Chapter 57: Shadows in the Light
"Don't quibble, do you know how much trouble you have brought to others because of your greed and selfishness!" Liang Zhijin's voice finally brought out a trace of anger, he had never seen such a shameless girl in his life!
"You stole a total of six times, causing three families in the eastern district of the city to lose hundreds of thousands of credits of hard-earned money, not only that, but also relying on the strength of your high-level martial arts to beat innocent guards many times, and let the city management fight four times!"
"The girl is really skilled, but she is obviously a martial artist, but she deliberately acts to use my sympathy to get rid of the tracking of the city management, she is obviously a martial artist, but she doesn't use her own hands to earn money to support herself and chooses these evil ways to hurt others to satisfy her own selfishness, I hate someone to lie to me the most in this life!"
"What I said when I accidentally injured the city management at that time, if you didn't hear it clearly, I can tell you again, as a martial artist, you don't want to contribute to the base city, but you have been destroying the stability of the base city, do you know what the world outside the base city is like? Do you know that we human beings are very dangerous now, and we need to unite more at this time! And the warriors need to stand up and protect the civilians instead of relying on their own strength to do things of forcible seizure and oppress the innocent civilians!
Liang Zhijin's anger suddenly stopped.
Because he saw that McNule looked at him in a daze, and the beans were in tears, tears of sadness, tears of heartbreak. One by one, it was pouring out of her eyes, which were so bright that they could almost refract everything around her.
At this moment, this girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, the psychological defense line she had formed with all her strength was finally broken, she just looked at Liang Zhijin in a daze, she let her tears cross her white cheeks one after another, and then fell hard to the ground under her feet.
Looking at her eyes that can be cherished by any man in this world, Liang Zhijin's heart suddenly swelled with an unspeakable chagrin, what is he doing here?
"What do you know? What do you know! I went and stole their hard-earned money? If the protection money collected from the slums could be called hard-earned money, then the blood, it's black!"
"Innocent guards, can a ruffian bully lackey who is arrogant in the slums and punches and kicks the slums at the slightest inconvenience?"
McLean raised her head suddenly, looked directly at Liang Zhijin, and asked, "Have you ever been hungry from time to time?" Do you know that because of offending the powerful, both parents died, and only me and my sister were left, and it was raining heavily outside the house at night, and it was raining inside the house, and the two sisters could only hug each other to keep warm?"
"Have you rummaged through the garbage in the garbage can? Have you ever fought with a stray dog in order to grab a synthetic meal that someone else has eaten? What do you know about a boy like you who doesn't know the sufferings of the world? On what basis do you accuse me of my life and choices?!"
was stunned, Liang Zhijin was really stunned. He didn't know all of what McLegyan said, and he hadn't experienced it. The information he got from Shi Fei was obviously a piece of information about thieves forcibly taking and oppressing innocent civilians.
McLean trembled slightly, but her voice was still crisp and beautiful, still echoing in Liang Zhijin's ears.
"When my family offended the magnates in the rich area, the family was ruined, and I fled to the slum with my sister, I thought that as long as I escaped from that place, it didn't matter if I was poor in the slum, but this world is a cannibalistic world, if you have no power, you can only be exploited! People in the slums may only earn 1,000 credits a month, while those rich districts are so rich that they still force everyone to pay 500 credits for protection!"
"If you can't pay it, the guards of those scoundrels will be punched and kicked, dragged to the secret room, and will become nameless corpses floating in the moat the next day! The words you say are really better than the songs, and the high-level martial artists, intermediate martial artists, and low-level martial artists have always protected the people of the rich and civilian areas, not those of us who wander in hell and the world every day. β
"You said that as a martial artist, you have to protect the stability of the base city and protect the human race, hehe, I don't know how dangerous the outside world is, no matter how dangerous it is, it is just a death, and in the hell of the base city, death is just a relief! I don't have the strength of you, so I don't want to claim justice and protect everyone like you, the little power I have, I just want to protect my relatives and the people I care about. β
"Those powerful families who collect protection money completely treat the people in the slums as livestock that can be ravaged wantonly, and the monthly protection fee has risen to 800 credits, they are already wandering in hell and the world, and this is to force them to die!"
