Predecessor Proverbs
Old One-Eye is actually not old, his actual age is estimated to be only in his early forties, but years of prison life make him look like an old man in his sixties. When the "adversity game" first appeared, the old one-eyed was once addicted to it, and he also reduced some sentences for himself, but as the saying goes, if you gamble for a long time, you will lose, and since then, his luck has deteriorated, and the sentence has increased instead of decreasing, so that it has swelled all the way to the hopeless situation he is in now. Old One-Eye finally despairs of this, and he no longer participates in the game, preferring to spend the rest of his life here like the walking dead.
"Any adversity game, it's all a lie." He said to Xiang Nanxing, "They just treat us like monkeys in the zoo, let us go dog eat dog, bite a mouthful of hair!" And those people were laughing at us from up there watching us struggle, and I wouldn't do that again! ”
He gritted his teeth, looking bitter and hateful. Xiang Nanxing slandered and said that this is probably only because you can't win. However, according to the old one-eyed, the game itself is indeed a serious disadvantage for the prisoner's side, after all, according to the rules, although the winner can profit from it, the total sentence of the contestant is increased.
To put it into account, this is a matter of chips. As mentioned above, this is a way for both parties to exchange their sentences for chips and decide the winner through various games within the limits set by the host. This is a bit like gambling, because the winning side gets chips from the losing side, while the loser suffers the penalty of losing chips. Theoretically, it is entirely possible for someone who has committed a serious crime and received an extraordinarily long sentence – like Xiang Nanxing – to leave prison alive in his lifetime, provided that he uses the game to win enough chips to offset his sentence while in prison.
Of course, the Xifeng Republic will not be stupid enough to give people the opportunity to launder this kind of crime in vain, or rather, as the dealer of the game, it must reap the benefits from it.
This benefit is reflected in the way chips are redeemed. In the game of adversity, although the ratio of exchanging the sentence for chips is one to one, it is not when the chips are exchanged for the sentence, and the latter has a very vivid saying among the prisoners, called "nine out of thirteen".
For example, if a person with a sentence of 100 years wants to participate in a game, he can redeem the chips used to participate in the game for 100 "years". When he won the game in the hands of an opponent who, like himself, was sentenced to a hundred years, and was rewarded with another hundred chips, he decided to exchange the chips for a reduced sentence.
At this time, he has a total of 200 chips in his hand, deducting 100 of the basic qualification, and the remaining 100 can be exchanged for the number of years of sentence reduction. But according to the regulations, this figure must be discounted by 90%, which means that he can only get a 90-year reduction in his sentence, and finally has 10 years left in his sentence.
And what about the side that is fighting him? Not only does this person have to continue to serve his 100-year sentence because he has lost 100 chips, but the 100-year lost must also be multiplied by a factor of 1.3 to become his increased sentence. That is, the person must eventually serve two hundred and thirty years in prison.
Of course, this is more advantageous for the prison side of the village, because the total sentence of the two people before the war was two hundred years, but after the war it became ten plus two hundred and thirty years, a total of two hundred and forty years, which is one-fifth more.
It stands to reason that not many people will play this risky game, but don't forget, this is a place that is beyond the norm. Many of the people who will enter here are outlaws at all, for them, the income from winning the game is very considerable even if it is a nine-percent discount, as for the punishment system of adding an additional three percent after losing, whatever, as long as he doesn't lose, is it?
Encouraged by this mentality, there will be adversity games in the prison from time to time. Although he has only been in for a week, Xiang Nanxing has already seen two or three such battle games. Sometimes a good game attracts a large number of prisoners, and it becomes like a gladiatorial arena in this prison. Presumably, the organizers of those games watched it with relish, and it's no wonder that Old One-Eye said that he looked like a monkey in a zoo.
The old one-eyed complained babblingly, while Xiang Nanxing listened quietly, occasionally picking up a few words. In the last few days, he had to go to the next cell every morning to listen to the old prisoner's story, and from this person's mouth, he finally had some preliminary understanding of this prison that was loose on the outside and tight on the inside. Even if the game of adversity sounds too risky, and there has never been a successful escape in the history of this prison, no matter which way, as long as there is hope of regaining freedom, Xiang Nanxing is willing to gamble.
This old one-eyed man was the second person he knew in prison who could barely be considered a friend, as for the first......
"Ah Xing, Ah Xing, let's eat."
There was a soft knock on the door outside, accompanied by a few timid cries like small animals. The corners of Xiang Nanxing's mouth unconsciously flushed a smile, fortunately he was still there. In the first three days of his imprisonment, he was afraid that he would not have survived even a day if he had not been accompanied by this sympathetic friend.
