After befriending Avery, other matters naturally fell into place.
Regarding the Y2K technical upgrade, Avery could provide Lind with technical personnel while adding an additional $100,000 subsidy.
As for prisoner funding, through Avery's application, December's payment would likely reach Lind's account by early January.
The full year 2000 detention fees would require two mont...
2025-08-15 08:19:19 +0000 UTC View Post[Avery Tucker]
[Identity: CCA Inspector]
[Rating: 39 (Level C)]
[Skills: Advanced Marksmanship, Intermediate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Intermediate Driving]
[Weakness: Loves billiards]
This was the first time Lind had seen a character panel for someone outside the prison.
No loyalty rating, but everything else was there.
Especially the weakness entry, which ...
2025-08-15 08:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostTen minutes later, the Texas Department of Corrections special operations team took complete control of the prison's security and surveillance systems.
Lind stood in the central monitoring area, watching their various weapons and equipment hanging all over their bodies, as well as their clean and efficient search operations, and couldn't help feeling envious.
If he had such a force,...
2025-08-15 08:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostCasas was indeed a tough guy.
He endured standing for a full 6 hours without opening his mouth, stubbornly insisting that he had taken the paring knife from the kitchen himself.
The other prisoners weren't as strong-willed as him and confessed one after another.
Some had stolen knives from the kitchen during the riot, some had brought them from outside, and others had gotten t...
2025-08-15 08:17:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe knife found during the search of Casas's cell was a paring knife.
The blade and handle were separated and hidden very secretly, one in the book cover and the other inside the bedding.
If James hadn't specifically instructed beforehand, Cohen might have overlooked it.
In fact, before James arrived, George's searches of the cells had been quite perfunctory.
When the gu...
2025-08-15 08:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostFor Lind, the most difficult task in the system missions was earning 500,000 dollars in 30 days.
Border Prison currently had no production lines, so it couldn't make profits through prisoner labor.
Its geographical location also didn't support outsourcing prisoners to plantations for work.
So after thinking it over, Lind felt he still needed to fleece some money from the gover...
2025-08-15 08:13:05 +0000 UTC View PostOn the afternoon George left, Lind met his extracted B-level guard.
James White.
He had a square face with neat short hair, resolute eyes, stood 185 centimeters tall, and his muscles could fill out a large shirt.
Just looking at him gave people a great sense of security.
His resume also put Lind at ease.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who had served as a...
2025-08-15 08:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as George entered the office, he asked, "Edward, how's the strike situation?"
Lind looked up and snorted coldly, "Don't mention those greedy bastards. I won't agree to their conditions. At worst, I'll replace all these guards."
"Edward, you can't be so reckless in doing things." George spread his hands and advised, "Why don't you leave this matter to me? I'll handle it."
... 2025-08-15 08:12:21 +0000 UTC View PostFuck!
George was startled and nearly let the profanity slip out.
Fortunately, he steadied his composure in time, held the door, and loudly asked, "Edward, what brings you to the laundry room?"
"I came looking for you, George. There's something I need to tell you." Lind frowned, looking troubled.
Inside the door, hearing George's voice, Casas instinctively grabbed an iron...
2025-08-15 08:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Challenge Completed]
[Basic Force Intimidation Acquired]
[Basic Force Intimidation Learned]
[Basic Force Intimidation: When beating criminals, fear value increase effect +20%]
Having gained a new skill, Lind walked around the prison block and scanned all the criminals' panels.
Two people were particularly worth noting.
First was Casas Rake, a C-level crimina...
2025-08-15 08:11:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Hey, look, a bunch of pigs in bulletproof vests! Cowards who only dare hide behind shields! Didn't your mama teach you to walk with your legs closed after getting fucked?"
"The pretty boy warden is actually still alive. Hey, faggot, were you scared shitless yesterday! Hahahaha."
"Only knows how to buy pepper spray with tax money, government-subsidized bitch, come lick my shoe soles...
2025-08-15 08:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe extraction results quickly appeared before Lind's eyes.
B-level guard [James White].
Skill [Intermediate Combat].
Skill [Intermediate Marksmanship].
Skill [Basic Weakness Assessment].
Besides these good items, the rest were miscellaneous props.
Such as tear gas, batons, pepper spray, and the like.
Lind didn't pay attention to those props and first f...
2025-08-15 08:10:53 +0000 UTC View PostLind didn't wait long. Just after washing his face, guard Andy Cock knocked on the office door.
"Come in." He wiped his hands and sat in the boss chair.
The door was pushed open, and the lean Andy with withered yellow hair walked into the office, followed by the bearded George.
"George, go take care of your business first." Lind immediately had George leave without another wor...
2025-08-15 08:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostBesides the main task objective, the system also subdivided several smaller tasks.
[Task 1: Earn $500,000 within 30 days to repay the first installment of the loan. Reward: Random assembly line blueprint]
[Task 2: Suppress one prisoner riot. Reward: Advanced Maintenance skill]
[Task 3: Resolve the strike problem. Reward: Tranquilizer spray cans ×2]
[Task 4: Pass the sta...
2025-08-15 08:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostWithin the United States or anywhere subject to its jurisdiction. Slavery is prohibited. Unless you're wearing striped prison clothes. —The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
December 11, 1999. Texas. Border Prison.
Lind Edward rubbed his temples, awakening from a long, groggy dream.
"Cough, cough."
His mouth was bitter, his throat felt like fire, and the co...
