Chapter 5 Is This Where Prisoners Are Held?

Looking at the tall and majestic building, with all its windows sealed with bars as thick as a thumb, Li Chenzhou murmured. Then, he turned to the building's entrance.

"Bang, bang!"

Li Chenzhou reached out and knocked on the door. According to his feeling, the door was made of pure metal and was at least five centimeters thick.

"Should we let the female Tyrannosaurus kick it open?"

The fatty asked tentatively from the side.

"Don't even dream about it!"

Gray Bear immediately interjected,

"This door isn't like the doors in your house. Generally speaking, although the doors themselves in ordinary homes are thick and sturdy, they are embedded in cement walls. So, if you use violence, as long as the force is great enough, you can smash the entire door down. At that time, it's not the door that's being destroyed, but the wall!

"But this is different. First of all, the walls of the prison are reinforced concrete structures, and the door itself also has fixed steel columns that go deep into the wall. To kick it open... unless you demolish most of the wall!"

"We can't demolish it!"

Li Chenzhou also shook his head.

"This place is for survivors to use as a base. If we damage the door, it will cause trouble for them later! We chose the prison because it's defensive enough. How could we damage it when we enter?"

"Then what do we do? I don't think we can open this door from the outside!"

The fatty asked.

"I'll try first!"

Li Chenzhou said, looking at the fingerprint lock on the door. Then he stepped forward and took out tools to try to pry open the lock. When Gray Bear saw this, he seemed to want to say something, but ultimately closed his mouth.

He knew that Li Chenzhou might be able to pry open the lock, but if there were people inside, the bolt would also be engaged, and that was completely separate from the lock.

After all, Qing City Prison was a high-security prison, with absolute and strict security!

"Click!"

Sure enough, in less than a minute, Li Chenzhou successfully opened the lock, but the door remained motionless.

"It's bolted from the inside, which means there are people inside who can move freely. It should be a prison guard! I just don't know how the prisoners are doing now!"

Gray Bear said immediately.

Li Chenzhou looked up at the door and sighed.

"Let's take a look around first!"

It seemed that this door couldn't be opened. They could only take a look around to see if there were any other places to enter. If not, they would have to cut the steel bars on the windows, then go in through the windows first, and then find a way to open the door.

"Hmm? This is…"

Just as he walked around to the back of the main prison building, Li Chenzhou saw a very large mound, piled up like a small hill. On top of the hill, there was a wide wooden board with names, ages, and places of origin written on it in brushstrokes...

Squatting down, Li Chenzhou reached out and dug away some of the soil. Sure enough, he found a corpse underneath, and the corpse had already undergone zombification. In other words, it had been killed after turning into a zombie.

Lifting the corpse up a little, there were still corpses underneath, also zombified.

"It seems! There are indeed people here. They killed the people who turned into zombies and buried them here. This is the tombstone!"

Li Chenzhou put the corpse back, buried the soil he had dug up, stood up, and looked at the wooden plaque.

Then, he turned to look at the prison and suddenly shouted loudly:

"People inside, we are survivors from Qing City. There is a long convoy outside the gate of this prison, with about 1,500 survivors in the convoy, men, women, old, and young. We need help now, we need a safe haven!!!"

"This is a prison! Not a shelter!"

After Li Chenzhou shouted, about ten seconds later, a voice suddenly came from the loudspeaker next to the prison.

"I can't let you in, there are still many criminals here! It's not safe!"

"But now, the criminals are hiding in a safe prison, while ordinary people are outside. Once zombies chase them out, do you know what the consequences will be?"

Li Chenzhou shouted again, then pointed to the huge communal grave on the ground and said,

"Whether this is a prison or an execution ground, as long as you are willing, it can become a haven for more than 1,500 people!"

"Come to the main gate!"

This time, the voice hesitated for a long time, and finally gave a response.

Li Chenzhou was overjoyed and quickly led the fatty and the others back to the door they had been at before.

"I saw some of you carrying firearms. I need to know your identities! And how you obtained those firearms!"

The door was still tightly closed at this time, and the voice rang out again at the right moment!

Before Li Chenzhou could answer, Gray Bear immediately stepped forward, took out his special service ID from his combat uniform, held it up in front of a small spot on the door, and said loudly:

"I am a member of the Qi City Special Operations Team, codenamed Gray Bear. When the disaster occurred, we happened to be in Qing City performing a cross-city arrest mission! As for my firearms—we brought our own firearms when we came, but the one I have now was obtained from the Qing City Special Operations Reserve!"

"The person behind you is from the reserve?"

The voice asked immediately, for the first time with a hint of urgency.

"No!"

Gray Bear shook his head sadly.

"When the disaster occurred, there were only four people in the reserve, and when we arrived there, only the person in charge of the reserve was still alive. When he saw us with hundreds of survivors, he finally opened the reserve and opened it up to us.

"And he himself left with the bodies of the other three—one of those three bodies was his son, who was bitten and infected by a zombie while trying to save him, turned into a zombie, and was personally killed by him!"

"Did that person in charge… say his name?"

The voice inside was silent, and then asked again.

"Liu Yuanming!"

Gray Bear replied immediately, his voice a little sad.

The loudspeaker fell silent and no longer made a sound. Li Chenzhou and the others did not urge him, but just stood at the door and waited quietly.

"Ka! Ka! Ka!"

About three or four minutes later, the door in front of them finally made a sound, as if locks were being opened one by one. Then, the small door on the big door was opened, and a young man in his twenties, wearing a prison guard uniform, appeared in front of them.

"If… you have tents, you can set them up in the yard. Or you can build houses if you want. The yard can be given to you completely, but this place, and that prison guard dormitory, you can't go in!"

The young man looked at Li Chenzhou and said.

"The prison guard dormitory… we can not go there, but why can't we use this prison? We have more than 1,500 people, how can we have so many tents?"

Li Chenzhou asked in astonishment…