The first prison of the Nine Prisons is a place called the "Command of the Spring".

Because there are very few prisoners in this prison, no more than 30 men and women combined, and all the prisoners are in one cell and are not allowed to go out all year round, this is the only prison level among the nine prisons that does not distinguish between men and women.

Kageori, just locked up here.

The cell in which she was staying was a standard single room ordered by the Springs: the walls of the cell were made of pure alloy, and the only way to ventilate the room was a book-sized fence window above the door. In the room, there is a mattress, a washbasin; In an L-shaped space separated by a 140-centimeter-high baffle, there is also a flush toilet.

Perhaps in the eyes of most people, such a room is too simple to be more shabby, but for a prisoner, this is simply the treatment of a Huahao hotel.

A soft mattress, water for washing, a clean toilet, and the most basic privacy ...... These things that we are accustomed to on a daily basis are unavoidable and unattainable in a place like a prison.

Compared with the other eight prisons, being able to be locked up here can indeed be regarded as a kind of "preferential treatment".

However, Kageori wasn't locked up here because of the few words of "care" in the file, she was originally defined as a "first-class prisoner" to come here.

Many people think that the Nine Prisons will decide which prison they will be held in according to the "ability level of the prisoners", but in fact, it is not true, the real criterion for distinguishing is - "the degree of threat to the Federation of prisoners".

As long as you are a high enough threat to the Federation, even if you are an ordinary person without any special abilities, you will still be imprisoned in this prison of the Secret Spring.

Therefore, even though Kageori was only a contemporaneous ability, she still enjoyed this highest level of detention.

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December 9th, sometime.

"Feeling...... You're almost at your limit. ”

In the drowsiness, such a sentence suddenly reached Kashiori's ears.

Although her whole body was weak and dizzy, Kageori's mind was still clear, and she knew it wasn't a hallucination.

Kageori turned her head to look in the direction the voice came from, the small fence window above the cell door, and said, "Who's talking?" ”

"Who else? Your 'neighbor'. The man replied almost without thinking.

Kageori hesitated for a few seconds before she stood up and staggered closer to the cell door.

A few seconds later, she came to the door, stood on tiptoe slightly, leaned against the cell door, and looked out through the small fence window.

Outside the window, there was a corridor horizontally, and the lights in this corridor were on twenty-four hours a day, and the lights in the cells were all based on the light of the corridor that came in through the small window; In addition to the lights, the corridor is also equipped with a large number of high-definition intelligent monitoring probes, even if a fly flies out of the cell door, it will be immediately detected.

At this point, Kageori noticed that a face had also appeared above the "opposite door" across the corridor from her; The owner of the face was looking out through the railing, just like her.

"Are you...... What the? Kageori's vision was a little blurry, but she was still sure...... The brother opposite him didn't look like a human being at all.

"It's rude, little girl." "Even if I look a little strange, since I can have a general conversation with you about intelligent beings, you should at least ask 'who'." ”

"Hmm......" Kageori groaned, "I'm sorry......" she felt that the other party's words made sense, "Who are you?" ”

"My real name can't be said accurately in your language, so let's take a homonym and roughly pronounce 'Nini'." "I'm sure you've seen that I'm not human, in a way you can quickly understand...... I'm an alien. ”

Nini's appearance was indeed curious, and although he only showed one face at this moment, the bone-like skin, scattered features, and hair that was thick like dreadlocks were enough to distinguish him from humans.

"You're a Predator?" The next second, Kashiori blurted out such a question.

"It's not." Nini replied crisply, and after answering, he explained, "Hmm...... The people who used to live in your cell asked me the same question when they first met me, and explained to me what a Predator was, anyway...... I'm not. ”

"Whew......" Kageori exhaled, "Okay...... Nini, although I would also like to continue the conversation with you with the opening sentence of 'What is the purpose of your coming to Earth?' I really don't have that energy now, so if you don't have any important things, let me go back and lie down for ......a while."

With that, she left the cell door and walked slowly towards the mattress.

"You can eat with just a word." Nini's words were like a hand on Kageori's shoulder, pulling the latter back alive.

Hearing the word "eat", Kageori took three steps and two steps before turning back to the prison door, his eyes wide open, staring at the alien on the other side like a ghost, "What do you mean?" ”

Her reaction was understandable, as she hadn't eaten anything since the day she was imprisoned.

Every day for six days, Kageori could hear the sound of prison guards pushing carts loaded with food through the corridors; However, the guards never opened the food delivery door in her cell (which is located under the door, which is usually closed and can only be opened from the outside), and each time they skipped her room.

This was undoubtedly deliberate, and Kageori could probably guess that this was what Deputy Prison Warden Sara meant.

Kashiori wasn't surprised by this - since people wanted to give her a dismount, she just had to bear it, wasn't she hungry? Can you still lose weight, you don't necessarily have to go without food all the time, right?

The idea...... It lasted about three days.

Since the fourth day, she has only drunk tap water for several days, and she has experienced some physical and psychological changes.

The most obvious thing is that her senses have become acute; Even though the low blood sugar made her dizzy, her hearing, smell, and intuition ...... have become extremely powerful.

