Zhang Chi passed him by.
The muscular man's voice continued to sound behind him: "Just a reminder. If you don't deal with the people who caused trouble for you last week today, you will be in big trouble next week."
Zhang Chi kept walking.
On the way to the mine, the muscular man's words kept floating in her ears.
If she were an old man in prison and met a new Hongzhang, what would she do?
Each red badge represents a longer sentence and a higher risk level. Knowing that the red badges in this prison are not easy to mess with, unless you desperately need points, you will not easily test a red badge.
Because no one wants to suffer Hongzhang’s revenge on the free day without killing Hongzhang.
From the looks of it, she is the best red badge in the entire prison. So starting from this week, some people started taking desperate risks.
However, if she did not take revenge on those who made trouble during the free day, either she did not have the strength, or she was soft-hearted - this is not a good word here, then everyone would find that she was not afraid. People who are on the fence this week will also start to want to try her lottery next week.
Any animal or person that attacks is essentially recognizing that it can have the upper hand in action. If not, they will delay, evade, and take detours, so sheep will run away from a wolf—even if a group of sheep clearly does not need to fear a lone wolf. However, if every sheep thinks that it can beat that wolf, and every sheep comes up and kicks or slaps twice, then the wolf will be consumed to death.
Zhang Chi paused.
He raised his head and found that he had arrived at the entrance of the mine. After equipping the unicycle and searchlight, Zhang Chi suddenly thought of——
Maybe the Chancellor's people won't turn on her this week.
Otherwise, 110 would not have said the words "next week".
***
On the free day, there were far fewer people in the mine.
Most of the people inside are newcomers, and a group of people who flew in here are all familiar faces. When Zhang Chi entered the cave, there were already many people inside, and they were talking one after another.
The searchlights are turned on very brightly. Generally speaking, people who come in the same batch will always have a little different emotions, just like being in the same grade, school, or classmates. The more unfamiliar the place, the more this kind of connection will It's becoming more and more obvious. They exchange news with each other, what they heard from their roommates, what they saw somewhere, and complain about various inconveniences in life.
as usual.
It seems like a free day is no different.
Zhang Chi walked in and heard someone say -
"real or fake?"
Then the whole place fell silent.
There is nothing special about this sentence. What is special is the person who appears in the cave after saying this sentence.
Zhang Chi raised his head and found that everyone's searchlights were pointed at him.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Immediately afterwards, everyone lowered their heads and talked to each other, as if nothing had happened before, but they all moved a little closer to both sides with Zhang Chi as the center.
Throughout the morning, wherever she appeared, it was like a radiation source. No humans or animals were allowed to enter within a one-meter radius.
***
The free day was unexpectedly calm.
There was no conflagration as imagined. Everyone still went to work, left work, and went to the canteen to eat.
The only exception was the corpses parked on the road. They were not there when I went to work. After a morning, they lay quietly on the roadside like fallen leaves carried by the wind from unknown places. There was no trace of corpses. A traceable past.
The stamps on their hands have fallen off.
No one knows who the murderer is.
It is not known when they were killed.
You have free time to go to and from get off work. You can go to work for 3 hours in the morning, or 1 hour in the morning, and 2 hours in the afternoon, or vice versa. Anyway, there are many opportunities to place orders.
They walked on the road and lost their lives. Who did it? It might be their companions who were working with them, or it might be a prisoner who had been ambushing them on the road.
Zhang Chi realized that he had guessed wrong.
Everyone does not want to be seen by anyone when they take action. Although in most cases, it is certain that the prisoners here do not have such excellent qualities as bravery, but standing idly by can also be interpreted as a mantis behind them.
They have to kill people quietly and then take the stamp off that person's hand. During this process, it is best to ensure that no one else is present, otherwise it will be difficult to tell whether the fruits of your victory will be snatched away by others - or, more dangerously, killed by others at the weakest stage after the battle.
There was no way she could see someone else's murder scene.
At the same time, free days are safer for her than working days.
Today is the only day when Hongzhang can get points after killing people.
They dare not try again.
However, does the avoidance of these people really just come from the fear of the red badge?
***
There are still as many people in the cafeteria as usual. Even prisoners who are not working need to eat.
