Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“… Nothing.”

Li Yao narrowed his eyes and said, one word after another, with a hideous face, “I am just somewhat puzzled. In the present days when the technologies are so advanced and the modern defense measures are too many to be counted, the super prison that ranks top in the entire Imperium is still defending the ventilation tube through such a primitive approach? Why don’t they install some state-of-the-art, dazzling defensive devices, such as automatic defense arrays, which are so immaculate and impenetrable that no person will be required to watch over the ventilation tubes?”

“Exactly. Everybody knows that the defense system of the ventilation tubes of the Godly Might Prison is stupid, but it is a result of the Imperium’s accumulated problems.”

Li Linghai said, “The four Kurfürst families have so many members that they need to settle. Naturally, they have seized every opportunity to expand the government bureaus so that they can stuff their close relatives into the departments.

“The Godly Might Prison has a high position in the prison system of the Imperium, with a large budget from the Council of Elders every year. The budget was exactly for the purpose of settling the idle men of the four Kurfürst families. After those people are recruited, what can they do except for guarding the ventilation tubes?”

“Well…”

After a long daze, Li Yao sighed and said, “I did not know that the Imperium had been corrupted to such an extent. As a loyal and devoted patriot, I feel that my heart is broken!

“Then, if even the ventilation tubes are teeming with jailors, how exactly am I going to sneak into the Godly Might Prison and locate General Lei Chenghu?”

“This is your operation plan.”

Li Linghai pointed on the 3D light beam and operated quickly. Very soon, the structures of a carrier and a hibernation cabin were retrieved. She explained, “Because the ‘special investigation committee’ delivered General Lei to the Godly Might Prison in secret and does not want to show any anomaly, the Godly Might Prison has been receiving and releasing prisoners as usual recently.

“Three days later, a carrier that is fully loaded with frozen prisoners will arrive at the Godly Might Prison. The deputy captain of this carrier joined us a long time ago.

“Your mission is to approach the carrier when the carrier has just jumped to the Mystic Ice Sector but has not reached the near-planet orbit of the Godly Might Prison yet. Then, you will sneak into the vehicle from here.”

Li Linghai pointed at a complicated structure in the rear of the carrier.

Li Yao observed carefully and said, “This is the spurt of the exhaust flames on the carrier. The temperature there can be very high. Even if I wear a crystal suit, it will be barely possible for me to sustain one minute. Also, if I break it from the outside, the damage will certainly be reflected on the mainframe crystal processor of the starship.”

“It is true under normal circumstances. However, this deputy captain who belongs to the reformists will sabotage the power unit that this spurt belongs to in advance, making the crystal processor loses senses over it for now and dropping the temperature in the tube to below a thousand degrees. There shouldn’t be a problem then.”

Li Linghai went on, “All the prisoners on the carrier have detailed data recorded. However, we will arrange a prisoner that is closest to you in terms of body size and appearance. His blood and even bone marrow will also be prepared, which should be enough to handle all the examinations.

“After you sneak into the carrier, our deputy captain will meet you and replace the real prisoner with you. Then, you will enter the freezing hibernation cabin as a prisoner.

“The difficult part here is that you have to reduce your breath, heartbeat, and even brainwaves to the minimum, like you are really hibernating, while your body shows the features of being deeply frozen. However, you cannot really be hibernating, and your soul must be kept at the most active state in order to deal with all the emergencies.

“To achieve that, we will give you a special freezing drug, which will make your skin, flesh, and internal organs appear to be frozen. But you will still need to have a very precise control over your body.”

Pondering for a moment, Li Yao nodded his head and said, “No problem. I should be able to do that.”

“Excellent. After you pretend to be a frozen prisoner, you will be sent into the Godly Might Prison, where you will naturally receive thorough examinations. The first examination will happen while you are still in hibernation. There shouldn’t be a problem when our guys cover you in secret. The second examination will be an interrogation carried out by three jailors after you are unfrozen and woken up.

“The mission is set to three days later because it will be the time when our deputy warden is on duty. He will be fully in charge of the entire jailor system for two hours, and as long as his orders are not too outrageous, they will all be carried out dutifully.

“When you are cross-interrogated by three jailors, our deputy warden will find an excuse to get two of them away, before he moves the surveillance cameras that are everywhere in the interrogation room.

“You have to kill the only jailor during the eight seconds when the surveillance cameras are away, put on his uniform, and let him wear your prison uniform and your identification band. In the end, you will need to blow up his entire head with a storm bolter.

