Forbidden Nightmare

Chapter 28 Project Flare

Li Nanke lay in his sleeping bag. He did not touch the forbidden fragments directly. Instead, he held the storage box and tried to enter a dream according to the method of visualization given by the Great Other Shore...

According to the Great Other Side, as long as he can successfully pass the forbidden dream, even if he experiences a long time in the dream, it will only be a short moment reflected in reality.

He had thought about this problem for a long time. If no matter how much time he spent in the dream, it would only take a moment to return to reality, then this speed of time flow was totally unreasonable.

He currently has many speculations about this, but cannot prove their authenticity.

To be on the safe side, Li Nanke pulled Holson over to guard him just in case. Of course, there was a deeper meaning to doing this.

As I was thinking randomly, the visualization method gradually began to take effect, and my consciousness gradually became blurred...

……

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"Where's the guard? Where did he go?"

"Why haven't you delivered the food yet? I'm starving!"

"These damn guards must have been playing cards all night last night. I swear, I'm going to stuff the ore up their asses!"

"Hey, have you heard? A big guy was dug out from the pit a few days ago. I heard something was wrong..."

"It's none of my business. If you don't deliver the food, I won't dig today!"

"Humph, if you're not afraid of being electrocuted by the dog pen, then lead the strike..."

Amid the noisy noise, Li Nanke slowly opened his eyes.

What caught my eye was a dirty and narrow ceiling covered with traces of dirt. The air was filled with the lingering stench of urine and ammonia, as well as various disgusting odors such as sweat and foot odor.

He sat up. There was only a single bed, a toilet and a sink in the small space. The closed metal bars at the door were particularly eye-catching.

Li Nanke looked at the electronic screen embedded in the wall beside the bed - B13 floor, cell 186, AM 7:00
When I stood up, I felt something strange on my neck. I lowered my head and pulled it, and found it was an extremely sturdy electronic steel collar with a green light on it.

A robotic voice that was indistinguishable between male and female was heard, and bloody words appeared before my eyes line by line.

[Dream——'Flare Project']

[Dream details: Gliese 798c is a small Earth-like planet with many rare minerals. Due to its harsh living environment, it is not suitable for living and mining. The Human Union government built a strict prison on the largest mineral vein of Gliese 798c and detained all death row prisoners there. While exempting them from the death penalty, they also have to work in the dark mines under the prison for the rest of their lives.]

[Not long ago, the death row prisoners dug out a strange unnatural stone tablet from an underground mine, which caused a lot of discussion in the prison. Because this planet had never been deeply developed before the prison was built, it is impossible for man-made objects to exist deep underground...]

[The twisted and treacherous shadows have unconsciously enveloped the Deep Pit Prison... So, how can you struggle to survive in this underground purgatory? 】

As the synchronous information from the Great Beyond appeared, a memory quickly flooded into my mind.

Michael is a transport spaceship pilot who is addicted to gambling. Because he could not pay off his gambling debts, he smuggled a large amount of illegal goods. As a result, he was sentenced to death and imprisoned in a deep pit prison on a distant planet for more than half a year.

The prison usually distributes meals at six in the morning, and the meal time is half an hour. After that, the prisoners have to go to the underground mines to work and mine under the supervision of the guards. However, it is already seven in the morning, and the guards have neither delivered meals nor arranged for the prisoners to go mining. There is no sign of any prison security personnel at all...

Li Nanke arrived at the door of the cell. The metal door had dense vertical grilles, with gaps just enough for him to stretch out a hand. He could not see the scenes in the adjacent cells on his left or right. He could only hear the "bang bang bang" sounds of the surrounding prisoners banging on the cell doors in dissatisfaction and various curses and complaints.

He knew that the plot events in the dream had not yet officially unfolded, so he silently waited for the synchronous prompt sound of the key nodes.

"The forbidden object I was visualizing was some kind of metal fragment that had fallen off a machine. According to eyewitness accounts from the disaster area, the thing that fell from the sky seemed to be a satellite."

"Since the forbidden dream is a dream related to the forbidden object, the thing dug out from the ground should be a similar object. But according to the details of the dream and what Michael heard, it seems to be... a distorted stone tablet?"

Man-made satellites and stone tablets are two things that have nothing in common. Li Nanke couldn't think of any connection between the two. He could only guess that it was the second characteristic of the forbidden object that suddenly exploded...

"Boom!!!"

Suddenly, there was a deafening explosion, and the entire cell was shaking violently. Through the cell bars and door, one could see blinding flames blazing not far away.

Michael, Li Nanke's current identity, is in a cell located on the 13th floor underground. The entire Deep Pit Prison is bowl-shaped and is underground, with a total of fifty floors. Further down is the mine.

The explosion came from the main control room of the main prison area hanging in the "center of the bowl". He could see it clearly from the cell on the "wall" of the bowl.

With a click, the electronic lock snapped and the prison door opened automatically.

Not only the door of Li Nanke's cell was opened, but the sound of electronic locks clicking could be heard continuously.

Li Nanke quickly stepped out of the cell door and came to the corridor overlooking the entire prison. The densely packed cell doors were all opened at the same time!
Without the supervision of guards and prison guards, the cell doors opened for no reason, and countless death row inmates regained their freedom. They rushed out of their cells yelling excitedly, and the entire prison was in chaos.

At the same time, the light of the neck shackles at the neck changed from green to yellow...

The prison's neck shackles are designed to prevent prisoners from rioting and escaping. When receiving certain instructions or being violently removed, the neck shackles will release lethal high voltage electricity, which is very suitable for prisoners who are desperate to commit suicide.

Yellow means a serious warning. If the warning is not lifted within fifteen minutes, it will turn red and you will die on the spot.

Several prisoners with excited faces hurriedly ran through the passage. Li Nanke noticed that the light beads on their neck shackles had also turned yellow, but the people were too excited to notice it.

The synchronized reminder sounded without any emotion...

[Key point 1: Survive for fifteen minutes.]

The consequences of not being able to safely remove the neck shackles are self-evident, but this is not the most important point...

Li Nanke couldn't help but think of the second characteristic of the forbidden object and the zombies that came back to life in the disaster area, and this was an extremely large prison with a capacity of 100,000 people!

He held onto the railing and looked down again. The circular passages were filled with heads, and yellow lights were flashing on their necks...

"Idiot!!"

(End of this chapter)