Chapter 052 Prison Break Simulator

Working hours in the Guatemalan prison are 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., respectively, which require working three and four hours, which is shorter than the legal eight-hour shift. There is also a lunch break at noon, which is definitely the work system that all mankind dreams of.

But life is sometimes so strange. Ordinary people who live honestly are forced to extend their working hours, and the prisoners who receive this treatment are miserable. The companies that create hidden overtime are safe and sound, while the prisons facing scum have to abide by the rules.

Everyone is standing against themselves, and only the capitalists win.

As for Ji Xu, although he opened a prison break company, he is the only employee and has to do everything himself. It is estimated that he will be kicked out of the list of winners. The real profiteers are the criminals who purchased the prison break service. However, they cannot move because Ji Xu rarely sent a warning.

Ji Xu scolded him harshly: "Don't act on your own. Listen to me every step from now on."

So they calmed down their restless hearts.

It's not that this group of people are docile and obedient, but the observations that Wei Nian made when he went out are indisputable facts. He proved that Ji Xu was not a liar with poor ability but good luck. Under this premise, humans always respond to services bought at high prices with a kind of weird tolerance of "there is always a reason for the high price", and criminals are no exception.

Not to mention, the only extraordinary thing that Ji Xu asked them to do was to cause food poisoning to all the inmates - as for the ping-pong balls and candles, they had long forgotten about them - but the conclusion they got proved that the infirmary had a device to reverse explosives. Comparing the effort and the reward, it was a huge profit.

But today was a little strange. They lined up to come to the work place. Several prison guards in black uniforms with their hats pulled down stood not far away. The prison guards, who used to have a weak presence in the prison ecosystem, now raised their heads and looked at them vaguely, without any emotion in their eyes.

A variety of guesses flashed through Wei Nian's mind.

Then I didn’t remember it.

At that moment, he almost wondered if the communicator had been discovered.

Wei Hong squeezed next to Wei Nian in time. He held a screw and two wrenches in his hand and handed them to Wei Nian with a gloomy expression, pretending to hand over the work.

"Food poisoning." Wei Hong tightened the screws and said without moving his lips, "The source of the food poisoning on Monday has been found, and we are suspects."

Wei Nian's thoughts were stuck. He almost forgot about it.

Sure enough, bad things that were not planned by themselves would always be subconsciously forgotten. They thought this was part of Ji Xu's plan. The jailers thought that the prisoners had been holding back for too long and were ready to provoke. No wonder they didn't take action. They were probably waiting for the warden's order.

Wei Hong wiped the oil off his hands and frowned, "It would have been too conspicuous for the ten of us to act together before."

"No way, the request was sent to a group of people, and no one wants to be left behind." Wei Nian tactfully moved away from Wei Hong, lest he accidentally hurt himself when he was in a bad mood. In the distance, Jiang Yi made a gesture, meaning to come over later. Wei Nian noticed that the jailer's eyes were scanning behind him, and his expression froze.

Aren't there any normal people among his companions?

The doubt did not linger for too long. Jiang Yi put down the wire cutters in her hand and walked over. She even said "excuse me" to the jailer. The jailer in black uniform had a cold look in his eyes, and he slowly made way until the order came from the headset.

"Thank you." Jiang Yi came over and said, "What should we do?"

In the eyes of the jailer, this was the prisoner's afterthought after the disturbance. Only Wei Nian and others who shared the secret could hear the subtext.

How do we get into the medical room? Should we act on our own? Ji Xu may not know that they are being watched by the jailer, so maybe we shouldn't wait for his order.

"Wait to die." Wei Nian shrugged indifferently, still wearing a nonchalant smile. The jailers behind him followed the order and stayed where they were. Even though they were plotting loudly, Wei Nian was afraid that Jiang Yi and Wei Hong would not understand what he meant, so he deliberately emphasized, "Today is just the beginning. It takes time to go from suspicion to confirmation."

Today is just the beginning, there is no need to rush.

Mainly because Ji Xu's unusual harsh taste today left a deep impression on everyone.

Jiang Yi, who understood what he heard, jokingly said, "Fortunately, fortunately, the jailer can be considered a good person. At least he won't arrest anyone without evidence."

Think about it.

She added: "Anyway, this group of people usually don't care about us. Maybe in the end the criminals will resolve their internal conflicts themselves."

