Chapter 88
On the third day after Cen Xun and others entered the prison, something big and small happened in the prison.
The prison guard of 0096 disappeared.
That morning, when the prison guards took their respective prisoners to the classroom, the prison guard from 0096 did not show up.
0096 stood in his cell, more bewildered than ever before. He pressed his face against the viewing window, looking at the group of people walking past his cell door. He couldn't help but ask aloud, "Hey, no, where is my prison guard? Do I still need to go to the classroom?"
As 0001 passed by the metal door of 0096, he hurriedly said, "Go get some sleep first and wait for us to call you."
After saying that, he looked at the prison guard in front of him.
In just one night, the size of the 0000 prison guard expanded a lot, and even worm-like black mist began to spread outside the black cloak.
0001 remembered what 0000 said yesterday. 0000 once said that he had a way to deal with the prison guards and the warden, but 0001 never expected that 0000 would be so efficient.
How did 0000 make the prison guard 0096 disappear from the prison in just one night?
Unfortunately, after entering the classroom, these prisoners were immersed in painful emotions and unable to extricate themselves. 0001 did not have time to ask Cen Xun. It was not until lunch time that the unpalatable nutrient solution brought him back to his senses. 0001 could not wait to ask Cen Xun about the disappearance of prison guard.
"If it wasn't me, how could I have done something like killing a prison guard?" Cen Xun pulled the stopper from the glass tube, shaking his head and sighing, "That's truly too vicious."
"I just asked my prison guard if he had any thoughts on getting a promotion."
Cen Xun said calmly and innocently, "What does the choice made by prison guard 0000 have to do with me?"
Others: ""
Just pretend, no one will believe it and it has nothing to do with you!
0001 lowered his voice and asked curiously, "The prison guards take orders directly from the warden. How did you manage to get your guards to ignore the warden's order and kill Guard 0096?"
Cen Xun replied calmly, "I don't know how he did it. Anyone who wants a promotion will always find a way. How to get rid of my fellow prison guards is not my concern, but a problem for prison guard 0000."
"If I have to give a reason," Cen Xun thought for a moment, "it's probably because my prison guards are more vicious than any other staff in this prison."
As a notorious murderer, is there anyone in this prison more vicious than him?
All the goodwill lies with him. Prison Guard 0000 only has the purest evil. Without any moral or emotional restraints, Prison Guard 0000 will naturally become a murderer without any bottom line.
This prison divides the prisoners into two, allowing the good side to atone for their sins and the evil side to restrain the good side. It is indeed a good way to exhaust the prisoners, but this mechanism has a fatal flaw, which is that not everyone's character is black or white.
Even this prison cannot completely and cleanly separate the good from the evil.
For Cen Xun, that little bit of barren emotion took root in the dark soil full of malice, and miraculously blossomed into a flower of evil. Even if this flower of evil was pulled out by the roots, its roots would have been stained black long ago.
His little true heart was mixed with too many desires, even his love was full of possession and conquest.
Therefore, even Cen Xun's good side would continue to generate malice.
He is completely bad, yet not purely good. If you cut him in half, you only get half of the bad person and the other half of the not-so-bad person.
Letting such a rotten person deal with other slightly rotten people is as easy as eating and drinking water.
Cen Xun said to the others, "Let's wait a few more nights. Once all of our colleagues at prison guard 0000 have gone to heaven, we can explore outside."
The others responded with complicated expressions.
0001 suggested, "0096's prison guard has disappeared. If we have a chance, we'd better talk to 0096 and see if the disappearance of the prison guard will have any impact on him, such as restoring his memory."
0006 said: "No prison guard opened the door for him, so he can't get out now. Our cell is a bit far from his, so how can we chat?"
0088 thought, "I'll get closer to 0096 and raise my voice. Maybe we can start a conversation."
"No need to go to such trouble." Cen Xun lowered his eyes and looked at the green liquid. "I'll go talk to him in person when I get home tonight."
0001's mouth twitched: "How are you going?"
Cen Xun smiled and said, "Of course I'll walk over there."
11pm in the evening.
After being busy for the whole afternoon, Cen Xun returned to the cell and called out to prison guard 0000 again, just like last night.
"Get me a few more red cards." Cen Xun said calmly, "If I atone for my sins more, you'll become stronger faster, you know."
Prison guard 0000 paused, as if he hadn't heard, and walked out of the metal door.
After the prison guard left, Cen Xun took off the necklace from his neck, touched the invisible silk thread, and used it to cut all the chains neatly.