Zhang Chi walked in from the cafeteria door and pulled out a dinner plate from the disinfection cabinet——
Suddenly, everyone's eyes were focused on her.
Zhang Chi raised her head, and those gazes instantly retracted, as if everything she noticed just now was just an illusion.
Just because she is a Hongzhang?
No, she is not the only one with a red badge in the cafeteria.
What could be wrong?
Zhang Chi lowered his head. The shoes are on backwards.
Wiped his face. There is nothing on the face.
clothing? The buttons are very symmetrical.
Unable to figure it out, she picked up her dinner plate and started queuing.
Today's cafeteria is very different from usual. First of all, judging from the types of meals, there are more stir-fried pork, hot dog sausages, braised pork, shrimp balls, pork belly soup, steak, vegetables are fried or steamed, and there are dipping dishes to choose from. The staple food has changed from mushy to mushy. There are all kinds of refined carbon, rice, noodles, steamed buns, bread - all kinds of bread, and even cakes in the innermost cabinet.
There are two types of cakes, cream cake and fondant cake, both about 8 inches, with "Happy Birthday" written in red jam in the middle.
There is also a long electronic sign on the cake window, which reads: "10 points for cake, 3 points for writing, and you can choose from dark chocolate sauce, white chocolate sauce, or matcha chocolate sauce."
Everything counts.
A meat dish costs 1 cent, a vegetarian dish costs 0.5 cents, and a staple food costs 0.3 cents. Bread is slightly more expensive than other staples, costing 0.4 cents.
For a moment, Zhang Chi felt that he had arrived in heaven.
She hadn't eaten normal food for who knows how many years.
She can work in the mine, and if she completes her work, her work score will be 7 points higher than that of a modified person every week. There will be at least a dozen new modified people, and unless these dozen people are dead, she cannot be reduced to the lowest score.
Zhang Chi bought a bowl of noodles, a piece of bread, and a portion of pork belly soup, which totaled 1.7 points.
After finishing her meal, she walked inside and found two more vending machines in the corner where she always sat.
There are cigarettes, alcohol, nutritional solutions, socks, gloves, and snacks in small bags.
The nutrient solution has the logo of "Zhiben Technology" on it, and its full name is "Shiquanda Nutrient Solution". A bag costs 20 cents, which is the most expensive one. Then there are cigarettes and wine, a cigarette costs 10 cents, and a bottle costs 10 cents. Wine is also 10 points.
Zhang Chi sat down with the dinner plate. The moment she sat down, the prisoners sitting at the three or five tables next to her all picked up their dinner plates and changed their positions.
That's it again.
She lowered her head to eat. When she was halfway through eating, the muscular man came over. He was holding the leftover dinner plate and placed it on her table. He walked to the vending machine and pressed his bracelet against the sensor. Before, I bought a pack of cigarettes.
When he turned back to get the dinner plate, he looked at Zhang Chi with a half-smile and said, "I really underestimated you."
Zhang Chi raised his head: "What?"
Muscular Man: "You are so brave."
After leaving such a meaningless sentence, the person turned around and walked away.
Zhang Chi: "...?"
Not long after he left, a row of people came this way from the aisle, and there was a person at the front who pointed with his finger - if there were no accidents, Zhang Chi thought he was pointing to her. She looked back and saw that the man seemed to be frightened and immediately hid behind the group of people.
If Zhang Chi remembered correctly, this group of people were all fierce tigers. As for the one referring to her - she didn't look familiar, just a green seal, more like a tipster.
Vaguely, Zhang Chi felt that all this was related to his inexplicable experience today.
The person who walked to the front was 888, the boss of the Tigers. He slapped Zhang Chi's table. The table shook twice and some pork belly soup spilled out.
When he first appeared in the canteen, everyone in the canteen looked here early.
It's like I already knew there would be such a good show.
Zhang Chi froze for a moment with his chopsticks between his hands, then stuffed the last piece of pork belly into his mouth at lightning speed.
888: "..."
Everyone: "..."
888 swept the plate away and stepped on the stool: "You are very courageous."
Zhang Chi: "...?"
888 sneered: "Still pretending?"
Zhang Chi said: "What are you pretending to be?"
888: "093 is dead."
