"Attention, everyone! Please gather immediately in front of the main building! Attention, everyone! Please gather immediately in front of the main building! Everyone…"

After picking up the microphone, Ding Ning didn't test the sound. He spoke directly, repeating the same sentence three times. Then, he simply stood there with the microphone, quietly waiting.

Not many people were familiar with Ding Ning's voice, but whoever could use the prison loudspeaker must have been approved by Li Chenzhou and his team. Otherwise, who would dare to rashly call everyone to assemble?

Therefore, after Ding Ning's announcement, regardless of gender or age, even those who hadn't gotten out of bed quickly scrambled up and rushed towards the entrance of the prison's main building.

No one dared not to come because today was essentially their first day settling into the prison. Especially since they had thoroughly cleaned the entire prison last night, who knew if they would start assigning living quarters today?

"My name is Ding Ning. The prison guards in the video you saw yesterday were all my comrades. Due to the changes in this world, I am now the only remaining prison guard in this prison!"

Ding Ning didn't beat around the bush. He went straight to the point because Li Chenzhou had said, "You don't need to consider other people's feelings. Say whatever you want to say. Those who agree stay, those who disagree can get lost, and those who cause trouble get eliminated!" It was that simple!

"Although I'm the only one left, I will still guard this prison because it was protected by my comrades with their lives. It is because of their sacrifice that this place hasn't become a zombie stronghold! And I will work hard to prevent that from happening!"

Looking at the survivors, most of them looked bewildered. Only those petty bosses who had been cultivated by Duan Lei and the others had strange expressions because they seemed to realize something from Ding Ning's words.

However, neither Li Chenzhou nor Duan Lei had ever said that they would let any of them manage the base. They wouldn't explicitly point it out either, just like Wang Yuanqiang and Kong Xiang back then. "We've cultivated you two, so you two decide for yourselves. Whether you eliminate one or divide the responsibilities, as long as the base can be established, that's all that matters!"

"Now, many people think that we have completely cleaned this prison, and this place has truly become everyone's home. However, you may have forgotten a place, the most important place for a prison. With it, this place is called a prison!"

Ding Ning continued, pointing behind him:

"That's right! The prison cells, the place to imprison criminals! That is the largest space in our prison. Even housing ten thousand people wouldn't be a problem! However, because it's a prison, there are still over a thousand vicious criminals locked in the cells!

I think you should remember that last night, many people felt that our dormitories had become unlucky because of my comrades' sacrifices, so they would rather live with criminals. I don't know why! How could anyone think that criminals are more trustworthy than the heroic souls who died in battle? If it weren't for the sacrifice of our comrades, when you arrived here, you might have had to face nearly two thousand zombies!"

"So, I want to see how those who think prisoners are better than us are doing now, whether they are getting along well with the prisoners!"

With that, Ding Ning dropped the microphone and took the lead into the prison. Li Chenzhou's team, except for Duan Xue, who was with Xiao Ya and Xiao Yu'er, all followed him, walking behind Ding Ning.

Li Chenzhou had said long ago that today's matters would be entirely entrusted to Ding Ning. They were preparing to leave again. Even the matter of the outer perimeter wall, he planned to simply tell Ding Ning his thoughts and let him take people to do it himself.

Seeing them all enter the prison, the other survivors looked at each other. Then, those who had been cultivated by Duan Lei, as well as some of the petty bosses they had brought out, all followed them in.

The other survivors also scrambled to enter the prison, but after all, space was limited, so only those who were fast enough followed.

Ding Ning did not enter the surveillance room but directly used the warden's key to open the prison cell door and then pushed it open forcefully…

"Hiss…"

As soon as the door opened, the scene that came into view made everyone gasp. Except for Li Chenzhou, he had seen too many scenes like this in his previous life, even more tragic ones.

In the very center of the prison courtyard, a large pile of corpses was stacked. It wasn't entirely corpses; half of the people were still alive, but they were already on their last breath. Surrounding this pile of corpses were dozens of prisoners.

Obviously, they were afraid that these people would turn into zombies after they died, so they were watching here. If anyone got up, they would use the sharp blades in their hands to strike their heads.

There were naturally no sharp weapons in the prison cells, but almost half of the survivors who came in later carried sharp blades. It was just a pity that when facing these ferocious-looking prisoners, they didn't even have the courage to take out their weapons!

The corpses in the pile of corpses were basically incomplete. There were even a few whose limbs had been completely severed at the root, and they had already become zombie "human swine," lying on the ground constantly turning their heads and roaring. Next to these "human swine," there were also a few survivors whose hand and foot tendons had been severed.

They stared in horror at those zombie "human swine," wanting to escape but completely lacking the strength, and could only howl in despair.

Because they had lost their hands and feet, they could only squirm on the ground with their bodies, once, twice… looking like caterpillars!…

More people had missing limbs. They were scattered around, looking at the mountain of corpses with terrified expressions…

Countless kinds of torture that no one could have imagined were so nakedly displayed in front of everyone. Even just seeing it made them feel a chill down their spines. One could imagine how much pain those who had suffered this torture would endure!

Those piled up into a mountain of corpses were basically all males, about a hundred people, accounting for half of the survivors who came in last night. As for the other people, they were nowhere to be seen. It was assumed that they had been dragged into the prison cells and were enduring the trampling of who knows how many people…

"You bastard!"

When Ding Ning saw this scene, his eyes suddenly turned blood red. As a prison guard, he had long known the cruelty and madness of these prisoners, but he never would have thought that these people could actually do this to such an extent.

Looking at the mountain of corpses, Fatty suddenly remembered a sentence that a prisoner had once said yesterday, that is: "As long as you come, I will definitely make you understand that compared to me, Qing Lang, those zombies are just cute babies…"