It was daytime when Zuo Dao was sent to Hell Island, but it was already night when he officially entered the detention area. During these few hours, he and the group of prisoners who came to the island with him were separated. He was imprisoned in a prison cell surrounded by iron walls, with his hands and feet wearing pure alloy handcuffs and anklets. No one paid attention to him, he just sat there.
He could feel that this period of time was essentially waiting for Hades' divine mist to actually take effect. When he and the prisoners were taken out from the cubicles, they were no longer much different from ordinary people. At this time, the prison guards, who were fully armed and wearing mecha uniforms, could escort them to the execution. "disinfect".
The process of disinfection is simple and quick, similar to jumping into a flush toilet. Prisoners are thrown into a pipe filled with drugs and rushed from one end to the other. In addition to being able to "sterilize" the solution in the true sense, the solution in the pipe can also help the instrument detect whether the prisoners have drugs hidden in their bodies. Things, the kind that hide iron wires under the skin to pretend to be blood vessels, put corrosive drugs into containers and swallow them into the stomach, or simply have micro-robots hidden in the body. In short, whether they are organic or inorganic substances, during the disinfection process , will be detected.
After disinfection, the prisoners are "clean". If there is anything dirty, they clean it up for them. Except for transformed people, it is basically impossible for others to carry anything with them when they reach this stage. As for those reformed people who are unfortunate enough to be sent here, their lives are rather miserable. After entering Tidal Prison, they usually help you remove the modified parts and become disabled people. There is a high proportion of reformed people who cannot remove the mechanical parts. , and sent him to a special detention area.
The special detention area does not have the free time of ordinary detention areas. Two meals are delivered to the door of the cell every day. The food is better than that of the prison guards. There is no need to take regular showers. There is a bathroom in each cell. You do not need to wash your own clothes. There are regular meetings. Someone brings clean prison uniforms to rotate your dirty clothes.
Sound comfortable? Yes, so there is a conspiracy behind this good deed.
There are only two types of people in the special detention area, and 90% of them belong to the first type - gladiators.
Every month, these prisoners have to engage in a one-on-one fight to the death. The specific combination is determined by the warden. In most cases, it is just random.
The winner of each set of duels wins the next month's life, while the loser, of course, dies.
The entire fighting process will be broadcast live. This is the ultimate competition that can only be enjoyed by the palace nobles of Tiandu. There is naturally a huge gambling business going on behind the scenes, but in this kind of competition, it is impossible for any player to cheat. phenomenon occurs.
The above is the first type of 90% of the people in the special detention area. Every month, half of them will disappear, but next month, there will be more people due to various reasons. was sent in. In addition to reforming people, there are also some prisoners who can still pose a clear threat to other prisoners with some skills or talents even though they live in the mist. These people are the first choice for the special detention area.
As for the second type of people in the special detention area, the number is very small. They can enjoy special treatment without participating in fighting. These people are too valuable, but they cannot be used by the empire. The things they can do, or the thoughts in their minds, are absolutely not allowed to appear in the outside world. The empire will definitely not let them go, but they must Keep their lives for use, so just keep them like this.
Having said a lot, let’s look back at Zuo Dao’s experience. After disinfection, he was put on a bracelet with his name engraved on his wrist. This electric shock wheel is the core tool for supervising prisoners in Tide Prison. You can Find a hundred ways to trigger it, such as touching the prison guard, leaving the designated area, trying to remove it, anyway, the most difficult thing to find is the way to do evil without triggering the shock wheel.
After Zuo Dao waited for the new prisoners to be put on the electric shock wheels, the prison guards breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, the fighting ability of this group of dangerous elements was basically the same as that of ordinary people, and they all wore electric shock wheels. So, they removed their pure alloy handcuffs and anklets and replaced them with ordinary shackles. They were locked together, lined up in a row, and sent to the detention area.
After that, Zuo Dao heard some of Jefferson's horrifying remarks. He was really scared. Since he had boarded the pirate ship of the Anti-Cross, he still had to do what he should do.
When entering the holding area, the lights-out time had passed, and the prisoners were all staying in their cells. The cells were dark with no lights, and only the corridor outside the cell door was always light.
This detention area has seven floors, with an open patio in the middle. Zuo Dao's shackles were separated from those of the other prisoners. He was the first to leave the team and was sent to the highest floor. The prison guard communicated a few words remotely with colleagues in the monitoring room, opened the door of a cell, and untied the shackles. Zuo Dao's hands and feet were shackled, and Zuo Dao was thrown in with half a push and half a kick.
"I'll give you a piece of advice, keep your mouth shut after lights-out time." The prison guard left after saying that.
The iron bars of the cell door were closed tightly. Zuo Dao used the light source outside to find the bed in the dark cell. This couch is really not that good. The so-called bed is just a piece of material as hard as a rock. It is one meter higher than the ground, twice as wide as a person, and two and a half meters long. There are no sheets or pillows. Sleeping here The only difference between sleeping above and sleeping on the ground is that the level is different.
Whatever, it’s better than nothing. Zuo Dao thought to himself, lying down on his side, his head resting on his arm. The electric shock on the wrist should be quite uncomfortable, and I'm afraid I can only get used to it slowly.
