Chapter 2: The Underground Prison
The atmosphere of the entire cell suddenly froze, and Xu Sanbao, who was still arrogant just now, couldn't help muttering in his heart at this moment: Why did the prison director arrange this person to cell No. 4? Could it be that his old man couldn't get used to me being overbearing in prison, and deliberately arranged a ruthless character to suppress me? Ahh......h
Xu Sanbao was thinking about it, when there was a sudden commotion outside the cell, scolding and scolding were mixed together, and Xu Sanbao immediately heard that it was Sun Xiaopang's voice next door.
Soon, the door to cell 4 was opened, and two strong prison guards rushed in with electric batons. "Put down what you have in your hand and stand in the hallway!" One of the guards shouted, and all six prisoners obediently walked out of the room and stood in a row in the hallway.
There were also two prison guards outside the door who were in charge of guarding, and Xu Sanbao was very familiar with them, so he asked mockingly: "Feng Jiaojiao, why is there a surprise inspection?" Have you raised your wages? Work so hard. β
"Raise your salary." Lao Feng complained angrily, and then explained: "Someone in cell 32 wanted to escape from prison, and they dug a hole in the wall of the bathroom. β
"Huh? What did you dig it out of? Xu Sanbao asked in surprise.
"Rice spoon." Lao Feng replied.
When Liu Jinpeng heard this, he burst out laughing, and then said, "Oh, why does this plot sound so familiar!" Is it because I have watched too many film and television works. But they're stupid, they're underground, and they'll have to dig a tunnel to get out. And it's not like a prison in the city, so if you're desperate, you can think about drilling sewers or something. This deep mountain and old forest, where to drill. If you want to get out, you have to go through the gate. β
"Pengzi, listen to what you mean, haven't you already thought of a countermeasure?" Lao Feng said with a wicked smile, and poked Liu Jinpeng's backbone with the electric baton in his hand. "Do you have any other high opinions, say them and let us all have a long experience."
"Hey, I'm just talking nonsense, how dare I have other ideas." Liu Jinpeng smirked twice, revealing an embarrassed expression.
Lao Feng snorted disdainfully, "It's good if you don't have an idea." Now that you're here, let's do a good job of reforming, and don't just think about how to escape all day long. I tell you plainly, you can't get out of this place, and even if you get out, it's a dead end. Especially the newcomers......" Lao Feng said and glanced at Wei Chiliang, "The newcomers should familiarize themselves with the rules here as soon as possible." The prison is no better than the outside world, no matter how majestic you used to be, if you want to go wild here, you have to weigh it carefully. β
Wei Chiliang didn't react to what he had said to him, but just looked at the structure of the entire prison with curiosity with his eyes. Because everything happened in such a hurry when he was locked in, he didn't have time to figure out the environment he was in.
He was now in a circular corridor on the second floor of the underground prison, and as far as the eye could see, the whole prison was in a huge circle, which at first glance looked a bit like an ancient Roman arena. Each floor was surrounded by twenty or thirty cells of the same size, and there were also a number of guardhouses.
Looking down, the basement four floors are a large circular atrium that serves as a public event venue for the entire prison. The rooms scattered in the outer ring are the canteen, activity room, guard room, infirmary, etc., in addition to a large logistics area, set up with a strict access control system, not open to prisoners, hereinafter referred to as Area X.
The structure of Area X is very complex, and a small number of rooms are used for the reception of prisoners. After the prisoners are sent to this prison, they first have to go directly to the X area on the lower fourth floor through a secret elevator, and go through a winding passage to some specific rooms, waiting for a series of formalities such as body searches.
After completing these procedures, the prison guards led the prisoner through the access control system in Area X and officially entered the public activity hall on the fourth floor of the prisoner's activity territory. In other words, once the prisoner was brought out of that door, it was almost impossible to escape the way he came.
