Chapter 061 Prison Break Simulator (End)
The cafeteria is the place where one can most directly feel the severity of the unrest. It stands alone on the rubble on both sides, half of it collapsed and the other half intact. Everyone supported each other and climbed up the several-meter-high rocks, looking around from afar.
The few remaining buildings were lit up by generators, allowing them to observe the surroundings.
Whether it was the blackened duty room and office building, or the factory that was burned down to an almost empty shell, everything was eerily quiet, without even the sound of birds singing or machines running. It seemed that they were the only remaining lives. The breathing sounds of hundreds of people formed a silent melody, making the prison look terrifyingly empty.
"What are you looking at?" Ji Xu followed their line of sight, pushed up his glasses, and reminded them in confusion, "There are five minutes and seventeen seconds left before the bombing. I don't care if someone is waiting to die, but don't block other people's way."
"We just feel that..." After a long time, an emotional person whispered, "It's too sudden, like a dream."
How many turning points can there be in life? And whose turning point happened in just two hours? It had nothing to do with them, but their life turned upside down and it seemed like a lifetime ago.
When you wake up in the middle of the night, will no one doubt that this is just a dream?
Ji Xu paused and said, "I don't mind helping you sober up."
He saw the essence of their revelry, which was to use the noise to escape from anxiety. When there was a hand behind them pushing them forward, the filled emptiness was exposed in the idleness, which made people have wild thoughts.
Ji Xu found something for them to do: "You're worrying too early. The situation won't change. When everyone goes back to their cells tomorrow morning, the warden will have to watch you sulk. After all, you didn't buy my business."
Everyone choked, but their attention was unconsciously focused on the last sentence: "You are indeed C. We have all seen your business promotion. Did Wei Hong really run away?"
Ji Xu said: "There is his voice in the background on the communicator, he is clamoring to be in charge of the finances."
Someone was thoughtful and hesitated to speak: "Why did you come in to help us? We were..." Everyone could guess the rest of the unfinished words.
Ji Xu turned his head to look over. He walked over to the person he had injured and raised his chin to indicate that it was still unclear who was hitting whom. "If your little fights are considered an obstacle, then I should reflect on how lazy I have been recently."
To be honest, when he faced this group of people head-on, he was definitely not the one in danger. This was evident from the fact that Wei Nian asked him why it was so noisy around him instead of suspecting that he would be beaten up. In the eyes of people who were familiar with Ji Xu, the probability of him getting himself into trouble was no greater than the possibility that the driver who escaped did not die from a heart explosion after two o'clock.
Ji Xu sneered again: "Besides, if you die, you die. Anyway, the prison will be filled with new people on Monday. I have plenty of other clients to play games with the warden."
Damn, those who heard it dared to be angry but not say anything.
The truth is indeed so cruel. Their lives and deaths are just bargaining chips for Ji Xu. It would be great if they win, but it would not be a pity if they die.
During the silent embarrassment, someone in the audience excitedly shouted at the top of his voice: "I found it! Come here, come and help!"
It’s okay to waste five or six minutes on the road, but not on chatting. While they were asking, someone had actually been looking for the howitzer, and now the lucky guy was standing next to the tables, chairs and benches, pointing at the exposed muzzle, waving his hands and shouting.
The others immediately slid down the ramp and lifted it out, only to find that the jailer had already torn the car into pieces before leaving.
But with the clue, the rest was easy to handle. They found scattered parts nearby, looked up and saw Ji Xu standing at the top with an expressionless face. They felt a dull pain in their shoulders and all over their body, but they didn't dare to call him out. They consciously ignored Ji Xu and called for help to assemble the parts on the spot.
Many people mistakenly believe that howitzers are about the same size as rocket launchers and can be carried on the shoulders and fired. In fact, this is extremely wrong.
Some howitzers were as big as a small car. They were the kind of huge beasts that would make military veterans exclaim involuntarily, "Is this a cannon?!" upon seeing them. Otherwise, they would not have destroyed half of the cafeteria with one strike. Fortunately, they were only temporarily requisitioned, so they did not have to worry about the body of the vehicle and only had to install the launch device.
After working hard, I managed to piece together a semi-finished product in two minutes.
Ji Xu came over at some point. He turned around and praised generously, "Not bad." Then he looked at the sky and told the time without pause, "Two minutes and twenty-four seconds left until launch. Someone knows your location. I hope you can evacuate quickly."
He did not intervene again, but left the result to the group's survival instinct. The moon was obscured by lead-gray clouds. Ji Xu walked back upstairs and looked at the quiet hotel opposite. He seemed to hear the command voice of setting up artillery shells outside the door.
