Chapter 165 A Familiar Face
The prisoner's face was obscured. She kept her head down, and her blonde hair, matted with grime, hung down, concealing her features.
Lei Shao could only discern she was a woman from her ample chest and the occasional moan that escaped her lips.
*Que sera, sera*. Lei Shao had always been good at adapting. A prison cell was still a room, prison food was still food, and at least he didn't have to sleep in the open, right?
Not bad.
Wan Lei piled up the straw on the ground and lay down in a comfortable position.
After lying there for a while, he felt he shouldn't be so relaxed. He should be anxious.
So, he stood up and paced back and forth in the cell with "anxiety."
"Are you going to talk or not? Where are the people coming to meet you?!"
*Smack!*
*Smack!*
Only three sounds echoed in the prison cell:
The guard's interrogation,
The sound of the whip whistling through the air before landing on the prisoner,
And the prisoner's low, muffled groan.
"Speak! Where did you hide the core nexus?!"
*Smack!*
Lei Shao's eyes lit up, and he stopped pacing.
Holy crap, was he really this lucky? Was the person next door really Selena?
At that moment, another guard walked into the cell next door.
"How is it? Still not talking?"
"Nope, this woman is as stubborn as they come. She hasn't said a word since she got here."
"Alright, alright, let's call it a day. I'm going back to sleep. I'm tired of hitting her every day. Look at her face; you've beaten it all to hell. I've lost my appetite."
"Oh, you still have the mood for that, huh? Should I fetch some water and clean her up for you so you can have some fun?"
"Forget it. How many times have we brothers had our way with her in the past two months? That thing down there is probably all messed up by now. No interest. Let's go."
"Alright then, what a pity. She's the only one who looks decent in this whole dungeon. Let's keep her around for later."
The two guards spoke as they walked out of the neighboring cell.
Their words filled Wan Lei with anger.
In his life, he hated people who raped women the most.
If he ever found out about such people, he would tear them to pieces.
What kind of skill was it to bully a weak woman?
As the two guards passed Wan Lei's cell, they glanced inside and suddenly saw Wan Lei glaring at them.
"Oh ho, what are you glaring at, kid? Glare again, and I'll gouge your eyes out!"
As he spoke, he kicked Wan Lei's cell door, and the iron bars rattled.
"He hasn't even changed into prison clothes yet. Remember to come and change him tomorrow and, while you're at it, give Selena next door another go."
"What kind of skill is it to bully a weak woman?"
The other guard grinned sinisterly, his gaze filled with greed as he looked at Wan Lei.
"A real man should go for men. This kid has fair skin and looks pretty good. When I change his clothes tomorrow, I'm going to give him a go."
Lei Shao's eyes widened when he heard this.
Holy crap, you're not satisfied with just going after women? You want to go after me too?
What an utter disgrace!
If I don't peel your skin off, I'm not a Wan!
"Alright, alright, whatever makes you happy. Let's go, let's go. Let's go upstairs and eat."
The two left the prison together. Wan Lei stared intently at their figures, engraving them in his mind. He planned to deal with these two first after rescuing Selena.
After the two left, the noise inside the prison gradually increased.
Not because anyone was talking, but because the chorus of snores was getting louder and louder.
Wan Lei looked around and quietly came to the boundary between his and Selena's cell, reaching out to grab the bars to speak.
Suddenly, he saw a flash of light on the bars.
It wasn't what he saw, but what the Array Eyes automatically observed. It was a trace of array dao rhythm.
Wan Lei's eyes turned into double pupils, and he looked at the prison cell. Hidden array light screens appeared in his eyes.
Heh, no wonder they dared to throw prisoners directly into the cell without removing their cultivation or adding any restraints. It turned out they were relying on this array.
Fortunately, it was an array.
"Selena, Selena."
Wan Lei was afraid of attracting attention by speaking, so he used his divine sense to transmit a message to Selena.
"Who is it?"
Selena suddenly raised her head, a trace of doubt in her dazed eyes.
Wan Lei could now see her face clearly. Her face was dirty, but from her three-dimensional features and slightly raised cheekbones, he could tell that she was probably quite beautiful.
It had been too long since Wan Lei had seen such a blonde, blue-eyed beauty. In Asgard in his previous life, such people were everywhere.
Now, suddenly seeing a woman who looked like she was from his hometown, he instinctively felt a sense of kinship and wanted to protect her.
Seeing her once-beautiful face covered in blood and dirt, and her blue eyes filled only with numbness, Wan Lei gritted his teeth in hatred, wishing he could tear those two people into pieces right away.
"Don't speak. You just need to think what you want to say in your mind. I can communicate with you in your consciousness."
Wan Lei knew that people in this world had no way to transmit messages through divine sense. To be specific, he, who was also a moral plane person in his previous life, had no way to transmit messages through divine sense.
"Are you an esper?"
Esper? What the hell is that? I am a cultivator.
For the first time, Lei Shao felt proud of his identity as a cultivator.
I can transmit messages, can you?
"Let's just say that, I'm here to save you."
"Save me? Heh, a shameless do-gooder? Seeing that coercion didn't work, you want to try another way to trick me?"
"I'm really not a do-gooder. Do you see the black gas on my body? I'm a sinner, just like you."
Hearing this, Selena hesitated slightly.
"Heh, how do I know you haven't been bribed by a do-gooder to betray me."
Now Wan Lei was in a bit of a dilemma. How could he make Selena believe him?
This wasn't part of the plan.
If Selena didn't trust him, she definitely wouldn't take him to find the core nexus.
The white-clothed youth also sat beside him, pondering with Wan Lei how to make Selena believe him.
It's worth mentioning that at this time, in the Law Enforcement Team headquarters, in the room where Fang Xiaoyu was being held, there was also a cold-faced youth in black, protecting her.
Yes, people named Xiaoyu shouldn't be bullied.
"If I break the array... the barrier of this prison, and release all the prisoners, would you believe me?"
"You can let all the prisoners go?"
Selena thought to herself that if that was really the case, maybe he really was here to save her.
After all, even a do-gooder wouldn't dare to release all the prisoners to wreak havoc on the whole city.
"I can."
Wan Lei was killing two birds with one stone. Releasing all the prisoners would first gain Selena's trust, and second, allow him to escape in the chaos.
When that time came, all the law enforcement officers in the city would probably be chasing after the prisoners, and he would be in a better position to take Selena to find the core nexus.
"Okay, do it. If you do, I'll believe you."
Wan Lei nodded, his eyes turned into double pupils, and the entire prison array was in full view.