Chapter 169 - 168 Ascension
Occasionally, a plane would fly overhead, but it was only a small fixed-wing aircraft, not a helicopter, and certainly not a police helicopter equipped with thermal imaging.
New Moon City was a very small town, and its public security had always been fairly good, so it was impossible for New Moon City to have a police helicopter equipped with thermal imaging. There was no need for it. Big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco certainly had them, but San Francisco was far from New Moon City. Even if San Francisco police were to urgently support New Moon City, it would take a long time to arrive.
It was useless to deploy planes from the Air National Guard, because what could those planes do?
Whether it’s the Air Force or the National Guard, the demands for military aircraft are completely different from those for police aircraft. So even if planes from the Air National Guard were deployed, relying on visual searches, how could they possibly find scattered prisoners in the vast forest?
Just like Yang Yi said to the warden, no matter what, the California government and New Moon City, as well as any forces that could be mobilized quickly, would inevitably have to ensure the return of most prisoners heading to New Moon City first and foremost. This was not a conspiracy, nor a plot; it was simply a fact.
And Yang Yi saw this fact. He knew how things would develop, so he was not afraid.
It was just a bit annoying to wait.
Pelican Bay Prison was to the north of New Moon City, surrounded by forests. Not far to the north was a small town called Dick Fort, which meant that not far out of the prison was a residential area. If a large number of prisoners flooded into it, the consequences were unimaginable.
But Yang Yi wasn’t worried about prisoners entering Dick Fort. The reason was simple. Most of the residents of Dick Fort were prison guards and their families. The prisoners might think about retaliating against the guards, but a town where almost every household had guns and most residents were guards, which would be immediately warned after the prison lost control, would make no difference to the prisoners than being inside the prison itself - it was suicide.