The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Taking advantage of the blind spot, the operation was swift and smooth, and the jailer at the door was unaware that the prisoner in front of him had ordered an extra meal for him right under his nose.

Afterwards, Ye Xiao cleaned the medicine preparation room with a new bucket of water. It seemed that apart from the minor incident of a few bottles and jars being broken, this prisoner was really working honestly.

After the medicine dispensing room door closed, the prison guards stopped watching Ye Xiao nervously and returned to their patrol posts.

Ye Xiao then carried the wooden bucket around and found the warden's bedroom, whose door frame was obviously more luxurious than the other rooms.

A faint snoring could be heard from inside. Although the warden, who considered himself a king, had chosen a "concubine," he couldn't do anything without the Bear Power Potion.

He then returned to the washroom, changed the wooden bucket containing the rag with medicine, and went downstairs.

At this moment, the kitchen hall on the first floor had not yet started to get busy. Ye Xiao glanced around out of the corner of his eye and then walked to the large earthenware pot used for making soup in the back kitchen. He used a rag to apply the medicine from the wooden bucket evenly to the inside of the pot.

Of course, to the prison guards patrolling the corridor behind, Ye Xiao was just someone who came to clean the kitchen utensils.

The cabinets accessible to prisoners here naturally contain no sharp items like knives; at most, they contain a few dirty wooden plates and a pile of wooden spoons.

Even so, these utensils were for the jailers; the prisoners were only allowed to eat the sprouted potatoes that were served twice a day with their hands.

That was enough. Ye Xiao casually put a wooden spoon into his clothes and then carried the bucket out of the lobby.

"Stop!" Just then, an angry shout came from behind.

Ye Xiao slowly turned his head and saw a chef wearing a linen apron pointing at him, "Clean this up! You just finished cleaning and left, a bunch of damn bugs, always slacking off. Didn't you see the oil on that pot over there?!"

Ye Xiao shrugged, turned around, and used a rag soaked in laxative solution to wipe the pot the chef pointed to.

Since someone wants extra food, he has no reason to refuse.

After finishing his work, he returned to the washroom on the first floor and threw the small wooden spoon out of the narrow window on the wall.

The unassuming little object traced a graceful arc as it landed on the grass outside the wall. Dean, who had been watching this direction nearby, finally waited for this moment and quietly walked up to pick up the wooden spoon.

Although he didn't know what use this thing could be, an iron spoon or shovel might be able to dig through the stone wall, but a broken wooden spoon was too much trouble to even scrape off a few crumbs from the wall.

But Ye Xiao had only told him that once he found the wooden spoon, the first stage of preparation was complete.

After a period of calm, as sunset approached, Ye Xiao, having completed his work, was searched at the entrance of the surveillance tower and walked out empty-handed.

He came out, and upon seeing Dean, his first question was: "Who is the most prestigious elder brother here?"

"You mean the leader of the prisoners?" Dean crossed his arms and gestured to a burly man who looked like a bear not far away. "Husen, that guy's body has been modified with alchemical potions. He's the strongest fighter here."

As Dean described, the burly man named Hu Sen was not a normal person at all. His huge muscles were like a rock, and the henchmen around him looked no different from stick figures.

"Hiss, looks like Murphy..." Ye Xiao gasped. "Alright, if a fight breaks out, go call the prison captain over there."

"A fight? What fight?"

Just as Dean was wondering what was going on, Ye Xiao walked over, pushed aside a group of henchmen surrounding him, stood in front of the burly man who looked like a stone giant, raised an eyebrow, grabbed the man's collar, and asked, "What are you looking at? Huh? I'm asking you what you were looking at just now?"

Chapter Forty-Seven: Scientific Water Escape

The subsequent scenes were horrific and need not be described in detail.

Without any combat skills or magical abilities, Ye Xiao was surrounded and attacked by a group of people while fighting against a giant man with superhuman physical strength. It was already a miracle that he didn't die.

