from Xingyuan

Chapter 231 088. Children of the Ether
The cells are dark and damp. Since this is a remote area where the artificial sun hardly shines, the temperature inside the prison often drops below zero. Under such circumstances, the jailers of Sky Ring will discipline the criminals in a special way.

Each cell has a matching bed, but the guards remove the blankets and sheets every day before going to bed, leaving the cold bed boards, and then order you to mop the floor.In the middle of the night, the cold air will spread from the ground and catch the prisoner from the cracked, porous and loose bed boards. You put your arms around your shoulders, shivering all over, and gradually wipe out your sanity under the torture of the cold. At about the same time, the jailer will Shout to you: Hey, get up, work.

At that moment, you were extremely grateful to the jailer. At least in the workshop, you can step on the sewing machine, lean on the lathe, and have the heat supply generated by the machine, which is better than freezing to death in the cold.

After more than ten days of torture, when the jailer calls you to go to work again, you will naturally stop resisting, and instead breathe a sigh of relief.

Cold is much more terrifying than heavy labor.

That is the fear of death engraved in the genes of life.In fact, when hypothermia first occurs, you will not feel uncomfortable, but feel very hot, and start to take off your clothes unconsciously, and then you will be dizzy, frozen, heart failure, and finally your heart will stop beating. Little by little, he lost his senses, and finally died completely.

During the whole process, the blood seemed to be coagulated and stiffened in the blood vessels. At first you kept shivering and rolling, trying to warm yourself, but in the end, your head became hot, and you couldn’t even keep thinking. Call you, but can't make out a word.

After working in prison for a long time, the cold speeds up the body's metabolism, and the fat on your thighs and buttocks will gradually fade away, and finally become a bony skeleton. The dark vision and narrow and closed cage will destroy people's emotions. Intensive labor caused serious damage to the mind and body. Countless prisoners completely collapsed and went crazy after receiving the punishment from the Tianhuan prison guards.

In a sense, this is indeed a release from prison.

However, what awaits them is not a lunatic asylum, but sent to the operating table. The cornea is 300 million baht, a pair of kidneys is 100 million baht, and the torso can be sold to the security group of the Hojo family to fill the mechanical circuit and transform it into a machine soldier. ——Because of the long-term cold environment and the diet carefully arranged by the prison, their organs are kept very healthy with very little pollution. Prisoners' organs are often sent to the freezer of the company's high-level executives and taken whenever they need it.

The Tianhuan jailers are very confident in their standards and methods. In the past 20 years, no one has been able to withstand this kind of psychological and physical torture. They will also organize prisoners to sing and dance, so that they can gradually increase their trust in the prison. Your love I wish the prisoners would even manage themselves, saving them a lot of trouble.

However, facing the new prisoners in room K-202, this tried and tested management education method failed for the first time.

tick... tick...

The two guards stood outside the door, listening to the sound of water pipes bursting and seeping, waiting with their hands behind their backs, begging to go out to work when the other could not bear the cold.

"It's been four hours," a guard whispered. "He won't freeze to death, will he?"

"No, Beta-level powerhouses may be more resistant to freezing." The jailer said unconfidently.

What you said is as if you didn't say it - as long as you are still a human being, you will not be able to bear it if you stay in this cold and humid environment for a long time. There was once a proud warrior who was thrown into prison, and he withstood the torture through his strong body Torture, but for the cold, after only staying for four days, I couldn't bear it.

That kind of damp and cold torture will directly penetrate into the joints, and no one can bear that kind of pain. Coupled with the cold plank bed, it will make you howl in pain after a while. A person with a strong physique is not a machine, more What's more, before entering this prison, they had already been injected with muscle relaxants. Their extraordinary senses should be more intense than the pain felt by ordinary people.

The only response to them was silence.

"It's not really dead, is it?"

The jailer felt a panic in his heart, and then turned on the surveillance: In the black and white picture, a tall man sat quietly on the bed, his face was calm and composed, his body was covered with a layer of hoarfrost, but he remained unmoved. The man closed his eyes tightly. , I don’t know what he was thinking about, but what is certain is that he is not only alive, but all signs show that he can still maintain the vigorous vitality of the Beta stage.

"...It seems that we are worrying too much." A jailer sighed.

"This guy doesn't look like an ordinary person." Another person added: "He may not be far away from the Gamma order. Looking at this signal, it's like a furnace."

"Greatwo Yege... quasi-gamma order." The jailer curled his lips: "there are really more and more gamma order recently, don't you think?"

“How come you see?”

"Mingji Humanity has developed some kind of gamma-level biochemical beast. Grand Duke Gulant, who has never shot, suddenly showed his original shape and easily destroyed half of the city. Gretel and his party were able to block an army head-on. Not to mention, we have seen it with our own eyes, he blocked the main gun of the mobile armor... Frost-plated Li Aoz is even more amazing, it is said that he killed the frost-plated air force by himself."

