Chapter 50: Quicksand Island (II) Galaxy River
The next morning, when the sun was not very bright, the whistle sounded from the cell, and everyone jumped off their beds with a brush, Xinghe and Anton slept a little late last night, plus they were not very familiar with it when they first came here, and they were a little slower than others, but when the prison guards came in to check the room, the two of them were not even dressed properly, and the result of this incident was that the two were undoubtedly punished, and they were punished to stand on the school field all morning.
The clothes issued to them by the juvenile detention center were not very thick, and it happened to be very humid here, and the wind blew all morning under the sun where Xinghe and Andong Station could not feel a little heat, and by the time the prison guard, who didn't stop hanging around, finally remembered them, the two of them had already turned purple from the cold, and they were not far from popsicles.
For them as juvenile delinquents, there are probably three kinds of activities throughout the day: running that doesn't know when to start, never-ending work, and lessons that are pure.
In the juvenile detention center, the prison guard's whistle may sound at any time, as long as he hears the whistle, everyone must immediately assemble, and then go to the school field to run laps, until the prison guard is satisfied, because the prison guard's whistle is almost entirely based on personal interest, if the interest comes, it is possible for him to blow the whistle in the middle of the night. At this time, if you don't gather in time, then you can only accept corporal punishment, or take a few lashes, or stand up in the cold wind for a few hours, in short, it is completely to see how the prison guards feel at that time.
As for the work that the prison guards let them do, there are many types, I heard from the seniors in the juvenile detention center that some of the jobs are to go to the kitchen or go to work outside, the former has the opportunity to get some extra bread from the kitchen, and the latter is equivalent to getting extra time to relax, to be honest, Xinghe didn't feel that the latter job was attractive at all.
However, those jobs belong to those who have a little relationship with the prison guards, for Xinghe and those who have just come in, a small number of prison guards will be sent to the laundry room if they are pleasing to the eye, but this part of the people does not include Xinghe and Anton, they are assigned to paint objects, the smell of paint is very strong, the smell is very pungent, and it can be regarded as a huge challenge for Xinghe's still very weak body.
I heard from other people in the juvenile detention center that the prison guards took back these jobs from the factories outside, because they used inferior paint that was harmful to the body, so no one wanted to do this outside, but here, the prison guards didn't care whether this thing was harmful to the human body, and they told them with a very righteous and awe-inspiring look when they were assigned to work, this was to train the necessary life skills for their group of social residues, so that they would not starve to death on the streets.
As for the so-called courses arranged in the juvenile detention center, it was nominally to give these juvenile delinquents who originally had no hope a chance to be educated and give them a glimmer of hope in life, at least in the first class of Xinghe's class, the thin and snarky middle-aged demon spirit woman who gave them a lecture really said it, but Xinghe really saw that many seniors in the class showed a grateful expression, expressing their gratitude to the demon spirit named Rhine Blair who proposed this system and the empire that gave them hope, and repented very much about the mistakes they had madeγ
Later, the teacher gave bread to those who cried the most, not the dry hard bread from the cafeteria when they were cooking, but the real fresh bread that had just come out of the oven, and these people cried even more after getting the bread, saying that they would definitely accept the reform, and if they hadn't secretly hidden the bread they got in their pockets, Xinghe would have believed them.
As for the rest of the class, the teacher has been instilling this kind of thinking in them, and the seniors who have been in the juvenile detention center for a long time are very cooperative and say that they are all hopeless scumbags, and it is the prison guards and teachers who have taught them hope that they will definitely serve the country, and some of them look like they want to dig out their hearts.
It was the first time for Xinghe and Anton to take this kind of course, and they couldn't help but laugh out loud when they watched their seniors struggle to please the teacher, and the middle-aged woman was so angry that they called them hopeless, and the result was that Xinghe and Anton were canceled for dinner that day.
Portraits of Rhein Blair can often be seen in juvenile detention centers, probably to make them juvenile delinquents grateful to the guy who set up the juvenile detention center system, and the teachers here have been emphasizing that it is the juvenile detention center system he proposed that gives them hope for these social scum, and if they are not grateful, it will not be tolerated.
