Chapter 1176: The Cry of the Lamb (Part 5)

United States, Colorado, Denver, Florence Supermax Prison (Florence ADX Supermax Prison), 7:20 PM.

A giant box truck, black in the front and white in the back, stopped on the concrete road surface built of special materials. Because the vehicle was too heavy and the inertia was too strong, when the brakes were applied, the tires left a black mark on the road.

Behind the box truck, there were four special escort vehicles of the FBI. After the box truck stopped, the leading vehicle continued to move forward, turned a corner, and blocked the front of the truck.

After the small vehicles stopped, four doors opened simultaneously, and four heavily armed police officers walked out of the vehicles, lining up on both sides of the truck.

The last escort vehicle stopped at the end of the truck, and this time, two agents wearing FBI field uniforms, a scholar wearing a suit, and Dai Weisi wearing a clerical uniform walked out of the vehicle.

After getting off the vehicle, Dai Weisi first put on sunglasses. Although it was night, the gathering of so many vehicles made the headlights a bit dazzling. William, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, walked up to shake hands with him. Dai Weisi glanced at him and didn't speak.

Dai Weisi picked up the walkie-talkie at his waist and began to command the armed police and agents on the scene to carry out the final step of the escort, which was to transport the prisoner into the prison.

After all the command personnel and armed personnel entered the venue, the special driver drove the other small vehicles out of the scene to prevent anyone from tampering with the vehicles in advance to interfere with the escort.

The venue in front of the prison gate was left with only one truck, as well as explosion-proof roadblocks built by armed police. All armed personnel hid behind the roadblocks in groups of three, aiming at the truck doors.

The command personnel withdrew 200 meters away. An armed police officer fully armed and a supervisory agent came to Dai Weisi. Dai Weisi put down the walkie-talkie, took off his sunglasses, and watched the agent check the equipment on the armed police.

After the check, a female agent holding a form walked up. Dai Weisi glanced at the content on the form, picked up the pen next to the form, and signed his name. The female agent took the form to the armed police and the supervisory agent for confirmation.

After all confirmations were completed, the armed police and agents walked to the truck door. Suddenly, the sound of guns being loaded sounded one after another, and all lighting tools were aimed at the door, illuminating the place like daylight.

Under the strong white light, the door opened slowly, but inside was not the prisoner, but a closed square metal box. Judging from the equipment hung outside the metal box, this box was completely sealed, and even air exchange was completed through machines and oxygen delivery systems.

The armed police adjusted the position of the guns hanging on their chests, grabbed the handrails at the door, boarded the carriage, unlocked the box, and pulled the joystick on the right side. The slide rail above the carriage lowered slowly.

The agents still standing outside the truck door grabbed the front end of the slide rail and pulled it down. The front half of the slide rail extended a section of stairs. After the agents fixed the tail end of the stairs to the ground, they also stepped into the carriage, and the two worked together to push the metal box out along the slide rail.

After the box fell to the ground, two teams of six armed police officers closest to the vehicle lined up on both sides, with fully loaded weapons aimed at the metal box door.

Dai Weisi walked up and personally entered the password on the combination lock. After he stepped back, another agent walked up to enter the second password, followed by the third password. After all passwords were entered, the door opened.

In an instant, the intense light illuminated the figure inside so brightly that it was impossible to see any facial features or outlines; the purpose of doing this was to cause the prisoner to temporarily lose their vision, preventing them from suddenly lashing out and harming anyone.

But in fact, the prisoner in the box had no ability to hurt anyone, because he was wearing a restraint suit, a metal mask, and shackles on his feet. Besides that, he was also locked in a cage, and the iron bars of the cage were thicker than a fist.

The iron cage was pushed out of the box in the same way, and this time, there was no need to open the cage door, because the bottom of the cage was equipped with universal wheels. The agents and armed police pushed the cage toward the prison gate.

All armed police lined up on both sides, and Dai Weisi followed at the end of the team. He looked at Shiler's back in the cage and narrowed his eyes slowly.

In the fleeting glimpse just now, he saw Shiler's desolate gray eyes.

That didn't look like the elegant and gentle scholar he saw in the assembly hall at all, but his temperament was indeed worthy of such tight monitoring.

The escort team moved forward slowly in the darkness, first walking through an open square, then along an uphill slope into the building.

This was not the main entrance of the prison, which was reserved for visitors and reporters. The passage for transporting prisoners was special. All routes exposed to the outdoors had high walls and electric nets, and all indoor routes had surveillance and weapons.

After bypassing the back of the building, there was a small door, which only allowed two people to push the cage forward one after another. The rest of the people could only follow behind. After two armed police officers entered, Dai Weisi entered from the door on the other side of the building and followed the elevator after the cage entered the elevator.

In the elevator, there were only two escort personnel, Shiler in the cage, and Dai Weisi.

The bottom of the cage was raised, and Shiler's feet were completely fixed in this piece of metal at the bottom and could not move. The restraint suit on his upper body was also fixed to the bars on both sides of the cage with iron chains.

Generally speaking, ordinary heavy-duty prisoners wouldn't use such tight restraint methods, because most heavy-duty prisoners, even if they manufacture explosions, are still human beings. Humans are carbon-based organisms and cannot compete with steel.

