Chapter 9 [Thanks to the Chemistry Teacher]
Compared with Chen Ze's speechless condensation, Andy's side was quietly proceeding.
Just like his character, Andy has always been a cold, no-go look, so no one knows what he's doing.
But Chen Ze had no doubts about his confidence and persistence.
Because in the movie, Andy has proven it for countless days and nights.
This is probably his unique character, he has a kind of inner peace, an unwavering confidence that the long nightmare will one day pass.
If it weren't for Chen Ze's intervention, he would have embarked on this road without hesitation, just like a fool moving mountains, and he didn't know when it would end.
This is also what Chen Ze admires most about Andy, who can't endure ordinary people, and can't do things to ordinary people.
Time flowed like water, and soon two months passed, and the sun on the sports field became extremely hot and impossible to look at directly.
But it is, spring has passed, and summer has arrived.
Life in prison is boring, and then every day is a routine, and finally it is like a mechanical life.
The rare seasoning every day is just the dust that Andy gets up early every day to put on the lights, and under the sports field, he unintentionally falls.
This brought some comfort to Chen Ze, who was a little impatient, and the progress was still there.
In the laundry room, the air began to become stuffy, like a huge steamer, and when I came out of it every day, my whole body seemed to be rolling in the mud, slimy, and extremely uncomfortable.
It's just that such days also changed in subsequent circumstances.
For a while, Andy made a fortune by copying stocks for a guard, thus blending into the guard's life and making him famous.
It can only be said that talented people will not be buried anywhere.
Andy's performance quickly attracted the attention of the prison warden Norton.
In the following time, he became an accounting assistant to the prison warden Norton, specializing in Norton's bookkeeping and exploiting loopholes to do things that could not be put on the surface.
And Chen Ze responded to his request and became Andy's assistant.
Every day, I sorted out the materials in the library, but I had three meals a day, and returned to the prison at night to rest.
The work was much easier, and if it weren't for the poor environment, he would have felt like he was back in school before.
It's just that there is still a problem that has not been solved, which makes Chen Ze frown.
Sorting out the materials in his hand, Chen Ze's eyes looked in the direction in front of him.
In two months, it was naturally impossible for Andy to dig a hole without progress, and when he inquired in the morning, it was already the size of two fists.
To be honest, Chen Ze couldn't be satisfied with this speed.
According to his progress, as well as the statement, it will take almost ten years, which is too long for Chen Ze.
It is long enough for a young man in his prime to enter the age of forty.
Not to mention completing the system's desired task, he was even afraid that he would be silently assimilated here.
In a year or two, he may be able to persevere, but he really can't imagine spending more than ten years here.
He couldn't accept this time at all.
From noon, until the sun went down, the library, which was occupied by the guards, finally relaxed and became empty.
Chen Ze put away the materials on the table, and then saw an old man walking over with a book.
This is Lao Bu, who manages the library, and because of his age, he was assigned to work in a library that does not exercise a lot.
His daily life consisted of feeding the crows he had picked up out of nowhere and recording the names of those who borrowed them.
"I searched the books on the shelves, and only this one was related to architecture."
Lao Bu walked over tremblingly, talked about a book and put it on the table in front of Chen Ze.
"If not, forget it!"
"There are still a lot of good books." Lao Bu grinned and laughed.
"No need."
Chen Ze refused with a smile on his face, what he wanted to find was something about construction or something, but how to quietly destroy concrete.
Lao Bu took the book and left, his steps trembling, as if a gust of wind was about to blow it down.
The old cloth in front of him has spent half his life in prison, which is too old.
This reminded Chen Ze of Lao Bu's final ending.
This old man has been here for half his life, and the daily changes outside are changing with each passing day, and he has adapted to life and the environment in prison.
Suddenly entering that huge society, the fish that undoubtedly wanted to live in the water suddenly jumped on the shore, and everything unfamiliar would suffocate the fish to death.
The ending of Lao Bu in the movie is already doomed.
Recalling this, watching Lao Bu stroking the crow chicks in his pocket, Chen Ze said casually, "Lao Bu, the crow's wings are plump, it's better to release them as soon as possible, otherwise you will starve to death if you are not used to the outside world!" ”
"Let's talk about it when we grow up! You see, how lively it is now. ”
Putting the crow on the windowsill, seeing the food in his hand, he fluttered his wings excitedly, and Lao Bu on the side watched the scene with a smile.
Chen Ze shook his head and didn't say anything.
Well?
Chen Ze retracted his gaze, and suddenly noticed that under the windowsill, there was a blackened mark, which was like a black wall skin that had been corroded by something.
His eyes were stunned for a moment, and then he thought of something, and his eyes became brighter and brighter.
He figured out how to speed up the wall.
Corrode!
Only corrosion can make concrete break silently.
And what can corrode and destroy, that is acid!
Whether it's sulfuric acid, nitric acid, or hydrochloric acid!
These things can react with concrete and destroy the structures in it.
Dangerous things like sulfuric acid and nitric acid were impossible to obtain, but there was one thing he had seen in the laundry room.
Dilute hydrochloric acid!
This is used in the laundry room to clean and dispose of dirt from the bottom of the machine.
For the first time, Chen Ze was somewhat grateful to the chemistry teacher in junior high school, and he decided to send a big bouquet of flowers to the chemistry teacher in high school when he went back.
Dilute hydrochloric acid is not a rare thing, as long as you have money, it is naturally very easy to get outside.
And here, it is not a simple matter to bring out such a can-sized bottle from the guards guarded by the laundry room.
In order to prevent prisoners from hiding illegal things, whether they enter the laundry room or go to the laundry room, they will be searched and checked.
Although it is not as big as when I first entered prison, I turned over my whole body, but something so big that I can't stuff it into that part like bringing some money from the outside.
Andy's power, Chen Ze also knows that he can stuff five chapters of a hundred dollar bills, but it doesn't mean that he can stuff such a can-sized bottle.
It's just that money is moving, as long as you take out money, you will always be able to get what you want.
On the way out of the library, Chen Ze and Andy told him about the feasibility of corroding cement with dilute hydrochloric acid, which surprised him and made him feel a little unspeakably happy.
This made Chen Ze understand that Andy may have made achievements in geology, but that thing is still very different from the things of the concrete construction department.
In the following time, Andy managed to get a little dilute hydrochloric acid to test it, and from the corners of his slightly upturned mouth, it could be seen that the results were particularly gratifying.
As for where he got it, it was still the old black man Rhett in a department store, and thanks to the imperfection of the system of this era, this Rhett claimed to be able to get everything except firearms.
Dilute hydrochloric acid has a pungent smell, but it is still much lighter than sulfuric acid, but in the prison cell that already exudes rancid sourness, the mixture is not very inconspicuous.
As for where to hide, it may have been a little troublesome before, but after Andy had dug two fist-sized pits behind the walls of the pictorial, it was not too difficult to hide a small bottle of dilute hydrochloric acid.