When Dean arrived with the prison captain, the scene was already in complete chaos.

The group of prisoners were in complete chaos, some shouting and others fighting amongst themselves. Apart from some nobles, most of those imprisoned here had a violent streak, and they were all eager to get involved and cause trouble whenever there was a riot.

In the very center of that chaotic battle, several ordinary prison underlings lay on the ground howling in pain, while Ye Xiao was being pinned to the ground by the huge Hu Sen, who was punching his head repeatedly until his nose was bleeding profusely.

"What the hell are you doing?!" The prison captain's eyes were bloodshot with rage. Although whether these prisoners were dead or alive was actually of no concern to a normal person.

But this doesn't work for prisons. For every additional prisoner they hold, the imperial city will provide an additional subsidy, not to mention the free labor they can generate and the potential external resources.

To some extent, these are all assets. When assets are mixed together, they can cause mutual damage. If the warden finds out, he will definitely question their captain of the guards.

Therefore, the prison captain immediately led the other prison guards to rush up and stop the riot, using wooden sticks to knock down the prisoners who were fighting one by one.

It didn't take long before the unarmed, burly Husen was finally subdued by the combined efforts of several prison guards.

When Ye Xiao was dragged from the ground and staggered to his feet by the prison captain, he was covered in blood and seemed to be somewhat delirious.

"You're all looking for death, aren't you?! You're all looking for death, aren't you?!" The prison captain pointed a wooden stick at the blood-stained prisoners one by one, his veins bulging. "Which bastard started this?!"

Most of the prisoners looked at each other, while a small number pointed at Ye Xiao.

"Get the hell out of here! You're just bullying me, aren't you?!" Ye Xiao said angrily, then suddenly pointed at a bewildered man among the onlookers. "This bastard stole my things, and when I asked him to return them, he got people to beat me up!"

"What nonsense are you spouting?!" The burly man was bewildered. What did this fight have to do with him?

"Go ahead and look for him if you don't believe me! My gold is on him!" Ye Xiao said angrily.

"Huh!?" The burly man was about to explode. "Wasn't that what you gave me!?!"

Gold! ?

The prison captain's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward, grabbing the big man by the collar. "Hand it over!"

"No! I... damn it!..." The burly man was dumbfounded, unable to defend himself. Finally, under the tyrannical power of the jailer captain's stick, he obediently took out the grain of gold dust that Ye Xiao had given him earlier. "You little brat, you better remember this!"

"Wow." The prison captain smirked as he took the gold from the big man's hand. The golden light brought a little relief to his agitated heart.

"Look, he even threatened me!" Ye Xiao said angrily, then put on a pleading look, "Sir, look, this is all the property I have left, please have pity on me..."

"Confiscate it." The prison captain collected the gold dust without hesitation, then waved his hand, "Twenty strokes each! If I see you fighting again, you're all going to the torture chambers!!"

What a joke! Once something is in his hands, how could he possibly return it to a prisoner?

"Hey!?? You..." Before Ye Xiao could finish speaking, he was struck by a large stick by the jailer who rushed up, causing him to cry out in pain.

……

As sunset approached, the sky darkened quickly in the winter, and the cold sea wind howled and lashed against the island.

The sky above the Dead Sea prison is always covered by a layer of dark clouds that never dissipate. The sun has barely sunk into the sea before the dark night falls.

Unlike modern prisons on Earth, the Dead Sea prison is dark at night. It doesn't have a large searchlight shining everywhere, and the cells are no longer visible from the watchtowers. Therefore, at this time, additional guards are deployed to patrol the circular prison city, carrying torches and inspecting each cell.

Meanwhile, in the small cell where Ye Xiao was, Dean looked at Ye Xiao, whose face was covered in blood, and his lips twitched. "So, this was also part of your plan?"

"All I can say is, perfect." Ye Xiao's voice was a little lisping. He pressed one nostril and gently blew out a puddle of blood onto the ground. "Ouch, my nose seems to be broken."