When Wei Chiliang was sent here, he also went through a lot of procedures, but compared with other prisoners, his report was more valued by the prison warden. After all, his reputation on the outside is so terrible that anyone else has to be doubly careful with him.
After roughly observing the situation on the lower floors, Yu Chiliang looked up at the ceiling above. I heard that the entire basement floor was used as a processing workshop for prisoners, and there was also a warehouse for storing goods, which was also equipped with a tight access control system. Although he hadn't been there yet, he guessed that there must be an exit from the warehouse to the outside world.
As far as he knew, the best way to escape from prison was to get out of it. It's just that now, he doesn't know the number of guards on it, as well as the monitoring and level settings......
"The fourth inspection is over, no problem, but the hygiene is too poor." The prison guard withdrew from the cell as he spoke, with a look of disgust on his face. Wei Chiliang's thoughts were interrupted, and then he heard Lao Feng say to a few of them with a smile: "Go back and clean up." If you don't clean it tonight, none of you will want to eat tomorrow. β
Xu Sanbao answered and took the lead back to the cell. Wei Chiliang looked around a few times with some reluctance, and Lao Feng shouted at him: "Don't look at it, the days will be long in the future, enough for you to see." β
Wei Chiliang sighed, shook his head with a wry smile, and followed the lame man into the cell.
The iron door clicked shut. Before Yu Chiliang could go inside, Xu Sanbao stopped in front of him with his chest up, blocking his way. "I said the new guy, the task of cleaning the toilet will be yours in the future. It's less than an hour before the lights go out, so hurry up. β
Wei Chiliang laughed disdainfully, did not speak, and went directly around Xu Sanbao's side. As soon as Xu Sanbao saw that the newcomer had been dragged to such an extent, he immediately became angry again. He pushed Wei Chiliang violently, with great strength, and pushed the other party to a stumbling point. "Eh, you're deaf, I asked you to clean the toilet and you didn't hear it?"
"I'm tired, let's do it another day." Wei Chiliang stood firm on the edge of the bed and continued to walk inside, as if he didn't take Xu Sanbao's words seriously at all.
At this time, Xu Sanbao suddenly scolded, and he was about to start a fight. Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Jinpeng hurried over, hugged Wei Chiliang's neck and said, "Let's go, let's go together, how can you do such a tiring job alone." After speaking, he dragged Yu Chiliang into the innermost bathroom.
Wei Chiliang knew that this kid was here to be a peacemaker, he was really tired, and he was too lazy to see Xu Sanbao in general, so he shifted his attention to Liu Jinpeng. "Pengzi, I can call you that, right? Before I came, who was responsible for cleaning the toilet? β
"Except for Bao Ye and Brother Bald, the three of us take turns."
"I think that lame man is quite honest, and he must have been bullied by you a lot, right?"
Liu Jinpeng said with a smile: "Brother Cripple is good-hearted, helpful, and often takes the initiative to help us solve various problems in life. β
"Really?" Wei Chiliang pursed his lips and said, "I don't think he can help it." With his legs and feet, he can't beat you guys if he wants to resist! β
The lame man the two of them were talking about was named Qian Heng, and he looked like an honest man. He accidentally killed his wife and accidentally broke his leg while escaping from the pursuit. He has been in prison for a long time, even a few months before Xu Sanbao, and is theoretically their senior, which is probably the reason why he has been able to stay in cell No. 4.
But honest people are always untenable in such places. Although on the surface, the two juniors in cell No. 4 called him "cripple brother", but in fact, Qian Heng was often called by them as a cow and a horse, and he didn't dare to vent his complaints easily. As long as you are obedient, you won't be cleaned up, Qian Heng has been here for so long, and he has long understood the psychology of these thugs.
Liu Jinpeng didn't know how to answer this question, so he could only laugh. Wei Chiliang was not interested in continuing to talk about this, so he pointed to the urinal inside and said, "Okay, since you took the initiative to help, I won't be polite to you." You brush the urinal, I'm in charge of cleaning the sink, you have no problem with this division of labor, right? β
"This ......" Liu Jinpeng grinned, revealing a reluctant expression. For a moment of hesitation, he seemed to see a trace of displeasure on Wei Chiliang's face.
