Chapter 313
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Chapter 313: The Dark Cell
Xie Yu glanced at the time on the wall and said, “Gentlemen, right now, the entire facility, except for my office, is under the supervision of artificial intelligence. Moving around could lead to trouble. Until my task is complete, please stay in this room.”
Bai Li Pang Pang scratched his head, pondering, “But… we have our own things to do…”
“I understand that your tasks are significant!” Xie Yu said earnestly. “However, the timing isn’t right yet. The situation at Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital is still unclear. Please be patient; in half an hour at most, you will be able to act.”
Half an hour, huh… Bai Li Pang Pang nodded. “Alright, we’ll listen to you!”
After exchanging a few pleasantries with the two, Xie Yu left the room, leaving Bai Li Pang Pang and Cao Yuan alone.
“Old Cao, what do you think… is going on here?”
Bai Li Pang Pang leaned closer to Cao Yuan and whispered.
Cao Yuan looked at him in confusion. “You’re asking me? I thought your conversation with him went quite smoothly. Isn’t that part of your calculations? But I really didn’t expect the Bai Li family to have such influence, able to bribe the acting warden of this prison…”
Bai Li Pang Pang was taken aback. “I didn’t bribe him!”
“Then it must have been your dad who did,” Cao Yuan speculated. “Maybe he found out you were planning a prison break and knew it would be difficult, so he bribed the warden to ease your pressure…”
Bai Li Pang Pang frowned, pondering for a moment, and said doubtfully, “Hmm… could it really be like that? But when has my dad ever cared this much about me…”
“What? Your dad usually doesn’t care about you?”
“He’s a busy man; how could he pay attention to me?” Bai Li Pang Pang shrugged. “He rarely gets involved in my matters. Even when I said I wanted to leave home to become a Night Watchman, he didn’t react much. He just sent a few people to see me off.”
Cao Yuan comforted him, “Maybe he just appears indifferent on the surface. Behind the scenes, he might have been keeping track of your movements. Otherwise, how do you explain the acting warden’s actions? He even knows our target is Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital.”
Bai Li Pang Pang thought carefully and seemed to agree…
Cao Yuan stepped over to the window, looking down at the empty facility below, and said, “Regardless, we’ve successfully infiltrated the interior of the facility. Now… we need to find a way to rescue Qi Ye from Sunshine Psychiatric Hospital.”
“You’ve been inside; you should have a plan, right?”
“After all these years, I don’t know if there have been any changes inside the hospital…” Cao Yuan pondered for a moment. “In any case, the situation outside is now under AI surveillance. We can’t leave recklessly; we can only wait for the acting warden to take action… Since he has accepted benefits from your Bai Li family, he should be responsible to the end.”
Bai Li Pang Pang plopped down in Xie Yu’s chair, propping his legs up on the table, and sighed. “If I had known the warden had already been bribed, we wouldn’t have had to go through so much trouble…”
…
Xie Yu glided through the dimly lit, empty corridor like a ghost, stopping in front of a heavy metal door.
He activated the identity verification system beside him, scanning his fingerprint, iris, and entering a thirteen-digit password. With a soft click, the metal door slowly opened before him.
Behind the door was the main control room of the facility.
Xie Yu navigated around large black mainframes and walked straight to the core control console. He took a small USB drive from his pocket and plugged it into the interface.
The screen on the console began to flicker violently.
“External virus intrusion detected. Activating automatic firewall. Activating emergency alarm system. Activating backup terminal…”
Xie Yu narrowed his eyes and approached one of the mainframes, opening the control panel and quickly operating within…
“Beep, automatic firewall activation interrupted.”
“Beep, emergency alarm system activation interrupted.”
“Beep, backup terminal unresponsive.”
After about two minutes, Xie Yu returned to the control console. The previously flickering screen had stabilized, and all control permissions had been hacked.
A slight smile appeared on Xie Yu’s lips as he continued to operate the console.
“Surveillance systems for Area A1, A2, and A3 have been disconnected.”
“Lighting system has been turned off.”
“Access control system has been disabled; manual control mode activated.”
“Access to cells 21682, 33214, and 35731 has been granted…”
…
Buzz—!
The entire facility’s lights went out in an instant, plunging everything into darkness.
The sudden darkness startled all the guards on duty. Not only them, but the prisoners in their cells were also bewildered.
“What’s going on? Why is it dark?”
“Is there a power outage?”
“Nonsense! This is a facility! Even if the entire country loses power, this place won’t!”
“But it just went dark!”
“Check if the cell doors can be opened!”
“Damn! They won’t open!”
“Then it’s not a power outage; it must just be a lighting system failure. It should be fixed soon.”
“Tsk, I thought it was time for a prison break…”
“Are you dreaming? Even if they opened the cell doors, would you dare to go out? Where would you run?”
“I was just saying…”
…
The once silent cells erupted into chaos. The guards stationed nearby, upon seeing the lights go out, felt a jolt of anxiety. However, when they realized the access control hadn’t opened, they breathed a sigh of relief.
“Thank goodness, it’s just a lighting system failure. It should be fixed soon.”
No one noticed that in this noisy, dark cell area, three cell doors had quietly swung open…
Three prisoners, the “Believers,” silently slipped out of their cells, navigating through the darkness and arriving at a hidden corner.
“Are we all here?” the Fourth Seat whispered.
“Yes,” the Sixth Seat nodded.
“Mm,” the Twelfth Seat also nodded.
“Now that the prison’s defense forces have been significantly reduced, the eastern door is the weakest point. We will break through from there. Remember, the dark environment is our advantage; we must act quickly and make no noise!”
After reaching a consensus, the three quickly moved toward the eastern door of the cell area. Even in complete darkness, they skillfully avoided all obstacles, as if they had rehearsed this many times before.
As they passed by a certain cell, An Qingyu inside let out a soft “Hmm?” and turned to look, a faint gray light flickering in her eyes.