Prison Island

Chapter 2 Exile
Over the western Pacific Ocean, the weather is sunny and warm.

Amid the azure waves, a warship was sailing towards an island.

"Number HA99674748, Gao Xin?"

"Um……"

“Stand at the designated position!”

A short-haired young man in prison uniform was brought to the deck of the warship like a zombie under the supervision of the soldiers.

He lined up with more than 300 prisoners, looking at the tropical island approaching in the distance, trembling slightly.

"Is this the end?"

His pupils trembled, there was anger in his fear, and his lips were bitten by himself.

Why? He had done nothing wrong, but he was exiled to the Prison Island for ten years.

"Don't even mention ten years... Can I survive a year on this island?"

“I’m afraid I can’t get out anymore.”

Gao Xin murmured, his heart covered with a layer of gray. He knew this was too difficult.

The island before us has dense forests, beautiful beaches, and flocks of birds, like an unpolluted pure land.

But all the prisoners standing on the deck had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery. Their faces looked grim, as if they were about to die.

A prisoner next to Gao Xin's legs kept shaking, and he cursed in despair, "Damn AI, damn artificial idiot, why did you sentence me to exile to the Prison Island? I was just robbing..."

"Wow, you are still a robber. I was sent here just because I stole some money..." Another voice burst into tears, as if it had many grievances in its heart.

Gao Xin looked over and found that some prisoners had even wet their pants, and there was a foul smell coming from the deck.

"Who the hell peed? So useless!" A man with a hoarse voice in the front shouted in dissatisfaction.

The prisoner who wet his pants trembled and said, "It's fine if you, the serious criminals, are exiled, but why should I... why should I..."

The hoarse man said indifferently: "No matter what crime you have committed, as long as you are sentenced and can't afford the prison fees, you will be sent to this island... There are so many criminals in this world, how can the government support them all? Hehe, they wish they could just throw people on the island to fend for themselves."

Several prisoners present turned pale immediately.

They all said at once: "Isn't that what we said? If we really carry out the execution this way... How can we... Send ordinary people here, wouldn't that mean they are sending themselves to die?"

"It's just... rather than exile me here, I might as well be sentenced to death."

"Yes, for an ordinary person like me, once we get to the island, we will be slaves. How can we survive for the next ten years?"

Hearing this, the hoarse-voiced man laughed strangely: "Haha, you still want to make it? Ten years? What's the point of a sentence? No one has ever been released from the island after serving their sentence."

When these words were spoken, the prisoners around were startled.

No one has ever been released from prison? Many prisoners seemed to be unable to believe their ears.

They had all heard a little about the horrors of Sin Island. They knew that it was a place without laws, where the most vicious criminals from all over the world gathered. There were countless powerful radiators and cyborgs. Even if they killed other prisoners on the island, there were no prison guards to take care of them.

Because it is said that apart from the nearby navy, there is no such profession as prison guard.

This island is essentially a huge open-air prison set up to save costs.

There are more than 10,000 square kilometers, and the prisoners can move freely as long as they do not leave the island and endanger the outside society.

The prisoners do whatever they want on this island. It is a paradise for the strong and hell for the weak, creating a chaotic country of its own.

In the past, only powerful radiators or extremely evil people were imprisoned, and everyone applauded. No matter how cruel it was, it had nothing to do with ordinary people. It was just a disguised form of death penalty.

But now even ordinary criminals are exiled here. Doesn't that give those powerful criminals an advantage?
Gao Xin stared at the man. "Are you talking nonsense? This is a conspiracy theory from the Internet. The Sin Prison Island has been established for more than 20 years, so there must be people who left."

Some prisoners also looked over expectantly, hoping that it was just nonsense. After all, if no one escaped alive, it would be too hopeless.

However, the man with a hoarse voice turned around and squinted his eyes and said, "Conspiracy theory? Ha, have you heard that anyone has left?"

Gao Xin shook his head silently. He had never heard of it. The Prison Island had been established for more than 20 years. If anyone was released from prison, it would definitely become news.

The hoarse man continued, "That's it. On this island, the weak can't survive their sentences, and the strong don't want to leave..."

"If you have the ability to be the king of the island, wouldn't it be more comfortable than being outside?"

As he said that, he glanced at the badge on Gao Xin's chest: "Oh... you are made of glass, then it's okay."

There was something cruel in his smile, and his eyes were full of amusement.

Gao Xin's face froze and he didn't want to say anything more to this man. He looked like a vicious and cruel person.

Moreover, on the label on the chest of the blue and white prison uniform, in addition to the name Xia Heng, there was also a big 'R' engraved in relief!

This is a radiator... a person whose genes were reorganized due to excessive radiation in a nuclear war.

Would a full-scale nuclear war destroy humanity? The answer is no.

Because mankind has proved through world wars that even if all the nuclear weapons in the world were launched and the world was in chaos, more than half of the human population, about five billion, would survive.

Remote rural areas and even some small towns were not affected by the nuclear explosion.

Many people don’t even feel that the nuclear explosion has anything to do with them, and the war is over...

However, the real price is the nuclear radiation that continues to spread with the wind and water.

