"You want to change jobs with us. You will deliver meals in the confinement area, and we will be messengers. Did I hear you correctly?"
When Wang Xu approached Miguel, he didn't understand. It was not welfare to deliver meals to the solitary room, and no one liked being a wet nurse.
The job of a messenger has many benefits. Prisoners do not just pop out of a rock. Many of them have families outside. Some people receive gifts every now and then. The messenger can often keep some of them.
"You heard me right, I'm going to deliver meals to the confinement area, and you're going to deliver letters, do you want to do that?"
"Those who do or don't do it are fools. Do you think I look like an idiot?"
Miguel smiled and shook hands with Wang Xu, and said cordially: "Let's make an agreement. I'll go talk to Officer Donalds later. When he asks you, you have to say it was your idea, otherwise he will
I won’t agree to that.”
Wang Xu nodded slightly and said, "No problem."
Donalds is the supervisor of District 5. This person is a bit of a saint. He wants to build District 5 into a model prison district, promote prisoner autonomy, and let them learn how to get along with others without fists.
In fact, his way is wrong. Whether there is a sinless person here or not, the only difference lies in the magnitude of the sin.
The consequence of allowing a group of criminals to govern themselves is that you must have a backer in District 5. The stragglers cannot survive here. The struggle between people has evolved into a struggle between mountains.
Under the seemingly calm scene, there are turbulent undercurrents hidden everywhere, and anyone who goes wrong will be torn to pieces by the undercurrent.
"Hey, stop, what are you doing?"
As soon as he and Miguel agreed to change jobs, conflicts broke out in the crowd.
Wang Xu looked back and saw that the one who beat him was a black boy, and the one who was beaten was an old man. This old man was none other than his roommate Libido.
"What's going on?" Wang Xu walked into the crowd and asked the people around him.
A prisoner heard this and replied: "Libido's sister sent him a vest. When he opened it, Kenny saw it. Kenny asked Libido to hand over the vest, but he did not agree."
Kenny is a black boy, he looks about 17 or 18 years old, very short, but very strong.
The conditions in his family were not good. He had been in prison for eight years for robbery. He had just joined the black brotherhood and was not afraid of anything as a newborn.
"Give me your vest, you bad old man!"
"No, this is mine!"
This was just a normal fight. The prison guards were sitting in the monitoring room watching the fun and had no intention of stopping it.
Seeing that no one was stopping him, Kenny's attitude became even more arrogant. He shook Libido's shoulders and roared: "Old man, do you want to die?"
"That's enough!" Wang Xu pushed through the crowd and walked up, grabbed Kenny's neck and lifted him up from the ground.
Kenny was startled and quickly looked back.
Before he could see clearly, he felt that the world was spinning in front of him, he fell to the ground with an ouch, and his nosebleed instantly flowed down.
"Fuck!" Kenny touched his nose and became furious. He got up and rushed forward.
Before he could rush forward, a black man wearing a hat stood up, put his hand on his shoulder, and shook his head gently.
"Libiduo, are you okay?" Wang Xu stretched out his hand and pulled the old man up from the ground.
Libido was punched in the face, his face was bruised and he looked very embarrassed.
"Ahem, it's okay." Libido shook his head and smiled reluctantly at Wang Xu.
Wang Xu looked back at Kenny, then at the black man holding Kenny down, and said, "Your little brother is too manic. Can bullying an old man in his sixties make him look heroic?"
The black man glanced at Kenny, hit him on the head with his hand, and left with an unconvinced Kenny.
Seeing that there was no excitement to be seen, the onlookers dispersed one after another.
Libido covered the right side of his face, picked up the vest that was thrown on the ground, and whispered: "I was still a young man when I came in. At that time, everyone respected the elderly. Later, as I grew older here, they also began to
Respect me. Today is different from the past, especially in the past two years, young people have become more and more unscrupulous. They only worship power and regard the elderly as objects to vent their anger. Maybe I have to leave."
"Leave, you are in prison for life without the possibility of parole, right?" Wang Xu asked strangely.