He came to the metal door, wrapped his fingers around the invisible thread, and was about to start cutting from the small viewing window when he suddenly noticed that the metal door was not closed tightly at all.
This prison guard 0000 is really
Cen Xun shook his head and smiled, then pushed the door open and went out, meeting the gaze of 0001 who was facing him with a shocked look on his face.
"You" 0001 looked through the small viewing window and saw Cen Xun walking out in broad daylight, feeling extremely surprised.
No, you just jailbroken so blatantly?
Is this allowed in prison?! Where is the morality? Where is the humanity? Where is the key?
Cen Xun stood in front of his cell door, raised an eyebrow and asked, "Do you want to go play in 0096's cell together?"
0001 hesitated: "The prison guards might find out."
Cen Xun used a silk thread to cut open the door lock and said softly, "It doesn't matter. I'll take care of all the red cards tonight."
0001: ""Can this also be packed?
Although he was shocked, after the door opened, 0001 still walked out of the prison with Cen Xun.
Passing by cell 0006, Cen Xun knocked on the window and asked, "Can I come out?"
0006 pupils trembled: "No way, brother, are we going out tonight? Are you making such a big deal?"
Cen Xun said, "If we don't go out, we can discuss something in cell 0096."
0006 breathed a sigh of relief and took off the necklace: "That's fine, you have to eat your food one bite at a time. Wait a minute, I'll cut the door now."
0009, who was sitting across from him, heard the noise outside and immediately pressed his face against the viewing window, saying excitedly, "Brother, I want to go out too! I want to play in 0096's cell too!"
Cen Xun also agreed: "Okay, I'll let 0006 cut your door later."
0088 and 0113 also came out. Everyone gathered at the metal door of 0096, chatting and cutting the door. This sense of relaxation made 0096 inside the door almost think he was back to the vegetable market.
0001 asked curiously, "Is your necklace some kind of magical artifact? Why can it cut metal from a distance?"
"There's a string wrapped around it that's invisible to the naked eye." That's how 0113 explained.
0001 asked to touch it, and 0113 looked at Cen Xun inquiringly. Cen Xun nodded in agreement. The origin of this thread was a mystery. Although it was sharp, the four of them would not be hurt when holding it. He wanted to see if other people would be able to avoid injuries when using it.
The final answer is no.
As soon as 0001 touched the invisible thread, a trace of blood seeped out of his finger. If 0001 had not been slow in reaching out his hand, his finger would probably have been cut off directly by this touch.
"What a sharp thread." 0001 pressed down on his fingertips to stop the bleeding. There was no fear on his face, only pure contemplation: "Why are you okay just holding it?"
0009 couldn't help but interject, "That's not a big deal. It means this is a divine tool that recognizes its master. Only those with a predestined relationship can use it."
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0096 stuck to the visitor window and said in a gloomy tone, "So they must have been at least Mahayana cultivators before they were imprisoned. Why were they reduced to mortals after entering?"
0009 inexplicably became arrogant: "Who told you not to cultivate the ruthless way? I have been in prison for ten years, have you been affected in the slightest? No. Because without love, you are God, without heart, there is no pain!"
"You're still young, you don't understand," 0096 said in a nostalgic tone, "Love can stop the pain."
Others: ""
With a bang, the door finally opened.
0001 walked in and looked at 0096 with relief: "It seems you have recovered a lot. You even have the energy to argue with elementary school students."
Today, there were no guards to pull him out, and no hallucinations to disturb him. 0096 slept all day in the cell. The bloodshot in his eyes had dissipated a lot, and even his spirit was different. "It's much better. Last night, I was halfway through my atonement, just as I was about to enter the selection stage, and I don't know why, the hallucination suddenly stopped. It's a good thing it stopped, otherwise if I had to choose again, I really wouldn't have woken up today."
He couldn't wait to ask, "What's going on? Where did my prison guard go? Where did you get the door-cutting tools?"
"It's a bit complicated. To put it simply, your prison guard was killed by the prison guard of 0000."
"Eat it." Cen Xun interrupted 0001 and added, "My prison guard ate it."
0088 asked in surprise: "How did you know?"
Cen Xun said calmly, "When I woke up this morning, I felt about eight-tenths full."
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0096 swallowed hard and inevitably glanced at Cen Xun's abdomen. Smart people don't need to talk too much, and 0096 quickly understood the implication of 0000's words.
Prison guards and prisoners actually have a symbiotic relationship, two sides of the same coin.
0096 smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking that it was a waste that they had been in prison for ten years and no one had discovered this crucial information.