Xinghe didn't know what the demon named Rhine Blair thought, but he didn't feel any hope in it, and in a sense it was darker than the East City.
Juvenile detention centers are all juveniles between the ages of 13 and 19, most of whom are 15 or 6 years old, and if they reach the age of 19 and reach adulthood, they will be transferred to regular prisons. These underage teenagers covered all races, demons, humans, snow, paro, morrow, etc., covering almost every race in the empire.
When I was in Dongcheng District, there were almost all races in that mixed area, but Xinghe didn't feel any obvious estrangement between those races in Dongcheng District, except for the demon spirits, of course.
Here, however, there is a clear distinction between all the races, and everyone has their own area, which is especially evident when they are in the school yard and eating in the cafeteria, where everyone stays in their own area.
Even within the human race, there are several different small groups, and within each group, there is a clear hierarchy, and some of the younger ones must give a portion of their food to those who are older and stronger, because the amount of food distributed by the juvenile detention center is a little less except for the few demon spirit prisoners.
Xinghe and Anton have only been here for two days, and some people began to look for them to stand in line, and when they were in Dongcheng District, Xinghe was unwilling to accept Anton's recruitment that led to what happened later, so now he naturally refused everyone's invitation.
As a result, the few people who were still willing to talk to him and Anton in the same cell suddenly began to deliberately keep their distance from them, and at noon that day, some people probably thought that Xinghe looked a little sick and not big, so they found Xinghe and said very bluntly that Xinghe would give him half a piece of bread on the plate.
So, Xinghe threw the bread in his face with the plate, there is no doubt that this became a signal to start a war, the cafeteria exploded all at once, and dozens of people surrounded Xinghe and Anton at once, Xinghe's illness was not completely cured, and Anton was not good at fighting, so the result of this incident was obvious, he and Anton were beaten well, and by the time the prison guards came in to clear the scene, the two of them were already bruised.
As a result of this incident, Xinghe and Anton were locked up and confined, and the troublemaker didn't know what method he used, but he was fine after just a few lashes.
The confinement room is a small room, there is no light, it is dark inside, only the opening where the food comes in can see a little light, and probably there is no meaning to give them a good rest, there is not even a bed in the confinement room, only a toilet that emits a peculiar smell, but when Xinghe stays in it for a while, it can no longer smell the peculiar smell.
There are some things that you probably will never understand if you haven't experienced them, Xinghe didn't know why the seniors in those juvenile detention centers had heard the word confinement before, but now he knew that in the small, dark and empty space, even the flow of time has become slow, there is no person to talk to, no room for movement, nothing, there is silence around, only when the prison guards come to deliver food, there is only a little movement, and that has become his only expectation here.
Xinghe began to understand a little bit about why people like jobs that can go outside, because those places where you can see the sky are so beautiful compared to here.
By now, at least one thing is certain, there is no hope here, no matter what the guy who set up the juvenile detention center in the first place thinks, but there is no hope in this juvenile detention center, there is only emptiness and despair, and the teenagers who are locked up here have indeed undergone some changes, but not for the good ones, but for the better of them, but for the sake of becoming more snobbish, more hypocritical, and more flattering.
Xinghe could feel it, and if he continued like this, this kind of change would also happen to himself and Anton, and the most intuitive point was that he was sure that Anton, like himself, would never want to come to the confinement room again, so they would have to curry favor with the prison guards.
I don't know how long it was, Xinghe heard the sound of the key turning in a half-asleep dream, the heavy subway door of the confinement room was opened, and the sudden sunlight stabbed in made Xinghe squint, and the prison guard who stood in the sunlight couldn't see his face clearly said to her, "Come out, you have been released." β
"What?" Xinghe was a little unsure of his ears.
The prison guard repeated with some impatience, "Boy, you are released." "PS: After thinking about this paragraph, I'll go faster in the plot, maybe the arrangement is a little abrupt