I'm a villain, not a devil

The closer you get to the bottom of the underground cell, the stronger the strange smell of blood in the air becomes.

Along the way, Sean counted carefully. From the third underground floor to the second underground floor, a total of 19 prisoners have died.

Most of them look like crazy beasts, which is probably why they were locked up. Sean didn't know the other prisoners who still looked like humans, but from some details, it can be seen that they were all strong men at the Crimson level when they were alive.

It is worth mentioning that 18 of the 19 prisoners are pure vetoers, and they have no traces of prosthetic modification.

The only one left has only one arm with traces of modification.

This is a bit strange... After being promoted to Crimson, the number of vetoers is indeed greater than that of the weak, but the ratio is about two to one, unlike here where basically all are vetoers.

There may be a connection between them, but Sean has not found the key point yet.

Continuing to move forward, Sean can already see the entrance to the last underground floor, and there is a unique cell at the entrance.

The cell looked like a giant peach, with its edges connected to the walls, and pipe-like devices extending deep into the walls.

When you get closer, you can see that the giant ‘peach’ is divided into four parts, and something like a diaphragm forms the wall.

Heart... Sean subconsciously had this idea.

This special cell in front of him looked like an enlarged heart.

He got closer, and became more certain of his idea.

The four chambers of the left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, and right ventricle. The left and right atria and the left and right ventricles are separated by partitions, so they are not connected to each other, and there are valves between the atria and ventricles.

Although the shape is very abstract, it is indeed a heart, and this can be confirmed by looking at the location of the valve pathway and the ‘blood vessels’ connection.

When you get closer, the smell of blood suddenly reaches the peak. There is no handle or chain on the door of the heart cell, and you don’t know how to open it.

However, the sound of blood flowing in the dungeon has reached Sean’s ears.

He looked at the pipes in surprise. As expected, the blood inside was flowing.

"Could it be that... all the lost blood was concentrated here?"

But what is the role of this heart here?

Sean involuntarily cast his eyes towards the entrance of the last underground floor.

Just after taking a few steps, suddenly, a "bang" sounded.

Sean looked back in surprise. He finally knew what the loud noise he heard on the fourth floor was.

It was the sound of a beating heart...

Just now, the heart cell twitched violently, making a deafening heartbeat.

Somehow, Sean had an illusion.

This heart seemed to prevent him from approaching the underground floor?

Could it be that this heart was the key to the underground floor?

He cast his eyes towards Xiao Ci, who silently closed his eyes and felt it, then shook his head: "I didn't notice anything wrong, and this heart was suppressed by the defense force of the Black Pigeon Prison. Brother, the oppression you felt before may have come from it."

Sean frowned slightly. This heart was obviously shocking him before it was oppressed, but now it was faintly reminding him not to open the door to the underground floor?

The previous and subsequent actions are conflicting...

Moreover, the blood that beats this heart comes from the prisoners here and the people who died in Black Pigeon before, which is what the tree people want to see.

This means that the tree people want to make this heart beat again?

It's really strange...

Finally, Sean still cast his eyes towards the door to the underground floor.

Just in case, he confirmed it again: "Can we open it as before?"

Xiao Ci nodded: "I'm still suppressing it."

Repeated the previous operation, and in the process, the heart next to it beat heavily again, as if trying to stop Sean.

Sean ignored it, and the door to the last floor was opened without any obstruction.

The bloody smell remained.

And the moment the door opened, Sean felt that he was being stared at by a terrifying beast.

Different from the oppression he had felt before, if you have to distinguish the difference, the oppression he felt before had an indescribable taste of madness. And the oppression he felt now also had the meaning of madness, but there was also an inexplicable sense of purification in it.

This purification seemed to be purifying madness, and it seemed to purify Sean together.

Xiao Ci behind Sean shouted and reminded him instantly: "Brother, there are creatures inside, and I can't suppress them!"

Xiao Ci couldn't use the basic defense power of the black pigeon to suppress it, which meant that the thing inside was also part of the black pigeon.

