But I took advantage of this opportunity to run away and run towards Ye Jin.
“Uncle—” I just heard the crying voices of Lao Qiao’s two nephews, and Lao Qiao’s voice came over: “Mr. Wu, save…save them out…”
I turned my head subconsciously and saw Old Joe lying on the ground desperately crawling towards me. The jailer standing behind him raised his foot and stomped hard on his spine.
The jailer's kick would have killed Old Joe. But between life and death, Old Joe made an amazing move - before the jailer's foot landed, he pulled out a coffin nail from his sleeve and stabbed it into his forehead.
At the same time, the jailer's foot stepped on Old Joe's back with a sound of bone cracking. As blood spurted out from Old Joe's facial features and brows, Old Joe's soul also stood up against the scorching sun and rushed straight towards the jailer.
As soon as Old Joe's ghost appeared, bursts of black smoke rose in the scorching sun. Old Joe was like a moth with a burning flame, and he flew towards the jailer.
Just a moment later, Old Joe's soul was torn into pieces by the jailer. The jailer stepped out from the flying phosphorescent fire with a sneer on his face and looked at me with a gloomy look.
Old Joe's death couldn't even stop the other party for ten breaths, but he did not hesitate, even at the cost of being reduced to ashes. He was just betting his life on a hope, even if that hope was extremely slim.
The jailer suddenly appeared two meters away, and I flew and landed near Ye Jin in that instant.
As one of us chased and the other fled, neither of us stopped for a moment and stood up and flew up again.
This time, just as I stepped on the ground, the jailer changed direction and raised his hand to grab Ye Jin. Ye Jin, who was dizzy, was only slightly stunned, and the jailer grabbed his shoulders and forced him to the ground: "Mr. Wu, how long do you think he can stop me?"
I only glanced at him, then ran in the opposite direction without looking back: "Ye Jin, wait for me for a moment."
The jailer saw that I had given up on looking for the puppet, and he couldn't help but laugh and said, "I thought you were capable of so much, but it turns out you're just selling out your friends to save your lives! Don't worry, he won't be able to run away for long. I'll tie you two together in a little while and see what results you can get from a dog-eat-dog fight."
The jailer was obviously talking to Ye Jin, and Ye Jin started to curse: "Bullshit..."
"How dare you scold me!" As the jailer roared, I suddenly turned around and threw the Rakshasa with all my strength. The three-foot-long sword turned into a stream of light as it flew out of my hand and flew straight to a dead tree in the distance.
"You dare..." I swung my long sword, and the jailer finally reacted. By the time he wanted to stop me, it was too late. The whistling Rakshasa mercilessly penetrated the dead tree and remained in the trunk. The jailer who was holding Ye Jin also exploded into phosphorous fire.
I rushed to the dead tree, grabbed the Rakshasa and twisted it hard, cutting off a piece of the trunk. There was indeed a puppet more than a foot long hidden inside, and the puppet's lifelike face was exactly the same as the jailer I saw just now.
Gu Piaoran didn't lie to me. There really was a puppet hidden near the jailer. Before leaving, Gu Piaoran deliberately reminded us how to crack the jailer. Why
Ye Jin came over and said, "Zhaozi, what are you doing? Hurry up and leave. We can't stay here any longer."
I put down the puppet and said, "Let's go back."
"Going back? Are you crazy?" Ye Jin pointed in the direction of the lobby and said, "Listen to how miserable the people over there are screaming. The jailers have already started killing people. If we go back like this, aren't we walking into a trap?"
"Going back is the only way to survive. Follow me." I didn't have time to explain anything to Ye Jin, so I pulled Ye Jin and ran back to the prison lobby along the original path, turning the Ghost Eye Money as I ran. I didn't stop until the Ghost Eye Money stopped, and I looked in the direction pointed by the Ghost Eye Money, and I found the jailer puppet behind a stone.
I pinched the puppet and found a secret place to hide. I pulled out the dagger and stabbed the puppet a few times. After a while, I felt a chill on my head. Without raising my head, I whispered, "If you don't want to die, you'd better get down from the tree. I don't like someone standing on my head."
Soon I heard the sound of chains trembling above my head. The jailer standing on the tree obviously suppressed his anger and put away the chains.
The jailer quickly slid down from the tree: "What do you want?"
I took the puppet and looked at it: "What is this place?"
The jailer was obviously stunned before he said, "I only know that this place is called Heavenly Prison."
I looked at him and said, "Aren't you the jailer here? How come you only know this much?"
