PRI Chapter 34: The Reassuring Guard Tower

Lind looked at the dazzling array of firearms on the table, unable to resist touching each one.

Like caressing a lover's body, the smooth feel was utterly captivating.

Especially the M82A1 sniper rifle. This thing was produced by Barrett Company, specifically designed to deal with trucks and helicopters, a famous anti-materiel rifle.

It could be said that with this thing, even if the drug dealers drove out an armored car, it would be useless.

Besides it, the other items were also familiar.

The M4 carbine, standard U.S. military weapon, currently in service with various units.

The M203 grenade launcher, mounted under the barrel, could be used to fire high-explosive rounds, smoke rounds, illumination rounds, shotgun shells, and gas rounds.

There were also night vision goggles and night vision scopes, both standard Marine Corps equipment, nighttime combat artifacts.

With this batch of weapons and equipment, James's tactical squad was directly armed to the teeth, even fighting an urban battle wouldn't be a problem.

Currently, the only thing limiting these weapons' effectiveness was ammunition.

Although each weapon came with several magazines, using them without restraint was impossible.

So Lind was even more envious of that automatic bullet production line, wishing he could build it immediately.

Unfortunately, meals had to be eaten one bite at a time, and people had to be killed one by one.

To upgrade the prison to E-level, Lind still had many tasks to accomplish.

"Let's start with this one then," he looked at the task panel and decided to first raise 20 prisoners' fear values to maximum.

This task was the simplest to complete.

Because these prisoners bullied the weak and feared the strong, Lind had counted that 23 prisoners all had weaknesses of fearing violence or torture.

Besides these two weaknesses, there were also 9 people who feared losing property.

This was naturally a guiding light for Lind. He immediately used a sudden theft incident in the prison as an excuse to bring the prisoners to the interrogation room one by one.

After screening, he released those with lighter crimes and only kept those with serious crimes who showed no remorse.

A week later, in the interrogation room.

Lind looked at the panel, where the number of prisoners with maximum fear values had increased to 7.

Putting down the rope in his hand, he turned and left the room, saying to Angelina, "Have Carter come over and take the prisoner back."

"Okay." Angelina seriously suspected that Lind was a psychopath.

During her observation period, Lind didn't like playing with women, didn't smoke weed, and had no other bad habits.

Every day he either stayed in the prison handling work or stayed at the shooting range practicing, just like a monk.

His only hobby was torturing criminals. For some unknown reason, he could spend several hours in the interrogation room every day.

What was strange was that logically, with such high-frequency prisoner abuse, these prisoners should have appealed long ago.

But the prisoners Lind had tortured seemed to genuinely become better after returning to their cells, completely losing their former arrogance and instead working seriously and overtime diligently.

Therefore, rumors began spreading among the prisoners that the warden was actually brainwashing prisoners in the interrogation room, that he himself was a witch.

Old Edward's suicide was also because he was brainwashed by Young Edward.

This rumor was quite ridiculous, but everyone quite agreed with it.

Otherwise, why would the tortured prisoners still speak up for Lind when they badmouthed him to those prisoners!

What a joke!

Were they such kind people?

However, Lind paid no attention to these people's private speculations. Anyway, before long, all these prisoners would become docile one by one.

Lind walked and talked with Angelina.

Angelina said, "In 2 days, the state Department of Corrections will escort a batch of new prisoners to the prison. This time there are 30 prisoners, including 10 felons and 20 misdemeanants."

Lind replied, "Tell James to arrange the felons on the third floor, assign additional guards, and manage them uniformly."

Angelina said, "The tower renovation has been completed and can be inspected tomorrow."

Lind replied, "Good, notify the state Department of Corrections today to have them send people over tomorrow to inspect it together with us."

Angelina said, "The new batch of guards has all been hired and are receiving training."

Lind replied, "Just in time, let's go take a look together."

Border Prison's previous guard orientation training was no different from playing house, with HR Mary first giving a talk about philosophy, then George explaining guard regulations, and finally leading everyone through a few practice sessions.

However, after Lind took charge of the prison, he changed the orientation training for guards.

Now, all newly hired guards underwent two weeks of special training.

Training in different courses was conducted by instructors from the state Department of Corrections and James.

Such as combat training, tear gas training, baton training, and interrogation training.

When Lind reached the door, he heard the state Department of Corrections instructor telling the guards actual cases of prisoners tricking guards.

"When I was a block supervisor, there was a female guard who fell asleep in the work area."

"But she forgot to close one of the block doors, and a prisoner quietly slipped in and did his utmost to mess around with the bird near the female guard."

"When she woke up, she didn't know who had messed up the back of her clothes."

"Soon after, the prisoner was released and wrote to the prison asking them to review that day's footage."

"After watching the video, I fired that female guard."

"So Lena, you mustn't fall asleep in the work area, or your warden might fire you too."

"Hahahaha!"

The guards laughed because the Lena Collins the instructor mentioned was a female guard.

However, facing everyone's teasing, Lena's expression didn't change much. She just said to the instructor, "Harrison, let's have a match during the combat practice later."

"Oh, God, no, spare me," the instructor shouted, and the laughter in the classroom grew louder.

Lind looked through the glass at that Lena Collins. He had a deep impression of this muscular female guard.

Because she was the only guard who possessed advanced Jeet Kune Do skills.

Obviously, she was a Bruce Lee fan, even her black hairstyle was exactly the same.

Honestly, even Lind might not be able to beat her.

So if those prisoners wanted to take advantage of her, the first thing they needed to consider was whether they could withstand a punch.

...

The next day, state Department of Corrections personnel inspected the guard tower together with Lind.

The original tower was just a concrete pillar, with guards at most using binoculars for patrol from inside the tower.

Now, the entire tower had completely changed appearance.

Cast iron gate, concrete walls a full 30 centimeters thick, looking particularly imposing.

The tower had three levels. The first level was covered with honeycomb-shaped shooting ports, the second level had a mid-section circular glass curtain wall with a 360-degree surveillance center inside that could see every corner of the prison.

The glass was specially made single-sided bulletproof material, with night vision imaging screens embedded on the inside. Even if the entire prison lost power, there was sufficient backup power.

The third level was the top, with 4 searchlights suspended, as well as four-corner high-precision sniper positions. With just one anti-materiel rifle, the entire area within 1000 meters of the prison could be covered.

It could be said that with this tower, if drug dealers dared to drive over next time, their cars could be blown up directly!

Of course, the night vision equipment and sniper rifles weren't equipped yet.

After all, Lind couldn't explain where he got all these things.

After inspecting the tower, the state Department of Corrections staff couldn't help but marvel in amazement.

"This is the most reassuring tower I've ever seen."

"That's right, this is also the most high-tech tower we've contracted," the construction company people also couldn't help joking. "I initially thought this was a military base."

Lind was also very satisfied, so after completing the tower inspection, he returned to his office, took out the sniper rifle and night vision equipment, and gave them to James, asking him to find time to install them on the tower.

James was also very surprised by the weapons he brought out, thinking his boss was becoming more and more impressive, actually able to get military equipment.

He turned and handed the sniper rifle to Riley, the best sniper in the team.

After Riley got the gun, he couldn't put it down, happier than seeing his wife. That night he ran up to the tower.

Time quickly came to the early morning hours. Just as the prison was completely quiet, a car suddenly approached the prison stealthily.

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