The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Number one is always the focus of attention. For example, in a world sports competition, all the audience will pay attention to the champion of the game, remember the name or appearance of the champion, and build a statue for the champion in the champion's hometown, etc., but never Some people will pay attention to the second place, because the figure of the second place is completely blocked by the shadow of the champion, even if someone sees it, most of them will think that it is just the shadow of the champion.

Cassie Tally is such a very famous architectural designer who will never reach the peak. People who care about the construction industry will subconsciously say that they have heard of this name when they mention Cassie Tally. It seems that he is an architect. , designed a lot of classic buildings, but if you ask for specifics, I can’t tell at all. I can’t tell what buildings Cassie Tally designed, and I don’t remember what Cassie Tally looks like.

Only a few people who really understand the architectural world of the Otter Federation will sigh and say that Cassie Tally is a talented person, but his luck is really bad, and every time his career and works reach a new height From time to time, there will always be someone standing at a higher height to suppress him, and it is the accumulation of psychological depression brought about by this perennial suppression that makes him destroy himself in the end.

Cassie Tally was hired by the most famous architectural design company of the Otto Federation when he first debuted, and became a third-level co-designer, and later participated in the architectural design of the Otto Federation National Hall of Valor, He independently designed the main statue of the Valhalla, the Goddess of War.

This design itself is very good, he should have gained a lot of reputation from this design, and then became the first-level partner of the construction company, but it is a pity that there is someone who is better than him. , that person directly used a barren hill near the capital to design the now-famous statue of the Seventeenth Father. This person is Rudolf Hans.

The situation was similar after that, every time Cassie Tally designed an outstanding building, Rudolf Hans could always design an even better building to attract everyone's attention.

Over time, Cassie Tally also became mentally unbalanced. In order to prove his ability, he often took over the same business with Rudolf Hans, and then tried to beat Rudolf by competing in the same business Hans, proved his excellence, but the result is the same every time. The building body of the business is Rudolf Hans who wins, while some unimportant secondary individuals choose his design, so the design of this kind He was always the second designer in the plan.

In the end, because of his close contact with Rudolf Hans, he was involved in some undisclosed investigations and was imprisoned for three years.

Although he didn't suffer much in those three years, because he lost contact with the architectural design industry, he did not keep up with some changes in architectural design trends. When he returned to the architectural design industry, his style It's outdated, and his shift in style can't beat other younger comers who have already established themselves on the new style.

In the end, under the influence of all kinds of pressure, he broke out in a banquet inside the architect industry. At the banquet, he killed three people with a knife, and was subdued by everyone, and then handed over to the police who came.

This incident was originally very sensational. The famous architect went crazy and killed people at the banquet. It was really bad. Almost on the same day that he went crazy and murdered, a family of the founding father of the Otter Federation was murdered. More than 20 people in the whole family were killed on the same day. All news events were on the front pages of various newspapers for a month in a row. Cassie Tally was not able to make it to the front page of any newspaper until he was tried and sent to prison for life imprisonment.

Originally, Cassie Tally would definitely be sentenced to death for his crimes, but because he had some connections in the Architects Guild and was popular, he brought a lot of stamina, and the three people who were killed were in The relationship within the Architects' Guild is bad, and there is no deep background, so in the trial of Cassie Tally, the Architects' Guild chose to let him go, and there was no artificial interference with the trial.

In addition, Cassie Tally's lawyer is also very capable. He insisted on portraying Cassie Tally as a mentally ill victim who has been tortured by the federal government for three years and cannot take care of himself. The responsibility was shifted to the fact that the government had innocently placed Cassie Tally under house arrest for three years. In the end, Cassie Tally escaped and was not sentenced to death.

However, it may be that he offended the federal government too much in court. After the sentence was commuted to indefinite period, he was given an additional sentence of no commutation, which meant that Cassie Tally could only live in prison for the rest of his life. And the federal government seemed to feel that this was not enough, and directly placed Cassie Tally's sentence in the notorious Beruk City No. 3 Prison.

Although the third prison in Beiruk City is the third in name, it is actually the earliest prison in Beiruk City, but it used to be used as a prisoner-of-war camp, and later the No. 1 and No. 2 prisons in Beiruk City There are too many people here, and many special criminals need special treatment, so the former prisoner-of-war camp was changed into the current third prison.

The most obvious feature of this third prison is that it was built on Lake Beruk. It was rebuilt from a deserted island in the lake, and its size was equivalent to half of Emerald Island.

Because the third prison is on the lake, surrounded by water, and there is an island nearby that is the sailor training base of the anti-smuggling team in Beiruk City, and it is also the patrol route of the anti-smuggling fleet, so from the day it was built, the people detained here None of the criminals can successfully escape from prison.

However, the confinement effect of the third prison is not entirely dependent on geographical advantages. The architecture and layout of the prison itself are the best in the Otter Federation, and even the entire New World. It's a prison from which you can never escape.

In the early days, the prisoners in the third prison were just some ordinary prisoners, but with the improvement of the prisoner classification system of the Otter Federation and the reform of the prison system, all the prisoners in the third prison have become those special prisoners.

This special prisoner is mainly divided into three categories. One category is the brutal death row prisoner who is waiting to be executed. Usually, in order to prevent these prisoners from fighting to the death, even the accomplices of these prisoners came to rob the prison. These prisoners came out of the court. At that moment, they were sent directly to the separate detention room of the third prison and locked up. They were not released until the day of execution and sent to the execution ground for execution.

