69: Chapter 32 Heart of Slaughter 69: Chapter 32 Heart of Slaughter Alarms rang incessantly, startling Li Yelai from his groggy sleep.

He couldn’t count how many alarms there were.

Thirty?

Forty?

Or more?

How many Taboo Items had breached containment?

Among them, there were even Class B Forbidden Items from the lower levels.

Had something happened to the Captain and the others?

When he woke up, the world had changed!

Was this reality, or was he having a nightmare?

Li Yelai sat up in bed in an instant, feeling a chill.

That cold air filled his nostrils, clearing his mind a bit.

So he suppressed the terror in his heart and immediately asked, “What happened?”

At the same time, he buttoned up the collar of his Cheese pajamas to cover the distracting brightness of spring.

Cheese also belatedly realized, a trace of embarrassment flashing across her face, and immediately jumped out of bed barefoot.

“You were led into deep sleep by a Dream-Eating Rhinoceros, plus the out-of-control Ice and Snow Witch brought the temperature in Black Prison down to minus ten degrees.

It’s very dangerous!” Cheese popped a candy into her mouth and quickly explained, “I realized you hadn’t come out when the alarms started, so I knew you were hit.”

The rapidly decreasing temperature made her breath visible as she spoke.

This scared Li Yelai a bit.

The Dream-Eating Rhinoceros was a living Taboo Item.

Its Danger Level was C.

When out of control, it could put surrounding humans into deep sleep.

Suppressing a single Dream-Eating Rhinoceros was easy, but paired with the Ice and Snow Demon King from the lower levels, they formed a deadly combination.

Being forced to sleep in a cold environment, he might have frozen to death at any moment.

Had no one noticed, Li Yelai feared he would have died in his sleep in the room.

Moreover, being a Second Awakening Spiritual Ability User like Li Yelai, if even he could be inadvertently affected, wouldn’t the clerical staff be even worse?

“Quick, put on your clothes, grab your weapons.

Hurry to the command center!” Cheese urged, throwing the clothes on Li Yelai’s bedside to him.

She then ran back to her room to get dressed.

She had immediately broken down the door to raise alarm upon sensing something amiss, not even having the time to don her gear.

However, before stepping out of the door, she suddenly stopped, her face struck with shock, looking outside.

Li Yelai, who had just put on his clothes, gave her a puzzled glance.

Following her gaze out the door, he saw a foreign corridor and an open containment unit.

The Taboo Item inside had vanished.

Is this…

the upper level’s containment unit?

That can’t be right; the resting room was within the resting area.

The containment units should be several meters below.

Was it a spatial distortion?

Or a ghost hitting the wall?

Astonished, Li Yelai finished dressing.

He picked up the Crimson Long Sword and the Summoning Bell, and slung the Jet Axe over his back.

“What’s going on?

Ghost hitting the wall?” Li Yelai grabbed a heavy coat he brought and handed it to Cheese.

After putting on the coat, Cheese shivered slightly, “It’s the Mobius Ring Map; it has also breached containment!”

Then, Cheese looked at Li Yelai, “My communicator is in the room, contact the command center.”

…

Elsewhere, on an usually bustling square, many clerical workers, bundled in heavy coats, were helping each other forward.

Some would suddenly fall down and sleep profoundly.

Others inflicted wounds on themselves to fight off sleep with pain.

Some Iron Guards were placing clerical workers near warmer bonfires.

Inside the command center, dozens of clerical workers were knocked out by the effects, with only about ten trying desperately to stay awake.

One Bald man, holding a knife, stabbed his arm.

The intense pain sharpened his mind.

He could not sleep; he had to last until the very end.

Preparing for the worst!

Then, a communicator message came through.

The Bald man gave it a quick glance, saw it was Night General, and immediately connected.

“Night General, are you alright?” asked the Bald man.

“What’s the situation?” Cheese’s voice answered instead.

“Cheese?

Are you guys together?

That’s great!

Numerous Taboo Items have breached containment, forty-eight Processors, two hundred seventy-three clerical workers, and three teams of Iron Guards on the upper levels all went dark.

You’re the only ones I can reach!”

The Bald man wrapped his wound as he spoke quickly, “Because the Mobius Ring Map has also breached the containment.

It’s turned everything within its range into a labyrinth.

Only the square and the black elevator on the upper levels are unaffected.

All other places have turned into labyrinths.”

[Class C Forbidden Item, Mobius Ring Map]

It possesses massive reality-distorting abilities.

Once out of control, it alters the nearby space, causing spatial contradictions.

Commonly known as a ghost hitting the wall.

The containment units had become maze-like structures.

And Li Yelai’s resting room door was now connected inside the containment unit.

…

Elsewhere, Li Yelai couldn’t help but ask the communicator, “Have you contacted the division?

Call a team for reinforcement to Black Prison.”

The other end’s Bald man gasped in pain, “Giant City faces massive uncontrolled distortions, that Fantasy Band has an issue, some music played caused the audience to begin intense distortions.

Damn it, those are tens of thousands of people!

Simultaneously losing control!

Every major division, even the main headquarters’ Processors, are almost completely mobilized.

And the Taboo Items seem to have sensed this, daring to break out collectively!

And we can only defect to holding the command center and the black elevator, unable to provide support, or even locate you.”