The child's fist clenched, and in that instant, we all felt the surrounding space being constantly compressed inward by something.

I wanted to move my arms, but I couldn't. My ribs felt as if they were bound by ropes, constantly contracting inward. I even felt like my ribs were in danger of being broken at any moment.

When I was learning my trade, I was once entangled by a snake spirit summoned by the Snake King.

My current state was similar to being constricted by a python at that time.

While resisting the external pressure, I transmitted my voice to Ye Yang: "Try to slow your breathing and hold on. Don't do anything yet."

The sword energy that was faintly emerging from Ye Yang instantly disappeared.

Ye Yang was still on guard, but he didn't show it.

We were now competing with the prisoners to see who had more courage. Whoever couldn't hold on first would have to compromise.

After a few seconds, I heard Old Bone shout, "Stop squeezing! Stop squeezing! Let go, let go! We'll choose someone."

The child spread his fingers, and the pressure on us was released.

Old Bone wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said tremblingly, "Same old rules, let's draw lots! Old Bone here thanks you brothers."

The life-and-death lottery has been a rule in the martial world since ancient times.

People in the martial world do act fiercely every day, but no one really wants to die. There are few people who don't weaken at the knees and bend at the waist when death is imminent.

So, there came to be such a thing as the life-and-death lottery.

In other words, this life-and-death lottery is also a kind of fairness.

When Old Bone reached into his pocket to pull out the life-and-death lottery, someone shouted, "Hey Li, are they drawing or not?"

"Drawing!" I replied with a smile, "Why wouldn't we draw?"

"We're already standing here, what am I afraid of? You guys draw first, the remaining three are ours."

The life-and-death lottery relies entirely on luck as long as the person holding the lots doesn't cheat.

With Su Su on our side, what was I afraid of?

The other side only drew a dozen or so lots before someone drew a death lot.

The person who drew the death lot was also tough. He threw his clothes on the ground and said, "Brothers, I have no attachments in this life. Whoever gets out, pour a glass of wine on my grave during the holidays." Then he went straight to the wooden platform.

A moment later, he was also pierced onto the platform with steel wire. The child pressed the mechanism under the wooden platform, and the two people on the platform began to punch and kick each other.

This wasn't martial arts, and it wasn't even dodging. It was purely chaotic fighting.

Before long, the two people were bloody and lifeless, but their bodies were still fighting each other under the action of the mechanism.

The child clapped his hands and laughed for a while, then lost interest in this kind of fighting: "Boring, send two more people up."

Old Bone's face changed suddenly. Heaven knows when the child would get tired of playing. By the time he was tired, everyone here might be dead.

I calmly called out to Su Su, and the latter walked up and said, "Little friend, how about I play with you?"

The child looked at Su Su warily, but Su Su squatted on the ground and started talking to him softly.

Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief.

The reason I said to Ye Yang, "The key to escaping the dungeon lies with Su Su," was this.

Su Su has an affinity with children and is very likable.

After Su Su came to Liangjie Hall (Two Realms Hall), she was put in charge of coaxing Xiao Kui.

As long as she can appease the child, we'll have a chance to escape.

After the two talked for a while, the child suddenly said, "I'm playing with Su Su-jie (older sister), none of you can run! If anyone runs, I'll kill them!"

Su Su put her hand behind her back and waved it gently at me twice, meaning for me to rest assured.

Only then did I move closer to the crowd: "Old Bone, you haven't finished talking about the dungeon yet!"

Old Bone said, "Let me think, where did we get to last time?"

I reminded him, "You said the prison guards in the dungeon have stopped moving."

"Right, right..." Old Bone said, "We waited another day before the Four Heavenly Kings told us to go out and take a look. So we walked out of the prison one after another."

"It wasn't until that time that we discovered that the prison where we were being held had been confined to an independent space. The prison guards responsible for guarding us were all dead at the exit of the prison."

"When those people died, they didn't have a single wound on their bodies, but their blood had been drained."

"We panicked at this point. There was no food or water in the prison, how were we supposed to live?"

"What's even more terrifying is that we can only stay on the upper level of the prison, we can't go down no matter what."

Hearing this, I asked, "Could you go down before?"

Old Bone replied, "Before, only a few of us could go down. But going down was just following the prison guards to do some work."

"Even the prison guards rarely go down to the lower level of the prison. I heard that some amazing people are imprisoned there."