‘Dang!’ The iron grill gate leading to the E area of the prison opened automatically, seven tall and big prison guards stepped into the aisle of the cell area, except for the first one, the next four were heavy-duty prison guards holding riot shields and wearing protective hats on their heads, and the last two guards were carrying a rectangular coded box cabinet.
The prisoners incarcerated in Area E were basically all felons, and unlike the cells in other areas that held light offenders, the cell doors here were all integral iron doors with only a viewing window.
Although mankind has entered the age of astronautics, inmates in the prison are not eligible to enjoy the convenience of high technology. There are no entertainment programmes with stereo projection, no radio stations and no green food cultivated in greenhouses in outer space in the cells of Handan Heavy Penal Prison.
The disenfranchised inmates eat synthetic, tasteless food and sleep on centuries-old bunk beds. Apart from hard labour, the prisoners' daily activities consisted only of working out and reading books.
Of course, apart from the rudimentary furniture used by the inmates, the equipment used to supervise the inmates in Handan Heavy Penal Prison is the most modern and high-tech product. Each prisoner's ankle is covered with an ankle-chained signal transmitter, which is cased in titanium alloy and fastened to the ankle by a magnetic combination lock. It can't be taken off at all unless there's a code or the foot is chopped off.
The prison's aisles and corners were filled with surveillance devices, and even the ventilation ducts and sewage system were patrolled by miniature spider robots, a dragnet of sorts. From the establishment of Handan Prison to the present day, there has not been a single instance of a successful escape in the nearly 100 years of prison history.
The fluorescent lights in the cell aisles flickered erratically, making a silent walkway look a little eerie. Even the prison guards who had been working here for a long time were a bit unable to withstand the eerie atmosphere of the dead air in E Block.
Seven prison guards did not stay in the aisles of Area E, and soon travelled through several iron gates to Area E of Area E, the single ‘luxury box’ for felons - the death row area.
After entering the death row area, it was obvious that the seven prison guards looked more and more serious, and the team was filled with a heavy atmosphere. Passing through the aisle of the death row area, the seven people came to the last restricted area in Area E.
The so-called restricted area of Area E was very small, with only three confinement rooms in the entire area. The terrain of the restricted area was a bit lower than the other cells, the pipes of the sewage system were summed up here, and the fluorescent lights in the walkway were artificially adjusted to a dim orange colour.
The entire environment was cold and damp, emitting a faint fishy odour. The sewage pipes were under the dim lights, obscuring a large, eerie and terrifying corner of black shadows, and the surrounding atmosphere of deathly silence made everyone's hearts tremble with apprehension.
These three confinement rooms are mainly used to punish prisoners who do not abide by prison rules, from the dimly lit walkways where felons and death row inmates are held, all the way to the forbidden area here. Even murderers with no inhibitions would be filled with panic, and inmates with poorer mental qualities would even be so scared that they would have a mental breakdown and never dare to break the prison rules again.
In reality, the confinement cell was not a regular cell and would be empty most of the time. However, when murderer Qin Lun entered the third year of Handan Heavy Penal Prison, after he killed five felon roommates and two guards, he was the first death row inmate in the more than one hundred year history of Handan Heavy Penal Prison to turn a confinement cell into a regular cell.
Arriving at one of the innermost confinement cells, a hint of nervousness appeared for the first time on the faces of the seven guards, who cautiously drew the ionised batons on their belts.
There were no modern high-tech combination locks on the cells, and the head guard gently pulled open the palm-sized viewing window above the iron door and looked inside the cell.
Area E confinement cell is different from ordinary cells, there is no window, the only ventilation hole is only the size of a fist, connected to the ventilation ducts of other cells. Surprisingly, this confinement cell not only did not have the damp stench of the outer corridor, but instead appeared warm and dry, and even had a fragrant scent of air freshener.
The roof of the cell was fitted with built-in bullet-proof fluorescent lights, and two rows of antique bookshelves lined the corners, stacked with paper books. There was no shortage of desks, beds, and flush toilets, and there was even a wooden chess set on top of the desk in addition to a few books.
A slim-looking young man, sitting in front of the desk with his back to the cell door, was flipping through a thick book in his hand.
With a secret sigh of relief, the prison guard removed the key from his armed belt and inserted it into the lock hole on the iron door. The heavy cell door was violently pulled open, and the four heavily-armoured prison guards carefully bent over and entered the confinement room with their shields.
‘Qin Lun, time's up!’ The prison guard in the lead gripped his baton tightly, standing a full three metres away from the young man, and shouted in a deep voice.
The young man gently closed the book, and under the bright light, the five big words ‘Behavioural Psychology’ appeared on the cover of the book. Taking a closer look at the books on the bookshelf and desk, this special confinement room seems to have a whole system of books on clinical medicine and psychology.
After closing the book, the young man stood up, put his hands on his head, and turned around. Under the lights, an ordinary looking, thinly built young man appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Killer Demon Qin Lun unexpectedly had a pair of clear and pure eyes. Possibly due to not seeing sunlight for years, his skin was fair, especially a pair of hands with long, white fingers that were like jade. From the looks of it, this murderer was completely a malnourished ordinary youth.
