Qing Chen's Secret

In Prison No. 18, the prisoners were too terrified to make a sound by the sudden turn of events.

Even the prisoners who usually enjoyed lifting weights were now handling dumbbells with extra care, afraid of disturbing the behemoth within the prison.

Before, there was only Li Shutong in this prison. While he couldn't be offended, thankfully, this true god had never bothered anyone.

In the underworld he controlled, as long as you knew the rules, you wouldn't die.

But now, things were different.

Even a fool knew that the Qing Clan wouldn't send someone to the prison for no reason.

Guo Huzhan had arrived, the Qing Clan had arrived, and a storm was brewing.

At the dining table, Guo Huzhan was also eating real beef, devouring it greedily, while Qing Chen ate a bit slower.

Ye Wan stood behind Li Shutong and suddenly asked Guo Huzhan, "Don't just focus on eating. Was that person with you just now? I heard some remote places in the wilderness speak strange languages."

"He's not one of ours, and that kid doesn't look like he's from the wilderness," Guo Huzhan said, wiping his greasy, shiny mouth. "When have you ever seen a wilderness person with such delicate skin?"

"That's true," Ye Wan frowned.

"Our people have all been found by young brother Qing Chen, so don't worry. I'm going in alone now!" Guo Huzhan said cheerfully. "Can you get some meat for my three brothers too?"

"Is real meat scarce in the wilderness?" Ye Wan scoffed.

Guo Huzhan sighed, "We face surprise attacks from the consortium every few days, so when do we have time to raise livestock? Plus, two more Forbidden Zones appeared in the wilderness and almost caused fatalities. Our living space isn't as large as you might think. Of course, with young brother Qing Chen here, you'll be prioritized for food."

Qing Chen was stunned. The Forbidden Zone, another new term.

The name sounded like it might be related to Forbidden Items.

At this moment, Guo Huzhan turned and put his arm around Qing Chen's shoulder, saying, "Young brother Qing Chen, why don't you come to the wilderness with me? I can't promise much else, but someone like you is bound to get whatever you want, eat whatever you want!"

Li Shutong was puzzled. "You're that eager to take him to the wilderness? Didn't you see? He's with the Qing Clan. Wouldn't it be better to honestly become one of the Qing Clan's Shadows than to go with you to the wilderness?"

"How can that be the same?" Guo Huzhan said carelessly. "He hasn't even begun the process of becoming a Shadow. The selection process for Shadows is incredibly dangerous, why risk it? Come with me to the wilderness, and you'll have everything, no need to go through all that trouble."

Li Shutong chuckled. "What do you even have in the wilderness? Why should anyone follow you?"

Qing Chen, standing nearby, said, "He has the grand promises he draws."

Guo Huzhan: "..."

Although Qing Chen appeared calm on the surface, he knew himself best.

Lin Xiaoxiao would return soon, and he would face the most dangerous trial of his life.

Despite having lived two lives since transmigrating, Qing Chen still had few trump cards.

He knew what he had to face, but he couldn't hide.

There was nowhere to hide.

In a corner of Prison No. 18, Lin Xiaoxiao sat in an interrogation room, quietly watching Jian Sheng, a transmigrator from Chuanzhou, opposite him.

The interrogation room was dim and obscure, dust motes dancing in the white beams of light from the LED lights overhead.

Jian Sheng was asleep. Lin Xiaoxiao had just entered his dream using his nightmare ability, only to be cursed out by the other party and forced to end the nightmare.

This is an exceptionally volatile person, Lin Xiaoxiao concluded.

Honestly, he was quite curious about where such a talented individual had come from, someone who could curse without repeating himself for half an hour.

Jian Sheng gradually woke up. Seeing Lin Xiaoxiao in front of him, he opened his mouth and cursed, "Old man..."

"Stop," Lin Xiaoxiao interrupted with a dark expression. "Don't speak yet. Just hearing you speak makes my head hurt. Can we talk properly?"

"I'll slap your kid with my earwax..."

Lin Xiaoxiao: "..."

Just as Jian Sheng was about to continue cursing, Lin Xiaoxiao quickly activated his nightmare ability. Jian Sheng felt another wave of drowsiness wash over him and fell into a deep sleep.

"What a disaster!" Lin Xiaoxiao sighed and turned to the adjacent interrogation room, where Liu Dezhu sat trembling.

This time, Lin Xiaoxiao didn't waste any words. He directly dragged Liu Dezhu to see Huang Jixian's current condition.

Huang Jixian's hands and feet were secured to the hospital bed with alloy restraints. He muttered to himself intermittently and struggled forcefully.

Lin Xiaoxiao said to Liu Dezhu, "See? Answer whatever I ask. If you lie, this is what will happen to him. Understand?"

Liu Dezhu, lacking any backbone, said, "I'll talk, I'll talk, I'll talk! I transmigrated from another parallel universe. I'm a high school student..."

Seeing that the guy spilled everything like a bamboo tube, Lin Xiaoxiao was instantly relieved.

If he had known this guy was so easy to interrogate, why would he have provoked Jian Sheng!

"Where is Luocheng?" Lin Xiaoxiao asked directly.

"Luocheng is a city where we live," Liu Dezhu replied.

"How many people have transmigrated?"

"I don't know. Some say thousands, others say tens of thousands."

Lin Xiaoxiao's voice became stern. "What is your intention in transmigrating, and why did you approach my boss, Li Shutong?"

Liu Dezhu was almost in tears. "We all transmigrated randomly. Before we transmigrated, none of us knew where we'd end up or what identity we'd have. We really had no ulterior motives. I approached Li Shutong because someone said that if you found Li Shutong in Prison No. 18, you could obtain a career path..."

This time, his interrogation of Liu Dezhu took a full three hours. During that period, Jian Sheng, in the next room, woke up three times, cursed twenty-seven times, and was knocked unconscious three times.

Initially, Lin Xiaoxiao didn't believe in transmigration. However, every word Liu Dezhu spoke was logically sound and held up to scrutiny.

He believed that an idiot like Liu Dezhu, who treated his boss like an NPC to farm, couldn't possibly come up with such a rigorously logical Outer World framework.

Therefore, even if he didn't want to believe it, he had to believe it now. Liu Dezhu was indeed telling the truth.

The most unbelievable thing in this world had truly happened.

The interrogation room seemed to fall into an eternal silence. Liu Dezhu trembled, not daring to speak.

After a very, very long time, Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly asked, "Have you ever heard a song called 'Farewell'?"

Liu Dezhu was also taken aback. "Yes, I have."

"Does it have a lyric that goes, 'Half of my close friends are scattered'?"

"Yes, how did you know?" Liu Dezhu asked, confused.

Lin Xiaoxiao's brows finally relaxed.

He knew.

At this very moment, thousands of Transmigrators had arrived in the Inner World where he was, taking over the identities of the original inhabitants and continuing to live.

Those people had different identities, and their destinies had only just begun to intertwine due to a strange event.

But this wasn't the most crucial part.

The most crucial part was that he now knew Qing Chen's secret.

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