Zhou Lin

January 15th, morning, 5:10.

There are shadowy figures on the ruins of Chernobyl.

Those people were wearing prison uniforms, both men and women, with different expressions on their faces.

Some people looked excited, some looked confused, and some were already crying...

Some people just raised their heads and stared blankly at the sky that was once so familiar but now so unfamiliar.

These prisoners secretly held here by the Federation are not all good people, and of course they cannot all be bad people; they are just people.

Some of them deserved their crimes, some were not guilty enough, and some were completely innocent, but fate still sent them to the same place - a place that they should never be able to leave.

The human will is subject to decay, and often decays faster than the body.

The Nine Hells are a place of decay. Long and desperate sentences will destroy a person's will before actually destroying his/her life.

In fact, many of the people standing here today have already collapsed.

When they crawled out of "hell" and stood on the surface again, they were actually a little scared and even wanted to go back underground.

Because there is no place for them in the outside world.

Their relatives and friends have all lost contact with them, and their property, career, and status have also disappeared.

Even the things they knew and loved before they were imprisoned have become the tears of the times and have been eliminated by many new things.

They are like a group of ghosts who have really gone to the underworld, and it seems that they should not come back.

However, there is something, an innate desire, that still remains in their blood.

When they breathe this air called "freedom" again, even the rotten soil will be rekindled with life.

"Everyone." Suddenly, a man's voice sounded on the radio.

All alarm loudspeakers located within the wall of the abyss can be used as broadcasts, and at this time, these loudspeakers are controlled by the Anti-Cross.

"That's pretty much what the 'Reverse Cross' can do for you..." Zi Lin's words clearly reached everyone's ears, "Right now, the defense system on the wall of the abyss has been shut down, Nan Nan The gates on the side are also open, so...there is no need to fear or hesitate...you can gain true freedom by stepping over the high wall that has made countless people despair in the past hundred years."

What he said was true. As early as half an hour ago, when the doctor broke through the defense system on the wall, K, who was left on the shuttle, took advantage of the situation and broke into the control room next to the southern gate; in less than five minutes, K took care of the few guards huddled inside, and directly used the manual switch in the room to lock the south gate in the "maximum open" state. Then, K drove the shuttle into the wall and stopped at the entrance. rear and reentered stealth mode.

"Of course...freedom does not mean safety." After a pause for a few seconds, Zilin unexpectedly changed the subject again and continued, "Everyone should be aware that from the jailbreak to now, there have been two It's been many hours, it's impossible that the Federation hasn't responded to the distress signal...

"At this moment, a federal army ground force dispatched from a military base in Blue Shield County has rapidly advanced from the south, and there are also Double Eagle County troops outflanking them from the northeast.

"Even if you escape the encirclement and suppression of these troops today, what you will have to face next is the life of being a fugitive wanted by the government; those who are not prepared for the corresponding awareness... I think it is best not to go out and return to your safety In his cell, I can still be considered safe for the rest of my life."

Before he could finish speaking, some prisoners were already running out in the direction of the south gate.

There was one, then there were two, or three... Before long, all the prisoners chose to escape, without exception.

Even some elderly prisoners who are already very old are moving forward with a faltering pace.

No one is willing to decay.

These people would rather wither on the road to freedom than return to that hopeless underground abyss and be forgotten by the world again.

…………

At the same time, in the Ninth Prison, on the side of the men's prison, the Ninth Prison "Xianquan Examination Burning" was going on.

The members of the Anti-Cross who had invaded the prison were now concentrated in the monitoring room on this floor.

The deputy warden Carl von Baile, who had been imprisoned in the isolation layer before, has also been brought here.

At this point, he had no reason to resist. Even if he could kill all the intruders present, it would not change the fact that the Nine Hells had fallen.

Therefore, Karl could only sit on the ground in frustration at this moment, being a sullen prisoner.

"Don't think you have won..." After Zilin turned off the radio, Karl immediately muttered and interjected, "In front of the regular army, those prisoners who just run for their own lives are vulnerable. In my opinion, those who can really escape alive are Less than 20% of the people..."

Hearing this, Zi Lin just smiled and ignored him.

On the other hand, Lance squatted on the ground, looked at Karl, and continued with a sarcastic smile: "Ha...thank you for bringing up this obvious thing and letting us all review it."

