At this stage, Kaxiu's thinking has always been very clear. Although he already has the combat power of an extreme fighter, it is difficult for him to have a greater impact on the Gate Organization alone. The Dark Hunter Organization is different. Its leader, the Black Organizer, is likely to be a top master with the combat power of an extreme fighter. In addition, the huge Hunter Association and many fighter-level combat units under its jurisdiction are enough to draw out more means from the Gate Organization.
What Kaxiu wanted was to join forces with the Black Organ Leader to test the strength of the Gate Organization. Apart from the Holy Fist and the Dark Ultimate Body, which were almost never seen, the two people who could be called the strongest echelon in the world stood together. Even the Gate Organization would probably have to show enough attitude.
The headquarters of the treatment center is a trapezoidal space surrounded by high white walls, with a typical small front and large back. Many buildings related to the treatment center are concentrated in the front half, such as the office building, the archives room, the weapons depot, etc. The larger back half has only a few buildings, with an empty view and occasional structures similar to sentry towers.
As Kaxiu walked along, he saw many hunters patrolling in groups, and the number of them was no less than 20. These were certainly not the original elite members of the treatment center, but temporary personnel from several counties around Florence, plus people borrowed from the Dark Hunter headquarters.
Patrol surveillance is sufficient, but combat suppression capabilities are zero.
Under Siegel's guidance, Kashu and Thomas came to a three-story building. The walls of the building were very thick, with a serious and old-fashioned cold tone. Occasionally, some rough and ferocious edges could be seen.
The three of them entered the first floor and went straight to the left from the hall, and suddenly came to an empty room. There was nothing in the empty room except a mechanical metal elevator with an old pulley on it. There was a hunter standing guard in the room. When he saw Siegel coming, he immediately started the elevator according to the instructions. Kaxiu and the other three stood on the platform.
With a shake and sink, the metal ladder went down.
Kaxiu could see the uneven walls of the cave covered with wall plaster rising, and occasionally there were black and red blood scabs, which looked like marks left by fingers. After a while, the elevator stopped and Kaxiu came to a corridor.
Ahead, a cold and chilly breath came towards me, carrying with it a smell of decay and blood, as if it had been lingering for decades.
This is an underground prison with three floors, called the Wild Beast's Lair. The first floor is where ordinary prisoners are held, with the largest number of people. Most of the people inside can barely stay awake, but occasionally they will go crazy and attack people like a psychopath.
On the second underground floor, the number of prisoners decreased rapidly, but the danger level was soaring. They were often experienced and powerful old hunters, but after transforming into wild beasts, they became unconscious and their physical fitness increased dramatically. Under normal circumstances, they were extremely aggressive and would continuously hit the alloy cage.
On the third underground floor, there were only a few prisoners, and each of them was extremely ferocious. Due to their transformation, it was very likely that their bodies were no longer human, but instead were like monsters. Their brains were eroded by the dark creatures, and they often only had a trace of rationality left, on the verge of collapse.
In the past, any major disturbances among prisoners on the third floor were suppressed by the director of the treatment center himself. But Soul Scythe was seriously injured half a year ago, so only other shadow hunters from the Shadow Hunter Organization could come to help occasionally when they were free.
It should be noted that the prison cages on the third level are made of a kind of alienated metal. The energy of the energy users is varied, and some of them can work on metal. The cage metal of the Wild Beast's Lair is blessed by metal energy users every once in a while, and has always possessed terrible strength and toughness. Especially the third level, which is given various amplification characteristics by more than a dozen energy users at the same time, and is blessed once every year.
In the corridor, Kaxiu and the other two walked towards the first underground prison.
There were people patrolling in the corridor, and when they saw Siegel, they gathered around. After knowing Kaxiu's identity, they quickly expressed their respect for the new dean.
This is the attitude that the elite hunters in the treatment center should have.
"Has there been any special situation in the Wild Beast's Lair in the past few months?"
Kaxiu looked at Siegel and asked calmly.
