Sir! Don't close the net!

Jeff clenched his fists and let out a difficult breath. "Do you have any last words?"

"doctor……"

Gajek slowly closed his eyes.

"I left Theresa Prison for only a fleeting moment."

Chapter 55 He is your neighbor

Along the swift and sparkling Theresa Road.

Li Yili, leaning on her wooden cane, gazed at Teresa's Road like Chris Dorf, but in Li Yili's eyes, it seemed to be just an ordinary river.

Jeff squatted on the shore with a cigarette in his mouth and his head down. After a long silence, Jeff took the cigarette away.

"Gajek is dead."

"Who is Gajek?"

Jeff fell silent again, seemingly choosing his words, or perhaps simply lost in thought. After a while, Jeff got up and flicked the still-burning cigarette butt into Theresa's Path.

"He's your neighbor, but it's normal that you don't remember him. After all, you left the prison a long time ago and have been wandering around this Teresa Prison day and night. By the way, do you remember any prisoners' names? You should remember the names of the two prisoners who left the prison today."

"Sponge Man, Mud Man."

“It’s Simon! It’s Gajek! Do they even have names?!” Jeff suddenly raised his voice. “What kind of name is this, so perfunctory based on appearance?! They have their own unique hearts!”

"Doctor, you're standing too close."

Li Yili turned her head and glanced at Jeff.

“You should have been omnipotent like a god. You should have viewed the prisoners of Theresa Prison in the same general way as you did at the beginning. No matter what you did, it would have been the same. But you not only got involved, you took it seriously, and as a result, you were dragged into this pointless mess.”

"That was an unchangeable tragedy that had nothing to do with you, but now you've become a part of it, and that's become your failure."

"Doctor, do you think you can still treat those patients with the same confidence as before?"

"Doctor...you have broken your own code of conduct."

Jeff's fingers twitched, and he put his hands in his pockets, letting out a long breath. "In your eyes, I used to be the kind of person who thought of himself as invincible as a god."

"An incompetent bastard?"

"Isn't that so?"

“It’s really heartbreaking. I always do what I think I can do because I’m a doctor. The patients who ask me for help bear the consequences of my incompetence, and all I get is a light punishment in the face of life,” Jeff said, leaning back slightly.

"I am not so shameless as to take pride in the compromises I have made due to my incompetence, nor would I be so foolish as to regard myself as an omnipotent god."

Li Yili tilted her head to the side. "So?"

“Nothing much, just venting and checking on my patient’s condition today. Ah… as bad as ever,” Jeff sighed deeply. “It’s a real headache. Treating mental illness is like flipping a coin; it seems like I’m just one step away from being cured.”

Li Yili looked around and then lowered her head. "Are you serious?"

Jeff didn't answer, he just turned around, waved, and left Theresa's Road.

Li Yili glanced deeply at Jeff's departing figure, then tightened her right hand on the wooden stick slightly. "Simon, Gajek... It's a pity to learn your names in this way."

"Your expression is like a rabbit whose butt has been wiped by a bear."

Li Yili's eyes twitched, and his gaze fell on Rebecca, who had somehow squatted down beside him and was scratching at the wooden stick he was leaning on.

“Ugh…it’s like a bear is going to use me to wipe my butt,” Rebecca stuck out her tongue and moved to the side. “I waited until that guy left before coming over, and I didn’t hear anything.”

"Hearing it isn't a big deal."

"Stop lying..." Rebecca muttered twice before raising her paw and hooking Li Yili's trouser leg. "Although I don't know if you still care, I've discovered something. Those guys can now move freely between different floors, and even if the jailers see them, they pretend not to see it."

Li Yili's eyes flickered.

Those guys most likely refer to the Yellow-Clad Crowd.

The Yellow-Clad Clan are all prisoners deemed extremely dangerous by the judges, and can only move to the sixth floor at most. Since Rebecca can move freely between different floors, it's clearly not as simple as just reaching the sixth floor. Considering that the Yellow-Clad Clan needs Sif's fruit, they can probably even go to the top floor now.

But upon closer inspection, it's not that strange.

The warden of Theresa Prison is Augustus, the brother of Bishop Azavet. The Yellow Robes were named by Bishop Azavet and imprisoned in Theresa Prison. Who says... they can't be in cahoots?

Li Yili glanced at Rebecca again.

Thinking about it this way, it's not surprising that Rebecca was expelled from the Yellowcoats.

First, he was difficult to control; second, he had tamed her.

"Why are you looking at me like that? I'm not lying!" Rebecca shifted her body unhappily when she saw Li Yi staring straight at her.

"No, I was just wondering what they were doing?" Li Yili squinted and looked up in the direction of the prison building.

If Rebecca simply wanted to obtain the fruit from Sif, who lived on the top floor, she wouldn't have used the fact that those guys could move freely between different floors; instead, they would have been constantly rushing to the top floor.

"Hum hum--"

That smug laugh.

"you saw it?"

Rebecca looked around, stood up, and poked Li Yili's ear with her slender mouth.

"You might not believe it, but those guys... are using the cells of prisoners whose graves are overgrown with grass several meters high to hide the inheritance they stole from the mines!"

Li Yili raised her hand, grabbed Rebecca's mouth, and pushed Rebecca's head away. "Normally, this is impossible."

Rebecca forcefully shook off Li Yili's right hand, put her hands on her hips and complained, "What's impossible? Although those prison guards wish they could spread their butts open to check, it doesn't mean they actually like to spread those prisoners' butts open every day. They might be strict for the first two days, but after that they'll probably be too lazy to enforce the rules."

