The man put away his gun, and the prison guard on the side took it from him.
He raised his chin slightly and looked down at all the prisoners who were as quiet as quails.
"Fifty points." He looked at the prisoners who were blocked at the door of the restaurant and had not come in to eat, "Including those who didn't come."
He glanced at the mess on the ground with disgust: "Also, clean it up."
Deathly silence filled the place.
Soon, the prisoners began to consciously clear away the dinner plates on the floor.
No one cared about the hypothermic body in the middle, with its pupils wide open and its back pressed to the ground. Blood slowly flowed in all directions through the smooth and unobstructed floor tiles, reaching Zhang Chi's feet.
Zhang Chi moved his feet slightly.
The prisoners talked a lot.
Among them, the words "prison director" and "deduction" appear most frequently.
No one asked why law enforcement officers could kill people in prison. No one discussed it. Most people looked calm, as if it was some kind of tacit understanding and habit.
Same as eating and drinking.
Zhou Ke hid behind Zhang Chi and looked at the corpse quietly, his words trembling: "Kill, kill someone?"
Zhang Chi said nothing.
Zhou Ke said: "How could this happen?"
Zhang Chi observed the familiar faces in the hall who came on the same plane - without exception, their faces were very ugly. Obviously, the legal awareness in this world is not that weak.
Everyone feels that this should not be a lawless place.
***
Newcomer training takes place in the morning.
The argument is that classes are opening.
Zhang Chi thought he was going to make some big move - to show the newcomer a little bit of color, but he didn't expect that he would be sitting in the classroom in class.
Courseware was displayed on the large screen, and the prison guard pointed at the screen with his baton.
The first lesson is the daily routine in prison.
"The canteen opens at 6:30, closes at 7:30, clocks in at 8:00, meals are served at 12 noon, evening is at 5:00, the canteen closes at 6:00, curfew is at 10 o'clock - no one is there after 10 o'clock Points will be deducted for the room.”
"Monday to Saturday are working days, and Sundays are free for free activities. The minimum working hours on free days are 3 hours. If the working hours are not enough, points will be deducted."
"The library is on the -3rd floor of the prison. It opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m. Each person can take away two books at a time. If you fail to return them after the due date, you will be deducted points."
"Non-cleaning personnel are not allowed to enter the administrative building..."
After the prison guard finished speaking, he gave each person a booklet. The booklet contained everything he had just said, but the details of the deductions were more detailed. For example, if someone was absent during the ward rounds after curfew, 10 points would be deducted for the first time. 50 points will be deducted for the second discovery, and 100 points will be deducted for the third discovery. There is no fourth time.
Zhang Chi looked at the words "There is no fourth time" on the booklet and fell into deep thought.
"Everyone must memorize this booklet before class tomorrow. I will randomly select students to memorize them. Those who fail to memorize them will have points deducted."
The prison guard took out a cylindrical metal storage frame from under the podium. The frame was filled with hundreds of flat black bracelets. He carried the metal frame and walked to the prisoners' table one by one, distributing a bracelet to each of them. , put on the bracelet, the green light turned on. The bracelet was wider than the ordinary thin leather strap. There was a very small electronic sign in the middle, which showed -50. Soon, the electronic screen went dark.
The green light is always on.
"You are lucky." The prison guard said, "The warden is here for inspection today."
It sounds like the warden doesn't come often.
After the prison guards finished the first row, they distributed the bracelets in the second row from the end of the first row to the front.
"Fifty points for everyone."
It turns out that this is what fifty points means.
"The bracelet is waterproof," the prison guard said. "Do not take off the bracelet at any time."
"If it is not connected to biometric information, the bracelet will automatically disconnect."
"The green light on your wristband proves that you are still alive."
The prison guard sent it to the third row.
"In the reform camp, there are no names, only code names."
"On the other side of the bracelet, there are your respective code names."
Zhang Chi turned over his left wrist and found the numbers "082" written on the back.
After handing out the wristbands, the prison guard returned to the podium and then talked about the types of work in the prison.
The first category is mining, which is 1 minute per working hour.
The second category is hand-knitting. There are two counting methods. The first is time-based, with 0.5 points for one working hour. The second is piece-based, with 10 points for every 50 pieces. The prisoner can choose whichever one has a higher value.
