Chapter 454
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In the cold and damp corridor, the new generation of prison guards stood in front of the empty cell doors. They were as cold as statues, and their bodies emitted a chilling aura. It was truly strange.
All the information of the mother nest was shared, which meant that the results of Adams' research in the "pyramid" would also be stored in the "hive" at the same time.
In other words, the current prison was also a paradise for "monsters". However, because of its special meaning, these monsters were all carefully selected to have the most human-like appearance.
Prison guards — monsters in human form!
"The prison is so empty. What are these prison guards guarding?" William walked through the corridor guarded by prison guards with a bit of trepidation. He couldn't help but feel a chill that caused dense goosebumps to appear on his back.
Cold footsteps echoed in the prison. William carried the Golden Lion Shiki's corpse tightly and carefully followed behind Crowe. His eyes swept over the prison guards around him from time to time. He noticed that there was a faint black line flowing in the prison guards' eyes.
"Come in. Below is 153 Branch's greatest secret. It is also the symbol of Colonel Yarlin's trust in you!" Crowe pushed open the innermost cell door and moved the bed board to reveal a dark and deep entrance below.
A cold, mysterious, and strange aura spread out along with the darkness. William stared at the open doorway. The rugged black tentacles at the edges were like moving sarcomas.
It was like a black hole that swallowed all light. It seemed to be connected to another unknown mysterious space, but it was more like the cold esophagus of a terrifying monster. He licked his dry lips, gritted his teeth, and walked in behind Crowe's butt.
"What is this thing?"
The entrance behind him closed, and his vision fell into darkness. The soles of his feet felt like he was stepping on a carpet of fungus. Half of his feet sank into the softness and stickiness. An invisible force was pushing him forward. William tensed up. The sound of deformation echoed in the darkness.
"This is the ground entrance that the hive purposely left behind." Crowe said in an admiring tone, "It's a nest that can't be described with words. I'm more willing to believe that this is an underground base that Colonel Yarlin personally created."
William swallowed his saliva and stared at the huge diamond-shaped building in front of him in shock. It was like a beehive that had hollowed out the entire island. He opened his mouth wide as if he had been struck by lightning.
"Is that Yarlin's secret?" William's heart trembled. He couldn't believe that such a strange and terrifying thing could be created by humans. Perhaps this was only the tip of the iceberg that Arlen was willing to show him. It was just one of the many secrets that Arlen had hidden.
He was glad that he didn't choose to betray Yarlin and rely on the Golden Lion Shiki. Especially when the latter's body was now hanging on his back, the lingering fear became even stronger.
Following the Beehive's maze, William walked towards the deepest core. Countless rustling sounds echoed in the pitch-black maze. William felt that there were countless malicious gazes quietly watching him in the darkness.
"Colonel Yarlin, William is here!"
After who knows how long, they walked out of the maze and a spacious laboratory was exposed before their eyes. Neatly arranged conversion cabins resembled a graveyard with no end in sight. Countless flesh and blood stained with the stench of the sea were stored inside.
These were the corpses of those who died in the battle between Sakazuki and the Golden Lion Shiki. Most of them had sunk into the sea and were being devoured by the tentacles hibernating in the depths, being transported endlessly into the Beehive.
William looked at the back of the figure standing at the front of the coffins. An unfamiliar figure turned his head, emanating the same cold aura as the wardens in the prison.
Hearing Crowe's voice, he turned, his cold and empty eyes strangely engulfed by endless black lines and turned pitch-black. His hoarse voice sounded like Yarlin's. "William, welcome to the Beehive. This is my greatest secret!"
It was an unfamiliar face. It was clearly a transformed body. William, however, bowed his head respectfully, a look of deep reverence on his face. "Yarlin, thank you for your trust. I've brought Shiki's body with me. Dr. Indigo is also outside."
"You've done well, William!" Yarlin grinned, revealing his white teeth. He lowered his head to look at Shiki's body, and with a thought, the ground covered in the fungus carpet split open. A black tentacle shot out and wrapped around Shiki's body.
There were faint black spots on the black tentacles, which looked like the texture of some kind of tree roots. It immediately pierced into Shiki's heart. The heart inside had stopped beating, but a faint strange ripple had not completely dissipated. That was the demon living in the human body had not "moved" away from this body.
William looked at the body that had its chest pierced by the black tentacle. The surface of the black tentacle seemed to be sucking something. Shiki's body became wrinkled and cracked at a speed visible to the naked eye. The skin all over his body was transforming into an air-dried mummy.
For those who had their devil fruit taken away, living people would be drained of their life force and die of old age. Even the body would be like air-dried bacon, wrinkled and cracked.
"This won't do!" Arlen furrowed his brows. Black threads shot into Shiki's corpse from the conversion pool. The biochemical fluid flowed through the dried up blood vessels. The originally wrinkled corpse was like a piece of pork that had been injected into it. It swelled up once more.
Although it was still a corpse and couldn't be used a second time for transformation and resurrection, it was enough for the world to recognize that this corpse belonged to the legendary pirate Shiki.
Plop!
Shiki's body fell to the ground, and then it was wrapped in a layer of fungus carpet, as if it was a layer of vacuum wrap, and was pulled up from the ground by Crowe.
"Both of you are my trusted and capable assistants, so I hope you can get along well!" Yarlin said faintly.
Crowe dragged the Golden Lion Shiki's corpse and exchanged glances with William. Then, he silently carried the corpse and walked into the darkness.
There was a separate room in the Hive for him. For the time being, he didn't need the Golden Lion Shiki's corpse. He wanted to put it in there, and Crowe didn't want to see the smug face of the Golden Lion Shiki.
William stared at Crowe's back that merged into the darkness, and said to Yarlin helplessly, "It's not that I want to go against him, but Crowe always finds me an eyesore!"
Yarlin didn't say anything. He might have just mentioned it casually, but he didn't dwell on the issue. In his palm, there was a strange dark fruit exuding a tempting fragrance. He said to William faintly, "I've always been a fair person. You brought me Shiki's body under the nose of Sakazuki, so I have no reason not to reward you …"
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