Chapter 1,204 District 4

(By the way, this is Lilina’s home court, and the whole process is high-energy...)

Entering the fourth area is very simple. There is a military outpost on the border of Dongcheng District. Through this outpost, you can accept space replacement. After the replacement, you will enter the "alienated shadow city" from the normal shadow city.

A second ago, there was busy traffic and people behind him, and it was a lively and bustling city scene. After passing through the replacement door of the outpost, the surroundings suddenly became quiet, as if the whole world had gone away from him. The originally clear and bright sky was covered by a chaotic gray haze, and the surrounding light dimmed. The sky in the fourth area is monotonous, because there is no need to prepare any relaxing scenery for the prisoners here. I looked up at the sky. There was no sun, moon and stars in the gray mist. It was grey, the only color with absolute colors. The average way covers the entire field of view. All the surrounding buildings and streets are twisted, connected, and overlapped in strange ways. The cracked roads twist and stretch toward the sky, and the entangled buildings turn back in mid-air at strange angles, and then are half-buried in the ground. A hundred meters away, a skyscraper was slowly rotating and floating at a high altitude. Half of its building was shattered and cut into countless neat and smooth small squares. There were flickering and flickering elements in these cut small squares. Dark lights flickered. Beside the only flat stretch of road at the foot, a neon sign protruded crookedly out of the tar pit, with bright red writing on it saying: Welcome to District 4.

This is the scenery of this "inner city".

"It's really Lilina's bad taste..." I looked at these absurd and twisted things around me. They were tried hard to shape into nightmares in reality, as if the thinking process of a mental patient was forcibly extracted and then carved into countless abstract symbols. Stacked together, those twisted and broken buildings and roads lead nowhere, all buildings are deceptions, and toward them you will never find any end.

I waited for a few seconds and saw a pipe protruding from the ground not far ahead. It was as thick as an oil pipeline. The surface was roughly painted with a layer of dirty dark green paint. What was exposed under the paint layer was a suspicious dark red background. A dark hole suddenly cracked in the pipe, and then from the inside A one-eyed ghoul wearing a plumber's uniform and a ridiculous red cloth hat came out. This ghoul's red cloth hat had a big M written on it, and he had an ancient gramophone slung across his body. A hoarse and unpleasant creaking sound came from the gramophone. It was a nursery rhyme compiled by Lilina - the story of the wolf and the spider.

I know this ghoul. It is said that he has been working as a receptionist in District 4 for more than a year. His favorite game is Super Mario, his favorite activity is cosplay, and he is also a music lover... ...There is nothing wrong with any of the above hobbies. But there is a problem when they appear on a ghoul. After the integration of various elements, the strange shape in front of you is born...

The twisted ghoul limped in front of me, and a hoarse voice came from his throat: "Your Majesty, the warden is interrogating the prisoner, are you..."

"Oh, I know, I'm just looking for her," I waved my hand. "Open the door—and can't you turn off this squeaky thing you're wearing?"

The ghoul split his head open, showed a big smile, and said while opening the portal: "This is a gift from the warden to Peppa. Peppa likes the story of wolves and spiders...the story of the wolf being eaten by the spider... …”

I felt that I didn’t need to eat dinner today if I kept listening, so I quickly stopped and walked into the dark red portal opened by the ghoul guard. In a blink of an eye, I came to the place where Lilina was "working".

It looks unremarkable here, just a very spacious office. There is a large mahogany desk in the room. Against the wall is a large bookshelf that takes up the entire wall but will probably never be looked through. In the northeast corner of the room is a solid wood carved steering wheel. On it is written in large gilt characters the words "boating on the business sea, riding the wind and waves", and an antique ink painting hangs on the wall above the steering wheel, depicting the misty scenery of green mountains, green water and mist. This is an ordinary room that looks like the office of a CEO of a large company on earth. Apart from its spaciousness and nouveau riche-like decoration, there isn't much worth paying attention to. If there is anything special, it is that this room has no windows at all. There is only a large floor-to-ceiling window with a height of two and a half meters painted on the east wall with a crude watercolor pen. This window was painted with a color pen. The floor-to-ceiling windows look like they were created by children. Not only are the colors gaudy, but the borders are crooked and uneven. Painted in the windows are the outdoor scenery imagined by children: a grey-blue crayon sky, Father-in-law with a twisted smile on his face, and... There are green lawns.

