Prison Break (3)

Prison Break (3)

"My hand!!"

It was a horrifying sight.

As the squad leader spoke to divert his attention, Li Zu suddenly grabbed his hand.

In an instant, the squad leader's gun-wielding right hand turned into plastic!

As Li Zu shook it, the hand flopped limply along with the motion!

Swinging left and right~

"Ah!!!"

In the narrow corridor, firing a gun was extremely risky. They might injure their comrades before hitting the enemy, but if they did not fire... he was already here!

Those hands possessed terrifying magic.

Although turning an entire person into a toy consumed a great deal of stamina and energy, transforming only one part was not difficult.

Li Zu did not need to turn the whole person into a toy. He only needed to toyify a tiny part of the human body.

The intricate structure of the human body would then collapse!

It was like replacing an arm with a plastic toy arm before the original arm could react.

Even if the muscles, bones, capillaries, and everything else connected flawlessly to the plastic arm, plastic was ultimately not muscle or blood vessels.

Though plastic was highly elastic, like a balloon that could be inflated, it could not withstand pressure.

Blood flooded into the plastic arm and could not flow back out.

The blood driven by the heart seemed to find an outlet. Visible to the naked eye, that plastic arm... grew fatter and larger.

More accurately, it was a water-filled balloon.

It only needed to reach its breaking point before bursting!

Li Zu charged into the crowd and lightly added a little decoration to each person's body with his fingers.

No one even thought of resisting.

One after another, they screamed and collapsed to the ground.

In the end, only one person remained.

Looking at the police officer slumped in the corner, mentally broken, Li Zu raised a finger and gently touched his chin.

At that moment, the man stopped breathing. Li Zu could even hear his wildly pounding heart.

"By the way, can I ask a question?"

Li Zu instinctively raised the corners of his mouth.

Though he did not feel even the slightest joy, the corners of his lips would not stop curling upward.

Unaccustomed to it, Li Zu reached up and pressed down his smile.

Yet he did not understand that his distorted expression—forcing back a smile while maintaining a serious face—looked even more deranged.

"Please, you have to tell me!"

Five minutes later.

A fully armed squad hurried over.

They found the entire squad sprawled on the ground, completely incapacitated.

One special police officer had even been stripped naked.

"This is bad!"

"Toyman may have taken our uniforms. He could very well be trying to blend in and escape!" the squad leader immediately reported.

New orders were issued as well.

From now on,

no suspicious person was to be allowed to leave Arkham easily!

The lockdown would continue until the cunning Toyman was caught!

Quill Arkham's office.

It was only one door away from the "electrotherapy" ward.

Perhaps the Arkham Family blood flowing through his veins made Quill especially fond of using electricity to punish disobedient criminals.

The psychiatric patients here had only one right: to stay alive. Therefore, he had no need to care about human rights.

Ring ring ring~

The old telephone rang.

Quill Arkham sat up and glanced at the file on his desk, which had conveniently fallen open to Toyman's page. Frowning, he answered the phone. "This is Quill Arkham. What is it?"

"This is David!" The voice on the other end sounded panicked. "Toyman escaped, Doctor!"

"Toyman? Oh, that unadorable patient~"

Quill did not care. Arkham Asylum often had lunatics escape, but they would soon learn that the asylum was their only true home.

"You should call the director about this. Why are you calling me?"

He was only a psychiatrist. His job was to help patients "unclog" their minds.

An escape had nothing to do with him.

Bang bang bang~

After the knock, a special police officer pushed open the door and entered.

Quill turned toward him and raised a hand, signaling for him to wait until he finished the call.

The special police officer nodded, closed the door behind him, and slowly approached.

Quill Arkham continued into the phone, "All right, I have something to deal with here. If there's nothing else, don't disturb me again."

"Doctor Quill! We found that Toyman may be heading toward your office, and he stole a police uniform. He may be disguised as an officer!"

"All right, I understand!" Quill Arkham watched the approaching figure from the corner of his eye, drew a deep breath, and forcibly suppressed his racing heartbeat.

"What do you want with me?" he asked the person by the door, without hanging up the phone.

The special police officer raised his head. Half his face was covered in dried blood.

"It's me, Doctor~"

"Toyman!" Quill Arkham's heart clenched. He shouted the other man's name loudly, warning David on the other end that Toyman had come to his office.

"Toyman, Toyman~ Mm~, Toyman~"

Li Zu, dressed in a police uniform, nodded vigorously.

He slowly walked toward Doctor Quill, carrying a fully loaded rifle in his hand.

"Y-you, what do you want?!"

"Ah—!!"

In Arkham B2, the recently awakened orderly David was recounting what had happened before he lost consciousness.

The special police squad leader came over and asked, "You said a huge box fell from the sky and knocked you down?"

He had already searched the area. There was no box nearby.

There were not even any wood chips. They suspected David had developed some mental problems.

The special police officer quietly made a note to have the orderly undergo a psychological evaluation. Anyone who worked here for too long was bound to be affected by the lunatics.

"That's right." David nodded. "Besides turning people into toys, this guy has other terrifying abilities!"

"We just received word that Toyman is heading toward the counseling room on the east side of B2..." A police officer jogged over to report.

David's heart skipped a beat. The counseling room was also the electrotherapy room, where Doctor Quill Arkham's office was located.

Toyman's target was Doctor Quill Arkham!

He abruptly stood up, rushed toward the break room, and dialed the phone.

He called Quill Arkham.

"This is David. Toyman escaped, Doctor!"

"We discovered that Toyman may be heading toward your office, and he stole a police uniform. He may be disguised as an officer, Doctor Quill!"

David waited quietly.

Doctor Quill Arkham's voice on the other end sounded calm.

Until—

"Toyman!"

That name rang out.

Then came Doctor Quill's panicked voice. "Y-you, what do you want?"

"Ah—!!"

David immediately rushed out of the break room and shouted to the special police officers outside, "Hurry! Toyman has already reached Doctor Quill's office!"

"What do you want?"

Quill Arkham had never imagined that one day, he would be lying in this chair.

It was his favorite punishment toy.

The electric chair!

Li Zu thoughtfully helped Quill Arkham put on the helmet and straightened his wrinkled collar.

"Doctor, I'm not like those lunatics!"

As he spoke, he sat in the chair that should have belonged to Quill Arkham and picked up the medical record.

"Pah." He spat on his finger, turned a page, then took the pen from Quill Arkham's chest pocket and scribbled away.

Naturally, in Chinese characters.

"Quill Arkham."

"Mental state: Normal (for now)."

"Threat level: High."

After hastily writing a few words and signing "Toyman" in the attending physician's section, Li Zu reached for the power switch.

"I'm not like those lunatics. I hold grudges!"

Click!

The switch flipped, and electricity surged through him!

"Ah!!"

(End of chapter)