In Andingfang in the inner city, Geshan went from the ground to the underground without any obstruction. Finally, he was stopped in front of a dark tunnel.
"Sir, the Tianlao is a forbidden area in the inner city. No one is allowed to enter without the order of the city lord. Please show your warrant."
There was no light in the tunnel. After the leader of Tianlao emerged from the shadows, he buried his head very low. However, Geshan still recognized who he was and said calmly: "Deputy Commander Luo, I am in Qingyun this afternoon. There are some clues down the street."
Although he was proud of his words, Geshan believed that the person in front of him definitely knew the priority of the matter. Recently, anything related to Qingyun Street was unusual.
Sure enough, the general's limbs stiffened for a moment, and Geshan took this opportunity to pass over him. Unfortunately, the man reacted very quickly and quickly took two steps back, continuing to block the cut.
He raised his head, with a helpless smile on his face, and changed his title: "Brother Ge, although you have left the Guards now, I, Luo Kai, have always respected you. Why do you need to make it so difficult for me tonight?" Woolen cloth."
"I know that you have recently been investigating the Qingyun Street incident on the order of the city lord, but I also received the order of the city lord to guard the prison."
Ge Shan looked at Luo Kai expressionlessly and said: "Although we are now limited to mundane affairs, there are some principles that can be applied on the battlefield and are still applicable now."
"Soldiers are valuable and swift. Don't you, Luo Kaihui, know such a simple truth?"
Luo Kai was left speechless. The eerie atmosphere in the city was so oppressive that it made one's heart palpitate. If he acted cheaply and could relieve the city lord's worries, it didn't seem to be too much of a violation.
Geshan lowered his slightly raised eyebrows and said in a calm tone: "Opportunities are always fleeting. If you don't know how to be flexible, why would the city lord promote me? Why don't you let him do everything by himself?"
Luo Kai moved slightly closer and lowered his voice: "Brother Ge, you should know what is in the prison, right? You can find someone, but you must not enter the lowest level. If something goes wrong, neither you nor I can bear it. rise."
Ge Shan looked at the dark and silent passage behind Luo Kai, his eyes moving slightly.
Andingfang is located to the west and north of the City Lord's Mansion. There is a heavenly prison underground, and there is a huge defensive formation underground under the City Lord's Mansion. The distance between the two is actually very close.
"Don't worry, I'm just looking to see if there is anyone mentioned in the clues. If I haven't found this person on the first two floors, I will come out immediately and will never add any burden to you."
Luo Kai's face was still hesitant, but his tense body had relaxed a lot, and he nodded: "Okay, then, the third floor is full of people who have committed heinous crimes. I don't expect the person you found to appear there."
Luo Kai calmly patted Ge Shan's arm and handed something in his hand to Ge Shan calmly, "This is my token. I can interrogate prisoners on the first and second floors. But... I can only I'll give you two quarters of an hour's grace. If I haven't found it yet, please forgive me, Brother Ge."
Ge Shan said: "If you are willing to believe in my character, brother, I will naturally not make it difficult for you. It's just that the record of entry and exit..."
Luo Kai's eyelids narrowed and he looked at Geshan silently. Geshan accepted his inspection calmly. In the end, Luo Kai gave in completely, nodded and retreated into the shadows.
There was a damp and rotten smell in the passage, which was not pleasant.
The darkness quickly fell behind him, and Geshan had already entered the sky prison in a long sweep.
Just the moment he appeared, there were several glances from the shadows. Geshan simply hung Luo Kai's token on his waist. This palm-sized token glowed with darkness even in the dark prison. The deep red light was the same color as the dark blood stains on the floor and walls.
Those eyes that fell on him finally left. Geshan approached the iron bars of the prison, tilted his head to look at the scene inside, and walked deeper into the prison silently.
The summer heat in Suzaku City is particularly severe. Even if the sun has set now, the first level of the prison is still like a big steamer.
Blood stains, sweat stains, and even the smell of urine and feces are intertwined together. A normal person would probably get sick if he stayed here for a day.
Geshan looked towards the cell one by one. Most of the prisoners were sitting quietly on the grass and ignored his prying eyes. Although they remained silent, their whole attitude was not stable and depressed.
Those who could be imprisoned here were all criminals, but the more seriously Ge Shan looked at him, the more frightened he became.
The deeper he walked, the more familiar the faces in the prison seemed to Geshan, especially in the deepest cell. Geshan had already recognized this person, who had massacred a hundred families in the city one night a few years ago. The Yukou people, who had already reached the second level of cultivation at that time, were captured by the two brothers Xing Zuo and Xing Fei, and were sent to the sky prison.
These were not the missing people he was looking for, but things had become increasingly strange.
