【Hammer Base】Until the Abyss

The doctor on duty hurriedly dealt with the two emergency prisoners and left with a yawn. The door of the consultation room was completely locked, only the 24-hour siren was still dutifully monitoring everything.

As soon as the doctor left, Loki pulled off the drip on the back of his hand. He ignored the blood oozing from the wound, and quickly came to Dr. Walker's bed under the cover of the white curtain between the beds.

"are you OK?"

Dr. Walker had heard that another prisoner was following him in need of emergency treatment, but he didn't expect it to be a dark-haired, thin agent.The doctor had just recovered from a severe asthma and heart palpitation, and his face was pale.

"It's okay, don't worry..." he replied weakly.

Loki breathed a sigh of relief.When he came to the infirmary, he soon learned that Dr. Walker collapsed due to sudden asthma at night. In addition to heart and blood pressure problems, he was accompanied by severe coughing and arrhythmia.Fortunately, it looked scary during the attack, and there will be no serious problems in a short period of time after it is relieved. I must be able to leave the infirmary early tomorrow morning.

The agent nodded, the poison was still making his stomach churn, since he was fine, he wanted to be alone for a while.

"Wait!" Dr. Walker stopped him.

"Ok?"

"There's something I didn't tell the doctor." Dr. Walker flinched and motioned for Loki to help him hide behind the curtain with his eyes.

And it wasn't until he lay down on the bed and picked up the clothes on his back with his hands that Loki didn't understand what he wanted to express.

——I saw a red rash the size of half a palm on the back of Dr. Walker near his buttocks.

"eczema?"

Summer and autumn change seasons, and there are no windows in the prison cell. It is very common for people to grow a little bit of this in the damp all year round.But Loki quickly realized that if it was just eczema, Dr. Walker wouldn't be so worried.

Sure enough, he saw the chunky doctor shaking his head.

The old man lowered his voice: "It's not eczema, it's a rash that looks similar in appearance. I accidentally got it when I was doing experiments a few years ago."

"what?"

"It is, the product of genetic mutation." Dr. Walker lay on the bed and turned his head with difficulty, "After being infected, it will cause such a red rash similar to eczema and rash. It is very stubborn and will recur every few years, and it is contagious. .It is because of the relapse that I have a nervous asthma attack."

"...What will happen if you get infected?" Loki frowned.

"No, you don't understand what I mean. It's not serious. It's itchy for a week or two at most, accompanied by a certain degree of fever. But if the doctors here find that I'm a carrier of infectious bacteria..."

Loki suddenly realized: If the doctors here find out that Dr. Walker is a carrier of infectious bacteria, he will be immediately taken out of the prison for isolation treatment.Prisons will not place such high-infection sources in densely populated areas. In addition to being difficult to control, large-scale infection will also cause panic among prisoners, which in turn will cause immeasurable consequences.

Neither Thor, the doctor, nor himself wanted to face such a situation.

The fungus infected by Dr. Walker is the product of laboratory mutations. It cannot be cured by ordinary hospitals, and the time it will take is unknown.Once he is forced to "go out for treatment", it is likely to affect their escape plan.

Who knows if Dr. Walker will be hijacked by others during the external medical treatment?Will the excavated wall be discovered if it is left for a long time?

To take a step back, JNSA had no intention of letting him leave here alive. Once he loses his main goal, he will completely lose his use value. At that time, the Tonga prison will become dangerous, and even Thor will be doomed—for the smooth escape plan, He had to report Thor's existence to the organization, so if the kill order was issued, it would inevitably involve Thor.

No, now is not the time to worry about other people.

Loki quickly withdrew his mind: "Then you should have a way to deal with it?"

The doctor pulled off his clothes and got up dejectedly: "According to my experience, these rashes will double in size after three days, and the contagion will break out after that. So if we can get out of here within three days..."

Loki bites his lip.

Sudden difficulty, but not impossible.

The wall is easy to dig. He and Thor basically dug up the non-load-bearing wall today. If he can enter the abandoned death row to investigate the situation tomorrow, Thor can also smoothly dispatch the speedboat and the responders. They should be able to do so in three days. Leaving here, it's just that everything is more than half a month earlier than expected.

