The Sabbath

"The entire Star City is a prison, divided into 99 floors above the ground and 99 floors below the ground. The topmost floor is the office of the staff, and all other places are the rooms for the prisoners." Green eyes stared straight ahead. A huge building like a black tower, Allen said in a calm tone.

It seems to be speaking to Ronggui, and it seems to be repeating an objective fact.

"99 plus nine hundred and 99...Oh my god!" Ronggui took a deep breath.

He tried to do the math, but... he only tried for about three seconds: this addition obviously couldn't be calculated by him at once!

"This... this... how can there be such a big prison..." He could only marvel: "How many rooms are there on each floor? If there are prisoners in every cell, how many prisoners must there be here..."

"Not all of them will be fully occupied. According to the current crime rate in the entire tower, there shouldn't be so many prisoners in Star City." It was Xiaomei who answered him.

Where there are people, there are lawbreakers. In order to punish or "reform" these lawbreakers, there must be prisons.

There were originally many prisons in the tower, and they were sent to prisons based on the principle of proximity.

Until the 203rd year of the Chaos Calendar, about 100 years ago, a department conducted a comprehensive assessment of the prisons in the tower, and believed that many prisons in the tower were idle. This kind of idleness is a huge waste of resources. It is relatively easy for prisoners to escape from the prison, and the security of the prison is not high. For the residents living around the prison, this is also a considerable security risk...

The eloquent and half-person-high demonstration materials were handed in, and after nearly ten years of small-scale pilot experiments, finally, in the 213th year of the Chaos Calendar, the original small and medium-sized prisons were completely closed and rebuilt, leaving only the original large prisons. Immediately afterwards, nine new planets were built in the prison, which became the Nine Star Prisons.

The original large prisons were managed by the wardens of the nine star prisons, and the person who managed the star wardens of the nine star prisons was called the warden.

The existence itself is the supreme law of the nine star prisons, so it is called the warden.

however--

There should be no post of warden yet.

The man who unifies the nine star prisons and whose purpose is higher than that of other star prisons has not yet appeared.

He's just a kid now.

Xiaomei thought of the child in the dark.

He should still be in Sky City now. According to Sky City's child protection law, he should have entered public school and started studying. He is busy with various studies and exams every day, and he can't even touch the lowest level of authority...

And now the Nine Star Prisons are still in the hands of the Nine Star Wardens, and the Star Wardens of Star City...

Someone who happens to be one of the future Nine Star Wardens.

Xiaomei recalled a photo from her memory.

The white and straight star warden uniform, the same white wings are gathered, the silver-white hair is neatly combed behind the head, and there is a pair of exquisite round glasses on the bridge of the nose. The face is thin and the cheekbones are high. It should be mean On the outside, he looked a lot more friendly because of the smile on his thin lips.

Peize - the man's name, in Sky City, this name means blue sky, is a very popular name, at one time, three out of ten newborns would be given this name, so "Peze" It became a very popular name.

He has a popular name and a very popular appearance, and his grades in school are not very noticeable. If he insists on saying something special about him... it is probably because he has a good command of the law code, and he has liked to read law books since he was a child. , During his studies, he memorized all the codes backwards, which is why he successfully entered the relevant department after graduation.

It's just that he didn't expect that he would stay in the star prison department in the end, step by step, and finally become one of the nine star prison directors at an age that is not outstanding, but not very old.

Of course, the star prison in charge of Peize is not the largest among the nine star prisons, but it is not the smallest one either.

Still mediocre and unremarkable.

Basically, in every ending, he successfully retired as the warden of the star, promoted several promising young people to the top, and then engaged in code research after retirement, and published several books related to gardening .

Nine star wardens + one warden, six of them are single. Compared with his lonely colleagues, Peize got married very early. His spouse is a child of the mentor's family. After marriage, he gave birth to a daughter. , On the day his only daughter got married, many people received invitations from Peize.

Of course, he didn't receive the invitation, and Peize was still very self-aware, but a secretary in the secretarial department received the invitation, and at the same time, he made a big fuss about the warm scene of the wedding with his colleagues.

An ordinary but happy life - this is the only note he can make to the other party.

A person's life passed quickly in Xiaomei's mind. The above description seemed long, but it only stayed in his mind for a second. Soon, Xiaomei focused his attention on the eyes again. He said Not long after that, Allen spoke again:

"Of course, there are not so many prisoners."

"The underground prison has nine hundred and ninety-nine floors. The number sounds scary, but not every floor has many rooms. There are several floors with only one room, which houses the most vicious criminals in the rumors."

Hearing this sentence, Ronggui was stunned again: underground, a whole floor, only one room, only one prisoner?

But Allen quickly spoke again, interrupting his thoughts of continuing to think.

"There are actually not that many prisoners here, but many prisoners got married in prison, and their children were born in prison. Some came to Star City for medical treatment, but gave birth to unhealthy children and threw them here..."

"Over time, Star City has become what it is now."

"All kinds of mermaids and dragons live in this city, and it's almost full."

"Although it looks like a building from the outside, it is very large inside with complete facilities. It is already a large city." After Allen said this, he rolled down the car window and said something outside.

