Because of Zhao Jingning's words, the atmosphere on the scene instantly became tense.
A group of people stared intently at Shen Jiahe.
Before she could make a move, a sudden sound of footsteps came from behind her.
Following that, a voice spoke: "They should be in the office upstairs!"
"Go, catch the escaped convicts! Execute them on the spot!"
Everyone immediately realized that the Prison Guards had returned.
Zhao Jingning's face turned pale, and he looked at Ding Dong.
Ding Dong made a decision immediately, "Run! Get out of here."
With that said, the group of people, well-trained and orderly, immediately turned and ran.
The Prison Guards were also very fast; as soon as the voice fell, they pushed the door open and entered.
The two sides happened to collide head-on.
Well, now there was no escaping even if they wanted to.
The people in Ding Dong's team had extremely good coordination; seeing that they couldn't escape and needed to confront them head-on, they immediately assumed attacking postures.
After seeing the people, the Prison Guards' eyes instantly turned bloodshot, their faces began to split, and they opened their gaping maws.
Hmm...
Although she had watched many horror films at Lin Yuanzhou's instigation, seeing this scene in reality was still quite shocking.
It was just a bit ugly...
Because Ding Dong's group was clustered together, attracting the attention of the Prison Guards, Shen Jiahe took advantage of this opportunity and quickly detoured to escape.
Inside, it immediately devolved into chaos.
Shen Jiahe hadn't run two steps when the system sound in her mind rang out: "Player triggered a hidden mission: Find the reason for your imprisonment and state the method of atonement. Reward: A random gift package."
The reason for imprisonment? And a method of atonement?!
Generally, this kind of information should be in the File Room.
However, Shen Jiahe had no time to think much; she was busy escaping for her life.
With Ding Dong and his group providing a diversion, no monsters came out to chase Shen Jiahe.
Shen Jiahe ran upstairs.
The higher she went, the darker the stairs became.
As she was fumbling her way up, the lights around the staircase suddenly lit up, and they were warm yellow lights.
The originally dark and terrifying atmosphere instantly disappeared.
Under the effect of the lights, the scene of the staircase came into view.
When she first came up, the stairs were those cold and rigid stone stairs.
Now they had become rustic wooden stairs.
It felt like she had traveled through time.
The right side of the stairs was a wall, and many paintings hung on the wall.
Shen Jiahe glanced at the paintings on the wall; the art style was very eerie. The painting closest to her depicted a smiling female loli, but the loli had blood flowing from her seven orifices.
Further back was a painting of a burly man with a dog's head, the dog's head open-mouthed, revealing fangs.
All the paintings exuded an eerie feeling.
Fortunately, Shen Jiahe had seen too many such scenes and felt no fear.
It was just that the more she walked, the more confused she became.
She couldn't help but murmur, "Where is Lin Yuanzhou's office..."
After murmuring, Shen Jiahe continued to walk up, but after only two steps, she saw a striking sign on the wall.
Yes, striking!! A sign!!!
This sign even glowed green, like an escape sign in a mall.
It was hard for anyone not to see it.
Shen Jiahe: "..."
No!!! In such a rustic place, is it appropriate for a sign to appear?! Is it reasonable?!
The sign also had words written on it: 'Warden's Office'.
An arrow followed it.
Meaning for her to go up.
Shen Jiahe hesitated for a moment but still followed the sign upstairs.
After Shen Jiahe left, the paintings hanging on the wall suddenly came alive and began to chatter.
"Is this the boss's wife? She's quite pretty, isn't she!"
"I smelled her from a distance and thought the boss had arrived, which scared me into immediately becoming dignified. I didn't expect a woman to come."
The ghost loli rubbed her somewhat stiff smile, "I even specially smiled to welcome her~ I wonder if Big Sister-in-law saw it~"
"Hmph, how could you be as sensible as me? I directly transformed into a sign!"
"Hey, tell me, is the boss serious? He actually married a human wife. Will she become the master of the monsters after this?"
"The scent is so strong, he must be serious. I never thought the boss would have a day when he finally falls in love."
"No wonder the boss has been making clones recently; he wants to finish early and go dating!"
Along the way, the corridor was lit, and warm indicator lights were posted on the walls, giving Shen Jiahe the illusion of shopping.
The originally boundless corridor, after she ascended about two floors, revealed a large door.
The door was ajar and opened with a gentle push.
Compared to the rustic feel of the corridor, the office area inside the door seemed much more normal.
Modern decor, with signs on each door indicating the office name and personnel.
Shen Jiahe walked inside, looking at the personnel list hanging on the wall.
She thought of finding the File Room by looking at the words on the doors.
The office area was eerily quiet, with only the sound of Shen Jiahe's footsteps throughout.
The File Room was at the very end of the corridor, an iron door, rusty but with a slight reflection.
Shen Jiahe reached out and touched it, finding the iron door wet, as if it had just been wiped?
Shen Jiahe: "..."
Are monsters so clean now?
They don't forget to wipe the door even when chasing people!
She reached out and twisted the doorknob, but the door didn't open.
It seemed she still needed to find the key.
The monsters A, B, C, and D hiding behind saw this scene and immediately regretted, "We were so busy wiping the bloodstains just now! We forgot to open the door!"
"Yes, this is our hidden mission. Usually, the keys are hidden very deeply; it would take a day or two to find them," another monster said.
The several monsters looked at each other.
They started scratching their heads, trying to come up with an idea.
"What should we do? If she really takes that long to find it, won't it mess things up?"
"Perhaps, the faster this mission is completed, the more rewards there will be. If our boss finds out that we wasted his wife's time, what if he beats us later?"
"You go get the key, and we'll pretend to accidentally drop it in front of her."
As soon as this was said, everyone present nodded.
So, while Shen Jiahe was busy looking for the key, she stepped on something protruding.
She looked down and saw a key.
Shen Jiahe: "..."
She bent down to pick up the key, her mouth twitching uncontrollably.
This was too smooth...
Could this key, stepped on by chance, just happen to be the key to the File Room?
Shen Jiahe took the key back to the File Room and inserted it.
With a 'click'.
It really opened for her.
It felt like playing a game with cheats...
Opening the door, the File Room was pitch black. Just as Shen Jiahe was about to grope for the light switch, the lights in the room suddenly came on.
These lights were 'mind-controlled'; they lit up when they wanted to, truly sensible.
The File Room was full of iron shelves, densely stacked with file bags wrapped in kraft paper.
They were categorized by the time of imprisonment.
Shen Jiahe walked towards the 2024 section and casually rummaged through them.
After flipping through a few, she actually found a file bag with her name on it.
She opened the file bag and began to read.
It recorded her detailed information; she flipped down to find the reason for her imprisonment.
When she saw what was written on it, Shen Jiahe's eyes widened!
She was somewhat amused by the anger.
"Reason for imprisonment:
Breaking up with a pure and innocent young man, causing him to become depressed."
This reason must have been written by that bastard Lin Yuanzhou!!
And 'pure and innocent young man'?! How shameless!
The key thing was, she also had to state the method of atonement...
How to say it? Would simply speaking it out complete the mission?
As Shen Jiahe was pondering, she saw a line of text appear on the paper: 'Speak the method of atonement aloud; once it is recognized, the reward will be directly issued.'
She was too familiar with this handwriting; it was Lin Yuanzhou's.