The Sabbath

"This...is amazing! Their jumping ability is really good, it must be three meters from the floor to the ceiling? They jumped up so... so quickly!" Ronggui jumped a few times by himself, with his current height After jumping for a long time, not to mention touching the ceiling, he couldn't even jump to half of the positions. In contrast, he had a great sense of admiration for the ghost guest and his party.

"There should be someone behind to respond, and there should be a rope." Xiaomei said.

"Even so, that's pretty impressive."

"The more you do something, the better it will be."

"That's right." Ronggui nodded when he thought of the ghost guest who had been out of nowhere every day before looking for Xiaomei to buy ground beans.

"However, who are they? They are not dwarves at first glance." When walking back, Ronggui suddenly thought of this question.

Having lived in a dwarf city for a long time, and having many dwarf friends, Ronggui naturally recognized that the other party was not a dwarf at a glance.

As for what everyone in the comment section has been guessing yesterday, whether the other party is Xiaomei's fellow villager or something...

Ronggui never thought about it.

Uh... First, he has never met Xiaomei's hometown. Second, Xiaomei's mood was too calm yesterday, and there was no fluctuation at all.

Besides, if the other party was from Xiaomei's hometown, Xiaomei should have discovered something when the ghost guest bought the ground beans before.

Not a dwarf, but so short, Ronggui was curious about the other party's identity.

"It's a child." Xiaomei gave the answer directly when she closed the door and re-entered the room.

"What?!" Ronggui was stunned without thinking in this direction at all.

Then he quickly found the facts corresponding to this answer.

"That's right. His voice sounded weird and unnatural. Now that I think about it, he probably squeezed his throat deliberately to pretend that his voice was deep."

"And then you are very short. If you are a child, you will naturally be very short~"

"Oh my god! It's actually a group of kids who came here to transfer Kerry just now?!" Realizing this, Ronggui didn't know what expression to make.

"However, how can there be children here? Such a small child, and where are they going to take Kerry?" Dazed, Ronggui naturally thought of the question that everyone would think of later.

With her lips tightly pressed together, Xiaomei didn't speak.

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From the perspective of most people, Star Prison is divided into two parts, the part on the ground, and the part under the ground. The upper part is called Star Prison, while the lower part is jokingly called Hell.

Not long after they came in, this name was popularized for Ronggui and Xiaomei.

However, in fact, if they are senior prisoners, they will know another way to divide the prison: the Star Prison for ordinary prisoners, and the "Children's Paradise".

Ordinary star prisons should not have children, and there will be such young children.

If older children make mistakes, they will be detained in places similar to juvenile reform institutions. According to the law, such places cannot be called "prisons".

However, there are children in this prison.

Maybe it's because the prison that Peize was in charge of at the beginning was only a women's prison?

Many of the prisoners were imprisoned while pregnant.

Like many years ago, the criminal law will have extra care for pregnant women. Although the time of serving sentences will not be delayed as before, pregnant prisoners will indeed live more comfortably in prison than others.

Or there are indeed prisoners who are pregnant without knowing it, but more pregnant prisoners are intentional.

In this case, children are just a means for them to escape the hard labor in prison. After the child is born, they are too lazy to take care of it.

This happens in every prison, and most prisons do this by sending these children out to the relatives of the prisoners for upbringing, or by putting them in a children’s relief agency—a place similar to an orphanage, where they receive basic education. And the standardized parenting style grew up.

However, according to scientific statistics, these children have a much higher chance of becoming criminals than other children in the future.

The topic is a little bit far away, but I just want everyone to know that there will be children in prisons, especially when the scale of the prison is getting bigger and bigger and it has become a city, especially like Star City, people outside can even When entering the level of consumption...

There are men and women, and when they can meet, they will naturally reproduce children.

These children are born in prison.

Without an identity, they have a mother but don't know who their father is.

And there are very few mothers who will give them the precious emotion of "maternal love".

Or they died naturally without receiving care from birth, or they grew up casually under the pull of the indifferent attitude of "mothers".

Most of them are not tall and have small limbs.

When they are a little older and able to crawl, they often leave the cell where their mother is, and get into other people's cages. In short, whoever has more leftovers, they will instinctively crawl there.

Nobody cares about them.

They don't eat much, they don't take up space, and to other people it's like they don't exist.

Like beasts, they rely on instinct to live in this different city.

They are a part of this city, but they don't have their own status symbols, and they don't even have their own prison cells!

I don't know which child was the first to find the ventilation duct above and hide in it. It is a good place. Although some places are relatively spacious, most of the ducts are very narrow and only children can pass through. Here, they You no longer have to worry about beating and scolding by adults, and you can enjoy the food you have obtained in various ways with peace of mind.

Had the first child and soon had the second...

They finally found their home in this "city".

Because of the special structure, only small children can live here. Most of the adults have never been to this place in their life, but they know that such a place exists for various reasons. Over time, it is called "Children's Paradise" "Are.

They were born without parents, and they lived in this "paradise" by themselves.Older children will even pick up and raise children who were abandoned at birth.

This natural "paradise" can protect them when they are about 14 years old and their height is over 170, so it is difficult for them to move freely in the "paradise".

So when they are a little more sensible, they will be taught by "predecessors" by precepts and deeds, and start to wander through the prisons on various levels through the natural ventilation ducts in "Paradise", in order to find food, and more importantly, to find someone in the prison who can teach them. adults.

In this place, there is nothing more important than learning a craft. Although they have no education, the pressure of survival makes them very clear about it.

