Human Shackles

In the middle of the night, everything was silent. Luo Kai struggled to open his eyelids, which seemed to be filled with lead, and struggled to sit up. The long-term hunger made his body seem to no longer belong to him, and every small movement was extremely difficult.

There was a commotion in the dark and oppressive space. It was a huge rat. Luo Kai wanted to catch it, but he was powerless. His only way was to guard the rat hole to prevent the rat from escaping, and compete with the rat to see who could survive. longer.

The cold rock wall behind him made Luo Kai shiver and dispelled his sleepiness. He had to work.

He groped to find the mouse hole under his butt, and used all his strength to lift up a stone slab on top. He had dug the mouse hole to the size of a person. He carefully slid it down and covered the stone slab again. He tried not to make any noise. Because he is escaping from prison!

Luo Kai's eyes lit up with green light in the dark and damp tunnel, and the surrounding environment gradually became clearer. This was the night vision ability evolved from being in the dark for a long time. He breathed weakly for a while, and took out a quilt from his elbow. The shiny awl began to dig into the soil carefully.

Digging a hole in the ground to escape from prison, a scene he had only seen in movies before, actually happened to him. Only when he was there did he understand how difficult it was. The key point was that his body was now tortured by hunger and was no longer human. This incident Things squeezed out his little physical strength, but if he didn't do this, he would wake up in pain and want to commit suicide every time he woke up in the silence of the night...

Luo Kai didn't know which prison this was or why he was locked up here. He only knew that he was still alive and had survived a passenger plane that crashed at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

But sometimes life is more painful than death. This is a thirty-square-meter stone room. Strictly speaking, it is a prison cell. He has not had a full meal for more than three hundred days and nights. Every day, there is a rich and rich man. The jailer threw a piece of musty steamed buns and fishy seaweed balls to each prisoner here, and then left while shouting in an unintelligible language and swaying his fat buttocks.

At the beginning, Luo Kai tried to communicate with the jailer, but the result was an incomprehensible curse and three days without any food or water.

What is more terrifying than hunger is the unspeakable loneliness. No one communicates or speaks here, because everyone, like him, has been struggling between death and immortality, and has no energy to do anything, including talking.

The fear and impatience at the beginning gradually turned into numbness. He once saw a mouse that accidentally broke in. After being trapped here for a while, it gnawed hard on the hard granite wall and refused to give up even after its sharp claws and fangs were worn away. , the mouse clearly knew that this was suicide, but if life really has a soul, maybe the soul can pass through the cage that imprisons life after death.

Luo Kai sometimes thought that it was a miracle that he could survive. Maybe he was no longer a "human"!

There were already some water droplets seeping into the earth wall in the dark and humid underground. Luo Kai leaned over and sucked greedily. The sweet water droplets moistened his dry body and soul, and restored some strength to his body.

He carefully scraped the soil in the tunnel with an awl, and then collected the soil into his only intact rag bag. The jailer would come to check the room every day. Once wet soil was seen, it was over.

The jailers here have no humanity at all. Their favorite thing is to torture prisoners. Whenever a new prisoner arrives, there will be painful wailing for several days outside the iron gate. Every once in a while, a jailer will drag a prisoner. The shriveled corpses left, and he didn't see a single prisoner being released. There was no doubt that this was a death row, and he might become one of the corpses in the near future.

Luo Kai has been digging here for more than a hundred nights, but he has only dug five or six meters. He is too weak. Panic and hunger have been consuming his will and body. He doesn't know where the tunnel leads, and he doesn't know where the tunnel leads. He didn't know how long he could hold on, but he still struggled to dig out late at night every night. Maybe the suicidal rat moved him, or maybe it was human nature's yearning for freedom, or more likely, he wanted to find a hope for himself.

So far, he has not figured out where this place is, nor whether he is "himself". Judging from the jailer's dark complexion and the salty sea breeze blowing from the iron window, this place looks like a place along the coast, but the jailer's The accent was unlike any other language he had ever heard.

What puzzled him the most was his own body. The arms and legs of this body were obviously much slimmer, and the original big belly had disappeared. One time, with the help of the reflection of urine, he realized that the face of this body was similar to that of his high school student. They looked very similar when they were young, and there was a crescent-shaped birthmark on their abdomen.

Strictly speaking, this body is not who he is today, but rather like what he was when he was sixteen or seventeen years old. It may be that he traveled through another world in the legend, or he may have gone back to the past, but it doesn't make any sense now, because he lives in it every day. All teetering on the edge of death.

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When dawn was about to come, Luo Kai carefully lifted up the stone slab and slowly climbed up. In the darkness, a pair of small green bean-like eyes stared straight at him in the corner where the thatch was piled up. It was the big mouse.

Luo Kai bared his teeth slightly at it and looked for Shuyuanｗｗｗ.zhaoshuyuａ.com with a cruel and bloodthirsty smell. For a person who has been hungry for a long time, any living creature can be used as food, but he doesn't have it now. The ability to catch agile rats, even in this small cell.

Long-term hunger and lack of sunlight have left him severely malnourished and osteoporotic, making him unable to make any strenuous movements.

Cover the slate again, then slowly crush the large pieces of soil in the pocket, stand up carefully while holding on to the wall, and scatter the soil bit by bit through the iron window the size of a human head. The cold and cold sea breeze outside the window seems to be blowing. Freeze his arm.

After doing all this, he began to sweat, even though the cell was freezing cold.

Luo Kai tiredly gathered up the thatch and the hardened bedding at his feet, and fell into a deep sleep.

Sleep seems to be the best relief in painful days. He began to dream again. In the dream, he had a harmonious family, a majestic father, a loving mother, and a sister who was a bit fierce but was very good to him. His life was simple and happy...

"Bang...bang." A violent kick at the door woke him up, and Luo Kai opened his sleepy eyes.

The jailer's big face with a ferocious scar looked towards him through a small hole in the iron door. There was a trace of doubt in his cold eyes, as if he was surprised that Luo Kai was still alive.

Then an angry curse rang out, and Luo Kai already knew the meaning of this curse these days: "Get up and eat!"

He struggled to crawl to the iron gate. Today's food was the same as usual, a moldy steamed bun the size of a baby's fist, a salty seaweed dumpling, and a bowl of porridge with enough rice grains to count. This was the food for each prisoner for one day. , it is a blessing to eat this little food every day and not starve to death.