"The door-cutting tool is the necklace we wore before entering the prison." Cen Xun spread out his hands and showed him his necklace: "It's a metal chain, an invisible thread. The thread can cut things, but I don't know what the metal chain is used for."
0096 looked at the necklace in his hand, his gaze suddenly paused. He leaned in to examine it carefully for a moment, then frowned.
"I think I've seen this black metal somewhere before." 0096 tapped his head, as if to help his mind, which had been frozen for too long, regain its composure. "Where is it?"
0001 calmly offered a hypothesis: "It's definitely not in our daily activities. Could it be from the time we escaped from prison?"
"Oh yeah! That time!" 0096's eyes lit up, and he smoothed back his messy hair. "In the lab up there, we smelt and extract the rocks we dig every day, and we make this black metal!"
0096's excitement had caused him to speak incoherently, forcing 0001 to explain the situation to Cen Xun and the others. "I escaped with four other prisoners. We escaped while mining, and back then, guards wouldn't accompany them. We took the elevator to the top floor and discovered the prison had an internal defense system. We assigned 0096 to dismantle it, while the other three held off the guards and the warden."
At this point, 0096 finally gathered his thoughts and continued, "There's a base above the prison. Searching for the control room, I went through most of the base. There were no people inside, only robots operating. I figured following the robots might lead me to the core area of the base. As I walked, I ended up at the laboratory."
0096 paused. "Calling it a laboratory isn't accurate. It has several areas, and refining ore is just one of them. The refined ferrous metals are then transported to the next area and loaded into missiles."
Cen Xun narrowed his eyes: "Missile?"
0096 hummed, then said in a deep voice, "That base above us looks like a military base."
Cen Xun pondered, "So what's the use of this black metal? When it was still stone, it seemed to only have hallucinogenic properties."
0096 said in frustration, "Time was tight, and I didn't have time to look carefully. If we want to find out, we have to go up again."
0088 then said, "I think there's another crucial issue. We're at sea now. If we want to leave, we have to find a boat or a helicopter first."
0096 frowned. "If it's really a military base, there should be fighter jets and attack helicopters. But who can fly them?"
Cen Xun: "I can't."
0006: "No."
0088: "No."
0113: "No."
0009 was eager to try, "Does flying a plane in a dream count as a resume?"
The idiotic question made everyone roll their eyes.
0001, the only one who didn't deny it immediately, was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "I should be able to."
Facing the shocked looks from all directions, 0001 pressed his brows in confusion and said, "Yeah, why would I open it?"
Cen Xun smiled slightly: "It seems that everyone here is a hidden talent."
"Let's plan this for now," Cen Xun said. "Find some time to go to the base up there. Our first goal is to get a helicopter."
0001 and 0096 both agreed: "Okay, what time?"
Cen Xun thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait until the prison guard 0000 eats up all the ordinary prison guards first. This way, we won't have to face the other prison guards head-on, which will greatly reduce the pressure."
These prisoners are all fragile now and definitely cannot beat the prison guards, so it is better to let prison guard 0000 do it for them.
There was a sound of footsteps outside, indicating that their attempt to escape from the prison had been discovered by the prison guards.
Just as he had said to 0001 before, Cen Xun not only stood up and admitted that he was the mastermind, but also was willing to bear all the punishment.
Since there had never been such a precedent, the prison guards held the red card in their hands and did not make an immediate judgment.
Prison guard 0000 was the first to move. He handed the red card in his hand to Cen Xun. The tentacle-like black mist on his body suddenly stretched out, and unceremoniously snatched all the red cards from the prison guards' hands, and then put them all into Cen Xun's hands.
Cen Xun took seven red cards and calmly returned to his cell.
0009 walked towards his cell, admiringly saying as he walked, "People like my Brother 40 are real men who stand tall and proud! I will follow Brother 40 forever! I will never be separated from him!"
Cen Xun: “.”
That's not necessary.
Seven red cards represent that he will enter the illusion seven times in one night.
In order to transform strong enough malice, Cen Xun watched coldly as his memory became fragmented.
The colorful flowers in the flower garden withered overnight, and the busy figures in the flower garden disappeared. The place called home was flattened again and again by thousands of silk threads, and the places we walked together became ruins.
Cen Xun just sat on the ruins and watched all this. The more illusions he experienced, the clearer his consciousness in the illusions became.
His eyes gradually became able to distinguish the boundary between reality and illusion, as if he was born with such sharpness. The clumsy and exaggerated plot became extremely ridiculous in his eyes. In the end, Cen Xun sat on the ruins, his shoulders trembling, and he actually laughed softly.
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