(By the way, this is Lilina's home field, full of high energy...)
Entering the fourth district is very simple. There is a military outpost on the border of Dongcheng District. Through this outpost, you can accept space replacement. After the replacement, you will enter the "Alienated Shadow City" from the normal Shadow City.
A second ago, there was still a lot of traffic behind him, the flow of people was like weaving, a bustling and bustling city scene, after passing through the replacement gate of the outpost, the surrounding suddenly became quiet, as if the whole world had gone away from him. The originally clear and bright sky was covered by a chaotic gray mist, and the surrounding light dimmed. The sky in the fourth district is monotonous, because there is no need to prepare any relaxing scenery for the prisoners here, I looked up at the sky, the sun, moon and stars were not visible in the gray mist, gray, the only color with absolute The average way covers the entire field of view. All the surrounding buildings and streets are twisted, connected, and overlapped in a strange way. The cracked road twists and reaches the sky. A hundred meters away, a skyscraper slowly rotated and floated on a high place. Half of its building was fragmented and cut into countless neat and smooth small squares. Dim lights were flickering. Beside the only flat road under the feet, a neon sign protruded crookedly from the tar pit, with the words written in bright red: Welcome to the fourth district.
This is the scenery of this "inner city".
"It's really Lilina's evil taste..." I looked at these absurd and twisted things around me. They were trying to shape them into nightmares in reality, as if they forcibly extracted the thinking process of a mental patient, and then carved them into countless abstract symbols. Together, those twisted and broken buildings and buildings don't lead anywhere at all, and the roads of all buildings are deceptions, and going to them, you will never find any end.
I waited for a few seconds, and saw a section of pipeline sticking out of the ground not far ahead. It was as thick as an oil pipeline, and the surface was roughly coated with dirty dark green paint. With a dark red background, a dark hole was suddenly cracked in the pipe, and then a one-eyed ghoul wearing a plumber uniform and a ridiculous red cloth cap emerged from the inside. There is a big M on the cap, and an ancient phonograph is slung over his body. The hoarse and unpleasant creaking sound comes out of the phonograph. It is a nursery rhyme written by Lilina—the story of the wolf and the spider.
I know this ghoul. It is said that I have been a receptionist in the fourth district for more than a year. My favorite game is Super Mario, and my favorite activity is cosplay. I am also a music lover... There is nothing wrong with each of the above hobbies, but if they appear on a ghoul, there is a problem. After the fusion of various elements, the strange shape in front of me is born...
The distorted ghoul came limping in front of me, and a hoarse running voice came from his throat: "Your Majesty, the warden is interrogating the prisoner, are you..."
"Oh, I know, it's her," I waved my hand, "open the door—and can't you turn off that squeaky thing on you?"
The ghoul cracked its head and showed a big smile. While opening the portal, he said, "This is a gift from the warden to Pebby. Pebby likes stories about wolves and spiders... stories about wolves being eaten by spiders..."
I felt that I didn't need to eat today's dinner any more, so I quickly stopped and walked into the dark red portal opened by the ghoul guard. With a flash in front of my eyes, I came to the place where Lilina was "working".
It looks ordinary here, but it is a very spacious office. There is a large mahogany desk in the room, and there is a large bookshelf against the wall that occupies the entire wall, but it is estimated that no one will ever go through it. There is a carved solid wood steering wheel, on which the words "Ride a boat on the sea, ride the wind and waves" are written in gold-plated characters. On the wall above the steering wheel, there are antique ink paintings, depicting the scenery of green mountains, green waters and mist. This is an ordinary room that looks like the office of the boss of a large company on the earth. Apart from the spacious and nouveau riche-like decoration, there is not much to pay attention to. If there is anything special about it, it is that there is no window at all in this room, only a large floor-to-ceiling window with a height of two and a half meters painted on the east wall with crude watercolor pens. The floor-to-ceiling windows look like children's handwriting, not only the colors are gaudy, but also the borders are crooked and uneven. The outdoor scenery imagined by children is painted in the windows: the gray-blue crayon sky, the sun father-in-law with a distorted smile, There are lush green lawns.
