Chapter 35 Chapter 35
The next day, two major events occurred at the base. First, the patrol team discovered dozens of frozen corpses with their flesh removed during an inspection. Only a few of them had wandered to the base, and the vast majority were residents of the base. Their families were looking for them like crazy.
The second incident was that the daughter-in-law of a family of three was hacked to death while they were sleeping. The fatal wound was on the throat, and the knife marks were mainly concentrated on the hands and face. After the person was hacked to death, the killer was still not satisfied, so he put the body of the head of the family into a pot and boiled it with water. The smell of meat drifted too far and was discovered by the neighbor next door. After all, who can eat meat now? The top-class resident next door did not have this ability.
At first they thought someone had stolen some meat, so they called the patrol team to break into the house under the pretext of catching a thief. But after they got in they realized that there was no meat at all, but boiled white palms and eyeballs floating in the pot. This was real human flesh!
The woman was the only survivor. Her down jacket was splattered with blood, which turned into black marks after drying. She was holding a spoon in her hand. It was obvious who the murderer was.
The woman was taken away.
The trial of this vicious murder case was held that afternoon in an open space in front of the office.
All residents of the base who were not at their workstations gathered together, surrounding the site in a crowd.
Ye Xun was originally lying on the bed and having a tender time with Qin Wei, but when he heard this, he could not lie still anymore, so he jumped up from the bed and quickly put on his clothes.
Qin Wei, who thought he could eat meat today, looked at him helplessly, "What's so good about it? It makes you so excited."
Ye Xun was too lazy to pay attention to him. He had been annoyed with Wang Wei downstairs for a long time. He usually went to school in S City and there were not many people living here. Everyone knew that this scum beat his wife. The whole community knew about it. This time he got his comeuppance, so naturally he had to join in the fun.
Qin Wei had no choice but to get up, dress, and go downstairs with him.
By the time they arrived, they could no longer get a seat in the front. Standing at the outermost edge, all they could see was a sea of people. At this time, Ye Xun began to hate that he drank less milk when he was a child, so he didn't have a few more centimeters of grid.
Looking around, there was really no place for him to stand higher and see, so he turned his attention to Qin Wei.
He patted Qin Wei and motioned him to come closer.
Qin Wei moved closer obediently, only to hear the devil whispering in his ear: "Squat down, I want to ride on your shoulders."
For a moment, I wondered if I had heard it wrong. When I first trained with him, I never saw him working so hard.
Although he was speechless, he still did as he was told, and even reached out to hold Ye Xun's back to prevent him from falling.
The posture of riding on the neck was a bit awkward and uncomfortable for Ye Xun, so he had to adjust his position quietly.
Qin Wei felt the touch behind him, his mind full of junk, and he didn't pay any attention to what was being said in front of him.
The trial had begun, and the woman was brought to the center of the crowd. No one paid attention to the bloodstains on her clothes; everyone focused their attention on her face and hands.
Last night, after being splashed with porridge on her face, she was knocked unconscious by a chair and had no time to clean and disinfect the burns. When she woke up, the porridge was already stuck to the secretions from the wound on her face. Trying to clean it up would be tantamount to getting hurt again.
Her face was now covered with purulent secretions and porridge particles, like undigested vomit. Even her eyeballs had signs of burns, so vision loss was inevitable.
Such a miserable life, yet she risked her life to kill someone, how much hatred must she have? She was insulted and beaten every day for ten years, and was not treated as a human being by her husband's family.
The people who had originally demanded severe punishment for the murderer suddenly became quiet.
Such a family deserves to die.
The woman who had endured for several years untied her scarf, revealing the blue and purple marks on her neck. She rolled up her sleeves and legs, which were covered with bruises, some of which were still red and swollen, from being beaten in recent days.
The people present originally thought that this was just a poor woman, and that death was like the end of a lamp, because a scumbag had no reason to embarrass a weak woman. But when they saw the new and old scars on the woman's body, they immediately changed sides and cursed Wang Wei in their hearts, saying that he deserved to die. If he was still alive, they would definitely punch him to vent their anger.
In fact, the matter has come to an end here. The woman's motive for murder is clear. It is not easy for her to endure it for so many years. If it were someone else, they might not be able to endure it in the first month.
Chen Guoan also felt that it was meaningless to continue, but it had to be concluded. He had people make a ballot box, and everyone wrote down their verdict on the woman. Those who were acquitted drew a circle, those who were sentenced to death drew a triangle, and those who abstained handed in a blank paper, and then put the paper ball into an opaque box. Finally, he was responsible for counting the votes, and the verdict was based on the number of votes.
After the vote count, 99 percent of the people voted in favor of acquittal, and only a few supported the death penalty, namely Wang Wei's two sisters, Wang Ju and Wang Gui.
The two sisters have conflicting feelings towards Wang Wei and their parents. Before they got married, the thing they heard most was that their younger brother was their forever family, and that even after getting married, the daughters must not forget to take care of their younger brother and their parents' family. They wanted to escape, but they had been brainwashed for years and could not help but put their younger brother first in their hearts, with their husbands and children taking the back seat.
