HAIL THE KING !
Chapter 68: The Surprising Discovery

Fei stepped into the square and looked around with detail. He found that most of the people here were pale and thin, and they were wearing tattered clothes. They are the poorest citizens of Chambord. They were all gathered here for a reason; when they saw Fei arrive, they cheered and knelt to the ground.

"Look, Your Majesty has really come …"

"Your Majesty, please restore justice for all of us!"

“We want to sue the prison officer. They abuse their power and capture the innocent ... ”.

“King Alexander, my son was arrested and thrown into Iron Prison – Water Prison just because he accidentally offended the son of former Chief Minister Gill. Your Majesty, please do something about it ... ”.

The citizens knelt on the ground and shouted loudly.

Fei turned around and looked at Brook. Brook quickly shook his head and said, “Your Majesty, I didn't tell these people to gather here; I didn't even tell them that you're going to be here this afternoon. Strange ..... Should I fire them? ”

Fei smiled as he shook his head, “It's okay. Aren't I here to change Iron Prison – Water Prison? This is perfect; I can get more information about each prisoner. Send a soldier to prepare the tables and chairs in the square and tell Warden Oleg to take out all the documents. I will fix the prison in front of all the citizens. ”

Brook nodded and went to carry out Fei's orders.

Soon, the citizens in the square were separated by the army. A barn was set up in the square and tables and stone chairs were laid in it. The stack of documents written on the animal's silk and skin explained the trial process and how each case was settled over the past ten years was sent into the warehouse. Some documents even have prints on them; they may have been left in the same place for too long. When Fei opened the black dotted file, a musty smell filled his nose.

“Great and honorable King Alexander, these are the files from the last ten years. I have ordered my subordinates to move them all here, and not a single file is missing, my king. Since I was already the Supervisor of Chambord, I had not dared to slack off at all..... ”Captain Oleg stood beside Fei pleading with a smile. The fluffy white fan in his hand moved quickly and fanned Fei to keep it cool.

Fei nodded lightly.

Oleg came out of the barn excitedly as if he was a rooster driven by his owner during a cockfight. He announced, “Great King Alexander has arrived at Iron Prison – Water Prison to uncover and remedy all the crimes that the Bazzer conspirators have committed against Chambord. Grateful for justice and justice have arrived at Iron Prison – Water Prison. If any of you are treated unjustly and persecuted by that damn Bazzer, you can safely complain to King Alexander the Great. Our king is wise, just, impartial and benevolent. ”

Oleg used at least twelve adjectives to praise Fei. After his saliva spurted everywhere, he finally ordered the soldiers to carefully separate the citizens from the warehouse and make a small entrance; the citizens were allowed to enter the warehouse and complain one by one.

Fei quietly nodded.

Although Oleg was timid, greedy and afraid of death, and was only a great flatterer, he had power. Compared to military officials like Brook, he was more attentive. He has a good situation like this. If this type of person is used correctly, they will be great assistants.

"Your Majesty King Alexander, please clear my grievances ……"

An old man dressed in rags came first and knelt on the ground. His son is a waitress at the former Chief Minister's house. His son broke Gill's rough dog food bowl by accident and was asked to pay 10 gold coins. Since his family did not have that much money, his son was locked up in Iron Prison – Water Prison; it was already three months now and the old man did not even know if his son was still alive.

Quickly, a warden gave Fei a document about the elder's son. Fei glanced at him; his note was roughly the same as what the elder had told him. He stroked the pen and ended the case. The old man's son was instantly released and Fei took 10 gold coins from the confiscated Bazzer property and gave them to the family as compensation. The old man's son had suffered some torment, but overall he was healthy. Father and son curled up together and cried, and then they knelt down to thank Fei for his grace ……

Upon seeing this scene, all the surrounding citizens became excited.

People came to the barn and cried as they continued to complain. Most of them were minor and minor incidents, but since they affected Bazzer and the other nobles in the kingdom, the citizens were abused by higher powers and locked up, and the citizens were, subjected to torture in the basement of the water ……

In just thirty minutes, Fei had freed over forty people from the Iron Prison. All innocent people not only regained their freedom, but they also received a lot of compensation; one gold coin was about the annual income of a poor family. Everyone in the square felt grateful and knelt as they cheered "Hail the king" ……

Fei enjoyed the thrill of being a judge.

But as the reshuffle continued, the people who had just planned to watch could not help but stand up and complain about the injustice that had happened to them. Some people were robbed by the nobles and lost everything they had and became homeless, while others had their heirlooms thinned out of them by the great merchants. Some even had their beautiful daughters kidnapped into noble houses, never to be heard from again ……

Suddenly, the citizens on the field te and got angry, and the situation became a little out of Fei's control.

As soon as Fei realized that more and more people were coming to the square after they heard the news, he broke into a sweat as he stopped the public "restoration" event. He ordered a secretary to record all the complaints and give them to the new Chief Minister Bast. Fei believed that his future father-in-law could handle the case well.

Fei on the other hand checked all the documents. Most cases are not difficult to resolve. After two hours, 60 – 70% of prisoners released. Honestly speaking, in a remote kingdom like Chambord, most people were friendly and hospitable; there would be no great or shocking crime. Most of the cases were created by nobles and wealthy merchants who oppressed poor civilians, while some of them fought. To Fei who was a learned person from Earth, as long as he followed the principles of equality, all problems would be resolved quickly.

