Chapter 164: Spreading Darkness
"Cowardice imprisons the soul of man, hoping that it can make people feel free." Lu Wen looked out the window at the dark night, the firelight reflected in his eyes.
"The Shawshank Redemption?" Wei Boan glanced at him.
"Yes." Lu Wen nodded.
He looked at the time,
More than an hour has passed since I received the news and now I have arrived here.
The sunset on the horizon disappeared completely, replaced by a heavy night.
The fire has not been extinguished.
The plummeting temperatures at night brought strong winds.
Raging winds poured in from the cracks in the surrounding tall buildings, carrying the flames into the sky, the heat mingling with the whirlwind, sweeping all the small and light objects that could burn in.
It was like a dragon ascending to heaven, blazing.
"Fire tornadoes, this thing tends to only happen in the mountains and forests."
Wei Bo'an stepped out of the car and looked up at the spectacular scene in front of him.
A disaster of this magnitude is difficult to form, and many conditions are required.
Firespouts in the city have not been seen in many years.
Even the suburbs are easy to explain.
Smoke billowed from the prison as fireworks swept through the prison.
The black night was dyed a fiery red.
"Nearby residents have been evacuated urgently, and we have tried our best to suppress the fire, but the effect is not ideal, and many prisoners have taken the opportunity to escape from prison." The person in charge of the prison was disgraced, and his clothes were burned with several holes.
"Can you tell us about the security system?" Lu Wen asked.
"Well, prison protection, surveillance, door locks, all of which were integrated into one system more than a decade ago."
"All cells are electronic-locked?"
"Yes, I don't know what happened at the time, but when the fire just started, the security system suddenly went offline, and it was impossible to wake up, all the cells were opened, and some prisoners took away the guns of the discipline and escaped."
That's the disadvantage of believing too much in modern technology, and if it were a traditional lock, it wouldn't have escaped so many prisoners now.
After a few brief exchanges, Lu Wen roughly understood the situation.
There is no room for optimism.
Now that prison is not accessible to ordinary people.
As soon as you get closer, there will be a strong burning sensation.
Take a breath and feel like your lungs are about to be scorched.
The eyes were full of flames of red.
A real sea of fire.
"This is the highest-level prison on the surface, and it actually burns like this?" Lu Wen still felt a little incredible.
"There's no way to find out the cause of the fire right now, so we can only wait until the fire has completely passed, and a few of the corrections said they remember that the fire started in the middle of the place." said the prison officer.
"What's in the middle?"
"The kitchen, the cafeteria, and a couple of closed houses."
The flames started to burn from the kitchen, and it seemed to barely make sense.
"On weekdays, are all the prisoners cooking in the kitchen?"
"It's basically prisoners, but we're watching, and they can't do anything."
The cause of the fire cannot be ascertained.
The red of the flames was reflected in the sky, and the huge fire tornado seemed to be a divine fire descending from the heavens, tumbling and rising rapidly, and the wind swept away.
From a long distance, you can feel the hot wind.
"It's dangerous to disperse the crowd of onlookers."
Lu Wen was also convinced.
In this case, there are still people holding watermelons and eating and watching.
"Go away, the farther away the better, whose child is that? Take it away! ”
That fire tornado and its instability.
It has moved a short distance within the confines of the prison and is still expanding.
The images on the scene are far better than the natural disasters shown in those movies.
This is one of the most devastating disasters.
"Tell all the human executives to step back, activate all the androids that are still on standby in the Executive Board, and maintain order on the spot."
Although they are both androids, Lu Wen can't care about the feelings of his compatriots now.
Smoke is also a deadly link.
Black mixed with fiery red.
From a distance, the whole city seems to be burning.
Visibility around the prison is already low.
Red smoke seemed to rise from the depths of hell, cutting off the canopy.
Flesh and blood had a hard time holding out in this environment, the particles were flying and burning in the air, and several of the executioners had already developed several blisters on their skin before they could actually enter the prison range.
"How many prisoners have escaped?"
"A lot!"
The main thing now is to get back all the prisoners who have escaped.
Those are the most heinous criminals.
Ruthless and vicious.
I don't have a few lives in my hands, and I'm embarrassed to mess around in this prison.
"Before the fire, there were 469 prisoners in the prison, but now we have only 203 people, some of whom have escaped, and some of whom are trapped in the fire and may have been burned to death."
"Can you give us a detailed figure on how many people escaped?"
"It's hard! But at least 40 people escaped, and three of our instructors were wounded and had their firearms snatched, and those three criminals are now the most threatening. ”
Lu Wen looked at the list that the prison director had temporarily counted.
From the beginning of the list to the end.
I watched it several times.