Karl read something strange from his smile. After thinking for a few seconds, he added: "What do you mean? You don't care at all how many of these people will die on the way to escape? Then why do you still come to rob..."

"Mr. Deputy Warden." At this time, Zi Lin suddenly interrupted him, "From a professional perspective, can you tell me... what kind of prison do you think is the most unbreakable?"

Karl didn't know why the other party suddenly asked such a question. He thought for a moment before replying: "Are you trying to show off to me?"

He would ask this, and the implication was that... he felt that the Nine Prisons were the safest prisons on the planet.

"I didn't mean that." Zi Lin said, and walked up to Karl, squatted down so that his eyes were level with the other person, and then said, "I just want to tell you that the most difficult 'imprisonment' to be broken is, and Not any man-made entity, but...'here'." As he spoke, he tapped his temple lightly with his finger.

The look in Karl's eyes at this moment showed that he had not yet grasped the essence of the matter.

So Zi Lin continued: "Before today, everyone thought that the 'Nine Hells' was a place that was absolutely impossible to break into, whether it was the top federal officials, the military, the rebels, or the killers active in the underground world. , mercenaries, ability users... Anyone who knows about the existence of the Nine Hells thinks that this place is the 'end'.

“Obviously, the Nine Prisons are not just a prison, but a symbol.

“It is easy to ‘slaughter’ the rebels, but difficult to ‘control’ those people.

“A true ruler must possess ‘the ability to use rules to decide the life and death of those under his rule’ and ‘the ability to execute the rules to ensure the smooth operation of this set of rules’.

"The Nine Prisons are a concrete manifestation of the execution power of the federal government; its existence is to show all those who resist the federation around the world... No matter who you are or how strong you are, we still have someone who can imprison you. A place for people like you to live.”

When he said this, he paused for another two seconds, observed the change in Karl's expression, then chuckled, and continued: "It seems you have understood..." Zi Lin put his face in front of the other person's face and looked directly at him. His eyes said, "Breaking through the Nine Prisons and releasing the prisoners inside... is not our purpose. It doesn't matter even if all the prisoners die after they get out." He paused, "The important thing is that even the Nine Prisons can be released." This concept of breaking through is implanted in people's minds..."

Hearing this, Karl's cold sweat soaked his already wet back.

He originally thought that... the group of people in front of him just came from a relatively powerful resistance organization, and their main purpose of robbing the prison was to rescue his own people imprisoned inside; but now, Karl felt shuddering.

The most impregnable prison in the world is the human mind.

It is much more difficult to tear down the wall of thinking than to tear down the wall of the abyss.

"A bunch of lunatics... do you know what you are doing?" After understanding the other party's intention, Karl's expression became more solemn, "No matter how corrupt the federal government is, at least it still maintains the stability and order of the world... You are like this now, It will bring the whole world into war! How many innocent people will die because of this?"

"Innocent people are dying every day." This time, it was Lance who took over his words, "Being slowly tortured to death by a system that he cannot resist and a miserable life, or being taken away by a bullet... This book It’s not a question of quantity; what we change is not the quantity, but the quality.”

"Nonsense!" Karl listened and was still dissatisfied. He shouted angrily, "It's all nonsense... Then what kind of nature are the prison guards who died today? Even if those who lived a hard life under the system accounted for the highest proportion, they were absolutely It can’t be all of them. Leaving aside the upper class, there are still many people who are content with the status quo. Why do you let those people be buried with them?”

"Of course it is with 'strength'." Zi Lin took over the conversation again and replied, "Do you think no one shed blood for this when the Federation was established? Those trivial things you mentioned are too important in the tide of the times. Too small... Any change is carried out in conflict. If everyone can reach an agreement... Ha... then the Federation must be very good now, and such things as classes will long ago cease to exist; if human beings If we can do that, if we can learn and grow to that point...what else do we need to do with the reverse cross?"

"Haha..." Karl sneered, "Then, what's the difference between you, who impose your will for change on this era, and the Federation, which enslaves this world with its system...?"

"I didn't say there was a difference." Zi Lin said with a smile, "Also... when you were a child, didn't you hear some rumors that the establishment of this federation... was also related to the promotion of a certain organization behind the scenes? ?”