The jailers would not use super-large weapons because the residential area was within a five-minute walk. The result was obvious: the explosives would be concentrated near the cells. Not only would they not be able to penetrate the infirmary, they would also not be able to cause major trouble to the passage. Otherwise, not to mention the nearby residents, the cave underneath that had just been filled a few months earlier would have problems again.
After a moment, Ji Xu withdrew his gaze and was stopped when he turned around.
"Uh, that." The man whose shoulder was pierced didn't know what he was thinking, and he felt a little embarrassed. "Aren't you going to come over here?"
Ji Xu turned to look at him. The man's expression slowly stiffened, as if he had escaped from the tiger's mouth but was being stared at by the tiger again. In pain, he subconsciously touched the wound on his shoulder, but his finger stopped halfway in mid-air until Ji Xu considerately looked away. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief.
He was unable to carry heavy objects, so he was left behind by his companions. He was also one of them in the conversation just now. Seeing Ji Xu pretending to leave, he couldn't help feeling nervous. It was too late for him to leave now, so he licked his lips and decided to pretend he didn't see it if Ji Xu didn't answer.
However, Ji Xu raised his hand and threw the steel bar and the communicator to him. In his blank eyes, Ji Xu smiled and raised his finger: "Shh, don't tell anyone."
The man subconsciously responded, "Okay."
Ji Xu put his hand down and returned to his previous expression, "I have something important to do. Take down the steel bars and remind them to build support frames so that there will be no place to hide when the rubble falls."
The man looked at the communicator in his hand and said awkwardly: "Then this..."
"I'm screening clients. Didn't you hear me on the wall?" Ji Xu asked back, and then continued, "Wei Nian and his charging habits are different from mine. Just in case, please go to Wei Hong for collection matters. Jiang Yi will perform the surgery, Wei Nian will assist, and -"
Ji Xu said calmly: "Remember to remind them to pay the balance. Don't think you can default on your debts just because you've joined the company."
The man was surprised, happy and amused when he heard it. He nodded randomly and hid the communicator on his body. Feeling uneasy, he found a hole to bury it. When he turned around, he suddenly remembered that there would be a fire attack later. He gritted his teeth and simply hid in the artillery vehicle that had been dismantled and no one was paying attention to it. During this period, Ji Xu did not leave, but stood by with his hands in his pockets and watched. The night wind blew over from time to time, and he reached out to push the hair off his glasses.
Suddenly, with a bang, the howitzer that had been barely repaired fell apart after being used as expected. The passage that had been strictly calculated did not collapse, revealing a small hole. At the moment before entering the passage, the man turned back with an epiphany and happened to see Ji Xu's back disappearing in the ruins.
He left.
Everyone hid in the passage, counting the time. When they counted to 135, there were successive bombings outside, along with loud shouts and curses from the residents who were awakened in the middle of the night. Strangely, the bombing locations were not scattered, and the cave almost collapsed during the period. Fortunately, someone reminded us to bring some reinforcement before going in, and the cave managed to hold up.
It was unknown how long it had been before the sky finally turned pale. Many of them were knocked unconscious due to blood loss. In a daze, the ruins above their heads were lifted up and people were dragged out.
A few lucky people who were still conscious saw the rescue team arrive. The prison was now in a state of chaos, as if it had been swept by a tornado. Looking around, there were no standing buildings.
The doctors also came out in disgrace. It was because they could not get in touch with the prisoners that the rescue team, which had not been here for a long time, was urgently sent there. These people were in better spirits than the prisoners. Apart from being a little embarrassed, they had no wounds. They grabbed the warden's arm, spoke incoherently, and shouted in fear: "The corpse has resurrected! No! Someone disguised himself as a prison guard and invaded the medical room!"
The warden smiled reluctantly and pulled his hand: "I understand."
What's the point of hugging him, it's all over... I don't know how many plots these people missed while in a coma.
He sighed depressedly, "Alas, no one died. It seems that I have been busy for a long time but nothing has been accomplished. I really don't know where Ji Xu went. The power grid is obviously intact, but even the prisoners in the cave have never seen him. Really, he can't hide even as a rat."
The doctor, who didn't understand, was horrified: "Who is Ji Xu? Why did so many people have to die? Was it him or you who did the bombing? Why do you sound more suspicious than him?!"
The warden said perfunctorily, "You guys are still alive, right? Be good and go play. I want to see if Ji Xu has left any message for me in the square."
He turned and left, and the jailer behind him immediately grabbed the doctors who rushed over to ask questions and diverted their attention under the pretext of questioning them.
