Chapter 204 - Chapter 204: Chapter 196: Madness! (1/2)

Chapter 204: Chapter 196: Madness!

In the gloomy prison, time seemed to have halted, and the dried bloodstains on the ground were laden with heaviness.

The prison guards routinely began to check each cell, but when they reached the cell of the deceased, they quickly discovered something astonishing.

“Eh, where’s the person?”

To their surprise, that person had vanished! What was more terrifying was the considerable amount of fresh blood remaining on the floor!

“What in the world is going on?”

“The person has disappeared, and there’s only a lot of blood left on the ground, quickly go and notify the Warden and the prison director…”

Upon learning of the situation, the Warden instantly realized something was amiss and said:

“Check all the cells, see if anyone else has escaped, and be careful! There could be Extraordinary Exponents who can move freely around!”

He sharply sensed that there might have been a jailbreak, after all, a living person turning into a pool of blood suggested the possible involvement of extraordinary power.

“We’ve found a body here, no, just some partial remains!”

“Ah! I’ve found some here too!”

“Damn, that’s disgusting!”

The crowd was shocked to find a corpse in one cell, and then more bodies in several other cells, the remains scattered everywhere, with no one having any idea how they got there.

They immediately checked the status of all the Extraordinary Exponents, and none of the alchemically crafted shackles on them had been broken; evidently, the problem was not with the Extraordinary Exponent prisoners.

Everyone felt something eerie and sinister was at play, and with many mysterious beings in the world, people couldn’t help but speculate if some ghost or demon was causing trouble.

Indeed, it was not impossible; sometimes places where the dead were numerous and bodies amassed could give rise to spectral beings like Specters.

Rumors of mysterious beings gradually spread, but such a rumor alone could not shake the minds of many in a short period.

Then, in the following days, sometimes there would suddenly be another death in the prison, and sometimes nothing would happen at all.

Even though the prison guards were on vigilant watch outside the cells almost every day, they had no clue how these people were dying.

Often, they’d only hear a scream, rush in, and then be greeted by a corpse!

How was the murderer committing these locked-room killings?

No one knew the truth.

But fear began to rise in the depths of everyone’s hearts.

People grew increasingly anxious, many prisoners feared they might be the next to die, trembling and praying each time they returned to their cells after work.

With the already extremely oppressive environment of the great prison, it wasn’t long until several prisoners suddenly broke under the pressure during mining work.