The "Stinky Loach" turning over a new leaf and the subtle improvement in the overall sanitation of Block E were like a stone tossed into a pond. They hadn't stirred up towering waves, but they had sent ripples through a small area. His colleagues discussed it for a few moments before things settled back into calm. After all, strange things happened often in Heavenly Prison. Maybe one day Stinky Loach had simply seen the light?
But there were always people with especially "keen" senses—people like Zhang Meng.
As soon as he got off duty that day, Zhang Meng furtively pulled Xu Qian aside. His ox eyes were opened as wide as saucers, and he lowered his voice as though revealing some earth-shattering secret. "Brother Qian! Let me tell you about something strange!"
Xu Qian's heart gave a little jolt, thinking his small scheme had been discovered, but his face remained impassive. "What is it, Mengzi? See another giant rat?" (Referring to the previous rat infestation.)
"Not a rat!" Zhang Meng waved both hands repeatedly, his expression growing even more mysterious. "It's... it's the Snail Girl!"
Xu Qian: "???" He nearly choked on his own saliva. The Snail Girl? What the hell?!
"Really!" Seeing that Xu Qian didn't believe him, Zhang Meng grew anxious. "It's in our Block E, by the western wall, along that unused emergency passage nobody normally takes! I happened to pass by a few days ago and found it suspiciously clean! There wasn't even a speck of dust on the ground, and the cobwebs in the corners were gone! It was as if someone had licked the place clean!"
The corner of Xu Qian's mouth twitched faintly. That emergency passage was precisely where he had experimented with Vajra Palm a few nights earlier and occasionally used the