Lin Yi and a strange prison guard beside him walked quietly in the corridor leading to the exit. The cameras on both sides silently rotated slowly as they moved.
The atmosphere was silent and no one spoke.
Lin Yi's mind was filled with chaotic thoughts when he suddenly heard the footsteps beside him disappear.
He subconsciously grasped the baton, tucked his right hand into his sleeve, grasped another cold object, and then cautiously and with minimal movement turned half sideways to look behind him.
"Don't be nervous." The other party stood there leisurely, stretched out his hand, held the remote control, and pressed a few buttons towards the camera.
The red light in the camera flickered slightly and then dimmed.
Lin Yi raised his eyebrows, withdrew his hand, and let it hang to his side.
"So blatant?"
"Not really." The other party threw the remote control in his hand to him: "This is for you... But you won't be able to use it, right?" The prison guard smiled and explained the fact: "After all, you are going to the third floor."
Lin Yi took the remote control and quickly checked the power behind the other party in his mind. He was a prison guard - he used official channels and had a surveillance remote control - he was extremely powerful and arrogant.
Lin Yi came to a conclusion.
"Starfleet?"
"As expected, he is a cunning fox who has become the confidant of the president of Nian Luo Club in just a few years... Seeing is believing, he is indeed amazing."
Lin Yi had no interest in being polite with the other party and went straight to the point: "What's the matter?"
"Don't get me wrong, it's just a coincidence, I just want to say hello to you." The other person cast his eyes towards the corridor behind them: "I'm here to give you a gift."
Lin Yi looked at him expressionlessly.
"But before giving a gift, you should always know the other person's preferences..." The other person looked at Lin Yi and raised his eyebrows: "Why do you have such an expression?"
The Starfleet Force did intervene. Ever since the doctor came into contact with the madman, Lin Yi knew that they would intervene sooner or later, but there is a difference between knowing clearly and facing the reality with certainty.
For example, for the former, you can use the ostrich mentality and pretend that you know nothing.
The latter means that he must face the increasingly chaotic situation of the forces around Jiang Yiyi - this is not an optimistic development for his mission.
"Hey, Fox, you are not naive enough to think that you can control the situation, right?" The other party took two steps closer and patted Lin Yi on the shoulder: "You think too highly of yourself."
Lin Yi glanced at the hand on his shoulder.
The other party raised his hand: "Don't be nervous, there is no plan to kill anyone in my mission."
"You didn't find out?" Lin Yi asked back.
The other party showed a regretful expression: "The doctor hid himself too well."
"Even you can't find out..." Lin Yi murmured to himself, shocked by Jiang Yiyi's hidden past.
What kind of power could be so foolproof? It was as if the doctor was really the incompetent, stupid and ordinary Jiang Yiyi in the file.
"Although I really want to talk to you more, I'm in a hurry." The other party urged Lin Yi: "You have been with the doctor for a while, so you can't be so ignorant of his preferences, right?"
Lin Yi quickly went through the memories related to Jiang Yiyi, extracting useful information from the flashing images.
“He loves to do surgery.”
The other party waited patiently for a while, and suddenly realized: "No more?" He looked at Lin Yi, and his tone was full of disappointment: "This kind of preference does not need to be investigated, just ask any prisoner on the second floor and you will know."
Lin Yi looked at the other person and said frankly: "When you came to ask me, you should have known it clearly."
"Doctors have no desires, no preferences, no weaknesses."
The other party sighed: "This is really a very difficult person to please."
Lin Yi glanced at the corridor behind him that was almost shrouded in darkness: "A friendly reminder, you can ask him directly." Lin Yi smiled, with the gloating pleasure of watching a unlucky person: "Maybe you will get the answer you want."
"Your gloating..." The other person's expression became indescribable: "It's too obvious."
"Maybe it's because the act of talking to the doctor itself..." Lin Yi smiled brightly at him: "It's very sympathetic."
The other party was silent for two seconds, then turned his head to look at the heavy and dark corridor behind him.
