<h4>Chapter 14: Prison Intern</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    Most jobs of Federation Government departments were cushy desk jobs, though the Federal Prisons department was rtively less lucrative, especially for low-level prison wardens. Thus, the Prison department always had open positions throughout the year. Even the prison internships offered by the Military Academy were usually unfilled.


    When Gu Ding showed up at the Cerulean branch of the Skyriver Prison one day with his resume, the worker in the Human Resource department was rather shocked.


    Gu Ding’s only work experience was with the tavern, though he was granted multiple awards in the Academy. The Cerulean branch of the Skyriver Prison was happy to ept an outstanding student like him. After spending less than five minutes going through his information and verifying that everything within was true, the human resources worker handed his resume to the chief warden.


    Old Henry, chief warden of the Cerulean branch, was processing information about the new inmates. The crackdown by the Federation Army in the past few days had caused the prison poption to swell to the total poption of the past three yearsbined. Old Henry massaged his temples that felt like they were swelling. He caught a nce on his workstation screen which had a new message from the Human Resources department. “A message from HR? Are we getting a new recruit?”


    The Prison was suffering from a majorck of manpower because of the sudden increase in the inmate poption. Old Henry had been troubled by this problem.


    Old Henry’s eyes sparkled when he opened Gu Ding’s resume. Gu Ding’s information showed that he was perfectly capable of enrolling in the Advanced Academy. He would already be an army officer once he graduated from the Advanced Academy, and if his results were outstanding, he would be selected to undergo elite training. Old Henry was ecstatic that a student of such potential wanted to be an intern at his prison. If Gu Ding excelled in the future, the Cerulean Prison would also share his glory.


    Positions for prison interns had always been vacant. Moreover, the allowance for an intern was half of that of a normal worker. Financial resources for prisons were generally scarce.


    Old Henry spent less than a minute reading his resume and immediately epted the application. Gu Ding did not even need to go through an interview and was immediately inducted as a worker of the Cerulean Prison.


    Gu Ding was shocked when he received the reply. He thought he needed to pass an oral interview and a physical test, and would take at least an afternoon before his application was epted.


    After receiving the passcard for a prison guard, a veteran guard brought him to the monitoring room. He spent several minutes exining the various areas of the prison and anything he needed to be wary about. After answering a rather urgent phone call, he left Gu Ding alone in the monitoring room. Before he left, he told Gu Ding that if he saw something abnormal in the security cameras, he should inform everyone immediately.


    Usually, there would be more than one person manning the monitoring room. These past few days had been very busy and most of the prison staff were in other departments processing new inmates and handling other jobs. No one had the free time to sit around in the monitoring room. They only put him there because he was an intern. They did not expect that Gu Ding had an ulterior motive for entering the monitoring room.


    Gu Ding scanned his surroundings and confirmed that no one was around. He allowed Neptune to ck out the only security camera in the monitoring room and easily connected Neptune to a prisonwork terminal.


    In a few seconds, Neptune had scanned through all the messages in the Skyriver Prison Headquarters and its 249 branches.


    “So where’s this Pearson?” Gu Ding had already formted a n in his mind.


    “He’s on Fertilia. The prisonwork there was suffering from a small hup. He’s supposed to be there to supervise the repair works but actually, he’s there to look at girls. There’s a beauty pageant going on in Fertilia. However, he has already reserved a seat on the inteary transport to Cerule tomorrow morning.” After connecting to the Skyriver Prisonwork, nothing escaped Neptune’s eyes.


    “A small hup? Make that arge hup. Especially the sort of hups that allow prisoners to escape.” Gu Ding’s eyes shed a hint of cunning.


    “I can introduce some contagious viruses into thework too. The more chaotic it gets, the higher our chances of sess.” Neptune was not afraid that this issue blew up.


    “I think so too.” Gu Ding smiled.


    The virus that Neptune spread in thework was extremely contagious. When the Fertilian Prisonwork security detected the virus, more than half of the prisons in the sector had already been infected.


    The twowork technicians did not know what to do. The Skyriver Prisonwork was an internalwork and was isted from the civilianwork. Virus attacks were extremely rare. The job of a prisonwork technician usually consisted of downloading and applying patches from the headquarters and handing in a daily report of one or two sentences. They were not adept in technical work and were flustered when faced with this problem.


    Before the two technicians could report the incident to the chief warden, the chief warden of the Fertilian Prison mmed open the door to their office angrily. “What are you two doing? Why are half of the security feeds ying porn videos?”


    “The system is under attack, chief !” Both of them answered miserably.


    “Why did you tell me only now!” The chief warden was dissatisfied with the answer.


    “Actually, we’ve just discovered it...”


    In ten minutes, the Fertilian Prisonwork was entirely crippled by the virus. Neptune secretly unlocked all the doors and restraint systems of the prison. The prison immediately descended into chaos.


    Meanwhile, at the beauty pageant, Pearson was sitting cross-legged, one of his feet was shaking as he happily enjoyed the view. In less than ten minutes, he would be able to hold the hand of the pageant winner and lead her into a motel room.


    At this time, the intelligent ring on Pearson’s finger blinked. He frowned, then answered the call.


    “Mr. Pearson. There is a major security breach in the prisonwork. Please return immediately. We cannot contain it and we are about to contact headquarters. If the chief warden knows that you’re not around, you’ll get into trouble.”


    “F*ck!” Pearson swore exactly one curse word when he ended the call. He had to leave. As the deputy chief warden from the headquarters, his task at Fertilia was to supervise the repair works. Now that the entire system had copsed, the branch needed to send a report to the headquarters. If the chief warden knew he was not at the scene to supervise repair words, he did not know how he would be punished by that damned old man.


    Reluctantly, Pearson returned to the prison and was stunned. He had only thought that it was a hup in the system, but he did not expect a riot. He had been working in the Skyriver Prison system for more than twenty years, and this was his first time seeing a total copse of thework causing a riot. He panicked.


    In the Prison, none of the rms were silent. The sprinklers on the ceiling were spraying water, and all the doors were unlocked. The mob of criminals had already broken into the control room and the prison offices. Meanwhile, the smarter criminals had already found the exit in the shortest amount of time and had escaped.


    Gu Ding cackled when he saw the security feed.


    The virus was not only limited to Fertilia. It had spread across the entire Skyriver Sector Prisonwork to others. In half an hour, the virus had infected the Headquarters and eighty other branches in the prisonwork.


    The virus that Neptune had created was a very specific one. It hid in the root of awork system, and when the system security discovered it, the system was already on the brink of copse. When the system copsed, Neptune would unlock all doors and restraints and activate all the rms and sprinklers to cause maximum chaos.


    Meanwhile, Gu Ding saw that Cerule was ready to be infected. He told Neptune, “Infect the Cerulean Prisonwork!”