The defensive system on the third level seems to have upgraded from the previous two, in addition to the original facilities, there is now a poison gas defense. The gas covers the entire third level, but the prison cells seem to isolate the gas, so they’ve actually become the safest places. Prisoners considering escape have to weigh how long they could survive in poison gas first.
Seeing the level of toxins on his body increase, Mu You quickly switched to his vampire skin.
[You switched to your Vampire Skin. Under the corrosion of the poison gas, the ’Survival of the Fittest’ Talent comes into play, and your body begins to evolve rapidly to adapt to the toxin. Your HP decrease rate has slowed down.]
Luckily, Mu You had just merged with the Survival of the Fittest Talent a few days ago.
The poisonous gas is definitely one of the harsh environments, but this talent does not help him directly isolate the gas, but helps him adapt to it.
A few minutes later, the levels of poison gas on Mu You had piled up to a terrifying figure, but his HP decrease rate was getting slower and slower.
After ten minutes, his HP stopped falling altogether, but at this point, he was left with only a sliver of HP. It seemed precarious, but in fact, it was even more solid than if he had used Blood Lock.
Relying on this last bit of blood, Mu You continued his exploration on the third level.
The octopuses on the third level had also undergone changes: they had evolved from regular octopuses to poison octopuses, completely immune to the poison gas on this level, and their levels had generally increased to level 13 0r 14.
Luckily, they still had no way to detect his deep stealth.
Following the map’s guidance on the third level, Mu You quickly found another Shell Helmet Cave.
According to the markings on the map, this cave can lead to the fourth level.
The environment on the third level was too harsh, and Mu You did not plan to stay there for long.
[You have arrived at the labeled location of the ’Shell Helmet Cave’.]
[However, when you lift the broadleaf grass covering the wall, you discover that this cave has been thoroughly blocked by human hands.]
Unfortunately, the first cave had been blocked!
Mu You didn’t mind, turning to look for the second one. There were three entrances to the fourth level marked on the map of the third level of the prison.
But what Mu You found speechless was that when he found the remaining two, he discovered that these two were also blocked!
In other words, all known entrances from the third level to the lower levels had been blocked!
Mu You involuntarily frowned.
The third layer held prisoners with sentences from one to ten years, while the fourth layer held those with sentences of ten years up to five hundred years.
That’s where Finn of the Dragon Knights’ son was imprisoned.
If he no longer had to rely on shortcuts to reach the fourth floor, should he first exit the prison, commit a crime outside, and be caught to enter the fourth layer directly?
The problem is, the crimes that could get one imprisoned in the fourth layer are not minor offenses, just like Finn’s son, who boldly burned down the Octopus King’s casino. Most people who commit such a crime would probably be devoured by the Octopus King on the spot. It’s just because of the powerful influence of the Dragon Knight Pirate Group that the Octopus King gave them some face, didn’t directly execute the offender, but put him in prison for a hundred years.
Shaking his head, Mu You took out the Pumpkin Lantern and continued to search the third level.
If the Shell Helmet Caves marked on the map are sealed, then he could only find those caves that nobody else had found.
If the Underwater Prison had once been riddled with holes dug by pangolins, then no matter how hard the octopuses tried to block the holes, there would always be some gaps in each level.
And indeed, the Pumpkin Lantern did not disappoint him.
After scouring the prison wall for half an hour, a prompt popped up.
[Under the illumination of the Pumpkin Lantern’s green glow, you seem to see some hidden characters illuminated on the rock wall ahead.]
[As you step forward to check with the Pumpkin Lantern, you find that these are different from the Star Spirit Language. You don’t recognize these characters, but you feel vaguely familiar, because you have seen many similar characters in the Elf Forest before.]
[These seem to be the characters of the Forest Elf.]
While he didn’t find a cave, he found a wall inscribed with text. However, the text seems to be written in the Elf’s language, which he doesn’t understand.
Mu You tried to click on the text of the ’character’, but no translation popped up. It seemed the game would not kindly help him translate the Elvish.
After thinking for a moment, Mu You inserted the photogenic crystal into the game, let his game character take pictures of the surroundings with the crystal, and then took the crystal out of the game.
Mu You looked into the crystal after putting magic power into it and, sure enough, the characters that had been illuminated by the Pumpkin Lantern were now captured in the crystal.
Mu You took a screenshot of these images with his phone and then contacted Little Ya, sending them to her.
Little Ya, a priestess of the Forest Elf, had learned the language of the Forest Elf in the training hall before and should be able to translate it.
Little Ya, who was woken up in the middle of the night by Mu You, didn’t complain. After watching the video several times, she quickly translated it sentence by sentence and sent it to Mu You.
Mu You opened the message to check.
"To the reader: If you can recognize the characters of the Elvish language, you are likely a member of the Elf Clan or a friend of it. I’m not sure, but I can only take a chance. If you are of Zubatz, then I am unlucky, because my life is running out, and by the time you read this passage, I’ll probably be dead already.
But please, for the sake of being from the Elf Clan, do as instructed below: Go to cell number 3755, at the top of the stone wall opposite the cell, following the sequence of ’up three’, ’left two’, ’down four’, ’right one’, knock on the red stone there.
Be careful not to be discovered by the Octopus Soldiers!
Also, if your situation does not allow you to do the above, please send this information back to any member of the Elf Clan. I’d be eternally grateful!
Forest Elf Elder, ’Harlington Hugh’."