Among these 203 people, there is no Jiang Xiaonian!
"Where is Jiang Xiaonian being held?"
"The innermost, this area."
The prison superintendent did his duty.
Be able to remember clearly where each prisoner was held.
Lu Wen looked at the area he was pointing to on the map.
"Jiang Xiaonian's danger is extremely high, we detain him in the innermost, deep area, he will definitely not have time to escape, and now most of them have been burned to death."
"No, he didn't even think about running away."
Jiang Xiaonian fled last time and returned to the village.
After discovering that the school he built for the village was demolished by the villagers, his mentality changed somewhat.
Lu Wen couldn't tell what had changed.
That school seemed to be a certain insistence in Jiang Xiaonian's heart, after the school became a ruin, he was also buried in that ruin, unwilling to come out again.
"I'll go in and find it." Lu Wen said.
"You're crazy, if you go in now, you're looking for death, and androids can't survive!" The prison superintendent hurriedly pulled him.
A burning prison.
No matter how you look at it from that direction, it looks like a bloody demon who chooses people to devour.
Creeping on the city in the dark of night.
It waved its fiery arms, cutting off the life of hope.
The fire grew bigger and bigger, and the fire tornado even approached the edge of the prison at one point.
The onlookers finally knew that they were afraid, and they ran away one by one.
Even the news media that reported on the scene were all replaced with androids.
"I applied to transfer him to this prison, and I have to be responsible for him!" Lu Wen said loudly.
"Is there a backup of the data?"
"Yes!"
learned that Lu Wen had a data backup, and the prison director no longer stopped him.
That's the benefit of androids.
As long as you have money, you can have countless lives.
Lu Wen turned around, took a deep breath, and was about to go in, when he suddenly saw a familiar figure.
Xia Chuluo actually came.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"This is the thirteenth district, and I am the executive officer of the thirteenth district, if I don't come, can I go somewhere else?" Xia Chuluo glanced at him, "Some people have been fooling around with the people of District 10 all week, and those who don't know think you've been dug up." ”
"Miss Xia, I'm just borrowing Lu Wen for the time being, and it'll be over soon."
Wei Boan leaned on the car next to him and spoke.
His title to Xia Chuluo made Lu Wen more interested, and he actually called him 'Miss Xia', and the people who use this title generally know Xia Chuluo's father.
"Your tenth district should have been rectified a long time ago, and you can't just go to other districts to ask for foreign assistance if you have a petty theft." Xia Chuluo said lightly.
"This ...... Actually, it's a little more serious than petty theft. ”
"How serious can it be? In addition to the death of four people in a row, the rhythm has been controlled by others, and he is very passive from beginning to end, except that he has not even touched the shadow of the murderer...... Nothing serious. ”
"This ......"
Wei Bo'an was speechless for a moment.
It's a bit unbearable to Xia Chuluo's ordinary verbal attacks.
Xia Chuluo turned his head to look at Lu Wen, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Be more careful after entering, avoid those dangerous places, you really can't find anyone and quit, your body is quite expensive." ”
"Understood."
The reason why Miss Xia came here is also very simple.
Those criminals who escaped.
Especially the three who had guns in their hands.
The night was dark, and the muzzle of the gun in the darkness was always caught off guard, and everyone in the 13th District Executive Bureau didn't want to sleep tonight.
"I'm now acting as the Chief Executive Director of District 13, do you have any comments?"
Xia Chuluo posted a message on the public channel.
"No comment."
"No comment."
"I have an opinion, but I don't dare to say it, and after thinking about it, I have no opinion......"
The crowd quickly agreed.
It's better to have one person in charge than nothing.
Although Xia Chuluo's personality is not likable, his ability is recognized by everyone as the strongest.
"Okay, let's listen to my arrangement for the rest of the rest."
The girl was starting to get busy.
Wei Bo'an's side was not idle.
He asked the prison director for the files of all 469 people and probed them one by one.
This fire came inexplicably, it was very strange, and it was in a place like a prison.
"I'll check if there is any satisfaction with the real murderer twelve years ago, you pay attention to safety."
According to Lu Wen's inference.
Twelve years ago, the real murderer quickly fled the scene after the murder, and later the wife of that family was tried and imprisoned, which became an unjust case.
But later, he was put in prison because of a certain case.
It is likely that he has been repeatedly detained several times.
"If I can't come out, you go to Xia Chuluo and ask for a backup of my data, and upload it directly to an ordinary military-type bionic person, don't waste time customizing, now time is precious."
"Okay, you can go in peace!"
That's it.
Under the gaze of the crowd.
Lu Wen faced the light of the fire and quickly approached the prison that was in flames.
The darkness spread behind him.