Fox River, literally translated as Fox River.
Located in Joliet, Illinois, it is a prison that was put into use the century before last.
The local government sold it to a wholly-owned enterprise for an exorbitantly high price to operate.
This prison then changed from public to private, and the original inmates would continue to serve their sentences there.
As everyone knows, in America, this magical country, functional units such as hospitals and schools are better when they are private.
Prisons are naturally no exception.
After all, Arkham Asylum and Dream Prison are excellent precedents.
The former is Gotham City's talent distribution Base, and the latter is Amanda Waller and the Suicide Squad's Base.
It's as if private prisons can't survive without stirring up some trouble, and Fox River Prison also successfully sent four FBI agents back empty-handed and without any memory of their time there.
Li Chengfeng had already questioned these Agents again; from their current memories, they stepped into Fox River Prison, and the next moment their feet landed, they were already out.
That sense of temporal and spatial dislocation still prevents these four Agents from returning to front-line work.
Looking up at this Victorian-style prison, aside from a slight decrepitude typical of old buildings, there was nothing abnormal visible to the naked eye.
But he could only take one look, because immediately after, Li Chengfeng, dressed in a prisoner's uniform, was escorted by a guard into Fox River Prison.
Turning his head to look at the gradually closing prison gate, Li Chengfeng nodded slightly.
There was no strange feeling, so it could be initially confirmed that this was not a special location with reality-distorting abilities.
As he walked through a dirt-covered passage, Li Chengfeng looked inside.
Separated by only two towering steel fences was the exercise yard for the criminals.
With his current eyesight, he almost instantly locked onto two familiar faces...
Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell...
He meant his younger brother Michael Scofield and older brother Lincoln Burrows.
"Damn, Miller's face is indeed handsome."
Li Chengfeng mumbled, thinking that after he got in, he could approach the main characters to see if there was anything unusual...
After all, he had already figured out that this Universe was truly a bit sick.
The person who created this Universe was also quite ill.
After walking through the passage, he arrived outside the cell block gate to register.
"Prisoner's name."
"Li Chengfeng."
"Republic Person?"
"That's right, Republic Person."
"What crime did You commit?"
"Isn't it already written in the material?"
"Hmph! As a prisoner, You're still so arrogant! You answer whatever I ask! What crime did You commit!"
"I killed a green-haired man with a face full of White foundation, shot him right between the eyebrows, and even stole his female subordinate." Li Chengfeng extended his hand, counting on his fingers, "Oh, and later I killed a pretentious guy who liked to wear sunglasses; I smashed his entire head."
As Li Chengfeng spoke, he couldn't help but inwardly grumble.
He had to bring up his heroic deeds; Ingrid definitely retaliated against him on purpose because of her morning grumpiness at the time. That woman is truly vengeful!
Such identity forgery might be extremely troublesome and easily exposed for others, but for Li Chengfeng...
It was all true.
He did kill the people, and the information was also real.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's fabrication had to be treated as real by the American Government.
"Hiss..." The prison staff member sitting outside the cell block gate, registering, gasped, sat up straight, "This is a serious offender; shouldn't he be sentenced to... what, only five years? Ordinary Prisoner Block A Cell 40?"
After speaking, he took a few more glances at Li Chengfeng, feeling a bit uneasy inside.
Killed two people and only got such a short sentence? Didn't even go to the high-security section?
How much money did his family spend on the prison higher-ups?
Although shocked, he showed no expression on his face, maintaining a poker face as he continued:
"Alright, your number is 114514. From today on, You will begin serving your sentence at Fox River Prison."
"If You behave well, You can receive a reduced sentence through relevant federal laws."
With that, he opened the cell block door, and Li Chengfeng finally stepped into the destination of this mission.
At this time, the true criminals had already gone out for their exercise, and along the way, he could only see one empty cell after another.
But honestly, the conditions in the ordinary prisoner section of this prison were quite good.
It was much more spacious than an eight-person or twelve-person dorm in high school (laughs).
But apart from that, no strange phenomena were discovered.
"You've arrived, Cell 40, go in."
After the cell door opened, Li Chengfeng felt someone roughly push him from behind, clearly intending to shove him inside.
This rough action finally made Li Chengfeng feel that this was a prison and not a prison-themed hotel.
However, unfortunately, the escorting guard ended up pushing himself back.
While he was still sitting on the ground, looking bewildered, Li Chengfeng had already walked into the cell and closed the cell door.
There were two beds in the cell. Li Chengfeng sat on the one that clearly hadn't been slept in, curiously looking around.
Having lived two lives, he had never even received a traffic ticket, let alone been to prison.
