Eternal Life: I Rely on Fortune Points for Improvement-Chapter 47: Can’t Escape

Jiang Feng was startled.

Uncle Huo running over at this moment, could it be that Cao Zhen caused trouble in the prison?

"Uncle Huo, don’t worry, speak slowly."

Jiang Feng poured a bowl of water for Uncle Huo first.

"Ai, talking about it is really unlucky."

Uncle Huo sat down on the stone slab in the yard.

After finishing a bowl of water, he finally complained, "The Dragon Capital Government Office caught a rebel. That rebel, knowing he was doomed, scattered the poison he’d hidden in his body all around the cell. Today the poison vaporized, poisoning several prisoners in the nearby cells to death. We also lost a few brothers."

"Ai, luckily I’m a squad leader, so I didn’t need to deliver meals myself. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be seeing me right now."

Still shaken, Uncle Huo handed the bowl to Jiang Feng and said, "I’m getting old, I can’t take these scares anymore. Quick, pour me a bowl of wine to calm my nerves."

"Alright."

Jiang Feng went to pour Uncle Huo a bowl of yellow rice wine, feeling somewhat disappointed inside—not from Cao Zhen causing trouble. If he happened to bump into him on his way back, what then?

"Got any peanuts? Grab me a handful."

Uncle Huo called out.

"Alright."

Jiang Feng didn’t refuse. He could tell Uncle Huo was simply craving something to munch on, wanting an excuse to drink.

"You’d better rest at home for a few more days. Once the poisonous gas is gone from the cells, I’ll come tell you."

With a bowl of yellow rice wine down the hatch, Uncle Huo was satisfied and waved goodbye to Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng sat alone on the stone slab.

He checked his status panel.

Name: Jiang Feng

Fortune: 3489

Cultivation Technique: Prison Guard Health Care Skill (Perfection)

Skills: Prison Guard Long Fist (Minor Achievement+) Divine Arrow (Mastery+) Monkey Escape (Great Success)

Realm: Fourth Grade (Essence Refining)

Divine Power: Immortality

Jiang Feng noticed his Fortune Point had increased by over a hundred. Looks like what happened in the cells today also posed some risk to him.

Too bad, half a month has passed and there hasn’t been any sign of Cao Zhen.

He didn’t know if it was Han Dong’s strict discipline,

or if Cao Zhen simply didn’t dare to mess around.

Ten more days passed just like this.

Resting for twenty-five days in one go was already the limit. Jiang Feng had no choice but to return to Zhenbei Prison.

"Hey, Prison Chief Jiang, you’re back."

In his office, Jiang Feng saw Cao Zhen.

"Prison Chief Cao, you took over my duties these past days, thank you for the hard work."

Jiang Feng said earnestly.

During the days he was recuperating, Squad Leader Wang and the others came to see him. From their conversations, he learned that Han Dong had handed all his duties over to Cao Zhen.

"It wasn’t that hard, just didn’t expect the work in the cells to be so boring. If you didn’t come back soon, I was about to die from the boredom."

Cao Zhen complained.

"That’s just how it is working at Zhenbei Prison. You’re new, not used to it yet. You’ll get used to it with time."

Jiang Feng chuckled.

"I can’t get used to it. I just want to leave this hellhole as soon as possible, but my brother won’t let me."

Cao Zhen said helplessly.

Jiang Feng smiled slightly. During those twenty-five days outside, he secretly investigated Cao Zhen’s identity and was shocked by what he found—Cao Zhen was actually the younger brother of Divine Arrow Army Commander, Arrow God Cao Zhengyang.

Cao Zhengyang was set on grooming Cao Zhen into a divine archer and had him serve in the Divine Arrow Army. But unfortunately, Cao Zhen lacked the talent and was uninterested in cultivation, so Cao Zhengyang had to find him another job.

But even then, he still served within the Divine Arrow Army.

He was in charge of a small logistics department.

