The Double

Chapter 604 - 175: Private Prison_3

Chapter 604: Chapter 175: Private Prison_3This was a private prison, and with iron bars everywhere, it looked like the dungeons of the Ministry of Punishment at a glance. Only, even the Ministry’s dungeons might not be as cruel as this place. Blood stains were everywhere on the ground, and there was the stench of decay. Some figures behind the iron bars didn’t move at all, obviously dead for a long time. Yet nobody had cleared them away; they were left to slowly decompose into a mushy mess, to the point where even their closest kin wouldn’t be able to recognize them.

The walls were festooned with bloody hooks, and red-hot branding irons were carelessly strewn on the floor. In the water prison, rats squeaked as they contentedly gnawed on something indistinct and bloody. Whips steeped in saltwater, wooden horses studded with spikes, and silver needles coated in drugs—whatever torture device one could imagine, it was all there. Even Wen Ji and Zhao Ke, the guards who had seen much in their time, couldn’t help but feel a tinge of disgust confronting this scene. They were guards, accustomed to such sights. But Princess Yongning was a princess, who seemed to have no deep-seated hatred with anyone in her day-to-day life, and yet they were torturing her with such methods.

"Look for Jiang Youyao," Jih Heng directed. "If she’s conscious, pull her out and dump her at the Jiang Family’s doorstep. If she’s no longer coherent, give her one of Situ’s Mute Medicines—don’t let her die."

Zhao Ke and Wen Ji accepted the order. Finding Jiang Youyao among so many dead and half-dead wasn’t easy. Everyone here was filthy and horribly foul-smelling; it was hard to distinguish anyone at first glance. Zhao Ke and Wen Ji went off to

He said, "Please, save me."

"Take him with us," Jih Heng ordered. "See if Situ can treat him."

"Huh?" Zhao Ke was puzzled. Jih Heng had never been known as a person of kind heart, much less the sort to embark on righteous crusades at the sight of injustice. Everyone in this private prison was an enemy of Princess Yongning and had no connection to Jih Heng. Their visit today was merely to fulfill the Second Miss’s request to find Jiang Youyao. As for the others, it wasn’t so much a lack of compassion from those of the Duke Residence, but because even if these people were to be saved, most would be left as broken beings. For them, death would be the best release.