Chapter 180: Investigating Death Row Prisoners on a Rainy Night
The Imperial Palace of Liansheng Kingdom, the palace of Fengyi female officials, at midnight.
When Yanyu got the death row map drawn by the royal guard an hour ago, he had been studying it for a whole hour.
From this map, it can be seen that this royal guard is indeed very familiar with death row, and the map accurately indicates the division of death row.
The entire death row is divided into three areas, the first area is the death penalty area, and the prisoners in it are to be beheaded, which belongs to the temporary detention of prisoners, and the prisoners who will be beheaded together after the autumn.
The second district is the old death zone, and the prisoners in it belong to the death row in the second district, although they have committed capital crimes, and their crimes are unforgivable, but once they are released after the light sentence of the saint, it will inevitably cause monstrous public anger and lead to national turmoil.
The third district is the torture zone, and the prisoners held here are all repeat offenders who are guilty of heinous crimes, and they are all ruthless, unrepentant, and have lost their conscience.
Therefore, the prisoners in this area had to undergo all kinds of painful torture every day, and they were not allowed to die, until they were insane and had a nervous breakdown, and they lost the meaning of torture, and then they were burned alive.
As for the structure of this death row, it is also amazing, outsiders cannot enter the prison at all, and the prisoners inside cannot escape.
Because the whole death row was under a deep valley pool, the only entrance and exit was a pool a hundred feet deep, and there was a passage at the bottom of the pool that led to the death row.
There is a waterfall above the pool, and every time the prisoners are escorted in and out, the waterfall must be diverted in advance so that it does not flow into the pool, and then the water in the pool is emptied to reveal the passage, and when the prisoners are finished entering and exiting, the waterfall is restored to normal and the pool is filled.
Crocodiles are also kept in the pool, and only guards wearing special sachets can make crocodiles dare not approach, and other people will be attacked by crocodiles once they appear in the water.
Therefore, even if a prisoner escapes from the cell and enters such a deep pool, he will not be able to withstand the strong water pressure and suffocate to death. No matter how good the prisoner's water nature and strong physique are, it is impossible to escape the predation of crocodiles with sharp teeth and infinite strength.
In addition to the huge pool of water that flooded the entrance, the underground death row was built with the hardest diamond all around, even if there were tools to dig through the diamond, it might not be possible for a person to dig it for several years.
In addition, the outside of the diamond is also infused with a layer of highly toxic liquid mercury, so even if the diamond is dug through, it will die in the mercury.
Therefore, he went to death row, unless he was a death row prisoner in the first district, and he could come out to receive the criminal law of beheading in the autumn, the prisoners in the other two districts could not come out for the rest of their lives.
Therefore, after reading the drawings of death row, Yanyu was also deeply shocked, such a strict and seamless death row, it is indeed impossible for any prisoner to escape, and it is also an impossible task for people outside to break in.
As for buying the guards out, it is also unrealistic, because every time the movement in and out is too large, it is necessary to divert the waterfall and drain the water in this huge pool.
This is not something that one or two guards can do, but hundreds of guards can only do it at the same time. Therefore, it is not difficult for prisoners to buy off a dozen guards, but if they want to buy hundreds of guards at the same time, it is impossible.
After all, there are righteous people and people who have a bottom line, and it is by no means that money can impress them.
Moreover, such an exaggerated movement is bound to attract the attention of the Royal Guards patrolling around, and they will also supervise and check every prisoner who comes out on the spot.
Therefore, Yanyu guessed that someone had bought the guards and intended to kill Meng Ling.
However, Meng Ling mentioned before that there was a woman who killed her who had the word "witch" engraved on the back of her hand, and it was obvious that the other party must be a prisoner from death row.
So how can you not buy off the guards, and be able to go in and out of death row without knowing it?
Yanyu fell into deep contemplation.
After thinking about it for half an hour without results, Yanyu decided to take a look for herself, and she felt that instead of thinking here, it would be better to go and check it out on the spot, maybe she could gain something.
In fact, during the day, she asked the royal guard to come back in advance to draw a picture for her, and marked the pool or waterhole near death row on the map, and asked the palace maid who was familiar with the distribution of pools in the palace to take her to see the pools and pools around her palace, and she had already secretly planned to take advantage of the water in all directions to sneak into death row to check it.
After inspecting several pools and pools, and confirming that the water in the pools was alive, Yanyu knew that as long as he turned into a golden-crowned black-tailed frog, he would be able to swim silently through the underground channels connected between the pools until he reached the vicinity of death row.
As a result, the Guards and Royal Guards patrolling the ground would not be able to detect her whereabouts, and she felt that it was unrealistic for so many death row inmates to live on death row without water.
So before she saw the drawings, she guessed that there must be a pool on death row.