Who’d have thought, Cao Zhen treated the Divine Arrow Army as his own house, and in less than half a year, he caused quite a few incidents.

Cao Zhengyang, exasperated, decided to toughen him up. He entrusted the Prison Director to send Cao Zhen to Zhenbei Prison, starting him off as a Little Prison Chief.

"Don’t worry, you’ll leave here sooner or later. Come, I’ll take you to Captain Li so he can arrange a new job for you."

Jiang Feng reassured him.

Cao Zhen nodded, but as they left, he left a wolf hair brush on the table.

"Prison Chief Cao, you forgot your brush."

Jiang Feng noticed.

That wolf hair brush was finely made, worth several taels of silver.

"Oh, I’d forgotten if you didn’t mention it. Captain Liu asked me to deliver this to Lord Tie. He’s in the cell you’re in charge of—later, help me give this to Lord Tie."

Cao Zhen said casually.

"This... which Captain Liu gave this to you?"

Jiang Feng was startled and quickly placed the wolf hair brush back in Cao Zhen’s hand.

"Prison Army Captain Liu. It’s just an ordinary wolf hair brush, I checked, there’s nothing wrong with it."

Cao Zhen tried to hand the brush back to Jiang Feng.

"Prison Chief Cao, you’d better return the brush to Captain Liu. There’s a rule in the prison: no private gifts of any kind to prisoners, even if it’s just a pen."

Jiang Feng quickly backed away.

"Look at you scared. I’ve been bringing stuff to Lord Tie every day these past few days, and nothing’s happened. Fine, I’ll deliver it myself later."

Cao Zhen said with total indifference.

Judging by Jiang Feng’s nervousness, he looked rather contemptuous.

"What? What else have you delivered to Lord Tie?"

Jiang Feng’s face changed drastically.

Tie Rusheng, Prefect of Jingzhou, was imprisoned in Zhenbei Prison for over a year for embezzling the border defense pay, which led to rebel trouble all over. It was said many people were implicated in the case, and Dali Temple and Ministry of Justice personnel frequently came to interrogate.

Tie Rusheng had even been tortured several times.

In the eyes of all the prison guards,

Tie Rusheng was the sort of person who couldn’t possibly walk out of Zhenbei Prison alive.

He was also the very man Jiang Feng had always tried to avoid getting involved with.

Who’d have thought that in his absence, Cao Zhen had actually delivered things to Tie Rusheng.

"I’m telling you, Prison Chief Jiang, I know the rules at Zhenbei Prison. Relax—all I brought to Lord Tie were some day-to-day essentials. I checked every item myself; nothing problematic."

Cao Zhen said, disgruntled.

Jiang Feng looked like he was interrogating him.

"Even so, you can’t just deliver things—no matter how small, even if it’s just a brush."

Jiang Feng took the wolf hair brush from Cao Zhen’s hand.

He spun it between his fingers to see if anything was hidden inside the barrel.

"Hmph, you don’t get to lecture me on how I do things."

Cao Zhen snapped.

He snatched the wolf hair brush back,

intending to deliver it to Tie Rusheng himself.

"I’ll go see Captain Li myself. Don’t need you to take it."

He snorted and walked away.

"Prison Chief Jiang, why did you have to offend Prison Chief Cao? While you were gone, he was getting close to both the Captain and even the Supervisor."

Squad Leader Wang, seeing Jiang Feng and Cao Zhen at odds, said worriedly.

"Uncle Wang, tell me—what has Cao Zhen given to Lord Tie? Did Lord Tie ever pass anything back to him?"

Jiang Feng asked.

"That... how should I know? You’ve always told us—don’t listen, don’t ask, don’t get involved, don’t accept. I’ve got work to do."

Squad Leader Wang forced a smile and hurried off.

"Bang!"

Jiang Feng angrily punched the wall.

He understood—there’s no way his subordinates would tell him anything useful.

And since things had already happened, it was too late to stop them now.

After thinking it over, Jiang Feng went to knock on Han Dong’s courtyard door.