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Chapter 191: The Reappearance of the Mysterious Masked Man
Just as Liam seized Chen Kong and forcibly dragged him along in search of Saintess Yufemia, The Stars · Faint Light reached its ninth episode.
Having now learned of ‘Bai Kong’s existence through the Dimensional Audience, they assumed the tenth episode would naturally continue focusing on Chen Kong.
But to their surprise, the opening scene of the tenth episode revealed a most unusual prison—Steam Capital · Permanent Magnet Prison.
No familiar Gear Church. No Chen Kong. No Liam.
Instead, a peculiar structure lay deep beneath the Gear Tower, its walls glowing with an eerie metallic sheen.
Then, a data panel materialized before every member of the Dimensional Audience, revealing the prison’s details:
> Permanent Magnet Prison: A unique mechanized jail exclusive to Steam Capital, perpetually shrouded in an intense magnetic field. The deeper one goes, the more the field strength multiplies exponentially—truly the ultimate hell for any Artificial Stellar Envoy.
With that brief introduction, a three-dimensional model of the prison appeared before them:
> Prison Layout:
> B1 Level: Ordinary Prisoners
> B2 Level: First-Rank Stellar Envoy
> B3 Level: Second-Rank Stellar Envoy
> B4 Level: Third-Rank Stellar Envoy (Maximum Danger)
> “Ugh… just looking at this place gives me goosebumps.”
> “The prison zone—do you think Lao Liu is locked up here?”
> “Classic prison break plot, right?”
Recalling how Liu Ma had been captured by the Steam Syndicate after the failed rescue mission to save Vivian, the Dimensional Audience instantly suspected this episode would center around Liu Ma’s escape.
But as the description faded, a cold, mechanical voice suddenly cut through the silence:
> [Identity Verified]
> [Access Granted: B4 Level]
With a hiss of steam, a massive alloy door—separating B3 from B4—slowly lifted.
And when the other side came into view, the chat exploded.
Because standing before them, unmistakable and long absent, was the Mysterious Masked Man, the one believed to be Tian Dao.
Just as in his first appearance, he wore a full-body hood that concealed even his hair, and a white mask covering his face.
> “Holy crap—it’s him!”
> “Wait… how does he have access to a Steam Branch prison?”
> “Something’s off… this can’t be coincidence!”
The Dimensional Audience immediately sensed something sinister.
Yet one thing stood out—his usual companion, the green-haired little girl, was absent.
Still, they didn’t dwell on it. The camera had already followed the Mysterious Masked Man into the narrow, blood-red-lit corridor of B4 Level.
Tap… tap… tap…
A slow, steady rhythm echoed through the metal passage.
At last, the masked figure stopped before a massive vertical shaft—an immense space that formed the heart of the entire prison: B4, the core cell block.
Near him, a pitch-black metallic sphere hovered above a metal platform, its surface pulsing with faint blue electrical currents.
> Name: Permanent Magnet Sphere
> Effect: A special mechanized device imbued with eternal magnetism. The closer one gets, the stronger the magnetic pull becomes. It also disrupts quantum information transmission in Intelligent Mechanism Class systems.
The Permanent Magnet Sphere—the core device of the prison. Its presence ensured no prisoner could escape.
And with three high-risk B4 inmates under constant surveillance by Steam Branch guards, escape was all but impossible.
“Who are you?”
A hoarse voice broke the silence.
Tian Dao, just stepping out of the corridor, turned toward the cell. The prisoner’s voice trembled with suspicion—and a hint of excitement.
But Tian Dao gave no reply. He walked straight toward the giant sphere, ignoring the call.
“Hey! Let’s make a deal!”
Seeing the man walk away without a word, the prisoner couldn’t let the chance slip. He shouted after Tian Dao’s back.
Yet Tian Dao didn’t slow.
He stopped before the sphere and slowly opened his palm.
In an instant, a strange cube appeared—half-real, half-phantom, its surface swirling with quantum data streams. Inside, two meters of pale green crystal glowed faintly.
The Quantum Cube.
And for the first time, Tian Dao spoke:
> “I wasn’t sure where Steam Branch’s Quantum Key was… but after the Twelve Brass Council, I knew.”
He looked up. The pale blue eyes beneath his white mask flared with a faint light.
> “They’re inside this massive Permanent Magnet Sphere. I didn’t feel the key’s presence on either of the two Steam Branch representatives at the Council.”
With that, the Quantum Cube lifted from his hand and floated into the sphere’s core.
Instantly, the sphere’s surface rippled like water disturbed by a stone.
Its shape twisted—stretching, warping, unstable.
But it didn’t last long.
The cube reemerged, returning to Tian Dao’s palm.
Yet something had changed.
Where once there were only two pale green crystals inside the cube, now there were four.
The two new crystals were the missing Quantum Keys—the Steam Capital quantum authority once held by Steam Branch.
Now, in total, Tian Dao’s Quantum Cube contained four keys:
- Two from Steam Branch
- One from Golden Knight · Fischer
- One that Saintess Yufemia had entrusted to him long ago
The loss of these two keys disrupted the delicate balance of the Permanent Magnet Sphere.
Boom!
A violent tremor shook the entire B4 Level.
Magnetic readouts on nearby walls spun wildly.
The magnetic field in B4 collapsed into chaos.
But Tian Dao had expected this.
With a flick of his fingers, the Quantum Cube unleashed a torrent of data—streams of pale green energy that wrapped around the sphere like bandages, stabilizing it once more into its original, solid black form.
Still, he couldn’t leave the cube here.
And the chaos had already triggered unforeseen consequences—some of the high-risk prisoners in B4 had broken free.
(End of Chapter)
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