Before rescuing No. 79, Ren Ye had already anticipated that, as long as the man escaped, the Three Halls' judicial authorities would figure out within a day that there had to be an inside mole in the Heavenly Prison. The Spirit-Severing Pill was simply too potent, and Spirit-Passing Powder was too tightly controlled. Without outside help, a death row inmate had virtually no chance of escaping alone.
What he had not expected was that, despite more than a dozen jailers dying, several areas of the Death Prison collapsing, and chaos reigning everywhere, Young Master Zhao had narrowed the mole's identity down to a jailer based on just two crime scenes.
Besides the jailers' guard office, the Heavenly Prison also had functional departments such as the Kitchen, records office, miscellaneous affairs office, and runners' office. Altogether, there were nearly two hundred staff members, all of whom could move around certain areas of the Heavenly Prison.
In other words, even if the Three Halls concluded that an inside mole had secretly helped No. 79, they would still have a large pool of suspects to investigate. Someone from the Kitchen might have tampered with the meals, for instance, or someone from miscellaneous affairs might have secretly delivered the antidote while preparing a cleansing bath for the inmate ahead of Death Sacrifice Day...
That would have made the investigation take a long time. Unfortunately, the footprints behind the Nether Beast statue had already led Young Master Zhao to conclude that the mole was most likely a jailer.
That drastically narrowed the investigation and put Ren Ye in a very dangerous position.
Who the fuck left those footprints?! Did No. 79 deliberately stir up his aura before leaving to help conceal whoever left them? ...The Little Bad King had many questions and kept speculating uneasily.