In such a well-decorated and spacious office, half of the wall is occupied by such a floor-to-ceiling window painted with watercolor pens. At first glance, it seems just weird and ridiculous, but soon, you will feel that all this is haunted by madness and The eerie atmosphere—and all of this was designed by the dwarf sitting behind the desk with almost his whole body buried in the leather seat. The only purpose of designing these scenes was to satisfy her evil taste.
"Yo, boss, you're here, I'm busy."
Lilina jumped up from behind the large mahogany desk, jumped onto the table and ran over, I caught her and patted her twice to show her intimacy, and then my eyes fell on the corner of the office: there is nothing but Another thing that doesn't fit in with the layout of the office outside the watercolor floor-to-ceiling windows are two cages surrounded by beams of energy. Inside are two livid-faced men wearing some kind of military uniform. They should be Mei who was captured. Lowa prisoner of war.
Out of curiosity, I glanced at the two captives. At first glance, the appearance of the two captives did not seem to be much different from that of humans on Earth—of course, this is also normal, because we all know that they are taller, with sunken eye sockets, and complexion. It's dark, but I don't know if every Melova is like this. Their eyes are the only obvious difference from humans: instead of the whites of the pupils, they have a dark blue hue that looks like they are reflecting fluorescent light. This is the Melova, and at first glance... nothing special.
But it was they who became the first vassals to betray the empire in history.
When I observed these two people out of curiosity, the other party also raised his eyes and looked at this side curiously. There was no fear or hostility in the eyes of these two people. Maybe they didn't know who the person in front of them was, and there was something May have given up hope
"Are you from Melova?" I put Lilina on the ground, turned my head and asked casually.
There was no answer, and the two just snorted coldly. I found that they had no external injuries. It seemed that Lilina, a bad guy, hadn't started the torture-extracting process that she likes to hear.
"Don't like to talk?" When I came to one of them, I felt incredibly calm: this is an enemy in front of me, a proper enemy. They betrayed the country tens of thousands of years ago, and they demolished my sister's home in her previous life. During this process, a large number of Xiling apostles in the dormant facility were killed, each of which was a capital offense, but I talked to each other so calmly. The man in front of me raised his head and looked at me, and suddenly opened his mouth to show a nasty expression: "Your era is long gone, you son of a bitch."
Me: "... Shit, I have a big temper. Well, I'm not timid. Do you really think that treason is such an understatement?"
"Melova will go further than you guys, Melova will replace you as a real god, Melova will conquer every world, and Melova will punish every heretic..."
"Is this guy crazy?" I was stunned and turned to ask Lilina. The little girl curled her lips: "There are traces of brainwashing, and he is extremely paranoid. I guess he has been modified from genes to body to soul, so he He is not afraid of the empire, even if the empire could stop children crying at night in the whole void, he is not afraid. This type is the most difficult to deal with, and simple torture is useless at all."
"Torture?" Another Merowa prisoner sneered, "After tens of thousands of years, you lunatics have really degenerated."
It is said that the clay figurines are very angry. I calmly chatted with these two prisoners of war for a long time, but the other party did not have a good word from the beginning to the end... Well, I admit that it seems that no one will say good things in this kind of situation, but the two people The attitude is really annoying. I have seen treasonous people, but I have never seen treasonous people who are so confident and confident after being arrested! At that time, I wanted to pull out a brick and turn over one first (if I changed Bingtis, I guess they would have turned over both of them by this time), but before doing it myself, Lilina suddenly interjected: "Then what, according to the The rules of the fourth district, first introduce the living environment here to the prisoners, after all, you have to live here for a long time, and you have to have many neighbors—”
Lilina cleared her throat. Such a little girl who looked over a meter high and arrogantly wandering here probably already attracted the attention of the two Merova prisoners of war, so the two really quieted down. Lilina nodded in satisfaction. , with a sweet smile on his face, introduced the living environment to the two new residents of District 4:
"First, in District 4, there are three long-standing 'bills'.
