Chapter 268: Aftermath
The Court of the Awakened was able to be independent of the secular judicial system, but it could not avoid pressure from the upper echelons of the Parliament, and at the behest of Humility and the entire cabinet, Xu Le was finally convicted of wartime disobedience and sentenced to life imprisonment and transferred to a dream cage to serve his sentence.
After the verdict was announced, it caused an uproar in the circle of the awakened, and the vast majority of the awakened people firmly believed that Xu Le was only framed by mutants in the Malawi clean-up operation, and even if Xu Le later broke away from the organization and risked harming the interests of the country to smuggle into the United States, it is a crime of disobedience with heinous circumstances, and he should not bear such a heavy punishment.
However, at present, the number of awakened people is still relatively rare, and once they have unique superpowers, most of them can be mixed to a good level, so the awakened people who soon followed this case learned from various sources that such a punishment is actually a rare mercy.
At the same time, this highly intimidating conceptual new punishment of the Dream Prison is well known to the Awakened.
Xu Le was able to get a beautiful dream, it was because his merits outweighed his faults, and he didn't really commit a crime, if he violated the laws that the awakened must abide by and the circumstances were heinous, who knows what kind of dream he would be sent to?
In the past, when it came to punishment, the heaviest punishment was the death penalty, and even if it was torture that made life worse than death, sooner or later it would torture people to death. As a scarce and noble awakened person, it is inevitable that he will have a little luck mentality that he cannot be punished by a sergeant, even if he has no intention of breaking the law, he will subconsciously think that even if he violates the law, he will not be sent to the execution ground. Because each Awakened person's unique superpowers are a valuable resource, a resource that neither parliament nor national governments can afford to waste.
I wonder if the prison where the awakened are held is treated better than the Qincheng prison!
But the dream cage is different, the dream world that is real enough can allow people to enjoy the pleasure and happiness that they have never experienced, and it can also raise the horror of punishment to an unprecedented height, and can make people slowly experience the most terrifying punishments in the world in a world that will never die, and can really make people unable to survive and die.
What's even more terrifying is that after stealing the memories of the dreamer, the dream builder is able to design and construct a near-real world according to his own needs.
What does this mean? This means that the tortured awakened lose all capital for negotiation.
Imagine that you are an awakened person who has been imprisoned in a dream cage, because of the crimes you have committed, you are in a dream cage to serve your sentence, or you are locked in a dark little dark room and subjected to all kinds of cruel torture, or you are banished to a barren desert to fend for yourself, and finally one day, you suddenly wake up from your dream and say to you: The country needs you, the parliament needs you, use your ability to contribute to the people, make up for it!
What can you do? Reckless for revenge? Trying to escape? But how can you be sure if this is the real world or another elaborate dream within a dream designed to test you?
You have no choice but to obediently follow the orders you receive. Oh, there seems to be another option, you can still die, and it's better to die happily than to be tortured and steal your life, isn't it?
Of course not, this is a false proposition - not to mention that if it is a dream within a dream, you can't die if you look for death, so if you don't die happily, it's purely to find yourself unhappy - as long as the above promises to enter a better dream after completing the task, the vast majority of prisoners who are imprisoned in the dream cage and tortured will risk their lives to complete the task.
Lamentable.
It is also for the foreseeable future.
Protest is useless, why? Because the protesters can't come up with a replacement, even if the awakened and the central government work together, they can't build a prison dedicated to the awakened, and until a way to suppress the use of superpowers by the awakened is found, I'm afraid that the war fortress may not be able to hold the awakened with special abilities, once the awakened prisoners are united, they can organize a large-scale escape in minutes.
In contrast, the Dream Cage is low-cost, effective, and safe, so why shouldn't the parliament and the government choose it?
With the revelation of more details, the far-reaching impact of Xu Le's case is gradually reflected, and some of the awakened people who are damaged by the subsections are in danger and quickly join together, but they know very well that the truth of not holding the public accountable will not work on them, think about how many heads President Yang and Commander Liu have beheaded in Yuanjiang! Those naïve fools who thought that hugging each other would scare off the butcher's knife are now the souls of the knife.
So the awakened people in the huddle thought of another way to protect themselves, and they began to use their connections to exert influence on acquaintances in the parliament, in an attempt to interfere with the parliament's revision of the subsequent bills and the determination of the penal system. This move is a bit taboo, but it is still within the safety line, after all, the council is a table made by the three bigwigs of Yang Yu and Liu, as long as you bring chips, you can enter the game, provided that you abide by their rules of the game.
So far, the circle of the awakened is still a small circle, and they are somewhat related to each other, so soon, the House of Representatives was divided into two factions on the issue of the dream cage, one side has a radical attitude, the other side has a conservative attitude, and the neutral faction has rarely disappeared mysteriously, which shows that this controversy is unprecedentedly significant, so that all the neutrals can't bear the interests thrown by the two factions, and begin to choose sides, so that the two factions of the awakened are trying to win over the neutrals at all costs and try their best to convince their opponents.
The system of the Awakened managing the Awakened was officially established from this desperate controversy, and it moved forward step by step in the groping.
In addition, Xu Le's case has brought about unexpected changes in other aspects.
For example, the identity of Dream Builder Su Yue has been improved by leaps and bounds, from a small person who is not valued at the bottom of the ranks, to the warden of the Awakened Prison overnight, which is simply a change of carp jumping over the dragon gate. In the past, due to the residual influence of the victory over the corpse, the awakened people with combat abilities always had a strong sense of superiority when they saw the awakeners of non-combat abilities like Su Yue, after all, in the eyes of the former, they were the latter's protective shield, and they could control the life and death of the latter.
But inadvertently, the balance between the two seems to have quietly changed, and now Su Yue has become a big man that everyone wants to talk to, why? Not to mention that Su Yue has to meet President Yang every day, and she can reach the heavens, just saying that Su Yue is the only builder of the dream cage, no awakened person dares to offend her easily, what if something happens to herself or her friends one day?
This change not only made Su Yue feel excited, but also made her feel distressed, for no other reason, because she was worried that she would be assassinated and assassinated, the organization considered arranging security for her at the level of Tang Tao, the former commander of the heavy cavalry battalion, although Su Yue strongly objected, her security level still jumped up, and there was almost no personal privacy.
While most of the Awakened were worried about future changes, the Salvation Society and the Council's elite Awakened gathered in the secret chamber, frowning as sadly as the rest of their kind.