As his thoughts flashed, the sound of the giant moving slowly sounded in the underground layer.

In the darkness, a huge mouth first appeared in front of Sean. He saw at a glance that the dead prisoners in front were bitten in two by this mouth!

Plague saliva?!

"Gurgle...Gurgle..." A sound like blood foam frothing in the throat sounded, and the whole picture of the big mouth appeared in front of Sean.

Is that... a tree?

To be precise, it is a tree man.

The tree man was huge, with a big mouth full of sharp teeth on its abdomen, and the trunk around the big mouth was full of dark red blood stains.

The tree man's eyes could not be seen, but only the dense fruits that looked like magnified cells were hanging on the tree man's branches.

"Purify... transform..."

The tree man trembled and uttered two words, and then he was about to pounce on Sean.

Sean, who had been prepared for a long time, was about to take action, but suddenly, the tree man's forward movement stopped in place.

It slowly turned its body, and the cell-like fruits hanging on the branches trembled and fell to the ground and turned into small saplings. As soon as the saplings landed, they turned into monsters with their mouths wide open, but they did not attack, but rolled on the ground in pain.

"What's going on..." Sean was of course prepared to encounter danger when he ventured deeper, but the actions of the tree man in front of him did not bring him too much sense of threat.

The attack action just now was indeed made, but it stopped in an instant... Why...

Sean protected Xiao Ci behind him, and the latter poked his head out and looked at this strange tree man curiously.

"Did you suppress it?" Sean asked.

Xiao Ci shook his head: "It is not the suppressed part."

Then my guess is right, this tree man is part of the black pigeon's defense force... that is, the guard code-named Plague Saliva.

No, according to the shape of this guy, it should also be a tree man clan, so the previous attack of the tree man clan was to release this guy, right? How could the tree man merge with the black pigeon?

"Brother, look at it below." Xiao Ci reminded.

Sean looked at it and his pupils suddenly shrank.

The tree man's roots supported the ground as feet, but there were a lot of dense black lines wrapped around those roots.

Black lines like nematodes are wrapped around the roots of the tree man. They are frantically trying to get into the tree man's body. You can see traces of them winding around on the wooden body.

Is this... the "parasite" of the residents of the imperial capital?

When Sean first arrived in the imperial capital, he found that his deceitful heart would always encounter obstacles when he tried to test it. That's because most of the people in the imperial capital have some kind of power in their bodies that can "fight" the erosion of the etheric body.

After many experiments, Sean found this thing in the bodies of the people in the imperial capital.

These black nematode-like things exist in large numbers in the bodies of the people in the imperial capital, and their function is very simple, which is to make the people in the imperial capital always maintain absolute loyalty and absolute awe for His Majesty the Emperor.

In other words, this can be regarded as a means for the emperor to control the hearts of the people.

Moreover, this method is not the same for people of different levels in the imperial capital.

For ordinary people in the imperial capital, these black nematodes exist in almost everyone's body, and they respect His Majesty the Emperor from the bottom of their hearts.

And for some marginal people in society, such as thieves and gangs, this thing is much less.

For civil servants, the higher the rank, the fewer black nematodes there are - that almost means that the higher your social status in the empire, the less you fear the emperor.

However, people with higher status have more access to the emperor, and they still maintain enough fear without the influence of black nematodes.

Of course, it is also possible that the higher the status, the easier it is to be discovered.

In addition to maintaining fear of the emperor, Sean did not find any other effects of this black nematode.

The relevant information channels are all from Zhu Zhu's parents, so Sean has not paid too much attention to it during this period of time - after all, he does not have this thing in his body.

However, what Sean did not expect was that the black nematodes that he had not cared about for a long time actually appeared on this strange tree man, and it looked like the black nematodes were trying their best to erode the tree man.

"Brother, there." Xiao Ci pointed again, and she seemed to be able to clearly see the direction of the black nematodes.

Sean looked over and found that the black nematodes were not eroding the tree man as a single life form, but spreading from somewhere else.