In such a well-decorated and spacious office, half of the wall is occupied by such a floor-to-ceiling window painted with watercolors. At first glance, it seems just weird and ridiculous, but soon, you will feel that all this is surrounded by madness and... The weird atmosphere - and all of this was designed by the little man sitting behind the desk, with almost his entire body buried in the leather seat. The only purpose of designing these scenes was to satisfy her bad taste.

"Hey, boss, you're here, I'm busy."

Lilina jumped up from behind the large mahogany desk, jumped directly onto the table and ran over. I caught her and patted her twice to show my intimacy, and then my eyes fell on the corner of the office: there was something else besides Apart from the watercolor floor-to-ceiling windows, another thing that is incompatible with the layout of this office is two cages surrounded by energy beams. Inside, there are two livid-faced men wearing some kind of military uniforms. Those should be Mei who was captured. Lowa prisoner of war.

Out of curiosity, I took a few more glances at the two prisoners. At first glance, their appearance seemed not much different from that of humans on Earth - of course, this is normal. As we all know, they are taller and have deep-set eye sockets. My skin color is darker, but I don’t know if every Merova person is like this. Their eyes are the only obvious difference from humans: the outside of the pupils is not white, but has a dark blue tint, which looks like it is reflecting fluorescence. This is the Merova, and at first glance... nothing special.

But they were the first vassals to betray the empire in history.

When I observed these two people out of curiosity, the other person also raised his eyes and looked here curiously. There was no fear or hostility in the eyes of these two people. Maybe they didn't know who the person in front of them was, or maybe they didn't know who the person in front of them was. Maybe you have given up hope?

"Are you from Merova?" I put Lilina on the ground. He turned around and asked casually.

There was no answer, the two just snorted coldly. I found that there were no external injuries on their bodies. It seemed that Lilina, a bad guy, had not yet started the torture and confession process that she loved to see.

"Don't like to talk?" I came to one of them, and I felt incredibly calm: these were enemies in front of me, real enemies. They rebelled against the country tens of thousands of years ago and demolished my sister's home in her previous life. It is even possible that a large number of Xiling apostles in dormant facilities were killed in the process, each of which was a capital crime, yet I spoke to the other party so calmly. The man in front of me raised his head and looked at me. He suddenly opened his mouth and showed a nasty expression: "Your time has passed long ago, you son of a bitch."

Me: "...Oh, you have quite a temper. Hmm. You are not timid either. Do you really think treason is such an understatement?"

"Melova will go further than you bastards. Merova will replace you and become the real god. Merova will conquer every world. Merova will punish every heretic..."

"Is this guy crazy?" I was confused for a moment, and turned to ask Lilina. The little girl curled her lips: "There are traces of brainwashing, and his mind is extremely paranoid. I guess he has been modified from his genes to his body to his soul. So he He is not afraid of the Empire. Even if the Empire could stop children crying at night in the entire void, he would not be afraid. This type is the most difficult to deal with, and simple torture is useless."

"Torture?" Another Merova prisoner of war sneered, "After tens of thousands of years, you crazy people have really degenerated."

Speaking of which, all clay figures are very angry. I had been chatting with these two prisoners of war calmly for a long time, but they didn't have a good word to say from the beginning to the end...Okay, I admit that no one seems to have a good word to say in this kind of situation, but these two people His attitude is really annoying. I have seen treason. I have never seen someone so confident and upbeat after being arrested for treason! At that time, I wanted to draw a brick and knock over one of them first (it would have been Bingtis who would have knocked over both of them by now). But before taking action, Lilina suddenly interjected: "What? According to the rules of the Fourth District, we should first introduce the living environment here to the prisoners. After all, you have to live here for a long time, and you must have Many neighbors—"

Lilina cleared her throat. Such a little girl who looked like she was just over 1 meter tall and wandering here arrogantly must have already attracted the attention of the two Merova prisoners of war, so the two of them became quiet. Lilina nodded with satisfaction. , with a sweet smile on his face, he introduced the living environment to the two new residents of District 4:

“First, in District 4, there are three long-standing ‘bills’.

