Chapter 2151: The Situation
The check-in went on until the wee hours of the night. Only then did Jiangnan, fully satisfied, lead Chong Feiyu back to his luxurious five-star prison cell.
He had thought that Chong Feiyu would continue trying to obtain his genetic sequence, but as it turned out, Jiangnan was overthinking it.
Instead, she had become intrigued by the Passionate Little Gloves used for deleting records.
Jiangnan tossed her a few Niuma pens and the little gloves, letting Chong Feiyu play with them on her own.
He also carried a sack full of Minghe crystals and went into the newly built Styx bathroom to cultivate.
He cultivated while absorbing Minghe crystals, strengthening both his spirit and body simultaneously—a dual approach.
Poor Hei Gang was crouching in the corner, becoming Chong Feiyu's new test subject.
Jiangnan, who was cultivating with all his might to strengthen himself, was no doubt terrifying in his absorption speed.
The entire day's revenue from the Southern God Convenience Store—a whole sack of Minghe crystals—was all absorbed by Jiangnan.
His mental strength increased explosively, but since he couldn't release it for testing, Jiangnan didn't know just how powerful his mental strength had become.
Maybe it was about the same effect as having drunk a bowl of heart-warming chicken soup.
In the following days of his prison life, Jiangnan spent every day in great fulfillment.
Ever since he had the Styx bathroom inside his cell, Jiangnan rarely went down to the Styx River anymore.
Bing Chacha couldn't control him either.
Almost all day, he soaked in the Styx bathroom, improving his physical strength.
Only during the hours when the Southern God Convenience Store was open would he come out and busy himself for a while.
The revenue from those two hours was almost equivalent to the amount that male and female prisoners could fish out of the river in an entire day.
And all these Minghe crystals were used by Jiangnan to cultivate and enhance his own mental strength.
Chong Feiyu, on the other hand, always came to find Jiangnan to play, urging him on the progress and was quite eager for the prison break.
But Jiangnan was as stable as could be, as if the matter didn't concern him.
Wang Youzhi, however, was having a blast. As Jiangnan's brother, he basically walked sideways in the Ming He Death Prison, wasn't that obvious?
From time to time, he went down to the river with Tarot and the others to fish for crystals, and he also came to help at the store.
Moreover, the daily attendance check-in work was gradually handed over to Wang Youzhi, Tarot, Samo, and the others.
Xing Luo and Carl were beaten every night, each time different.
Hell never ended.
It was worth mentioning that Jiu Lan didn't break her promise. The next day, she opened the female prison area for two hours of free activity time.
The Southern God Convenience Store also welcomed female prisoners as customers, and they bought things even more crazily than the male prisoners, didn't they?
Clothes, bags, cosmetics—they bought everything until stocks ran out.
Jiangnan even kept his promise and actually held a social mixer for the male and female prison areas, setting up quite a few couples.
The happiness index on both sides rose significantly.
Of course, there was a price to pay.
The price was that Jiangnan was called to fight Jiu Lan every two days, and the fight lasted until the wee hours; every time, Jiangnan limped back.
Jiu Lan's Netherworld Eight Forms gradually improved; she even touched the threshold of the Tianxiu level, and at the same time was shocked by the speed of Jiangnan's physical improvement.
It was simply terrifying! Compared to when he first came in and could be kneaded at will, he was a completely different person.
How long had Jiangnan been here? If all humans were like him, that would be too abnormal.
Moreover, Jiangnan also used the opportunity of extra training with Jiu Lan to understand the dynamics and attitude of the netherworld race's upper echelons, as well as the situation outside.
As for Jiangnan's outrageous operations in the Ming He Death Prison, the netherworld race's top brass never intervened to stop them.
Bing Chacha, on the other hand, kept trying every possible way to get Happiness back, but hit a wall repeatedly. Jiangnan simply would not reveal the clues, and Bing Chacha could do nothing.
He could only swallow his anger and wait in vain.
Dali was sent to the netherworld race's laboratory for composition analysis, but the report hadn't come out yet; many experiments needed to be done.
It was not that easy to analyze, which led to the netherworld race not taking any further actions against Jiangnan.
Nor had they interfered to suppress him.
But Di Chou was growing a bit impatient on his end, after all, Jiangnan had been in prison for so long now.
Still no substantial information had been obtained from the netherworld side, and he had urged them again and again.