Li Yili's gaze moved upwards and finally settled on the location of Sif's cell on the top floor of the prison.

It is indeed possible that the prison guards do not want to take responsibility for the theft of the mine's assets, so during inspections they would like to scrutinize every prisoner's backside, which is the same as smuggling things in from outside the prison.

Things that are forbidden, over time, are turned a blind eye to for various reasons.

Moreover, since Rebecca could see it, the jailers must have discovered it long ago, but nothing happened. The Yellow-Clad Gang's theft of the inheritance did not stop, and they even stopped acting.

On a simplistic level, it's speculated that the Yellow-Clad Clan reached some kind of deal with the jailers who represented the will of Augus. The Yellow-Clad Clan moved the inheritance from the mine and hid it in the cells vacated due to the deaths of prisoners, and then the jailers retrieved the inheritance from the cells.

Thinking about it more deeply...

"The grass on the grave is several meters tall... Is that your description...?" Li Yili probed. "Like a rabbit whose butt was wiped by a bear."

"Huh? No, the grass in those guys' cells is already this tall!" Rebecca pointed to the spot on her tiptoes and gave a vivid demonstration.

Chapter Fifty-Six: Reasons for Cooperation

Even with institutionalized management, Theresa Prison still experiences inmate disappearances from time to time, sometimes due to cave-ins during temple excavations, and sometimes due to ghostly activity at night.

He groped his way out.

Li Yili had considered thoroughly investigating the issue of missing prisoners, but the power he could use was granted by Augusite. Augusite didn't want to bring the issue of missing prisoners into the open. Even if he shouted "I want to see them alive or dead" a thousand times, the prison guards would only give him perfunctory answers. If he raised his voice, the good-tempered guards would ignore him, while the bad ones would threaten him and were almost ready to take action.

The unprecedented opening of numerous channels has brought far more trouble and accountability than investigating the disappearance of a few prisoners.

Li Yili concluded that, for Augusert, the disappearance of those prisoners was necessary and could not withstand investigation.

Smuggling artifacts excavated from the underground temple of Theresa's prison is indeed a plausible reason.

Theresa Prison is a shared prison of the Galar Horn, the Black Gate and the Celestials, the Bishop of Azavet, and the Church of Steam and Steel. How to distribute the heritage mined within has always been a point of contention among these influential figures who shape the world order, each wishing they could split one portion of the heritage into four.

If the smuggling of the inheritance is exposed, Augucate will most likely be divided into four parts.

Hiding the stolen assets in a cell vacated due to a missing prisoner is indeed a good idea.

Prisoners at Theresa Prison are prohibited from entering other prisoners' cells. This means there is no need to worry about other prisoners discovering the hidden treasures in the cells. The guards can conduct legitimate searches of the cells, and a legitimate search can quietly remove the hidden treasures.

Even if word got out about the smuggling of the inheritance, they could shift all the blame to the Yellow-Clad Gang. The prison guards would at most be charged with negligence, since the inheritance was hidden in the cells, not in any guard's room.

Everything here is reasonable.

But Rebecca said that the grass on the graves of those missing prisoners was several meters tall, and that wasn't just a figure of speech, but a fact.

This is quite strange; the materials used for prison cells can at most grow moss, but they can't grow grass that's several meters tall.

To protect the privacy of prisoners, curtains have now been installed in every cell. As long as the curtains are drawn, even if the cell is full of valuables, passersby will not be able to see them. There is absolutely no need to build a mound of grass several meters high just to hide valuables. Not only does it not serve its purpose of concealment, but it also tells others that something is wrong here.

"Is there something wrong with the grass on those grave mounds?" Li Yili's silence made Rebecca realize the problem.

“Which cells have grass growing on graves?” Li Yili pinched the bridge of her nose.

"There's one over there..."

Rebecca blinked, turned and nodded in the direction of the prison building.

Li Yili's lips twitched slightly. "Couldn't you just give me the specific cell number?"

“I didn’t see it clearly,” Rebecca added to prevent Li Yili from blaming her. “It’s because you’re already out of control. Those guys can move freely between floors in front of the jailers, but I can’t. I saw them throwing their inheritances into those cells where there’s grass growing on the ground, so I ran back to report.”

"Throw……"

Li Yili squinted for a moment, then raised her hand and patted Rebecca's head.

"Okay, I understand. I'll check it out tonight."

"Oh... huh? Huh?!"

Rebecca nodded subconsciously, but then grabbed Li Yili's arm and dragged her into the shadows of the cabin, lowering her voice, "Are you kidding me! Don't you know how bad your situation is right now?"

"I needed you to remind me, it looks really bad."

"Ahem—Ming, good that you understand!" Rebecca crossed her arms and raised her head nonchalantly, but her tail stood up and swished wildly behind her.

"But I have to go check on the situation tonight."

“You—fine, it’s true that there won’t be any danger if I come along,” Rebecca pinched her chin and shook her head helplessly. “It feels surprisingly… good to be trusted by you?”

"No, you will stay here tonight and guard this house."

Rebecca was stunned, her eyes widening. "You...no, you said that yourself!"

Rebecca raised her voice, clearly annoyed.

"Don't call my name if you're in danger! I'm not stupid enough to run over to save you! I don't care about that yellow robe register, but it's all because of you that I was expelled! If you're done for, I'll completely..."

"Oh, right—"

As if remembering something, Li Yili raised her hand and patted Rebecca on the shoulder.

"There's really nothing I can do. I'm still wearing your collar around my neck. Being controlled by someone else is a real headache," Rebecca said, shaking her head helplessly with her hands on her hips.

"You can stay inside at night, but you can sleep on the floor by the door."