At that time, when the food truck passed by the door of her cell, she could even smell what was going on today.

After another day, her mood became irritable, and several times she tried to eat the roll of toilet paper on the toilet tank, but eventually she restrained herself.

Furious, she first greeted Sarah's ancestors for the eighteenth generation in her heart, and then thought of Zilin......

"Why should I suffer here? Is it because you kid gave me a promise that I may not keep? If you dare to lie to me, see how I clean up your ......" and other thoughts lingered in her mind.

She wants to use sleep to keep herself from hunger, but too much sleep can also hurt her body.

In this way, today, that is, on the sixth day, Kageori's goal of losing weight can be regarded as accomplished...... Now her whole person is shaped, collarbones, and her complexion is extremely poor.

In the early stage of feeling hungry, the human body will first consume sugar in the body, followed by liver glycogen, and when the hunger accumulates to a considerable extent, the human body will begin to "eat" its own fat and protein, which is why dieting and losing weight will bring damage to the liver and immune system.

Kageori ...... There is no doubt that she has already reached this stage, and she is not fat, and she does not have much fat to consume, and she is already hovering on the verge of starvation.

"What I mean is that if you stop the guard as he passes by the door and say that you haven't eaten in days, the guard will give you your share." Nini's reply sounded incredibly simple.

"Heh......" Kageori smiled, smiling wryly, "You're really an alien...... How could it be so easy? ”

"Possibly." Unexpectedly, Nini said with confidence, "If you don't believe it, you can try it in a while." ”

With that, Nini left the cell door and retreated into the shadows of his room.

Kageori stood in disbelief for a moment, didn't say anything more, and then retreated without saying a word.

About an hour later, it was time to deliver the food.

Kashiori could clearly hear the sound of prison guards walking down the hallway, opening the delivery openings, taking out the plates, and handing in the food one by one.

In fact, she could already tell the distance between the cells from the sound......

Squeak Squeak –

This time, when the cart stopped in front of her door and the guards bent down to deliver food to Nini's cell, Kageori walked to the cell door and said through the fence window of the door, "Hey, do you have my share today?" ”

The prison guard was not surprised at what she said, but slowly turned his head and glanced at her, and then, through the mask of the full-length armor, said in a tone without any emotional fluctuations: "Huh? Is there anyone in this cell? I thought it was empty.,Sorry.,Missed it.。 ”

As she spoke, she opened the delivery port in Kageori's cell and brought a lunch inside.

"Remember to hand over what you've eaten the next time you deliver food." After closing the food delivery port, the prison guard left such a sentence lightly, and pushed the cart on.

At that moment, Kageori lowered her head and looked at the plate of food at her feet with a puzzled expression.

As Nini said, she just asked, and the other party gave her the food, but she always felt that something was wrong.

After standing there for ten seconds, she figured it out.

Then, in a fit of rage, she kicked the plate out of the way.

Actually, this whole thing is not complicated...... The sentence of the prison guard, which sounded very redundant, was a reminder......

How could a prison guard ignore a new inmate in a cell with only such a small number of people in total? How could food be missed?

Therefore, the prison guard's refusal to bring her food must have been instructed by Sarah, the deputy prison director.

But even Sara did not dare to blatantly disobey the wishes of the federal leadership, since the file said "as long as it is within the rules, please treat it as preferentially as possible", then she has to give it preferential treatment.

Therefore, if Sara wants to weave the whole picture, she must find a different way......

Fortunately, as the deputy prison warden, there is always a way to take advantage of loopholes and make a mistake; It's like the current thing, judging from the results, even if Kageori has a way to react to the outside world about what happened to him, and hold it to the end...... It's just the "negligence" of a prison guard, no matter how big you make a fuss, at most the prison guard will be dismissed.

Even if everyone knew in their hearts that Sara was doing the trick, she wouldn't have to take any responsibility.

If Kageori held on without saying a word, even if she starved to death, she would die in vain, and people could still say that she was on a hunger strike herself; And now that she's spoken...... There was rice, but invisibly, she "admitted defeat" and "compromised".

"Don't be angry, anger won't solve anything." A few seconds later, Nini's voice came from the cell opposite, "The more angry you are, the more proud you become." At this point, he made a few strange chewing sounds from his mouth, which was very different from the movement of humans eating, and he didn't know what he was eating, "I didn't tell you how to eat in advance, but waited until you were almost broken...... I just want to see how long you can endure it, and ...... It depends on whether you can remain calm and rational when you are 'close to the limit'. ”

"Hmph...... I'm really sorry for you. Kageori replied coldly.

"Not necessarily." Nini replied as he chewed something, "When you first react, anyone will be angry, the key is ...... What will you do next. ”

His words really calmed down Kageori a lot.

After speaking, Kashiori stood there again and thought for a moment, and then, as if she had made up her mind, she suddenly sat down cross-legged.

She sat on the metal floor, and with a vicious expression, grabbed the food that had been knocked over all over the floor with her bare hands, and shoved it into her mouth one bite at a time.

"Hehe......" After a while, Nini's laughter came from above the door, "That's right...... You're at least a lot smarter than the last guy you were locked up here. ”