29. Death and New Life (1)
The Roman soldier Vanus felt like he was going crazy!
It seemed as if a full hundred years had passed, and he had finally regained consciousness from his deepest coma and barely woke up.
Then, opening his hazy and dry eyes, it took a while for Vanus to gradually adjust to the light of his environment, and when he looked around, he found that although he was still wearing the strange bright orange clothes, at least the black cloth hood covering his head had finally been removed.
However, before Vanus could rejoice in seeing the light again, he was shocked to find that the surroundings seemed strange.
- Contrary to what the guards had told him before, he was not summoned by Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, or even seen the grandeur of the palace and courtyard, but was held in a small, dark cell. Although the ropes that bound his hands and feet had been untied, they had been replaced with two heavier iron shackles, making it difficult for him to even move.
Where the hell is this? How will I be treated? What exactly did the Egyptians want?
Vanus, dressed in a single coat, shivered and crossed his arms and looked around in confusion—the room was so cold that it didn't look like it was in Egypt!
It was a completely enclosed room, so cramped that it almost looked like a ship's cabin. In addition to the closed wooden door, only a small window with an iron fence above the wall behind him, through which a dim ray of sunlight shone in, allowing Vanus to barely see the inside of the room, and found that there was a row of thick black iron bars erected on the inside of the wooden door, which made Vanus feel quite staggered about the extravagance of this cell—in Rome in the first century BC. Iron produced by hand was still very expensive, and he had the impression that so much iron was worth his salary for many years!
Generally. The room was empty, except for a mattress of unknown material on the floor, soft and elastic, almost more comfortable than the Persian sleeping blanket used by His Excellency the Legion Commander that Vannus had stumbled upon before. There was a lot of graffiti on the walls, but they were all in words that Vanus couldn't read, and some of the drawings were very strange. For example, if you deliberately draw people with edges and corners, it doesn't look like they're wearing armor, and I really don't understand what the person who drew them is trying to express (Transformers OR Mobile Suit Gundam).
On top of the room. There was a strange thing, which seemed to protrude from the ceiling with a long, curved iron pipe at the top of which had an iron bowl containing a glass ball like a pear. You can still faintly see the delicate structure inside the glass ball. This made Vanus deeply curious. I want to take it down and take a look. Pity. Although the room was small, the roof was quite high, and he was handcuffed and shackled, and he couldn't touch the light bulb after jumping a few times, so he had to forget it.
However, in the eyes of Yi Damao, who was monitoring the prisoner through the camera, it was obvious that the prisoner was trying to take off the light bulb, and after breaking it, he picked out a sharp piece of glass to cut his veins and committed suicide...... Thereupon. Yi Damao, who was worried about his kidneys, couldn't help but be more nervous.
Vannus continued to look around and saw above the cell door. There is also a boxy black box with a black cylinder protruding from the middle, which looks a bit like a talisman (surveillance camera). It's a pity that it is also hung high, and Vanus still can't reach it.
In addition, in the corner of the cell near the window, there was a small bathroom, with a squatting toilet and a faucet, but Vanus had no idea what it was for, nor what material it was made of—he had never seen Oriental porcelain—but curiously touched the smooth porcelain surface of the squatting urinal like white jade, and felt this wonderful cool touch...... Then he leaned down and stuck out his tongue......
“…… Hey, don't lick it! It's a peeing place, it's dirty! Depend on! It's really licking! Hell yes! Where the hell did this terrorist come from?! You can do something as disgusting as licking the toilet!! ”
——At the other end of the camera, Comrade Yi Damao, who was sitting behind the computer screen, with a tangled expression like constipation, saw Vanus licking the new squatting toilet that had just been installed two days ago and had never been used, and couldn't help but take a sip and muttered and scolded in embarrassment.
Yi Damao stretched out his hand and clicked the mouse a few times, changed to the surveillance screen of another cell, and then saw another "terrorist" even more embarrassed, who was devouring the whole wheat bread thrown in by the correctional cadres, and at the same time very funny competing with a certain bottle of mineral water - I saw him smash the mineral water bottle against the wall for a while, and put the bottleneck in his mouth for a while to bite, but he didn't know how to unscrew the bottle cap, and he never drank a drop of water......
“…… Where did this primitive man come from?! Can't even open a bottle of mineral water? What kind of backcountry do they live in? With this virtue, he still dares to follow the example of bin Laden and come to our country to wreak havoc? These religious fanatics are really brainless! ”
Yi Damao couldn't help but grab the phone, "...... Forget it, tell the detention center, don't provide these primitive people with any bottled water, just pour them cold boiled water in a cup! The one that has already been given bottled water is forget it! Anyway, it's been zuihou all night, and I can't die of thirst for this rabbit cub! ”
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At dusk, a jailer dressed in dark green opened the wooden door, put a piece of bread and a glass of water into the cell through the iron bar, and then turned away without saying a word to the prisoners.
The Roman soldier Vanus finally gets his first meal in the new shijie, also a zuihou meal.
- The white bread about the size of two fists was fragrant and soft, without a trace of sand and sawdust, and seemed to have a sweet taste, which made Vanus very happy to eat, thinking that this must be the most exclusive court meal, and the water in the cup did not smell any peculiar smell. What surprised him even more was the containers for the food: cups for water and bowls for bread, all of them were silver and shiny metal vessels! (Stainless steel cutlery)
Could it be that the Egyptians were so extravagant that they even used silver utensils to feed the prisoners in prison? Or is it a special courtesy for him, a Roman?
Then, before Vanus could tell whether the set of utensils was made of silver or not, something even more incredible happened.
- As the sky grew darker, as if some mechanism had been touched, the pear-shaped glass ball above his head suddenly began to glow yellow, and the light soon became more and more dazzling, until the whole cell was as bright as day!
So, looking at the bright electric light overhead, Vanus was completely terrified. (To be continued.) )