It was a dark, windy, and chilly night. In the sky dungeon filled with a foul odor, a boy covered in wounds, lying in a pile of dry grass, opened his eyes.
A fierce light gradually appeared in his somewhat cloudy eyes, and then his body began to slowly wriggle and change. In less than a quarter of an hour, his body became smaller than before. If he was not still wearing the prison uniform, no one would have known that this was a human.
He stretched out his hand from his dirty and messy hair and took out a paper stick as thick as chopsticks and as long as two fingers. He unfolded it and looked at the mini map of the prison on the paper in the moonlight coming through the only small window in the prison.
After quickly memorizing it, he crumpled up the note, put it in his mouth and swallowed it.
The dead grass concealed the boy's changes, so the patrolling jailers did not notice until they passed by. The boy, who should have been dying, stood up steadily.
Relying on his even smaller and weaker body, he actually managed to squeeze through the gap in the cell bars. Relying on the route marked on the prison map in his mind, he escaped from the prison without any danger.
After avoiding the night patrol guards all the way, he first sneaked into a house's yard and stole the children's clothes that were hanging under the eaves.
After another round of tossing and turning, he was completely different from the person in prison just now.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Yiming, who was sleeping soundly with his wife in his arms, moved his ears. The next second, his eyes suddenly opened, and there was a sharp look in his eyes.
After carefully tucking the quilt for Tian An, he got out of bed, picked up the coat on the screen and quietly opened the door.
Outside the house, Jingyu was already waiting anxiously.
"What's going on?" Looking at Jingyu's expression, Zhao Yiming had a premonition that things might not be simple.
Sure enough, the next second Jing Yu heard him say, "Your Highness's secret guards have come to report that the dwarf from the Dark Pavilion whom you captured a few days ago has escaped from prison. Please go to the Sky Prison to discuss matters immediately."
Zhao Yiming's eyes darkened, "Give orders to strengthen the guards in the mansion immediately, especially Tongxinyuan.
Everyone around the lady, please be extremely alert. If anything goes wrong with the lady, you will all be beheaded."
After saying this, he started walking out, but stopped after a few steps. "Send someone to warn the General's Mansion, Prince Chen's Mansion, Duke An's Mansion, and other families that are familiar to the Madam, and have them step up their guard."
In the sky prison, when Zhao Yiming arrived, the prince, dressed in bright yellow, was standing in the cell where the dwarf had been before.
Hearing the footsteps behind him, he turned around and said, "The people in the Dark Chamber are really quite capable. Even in such a situation, they can still escape from this prison quietly.
It seems like it's time to revamp the defenses in this prison."
As soon as these words were spoken, the officials in charge of guarding the Heavenly Prison who were standing nearby all knelt on the ground and trembled, "Your Highness, please spare my life..."
The prince ignored the pleas for mercy and waved his hand, "Anyone who was in charge of the guards tonight, and anyone who had contact with that dwarf, will be detained and interrogated overnight."
The dwarf was able to escape from the heavily guarded prison without any effort. He would never believe that there was no help from an insider.
Zhao Yiming glanced at the officials and jailers, who looked ashen-faced, and walked into the cell. "Your Highness, have you found anything?"
The prince shook his head and glanced around the cell. "There's no sign of the cell door lock being pried open, the walls showing no signs of being chiseled, and the railings aren't even damaged at all. Forget about escaping from the heavily guarded prison, just think about how he got out of this cell."
Zhao Yiming frowned and personally took a torch to observe everything in the cell inch by inch.
Just as the prince said, there was no sign of the door lock being pried open, and it seemed that the dwarf had never touched the door lock from beginning to end.
There was also the only wall and window in the cell, and there was not a single mark on them.
The dwarf had been tortured a lot, and if he climbed through the wall or window, the wall would be stained with blood from his body to some extent.
The only signs of activity in the entire cell were the floor and the front bars.
Zhao Yiming found the dwarf's bloodstains on the two railings, which seemed to have been rubbed by his hands when he held them.
Seeing Zhao Yiming staring at the railing in a daze, the prince said, "Don't look at it anymore. He can't possibly have gotten out through the gap in the railing! Although the dwarf is much smaller than an ordinary person, he can't possibly have gotten out through the railing!"
Zhao Yiming also felt that he was overthinking it and turned to look for other clues, but he also kept the railing in mind. After all, it was the only thing the dwarf had touched besides the floor.
After observing the cell for a while without any results, the two men walked out of the cell to see what was going on in the interrogation.
When Tian An stood up, there was naturally no sign of Zhao Yiming beside him. He thought that he had gone to court, but he didn't expect that he left in the middle of the night.
As her body grew heavier, her vigilance became worse.
However, she always felt that there was something strange in the mansion today, as if there were more people than before.
This feeling became more and more obvious after leaving Tongxin Courtyard, spreading out with Tongxin Courtyard as the center, with guards almost every ten steps.
Tian An was in a hurry to go to the Maternity and Child Health Hospital and had no time to ask, so he could only wait until he came back in the evening to ask Zhao Yiming.
She was sitting in the carriage, but she didn't know that the number of guards in the light today had doubled, not to mention the secret guards hiding in the dark.
After arriving at the Maternity and Child Health Hospital, I was busy going in to hold a morning meeting with Yaoyao and the others, and I didn't notice that there were many unfamiliar faces among the guards at the door that I had never seen before.
Deng Xue is also a guard and often hangs out with Jingyu and the others, so she is extremely vigilant. Although Jingyu did not tell her any information, she still smelled a hint of danger from these changes.
Alarm bells rang in his heart, and he became more cautious, following Tian An almost every step of the way. Even when Tian An was taking the patient's pulse, he was on guard at all times, just in case.
Acting similarly to her was Yaoyao's personal bodyguard Hongtong.
Seeing Hongtong like this, Deng Xue became more certain of her guess.
Fortunately, nothing happened throughout the day, except that Zhao Yiming was unable to pick up Tian An and take him home today due to official business.
On the way back, Deng Xue sat close to Tian An, frowning, listening to the noise outside, never letting go of the sword.
Just when the carriage was only two streets away from the mansion, it suddenly stopped.
Deng Xue was so nervous that she almost drew her sword.
"What's going on?" Because she was worried that someone would do something bad to Tian An, Deng Xue didn't even dare to open the window of the carriage, and asked across the carriage.
"I will investigate this matter immediately."
After a while, the person who went to check on the situation came back and said, "Miss Xue, there's a carriage that's hit someone up ahead. The two sides are negotiating, so I'm afraid we'll have to wait a while."
Deng Xue frowned, wondering how could this happen? She was silent for a moment, then immediately asked the guards to go to the nearest clinic to ask for a doctor.
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