From the eating, we can see that the Guatemalan prison maintains a strange ecosystem. The warden is the uncrowned king, and the guards and prisoners are parallel lines that do not intersect with each other. The guards disappear in the ecosystem all year round. The cooks in the restaurant are the criminals, and the prisoners sew the uniforms. The reason why no one disturbs the work is that they work for themselves. If they don't work, they will starve to death, and if they don't work, they will return to primitive life. Anyway, the guards don't wear leaf skirts, and don't consider how to eat with their hands when there are no pots and pans.

It is hard to say that the warden does not have a malicious mentality of "if someone causes trouble, at most the criminals will die together, and it has nothing to do with the prison". He even did not leave many guards. Not only did he have to start the investigation from scratch when encountering poisoning cases, but he has also not yet issued an arrest order.

During the half-hour lunch break, the guards patrolled every ten minutes. Wei Hong closed his eyes and lay on the bed, with the quilt covering his hands at his sides. He blindly typed to the others who were too optimistic: "Well, if it drags on any longer, the warden will announce the truth. I'm afraid I'll be beaten up by the others."

Jiang Yi thought about it. It made sense.

"Luckily, Ji Xu asked us to remove the copper wire this morning, otherwise we would have no chance now."

The communicator did not have a vibration function, and the person who sent the message often had to check it consciously. He did not know how long the jailer in front of Wei Nian's door had been patrolling. He finally spared a few seconds and seized the opportunity to ask, "Let me ask a question. If Ji Xu sent a message, how would we know?"

He said it in the group.

"..." Wei Hong said, "Is there a possibility that Ji Xu was waiting for today? Otherwise, why would he tell us in the morning that we could use copper wire to remove the handcuffs? Taking it in advance would make the jailer realize that our lights are all broken when they turn on the lights at night. Ten people, all broken, do you believe it? So only this morning is the most suitable time. After all, we will be detained by the jailer soon."

The group was eerily silent. Everyone was thinking, what Wei Hong said made sense, but why was he being detained?

Wei Nian sent another belated message: "Not necessarily, friends, maybe we will be beaten by our cellmates."

It was almost time to get up when Ji Xu showed up. He didn’t explain his plan: “At four o’clock, make some trouble on time and the jailer will take you away and lock you up.”

Great, it seems the handcuffs are fixed. But a new question arises: why must it be at 4 o'clock?

Before they could ask, the people were called out by the wake-up bell, and they lined up to leave the cell with questions in mind.

…

The prison sends a stop signal every two hours. Every time this happens, the heart will always feel uncomfortable, tight, and breathless. The survival instinct reminds them to protect the fatal points. The arrival of the signal is like timely rain, which stops the imminent active volcano next to the heart. The alternation of tension and relaxation is very unique.

When they felt the painful pain in their hearts for the second time, they knew it was four o'clock.

Wei Nian picked up the wrench and overturned the table without hesitation. He quickly squatted down to avoid the stun gun swinging over his head, and hit the knee of the person behind him with his backhand. The stun gun fell on his body at the same time, and the electric current caused his muscles to spasm uncontrollably.

The wrench fell to the ground, and the next second, Wei Nian was pressed on the edge of the kicked-over workbench with his hands behind his back.

Wei Nian heard that the others had also started to make a fuss, so he took the initiative to overturn the table. The others had no room to hesitate, but he still had a smile on his face. When he felt the handcuffs approaching, Wei Nian stuffed the twisted copper wire in. On the surface, he was still in spasm, and inexplicably made the same reactionary movements as a human would make after stepping on air in a dream, with his two hands stretching and curling uncontrollably.

Someone forcibly pried his hands apart, mercilessly closed the handcuffs, and pulled him up and pushed him aside.

Wei Nian staggered forward with difficulty. He was the only one who was hit by the electric baton, and his voice was much weaker: "Hey, everyone is here, I thought there would be a few missing."

The people who had spent a lot of money didn't want to pay attention to him.

They were pushed into an isolation room, waiting for someone who could make the decision to come. Wei Nian coughed a few times and felt much better. He was the first to break the silence: "Ahem, this is a bit strange. Logically, we should be locked up in the confinement room."

Jiang Yi didn't say anything. She struggled hard, and there was a numbing metallic friction sound behind her. She turned her wrists with difficulty, and the chain suddenly straightened for a moment. Jiang Yi pulled hard, and her left hand broke free. The handcuffs looked much looser than before.