"Yes, that's right, according to your justice, I did this as a steal or a robbery, but I don't regret it, because we also want to live, desperately live. β
"Then why don't you give feedback to the management of the base city? These are absolutely not allowed by the base city! If the management of the base city knows, they will definitely give you justice. Liang Zhijin couldn't help but ask.
Tears kept flowing from McNuggares' eyes, and she said in a daze: "Justice? I don't know if there is justice in this world, anyway, there is no justice in what I encountered." How can the management of the base city pay attention to the dirty and dilapidated slums? And the grassroots managers we can see are all scum who are in cahoots with the ruffians and bullies in the rich areas, and without their permission, how can those people in the rich areas come to the slums to oppress the poor people in a grand manner, and even they are a part of it!"
Liang Zhijin still doesn't understand these!
Liang Zhijin has lived in the God of War Palace, which has doomed him to be unable to contact some human suffering.
"Do you remember the 'Qi Dong' for a month? With your identity, you should know it. McLean asked.
Liang Zhijin hesitated slightly and nodded.
Qi Dong was a sensation in the martial arts circle of Yueyang City before, Qi Dong is a low-level general-level martial artist, his strength is not very strong in the same level, but it is much stronger than the soldier level, originally in this life, he has cultivated to the general level has come to an end, and then lives in obscurity, or dies in the fight with foreign beasts one day.
And what made him a sensation was that he was wooden, old-fashioned, and honest, and actually committed the murder of 36 people, Liang Zhijin didn't know the specific things, he only remembered that it seemed to be because his family had a conflict with the victim's family, and then Qi Dong was angry and killed, and finally Qi Dong was sentenced to death.
"Brother Qi Dong, a powerful general-level martial artist and father of two children, why did he commit such a murderous evil deed?" McLeyan asked further.
"I don't know, maybe" Liang Zhijin shook his head, he usually goes alone, and he doesn't pay much attention to this kind of things that have nothing to do with him.
"Before Brother Qi Dong became a warrior, he also lived in the slums, even after becoming a warrior, because of the high debts owed by his family before, he had always stayed in the slums, but when Brother Qi Dong went out of the city to hunt foreign beasts and do those things that you think are maintaining the stability of the city, his wife, his parents, his sons and daughters were all brutally killed because they couldn't afford to pay the bullies' temporary protection fee of twice as much, and they were all brutally killed, and they were used to set an example to the slums, to tell everyone in the slums that even if some of us become warriors, we still need to live under their coercion, and if we resist, it will be deathοΌβ
A look of pity suddenly appeared in Liang Zhijin's eyes, and he could already roughly guess the reason for what happened later. Qi Dong, who worked hard in the suburbs just for his family to live a better life, returned home covered in scars and found that his family had been ruined, presumably it must have been extremely painful, angry, and hateful, so he was angry and blood splattered five steps!
In this society, there is light and darkness, just as there is never a shortage of heroes who sacrificed their precious lives for the survival of mankind in the construction of the base city, and there are also scum who use their power to facilitate the devouring of human resources in a stable era.
If Qi Dong's matter is really as McLean said, then with the existing base city law, there will definitely be no death penalty, if not, it can only be said that there is human interference in it.
"You said, Brother Qi Dong, a powerful general-level martial artist, can't protect his family, how can we survive even weaker? I just want to protect my sister, I just want the two of us to live, but I have already owed them two protection money, and I will lose my sister the third time or the third time."
McLean's words came to an abrupt end, because she suddenly thought, why did she say so much to Liang Zhijin, who she had never known each other and had only been in touch with each other?! Was it because of the aura of a powerful martial artist on his body, or because the light and heat on his body that night had warmed himself who had been in the dark for a long time?!
McLean really didn't know, what she knew was that she had said too many things to the young man in front of her that she shouldn't have said.