First, the dual state. There are no citizens and laws in the Fourth District, and all life here has only two camps, the innocent and the guilty. The innocent have free access to the Fourth Ward, where the guilty are deemed liable to all punishment without trial—because the guilty have undergone all possible trials before being brought in, and have been judged to Send to the fourth district to be 'corrected'. Of course, there are those like you two who were directly found guilty without a trial. You will see these inmates in the future. "
Second, the state of human rights freeze. The criminals in District 4 are declared to have no human rights, not even the right to objects and the right to die. You have a new name here called 'dust', and this is your identity and full value. Torture of any kind, multiple deaths, soul extraction and torture, biochemical testing, weapons testing and everything you can think of is allowed here, well, everything, your imagination will never match the reality here , don’t worry, you will see all of this soon. "
Third, end the regulatory state. All life in the fourth district is under control, including your survival and death. Before the results of the approval of the superiors, voluntary deaths are not allowed here. The guilty here could be killed millions of times in a row and then resurrected millions of times - because they didn't claim death. "
When Lilina said this, she suddenly waved her fingers in front of the two prisoners, and said with a smile: "By the way, let me tell you a little note. In the fourth district, 100% of the prisoners apply for death every day. , but only one percent of people can get what they want each time. Here, death is the only thing worth pursuing, and prisoners will even fight brutally for a death certificate... Of course you also have the right to apply for death, but I hope you are strong enough. Every day at midnight, all the cells in the Central Prison will be opened. You have to fight until four in the morning. Only the person who has been killed the fewest times can be killed before the next morning... or Let’s talk about the qualifications for release. So, if you want to die in this place, the competition is very fierce. Well, don’t show that expression, believe me, every prisoner... can’t stay in the fourth district for a few days, and will write a tearful A death application, hehe~~~ You are the same!"
Lilina had a sweet smile on her face, like a child introducing her toys to a friend, but what she said was not funny at all. I squinted at the expression on this guy’s face, and felt a long-lost familiarity with her smile now—Lilina often laughs, and when she’s with me, she’ll play dumb, act cute, and for no reason Suddenly, she became cheerful, but every kind of smile was different from the present one. This kind of simple, sweet, innocent-looking smile would never come from her heart.
This is the most distorted of all Lilina's masks. She had never smiled so cleanly at dead people.
After listening to Lilina's introduction in a daze, the two prisoners seemed to need some time to understand this strange place. Then they looked at each other and laughed disdainfully at the same time. Among them, the taller man stared at Lilina, full of He said contemptuously: "In the final analysis, it is nothing more than torture. The holy Merova warriors can ignore any pain, and use as many tricks as they want."
"Of course, it will happen sooner or later," Lilina had expected the other party's attitude, she said indifferently, and waved her paw in front of the prisoner, two green halos appeared on the prisoner's head, and then slowly Submerged into their bodies, "Anyway, I have patience and time. Well, let's see whether those experts crack your navigator first, or I let you two speak first."
Seeing a ball of green light entering their bodies, the two prisoners first tensed their muscles subconsciously. They thought it was some kind of punishment, but nothing happened after the green light entered their bodies, so they showed confused expressions and heard After Lilina's words, the tall prisoner suddenly grinned: "Ha, so you just want the coordinates of Melova's homeland... go dreaming!"
After saying this, there was a strange creaking sound in the head of the other party, as if the sound of the meat being scorched. Accompanied by this strange sound, the prisoner's face was full of veins, as if he was suffering from great pain. The jaws were rattling, the filthy blood mixed with white slowly came out from the eyes, nostrils and even the ears, and finally even the eyeballs overflowed with steaming thick pulp. I realized that the Merova warriors actually possessed The ability to self-destruct!