About half an hour later, his sleepiness was still not very strong. According to his own words, he had always been "ready for the day". In a strange environment, he could fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes. From Zuo Dao's point of view, it was just a matter of time before he died. People who don’t even know.
When Zuo Dao came in just now, he felt that there were at least dozens of eyes looking at him in the dark cells. He didn't know how he came to such a conclusion. Anyway, it was like being watched by others. a feeling of.
Listening carefully at this moment, I found that the detention area was really eerily quiet. On each floor, there were prison guards on night shift standing at the end of the corridor. Except for them making some noise from time to time, every dark cell seemed to be filled with people lying there. dead.
Up and down, there were so many old men, but no snoring was heard. Could it be that... everyone was like me, opening their eyes to listen to the sound? Everyone here is waiting for help? Crazy
The prison guard's advice made Zuo Dao wonder, why do you have to keep your mouth shut after lights-out time? Are you afraid of affecting other prisoners' rest
According to this idea, Zuo Dao felt that it made some sense. In a place like this, when it is so quiet in the middle of the night, if you lie in the cell and sing a song or something, according to the building structure outside, the sound and sound coming out will be different. It's enough to just start singing. If you let it out the next day, you will definitely be anally fucked to death by all the inmates before you can give up.
With such random thoughts, Zuo Dao's eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he fell asleep without realizing it.
When he woke up, he was startled and looked out the cell door. Everything was the same as before. He couldn't deduce how long he had slept. It might have been five minutes, it might have been five hours. In this prison under the sea, the difference between day and night depends entirely on the light outside, and the concepts of time and space are completely blurred.
Just when he was considering whether to close his eyes and go back to sleep or continue to watch, the lights outside happened to change. On the ceiling directly above the patio, a white light came on. This was the eight o'clock in the morning signal in the Tidal Prison.
Zuo Dao didn't know this, but he also guessed that this meant that it was already dawn in the outside world. He sat up straight, not knowing what would happen on the official first day of his prison career. This was his first time in prison. He really didn't expect that his virginity would be in the Tidal Prison on Hell Island. He could be regarded as directly entering the peak palace.
According to Zuo Dao's prior imagination, when he stepped out of this single room, there was a disorderly area full of gay provocation, violence, gang formation, racial discrimination and other problems. He had to act tough to survive. Moreover, he is also responsible for the first mission after boarding the pirate ship of the Anti-Cross. He must contact the blood owl within a month at the latest, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable.
As time passed by, his tense nerves slowly relaxed again, because nothing happened. It wasn't until ten o'clock in the morning that the cell door opened on its own. When the iron bars moved, Zuo Dao trembled in fright and almost fell from his bed to the ground.
Soon, other prisoners passed by Zuo Dao's cell door one after another. When they passed by, they couldn't help but glance at Zuo Dao. What they thought in their hearts was: "He's a newcomer again. There was a good show in the cafeteria at noon."
Zuo Dao and others were gone, so he sneakily poked his head out of the cell, looked around, then walked out of the cell, stood in the corridor and looked down. All the prisoners on the seventh floor had finished leaving and gathered in the courtyard on the ground floor. .
"Hey! You!" A prison guard came over: "What were you doing hiding in the cell just now?"
Zuo Daozuo raised his hands in surrender: "No, no! I just... um... didn't wake up, so I lay down for a while."
The prison guard glanced at him and knew he was new here, so he didn't take him seriously: "Go down and call your name, hurry up."
"Yes, yes, sir!" Zuo Dao nodded and bowed to greet him, and walked down the stairs in a hurry.
The prisoners gathered in the courtyard were not as orderly as Zuo Dao imagined. They were not lining up to wait for the call to be called, but just standing casually. A very small number of prisoners gathered together in twos and threes to talk.
After Zuodao came down, he picked a corner and stood there. People around him didn't pay attention to him. Most of them found a place to stand alone and remained silent. Not long after, Zuo Dao saw a prison guard whose mecha uniform was different in color from ordinary prison guards. He walked to the corridor on the second floor and shouted to the prisoners below: "The person whose name is called will go directly to the prison." Go to the door over there and you will change the holding area today."
Then, the prison guard leader reported the names of about twenty people, including Zuo Dao's name.
"Those who want to work in the laundry room should go to the door on the other side and everyone else will disperse." He said and walked away.
Zuo Dao noticed that about a dozen people were walking towards the door pointed by the prison guard leader. He thought for a while and followed him. Anyway, he didn't find the blood owl in the crowd. It was a waste of time to stay here. He might as well go to the laundry room to meet him. Try your luck, even if you don't find it, it feels like you can get some benefits in return for participating in labor, such as a pillow? Or a few more shreds of pork in the meal? Who knows, at least it won't be in vain.
"Hey... look, the new guy went to the laundry room..."
"Haha... Now there's something interesting to see. You're a smart guy. Many aquatic fish rolled their eyes like this the next morning after swimming in."
The two prisoners were whispering in the distance. In their eyes, Zuo Dao, a new kid here, was heading towards tragedy on his own initiative.