Libido was silent for a while, then raised his head and said: "I know all the surveillance blind spots here, the shift change time of the prison guards, and even know the two guards in the surveillance room. One will watch football broadcasts at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the other will watch football on his face.
Cover it with a newspaper and sleep. In fact, I had many opportunities to leave before, but I gave up because I lived a good life here."
Wang Xu looked at him in disbelief and asked, "How did you know?"
Libido sighed with helplessness on his expression: "If you have lived here for 48 years and never had a bad record, and you are so familiar with it that when the prison guards see you, they will subconsciously ignore you, you will also know a lot of things."
During his 48-year prison career, the prison guards and wardens have changed countless times, but the libido has always been here.
He was very familiar with Oz Prison, and he was even one of the construction workers at that time for the expansion of the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wards.
With his eyes closed, he could tell which prison or area he was in by touching the objects around him.
He had never thought about escaping before because he didn't know what to do when he got out. He had spent four-fifths of his life in prison. Compared to the prison he was familiar with, the outside world was more terrifying.
But now it is no longer possible. Unscrupulous young people began to beat the elderly in prison. Libido was worried that he would die if he stayed here any longer.
"Before you leave, can you tell me what you know, especially the situation in the monitoring room?"
"certainly!"
Libido nodded and added: "I haven't thanked you yet, you let me keep this vest."
Oz is a prison, its shape is similar to a five-pointed star, it is a huge five-star building.
Every corner of the star is a prison area, and the central area is the administrative area.
The monitoring room is in the central area, where there are hundreds of screens and hundreds of cameras that monitor everything in the prison at all times.
To a certain extent, prisoners have no privacy here. If there is trouble in any area, prison guards will be notified immediately, and the riot squad can arrive at the scene in just five minutes.
Wang Xu knew very well that only one of him and Freddy could survive in the end.
And Freddy is in District 6, which has four prison guards and is covered with cameras.
To be on the safe side, he had to get the location of the camera's blind spot and permission to go to Area 6, so he could choose the best time to strike.
Libido's information can give him more confidence, especially at two o'clock in the afternoon, one of the prison guards on duty in the monitoring room is sleeping and the other is watching the inside story of the football game, which can help him avoid being caught the first time he takes action.
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afternoon
"Quiet, everyone, come out for a moment. I have something to say."
At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Donald, the supervisor of the Fifth District, called the prisoners for a meeting.
The content of the meeting was very simple. They discussed the hygiene issues in the cafeteria and the fights between prisoners.
Here, Donalds criticized Kenny emphatically, threatening that if he dared to cause trouble to the old man again, he would be sent to the gay-infested Second District.
At the end of the meeting, the prisoner dormitories were adjusted. Six adjusters were involved, and Martin was one of them.
When he heard that he no longer had to live with Slinger, Martin covered his face and cried and laughed.
The person who was assigned to Slinger's dormitory was a lawyer named Beecher. This man is the protagonist of the American TV series "Prison House" and another plot character who was embodied in Martin's dream.
"Okay, that's it for this meeting. Let's do whatever we need to do."
After saying a few things to note, Donalds dispersed the crowd, walked to Wang Xu and said, "Miguel told me, do you want to go to the solitary room to deliver meals?"
"Yes." Wang Xu nodded lightly.
Donalds didn't quite understand and said softly: "As far as I know, the job of a messenger is very popular. You only worked for one day and you didn't want to do it anymore. Did someone force you to give up this job?"
"No one forced me, but I almost got into big trouble this morning when I went to deliver a letter. The appearance of the prisoner named Freddy before he died really scared me. In comparison, delivering meals to the solitary cell is easier.
, and there is no danger. I don’t want to be killed by some lunatic who likes to kill people while delivering the letter." Wang Xu answered rationally and did not look like he was being forced.
Donalds nodded slightly and said: "Okay, starting from tomorrow, you will be responsible for delivering meals to the solitary room. Don't want to stop doing it after a while this time. In addition, thank you for helping Libido, he lives here.
After decades, I don’t want him to cause problems during my tenure, right?” Donalds suddenly froze and muttered: “Where’s the libido, I didn’t seem to see him this afternoon?”