Liangshan, latitude 27°54′19", longitude 101°48′46"E".

If it weren't for the organization's secrets in advance, no one would have imagined that there was an artificially built research base hidden deep in this deserted, pristine and secluded mountain forest, and nearly 100 people lived here for a long time. They relied on supplies from the outside world to make ends meet, and continued their unfinished experiments in the underground prison.

When they first entered the Liangshan site and built the first experimental base, the underground prison, the leaders of the organization had already left a way out for themselves. While building the underground prison, they built a backup research institute on the other side of the mountain, thinking that if the prison was unusable one day, they could move here to continue their research.

Compared to the underground prison, Research Institute 2 is slightly less complex in size and design. However, as a backup base, it can fully meet their requirements in terms of function.

The institute is mainly composed of three major spaces:

The basement floor is the logistics area, which is used to store daily necessities, and the diet and daily life of the members of the organization have basically been solved on this floor. When the research base was transferred from the underground prison, the number of members of the group was greatly reduced. Because there is no longer a need for as many prison guards and guards to guard the prisoners, there are now only 16 support staff stationed here with them. Others either took a large amount of hush money and went off to start a new life, or they didn't even know that the organization had another research base.

The second basement floor is where the prisoners are kept. Unlike the previous underground prisons, this is not an open "Colosseum", with no huge atrium or a real workshop. The entire second floor is just a regular rectangular space, with forty cells of the same size distributed in an orderly manner on both sides, separated by a corridor more than three meters wide.

The cells were originally designed for four people, with two bunk beds in each room and a separate bathroom. However, after the unexpected prison riot, excluding the prisoners who successfully escaped from prison and were killed in the middle of the prison, there are now only 65 prisoners left here (from October last year to now, there are still prisoners who have died one after another due to drug side effects), so all the four-person rooms have become two-person rooms, and there are a few prisoners who live alone due to special circumstances.

After the experiment was revealed, the inmates learned about their current situation and knew that the place they were in was actually a fake prison. And their captors are just like them, they are out-and-out criminals, and their crimes are even several times worse than theirs.

Now that the worst has been reached, there is no need for the people of the organization to continue pretending. They simply put their secret plans on the surface, not minding the prisoners that this is a research institute and that all the people who are imprisoned are test subjects to be observed. Prisoners are not allowed to leave their cells under the close supervision of prison guards, except for research needs, and all their daily activities are to be settled in cells of less than 10 square meters.

No chance of leaving the cell means no chance of escape. Even in a real prison, life is no worse than here. They have no prison sentences, and every day feels like they are locked up. They knew what the future awaited them, but no one was willing to give that terrible answer.

In fact, everyone who lives here has already been sentenced to death. It's just that it's not the law that controls their fate, but a bunch of crazy people who can do anything for money and honor.

The third basement floor is the research center. As before, it is closed to anyone other than researchers. Together with the researchers and medical staff, the core team of 14 people who have persevered to carry out the experimental project to the end no matter what.

In other words, there are currently 16 support staff, 65 detainees and 14 core members in Institute II, for a total of 95 people.

After lunch, Xiao Shi lay on the bed boredly, humming a song while looking at the top bed board in a daze. More than half a year has passed, and he will always inadvertently think of the "Great Escape" that he witnessed and experienced in person on that morning last fall.

Early that morning, when several prison guards forcibly dragged Wei Chiliang out of cell No. 4, he had a vague premonition that something terrible was about to happen. At that time, he had no idea that the prison boss Shen Hang had secretly planned the collective escape of prisoners many days ago, and set the time for the action at half past six that morning.

As Wei Chiliang's little follower, it was a matter of course that Shen Hang did not disclose this plan to him. Not only him, but Liu Jinpeng and Brother Cripple, who also live in Cell No. 4, have also been kept in the dark. Therefore, when the two hundred prisoners gathered in the public hall on the fourth floor and were about to go to the cafeteria for breakfast, the sudden collective riot really surprised the three of them.

