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Andre was shocked when he saw the system reward.
As a result of Sean’s successful escape and the completion of his task, he had been rewarded with the ability to select two more prisoners and help them escape.
Andre first checked the system reward for the divine disguise.
[Divine Disguise]
[Time Limit]: 15 minutes
[Number of Uses]: Can be used once every eight hours
That was amazing!
Andre got out of bed and walked to the area under the surveillance camera in his cell. It was about the size of a pair of shoes, and it was in the surveillance camera’s blind spot.
Using the system’s divine disguise, Andre imagined the faces of famous people that he had seen before. One second later, Andre touched his face with both hands and felt a huge head. His facial bones were thick and strong, while his features were obviously much bigger than that of a normal person.
He was the Hulk!
Andre had imagined the Hulk’s appearance in his mind earlier, and the system had actually transformed Andre’s head to like the Hulk’s.
However, Andre found himself in a very awkward situation. His head had become like the Hulk’s, but his body was still the same.
It was hilarious.
If the prison guards came in at this time, they would definitely be scared to death by Andre’s appearance.
Following that, Andre experimented with the appearance of a few celebrities. They were all ordinary people, such as Lincoln, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and so on.
After he had enough fun, Andre opened the list of prison escapees in the system’s interface.
The information of the two prisoners that had been selected by the system was displayed.
[Information of the First Prisoner]
[Name]: Connor
[Gender]: Male
[Age]: 43 years old
[Pre-Prison Occupation]: Explosives engineer
[Sentence]: Life imprisonment
[Reason for Imprisonment]: Kidnapping and torturing Carson, the main criminal who killed Connor’s wife and daughter 15 years ago.
[Current Location]: Chicago Correctional Center, Cell Block C, Cell 1104.
[Information of the Second Prisoner]
[Name]: Kelly
[Gender]: Female
[Pre-prison Occupation]: A student at the University of Chicago
[Age]: 21 years old
[Sentence]: 25 years
[Reason for Imprisonment]: Leaking top-secret state documents.
[Current Location]: Chicago Correctional Center, Cell Block D, Cell 2033.
Once he finished reading the information about the two prisoners, Andre pondered carefully.
He had some impression of the prisoner named Connor.
When Andre was writing prison news, he had looked up a large number of crimes committed by the prisoners.
One particular case of torture and murder had caught his attention.
Connor was a well-paid explosives engineer with a happy family. He and his wife had met in college, and after they had graduated, they had gotten married.
A year later, the fruit of their love arrived, and Connor was so happy that they had a daughter.
His wife quit her job and stayed home to take care of their daughter.
Connor worked hard, and soon, the company’s top brass recognized him, and he was promoted to head of the Chicago branch.
During the inaugural address, the company’s former director stood below the stage and saw that Connor was in the limelight. That led to him becoming resentful.
He found two thugs through a middleman and got them to dress up as robbers and break into Connor’s house to intimidate him.
When the two thugs broke into Connor’s house at 11.15 pm, Connor’s wife was sleeping with their two-year-old daughter.
Connor had fallen asleep on his desk while he had been working overtime in the study for a meeting the next day.
Not long after, Connor heard the screams of his wife and daughter. When he rushed out of the study, he ran into one of the thugs. In a panic, the thugs stabbed Connor in the abdomen, and he fell to the ground.
After the two gangsters escaped, Connor endured the pain and struggled to climb into the room where his wife and daughter were.
He saw a scene that he would never forget in his entire life.
His wife was naked and staring at the ceiling with her eyes wide open. Her neck had been cut open by a sharp object, and she had died of massive hemorrhagic shock.
His two-year-old daughter had also been stabbed in the chest and abdomen by a sharp object. The forensic autopsy report later showed that the girl sustained 27 wounds. The fatal injury came from a sharp object piercing her heart.
Connor had been discovered and sent to the hospital for treatment.
A few weeks later, he was still recovering from his injuries. However, he had begun to run around the big law firms.
