Stelle tilted her head back and curiously studied the towering bronze doors before her, their beast-faced panels as imposing as a city wall. "Is this the entrance to the Prison of Deep Seclusion?"
"This is one of the Prison of Deep Seclusion's many temporary gateways for convenient access," the guide replied. "Neither of you is a prisoner, so naturally, you cannot enter through the gate used to escort convicts. Honored guests, please proceed inside."
At the guide's words, the corners of Stelle's mouth could not help curling upward, but she quickly forced them down with the mighty will of the Baseball Bat Hero. "We're ready. Sorry for the trouble."
Dan Heng glanced at her when he heard that, but said nothing.
Then the great doors before them split in two and slid apart, revealing countless steel teeth that interlocked like the fangs of a beast.
The two strode into the gateway, where soul-guiding envoys and Military Attendants stood silently on either side, lending the place an added air of solemnity.
Beyond the entrance lay a vast, cavernous cylindrical shaft. Mechanical walkways lined its inner walls, while platforms for interrogations and office work hung in the center, connected to the walkways by iron chains and bridges. Looking down, the prison seemed unfathomably deep...
Stelle's eyes widened slightly as she took in a sight unlike anything she had ever seen.
After spending so long trailblazing with everyone, she had seen all sorts of prisons across the universe, but the Xianzhou's Prison of Deep Seclusion was the first with such a sinister interior.
As for Little Fish's Factory... that was a factory, not a prison, so it did not count in the rankings. Besides, rather than sinister, his Factory struck the uninitiated as bizarre. Even someone as familiar with it as she was