Butler Wu continued to explain: “Level Zero Heavenly Prison has only three basic functions: prison cells, skill drawing, and item exchange…”
- Cell: The small island below was the foundation of the Level Zero Heavenly Prison. Ye Qing only needed to purchase enough sand, stone, cement, and other building materials and send them into the Heavenly Prison space to automatically build cells to detain prisoners.
- Skill drawing: Here, the skills and specialties, or talents, of imprisoned offenders could be transferred to Ye Qing. For example, if a certain prisoner was a professional racer and he also had a talent for violin playing, Ye Qing could transfer all of his racing skills and musical talent to himself and turn them into his own skills and specialty.
Why use the word ‘draw’ instead of ‘extract’?
This was because if Ye Qing felt that a certain skill was redundant and caused him some trouble, he could return the skill to the prisoner. Nothing was absolute; having more skills or specialties was not necessarily better. Especially when it came to talents, which carried a certain degree of ‘passion’, they could somewhat influence Ye Qing’s lifestyle. If it didn’t feel right, then it should be eliminated.
- Items exchange: When facing a powerful criminal, the Heavenly Catcher may find it difficult to capture him with his own ability. He could exchange some special gadgets with his own ‘kindness value’. For example: powerful anesthetic, powerful electric baton, tracking capture net…
Kindness value meant to do good deeds and accumulate virtues to gain kindness value.
Kindness value was the most important thing for the Heavenly Catcher. This value was needed to exchange items and to upgrade the Heavenly Prison.
The best way for the Heavenly Catcher to gain kindness points was, of course, to catch criminals.
Corresponding to the kindness value was the ‘sin value’.
In a way, every person in the world was a sinner. Everyone made mistakes. A small and insignificant mistake could lead to unpredictable consequences, but the person who made the mistake was not aware of it. This meant that many people had something invisible and intangible attached to them, namely the ‘karma sin value’.
The karma sin values of most people in the world were below 100, neither good nor bad, and they were just ordinary people we saw everywhere.
If someone’s karma sin value exceeded 100, it was considered a bad person, and the Heavenly Catcher could capture him and put him in his Heavenly Prison. How long he was imprisoned and when he could be released depended on the Heavenly Catcher’s will.
In short, anyone with a karma sin value of over 100 was eligible for life imprisonment in the Heavenly Prison.
The kindness value of a sinner could not offset his sin value, but it could win impression points for the Heavenly Catcher. For example, if someone’s karma sin value reached 200, but at the same time, his kindness value was over 500, it meant that he had done more good things than bad things. Then, the Heavenly Catcher may turn a blind eye and not catch him.
The Heavenly Catcher did not have to arrest every criminal he encountered. Who to arrest and who not to arrest was entirely up to him.
If instead of catching the villains whose sin value was over 10,000, he arrested those whose sin value was 100… It was totally fine, he could do as he pleased.
Of course, the Heavenly Catcher needed to earn a lot of kindness points to upgrade the level of the Heavenly Prison. If he caught a sinner with a sin value of 10,000, then naturally, the kindness points he got were higher. This was the same as the sales commission of a salesperson. The better the performance, the more commission you got.
…
Ye Qing had a preliminary understanding of the Zero-Level Heavenly Prison and wanted to learn more, but he heard Butler Wu say, “Master, your cell phone is ringing.”
“Can’t I get my cell phone in here?” Ye Qing asked.
“You can bring the phone in, but the phone signal can’t get in,” explained Butler Wu.
“I see.” Ye Qing nodded.
Swish!
The scene in front of him changed. Ye Qing came out of the Ninth Heavenly Prison and returned to his room. He was still sitting in front of the computer desk as before.
It has to be explained that when Ye Qing entered the Heavenly Prison, in the eyes of others, he disappeared completely and suddenly, leaving no trace. From now on, if he wanted to enter the Heavenly Prison in his real form, he had to choose a sufficiently secret place so as not to scare his relatives and friends.
At this time, Ye Qing’s phone had stopped ringing because no one answered the call.
Ye Qing did not rush to check his phone, but instead checked his Heavenly Prison first. He focused his attention on his left hand, and with just a thought, he could know everything inside, as if he was there in person.