This decision is too big.

He and Thor can talk about it, but all the arrangements outside involve the forces of both the JNSA and the Odin family. Will three days be enough?However, even if it was too late, they couldn't really take the risk of Dr. Walker going out for medical treatment.

"Let me think about it." The agent said in a deep voice.

The doctor nodded his head in fear, and it could be seen that his heart was also very depressed, and he kept looking at the thin young man hopefully with those cloudy eyes.

"Rest first, I'll give you an answer tomorrow." Loki said.

"Good, good."

**

The agent's mind was in a mess.

He swallowed the emetics to avoid the tense atmosphere in the cell and the huge amount of information: the kiss between the brown-haired girl and Thor, and the betrayal of JNSA, but he didn't expect that there was an additional handle of Damocles on his head. sword.

——Dr. Walker's three-day limit.

In the cold morning dew, he returned to Cell 127.

Thor wasn't sleeping, he jumped out of bed immediately when he heard the sound, pulled him into his arms without hesitation of the prison guard's gloomy eyes, and gave Loki a big hug.

Such a "grand" welcome made the awkward agent a little uncomfortable, and after being stiff for a while, he raised his hand and patted Alpha's broad back.

Alpha, uncharacteristically, didn't let go immediately, he hugged him tighter and tighter until Loki's whole body was embedded in his solid chest.The golden stubble pierced Omega's soft neck, rubbing against Loki's heart inexplicably.

"Is it better?" Thor pressed his palm against his stomach through the clothes.

"Didn't I come back?"

"I'm asking if the effect of the medicine has passed." Alpha was not fooled, he knew very well that an organization like JNSA would not care about the physical condition of the agent in order to achieve its goal.

Loki was at a loss for words for a moment, he could feel the big man's concern, but it was this concern that made him at a loss.They were neither friends nor lovers, they could barely be regarded as partners with a common goal in prison, so... it would make him misunderstand.He didn't forget the graceful figure who came to visit Thor yesterday.

No, that's not the point, he thought.

"Don't be so sentimental, Hunter." The agents separated each other by their last names, "I have something more urgent to tell you than a stomachache."

Thor didn't say much, he let go of his embrace, but still held Loki's hand tenaciously.

The agent was unable to struggle away.He sighed inwardly, and had no choice but to sit down in this posture, and truthfully told Alpha about the recurrence of Dr. Walker's contagious rash.

"So, if we don't want his condition to be discovered by the doctor, and then the doctor is transferred out of the prison for isolation treatment, we only have three days from now."

"Correct."

"Did you answer him?"

"Not yet, I'm worried that you won't be able to dispatch in time."

"Yes, the Odin family is on call at any time, and they will arrange everything within 24 hours of just one phone call." Thor gave an affirmative answer. "What about the JNSA?"

"I'm fine. At least until someone from you responds, I will cooperate with the organization to keep them from being suspicious for the time being."

"you……"

As if seeing the worry in Alpha's eyes, Loki laughed self-deprecatingly: "You don't have to think too much about me, I will personally verify the inside story of JNSA. Don't worry, I haven't been completely suspicious for so many years, let alone...that place It’s not home to me either.”

Thor's Adam's apple rolled, and he suddenly said, "Then do you ever think about coming with me?"

The cell fell silent.

Alpha asked very frankly, naturally and simply, as if this question had been wandering in his mind thousands of times, just waiting for a suitable opportunity.

The agent froze there for a moment, staring blankly at those blue eyes.

The man said awkwardly: "Just now I was thinking, if you make any decision in the future, you must discuss it with me in advance, even if it is the end of the world, it will not be short of those few words. For example, you swallowed that piece of letter paper yesterday, I am worried All night."

"...Thor."

"But I don't think there is any 'after' anymore. You will definitely say that you will part ways with me after you get out of prison, we are not from the same world." He took a deep breath and motioned for Loki to give him a chance to finish his sentence "I would have agreed with it a few days earlier. I respect you, so if you don't want to involve the past and the seemingly distant future, I will keep silent. But... I don't want to go through it again."

