If there's one place in Itgleason that is loved by the whole planet and has all the beauty in one, it must be White Rock City.

Small bridges and flowing water, green mountains and fertile soil, beasts and horses. The surroundings of White Rock City do not have a sense of technology in the interstellar era at all, and some are just gifts from nature. Crisscrossed by well-developed waters, dotted with a variety of crop fields, like crystalline gems, make the surroundings of White Rock City full of life. Three or five children were playing in the stream, and their parents were driving the horses and horses characteristic of Itgleeson to plough the fields. These mild-mannered beasts are as powerful as farm machinery, making them popular around White Rock City. Eat less, dry more, perfect agricultural livestock.

But, as the saying goes, God is fair, and he has given Itgrison White Rock City such a perfect fertile land full of natural breath, but there is also a place like the Sen Luo Ghost Domain, which is the Black Rock Prison.

Blackstone Prison was established by Xie Shiqi after Morningstar left Itgleason. The original intention of the Blackstone Prison was to imprison the star thieves who harassed Itgleason, but as the population of Itgleason increased, more and more lurkers, conspirators who tried to overthrow the Itgleason regime, and infiltrators of the Manifest Destiny Sect were also thrown into the Blackstone prison. And, as the old saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. There are more people, there are more contradictions, and the situation has stabilized, and ItGleeson, who has stabilized, is no longer as united as it was when it was first established, and from time to time there will be people who want to take shortcuts, or can't control their desires, and violate Itgleason's immature laws. In desperation, Xie Shiqi won Leighton's consent to expand the Blackstone Prison on a large scale.

The location of the Blackstone Prison is known as the Forest of Death on Itgleason. This forest is full of swamps, poisonous plants, and aggressive animals. In the early days of the development of White Rock City, workers used to go to the Death Forest to collect timber for construction, resulting in a large number of injuries, and if it was not for timely rescue, I am afraid that dozens of lives would have died as a result. Later, after Xie Shiqi took control of Itgleason, he also organized a cleanup, but the effect was very poor, and manpower fell to a low peak in the confrontation with nature. However, this time the cleanup was not without results, and a road was not very wide from the edge of the deep forest to the depths. The swampy island deep in the forest has become what is now the Blackstone Prison.

Blackstone Prison is very well guarded, but it will be very difficult to escape. There was only one safe path to the Forest of Death, and that was the one that Xie Shiqi had opened up with the army at that time. There are sentry posts every few tens of meters on this road now, and the firepower of the sentry is very strong, and the aggressive beasts in the Death Forest will not survive more than two seconds under this kind of fire, and they will be torn to pieces, let alone the escaped prisoners.

Even if the escapees are able to evade the watch, the beasts that are eyeing the sentry will prepare a grand hunt for them

Killing feast. Even if you are lucky enough to escape from the claws and fangs of the beast, there are countless swampy mires on the road ahead, and poisonous weeds and poisonous insects are waiting for you. Even if all the dangers have been avoided, there is still an identity test with an error rate equal to zero in the civilization system of ItGleason. In short, anyone who lives on ItGleason knows that once you enter the Blackstone Prison, the only way out is to honestly accept reform and become a new person, otherwise, it will be a dead end. What's more, there was that man in the Blackstone prison, the man who had a strict sense of justice in the legend, the man who was black and white in his world, the man who was called a madman, called Magellan. 【…！.iqiwx ￥… Better, newer, faster]

As for Magellan, the Morning Star had only heard about it after returning to It-Gleeson this time. Morning Star didn't know how such a guy got into Xie Shiqi's sight, and he didn't know how Xie Shiqi could entrust such a bad deed to the exile. The name Magellan, for the people of the Dead Water District, is definitely a terrifying existence that can stop children crying at night.

Morningstar remembers that when he was only a teenager, Leighton had mentioned the name Magellan on one occasion when he was hiding under a table and listening to Layton and one of his men discuss important matters. At that time, Leighton's exact words were like this: Magellan's existence is both a blessing and a misfortune for the republic. At that time, Morningstar did not understand the meaning of Layton's words, in the eyes of the teenager, the world was also a single color, either good or bad. But as Morning Star grew older and more experienced, he became more and more aware that in addition to black and white, there was also a color called gray in this world. At the same time, Morningstar also began to understand Leighton's evaluation of Magellan at the beginning.

The reason why it is said that the republic is lucky to have Magellan is because a person like Magellan has absolutely firm convictions in his heart, and let him deal with those heinous criminals, and will definitely make these criminals regret doing things that violate the law. Magellan did the same, starting as a small police station operator in the Dead Mercury District, and became famous for solving countless cases along the way, but at the same time, many people criticized him for being too aggressive in handling cases, often resulting in near-death injuries to prisoners. However, Magellan turned a deaf ear to these criticisms, continued to go his own way, and gradually received a title that belonged only to him - absolute justice. I don't know what the intention of the first person to use this title was Magellan, but among the people who later popularized this title, there were definitely people who satirized Magellan. However, even with his wisdom, Magellan still enjoyed the title, which he considered an expression of his beliefs and decided to stick to it. In the years that followed, what Layton called misfortune happened. Magellan's iron-blooded behavior affected more and more people because of the expansion of the people he came into contact with, and at its worst time, it caused panic among the general population. People don't know when they will provoke Magellan's wrath because of their unintentional mistakes. During that time, the Dead Mercury Sector was both commoners and nobles, even if it was high

The high-ranking officials were trembling, afraid that one day Magellan and his minions would find him. Once it is ordered by Magellan, I am afraid that even the braids of any girl who has been pulled by the microclimate will be investigated.

