Although White Shark was somewhat curious why Lv Bai had to leave Chikan Bay tomorrow, he didn’t dare to ask as he watched Lv Bai stride away.

Under the reverent gaze of the thugs, Lv Bai walked out of the alley.

"Mr. Lü."

At the entrance of the alley, a man in a black suit and sunglasses was standing next to a car, waiting.

When he saw Lv Bai coming out of the alley, he nodded calmly: "All done?"

This man was the driver arranged by the Daoist Master.

It’s worth mentioning that even though this person had been a driver for so many days, Lv Bai still didn’t know his name, as there had been hardly any interaction during this time.

Lv Bai casually nodded, opened the car door, and got in.

The driver helped close the door, moved to the driver’s seat to start the car, and took a look at Lv Bai in the back seat through the central rearview mirror.

He hesitated for a moment, then said: "Mr. Lü, pardon me for being presumptuous, but isn’t tomorrow the deadline? You’re still..."

"Is there a problem?" Lv Bai adjusted to a comfortable sitting position, leaning back against the seat.

"You don’t need to waste time like this. You should focus your energy on the Daoist Master’s task. After succeeding, joining the Daoist Sect would be far more useful than these trifling efforts."

"Alright, alright."

...

The long night was about to break.

A black compact sedan was driving lonely on the highway.

"Really, Mr. Lü, you don’t have any plan?"

The driver was gripping the steering wheel, his whole being in a daze.

He had been sleeping soundly at home when Lv Bai called to tell him to prepare for action.

He quickly drove over to pick up Lv Bai, only to learn en route to the prison that Lv Bai planned on climbing over the walls to break in.

"Of course, I have a plan; I’m not a brute."

Lv Bai looked eagerly at the rapidly retreating scenery through the car windows.

The driver forced himself to calm down and chased his last hope with a question: "Then what’s the specific plan?"

"Didn’t I already say?"

Lv Bai yawned, rolled down the window, enjoying the cool breeze to refresh himself: "Climb the wall, sneak into A Detention Area, find the prisoner numbered 0527, and rescue him."

As he said this, he turned to look at the back of the driver’s head.

"Isn’t that thorough enough?"

"No..."

Upon hearing this, the driver felt an impulse to slam the brakes and turn around: "You call this a plan? A thorough plan?"

Lv Bai patiently reassured him: "Don’t worry, I’m incredibly strong now."

The driver took a deep breath and solemnly spoke as the prison’s outline came into view in the distance.

"Mr. Lü, don’t act recklessly. If you don’t have a sure plan, you could ask the Daoist Master for a few more days’ grace. You can’t alert the enemy to this."

As soon as he said this, the faint smile on Lv Bai’s face faded slightly.

"I can stop anytime, but what about the Daoist Master?"

He spoke with a calm tone laced with a hint of mockery: "Surely, they’ve already made preparations, right?"

"What?"

"What? Did you not inform the Daoist Master before you came to pick me up that I planned to make a move?"

Lv Bai waved his hand and continued: "It’s quite normal. If it were me, I wouldn’t trust such a matter entirely to a stranger either.

If I’m not mistaken, in the Daoist Master’s plan, I should be a decoy or a feint, right? They might have already let the prison know about my return."

The driver moved his lips, wanting to say something but was at a loss for words.

"No need to rush to deny it."

Lv Bai casually stretched: "I really don’t mind, I’m quite satisfied with this transaction. After all, I promised to help rescue someone, and I won’t quit halfway."

After saying this, the car fell into silence, but the oppressive atmosphere made the driver uncomfortable, prompting him to accelerate.

Quickly.

The vehicle stopped a few hundred meters from the prison, the headlights completely off, blending into the night.

The driver stared at the steering wheel, not daring to look back.

"...If we get any closer, we’ll be spotted. The rest of the way can only be traveled on foot."

"Thank you for your trouble."

Lv Bai opened the car door and headed toward the prison.

...

The area surrounding the prison was barren and exposed, with no buildings for cover, only a few waist-high weeds in sight.

Even under the cover of night, approaching the prison wasn’t easy.

After all, the searchlights on the watchtower were exceptionally bright, sweeping the perimeter irregularly throughout the night.

Of course, this method of detection was meaningless in front of Lv Bai, who possessed Flash Time.

He took some time to arrive beneath the high prison wall, took out his phone, and checked the prison layout given by the Daoist Master.

First, confirm the location of A Detention Area, then consider climbing the wall.

One had to admit, the prison’s security awareness was quite strong, especially as there had been an escape incident not long ago, which only heightened their vigilance.

This, of course, had something to do with Lv Bai, but more so with another factor—

Lv Bai bent down, scaled the wall, and glanced at the thick darkness opposite him.

Yes, he had not canceled the large patch of darkness created using All Ink within the prison.

But precisely because of this darkness, the prison had no choice but to deploy a large number of manpowers to ensure no one could hide within it.

Researchers had even set up tents at the edge of the darkness to study this bizarre phenomenon up close.

No one could understand what it was.

After some research, they merely confirmed that this darkness posed no harm to the human body, but as for its cause, researchers still could not reach a consensus.

Even though Heide Prison Warden confidently claimed that a prisoner released this darkness, researchers struggled to agree; after all, it didn’t seem like a power humans could possess.

"Whoa~"

A drowsy prison guard yawned below the wall, nudging his colleague with his shoulder: "What time is it? Isn’t it almost time for the shift change?"

Another guard, equally listless, was lazily leaning against the wall.

"Almost six, need to hurry back to get some sleep, there’s been so much going on lately."

"Yeah, even if vigilance is to be increased, you can’t treat one person as three, right?"

Lv Bai silently maneuvered past the barbed wire without making a sound.

He estimated the distance and decisively jumped down from the wall.

The guard leaning against the wall heard the whoosh from above and instinctively looked up.

When one’s body is in a state of fatigue, reactions tend to slow down significantly.

This guard, although he saw a hand descending from the sky, did not react in time to call for help.

Thud!

The guard became a human cushion for Lv Bai, blood frothing from his mouth as he collapsed to the ground.

The other guard, who just turned around to speak, was struck on the neck with a hand chop from Lv Bai, immediately falling unconscious.