I don't know if it was affected by the psychological effect, as soon as he thought of the identity of the other party, Liu Jinpeng felt goosebumps all over his body.
"No opinion, no opinion, you can say anything." Liu Jinpeng replied with a smile, thinking that he couldn't upset this murderer no matter what! Although he doesn't read much and is not very old, he is still very good at dealing with people. He has little qualifications, average physical fitness, and is not a good fighter in fights, and the best way to gain a foothold in this world of the jungle is to find a backer.
Liu Jinpeng just came to prison a few days ago and leaned on Xu Sanbao, and became Baoye's little follower with his flamboyant tongue. For the sake of Bao Ye's face, the other prisoners in the prison did not dare to bully him casually.
However, this newcomer Wei Chiliang is also a ruthless character, and his reputation before he was imprisoned was much better than that of Xu Sanbao. Liu Jinpeng pondered in his heart, taking advantage of this opportunity to befriend the other party, the success rate should not be low. After all, Wei Chiliang has just arrived, and he doesn't know much about the rules and many situations in prison, so he may need someone to chat with him to relieve his boredom.
Wei Chiliang has long seen through Liu Jinpeng's flowery intestines, he is not Xu Sanbao's kind of fool who can't find the southeast and northwest if he is patted on the back, but he also doesn't hate this kind of little follower who can be used as a gun. He smiled in his heart, and then asked Liu Jinpeng without a match, "You broke away from the organization so quickly, aren't you afraid that Bao Ye will clean you up?" β
"What organization is not organized, everyone will eat and live together in the future, look down and don't look up, it's very important to have a good relationship!"
"I don't think it's that easy. I think there must be a lot of people in this prison who don't like me. β
"That's because they don't have eyes." Liu Jinpeng secretly looked at the door and deliberately lowered his voice, "I think it won't be long before those who want to trouble you will be cleaned up by you." β
"Oh? Then you have good eyes, and you can see so long-term. If I really become the boss in the future and don't let you be a right-hand man or something, I'm really sorry for your trust. β
Liu Jinpeng echoed: "Brother Liang, don't worry, when the time comes, I will definitely do my best, and after I die, I will help you keep the world steadily." As he spoke, he thought: It seems that this corpse killer is no different from a normal person, he can talk and laugh, and it is not as difficult to deal with him as he imagined. He was about to continue talking nonsense, but when he looked up, he found that there was no smile on the other party's face at all, but it was a little gloomy and terrifying.
He chuckled in his heart, and couldn't wait to retract his naΓ―ve thoughts just now, when he suddenly heard Wei Chiliang ask him in a low voice, "After you escaped from the detention center in Xiangfan, Hubei, where did you get caught?" Are the other three people who escaped with you also in this underground prison? β
Liu Jinpeng's eyes widened in surprise, and it took a long time before he slowly spoke: "Brother Liang, you are quite well-informed, and you know about me as soon as you come in?" β
"Ah, before I came to cell four, I briefly asked the prison guards about you. Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Wei Chiliang replied a little perfunctorily, and then said, "You haven't answered my question yet." β
"Oh, I see." Liu Jinpeng showed an expression of disbelief, but still recalled and said, "After I escaped with those three buddies, I hid in a broken construction site in a nearby county town for a while. One day, I couldn't help myself and wanted to improve the food outside, but I was arrested by the police in a small restaurant. They forced me to tell me the whereabouts of the other people, and I recruited them one by one, but those guys were all old fritters, and they were suspicious when they saw that I hadn't come back for a long time, and they had already moved the location, and the police didn't arrest them. β
"And what about later? How did you get here? β
"Later, I thought about it......" Liu Jinpeng thought, "they threw me somewhere and locked me up for seven or eight days." The following night, I was taken to the underground prison along with several other men in similar circumstances, and was hastily assigned to a different cell. β
"Wait, you mean ......" Hearing this, Wei Chiliang hurriedly asked, "You were directly imprisoned without trial?" β
Liu Jinpeng nodded helplessly and said, "But isn't it, I don't know how long I want to stay in this place now." β
"Sure enough." Wei Chiliang had long expected this to be the case, and said with a strange smile, "No wonder you murderers who should have been executed a long time ago are living freely." β
"Hey, I don't think I can get away with it for a few days. Although I don't quite understand what it means, it's only a matter of time before I get shot, and I can't escape it. So if you have a chance, you have to ......" Liu Jinpeng didn't say the rest of the words, but when Wei Chiliang saw his sneaky eyes, he knew that this guy must be looking for a chance to slip away again.