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Ever since Qin Lun entered Handan Heavy Penal Prison, he broke numerous unspoken rules of the prison in record time. What's more, he had continuously killed felons and death row inmates who were in the same cell as him, which also included the unfortunate deaths of two prison guards in the line of duty.
Qin Lun has severe psychological trauma and suffers from split personality disorder. The confinement cell that scared the shit out of the other inmates did nothing at all for the murderer. At the cost of his life, Handan Prison, on the advice of a psychiatrist, provided him with a relatively ‘friendly’ environment.
The cell in which Qin Lun is being held has electric heaters installed in the basement to remove humidity, and air fresheners are added to the ventilation holes on a regular basis. The prison even provided Qin Lun with books and chess to stabilise his mental state.
In fact, unless Qin Lun is strongly stimulated by the outside world, his IQ is even higher than normal under ordinary circumstances. From the time Handan Prison provided him with books, Qin Lun had completed his general studies from primary school to university in only five years.
However, after he started studying clinical medicine and psychology at the age of eighteen, it also brought a negative effect to the prison. That was that there was no longer any psychiatrist that could accurately judge his mental state.
The prison guard in charge looked at the murderer's bright eyes and sighed darkly, raising a piece of black-framed light screen in his hand that was as thin as a piece of cardboard and began to read.
This cardboard-like black-framed light screen contained a simple optical brain that stored Qin Lun's detailed information. Generally, after the federal court issued a death sentence, the prison guards would use this flat panel light brain to convey the sentence order to the death row inmates, which was also jokingly referred to as the ‘death list’ by the inmates.
‘Qin Lun, male, 20 years old, formerly known as Joey Foster. After the final judgement of the Supreme Federal Court: rejecting the appeal for a stay of death, upholding the original sentence, guilty of multiple homicide, permanently deprived of citizenship, at seven o'clock this evening, the death penalty will be carried out!’
With the loud reading, two prison guards carrying a rectangular box and cabinet, opened the box and cabinet, revealing a set of steel devices inside. Several guards successively took out these steel components, which were like mecha parts, and put them on Qin Lun's body. Not long after, an ‘armoured knight’ with only his eyes exposed to the outside world appeared in front of the guards.
This was a set of confinement device with steam power attached, the prisoner could only rely on the steam power to walk slowly, and even a simple sitting or standing would require a three-second delay.
‘Puff!’ A tiny stream of white steam erupted from the bend of the steel monster's knee, and Qin Lun, who wore a steel mask, took a step and walked out of the cell.
The murderous demon with the steam confinement device on looked like a ridiculously clumsy bear, walking slowly through the aisles of E block under the front and back of the four heavily-armoured prison guards.
The heavy footsteps attracted the attention of the prisoners in Area E. In the aisle that the group was passing through, a number of prisoners were clinging to the cell doors, coldly watching Qin Lun and the others.
Was this the head honcho of Handan Heavy Penal Prison? An inexplicably complex light flickered in the eyes of the prisoners.
‘Put a black cloth hood on him!’ Looking at the last iron door of Area E, the head prison guard turned around and ordered.
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Handan Heavy Penitentiary was a cluster of towers hundreds of feet above the ground, and between the towers in Sector E and Sector D, there was a huge steel track that towered above the ground.
The track looks a bit like the upward lane of a roller coaster, and the higher you go, the steeper the ramp gets. At the top of the track, the slope even reached ninety degrees, presenting a right angle state with the bottom, this was one of the core technologies of mankind in Genesis, the sky rail!
The sky rail was a long-distance teleportation device that was classified into provincial, district, and star levels, in addition, there was also the legendary intergalactic sky rail. There is a sealed teleportation capsule at the base of the Skyrail. The teleportation capsule is accelerated by the Skyrail, and will eventually turn into a free light state, and be sent into subspace, the middle layer of the material space and antimatter space, so as to achieve the purpose of long-distance material teleportation.
At the other end of the teleportation pod, there was likewise a sky rail for receiving the teleportation pod. Apart from magnetic levitation vehicles, the humans of the Genesis Century would generally use sky rails for inter-provincial travel and transport. Electric trains and civilian airliners had long since become museum displays.
‘Snort!’ The base door of the sky rail slid open from it, and a spacious and bright modernised tunnel appeared in front of the crowd. Compared to it, the aisle of the cellblock area in Prison Block E was as damp and fishy as a sewer.
The prison guards hauled Qin Lun's steam confinement device into the teleportation pod of the skytrack, and at the same time removed the murderer's black cloth hood.
The bright eyes peeking out of the steel mask swivelled slightly as they surveyed the situation around them. It was an elliptical hall, edged with touch-screen workstations and fronted by a huge LCD screen.
‘Teleportation target has entered, activating particle analysis engine!’
As the team entered the teleportation pod, a soft female voice rang out in the hall, the synthesised voice of the Skyrail Light Brain.
‘Particle scanning complete, confirming remote guidance signal, beginning thirty second countdown ......’
‘......3, 2, 1! Transmission commencing!’
In the soft female voice, the teleportation pod suddenly began to tremble violently. The top of Handan Felony Prison's sky track lit up with a gorgeous spiral light, and the teleportation pod that flew up into the sky transformed into a meteor that instantly disappeared into the air, entering the mysterious subspace.