Now that they saw someone dead, their first reaction was to feel relieved, and their second reaction was to make the person who killed their brother pay with his life. What's wrong with getting beaten a few times? Which woman didn't go through this? If this woman wasn't a chicken that couldn't lay eggs, would their brother have treated her like this? It's not the woman's fault.
There must be something hateful about a pitiful person. The Wang sisters' minds have been distorted. They don't think their parents and brother have done anything wrong. Even if they were beaten too much, they might not have been killed by this vicious woman if they had been beaten less severely.
The woman who was finally acquitted stared at the result of the vote. There were two bars under the word "death penalty". She felt that she should know who the two people were and they could not escape.
After the verdict was announced, the woman was taken away by the patrol team. They escorted five people up, four men and one woman, who were outsiders who had just received their ID cards and were in the probation period. When they were cutting meat, they were bumped into by the patrol team passing by. There were originally six people, one of whom tried to escape and was shot dead on the spot, so the remaining five were obedient.
If they were caught, they would be expelled from the base at most, but if they escaped, they would lose their lives. They knew which was more important.
Zheng Guoan read out their crimes in front of everyone and informed everyone of the names of the victims.
As the leader of the base, he could not do anything to deprive the living of their lives for the dead, but as a family member of the deceased, he had the right to retaliate against these people.
What he needs to do is to make the families remember these faces. Once these people leave the base, he will not be responsible for whether they live or die. He is only responsible for the people in his base.
"…The above is because the crimes committed by the five people are particularly bad, but they did not harm anyone's life, so their crimes do not deserve the death penalty. According to the latest regulations of the base, they will be expelled from the base, and their relatives and descendants within three generations of the deceased will not be allowed to enter the base, nor will they be allowed to take the civil service exam. From now on, the lives of the five people will have nothing to do with the base. The food distributed by the base will be given to the families of the victims as compensation."
Zheng Guoan's verdict was fair and just, and no one present could find fault with it, except No One. He had no reaction when he heard the first part, but when he heard that all the food would be confiscated, he immediately got annoyed and cursed the base for being cold-blooded and ruthless, and cursed everyone present for being executioners, and said that the dead deserved their death and it had nothing to do with them.
Finally, he was dragged away by the patrol team and thrown out of the base gate.
The wall of the base is now five meters high, which is impossible to climb over with physical strength. The five-meter-high wall blocks a lot of cold wind for the residents of the base. The few people who were driven out of the base, all hunched their backs and huddled together in the wind.
The family annihilation ended here. As the spouse, the woman obtained the right to reside in the house, and the name of the householder was changed from Wang Wei to Li Kewei.
Wang Ju and Wang Guilai had made trouble several times, but each time they were scared away by Li Kewei holding a kitchen knife. After so many times, they realized that this woman was no longer the cowardly woman who could be easily manipulated, so they gradually stopped coming.
The days gradually returned to a quiet period, the calendar on the wall became thinner and thinner, and the New Year was approaching, but there was no New Year atmosphere in the base.
Ye Xun attached great importance to country Z's traditional festivals. He had prepared red ribbons and paper-cuts long ago and decorated his house with lights and decorations, finally giving his house a bit of the festive atmosphere.
The leaders of the base also began to liven up the atmosphere. The patrol team delivered couplets door to door, which made the entire base lively.
Considering that people need to eat something good during the New Year, they started recruiting volunteers to go hunting in the mountains. Veterans and those with experience were given priority. If participants successfully caught prey, they could get an extra half pound of meat.
Not every household can get this meat. There is a condition. If there are children under 10 years old or elderly people over 70 years old in the family, you can get one pound of meat for free with your ID card.
Those who cannot afford it but want to eat meat can do so. Five kilograms of grain can be exchanged for half a kilogram of meat. Those whose families are better off can grit their teeth and taste some meat.
Xu Feng once again took advantage of Zhang Tianyu's brother and sister and got half a pound of meat for free. As a grown man with all his limbs intact, he felt embarrassed and took the initiative to sign up.
He also asked Ye Xun if they wanted to go.
Ye Xun and Qin Wei thought about it for a while, and finally decided to go. However, his purpose of going was not to get the half pound of meat, but to gain more favor in front of the leader, and by the way, see if he can find new edible mutant plants. This thing can gain favor the fastest.
After the number of people was full, the departure time was set for the morning of the day after tomorrow, giving everyone a day to prepare.
This time the trip might be longer, so Ye Xun prepared sleeping bags, dried meat, and a few egg pancakes for him and Qin Wei, which could be eaten after being slightly heated up.
There is also a large-capacity thermos cup, so you can scoop some melted snow water and drink it when you are thirsty.
There are also two hiking bags, and food only takes up a very small amount of capacity, so I can put a lot of good things I come across along the way in them, such as chestnuts, pine nuts and other nuts. After frying them, I can eat them while watching the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Day.
The day after tomorrow, Ye Xun climbed out of bed early in the morning.
After a simple wash and meal, the two of them went out. Bal was left with Wang Yu. Bal is now over one year old, 120cm tall and weighs 100kg. He is bigger than an ordinary leopard and has amazing combat power. With Bal protecting Wang Yu, Ye Xun feels more at ease when he goes out.
By the way, he also left a submachine gun with a full magazine and 100 rounds of bullets on the table for Wang Yu to use for self-defense.
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