Butler Wu felt Ye Qing’s spiritual power entering the Heavenly Prison, and immediately said: “Yes, Master. Normally, you don’t have to enter the Heavenly Prison with your body every time. You can control everything in the prison with your spiritual power alone, and you can communicate with me anytime and anywhere. Others will not be able to hear our conversation.”
“Okay, I understand.” Ye Qing said to him in his mind.
Only then did he pick up his phone and check the missed call.
“Sister Song?” Ye Qing was slightly surprised. It was almost ten o’clock in the evening. Song Qiaoyan would never call him so late…
He called her back, and it only rang for one second before Song Qiaoyan answered. There was no doubt that she had her phone in her hand.
“Sister Song, do you have something to talk to me about?”
“Ye Qing, I’m sorry to bother you so late.” Song Qiaoyan asked, “Is it convenient for you to talk?”
“Yes, I’m at home.”
“Ye Qing, my house was robbed, I… I’m very scared…” Song Qiaoyan’s voice and tone seemed a little hesitant.
“Are you okay?” Ye Qing became nervous and asked hurriedly.
“I’m fine. I found out my property had been robbed when I got home, so I reported it to the police immediately. The police checked the scene and just left.” Song Qiaoyan said, still a little uneasy.
“Tell me the address and I’ll be there right away!” Ye Qing said without hesitation.
“I hope it won’t cause you any trouble?” Song Qiaoyan asked cautiously.
“What are you still talking about at a time like this? Tell me the address quickly.” Ye Qing said in a firm tone.
“Oh…”
Song Qiaoyan told him her home address and felt a little more at ease. She didn’t know why, but she felt safer when she heard Ye Qing’s voice.
In fact , Song Qiaoyan was also from this city. Although she lived alone, she had parents and many relatives in the city, but the first person she thought of at this moment was Ye Qing! She felt somewhat eager to see him appear in front of her, and she also particularly needed his help and care…
Ye Qing hung up the phone, put on his coat and went to the living room. Seeing his mother still meditating on the sofa, he called her.
“I’m going out for a while, I have something to do. You just wait for me at home and listen to grandma, okay?” Ye Qing said softly.
“Baby…” Mother Ye’s expression changed and she grabbed Ye Qing’s arm with a pitiful look.
During dinner, Ye Qing had corrected her view of her grandmother and told her that she was her mother, not some old witch… His mom wasn’t out of the crisis yet, and although she reluctantly accepted grandmother’s approach, she was still a little resistant.
“Be good and keep practicing. I’ll be back soon and I’ll bring you some chocolate.” Ye Qing coaxed her patiently.
When she heard the word “chocolate”, Ye’s mom’s black eyes widened and rolled around as she held up two fingers: “I want two pieces!” Then she showed a length of about ten centimeters: “It must be this big!”
“Okay.” Ye Qing agreed with a smile, and came to the door of his grandmother’s bedroom. He saw her sitting cross-legged on the bed, wearing reading glasses, and playing checkers alone.
Playing checkers and watching dumb TV were her two main ways of leisure.
Why was it called ‘dumb TV’?
As she grew older and her hearing weakened, she couldn’t hear clearly if the TV volume was turned down, but it would disturb others if the volume was turned up, so she had developed the habit of watching TV without sound. The old lady was very stubborn and was unwilling to accept “high-tech” devices such as hearing aids.
Ye Qing walked over and whispered in her ear: “Grandma, I’m going out for a while. If I come back late, you can go to bed. Don’t worry about mom. Just let her wait for me in the living room.”
“Go ahead, go ahead.”
Grandma waved her hand and said, “Be careful.”
Ye Qing nodded and pinched grandma’s wrinkled cheek in a slightly naughty manner.
“You little bastard.”
Grandma cursed with a smile. She had lived in the countryside for half her life and had little education. She liked to curse and had a rich vocabulary.
His mother watched him walk out of the house with eager eyes, and glanced into grandma’s bedroom with fear. After a long while, she entered the state of meditation again.
During the illness, her daily routine would be completely disrupted, and she might become like a night owl, not wanting to sleep until the sun rose. Ye Qing had to readjust that for her as well.
