Qin Lun leaned sideways against the wall, his face bland as he looked out through the air window. The place where he was located was a single cell of more than ten square feet, with the exception of a fist-sized air window on the steel cell door, and all four walls were made of alloy steel plates. Inside, there was only a single cot that was fitted to the steel wall and could be folded, as well as a composite material flush toilet.

　　Through the air window, Qin Lun could spot a row of cells of the same style in the opposite distance, and only some of these cells were occupied by prisoners. He soon realised that most of these prisoners were as silent as he was, and the whole cell block seemed dead silent.

　　From time to time, guards would pass through the aisles of the cellblock area, and some newly minted inmates would join the ranks of the occupants. Qin Lun had originally thought that there had been another unexpected postponement of the death sentence, and that he had been transferred to another prison. But soon enough, the murderer overturned that judgement, because the guards that occasionally passed through the cell block really didn't look like prison guards.

　　These guards were dressed in federal military uniforms, holding standardised particle light guns, and revealing an undisguised shrewdness everywhere between their actions, obviously definitely not ordinary prison guards, but rather like regular federal soldiers.

　　‘Puff, puff!’ A strange ringing sound came from the aisles of the cell block.

　　Qin Lun's expression moved slightly, he was familiar with this sound, it was the footsteps of a vapour confinement device, it seemed that there seemed to be an additional heavyweight resident here.

　　Almost a week had passed since he was injected with a sedative by nurse Xiao Lian. During this week, Qin Lun had already seen several prisoners wearing vapour confinement devices passing by this cell walkway. In other words, it was very likely that he was not the only murderer being held in this ‘prison’ controlled by the federal military.

　　......

　　‘Finally, I've met you, Murderer Qin Lun!’

　　In a spacious monitoring room, there were several white coats accompanying a handsome youth, watching Qin Lun's stereo projection. The youth was gorgeously dressed, with a domineering demeanour and a hint of a mocking smile, if any, hanging at the corner of his mouth, appearing out of place with the surrounding researchers in white coats.

　　Looking at Qin Lun's three-inch stereo projection, a hint of fervour flowed from the youth's eyes.

　　‘Arrange it for me, I want to see him in person!’

　　‘Young Lin, this ...... is too dangerous!’ A middle-aged white lab coat behind the youth pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with difficulty, ‘Don't look at Qin Lun as he is now, he's schizophrenic, and there's still another murderous personality in his body ......’

　　‘Alright, about Qin Lun, I know more than you!’ The youth impatiently waved his hand, interrupting the middle-aged man, ‘Hurry up and arrange it for me, I can't wait to see him!’

　　After saying that, the youth reached out and brought Qin Lun's ‘death list’, turned around and left the room, heading straight towards the cellblock area, behind him, the two black-clad bodyguards silently followed.

　　‘Doctor, do we really have to do this?’ A graduate student came up to the middle-aged white coat and said softly, ‘Qin Lun is an S-class felon, this will violate the base regulations!’

　　‘Allowing Lin Feng to enter Area 91 would already violate base regulations!’ The middle-aged doctor pushed up his glasses and said helplessly, ‘Who made him General Lin's only son! General Lin is the military representative of Area 91 and controls the base's funding ration, we can't afford to offend him. Inform the guards in the cellblock area that after anaesthetising Qin Lun, put a steam confinement device on him.’

　　‘Lin Feng usually doesn't come to the base this unreasonable, what's going on this time?’ The young graduate student asked with a puzzled face.

　　‘What do you know! I heard that he's an avid fan of Qin Lun and has collected a lot of information about his cases. And he also bribed the police officers to get a lot of the murder props used as evidence out of the Handan Police Department.’

　　The middle-aged doctor swept around and looked at this student he valued the most and said softly, ‘Lin Feng and certain sons of the world have organised a death tournament for the powerful and wealthy to watch, and murderous devils like Qin Lun are the tournament's ace players.’

　　‘What?’ The graduate student shuddered, an unbelievable light in his eyes, ‘So, after Lin Feng came through every time, those death row inmates who suddenly died violently were all killed by him ......’

　　‘Shut up, it's good that you understand, you don't need to say it, otherwise your research work here will come to an end!’ The middle-aged doctor gave his student a stern look.

　　......

　　Qin Lun woke up in a daze, with a hint of dizziness hidden in his mind, moving his arms and legs, he found that his body appeared abnormally heavy, as if he had been put on a vapour confinement device again, and he had been restricted in his ability to move, and he could only stand still in his original position.

　　‘Murderer Qin Lun!’ A handsome face appeared in front of the prisoner.

　　Lin Feng gazed at the clear and pure eyes in the steel mask, a hint of fervour slowly appeared in his gaze, he put aside the ‘death list’ in his hand that stored Qin Lun's information, and slowly approached the steam confinement device.

　　‘Lin Shao!’ The two black-clothed bodyguards glanced at each other and stepped between the steel monster and Lin Feng.

　　‘Get out of the way!’ Lin Feng annoyingly pushed the black-clothed bodyguards in front of him away, his arms spread wide, embracing the steam confinement device, pressing his face to the steel mask and gently rubbing it, murmuring under his breath.