He wanted justice for his wife and daughter who had died unjustly. Back then, Connor believed that justice was fair.
Connor had frequently met with the deputy of the Chicago Police Department to express his strong will.
Never compromise and punish the murderer!
Those two thugs had to die!
However, the law enforcement officer had told Connor that the judicial procedure was too complicated and it would take a long time to get the two thugs sentenced to death.
He had suggested that Connor chose a compromise. He had told Connor that the main crook had agreed to point out his accomplice, hence the accomplice would be sentenced to death immediately.
This could reduce a lot of unnecessary time, which was good for both sides.
Connor had instantly understood that as a law enforcement officer who upheld justice, he had actually been making a deal with a murderer because of so-called trouble.
It meant that justice helped you defend your rights by making sure that one of the accomplices was sentenced to death. Meanwhile, the other main criminal was only sentenced to a few years in prison because he had taken the initiative to testify against his accomplice and received leniency from the court in exchange.
“Look, we have avenged your wife and daughter’s murder, saved you a lot of time, and even saved you millions of dollars in legal fees.”
At one point, Connor had begged the deputy to not make a deal with the prisoner.
Connor did not care about time or the huge legal fees. He just wanted justice, and the responsible person had to die.
However, the officer never cared about Connor’s feelings and had started to avoid him.
On the day of the trial, the judge had announced that the death penalty would be given to the accomplice immediately. The main criminal had only been sentenced to five years in prison.
Following the sentencing, Connor had little memory of how he had walked out of the court. When he had caught the main criminal being pushed into the police car at the door, the man had deliberately stared at him with a mocking gaze. He had even extended five fingers and waved them at Connor.
The most unbearable thing for Connor was how the main criminal had slowly retracted his fingers after extending them.
The meaning could not have been more obvious.
‘Unlucky guy, I’ll be out after five years in prison!
‘No, no! It might not take five years.
‘It could be commuted!
‘Four years? Three years?
‘Hahahaha…’
Andre was lying in bed, feeling very conflicted.
What standard was he supposed to use to measure a case like Connor’s?
Was it the judicial corruption of the system?
Was it Connor’s mental problem?
Whenever a person was victimized as an individual, that person would often subconsciously seek out collective power to solve the issue.
However, if there was a problem with the collective, what should we as individuals do?!
Uphold justice ourselves?
We would then be destroyed by the power of the collective!
A famous saying came to Andre’s mind.
“Never judge others from your own point of view.”
Tomorrow marked the weekend, and there was going to be a weekly outdoor activity for the entire prison.
Andre wondered if he would have the opportunity to meet Connor. He wanted to get in touch with Connor first. It would be best if he could have a word with him.
It was going to be challenging because Connor was a felon who had been imprisoned for life. It was usually difficult for him to get out and join the general population.
For prisoners like Connor, the prison normally opened a fixed area for them to move around.
It was better for the prison guards to control them and prevent them from causing harm because there were too many prisoners. in the facility.
Andre was also waiting for the new warden.
The prisoners in the prison said that the new warden would be transferred from another city.
The whole thing was full of mystery, without any news about the new warden so far.
The next day, Andre followed the instructions of the prison guards and walked out of his cell, passing through the heavily guarded checkpoints.
Due to Sean’s escape, the prison had added two more checkpoints, and they were unmanned electronic doors.
Even the prison guards who were about to end their shifts had to go through a three-minute review before they could walk out.
When he arrived at the prison yard, Andre moved around casually while secretly observed his surroundings.
He was looking to see if there were any loopholes in the yard that could be exploited.
The 400-square-meter area was surrounded by a five-meter-high protective fence.
There was an electrified barbed wire fence on each side of the area, and a few dead birds that had not been removed in time were still hanging on them.
Andre looked at the bird carcasses that had been electrocuted with his sharp eyes. Looking down at the barbed wire fences, he saw that there was a circular steel pipe connecting the fences together
Perhaps the workers had been careless at that time, but there were only two welding points between the circular steel pipe and the fence.
This discovery made Andre secretly happy.