Shadow Empire

Chapter 706: In Prison [The Egg Who Loves to Draw Big Pies +1]
When Mr. Charles returned to his cell from the visiting room, the person living below him took the initiative to ask, "What's wrong?"

The shares held by these people were basically taken away by Lance. Apart from the wealth they originally had, they had completely lost control of the Wharf Investment Company.

In Jingang City, if you just have money in your hand, it is actually useless.

Is Mr. Jobaf rich?

He is rich, but what is his outcome?

Apart from people like Mr. Jobaf, what about the others?
For example, do the investors in the Xingang District have money?
If they didn't have money, they wouldn't be able to build the new port area, the new bay area and the new port terminal. They are very rich.

But the result?

In this city, everything revolved around the docks, around power, and they had lost the power they had, like a tall building losing its foundation.

The more money they have, the taller this building without a foundation will be, the greater the risk of collapse, and the greater the losses and damage caused.

After all, if a poor person falls, it is just a fall, but if a rich person falls while standing on the roof, it is not just a fall.

Now the only person they could rely on was Mr. Charles, who was a little nervous.

Mr. Charles shook his head. He did not mention the fact that Lance wanted his shares. On the one hand, he thought this should be a test from Lance and he would definitely talk to him.

Let’s talk about how much those shares are worth, but it’s definitely not one dollar.

For the time being, he did not intend to tell the people in prison about his intention to sell his shares, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

"My lawyer talked to me about the possibility of parole." Looking at the other party's face full of inquiry and curiosity, he shook his head and said, "It didn't work."

In the federal government, if a prisoner has served his sentence diligently and has shown clear remorse and confession, he can be released on parole if the prison believes he meets the requirements.

That means being released from prison early.

Mr. Charles's sentence was not long to begin with, so it is possible that he could be released a few days early or two or three weeks early.

The guy he got out of bed showed some regretful expressions, "They are really stupid!"

Mr. Charles said nothing, but just forced a smile.

They spent the whole afternoon reading in the cell.

At first, these people were not in the mood and could not sit still to read boring books, but after being locked up for a while, they have begun to adapt to this kind of life.

Because they are not forced to work, they have more free time and naturally need things to pass the time.

There is hot water in the prison tonight, but everyone has it for five minutes, except for some prisoners.

Ordinary prisoners were arranged to take a bath before dinner. They would strip naked and rush into the bathroom, then turn on the hot water. The moment the hot water poured down, even these vicious prisoners would burst into simple and innocent laughter.

Hot water can soothe not only physical fatigue, but also mental fatigue.

But happy times are always short-lived. The five-minute hot water supply soon ended. When there was no more steaming hot water coming out of the pipes, the relaxed smiles on the prisoners' faces suddenly disappeared.

Many people began to curse the prison, the prison guards, and everything.

But the only thing they dared not curse was the warden.

No one will take it seriously if you curse the prison guards, but if you curse the warden, something unexpected may happen if you are unlucky.

The prison guard knocked on the iron door with his baton. "Five minutes are up, get out of here, you pigs, hurry up!"

The prisoners had to wipe their bodies as they left because the next batch was about to come in.

There were more than three thousand criminals in this prison, all from surrounding cities. Fortunately, the bathroom was large enough and almost everyone had finished bathing in less than an hour.

The second to last group are people like gang leaders in prison, or those who are relatively famous outside.

For example, some members of the Lance family were also imprisoned. Some were imprisoned for crimes related to the family business, and some were imprisoned in the past few years.

Now, as the Lance family's influence in Jingang City and even Likalai Province grows, their treatment in prison is getting better and better, and they are arranged to be the second to last batch to take a bath.

This bath lasts fifteen minutes.

Of course, in order not to affect dinner, they went to the bathroom after finishing dinner.

Fifteen minutes was enough time for them to relax completely. There was a prisoner taking a shower every few minutes, and sometimes they even had some communication with each other.

"Would you please not put glue in the fucking shower?"

"When?"

"It's so cold now. My hands are only hot here. Do you like them cold?"

"Fake!"

And so on.

The prison guards are used to it.

