Chapter 68 Fairness.
Fang Botao pointed his gun at a group of angry people and stopped them from moving forward.
Seeing Shu Lan, an older woman took the initiative to say, "Commander of District Nine, you've taken my son's special ability. I tried to persuade him to let it go yesterday, but he'll definitely put aside his past grudges and follow you. By then, we'll all be family. How could you do such a vicious thing to your own people? Don't you agree?"
"He was fine yesterday, but was hacked to pieces by that beast overnight. We, as his parents, can't help but feel heartbroken. You are the commander. If there is no fair punishment, our family can't stay in District 9!"
"That's right! I must kill this man to avenge my brother!"
Shu Lan raised her eyebrows and said with a half-smile, "Oh, it seems you slept soundly last night. You must have grown a lot bolder. You're even threatening me now, Maomao."
Shu Maomao took out the dice and said crisply, "Close your eyes, Mommy."
Shu Lan patted him and said, "Wait a moment. If you can't wait any longer, please raise your hands. I'll count and Sister Wang will have to make a few fewer breakfasts today."
It was like a cold wave hitting us, and the tense atmosphere immediately cooled down.
The subordinate handed over a rusty, blood-stained nail about four inches long.
"Commander, this is his weapon."
Shu Lan glanced at Huo Yu. The big man always shrank habitually and was not even as tall as Shu Maomao.
How can you not say that every failure is a lesson learned? You know that there are many people and eyes during the day, so you can hide your nemesis and wait quietly until nightfall before doing anything big.
Shu Lan asked, "Did he carve words on all the superpowered people in the ten districts?"
Zhong Mei said: "No, only part of it."
Shu Lan squatted down and asked, "What's the matter? Huo Yu, one night is not enough for you to carve everyone?"
Huo Yu understood. She was very calm, neither angry nor blaming. He straightened his back slightly and replied in a low voice: "They... didn't hit me."
Although under the shadow of Lin Yi, there were very few people who spoke out or took action to help, at least they did not choose to join.
Hatred was like sulfuric acid that corroded the heart, burning Huo Yu and keeping him awake day and night, but he knew that he should take revenge on those who had hurt him, not the whole world.
Obviously recalling the experience of bullying him together in the past, a guilty conscience spread among the crowd. One woman was still unwilling to give in and said stubbornly, "If you want to blame someone, you should blame Lin Yi. He was the one who instigated my son to attack you, and... and didn't you say that you hate people who start trouble the most? If we want to be fair, Huo Yu should be punished like those two women yesterday!"
"right!"
"He can't keep someone who holds such a grudge."
Huo Yu said in a dead voice, "Yes, unless you take away my supernatural power and kill me, I will take revenge on them again."
Shu Lan said, "Didn't someone just say I want fairness?"
Seeing hope, the aunt said enthusiastically, "Yes! Like I said, a commander must be fair, otherwise how can he win the support of his people?"
Shu Lan nodded, seemingly agreeing sincerely. "That makes sense. If we want fairness, we should start from the beginning. Let's put in some effort today, Meimei. Heal those people, just as if they have the ability to heal themselves. Huo Yu, how many years have they been beating you?"
"Seven years."
Shu Lan said, "It's going to take too long. It'll tire our Meimei to death. How about you take a small loss? Seven times, we'll punish them seven times, and you'll scratch them seven times. Then, dust to dust, earth to earth. How about that?"
"Seven times! How can this be possible? Isn't this torture? He healed on his own, but my son didn't. I don't agree!"
Shu Lan looked over coldly: "Try to interrupt me again?"
The ear-piercing noise faded away again.
She continued to ask Huo Yu: "Or you can't accept this plan, then I can't keep you. I don't want to wake up every day and judge cases for you before breakfast."
Huo Yu was silent for a while, and finally agreed: "Okay."
Shu Lan nodded and said, "Yes, you are very considerate. Of course, you were the one who started it last night. I have to punish you, otherwise it would seem that I have no principles."
Shu Lan stroked her chin and thought for a moment: "Well, I want to eat noodles later. As a punishment, you will have no soup or sauce when you eat noodles from now on."
Everyone was stunned. This was too...
Shu Lan asked, "Isn't that fair?"
Du Shaohui was the first to react and led the applause: "Fair! Fair! It's just a broken bone. How can you hold a grudge, Brother Huo Yu? You're only causing trouble for the commander."
"That's terrible! I never imagined how bad tasteless noodles would be."
Shu Lan glanced at the angry but silent family members of the psychics and smiled, "You seem unconvinced."
The crowd murmured, "How can this be fair? This is clearly biased."
"Then I'll be fair and let you beat up Huo Yu, and then play dice with my son."
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Shu Maomao put the dice away with some regret.
The six-faced monster would only respond to the call if there was food. He really hoped that this group of people would quarrel a few more times, so that Shu Lan would be completely impatient and ask him to take action instead of just making a light threat.
Shu Lan threw the nail at Huo Yu's feet and went to find Sister Wang to put the food.
Zhong Mei squatted down and said, "Let's go. Do as the commander says. I'll heal one and you'll carve one."
Huo Yu reached out and picked up the nail, holding it tightly in his palm, and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry for causing you trouble."
Zhongmei helped heal his leg yesterday, he remembered.
Zhong Mei said, "It's okay. The commander said that we should use our superpowers more often. It's best to use up the energy and then replenish it. That way we can become stronger. I'm just practicing."
Huo Yu slowly straightened his legs and crawled forward. Zhong Mei asked in confusion, "Does your calf hurt? Why are you still crawling?"
She took care of her own people near the tent every day and didn't know much about this man.
But the others were well-informed. Fang Botao came over and whispered something in her ear. Zhong Mei was stunned: "Is it so tragic?"
She thought she was just being physically beaten, but she didn't expect to suffer serious humiliation as well.
"Yes, compared to seven years and seven times, it's not biased at all, but it's not right for the commander to kill all these people just because he sympathizes with Huo Yu."
The hatred of one person and the resentment of a group of people are indeed a difficult problem to choose between, and can only be solved by the illusion of bias.
Zhong Mei looked at the man moving forward on his knees and hands, and suddenly felt that eating noodles without soup was a very cruel punishment.
Halfway through the engraving work, Shu Lan brought Shu Maomao over and replaced Zhong Mei, letting Shu Maomao, who also had healing powers, continue. She sat on a small stool nearby and ate melon.
Literally eating melons, freshly picked cucumbers.
Huo Yu's movements gradually became slower. He found that inflicting pain on his enemy again did not seem as pleasurable as last night.
Instead, her attention would always unconsciously shift to other places, such as the person who was crunching a melon, or the little boy next to her who looked very similar to her.
"Hey, Huo Yu, how are you doing academically? Do you still remember what you learned during the nine years of compulsory education?"
Huo Yu paused and blinked, recalling some vague certificates and memories of being the center of attention.
"I should remember..."
Shu Lan's eyes lit up. "Yesterday you asked me what value you could provide me, and I thought of it. I have some textbooks stored there, but I haven't found a suitable teacher. If you remember, please help me teach my son."
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