However, Lilina just looked at the scene in front of her so leisurely, as if she was watching a very interesting juggling. The prisoner in front of her was twitching all over, and her head was already glowing red as if it had been cooked, emitting bursts of strong steam. Apparently dead, the other prisoner next to us gave us a sneering smile, apparently ready for it - but the second prisoner didn't even have time to activate his own self-destruct device, and the one who had just died The prisoner suddenly sat up.
The resurrected prisoner looked as if nothing had happened. Only the blood and heat on his face showed that the uncomfortable suicide just now was real. He woke up from the brief confusion, and his face gradually changed. It was gray and white.
"Uncle, you are so stupid, really," Lilina looked up at the other party, "You should know that the empire has resurrection technology... Well, it may not have been used on you back then. But has anyone told you that the two of you were actually sent You were already dead when you came here?"
The two prisoners were stunned.
"Well, you were already dead when you were sent here. I guess you committed suicide once when you were arrested, but it seemed that you were in a mess at the time and forgot about it... It was the second time you were resurrected just now, uncle. "
The prisoner's face changed drastically following Lilina's words. It seemed that the suicide Lilina mentioned did exist, and now they are finally completely sure that death is not the way to escape in this place.
"Just now I put a little gift in your body," Lilina said with a smile, "it's that green light. From now on, you are blessed, you won't be insane, you won't lose your five senses, and you won't feel sleepy , and will not suffer from sensory insensitivity for any reason. Today is your first day in District 4. Later, someone will show you your new house and get to know your new neighbors—both Some good people, everyone is heinous, heinous, and cute, and they like their new neighbors the most, because the rule in the 4th district is that every time you kill a new person, you get a piece of rotten not so disgusting Raw meat is used as a reward, in the eyes of those people, you are just like food... Sa, then, I wish you two a happy party in the next time... Jailer!"
Lilina snapped her fingers, and two skeletons wearing clown masks and costumes of medieval European kings and queens appeared in the room out of thin air. They pushed the prisoner's cage into the hidden door that suddenly appeared in the wall. There is still no look of fear on the faces of the prisoners. It seems that the brainwashing transformation has given them amazing courage, and they can face the upcoming life in the fourth district calmly. After the cage was pushed into the secret compartment, there was a faint whistling sound from the other side of the wall, as if it had fallen directly. Lilina showed a regretful look on her face: "Ah, I seem to have forgotten to open the elevator... Well, anyway, there is an acid pool below, and people can't fall to death." After finishing speaking, she said to the two skeletons in costumes: "The jailer , These two prisoners are numbered Te 161 and Te 162, and they are treated according to the standards of special prisoners. They are not allowed to eat food, and they are not allowed to eat human and their own excrement. After they are resurrected in a while, take them to visit Bo *Kaka's merry-go-round... well, why isn't it going?"
"Dian... Lord Warden," the skeleton wearing the king's costume trembled, and took off his clown mask. Under the mask was a piece of white paper pasted on the skull. With the face of a ridiculous king: bloated, sluggish, and with a moustache, "The lowly prisoner 38755 wonders how long it will be before me and my queen..."
Lilina raised her eyebrows: "Oh, it's this question again? Didn't you order to cook 78,000 'inferior people' alive to watch epic dramas? Then each die 78,000 times, don't worry, someone Counting for you, as long as you have nothing to do, go to the small restaurant No. 2 and lie down. You can die seventy or eighty times a day, and you will be relieved sooner or later. In addition, I have heard enough of your questions, and I will ask them later Once, the number of deaths is squared, if not, cubed. Get lost."
The two skeletons in costumes trembled, every joint creaked, then quickly put on their own clown masks and disappeared into the room.
"Boss, look, the two tyrants who shocked the macro world at that time," Lilina giggled, pointing to the air ripples left after the two skeletons disappeared, "how friendly are you now?" RS