No one is clear, and everyone has their own secrets. The difference is that after some secrets are revealed, it will only make a person maintain their image and be damaged, while some secrets will bring bloody rain once they see the light.

Magellan may have been this jealous and hateful character, or he may have been enjoying the feeling of holding someone else in the palm of his hand. At a time when everyone regarded him as a beast of prey, not only did he not restrain himself, but instead intensified it, organized an inventory of incumbent officials, and used force in the course of the operation, resulting in a large number of casualties.

In that short period of more than a month, the administrative system of the entire Dead Water District was almost paralyzed, and everyone was in danger, where would they still have the heart to do things. Since ancient times, the political circle of the republic has been like this, if you want to do things, you can't be pure and pure, otherwise the other party will think that you are not easy to contact. And Magellan doesn't care about this, the law is the law, no matter who he is, as long as he goes beyond the west of the thunder pool, he will deal with it seriously. It was in this context that Magellan's struggle with the political circles of the then Dead Mercury Zone began.

In fact, in Morningstar's view, Magellan is still very heroic, at least in the Dead Mercury area, this experience is the color of a lonely hero, and he resists the bureaucrats of the entire Dead Mercury region with his own strength, although in detail, it is all because of Magellan's radical way of doing things, which led to this situation, but Morningstar just thinks he is a hero.

But then again, feeling is feeling, Morningstar can still handle this emotion very well, for example, after hearing that Magellan was appointed by Xie Shiqi as the warden of Blackstone Prison, Morningstar immediately rushed to Blackstone Prison non-stop.

Spooky? There is no such atmosphere at all. After Morning Star and his party entered the Blackstone Prison, they were shocked to find that it was a thriving scene. The prisoners on the square stood in a neat line, singing some songs that the morning star didn't understand very well, and the spirit was completely devoid of the previous ferocity, let alone the decadence that could be passed.

"Come here! You! ”

Morningstar waved angrily to a uniformed guard not far away and shouted.

The guard hurried to Morning Star's side, stood upright, saluted, and then replied in a loud voice: "Report to the chief, Private Li Ming is waiting for dispatch." ”

Morningstar, still with a dark face, asked, "What are those people doing?" Are you usually idle? Still have time to sing? ”

Li Ming looked at the crowd singing over there, then at Morning Star, seemed to understand something, stood up and saluted again, and replied: "Report sir, if you think those people are prison staff, I'm afraid you're going to disappoint you, they are just prisoners." ”

"What? Prisoner? Morning Star looked at the soldier and said, "The prisoner is in such a good mental state? Is my Blackstone prison treating them as VIPs? ”

soldier

Saluted again, and replied: "Report to the chief, they are singing songs that cleanse the mind at the request of Warden Magellan!" ”

"Don't be, singing can turn the wicked into the good? Isn't that the big singer Xie Shiyu the biggest cult leader under the stars? Morning Star waved his hand, not paying attention to Xie Shiqi's slightly frowning brow beside him.

Just after Morning Star raised his arm, he couldn't put it down anymore, and then followed by Morning Star's slap on his forehead, and the expression on his face became a little strange, even crying and laughing.

The women who followed Morning Star didn't understand what was wrong with Morning Star, the change from being a teacher to crying and laughing was too fast.

Norin Hill timidly pulled Morningstar's sleeve and asked with some concern, "Master, what's wrong with you, why did it suddenly become so strange?" ”

Morning Star took his hand off his forehead, hugged Norin Hill into his arms, and bit Norin Hill's pointed ear with a forced smile and said, "Little Norlin, do you know, this Magellan is really a bit interesting, and he actually uses such a method to engage in ideological education work. ”

"Ideological education work? What is that? Norin Hill didn't know what the so-called ideological education meant, and asked with a puzzled expression.

Chenxing didn't rush to explain, and said to Bai Yi, who was being pushed by Wei vigorously and sitting in a wheelchair, "Brother Tianyi, can you hear what they are singing?" ”

Bai Baiyi scratched his head, thought for a long time and replied: "I don't know this very well, but I always feel that their songs are full of worship for a certain person or a certain force." ”

Xie Shiqi rarely laughed out loud in front of outsiders, and that intoxicating smile stunned many people.

"Shiqi, you know?" Morning Star was also attracted by Xie Shiqi's smile, but his concentration was obviously much stronger than others, after all, Xie Shiqi was his woman.

Xie Shiqi nodded and replied, "Do you want me to explain?" ”

Morningstar nodded.

