Game: Civilization Paradise

Chapter 158: Chapter 158: Cleaner Than a Face

"There are two possibilities right now. Either you were tricked, and this place was looted clean a long time ago, or we got here too late and someone beat us to it."

Long Ming calmly analyzed the situation for Gu Yi.

Gu Yi’s expression turned grim when he heard Long Ming’s words. Neither scenario was good.

"I told you those friends of yours were unreliable."

Tao Sisi snapped at Gu Yi, furious.

"Sisi, don’t be angry. We’ve only just started searching. A prison this big must still have something left."

Gu Yi hurriedly tried to placate her.

At that moment, Long Ming also tried to reason with Tao Sisi.

"There’s no point talking about that now. Let’s search deeper inside."

Long Ming advised her.

"Right, let’s search deeper first."

Gu Yi replied, swallowing hard.

Tao Sisi immediately fell silent and said no more.

Long Ming led them deeper inside.

Along the way, they saw many rooms, but the doors to all of them were wide open.

Seeing that something was wrong, Long Ming suggested to Gu Yi and the others,

"Let’s search these open rooms. We might find something. Every little bit counts!"

"Right!"

Gu Yi agreed.

Long Ming and the others then proceeded deeper, searching rooms as they went.

But unfortunately, all these rooms had already been picked clean.

By the time they reached the entrance to the underground levels, almost everyone was empty-handed. The mood of the team was extremely low.

"Let’s go down to the first basement level of the prison."

Long Ming sighed softly and led them down the stairs.

They soon arrived at the prison’s first basement level.

This level was the detention area. The cells here were individual rooms, each containing four bunk beds, meaning they held eight prisoners each.

Long Ming’s group searched their way forward.

Normally, there wouldn’t be anything in cells like these.

But as Long Ming and the others searched deeper, they found that almost all the cell doors were open, many of them having been violently pried. This meant that the people who had searched this prison before were more ruthless than a skinflint, prying open every possible place.

Tao Sisi grew more and more silent as they searched.

Long Ming didn’t dare to make a sound. He felt like the whole team was a powder keg about to explode, but he could only bite the bullet and continue leading them onward.

Before long, they reached the prison’s second basement level.

This level housed maximum-security prisoners. There were fewer rooms, but the protective doors on the cells were much more advanced.

Unfortunately, as Long Ming and his group searched, they found that every cell had been pried open, with no exceptions for the guards’ break room or offices.

Although Long Ming searched with all his might, trying to recover some of the loss for Gu Yi, he only managed to find a single abandoned blue-grade item.

This blue-grade item wasn’t worth much at all, not even enough to cover a fraction of the invitation scroll’s cost.

"Big Brother, we didn’t find anything."

Gu Yi said nervously to him.

"It’s fine. Isn’t there one more level below? Let’s go down and take a look."

Gu Yi suggested, forcing a calm expression.

"Enough."

Just then, Tao Sisi suddenly stopped in her tracks and refused to go any further.

Long Ming and the others all stopped as well.

"Sisi, stop it."

Seeing that Sisi had stopped walking, Gu Yi reached out to take her hand.

SLAP~

Tao Sisi slapped Gu Yi’s hand away. Tears streamed down her face as she said, crying,

"Gu Yi, what’s the point of searching anymore? This place was picked clean a long time ago!"

"Sisi, just listen to me."

"I won’t! You’re a liar, nothing but a liar! How many years have I waited for you? You kept telling me we were close to success, so close! But year after year, there’s just no hope in sight."

"What do you want me to do?!"

Gu Yi shot back, his anger flaring up.

"You can search by yourself. I’m done!"

Tao Sisi turned and walked back, still crying.

"Sister Sisi!"

Gu Yi and Lin Xiaozhao hurried after her.

Chen Wei, looking troubled, said to Gu Yi.

"Brother Gu, why did you have to get angry at Sisi?"

"Let her do whatever she wants!"

Gu Yi then headed for the stairs to the third basement level.

Chen Wei looked at Long Ming, at a loss.

Long Ming sighed and said to Chen Wei,

"Chen Wei, you go after them. Gu Yi and I will go down and search the next level."

"Okay. I’m counting on you, Brother Long."

Chen Wei quickly ran back the way they came.

Long Ming, meanwhile, headed toward the stairs to the third basement level.

When he followed the stairs down to the third basement level, his view suddenly opened up.

The entire third basement level was a large, square hall. Desiccated corpses were scattered everywhere, and several corridors branched off from the sides.

He saw Gu Yi walking toward the main corridor and ran to catch up, calling out.

"Gu Yi."

"Brother Long, don’t say anything. I know I was tricked, but I just can’t accept it. I’ve always been good to everyone, but I don’t know why things ended up like this."

Gu Yi replied, his eyes red.

"Sigh... I won’t talk about that. Let me mention something else. Seeing how anxious your girlfriend is, I’m guessing her family is putting pressure on her. After all, she’s been with you for so many years without any real progress. Her family has probably reached their limit. You should try to be more understanding of her."

Long Ming voiced his speculation.

"Sigh... It’s not that I don’t know. But I’m just an ordinary person, not like you—handsome and capable."

Gu Yi replied, filled with emotion.

"Haha, that’s all the more reason to work harder. Come on, let’s keep looking."

Long Ming laughed heartily and led the way forward.

The two of them followed the main corridor deeper inside and soon found the warden’s room.

Unfortunately, the door to the room had been blasted open.

Nevertheless, Long Ming and Gu Yi went inside.

The warden’s room was spacious, but all the furniture had been moved and piled together.

The entire room, it could be said, had been ransacked from top to bottom.

"This..."

Gu Yi didn’t even know what to say. The place had been picked completely clean.

Long Ming also shook his head helplessly. ’The guy who sold him the map was too much.’

’This prison was clearly stripped by a professional Rat Group. To dare sell this kind of intel to Gu Yi... it’s just setting him up to fail spectacularly.’

Gu Yi took a deep breath, then began meticulously searching every corner of the room, hoping to find some kind of special hidden compartment.

Seeing Gu Yi’s persistence, Long Ming said to him,

"You search here. I’ll go look deeper inside. Call me if you need anything."

"Okay."

Gu Yi nodded.

Long Ming continued deeper, spotting several special rooms along the way.

He cautiously investigated them. They were interrogation and autopsy rooms, and inside were various rusted tools and unidentified biological tissues.

Long Ming didn’t touch any of it. ’If even the Rat Group left this stuff behind, it’s either worthless or dangerous.’

Soon, Long Ming walked farther in and came to an underground laboratory.

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