"Then I have to prepare well." He turned his head and looked at Lin Yi: "Let's go, we have stayed here long enough, the butcher's patience is almost at its limit."
They headed back toward the exit.
"Speaking of the butcher..." Lin Yi mentioned casually, "He holds this position very securely."
"You want to replace him?" The other party glanced at Lin Yi and said, "Don't dream."
“It’s not like there’s no precedent for managers being replaced.”
"There is a precedent, but that was on the sixth floor." The other party did not mind providing Lin Yi with some information: "This is the second floor."
"Nian Luohui's understanding of the Star Prison is very limited, which is not a good thing if you still want to go on." The other party stopped at the door and asked: "Do you know the Star Prison Warden?"
Star Warden? The most mysterious person in the entire alliance, he existed in rumors and legends, and there was no real information that could be confirmed, which almost made people doubt whether he really existed.
"Don't understand?" The other party looked at his expression and came to a conclusion: "I'm giving you a piece of advice. Don't break the rules."
"Because the Star Warden doesn't like it."
"Inspection passed." The detection machine made a sound, and a green light came on above the closed door. The door separating the confinement room from the outside slowly opened.
There was no sound in the silent darkness.
Deathly silence is the theme song here, and fear is its little seasoning, silently destroying the will and heart of the prisoners.
No matter how powerful a human being is, he cannot remain absolutely calm in the silent darkness - there is not a sound, not a trace of light, as if the world is left with only endless silence, abandoned, isolated, shrouded in darkness, breeding despair.
In verbal descriptions, people always take it for granted that - Ah, of course I can get through it - although they never think about what the words that are lightly described in their imagination actually mean in reality.
However, this is just a small bad trait of human beings and is not worthy of criticism - among the countless bad traits of human beings, there are far more worthy of criticism than this.
At this moment, in the darkness and silence, footsteps suddenly sounded.
Jiang Yiyi stopped and turned to look at the door of the confinement room.
The door of the confinement room did not have outstanding soundproofing, but because no one entered here, the atmosphere of silence could be barely maintained. To be honest, Jiang Yiyi really wanted to suggest to the butcher to buy a door with better soundproofing - a confinement room that could not be soundproofed was too unworthy of its name.
The footsteps gradually approached and finally stopped at the door.
Jiang Yiyi withdrew his gaze and continued his actions - the blade slashed across the non-existent figure, decomposing and reassembling it in an orderly manner.
In the boring confinement room, this can be considered an interesting pastime.
"Doctor?" A strange voice sounded politely.
"I'm A." The other party introduced himself: "I came here specially to express my gratitude."
Jiang Yiyi stopped and asked, "Thank you?"
"Ningsha has been very happy during this period thanks to the doctor's care."
When the name entered Jiang Yiyi's ears, the file appeared in her mind - the file of a madman.
"But the doctor's preferences are a little hard to predict. I can't be sure what gift can fully express our gratitude." A's choice of words was extremely restrained, completely different from how he was in front of Lin Yi. He was so polite that no one could find fault with him.
"Gift..." Jiang Yiyi repeated the word, and the first thought that came to his mind was: Is there any need to ask this? Of course, it was to release me from the Star Prison.
However, this thought had just appeared and had not yet circled Jiang Yiyi's mind when it disappeared from Jiang Yiyi's mind at a speed faster than when it appeared.
In fact, he is quite interested in the lower levels of the Star Prison...
Jiang Yiyi was silent for a moment. She never expected that one day she would be struggling with the issue of whether to be released from prison or not - this question itself has proved one thing.
Those things that have been ignored can no longer be ignored - who is Jiang Yiyi
who is he.
Jiang Yiyi paused for a few seconds, and sighed softly as countless thoughts emerged in an instant.
“You can’t give me what I want.”
This was not surprising - they knew this when they found nothing in Jiang Yiyi's file.
a admitted this frankly: "But we really want to express our gratitude."
"What else?" Jiang Yiyi looked up at the darkness and asked casually.