"Experience what?" Loki subconsciously slowed down his tone.

"When you were taken away yesterday, I panicked, lest what happened in the confinement room would happen again." Thor's hands were covered with cold sweat at some point, "Loki, I care about you. So I don't want to keep you in my Out of sight."

The base of the agent's ears slowly turned red.

"I have nothing to do with Sif. She has liked me since she was a teenager, so she reacted violently when she learned what I thought of you. Out of a gentleman, I didn't..."

"You don't need to explain to me."

"I also want to be with you after I go out." Alpha suddenly said very seriously, he knew that he was abrupt, but this did not prevent his firmness in his words, "Don't get me wrong, I didn't intend to propose to you in prison, that way Not serious. I mean if, you want, we can start a family when we get out."

family?

It is synonymous with happiness, sweetness and warmth, and it is the most secret longing suppressed deep in Loki's heart.

……

"No, Hunter, I don't think about getting married."

The agent flatly refused.

Loki admitted that Thor's explanation somewhat relieved him, after all, there was indeed no response from the Alpha kiss yesterday.It's just that everything came too suddenly, the betrayal of JNSA and the outside world they will face in three days.

Life is always one cage for him, and when he opens the door of one cage, another trap is waiting for him.

He knew that this time might be a turning point, but when the turning point suddenly appeared in front of him...he didn't know.Or in subconscious Loki always feels that he is an ominous person, and a too close relationship with him will always end in tragedy.

"We don't have much time, let's think about whether we can go out smoothly in three days."

The agent stood up and said coldly and mechanically.

**

In the days that followed, they devoted themselves to intensive planning.

Time was tight, and Thor and Loki no longer had any energy to think about their relationship with each other.

Loki didn't get in touch with the JNSA. If there were only agents in the food box truck, he could completely shirk and act in a hurry. In case of accidents, the odds of winning against the two "drivers" are far greater than the entire organization, let alone a sudden action. It would give JNSA the opportunity to lay an ambush.

Thor kept in touch with the family, arranging for the assault boats under the cliff and the ships to meet them on the high seas.

Tonga Prison is located on a steep cliff on the east coast of West Timor. The terrain is remote, and the only way to get in and out is a winding mountain road.

In this case, the goal of escaping the prison directly in a refrigerated van is too huge.So they plan to break into the abandoned death row area from the kitchen, and then drive from the death row area to the lower cliff edge, use rock climbing ropes to descend to the bottom of the cliff, and finally go out to sea through the assault boat prepared in advance.

West Timor does not have an exclusive marine economic zone. According to international law, twelve nautical miles from the cliff are open seas.As long as they can escape twelve nautical miles in an assault boat, the West Timor government will be helpless against them.

Perhaps it was God's blessing, a day later, the non-load-bearing wall in the kitchen was dug up, and while preparing dinner, Loki slipped into the abandoned death row under the cover of Thor.

Coldness is Loki's strongest feeling.

The frozen air and cobwebs all over the walls made the dilapidated death row area even more terrifying. There may be holes in the windows at the end of the corridor, and the cold wind came in and roared in the empty corridor.

Loki collected himself and continued walking forward.Since there was no monitor, he advanced very smoothly, and finally he stopped in front of the intended target - the cell in the southeast corner of the death row.According to the map, outside the window of this cell is the external vehicle parking lot. You only need to pry open the cell door and remove the railings of the iron window to smell the smell of freedom.

The agent puts the flashlight in his mouth and pulls out a homemade lockpicking tool.

Thor is still outside, and he doesn't have much time.

However, before he pried open the cell door with his shoulder against it a few times, the cell door in the southeast corner of the cell was easily opened after hearing a tooth-piercing sound.It turns out that the lock here has been in disrepair for a long time. The weight of an adult man can break the precarious door lock. The heavy lock fell to the concrete floor with a dull sound of pig iron.

That cold, inorganic voice made even Loki shudder.

The night wind happened to blow by, knocking the old prison door open further, and the rusty cracks in the door made a sour sound that would make people goosebumps. .

