Zhou Lin

The first prison of the Nine Prisons is a place called "Fengquan Order".

Since there are very few prisoners in this prison, the total number of men and women does not exceed 30, and all prisoners are in one cell per person and are not allowed to go out for activities all year round. Therefore, this is the only prison among the nine prisons that does not distinguish between Prison levels for men and women.

Shadow Weaver is imprisoned here.

The cell she was in was a standard single room ordered by Fengquan: the six walls of this cell were all made of pure alloy, and the only ventilation in the room was a book-sized barred window above the cell door. The room is equipped with a mattress and a washbasin; in an L-shaped space separated by a 140 cm high baffle, there is also a flush toilet.

Perhaps in the eyes of most people, such a room could not be more shabby, but to a prisoner, this is simply treatment like a luxury hotel.

Soft mattresses, water for washing, clean toilets, and the most basic privacy...these things we take for granted in daily life are neither available nor sought in a place like prison.

Compared to the other eight prisons, being held here is indeed a "preferential treatment."

However, Shadow Weaver was not imprisoned here because of the few words of "care" in the file. She was originally defined as a "first-level prisoner" and came here.

Many people think that the nine prisons will decide which prison they will be locked up in based on "the prisoner's ability level." In fact, that is not true. The real criterion for distinction is "the prisoner's threat to the federal government."

As long as your threat to the federation is high enough, even if you are an ordinary person without any special powers, you will still be imprisoned in the Fengquan Order Prison.

Therefore, even though Shadow Weaver is only a parallel-level ability user, she still enjoys the highest level of detention treatment.

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December 9th, sometime.

"It feels like... you're almost reaching your limit."

In the daze, such a sentence suddenly reached Ying Zhi's ears.

Although her body was weak and dizzy, Yingwei's mind was still clear, and she knew this was not an illusion.

Yingwei turned his head and looked at the direction where the sound came from, that is, the small barred window above the cell door, and said, "Who is talking?"

"Who else could it be? Your 'neighbor'." The man replied almost without thinking.

Upon hearing this, Shadow Weaver hesitated for a few seconds before standing up and staggering closer to the cell door.

A few seconds later, she came to the door, stood on her tiptoes, leaned on the cell door, and looked out through the small barred window.

Outside the window, there is a corridor. The lights in this corridor are on 24 hours a day. The lighting in the cell also relies on the corridor lights coming in from the small window. In addition to the lights, there are also a large number of high-definition intelligent surveillance cameras installed in the corridor. With the probe, even a fly flying out of the cell door will be noticed immediately.

At this time, Yingwei discovered that a face also appeared above the cell door "opposite" across the corridor from her; the owner of that face was also looking out through the railing like her.

"What are you?" Although Yingwei's vision was a little blurry, she was still very sure... that the man opposite her didn't look like a human being.

"That's so rude, little girl." The person opposite immediately replied, "Even if I look a little strange, since I can have a normal conversation between intelligent creatures with you, you should at least ask 'who' Right."

"Well..." Yingwei groaned, "Sorry..." She felt that what the other party said made sense, "Who are you?"

"My real name cannot be said accurately in your language. Let's use a homophonic pronunciation and probably pronounce it as 'Nini'." Nini said, "I believe you have also figured out that I am not a human being. In a way that you can In terms of quick understanding... I am an alien."

Nini's appearance is indeed curious. Although he only shows one face at the moment, his skin with a texture like bones, scattered facial features, and hair as thick as a dreadlock are enough to make people look at him. He is separated from humans.

"Are you a Predator?" Shadow Weaver blurted out the question in the next second.

"No." Nini answered simply, and explained after answering, "Well... the people who used to live in your cell also asked me the same question when they first met me, and explained it to me. What is a Predator? In short... I am not one."

"Huh..." Yingwei breathed, "Okay... Nini, although I also want to start the conversation with you with 'What is your purpose of coming to Earth?', but I really don't have the physical strength right now. Well, if you have nothing important to do, let me go back and lie down for a while..."

With that said, she left the cell door and walked slowly towards the mattress.

"You just need to say a word and you'll get food." Nini's words were like a hand on Shadow Weaver's shoulder, pulling the latter back.

Hearing the word "eat", Yingwei took three steps at a time and turned back to the cell door. His eyes widened and he stared at the alien opposite him like a ghost, "What do you mean?"

Her reaction was understandable, since she had not eaten anything since the day she was imprisoned.

In the past six days, Yingwei could hear the sound of prison guards pushing carts carrying food through the corridor every day; however, the prison guards never opened the food delivery port of her cell (located under the cell door, which was always closed). status, can only be opened from the outside), she skipped this room every time.

This was undoubtedly intentional, and Shadow Weaver could probably guess that this was what Deputy Warden Sarah meant.

Yingwei was not surprised by this - since people wanted to give her a blow, she just had to endure it, wasn't she just hungry? I can still lose weight. Isn’t it necessary to deny food all the time?

This thought... lasted about three days.

Starting from the fourth day, after drinking only tap water for several days, she experienced some physical and psychological changes.

The most obvious point is that her senses have become sharper; even though hypoglycemia makes her dizzy, her hearing, smell, and intuition... have all become extremely powerful.

During that period, when the food cart passed by her cell door, she could even smell what was on offer that day.