"Hmph, there are three roll calls a day—morning, noon, and evening. The specific times will be announced via broadcast, usually at 6 AM, 12 PM, and 7 PM. Meals are served after roll call, then work begins at 7 AM and 2 PM. After 9 PM, everyone returns to their cells." The guard grumbled as he stood up, his somewhat corpulent body moving with difficulty. "Lights out at 10 PM. After lights out, any disturbances are to be ignored."
Li Chengfeng rested his hands on the cell door and asked with interest:
"So, you mean that after lights out at 10 PM, strange things happen here?"
"Cough, cough, cough, I didn't say that."
The guard immediately realized he had said too much. With a knowing look, he adjusted his cap and left with his rubber baton.
From the guard's reaction, it seemed they really knew some inside information.
Li Chengfeng couldn't help but worry for a second about the two brothers planning their escape. Could they really get away smoothly?
After waiting a while longer, and seeing that the guard had completely walked away, Li Chengfeng reached up and tapped his ear...
He activated the miniature communicator provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which was placed in his ear canal and completely invisible to the naked eye.
"Hello, Ingrid, Skye, I'm in position."
"Ingrid received."
"Skye received... How's the fabricated charge?"
Li Chengfeng heard Skye's somewhat smug voice and then understood.
So it was You, You bastard!
"Alright, I've entered cell forty." Li Chengfeng walked to the only table in the cell, opened the books, and after seeing the annotations, said, "I just confirmed the handwriting; it's indeed Michael Scofield's room."
Li Chengfeng had entered cell forty in the ordinary inmate A-block precisely for Michael Scofield, the protagonist of Prison Break.
Because during the preliminary investigation, it was discovered that only after he and his brother were imprisoned did rumors of supernatural occurrences truly begin circulating at Fox River Prison.
So Li Chengfeng paid so much attention to the two of them, not just because they were the protagonists of "Prison Break," but more so because, among the limited information available, they were highly suspicious and likely a breakthrough.
At this moment, Skye also entered hacker mode. After a flurry of keyboard typing, Skye spoke to Li Chengfeng with a hint of confusion:
"Li, these two brothers... they have a lot of problems."
"How so?"
"Although Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield, these two brothers, have their real information in the federal database without any signs of modification or concealment, they have no personal usage traces on the internet."
"Is that strange? What if they just don't use the internet?"
Li Chengfeng scratched his head. If You asked him about the biological virus mess, he was perfectly clear, having acquired all of Spencer's biochemical knowledge.
But the internet?
He only knew that in America, it was easier to make films with simple settings, requiring only two or three, or at most five or six people.
"How is that possible! In this era, unless they're living a primitive life deep in the mountains, they will definitely leave traces on the internet! So these traces can only have been artificially erased! People who do this are usually either preparing to smuggle themselves away or have gotten into trouble and are preparing to live under an assumed identity."
Skye said definitively.
Why was she so confident?
Because she used to do this kind of thing often in Rising Tide!
She was a skilled worker!
"I hear a hint of pride in your analysis, what's going on..." Li Chengfeng leaned against the table and continued, "So, what do You think the situation with these two brothers is?"
"Replacement! Identity replacement!" Ingrid interjected. "Although rumors of supernatural events only started after they entered Fox River Prison, I conducted the most detailed screening of local information. The result was that a year ago, there were rumors of 'divine revelation accompanied by a divine vessel descending from the sky' at Fox River Prison. And coincidentally..."
"A week later, Rogues Group fully acquired this public prison from the Illinois Government."
Li Chengfeng was also stunned by this.
The timing was indeed too coincidental, wasn't it?
However, what interested him more was the rumor about the "divine vessel descending from the sky."
If it were in another Universe, if law enforcement treated such a rumor as a clue, Li Chengfeng would definitely call him a "lunatic."
But here, this was the most important piece of information, even more important than the identities of the two brothers.
Li Chengfeng vaguely felt that everything happening at Fox River Prison was related to this so-called "divine vessel."
Don't forget, the mission brief mentioned traces of "God" in the deepest part of the prison.
"It seems I need to investigate this entire Fox River Prison tonight."
"I've already hacked into the entire Fox River Prison's internal surveillance system and can take over at any time, but the surveillance only extends to the maximum-security area; the death row area has no surveillance... Wait, the inmates' yard time is over!"
"Alright, communication temporarily ended."
Li Chengfeng reached out and turned off the communicator, then picked up the books on the table again and began to read.
After reading three pages, a figure stopped outside the cell.
"Who are You..."
"I'm your new roommate, Li Chengfeng. It's a pleasure to meet You, Mr. Michael Scofield."
Li Chengfeng put down the book and nodded to the other person.
"'The Interpretation of Dreams' is indeed a good book."
"I didn't expect a structural engineer to be so interested in psychology books."