After a moment, the ghostly hand brushed past my shoulder, lightly touching my neck before moving elsewhere.

I estimated that the ghost had moved far enough away before I finally relaxed.

Ye Yang transmitted his voice: "Good thing you didn't move! Just now, there were no less than ten ghosts surrounding us."

I responded, "What are those things?"

"I don't know!" Ye Yang said, "They feel like corpses that have been tampered with. Someone has blocked the road here."

I also transmitted my voice: "Are you saying that 'Iron Prison' is the name of this prison?"

Tie Lao (Iron Prison) is a general term for prisons.

Any heavily guarded prison can be called an "Iron Prison."

I asked Ye Yang the name of this prison because I wanted to know exactly where we had entered.

Ye Yang said, "The map on the wall has the words 'Tie Lao' written on it. Do you suspect this is one of the Twelve Prisons?"

"Yes!" I had once heard Jiu Gui (Nine Ghosts) say, "Better to go to the Yama King's Palace than enter the Twelve Prisons. If this is really one of the Twelve Prisons, our chances of getting out are slim."

The Twelve Prisons refer to twelve special prisons in the Jianghu (martial world).

These prisons were not built at the same time, or even in the same dynasty.

Some prisons have become legends of the sorcerous arts, while others are still in use.

As a notorious Jiangyang (bandit), Jiu Gui would naturally pay special attention to the Twelve Prisons.

Jiu Gui studied the Twelve Prisons not only to prevent himself from actually falling into one and having a way to escape, but also because he wanted the things within them.

According to them, the people imprisoned in the Twelve Prisons were of such great importance and fame that it would exceed your imagination. Although those people couldn't get out, they would definitely leave something behind before they died. Getting those things would make you rich.

I had asked Jiu Gui about the Twelve Prisons, and they said that they didn't dare enter the ones that were still in use, and they didn't know where the abandoned ones were, so they never really experienced the Twelve Prisons before they died. They could only study the legends of the Twelve Prisons to satisfy their cravings.

There was no Tie Lao among the Twelve Prisons.

But I don't know why, I always felt that the Tie Lao I was in was one of them.

Before Ye Yang could ask me, I said, "There must be something in this prison that the Reincarnation Division desperately wants. Otherwise, they wouldn't have sent an undercover agent to lurk in the prison."

"The death warrior who died in the killing array must have been in the prison for a long time. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to establish prestige among the prisoners."

"I also think that the timing of interrupting my negotiations with Old Bone was a bit strange."

"He didn't want to stop me from cooperating with Old Bone, but he was afraid that Old Bone would say something that would make us change our goals."

"The Reincarnation Division has always been good at planning long-term. If my judgment is correct, even if we don't get out for now, we have to get our hands on what the Reincarnation Division wants."

While I was transmitting my voice to Ye Yang, I was startled by a strange noise suddenly coming from above my head.

I couldn't describe what the sound was, but I could distinguish the screams mixed in with the strange noise.

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "The prison cells above have been destroyed. If the people above don't come down, they will all die."

"The people trapped in the Tie Lao don't dare to try to escape even if they get the map, not because they can't understand the map, but because some of them understand it too well."

"If you want to fight for a chance of survival in the Tie Lao, you must first activate the Tie Lao's self-destruction mechanism."

"After the mechanism is activated, the Tie Lao will start from the top layer and gradually become a dead zone layer by layer. The prisoners in the cells will be strangled to death, and the traces of the Tie Lao prisoners' existence will be gradually erased."

"The person who designed the Tie Lao deliberately left time for the guards to check whether all the prisoners had been killed and to escape."

"If there are no other obstacles on the escape route, according to the map, there will be enough time to escape. Moreover, each layer of the Tie Lao has safe landing points left."

I was shocked when I heard this and said, "Did the person who released the map want the prisoners not to run? Or did they want them to run?"

"If, according to what you said, all the cell doors should be locked after the mechanism is activated, only in this way can all the prisoners be killed."

"After you activated the mechanism, didn't all the cell doors here open? Isn't this obviously letting the prisoners escape?"

Ye Yang said, "That's what I can't figure out! The reason why those prisoners don't dare to run is also because there is such a contradiction between the map and reality, so they don't dare to try it easily."

"Moreover, the more people who see the map, the less the people behind dare to move."

"They are afraid that after they activate the mechanism to release people, they will be beaten to death first by those prisoners who are unwilling to gamble their lives."

I said to myself, "So that's how it is!"

"When they come down later, let's find a way to get Old Bone and Ban Jie Ta (Half Pagoda) away separately first. I want to see what that secret agent of the Reincarnation Division is trying to hide?"

Su Su said, "Isn't the prison cell above starting to self-destruct? Why haven't they come down yet? Could there be another accident?"