Or help people spread the word, or help people run errands, there are not many things they can do, but there are some things that only they can do. Slowly, they grow up in this city in a unique way.

The three children who just met Ronggui Xiaomei are three of the countless children living in the "paradise".

Uh... no, it should be five.

What Xiaomei said was correct. There were indeed two children on the ceiling to respond to them. They used a special rope to quickly pull their companions up from below.

Their movements are very fast, often less than a blink of an eye to complete the action of lowering the rope, retracting the rope, and closing the cover.

Of course, it is precisely because they can complete it within the time limit that they are eligible to follow.

After all, this job can be paid for.

"Berg, although this man is very thin, he is too tall. There are many roads he can't walk." The first thing he did when he received Kerry was to measure his height and weight. A little girl looked up.

And Berg, the little boy who was in charge of negotiating with Xiaomei from the beginning to the end, thought for a moment: "Let's change the road and take the road with small stones, which leads to the 687th floor. There are many empty rooms on that floor. Put it there and talk about it."

They have to work hard to survive from birth. These children work very hard. They will memorize all the pipeline routes they often take in a short period of time. What's more, they even have a complete set of star prison ventilation pipelines in their minds. picture!

And this kind of child is often qualified to become an indispensable figure in a team. If he is a little smarter and more capable, he can also become the team leader.

And Berg just meets all the above needs, so he is the captain of this team.

Living in the "Paradise", they believe in the power of the group more than anyone else, so from the very beginning, they have to act collectively in groups or squads.

Berg is eight years old this year, but he has been the team leader for two years.

Since he grew up in a pipe, he is much shorter than his peers outside, so he is naturally shorter than Ronggui and Xiaomei.

He consciously controls himself not to grow too fast, and tells his companions to do the same.

As an eight-year-old, he thought far and wide.

He is already seriously thinking about things beyond the age of 14.

And age is not the only condition. In case he grows fast and grows to more than 170 centimeters ahead of time, he must leave his "home" early.

So he has now started to learn skills.

The object of study he found was Jiji.

I haven’t talked to Jiji clearly yet, but he thinks it’s good to open a bar, he has a good relationship with the jailer, and the business is relatively easy, and the bar needs to hire people, so he can also solve the work of other small partners in the team .

So for quite a long time, he spent a long time every day watching how Gigi was doing.

He also observes the other vendors on the 99th floor, just in case.

If you can't open a bar, you can sell vegetables, Berg thought.

Compared with outsiders who always say that their future dream is to be a city lord or a monopoly, Berg's dream is very realistic, and all of them are based on the premise of living and living as well as possible.

After "studying", he will also buy some food by the way.

Because of his studies, he had less time to go out to work, and his income naturally decreased. At first, he couldn't afford anything, but later he found something called "Di Dou" at Xiaomei's stall.

The fact that it can emit light has attracted him very much-you know, unlike the cells in the prison, there is no light at all in the ventilation duct!Plants that glow are so precious!

What's more, this kind of thing can still be eaten!

Three can feed their five-person team. If the money is more, Berg will buy five. The extra two will be buried in the soil ← not cleaned for many years. There is a thick layer on the wall of the ventilation pipe. thick dust.

"Now it can illuminate for us, and it can illuminate for other children in the future. If one day we have no food and are hungry, we can still eat." Berg said to his friends.

The friends thought it was right, and like this, Berg went to buy ground beans every day. As long as he passed through the ventilation ducts, a few ground beans were planted on the walls of the pipes.

Before I knew it, there were already many small green beans on the dark ventilation ducts.

Of course, not all land beans survived, some were eaten when they had no food.And some were eaten by other kids who passed by.

While some kids did eat it, many more put some other food in the same spot afterwards.

This is also the tacit understanding cultivated by everyone in the pipeline life.

"The place I went to today... just happened to be a man who sells ground beans. We can come and buy ground beans from him in the future." Berg first reported the situation to the friends who didn't come down from above.

Then he heard a series of small, stifled cheers.

"I bought ten in total." He said the number of purchases.

Another cheer.

"Let's eat three, and plant all the others in the pipe, right? Plant one on the ceiling of the place where the man lived just now, and it will be more eye-catching when he comes over?" The little girl who had spoken before said quickly.

The other friends agreed, and Berg nodded seriously: "I think so too."

Chatting didn't affect their speed, when they were talking, they were already far away from Ronggui Xiaomei's position.

The three little friends dragged Kerry one by one, Berg was at the front to explore the way, and a little friend was in charge of the rear.

They walked through the thickest pipe, and Kerry would not be able to pass through it no matter how fat he was. through the pipeline.

Passing through many forks along the way, Berg's sharp eyes identified each pipeline. Under his leadership, the team walked through the pipelines for about four hours, and finally, they arrived at their destination.

It was a dark cell.

The prisoners held here are very vicious, so the prison authorities treat them very viciously. There is no electricity at all, and it takes a long time to give them daily necessities.

In this case, the prisoners here have to ask them to get some water and food from other places from time to time. It is for this reason that the team members have learned a lot of fighting skills from the prisoners. One layer is also well mixed.

Their movements are really light. If they don't deliberately speak, the surrounding prisoners can't even notice that someone is passing by in front of them.

Find an empty cell in the corner, Berg and the others put Kerry in it.

Transporting Kerry out of the 99th underground floor and putting them in other places that are not guarded, the agreement between them and Jiji will be completed.

After doing all this, the children quietly left again.