BOOM—CLANG!!
The twenty-ton black-iron doors of the underground freight elevator blasted open ten miles underground!
Out stormed Chief Warden Gui Suo, his gaunt, hook-nosed face livid with murderous rage as he cracked his nine-section Rank 8 Soul-Cleaving Whip across the stone floor!
Behind him poured Foreman Scar-Face Wu and all 3,000 Soul-Whip Enforcers, who had just been jolted out of their sleep-talismans by the shrieking emergency klaxons!
“Which suicidal rat dared sneak into my Ring-Grandpa Factory and put math-quiz illusions into the freshman shipping racks?!”
Warden Gui Suo leaped thirty feet through the air to land on his suspended iron throne beneath the Mother Soul-Leash Matrix. Not bothering to look into the darkened shadows behind the ten conveyor belts.
In Gui Suo’s mind, even if Gu Changsheng or some righteous rescuer had managed to sneak down the elevator shaft. The 10,000 Ancient Grandmaster Souls were still bound by the unbreakable Series-Parallel Mutual Detonation Loop of the Mother Matrix!
“Come out, Gu Changsheng! I know it’s your PTA tricks!” Warden Gui Suo roared into the darkened cavern, slamming his bony left hand down onto the glowing red [Master 10,000-Soul Pain & Detonation Button]


