on the captive

1941 was a dark winter.

Prior to this, the Soviet Union's vigorous "Great Purge" campaign poisoned many officers, and the combat capability of the Red Army declined sharply. During the next four years of the Great Patriotic War, millions of soldiers were captured, and countless families faced brokenness.

What is even more ironic is that the Soviet government did not recognize "captives".They even publicly stated that once captured, they would be deserters, traitors to the motherland, and enemies of the people.The captives were shot immediately after returning home, and their family members were exiled, and none of them survived.

Andrian's father is one in a million.After his death, Andrian's mother was sent to a concentration camp, even though she was eight months pregnant at the time.

Concentration camps were, of course, built to reform sinners, and they were also called "filter camps."In order to let the people here understand that their sins are serious and unforgivable, people brainwash these prisoners every day.

The prisoners repeated day after day: "I'm guilty, I deserve to die... Stalin forgave our devil's soul." Some even became demented because of this, and reflexively vomited when they heard the word "sin".

The hard-boned people were locked in the pigsty. They were told that they were born as livestock and pigs. They were evil mutants. They started to be strong-willed, but they competed with pigs for food every day and slept on excrement. Completely lost its human form, completely breaking with humans.

The final result is that they finally broke down hysterically one day, and began to take it for granted that they were a pig, abandoning their dignity and shame, barking and excreting like pigs.

The managers are happy with the results of their transformation - look, are they crazy?If you are not obedient, you will be the next one to be reformed.

However, due to the large number of people here, the managers cannot "take care" of all the prisoners.

So a new system was born, and this has become a new nightmare for people.

They implemented a policy of "prisoners by prisoners."

Think about it, what is the result of using violence to control violence?

The answer is - the most scumbag, most vicious gangsters control the criminals who are far less terrible than them.

These people not only survived the harsh living environment in the labor camp, but also turned against customers and organized the "Law Thief" group.

Riders are the best of the gang, and they wear intricate, evil tattoos as a status symbol and a form of glory.Their methods are naturally more terrifying than the Communist Party, and they seem to have become the new "midnight overlord" of the Gulag, and have established a set of tyrannical rule over the underground world.

The sky in the Gulag has changed, the light is being eaten away by the darkness bit by bit, and the maggots and bacteria under the carrion are constantly breeding.

The entire Gulag has formed the jungle law of the jungle.

There are no rules here, no bottom line - the strongest is God.

Women and children are naturally the weakest at the bottom of such an order.

No one knows how many setbacks Adrian's mother has experienced, but she miraculously gave birth to Adrian.

At the moment when the baby was born, the clear cry of the baby spread to every corner of the prison, bringing a sudden burst of life to the haze-filled concentration camp.Of course, it was only for a short moment.

But this greatly encouraged the poor woman, she almost wept with joy, and tremblingly hugged this young life tightly in her arms.

Adrian's mother is a traditional beauty, with soft pale blond hair and fair complexion, especially those amber melancholy eyes, with a kind of innate pity that seems to be able to look into the bottom of people's hearts.The baby in her arms has inherited her dazzling hair and eyes.

"Andrian...my hope..."

She kept kissing the little baby, just like the beautiful and gentle Holy Mother kissing the newborn Son of God Jesus in Raphael's works, with a kind of holiness and compassion that is almost extraordinary.

It's a pity that this is hell, no believers will appreciate this touching picture, there are only the most sinister murderers here.In such a dark world, the golden mother and son were doomed to be out of place from the very beginning.

"Squeak-"

The rusty door made a dry and harsh sound when it opened and closed. As soon as Adrian entered, he heard his mother's gentle voice: "My Adrian is back. Where did you go to play today?"

Seven-year-old Andrian is like a little angel on an oil painting. He has a straight face, showing the seriousness of a young adult, but his voice is still very immature: "I went to find Qiao Ma. We read books together."

Qiaoma is a boy who lives on the other side of the prison. His family situation is quite similar to that of Adrian, but they have some contacts outside, so Qiaoma can always get some gadgets from the outside world. This time it is a "Bible" .

"Adrian is awesome." His mother praised him with a smile.

But Andrian's mood is not as relaxed as it used to be.Because he thinks Joma has slandered his mother.

"They said your mother had AIDS, she slept with several men at the same time, she was a hypocritical dirty bitch..."

Andrian immediately turned cold: "They are talking nonsense."

"But everyone says that." Qiao Ma shrugged indifferently, "Do you want to read it? Although it's full of nonsense, it's good for entertainment." He pointed to the "Bible" in his hand.

Qiao Ma's words are not unreasonable, and Andrian is also somewhat aware of ignorance.It's like -- Joma lives in a prison, and they have their own room.

He looked at the beautiful mother who was busy preparing food, and quietly clenched her hands.

In this way, Andrian made an irreversible decision.

He violated the agreement between them.

After saying goodbye to his mother, he didn't go to look for Qiao Ma, but hid in the dark cupboard half a person's height.He made up his mind to verify all this.

It was raining heavily that day, and the raindrops fell from the sky crazily, and the dark sky seemed to collapse.

There was a deafening thunder, like the roar of a god.An electric arc with sparks pierced through the darkness, striking a blinding thunderbolt in the dark night.

Under the light, all crimes and atrocities are exposed in sight.

Adrian witnessed all the crimes in disbelief. Desperation and helplessness flooded him like a flood that broke a dam, making him almost collapse.

The woman's mournful cry, the man's savage panting... The mask of the Virgin was torn to pieces, and the most filthy deeds hidden in the depths, together with the most primitive appearance of this prison, were completely and clearly displayed to him for the first time. in front of the eyes.

But all he could do at that time was to hide in that small cupboard and cover his mouth desperately to prevent himself from crying.

This later became his worst nightmare.He woke up from it countless times, and saw his cowardly self who was trembling at that time, as if he was about to drown in endless darkness countless times.

"If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell."

Adrian's light eyes looked at his mother: "This is what I read in the Bible. What does it mean, Mom?"

The mother's smile froze for a moment, but the strangeness quickly disappeared without a trace: "This is to say that sometimes people always give up something in order to achieve their goals."

Andrian's voice was faint: "Where is Dad? Will he do this?"

The mother's complexion turned extremely bad in an instant: "He has already paid the full price."

Andrian didn't ask why his mother hadn't gotten out of bed all week.After that, he still "fulfilled" their agreement.When his mother was dealing with the law thieves, he went out to "find a place to hide".

He pretended not to know his mother's deception, of course, maybe the other party also noticed it.Andrian knew it wasn't his mother's fault, she just wanted to protect him.

But they evened it out.

Because he lied to her too.He didn't look for Qiao Ma again, but went to the thief's territory.He knelt down to them and asked to be his successor.

So he was branded as belonging to a law thief, from the chest to the knees.The wound festered over the next few years, new flesh replacing rotting flesh, until he was completely reborn.

He finally fell as thoroughly as Jesus did.

Everything seems ironic and ridiculous: the mother risked her life and her chastity to protect her child from being stained by the darkness; in order to protect her mother, the child in turn asked to be one with the darkness.

So they all had their own secrets tacitly, and at the same time pretended to be deaf and dumb because they were powerless.

No one's fault, they're just...too weak.