Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Chapter 306 The Warden

Norton Kaman completed the temporary residence procedures for Duan Mingyuan and arranged a single room for him.

While the artificial intelligence was processing the new prisoners, he had to put down his beloved magazine and act as Duan Mingyuan's temporary guide.

At this moment, deeper inside the prison, new prisoners are also getting the help of mechanical prison guards to understand this prison and the painful and desperate lives they will face in the future.

In comparison, life here is much easier.

To put it more bluntly and simply, the Prison Star is suitable for any family kid with no ambition to live a bad life and maintain his health.

All the work is done by artificial intelligence, so they can focus on their own interests and hobbies. Only at certain times of the year, when the company's senior management comes to inspect Prison Star, they have to accompany them to introduce some basic conditions of the prison.

Norton was already very familiar with the job of showing people around prisons.

The first is the introduction of the Kaman family. The family background will prevent the company's top executives from asking tricky questions to embarrass him during the inspection.

"I've heard of the Iron Guard Consortium."

Duan Mingyuan said that this is also the company consortium that has been mentioned most frequently in interstellar news recently.

Of course, its reputation is not that good. It just suffered a defeat and was beaten back from the entire star zone by the rebels of the United Front, which also cast a shadow on the reputation of the Iron Guard Consortium's invincible fleet.

"Your relationship with the United Front is... not a very pleasant one."

Duan Mingyuan felt that this conversation was a little subtle, especially his title of "Spiritual Leader of the United Front". In order to avoid unnecessary disputes, he explained, "Those reports are all fabricated. In fact, I have never been to the star region where the United Front is located."

"It doesn't matter. I fled to a place like this because I was tired of the infighting in the consortium."

Norton was about the same age as Duan Mingyuan. He waved his hand and said, "I was born to be incompatible with family honor. Of course, when I graduated, I never thought of coming here to be the warden, that old man!"

Having said that, Nuo Duan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

He will never forget the night he was about to graduate.

He had excellent grades in the military academy, and his family had hoped to transfer him to the front line to let him start his training as a commander of a battlecruiser, but Norton refused his family's arrangement and expressed to his elderly mentor his desire not to be involved in the war.

When his mentor asked him what he really thought, Norton rarely opened up to his most trusted mentor.

If there was one thing he liked...

That's the jade foot.

When he was in school, he always subscribed to relevant magazines, which allowed him to put his worries behind him and discover the colorful universe.

The tutor agreed and promised him that he would be arranged by the college to a place that could satisfy his desire.

There were many jailers there, and he would be the manager there.

When Norton Kaman crossed half of the universe and arrived at the Prison Star with infinite vision for the future and an eager heart, he found that he had fallen into a trap.

The male to female ratio of prison guards in Prison Star Prison is 100:0.

There are only a bunch of old men here.

Among these men, more than 90% are sports enthusiasts, who sweat profusely in the gym and on the court every day, and you can smell their sweat from a distance. This is what it feels like to be in prison.

Not only the prisoners, but also the warden is no exception.

Norton hasn't spoken to a member of the opposite sex face to face for five years.

Each issue of the biweekly magazine became Norton's only way to quench his thirst. Today was the day when the biweekly magazine was updated, and he couldn't wait to flip through the magazine in the office.

"Let's not talk about this anymore."

Norton realized that he had lost his composure, waved his hand, and introduced the prison to Duan Mingyuan. "Now the entire prison is basically maintained by artificial intelligence. You should have seen it just now. Every prisoner who enters the prison will be wearing a collar. The number on the collar is the time they have stayed here. In addition to waiting for the end of their sentence peacefully, artificial intelligence has also set up many ways for them to reduce their sentences."

Whenever company executives came to inspect, Norton would explain the characteristics of these prisons to them.

"To put it simply, AI will periodically issue some trials to prisoners in prison. If they can withstand the assessment of AI, their sentences can be reduced accordingly based on the evaluation they have completed."

As he spoke, Norton showed Duan Mingyuan many past trials.

"Hunger Fast Trial"

Meditation Trial

『Purification Ceremony』

Corresponding video footage was left behind for each trial. In these videos, the prisoners were watched like little white mice. Their spirits and bodies were greatly tested and tortured during the trial. Most of the participants were already dying when they won.

As the warden, Norton actually does not understand the significance of these trials. In his opinion, they seem to be just a means for artificial intelligence to torture the prisoners.

It was not until a bored prison guard uploaded the video of the trials to the official website that they discovered the actual use of these trials.

This is the prototype of the official website live broadcast.

From then on, every trial would attract many spectators. The spectators would pick out a few dark horses from the prisoners and place bets on who would be the final winner of the trial.

Thus, this became a grand event for the audience. Norton didn't know whether these trials could really purify the prisoners' dirty souls, but what was certain was that the way they struggled to survive in the trials pleased many people. Even the company's top management spoke highly of the "grand event" during the last inspection.

This became an important achievement during Norton's tenure, and the company encouraged him to continue to carry forward the tradition of trials.

But Norton's suspicion became more and more serious. When the artificial intelligence brought Duan Mingyuan to him, his uneasiness reached its peak.

Because he knew very well that for artificial intelligence, this was not a popular entertainment activity, but they really believed that such behavior could save or purify the souls of the prisoners.

He could feel that with the emergence of trials, artificial intelligence became more and more neurotic, becoming like a group of fanatical religious elements, preaching their doctrines in ways that were difficult for ordinary people to understand.

And this is most likely the reason why artificial intelligence invited Duan Mingyuan to stay temporarily.

"Mr. Duan Mingyuan, you came at a very coincidental time. A new trial is about to begin."

Norton heard that the artificial intelligence hoped Duan Mingyuan would help them and answer the questions they had always had.

But he had to remind the other party, "You just came here and don't know much about the situation here, but please don't trust those artificial intelligences... Sometimes, I really feel that they seem to have human souls."

(End of this chapter)