Crime Prison Island
Chapter 56 - 19 Futile Effort_3

Chapter 56: Chapter 19 Futile Effort_3

"Come out, or I’ll set the fire," Gao Xin called out.

"You son of a..."

"Thud!" Gao Xin smashed again, and the steel plate cracked open directly.

"Stop, stop, stop, I’m coming out."

Gao Xin waited silently, thinking to himself that it was no wonder they couldn’t find the bald man; he was hiding too well.

Firstly, the big-bearded man had only searched the building but hadn’t really looked in the courtyard area.

After all, there was a fight going on in the front of the courtyard at that time.

Moreover, who would easily think of a hollow tree?

"Crack!"

The steel plate lifted, and a bald head popped out; he then pushed open a small wooden door from inside the trunk.

Goodness, when that wooden door was shut, it blended seamlessly with the trunk, without a single flaw to betray its presence.

Once opened, looking through the small door revealed a deep hole leading underground.

There was also a room down there, probably quite large, large enough to hide dozens of people, like a rat’s nest.

This was simply a super-enhanced version of that earlier "darkness beneath the light" situation.

Unless the remaining cat goes on a rampage, causing destruction everywhere, and simply cuts down all the trees, it would indeed be difficult to find.

"So this is the so-called hidden area? It’s really a trap," Gao Xin observed the surroundings.

It could easily hide twenty people underneath, but its geographical location was right at the front gate...

That is to say, it was impossible to hide there from the start, otherwise, it would be the same as entering the ’mouse hole’ in front of cats and dogs.

And afterwards? It would also be tough to get everybody inside, as Silver Hand had been fighting with two other people in the front yard for a long time. It wasn’t possible they would just burrow into the tree in front of them, right?

To make good use of this hiding spot would also require some careful planning.

And even if you managed to hide successfully, you couldn’t be sure whether the cat would go mad in the end, digging three feet into the ground or chopping down trees everywhere.

In any case, this seemed like a hidden spot that was bound to be exposed sooner or later.

"You... what the hell are you doing? Have you... become a cat?"

The bald man looked at Gao Xin, very angry, but upon seeing Gao Xin’s two collars, he was immediately confounded.

Gao Xin saw that he had no idea what had happened and quickly explained.

"You’ve not only become a cat, but you’re also cooperating with Silver Hand?"

"You two are looking for me together? I’m..."

The bald man was stunned, having never imagined such a situation.

He had finally found a perfect hiding spot, and yet it was for this reason that he was found out.

"That guy, isn’t he supposed to want to kill us all? How could he agree? He’s tricking you!"

The bald man exclaimed in shock after hearing about the situation.

He then proposed, "How about we don’t go back, and you hide here with me... There’s a clock inside, and it’s close to the door. When time’s up, we can just run."

Gao Xin frowned, but then asked, "When did you discover this place?"

"I found it when I was in the courtyard at the start," the bald man said.

Gao Xin looked at him, realizing that this guy had discovered the place earlier when he was searching for the dog collar in the front yard, but he kept silent about it.

Later, when Gao Xin talked about a hidden area, he also pretended to be surprised.

When he found out Silver Hand had torn up the agreement and began a massacre, he simply abandoned the newcomer he was with and found an opportunity to slip in here on his own.

No wonder Silver Hand could easily kill five people on the third floor; these were the newcomers who trusted the bald man but were ruthlessly abandoned by him and then failed to find a good hiding spot in time.

Maybe he had deliberately endangered those newcomers, attracting Silver Hand to the third floor to give himself a chance to burrow into the tree.

"What do you think? Let’s not go back. We’ll just hide here. According to you, Silver Hand definitely doesn’t have the energy to destroy the place looking for us. We have a high chance of survival!" The bald man grew more excited as he spoke.

Although the tree trunk was chopped and opened, it was at the bottom, and they could also find stones to cover it.

With Silver Hand’s current situation, the two of them really might survive.

"There are still seven people in the hall."

The bald man disdainfully said, "What do we care about them for?"

Gao Xin didn’t want to explain too much and directly swung another axe at the tree.

With a loud bang, this time it was a horizontal chop, and since the inside was hollow, it cut right through.

With a creak, the tree fell to the ground.