Thinking of this, Yu Chiliang couldn't help muttering in his heart: You should be content, if it weren't for being sent to this ghost place, you outlaws would have been shot a long time ago, and now the grass on the grave doesn't know how tall it has grown. Thinking about it, he asked Liu Jinpeng, "Then do you know where this prison is located?" β
"I don't have any concept, I just know that it's a mountainous area where birds don't. I can't understand why someone would dig a prison out of this hellish place, and how it looks wrong. Liu Jinpeng paused, then looked at Yu Chiliang curiously and asked, "Brother Liang, why are you so powerful?" Do you know where this is? β
"It's a long story how I got in, maybe you'll find out later. But what I can tell you is that this is Liangshan. β
"Liangshan? Water Margin? β
"It's not that Liangshan." Yu Chiliang glanced at him and said angrily, "It's Liangshan in Sichuan Province, Yi Autonomous Prefecture." Let me ask you again, apart from the circumstances just mentioned, have you experienced anything else unusual here? Anything goes, think about it. β
"Except for those ...... just now," Liu Jinpeng touched his pointed chin and rolled his eyes to think carefully. To say that it is unusual, many things here, including many rules, are different from other prisons, but this has not affected their normal life. After thinking for a long time, he replied with some embarrassment: "Actually, there are some things, you can know by living here for a while." You have to let me say, I really can't tell for a while. β
"Okay then." Wei Chiliang frowned dissatisfied, "Since you can't tell clearly, I won't embarrass you." As punishment, do the work yourself. After saying that, he walked towards the door of the bathroom without looking back, and he couldn't help but have a wicked smile on his face.
"I ......" Liu Jinpeng was very surprised, and almost burst out in a hurry. Fortunately, he restrained this impulse in time, otherwise he would have offended the perverted murderer. However, he will not let himself be wronged, Wei Chiliang he can't afford to provoke, there are always soft persimmons to pinch him. Thinking about it, he shouted outside, "Brother Cripple, come in and help the handle, I can't do it alone!" β
Wei Chiliang walked out of the bathroom and saw Qian Heng getting up from the bed awkwardly, without any dissatisfaction with the cleaning task that was suddenly arranged. Maybe it's because he has long been used to being called by Xu Sanbao's gang, or maybe it's because he expects that Wei Chiliang can't be suppressed by them. If they can't help this newcomer, they will be ridden on top of their heads by the newcomer, which is a very simple truth. In this world of the jungle, there is no such thing as first-come, first-served.
It is said that newcomers will be bullied when they arrive in a new environment, but they are just very weak newcomers. Wei Chiliang is obviously not in this category.
At this time, Xu Sanbao had already fallen asleep on the pillow, snoring like thunder, and it seemed that he would not trouble him for the time being. Wei Chiliang climbed into his bed with light movements, and finally had a chance to breathe.
It was September 3, 2015, the first day of the underground prison, and there were so many strange things that I was so tired that I couldn't even think. He slowly closed his eyes, not wanting to dream of anything again. Hopefully tomorrow when I wake up, it's all a nightmare.