The lame brother has inconvenient legs and feet, and he can neither fight nor run fast, so he naturally does not dare to act rashly when he encounters such a thing. Xiaoshi couldn't figure out the situation for a while, and wanted to wait and see before making plans. He wanted to find someone to ask what was going on, but in that chaotic situation, people didn't bother to talk to him.

Only Liu Jinpeng has a clever brain. That guy didn't care why the prisoner suddenly seemed to go crazy, and even took the initiative to attack the prison guards, but he saw a glimmer of life in the chaotic situation. Indeed, taking advantage of the chaos to escape from the underground prison seemed to be a feasible way at the time, Xiao Shi also used his crooked brain for a moment, and almost followed Liu Jinpeng out of Area X, but he was timid by nature and did not dare to step out of the closed door in the end.

For prison escape, Xiaoshi is not as obsessed as Liu Jinpeng. When he first heard that Liu Jinpeng escaped from prison with Wei Chiliang and Shen Hang, he felt that he didn't have the courage to do such a thrilling thing.

The riots intensified, with prisoners fleeing and people dying in the melee. Little Stone and Cripple, as well as some other prisoners who were weaker or slower, were the first to be subdued by the prison guards, and they were also lucky enough to "survive".

Of course, those who managed to escape were enviable, but considering the prisoners who were killed in the middle of the way, Xiao Shi did not regret the decision he made. It wasn't until he learned the truth about Shen Hang's organization of the riot and the fate he would face next from other prisoners that he hated his cowardice and cowardice.

At that time, it was death to be beaten, and it was death to stay and wait for death. Long pain is better than short pain, why didn't he give it a go? Why did you miss the only chance to regain your freedom?

In the morning, the prison administrators transferred the remaining prisoners.

They were transferred from one prison to another, the same secret place hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, the same dark underground buildings. The difference is that in the new prison, they will no longer have any free time, but will be confined to a small cell, completely reduced to a prisoner of the organization.

From that day on, Xiao Shi never saw Yu Chiliang and Shen Hang again. Some say that the two men were killed by prison guards during the prison riot, while others say that Wei Chiliang and Shen Hang both managed to escape from prison. They can't verify which statement is true. It's just that without those two leader-level figures, how are the rest of them going to get out of this damn fate?

Thinking of this, Little Stone once again felt a deep sense of despair. He stared at the black bed board above, as if there was some martial arts secret book engraved there, which could help him escape from this ghost place.

Seeing that the little stone suddenly stopped moving, the lame man sat up from the bed opposite and asked tentatively, "Stone, are you asleep?" ”

Xiao Shi's expression was so focused that he didn't hear anyone calling him. The cripple shouted at him twice, and he came back to his senses from some unrealistic fantasy, turned his head to look at the cripple, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong, cripple brother?" ”

The lame man sighed leisurely, touched his eyes, and said, "My right eyelid has been beating since this morning, and I always feel as if something is going to happen today." ”

"What can happen to this boring place?" Little Stone also sat up from the bed and peered out through the iron railing. "Those gods in the prison are gone, who do you think will give us a big surprise like before?"

"I didn't mean that ......" the cripple smiled wryly, knowing what surprise the little stone was referring to. I just have a hunch that there may be a bloody disaster today, and we are afraid that we will die here again. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Shi pursed his lips boredly and said, "Brother Cripple, we have inexplicable dead people here every once in a while, and we all have this kind of premonition!" ”

"But ......"

"Forget it, don't think about it so much. As long as we live well, maybe one day......" At this point, the voice of the little stone stopped abruptly. He got up and walked to the iron gate, listened to the movement outside with bated breath, then looked at the cripple in horror and asked, "Did you hear any strange sounds just now?" ”

"What's the sound?" The cripple froze for a moment, while pricking up his ears to carefully distinguish the noise outside.

"It seems to be...... Yes! Not again! Little Stone trembled with fright, and his hands involuntarily clenched into two fists.

At this time, the lame man also heard the voice. He limped to the iron gate and stood side by side with the stone. Through the railing, he noticed that the prisoners living on the opposite side were also attracted by the harsh sound.

The voice seemed to be coming from above. The people here are all too familiar with that voice.

That's right, it must have been gunshots.