"If you suddenly sneezed, that meant I was cursing you..."
Humming a tune that was completely off-key, Duan Mu spun the hammer around in his palm several times as he looked at the new door he had just made. He nodded in satisfaction.
Behind him, the prisoners were hard at work. Dressed in spotless white prison uniforms, they wielded various cleaning tools and cleaned the Maggot's Nest.
Similar major cleanups were held several times a month.
At first, some people had been unwilling to work, but after several years, no one was unwilling anymore, because that lunatic humming terrible songs really was a lunatic...
If they did not want to be beaten—and tortured by being beaten, treated, and then beaten again—it was better to obediently follow his orders.
Most of the time, even when they had not provoked the lunatic, he would still beat them senseless if he found an excuse.
He treated them exactly like human punching bags.
As time passed, whenever Duan Mu arrived, all the prisoners became model prisoners. The occasional troublemakers did not even need Duan Mu to act; the other prisoners, afraid of being implicated, would drag them aside and give them a thorough beating.
The gate of the Maggot's Nest stood wide open as usual.
Yet the few prisoners cleaning the dust from the gate kept their eyes fixed on their work, not even glancing at the exit.
That was because, in the past, some people had looked at the exit a few too many times. The lunatic had then accused them of "trying to escape" and beaten every prisoner senseless.
However, apart from beating the prisoners at the drop of a hat, they had to admit that ever since Duan Mu took over the Maggot's Nest, both their living environment and their quality