Only then did Ronggui realize that they were about to enter the building.

Unlike ordinary buildings, the entrance of the building here is extremely wide, and people don't even need to get out of the car when they come in!

Allen handed out two more packs of worm meat, and the jailer let them pass smoothly.

Ronggui noticed that when the other party took the meat, he handed Alan a round card.

Noticing Ronggui's curious eyes, Allen handed the round card to Ronggui: "This is the elevator card. It will be changed every day and every hour. Every time I come here, I have to pick up the card for the day, and at the designated time Come back, or you won't be able to get out."

While listening to Alan's words, Ronggui looked curiously at the elevator card in his hand that looked like a round button. He not only looked at it himself, but also asked Xiaomei to look at it together.

= - =

Well, because he is now tightly attached to Xiaomei's back and sharing a down jacket~ In fact, when he looks, Xiaomei has to look too.

Alan smiled and looked at the two little robots, one in front of the other, Ronggui's current posture seemed to be holding Xiaomei in his arms.

From a bystander's point of view, the postures of these two people are weird, but as the parties involved, Xiaomei and Ronggui are as normal as they are.

Ronggui carefully looked at the elevator card in his hand. This button-shaped elevator card is really old. The original color of the shell has been completely worn off, and there are many scratches on it. Ronggui looked a little bit Worry, it's so old, what if it breaks?

Also, for some reason, he always felt that this keychain looked familiar.

In a low voice, he unknowingly poured out all the words on his mind to Xiaomei.

"It can't be broken. There should be an alarm calling for help in the elevator. It looks familiar..." Xiaomei paused for a moment, then suddenly took Ronggui's hand and touched his chest. The next second, he swiftly opened the zipper on the front of the down jacket, Four layers of button ties (←Ronggui put him on too much =-=), finally touched his chest, pressed it lightly, the storage compartment immediately popped out, and Xiaomei picked out a key from it.

Closing the storage compartment, fastening the buttons, re-tying the straps, and finally pulling the zipper up to her chin, Xiaomei finished all this in a satisfactory manner, then picked up the key again, and handed it to Ronggui.

"It's the key given by Mrs. Zora." Ronggui recognized the source of the key at a glance.

The two of them currently have three keys in total, one is the door lock key of the hut belonging to Xiaomei in Mersertal ← this rusty key is called "the key of Xiaomei's ancestral house" by Ronggui, and the other two are It was the key that Mrs. Zora had given them.

Although she has a lot of keys, Mrs. Zora obviously has not neglected the maintenance of the keys. Not to mention that each key is polished and shiny, and some keys have keychains on them, such as the one that Xiaomei just handed to him.

Like the key, the keychain is also inlaid with gemstones, the same topaz as the key, just like a button, with a rounded cut, it looks low-key but beautiful, just like a button...

and many more!

Ronggui immediately raised the keychain to the two of them, looked at it carefully for a while, and compared it with Yuanyuan's elevator card, and then he was surprised: "This is not a keychain! It's an elevator card!"

Xiaomei nodded.

Allen has been watching the loving interaction of the two little robots. At first he just watched with a smile, but after seeing them take out such a set of keys, he was a little surprised and said: "You guys actually have the elevator card here. and keys?"

Turning her head towards him, Xiaomei nodded again.

Ronggui quickly explained: "We didn't know it was an elevator card at first, we thought it was a key, and the one below was a decorative keychain."

"This is the key that Mrs. Zora gave us. Knowing that we are going to see the doctor, she happened to have houses in Paloson and Star City, so she lent us the keys of the house."

Allen nodded and smiled slightly: "This is really amazing."

"The houses here are very difficult to get. If you are not a prisoner who wants to buy a house here, you don't have special rights, you have to be very rich. I have never been to Paloson, but the people in that city The points are high, and the money needed to buy a house there should be more.”

Ronggui laughed "hehe" twice: Alan is right, Mrs. Zora is indeed very rich, isn't she a real local tyrant?

Disliked that the original elevator card in Star City was too shabby and old-fashioned, and made a topaz to make a key chain. Mrs. Zora is really a tasteful rich man~

Thinking of Mrs. Zora, Ronggui's heart felt warm again.

"It would be better if you have a foothold here. I originally wanted you two to squeeze in the room of a prisoner I know. After all, if there is no place to rest here, it is still very dangerous." Ai Len nodded again.

"If it is already a property under my name, the elevator card should be valid forever, so you don't have to rush there. I will send you there later when the goods are delivered, but before that—" Allen said, pointing forward: " You will accompany me to deliver the goods first?"

Looking forward along his fingers, Ronggui saw a metal wall, and after looking carefully, he saw a gap on the wall. As they approached, the gap gradually widened, and he realized that there was a huge metal wall. elevator doors.

Da Huang slowly drove into the elevator. After Alan swiped the elevator card, the elevator door gradually closed.

The elevator descended very smoothly, and Ronggui didn't feel it at all. Unlike other elevators, the elevator here does not show the floor at all. In a confined space, in a completely unfamiliar prison city, Ronggui suddenly became more and more nervous.

Staring closely at the elevator door in front of him, he realized that when the door opened again, he would really see the appearance of Star City.