As they were talking, a jailer carrying a torch passed by the cell and threw a plate of dry potatoes over the bars.

"Why is there only one serving?" Ye Xiao asked while wiping the blood seeping from her nose.

"What do you think?!" the jailer said irritably. "Number 221, don't you know what the hell you cleaned today?!"

Ye Xiao shrugged. "Fine."

Watching the jailer leave, Dean grabbed the plate of dried potatoes, but Ye Xiao pressed his hand down, saying, "Don't eat this."

"You don't have any yourself, so you won't let me eat any, huh?"

“It works.” Ye Xiao didn’t allow Dean to question him, and put the potato into his clothes. “It’s about time. It’s time to introduce you to our modern science.”

"What's this mess?"

“Did you know that sea breezes are rich in salinity and alkalinity? Metal exposed to the humid environment for a long time will undergo imperceptible corrosion, and rust faster than metal in normal environments,” Ye Xiao said to himself, speaking in a spell-like manner that Dean couldn’t understand. “But this prison is renovated as frequently as ordinary Loren buildings. In addition, the people here don’t do anti-rust treatments like electroplating, which means that some of its external equipment is usually replaced only after it has been severely corroded.”

"And we are currently two months before the next repair. After three years of oxidation, the iron bars on your head are not as sturdy as you think."

"Of course, I'm not saying that the finger-thick iron bar can be kicked down with one kick, but the rivets used to fix the window frame are already close to their load limit. With the addition of some slight stress, it is easy for them to deform and crack."

"It's a coincidence that it's winter now. Thanks to the cold nights where the temperature feels less than eight degrees Celsius, as long as we pour hot enough water on it, the rivets on the window frame should reach their limit due to thermal expansion and contraction."

"What are you babbling about?" Dean frowned, not understanding a single word. "And you make it sound so easy, where are we going to find hot water now?"

“Good question. The main point of my explanation is that I have provided theoretical guidance, and as both parties in the cooperation, we all need to make the same effort. So, now it’s your turn to put it into practice.” Ye Xiao said, kicking the dirty wooden bucket used for prisoners to relieve themselves next to Dean. “I’ll leave this step to you. Let’s begin, Mr. Dean.”

"Start what...?" Dean looked at the wooden barrel, still somewhat confused.

"To pee." Ye Xiao smiled.

Chapter Forty-Eight: The Cicada Sheds its Shell

"Huh???" Dean looked shocked.

"Don't be so shy, we're all men." Ye Xiao waved his hand. "If you're really embarrassed, I can turn around and leave for a moment."

“No…I…” Dean’s scalp tingled. At only sixteen years old, he had never had any experience facing such a thing.

"What, you can't even pee? Do I have to teach you?" Ye Xiao said with a look of disgust. "If you want to get out, hurry up. We don't have time. If you're stuck in this godforsaken prison for life because you can't pee, I won't care."

All I can say is that Ye Xiao put a lot of pressure on him. Dean, who was confused but impressed, gritted his teeth and brought the wooden bucket to his front.

"Be more accurate, be faster," Ye Xiao reminded him.

"Don't yell!" Dean snapped, putting the bucket in the corner and turning his back to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao shrugged. Dinner time was a crucial time for the handover of prison guards.

The jailers responsible for patrolling the ring city at night would switch shifts with the jailers who patrolled in the afternoon after dinner, but this time Ye Xiao added something to their dinner.

Considering that the stingy warden only installed three public latrines in the watchtower, it would take the next patrol of guards about thirty minutes to get to their posts after relieving themselves.

This thirty-minute window of opportunity was the golden time for him and Dean to lay the foundation for their escape.

"Alright, alright, damn it, what's next!" The noble butler of the Duke's mansion, who had been with Ye Xiao for a long time, finally started swearing and kicked the wooden bucket next to Ye Xiao.

