Inside the vehicle, Driver lowered his voice and said to Lu Xiao.
"How about the two of us just stay in the Dark Prison?"
Lu Xiao narrowed his eyes.
"Friend, that's a dangerous idea!"
Driver gave an awkward smile.
"I was only joking. Don't take it seriously!"
The vehicle drove along the silent, dimly lit street, the roar of its big American V8 engine echoing through the air.
Heavy breathing came from their surroundings from time to time.
Countless scarlet points of light flickered in the shadows.
Driver shrank back.
"It looks like we're surrounded!"
Lu Xiao grinned.
"Have some confidence. Drop the 'looks like'!"
Driver immediately panicked.
"Then what do we do now? I don't want to die!"
Lu Xiao slapped him across the back of the head.
"Well said, my friend! If you don't fucking want to die, why are you making so much noise?"
The slap made even Dart, sitting in the back, feel a faint ache in the back of his own head.
Driver came to his senses and hurriedly made his Transforming Vehicle eliminate all sound.
Dart's voice came from the back seat.
"Mr. Lu Xiao, where are we going?"
At that, Lu Xiao glanced around through the window, then froze.
"Where is this?"
This place didn't match the scenery in his memories at all.
Driver nearly slammed on the brakes.
"Then how are we supposed to find that friend of yours?"
Lu Xiao thought carefully for a moment before speaking.
"We can only have Chainsaw Uncle come find us! Hopefully he isn't too far away!"
After some thought, he borrowed a dagger from Dart and lightly drew it across his wrist.
The dagger left a small cut across his wrist, and blood began to seep out.
Then he opened the window, stuck his hand outside, and explained.
"What you call weird life is extremely sensitive to scents. The higher its level, the more sensitive it is!"
"As long as Chainsaw Uncle catches my scent, he'll follow it to find me!"
Dart fell silent for a while before speaking in a grave tone.
"But the smell of blood will also attract other powerful weird creatures!"
As soon as he finished, Driver's trembling voice rang out.
"Do you... mean that?"
His trembling finger pointed ahead.
C03 Containment Facility.
Doctor adjusted his monocle.
"I plan to assign your squad to the Sacrificial Ones!"
"Of course, this is entirely voluntary. Anyone unwilling to join the Sacrificial Ones will be assigned to guard the expendables!"
As soon as he finished, Liuguang, Sly, and Xiao Yu raised their hands without hesitation.
The other three silently took a step back.
One of them spoke with some guilt in his voice.
"I'm sorry. The Sacrificial Ones' missions are just too dangerous!"
But no one looked down on the three who had backed out.
Even Sly, who was always joking around, spoke in an extremely subdued voice.
"May fortune favor you in battle!"
The three exchanged looks, then gave a Prison Warden soldier's salute in unison.
Before long, a middle-aged man with a cigarette in his mouth arrived.
"Welcome to hell, rookies!"
Dante took a deep drag on his cigarette.
"From now on, I'll be responsible for training you into qualified Sacrificial Ones!"
"You can call me a devil, because my code name is Dante!"
Doctor patted Dante on the shoulder, then turned and left.
Liuguang and the other two exchanged looks, then stood at attention together.
Dante pulled a pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket and handed each of them one.
"A devil's first assignment for you is to learn to smoke!"
Liuguang: "..."
Xiao Yu: "???"
Sly: "You really are a devil!"
The Dark Prison.
An enormous monster blocked Lu Xiao and the others' path.
Its massive body completely blocked the entire road.
The densely packed eyes covering its body all stared at the vehicle carrying Lu Xiao and the others.
The sight made the scalps of two of the vehicle's occupants prickle.
Lu Xiao glared at Driver with his dead-fish eyes and shouted.
"What are you waiting for? Get us out of here!"
Driver jerked the steering wheel, spinning the vehicle around on the spot.
Exasperated at his ineptitude, Lu Xiao said.
"Buddy! Teleport!"
"If I had a license, there's no way I'd let you drive this thing!"
After Driver frantically worked the controls, the Raptor began to flicker.
It looked like frames were being dropped from a video.
When it reappeared, it was already on another street.
The monster looked at where the big Raptor pickup had vanished, all the eyes covering its body filled with confusion.
But he soon caught that scent again.
Rumble!
Rumble, rumble!
Its enormous body began to writhe, making even the ground tremble slightly.
Inside the vehicle, Dart spoke with lingering fear on his face.
"Mr. Lu Xiao, what level was that monster just now?"
While letting his blood flow, Lu Xiao held his chin with his other hand and pondered.
"By your classification, it should count as supernatural weird life!"
Dart asked gravely.
"Then are you a match for that monster?"
Lu Xiao grinned.
"Of course! In its eyes, I'm nothing but a very tasty morsel!"
As he spoke, he began explaining things to Dart.
"In the Dark Prison, you generally can't go wrong running away when you see something that huge!"
"The same goes for anything with lots of eyes!"
After some thought, Lu Xiao added.
"And anything with tentacles!"
"If you run into any of those three types, just run as fast as you can!"
Dart committed Lu Xiao's words firmly to memory.
"Is there anything else I should watch out for?"
Lu Xiao thought for a moment, then added.
"Oh, right! Don't go eating random things in the Dark Prison!"
"Apart from things that can move, which are safe to eat, don't eat any other food!"
"If your stomach isn't very strong, you might get diarrhea!"
The corner of Dart's mouth twitched violently.
But he still committed Lu Xiao's words firmly to memory.
Then Lu Xiao pointed at Driver, who was driving.
"Humanoid weird life like this is an extremely rare delicacy!"
"Once you've tasted it, that flavor will keep you coming back for more!"
At those words, Driver and Dart both shuddered.
Dart felt his stomach contract and couldn't help dry heaving.
Just then, the ground began to shake.
Driver immediately looked in the rearview mirror. The monster had caught up.
This time, he hurriedly activated the teleportation function without needing Lu Xiao to remind him.
Since they were now in the Dark Prison, he wasn't worried about his Transforming Vehicle suddenly losing power.
Back then, he had relied on this Transforming Vehicle to escape countless pursuing monsters and avoid becoming food countless times.
Yet this time, less than half a minute after they teleported away, the ground began to shake again.
The wound on Lu Xiao's wrist had already healed, and blood no longer flowed from it.
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