"call……"

Loki let out a foul breath.

He hated it, it was hard not to remind him of what he had experienced when he was 16 years old.He was put on death row at Jotunheim Prison at the time, with just a month to go before his execution.

It would be a lie to say that you are not afraid.

But the death of his parents and the passing of Laufey made him unable to see any possibility and meaning of life.He doesn't want to die, but he doesn't know how to live.So he hoped that the butcher's knife in someone else's hands could quickly end it for him.

Desperation is at the same time like a shadow.

Those murmurs in the dark place, the closed iron door of the cell, and the darkness where you can't see your fingers at night, those things bound him up, like shackles dragging around his ankles, making him unable to escape from the abyss.

He walked into the death cell at the end of this corridor.

In order to investigate, Loki had to use a flashlight to check every part of the cell, so naturally he couldn't ignore the scratches, nicks and bloodstains left on the cell wall.Some he could guess how they got there, others he couldn't.

He also saw several names, "Chad", "Herman", and "Lester", they should be the death row inmates who stayed here, the remaining breath and traces of despair almost made him sink—in the face of death, Not many people are really calm.

Loki hastily pulled himself out of the strange emotion.

He said silently in his heart: You are no longer a death row prisoner, and you can no longer even be regarded as a JNSA agent.You...are a free man.

free.

This concept is very foreign to him. Freedom means being able to live in the way you like.can he?

He wasn't supposed to be someone with the will to live. When Laufey was still alive, Loki's life was more or less mixed with gratitude. Laufey gave up marriage and children in order to take care of him, so he needs to make his adoptive father "worth his money".He didn't do it.

Betrayed by the country and the JNSA, logically speaking, he should no longer have the desire to survive. In a sense, the JNSA is his last safe haven, and being an agent is the only possibility for Loki, who is on death row, to "become a good person".

However, he was actually happy for the "freedom" he might get in two days.

Is it because of that man?

That stupid blond Alpha, the one who asked him if he wanted to start a family together.

Loki had a thought, and quickly turned his attention back to how to open the barred window at the end of the cell.He thought too much, and it was still unknown whether he could get out alive after two days.

Fortunately, the iron bars on the windows are as old as the prison doors.The agent tried it out first, then quickly took off the prison uniform jacket, soaked the clothes with the prepared water bottle, then passed the wet clothes through the two iron bars, and twisted them continuously with tension.

Five minutes later, the iron railing, which was no longer reliable, snapped. With a tug, Loki pulled the broken railing off the window frame with extreme ease.

He knocked on the glass window carefully to confirm that the thickness of the glass could be broken, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

So the way to leave from here is basically cleared up, as long as the last layer of glass is broken on the day of escape.

After all this was done, Loki looked out the window at the full moon behind the clouds.It has been more than three months since I came here, and the plan was much faster than he expected, but many unexpected things happened, and two days later...

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that even the leaking moonlight became cold.

The cold wind was still howling in the death row, and he shivered for some reason.

Seeing that the work in the kitchen was about to end, Loki hid the broken iron bars, covered the prison cell, and quickly returned to the kitchen.

The way back was not as difficult as it was when we came.

Perhaps through the cracked masonry, the light leaking from the kitchen could be faintly seen all the time.The warm halo and the darkness behind seem to split the world into two.

Walking to the junction between the death row and the kitchen, Loki moved away from the bricks and got into the narrow hole.

A generous palm supported him at the right time.

"Are you okay?" Thor really waited behind the wall, he was not in a hurry to ask questions about Loki's prison, just like he was not in a hurry to ask Dr. Walker who was suddenly ill in the infirmary that morning.It seemed to him that nothing was more important than Loki.

"...I'm fine, everything's going well."

"That's good." Thor laughed, he took the wet clothes in his hands, and stretched out his hands to rub Omega's shoulders that were a little chilled by the night wind.The smile on his face is exactly the same as Loki's initial evaluation: where this man is, no place is like a prison anymore.

Loki choked, brushing away those unrealistic thoughts.

In two days, they will leave here.

TBC