“In the meantime, you will wear the skin membrane that we have prepared in advance and change the appearance of your muscles, pretending to be exactly like the jailor.

“It won’t matter even if you are not exactly the same due to the limited time, because you can fake some devastating wounds on your face and your body and cover yourself in blood.

“As a result, it will seem that a bloodthirsty, disobedient prisoner launched an assault when there was only one jailor in the interrogation room, only to be killed by the jailor’s counterattack.

“The whole thing will naturally look quite uncanny. Thankfully, we do not need to hide for long. Under the command of our deputy warden, you will be sent to the medical room. It’s right here.”

Li Linghai retrieved the internal map of the Godly Might Prison and enlarged the 3D image that was as sophisticated as a maze.

Li Yao looked at the ventilation tubes that were as thick as arteries with great affection before he focused his eyes on where Li Linghai was pointing at.

“Our deputy warden will meet you in the medical room in person to ask about the ‘highly-rare assault case’. Then, he will cover you to leave the medical room in secret.”

Li Linghai continued, “Then, in the surveillance system of the Godly Might Prison, the prisoner that you pretend to be should still be inquired by the deputy warden in the medical room. Within the clearances of the deputy warden, he can earn twenty-eight minutes and thirty seconds for you.

“The medical room is here, and the secret cells where General Lei Chenghu is suspected to be locked in are here. The two areas are 3.5 kilometers away in a straight line.

“It seems not very long, but the critical things are the complicated pathways as well as the surveillance cameras and sentry posts in them. There are also the invisible rays that fill the entire space. Those rays are highly sensitive. So much as one of your hair cuts the rays, the scanning system will be activated, notifying all the sentry posts nearby of your existence.

“Once it is discovered that your body figure and your posture are not in the database, and you are a jailor who is not supposed to be here, alarms of the highest level will be raised and sent to the warden’s office and the control center. There will be nothing the deputy warden can do about it.”

Looking at the zigzagging, complicated, up-and-down “shortest route”, Li Yao said, “So, in twenty-eight minutes, I have to dodge 188 jailors, avoid the sight of 2,544 surveillance cameras, and blink past the invisible rays with my body movement skills, before I arrive at the area where General Lei Chenghu is locked?”

“Exactly.”

Li Linghai nodded her head. “Of course, there are our men among the jailors too, who will do their best to safeguard you. So, it is not as difficult as it appears. According to my precise calculation, for experts like you or Yue Wushuang, the odds of success will be very high.”

Frowning, Li Yao asked, “How high is very high?”

“At least above 50%.”

Li Linghai smiled, with crazy flames burning inside her eyes again. “That’s about 100%, right?”

Li Yao sniffed and said, “If I can indeed arrive at the special area, then what? How do I know which cell General Lei Chenghu is locked in?”

“If everything goes well, the moment you reach the secret area will be the moment when we leap out of the void and attack the Godly Might Prison furiously under the guidance of our spies in the Godly Might Prison.”

Li Linghai said, “By then, the Godly Might Prison will certainly be a great mess. The enemy will definitely transfer or execute General Lei Chenghu at the earliest time. Whether he is to be transferred or executed, the order will be carried out by the people with the highest combat ability. So, you will find General Lei Chenghu by following those people.

“After the meeting is over, I will send the data and the battle videos of the best warriors in the Godly Might Prison to you for your reference. The Godly Might Prison is not extravagant enough to use battle-type experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage as jailors. Therefore, it won’t be a problem for you to get the situation under control and rescue General Lei Chenghu quickly.

“There is no telling if the enemy has impounded General Lei Chenghu’s Cosmos Rings. So, we will prepare a crystal suit and all kinds of magical equipment for General Lei. General Lei is a seasoned expert himself. As long as he is equipped with the top-tier crystal suit and makes up his mind to kill, it won’t be a problem for him to protect himself.

“The crucial thing is to talk General Lei into cooperating with us and joining the cause of the reformists so that he can really defend the Imperium!

“But I’m very confident in your ability of persuasion. I believe that you will certainly not disappoint me, right?”

“Please rest assured, Your Grace!”

Li Yao held his chest high and said, full of dignity, “I will certainly do my best to convince General Lei so that General Lei will fight for the Imperium together with all of us! Long live the Imperium! Long live the true path of immortality! Long live His Majesty!”