Chapter 1616: Lacking a Face-Giving Fruit

"This... wouldn't be very appropriate, would it?"

Facing Hearing Li Ang's request to observe the punishment, the smile on the middle-aged prince's kind face faded, revealing a hint of embarrassment.

"His crime is much more serious than yours. It is estimated that he will reach the level of flogging. Going to observe the punishment might get you stained with the smell, or make things dirty... Plus, you still have to meet my father later, so it's better not to go to such a dirty place."

A dirty place...

Glancing at the shiny floor of the prison and the walls that were white enough to be blinding, Hearing Li Ang sighed in his heart, knowing that he had probably guessed right. Then he rejected Prince Vernon's dissuasion and insisted, shaking his head:

"I still want to go over and take a look."

"Alright then..."

Seeing that Hearing Li Ang still insisted on going, and knowing that it would probably be useless to stop him again, the smile on Prince Vernon's face faded a bit more. Then he waved his hand and ordered the guards behind him:

"Go over there and notify them, say that I am bringing the Prince over to observe the punishment, and tell them to hurry up and clean up, and get rid of those eyesores..."

"Your Highness."

After interrupting Prince Vernon's words, Hearing Li Ang grabbed his raised arm and said without blinking:

"No need to notify in advance, we will just go like this."

"..."

Facing Hearing Li Ang's quite impolite behavior, Prince Vernon's brows couldn't help but knit, instinctively wanting to break free from Hearing Li Ang's pull, but Hearing Li Ang's palm was like a pair of pliers, directly clamping his arm tightly, and even slowly tightening inward bit by bit.

"Then let's go!"

Knowing that with physical strength alone, he couldn't beat these freak-like Bureau of Cleanup agents, and having done some homework and knowing Hearing Li Ang's identity as a "Level 3 Cleanup Agent," Prince Vernon had to give up the request to have people "clean up" in advance.

And as Hearing Li Ang dragged Prince Vernon out of the bright and clean "prison" and walked toward another building two hundred meters away, a large amount of agitated Heart Lake entered Hearing Li Ang's eyes before he did.

Sure enough, the fairness of the Calevin Kingdom was not as fair as Prince Vernon said... The fairness he, a Prince, could enjoy and the fairness a docking tower security guard could enjoy could no longer be considered the same thing.

Walking along the stone path paved with hexagonal punishment sticks, under the astonished gazes of passersby, and arriving at the entrance of another huge prison, Hearing Li Ang closed his eyes slightly as he looked at the environment that was quite in line with his expectations.

Unlike the so-called "prison" he had just stayed in, rows of damp, blue-black stone steps spiraled down to the ground. The water stains seeping from the wall cracks reflected a dark red like rust under the dim light of the cylinder wall lamps.

And wisps of faint bloody smell, accompanied by a trace of putrid odor, drifted straight up along the vertical ventilation shaft. Even though someone had carefully hung up covers and incense lamps, it still attracted swarms of flies buzzing and circling on the outside...

Just by the look of it, even a fool would know that this is definitely not a good place!

Hearing Li Ang, who already had a count in his heart, pulled Prince Vernon, who was full of reluctance, and stepped onto the downward stone steps with a blank face. As everyone gradually deepened, the dungeon, which had been kept relatively clean, became increasingly unbearable.

The light beams penetrating through the narrow air windows high up began to float with a large amount of moldy dust. The pits in the ground were filled with sewage mixed with suspicious dirt, and the muffled sounds of blunt objects hitting flesh, mixed with the popping and screaming of whip tips, drifted out...

Relying on Prince Vernon's face... or rather the royal emblem embroidered on the front of his clothes, after passing through several rounds of guards who came to block them, Hearing Li Ang, with his brows locked, followed the direction of the Heart Lake and found the location of the docking tower security guard.

The good news is that because he was released after only a few minutes, and after realizing something was wrong, he came over to rescue people immediately, so he hadn't suffered much.

But the bad news is that the criminals who were being punished in the same "punishment area" as him were screaming in abnormal pain under the merciless whipping of leather whips mixed with iron wires. "Why is it here..."

"Lord Hearing Li Ang, there is really nothing to see here."

Being pushed back two steps by the fishy smell of the punishment area, Prince Vernon glanced at the prisoners whose skin was slightly cracked from whipping, especially the security guard who was tied to the punishment post waiting to be whipped, and said with some displeasure:

"You took all the other charges, so the judge's sentence for him was not heavy. The punishment he received for violating the royal order, after paying the commutation fee, is only thirty lashes.

His situation will not leave any sequelae. As long as he goes back and gets two injections and raises himself for three to five weeks, he will be fine. You don't have to worry that I will add any punishment to him. This matter will end after he finishes the whipping."

"..."

It's the truth.

Looking at Prince Vernon's Heart Lake, which only had slight ripples, Hearing Li Ang frowned and found that he really couldn't say anything at the moment.

Just because he mentioned the Lumen Church to a "tourist," he had to be whipped thirty times with a barbed wire whip, which is naturally a very harsh, even brutal punishment. But as an outsider, he really had no right to criticize the laws of other countries, but...

"Can you give me some face?"

Although he usually hates this sentence very much, looking at the terrified eyes of the security guard whose mouth was bound, Hearing Li Ang finally couldn't help it and pleaded helplessly:

!

"It was I who crossed the cordon first, and he went over to remind me, which led to what happened later, so can you..."

"Lord Hearing Li Ang, it's better if you don't say the rest!"

After squinting his eyes slightly, Prince Vernon put down the hand that was pinching his nose and reminded him with an unkind expression:

"You may not know that obstructing judicial justice is a serious crime here! Heavier than violating the royal order!

As long as you finish saying this 'can you,' even considering that you are not familiar with the laws here, I am afraid you will have to squat in that prison for another period of time!"

"..."

"Lord Hearing Li Ang, we should go!"

After glancing at Hearing Li Ang, who was rendered speechless by his refutation, Prince Vernon moved his wrist that had been pinched painfully just now and urged him with some displeasure:

"This place smells too strong. Changing clothes and spraying incense is useless. You have to take a bath to cover it up... Don't you still have important things to see my father? Then please hurry up! Don't stay here and continue to waste time."

"..."

Although he still felt that there was a problem with this punishment, Prince Vernon's explanation and requirements sounded reasonable. Hearing Li Ang really couldn't force "violation of the law," so he had to leave the punishment area following him, under the desperate gaze of the security guard.

And not long after Hearing Li Ang and his party left the prison, the back of the docking tower security guard slightly bulged, and two pale green tender leaves in the shape of inverted needles, mixed with a pile of small bright red berries, arched out from a very tiny blood vessel on his back.

After completely arching out from behind the security guard, the slightly larger red berry shook slightly and tapped on the slightly smaller berry, bringing a series of almost imperceptible mental fluctuations.

'Olivia.'

Through the shell of the 【Parasitic Mistletoe】 fruit, looking at the red-haired Director who was frowning in the other berry, the middle-aged man sitting cross-legged in the berry couldn't help but sneer:

'That person you mentioned who has already changed the Bureau of Cleanup, and might even change the entire present world in the future... is just this level?'

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