Chapter 15: Hope is a Dangerous Thing
The farce is over.
The fight that was supposed to shock the entire Shawshank fight, for some reason, just hastily canceled the release time and drove the prisoners back to their cells.
Wu Xingzhi, who was the culprit, had nothing else to deal with after being thrown back into the cell, as if nothing had happened.
Of course, Wu Xingzhi knew that this matter would not end like this, whether it was a fight in the cafeteria, or an attack on the prison guards, it was estimated that anyone else would either be killed on the spot or locked up in a confinement room until death.
No prison will allow such a prisoner to remain in prison in peace.
It's just a coincidence that the prison warden happens to be not in Shawshank Prison, and the captain of the guard is still lying in the hospital, so for Wu Xingzhi, a special prisoner, the prison guards are also very troubled.
According to the laws of the prison, he should definitely be killed on the spot, but not to mention whether the other party's death-defying counterattack will have any consequences, even if the other party does not resist and kills the other party before Hadley returns, who will bear Hadley's wrath?
Hadley didn't care what the other party did, he only cared about his own egg of hatred to vent out, in the most cruel way.
Thankless work, who does it?
Anyway, most of the injured prisoners were prisoners, and as for the unlucky prison guard, he only blamed himself for being impulsive, obviously the other party had already been arrested, so he had to go over and tease.
In the end, the prison guards decided to take care of it for the time being, and wait for someone who can make decisions to come back.
Wu Xingzhi was naturally happy to do this, so that he still had time to continue his basic tasks.
The previous idea has proven unfeasible, and the person who dares to escape is not necessarily the most powerful person in the prison, but may also be some inconspicuous prisoner.
There are thousands of people in Shawshank Prison, and looking for them one by one is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and he doesn't have so much time to look for it slowly, his situation is not as good as it seems, and now the prison guards' attitude towards him seems to be indifferent, but it is just a volcano that is still brewing.
As soon as Hadley returns, the volcano will erupt.
In fact, if he had endured it at the beginning, Wu Xingzhi would have had a lot of time to find the person who wanted to escape from prison little by little, but Wu Xingzhi did not regret it, he was already a person who had died once, and let him endure the humiliation of others to be submissive, he couldn't do it.
After thinking about it for a long time, Wu Xingzhi only felt that his brain was a mess.
Compared with the power attribute of up to eight points, the wisdom attribute of five points is particularly pitiful.
"I was still wondering who my new neighbor would be, but I didn't think it would be you." At this moment, a voice came from the side: "I really don't know if this is lucky or unlucky, Wu." β
"Huh?" Wu Xingzhi was stunned.
The door of the prison is an iron fence, and Wu Xingzhi can't see who is next door, but in this prison, there shouldn't be many people who call themselves Wu.
"Red?"
"Oh, it looks like you remember me." Red's voice came through the iron bar, "What you did today is really happy, but, Wu, forgive me for saying that. β
"Have you ever thought about the consequences of doing this?"
Wu Xingzhi smiled: "To be honest, I didn't think about it at the time. β
"But how bad can it be?"
Red was silent for a moment, "Indeed, after allβ"
"I'm sorry, I'm not a talkative person, it's just that I've been in Shawshank for so long, I've never seen someone like you."
"Honestly, you don't look like the one you're supposed to be here."
"Whether the people of Shawshank are vicious or at peace with what they encounter, they are all branded with Shawshank after all."
"Oh?" Wu Xingzhi was interested: "What do you say?" β
"It's funny to have walls in prison, and when you first came to prison, you hated the walls around you; Slowly, you get used to living in it; Eventually, you'll find yourself having to rely on it to survive. This is institutionalization. β
Rhett's tone seemed to come from a far away, "The longer you spend here, the closer you will be to Shawshank, and the farther away from the outside." β
"Is it institutionalized?" Wu Xingzhi thought for a while: "It's a very interesting theory, but it's not suitable for me." β
Wu Xingzhi never felt that he would stay in Shawshank Prison forever.
"It's really not for you." Rhett seemed to think of something, and said, "People like you will either burn out like fireworks, or they will live forever out of place in the crowd." β
"You guys?"
"Oh, sorry, just thought of a friend of mine." Red said slowly, "You may not know, but I'm not actually a person of many words, let alone someone like you-"
He paused, and said, "The guards like to call your actions riots, but I prefer to call them rebellion. β
"He always resists, but he often says that he resists because he knows that if he doesn't resist, he won't resist next time."
"You're a lot like that friend of mine, except you're more direct and reckless."
Red didn't go on, in his mind, this Asian named Wu could only be as fleeting as Shawshank's fireworks.
Wu Xingzhi naturally knew what he didn't say, but he didn't care, if he didn't have a system, he might think like Red.
"I'd love to get to know you as a friend."
"Hopefully there's a chance." Rhett's tone was a little low: "He's still in the confinement room, I really don't know if he can survive a month of confinement." β
Wu Xingzhi's heart moved.
I remember that when I was in the confinement room before, the person next to me was locked up for a month.
In half a month, from beginning to end, Wu Xingzhi didn't hear the slightest sound from there, if it weren't for the prison guards delivering food every day, Wu Xingzhi even suspected that the other party was dead.
"Is the person you're talking about called Duflan?" Wu Xingzhi asked involuntarily.
"How do you know?" Red was particularly surprised: "He was locked up before you went to jail. β
"Hey, that's a coincidence." Wu Xingzhi explained: "Speaking of which, he is my neighbor in the confinement room. β
"Is he okay?"
"I'm not dead, I don't know anything else." Wu Xingzhi replied, and then there was no sound over there.
It is not yet time for the prison lights to be turned off, and the inmates can do their own thing in their respective cells.
Even if you don't have hobbies anymore, under the torture of endless time, you will develop some hobbies to pass your empty soul.
Whether it's reading, studying, or following the warden's teachings to study the Bible.
Wu Xingzhi was not interested in any of this, he hung upside down on the iron fence and began to curl his belly frantically.
After about an hour, Wu Xingzhi heard a leisurely sigh from the side.
"So, hope is a dangerous thing."