spirit brain restrictions and let them use the spirit energy guns. That way, amid the chaotic and dangerous situation, they would have some means of protecting themselves before going to find Lin Ruixue.
"Oh, let me see!"
Shen Xiaobai quickly cast aside his small pangs of disappointment and embarrassment. Without caring whether the bloodstained spirit brain was dirty, he directly embedded one of the chips into the flesh on the back of his hand. A string of spirit-pattern code soon appeared before his eyes.
"This is a Level Two spirit brain. Looks like the guards here are only Level Two spirit energy users.