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　　‘Your presence is fantastic, simply a born star. I've collected everything there is to know about you, news, briefings, insider ...... I've even bribed police personnel to copy crime scene photos, they're my most valued collection!’

　　The two black-clad bodyguards turned their heads unnaturally, after long years of following this young master, they were not surprised by some of their master's perverted behaviour. The murderous demon was, after all, confined in the middle of a vapour device, and was unlikely to cause substantial harm to Lin Feng.

　　A smile filled with evil slowly appeared on Lin Feng's face.

　　‘Those powerful people in the club know nothing, they only think you're a murderous demon, only I know how to appreciate your ‘behavioural art’. You'll become my ace in the hole, and then bring me the glory of being a champion in the Tournament of Death.’

　　‘Oh yeah, I brought you a meet-and-greet gift!’ Lin Feng slapped his head and fished out a brocade cloth pouch from the lining pocket of his suit, opening it layer by layer, ‘Look, I replaced the murder prop you used from the Handan police's evidence room. This thing is made by fusing those murder props with the Meteorite Iron from the sky! Isn't it a work of art, it's beautiful, isn't it?’

　　A black dagger in the shape of a crescent moon, somewhat like the half blade of a scissor, lay quietly in the small brocade cloth bag. The body of the dagger was as thick as a paper cutter, and the spine of the blade had a row of sharp serrated teeth that resembled the fine fangs of a piranha's mouth. The handle of the knife did not have a formal holster grip, the end of the knife instead had a steel ring that was just able to fit into the thumb, the same as a ninja's bitterness.

　　Qin Lun's killing methods were extremely bloody and cruel, and he had used many killing props, and the remains of his victims were usually cut open and dismembered. Among the many dismemberment props, the murderer's favourite murder weapon was still the various split off single piece scissors.

　　The analysis report submitted to the police by the psychiatrist pointed out that this might be due to the fact that the step-parents, as well as the male caretaker of the children's home, were killed when Qin Lun was holding the sharp scissor blades in his hands. The indelible mental trauma of childhood made the single-blade scissors the guardian prop and murder weapon that the murderer relied on.

　　After seeing the crescent-shaped blades, the clear eyes behind the steel mask finally had a fluctuation, flickering with an inexplicable complex light.

　　‘Don't be in a hurry, Qin Lun, it will definitely belong to you!’ Lin Feng Zhi nodded in satisfaction, re-wrapping the black blade and storing it in the lined pocket of his suit.

　　......

　　At the same time, on the large screen of the Area 91 control centre, the spherical area suddenly lit up with large swathes of free state particles and contracted towards the centre. A tiny sun lit up at the core, and a visible spatial collapse appeared in the spherical region.

　　‘General, a temporal rift is about to appear ......,’ a programmer on the console called out nervously.

　　‘How is that possible, the free state particles have been dormant all week, how can they suddenly become active?’ The white-haired chief engineer of the base on the podium stared at the scene on the big screen with wide eyes and shock.

　　‘Doctor, how much time do we have left to send prisoners to the temporal rift!’ The general beside him paled and turned his head to ask.

　　‘It's too late, it's too late ......,’ the aged chief engineer muttered as he looked at the big screen.

　　‘Doctor, the activity of the free state particles has broken through the highest level in history, and the spacetime domain seems to be showing signs of expansion!’

　　‘What?!’ The old doctor and the general were shocked at the same time.

　　The spherical spacetime domain was located right above the Area 91 base, if the spacetime domain started to expand, then the entire base would be in danger.

　　‘Snort!’ Without waiting for the two higher-ups of the base to issue orders, a pitch-black crack like the vertical pupil of a monster appeared in the spherical area on the large screen of the control centre. The vertical pupil slowly stretched to the sides, and an oval-shaped orange-coloured portal appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

　　‘What is this thing?’ The white-haired old doctor lost his voice and exclaimed in shock, but there was an undisguised excitement in his eyes. For a scientist like him, the day he heard of the Dao, the night he died! The passion for exploring the mysteries of the universe was far more important than valuing one's own life.

　　With the appearance of the spatial and temporal portal, the spherical spatial and temporal realm shrank and expanded by more than ten times its original diameter of only a few hundred metres, enveloping all of the niches of the entire Area 91.

　　‘Whoosh!’ The niche building representing the Federation's Area 91 test base seemed to shrink into a toy as it flew rapidly towards the space-time portal. Even the parts of the building that were buried deep underground were uprooted, bringing a large amount of dirt and sand with them as they flew into the space-time portal.

　　After engulfing everything around it, the time-space portal that was like a vertical pupil slowly closed and disappeared into the air. The expanding spherical spatial and temporal domain once again shrunk drastically, but instead of returning to its original diameter of several hundred metres, it directly shrunk to a point and eventually disappeared without a trace.

　　A breeze blew past, the spherical spacetime domain that had existed for hundreds of years in this primitive forest in the Huaxia Region finally disappeared, leaving only a circular pit with a diameter of several kilometres in its place.