Recap
“Something happened before I graduated from college. Later, someone conducted an anonymous vote. At least 30,000 people expressed their disgust at me and hoped that I would disappear.”
Shen Xiuzhe pressed his cheek against the little speaker, “I have a very ridiculous thought. Is it because too many people want me to disappear that I am imprisoned here?”
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After hearing Shen Xiuzhe talk about his painful past, Chu Shici was shocked.
What shocked him was not how pitiful the male protagonist’s life was after the story was finished.
After all, this is a punishment world, and they will not permit Zhe-ge to live comfortably.
What surprised Chu Shici was that the group of people pressed Shen Xiuzhe’s dignity to the ground and trampled on his bottom line. Zhe-ge endured it all silently?
Chu Shici thought for a long time and asked tentatively: “Ge, did you beat them up?”
The white cloth on his face was soaked with tears. Shen Xiuzhe stood up and turned his back to the little speaker to change the cloth. Hearing this, he shook his head, “In a society governed by law, I don’t want to go to jail because of an impulse.”
“Really?”
“…I covered my face and punched them several times in a place without surveillance or street lights. The senior who was pursuing me and several of his gangster friends all went to the emergency room. I handled it very cleanly, since he offended so many people, the police did not suspect me.”
Shen Xiuzhe’s tone became a little hesitant, “I have no training, and everyone thinks I am weak. Before I was forced to take action, I never thought I could beat so many people at once.”
He turned over his slender, pale hands and said, “I seem to be…born to fight.”
Chu Shici patted his palm.
Silly boy, you are more powerful than you think. You haven’t even learned how to fight, yet you were able to take on twenty by myself. If you have been trained since childhood, you can get through anything with your fists.
Halfway through his sigh, Chu Shici suddenly remembered something.
This Zhe-ge who abides by the law. Why was he so skilled when he killed those people before?
Chu Shici hissed, “Zhe-ge, have you ever killed anyone?”
After waiting for a long time and no one answered, he looked up and saw that Shen Xiuzhe had lowered his head at some point and was quietly ‘looking at him’.
This expression was so familiar to Chu Shici. If Zhe-ge hadn’t gone blind, his eyes would probably be full of resentment now.
Chu Shici reacted after two seconds.
Oh, he got it. After Zhe-ge finished talking, he felt more and more aggrieved as he thought about it, waiting for him to scold them.
When it came to his professional field, Chu Shici suddenly became energetic.
“Fuck! Those bitches who were born without a mother, they actually did this to you! And those who blindly acknowledge the votes, why are they born with a brain when they don’t know how to use them? Their brain probably grows on their backsides, eats shit and piss. The police have already issued a statement, yet they still don’t believe it.”
He slammed the headboard with his plug, “You are twenty years old, a well-known painter locally and abroad. They are also twenty years old, yet tsk tsk. Was it because there were a bunch of people spreading rumors behind your backs even before the senior produced any evidence?”
Shen Xiuzhe pursed his lips and said, “Yeah.”
“You are handsome, talented, have a good background, and have an amazing personality. All the girls in the school like you. Those guys who have no ability and have a nasty character must think that it is because of your existence that they have always been single. Damn, their eyes should’ve bled from how envious they were of you.”
Chu Shici told the truth, not deliberately to make Shen Xiuzhe happy.
He has worked as a waiter in a bar, had been a street gangster, and had many run-ins with police officers.
He has seen too many chaotic things and chaotic people.
He has come into contact with men who have no money, no ability and no charisma and they just look down on everyone. In their eyes, women are not human beings, but resources to be allocated. They firmly believe that they can’t find a girlfriend because they firmly believe that the rich, powerful or handsome stole the resources that should belong to them.
This has nothing to do with education, scums are just scums by nature.
Shen Xiuzhe, who is always admired by many women, is the one who is guilty of stealing their resources.
So when someone took the lead and stabbed Shen Xiuzhe first, the others immediately put on the cloak of ‘justice’ and rushed forward to hack Shen Xiuzhe to death. After that, they turned around and said to the resources they selected, “Look, I told him he is not a good person, but you still don’t believe it.”
Chu Shici scolded them for five or six minutes and succeeded in making Zhe-ge smile.
The corners of Shen Xiuzhe’s mouth curved slightly.
The vitality value jumped up, steadily reaching 9 points.
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After his mood improved, Shen Xiuzhe talked more.
Chu Shici asked him again if he had ever killed anyone.