"Of course there are..." Siegel smiled bitterly, "After all, it has been nearly half a year since Dean Soul Scythe was seriously injured. During this period, we were short of manpower and could not handle emergencies well. The first and second floors are okay, as there are rooms blocking our way, so our people are not harmed. It's the third floor. There have been three riots in a row in the past few months, resulting in the deaths of five hunters. Although other shadow hunters will help us deal with problems, they are always busy with tasks. After all, he is not the dean in charge of our treatment center, so it is impossible for him to be there all the time and be found all the time..."
"But it's a good thing you're here." Siegel suddenly changed the subject: "I believe that under your leadership, the treatment center will soon be able to return to its original order. There will be many hunters willing to gather under the banner of Dark Hunter No. 2..."
Kaxiu turned his head and glanced at Siegel. He didn't expect that this man with thick eyebrows and big eyes could flatter so smoothly and was very good at finding the right opportunity.
Moving forward, the three of them had left the corridor and officially arrived at the underground cell. There were small rooms with grids, and the walls and floors had a metallic texture. Obviously, the prisoners imprisoned here were not ordinary people, and they could not be dealt with perfunctorily by a few rough steel bars.
Kaxiu glanced over and saw that there was a mirror on the iron door that could be used to observe the situation inside, but the area was very small. He picked a cage at random and walked straight over to it. He looked through the mirror and observed the situation inside.
This was a small room, and it looked a bit like the cages used by the Black Agency branch in later generations to imprison dark creatures. Inside were some simple furniture for the prisoners who were still able to stay awake on weekdays.
Kaxiu's eyes moved slowly, but he didn't see the prisoner who was supposed to be in this room. Just as he was about to shift his view, he saw a face suddenly pressed against the door. His face was hideous, veins were bulging, and his eyes were bloodshot. He looked like a crazy psychopath. He stared at Kaxiu, his eyeballs bulging like goldfish, as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.
However, this did not scare Kaxiu. Kaxiu still looked at him expressionlessly, his blue eyes like a deep pool. As they stared at each other, they slowly spun and sank, the color getting darker and darker, until finally it was as black as ink.
Staring into those eyes was like staring into an abyss.
In the room, the prisoner who had entered a frenzy state shuddered all over, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him from head to toe. His bloodshot eyes suddenly became much clearer and more innocent. The man's crazy expression quickly subsided, and in a second he became harmless.
Under Kaxiu's cold gaze, he moved his feet back until his back rested against the thick iron wall. Only then did he feel a little safe. The man raised his hands and sneered like a fool.
The whole person dared not move, as if he was a puppet. If you look closely, you can find that he is not motionless, but his whole body is trembling slightly. It's just that the amplitude is too small and too restrained, so there is no clear expression. The man is even afraid to show his fear.
Not until the pair of eyes behind the iron door mirror moved away did the man dare to take a deep breath, as if he wanted to suck all the air out of the room.
"Who is that? The new director of the treatment center? So scary..."
At the same time, this situation also occurred in several other places on the first underground floor. The people in the room who were being watched by Kaxiu, whether they were in a state of madness or not, would behave very politely and well.
I didn't dare to make any big movements or make any noise.
This situation continued all the way to the second underground floor.
The prisoners here are even crazier and more insane. Their bodies have obvious signs of dark biological transformation, and it can be said that most of their humanity has been annihilated. But even so, they still maintain great vigilance and fear towards Kaxiu.
Although they were not as trembling as on the first floor, they still retreated frequently. Although Kaxiu did nothing, these prisoners maintained a defensive posture. Some even actively avoided Kaxiu's sight and tried to hide in the blind spots of the room. It was similar to the behavior of an ostrich.
Siegel, who witnessed the whole process, was amazed. If the prisoners on the first floor had reacted so violently, there would be similar cases. For example, the former director of the treatment center, Soul Scythe, could also make some prisoners on the first floor show fear. But the second floor was full of thugs and violent criminals. They were crazy and had no fear at all. Instead, their reactions were more violent.
However, in front of the new dean, Kashu, they were like a paper tiger that looked powerful but was actually weak. No, they were not even powerful, only weak. The fierce beasts did not dare to show their fangs, but just huddled in a corner where they felt safe. As long as the other party did not continue to press them, the fierce beasts were even willing to show some degree of submission.
In fact, this was the result of Kaxiu actively emitting his own aura.