Xie Shiqi raised her voice lightly and said, "Do you know the mental state of people who fought for the country in the early days of the establishment of the republic? ”

"I've heard of it, but it's been too long. If I'm not mistaken, it happened on the home planet, Earth, right? ”

Morningstar nodded and replied, "Magellan, Magellan, you are really a talent, let the prisoners sing Dongfang Hong, it's really a shame that you think of it!" ”

"Dongfang Hong?"

"Dongfang Hong?"

Everyone spoke almost in unison, followed by hearty laughter, and it was clear that everyone had heard of the song.

"That's it!" Morning Star waved his hand again and said, "Let's go, let's go and meet this master of the Thought Realm!" ”

……

The environment inside Blackstone Prison is not bad, at least in Morningstar's opinion, so that it will not be singled out by human rights groups. But the existence of Magellan is a huge unsettling factor.

Morningstar met Magellan in a torture room, a legendary figure worthy of the legend about him. The physiognomy is ordinary

The countenance of a man in the Republic belongs to the kind of person who can kill dozens of people with a brick, but this guy's figure lacks terrifying recognition. With a height of two meters and two or three, he is as thick as a thunder beast, and he is afraid that he can fit the whole storm bear into it. His face was fleshy, but his neck was surprisingly short, and if he looked from behind, Magellan's head could at most peek out of a third of his thick shoulders. Magellan's arms were unusually thick and somewhat out of proportion to human proportions, appearing too long, and the torso was equally long, in stark contrast to the two short but unusually thick lower limbs. Morningstar had no doubt that if Magellan were to put on his hood and throw it into the crowd, nine times out of ten people would think that it was a tall guy and not a human, but just some humanoid race.

Morningstar's first meeting with Magellan was unpleasant, as Magellan did not take Morningstar, the Lord of Itgleason, into his eyes at all.

"You're the Morning Star?"

Magellan took off the gloves that were stained with the blood of the prisoners, and then ordered his men to take away the prisoners who had been beaten and had no human appearance.

Morning Star didn't care much about Magellan's attitude, his eyes focused on the prisoner who was soft like noodles, stopped the two guards, and said, "Dead? ”

The soldiers with the prisoners on either side of the "dong" stood up and saluted, as a result, the prisoner fell to the ground, the soldier looked down, then stood up straight again, and replied, "Report!" Not dead! ”

Morningstar nodded and asked, "What charge?" ”

The soldier glanced at Magellan, and when he saw that the other party did not react, his tone became hesitant. Morningstar squinted at the guards in displeasure and said, "Do you remember who you are?" ”

The guard looked very nervous, but still replied loudly, "Report to the sir!" I'm a member of the Rock Squadron, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Army, Itgleason Surface Defense Force! ”

"Do you remember you were a soldier of Iter Gleason? I thought you were this guy's personal guard? Morningstar reached into his pocket, pulled a cigarette from his pocket, tossed it into his mouth, and used his elemental mimicry to create a flame on his finger and lit the cigarette.

The soldier's face flushed from the morning star's training, and after a moment he reacted and shouted, "Report to the sir!" The crime committed by this person is called attempted assault on a woman and attempted murder! ”

Morningstar spat out a smoke ring, walked over to the prisoner and kicked it lightly. The prisoner lying on the ground was unresponsive. Morningstar glanced back at the guards and said, "How did you convict?" ”

The guard replied: "Captured on the spot!" ”

"Pleaded guilty?" Morningstar asked again.

"Yes! And this person is a repeat offender, both the Alliance and New Charles have wanted warrants, we have already compared the genetic information, but there is no doubt about this person! The guard said that he would use his personal terminal to show Morning Star the wanted warrant for his genetic comparison certificate, Morning Star shook his hand, took off the gun from the guard, opened the safe, and said lightly: "I don't look at those, you just need to tell me, if you kill a good person by mistake, are you willing to pay for your life?" ”

Morningstar's words made the soldier fall into a stupor, and he didn't know what to do for a while

How to answer. Bai Yi, who was beside Morning Star, opened his mouth to say something, but was directly interrupted by Morning Star.

The young warrior's body was trembling, although Morningstar had always been very easy-going with the warriors under him, but this time, everyone found out that Morningstar was serious. Although the little soldier was worried, he still mustered up his courage and shouted: "If you are wrong! I exchange my life for my life! ”

"Bang!" After a gunshot, the criminal on the ground ceased to be in pain, and after a few convulsions, he stopped moving.

Looking at the stunned little warrior, Morning Star stepped forward and returned the gun to the little warrior, and said with a smile: "Be confident, what kind of thing is he, exchanging lives with my warrior?" ”

"This, this—" The little warrior was shocked and speechless.

"Remember, you are the pride of Itgleeson, and the life of this kind of scum is not worthy of being exchanged with you." Morning Star waved his big hand and was about to leave with the crowd, but before leaving, Morning Star suddenly stopped and said, "Of course, these words are only valid for my warriors, if someone has ulterior motives, then I don't mind killing him myself." ”

(End of chapter)