Chapter 1506 Dilemma
As Raymond approached, he noticed a red light blinking on the shackle locked around Octavia's ankle.
When he tugged at the device clamped to her leg, a man's voice emerged from within, "Octavia, trying to run again? Still attempting to escape? Such disobedience. Do I need to break your legs to make you understand?"
The man's voice echoed through the chamber—gentle in tone yet bone-chillingly sinister. Though Octavia couldn't hear the words, she sensed the iron restraint was speaking. Frantically, she clawed at the shackle around her ankle, her fingernails digging into her own flesh until blood welled up, but the device remained immovable as the voice continued its cruel monologue.
"Blind and deaf now—shall I make you mute as well? Approach that door again, and you'll be electrocuted unconscious. Stay put and stop struggling."
Raymond finally understood the sophistication of this underground prison. Not only did it block all external signals, but it was equipped with various automated systems. Proximity sensors detected when Octavia neared the basement door and released electric shocks accordingly. The two guards who had been restraining Octavia moments earlier had been struck by this very current, though Octavia herself seemed accustomed to the jolts from repeated escape attempts.
The most pressing problem was communication—she couldn't see or hear, instinctively perceiving anyone trying to help as another captor. Worse still, Raymond was running out of time.
His expression darkened as he turned to his men. "Can't we remove that thing from her ankle?"
"Mr. Montague, we've tried everything before you arrived. The material is incredibly durable—unless we amputate her legs entirely."
Raymond pressed his fingers to his temples. "Check for sensors near the entrance and destroy them."
"We've already investigated that avenue. This basement appears ordinary, but the interior walls and ankle restraint are made from the same material—unbreakable, impenetrable. We could try explosives, but she'd never escape the blast radius in time. She'd perish with the structure."
Silence fell over the chamber at these words.
Raymond desperately examined the floor, prompting his bodyguard to add, "The flooring is identical material."
Octavia sat on the ground, aware of presences around her but unable to identify them. She had no idea her daughter was mere feet away—she, trapped in blindness and deafness, while Selena could only move her mouth.
Selena called out weakly, "Mom."
No response.
Selena struggled to crawl toward her mother but found herself completely paralyzed. Octavia remained imprisoned in this basement—even with rescuers standing before her, she was doomed to lifelong captivity.
The cruel irony overwhelmed Selena. Her chest tightened with suffocating grief, and she suddenly coughed up blood.
"Selena!"
Raymond rushed to her side, gathering her trembling form into his arms.
"Selena, don't scare me like this..."
His voice cracked with emotion. They'd just been reunited, hadn't even had time to speak, and now she was hemorrhaging.
Selena felt as though her organs were tearing apart. "Save her... you have to get her out..."
Raymond couldn't bring himself to promise anything.
Time was slipping away. Chaos was erupting throughout Mystic Prison, and only two hours remained until his rendezvous with Lawrence and Walter. He had to extract Selena immediately, or unforeseen complications would trap them all.
But leaving meant abandoning Octavia.
Hadn't they come to Mystic Prison specifically to find her?
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