Chapter 1039: Crazy jailer
After two months of wandering around in the Lotus Death Row, Shu Han's three clones were transferred to the second floor for duty.
Originally, Shu Han didn't feel anything on the first floor, but when he arrived at the second floor, Shu Han found that the atmosphere was very different.
On the first floor, the jailers would drink and chat in their spare time, and even chat with the prisoners and help them place bets at the gambling table.
However, when they arrived at the second floor, the atmosphere became tense. The jailers seemed to be neurotic all day long, shouting and yelling at some noise, and the prisoners here were even more so.
The prisoners in the death row were not ordinary people, but these people had lived on the second floor for a long time, and their spirits had been completely depressed, wandering around the cells like zombies.
Shu Han knew that this was all a side effect of being close to the poisonous pool.
One day, Shu Han's main body, who was in seclusion, suddenly woke up. He hurriedly entered the Changyuan Asking Tower and found that the three jailers who had been transformed before were hysterically colliding with the Changyuan Asking Tower.
Their bodies were covered in blood and flesh, howling like wild animals, and constantly ramming into the Changyuan Asking Tower. Even if they were like mayflies shaking trees, they would not stop. Shu Han hurriedly suppressed the three people. After a check, Shu Han was shocked to find that their souls were already riddled with holes, just like rotten meat corroded by flies.
"How could this happen!"
Shu Han was very puzzled. When he used the Great Dream Without Trace Technique before, he also specially examined their souls. At that time, their souls were very normal. But in just over two months, the souls of the two people almost collapsed, and the nature left in their souls made them crazier than wild animals.
"Could it be that their souls are only intact on the outside, but have already collapsed from the inside, and are only superficial? No wonder the transformation of the souls of these two people was so smooth, even simpler than the transformation of the Nascent Soul cultivators. It turns out that their souls have already decayed from the inside..."
Shu Han knew that the reason why the two people went crazy was because his Great Dream Without Trace induced their internal collapse. At this time, Shu Han couldn't help but think of what Chan Bi mentioned, that the incense made from General Cha's blood seemed to have such an effect.
"How could this happen!"
Shu Han's consciousness returned to the Lotus Death Row. He thought it was the slow toxicity of the poisonous fluid, but he didn't expect that the decline of the jailer's soul was actually related to General Cha on the fourth floor.
This made Shu Han have to be alert. He found a time when no one was around and used his Qingling Mingmu to spy on the spiritual energy around him.
Under Qingling Mingmu, Shu Han was shocked to find that a stream of weak water vapor leaked from the cracks in the floor. This water vapor was extremely small, and Shu Han couldn't detect it at all without using Qingling Mingmu.
"This water vapor should be the volatile gas of the poisonous fluid, carrying a small amount of toxicity. According to the jailer's memory, this is a normal phenomenon. The poisonous fluid has a strong penetrating power. The volatile gas will be mixed with a small amount of spiritual energy, passing through the second and third layers of the formation and floating to the second layer."
"But the water vapor of the poisonous fluid should not cause such severe damage to the jailer's soul..."
Shu Han glanced at the entire Lianhua Death Cell.
"This death cell is a bit strange."
With doubts, Shu Han patrolled the second floor for more than ten days. Suddenly one day, the stone well passage on the second and third floors suddenly opened, and shrill screams came from the stone well. The jailer on the second floor hurriedly followed the instructions and urgently surrounded the stone well.
A mid-stage refining cultivator led a group of people out of the stone well. Among the group, there were five jailers tied tightly with golden chains. Their situation was exactly the same as the three people suppressed by Shu Han. They had fierce eyes and kept howling hysterically. If they were not tied with golden chains, they would have rushed over early and bit the normal people around them.
When everyone saw this scene, they couldn't help whispering.
"Why is someone crazy again!"
"And there are five of them! It's so scary!"
"Hey, we will go down to the third floor in another month. Goose bumps have appeared. This job is getting harder and harder..."
"Quiet!"
The man in the middle stage of refining looked around and shouted: "Take these five people to Warden Deng for disposal. The third floor cannot be without guards. Who is willing to fill the vacancies of these five people?"
These words really touched Shu Han's heart. Of course, he wanted to fill this vacancy so that he could go to the third floor of the death row as soon as possible. However, it is too conspicuous to sign up enthusiastically now, and it is easy to be exposed. He can only bow his head and remain silent like other jailers.
"The one who fills the vacancy will receive an additional six months' salary!"
When this was said, many jailers were tempted. Shu Han seized this opportunity, and his three clones raised their hands hesitantly one after another. In the end, Shu Han's three clones and two reluctant jailers joined the team guarding the third floor in advance and went to the third floor to garrison.
Only jailers in the Spiritualization Stage were sent to guard the first and second floors of the death row. The jailers usually monitored the magic array, repaired loopholes, and disciplined disobedient prisoners. The work was relatively easy.
But when they came to the third floor, the atmosphere was very different.
There is a cultivator in the Void Refining Stage who manages the third floor with the jailers all year round.
On the third floor, Shu Han could clearly smell the fishy steam coming from the poisonous pool. The steam was like the smell of rotting rats fermenting in a sealed jar to produce concentrated water.
Shu Han was very clear about the layout of the third floor.
The third floor was much smaller than the previous two floors. The entire Lotus Death Row was an inverted pyramid structure. The third floor was a circular prison, with the green poisonous pool in the center.
Working on the third floor is extremely tiring. Due to the strong toxicity of the poisonous pool, it will gradually corrode the basic array pattern of the entire Lotus Death Prison. Therefore, the jailers have to pay attention to the corrosion of the array pattern all day long and pay attention to whether the spiritual power of the array eye is lacking.
Repair the array pattern at any time, infuse magic power into the array eye, and be nervous all the time, and also have to endure the water vapor of the pool like a maggot on the tarsal bone.
In such a working environment, other people soon became impatient and restless, and their magic power was seriously consumed. Shu Han often saw the breath of other jailers fluctuating.
However, he was safe and sound. It seemed that the water vapor drifting from the poisonous pool would not have any other effect on Shu Han except for the experience of stench.
It’s not that he is a clone, so he will not be affected. In fact, the clone’s reaction to the outside world is stronger than the main body. The clone is a rootless duckweed. No matter what damage it has, it will be more serious by the main body.
Shu Han vaguely felt that the pool had an inexplicable attraction to him, but the composition of the drifting water vapor was too complicated, and Shu Han couldn’t tell what attracted him.
The central pool was strictly forbidden for the jailers to approach. There were masters of the Void Refining Stage guarding it, so Shu Han had no chance to slip past. Shu Han thought that if he didn't figure out the pool, it would be useless to hang around on the third floor. He had to find a way to get close to the pool without being suspected.
Suddenly, he thought of those crazy jailers and came up with a plan.