He stared at Jiang Qi, and suddenly a thought came to his mind, and he smiled: "Are you also the dog of the eldest princess?"
"presumptuous!"
Jiang Qi kicked Lance in the chest with all his might, bringing with it a strong gust of wind.
Lance spat out a mouthful of blood and hit the wall hard, then slid down to his knees, the iron chain on his scapula bringing out bits of flesh and blood.
Jiang Qi said in a cold and solemn tone, "How can a prisoner like you discuss the identity of the eldest princess casually? Do you still think of yourself as the eldest prince of Xili?"
Lance lowered his head, spat out a mouthful of blood foam, and sneered: "Are you angry out of shame?"
Jiang Qi frowned and said, "The princess and I are innocent. If you insult the princess's reputation again, I don't mind spending more time on you."
"Clean reputation? How can she have a clean reputation? The bad reputation is made for her." Lance's lips were stained with blood, and he raised his eyebrows. "There are three dogs surrounding her feet. Look at Lu Ren's expression. The dogs' tails are wagging to the sky. Hahahahaha——"
Lance's already severely injured chest felt as if it was pierced through because of his laughter, but the severe pain made his mind clearer. He closed his eyes, as if he knew that what was waiting for him was Jiang Qi's inhuman torture.
Although Jiang Qi was angry, he did not attack suddenly. Instead, he said seriously: "Not only did he insult the princess, but he also dared to insult the imperial officials. According to the law... he should be executed."
He clapped his hands as he spoke, and soon a jailer came forward.
Jiang Qi whispered something in the jailer's ear, and the jailer looked shocked. Then he nodded and went to make preparations.
He looked at Lance and said, "But your Majesty has kept your life for use, so of course you can't kill him. But the royal dignity is inviolable, so you still have to learn a lesson."
Lance was not afraid at all: "Whatever, it's okay to kill me."
Jiang Qi shook his head: "Of course I can't let you die."
At this time, the jailer came forward and said, "Sir, everything is ready."
Jiang Qi raised his chin when he heard that, and soon four people came forward and brought Lance out rudely.
There was a heavy iron chain hanging on Lance's scapula, and the other end of the chain was untied and dragged on the ground. Every step he took was inhuman pain.
Soon he was forced to lie on a thin bench by the jailer and his eyes were covered with a black cloth.
In the darkness, his vision was blocked, but Lance's face remained calm. He had endured the torture of the past two days, and today would be no exception.
At this moment, a drop of water with a cold chill unexpectedly fell on his Adam's apple.
An indescribable feeling of suffocation suddenly surged into his throat, and all the pores on his body trembled and his hair stood on end.
A few seconds later, before Lance could calm down, another drop of water fell on the same spot, instantly adding to a deeper feeling of suffocation, as if someone had suddenly pinched his neck and pressed his Adam's apple. Lance felt so nauseous that he subconsciously wanted to sit up and dry heave.
But the jailer grabbed the chain hard and pressed him on the bench, making him unable to move at all.
Jiang Qi's voice sounded not far away, still so serious: "Although I cannot behead you, this punishment is very suitable for you. As the saying goes, dripping water wears away a stone. Just bear it, and I will let you know the consequences of insulting the royal family."
This punishment is not as simple as it seems.
Blindfolding a person and causing him or her to lose vision will cause a huge, unknown psychological fear. The continuous dripping of ice water on the Adam's apple on the forehead will cause the person to feel continuously irritated and out of control, lose perception of the body, and suffer a mental breakdown, causing an irreversible and fatal psychological impact.
This is mental torture that is more terrible than ordinary physical torture.
"Keep an eye on him. This bucket of water must be used up." Jiang Qi's tone was so calm that it seemed as if he was saying that the moon was really round today. "If he gets beaten, prepare another bucket of water to drip between his eyebrows."
The jailer shuddered when he heard this, fear flashed in his eyes, but he immediately responded, "Yes, sir."
The jailer looked at Lance and couldn't help shaking his head. This seemingly simple dripping punishment was actually extremely cruel. Few ordinary prisoners could endure the entire dripping process and would go crazy.
But the Great Prince of Xili is not like ordinary prisoners. He has endured the punishments of the previous two days. I just wonder how he will react when facing this punishment today?
Lance lay on the bench, his whole body tensed up, his throat tightening uncontrollably, unable to utter even the slightest sound.
As expected of the Dali Temple Minister in charge of the Ministry of Punishment, the physical pain he suffered in the past two days was nothing but dust under this punishment.
He just said a few words to that woman, but he was punished like this. Jiang Qi, are you really as innocent as you say?
A hint of wanton sarcasm appeared at the corner of Lance's mouth.
When Lu Ren was leaving the Heavenly Prison, he suddenly heard a heart-wrenching scream in his ears. It belonged to a woman, but it was not the Da Sheng official language.
He stopped and looked towards the source of the sound, only to see a woman with messy blonde hair in the cell, rolling and scratching on the ground holding herself, wailing and screaming non-stop.
"Give me!"
"Theriaca! Give me!"
Lu Ren frowned slightly.
The jailer behind him immediately said, "The person imprisoned here is Princess Alice of Xili."
Of course Lu Ren recognized her, but he could not have imagined that in such a short time, Alice had become like this. She had lost visibly weight, her cheeks were sunken, her eyeballs were bulging, and her blood seemed to have been drained out. Even when she rolled on the ground, her posture was so weird that she even scratched herself until it was a bloody mess.
"What kind of punishment did you use on her?"
The jailer shook his head quickly: "No, no, because the princess specifically instructed, the Lord Temple Minister did not impose any punishment on her. He only asked us to observe and record her daily changes. Her appearance is entirely caused by the naga pills."
The jailer could not help shuddering as he spoke. A tiny grain of gacha could make a person fall to such a level. It was simply something from hell, so terrifying!
Lu Ren caught the key words and asked, "Did the princess specifically instruct you?"
"Yes." The jailer said, "The princess also said that she would organize all the civil and military officials to come to the prison to see the consequences of taking gammy drugs, and conduct some kind of... popular science education?"
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