Hearing the words "let's go," Madman Li was silent for a long time before he nodded.
The two of them sat side by side on the bed with their backs against the wall of the cell. They casually raised their handcuffed hands — Xu Le's left hand and Li Feng's right hand — and exerted force in opposite directions at the same time.
The special alloy handcuffs that had handcuffed the two of them for many days had long been broken. Even if there was a key, it couldn't be opened. However, under the seemingly casual tugging of the two young men on the bed, the handcuffs began to creak and gradually deform!
A crisp sound of metal breaking echoed in the quiet cell. The thick alloy handcuffs specially made for Xu Le were torn apart by the two men just like that!
Only a round handcuff was left. It kept rotating on the two men's wrists, gradually digesting the terrifying force they had just endured. The cold light of the broken handcuffs flashed from time to time.
Several elite special forces soldiers of the Federation who had been guarding outside the cell saw this scene and were so shocked that their bodies stiffened. Their pupils constricted, and they fell into a state of confusion for a long time. It wasn't until Li Feng walked to the door with a livid face that they reacted and opened the door more cautiously than before.
Looking at Li Feng's burly and strong back that gradually disappeared into the depths of the corridor, and looking at Xu Le who was in a daze as he looked at the fly's corpse and black blood on the wall again, these elite special forces soldiers who had received close combat training in Philadelphia's body training hall still found it hard to believe that there was actually someone in this world who could break apart such hard alloy handcuffs.
And they only used the strength of one hand! Was this a human or a machine?
Until now, the elite special forces soldiers completely agreed with the rumors in the army. Xu Le and Madman Li were without a doubt the two most powerful men in the Federation. However, their situation now was completely different. Li Feng could leave this prison at any time, but Xu Le could only sit silently in the cell and wait for the arrival of death.
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Xu Le leaned against the wall and sat on the bed. He slightly tilted his head and stared at the white wall in a daze. With his eyesight, he could even clearly see the tiny wings on the dried corpse of the fly between the black congealed blood stains. It seemed that this disgusting and pitiful fellow was still futilely trying to escape when he was beaten to death by the previous owner of this cell in the summer.
Why flee? As a fly, your fate is either to die in a cesspool or to die on the way to find a cesspool. What's the point of escaping from one cesspool to another?
Xu Le closed his eyes tiredly. Hearing the hurried footsteps outside the door, he guessed that it must be the Qingcheng Military Prison who came to give him some measures.
He understood that Madman Li had chosen to directly break the alloy handcuffs because he wanted to silently tell the prison that such a method would not be able to restrain his strong and powerful hands.
Regarding this, Xu Le did not have any resentment or disappointment in his heart. On the contrary, he felt that it was natural. Since he had confirmed that he was a citizen of the Empire, Madman Li would certainly not give him the chance to escape. If it were him in the past, he would certainly have made the same decision.
The heavy and hard alloy door of the cell silently slid open. Several prison staff members walked in with nervous expressions. First, they crouched down and increased the suction force of the heavy magnetic shackles on Xu Le's feet to the maximum. Then, they fastened three sets of reinforced handcuffs on his wrists.
There was a metal bracelet on his left wrist and a broken handcuff. Now there were three more sets of handcuffs. They were densely stacked together. Occasionally, there would be a crisp sound of metal clashing. It looked as beautiful as those thin bracelets on the wheat-colored delicate forearms of the S3 Flowing Fire Festival.
If it was last time in the Qingcheng Military Prison, Xu Le would definitely laugh. But now, he did not want to laugh. Even his posture did not change. He completely ignored these people. Only when the prison doctor tried to inject him with some kind of drug did he turn his head to look at the other party.
He did not stop the doctor from injecting. He just looked.
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After an unknown amount of time, Xu Le, who was like a stone sculpture, finally woke up from the inexplicable state caused by the violent psychological impact. His gaze was still indifferent and emotionless. His thick eyebrows, which were sometimes like unsheathed straight knives and sometimes like laughing willow branches, were still indifferent and lazy. His posture was still the same, but his brain had finally recovered some ability to think.
People of the Empire. He was a person of the Empire. When did he know that there were not only people from the East Woods, West Woods, Upper Woods … there were also people of the Empire?
Like wringing a wet towel, Xu Le racked his brain, trying hard to recall many memories of his childhood. He even frowned, but still could not remember anything more. He only vaguely remembered that when he was young, his father used to read the newspaper at the dining table, lamenting about the cruelty of the people of the Empire. And when his father used the people of the Empire to scare little Xian Yi, his mother would fly into a rage, and his father would immediately apologize with a smile.
Now, he actually rarely recalled his childhood life, because it was too long ago. When the terrible shallow mine disaster that caused half of the mining area to collapse happened, he was still very young, so he did not have many clear memories.