The third category is farming, and each working hour is 0.5 points.
The fourth category is cleaning, which is 0.5 points per working hour.
The prison guards very patiently demonstrated the working environment of various types of work. Various live videos were played on the big screen. Prisoners wearing prison uniforms demonstrated standardized operations and explained the operating procedures of various tools. It is worth noting that everyone in the video is wearing an armband with the four characters "Study Committee" written on it.
After the lecture, the prison guard said, "Which of you wants to be a study committee member?"
The prison guards are very gentle. At least from yesterday until now, all the prison guards - even the prison guards who maintained order in the restaurant in the morning, enforce the law in a civilized and polite manner.
So one prisoner boldly asked: "What is a study committee member?"
"Have you never been to school?" The prison guard looked strange. "You don't even know what a study committee member is?"
The prison guard said: "Take everyone to read in the morning. The teacher comes and shouts to stand up, collects homework books, counts late arrivals and early departures——"
Zhou Ke interrupted: "Isn't that the monitor?"
The prison guard said: "We are called study committee members."
Zhou Ke: "..."
"Don't you all want to be a study committee member?" the prison guard said.
Someone asked: "What are the benefits of being a study committee member?"
The prison guard said: "Is there any benefit to being a study committee member?"
No one took the initiative to become a study committee member. The prison guard took out a roll call list - if that could be called a roll call list, and called a number.
The study committee is 392.
A young man with a flat head.
After class, Zhou Ke ran over to Zhang Chi and asked furtively, "What's your number?"
Zhang Chi: "082."
Zhou Ke raised his bracelet: "I am 333."
Two people went to the cafeteria to eat.
There are also very few kinds of rice at noon, yellow and white paste, and some soup made of minced meat, which is thickened with gravy. It is a thick bowl. I don’t know how long it has been simmered, but it has been completely cooked. Green leafy vegetables, everyone A small bowl, very ecological, there were even unwashed vegetable worms on it.
The paste was even softer than the stew in the morning - no doubt the reheated leftovers. The broth had a pungent smell, and the salt on the vegetables was not mixed well. It was bland in some places and so salty in other places.
Zhou Ke was eating in great pain, because the act of swallowing was too painful, and he had to do something to divert his attention.
He raised his head and saw Zhang Chi eating with an expression on his face.
He was very curious about Zhang Chi.
Because she is too calm.
Whether she was in prison, seeing someone kill someone, or eating something that could be called pig food, she was calmer than most people on that plane.
Under what circumstances would a person be indifferent to such a scenario?
Either he is born with a big nerve, or he has seen similar situations too many times, so it is difficult to have any trouble.
She should be the former.
"What do you think of this place?" Zhou Ke asked.
Zhang Chi was sipping the broth: "It's pretty good."
Zhou Ke's eyes almost flew to the sky: "Okay?"
"What's so good about it?"
Zhang Chi said: "When you come up with clothes, you put out your hands for food and open your mouth."
Zhou Ke: "..."
"You have such a good attitude." Zhou Ke said complicatedly.
Zhang Chi finished the soup in one breath, then scraped the last bit of paste off the plate with a spoon, and rolled it into his tongue. The dinner plate was once again as clean as if it had just been taken out of the sink.
"Someone told me before that some people are the kind of people who can sleep and eat even if the sky is falling," Zhou Ke said slowly, "I really envy you."
Humans sometimes envy pigs.
Zhang Chi didn't think he was praising him. Too lazy to answer.
The food was really unpalatable, so Zhou Ke put down his chopsticks and started talking nonsense: "I heard that a prisoner once used chicken bones to cut a person's throat, so now the meat and vegetables have no bones."
He looked towards the people queuing up to get food: "Didn't you notice, there aren't any sharp things here."
really.
The tableware is all made of plastic, and the rice spoon is made of stainless steel, but there is a chain attached to it, and the other end is connected to the wall. If it is picked up more than one meter in diameter, the spoon will get stuck.
Zhang Chi said: "Who did you listen to?"
Zhou Ke said: "My roommate."
Zhang Chi thought of the tall man sitting on the lower bunk yesterday.
"Why did he tell you this?"
Zhou Ke said: "He also thought the food here was unpalatable. I heard that before that incident, the canteen would serve chicken and fish with bones at noon."
Zhang Chi was a little confused: "He likes to chat?"