According to convention, the further down the prison is, the more serious the crimes committed by the prisoners and the higher the danger, which also means that the prisoners are stronger.
This man was imprisoned here, silent in the dark prison, which made him even more frightened because of his active mind.
In his expectation, these prisoners detained on the first floor should be the kind of people who are dying with only one breath left, but he did not expect that most people can adapt to such an environment.
From the moment he entered the Tianlao, Geshan's steps were very light and his breathing became extremely slow. However, he stood in front of him for a long time and still made the terrifying man in the prison move.
He raised a face covered in blood and ashes.
Geshan frowned slightly. In the deep and dark cell, on this face, the beard and hair that had grown wildly but had never been taken care of were tangled together. Under the beard and hair, a pair of eyes glowed faintly. When they looked at him, He actually laughed.
When he grinned, endless joy and ridicule flashed in his eyes, he opened his mouth, and let out a low growl like a wild animal.
"It's a pity that he is mute..."
There was a faint layer of anxiety in Geshan's heart. He tried hard to see his mouth shape clearly, but finally chose to give up.
Over the past few years, even though this man in prison still had countless roars in his heart that had not been vented, no one had ever thought of communicating with him. He had become a mute both physically and mentally.
What to expect from a mute?
Geshan laughed at himself and turned to look at the end of this layer, but he couldn't help but pursed his lips, and his heart began to tremble.
The descending passage leading to the second level of the prison was more than ten steps away. Perhaps because of this mute, there was no one guarding the entrance.
Having spent a cup of tea on the first floor, Geshan calmed down and walked towards the passage.
There was no poisonous mist or any mechanism in the passage. When Ge Shan passed through the passage without any danger and stepped onto the ground of the second-level prison, the temperature had dropped by more than half.
What you see is endless darkness. On both sides of the passage closest to him, intermittent moans were already coming from the prison.
Ordinary prisoners imprisoned on the second floor of the sky jail?
As soon as Geshan took a step, a line of sight locked on him instantly, but neither made a sound nor showed up to stop him. He raised the token at his waist and put it in his hand and gestured around. This unknown word came from The sight from nowhere still didn't let go of him.
Geshan pondered for a moment and made up his mind to continue walking towards the darkness ahead.
In the past half month, roughly a thousand young laborers have been sent from the outer city to the inner city.
Nearly 600 of these thousand people were sent to Xiudefang. Geshan once looked through the laborers recorded in Xiudefang today. These laborers usually have family members in the outer city. The remaining four hundred people who were not recorded were sent to the City Lord's Mansion.
When the thoughts in his mind reached this point, Geshan raised his eyebrows.
Xiong San has received news one after another in the past few days. His brother at home stayed away all night last night. He didn't know if his temptation had been discovered by the people behind the scenes.
Geshan asked in his heart, walking forward step by step.
These five or six people are usually held in the cell. Some of the prisoners who were first met still had injuries from torture. Later, the injuries on these prisoners were less obvious. When Ge Shan looked into the cell, they remained silent. There was a silent tacit understanding, they all sat at the base of the wall without raising their heads to look at him.
This is a place that makes people feel strange but also feels that there is no big problem. Geshan frowned and walked faster and faster, but until he reached the end, he still didn't have any substantial gains.
There was finally someone guarding the end of the second floor leading to the third floor. Four people, fully armed, even their faces were covered with thick iron armor.
Geshan knew that there was a four-person military formation in the army. He guessed that what he saw was probably like this, and quickly looked away.
It’s just that the doubts in my heart are hard to get rid of.
Where did the four hundred people go?
The purpose of setting up the inner city prison is to suppress those who commit heinous crimes, so the overall number of people it can accommodate is not large.
It was rare to find five or six people in each cell like the one on the second floor, but if everyone was counted, the number would only reach two hundred.
Are there so many people imprisoned on the third floor? Or maybe they have left the prison and been moved elsewhere?
Geshan stood in front of a cell at the end and was silent for a long time.
Facing the current situation in Suzaku City, he felt a very absurd and cold feeling.
Most of the City Lord's Mansion was in ruins. Due to certain considerations, Bai Hao did not decide to immediately re-erect the carved platform on the spot, so the labor at the City Lord's Mansion could almost be counted with the naked eye.
But those four hundred young and strong laborers did disappear, not out of thin air.
If they were interested, others could probably cast their curious eyes here.
But now that the Guards have suffered heavy casualties, the disappearance of four hundred young and strong laborers will no longer cause the slightest ripple.
The vast majority remained silent.
Geshan had no intention of looking at everyone in the prison again. He had never seen the four hundred young men. If these people around him remained silent, it would be a dangerous move for both parties if he still stood here.
Two quarters of an hour passed very quickly even in silence. Just when Geshan was calculating in his mind and decided to leave the prison first, the mutation came down from above.