2025-08-15 08:09:37 +0000 UTC View PostA translucent soul broke free from the corpse, shaped like a twisted monster with extremely ugly wings. Just as it was about to fly away, it was grabbed by Ian who had been expecting this.
"How is this possible?!"
The soul let out piercing screams.
"I shouldn't exist in this world anymore!"
He was completely puzzled.
Amidst frantic roars, Ian had already taken out ...
2025-08-15 07:54:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe black-robed demon could hardly imagine.
What level of terrifying hell demon could instantly erase his demon mark and claim that extremely powerful divine artifact as his own in just a moment?
"Hell King... you must be a Hell King..." The black-robed demon's inner fear continued to grow, his muttering words perhaps seeming like praise to a demon.
However, who told Ian he wa...
2025-08-15 07:54:10 +0000 UTC View PostStill relativity theory.
When Ian wasn't urgent, others became urgent. The black-clothed wizards panicked, throwing various magic at Ian. But they only demonstrated what weak chickens meant through their actions.
"Flashy stuff, not as good as everyone carrying an AK47."
Ian, withstanding flames, lightning, and ice spikes, directly rushed to their front, sharing equally, one pu...
2025-08-15 07:52:03 +0000 UTC View PostIan envied that toad that could only be used to find people, it looked very magical at first glance. He remembered that some people in Europe and America liked to lick toads, so this must also be some kind of officially controlled contraband.
"Stop, stop, listen to whether they have any difficulties... They must have difficulties..." Ian swayed his identification while beginning his decep...
2025-08-15 07:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe setting sun truly cast silhouettes on everything.
The Hellcat's tires tore sulfur-scented tracks on the asphalt road. Under the suburban skyline, Ian's car carried him at speeds that absolutely exceeded the limit by a lot.
This was also normal.
After all, there were no speed limit... cameras on suburban roads. For truly law-abiding experienced drivers, places without speed...
2025-08-15 07:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostToday, the sun was shining brightly.
The weather was pleasant and mild.
However, the bull-headed demon felt that he had never walked on such thin ice in his entire life.
True hell was nothing more than this.
The place he used to stay in might have been fake hell.
"Let me go, let me go." The futile attempt to struggle using facial muscles was in vain. Ian skillfully...
2025-08-15 07:48:07 +0000 UTC View PostSeven-thirty in the morning.
The old-fashioned clock in the Kent house made its dull chiming sound.
Ian, who had stayed up all night, was still full of energy. He walked downstairs using a teething stick he had dismantled from the window, wearing a T-shirt printed with the pinyin initials for "Super Big."
Batman's toys were magical. With just a little study of the mechanism, a...
2025-08-15 07:47:19 +0000 UTC View PostTonight's rain was getting heavier and heavier.
Tonight's wind was also blowing more and more fiercely.
A luxurious extended sedan was parked outside an unremarkable apartment building. In this sparsely populated apartment complex, one brightly lit window was being watched intently by the person inside the car.
The busy figure inside the window obviously hadn't noticed this. 2025-08-15 07:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
"Looks like I need to go back and thoroughly study the handbook again."
Cheng Ye thought to himself, "Previously I just crammed for the assessment, didn't really absorb the nuances inside. Otherwise, encountering this kind of situation, my judgments could be more precise."
The handbook contained numerous case studies, but he had only aimed to pass the assessment back then, swallowin...
2025-08-15 05:04:16 +0000 UTC View Post"Truly worthy of being an old employee at the station, very spirited!"
Cheng Ye bent down and patted the dog's head.
The black dog was well-fed and not afraid of people at all. Its fur felt as smooth as silk to the touch.
What was even more amazing was that after being scolded by Snake, this dog became incredibly obedient.
Despite meeting for the first time, it kept nuzz...
2025-08-15 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"I want evaluation forms."
Cheng Ye spoke almost instinctively.
The more you say, the more mistakes you make. The experience gained from Downs made him not want to ask any questions now.
Because no matter what the answer was, he didn't have sufficient ability to verify it.
As for what he wanted, as a probationer, it was naturally the evaluation forms needed for promotion...
2025-08-15 04:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostRealizing that Downs's mental state might not be entirely normal.
This obviously biased obsession theory was immediately cast aside by Cheng Ye.
As the saying goes, don't look at what someone says, but what they do.
Transcendents to Happiness City are essentially military trump cards.
As long as the existence of these trump cards doesn't cause the sanctuary city to stagn...
2025-08-15 04:58:49 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Downs finished speaking, the office fell into brief silence.
Logically speaking, today's conversation between the two should never have reached this point.
No one had expected that what started as an offhand question and answer would gradually change flavor with Cheng Ye's repeatedly unexpected responses.
Evolving into a tacit mutual probing session.
And awkwardly,...
2025-08-15 04:58:17 +0000 UTC View PostAsking for Cheng Ye's perspective was merely an offhand gesture by Downs.
From the beginning, he never expected to get any constructive opinions from this trainee inspector who had been born and raised in the inner city and never set foot in the wilderness.
But now Cheng Ye's answer brought him some surprise, some unexpectedness, and also a bit of... being caught in a dilemma.
Times are progressing, and the environment is changing too.
When the inspection station was first established, rules were strict, and every inspector had harsh KPI tasks.
Those who couldn't complete them would be dragged out to be scolded at meetings, and would also have their salaries docked and ranks demoted.
But as Lee Matteo said, each generation is worse than the last. 2025-08-15 04:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post