There were sounds of "Ouch!" coming from all around, but Jiang Yi didn't listen. She used her free hand to grasp the copper wire and inserted it into the handcuffs, trying to find a gap. The stuck ratchet was suddenly pulled out, and Jiang Yi's two hands were completely freed from the restraints. She exhaled and moved her wrists with red marks.

Jiang Yi clicked her tongue and looked up: "Why are you looking at me? Are you expecting me to help you untie them?"

Others broke free as if awakened from a dream.

Jiang Yi took out her cell phone. To be honest, the isolation room was a special place with no food, no beds, and no toilets. Prisoners were often moved to another place after not staying there for long, so few people installed surveillance.

Wei Nian muttered, "How come even the jailer has left? This is getting weirder and weirder."

Ji Xu seemed to have mastered their movements and sent a message the next second: "Jiang Yi, go to the door. I'll teach you how to unlock it."

It's a private chat.

He even knew who was the first to break free.

Behind Jiang Yi were a group of companions with strange looks and distorted faces, who were almost ready to use their hands to open the lock with their teeth. She ignored him and sent him a message, asking the question he had not answered at noon: "Did you know that we were targeted by the prison guards this morning?"

"Wei Hong is right. I've been waiting for today." Ji Xu answered irrelevantly. "Now, go unlock the door. I know there is no identification device in this room."

He asked Jiang Yi to take photos of the door lock and keyhole from different angles. Jiang Yi, who was forced to board the pirate ship, walked around holding the communicator that could not vibrate but could take photos and transfer files. In fact, she was very skeptical. Could humans really pick a lock remotely? However, within ten seconds, Ji Xu sent another instruction.

"Reshape your copper wire and twist it longer. I remember you were a doctor before you went to prison. Keep a steady hand and insert it. It should be about two centimeters."

Jiang Yi raised her head and motioned Wei Nian to come over, asking him to help her send a message. She said, "You have quite a lot of skills. I've heard my friend explain it in general. The lock cylinder, lock tongue, lock spring, right? Just explain it directly, I can understand it."

Ji Xu said, “I don’t understand.”

"?" This was Wei Nian who was quick to send the message first.

“……?” This was the suffix Wei Nian added considerately after seeing Jiang Yi’s stunned expression.

Jiang Yi almost shook her hands, but luckily Ji Xu's supplement was especially timely: "Don't worry, strictly speaking, I am more professional than ordinary thieves." In the world of simulators, who can be more professional than the players? "Pay attention to your actions. I don't mind being delayed, but someone is waiting for you."

Wei Nian finished reading Ji Xu's words absentmindedly, and Jiang Yi followed the instructions step by step. The same thought crossed the minds of everyone present.

Is anyone waiting for them?

When did Ji Xu attract new customers? Didn’t he say that the driver didn’t get the treatment he deserved as a bomb defusing officer?

…

They moved forward, stopping and starting all the way. The prison did not have many windows for lighting, and the weather outside was not very good, which resulted in rows of white light tubes lighting up at the top of the corridor. At both ends of the wall were hung the survival rules of the dangerous prison. The jailers had no interest in explaining the rules, but those who came in had known how to survive here all their lives.

Everyone hurriedly glanced at the propaganda board that they had almost memorized and walked towards the medical room not far away.

The footsteps were light, no one spoke, and the overhead surveillance camera was a sound collecting device. Fortunately, the medical room was not far away, only about fifty meters away, which gave their large team some time to catch their breath.

The door of the medical room was closed, and the airtight door, which was more than ten centimeters thick, was tightly closed. They once thought that it was to prevent radiation and prisoner intrusion, but they never thought that the modified airtight door could also block signals. They couldn't hear whether there was a doctor inside, so they had to hesitate outside the door.

Ji Xu: "Just go in." He paused and kindly reminded again, "Hide the communicator in the vent, and remember to take a few bottles of painkillers with you."

This was not the first time that Wei Nian was suspicious: "How did you know we were outside the door?"

Ji Xu explained in a good-natured manner: "It's very simple. You gave me the prison blueprints - where the surveillance is, how far away it is, and how fast people walk. I also left you some time to make mistakes. It's better to say that you always use my time to make mistakes to complete your goals."

Wei Nian laughed, "Interesting. According to what you said, you are much faster than us in hiding from surveillance?"

Ji Xu: "It's better to say that practice makes perfect."

He reminded for the third time: "Communicator, painkillers. The latter is just a friendly reminder to customers, so you don't have to take it."

