My Talent's Name Is Generator

Chapter 171: I Broke Their Suppression

I ended up talking with Xin and Ming for a while.

Most of the time, they stayed quiet about the deeper stuff. Every time I asked something important, they just gave me a look and said I’d find out soon enough.

It was frustrating but I could tell it wasn’t because they could not talk. It was more like they didn’t want to. Or maybe they thought words weren’t enough to explain what was really going on here.

Still, I managed to learn a few things.

They’d been trapped here for almost eight months now. Eight whole months. No escape. No rescue. Just surviving.

The way they said it made it sound normal, like it was just part of life now. But that hit me hard. Eight months in a place like this….it was a slow decay.

I asked them why no one had broken out, and they explained the situation clearly: a Grandmaster-level guard watches over the entire realm.

Not just any guard either someone strong enough to crush resistance before it even starts. On top of that, there were the cuffs and collars. I already knew what they did from experience, but hearing it again made it worse.

At one point, I asked Xin why the Holts were keeping prisoners like them alive. That was the first time his expression really changed. His usual calm face hardened. He looked away for a second and then said, “I don’t know. But it’s something dark.” His voice was low. Heavy. Like he’d thought about it too many times already and still had no answers.

He mentioned there were soldiers here too, lots of them. Some were still alive. Others hadn’t made it. Killed by Abominations. Tortured by the Holts.

I didn’t know what to say to that. So I just went quiet.