"You think too much. There are such gamma-order novas in every era, but after they live for more than ten years, they will realize that this planet does not support their life forms at all."

The jailers were trained by Tianhuan's formal transcendental system, so they understand these issues very well.

"For example, you know that dinosaurs will become extinct, not because they were directly killed by meteorites, but because the ecology on which dinosaurs depended for survival was destroyed, and ferns became extinct--herbivorous dinosaurs that ate ferns became extinct--eating herbivorous dinosaurs The predatory dinosaurs became extinct.”

The jailer lit a cigarette, and since Greatwar Yesong was not dead, then ignore him.His companion asked curiously: "What is a dinosaur?"

"Don't worry about it—in short, the Gamma-order is like this. The energy and environment of the Azure Star are not enough to support their survival. Therefore, the Gamma-order that can truly be called active duty and can exert the strength of the Gamma-order is very precious and rare. , most of them are just the lucky ones who got promoted by chance, without a country, they would just be starved to death on the ground.”

"It's really sad—these people are the same. It is obvious that His Majesty the King of the Ring has a kind heart and allowed the pariahs of the Sky Ring to survive, but they still shamelessly want more."

"Who said it wasn't."

He exhaled the smoke ring and said sarcastically:

"So, they are destined to fail. The Chifan team thinks that they have mastered the power of the Gamma order, so they can challenge the army? They really look down on the 20mm depleted uranium armor-piercing bullets."

"Come on, since he's fine, how about we go back and have a drink?"

"Have you stashed bootleg alcohol again, kid? Tie baa..."

The sound of the two laughing and cursing gradually faded away, but the brows of the tall man in the cell were furrowed more and more.

Cold, dank, dark.

None of this can break him.

But in the dark, he felt a strange palpitation.

Close your eyes, the world is silent only the sound of dripping water and freezing frost, even your strong heartbeat is gradually swallowed by the silence.However, his consciousness was unprecedentedly sober.

"... (whispering)"

Gradually, a faint call came from his heart, which seemed to be a kind and gentle voice, and finally, under the association of the brain, it was deduced into a sound almost like a melody.

It was an indescribable melody, like the gentle itching of the wind blowing over the skin, or the body being wrapped in hot springs, and the steam was slowly baptizing, his consciousness was getting higher and higher, as if flying towards the sky, but people Originally, it is impossible to fly, and only when the feet stand on the ground can people feel alive.

"……Awake……"

As his consciousness gradually soared, he seemed to see the red and black sky of Esha, and above that, the "blue sky" that only existed in legends and history books, and the strong heart palpitations finally turned into eager calls, It is not any kind of language, but it is imprinted directly in the bottom of my heart.

The treacherous echo finally fully expressed a sentence in the charming dark blue sky:
"Wake up, man of the jury."

At that moment, his consciousness sank back to the ground in an instant, and in the dark world in front of him, a low-pitched male voice that was as crisp and sonorous as the impact of a blade suddenly sounded:

"Black Whale, you still don't understand your 'quality', I'm really disappointed."

For some reason, whenever he heard a male voice, Greatwo Yege would unconsciously think of a creature that he had never seen before and that did not exist on Azure Planet: a shark.

"You are here again."

Gretel opened his eyes, and a pale and distorted figure seemed to be reflected in the blue eyes.

"I've said it many times - I'm not a black whale, don't you want me to call you a white shark?"

Gretwal said without any tone, but no one seemed to feel that he had any malice.

"You don't understand, you don't understand anything."

The white shark opened his arms, as if he was pouring out something enthusiastically:
"Your talent, your race, your surname, your destiny—you must be killed by me, but not now, only at the moment of your complete awakening, comprehend one of the qualities of [Black Knight] Only then will you be qualified to fight with me."

"I'm not interested in guessing riddles." Great War said to the pale figure, "I don't want to kill anyone, unless you will hurt others."

"That's it! That's it!"

White Shark spoke excitedly, but then denied it hysterically:

"No! No! Not so! Not enough!"

"You have to have a blazing love, and you have the awareness of seeing death as a sudden return. You have to put your life in the most important place, and then give it up! In this way, this is the greatest sacrifice."

"That's a necessary sacrifice. If you want to succeed, you have to pay a certain price—yes, that's a sacrifice, idiot, it's not a guardian, it's a sacrifice!"

White Shark's tone was sometimes crazy, and sometimes lost his mind, like a set of sharks stranded on the beach, he tried hard to pray to himself and then roared.

Great Wall had no idea what the hell he was.

If the white shark is a lunatic, then what is it that can see the white shark himself?
"What are you pestering me for?"

Although he asked this question many times, White Shark would take the trouble to tell him the same answer every time:

"For sacrifice, Black Whale, you don't understand, quality is sacrifice, and sacrifice is quality! We all have to sacrifice, and only by sacrifice can we live and live soberly!"

Quite an outlandish thought, right?
Great Wall continued to ask:

"who are you?"

White Shark replied proudly: "[White Knight], [White Knight] of the jury."

(End of this chapter)