It doesn't look like it.
Zhou Ke said: "He turns out to be a fellow countryman of mine."
Zhang Chi: "..."
Zhou Ke said: "We also went to the same elementary school."
"... Your place is really full of talents." After a long time, Zhang Chi commented.
Zhou Ke said: "Yes, I heard that our neighborhood contributes 50% of the city's crime rate."
Zhang Chi: "You are quite proud."
Zhou Ke was a little sad: "I don't want to either. I still hope that studying will change my destiny."
Zhang Chi remembered what he said on the plane and paused: "...because I don't have money to go to college?"
Zhou Ke said: "What kind of university? I didn't even go to high school. My grades in junior high school were poor and I had no books to study."
Zhang Chi: "..."
Zhou Ke said: "This world is particularly cruel to poor students."
The afternoon was spent on field trips.
Everyone was taken to visit the workplace. The first one they went to was the mine. To be precise, it was a mine. It was very primitive. It was all mined manually. Transportation was all done by wheelbarrows. Safety helmets were issued when entering the cave. There is a cylindrical headlight in the middle of the helmet for lighting.
"The activity of the Lanming Sand Mine is very high, and anyone with a mechanical prosthesis cannot work in the mine."
The prison guard glanced at everyone present.
"There will be a reaction. Of course, it's not the mine that reacts, it's the mechanical prosthetic limb that reacts. If you come into contact with the Lanming Sand Mine for more than ten minutes, the nerves connecting the prosthetic limb will begin to die. Within thirty minutes, your mechanical prosthetic limb will be completely inactivated. ”
There is a flower garden not far from the mine. It is very wide, with petals fluttering in the wind and green grass stretching. It ends abruptly on the hillside - this is an artificial flower garden with a very obvious boundary between Chu and Han. It is surrounded by a fence. , seems to prevent people from entering by mistake.
The prison guard made no introduction.
The second location visited was farmland.
"Anyone with different blood - please note, I am talking about anyone, regardless of the degree of mutation, cannot work in the farmland. Crops are very sensitive, more sensitive than mammals, and are very easy to be contaminated. Gas can become a source of infection."
"Infected crops are prone to abnormal development, reduced yields, and in the most severe cases, they will wither directly from the seedling stage."
The prison guard stood on the edge of the farmland and pointed to the calf-thick eggplant that grew almost as long as the waist: "Of course, there is a very small chance that contamination with foreign blood will cause the crops to swell. However, such crops are also inedible. .”
"For example, this eggplant has maintained its shape since it matured ten years ago. It has not been overripe or dried."
There is also a wooden sign placed outside the eggplant, which reads - "Exhibition only, no picking allowed."
The third location visited was the weaving workshop.
There are many more female prisoners here than before - of course, looking at the entire prison, the proportion of female prisoners is not high.
The weaving workshop is very large, like a clothing processing factory. There is a strong smell of chemicals inside. There is a table in front of each person. There are probably hundreds of them densely packed. There are gray walls on both sides. The factory is very high and there are hanging hangings on the walls. There are fabrics, cotton threads, and yarns of various colors, and there is also a row of cabinets embedded in the wall with transparent panels containing various buttons.
There is a very large table at the entrance. There is a glass plate on the table. Under the glass plate are palm-sized portrait cards.
"Hand-knitting is one of the main industries on the garbage island. Everyone should learn this skill. After leaving the reform camp, you should be self-reliant."
"Knitted products will flow into the market - some people once hid notes in toys and blankets. Don't take any chances. Every toy will be marked with a code. This code is unique and has been entered since you went to prison. System, if such a product is found on the market, we will trace it back to you."
Zhou Ke asked: "What will happen?"
The prison guard stretched out two fingers and knocked on the table with the glass plate: "You will become a photo."
Zhou Ke: "..."
Everyone's eyes moved to the glass plate, and they saw a slogan with black letters on a white background on the top of all the photos——
"All men are created equal. So is death."
Everyone: "..."
The fourth location visited was the Administration Building.
The administrative building is located in the center of all the places we have visited. Different from the simple lines of the prison, which are metallic gray in different shades, the appearance of this building is mainly blue and white. There are many reliefs on the exterior wall. The aesthetic is very classical and it is three stories high. , domed, covering approximately one-half the area of the prison building.
