Chapter 112: The Fish That Slipped Through the Net
When the five committee members announced their verdict on the prisoner, there were bursts of cheers from the audience. If Liu Fu were present, he would be shocked. This is almost the same as when he went to the stadium to watch football in later generations. Whenever the broadcast
When the players finish announcing the names of the players of the home team, a very uniform voice will be heard on the stadium with tens of thousands of people. This kind of voice can easily arouse the emotions of the audience and make the atmosphere of the stadium more intense.
After the verdict was pronounced, six security team members dragged the two criminals whose hands and feet were tied onto the stage. Under the gaze of thousands of people, they put their heads into thick knots and then tightened the knots.
and took a few steps back.
"Hang them! Hang them!" In this cry, Zhang Dagen turned around and waved his hand towards the crane on the pier. The crane's boom began to slowly lift, and Simon and Evans put their hands on their necks.
The rope was also connected to the boom and was gradually tightened. The two people who were tightly tied by the rope were struggling while being hoisted into the air.
The driver of the crane felt that this was not conspicuous enough, so he continued to raise the boom while turning the direction of the crane towards the middle of the pier. The two corpses swinging back and forth as the boom rotated staggered over the pier.
Likewise, as long as someone comes near the pier, they will definitely see the two Simon brothers hanging high.
This matter should have ended here. The two injured dancers are being treated in the hospital. The body of the dead dancer will be sent back to the federation on a ship returning to the federation. The specific funeral arrangements will be handled by the federal labor department.
Processing. The remaining prisoner was sentenced to 5 years of hard labor. He will be sent to the most difficult mining area for labor reform. Most of the workers there are
Various criminals were sent from the Commonwealth, and there were also people who were judged as criminals by the committee in the mining areas of Western Australia. The living conditions here are extremely difficult. Fresh water and vegetables are rationed per capita. Their dormitories are in the mining areas.
Inside, and there are no guards, all their living supplies will be provided according to their mining volume. Those who mine more will eat more, and those who mine less will eat less.
As long as these prisoners leave the mining area, they are likely to get lost in the ravine-ridden plateau of Western Australia. Even if they can identify the direction and the way out, the poisonous insects on the ground, the crocodiles in the water, and the mosquitoes at night are all terrible killers.
, no one can escape this uninhabited desert without supplies and transportation.
However, neither the committee nor Zhang Dagen himself forgot that there was another prisoner involved in the murder of the dancer on the run. The main reason is that except for the dancer who accompanied him, the fugitive had a slight impression. The others were drunk.
No one could tell his situation, when he left the wine, and which direction he went after leaving the wine.
No one knows. Since this person only disappeared after he beat a dancer under the influence of alcohol at the beginning, and did not participate in subsequent criminal acts, everyone forgot about him. Such a big man
Apart from the sea to the west, the place is surrounded by wilderness in the north, east and south. If a person wants to sneak away, there is really no place to look.
Holden, the man who went drinking with Simon and the Evans brothers, was rowing vigorously on the sea 30 kilometers southwest of the Southern Railway Port with a small wooden boat, a bucket of fresh water, a piece of bacon and
2 pieces of bread were all he had at this time.
That night, all four of them were drunk, but because Horton had worked as a sailor on a river ship on the Mississippi River, he had a large capacity for alcohol. It was just because he drank the sugar cane liquor for the first time and drank too fast.
I was just a little drunk. After playing with the dancers for a while, the alcohol evaporated a lot with sweat, and my mind became clearer.
At this time, brothers Simon and Evans were abusing the three dancers in Simon's room. Holden didn't want to participate. He himself was not interested in this kind of racial discrimination. When he was a sailor, people of all colors on the ship
There are people of all races, except that Holden doesn’t like black people very much.
, has no special likes or dislikes for people of other skin colors. But he can see that the two Simon brothers are both evil-minded and ruthless guys. This time they came to Australia to be employed as miners. Holden just wanted to make more money. If
It would also be a good choice to unite around the Simon brothers and avoid being bullied less.
In order to deal with the Simon brothers, Holden reluctantly hit the dancer who was accompanying him twice, and then dragged the dancer out of Simon's room on the pretext of going back to the room to continue the fun, and asked the dancer to leave by herself, while he
I ran to the end of the corridor on the second floor and lay down by the window.
Togami smoked while looking at the night view. There were so many lights shining in the Nantie Port pier and residential areas, which were not seen in Holden's hometown. Just when he was looking forward to this miner's trip, he suddenly saw Simon's
A woman's miserable scream came from the room.
The screams alerted people in other rooms in the corridor. Some people came out to check, but were threatened by Evans with a dagger, so they all left Simon's room. One of the white people saw Holden smoking at the window and also
He came over to smoke and chat with Holden.
During the chat between the two, Holden learned that this place's handling of racial discrimination is very strict, or cruel. Every year, new miners are harassed by the police for insulting or beating blacks or Chinese without any reason.
The punishment of the team ranged from being whipped in public, to being arrested and sent to an unknown mine for labor reform, or even worse, being hung from the boom of a crane in the port.
The white man also told him that the Asians here are very powerful. Although the South Pacific Petroleum Mining Company is a purely white company invested by American businessmen and registered in Australia, within a few hundred miles of the Western Australia mining area, there are no Asians.
Asians, especially Chinese, have great power. The heads of many important positions are Chinese or Asians. Although whites also have official positions here, they don't even think about bullying Asians.
The white sailor's words reminded Holden of what the company leaders on the ship had repeatedly warned them about, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart. He secretly ran to the door of Simon's room and saw through the keyhole
Simon is scratching with a knife
After seeing the face of a dancer, he was so frightened that he hid in the shadow of the corridor window. When he saw the dancer running down the stairs screaming, he immediately made a judgment: Simon and the others were probably going to be unlucky today, and he was very unhappy.
They might be involved.
After a brief thought, Holden decided that it would be more cost-effective to save himself, so he climbed out of the window, followed the roof of the first floor, and detoured to the back of the small building. When he got down to the ground, he realized that this was a wine room.
In the back kitchen, everyone in the kitchen ran to the front. Holden, who had already planned to sneak away, quickly collected a bucket of water and some food, put it in a potato bag, and left with the bag on his back.
liquor.
Holden, who came to Nantie Port for the first time, didn't know where he should run, but as a former sailor, he had an innate affinity for ships, so he ran to the corner of the pier and observed it for a long time, and finally
A small boat was found tied under the pier, and
There was no one nearby, so he ran to the boat with the bag of food. Using his skilled skills, he rowed the small traffic boat outside the pier, found a more secluded reef area, and put the boat and bags
He hid himself and stayed up all night on the boat.
The scene the next day frightened Holden. When he heard the verdict of the Simon brothers announced by the committee through the loudspeaker from a distance, and saw the body hung high above the pier, he almost peed.
He was frightened out, but it was daytime and he did not dare to come out of the reef area, so he endured it for a long time, and then under the cover of night, he paddled the boat southward along the coast.
After paddling for two days, the shore in the distance was basically the same, with rocks and grass, and no signs of people at all. But when Holden thought of the bodies of the Simon brothers, he did not dare to go back, so he had to
He bit the bullet and continued paddling. Just when his food bag was about to become empty, he finally saw a sailboat appearing in front of him. As a result, Mr. Horton was rescued by fishermen from Western Australia. (To be continued.