Only prisoners who have been severely biomorphized by darkness can sense this magnetic field and smell. At this moment, it was as if a huge dark ultimate body was slowly walking through a dark jungle surrounded by wild beasts.
The vibration of the earth caused by stepping on it will make all the beasts flee in panic.
The group entered the third underground floor from the second underground floor.
While still on the stairs, in the dark and gloomy space on the third underground floor, four half-human, half-monster beings slowly opened their eyes. They all turned their heads and looked at the passage leading from the second underground floor to the third underground floor.
"Hehehe..."
"Sizzle..."
A sound like scales rubbing against metal slowly sounded, and a foul-smelling air stream came out of the scarlet throat, seeming to corrode all the air.
"Nine Snakes, do you mean that this person is not friendly?"
A low, suppressed voice responded from a cage. Although it was a complete sentence, the speaker seemed to be stuttering, pausing after one or two words to barely finish. The words also had a tremor, as if a lunatic was trying hard to suppress his illness and trying to speak like a human being.
"Half a year... Soul Scythe hasn't come for half a year! I really miss her..." The voice paused slightly: "Why not come, why not come~ I want to eat her, let her be with me forever..."
"No, I can't keep waiting like this! I can't stand it if I continue like this! I have to go find her, I must go find her..."
The voice became excited and the words became louder and louder.
“I want to escape from prison!
!”
"Let's see who dares!
!” An old voice sounded from the right.
"You dare to escape from prison right under my nose! Do you think that Odo, the deputy director of the treatment institute, is just a decoration? Fog Man! If you dare to step out of your room, I will arrest you... and then put you in the ascetic's cell for a whole day!"
"Oh! Odo, do you think I'm afraid of you? I'm going to break out of prison today!" In the room nicknamed the Fog Man, there seemed to be a sound of violent friction and expansion of air. The walls banged like waves hitting the sea.
"Are you questioning my methods!?"
From the next room, the sound of someone standing up and walking could be heard.
At this moment, a bright light suddenly appeared on the dim third floor. Three people, led by Kaxiu, walked out of the passage with bright torches in their hands. They lit an oil lamp hanging on the wall at intervals.
Suddenly, the entire third floor was enveloped in bright lights.
"There are four cages in total, numbered one to four."
Siegel introduced to Kaxiu: "Number four is the Mist Man, number three is my master Odo, number two is the Nine Snakes, and number one is the Ascetic Monk."
Kaxiu listened quietly, his eyes sweeping across the corridor. The doors of the four cages were actually transparent, but they had a steel texture. It seemed that they were maintained through the special abilities of some energy users.
Therefore, people outside can easily see what is going on inside.
In cage number four, there was half a person quietly suspended in the air. He only had the left half of his human body, and his skin was as white as a corpse. The right half was a ball of blood-red mist, rolling like a living thing.
Inside cage number three was a man dressed in hunter's attire, who looked to be between middle-aged and old, with gray hair and cloudy eyes.
Its body was not mutated, but it had eight exaggerated black spider legs on its back. They were very long, very sharp, and seemed to be poisonous. They almost covered the entire room and held the man in the air.
The second cage was the most severely transformed. The person was a giant snake covered with scales, with nine heads on top. Eight of them were relatively thin, like floating hair. The last one was a snake head with a human face, with a wide mouth and a blood-red oral cavity.
In cage number one, there was an old ape sitting cross-legged, with thick black hair all over his body. He was more than three meters tall, and his arms were as muscular as iron bars. There seemed to be a pattern of three layers of circles on his chest.
The ring seemed to be gathering power, glowing in circles from the inside out.
Kaxiu retracted his gaze and looked at Siegel next to him: "Give me the keys to the four cages. You and Thomas go back to the second underground floor, and remember to close the iron door between the second and third floor passages..."
Siegel was immediately shocked: "Dean Bai Kui, what are you going to do?"
"Haha, it's nothing. Actually, I'm still a doctor. My medical skills are very effective when dealing with patients with special conditions. Didn't you say that the treatment center is short of staff? Don't worry, there will be four capable thugs soon..."
Kaxiu, who is a skilled doctor, said this with a blank expression.