And the end of the black nematode... Sean looked up and saw a hand, a hand tightly bound by branches and cell fruits. The hand was almost like a mummy and was severely corroded.

Was it the branches and fruits that corroded it?

Is this the prisoner imprisoned on the last floor? Or is it not the prisoner, but the guard plague that was corroded in turn?

Sean subconsciously raised his head to look up.

Suddenly, a rapid ringing sounded in his heart.

The half pointer that had merged into the body appeared on Sean's retina for the first time like a projection.

The pointer... is reminding me... not to look?

Is it some unimaginable pollution that will affect even me after I look at it?

When Sean was thinking, suddenly, he and Xiao Ci raised their heads at the same time.

The whole prison suddenly shook!

Was it caused by me? But I didn't do anything...

Xiao Ci closed his eyes and felt it, then immediately said: "Brother, the basic defense force here is inexplicably lost, I don't know why... Wait, someone with the authority to this place is opening the restrictions here!"

Xiao En was stunned, and then he cursed: "Damn Bai Zhan, you didn't even give your third brother the last chance, right?"

The black pigeon shook more violently, and even a strong sense of weightlessness came up, as if the whole prison was about to spread its wings and fly away as its name suggests.

"My adventure is always interrupted by the gate." Sean yelled with a curse. He took a last look at the tree man who was still stagnant in the same place, and then hugged Xiao Ci.

After the defense force was completely lost, Xiao Ci's suppression would be useless. At that time, no matter who was the plague between the tree man and the person tied behind him, he would be unlucky if he stood here.

When he ran out of the underground floor, as expected, the heart cell began to vibrate violently, and Sean could even see that the blood in the wall began to flow violently.

Blood began to flow here from above...

Sean frowned tightly and ran quickly outside.

"Sean, what happened? The other prisoners in the cell are screaming for some reason!" Seeing Sean running out, Zhu Zhu shouted immediately.

Sean took a casual look and found that a large number of black nematodes had emerged from the cells where the prisoners were held. The nematodes were eroding the prisoners. They were frantically self-harming, and blood was spilling and flowing into the pipes along the corners of the cells.

Sure enough, the blood was flowing back into the heart... The black nematodes and the heart of the cell were one. Was the tree man going to liberate them?

The earl and his wife were too weak and had lost their minds too much, so they were not affected too much by the black nematodes at this time.

Sean hooked his finger, and the nematodes wrapped around the earl and his wife shook and turned into a cloud of mist.

"I don't even need to open the door. The defense force here is losing. Take your parents and Zhu Zhu, let's go."

"Okay!"

Several people were pulled by Zhu Zhu into the shiny buttons. Sean walked forward quickly. In front of him, Lam was holding Bai You tightly.

Bai You was also eroded by the black nematodes. He wanted to hurt himself, but was stopped by Lam.

"Bai You, Bai You, wake up!"

"Wake up, what the hell." Sean walked over and slapped Bai You in the face.

Bai You, who was still crazy, was stunned on the spot. As soon as he lowered his head, he saw the black nematodes crawling out of his body and trembling and turning into a black mist.

He looked up and saw his mother looking at the man in admiration.

"Sean..." Bai You was stunned.

Sean smiled: "The savior is here. I don't want you to call me dad. It's not too much to call me Uncle Xiao, right?"

"Uncle Xiao... No!" Bai You finally reacted. He looked at him in disbelief, "My mother said that you saved me, it's all true..."

"Nonsense."

"But what happened now?"

"Why are you standing there? This is nonsense. Your dear brother doesn't want the third prince to get away safely."

As they spoke, suddenly several people rushed up together under the influence of huge force, almost hitting the ceiling here directly.

Sean held Lam with one hand and used the other hand to randomly hook Bai You's body to stabilize it.

And the force just now continued.

"This is not right..."

Sean smashed the wall next to him with a punch, and then saw that the soil and concrete were "falling" rapidly.

The underground cell was rising!