It was after eight o'clock in the evening when Li Yutian woke up. The prisoners in the cell were chatting or playing cards in groups.

Seeing Li Yutian sitting up, the prisoners immediately stopped what they were doing and looked at Li Yutian quietly, waiting for Li Yutian to give orders.

Li Yutian glanced at the table in the middle. Sergey understood and quickly stood up and gave Li Yutian the lunch box buckled on the table.

In the lunch box was the dinner Bas asked Sergey to bring to Li Yutian, a chicken leg, a box of rice, and a few tomatoes.

Li Yutian looked at Sergey holding the lunch box and said with a smile:

"Have you forgotten my rules?"

Sergey smiled and said:

"How dare I forget that the trumpet leader was sleeping soundly and did not disturb the trumpet leader's sweet dream."

Li Yutian was hungry, so he thought to forget it, he was kind-hearted, otherwise he would be hungry, so he took the lunch box, wolfed down the food, and said to Sergey:

"I won't blame you for not following the rules this time, and I won't do it next time!"

Sergey nodded and bowed:

"Yes, yes. From now on, we will follow the captain's rules."

With a mouthful of chicken in his mouth, Li Yutian pointed to the bed opposite and said to Sergey:

"Sit down and talk, don't stand like this all the time. Bass, come here too."

When Bas heard Li Yutian calling him, he quickly got out of the bed, ran over barefoot and wearing underwear.

Li Yutian asked Bass while eating:

"What was the news in the prison while I was sleeping? Or any strange stories?"

Bass thought for a moment and said:

"Today is Tuesday. According to regulations, there will be two hours of relaxation time in the afternoon, but due to the power outage, it has been canceled. Everyone is active in their own rooms."

Bas's words aroused Li Yutian's interest. It was his first day here, and he didn't know the various rules and daily schedules in this prison, so he wiped his lips, sat cross-legged on the bed, and asked Bas:

"Tell me the rules in this prison."

Bass thought for a moment and said:

"Every morning in the prison, starting at seven o'clock, the first thing to do is get up and do morning exercises. Morning exercises are for half an hour, and then you wash up and eat from 7:30 to 8:30. There is half an hour for worship before nine o'clock, because the prisoners here have religious believers.

From nine to eleven-thirty, the prisoners have to work in the coal mine."

Bas asked Sergey for a glass of water, took a sip, and continued:

"It's lunch time from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. After lunch, there is a half-hour lunch break. At 1:30 p.m., I continue to work in the coal mine until 6 p.m.. It is dinner time before 8:30 p.m. After that, I have an hour and a half to stay in the cell.

Free time, lights out at ten o'clock. Lights out soon."

After listening, Li Yutian asked:

"Didn't you just say that today is Tuesday, there are two hours of relaxation time?"

"Yes, I only work in the coal mine until four o'clock every Tuesday afternoon. From four o'clock to six o'clock, I can freely roam in the field in front of this building for two hours."

After listening, Li Yutian thought for a while and asked:

"When I came here, I saw many people working at the mouth of the mine. Why not work in the coal mine?"

Bass smiled and said:

"What you see are only the prisoners at the entrance of the mine. There are shifts in the mine every day."

"Oh, how deep is the mine?"

Bass shrugged his shoulders and said:

"No one has measured this, but according to my estimate, this mine is about four to five hundred meters deep."

"Is the mine a flat shaft or a shaft?"

Bas thought for a while and said:

"There are steps of about tens of meters to enter the mine. You need to take a minecart to get to the bottom of the steps. You have to walk about 200 meters. There is an elevator. It takes about one minute to get to the bottom of the mine. So this mine is not a completely flat cave.

It’s not a complete vertical hole.”

"Oh, shall we go down to the mine tomorrow?" Li Yutian asked while drinking porridge.

"If it doesn't rain tomorrow morning, it will be our turn in the afternoon."

Li Yutian looked at Bass, smiled with satisfaction, and then asked:

“Are there factions in prison?”

Bass chuckled and said:

"The boss has got something right. There are about 500 people imprisoned in this prison, divided into two major gangs."

Li Yutian's eyes lit up and he asked:

"Which two major gangs?"