After they finished showering, the guards watched them leave, and then the last batch of prisoners started showering. These prisoners were paid by the prison.

They are basically wealthy people who spend money to enjoy better service and treatment.

Although this is not a private prison and is operated commercially, as long as the prisoners are willing to spend money, they can still enjoy better treatment.

Mr. Charles came to a shower cubicle wrapped in a towel. They were using the prison guards' bathroom. These upper-class gentlemen were not used to being naked in front of other people.

He walked into a cubicle, and the moment the hot water fell on him, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He chatted with the guy next door for a few words, then picked up the shampoo and poured it on his head. The constant foam made him shut his mouth temporarily. There seemed to be no more talking around him, only the sound of water from the shower washing the mosaic tiles on the floor.

After two or three minutes at most, he seemed to hear someone leaving, but he didn't pay much attention to it. He went back into the water to wash the foam off his head.

After the foam was rinsed off, he casually started chatting with the guy in the next cubicle, "What are you going to do next?"

There was no sound, no answer from next door.

He waited a few seconds, frowned, then took a step back and looked towards the next cubicle.

When he saw his bed hanging on the rain pipe, swaying back and forth under the impact of the water, looking at himself, Mr. Charles' heart seemed to be grasped by a hand!
A few minutes later, the prison guards came here and looked at the prisoner hanging on the water pipe without much change in their expressions.

It is not uncommon for prisoners to commit suicide because they cannot stand life in prison. It can even be said that it happens so frequently that everyone has long been accustomed to it.

It's not a good time, to be honest.

Even though all aspects of the Federation are booming, this is not a good time for ordinary people.

Evil gangs, greedy police, corrupt government officials, trade unions that dominate the market, labor unions that dominate public opinion at every turn, and various non-governmental organizations, religions, anything.

This is really not a good era. There are too many mountains pressing on the people's heads.

Many people are framed and sent to prison because the cost is very low.

Someone slept and became a murderer.

Some people become thieves just by not coming to work for one day.

When someone simply asked the police "Why are you treating me like this? I haven't done anything wrong", he was classified as assaulting a police officer.

Some ordinary people can hold on after entering prison, and may even become stronger as a result. They will exercise, practice fighting, and hang out with gang members in order to get revenge.

But there are also some people who really cannot accept life in prison. The bullying in prison is much more serious than outside.

Going without food is just the gentlest way, sometimes you even have to offer your butt to many people.

To those old villains, there is no difference between them and girls except their gender.

Here are the most vicious and ugliest methods of torturing people in the world. Many people commit suicide because they cannot bear it, and there are also those who commit suicide.

It was obvious that this was a case of suicide. After Mr. Charles was questioned twice, he was allowed to return to the cell.

Later, the prison guard came to tell him that his getting out of bed was suicide.

In fact, Mr. Charles himself had some guesses. He believed that the guy who got out of bed was definitely not committing suicide. Before he "committed suicide", they were still talking about some things outside. It was impossible for him to suddenly become depressed and commit suicide.

He had doubts.

He suspected that it was Lance who did it, and that this would have been impossible to accomplish without the cooperation of the prison guards.

He could only accept this fact.

A death in prison was like nothing happened.

The next morning at breakfast, he told the others about this incident. The expressions of the others were particularly interesting, full of fear and uneasiness. He had never seen such expressions in their eyes before.

Today is the day for exercise. Normally, their exercise should be separate from that of ordinary prisoners, but today it is strange that they are required to exercise with ordinary prisoners.

Mr. Charles felt something was wrong and asked not to leave his cell, but the prison guard told him that if he didn't want to be hit, he'd better go to the open space outside.

"Getting hacked" is a prison term. When a prison guard hits someone with a baton, it's like chopping with an axe or a knife. So what he wanted to express was that if Mr. Charles didn't go out, he would be beaten.

In this way, they were forced out.

When they appeared in the open space for exercise, many people whistled.

"Look, what a great day it is today, the girls are all coming out!"

Those people who were in groups and clearly had their own gang characteristics stood up, some were laughing and mocking them, some were provoking them.

Where have these high society bigwigs ever experienced this?

Everyone was so scared that their faces turned pale and they were speechless!

(End of this chapter)