"Then I'll go, and I'll come back tomorrow to hear you tell you the rest of the story."
He quickly said goodbye to the old one-eyed, who gave him a complicated look and hesitated but nodded.
"It's coming, it's coming!"
Xiang Nanxing wiped his face and walked out with a smile on his face. A thin young man half a head shorter than him stood there, bowing his head and rubbing the corners of his clothes. His name is Xiao Leping, and he is two years older than Xiang Nanxing, but he looks like the younger one.
After getting along for the past few days, Xiang Nanxing knew that Xiao Leping was a very introverted and even a little cowardly, and he would go to prison because he was inadvertently involved in a huge fraud case led by his family and was convicted. As a result, now the families of those bastards are trying to get out, and he is the only one left in this prison, without relatives.
Being alone, young, thin, and introverted are the direct reasons why Xiao Leping was bullied in prison. If it weren't for the strict prohibition of all kinds of violence in this prison, I am afraid that those bullying would have intensified long ago. But after Xiang Nanxing came in, Xiao Leping's situation has been significantly improved, and the docile Xiao Leping became Xiang Nanxing's first and only friend in prison, and Xiang Nanxing, who has a bit of chivalry, also protects Xiao Leping a lot, and even if he is defeated when someone provokes trouble, he has to stand up for him, the two support each other, and gradually enhance their friendship while struggling in prison.
After all, in this chaotic place, if a person can't hold a group with others, I'm afraid that he won't be able to stay for a month.
"I'm glad you're here, Xing."
Xiao Leping lowered his head to eat breakfast, but his eyes still subconsciously fluttered left and right, guarding the movements around him. Xiang Nanxing sat opposite and looked at him, feeling both funny and distressed. When he first came in, he was probably not much older than himself, probably thinner than he is now, but how did he survive in the two years before he came here?
He was thinking about it, when he suddenly found that Xiao Leping's eating action on the opposite side stopped suddenly, and his eyes no longer moved, but aimed behind him, with a frightened expression on his face.
Xiang Nanxing turned his head, and a tall and thin man was already standing behind him at some point. The fluorescent lamp was above him, but the shadow cast by the body seemed to cover them.
"Yo, you're having a good time."
The man raised the corners of his mouth and smiled playfully.
Xiang Nanxing clenched the chopsticks in his hand, which was completely a knee-jerk reaction.
This man is like a snake, he has felt this way since he first met him. And after that, the strange deterrent power he had when he met everyone made Xiang Nanxing consolidate the association of this first impression. This man's favorite thing is to insult small animals that are much weaker than him, and Xiao Leping is undoubtedly the first choice among them.
"Luo Baichuan!" Xiang Nanxing gritted his teeth and said word by word, "You are not welcome here, please don't make trouble early in the morning!" ”
"Troublesome? You are mistaken. ”
The tall and thin man smiled again, spread out his hands and shrugged his shoulders: "Don't worry, I will definitely not do it today, I just want to discuss a problem with you." ”
Although he knew that it would not be a good thing, Xiang Nanxing still patiently asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"I've heard people say that you studied taekwondo in your spare time while studying? Already at the level of an amateur yellow belt? ”
Xiang Nanxing was a little puzzled when he heard this: "What do you want to say?" ”
Luo Baichuan said with a smile: "I came to ask you who are learning taekwondo a move, that is, the 'heel fall', is it like this?" ”
He speaks very fast, and his movements are just as fast. When he said "heel falling", he raised his foot high, and when he read "like this", the slender foot pressed down violently, like a long gray whip passing by Xiang Nanxing's side!
"You!"
This action was so fast that Xiang Nanxing, who was just an amateur yellow belt, didn't have time to react at all, so he could only subconsciously chase the afterimage. Luo Baichuan's kick was aimed in Xiao Leping's direction, but the target hit was a few inches shorter, and it was directly kicked on the rice plate in front of Xiao Leping. Most of the hot porridge and rice cereal that splashed in an instant fell on Xiao Leping's chest, and even Xiang Nanxing's face was splashed a lot. It was so hot that he couldn't help but scream, and it was conceivable how Xiao Leping reacted when he was splashed more.
"Luo Baichuan! You! ”
Xiang Nanxing slammed the table and stood up, raised his head and shouted angrily at Luo Baichuan. Although much smaller than the latter, Xiang Nanxing's posture is not flinching, if Luo Baichuan is a poisonous snake, then he is a young lion who has stepped forward, although he has not yet grown up, but he has his own majesty.
"Oh? What do you want? ”
Facing Xiang Nanxing's anger, Luo Baichuan just sneered and spread his hands. Although neither of them made a move, the atmosphere was instantly tense to the point of tension!
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