Gradually, the warden moved away from everyone and came to the square. He held on to the broken wall and looked into the distance. There was a machine gun on the bumpy square. He walked over and picked it up, only to find that the magazine was empty, as it had been taken away by Ji Xu.
Instead, there was a communicator shoved in haphazardly, with traces of dirt on the back.
The warden suddenly realized that this was the one he had thrown into the prison. It had been quietly taken away by its owner at some point, and then sent back, and finally returned to the warden's hands.
Ji Xu said, "I have sent you more than 200 gifts. Remember to check them in the morning, sir."
Ji Xu added: "I took the bullet away as a souvenir."
When the other prison guards came over, they only saw the back of their chief officer, who was holding a machine gun and thinking.
After this day, the Weidi Prison repeated the experience of being complained about, built, reinforced, and recruiting new prisoners. The black car drivers who were originally brought in by Ji Xu also became one of them. When they saw the warden passing by with his hands behind his back, they quickly hid beside him and trembled. They heard from the old people who survived the disaster that the warden and the guards used to be too lazy to pay attention to people, but after a certain accident, the management measures changed drastically.
When asked who that person was, those who knew the situation tacitly avoided answering. The warden who passed by smiled half-smiled, and for the next week, all those who had discussed the matter were in trouble.
——No wonder they don’t discuss who that person is!
New prisoners also bring news from the outside world. For example, a fugitive exploded on the road. Fortunately, there were few people on the road in the early morning, so no accident occurred. The body was taken away by the Weidi Prison on the same day. The bank conducted a self-inspection as usual some time ago and found more than a dozen large-scale illegal transfers. As a result, the other party had an empty number and the transferor was suspected to have been deceived. A hospital was reported for illegal medical practice. The patient fled overnight and disappeared. After the doctor was fined, the case was closed.
It's all strange news that makes people confused.
However, the cleaner did discover that there was a machine gun without a magazine in the warden's newly renovated office.
While he was cleaning, he saw the warden fiddling with some electronic pet machine, pressing it with his legs crossed. From a perspective where no one was watching, the new account on the other side of the communicator asked him anxiously, "I just realized that there is an unregistered account here. Who are you?"
The warden recognized the man's identity from his tone. He didn't take it seriously and was about to tell Wei Nian his identity to scare him. He glanced at the machine guns on the display stand opposite and changed his mind temporarily: "Ji Xu."
"?" The person on the other side was very alert. "I don't believe it. Where did you hide my pistol before?"
It turned out that the broken gun belonged to Wei Nian.
The warden suppressed the urge to tie the man up and throw him back into the crematorium, and patiently replied, "Fire hydrant."
How did Ji Xu select his employees? It would be better to let these people go back and be used as fertilizer to plant trees. Do you expect others not to see the red paint on the barrel and frame?
Wei Nian was still not satisfied. He took advantage of not knowing who he was facing and showed all his courage and said aggressively: "Then tell me, why didn't Ji Xu accept the pistol I gave you?"
The warden was stunned. He really didn't know this. Wei Nian asked very carefully. All of them were details of his private conversations with Ji Xu. Even if the driver was still alive, it would be impossible to force him to tell the truth.
Seeing that he didn't reply, Wei Nian was cautious but smug: "It's hard to tell, let me tell you, he said that the weapons he kept would either be shot at the enemy or given to his subordinates. Obviously, he didn't tell you about this. Goodbye, unknown stranger across the street, if you want to buy business, remember to go through the formal channel!"
Wei Nian sent a string of words in rapid succession, and just as the warden was about to patiently reply, the account was blocked.
“…”
He raised his eyebrows, laughed silently, stood up and took away the machine gun on the wall that was missing a magazine. The cleaner looked at him a few more times and saw that he had already taken out a new magazine from the drawer.
The warden lowered his head to install the magazine, and he was in a good mood. "Giving weapons to your subordinates is a kind of help, and it is a tacit acknowledgement that you share his sins. Firing weapons at the enemy is a threat, warning him not to act rashly. So, Ji Xu, what's the point of taking the bullets as souvenirs?"
The cleaner looked around and saw that he was alone, so he tentatively agreed: "What is it?"
The warden seemed to have just discovered that there were people here. He looked over in surprise. He hung the gun back on the wall. Ji Xu's words flashed through his mind. He sneered, "What he meant was that even if Ji Xu disappeared, someone would still come to trouble me."
It sounds like a bullet can be very powerful once it leaves the muzzle.
However, he will look forward to the arrival of this day, just as he looks forward to seeing a person standing on the opposite bed and breakfast again one day, holding a gun and leaving a unique self-introduction in the square.
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