The five billion people who survived absorbed large amounts of radiation during the post-war reconstruction period, and radiation sickness became the most common injury after the war.

Some people absorb nuclear radiation beyond the safe threshold and their entire DNA is broken.

People who are exposed to excessive amounts of radiation are almost impossible to treat. Their cells will not regenerate, and all medical treatments can only delay the disease, and they will eventually die after suffering.

Fortunately, the global government established after the war brought together the most cutting-edge life scientists in the world and jointly invented a "gene protector" with AI.

After the drug became popularized, the genes of those who had undergone gene collapse were recombined, and thus a group of radiation victims who were able to adapt to nuclear radiation and even had greatly enhanced physical functions were born.

After that, more and more people deliberately became irradiated people. Now, thirty years after the war, there are one billion irradiated people in the world, accounting for 20% of the total population.

And ninety-nine percent of them are 'Type N' radiators, which is the most common level of adaptation.

The hoarse-voiced man in front of him was a higher-level 'R-type', a rare type of radiator.

How rare is it? Gao Xin searched among the prisoners and only saw another R-type radiator at the edge of the team. His name was Mo Qiong.

There is no R class beyond this, nor anything higher.

"Alas..." Gao Xin lowered his head. The tag on his chest only had his name and number written on it.

This kind of prison uniform represents a normal Homo sapiens who has not been mutated by radiation, commonly known as a 'glass man'.

Because there were a large number of incidents of radiation users accidentally injuring ordinary people in society, he had read a lot of related news, such as 'A man was too excited to shake hands with an old classmate, resulting in a comminuted fracture of his palm', or 'A man became paralyzed on his wedding night', and 'A woman hugged her boyfriend and his ribs pierced her heart'.

As incidents like these became more and more frequent, the irradiated people gradually felt that ordinary people were too easily hurt in their daily interactions with them, so they jokingly called them "glass men."

There is reproductive isolation between different types of radiators, not to mention ordinary people, who are already different species physiologically.

"I wish I was a radiator too."

"Those people can easily develop extraordinary physical qualities, extraordinary perception, and even various amazing abilities. They are completely another species."

"The gene protector made by AI has a 100% success rate. If you are exposed to radiation and your genes are destroyed, and then you inject another bottle, anyone can become a radiation user."

"But that stuff is too damn expensive now. I missed the era when my parents distributed potions for free..."

"If...if I had known I would be exiled here, I would have gotten a bottle even if I had to steal or rob."

Gao Xin murmured in his heart, feeling secretly annoyed.

But then he was stunned, gnashing his teeth and feeling unfair: "No, this is not my fault, I was wronged, I shouldn't have come here at all!"

Thinking of this, Gao Xin looked around unwillingly.

The Sin Prison Island is not far away, and it is getting closer and closer in the field of vision. Once you really get on the island, there will be no one to cry out for.

Although he kept protesting his injustice from his arrest to his trial, it was of no avail.

But now he is still on the warship escorting prisoners, and this may be his last chance to redress his injustice.

"Sir! Sir! I am innocent!"

"How dare I kill someone? I don't even know that person!"

"I'm innocent! Really innocent, don't send me to the Prison Island!" A man suddenly shouted and appealed to the navy guarding on the side.

This made Gao Xin stunned. Are there other people who have also been wronged?
He was thinking about how to appeal, but he didn't expect someone to get there first and rush straight out of the prisoners' queue.

"boom!"

A navy soldier stepped forward and kicked the man who was crying out for justice, and he was immediately kicked away.

The latter covered his legs, trembled, wailed, and lay on the ground for a long time without being able to get up.

Then a white-clad officer came over and said, "Everyone, line up along the red line on the deck!"

The prisoner who was kicked over covered his thigh and said, "Sir, my leg is broken!"

"Say it again, Glass Man, return to the team." The officer in white looked cold.

The prisoner with a broken leg cried and shouted that he was innocent, but he still returned to the team obediently and struggled to crawl back to his original position.

The other prisoners suddenly fell silent, not daring to make a sound.

Gao Xin also lowered his head in bitterness. He didn't know how many times he had appealed for justice. If it had really been useful, he wouldn't have ended up here.

What he had in his mind just now was just a last glimmer of hope, but the fate of the man with a broken leg made him completely give up.

"Swish!" At this moment, a figure suddenly flashed out and rushed towards a marine, passing by like lightning.

It turned out that someone took advantage of everyone's attention being on the man with a broken leg and attempted to escape!

"Puff!" The Marine was knocked unconscious instantly, and before he could fall completely, the rifle in his hand fell into the hands of the other party.

"Thumbs up!"

He was an excellent marksman, and he fired bullets at marines all over the warship in one go.

It was accurate and swift, directly knocking down all the Marines' guns. You have to know that these soldiers can stand at different positions and heights!

"I'm leaving!" He chuckled and jumped into the sea, intending to leave in a leisurely manner.

The incident happened so quickly that most people didn't react, and some people didn't even look past it.

But the officer in white looked past it, and not only that, his eyes were also intimidating.

Literally, a burning laser shot out from his right eye, hitting the attacker right in the heart.