Because he went to the slag heap with Victor and the others to play mecha battle games, he was extremely lucky to survive. However, his father, who worked in the underground mine, died. His mother and little Xian Yi, who were at home on the surface, also died. Victor's family was also dead. Xiao Qiang's father was also dead. Donglin had a bunch of orphans. Other than that, nothing had changed.
The children, who cried until their throats were hoarse, could only watch helplessly as the engineering mecha lifted the heavy quick-setting cement blocks in vain. The scene was extremely sad and chaotic. Xu Le could not even find the bodies of his parents. He only held the body of his sister, Xian Yi. He still remembered how cold that small and cute body was.
Yes, little Xian Yi's small grave was still on the hillside outside of the East Woods. He felt very ashamed that he had not gone back to see it for so long. This was also the reason why he did not want to recall his childhood.
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What about the people of the Empire? Xu Le's thick eyebrows were more and more furrowed. He stared at the wall but did not know where to look. He remembered that the first time he saw what the people of the Empire looked like was on the TV news. It seemed to be a documentary, talking about the only official visit of the Empire in history. The voice-over of the male commentator of the Federation was full of a sense of superiority that looked down on the inferior races. Every three minutes, he would mock the Empire people in the diplomatic mission, as if they would never smile.
As for Xu Le, he only remembered that the people of the Empire on the TV were not like what his father said. They were not covered with scary long hair from head to toe, including their faces. So he thought of his dead family and secretly ran to the abandoned mine to cry.
Where was the first time he saw a living person of the Empire? It should be on the West Woods border planet called 5460. At that time, he took Jian Shui'er and fled under the pursuit of the Empire's Wolf Fang Mecha Brigade. The first time he met the people of the Empire was a life and death battle.
As for the dead people of the Empire? He had seen too many of them.
The sun outside the window slowly sank into the distant horizon, and the light became much dimmer. Qingcheng Military Prison was not as cold as the capital at this time, but Xu Le, who was sitting on the bed leaning against the wall, seemed to be frozen, allowing the twilight to appear and disappear on his face. The darkness of night covered the earth, but he did not move at all, only remaining silent.
Silence, silence. He did not become perverted in silence. He was only indifferently recalling and thinking about many things. Many things that he could not understand in the past gradually became a clear function curve in his mind. Although he did not know what the variables at the beginning of this function curve were, some segments of the curve were gradually beginning to reveal the answer.
For example, why in the entire Federation, other than the people of Old Li's family, he was the only one who could learn the special abilities of the Empire's royal family. For example, why that man who wandered among the stars actually stayed in Donglin for so many years and appeared so coincidentally by his side.
It should be known that in the real world, there was never a fortuitous encounter like in novels. There must be an internal reason for small probability events. The descendants of the rich were rich, and the legendary were legendary. The story of starting from scratch, the story of a foolish boy meeting a wise master, could only be a story in the end.
Then, was it also a conspiracy that he entered the uncle's repair shop? No, he did not want to connect the coincidental encounter between the young man and the escaped criminal with these words.
Don't think about it, don't think about it anymore. Xu Le felt very tired. He just wanted to fall asleep, but he could not because this unbearable change was like countless ants crawling in his body. They silently and contemptuously bit and tore at his fresh flesh, spitting extremely corrosive acid.
Once the acid splashed, it sizzled. The painful, sore, itchy, and burning sensation converged into a straight line. The line of fire gathered into a ball in his chest and began to burn fiercely. This ball of fire was really unbearable, and he was extremely angry for no reason!
Xu Le finally moved. He stood up from the bed and tightly pursed his thin lips. He lifted the heavy prison bed with one hand and slammed it against the snow-white wall in front of him. It was as if he wanted to smash the extremely small ball of black blood and the already withered corpse of the fly into pieces again!
With a loud bang, the bed frame broke into pieces and dust flew everywhere. The stern reprimand of the special forces soldier came from outside the door, but he acted as if he didn't hear or feel anything. With a heavy punch, he directly smashed the only small square table in the cell into pieces.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless violent sounds rang out in the cell, and debris flew everywhere. For the first time in his life, Xu Le vented his emotions so wantonly. He almost crazily smashed everything in front of him that he could see. In the end, even a terrifying hole appeared in the hard alloy door!
At this moment, his peripheral vision fell on the window. Through the tempered glass that was so thick that it distorted his vision, he saw the twinkling stars in the late autumn night sky.
He did not know why it touched the eternally strong but fragile nerves in his heart for the first time today. Looking at the bright starry sky above his head, he calmed down and slowly walked to the window.
There was a crushed pack of cigarettes and a lighter on the ground. They were probably left behind by Madman Li before she left. Xu Le picked one up, lit it, and stuffed it into his mouth. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the night sky outside the window. He said softly, "F * ck your mother."
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