Chapter 177 Mangmao Detention Center
Mangmao Detention Center is different from Danhe Detention Center.
Or you could say it's more like a real prison.
There is a high wall with barbed wire on top. I don’t know if it has electricity.
It was already midnight when He Shu arrived, and he was taken directly into the gate.
Tang Shen saw him to the door and watched him being taken in. He left with a message saying, "I'll come to see you in two days," and then left.
After entering the detention center, He Shuxian was taken for a physical examination, blood draw, and even X-rays and B-ultrasound.
Then I was taken to a room, stripped naked, and had my belongings checked in.
Cut off any metal items from your clothing, including buttons, and put them back on.
Fortunately, Tang Can changed He Shu's pants into elastic pants on the way. If he had worn the kind of jeans he usually wears, with the zipper and buttons cut off, he would have had to walk with his pants held up.
Maybe it was because it was his second time experiencing this, He Shu felt much calmer.
There is no more embarrassment in taking off clothes for inspection.
He Shu followed the guard to the prison area, carrying the washbasin and daily necessities given to him.
Following the guard, we passed through iron gates and walked into a dim passage, where an unpleasant smell hit us in the face.
A strong sense of oppression surged into He Shu's heart. When he was assigned to transition room No. 103, and stood in front of the room and saw the densely packed people inside, he felt a sense of despair in his heart.
The room is rectangular, with a dozen-meter-long floor plank on one side and an aisle at most two meters wide on the other side.
More than twenty people were crammed into this space of less than 30 square meters.
The big bed was filled with people lying side by side, and even the aisles were filled with people...
A supervisor behind him pointed at the facilities in the room and explained the rules to He Shu.
The water pipe on the wall is the shower, the pool next to it is for washing face and brushing teeth, there are two faucets on it, and the squat toilet near the door is the toilet...
All of this was in one space. He Shu couldn't imagine how so many people went to the toilet and took a shower.
You have to shout "report" when entering or leaving the door, and call the supervisor "cadre" . Usually you can only stay on the bed, which is a large bunk bed.
When going up or down the board, you have to shout "Report to the upper board" and "Report to the lower board".
There are people on duty in each cell. They are also prisoners. They take turns on duty and cannot sleep at night.
To prevent people from fighting, getting sick or committing suicide at night...
He Shu looked inside and saw three people standing there, they should be on duty.
Needless to say, there are rules such as no quarreling or fighting. There is an emergency button next to the door, which can be pressed in case of illness, fighting, etc.
After saying this, the disciplinary officer told He Shu that when he had nothing to do, he should memorize the "Inmate Handbook" that was issued to him earlier, as there would be random inspections.
After saying this, the cadre uncuffed He Shu, let him in, and then locked the big iron gate again.
He Shu stood next to the squat toilet, not knowing where he should lie down because there was no room anywhere.
A person on duty inside walked over to the several people lying on the ground.
He instructed He Shu to stack the washbasins under the sink, then told He Shu not to make any noise and disturb others' sleep, and then left him alone.
He Shu stood at the door, feeling very tired.
He traveled by plane and car without stopping at all, but when he arrived here, he didn't expect that there was not even a place to lie down.
He Shu walked carefully to the sink, wanting to get some water to wash his face and refresh himself, but was stopped by the person on duty.
Helplessly, he had to retreat to the door and stand there again. But after standing there for about an hour, He Shu could no longer hold on.
He nodded his head due to sleepiness. He glanced at the squat toilet on his left, then suppressed his nausea and sat down next to the iron door.
He leaned his back against the door, bent his legs, put his arms on his knees and rested his head on them, and fell into a deep sleep before he had time to form any more emotions about the new place.
I don't know how long I slept, but suddenly I heard someone shouting for everyone to get up. He Shu woke up with a start, and saw that everyone in the room got up quickly.
Then everyone started to tidy up the bedding on the bunk bed, folding it and placing it against the wall.
In fact, there was not enough luggage, so several people shared one quilt or mattress.
It was dirty, greasy and smelly, but being able to lie on the big bed and have a quilt to cover yourself with at night was a very good treatment.
He Shu sat on the ground all night, and when he stood up he felt numb all over.
He stood up painfully holding the railing and slowly moved his hands and feet. He saw that the prisoners did not get down after getting up, perhaps because the corridor was too narrow and there was no place to stand.
No one washed their face or went to the toilet, and those who were lying on the ground got up and sat on the big bunk.
Three people sat in a row, chatting while sorting their clothes.
A few words of Mandarin were occasionally mixed in with the gibberish of the dialect. Only He Shu, the newcomer, didn't know what to do.
He felt like peeing, but seeing that no one else was using the toilet, and this toilet was right next to him with no shelter, he felt like he couldn't pee with so many people staring at him.
"Newcomer, come and sit down."
The man on duty last night called He Shu from the back row, and He Shu walked over slowly, dragging his hands and feet.
As these people sat up, He Shu could see clearly that the vests on everyone were of different colors.
He Shu was wearing blue, and there were the most blue people. There was a person wearing red at the front near the door, and two people wearing yellow were at the back.
He Shu walked up to the man who called him and saw the number 24 written on his blue vest, while the number 25 was written on his own vest.
The person sitting in No. 24 is No. 23. It turns out that they line up according to numbers...
But the two yellow vests in the row behind him were number 11 and number 19 respectively.
"They are both sick, so they are alone in the back."
No. 24 is a young man who should be less than 30 years old. He looks very tired after not sleeping all night.
He Shu thought this person was very enthusiastic and explained to him, so he also asked in a low voice: "Brother, when can I go to the toilet?"
"It's all in the manual. It tells what time to eat and what time to wash."
Upon hearing this, He Shu took out the manual and saw that people could only queue up to use the toilet and wash up at 6:30.
With 10 minutes left, He Shu felt that he could hold it in, but if he queued, he didn't know if the people in front of him could finish within 20 minutes.
He originally thought that what frightened him in the detention center were the perverted and cruel criminals like Triangle Eyes who only bullied newcomers, but at this time he was troubled by the problems of going to the toilet and sleeping.
"If you really can't hold it in any longer, just report it."
No. 24 saw that He Shu seemed a little restless and kindly reminded him.
"Brother, are we going to do it right at the door?"
"What? Are you embarrassed? Then you'll just have to hold it in. You don't have anything more than others, so who would care about you? But try to fart less, or you'll offend others."
When No. 24 saw He Shu like this, he knew that he couldn't let go: "First time coming in?"
He Shu nodded. His previous information had been changed. What's more, this place was really different from the detention center in Danhe.
If there were such strict rules in Danhe, perhaps such a thing would not have happened...