He shook his head firmly. He had been angered by the three men from before, and that was why he had killed them.
Chu Shici frowned, “Then how is it that you were able to kill them so easily and even dismantle their body parts so professionally?”
Shen Xiuzhe was silent for a long time and then said, “Probably a gift, I was born with it.”
Chu Shici observed his expression and confirmed that he was not lying.
It’s half past one in the morning, and Shen Xiuzhe rarely stays up late. He split up three living people last evening, and his mood fluctuated too greatly. He was very exhausted mentally and physically, and fell asleep not long after.
Before going to bed, he hugged the little speaker tightly, letting the plug get into his clothes and do whatever he wanted.
Chu Shici touched his husband and his legs felt weak.
He poured out the yellow paint in his mind and ran into the system space to sort out the clues.
There are actually three key pieces of information in Officer Li’s words.
First in the elevator, he heard someone talking on the phone. The man mentioned ‘the first one’ and ‘the police are not easy to deal with’. Although he didn’t hear everything, Officer Li is the only police officer caught and brought here so far.
There was a baton in the lounge. Officer Li mentioned he was on vacation before he was arrested and had no equipment on him.
So the baton did not belong to Officer Li, but the police equipment of those people.
Under Shen Xiuzhe’s questioning, he revealed that the tourist bus case was not an unsolved case. It had been solved that year, and some of the murderers had their sentences changed from the death penalty to the New Entertainment Law.
In other words, the world began to implement the New Entertainment Law five years ago.
Chu Shici suspected that this building was the exclusive prison for the New Entertainment Law. The person responsible for guarding them is a prison guard here.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain why hundreds of people were imprisoned but there was no information from the outside.
Officer Li is a police officer. Even if he works in a different department, he should know something about the state of the penalties and the prisons carrying out these punishments.
But he didn’t say that this was a prison, there had to be something clouding his judgment.
He had mentioned that the girl who was riding in the same van as him sounded about thirteen years old.
Officer Li would never associate a thirteen-year-old girl with a death row prisoner.
Even if he was imprisoned in Room 3 across the street and found that the layout of the room was very similar to that of the New Entertainment Punishment prisons, he would not think that way.
This also brings up another issue.
If this was really a prison, it would have already been corroded from the inside.
From the moment he first came to this world, Chu Shici noticed one thing.
The first person who brought them food spoke very awkwardly. Later, Shen Xiuzhe made a fuss about the surveillance system. The person who came to handle the surveillance had some accent. When he eavesdropped on the fat steward’s phone call through the program, the person on the other side of the phone also had a distinct accent.
But the fat steward and his subordinates do not have this characteristic.
So there are at least two groups of people in this building.
Some of them are headed by the fat steward. They may be trained prison guards. Their Mandarin does not follow the standard, but their pronunciation will not make people feel confused.
Another group of people also speak Mandarin, but they are very unskilled at it.
The fat steward and these people have rarely appeared together. The two parties are in a cooperative relationship and they are not under his control.
Driven by profit, the prison reached some kind of agreement with the person on the phone. Secretly imprisoning innocent people in prison in an attempt to drain the value out of them.
When Chu Shici thought about this, a question suddenly came to him.
What are their criterias for capturing people?
Do they just randomly select a lucky audience member and see who is easier to catch?
Or as Zhe-ge said, he was captured because there were too many people who wanted him to disappear.
If that were the case, then the world will be in chaos.
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His emotions fluctuated too much before going to bed, so Shen Xiuzhe found it difficult to sleep peacefully.
In the dream, he dreamed of his own tomb again. A blond man stood in front of the tombstone.
When dreaming, Shen Xiuzhe was not blind. He wanted to walk over and see the man’s face clearly, but there was always some distance he could not cross between them.
Everything in the dream seemed so absurd.
Under Shen Xiuzhe’s surprised gaze, the man took out a hoe from nowhere, rolled up his sleeves and started digging the grave.
He dug for a long time and dug out a body from inside. After studying it for a while, he didn’t seem satisfied, so he turned around and dug another grave.
Only then did Shen Xiuzhe discover that there were only four tombs in this cemetery, and the same name was written on each tombstone – ‘Shen Xiuzhe’.
The man has a thin waist and long legs, his skin is fair, not sickly pale like Shen Xiuzhe. He is like a fine porcelain work of art, making people want to reach out and touch him.
