Chapter 14: Arkham Asylum
On the outskirts of Gotham City, there is a huge Gothic manor, although both the scale and the design are extremely ornate, but now when you think of it, everyone thinks of dim courtyards, deep corridors, dark nights with lightning and thunder, and the dim lights and screams of trickery from those windows.
Over here...... It's "Arkham Asylum".
It's an unlucky place, and people all of Gotham are convinced of that.
In fact, a long time ago, this place was built as a large general hospital, but before the construction was completed, the chief architect inexplicably went crazy and committed suicide, and before he died, he hacked all the workers here to death.
After some time, it was bought by a psychiatrist and converted into a large psychiatric hospital, but soon after, a patient named Martin suddenly went crazy again and killed all of the specialist's wives and children......
Six months later, Martin's body was found, electrocuted to death in his hospital bed, and it was discovered that the psychiatrist had gone mad for a long time.
Well, by this time, the psychiatric hospital had been converted into a prison with a dark smell by the specialist.
Soon after, the specialist died, and the government simply adopted it as an official facility, and named it "Arkham Asylum" after the psychiatrist, and its purpose was to imprison the most vicious criminals.
Yes, it's not a hospital, it's a prison.
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On this day, Arkham Asylum welcomed a new patient of its own.
Outside the detention area, two uniformed prison guards push a rusty flat bed down a black hallway.
On the bed lay a man with messy hair, less than thirty years old, with obvious dark circles, his hands and feet were all chained to the bed with strong steel hoops, his body and even his head were tightly tied with restraint straps, and he had a characteristic mask buckled below his nose, which jammed his jaw, so that he could not even open his mouth now.
In fact, for a prisoner who has just been taken in, it is indeed a bit too much to say without even letting his mouth open, because then it is not even possible to interrogate, but Arkham Asylum is really the place with the highest concentration of talents in Gotham City, according to legend, a few years ago, there was a prisoner who had just been taken in, and he somehow got his back molars off, and then a "poof" bite spit on a guard's eyes with great accuracy, resulting in the guard's direct retirement, so since then, Masks have also become standard for Arkham prisoners' restraint suits.
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At the end of the black hallway is a steel door covered with thigh-thick steel bars, giving the impression that it is not as easy to open it as it is to go directly to the wall next to it.
But instead of going straight to the door, the flatbed truck made a turn and pushed into what looked like an office.
Then the flat car was erected, and Ziliang saw that there was a desk in front of him, and a middle-aged man was sitting behind him. Instead of wearing a prison guard's uniform, he wore a suit and leather shoes, and a smile between playfulness and cruelty appeared on his lips, and at this moment, he was holding a report, casually flipping through it.
Seeing the prisoner pushed in, he casually threw the report on the table and looked at the other party.
"Hello Ziliang, first time we met, I'm the warden here, Quincy Sharp." He smiled and said, "I'm sorry I didn't read the information about you carefully, but I'm sure that if you can come here, it means that you are a vicious, violent, unworthy of sympathy, and a guy with brain problems, and I am used to calling you ...... Scum. ”
As he spoke, he stood up and walked towards Ziliang, and he could see that this Quincy Sharp was a very particular, even a little obsessive-compulsive guy, although his hair was not much, but he was meticulously combed, and the corners of his clothes were tucked very neatly.
"As you may have realised, the door in front of you is the last door to the cell, and as is customary, I need to meet with each of the new inmates and educate them on a little bit of knowledge...... Or how to survive here. ”
His eyes swept over Ziliang's face, and when he saw his chicken-nest-like hair, he showed obvious disgust.
"First of all, the first thing I want to tell you is that you are a convict serving a life sentence, which is the case with most of the people who can come here...... So as long as you walk through that door, you are no longer yourself, whatever you have had, it will be far away from you, there will be no parole, there will be no notice of trial, there are only two ways to get out of this door, first, you die, and second, you escape from prison. ”
After Quincy Sharp said the word prison escape, he suddenly stopped and stared at Ziliang directly...... It took a while before continuing.
"Maybe you'll be excited when you hear about the escape, and you've even figured out how to get out of prison on the way here, but unfortunately, no matter how 'come and go' the Arkham Asylum is, no one has managed to escape since I took over as warden."
"Second, after entering that door, you will lose the most basic rights, freedoms, human rights, all of the citizens, you must respect everyone who is not wearing prison uniforms, because they are all your masters, if you do not follow the rules, we will punish you, if you glare at a prison guard, we will punish you...... In fact, as long as you make a strange laugh after the lights go out, spitting, leftovers, peeing smells too much, or looks too ugly to make someone feel bad, we will punish you, and the only thing you can do is try to be as good as possible, oh yes, there is a famous prison doctor who has studied 'electrotherapy' very thoroughly, but I guess you won't want to know him. ”
"Thirdly, there is a tradition in Arkham Asylum that every newcomer will go through a welcoming ceremony, which of course, is not for you, but for the prisoners...... I don't know how much they'll welcome you, but prison guards don't usually care, so I'll give you a piece of advice, which is to hope that after dinner, you'll spend more energy on crying noses...... Instead of calling for help. This sentence is my last concern for you. ”
Quincy Sharp said with a smile.
"Finally, then, welcome to Arkham Asylum."