Chapter 71

"Dad! Mom!"

The young child was held in the arms of the guardian, crying and reaching out to his parents: "I want my mother! I don't want to leave, I don't want to leave!"

The collapsed criminal also begged the guardian: "Give my child back to me, I am the guilty one, if you want to arrest someone, just arrest me, don't take my child away!"

The guardian held the child in his arms and brushed away the criminal's hand with a gentle smile. "I'm sorry, this is for the child's own good. She will receive a better education and a brighter future in Eden."

"Get out!"

The criminal collapsed and angrily cursed the Messiah: "What a bastard Messiah! He's just a lunatic! Doesn't he have parents? Only a person without parents would take a child away from his parents!"

The guardian's expression remained unchanged, conveying a messianic concept: "What we are doing is not separating children from their parents, but separating children from the source of criminal pollution."

"Mr. Messiah is right, the child is right, the only one guilty is you, the criminal. If you hadn't committed the crime, none of this would have happened."

Messiah quietly listened to the curses and cries coming from all over the world, and gently put down the sleeping Damian in his arms, his expression calm and indifferent.

——Trading a small amount of pain for the happiness of the majority is the price that must be paid to create a better world.

Growing up around criminals, children will not only be influenced by the criminals and develop wrong values, but will also be discriminated against because of their parents' criminal experience.

Most people will repeat their parents' tragedy and embark on the same criminal path, and only a very few can struggle to escape from the quagmire.

The children of those criminals are just like the children of Crime Alley. Most of the children in the Crime Alley environment will become thieves, robbers and gang thugs. Very few children can become good people with a sense of justice like Jason.

Even Jason was able to escape Crime Alley at a young age with Bruce's help, receive a better education, and then... become the crime-fighting Robin.

"Jason..." Messiah looked up at the sky, a miniature version of the code reflected in his golden eyes. "If you were still here, you would definitely support what I'm doing, right?"

The only thing that responded to the Messiah was the Gotham evening breeze.

Messiah thought that in the orphanage in the Garden of Eden, those children would be free from their criminal parents and toxic environment. They would receive a good education like Jason had received before, and no one would discriminate against them because they were children of criminals.

Under the education in the Garden of Eden, those children may not necessarily become good people, but they will definitely become normal people.

"madman!"

"dictator!"

"tyrant!"

"Inhuman bastard!"

The Messiah calmly gazed at the law code in the sky and calmly accepted the resentment and opposition. Even though they resented him and scolded him for being inhuman, it could not erase the rightness of what he did.

Children can have a better future, the reduction in potential criminals will make the earth more peaceful, and everyone can achieve a good result.

His ideas will not be affected and will never change.

——Because he is right.

As time passed, the sky gradually brightened, the wailing gradually subsided, and the sun rose slowly below the horizon. The operation that lasted all night finally came to an end.

The wailing and screaming that surrounded Messiah's ears became less frequent, and were replaced by many hushed and fearful discussions, as the awakened people discussed Messiah's new actions and expressed their opinions.

"Separating children from their parents... is so cruel."

"This is a good thing. With Eden keeping those little bastards in check, our lives are much quieter."

"You'd better control your temper from now on. I don't want Eden to take my child away from me! If you dare to commit a crime and force our child into Eden, I will never let you go!"

Messiah listened to people's discussion and raised his eyebrows in surprise. He didn't expect that the act of curbing crime at the source could actually have a terrifying deterrent effect.

——Some people did not want to lose their children, and because of the fear that their children would be taken away by the Garden of Eden after they committed a crime, they gave up their idea of ​​committing a crime.

This unexpected surprise made Messiah even more certain of his correctness.

If he were wrong, how could so many people give up crime?

Messiah listened to the voices of the entire earth for a while. The impact of criminals' children being taken away from the Garden of Eden was so great that not many people discussed the fact that people with violent tendencies were also being taken into centralized custody for education.

——Even if there are any, most of them come from people related to it, such as the cheers of the victims and the dissatisfaction of the families of the detainees.

In the newly expanded welfare home and special school in Eden, children and students, some timid and crying, some curious and excited, have successfully moved in with the help of the guardians.

Messiah admired his work expressionlessly, but his admiration didn't last long before he was interrupted by the sound of baby Damian crying loudly.

“Woooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa——”

Messiah's indifferent and noble expression collapsed in an instant. He teleported to the baby Damian's crib in a panic and picked up the baby Damian with a dusty face.

I’m not hungry, and my diaper isn’t wet either. What’s going on?

"What's wrong?" Messiah rocked baby Damian, his movements so skillful and heartbreaking that he asked as gently as possible, "Are you scared alone?"

"Don't be afraid, I'm here. I'm with you."

Baby Damian was still crying at the top of his lungs, his arms and legs kicking in the air. Messiah endured it all weakly, completely different from the man who had so casually decided the fate of tens of millions of people just a few minutes ago.

"Shh, shh—Damian, don't cry. Brother will always be with you." Messiah tried to comfort baby Damian. "Brother will tell you a bedtime story, okay? No, a bedtime story. How about "The Little Prince"?"

