translator: loop
When the two door gods stood beside him, the mop felt paralysed. Even when he was dizzy and nauseated he was very careful for fear of offending them, especially Sa’e Yang.
But seeing them leave him behind and walk towards the disc of the door, he felt a little bit lost.
The mop hesitated for a moment, but ultimately couldn’t hold back and led the little mop to stumble after them.
Chu Si heard their panicked footsteps, raised an eyebrow, and turned back: “Is there a ghost chasing after you?” Between them was only a distance of six or seven meters, yet the mop was still so anxious.
Of course there were no such things as ghosts, but the entire fragment only had the dragon pillar as a light source, and the light it emitted was a dark blue fluorescence. No matter how good-looking someone was, against it, they really would look ghostly.
Even staring at the little mop’s face for more than five seconds, he was a little scared.
It was fine to tell others about this kind of thing, but to tell it to someone like Chu Si was like sending yourself to his mouth to be torn apart. The mop stubbornly raised his chin and said: “It’s nothing, I just want to say part of the Space Prison can be regarded as a kind of intelligent aircraft in a broad sense, which is within my professional scope. The doors of this aircraft are very particular about opening, especially—”
Not waiting for him to finish his sentence, Chu Si skillfully pressed a button by the door.
Two pieces of metal automatically slid open, revealing a scanner concealed inside.
Only this time, it was slightly more troublesome than just scanning an iris. A red light swept Chu Si from head to toe, and a skeletal pattern and DNA sequence quickly appeared on the screen. After a string of values flew by, two lines popped up:
Authentication passed
Permissions passed
Mop: “…pretend I didn’t say that.”
“Thank you for your kind words, but this just happens to be within my authority as well.” Chu Si shrugged his shoulders.
The mop was disheartened, and thought that since he couldn’t be used for anything serious for the time being, he could only be useless. “What’s in there? Will there be food? I’m so hungry I want to eat people.”
Sa’e Yang suddenly turned his head and gave him a smile: “What a coincidence, so do I.”
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“….” The mop was silently shocked.
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The sound of running machinery hummed non-stop, and while they were speaking, two more layers had already opened.
Sa’e was very confident about the things he had retrieved. With one hand in his pocket, he pointed at the metal door, the third layer of which was opening, and said: “The high-ranked Executive Chu, you’ll soon be able to see a table set with fresh food, wine, and even cigars. Shouldn’t you thank me?”
He said this, so he naturally had a basis.
Chu Si could draw the map of the entire Space Prison with his eyes closed. The situation was chaotic before, and he was a little overwhelmed, but now that he had calmed down, he matched the disc with the map in his mind and remembered.
In this disc, to the east was a row of special confinement rooms, near the outside was the No. 2 surveillance center, to the west was the security post of prison guards and the No. 4 fuel bunker. These things were not important to Chu Si at this time. The most important thing was that the middle of the disc had a dining hall.
Dining hall, what a wonderful place.
As far as he could tell, it wasn’t too much to say it was heaven.
From the moment he stepped out of the frozen capsule, Chu Si was hungry enough to eat a person. However, he couldn’t force himself to choke down the big and small mops, and as for Sa’e Yang, he was afraid of indigestion.
He said he was going to search for something useful, but it was in fact all nonsense. It was most important to fill his stomach first.
Five layers of metal doors finally opened completely.
If nothing out of the ordinary had happened, they should’ve seen the corridor of the guard’s rooms, perhaps with clueless and confused guards inside. Though, according to normal procedure, they should’ve all evacuated before the disc was blasted away from the main prison.
However, after Chu Si stepped through the doorway, he frowned tightly.
The position he held required him to deal with all kinds of danger all year round, so he was extremely sensitive to some things—
This corridor was not right!
A row of eight prison guards’ rooms were all closed, and even the small windows above were tightly shut. Chu Si glanced at the doors one by one, but did not stop walking. He tried to press down of the door handles, and faintly heard a quiet electronic sound inside.
Such a reaction only came from being locked by the intelligent system.
“Why’s it so dark? I thought this corridor would be lit up. Wasn’t this space in use before it was blown off?” Mop’s voice was full of confusion and his throat was slightly tight.
Sa’e Yang followed Chu Si, seemingly very interested in the prison guards’ rooms, his eyes scanning up and down each door. “All locked? Too bad, I was going to borrow a room to take a shower.”
In such an environment, Chu Si was unconsciously tense, capturing every little movement around him, except for the sound of speech.
Especially for Sa’e Yang whose words had no sustenance at all, he was directly filtered out.
The eight prison guards’ room quickly fell behind, and Chu Si, who led the way, walked to the end of the corridor. As long as he turned the corner and passed through another door, he would be able to see the dining hall.
Chu Si didn’t rush to open the door, but stood at the end of the corridor and looked around—
“What are we going to do now?” Mop asked when he saw that Chu Si hadn’t taken a step.
Chu Si said, “Eat.”
Mop froze: “But this place is a bit odd, don’t we have to sweep it first to make sure it’s safe?”
Chu Si retracted his gaze. “Eat first.”
Mop: “….” Well, it seems that you are also very hungry.
In fact, as he spoke, Chu Si had looked behind him at several places where people might be hidden, and they were all empty, or at least there was no immediate threat.
“Except for the danger of ‘being blown in the head by artillery in the next second’, nothing can stop our Executive Chu from eating.” Sa’e Yang spoke lazily as his arm passed Chu Si to push open the dining hall door behind him. “Isn’t that right, my dear?”
The door was not locked and opened with a push.
It slammed into the wall with a loud bang.
There was a clanging sound, as if they had just opened an old wooden box that suddenly raised dust.
In his head Chu Si had imagined that the dining hall should’ve been empty, the tables and chairs may have been knocked crooked during the emergency evacuations, and there might’ve been slippers dropped by some fool on the ground.
But the wall full of self-serve food at the back behind the bar should’ve been intact.
Well, maybe a few plates would’ve been knocked to the floor.
But in any case, it would’ve never looked like this—
The dining tables and chairs were crowded and piled up against the wall, leaving a big space in the middle filled with cages, each of which contained an unmoving person. With black gold rings on their arms, they were ashen-faced, with their matted hair poking out of their cages like zapped chickens.
From their appearance alone, you could tell that they had been locked in the cage for a long time.
When they saw the door had opened, they immediately broke out of their befuddlement, and clanked desperately on the metal cages with their handcuffs and footcuffs.
“Wow—” Sa’e Yang sniffed. “When did the dining room become a chicken farm? There are quite a lot of ingredients, but they’re a bit rancid.”
Those in the cages froze, but after hearing this from him, they got even more excited, and clanked louder on their cages.
Chu Si first selectively ignored those cages that should not’ve been there, and instead glanced at the shelf behind the bar where the food should have been placed.
But there was nothing there, not to mention fresh food, there wasn’t even a blade of grass!
The hungry Executive Chu’s mood instantly fell.
He frowned, face darkening, and had to turn his gaze back to those cages. “I have two questions.”
Sa’e raised an eyebrow: “Ask.”
Chu Si: “First, what exactly did you get up to when you broke out of prison, how did the Space Prison turn into this? Second, this… rancid meat, how should we split it? Fifty-fifty?”
The sound of clanking in the cage stopped abruptly, and the rancid meat fell into a dead silence.
Mop: “…” Executive, you aren’t like an executive at all right now, you sound like terrorist No. 2!
Maybe he’s terrorist №1, ahah?
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Sa’e Yang what in the world did you do?? 😭