Chapter 048 Prison Break Simulator

Wei Nian didn't drink his coffee. He looked around the not-so-big living room, which had one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom, which was a standard configuration for an apartment.

Ji Xu called it a place to stay, but in fact it was more humane than an ordinary safe house. Whether it was the soilless cactus on the windowsill or the useless carpet under the sofa, it showed that the owner was still living as seriously as possible while ensuring that he could move out at any time.

No, then how dare Ji Xu take a taxi back?

Wei Nian thought so and couldn't help asking, "What did you say to the driver? Aren't you afraid that he will come back to find you?"

Ji Xu glanced at him and said, "Guess who can recognize a wanted criminal after he is in prison."

Normal people would choose to memorize the wanted criminal's face, firstly because they are afraid of seeing him on the road, and secondly because they want to get the reward after reporting him. However, the arrested prisoner obviously has nothing to do with either of these, and neither is a threat to society nor does he have a reward to collect. So, apart from his colleagues, who else can recognize the face that should have appeared in prison at a glance? Not to mention that Wei Nian didn't know how long he had been in prison, and the photo on the wanted poster only looked about 50% similar to him now.

After listening to this, Wei Nian was thoughtful. It turned out that the driver was in the same line of work as him. No wonder he was suspicious when he went out. This was very consistent with the mental state of a criminal.

As he was thinking, he suddenly asked, "So he has become one of your businesses?"

Ji Xu picked up the watermelon juice and sat on the computer chair opposite.

“Soon to be.”

He inserted the straw, took a sip and leaned back in his chair, as if he was chatting about family matters instead of discussing the prison break with the prisoners. "Thanks to you, I got a new client. He was even scared when I showed him the business. But these are not important. Let's talk business, Wei Nian. What benefits can you and your companions give me in exchange for my 'insignificant' help?"

Wei Nian kept asking, "Let's not talk about the deal first. How do you know the driver is about to become your customer?"

Ji Xu asked back without thinking: "Didn't you hear it?"

Wei Nian frowned and searched his memory. He remembered that the taxi made a loud clanging noise when it took off, but the car was about to fall apart. When the driver demonstrated his drifting skills, he felt the chassis shaking along with it. He was afraid that the four wheels would separate in front of the traffic police and he would be discovered.

"I see. You haven't paid attention to it." Ji Xu said, "There are a few grenades in the storage box under the driver's seat. I have used them before and I know the sound of grenades colliding with each other. I think in a few days, I can call the driver to discuss business."

What kind of situation would make a person carry several grenades?

Who has the leisure to record the sound of their collision?

Wei Nian looked at Ji Xu with fear, thinking that Ji Xu was reliable despite being outrageous, and generally speaking, a weirdo - he seemed to have said this many times, but it didn't matter, some derogatory words had to be emphasized repeatedly to make him feel relieved - in short, after experiencing this little episode, Wei Nian felt that the prison break was a sure thing, and Ji Xu, who always kept in mind his business, to some extent gave people a sense of security and dedication to his work.

He readily took out the key hidden under his knee pads.

Ji Xu didn't want to take it, he raised his chin and motioned Wei Nian to throw it in the sink to rinse it.

Seeing Ji Xu's unspoken disdain, Wei Nian complained in his heart that Ji Xu didn't look like a lawless criminal who was doing prison break business. He shrugged his shoulders. After all, he still had to ask this man for help, so he could only say gloating words with a regretful tone: "There is a chip inside, which has both physical key and electronic identification functions. It can't get wet."

Ji Xu said expressionlessly: "The quality is really bad."

"They did it on purpose." Wei Nian crossed his arms and snorted coldly. Seeing Ji Xu's joke made him feel more balanced. "In order to prevent us from contacting the outside world, the prison guards asked us to soak in the pool for 20 minutes every night before going to bed. They advertised the humane management of the Weidi Prison to the outside world. Only we know that every time we enter the water, the stolen keys and homemade equipment will become invalid, and the electronic equipment brought in from outside will not pass the scanner."

Ji Xu pointed at the key and said, "But you still ran away."

"Okay, I know we don't have the ability, stop laughing at me." Wei Nian's expression became depressed and impatient. He hesitated for less than a second between the two names Ji Xu and C and decisively chose the former. Wei Nian remembered that he said in the car that just call him Ji Xu. Ha, no wonder this man emphasized this sentence at that time, it turned out that he had expected it.

He curled his lips and pointed at his heart. "Ji Xu, you know that the prison scans the signal source every two hours. I must go back to the prison before four o'clock to avoid the crisis of heart explosion."

The clock behind him was ticking, the second hand was ticking, time passed during the conversation, and there were still fifty-seven minutes to four o'clock. Ji Xu said unmoved, "Then what do you want me to say, to praise your courage in escaping prison?"

So this is why criminals can break out of prison but can't leave?

The Dangerous Prison implants bombs in the hearts of prisoners. The overlay signal scans every two hours. If no prisoners are found in the prison, the explosives will be activated remotely?

No, Ji Xu remembered the signal jammer.

If this is true, carrying high-intensity equipment with you can block the detonation signal transmitted remotely from the prison, but Wei Nian doesn't even think about it. He would rather take this opportunity to sneak out to the street to play than rob a technology company. Perhaps contrary to what he originally thought, the timed explosive will automatically activate every two hours, and the prison will send a termination signal that will allow the prisoners to survive.