Ji Xu rarely mentioned the same thing to them repeatedly, and everyone had a bad feeling, but he fell silent after he finished speaking. The avatar with red letters on a white background turned gray. Now a choice was placed in front of them, and everyone made up their minds. Jiang Yi stepped on Wei Hong's shoulder and stuffed the communicator into the gap as wide as a finger. She jumped down lightly, and everyone worked together to push open the door.

The manual airtight door does not require a motor to operate, it is heavy and smooth. The empty medical room smells of disinfectant, swallowing up the faint light coming in from the corridor. The medical refrigerator hums, filling the dead air with noise.

Everything seemed normal. They looked at each other outside the door. Wei Nian shrugged and reached out to feel the wall.

"I thought there was a team with real guns," Wei Nian pressed the switch, and turned around to ease the overly uneasy atmosphere with a joke, "waiting inside -" to beat me up.

His voice stopped abruptly.

The small light bulb in the LED light lit up. A man sat with his legs crossed in the seat where the doctor was resting and signing. He was wearing a uniform similar to the prison guards. He was nearly 30 years old. He was considered young and promising in the profession of prison warden, and his mentality was not pedantic. He put down his legs wrapped in pure black cloth, stood up leisurely, grabbed the blast stick on the medical record book with a cold glow, and greeted: "Good afternoon."

“…”

Silence, fear, and a feeling of "what the hell" merged together, converging into the sound of rapid breathing with no one answering.

They opened their eyes wide, fear settling in their hearts. The clean and tidy medical room was completely different from the messy appearance of the past. It was obvious that the doctors did not go off work as usual, but evacuated in an orderly manner under instructions. They did not forget to tidy up the desk before leaving to leave a good impression on the visitors. The person who issued the order was self-evident.

The warden greeted him leisurely, then stood up and looked at Wei Nian: "I remember you. You were in prison because of a serial rear-end collision case. I like your speed and passion. Unfortunately, my proposal to build a racetrack in prison to wait for criminals to crash into each other was shelved by the city." He turned to look at Jiang Yi and smiled, "I remember the lady next to you too. She's a surgeon. She saved a lot of people, killed a lot of people, and knew a lot of friends who should have been under my care. Unfortunately, she refused to reveal anything even after being in prison for many years, which caused my plan to collect all kinds of professional collections to fail."

After saying that, the man picked up the anti-explosion baton, weighed it, and swung it in front of him, making a sound of breaking through the air. His tone was very gentle, with obvious doubts: "Now it's your turn to reveal the truth. How did you know that there was a conversion device in the medical room? I thought I hid it well?"

Damn!! Season order!!!

Everyone stepped back in unison, looking at the warden approaching with horror and distortion. Everything that had happened this week was played out before their eyes, and the original words of the season preface echoed in their minds - I don't mind being delayed, but someone is waiting for you.

They suddenly understood the true nature of Ji Xu's plan, which he had been hiding and unwilling to speak out.

The food poisoning could be explained as a provocation and an accident, and the warden was just being suspicious. But at 4pm, the time when the signal was sent, Ji Xu definitely did it on purpose for the warden to see! !

It was too weird that they would cause trouble at the exact time when the signal was transmitted. The warden's suspicion deepened, but he needed a definite proof, so he waited patiently in the infirmary. As long as they came and fell into the trap, it would mean that, whether it was the food poisoning on Monday, the days of dormancy, or the intentional provocation of the jailer and deliberate detention today, they were all planned and premeditated actions of the criminals, just to deduce that the instrument was in the infirmary and then hijack it.

If they were not the unlucky ones being blamed, Wei Nian would even applaud, as this plan even included a way out.

Under normal circumstances, the prison guards would put them in solitary confinement, which was unattended and unsurveilled. No matter if they knocked out the doctor, changed the properties of the bomb, or ran out of the prison, no one would be able to react. Unfortunately, the warden kept a close watch on the equipment and would send out the guards for close surveillance at the slightest suspicious sign.

Directly opposite, the heels of leather shoes tapped on the floor. The warden came over with a stick in his hand and a sneer on his face. The sound of a stick breaking through the air was extremely sharp. Everyone in the infirmary covered their heads and fled in panic, with masks of pain on their faces.

Why didn't Ji Xu replace the friendly reminder of painkillers with a warning that the warden was approaching? Was he afraid that after he pushed the blame, they would run away and refuse to work? ! !