Human Shackles

In the middle of the night, everything is silent. Luo Kai tried hard to open his lead-like eyelids, struggling to sit up, and the long-term hunger made his body seem to be no longer his own. A subtle movement is extremely difficult.

There was a commotion in the dark, depressing space. It was a huge mouse. Luo Kai wanted to catch it, but he was powerless. His only way was to keep the mouse hole to prevent the mouse from escaping. And compete with mice who live longer.

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

Fumbling to find the mouse hole under the buttocks, he exhausted all his energy to lift a piece of stone slab on it. He had dug the mouse hole to the size of one person, and it slipped down cautiously and covered it again. He tried not to make any noise, because he was breaking out of prison!

In the dark and humid tunnel, Luo Kai’s eyes lit up with a little green light, and the surrounding environment gradually became clear. This is the night vision ability evolved from being in the dark for a long time, and he took a weak breath. A polished awl was taken out of his elbow, and he began to dig the soil cautiously.

Digging a hole to escape from prison. This kind of scene that was only seen in the movie happened to him. Only when he was on the scene did he know the difficulty. The key is that his body is already starved. Tortured inhuman form, this matter squeezed his few physical strength, but if he didn’t do that, he would like to commit suicide in pain whenever he woke up in the dead of night…

Luo Kai didn’t know This is a prison, and he doesn’t know why he was locked up here. He only knows that he is still alive, surviving a passenger plane that crashed at a height of 10,000 meters.

But sometimes life is more painful than death. This is a stone chamber that is 30 years old and strictly speaking is a cell. He has not eaten a full meal for more than 300 days and nights. Every day, a five-and-three-thin jailer throws a musty wotou and a fishy seaweed ball to every prisoner here, and then whispers his fat ass and leaves with unintelligible language.

In the beginning, Luo Kai tried to communicate with the jailer, but the result was an incomprehensible curse and no food or water for three days.

More terrifying than hunger is that unspeakable loneliness. No one communicates here, no one talks, 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, and slowly became numb. He once saw a mouse that accidentally broke in. After being trapped here for a period of time, he gnawed at the hard granite wall, sharp Claw doesn’t stop after the fangs are worn out. The mouse clearly knows that this is suicide, but if there is a soul in life, it may be possible for the soul to pass through the cage of life after death.

Luo Kai sometimes thinks that it is a miracle that he can survive, maybe he is no longer a “human”!

Some water droplets have penetrated the soil wall in the dark and humid underground. Luo Kai leaned forward and sucked greedily. The sweet water droplets nourished his dry body and soul, and made his body recover. strength.

He carefully scraped the dirt in the tunnel with an awl, and then took the dirt into his only intact rag pocket. The jailer everyday all would come to round the room. Once he was seen that there was moist dirt , It’s over.

The jailers here have no humanity at all. Their favorite thing is to torture the prisoners. Whenever a new prisoner arrives, there will be several days of painful wailing outside the iron gate, every once in a while There will be a jailer dragging a shriveled corpse away. He did not see a prisoner being released. There is no doubt that this is a death row, and he may become one of them in the near future.

Luo Kai has been digging here for more than a hundred nights, but only digging five or six meters. He is too weak. Panic and hunger have been consuming his will and body. He doesn’t I know where the tunnel leads, and I don’t know how long I can hold on, but I still struggle to dig down late at night every night. Maybe the suicidal mouse touched him, or it may be the humanity’s yearning for freedom, and more likely it is Give yourself hope.

So far he has not figured out what place it is, nor has he figured out whether he is “self”. Judging from the dark complexion of the jailer and the salty damp sea breeze from outside the iron windows, it looks like a coastal Somewhere, but the accent of the jailer was not in any language he had heard.

The thing that puzzled him most was his body. The arms and legs of this body were obviously much slender. The original big belly was also disappeared. One time he discovered this body with the help of the reflection of urine. His face is very similar to when he first entered high school, and there is a crescent-shaped birthmark on his abdomen.

Strictly speaking, this body is not what he is now. It is like him when he was sixteen-seventeen years old. It may be a legendary who traveled through other worlds, or he may have gone back to the past, but it has no meaning now. , Because he everyday all hovering on the edge of death.

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As dawn was approaching, Luo Kai cautiously lifted the slate slowly up, and in the dark, a pair of small mung bean-like eyes were straight in the corner of the thatch. Staring at him is the big mouse.

Luo Kai bared his teeth slightly at it, with a cruel, bloodthirsty taste. For a person who has been hungry for a long time, any living creature can be used as food, but he is now Inability to catch agile rats, even in this small cell.

Prolonged hunger and lack of sunlight have caused him severe malnutrition and osteoporosis, making him unable to make any sharp movements.

Recover the slate, then slowly crush the large chunks of soil in the pocket, support the wall to stand up carefully, and scatter the soil a little bit through a head-sized iron window , The cold sea breeze outside the window seemed to freeze his arms.

After doing all this, he has started to sweat, even though the cell is bitterly cold.

Luo Kai tiredly gathered the thatch and the hardened bedding around his feet, and fell asleep deeply.

Sleeping in the painful days seems to be the best relief. He started to dream again. In the dream he had a harmonious family, father majesty, mother kindness, and a somewhat fierce but wonderful elder sister, life is simple and happy…

“clang…clang.” A violent kick at the door awakened him, and Luo Kai opened his sleepy eyes.

The jailer’s big face with a scare scar was looked at him from a small hole in the iron gate, with a hint of doubt in his cold eyes, it seemed strange that Luo Kai was still alive. .

Immediately a curse rang out. These days, Luo Kai already knew the meaning of this curse: “Get out and eat!”

He struggled to crawl to the iron gate. Today’s food is the same as usual, a piece of baby fist-sized moldy nest, a piece of salty sea vegetable ball, and a bowl of gruel that can count the rice grains. This is the food for every prisoner for a day. Eat this thing every day to avoid being hungry. Death is already a blessing.