Messiah didn't realize that he looked so similar to when Jason comforted him. Even the words he said were almost exactly the same. He copied Jason's care for him onto baby Damian.

After a flurry of efforts to coax the child, baby Damian finally fell asleep again. Messiah breathed a sigh of relief and closed his eyes with lifeless eyes as he read "The Little Prince" three times.

Jason and Bruce read "The Little Prince" to him as a bedtime story on and off for five years before they finished it...

But now, in just one week, he has already read it to Damian three times! Three times in total! He has memorized The Little Prince!

Since ruling the world, the Messiah has rarely experienced such intense emotional fluctuations.

Messiah took a deep breath and used his willpower to suppress the urge to send Damian back to Wayne Manor.

"Sir, the welfare homes and special schools have been fully occupied. A total of 38.61 million minors are admitted to welfare homes, and 26.01 million adults and 10.7 million minors are admitted to special schools."

A guardian came forward and reported last night's actions to Messiah. The shocking figures made Messiah fall into a brief silence.

Among these people whose probability of committing crimes is far higher than that of ordinary people, even if only one person out of a hundred becomes a criminal, that is an extremely terrifying number.

...No wonder there are so many criminals in the world, no wonder trials are always ongoing, and new crimes are happening on the earth every moment.

The Messiah became even more resolute in his resolve to no longer be soft-hearted and show mercy to mankind, and he completely ignored the protests and cries.

"From today on, the crime rate should be able to drop further," Messiah muttered to himself. He believed that his decision would yield results, "at least in the short term."

However, the next second after he finished speaking, as if some existence was against him, the code above Gotham lit up again, announcing the occurrence of a new crime.

...In Gotham, where Messiah and Eden are headquartered, a new, brand new case, a murderer who takes other people's lives, appears!

Messiah suddenly looked up at the code, his eyes almost blazing with fire.

Why? Why!

He had obviously already done so much, trying every possible way to try criminals, using fear to deter those who wanted to commit crimes, and sheltering potential criminals who might commit crimes... But why were there new deaths, and why were there still people committing crimes in defiance of the law!

The Messiah didn't understand. Wasn't the fear he brought to the criminals enough?

The Code transmitted the details of the case to Messiah. Messiah closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and appeared directly at the crime scene following the guidance of the Code.

A pair of white boots appeared on the pool of blood. The man holding the machete looked at the owner of the white boots who suddenly appeared in horror.

It's the Messiah! The Messiah has come!

The man looked at Messiah in horror, the machete in his hand shaking, but thinking of the fate of the murderer, he gritted his teeth, grabbed the crying child next to him, and put the machete across the child's neck.

"You are not allowed to come over! If you dare to come over, I will kill him!" the man said fiercely.

Messiah was floating in the air, looking at the man expressionlessly with a strong murderous intent in his eyes.

"She is your wife, and the person you are holding hostage is your child." Messiah spoke slowly, each word with a strong sense of oppression in his tone. "How dare you?"

At this moment, anyone who saw Messiah's current appearance could feel his suppressed anger.

"I didn't want to do it, and I didn't do it on purpose. You forced me to do it!" the man shouted, and the child he held hostage cried even harder. "I was just drunk, so I accidentally killed her. Why do you want to sentence me to death?"

"And it's all her fault. If she hadn't said that my constant drinking would eventually lead to a crime and harm the child, I wouldn't have hit her!"

At this moment, Messiah finally understood the Supreme Head's previous actions and why the Supreme Head wanted to ban alcohol.

He listened to the man's explanation, his eyes sweeping over the child's pale face and the woman's face with eyes wide open, and the suppressed anger in his heart rose steadily.

Wine is the excuse of this sinner, quarreling is also the excuse of this sinner, and the reason for all this is simply that he is a sinner who deserves to die!

Messiah appeared out of nowhere beside the man, and the golden light fixed the man's hand that subconsciously wanted to swing the knife at the child. He pinched the man's neck with an expressionless face and lifted the man up.

With just a click, the world fell into silence.

Messiah coldly threw the man's body away as if he were throwing away a disgusting insect.

The child stopped crying and looked at the scene with a blank expression.

Messiah floated in front of the child, leaned over and gently stroked the child's hair, and gave the child a gentle smile: "Don't be afraid."

He whispered to the child who trembled in his hands, "The sinner is dead. I have avenged you."

The child trembled and sobbed, and the Messiah's smile twisted and fell in his eyes.

Time freezes at this moment.

【Author’s words】

I got home soaking wet... It hurt, it hurt so much. I was forced to have an IV drip and it was already very painful. Then it rained on the way home, and I didn’t bring an umbrella haha ​​[clown] I got home and took a hot bath feeling weak. I hope it won’t make my cold worse [burst into tears][burst into tears]

How can a person be so unlucky? It rains when it rains… There are thunder and lightning outside, and I’m alone at home. I’m so devastated [burst into tears] I hugged the quilt tightly and shivered [burst into tears][burst into tears][burst into tears]