When she looked at the drawings made by the royal guard and saw that the entrance to death row was a huge pool, she knew that her idea should come true.
As for those crocodiles that mortals fear, there is nothing to fear for the golden-crowned black-tailed frog, whose bloodline is nobler than that of crocodiles.
Thinking of this, Yanyu decided to visit the death row at night to see if there were any prisoners on the back of his hand engraved with the word "witch" on the death row.
It's just that she can't just leave the palace, and before leaving, she still needs Meng Ling's cooperation.
That is to let Meng Ling change into her clothes, sit in the candlelight, and pretend to have been studying the drawings, so that the palace maids who are keeping vigil outside and the guards on patrol will not realize that she is not in the dormitory when they see the figure on the window.
When she called Meng Ling to her side and explained her intentions, Meng Ling didn't agree at first, because she also understood that death row was heavily guarded, and Yanyu went alone, in case she was discovered by the guards, it would be a capital crime.
However, when Yanyu ordered her as the golden-crowned black-tailed frog princess and the Fengyi female official, she had no choice but to agree.
After that, she asked Meng Ling to pretend to go out to make a pot of good tea, took a lot of snacks, and told the other palace maids and guards, saying that the female official Fengyi wanted to study the drawings overnight, and no one was allowed to come in and disturb her during this period, and Meng Ling could accompany her alone.
The other palace maids and guards were not suspicious of this, because they all knew that Yanyu also wanted to find out who the murderer who almost killed Meng Ling before was, and to seek justice for his sister.
So after explaining all this, as soon as Meng Ling returned to Yanyu's dormitory, she quickly exchanged clothes with Yanyu, pretending to sit in front of the window while drinking tea and eating snacks, while studying the drawings.
After transforming into a golden-crowned black-tailed frog, Yanyu slipped out of the back door, and after avoiding the patrols of the guards, she came to a waterhole closest to her palace.
After hiding behind a rock and waiting for the patrol guards to pass, she jumped into the waterhole without hesitation and swam quickly underwater.
Soon she found the underground river underwater, roughly identified the direction, and swam through the underground river to the waterfall where the death row was.
When she came to the pool where the waterfall was located, she cautiously approached the edge of the waterfall and inspected the deep valley below the waterfall, which was a huge pool, which should be a hundred feet deep.
Under the pool is the death row.
Since the Royal Foresters patrolling back and forth, and the guards on death row, their attention was focused on the outside of the pool and the waterfall, so they didn't notice that the golden-crowned black-tailed frog transformed into Yanyu had reached the mouth of the waterfall.
After making sure that there were no guards or guards nearby, Smoke and Rain jumped and fell down the waterfall into the pool.
Then, the smoke and rain quickly dived.
Along the way, the vicious crocodiles, at first swimming towards the smoke and rain with their mouths wide open, but soon fled in terror.
After all, the level of coercion released by the bloodline of the golden-crowned black-tailed frog also made those crocodiles understand that the golden-crowned black-tailed frog in front of them was by no means an ordinary frog, but a golden-crowned black-tailed frog with the highest royal bloodline.
So they retreated, crawled under the water, and respectfully made a way so that the smoke and rain could reach the passage at the entrance of the death row.
When she came to the entrance of the passage, Yanyu knew that she could not rush out of the water at the entrance of the passage, there must be guards there.
So, after reciting a mantra in her mouth, a white circle of light emanated from the center of her eyebrows, and as the circle left the water, it soon spread to the entire underwater death row.
The guards and the death row inmates inside fell asleep on the ground.
This special ** ability, Yanyu has had since she agreed to accept the Immortal Tomb inheritance of the Phantom Woman.
It's just that when you are at the ruins, the ** range of smoke and rain can reach a radius of more than ten miles, and after waking up after fifteen years of ice this time, it is only a few hundred zhang in radius.
Although it was not as powerful as it was fifteen years ago, it was enough to stun the guards and prisoners within the confines of this death row.
After all, Yanyu understands that his appearance cannot be seen by any guard or prisoner.
Otherwise, you will reveal your secrets.
Besides, she just came to check, not to rob the prison, but to confirm whether there was a woman with the word "witch" on the back of her hand among the death row prisoners here.
It's just that her time is limited, only one hour, ** will be invalid, and by then these prisoners and guards will wake up one after another, so she must fight quickly, read it quickly, and leave here immediately and return to her dormitory.
Then change clothes with Meng Ling to ensure that this action will not be detected by other palace maids and guards.
When Yanyu quietly approached the water surface in the passage and checked that the guards around him had indeed fainted to the ground, he cautiously surfaced and came to the passage.
According to the drawings and memories she had seen in her mind, she knew that she should be on death row at this moment, and all the condemned prisoners here were beheaded.
So, she took on human form again, took the key to the cell from the guard, and began to examine each cell one by one......