Yu Wusheng said with a wry smile, "Do you think we have a chance, looking like this?"

"We've been sitting here for so many years; our legs are practically useless. How can we slay demons?"

Yu Wusheng probably guessed what I wanted to ask and said before I could open my mouth, "Back then, when we reached the bottom level of the Demon Suppression Tower, Shi Haoguang and the others were still alive."

"It was Shi Guanghao who accused the dynasty and the underworld of injustice, which is why I was deceived by him."

Yu Wusheng's words were both right and wrong.

Shi Guanghao resented the underworld and must have vehemently accused them to Yu Wusheng.

However, the main reason Yu Wusheng was deceived was either the mole from the Reincarnation Department or the demons in the dungeon.

Yu Wusheng continued, "At that time, we were already trapped in this secret room that we could enter but not leave. There was no one outside to respond to us. Even if we had heaven-defying abilities, we could only sit here and wait for death."

"You can imagine the unease and resentment in our hearts at that time."

"The demon below the prison took advantage of this opportunity to approach me and negotiate a deal."

"We would provide it with blood to help it recover."

"It would periodically give us food to ensure we stayed alive."

"When it escaped, it would lead us to break open the prison and restore our freedom."

Yu Wusheng couldn't help but smile bitterly as he said, "I knew I was asking a tiger for its skin, but I had no choice but to agree to its request. Otherwise, we wouldn't even have a sliver of a chance."

I asked, "What about Shi Guanghao?"

"Dead!" Yu Wusheng said, "Shi Guanghao and the others gave us their lifespans, and then they vanished into thin air."

"Shi Guanghao gave you his lifespan?" I instinctively felt something was wrong. "According to you, Shi Guanghao and the others should have had lifespans of at least five hundred years."

"Wouldn't they have made a deal with the demon under the tower?"

Yu Wusheng shook his head and said, "I asked Shi Guanghao the same question. He said that when the dynasty imprisoned them here, they fed them a special kind of poison."

"If the demon wanted to use their blood, it would have to go to some lengths to remove the poison from their blood first."

"Before Wusheng entered the dungeon, the demon would have kept Shi Guanghao's group of Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren, considering it was better than nothing! When we arrived, Shi Haoguang and the others became useless."

"They also said: Rather than die at the hands of the demon, it would be better to end it themselves. So, they gave their lifespans to Wusheng and then chose to commit suicide."

I looked up and said, "Where are their remains?"

Yu Wusheng pointed to the corner of the wall and said, "They were originally in that place, but now they should have turned into withered bones!"

I walked to the wall and brushed away the dust piled there, but only saw a pile of discolored bone fragments.

Normal human bones should be white, and they will turn yellow after natural decay.

But the pile of bone fragments I saw was a deep blue color, as if it had been soaked in dye.

If you look at it from this point of view, Shi Guanghao and the others may indeed have been poisoned!

At this moment, Ye Yang also came up and said, "These people were indeed poisoned before they died, but not as seriously as Yu Wusheng said."

Only then did I realize that I had overlooked a crucial issue—what was suppressed under the iron tower was a demon, not a ghost.

Although that demon couldn't leave the iron tower, wasn't it a simple matter to remove the poison from Shi Guanghao's body?

Also, if the demon couldn't come out, how did the two demon children appear in the tower?

Could it be that the person who delivered food to Yu Wusheng and the others was a demon child?

Did the demon child stay on the second floor of the dungeon all the time, just to bring the paper doll puppet to bring extra food down to Yu Wusheng?

That's not right!

I quickly dismissed my idea. Yu Wusheng and the others were definitely not living on a normal diet.

People have to excrete as long as they eat and drink.

Yu Wusheng and the others couldn't move, so how did they solve the problem of excretion?

Did the demon cut a hole in the place where they were sitting?

Below Yu Wusheng and the others was the land of demon suppression.

Although demons are unconstrained, they wouldn't lie in their own feces, would they?

Yu Wusheng was deceived by Shi Haoguang.

I walked towards Yu Wusheng and said, "Senior Yu, when you saw Shi Haoguang, did he have anything special about him?"

Yu Wusheng obviously didn't understand what I was saying: "Little friend, what do you mean?"

Yu Wusheng's reaction was within my expectations.

He must have been affected by something, making him mentally dull.

Yu Wusheng was a hero of his time, and his mind was definitely not as simple as I see it now.

Yu Wusheng can't remember anything? I can only give up on his clues.

But at this moment, Ye Yang called me aside and lowered his voice and said, "This secret room can be opened from the inside."

Although Ye Yang's voice was small, it was still heard by the Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren of Wusheng. The man's eyes lit up: "Two little brothers, can you open the secret room from the inside?"

"If you can let us out, we will do anything for you!"

Yu Wusheng also looked up and said, "Little friend, you are not kidding, are you?"

Ye Yang said coldly, "I'm not in the mood to joke."