CH 159.1

[Ding!]

[The [Portal] was used successfully, congratulations to the player for entering the eighteenth floor of Abyssal Hell, [Portal] consumed x1, and the number of remaining uses is 5.]

Bai Lixin was pushing the door of the portal open and walking out when the system prompt rang out.

The maximum number of levels that the teleportation array could teleport was 5, and it was impossible to cross a maximum of five levels twice. He had started at level 6 and gone through three teleportations before reaching the 18th level of hell.

Coupled with the two first consumptions, he was down to five uses of [Portal].

In the previous levels of hell he had experienced, all he had seen was purgatory, and all he had heard were screams of misery.

But the scene on this floor left him stunned for a moment.

The punishment was not as harsh as he had expected, and compared to the other levels of hell, this place was too quiet.

A glance showed me that it was blank.

The sky and the ground of the eighteenth level of hell were all the same color, and it was impossible to tell which was the sky and which was the ground.

There was no reflection, no footprints, only pure white.

The moment the portal disappeared, the place became a white labyrinth.

Within the white space were many small, square boxes crouched in a dense pattern.

The boxes were about the size of shoeboxes, and he didn’t know what they were for.

The voice of the escape system rang out in his mind: [Master Bai Lixin, those boxes are prisons.]

[The souls sent to the eighteenth level of hell are punished in these small boxes.]

If you are curious, you can open one of the boxes to see what punishment they are receiving, the box is sealed, so the offender can never escape.]

Bai Lixin: [I have a question, but I don’t know if I should say it or not. 】

Escape System: [What question?]

Bai Lixin: [If prisoners can’t escape, how did the saint escape? ]

Escape system: […… good question!]

It also didn’t know!

[Ding!]

Every time the system releases a task, the voice of the escape system becomes unusually formal.

[You have triggered the task [Search for Heartless Saint], and players are asked to find the prison where the [Heartless Saint] was being held in one of the many prison blocks and look for clues from inside to find the escaped villain [Heartless Saint].]

[The difficulty of this task is level A. Completion of the task will earn you 10,000 mall points, failure will lead to punishment. Punishment method: beheading.]

[Friendly reminder: This is a mandatory task, and the player will automatically accept it once triggered.]

[The time limit: until the end of this copy.]

Bai Lixin opened the taskbar and found that there was already an additional task in the taskbar.

He didn’t say anything and returned his attention to the boxes.

Looking closely, Bai Lixin found that the name of the offender and the year of punishment were written on the outside of each box.

The box closest to him was described thus.

[Prisoner: Zhang San]

[Sin: Abducting and selling women and children, should have been sent to the ninth level of hell, but he has abducted and sold many times, and is unrepentant before the court of Yama. His heart is so evil that he is difficult to redeem. He is not worthy of reincarnation, so he will be sent to the Eighteenth Hell, where he will never be reborn.]

[Punishment: Never to be reborn.]

The prison looked like an iron box, with a heavy lid on top of it.

Bai Lixin lifted the lid, and the scene inside was then exposed to his eyes.

Inside the box, the prisoner’s body was the size of a grain of rice.

There was no unimagined physical punishment, and the prisoner looked very comfortable at the moment.

Bai Lixin could see him, but he couldn’t see Bai Lixin.

The prison was in the form of a cozy home, with not only the prisoner, but also a woman and two children.

A girl and a boy.

The family of four was sharing a meal under the moonlight, talking and laughing, it was warm and romantic.

Bai Lixin could even hear the conversation between them.

Wife: “Honey, the babies will be starting kindergarten soon, we must choose a good kindergarten for them.”

The prisoner looked at his children affectionately: “Well, I’ve made all the inquiries; there is a good kindergarten in the next neighborhood, and they can go straight to the primary school and junior high school.”

Wife: “But the tuition fee is not low, right?”

Prisoner: “It doesn’t matter, for the sake of the children, I will work a little harder and earn money. Children are the crystallization of this family, I’m willing to give them all the good things.”

The wife laughed: “Yes, look at them, how cute they are, still so young and infused with all the love we have. How painful would it be if they were lost one day.”

The prisoner’s expression was frozen for a moment, then he waved his hands in a panic: “No, we’ll keep an eye on them, they won’t be lost.”

