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  I threw the lighter over again, and a burst of "click, click" sounds came from the neighboring cage.

  Ma Wulong's eyes widened in alarm: "Ah, how did they get all the cigarettes? What are we going to smoke?"

  "Don't worry, brother, I'll have someone send another one in."

  Then I called Nannan again and asked her to bring a pack of cigarettes if she had time. I also said, "Nannan sister, can you please tell Li Ge about this? Don't mention it to my family for now. I'm afraid that if Dad and Mom find out, they'll be sad again."

  Nan Nan just said: "Let's talk about it in detail when I send you cigarettes." Then she hung up the phone.

  Ma Wulong looked at me with a mixture of cigarette smoke and mobile phone, and asked in surprise: "What's your background, kid? Are you an official's second generation?"

  I smiled wryly and said: "If I were a second-generation official, would I still need to come to this place? I'd be long gone by now."

  Ma Wulong nodded: "That's also true." Then he frowned and said: "We're just a bunch of people without any backing, we can't even compete with others, what's the use of being ruthless? Cutting off someone's arm, killing someone, in the end we still have to come in and eat prison food. Alas, why do those bastards live so comfortably?"

  I figured it out, it seems that Ma Wulong and Lao Er next door, and maybe others, are in a gang. This gang is powerful, but unfortunately, they don't have any backing or connections, so after they've been reckless and violent with others, they ended up in here. It's also true, in today's society, what can you do without connections? Ma Wulong's face was full of indignation, it's rare for someone over 30 to still be so hot-headed.

  "Second brother, don't finish them all, leave one for me!" Ma Wulong shook the iron door, clanging and swaying.

  "Why didn't you say so earlier? We've already divided everything!" That hoarse voice rang out again.

  "Damn it..." Ma Wulong cursed, but a cigarette flew over from the next cell. Ma Wulong stretched out his hand to pick up the cigarette, blew on it gently, and hung it behind his ear, not in a hurry to smoke.

  "Hao Tzu?" The voice of Shi Tong came from the next cage, still weak and listless, apparently having suffered a great deal.

  "I'm in, I'm in." I grasped the iron door with both hands and strained to put my ear against it, as Ston's voice was really too faint.

  "Thanks, Hoss," Stony said listlessly, and I could hardly bear to think what he must look like now.

  "Just thank Ma Wulong for it." I said: "This big brother is very kind, he helped."

  "Who said it was the Ma Wulong gang? We only know because of the kid's cigarette. If not for that pack of cigarettes, even if Ma Wulong knelt down and begged us, it would be useless." Then a burst of laughter came from next door.

  Ma Wulang kicked the iron door hard and cursed, "Old Second, you think you'll never meet me again? Damn it, before I get shot, I'll cut you up again. Don't know how high the sky is or how thick the earth is after killing someone."

  Lao Er fell silent for a moment before saying: "Old Horse, I also want to be beaten up again, but I'm afraid there won't be another chance in the future."

  "What's there to be afraid of?" Ma Wulang said with a heroic tone: "We brothers will still be brothers in the next life! Now I regret not chopping that son of a bitch's neck, and only chopped off his arm. He can't accompany us to the Yellow Spring together."

  Lao Er couldn't help but say: "Old Horse, at the time I was chopping towards his neck, unfortunately he dodged it at the critical moment."

  "Really? Haha, I don't remember..." Ma Wulong laughed.

  "Old Horse Brother."

  "Huh?"

  "After you go out, take care of my mother for me, she's old and there's no one by her side to wait on her."

  "......Alright, I'll definitely take care of mom."

  "Old Ma, don't forget my son, he's supposed to start elementary school!" "Old Ma, go tell my daughter-in-law to hurry up and find someone else to marry!"

  "Don't worry, don't worry!" Ma Wulong nodded: "Your mom is my mom. Your son is my son. Your daughter-in-law is also my daughter-in-law... Ah, no, not my daughter-in-law, they are all my brother's daughter-in-law!"

  Next door was filled with loud laughter. Someone shouted: "Old horse, don't go back on your word! Treat my wife as a daughter-in-law! My wife is following you, I'm absolutely at ease!"

  "Nonsense! How can you say such things? I, Ma Wu Long, would never do something like that!"

  Next door, the cage was filled with happy voices and laughter. It didn't look like these were a group of future murderers who would be shot to death. I was moved by the warmth between them, their way of interacting was just like that of Higashino Keigo's gang. I envied their relationship and couldn't help but say: "Old Horse, you're really a good person."

  "Am I a good person?" Ma Wulang pointed to his own nose and said, "Actually said that I'm a good person? I've lived for over 30 years, this is the first time someone has said I'm a good person! Second brother, second brother, did you hear that? This kid says I'm a good person!"

  The people in the next cell burst into laughter, "Haha... Ma Wulong is actually a good person..." "If Ma Wulong were a good person, I'd be an angel..." "Ma Wulong has been scolded for over 30 years, and now someone wants to praise him..."

  Ma Wulong himself couldn't stop laughing and said to me: "Little brother, you've got the wrong impression, I'm not a good person." Then he casually pointed to a man in the corner and said: "Get up and do 500 squats." The man immediately stood up and started repeating the motion of squatting down and standing up against the wall. Ma Wulong then pointed to another man in the corner and said: "Bark like a dog for me!" The man immediately started barking loudly. Ma Wulong continued, pointing to yet another man in the corner: "Crawl around the cage twice!" The man immediately got down on all fours and started crawling around the wall of the cage...

  In no time, this cage of ours turned into a circus, with all sorts of characters, their appearances ridiculously funny, yet even more chilling.

  Ma Wulong finally looked at me: "Say I'm a good person? These people would rather kill me, they just don't dare."

  Heaven, treating others with a cold attitude like winter. I don't understand, he's actually a kind-hearted good person, why does he have to pretend to be a fierce and evil person? Ma Wulong saw my confusion, pulled me to sit on the bench, and slowly said: "Actually, when I first came in, I was prepared to bully them like I used to."

  I watched those people doing different actions and felt a chill in my heart.

  "But I ask him what, he answers what, and also tells me things." Ma Wu Long said: "Very sincere, and truly respectful to me. Unlike them, although I let them do what, they do what, but all scold me in their hearts."

  "When I first came in, that guy was the boss of this cell. Ma Wulong pointed to the man who was barking like a dog in the corner and said: "He asked me to lick his feet clean, I refused, he brought these people to beat me up. Heh heh, as a result, they were all knocked down by me instead. Then I became the boss of this place and started bullying them even more."

  "Alas, this is how the world is. Whoever has a harder fist controls everything." Ma Wu Long said: "I also hope to get along peacefully with others, but they see me as easy to bully, so they become more and more aggressive in bullying me. Later I understood a truth: being a good person is not as good as being a bad person. After becoming a bad person, others will want to live in peace with you."

  I understand now. That's why Ma Wu Long would use ferocity to disguise himself and then deal with this unfair world in a hardline manner.

  We were originally the same, all for not being bullied by others, and slowly became what we are now. Looking at Ma Wulang now is like seeing myself in a few years. However, in order not to be bullied, I have to pay the price of becoming a bad person.

  "Wow, I don't know why, but I especially like talking to you." Ma Wulong laughed heartily: "I actually opened up my heart to a kid I just met, what a strange thing haha..."

  He doesn't know why, but I do. Because we are originally of the same kind, so naturally we will appreciate each other.

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