"And..." His Adam's apple moved slightly, and he asked the key question: "Can Ningsha be cured?"
Jiang Yiyi raised the corner of her mouth - when you give a gift to someone, you must ask for something in return. For them, it was certainly a good thing that the madman did not go to the third floor, but it was not good enough for them to come and see Jiang Yiyi specially.
The reason why they can achieve this is naturally because they have further requests.
But Jiang Yiyi was not interested in their request at all.
"You don't have the leverage to impress me."
a was silent for a few seconds and changed his plan: "Madman... No, Ningsha, he is the best soldier and has saved countless lives. No matter what, he should not be like this now, trampling on the glory of the past and spending his life in a muddle..."
Jiang Yiyi was a little impatient: "Let's end this conversation now."
This was undoubtedly a failed conversation, just as he had expected before stepping in here.
Before leaving, a hesitated for a few seconds, but couldn't help but said, "But there is one thing I'm curious about."
"Why did the doctor go against the lone wolf?"
"Because... I'm a good person?" Jiang Yiyi couldn't be as sure as before when she said this.
"Then why don't you just be a good person to the end? In this way, you will gain the friendship of the Starfleet Force, which will bring many conveniences to your subsequent actions." A patiently waited for the result: "It's a hundred benefits with no harm, isn't it?"
Jiang Yiyi lost interest in continuing the conversation, and her tone revealed a bit of impatience: "I don't like others to make decisions for me."
He is really a difficult person to please.
a muttered in his heart and wanted to say something, but suddenly there was a slight sound in the silent darkness, like a blade hitting something metal, making a crisp sound.
aSubconsciously looked towards the closed door of the confinement room.
The door was illuminated by the dim light in the corridor.
The crisp sounds rang out one after another.
a watched it in silence.
The only sound in the corridor was the constant sound of crisp collisions, which connected into a discordant melody and squeaked out.
"Beep - Meng Jian, you are overtime, come out immediately."
It was silent.
"Meng Jian, please reply if you get it."
The crisp collision sound suddenly stopped.
a blinked, his eyelashes drooped, the light from the corridor came back in, the darkness faded, he took a deep breath, and to the sound of his rapidly beating heart, he realized what he was holding in his hand.
He looked down.
The door handle of the detention room came into his sight.
a slowly raised his head and stared at the door that was so close in front of him. Suddenly he realized what had just happened, let go of his hand and took a few steps back.
"Meng Jian, are you okay? Can you still answer me?" The voice in the communicator became more and more urgent.
"He sounds like he's very anxious." Jiang Yiyi's voice broke the silence.
a pressed the communicator, but the conversation did not start. He pressed it again, but there was still no response. Then he realized that his hands had no strength at all.
"Meng Jian..."
"I'm fine..." a walked out quickly, his words were a little sluggish at first, but soon became a sentence: "I'll be out right away."
"What happened? Something went wrong in this conversation?"
a didn't answer him. He walked faster and faster, leaving the endless darkness completely behind.
It was not until the light shone on him and completely drove away the darkness that his answer came from the communicator that was still connected.
“Don’t approach the doctor.”
"what happened?"
“He is a capable person.”
"What—are you sure?"
a stood in the sun and solemnly warned the other party: "Don't interfere in the doctor's affairs."
"This must be reported..."
a raised his voice: "The doctor is already in the Star Prison."
There was silence on the other end of the communicator for a few seconds: "But for him, the third floor is..."
"I repeat, don't interfere with the doctor's affairs." A pressed his chest, his heart still beating rapidly. It was not so much that he was still afraid, but rather... it couldn't stop at all.
"Unless you want to make the same mistake again."
Jiang Yiyi picked up the blade on the ground and looked at the door of the confinement room. There were some faint scratches on the heavy door, which were almost unnoticeable.
He moved his fingers slightly, turning the blade habitually, and smiled softly.
On the screen in front of him, a long-awaited notification came.
The psychology level has risen from elite to master level.