Chapter 1: Cinderella in the Cave (1)

Ai Ye opened his eyes, the bright moonlight poured in from the iron window overhead, the full moon came out of the clouds, Ai Ye secretly got up and tiptoed into the moonlight, the rusty iron shackles rubbed against the concrete floor, clanging and clanging. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info really rare...... There was a moon tonight, Ai Ye was very surprised, several dark and rainy days in a row, the air was so humid that it could wring out water.

She began to count the seconds silently in her mind.

Three...... Two...... One, get started!

"Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me......" the girl hummed softly, her fingers tapping lightly on her knees to the beat.

Tonight was her birthday, and she decided to celebrate it a little, and she had been planning for a long time for this little self-indulgence. I heard Sister Ella say that in the past era, birthdays were celebrated with birthday cakes and candles, but Ai Ye didn't know what a birthday cake was, and Sister Ella said that it was a sweet tooth, but Ai Ye didn't know what a sweet tooth was.

She had only eaten mice, all kinds of mice, boiled mice, fried mice, charcoal-grilled mice, and sometimes a little cockroach soup or something...... She only wished the cake was a little better than the cockroach soup, because the cockroaches were so salty.

“…… Happy birthday to me. When the birthday song ended, the girl clapped softly, and the moon re-entered the clouds.

She was sixteen years old.

In this place, it is very lucky and not easy to survive to the age of sixteen.

Ai Ye lifted the cover, and she hid two steamed buns under the quilt...... The cake and candles are gone, she decided to celebrate with steamed buns, the steamed buns were left to her by Sister Ella, and Sister Ella's mother left them to Sister Ella, I don't know how many people's hands have passed, although these two steamed buns have long been as hard as bricks, but after all, they are the best food here, so Ai Ye is very careful, if she is found by the monster who rounds the ward, then she will be miserable...... People who break the rules may be dragged into the operating room.

The girl was stunned for a moment, and then became a little angry.

A nest of rats was hidden in her quilt, and the two steamed buns were gnawed to the point that only half of them were left.

The food she was reluctant to eat was actually gnawed by rats.

She pounced on the quilt and shook the rats to the ground, and a nest of rats was disturbed and creaked and burrowed into the cracks in the wall.

Ai Ye shook her fist angrily, but she didn't dare to make a sound, which might lead the guards over.

The girl was very upset, she had been waiting for this day for weeks, and at night she curled up in the quilt and drooled over the steamed buns, and God knows how determined and persevering she had to endure and not eat them, and as a result, she fed them all to the mice.

The portion that was originally reserved for himself was stolen by mice, and Ai Ye had to give up the idea of celebrating her birthday and hide the remaining steamed buns.

Footsteps and heavy breathing suddenly sounded in the hallway outside the door.

The girl was startled, and hurriedly got into the quilt, covering her head, the quilt was so wet that it could wring out water, and it was crawling with mold, Ai Ye closed her eyes and shivered, she only cared about her birthday but ignored the time...... It's time for the guards to arrest people again.

Heavy footsteps rubbed the floor past the door, and the sound of clanging shackles.

The footsteps stopped outside Aiye's door, and the girl's heart tightened suddenly.

The guard outside the door let out a snoring sound that the girl didn't understand, and after a few moments, the footsteps resounded again, and the clanging shackles faded away.

In a moment, the sound of an iron door being pulled open was heard outside, and the roars of the guards and the desperate and bitter cries of a certain girl echoed through the corridors.

Ai Ye hugged the quilt and cried trembling all over, she curled up on the floor and buried her face in the quilt, not daring to make a sound, she knew that she had just brushed shoulders with death, somehow those monsters let herself go, just when the footsteps stopped in front of her door, Ai Ye's brain was blank, she thought she was dead.

She was relieved that she had escaped, but then a sense of guilt rose in her heart, and she had escaped bad luck, and in turn, someone else would suffer in her place.

That person will be dragged into the "operating room".

No one knew what was in the operating room, all they knew was that everyone who was dragged into the operating room never showed up again.

The last person to be dragged into the operating room was Sister Ella, who, unlike most people here, was a very optimistic and cheerful person, and she even taught Aiye to read and write, to write letters on the dirt floor with a tree branch, and to wipe off the handwriting with the soles of her feet when the guards approached.

Ai Ye's favorite is Sister Ella, who has beautiful blonde hair, and even in this kind of place where sewage is full of rats, she often has a fresh floral fragrance on her body.

As long as Sister Ella is there, she is not afraid of anything.

But Sister Ella was dragged into the operating room.

That night, Aiye almost wanted to rush out of the room and yell at the monsters to get their dirty hands away from Sister Ella, but she couldn't, she was so cowardly that she could only hide in her room and weep bitterly, covering her ears to not listen to the screams of the guards and the cries of her sister.

Every month, the guards pick one person to drag into the operating room, and everyone here faces such a fate...... I don't know when it will be my turn, they are like a group of death row prisoners in a cell, every time a prison guard comes in, they will be scared, for fear that they will come to carry themselves out for execution. Ai Ye didn't know how many people were locked up here...... Her range of activities is limited, even if she is free every day, she can only follow a fixed route, and there are iron doors on both sides of the corridor, and behind each iron door is a five-square-meter room, and there are people in each small room, including men, women, old and young.

Ai Ye doesn't know what kind of place this is, she has been in this small room since she can remember, Sister Ella is next door to her, I heard Sister Ella say, there is a master here, everything here belongs to that person, and the monster guards are also subordinates of that person, he is the king of this world, very, very powerful, but Ai Ye has never seen this king, and Ella has never seen it, and Ella heard it from an older old man.

Ai Ye has never gone out, the only place she can see the outside world is the small iron window on the wall, looking out from this window, you can see layers of high-rise buildings, listen to Sister Ai La, outside is a very big city, the outside world is very big, there are cities, villages, mountains, rivers, deserts and seas.

Sister Ella said that the sea is beautiful, and there is no boundless blue.

But Sister Ella has never seen the sea, she only learned what the world looks like from books, so the two girls are determined to escape from here and see the sea together.

It took them months to figure out the guards' movements, draw detailed maps, and devise elaborate plans for their escape, but the night before they decided to act, Sister Ella was captured.

Since then, only Ai Ye has been left alone.

Ai Ye thought about committing suicide, but if even she died, then no one could fulfill the wishes of these two girls.

She decided to escape by herself, those steamed buns were food, she didn't know if the food was enough for her to reach the beach, but as long as she got out, there would always be a way.

The sound outside the door gradually fell silent, and Ai Ye opened her eyes.

The time she chose to escape from prison was tonight.