The Knight's Legacy

Countdown: 6:00:00.

There is still one hour until nightfall.

One group of prisoners sentenced to light punishments were transferred in succession, and the number of people in Prison No. 18 quickly dropped from 4,200 to 3,700.

For some reason, even though only a little over 400 people were transferred, everyone felt that the prison had suddenly become much colder and quieter.

The ordinary prisoners huddled in the corner, trembling with fear, while the members of the conglomerate remained silent.

Only Du Hao remained, still roaring.

When the robotic guards escorted prisoners in batches, he tried many times to break through the blockade and escape, but it was simply impossible.

After the last batch of prisoners were transferred, the alloy gate was tightly closed and never opened again.

"Open the gate! I demand medical parole! I demand a prison transfer!" Du Hao roared, pounding on the alloy gate.

In Prison No. 18, everyone gradually quieted down, staring in disbelief at the scene.

"Boss, if you keep filming like this, it might provoke a crackdown from Prison No. 18," Du Hao's subordinate said.

Du Hao turned around fiercely and roared, "What do you know? Someone moved all the people who didn't deserve to die, leaving only us and those who deserved to die. This isn't about fighting for the Forbidden Item ACE-002; it's clearly a trap! Someone wants our lives!"

"Could it just be a coincidence?" Xie Yingeng asked doubtfully. "Who would dare to kill so many people in prison? The prison system isn't to be trifled with."

The thought of the corpses strewn across the ground immediately sent chills down their spines... How bloody that scene must be!

"I suspect the prison system has been hacked," Du Hao sneered. "First, robotic guards brought in the man impersonating Xu Linsen, then they quickly identified us through our behavior, filtering out those with minor offenses and transferring them away. Do you know how much effort we put into transferring him to Prison No. 18, while they acted like it was their own home!"

"The prison system has been hacked?" someone asked doubtfully. "That's impossible. Isn't the federal prison system supposed to be the most secure defense system?"

Du Hao said, "Otherwise, how do you explain the fact that the always fair prison system has suddenly become someone else's accomplice?!"

The prison system has been managing prisons for nearly a thousand years, and the reason this Artificial Intelligence took over the prisons from the beginning was because of its impartiality.

Strange things happened during that time, but for some special reason, the conglomerate never questioned its impartiality.

Therefore, when everyone discovered that there might be a problem with the prison system, Du Hao and his team's first reaction was that the prison system had been hacked, rather than that there was something wrong with the prison system itself.

At that moment, Du Hao suddenly looked up and saw that the metal storm in the steel sky was already aimed at him, and the six-barreled turret was rotating and warming up, seemingly ready to fire at any moment.

He backed down and stopped banging on the alloy gate. Instead, he turned and walked into the crowd, searching for something.

Just five minutes later, Du Hao muttered to himself, "Sure enough, Liu Dezhu has been moved away, and so have the people around him! There's a chance of indiscriminate attacks happening here!"

Chen Yu frowned. "Who is Liu Dezhu?"

Du Hao had been here for a full week, so he was fairly familiar with the prison, but Chen Yu had just arrived today and was unaware of the situation.

Xie Yingeng, who was standing to the side, explained to Chen Yu, "Liu Dezhu is someone who has only recently appeared by Li Shutong's side. Some people suspect that he has already passed Li Shutong's test and is very likely to become the next knight. Even Lin Xiaoxiao and Ye Wan are not as high in status as him. He can directly command Lin Xiaoxiao and the others in Prison No. 18."

Qing Chen, who was hiding in the shadows, almost burst out laughing when he heard this. He thought to himself that he finally understood why Liu Dezhu had nightmares every day...

This guy keeps giving Lin Xiaoxiao death orders every day, no wonder she has nightmares!

However, just as Qing Chen was gloating, someone suddenly pointed at him and shouted to Du Hao, "Boss, there's another one of Liu Dezhu's men here! I remember him, his name is Yu Junyi, he's Liu Dezhu's closest subordinate!"

Qing Chen: "???"

In an instant, everyone's eyes turned to him. Qing Chen thought to himself, "Can impersonating Yu Junyi really cause trouble?"

He's already chosen a very inconspicuous person to impersonate!

But then Du Hao rushed up to him and shouted, "All of Liu Dezhu's men have been moved away, why didn't you leave?"

Qing Chen looked around at the people gradually surrounding him, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I want to wait a while before leaving..."

Du Hao: "???"

Would it be reasonable for you to wait a while before leaving?

"I think he's the one impersonating my boss!" Guo Huzhan shouted from the back of the crowd. "Grab him!"

The next moment, Du Hao leaped forward and reached out to grab Qing Chen.

Before Du Hao made his move, Qing Chen had already begun to retreat.

He retreated quickly, but Du Hao, the expert, was even faster.

Not only that, Xie Yingeng also came in from the side to sandwich them!

Qing Chen's face was cold. How could he, a beginner on the path of cultivation, possibly survive when facing two experts at the same time?

However, in that instant, a figure descended from the sky, arriving first despite being behind.

"Roll!"

Before anyone could even see what the newcomer did, they kicked Du Hao and Xie Yingeng dozens of meters away.

The two men were seen sliding on the prison floor, unable to stop themselves no matter what they did.

The speed of those two kicks was so fast that their trajectory was almost invisible.

Even Du Hao and Xie Yingeng were caught off guard and didn't realize what had happened. They felt as if their internal organs had all been dislocated, and they were in excruciating pain.

It wasn't until the two people were sent flying that everyone could see who the person who had fallen from the sky was.

Chen Yu narrowed his eyes. "Li Shutong!"

The demigod made a move with effortless ease. His two kicks were simple and unadorned, but incredibly fast. Yet, those two kicks were enough to knock Du Hao and Xie Yingeng off their feet.