"Wow, wow, it's so dirty, bro!" Ye Xiao said with disgust. "I told you to pick up the wooden spoon, hurry up, find the nails on the window, and pour the water on it!"

"Why didn't you water it?"

"Water your own plants, didn't your teacher teach you that?!"

"Damn it!" Dean, the ninja, was furious. He used the small wooden spoon that Ye Xiao had thrown from the watchtower to scoop up water from the bucket and splashed it on the seam between the iron window frame and the stone wall.

"Hurry up, hurry up," Ye Xiao urged. "If it gets cold, we'll get cold too."

"Damn, this spoon is only that big!" Dean's lips twitched, but he still quickened his movements.

After he had poured enough water, he vaguely noticed that the tiny rivets did indeed seem to protrude slightly, and some small cracks appeared at some of the joints.

But when he tried to pull it out, the nail was still stuck firmly and he couldn't get it out at all.

"Wow, it's disgusting to touch like that!" Ye Xiao shouted from behind.

"You son of a bitch!!" Dean wanted nothing more than to grab Ye Xiao and punch him.

"Hey, don't touch me, don't touch me," Ye Xiao said, avoiding him with disgust. Then she took the wooden spoon from Dean's hand and said, "After finishing the chemistry lesson, I'll teach you physics and show you what the lever principle is."

After saying that, he used the edge of the wooden spoon to wedge the rivet head, pressed down on the spoon handle, and with a barely audible crisp sound, Ye Xiao actually pried up a rivet to Dean's astonishment.

There were a total of sixteen rivets securing the window frame. Ye Xiao pursed her lips and pried the rivets off as quickly as possible. Finally, after prying off the last rivet, the window frame loosened.

Dean swallowed hard, his emotions surging uncontrollably.

For the first time in so many days, he saw the iron window that had blocked his view of the sky countless times being taken down.

"If the iron bars are directly sealed inside the stone wall, then your method will be useless, right?"

"How do you replace those windows that are rusted?" Ye Xiao stuffed nails into his clothes and then handed the window frame to Dean. "Don't talk nonsense. After I climb out, quickly seal the window so they don't notice."

Dean nodded, then turned around and looked at the iron gate with some nervousness.

Not far away, the dark silhouette of the watchtower stood silently in the night sky, with only a few windows on it still lit up.

Ye Xiao stepped on Dean's shoulder and peered through the narrow window, a gust of wind carrying a fishy smell gently brushing against his face.

"Phew..." He exhaled and glanced at the high wall in the distance, where firelight was also shining, but in the night, it was equally impossible to see this side.

He gripped the window frame with both hands, carefully squeezed his upper body out, then sat up and slowly moved his legs out of the window.

It took him quite a bit of effort to finally lean out completely, his upper body pressed against the outer stone wall, his feet on the edge of the window, in a slightly angled position against the wall.

Their cell was located on the upper level of the circular prison, with a steep stone wall beneath him. If he made a slight mistake, lost his grip, or slipped, he would fall and be crippled, even if he didn't break, because his magic and strength were sealed.

High in the sky, the night wind whipped at Ye Xiao's swaying body. He maintained his fragile balance and slowly raised his head to look at the window above.

Ye Xiao's purpose in coming out was not to climb down, but to climb up.

Because of the dampness, the stone bricks on the wall were uneven and not easy to grip. Fortunately, in order to save costs, the prison was built with each floor only reaching the height of Ye Xiao's head when he stood on tiptoe.

The window above Ye Xiao was only about two meters away vertically, but it was slightly tilted. Because the cells were arranged in an alternating pattern, jumping diagonally upwards was much more difficult than jumping vertically upwards.

The more crucial issue is that Ye Xiao can only try once.

Once he lost his grip on the window above, there would be nothing left for him to grab onto on the damp, slippery wall, and all that awaited him was death as he fell to the ground.

But this wasn't the first time Ye Xiao had done something like putting his head on his waistband; his legs were just trembling slightly from the cold wind.