"Then continue." Lecter moved his shoulders and neck to hide his trembling and fear, "When I find out the whereabouts of the gold before the 12th, even if you kneel down, I won't let you stay here.
of."
Adel got up and rummaged through the medical kit: "Let's face the reality, there is no possibility of reconciliation between us."
Lecter stared at Adel, who was treating the wound by himself, and shouted: "Come in!"
The prison guard who was responsible for pushing Lecter from the infirmary to the warden's office heard the sound and carefully opened the door. After greeting Adel and Lecter respectively, he pushed Lecter away.
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On October 26th and 27th, Verak obtained as many as 137 detailed prison escape records of various sizes from Dawn, and began to study and analyze these data non-stop.
Taking advantage of his break time after work, Verak, with the assistance of Keating and Dawn, spent only a day and a half reading and sorting out these materials.
After comparing the records of these 137 jailbreaks, they found that the security mechanism of the prison is becoming more and more perfect. The same jailbreak method, the success rate of which was 50% ten years ago, may be only 1% today.
But despite this pessimistic information, they still got something very useful for the jailbreak plan.
For example, prison escapes in the past often involved riots. The more prisoners who escape, the larger the scale, and the closer the escape is to success. This shows that the number of prisoners is a key part of whether the escape plan can go smoothly.
For another example, in the 137 prison escapes, the prisoners' escape locations were all concentrated in three places: the square, the cafeteria, and the work area. Each time they escaped, they could easily break through the original area and head towards the prison.
The prison gate is approaching. But in the end, without exception, the plans to run towards freedom are ruined in front of the seven iron gates, two hundred meters away, leading to the exit.
This kind of prison setting is almost impeccable, and it is also the biggest and only problem for them to escape from prison head-on.
During the lunch break on the 29th, Verak looked at the floor plan of the prison. He had already seen the floor plan of one of the floors countless times.
The areas where prisoners work, eat, and move are all set up on the first floor of the prison. It is precisely because the first floor carries more than 2,000 prisoners at the same time every day, so when the prison guards are short of manpower, they set up in each passage.
There are a total of twelve gates.
These twelve doors, each about 26 meters apart, are guarded by four prison guards. Among them, there are two doors when you turn left from the stairs towards the work area, and there are three doors when you turn right towards the square and canteen, facing the prison.
There will be seven doors at the exit.
Whether the prisoners suddenly rioted from the work area, the square, or the cafeteria, and tried to escape, they could catch the nearest prison guard off guard. Some of them could break through one door, and many could break through three or four doors. But after that, the following doors
The prison guards will have enough time to close the door and they will never be able to leave.
In addition, this defense mechanism has a very clever point. You don’t need to place many prison guards in front of each door to complete the corresponding tasks. Even if the prisoners seize several doors, they can only hurt the prison guards and seize the weapons.
All are extremely limited.
Verak had a headache.
Judging from the map, there are a total of ten doors that need to be broken through to escape from the square to the exit, nine doors from the work area, and eight doors from the canteen.
It seems that the canteen is the closest and the most feasible, but in fact the canteen is the least feasible.
The foresighted Adel had already foreseen that the canteen, because it was relatively close to the exit, was likely to be a riot point for prisoners, so he changed the canteen that could originally accommodate a thousand prisoners to eat at the same time to a maximum of 200 at the same time. The canteen was reduced.
The number of prisoners means that even if the prisoners want to rely on distance to escape from the canteen, the difficulty will be no less difficult than other plans.
During the break on the morning of the 30th, Verak, Keating, and Dawn mingled among the prisoners playing cards and relaxing. They carefully planned their locations. Finally, they combined the best locations from previous prison escapes to formulate their escape route.
Their riot time will be between ten and ten-five.
This happened to be the time when the first batch of released prisoners returned from the square to the work area.
Since there were so many prisoners released, more than a thousand in one batch, when they returned, the crowd would be stretched out very long, and the five doors from the square to the work area would be opened at that time, so that they could pass through as quickly as possible.
They launched a riot when the crowd stretched and the five doors were all open. They could take control of the five doors in a very short time, and they could go in three directions, all the way to the seven exit doors, and all the way into the work area to liberate the work area.
Thousands of prisoners, who were preparing for the second batch of releases, locked the first door of the square all the way.
By then, all the prisoners will riot, and at least two of the seven doors leading to the exit will be breached, and at most four will be breached, and the dozens of prison guards responsible for supervising the release in the square will be unable to do anything.
In other words, according to this plan, they can take control of seven to nine gates, obtain 28 to 36 guns, and eliminate the threat of 60 prison guards in various ways.
The next question is how to break through the remaining doors and escape, and how to face the suppression of hundreds of armed prison guards who will soon be organized.
Dawn advocated using the least casualty approach possible.
Both Verak and Keating agreed. On the one hand, they did not want too many casualties. On the other hand, they also considered that too many casualties would most likely destroy the morale of the prisoners, causing them to quickly fall apart like previous prison escapes.
Handled by prison guards.
However, it is not easy to come up with a way to successfully escape without causing heavy losses.
The three of them discussed for a long time but failed to come up with a practical solution, so they had to go back and continue thinking.
October 30
Lecter has basically recovered and can go to the ground. After regaining his mobility, the first thing he did was to promote the implementation of rewards for prisoners to write letters.
Ordered the prison guards to arrange for paper, pens, and envelopes to be distributed to all prisoners except Verak and Keating, so that they could start preparing letters. The illiterate prisoners even received thoughtful writing from the prison guards under Lecter's instruction.
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After arranging the matter and quickly causing an uproar among the prisoners, Lecter asked Verak to meet in the infirmary.
"You haven't been here since the football game." Although Lecter recovered, he had a different feeling about the infirmary after living there for so long. He didn't take off his shoes when he came here today and wore his police uniform.