The atmosphere inside Prison No. 18 suddenly became heavy. Li Shutong stood smiling in front of Qing Chen, steadily protecting the boy behind him.

The spot that should have been Yu Junyi's was now occupied by a young man wearing Cat Face Mask.

Chen Yu glanced at the other person's wrist and knew that the owner of the Cat Face Mask must be quite young.

There are subtle differences between the wrists of teenagers and adults.

The red patterns on the Cat Face Mask were incredibly vibrant, yet strangely distorted, making it exceptionally mysterious.

Upon seeing this, everyone thought to themselves, "Sure enough, it was this person impersonating Xu Linsen."

The mask on that person's face must be something Forbidden Item!

We've all lived on the edge, so we all know how terrifying such abilities are. If someone like that gets close to you, you might not even know who killed you.

However, no one had heard of this new figure in Knights and Heng Society.

"Wait, Cat Face Mask!" Chen Yu paused for a moment, as if remembering something.

Just recently, news circulated within the Federal Consortium that Li Shutong left Prison No. 18 late at night and appeared at the top-tier Sunlight Pavilion Restaurant, where he ordered a braised pork and a bowl of noodles with soybean paste!

That night, Chen Yehu, the most dazzling rising star of the younger generation of the Chen family, was also forced to wait for the person wearing the Cat Face Mask to finish eating the noodles before he could speak.

Chen Yu is Chen Yehu's uncle. He had heard his nephew mention this matter firsthand: Li Shutong's oppressive aura was as strong as ever, the owner of the Cat Face Mask was very young, and that night did not seem like a meeting between important figures, but rather like an elder taking a younger person on an outing.

At that moment, Chen Yu looked at Li Shutong Qing Chen firmly behind him, and he suddenly understood... this was probably because the knights had a new lineage.

Chen Yu suddenly understood many things: that night was the first time Li Shutong had walked out of Prison No. 18 after being imprisoned for eight years. He wanted to take his apprentice to see the best scenery in City No. 18, and at the same time, let those "scenery" see his newly accepted apprentice.

Looking back now, Li Shutong's behavior seems like a deliberate show-off, as if he couldn't help but want the whole world to see the next generation of Knights leaders!

Just now, this knight's successor casually made a move that stirred up a storm in Prison No. 18, causing the conglomerate's members to be identified instantly.

Knights are not mediocre; this is a universally acknowledged fact within the Federation.

At this moment, Du Hao and Xie Yingeng both vomited blood as they got up. Xie Yingeng felt a little better when he saw that the other was in such a bad state, but when he thought that this was the second time he had vomited blood today, he was overcome with grief.

Li Shutong looked at Chen Yu and smiled, "Just now, you were the one who said you had a way to kill me?"

Chen Yu slowly took a few steps back and said coldly, "You really don't want those friends anymore? So you've been trapped here for eight years, and in the end, you still chose to abandon your friends?"

"This kind of thing is none of a concern for a dying man," Li Shutong said with a smile. "But you don't need to rush. You can't get out anyway. Since you're waiting for nightfall, and I'm waiting for nightfall too, we'll wait together."

After saying that, Li Shutong ignored everyone else and led Qing Chen toward the restaurant.

He didn't suspect these people from running away, nor did he talk to them much. It was as if whatever they did would be a waste of his time, and talking to them would be a waste of his life!

Qing Chen followed silently behind Li Shutong and asked in a low voice, "Master, do you have any friends who have been hidden and controlled by them? Do you have any clues? I can help you analyze it."

Li Shutong patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's good to know you mean well. This isn't something we can control. By the way, you conjured up the Cat Face Mask because you were worried they would blame Yu Junyi, so you wanted to proactively clarify that you had nothing to do with him?"

"Hmm," Qing Chen said in a low voice, "Yu Junyi is our class's academic representative, and he's a very nice person. Sometimes when I can't pay my tuition and fees, he won't urge me in front of the other students; he'll just remind me privately of the deadline for payment."

This small act of thoughtfulness between classmates is enough to touch people's hearts.

Li Shutong laughed and said, "Your concern is good, but tonight no one here can leave, so no one will have a chance to look for Yu Junyi."

The phrase "No one here will get out tonight" means that everyone in front of us will die tonight!

Qing Chen's breath hitched; he hadn't expected his master to actually kill so many people!

3,719 people—this is the number Qing Chen tallied in an instant.

These people will all die tonight.

In the distance, Chen Yu's mind raced. Now that Li Shutong had abandoned his friends and appeared here, he had to save himself.

However, when he looked around, he suddenly realized that he had no idea how to escape from here.

The jamming device at Prison No. 18 has also been activated, so he can't even send messages out.

But everyone says Li Shutong is loyal and righteous. Not long ago, they deliberately leaked the information about the 36 secretly detained prisoners to Heng Society, and deliberately set up a series of traps for Li Shutong to fall into. As a result, he did not go to rescue the people at all, but returned to protect the Forbidden Item ACE-002!

This was beyond their plans!

Chen Yu pursed his lips and remained silent, secretly resentful. He hadn't expected tonight to be such a dead end!

No matter how much he had scorned Li Shutong in his words, everyone could understand the oppressive feeling emanating from a demigod when Li Shutong actually appeared.

This time, the sense of oppression was no longer a virtual, exaggerated tone. Chen Yu really felt an itch between his eyebrows, as if someone was holding a knife tip hovering in front of him!

Wait a minute, Chen Yu suddenly realized a problem: only the Li family's First Branch and the Chen family's third branch were in Prison No. 18, and there wasn't a single member of the Qing family.

Why would the Qing family be absent from such a big commotion?

This is not normal!