An Zhe: "I don't know."

The poet looked at Boss Xiao: "The old man must know."

Boss Xiao raised his eyebrows and said, "I know."

The poet said, "How old are you?"

Boss Xiao didn't answer. He said, "When I was young, everyone supported this bill."

The poet sat down side by side with An Zhe in the corner of the bed. His gray prison uniform was worn in some places, and his half-long black hair was simply tied up behind his head. His face was very calm, and there was a kind of The poet spoke in a pretentious tone, perhaps this was the tone common to his profession: "The Inquisitor Act has been in effect for nearly a hundred years. I think the Northern Base is very grateful for it. I don't know much about that matter, there are too few old people in the base."

Boss Xiao seemed to have finally shifted his interest from the question of how An Zhe slept. He played with the small parts of the doll he took out of his pocket with one hand, and said, "I also heard about it when I was a child."

Poet: "You tell me."

"After the Southeast Base was destroyed, everyone was very scared. At that time, the degree of mutation of the aliens was not as severe as it is now. People outside only needed to undergo a full body check to find no wounds or other abnormalities when they returned to the base. There were soldiers everywhere in the base, and once a mutation was found, they would be killed immediately." Boss Xiao said: "The ultrasonic dispersal device had not been invented yet. Insects were flying around in the base. The obviously mutated big ones were killed by the soldiers. The small ones could not be caught. Bug traps were hung everywhere in the base. Minors were not allowed to leave the base, so they were organized into insect catching teams to kill insects everywhere."

The poet said: "It was a time of chaos and war."

"More or less," said Boss Xiao, "I was the captain of an insect catching team when I was a kid. It was more than a decade later that ultrasonic dispersers were invented, and not a single insect could fly into the entire base."

Poet: "The Inquisitor Act had already been introduced by then."

"Yes," said Boss Xiao, "but the act was not introduced because of insects, but because of a surveillance video. A monitor was doing a routine check of the past videos of the water tower and saw something happening in the corner. It was too dark there and the footage was not clear, so no one noticed it at the time. The moment the monitor saw the video, he was scared crazy. You can't imagine that scene."

An Zhe was intrigued by Boss Xiao's narration, and he saw that the poet was also listening attentively.

Then Boss Xiao continued, "He saw a man with a very strange posture walking to the circulating water purification pool. Then, the man sat down, as if he had no bones. I heard the people who recorded the video say that the man was like a human-shaped leech. After sitting down, he stretched his legs into the pool."

The poet: "He is an alien, and his secretions will pollute the water source?"

Boss Xiao smiled and said, "Well, it's not necessary to be that scared."

The poet raised his eyebrows.

"Then, the man's legs turned into translucent white things, like they exploded, and a large area spread into the water. It's indescribable." Boss Xiao shook his head and continued, "Then, the man's entire body flowed into the pool, and the water level immediately rose by more than ten points. I heard that it was like it was filled with white meat. Those water bodies are part of the water circulation system of the base."

"Then, it followed the water flow from the outlet, and the base's drinking water." Boss Xiao said, "Even worse news, this has been recorded more than 20 hours ago."

The poet frowned slightly, he seemed to be a little upset, and after his Adam's apple rolled a few times, he said, "The whole city is exposed."

"Yes." Boss Xiao said, "The Lighthouse gave the results of the investigation. This is a soft-bodied aquatic alien species. It can reproduce in the water. In short, the whole base is at risk of infection, and no one is safe. Then, the bill was urgently introduced."

Poet: "There is a saying that the first judges and the tribunal did not belong to the military, but a subordinate agency of the Lighthouse."

"That's right. After the invasion of aquatic aliens, some of the scientists in the lighthouse studied humanoid alien forms and knew more about the characteristics of these things. They formed a tribunal and organized everyone in the base to be examined one by one in ten days. No one had wounds, but anyone could be infected, and there were no means of inspection. It all depended on naked eye observation and intuitive judgment. Although you did nothing but drink a sip of water, if the tribunal wants you to die, you have to die." Boss Xiao sighed and said, "Those ten days were really bloody. It is said that half of the entire base died."

"It's similar to the information I collected before." The poet said, "These ten days are the legendary Judgment Day."

"You pen-wielding people are talking nonsense, talking about the 'Judgment Day' on the 10th lunar month, the Emperor and so on..." Boss Xiao frowned as he spoke.

The poet smiled: "On the day of doomsday, all people will be judged before the emperor, either in heaven or hell. This is the day of judgment."

"Who knows." Boss Xiao brushed the dust off his sleeves: "After hearing about it, the Virginia base criticized our decision and sent a research team to send machines that can scientifically identify aliens, and also sent drones to drop anti-leaflets everywhere. What was the result?"

The poet whispered: "Less than a year later, humanoid marine aliens invaded, and the Virginia base was fully infected and declared lost."

"With the support of Virginia's idiots, the Judges Act was officially introduced. Any judge can shoot and kill people at any time. If the judge cannot make a judgment, the judge has full power to decide. The judge will not be held responsible for wrongful killing. The judge is the emperor." Boss Xiao grinned: "Unfortunately, the emperor is prone to madness. He killed too many compatriots and couldn't stop himself. The group of scientists in charge of trials at the Lighthouse were replaced one after another. Three of them went crazy in ten years, and two committed suicide. No one was willing to take over, so the military took over."

"Military personnel have been stationed in the wild for many years and have seen many monsters. They are good at distinguishing different species and have strong psychological qualities. The replacement rate of judges has finally increased from one every three years to one every ten years. When Lu Xun first became a judge, he was less than 20 years old. I thought he was too young and bet with others that he would not last more than three years." Boss Xiao shrugged, "He lost a lot of money. This year is his seventh year. Hubbard said that he has killed several times more people than a previous judge, and the number has doubled every year in the past three years. Everyone knows that he is not far from going crazy."

"It's hard to say who has more psychological pressure, the judge or the judged." The poet leaned against the wall and said, "But since Principal Lu is still in the mood to sleep with the kids, it seems he is still a long way from losing control."

"No, that's not right." He frowned and quickly changed his words, "For a cold-blooded person like Principal Lu, this is one of the signs of madness."

He approached An Zhe, and his eyes revealed a similar expression to Boss Xiao: "How is he? Did he hurt you?"

An Zhe wrapped his clothes tightly and shrank into the corner, not wanting to talk to them.

Dong.

There was a sound of a bullet.

The atmosphere in the room was shocked, and all three people looked at the source of the sound.

A colorful beetle crashed into the window.