"You!" the bald man looked at the giant axe with fear and envy, and had no choice but to nod, "I’ll do it, I’ll do it..."

Gao Xin nodded and pointed to his neck, "You pull on one end, and I’ll pull the other side, don’t get any funny ideas."

After all, cooperating with Gao Xin was dangerous, as the guy was bound to harbor crooked thoughts, so it was better to cut down a tree to intimidate him first.

The bald man nodded, reached out to Gao Xin’s neck, and grasped the collar tightly.

As Gao Xin leaned to one side, both began to exert force, but soon Gao Xin called to a halt, "No, no, it’s going to break my neck!"

Previously, he and Su Lei had managed to pry it open by standing on either side and using both hands with all their might.

But now, with the Cat Collar on Gao Xin’s neck, the point of force was on his neck...

"What if you put the axe down, protect your neck with your hands and try again?" the bald man suggested.

Gao Xin, with a dark face, suddenly asked, "Do you have any rope?"

The bald man shook his head.

Gao Xin glanced at the mansion, "Let’s go inside first, there are others."

Under his coercion, the two returned to the mansion’s main hall, where the sight of the bald man brought joy to everyone’s faces.

However, upon hearing that the two also couldn’t pry it open, their lips twitched. What now? There was no one else; everyone else was incapacitated.

Suddenly, Liu Xu raised her hand, "My hands aren’t injured!"

She was the last one the big bearded man found, having only her legs carelessly broken before he ran off to deal with Silver Hand.

Therefore, Liu Xu was the only one among all the trapped mice to have no injuries on her upper body.

Immediately, she took hold of one side, with the bald man on the other, both pulling together with all their might.

As a result, Liu Xu was dragged along, Gao Xin staggered, and the bald man ended up sitting on the floor with a thud...

"This won’t work, Liu Xu is too light and doesn’t have enough strength. You need to add your own strength to it," Meimei said anxiously.

Gao Xin knew this all too well, but that meant he had to free both hands.

So be it, he’d gamble everything.

Gao Xin plunged the giant axe into the ground in front of Su Lei, grabbed the collar with both hands, and looking back, said to the bald man, "Let’s go again!"

The bald man immediately began to pull, and Gao Xin also threw himself wholeheartedly into leaning the other way, as Liu Xu gripped tight on Gao Xin’s side.

She didn’t need to pull, as her lower body was already paralyzed on the ground, and she was using all her strength.

"How about it? Can you get it off?" Silver Hand walked over at that moment.

His terrifying appearance frightened the bald man terribly, making him think he had seen a ghost.

His legs went weak, and the group collapsed into a pile.

"Damn, if only I could move," Su Lei said desperately. Despite his lean build, his strength was perhaps the greatest among them; he had managed to pry it open with Gao Xin before.

Seeing Silver Hand arrive, Gao Xin stared at him for a while, then suddenly frowned.

He then shouted, "Don’t stop, keep going, more people!"

Everyone tried again, this time everyone piling on, combining their efforts and using their body weight to support the people on both sides.

Unfortunately, most were of no help and even made it harder for Liu Xu to breathe, scraping her hands raw.

"Arghhh!" Gao Xin exerted all his might.

Finally, they saw the collar had opened wide enough for a neck to pass through.

But when Gao Xin tried to move his neck out, the gap suddenly closed a bit, slicing his neck and drawing blood.

The initial success in prying it open had come from planting their feet firmly and using all their strength.

Now, pieced together haphazardly, they could barely get it open; it was in a delicate state, with Gao Xin as one of the points of force, unable to move his neck out.

They roared and tried one more time.

But it was still a failure, to the point where even Liu Xu lost her grip, resulting in yet another pile-up.

"Damn it! Fucking hell!"

"Why can’t we pry it open! Why can’t we pry it open?"

Su Lei yelled in fury and frustration, banging his head on the ground.

Gao Xin, with his head lowered, began to laugh bitterly, slowly getting to his feet.

They, a bunch of people, were so embarrassingly struggling with a collar; the people behind the Crystal Ball must be laughing their heads off.

Silver Hand, upon hearing this, also began to chuckle with a low laugh; his damaged vocal cords made it sound exceptionally horrifying.

The others also fell into despair, their spirits almost breaking.

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