"Bang!" A muffled sound was heard, the target's heart exploded, and his body fell straight down.

By the time everyone's attention came over, smoke was already coming out of the prisoner's chest, his skin and flesh had turned black and sticky, and people around him could smell a burning smell.

Gao Xin took a look and saw that the dead person was the R-type radiator named Mo Qiong.

"Ah..." The prisoners were suddenly speechless in horror.

As soon as they started to make a commotion, the Marines around them immediately picked up their guns.

However, all the guns were broken, and Mo Qiong actually accurately broke dozens of guns at the scene.

But even so, no one on the field dared to move or run away.

I just watched the officer in white walk up to the corpse.

His right eye was also slightly burnt and blackened, and the originally lifelike eyeball was now completely exposed as an electronic eye that flashed a dark red light.

"Damn, it's so dry every time I use it."

The officer took out a spray bottle, which was also a bit like a thermometer, and raised his head cursingly. He pried open his eye sockets with one hand, and with the other hand, he held the gun to his right eye and pressed it for a while, as if he was putting eye drops in.

After a while, when the spray bottle was moved away, the electronic eye with a little burnt ash could no longer be seen, and only the eyeball that was no different from that of an ordinary person could be seen.

"He's a cyborg..." Gao Xin then realized the identity of the officer. He was a half-robot who had been modified with prosthetics, but he used a very good prosthetic paint, so he looked no different from a normal person.

It was too fast. Who could dodge the laser? It took only a glance to kill an obviously strong irradiator prisoner.

Although the exact comparison of strength is unknown, there is no doubt that this officer is powerful.

At the same time, Gao Xin felt a chill in his heart at the officer's indifference. He could kill a person with just a glance, but he just didn't care whether his eyes were dry or not.

Obviously they are used to it. So, tracing back to this, how indifferent are the real criminals on the island to life?
When they were sentenced to exile to the prison island, their lives were no longer worth mentioning.

"I am Major Adams, the captain of this prisoner transport ship. I know that some of you are still ready to make a move..."

Major Adams took care of the eyeball and continued to examine the prisoners, lecturing them: "I have to go through this kind of thing once or twice every month when I escort prisoners."

"I advise you to stop worrying about this as soon as possible and be honest."

As he said that, Adams kicked Mo Qiong's body into the sea again. This guy said he was leaving, but he was sent away by a laser.

"I really don't want to kill anyone, especially an R-type radiator. What a pity, he is the strongest one here. Let's die on shore."

"We'll be there soon, why are you in such a hurry? Once we're on the island you won't be under my control, but you're going against me. What are you thinking?"

Major Adams' words were full of regret, and there was a feeling of great loss, which made people confused.

But no one dared to speak, and the scene was extremely silent for a while.

Adams curled his lips and ordered the soldiers: "Speed ​​up, the sooner you get there, the sooner the better."

The ship immediately accelerated, and after a few minutes, the warship arrived hundreds of meters away from the island.

There is no port here, and the exiles are always thrown onto a random coast. Although the water in this area is not shallow at the moment, it is difficult for warships to get close.

Adams pointed at the sea and said, "Okay, everyone, jump in one by one in the order you line up."

"What?" Many prisoners were in an uproar. So they just found a place on the island and threw them into the sea?
"Sir, it's still that far away. Are we just going to jump into the sea and swim over?"

"Please, I can't swim."

"And me, sir. How can I swim with a broken leg?"

Several prisoners could not help begging, especially the man with a broken leg, whose face turned pale. In his current condition, he could not swim these hundreds of meters.

However, Adams just repeated it again, ignoring everyone's demands.

"Pfft!"

The criminals were sensible and didn't say anything. The one in the front row just took off his shirt and jumped down.

The people behind had no choice but to keep up, and a group of people lined up one after another to go into the sea, like dumplings.

"Sir, my leg is really broken. Can you keep me on the boat and send me to the island after I recover?"

"I promise to go to the island obediently when the time comes. Really, really!"

The man with the broken leg sobbed and begged, but his words only made the major raise his hand slightly.

At the same time, a group of soldiers, fully armed, walked out of the cabin and raised their rifles.

There is no doubt that if you don’t do it, you will be shot dead!

"Plop!" Gao Xin didn't bother to look at others. When it was his turn, he didn't even look back. He looked at the vast ocean, jumped down, and fell straight into the water.

Although there was no strong wind, the waves were still quite big. Gao Xin aimed at the direction and swam hard towards the Sin Prison Island.

Behind me, I could hear sounds of people falling into the water and even cries for help.

Apparently the man with the broken leg finally jumped down, but his voice was so miserable that Gao Xin couldn't help but look back.

But, there was no trace of anyone and the sound disappeared, as if everything was submerged in the waves.

I'm afraid that man won't survive.

Gao Xin did not stop at all and swam even faster, but he could not help feeling sad for the other party.

He claimed that he was a person who was wronged like himself, but he just cried out that it was injustice. However, he drowned on the beach before he even landed on the island.

How could Gao Xin feel good about this? He was worried about what he would face next.

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PS: Sorry. Farewell to the Black Emperor.

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