It’s no wonder that Wei Nian was angry. He truly thought that Ji Xu was mocking him.

In fact, Ji Xu did not do that. He just found out about this. The latter sarcastic compliment was a mockery, but Wei Nian did not reply. He had already determined that Ji Xu had no respect for Party A. So what if he was dedicated to his job? The status of Party A and Party B were reversed in Ji Xu's eyes.

So Wei Nian snorted and sat comfortably on the single sofa, leaving the owner of the room sitting on the only computer chair available, refusing to move.

Ji Xu had never thought that there would be guests. The simulator replicated his single dormitory in school. As we all know, college students have a strong sense of boundaries and generally don't remember their classmates, not to mention that many of Ji Xu's classmates had graduated and went to internships long ago. So there were some uneaten snacks in his refrigerator, which were also copied. Ji Xu also saw some milk candy. He opened it and found it was an ordinary candy without any strange fillings.

"It's a fair trade, Ji Xu." Wei Nian pried open the pull ring. After handing over the key, he finally put his mind at ease. After a brief moment of consideration, he smiled wisely again, "I'll give you the key, and you should provide some help."

Sorry, I can't provide any.

Not to mention the logical traps in it, Ji Xu just found out the name of the prison where they were imprisoned fifteen minutes ago.

But that's not the way to say it. Ji Xu changed himself into a winning position, with one leg folded on top of the other. He looked as if he had been dealing with this world for more than forty minutes. "Why don't you pay the deposit first?"

Ji Xu pointed out the blind spot: "Don't forget, it's because you can't pay me the deposit that you asked me if I was willing to use other things as a deposit."

On the coffee table between them, there was an ordinary, rusty iron key.

Even if someone could replicate the groove of the key, they would be caught off guard by the identity recognition hidden inside. It can be seen that the defense of the Dangerous Place Prison is not strict. If these people really want to escape, they will find a way sooner or later. However, it has taken a different approach and adopted an unconventional control method, making the prison worthy of its name, a "dangerous place" where one can be in a life-and-death situation if one is not careful.

Wei Nian sighed, grabbed the coffee and drank it all in one gulp. It was normal that the logical trap just now failed. He would feel strange if it succeeded.

But one always has to try, just in case.

Now that this possibility is gone, Wei Nian licked his lips and said nervously, "At least give me a little hope. You don't know how scared we were when we found a note in our steamed buns a few days ago saying 'Do you want a jailbreak service?' I almost thought someone wanted to frame me and put me in solitary confinement - never mind, let's skip these useless mental journeys."

Wei Nian chose the latter between being shameless and having some dignity. He coughed a few times and said, "Anyway, thank you for the one-way communicator you sent us. I don't expect it to be as high-end as this one, but at least give us an accurate time so that everyone can cooperate with you in escaping from prison."

Ji Xu was not polite at all. "I'll tell you tomorrow. Before that, I need all the information about the Dangerous Prison, including but not limited to its operation mode, personnel division, work and rest time, patrol situation, and defense equipment."

"You don't know?" Wei Nian raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then he denied it. "No, it's impossible that you don't know. You probably didn't investigate it in detail."

Wei Nian clicked his tongue and muttered in a low voice that he thought Ji Xu couldn't hear, but in fact Ji Xu could hear it clearly, "Really? It's just that you don't have the money to pay, so you don't have to be so perfunctory about our business."

Ji Xu: "After all, you are a large order of ten people, and I can't afford the cost of a broken capital chain."

"..." Wei Nian choked up, having never expected that the person involved could hear it. He almost forgot what he had said in the car before. Relying on the thick skin he had developed in prison, he pretended not to hear the taunting. He was completely different from the brave man who had just confronted Ji Xu. He looked at the wall clock and stood up.

"I have to go. There's only half an hour left until four o'clock. There's a shift change loophole five minutes before the signal is sent. I have to take this opportunity to walk back."

Ji Xu pressed his hand: "No hurry, tell me how you got out first."

The shift change loophole only appeared five minutes before the signal was sent, which means that Wei Nian had another way to escape, otherwise he would have died just five minutes after he came out.

"Huh? No one told you? Never mind, I get it. They thought I would say, you idiots, can't you tell me what your conversation was about?"

Wei Nian scolded his teammates a few times and paced in the small single dormitory. "I don't know how to summarize it, but the old people who have been in prison for a long time know that the name of Weidi Prison is actually realistic. There are natural caves underground, which have the risk of collapse. Later, the warden reinforced it, but the workers were bribed by the criminals in the prison at that time and retained an entrance, and the warden also deliberately left the loophole open for people to escape."

“Long-handed out, strict-handed in?”

"Yes, this method can only be used to get out. If you want to come back and get the signal source, you have to use other methods."

Season Preface Summary: "So those guys who bribed the workers had no idea that there was explosives in their hearts, nor did they know that they were able to escape because the warden let them. I hope that the next step for them to leave the prison is not to buy a shielding device."

Wei Nian looked odd. "Ha, you guessed it right! The bomb is not very powerful. If you hold it in your hand, it will only injure your fingers. It's similar to ordinary firecrackers. But if it's close to your heart, it will explode with a bang. In the words of the warden: Apart from scaring innocent passers-by around the fugitive, it's safe and harmless."