Lin Ye closed his eyes and carefully sensed the surrounding environment, but this place was different from the outside world. The moment mental energy left his body, it encountered resistance and couldn't make accurate judgments.

"I can't find the entrance either. Is it still safe here?"

Lin Ye suspected this place was also part of a trap.

"It's safe, but every other direction around here is extremely dangerous."

Little Guardian suddenly lowered her head to look at the ground—something seemed off about it.

"Is the entrance below?"

Lin Ye crouched down and touched the ground, where he sensed something similar to Dreamstones.

He tried to probe into it with his mental energy. The internal structure of the ground was incredibly complex—far more intricate than the interior of the Dreamstones he'd encountered before.

"What is this? A Dream Floor?"

Lin Ye lay flat on the ground and began studying the ground's internal structure. His mental energy felt like it had entered a maze, and this maze constantly changed its terrain layout.

But this didn't stump Lin Ye. He continuously memorized the terrain structures he passed through and built a maze model in his mind.

By confirming the positional shifts of identical structures, he quickly found the maze's change patterns and reconstructed the entire maze map.

Relying on the map and the change patterns, it didn't take long before Lin Ye found the maze's exit.

The moment his mental energy passed through the exit, the ground beneath Lin Ye suddenly vanished. He didn't fall, but instead entered another area.

……………………………

Lin Ye slowly climbed up from the ground. His right leg felt uncomfortable—it seemed his ankle was sprained.

This level of injury wouldn't even be considered a problem for Lin Ye under normal circumstances, but it was different now because he seemed to have become an ordinary person.

Under normal conditions, even without spiritual energy, the Dinosaur Body's strength far exceeded an ordinary human's physical limits. But now, some kind of power had weakened him to roughly the same level as a regular person.

Lin Ye examined his right leg. It wasn't too badly damaged, but the ankle sprain would affect his movement speed—a very troublesome issue.

And that wasn't even the worst part. Lin Ye was currently locked in a place that looked somewhat like a prison cell. Outside the cell were a corridor and another cell. On one side of the corridor stood a group of prisoners wearing prison garb, who were discussing how to escape from here and how to distribute the food.

These prisoners seemed to have been hiding here for a while. All the proper food had already been eaten, leaving only the improper kind.

Like fellow inmates locked in cells, for instance—people like Lin Ye.

‘Although they look no different from humans on the outside, the Dinosaur Body's structure has certain differences from humans. So in this situation, eating the Dinosaur Body probably wouldn't be a problem…’

Lin Ye pondered this boring question while treating his ankle injury. There was nothing in the cell that could be used as a weapon, and those prisoners had plenty of firearms.

Right now, Lin Ye was just an injured ordinary person—it would be very difficult to take down a group of armed thugs head-on.

And his time was running out. Once those prisoners finished dividing the food, they would come over and transform them into a more portable shape.

The cell opposite held a prison guard lying face-down on the ground, his face covered with bruises from beatings.

At that moment, the prison guard was staring at Lin Ye, his lips trembling slightly.

Lin Ye moved to the cell's bars. Those prisoners were in a heated debate about food distribution, and no one was even paying attention to what was happening over here.

A sharp, thin iron rod was passed over from the adjacent cell. Lin Ye grabbed it in the fastest time possible—the entire process took less than a second.

He didn't toss the iron rod to the guard across the way. Instead, he leaned against the bars and inserted the rod into the cell door's lock.

The guard watched Lin Ye with some agitation. He had been planning to make a desperate move when those prisoners came over, but he never expected Lin Ye to be so reckless.

Setting aside whether Lin Ye could even unlock the door, there were more than a dozen armed thugs outside. Even if Lin Ye managed to get out, he'd just be shot to death by a hail of bullets. This kind of action was completely pointless.

But he couldn't make a sound either—if he attracted those prisoners' attention, everyone would be killed.

Lin Ye popped the lock open in just a few moves. While picking the lock, he had been observing the prisoners' positions and simulating in his mind the order and method for taking them all out.

After opening the lock, Lin Ye didn't act immediately. Instead, he held onto the lock, leaned against the bars, and observed the field of vision of every single prisoner.

When everyone's field of vision had shifted to other directions, Lin Ye pushed open the cell door and limped quickly toward those prisoners.

He didn't need to constantly stay out of the prisoners' line of sight—he just needed one chance to get close to the nearest one.

Suddenly, one of the prisoners turned his head to look down the corridor. Lin Ye hurled the cell door lock with force, and it precisely struck that prisoner's temple.

Clang!

The lock fell to the ground, and that prisoner was knocked unconscious.

By then, Lin Ye had already closed in behind the nearest prisoner.

The prisoner's pistol was tucked into his waistband. By the time Lin Ye drew the pistol, that prisoner was still focused on his fallen comrade.

Lin Ye ejected the magazine and glanced at it—eight rounds inside.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lin Ye kept walking forward, shooting the prisoners holding guns as he moved. When he passed the prisoner who was still fumbling for his pistol at his waist, he casually used the iron rod to pierce the carotid artery in his neck.

Blood sprayed onto the white wall. Eight rounds fired, eight prisoners had their heads blown open.

The prisoner beside him was collapsing. Lin Ye smoothly took the submachine gun from his hands and then swept fire across the prisoners who had just drawn their weapons.

Ratta-tatta-tatta-tatta-tatta-tatta-tatta-tatta-tatta-tatta-tatta…

Every single prisoner had their head blown open. The bullets those prisoners had frantically fired didn't even make Lin Ye pause.

It only took 24 seconds for Lin Ye to kill all those prisoners—and that included the time for finishing shots.

Lin Ye found the cell keys on one of the bodies. He took the keys and opened the cells holding the survivors.

"Doctor Lin, you killed them all?"

Jeffrey stared at Lin Ye in disbelief. As a prison guard, he knew very well how difficult it was to deal with those prisoners.

"Yeah, I know a little bit about guns."

Lin Ye freed all the survivors locked in the cells. Judging from the prisoners' earlier conversations, these people had all thought they were doomed.

"If you call that 'knowing a little bit about guns,' then I'm a total beginner."

Jeffrey picked up two guns from the bodies and strapped them on. He hadn't forgotten their situation.

"So what's the current situation? When I woke up, I was already in a cell."

Lin Ye asked directly.

"I don't know the specifics either. All I know is that the outside is crawling with monsters. Quite a few prison guards have been killed. Otherwise, this place wouldn't have fallen."

Jeffrey replied with some sadness.