First, the binary state. There are no citizens or laws in District 4. All life here has only two camps, the innocent and the guilty. The innocent have the right to enter and exit the Fourth District freely, while the guilty are deemed to be eligible for all punishments without trial here - because the guilty have already undergone all possible trials and been convicted before being brought Must be sent to Zone 4 to be 'corrected'. Of course, there are people like you two who are directly found guilty without going through trial. You will see these inmates in the future. "

Second, human rights are frozen. The guilty in District 4 are declared to have no human rights, not even the right to property or the right to die. You have a new name here, called "Dust". This is your identity and all your value. Any form of torture, multiple deaths, soul extraction and torture, biochemical testing, weapons testing, and anything else you can think of, well, everything, your imagination will never compare to the reality here is allowed here , don’t worry, you will see all this soon. "

Third, end the state of control. All life in the fourth area is subject to control, including your survival and death. Before the approval of the superiors, independent death is not allowed here. The guilty here may be killed millions of times in a row and then resurrected millions of times - because they have not applied for the qualification to die. "

When Lilina said this, she suddenly raised her fingers and waved them in front of the two prisoners, and said with a smile: "By the way, let me tell you a little note. In the fourth area, 100% of the prisoners apply for death every day. , but only one percent of people can get what they want every time. Here, death is the only thing worth pursuing, and the prisoners will even fight brutally for a death certificate... Of course you also have the right to apply for death. But I hope you are strong enough. Every day at twelve o'clock at midnight, all the cells in the Central Prison will be opened. You have to fight until four o'clock in the morning. The person with the least number of kills will be completely killed before dawn the next day... ...Or the qualifications for liberation. Therefore, if you want to die in this place, the competition is very fierce. Well, don't show that expression. Believe me, every prisoner...will shed tears within a few days of staying in the fourth area. Just write a death application, haha~~~you guys do the same!"

Lilina had a sweet smile on her face, as if she were a child introducing her toys to her friends, but what she said was not interesting at all. I squinted at the expression on this guy's face. Her current smile really feels like a long-lost familiarity - Lilina often smiles. When she is with me, she will act silly, be cute, and suddenly become happy for no reason, but every smile It's all different from what it is now, this simple, sweet, and seemingly innocent smile. It definitely doesn't come from her heart.

This is the most twisted of all Lilina's masks. She would never show such a pure smile to the dead.

The two prisoners listened blankly to Lilina's introduction, seeming to need some time to understand this strange place. Then they looked at each other and sneered disdainfully. The taller man stared at Lilina, full of excitement. He said contemptuously: "In the final analysis, it is just torture. The sacred Merova warriors can ignore any pain and use any number of tricks."

"Of course. It will happen sooner or later." Lilina had already expected the other party's attitude, and she said nonchalantly. He waved his claws in front of the prisoners, and two green haloes appeared above the latter's heads, and then slowly sank into their bodies, "Anyway, I have patience and time. Well, let's see which group of experts cracked you first." Navigator, I'd better let you two speak first."

When the two prisoners saw a green light entering their bodies, they first subconsciously tightened their muscles. They thought this was some kind of punishment. However, nothing happened after the green light entered their bodies, so they showed confused expressions and heard After Lilina's words, the tall prisoner suddenly grinned: "Ha, so you just want the coordinates of Merova's homeland... just dream!"

After saying this, a strange squeaking sound suddenly came from the other party's head, like the sound of meat being burned. Along with this strange sound, veins appeared on the prisoner's face, as if he was suffering from great pain. My teeth chattered, and filthy blood mixed with white blood slowly emerged from my eyes, nostrils, and even ears. Finally, even my eyeballs overflowed with thick, steaming slurry. I realized that the Merovian warriors actually had the ability to The ability to self-destruct!