Although he couldn’t see his face clearly, Shen Xiuzhe felt that he was as handsome and beautiful as a prince in a fairy tale.
The man with that dazzling short light blond hair was pacing around in the cemetery. After digging all four graves, he was still not satisfied.
There was no more grave to dig, so he dropped the hoe, sat on the ground and cried.
Shen Xiuzhe was about to go over to comfort him, but he heard the man crying and muttering, ‘Fuck, Laozi* look like a fucking widow robbing a tomb.’
*(It’s a way to say (in english): Your dad, usage: when you are trolling someone or used to show swagger, so not literally)
Shen Xiuzhe: ……
This sentence directly woke Shen Xiuzhe up.
He lay on the bed, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the voice and tone of the man sounded so familiar.
This habit of saying something at the beginning and swearing in the middle is exactly the same as that of a little speaker.
Shen Xiuzhe thought for a long time, and a bold conjecture gradually emerged in his mind.
The blonde beauty in his dream is actually the little speaker?
A blush instantly spread across Shen Xiuzhe’s cheeks. Not only did he imagine a body for the little speaker, he was also attracted to him and even wanted to have physical contact with him.
But Ah Ci is a speaker, this is too much.
One cannot, or at least one should not.
Shen Xiuzhe calmed down for a while and finally recovered.
He couldn’t see, so he could only feel the movements around him carefully.
The room was quiet, and he still held a familiar square object in his arms. The little speaker has not yet started tuning in to the news. It seemed that it was not yet five o’clock in the morning.
Shen Xiuzhe gently put the little speaker down and fumbled for the quilt to cover him.
He had a fall last night, so Shen Xiuzhe was more careful when going to the bathroom today.
He found the furnishings in the bathroom, put the misplaced dirty clothes basket back into place, and slowly walked under the shower head.
As the warm water hit his body, Shen Xiuzhe’s body gradually relaxed.
He knew that he was in the bathroom and the little speaker could not see him. But before he took off the white cloth, he turned around subconsciously.
He did this because he didn’t want outsiders to see his scars.
He is doing this now because he doesn’t want the little speaker to be afraid of him.
Shen Xiuzhe could only imagine how ugly he looked.
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At five o’clock in the morning, the system kicked the host awake on time.
Chu Shici got up in a daze and went to the backend to open the program.
As usual, there are people listening to the morning news today. Chu Shici yawned and pressed the eavesdropping button.
The familiar voice of the female host sounded in the room.
[# At the press conference, the chairman of Imagine Life Company said that the holographic capsule is not only for games. When the technology matures in the future, it will also be invested into various fields such as medical care, military, and education. After the popularization of holographic capsules, society will surely enter a new era. #]
[# The state strictly prohibits minors from participating in any type of dangerous games in any form. #]
[# The public outcry against the New Entertainment Law is getting louder and louder. Last night, tens of thousands of protestors marched in front of the city hall, demanding that the government change the New Entertainment Law back into the death penalty. Let’s review the videos from last night. #]
Although the news was five years ago, Chu Shici felt that since these people got up early in the morning to listen to it, there must be something fishy about it.
The reporter interviewed several people, both male and female, and the voices ranged from all ages.
[# We have made the reasons for our objections very clear. Rapists and murderers deserve to die. I have no problem with turning them into briquettes. But letting the public punish them and choosing their way of death is just encouraging people to kill people. #]
[# My girl is still young, how can I let my child come into contact with such a bloody and violent thing? I don’t agree, I just don’t agree! #]
[# Are you a reporter? Which station? Every morning? Isn’t that the morning news? It’s already the middle of the night and it’s dark everywhere, why are you here to join in on the fun? #]
[# I believe that the abolition of the death penalty is one of the signs of entering a civilized society. Though ordinary people should not be given the power of life and death, this will distort human nature and make good people become bad. #]
There are several interviews after with similar opinions.
Most of these people oppose the New Entertainment Law because they think it is too bloody and violent and will affect social stability.
Chu Shici thought that this news had passed, but the next news report was that a marching team of protesters met a team of supporters, and the two sides shouted at each other across the street.
The protestors accuse the supporters of promoting torture in modern society, which is inhumane.
Supporters of the New Entertainment Law derided the protestors as potential criminals, saying they opposed it because they themselves wanted to rape and kill the innocent.
In the end, the two sides fought hard and were all taken away by the police.
Chu Shici closed the program and voted for the protestors in his heart.
Now five years later, the New Entertainment Law has really gone astray.
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