Chapter 0 Extra 2: Wen Xu

After being arrested and sent to labor reform for two years, Wen Xu has become familiar with every corner of the prison and has been looking for an opportunity to escape.

This time, he finally found an opportunity.

After escaping from prison, Wen Xudong hid and came to the eighth floor where Li Yu'e and Wen Ling once lived, hoping to ask Wen Ling to help him leave the floating city.

Li Yu'e has been annoyed by him and will not help him anymore. Xia Xiaoman is cruel and will not care about him. Only Wen Ling, his biological sister, may help him.

After finally arriving at the eighth floor, they discovered that Wen Ling and his family had already moved out, and a stranger had moved into the house they once lived in.

Wen Xu looked at the bustling underground city, feeling familiar yet strange. He shuttled back and forth among the crowd, asking about the current situation of the underground city intentionally or unintentionally. When he had almost learned everything, he saw his wanted order posted on the electronic bulletin board, and then he left the crowd and hid in a corner.

After hiding in a quiet and deserted alley and waiting for more than an hour, Wen Xu finally saw a lazy man staggering towards him.

He looked around and made sure there was no one around and no surveillance. He approached the lazy man, knocked him unconscious, changed into his clothes, took the lazy man's ID card, disguised himself, and took the elevator to the fourth floor.

Wen Xu remembered that before he was arrested and sent to labor reform, the fourth-level area was densely populated and mixed with all kinds of people. Perhaps here he could get a shielding suit and an oxygen mask and leave the floating city.

As the elevator reached the fourth floor, Wen Xu clenched his fists nervously. The next second, the elevator door opened, and five or six gun barrels came into view. The leader shouted into the elevator: "Wen Xu! Hold your head and squat!"

Wen Xu panicked when he saw so many people blocking him outside the elevator. When he came to his senses, he pulled the woman next to him to block him, and pinched her neck.

"You should know how strong I am, so move away immediately or I will break her neck right now!"

The leader said sullenly, "Wen Xu, don't be so stubborn. You are only sentenced to 25 years of hard labor, and you can be released early if you behave well. If you continue to be unrepentant, the higher-ups will most likely sentence you to life imprisonment or even death!"

Wen Xu snorted coldly, "What's the difference between 25 years and sentencing me to life imprisonment? After 25 years, I will be in my 30s or 40s. Even if I can get out of prison alive, what can I do?"

"Besides, I did nothing wrong. Why did you put me in jail?"

"Isn't this how the world is? The strong prey on the weak. Those people in Xinggang City have no ability, so they deserve to die! I found such a good mine for you, and you don't want it. You even want to lock me up. Why?"

Wen Xu roared loudly to vent his dissatisfaction, completely unaware that the hostage in his hand was quietly pulling out the knife hidden on his body.

The leader saw the hostage's actions but did not say anything to stop them. Instead, he tried to divert Wen Xu's attention.

Just as Wen Xu once again complained about official injustice, the hostage suddenly raised her hand and stabbed Wen Xu's arm that was pinching her neck. Wen Xu felt pain and pulled her hand back, and the hostage took the opportunity to escape from the elevator.

Without a hostage, Wen Xu was quickly arrested and taken back to prison.

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In view of the fact that Wen Xu not only escaped from prison but also took hostages, the authorities discussed and decided to change Wen Xu's 25-year sentence to life imprisonment.

When Wen Xu heard the news, he did not react at all and just lay on the bed pretending to be dead. When the guard asked him to get up and go to labor camp, he covered his injured hand and cried out in pain, refusing to get up.

Just when the guard was about to let Wen Xu experience the evilness of the world, he received a notice from above. The guard took a look at the notice and kicked Wen Xu's bed, "Get up, your sister is here to see you!"

When Wen Xu heard this, he jumped up and said, "Wen Ling came to see me?"

Wen Xu put on his shoes and followed the guard to the visiting room, where he saw Wen Ling sitting.

"Lingling, why did you come just now? Did Li Yu'e not allow you to come and see me?"

Wen Ling looked at Wen Xu with complicated eyes, "Brother, how can you call Aunt Yu'e by her name?"

Wen Xu curled his lips and said nothing. Wen Ling sighed, "Brother, why did you escape from prison again this time? Do you know that if Mayor Yu hadn't given face to Sister Xiaoman, you would have been shot eight hundred times already?"

Wen Xu certainly knew that the reason he was not sentenced to death was, first, because Xia Xiaoman was on good terms with the mayor of Fucheng; second, because his nominal stepmother Li Yu'e and biological sister Wen Ling worked in the fleet to help Fucheng find supplies; and third, because he took the meteorite liquid and his body evolved.

As long as he didn't do anything extremely evil, the authorities would not sentence him to death. At most, they would exploit him to the extreme and not waste his evolved physical energy.

It is also because of this that he escapes from prison again and again.

Anyway, the higher-ups won't sentence him to death. As long as he escapes from prison successfully and leaves the floating city, what's the difference between being sentenced to 25 years in prison and being sentenced to life imprisonment?

Wen Xu said, "Lingling, I'm only fifteen years old now. If I don't escape from prison, I will be 40 years old when I get out. What else can I do when I get out at the age of 40?"

"I've only been in prison for two years, and I feel like I'm out of touch with society. If I come out after I'm 40, I'm afraid I won't even be able to speak properly."

Wen Ling frowned and said, "Then you can't escape from prison! Didn't the security team tell you that as long as you behave well, you can be released early?"

"What does it mean to be a good performer? Helping the government move things and clean the sewers every day?" Wen Xu looked at Wen Ling, "I'm only 15 years old, and my life has just begun. Do you want me to repeat the same routine of moving things and cleaning sludge like a robot every day?"

"Lingling, I am your brother, the only relative you have in this world. You can't ignore me." Wen Xu held Wen Ling's hand tightly, with a pleading look in his eyes.

Wen Ling pursed her lips and said nothing. She had already seen that Wen Xu had no remorse at all, and it would be useless to say more.

After coming out of the visiting room, Wen Ling handed the note that Wen Xu had secretly slipped into her hand to the guard. The note asked Wen Ling to remember to bring some white sugar when she came to see him next time.

When the guard saw the note, he didn't understand why Wen Xu asked Wen Ling to bring sugar. It wasn't until he remembered that one of Wen Xu's roommates was a chemistry student that he understood what Wen Xu wanted to do.

One saltpeter, two sulfur, three charcoal, add a little sugar and you get Big Ivan.

Wen Xu is still a thief, thinking about how to escape from prison all day long. It seems that we need to pay special attention to this little bastard.