"The first floor is the utility room, the second floor is the machine room, and the third floor is the warden's office."
"Cleaning jobs cannot be applied for, cannot be canceled, and are allocated on a rotating basis."
After introducing all the work places, the last place we came to was the library. By the time the prison guards finished demonstrating the procedures for borrowing and returning books, it was already time for dinner in the cafeteria.
The evening meal consisted of potatoes and salad. After the meal, all the newcomers were called to the lobby to assemble.
"The prison guard in charge of canteen discipline in the morning has been called away by the warden. According to normal procedures, there should be a point system class in the afternoon, and the on-site visit should be tomorrow morning. However, since the point system course is taught by him, the point system The class will be rescheduled to tomorrow morning."
"I just confirmed with the prison guard at the Academic Affairs Office that he is suspended this week and the class tomorrow morning will be vacant."
"This is the handout of the points system. Everyone will go to the study room in the library to study by themselves tomorrow morning."
The prison guard brought over a huge box and raised his chin at 392.
"Study committee member, come here and distribute the handouts."
Returning to the dormitory, Zhang Chi first opened the "Prison Work and Rest" pamphlet distributed in the morning. After memorizing it by heart, he finally began to recall all the events that happened today.
First, there was the prison riot in the morning. According to the prison guard, the warden came for inspection - he was supposed to be eating on the second floor at the time, and he was holding a sniper gun - it was very heavy and took up a lot of space, and he should not have carried it with him. Either it was given to him by the accompanying prison guard, or...
There is a weapons depot on the second floor.
Or at least, have room to store a sniper rifle.
Secondly, the prison guards mentioned the reform camp and they should be self-reliant.
The reform camp may really be just a transition, but the question is, where will they go after they leave the camp?
They are felons, each with a sentence of more than 80 years on their backs. They are self-reliant. To a certain extent, isn't it laissez-faire?
Finally, the aliens...
What is it?
Zhang Chi frowned and glanced at the "points handout" on the table. After thinking for a while, he picked up the book and turned to the first page.
--"study hard, improve every day."
The second page--
"Absolutely obey all orders from the warden."
The third page--
"Editor: Zhou Yu."
Paper is free, just a few words per page.
Zhang Chi continued to turn over——
——"Contents: Chapter 1, Calculation of the Points System, Chapter 2, Individual Differences in the Points System, Chapter 3, Conventional Ways to Acquire Points, Chapter 4, Unconventional Ways to Acquire Points..."
20 pages:
——"...Garbage Island is an island completely managed and run by law enforcement officers. Every prisoner who enters the island will be sent to a reform camp for reform. After passing all learning courses and satisfying the points, the prisoner can be released from prison. After being imprisoned, he will be automatically registered as a resident of the garbage island..."
26 pages:
——"Everything in the reform camp runs on points. Three meals a day consume a total of 0.5 points, which are automatically deducted from the account. Each prisoner's initial points are 0, and the points can be negative. Work is the most common way to increase points, every day The upper limit of points earned from work is 5 points..."
68 pages:
——"...Prison criminals are divided into three categories according to their risk levels, in ascending order of green, blue, and red. Green-badged prisoners need to accumulate 800 points in the reform camp to be released from prison, blue-badged prisoners need 1,500 points, and red-badged prisoners are the most The dangerous category requires solitary confinement and the points for release from prison are 5,000 points.”
Page 79:
——“According to statistics, less than one-third of prisoners complete their rehabilitation.”
120 pages:
——"Unconventional way to obtain points... In addition to the points threshold for release from prison, green, blue, and red badges have their own tiers. Green badges are worth 100 points, blue badges are worth 200 points, and red badges are worth 1,000 points... …”
123 pages:
——"...When the vital signs disappear, the identification stamp on the back of each prisoner's hand will automatically fall off. As long as the fallen identification stamp is authenticated by the new bracelet, the points can be transferred..."
…
After closing the book, Zhang Chi had a solemn look on his face for the first time.
According to the conventional points accumulation method, excluding three meals a day, it will take a Green Badge prisoner at least half a year to be released from prison if his daily work points reach the upper limit, a Blue Badge prisoner one year, and a Red Badge prisoner more than three years.
However, any Green Badge prisoner who kills a Red Badge prisoner can...
Get out of jail immediately.
