Chapter 119 - 113 Narrative Cage (Part 3)
Li Cheng pressed his knuckles, resetting his thumb, then picked up the handcuffs, attempting to stash them in the Backpack.
[Unable to Pick Up]
A system prompt popped up in front of him, informing him that he did not own this item.
"Fair enough," Li Cheng tossed the handcuffs onto the bed, then glanced down at the shackles. They worked much like handcuffs, but due to the smaller gap, he couldn’t slip out by dislocating his bones. Unless he used a knife to carve off his anklebone and then smeared the wound with Healing Gel.
"The cell door and the handcuffs are made of the same alloy material, indestructible. The lock cylinder is an 8-tumbler C-grade core; it would take at least two to three hours to pick.
Given that the system has set the objective of escaping from the solitary cell, it means that everything I need for an Escape should be available here in the cell, even if the inmate next door is unwilling to help."
Li Cheng rubbed his palms and began to search the room inch by inch.
The cell was small with only a few furnishings. He picked up the pillow first; it felt brand new, with no hair, dandruff found on the surface, nor any scent of body oil. The same was true for the sheets and mattress.
Quite... clean, actually.
Keep in mind, in the real world in countries like France, the USA, and the UK, bedbugs have become a serious public health problem. They infest theaters, hospitals, subways, apartments, and so on, with nursing homes and prisons being the worst affected. News stories abound of older folks incapacitated in nursing homes or inmates in prisons bitten to death by bedbugs in the mattresses.
"Considering that the inmate next door mentioned there are no guards here, and there was an inmate before me in this solitary cell, the question arises as to how the pillow and blankets are kept so clean."