He lay on the hospital bed alone.
"The wound has basically healed, so I didn't come." Verak replied, "Actually, I had planned to stop applying the medicine before the game, but at that time we needed to meet here every day, so I thought I would come here and apply it by the way.
.You didn’t ask me to come over during this period, so I didn’t bother to apply it.”
Lecter had previously specifically told Verak not to come to see him these days. The apparent reason was that he needed to rest, but in fact he was worried that Verak would question whether he could fulfill the reward. Now that he has regained his ability to move, he has begun to implement these things.
, and finally called Verak over with confidence.
"I remember you told me before the game that the football match might be a suitable opportunity. So after so many days, is there any new progress in the whereabouts of Gold?" Lecter asked about the clues about Gold.
This matter now concerns his future. If he does not get the exact location of the gold before the 12th of next month, he will definitely lose the battle with Adel and be forced to leave Dymans Prison.
"No." Verak shook his head, "Mr. Keating, you have to give me some time."
"I can give you time, but the question is whether giving you time is of any use?" In the precious five or six days, Verak made no progress at all. Lecter suddenly felt that his breathing was not smooth, "How could you do it in a week before?"
Can we ask for some clues? What about this time? It’s been more than a week, and there’s such a big event as a football match, so how can you not find out at all?”
Verak explained rationally: "I think the problem still lies with you."
"How to say?"
"The reason why I told you before the football game is that the football game is probably the key because once the prisoners win, they will have the opportunity to write letters. By then, other prisoners will write letters to their family and friends, Keating
Mr. has no right, he will definitely understand
I am envious of him, and this is very likely to be the key to his willingness to tell the golden clue." Verak said, "But I tried my best to let the prisoner win the game, but there has been no movement on your side for five or six days, and it was just today.
Start implementing the rewards, how can I get them for you?"
"You mean, you worked so hard before and cared so much about winning the game just to find out the whereabouts of the gold?" Lecter's head grew bigger and bigger.
Verak's original intention was good, but he let the prisoner win the game, and Lecter began a countdown.
Now I can only break my teeth and swallow it in my stomach.
"Of course, otherwise why would I work so hard? Does this competition have anything to do with me? If I win, I don't have the right to write a letter." Verak fooled Lecter and asked about the implementation of the reward today, "It's not necessary to send a letter.
Wait until the twelfth of next month? The ship will arrive then. Why are you asking everyone to write letters so early?"
Lecter was anxious and wanted to pretend as soon as possible that he would really fulfill his promise, so he arranged for the prisoners to write letters early: "This is not, this is not after the prisoners have finished writing the letters, we still need to check. Make sure there is no danger, just
A simple greeting will be sent. Of course, this inspection will take time, at least ten days, right? It is also for their own good to let them write it early."
"Can you really do it?" Verak was a little unsure of Lecter's thoughts at this time.
He didn't dare to arbitrarily determine whether Lecter was able to help the prisoners write letters. But this matter was not important. They had to escape before the 12th of next month anyway. Whether Lecter could do it or not had nothing to do with them.
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"My father——"
"Okay, okay, I got it." Hearing that Lecter had moved out his father again, Verak interrupted quickly, not bothering to listen to what Lecter had emphasized hundreds of times, "Then you should implement it, I'll hurry up and continue.
Take a line from Mr. Keating."
Lecter asked: "Do you have any idea now? How long do you think it will take before we can find out the whereabouts of the gold?"
"I'm not sure, but there are still two months until the time we agreed. I feel like I can ask anything within two months." Verak gave Lecter a vague and general answer.
"It's better to go faster, within a month, within half a month." Lecter advised.
As soon as he heard this, Verak was sure that Lecter really couldn't fulfill his promise. He made so many fake actions to confuse himself and make himself think that he would really help the prisoners send letters to the outside world, so as to continue to maintain trust.
: "Half a month? How is this possible? Do you have to advance it again? We set the time early in the morning, two months is two months."
"I was not in a hurry," Lecter explained, "but now the situation outside is not very optimistic."
Outside?
Verak's pupils shrank and his voice became a little lower: "What do you mean?"
Lecter sighed and sat up from the hospital bed: "The main reason I called you here today is to say this. Today when my father and I were reporting on the progress of the gold investigation, I heard my father say that the government is peaceful.
The negotiations have become very pessimistic."
"Not optimistic?"
"Yes, my father guessed that the result is likely to be a failure of the peace talks, and estimated that the formal negotiations will be concluded in another half a month." Lecter said while glancing at Verak from time to time, "This does not mean that you
The Equality Association will definitely fail to negotiate with the government, but since my father said so, it is still more likely. I also think about you. If their negotiations fail, you will definitely not be able to go out openly.
If you want to go out, don’t you have to rely solely on gold?”
"But even if the external negotiations fail, what's the point of worrying about gold?" Verak really couldn't understand Lecter's logic.
Obviously, the so-called news that the peace talks between the Equality Society and the government are not going smoothly is false. This is still a clumsy lie compiled by Lecter in order to persuade him and urge him to find out the whereabouts of the gold as soon as possible.
In Verak's eyes, Lecter's situation was in disarray.
This may not be an opportunity.
Lecter actually doesn't have any extraordinary mental abilities. He can survive in prison safely until now only because of his father, who is the Minister of Justice.
His father did not want him to stay in prison and be an insignificant warden. It was just that he had made some achievements in the golden matter, so his father made a little retreat.
Now, if Lecter makes no further progress with gold, he will have no reason to stay here.
His father will take him away, and Adel will kick him away.
The formulation of the frontal jailbreak plan was just a step away. Verak thought it was time to push the conflict between Adel and Lecter in the backup plan to its peak.