The jailer said, "I was just a sailor before, probably hundreds of years ago! Our ship was sunk by a strange tide near here. I remember that after I drowned in the sea, I don't know how my ghost floated here, and was spotted by the warden and became a jailer."
Prison officer
I suddenly remembered the scene I had seen in the Ghost Eye Money. At that time, I saw someone left the team, and that person should be the prison warden.
It seems that someone built the Heavenly Prison here and divided the island into several parts in the style of a prison camp. The outermost part should be a prison for ordinary prisoners, which is also the first layer of defense of the Heavenly Prison; the city in the center of the island is the core of the Heavenly Prison, which is where the serious criminals are imprisoned.
Gu Piaoran’s target should be deep in the Heavenly Prison.
I looked at the jailer and asked, "Who built the Heavenly Prison, and who is imprisoned in it?"
The jailer shook his head and said, "I don't know. I'm just a jailer, I can't find out so many things. There are some things that even the warden doesn't know, let alone me?"
I was about to threaten him, but the words stopped. The Heavenly Prison is full of ghosts. They don't need food or water, and they don't need to be sent from outside for foster care. There is no possibility of any connection between the outer city and the inner prison, so there is naturally no possibility of exchanging information.
I asked again, "How can we get out of this island?"
"You can't get out. No matter if you are a human or a ghost, no one can get out." The jailer said with a wry smile, "If you can get out from here, only bastards would guard this deserted island."
The jailer's words are worthy of trust. Whether it is a human or a ghost, staying in one place for too long will be unbearable. Even if this deserted island is a paradise on earth, when you are familiar with every blade of grass and even remember every stone, it will become a living hell, a hell that makes people not want to stay for a moment.
I said in a deep voice, "So as soon as you see a living person, you can't wait to convict them and torture them to death?"
"Of course." The jailer's eyes flashed with a hint of hostility. "Even if it's a ghost that comes in, we will torture him until he is reduced to ashes. When I first came in, I was tortured by the jailer who came earlier to the point where I wanted to live but couldn't, and I wanted to die but couldn't. They said that it was to atone for my sins. Bah! Everyone knows that they are just doing it for fun. Those jailers are all going crazy in this damn place."
I asked in a deep voice: "Have you never thought about going out?"
I don't believe these jailers have never tried to escape from the prison.
The jailer said in a deep voice, "What can we do if we think about it? Our lives are all in the soul puppet. If the puppet doesn't move, we can only move around the puppet for a mile or two. Even if we want to leave, we can't get out."
"I have been here for hundreds of years, and my greatest wish is to be able to guard the seashore. At least there is something to look forward to there, at least I can wait and see whether it is a human or a ghost floating in from the sea tomorrow. What can I have here? I have already counted the grains of sand on the ground."
I looked at the jailer and said, "If I can take you out, will you go?"
The jailer's eyes lit up: "Are you telling the truth?"
"If you can follow the soul-hosting puppet, I can take you out, provided you cooperate with me." I pointed to the distance, "There should be a few jailers guarding from here to the seaside. You cover me while I go to get their soul-hosting puppet."
The jailer thought for a moment and said, "Okay, follow me."
The jailer led me forward for about five or six hundred meters before he stopped. "This is where my territory intersects with the next jailer's. Don't worry, we have seen each other for hundreds of years. We have nothing to hide. We even know the location of the soul-hosting puppet."
I took the other party's soul puppet and took two tentative steps forward. The jailer followed me. After he followed me, he was relieved: "It turns out that I don't need the jailer. Someone else holding the soul puppet can also let me out. You go forward. There is a grass nest not far ahead. Lao Xiao's soul puppet is in that grass nest."
I didn't completely believe what he said, but pulled out the Rakshasa and quickly turned the ghost eye money on it. As soon as the ghost eye money started to spin, the jailer shouted, "Don't calculate! Lao Xiao is a fortune teller, you can calculate him and he will know."
I was slightly startled when I heard the sound of a chain dragging the ground in the distance. When I turned around, the grass on the ground had been pushed to the sides by the strong wind, and the mud under the grass was instantly rushed into the air. Just looking at the grass branches and soil on the ground, it really looked like someone was dragging the chain backwards and rubbing the ground, but I couldn't see where the jailer who was running towards me was.
"Ye Jin, hurry up!" I shouted in panic, and suddenly used the Mysterious Ice Armor to block my whole body. I rushed towards the direction where the jailer was rushing. The jailer could hide his body. Once he left the grass, we would not be able to find his position and he would chase us at will. The only way was for me to stop him and let Ye Jin take the Shao brothers to find the puppets. (To be continued)