Even after an execution ground was built inside the third prison, the ending for these prisoners was to come in alive and leave dead.

Another type of prisoner is a prisoner with a special identity. This type of prisoner usually has some identity background. Although he committed a felony, he was exempted from the death penalty under the operation of the people and forces behind them, but the federal government was unwilling to let it go like this. Because of these people, they were all thrown into the third prison, and they were stipulated that they must serve their full sentence before they could leave. No name was allowed to reduce the sentence of these people.

And in this category of prisoners, there are still some who have some secrets that the federal government wants to know. For these secrets, the federal government detains these people here and extracts the secrets from these people little by little.

It is precisely because of the different nature of the prisoners that the third prison specially arranged two serial areas for these two types of prisoners. The middle is only separated by barbed wire, and the treatment on both sides is also completely different. The treatment on one side is like staying in a high-end hotel. , The other side is like a slum at the bottom. The federal government wants to take advantage of this huge gap in treatment to break the defenses of some seemingly tough but actually weak prisoners.

As for the third type of prisoners, they are prisoners like Cassie Tally who are targeted by the federal government and sentenced to life imprisonment. This type of prisoner may have the worst life among all the prisoners in the entire third prison. The daily living supplies are calculated according to the minimum requirements of the refugee class. They can neither starve to death nor eat enough. They can get by, but they can also live hard.

It is very simple to improve living conditions. They use their own abilities to create wealth for the prison. For example, those who know accounting can help prison guards and others to file tax returns, and even use the name of the prison to provide financial services to those who cannot hire senior accountants at high prices. Related services, like Cassie Tully, whose talents are all in architectural design, but in order to improve living conditions, he can only serve as a prison employee to provide a complete design plan for the architectural design orders received by the prison .

However, designing buildings is not a normal matter like filing taxes, and it is usually difficult to receive an order a month, so his life in prison has not been very good.

Even so, Cassie Tally still did not show decadence and despair like ordinary people, but appeared very peaceful, and even established a church in the prison.

Establishing a church in the prison of the Outer Federation makes people laugh at first, because churches are prohibited in the Outer Federation, and the prison is the most heavily guarded place. Establishing a church here feels like someone It's like trying to dig through an impenetrable castle with a stick.

However, after a further understanding of the situation, it will be discovered that Cassie Tally's almost delusional behavior has already achieved certain results.

Cassie Tally not only established a church, but also converted a prison cell into a mission church, and there are quite a few people who joined this church. Seventy percent of the prisoners in his area joined this church.

In order to be able to suppress the church, the prison even thought of sending those prisoners who joined the church to other prison areas without churches, but the result made the prison feel self-defeating, because their approach just helped the church send other prisoners to the prison. The place has spread, until recently, the faith of this church has begun to spread beyond the death row area, and even some prison guards have begun to take an interest in this church.

Although the prison has taken some corresponding measures for this matter, such as destroying the missionary site built and sending Cassie Tally to a confinement room for long-term confinement, it is useless. How should the church spread or how? .

After learning from the newspaper that the federal government began to use the strongest attitude and means to eliminate all the churches in the territory, the warden simply reported the matter to the Beruk City Government and waited for the city government to deal with it. thing.

The warden was having a headache that day because the prisoners in the prison went on a hunger strike to protest Cassie Tally's confinement, and even some mortals with backgrounds began to get involved. These people may not be believers in this prison church, but they must be I hope that through the protests of the prison church, I can see the jokes in the prison. After all, sitting in prison is too boring, and I need to have some fun to make my mood less depressed.

However, just when the warden was feeling overwhelmed, his subordinates pushed the door in and said that after the latest supply ship arrived, two people with special permits from the city government got off the ship and asked to see Cassie Tally, which made him The warden suddenly felt puzzled, and said involuntarily, "Has the government sent someone here? So soon?"

As an old man in the prison system, the warden is well aware of the procrastination of the system. His report has only been submitted for two days. According to his estimation, it will take at least ten days before it can be delivered to someone who can make a decision. , It will take more than ten days to implement it. Specifically, it will take a few days to send people to the third prison. Add up, at least 30 days.

However, in just two days now, someone came to the island and asked to see Cassie Tally. The first thing he thought of was that someone was trying to use this incident to create a prison escape. After all, there have been such examples before, but he quickly denied it. The idea came up, because no one would believe that two upstarts who are now hot in the city of Beruk would help a life sentence prisoner escape.

At that time, the warden ordered his subordinates to bring the two people to the office, and arranged for manpower to catch them immediately when he found that there was something wrong with the two people, but when he saw the two people in front of him, he immediately recognized them. Such people are the couple Leo Dodd and Sylvia Belmont who have often appeared in various newspapers in Beruk recently.

Although the warden is far away from the urban area and has stayed on the prison island all year round, he still has a good understanding of the power changes in the upper circle in the urban area. He is very clear about what the social circle of these two people in Beruk City is like now. Status, and how important they are to the federal government, it is naturally impossible for the two of them to commit a prison robbery, so he dismissed the staff at that time, and took out his best wine to entertain the two.

The warden asked curiously: "Although it is not necessary, I still want to ask, why do you two want to meet this Cassie Tally? What does this Cassie Tally have to do with the two of you?"

Leo directly said the excuse they had thought up in advance, saying: "He is the second designer of Belmont Manor."