Chapter 054 Prison Break Simulator

Thursday afternoon, 4:30.

Ji Xu pushed open the door of the place where he was staying, scaring away a few homeless people who were scouting the place. He ignored them and came to a fire hydrant that no one had maintained. The red fire hydrant was covered with mottled paint and only two or three pieces of glass were left in the corner. It was so shabby that even the homeless people wouldn't even look at it. Ji Xu pulled a gun from the dry pipe, put on the hood of his sweatshirt, went downstairs, and got into the taxi he had called in advance.

At 4:57, the taxi stopped at the edge of the western suburbs. The driver, who had no grenades hidden and did not need to sell his service, stuck his head out and strongly recommended that he go to the area near the Guatemalan Prison, which was their famous attraction.

Politely declining the driver's plan to extend the metered journey, Ji Xu pushed his glasses and walked without much hurry. There were no pedestrians around because everyone was at work. There were only stray dogs walking in and out of the black garbage bags.

Estimating that the time was about right, Ji Xu patted the starch stuck on his gloves, took out his cell phone, and sent a message to Jiang Yi, whose hands were steadier. Half a minute later, the driver's successful notification and Jiang Yi's photo of the lock picking came almost simultaneously. He chose to reply to the driver first.

"Well done." Ji Xu praised the guests for never being stingy. "Go back to work. Remember to drag the cleaner to the bathroom and hang up a sign saying "cleaning in progress". No one will go in. The owner of this floor is waiting for other guests."

The hostile stray dog ​​was whimpering beside him. Ji Xu put away his phone and poured it some water.

He was not in a hurry, and it was useless for the prisoner who was picking the lock to be anxious. Few people realized that the reason why a hint was called a hint was that it was useless and could only make people die clearly. For example, among the countless signal transmission times that aroused the warden's vigilance, Ji Xu deliberately chose 4 pm just to let them take the blame and create a time difference...

The door of the B&B was open, and the owner was counting the bills at the front desk. Ji Xu went around to the back of the building, stepped on the protruding waistline of the wall, and climbed up to the rooftop nimbly and silently. The pigeons on the railings were busy grooming themselves, and they were not startled until he landed.

Only the boss came up to the rooftop to repair the tables, chairs and benches, leaving behind a trail of crooked footsteps. Ji Xu followed in the original footprints and sat on the stacked bed cabinets to wait.

An hour and a half later, the cleaner woke up from his coma and staggered to sound the alarm.

Ji Xu squinted his eyes. The simulator would always repair his myopia caused by reading books, allowing him to see clearly below effortlessly. The jailers were escorting several familiar faces with pale faces over. Through the spacious office window, he saw the warden with his back to him, talking to the clients with his head down. The two men were not far away from each other, and with a little search, he could look up and look at each other without any obstruction.

Ji Xu slid down the drainage pipe, entered the empty room 517, used the window to block the muzzle of the gun and his own face, and fired the first shot.

"Bang--"

"Bang bang bang bang bang!"

A startled pigeon flew past the window. Ji Xu emptied the magazine without hesitation, restored the window to its original state, went downstairs, avoided the boss who was looking around while counting the bills, lowered the brim of his hood, and entered the supermarket in the crowd.

At around seven o'clock, Ji Xu boarded the tram carrying the food. He was low-key and had little presence, no different from the people around him who were discussing their children's studies and dinner after work. At the same time, the prison guards with professional instruments returned to the B&B and detected gunpowder reaction in a curtain in one of the two rooms, concluding that the suspect had stayed at 517.

When the tram arrived at the terminal, the driver sent a message in panic, asking: "The alarm has been sounded! Damn it, you should have agreed to let me kill the cleaner, at least to delay it for another day. Didn't you say that someone would take the blame for me? Why did I hear the jailer asking about C?!"

Ji Xu followed the crowd and got off the bus. He bought a glass of watermelon juice at a street stall, but his tone became cold. "Of course you can decide people's life and death without authorization, but since you contacted me, don't disobey my orders. The cleaner is useful to me if he's alive, but you are not."

The driver realized that this was his last straw and he had no money to pay. He stopped being aggressive and lowered his head, saying, "The jailers are going to ask me soon. They are getting closer. What should I say next?"

"You can give them some of my information in exchange for better treatment. I don't mind, but you know what information should not be disclosed. There is no option of confession and leniency in the Guatemalan prison."

The driver knew that even though a newcomer like him knew nothing about explosives, the unique living environment of the Dangerous Prison still made him realize that he had been cheated. There was no humane treatment in this place. He tentatively said, "Then I will only tell you your business scope, and I won't tell you your true identity."

Ji Xu didn't reply.

The further he walked, the more remote the surroundings became. It was completely dark. As expected, the driver chose to sell out Ji Xu's profession in order to get good treatment. Unfortunately, under the provocation of Ji Xu's business card, the warden's interest immediately shifted from Wei Nian and others to the driver. They were temporarily let off and sent back to the confinement room. During this time, they cooperated with each other and took the opportunity to steal the communicator in the vent.

Only one, but enough to connect with the season sequence when they return to the detention room.

It was unknown who had sent the message, but Ji Xu judged from the tone of voice that it was Wei Nian. They seemed to like Wei Nian to contact him because he was the one who had seen Ji Xu in person and asked him questions more casually: "Wow, we were actually released. How did you do it? A code name alone can't make the warden put aside the invasion of his office. Did you kill the jailer?"

Without seeing the situation at the square, they made wild guesses. Ji Xu denied it, "It has nothing to do with me. It's just that someone didn't abide by the confidentiality agreement during the transaction. Although I don't mind, he has to pay a price to compensate for my loss. What do you think?"

