I became a member of the ancient gods

Chapter 157 Prison
That night, Lin finally put on the face of the Tunkou Gang's coordinator and drove a truck into the Tunkou Gang's headquarters campus.

After disguising himself, he spent some time observing the deserted city.

In fact, there are about a dozen gangs in this deserted city, doing various businesses.Some sell drugs, some organize prostitution, and of course some gangs only monopolize some common local businesses such as food and daily necessities. The residents of this city are either gang members, or people who pay protection fees and are protected by gangs. The two biggest forces here are the Tunkou Gang and a gang called Feng Hua Xue Yue.

Fenghuaxueyue is a very conventional gangster. They deal in arms, drugs, and prostitution. They rely on this monopoly on high-profit businesses to maintain their status in this deserted city.

But the strange thing is the Tunkou Gang. The Tunkou Gang basically only deals in the business of human trafficking. Logically speaking, the profits are not that high, but their power has faintly surpassed that of Fenghuaxueyue. Although their number is not large, their armed level has surpassed other side.

Because the businesses do not overlap, there is no major conflict between the two gangs. They even have the momentum to join forces to strengthen their monopoly, and they still have business dealings with each other.Fenghuaxueyue occasionally engages in kidnapping and trafficking, but the victims are basically sold directly to the Tunkou Gang for disposal.

The attitude of the Tunkou Gang is very intriguing. They actually have the ability to expand their business to squeeze the living space of other gangs, but they are content with the human trafficking business and have become the leader in this regard. The human trafficking done by other gangs, People who are treated as goods will basically end up in the hands of the Tunkou Gang.

And which customer these people will eventually flow from the Tunkou Gang to is a secret. Even within the Tunkou Gang, only high-level cadres know.

The Tunkou Gang has a gang leader with the highest rank. He is very mysterious and has never appeared among ordinary members. Only the most senior cadres are qualified to meet him.But this gang leader seems to have pretty good decision-making skills and manages the entire gang in an orderly manner.

The contact person of the Tunkou Gang who they controlled knew very little about the gang's top brass and the patrons behind the gang, but Fran managed to collect some useful information - the most important of which was the information about the Tunkou Gang. A senior official is responsible for managing custody and inspects the cells every day.

This is undoubtedly a good opportunity.

The headquarters campus of the Tunkou Gang is actually a prison before the Calamity Era. This place has solid buildings, well-equipped facilities and a large number of usable cells. It is indeed very suitable as a gang stronghold.

On the way to the holding cell area, when passing by a playground, Lin Zhong glanced over there through the barbed wire fence and suddenly froze.

This playground was originally supposed to be used for prisoners' activities, but now it has become a training ground for gang fighters.

There are slogans written on the walls of the playground. According to Lin Zhong's understanding of prisons, it should have said something like "Repent, purify the soul, work to reshape oneself." But now, the content on the wall has been completely altered, covering a large number of A jumble of colorful graffiti, and then in the middle a new slogan in a fancy font.

The new slogan reads: "Flesh and blood are weak, machines are soaring!"

Mechanical Ascension... Mechanical Ascension Cult!

Lin Zhong suddenly realized.

In fact, when he heard that the Tunkou Gang encouraged members to transplant artificial organs, and promoted that this could extend life and resist apocalyptic diseases, he should have thought that the belief in the Ascension of the Machines was spread among the Tunkou Gang!

The idea of ​​mechanical ascension existed before the end of the world, mechanically transforming every part of the body, and even digitizing the brain, in order to achieve immortality, just like a god who has ascended to the Tao.

After the beginning of the Disaster Era, this idea developed and eventually became a large-scale religion.

People's bodies are vulnerable to the doomsday disease caused by disasters and the relatives of ancient gods. People can't help but begin to seek bodies that are immune to doomsday disease and have strong survival capabilities. A huge desire for mechanical transformation of the body arises spontaneously.

Many scientists have joined the Ascension Mechanicus and established a certain scale of cross-regional research organizations. At the same time, driven by this belief, research in this area has been pushed to an unprecedented height. According to Faceless, the chief executive of Wasteland Company Weapons designer and an internal member of the Ascension Mechanicus.

And such a gangster who traffics in people actually believes in the Ascension Mechanicus?
Could it be that the force behind them that supplies them with high-tech products is an organization or branch of the Ascension Mechanic?
With this thought in mind, the truck Lin Zhong was sitting in had already arrived at the prison's holding building. He got out of the car, and soon two armed gang members came to escort the kidnapped people. Lin Zhong noticed these two at a glance. Each gang member is equipped with a pair of robotic arms.

The door of the van was opened, and Fran and Wanjin got out of the car.

The two gang members led them towards the cell with guns, and Lin Zhong followed behind, while glancing at the wall clock not far away.

It's almost time for inspection.

He deliberately picked this time to send people here, so that he could bump into the inspection of the cadre who was in charge of the detention work. You must know that he couldn't stay in the cell for too long, that would only make people suspicious.

They reached the depths of the cell area. The two guards opened a double cell, let Fran and Wan Jin in, and then locked the door.

Lin finally looked up and observed, and saw the camera that was originally installed in the prison, but it didn't seem to be working.

The corridor here is dark, but there are still no lights - because there is no electricity.Even for Axia's hunter base, the power supply must rely on power transmission from the power station in the sanctuary area.

There is no way that there is a power station that is still operating in the deserted city. When entering this prison, Lin finally saw windmills that generate electricity, but that kind of thing does not seem to be enough to achieve stable large-scale power supply, so the energy here seems to be exhausted. It may be used where necessary, and other places can be saved.

Generally, people who are kidnapped cannot escape from here, and there are armed gang members guarding them, so there seems to be no need to monitor them with cameras 24 hours a day.

This actually helped Lin Zhong a lot.

"Thank you for your hard work. How about one?"

After Fran and Wan Jin were locked up, Lin Zhong took out the prepared cigarettes and distributed them to the two guards. He tried to have a casual conversation with the two guards in the corridor to delay time.

Within 2 minutes, he heard footsteps coming from the deepest part of the corridor.

The expressions of the two guards became obviously tense. When they saw a figure appearing deep in the corridor, they stood at attention and leaned against the wall.

"Here it comes." Lin Zhong, who realized that the target had appeared, turned around and looked around, then was stunned for a moment.

Accompanied by two guards, the patrolling senior cadre slowly walked over. His arms were both mechanical, and his face was actually half covered by iron sheets. A pair of mechanical goggles was buckled on his eyes, allowing him to see Looks like half a robot.

(End of this chapter)