Bas asked Sergey to bring a basin of foot-washing water and put it under the bed. While soaking his feet, he said:

"The largest gang is the Satan Gang from the first to the second floor. Their boss is nicknamed 'Satan'. He is the son of a South American drug lord. His name is Pajeros. He is less than thirty years old."

"What about the second one?"

"The second largest gang is the Pharaoh Gang on the fourth and fifth floors. Their leader was arrested in the Egyptian pyramids, so he is called Pharaoh. This Pharaoh is a human trafficker who traffics black people from Africa to Europe and the United States. It is said that he has four brothers and sisters. He ranks first

The third child came here to take the blame for the boss, the second child, and the fourth child."

Li Yutian heard Basi say that the first and second floors are of the same faction, the fourth and fifth floors are of the same faction, but he did not mention the third floor, so he laughed and said:

"Then you are the leader of the gang on the third floor?"

Bass smiled sheepishly and said:

"Don't make fun of me. In fact, the Third Floor is not exactly the same faction. It is a bit divided. I used to want to lead the Third Floor, but the people on the Third Floor were not united and couldn't get together. So the Third Floor can only be regarded as a loose faction."

Li Yutian looked at Bass's slightly depressed expression and laughed:

"So, you are the king and tyrant in this account, but you are often bullied when you go out?"

The expression on Bas's face was indescribable embarrassment, he shook his head and said:

"Captain, please stop making fun of me. The third floor has the fewest people, and they are not united. In this prison, if you have no power, you will definitely be beaten because of anger."

"Have you ever been beaten?" Li Yutian said specifically picking up Bass's sore spots.

Bass felt more and more embarrassed, waved his hand and said:

"Captain, how do you want me to answer your question?"

Li Yutian looked at the prisoners on both sides and knew in his heart that these were Bas's younger brothers. In front of the younger brothers, Bas could not let go.

"Haha, it seems that you are also a very nice person. Forget it, I won't ask."

….

At lunch time the next day, Li Yutian, Bass and others lined up to get food.

Several people were sitting around the dinner table, picking up the tableware and getting ready to eat. A burly man walked up to Bass with a rice plate, looked at Bas's rice plate and "spit" a mouthful of thick phlegm.

Bass saw that a very precious plate of lunch was wasted like this (meal in prison is rationed at a fixed time, and each person only has one chance to eat. After eating, it will be gone, and if you eat, you will be hungry.), this is not to make yourself hungry.

Are you hungry? He deliberately made trouble for himself and immediately became furious. He grabbed the burly man by the collar and raised his fist as big as a dinner plate to fight.

When the prisoners saw that there was a fight here, they immediately got up and gathered around Bath to watch the fun.

Bass raised his fist and was about to hit the burly man, but two more big men came and hugged him. The big man who spat into Bass's rice plate saw that Bass was being controlled, and swung his right fist hard.

He hit Buzz on the nose, causing Buzz's nose to bleed immediately.

The prisoners were cheering and watching the fun:

"Hit him! Hit him hard! This kid cuts in line while eating!"

"This is the one on the third floor who wants to compete with Satan for territory. What is his name, Bass?"

"What the hell does he have to fight with Satan? Isn't that asking for death?"

….

Li Yutian sat at the table and watched motionless as a few people were fighting with Bass. He was surrounded by prisoners from three floors inside and three outside, but no prison guards came to stop him. He asked Doris in a low voice who was trembling with fear next to him.

:

"Hey! Look how cowardly you are! What are you afraid of? Let me ask you, why are no prison guards coming?"

Doris watched Bass fighting with several people with a horrified face, trembling and stammering:

"Fights are common here. As long as no one is killed, the prison guards don't care at all."

After hearing this, Li Yutian thought to himself, Damn it, what kind of prison is this, and it doesn't care about this? It's really dark!

Doris was right. Li Yutian looked around to see if there were any prison guards. He saw several prison guards lying on the iron railings of the prison guard restaurant on the second floor, smoking cigarettes and pointing.

Bass and others were fighting together, commenting on the prisoners fighting together from time to time, as if they were watching a play.
To be continued...