"..." Wei Hong, who had once threatened to betray Ji Xu, shut his mouth and stopped instigating Wei Nian to ask random questions.

Even if he was just saying it out of anger, Ji Xu's pointed knocking made Wei Hong suspect that Ji Xu might have guessed that some people were dissatisfied with the overly ups and downs experience today, but now, everyone was very well-behaved and did not mention a word about their opinions on Ji Xu.

After a long while, Wei Nian skipped over the previous topic as if nothing had happened and continued, "What should we do next? Or wait?"

"No." Ji Xu said, "Since someone is attracting attention, why not make a big fuss? You should act at night. Wait, someone will come to open the door in a while."

Wei Nian suddenly seemed to remember something: "Wait, you said someone violated the confidentiality agreement. It was the driver, right? He saw my face outside. Will he tell the warden?"

"He thought you escaped." Ji Xu smiled as he typed. "How could someone who escaped from prison go back in? After all, you've never met in prison. You should be thankful that you didn't chat with him on Monday. Otherwise, I would have to worry about how to make him trust me wholeheartedly and even muster up the courage to go to the warden's office."

Wei Nian, who just found out who broke into the office, said: "——He did it?!"

He gloated: "Okay, I knew it. These are the only people related to you. So he will be the one to deliver the key? I will cover my face to help you lie. I hope that when he is killed in the explosion, he will not wonder why he has never heard of the news of an explosion somewhere before."

Wei Nian crossed himself pretentiously and ran to the corner. Anyway, the solitary confinement cell was so crowded that it could hardly accommodate anyone more. They chatted with each other and no longer mentioned the order of seasons or any suspicious topics. The jailer passed by several times, but the frequency became less and less. Later, the corridor was silent and the sound of unlocking the door was very obvious.

It took several attempts for the key to open the door, revealing the driver's sweaty face. His pupils were dilated, flashing with a strange kind of excitement, and he was licking his lips unconsciously. It seemed that he had just finished a conversation with the warden, and the warden's deceptive and gentle tone made him mistakenly believe that he was well treated and felt that selling out the season sequence in exchange for benefits was a trivial matter.

Wei Hong ended his silent observation, he stepped forward, tightly covered Wei Nian in the depths, and took the paper handed over by the driver, which was folded to only three or four centimeters wide and could be easily hidden.

"This thing," the driver said, still immersed in the afterglow of anticipation and excitement, his words floating and sometimes light and sometimes heavy, "is what Ji Xu asked me to give to you."

Wei Hong said calmly: "How did you slip away from under the warden's nose?"

The driver was stunned. "Why did you run away? He asked me if I had purchased any business, and I said I had no money. C's price was very high. After checking, he found that I really couldn't afford it, so he let me go. He also gave me a bank card and asked me to contact Ji Xu on his behalf and lure him out."

"But when I wanted to go back to the cell, the warden told me that it was rest time now and I should not disturb the inmates. I walked around outside for several times, and no guards followed me. Then Ji Xu sent me a message asking me to put my bank card in the bathroom first so that he could come and rescue you with the piece of paper. I have to say that the warden is unexpectedly kind."

There were sounds of people holding their breath all around, and I got goosebumps at his description of the warden, but I couldn't stop laughing.

Wei Hong had a blank expression on his face: "You are more stupid than I thought." He held his forehead and swallowed the remaining two words, "Forget it. When I heard that you thought Ji Xu was a soft persimmon, I should have understood that people can't answer every question and be too frank. Otherwise, even if the communication is smooth, people will think that they have a good temper. But who can be sure that this is not another disguise?"

The driver didn't understand and looked at Wei Hong in confusion.

Wei Hong suddenly changed his face and said to him politely: "You should go. Have a nice day. Oh, by the way, it's a good thing you didn't bring your bank card. After all, we have no money and might rob you."

The driver looked at him warily and left quickly, probably to the bathroom to retrieve his bank card. After a long while, Wei Nian muffledly asked the same question that everyone was thinking: "...didn't he suspect that the bank card was actually a fake with a positioning chip?"

"A new guy." Jiang Yi shook her head, her tone full of pity, "After all, there are no POS machines in prison. Has he always been like this? He is even more naive than I thought."

The last sentence was directed to Wei Nian.

Wei Nian's trembling shoulders stopped, he wiped away the tears of holding back laughter, thought for a moment, and nodded with certainty: "You guessed right, Jiang Yi, I was sitting in his car with a gun in my pocket, but he kept looking at me in the rearview mirror. If Ji Xu hadn't attracted all my attention at the time, I would have taken action long ago. He didn't even think about the possibility that I might want to silence him."

Everyone who heard this experience shook their heads in disapproval. Wei Hong concluded, "That's not surprising. Some things always have to be revealed by idiots without making a sound. He didn't really think the warden believed it, did he? He thought that people who bought the service would not reveal C's information, and use this to dispel the anxiety after stealing? The warden is unreasonable."

Speaking of the theft in the warden's office, Wei Nian clicked his tongue in disdain: "When I think about us taking the blame for him, I feel itchy. The good news is that we have received the things that Ji Xu sent. You guys should open it and take a look. What does it say? New plan?"

Wei Hong opened the paper and was stunned at the first glance, with a mixture of astonishment and ecstasy. Several people who came over to take a look were also stunned and couldn't believe it. This made Wei Nian even more curious. Others who couldn't squeeze in also waited for a long time and urged Wei Hong to speak quickly.

Wei Hong looked at them with a complicated expression. He turned the paper over, and a surgery certificate with an official seal was revealed.