Chapter 244 - 98: Sudden Emergence of the Demon Ring
Shang Country’s Heavenly Prison, a different scene unfolds for Yue Jinghua, who has been incarcerated for three days now.
During the several hundred years since the founding of Shang Kingdom, the citizens have prospered so much that even the farmers in small towns and suburbs could save up a few silver coins each year.
The saying goes that in the civilian realm, doors are not bolted at night and lost items found on the roads are not pocketed; the vacancy rate of civilian jails accounts for fifty percent.
And if the civilian jails are like this, the Heavenly Prison detaining criminals of heinous crimes, in even starker contrast, often has a vacancy rate as high as ninety percent.
The Heavenly Prison has over thirty cells but only imprisons three or four inmates.
The pine oil lamp brightly lights the passageway of the cells, the straw in the cells is very dry and comfortable, there is no sound of interrogation throughout the night nor threats from intense questioning, and the food is more or less normal.
It was around the second day after her incarceration that Yue Jinghua had figured out the situation within the entire Heavenly Prison.
The Heavenly Prison is located in the most hidden place within the royal palace, so even those who are well-acquainted with the palace’s terrain would have difficulty locating the cells in a short time.
Each cell has no windows, leaving only a palm-sized skylight.
That little skylight then becomes the sole way for prisoners to connect with the outside world each day.
Besides that, the Heavenly Prison is heavily guarded; inside, there are ten prison guards of the Dark Earth Rank and Dark Jade Rank. Rumors have it that these people are all former subordinates of General Tianwei, personally trained by him, with extraordinary abilities. At night, they activate the defensive Dark Arrays, which are easy to defend but difficult to assault.
Not to mention, once a prison break occurs, the already substantial guard force both inside and outside the palace would be the least of concerns. For a serious offender of the Heavenly Prison, escaping from the prison is as hard as ascending to heaven.