Another day passed and her mood became irritable. Several times she wanted to eat the roll of toilet paper on the toilet tank, but she restrained herself in the end.

Furious, she first mentally greeted the eighteen generations of Sara's ancestors, and then thought of Zi Lin...

"Why should I suffer like this here? Is it because you gave me a promise that may not be fulfilled? If you dare to lie to me, let's see how I deal with you..." Thoughts like this were lingering in her mind. Don't go.

She wants to use sleep to make herself ignore hunger, but too much sleep can also harm the body.

In this way, today, the sixth day, Yingwei's goal of losing weight has been temporarily achieved... Now her whole body has straight collarbones and a very poor complexion.

When the human body feels hungry in the early stage, it will first consume the sugar in the body, and then the glycogen. After the hunger accumulates to a considerable extent, the human body will start to "eat" its own fat and protein. This is why dieting to lose weight Can cause damage to the liver and immune system.

Shadow Weaver... has undoubtedly reached this stage. She is not fat to begin with, and she doesn't have much fat to burn off. She is already on the verge of starving to death.

"What I mean is that as long as you stop the prison guard when he passes by the door and tell him that you haven't eaten for several days, the prison guard will give you your share." Nini's reply was, It sounds incredibly simple.

"Haha..." Yingwei smiled, and smiled bitterly, "You are really an alien... How could it be so easy?"

"It's possible." Unexpectedly, Nini said with confidence, "If you don't believe it, you can try it later."

With that, Nini left the cell door and retreated into the shadows of his room.

Ying Zhi stood there doubtfully for a while without saying anything else, and then retreated without saying a word.

About an hour later, it was time for food delivery.

Shadow Weaver could clearly hear the sound of the prison guards walking in the corridor, opening the food delivery ports one by one, taking out the plates, and handing in the food.

In fact, she could already guess the distance between the cells from the sounds...

Zhizhizhi——

This time, when the cart stopped in front of her door and the prison guard bent down to deliver food to Nini’s cell, Yingwei walked quickly to the cell door and said through the grated window on the door: “Hey, there’s something going on today. Is it my share?”

The prison guard was not surprised at all when he heard her words. He just slowly turned his head and glanced at her. Then, through the mask of the full-face armor, he said in a tone without any emotion: "Eh? It turns out that this room Is there anyone in the cell? I thought it was empty, sorry, it was missed."

As she spoke, she opened the food delivery port of Shadow Weaver's cell and sent a lunch in.

"Next time when you deliver food, remember to hand out the finished food." After closing the food delivery port, the prison guard said these words calmly, and then continued to move forward with the cart.

At that moment, Yingwei lowered his head and looked at the plate of food at his feet with a puzzled expression.

As Nini said, she just asked and the other party gave her the food, but she always felt that something was wrong.

After standing still for ten seconds, she figured it out.

Then, she was so angry that she kicked the dinner plate away.

In fact, this whole thing is not complicated... The prison guard's very redundant words just now were just a reminder...

In a maximum-level prison with only such a small number of people, how could the prison guards ignore the arrival of a new prisoner in a certain cell? How could food be missed?

Therefore, the prison guard's behavior of not giving her food must have been under the instruction of Deputy Warden Sara.

But even Sara did not dare to blatantly disobey the wishes of the federal high-level officials. Since the file said "As long as it is within the rules, please treat him as favorably as possible", then she had to treat him as favorably as possible.

Therefore, if Sarah wants to rectify Shadow Weaver, she must find another way...

Fortunately, as the deputy warden, there is always a way to exploit loopholes and cause harm; just like the current incident, judging from the results, even if Shadow Weaver has a way to externally react to his experience, he will be held accountable. In the end...it's just the "negligence" of a prison guard. No matter how big the trouble is, the prison guard will be fired at most.

Even if everyone knew in their hearts that Sarah was behind this, she didn't have to take any responsibility.

If Ying Zhi held on without saying a word, even if she held on until she starved to death, her death would be in vain. People could still say that she was on hunger strike herself; but now that she has spoken... she has food, but invisibly, she But he "admitted defeat" and "compromised".

"Don't be angry. Anger won't solve any problems." A few seconds later, Nini's voice came from the cell opposite again. "The angrier you are, the more proud you will be of those who punish you." At this point, his mouth He also made a few strange chewing noises, which were very different from the movements of humans eating. I don’t know what he was eating. “I didn’t tell you how to eat in advance, but waited until you were almost done.” I won’t tell you until you collapse... I just want to see how long you can endure it, and... to see if you can still remain calm and rational when you are in a 'close to the limit' state."

"Hmph...Then I really disappoint you." Yingwei replied coldly.

"Not necessarily." Nini responded while chewing something. "Everyone will be furious when they first react. The key lies in... what you will do next."

His words did make Yingwei calm down a lot.

After she finished speaking, Yingwei stood there thinking for a moment, and then, as if she had made some kind of determination, she suddenly sat down cross-legged.

She just sat on the metal floor, with a vicious expression on her face, grabbing the food that had been spilled all over the floor with her bare hands, and stuffed it into her mouth one by one.

"Haha..." Not long after, Nini's laughter came from above the door, "That's right... you are at least much smarter than the last guy who was locked up here."