However, Lilina just watched the scene in front of her leisurely, as if watching a very interesting sideshow. The prisoner in front of her was twitching all over, and his head was glowing red as if it was cooked, and bursts of strong steam were emitting. Obviously, he was already dead, and the other prisoner next to him showed us a mocking smile. Obviously, he was also ready. However, the second prisoner didn't even have time to activate his own self-destruction device. Prisoner No. 1 suddenly sat up.

The resurrected prisoner looked normal, as if nothing had happened. Only the blood and heat on his face showed that the uncomfortable suicide just now was real. He woke up from the brief confusion, and his face gradually changed. All gray.

"Uncle, you are so stupid, really." Lilina looked up at the other party. "You should know that the empire has resurrection technology... Well, it may not have been used on you back then. But has anyone told you that the two of you were actually Was he already dead when he was sent here?"

The two prisoners were suddenly stunned.

"Well, he was already dead when he was brought here. I guess you committed suicide once when you were arrested. But it seems that you were in confusion at the time and forgot about it... This was the second time you were resurrected, uncle. .”

The prisoner's expression changed drastically following Lilina's words. It seemed that the suicide mentioned by Lilina did indeed exist. Now they were finally able to be completely sure that death was not the way to escape in this place.

"I just put a little gift in your body," Lilina said with a smile, "It's that green light. From now on, you are blessed. You will not go insane, lose your five senses, or feel sleepy. , and your senses will not be dulled for any reason. Today is your first day in District 4. Later, someone will take you to visit your new house and get to know the new neighbors here - all They are some very good people. Everyone is extremely evil, heinous, and extremely cute. They like their new neighbors the most, because the rules of District 4 are that every time you kill a new person, you get a rotten piece. Isn’t that disgusting? Raw meat as a reward, in the eyes of those people... you are just living food... Sa, then in the following time, I wish you two a happy party... Jailer!"

Lilina snapped her fingers, and two skeletons wearing clown masks and costumes of medieval European kings and queens appeared out of thin air in the room. They pushed the cage holding the prisoners into the secret door that suddenly appeared in the wall. Two skeletons appeared in the room. There is still no fear on the faces of the prisoners. It seems that brainwashing and transformation have given them amazing courage, and they can face the upcoming life in the Fourth District calmly. After the cage was pushed into the secret compartment, there was a faint whistling sound from the other side of the wall, as if it fell directly. Lilina showed a look of regret on her face: "Ah, I seem to have forgotten to open the elevator... Well, there is an acid pool below anyway, so no one can be killed." After that, she said to the two skeletons in costumes: " Jailer, these two prisoners are numbered Special 161 and Special 162. They are treated according to the standards of special prisoners. They are not allowed to give them food, and they are not allowed to eat human beings and their own excrement. After they are revived, they will be taken to visit. Popokaka’s carousel…well, why aren’t you leaving yet?”

"Dian... Lord Warden," the skeleton in the king's costume trembled and took off his clown mask. Under the mask was a white paper pasted on the skull. The white paper was drawn with rough watercolors. Wearing a ridiculous king's face: bloated, dull, and with a mustache, "The humble prisoner 38755 wants to know how long it will take for me and my queen to..."

Lilina raised her eyebrows: "Oh, it's this question again? Didn't you order 78,000 'lower people' to be cooked alive just to watch an epic drama? Then each of you will die 78,000 times. Don't worry, there are people Let me count for you. As long as you have nothing to do, just go and lie down in the small restaurant No. 2. You can die seventy or eighty times a day, and you will be free sooner or later. In addition, I have heard enough of your questions. I will ask you again in the future. Once, the number of deaths is squared, if not, cubed. Get out."

The two skeletons in costumes trembled all over, every joint creaking, then quickly put on their clown masks and disappeared into the room.

"Boss, look, the two tyrants who shocked the macro world back then," Lilina giggled, pointing to the ripples in the air left behind after the two skeletons disappeared, "How friendly are they now?"

wxs.o