Lou Guanshan shook the smart shackles on his wrists and leaned back in the corner, the smile never leaving his face.
"When one door closes, another opens. This world isn't all that heartless after all."
Kou Ying studied the shackles on his wrists as he walked into the corner. The dark shadows beneath his feet covered the surveillance cameras and muffled their voices.
"True enough. We count as legal citizens now, too. What's the plan?"
"Break out, of course," Lou Guanshan said as though it were obvious.
The mention of a jailbreak actually stirred a sense of excitement in him. He had experienced everything, but he really had never broken out of prison.
His first time in prison, and he had unlocked a new way to play.
Kou Ying raised an eyebrow. "Without anyone noticing?"
Lou Guanshan shook his head. "A proper, full-blown jailbreak. Even if everyone doesn't hear about it, we should at least make a name for ourselves in a small circle."
"Are we taking anyone with us?" Kou Ying looked toward the other pitch-black cells.
They were dark and oppressive, as though they had swallowed all light, leaving only ink-thick resentment and despair, and numbness with no end in sight.
Lou Guanshan neither nodded nor shook his head.
"Until we understand the situation, let's not act rashly. There might be people here who were wronged, but most are criminals.
"If we let a bunch of criminals out before we know whether this world means us well or ill, we really will become criminals."
Lou Guanshan stretched, then crouched beside Kou Ying and looked at his shackles.
"Can you crack them?"
Kou Ying smiled and curled his fingertips with utter confidence. Fine dark shadows formed a complete set of tools, and he soon removed the shackles from his