The wife smiled and said, “I’m just kidding, don’t panic.”

Prisoner: “You can’t joke about such things.”

Time flowed much faster inside the box than outside, and judging by the speed of speech, Bai Lixin judged that time flowed about 100 times faster inside the box than outside.

Day by day, the days went by.

One day, the prisoner suddenly got separated from the children as he was taking them to play, and then the two children disappeared.

The suffering lasted only two days, and the wife disappeared too.

In a flash, the family of four was now left with one.

The prisoner hid in the dark room and wailed in pain. He missed his beloved children and his gentle wife.

Loneliness, despair, pain, resentment, and countless other complex emotions constantly impacted his brain.

The formerly vigorous and capable man became unkempt; his surroundings gradually disappeared, turning into a blank space.

He was like a walking corpse in the blank box; his eyes were dull, and all he wished for was death.

In the box, a majestic, hollow voice suddenly rang out from afar.

“The 38471038th soul punishment is over, the virtual wife and children have been prepared, and the 38471039th punishment will be carried out soon.”

The prisoner immediately yelled in response: “No—!! Please, I know I was wrong, don’t let me go through the pain of losing my children and wife again, kill me, please! Please, give me release!”

The punishment that directly hit the soul was far more painful than a physical punishment.

Physical suffering is only pain, but a spiritual wound can make people fall into endless despair. Spiritual injury was far more painful and scary than death.

For this kind of evil deed where one is unrepentant, there was nothing to say but that he deserved it, and is completely unworthy of sympathy.

Was his current pain a true portrayal of what many families went through?

30 million punishments? It Even 100 million punishments was not enough.

Bai Lixin closed the lid indifferently and continued to search the boxes.

The saint’s prison should be somewhere in the middle.

He walked around for a while without finding the saint’s name, but accidentally found a familiar name.

[Huang Xiaolian]

Bai Lixin blinked and stopped in front of the box with this name written on it.

Huang Xiaolian had the same name as the “vicious chairman” in the previous campus copy.

It shouldn’t be a coincidence, right? After all, this was the 18th layer of hell, how could there be another scumbag with the same name?

Bai Lixin lifted the lid, and the scene was of a classroom.

Dozens of boys and girls in sailor suit-like school uniforms surrounded someone and beat and kicked him.

That person was old and withered, but even though he was not in good condition, Bai Lixin recognized him as Huang Xiaolian.

He was kneeling on the ground in horror, with a chain hanging around his neck. He was on his legs and knees like a dog, his body in a tattered school uniform was covered with red marks, and he was writing some big characters with an oil-based pen.

——”Cheap dog, bark twice for everyone to hear.”

One of the boys set up a camera, his tone full of sarcasm.

The iron chain jingled, and Huang Xiaolian was forced to raise his neck in humiliation and shame, barking continuously.

Bai Lixin looked at the prisoner’s label once again.

[Prisoner: Huang Xiaolian]

[Sins: Defiled the sacred profession of teachers, violated and insulted students, and maliciously killed several people. Abomination! Heinous! Sentenced to the 18th floor of hell for eternal soul punishment, and will not be reborn forever! ]

Huang Xiaolian’s screams suddenly came from inside the box. Bai Lixin poked his head to look, and saw Huang Xiaolian fall to the ground and cover his face in pain.

Thick white smoke came out of his face, accompanied by bursts of a pungent smell.

Bai Lixin glanced aside, and saw a boy holding an empty bottle in his hand, with only indifference in his eyes.

Being treated as you treat others, Huang Xiaolian did not know or ever think that while he did evil, he would face this kind of punishment sooner or later.

The punishment was still going on.

Bai Lixin closed the lid, turned around, and walked toward the depths without hesitation.

As he walked, he began to scan the labels on the box once again.

He walked for about a few minutes, and suddenly stopped in front of a box.

The name on the box was very special: [Half Saint]

The escape system’s voice rang out in his mind.

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for finding the box where the [ Half Saint] was imprisoned, the task of [Finding the Half Saint] has been completed, and the progress is 30%. ]

[Friendly reminder: Please observe the prison as much as possible and look for clues. These clues will become important hints to help you find the saint.]