After finishing processing all the documents, all the civilians kneeled down in excitement and cheered. In the cheers of "Hail the King" and "Life King Alexander", Fei, Brook and Oleg entered the Iron Prison – Water Prison.

The corridor was about three meters (m) high and two meters (m) high and headed deep into the ground. Many stone stairs layered in the corridor.

The lights quickly darkened. After about three or four hundred meters (m) deep underground, the corridor finally became flatter; instead of walking deep inside, it expanded further horizontally. On both sides of the corridor, there were many uneven-sized artificial stone shelves on the walls holding charcoal torches. A fire lit up and illuminated the entire corridor, but the distant darkness at the end of the corridor created a frightening atmosphere.

Fei became even more shocked as he walked deeper into the prison.

He was shocked when he learned that the interior of the mountain behind Chambord was completely emptied. The entire prison did not have a single brick or tile; it was dug from the interior of the mountain as a whole and was like an underground labyrinth. After more than 2/3 miles (1 km) of walking and passing over two dozen iron gates, Fei heard the gurgling sound of water as the passage opened. Many stone rooms were excavated on both sides of the corridor and sealed by a steel fence. These stone rooms were lined with wet straw and contained several bedding and base stone chairs; these rooms were where the prisoners lived.

Due to the massive release of the innocent citizens and the reforming of the prison by Fei earlier, most of the stone rooms were now empty. Only a few stone rooms still lock prisoners who actually commit theft, assault, and other crimes. After seeing the appearance of the power figures in Chambord, some prisoners had no response, some rushed to the steel fence and shouted their innocence and others just laughed at Fei with disdain ……

The further Fei walked, the wider the corridor there was; it turned into a large hall.

The sound of water gurgling became clearer and clearer.

Finally, after going a step further 500 meters (m), an underground river appeared on one side of the corridor. A cold and cold river flowed from there. Several stone rooms were dug beneath the surface of the water, causing ice water to flood the floors in these rooms; the only way to avoid cold water was to remain on the stone bed. This is what's called an "underwater prison".

The scale of Iron Prison – Water Prison far exceeded his imagination. To dig an incredible labyrinth on the mountain, even using the tools and methods of 21st century architecture, it will take several years and a huge amount of money, resources, and manpower …….. That was too shocking. It was hard to imagine who had actually dug such a vast cave?

As if he saw Fei's confusion, Oleg followed Fei humbly and explained, "Your Majesty, this prison was not built by the Chambordians, a villager hunts in the back mountain and finds this underground cave by accident. After the King found out, he ordered a blockade on this place. After several generations of exploration of the Chambord Kings and gradual refinement and transformation, this place became a prison that could not be broken. For the past sixty years, no prisoner has been able to escape from here. It is said that your father, the old King Alexander had imprisoned a powerful and fearsome warrior, but to the death, the warrior was unable to escape from here.

“So that's how it is. ”

After hearing Warden Oleg's explanation, Fei immediately understood.

This note is the only way this makes sense. This enormous underground cave would never be the work of the Chambordians. Even if Chambord was still a slightly powerful level four affiliated kingdom, the operation of digging such a majestic cave into the mountain would take over a hundred years.

"Then, do you know who created this underground cave?" Fei asked.

“Nobody knows who created this place. There were no clues or traces left in this place. Except for these simple stone rooms and corridors, there were no statues or murals. When the nobility entered here for the first time, there was no writing, materials, or supplies. It seems that this place was dug up by someone and abandoned for mysterious reasons. Some people even suspect that this is the work of Gods. ”

"God's Work?"

“Yes, except the almighty God, humans have a hard time digging hard rocks and creating giant caves inside the mountain, some others say that this stone cave may be a masterpiece of the cave dwarf, but the dwarf has disappeared for more than four or five hundred years ..

As Oleg spoke, Fei's vision became light. His field of vision suddenly opened. A hall several hundred meters high appeared right in front of Fei. Many torches are located on the walls and ceiling. They looked like bright stars on a dark, sparkling and beautiful night.

Layers and layers of stairs are dug into the walls as they lead to other areas. The stone walls were hundreds of meters high and had been divided into ten floors, with many stone rooms on each floor. It made Fei feel like he had traveled in space again and was suddenly in a tall skyscraper on Earth.

It was extremely shocking; no words could describe the shock Fei had experienced.

"Your Majesty, this is where important offenders are kept. The black-robed witch and the body of the silver-masked man were all locked here. The former first commander of King Peter-Cech's Guards accused of treason is also being held here. ”

Oleg explained to Fei carefully.

Fei nodded and said, “Eh, good. Oleg, send someone with sir. Brook to bring back Cech. I want to meet him . ”

Oleg quickly called the two prison guards and ordered them to take Brook up the stone steps. They quickly disappeared into the corridor on the stone wall. Cech is a criminal, so he's locked up on the seventh floor; it's gonna take him a while.

Meanwhile, Fei took a detailed look of this super large hall. The more he looked, the more surprised he was. Although it dates back to the 21st century on Earth, he also believed that building this hall was the work of Gods. It was amazing; dozens of Mogao Caves could not compare to the size of this cave.

Suddenly, Fei's eyes landed on the twenty-yard (m) large black steel door that was on the stone wall further away.

"What's that door doing over there?" Ask Fei.