Chapter 2341: The Prison
Alex, Pearl, and 2 other Immortals in the Immortal Spirit realm flew out of the guild. These two were new people neither Alex nor Pearl had seen before, and were under direct order from Flareborn to aid Alex in finding the thugs.
Both of the two were male, with one being taller and more buff than the other one.
Alex had already thought of a plan on how he could find these people, so he bought a dozen different sets of ingredients, mostly for one particular pill at the moment.
Before going anywhere else, Alex took Pearl back to the cottage where they were hiding. He let Pearl stay back, and instead took Whisker with him.
While Pearl was strong, much stronger than Whisker, strength wasn't going to be the answer here. Their enemies, if still in the city, were likely going to be much, much stronger than anyone else they had fought before. So, the only thing they needed to do for now was to find them.
Whisker was a much better help here. And Pearl was a better defender for the kids anyway.
The two Immortals did as Alex asked and then flew him toward another location a bit far away from where the guild was. It was a 5-story tall circular building, that would be considered a tower if it was any larger. The building extended only 5 stories into the sky, but toward the ground, it extended much more.
The spiral staircase in this mostly colorless and lifeless dungeon went on for many, many floors.
This was the prison of Wineweed City where all criminals were kept.
The entire place was filled with strong suppression formations that activated all the time around. The only people who weren't affected were people who had special artifacts that exempted them from being targeted.
Alex was given one such artifact to wear - a brown leather bracelet with a metal contraption on top that held an amber gem- and they headed down the hole.
The lifeless prison held many criminals who had been kept here for many, many days.
"Are everyone kept here?" Alex asked the Immortals that took him below. "Even Divinities?"
Whisker, currently the size of a regular rat, made his way up onto the bodies of the men and women one by one. As he climbed them, his large whiskers twitched with each passing second as he took in all the information he could get from these people.
As a Seeking Mouse, this would have been his one true role in life, had it not been his cultivation base.
Whisker spent many minutes going through the half dozen people, taking in all information he could gain from them through the senses that his Whisker provided. Once he got those, he
went back to Alex.
"It's done," Whisker said.
"You heard him, seniors. We are done here," Alex said.
The two Immortals were certainly surprised, to say the least, as they had never seen a Seeking Mouse with cultivation base before. They hadn't even realized Whisker was one until he
began doing what he did.
They closed the prison cells and made their way back up to the top.
"What now?" the thin man asked. "Anywhere else to go?"
"Many, but we start with one," Alex said. "We need to go back to our courtyard where the
attack happened."
"Why? I'm sure everything there was checked. No one came back," the taller man said.
"I'm sure everything was checked," Alex said. "But I'm worried not everyone was. Just in case someone was missed, I wish to go test them as well."