And Youming responded to Di Chou's urging by assigning the task to Jiu Lan.
Every two days during the sparring, Jiangnan would be brutally beaten, covered in blood and miserable, and Jiu Lan would take photos to record it.
She would even squat beside Jiangnan lying in a pool of blood and give a peace sign, proclaiming her victory.
These photos were all handed up by Jiu Lan, and then sent by Youming to Di Chou's side as homework.
He would receive them every two days.
As soon as Di Chou saw Jiangnan beaten into such a pitiful state, covered in blood, looking like he'd been severely tortured, it really relieved his anger.
He slapped his thighs in delight, satisfied with the work at Ming He Death Prison, but urged them to quickly extract the secret and then go ahead and off him.
But Youming remained unhurried, waiting for the analysis results.
What Di Chou didn't know was that he only saw how miserable Jiangnan was in the photos; he didn't know that Xing Luo and Carl were a hundred times worse off than Jiangnan.
Their daily beatings had never been skipped.
Time flew by, and more than a month had passed. As of today,
it had been a full month and a half since Jiangnan entered prison.
During this period, Suo Na kept screening the members of the Bully Gang, weeding out the scumbags, leaving only skilled and talented people.
The gang's membership had grown to over three thousand, including quite a few female prisoners.
After the initial wave of revenge spending, the Southern God Convenience Store had been open for over a month, and the hype gradually died down. The daily revenue was still considerable,
but far from before. Over this month, the cumulative amount of Minghe crystals absorbed each day had reached a terrifying number.
Even Jiangnan didn't know what level his physical fitness and mental strength had reached.
Was it as terrifying as a Dao Heaven-level psychic?
With the rapid increase in mental strength, the daily revenue from the Southern God Convenience Store could no longer support Jiangnan's cultivation.
Jiangnan began to worry again.
This won't do, will it? It can barely keep up with my needs. I need to think of something.
He wasn't going to stay here long anyway; Jiangnan didn't want to waste such good resources.
And so he couldn't help but recall that immature idea he once had.
He let out a sinister chuckle.
(˵ಡ‿ಡ˵)"A criminal should do what a criminal does, right?~"
...
While Jiangnan was "suffering hardships" in the Ming He Death Prison, the starry sky outside was also restless.
This month and a half, the Thousand Stars Great Catastrophe that happened before was still fresh in memory, as if it happened yesterday.
And the Thousand Stars City had been fully restored to its prosperous and brilliant state under the full repair efforts of the Silicon race, and had even expanded quite a bit.
It was as if the ruins before were an unfounded dream.
Among the starry sky races, which of those that could enter the Star Domain Sequence didn't have some reserves?
They certainly could afford a stationed planet. The current Thousand Stars City, as the center of communication among all races' civilizations, had long recovered its original function.
And to complete the reconstruction of the Thousand Stars Domain within such a short month and a half, only the Silicon race could achieve that.
This was enough to show the enormous reserves and infrastructure power of their race.
The most noticeable change in the Thousand Stars City was not the expanded area, but the addition of four huge Dimensional Star Ring channels.
The Thousand Stars City now had eight gates, and in the four massive Dimensional Star Rings, many starships and cargo ships were coming and going.
Now the Dimensional Star Navigation had been put into use on a large regional scale, and the routes developed had reached a terrifying number.
The star routes in the sky had formed a tripartite balance among the Bose Star Navigation, Silicon Speed Star Navigation, and Dimensional Star Navigation.
With Jiangnan's imprisonment, some of the resentment among the races dissipated. Combined with the launch of Dimensional Star Navigation, all races got a piece of the benefit while also having their own share.
So they were not very resistant.
It was like that kind of situation where they shouted "So terrible, who would eat this?" while stuffing it into their own mouths, afraid of not getting enough.
The Dimensional Star Navigation adopted a franchise and profit-sharing strategy. In just a month and a half, under the full cooperation with the Apocalypse race,
it had completed 70% coverage of the entire starry sky region. Because of low costs, low ticket prices, and almost negligible operating costs,
the number of routes opened was several times greater than the other two star navigation companies.
To be honest, in just this month and a half, humans had gone crazy with profits from the Dimensional Star Navigation, even after deducting costs.
Even the Apocalypse race, as the fourth sequence, taking that thirty percent share, found it an astonishing income.
Not to mention the money saved on their own racial freight.