But Dai Weisi knew that this prison was not so simple. The FBI decided to activate it in advance precisely to target special heavy-duty prisoners like Shiler who might cause great harm and for whom ordinary restraint methods might not work at all.

As far as Dai Weisi knew, there were at least a dozen targets like Shiler, and the ultimate purpose of this prison was not to lock them up until they died of old age, but to let them contribute to the Federation's security in another way.

The elevator stopped slowly. Dai Weisi walked out first, followed by the escort personnel and the cage containing Shiler, walking all the way forward along the dark corridor. When the cage moved between the densely packed room doors, it was like a train traveling through time and space.

Dai Weisi stopped in front of a door at the end of the room. The escort personnel aligned the cage door with the room door, and the two doors were perfectly aligned.

Subsequently, Dai Weisi signed another document. One of the escort personnel pointed a gun at Shiler's head and said in a low voice: "Don't move your head, look straight ahead, and keep completely still until I ask you to move, otherwise we will open fire."

Shiler didn't respond, just stood silently in place. Dai Weisi crouched down behind the cage and entered the password on the combination lock there, then pressed a button.

Two escort personnel pulled outward to fix the metal of the footsteps, giving Shiler's footsteps a certain range of movement. The escort personnel who spoke said: "Lift your feet and stand on it."

Shiler lifted one of his feet and stood on top of the metal block. Immediately after, the iron chains fixing the restraint suit to the bars were unlocked. Another escort personnel stood behind Shiler and said: "I will unzip the zipper on your back. Don't make any excessive moves, otherwise we will open fire immediately."

After speaking, one of the escort personnel pointed a gun at Shiler's head, and the other reached into the bars and unzipped the zipper on the back of Shiler's restraint suit.

Because the sleeves of the restraint suit themselves were hanging with two heavy iron chains, after the zipper on the back was unzipped, the restraint suit fell off, leaving Shiler's body and revealing the prison uniform.

"There is a pair of handcuffs hanging in front of you. Please put them on immediately."

Shiler looked up and found that a pair of handcuffs was hanging above the door frame of the prison room, right at a position he could reach by raising his hand, so he reached out with both hands, took the handcuffs down, and put them on his wrists.

"Now, walk into the room, turn around to face us, and raise your hands above your head." The escort personnel spoke again.

Shiler stepped forward out of the cage, crossed the threshold, and came into the room. He was barefoot and not wearing shoes, but the floor in the room was not cold, and it should have taken certain heat preservation measures.

After Shiler walked over, he turned around. His eyes above the mask stared at Dai Weisi standing at the door. One of the escort personnel turned and left, going to a place very far from this cell, and lowered the prison door slowly through remote control.

After the prison door closed, the entire room was completely closed, without windows connecting to the outside world, and without surveillance windows. The entire room was a sealed can that didn't let in any light or air.

This cell was far less than 4 square meters. The bed, which was close to the three walls on the right, was only 1.2 meters long. Rather than a bed, it was a chair that was slightly wider. In front of the bed, there was only a very narrow aisle that could lead to the room door. Besides that, there was nothing.

If one had to describe it, it was very much like a second-class seat on a train. The space the prisoner possessed was a chair for sitting and a little space for legs in front.

Compared with the second-class seat, the only advantage was that the floor height was high enough, with a distance of about 4 meters from the ground to the ceiling. The entire cell was like a deep well.

And such a design was not for enough space, but because the oxygen supply device, monitor, and speaker that circulated air were all on the ceiling. This was to prevent the prisoner from touching them.

Shiler had just sat on the edge of the bed when Dai Weisi's voice sounded from the speaker above his head.

"Good evening, Professor Rodriguez." Dai Weisi's opening remarks carried a slightly brisk tone, just like a qualified radio host.

"I think you should have already discovered that the mask you are wearing can not only prevent biting but can also fix your mandible, making you unable to speak."

"We are very aware of the lethality of the language used by a psychologist, so I'm very sorry, during your sentence, without our permission, you can only remain silent."

Shiler looked up at the ceiling, and Dai Weisi, who was watching his expression through the monitor, actually saw a trace of innocence in his focused eyes, but this didn't make him feel relaxed, but made a chill crawl up his spine to the back of his head.

"Professor Shiler, please don't bother yourself with the question of whether you can leave here before your sentence ends. I believe the answer is already obvious."

"But more importantly, such tight monitoring measures are not just to imprison your freedom. Besides being a restriction, this is also a protection."

"In order for our next conversation to proceed more pleasantly, I will first express our sincerity to you." Dai Weisi raised his tone slightly and said.

"When you got off the car, you should have already seen that William DeNechette came here with me, but the difference is that I came to ensure your safety, while he wants your life."

"To show sincerity, I agreed to his request to conduct the first mental status assessment on you after entering prison. I hope this sacrifice can lay a foundation for our good cooperation in the future."

"Of course, I know you won't be stupid enough to kill someone in a prison with tight monitoring, and won't actively increase your sentence with such violent acts, but we will provide you with a little help."

"In the next week, you will stay in this isolated prison, repenting for the crimes you once committed with the punishment of extreme sensory deprivation."

"At the same time, in darkness and loneliness, accumulate your crazy desires