A Red Chicken’S Quick Travel Game Chapter 5

Chapter 5: 1.4 Sudden Justice.

Gou Xue looked at the glowing mission prompt, feeling unspeakably miserable.

What did they mean by breaking the law and violating discipline? He was a bright and upright young man who had always followed the country’s directives and the Party’s leadership. He had never even committed a minor act of petty theft, and now he was actually expected to cause trouble in broad daylight! Author, are you toxic or what?!

The little white book was about to disappear, but as if sensing Gou Xue’s accusation, a line of text popped up: If the readers want you to die, you have to die.

Gou Xue’s brain stalled for a moment before a very bad thought suddenly occurred to him: Readers?! What readers?! You mean there are actually people watching me?!

The little white book vanished instantly without a trace.

Gou Xue was practically going crazy. What kind of joke was this! Was there a crowd of spectators watching everything he did? Was there no privacy left! No matter how much Gou Xue shouted after that, the little white book refused to come out. Its character was simply a mess. Gou Xue could only resign himself to his fate and begin shuffling forward with the line, his mind filled with gray thoughts of cursing someone’s mother.

Everyone had been woken up before dawn not to listen to bedtime stories, but to welcome the sunrise with a morning run. This activity sounded poetic, but for the new prisoners, it was a life-threatening exercise. The veteran prisoners were already used to it, and this kind of training actually made their physiques stronger. However, for a weakling like Gou Xue, who had only been in prison for a month and whose soul had been there for less than ten hours, it was an execution. Gou Xue had been a lazy shut-in who nearly lost half his life just running a thousand meters back in university; now, faced with the requirement of running three thousand meters on an empty stomach, he just wanted to faint on the spot. When his vision started to go dark, he remembered the mission prompt.

He thought about it for a while, then suddenly nudged the small guy with glasses running like a dog beside him: Hey, my name is Gou Xue. What’s yours?

Breaking the law and violating discipline certainly couldn’t be done alone. Doing it alone meant taking the fall alone, but if a gang did it, the weight of the blame would be dispersed. Gou Xue felt his grasp of physics was perfect.

The small guy with glasses had been here for a while, but due to his constitution, he had never managed to grow an ounce of muscle. The daily run was undoubtedly a form of torture for him. His face was already flushed and his neck veins were bulging. Hearing Gou Xue’s question, he forced out a bit of breath: …Ji… Ji Zai…

Chick?

The Ji from Yu Ji! The Zai from Prime Minister! Ji Zai angrily pushed up his glasses.

Gou Xue instantly felt that the author was far too casual with naming! The little white book flipped open at this moment: Heh, you haven’t seen anything more casual yet.

Gou Xue: …Is there a Danmei novel protagonist with a more casual name than this?!

Liu Zhiwei.

Gou Xue: … Having gained no useful information and feeling even more like cursing, Gou Xue turned back to Ji Zai and said: I’m new and don’t know the ropes. Are there any dead lines here that I absolutely mustn’t cross?

Ji Zai was already running until his eyes were rolling back, and he didn’t want to respond at all. However, he was used to answering people immediately, so he spoke while rolling his eyes: There… there are thirteen… we call them… the Thirteen Iron Rules…

Gou Xue felt he had instantly found the backbone for solving the case: Tell me, tell me…

The first rule… is don’t provoke… provoke…

Don’t provoke the prison guards? Gou Xue thoughtfully helped him finish.

…The guards are one… one of them… but, but the first rule is don’t provoke… provoke…

Don’t provoke Raptor?

Raptor, Raptor is also one of them… but, but the first rule is, don’t… don’t provoke…

Don’t provoke who?

Ji Zai rolled his eyes and fell flat on his face: Can’t… can’t speak anymore…

Gou Xue had finally managed to squeeze out some information, so he had no choice but to squat down and act like a Good Samaritan to pull Ji Zai up. A nearby prison guard saw the two of them stop and approached with a baton in hand.

Seeing the guard, Ji Zai immediately scrambled up with all his might, left Gou Xue behind, and ran back into the formation. Gou Xue froze for a moment, and before he could recover, he heard the guard say: Hey, what are you doing?! Looking for trouble?

Gou Xue didn’t understand how stopping for a moment counted as looking for trouble. He was also truly exhausted and wanted to say he just needed thirty seconds of rest, but then he saw the guard gesture to two other guards standing nearby. The three of them began to close in at a steady pace.

Gou Xue’s eyes widened instantly as he looked around nervously: Wh-what is this?!

Plot Branch

3. The prison guard is currently thinking

A. Make you return to the ranks B. A sound beating C. Solitary confinement D. Drag you out for public display

Before Gou Xue could react, the little white book opened beside him. He didn’t even have time to see the options before he heard an “Ouch” from ahead. Ji Zai, who had just run back into the formation, had been tripped by someone. It was almost as if he had been kicked out of the line; he rolled several times on the sandy ground, sitting there covered in dust and panting, unable to get up.

One of the three guards split off and squatted in front of Ji Zai, letting out a chuckle: Oh, another troublemaker. Was the last punishment not enough?

Ji Zai’s expression was terrible. He pursed his lips and said nothing, trying to crawl back into the formation. But the prisoners, who had formed a flowing tide, seemed to treat this as a game. Every time Ji Zai tried to push his way back in, he was kicked out by someone. Everyone was waiting to see him made a fool of.

Gou Xue’s anger couldn’t help but flare up at this moment. Although he had always been a coward, he really couldn’t stand to watch this. He took a sudden step forward and shouted: What are you doing?!