Chapter 137: Light, Darkness, and Shadow (Finale)
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Patani, who was handcuffed to the birdcage railing, looked at the bloody and violent scene in front of her, there was no joy for the rest of her life after the catastrophe, only an inexplicable fear, she watched the man named Lin Zhinuo press the square stainless steel table legs into Jing Quan's chest with an incredible force, like taking a needle to pierce the leather sofa, Jing Quan who was lying on the ground at first could still move twice, but soon the hands holding the table legs lost their strength, their lips opened slightly, their pupils dilated, and their bodies softened.
Cheng Mo looked down at Jing Quan, who had completely lost his vitality, blood kept pouring out of his back, and the thick blood plasma soon soaked the blue carpet, the power of the plague shadow was lower than he imagined, maybe it was the strongest during the period of time he had just taken it, so Jing Quan had no power to fight back.
Cheng Mo didn't think much about it, turned his head to look at the pale Patani, and asked, "Do you know where the key is?"
Patani paused for a moment before replying, "I don't know. β
Cheng Mo didn't talk nonsense, and walked towards Patani, but Chiguo put on his upper body and said with a red face: "What are you going to do...... Don't look at it. β
Pattani said not to look at it, but Cheng Mo glanced at the Xue Nen Mountain that stood on Patarni's chest, which was very proud, and there were red whip marks on it, like dark lipstick scratching countless messy marks on his fair skin.
Noticing Cheng Mo's gaze, Patani scolded angrily: "Bastard, you said you are not allowed to look at it!"
Cheng Mo didn't have the desire to talk to Patani, he walked into Patani's side, Pattani angrily scolded: "Get out!" picked up his slender right leg and kicked towards Cheng Mo, Cheng Mo reached out and grabbed Patani's slender and round ankle, her arch of her feet had a graceful arc, her nails were painted with bright red Kodan, and the skin on the lining became more and more white and smooth.
Although the scene was very fragrant, Cheng Mo did not feel the slightest excitement about it, he frowned and said: "Can you save some energy?" No wonder Jing Quan will become more and more excited, if I were you, I would not make senseless resistance, and it would only increase humiliation, it is better to cooperate well to survive and wait for the opportunity to escape or take revenge..... Does it make sense for you to do that?"
Pattani trembled and kicked his legs to try to escape Cheng Mo's grasp, and said arrogantly: "Dignity is something more important than life, how can a shameless person like you understand?"
The silver handcuffs and the birdcage collided with a "whoosh" sound, Cheng Mo didn't let go of his hand immediately, he firmly clamped Patani's right leg, making her unable to move, and said lightly: "I'm shameless?
Patani has already experienced an arduous struggle, at this time against Cheng Mo is even more powerless, her body is trembling, covered in sweat, smooth as jade skin floating wet flush, in short, she has a sense of powerlessness all over her body, but Pattani said toughly: "Why are you not shameless? You are brothers with criminals like Jing Quan, and you also accused him that I was a police ......"
Cheng Mo said coldly: "What's wrong with him if he's a criminal? Criminals don't have the right to make friends? What if I tell him you're a policeman? Is it wrong to tell the truth? There seems to be no clause in the law that says it's not allowed to tell the truth to criminals, right?"
Cheng Mo's words made Patani speechless, she looked at Cheng Mo with wide eyes, and said angrily: "You..... Do you know who Jing Quan is? How many bad things he has done? He is the biggest human trafficker in Southeast Asia! How many innocent women and children have been sold by him to brothels in the United States and Europe, and how many poor men have been sold by him to dig and cut down trees in Africa and South America..... If you're friends with this kind of person, do you still have a little conscience?"
"Of course not, how can a man like you have a conscience! I'm so stupid!" said Pattani angrily.
Cheng Mo rolled his eyes at Patani, ignoring Patani's indignant accusation, he let go of Patani's ankle, easily tore off the handcuff chain that was handcuffed to Patani's right hand, and then ripped off the handcuffs that were handcuffing Patani's left hand, and suddenly Patarni, who was already exhausted, fell towards Cheng Mo.
Cheng Mo didn't mean to hug Patani at all, dodged out of the way, and let her kneel on the carpet, but after thinking about it for a while, Cheng Mo still took off the black suit on his body and threw it on Patani's body.
Patani put on the suit that Cheng Mo threw at her, and then looked up at Cheng Mo, as if she was a little surprised by Cheng Mo's actions, her expression was slightly better, but she felt that Cheng Mo did it because she felt guilty about her, so Patani continued to scold unforgivingly: "What a bastard, don't think that I will thank you if you saved me! You have to figure it out, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been arrested at all! If it weren't for you, my colleague wouldn't have died at all!" If it weren't for you, as long as we found evidence that Penglai Island was the center of population trading this time, how many people could be saved? Even if you kill Jingquan, I will not forgive you, and God will not forgive your sins!"
Cheng Mo looked down at Pathani, who was holding the collar of his suit tightly with both hands, and said lightly: "Where does a self-righteous person like you get the sense of superiority? Isn't it a mistake to do something wrong with a righteous purpose? What happened to the human trade? Do you know that most countries in the world used to be slave traders? Do you know that in 1807, the British Parliament passed a bill prohibiting the trafficking of African slaves by its own ships, what was the result?" Countless British Royal Navy raided slave ships that tried to land in Britain, so when the British Royal Navy found out about the slave trade, they would push the slaves into the sea to reduce the fine, which led to the death of slave ships by ship..... After the prohibition, the number of slaves dying on ships far exceeded the number of slaves who died on farms and factories in history!"
Pattani sneered, "Blame law and justice because the criminals are unkind?"
Cheng Mo also sneered, "The most annoying thing is that you are a fool with an ignorant sense of justice, as the world's largest slave trader, the British issued a ban on slavery not for humanitarian purposes, but to protect the stability of the domestic regime, and the number of slaves in the country cannot continue to increase, various revolutionary movements rose in the eighteenth century, including the slave revolt, although the slave revolt did not threaten British rule, but this is indeed a big trouble that must be dealt with, just at this time Adam Smith's great "The Wealth of Nations" Born out of nowhere, it states that slave labor is the most expensive of all labor, and it is also the labor of the lowest production..... Adam Smith's ideas influenced the British aristocracy, and were supported by countless bourgeoisie and politicians, to introduce the "Slavery Ban", who only pursued more efficient labor under the guise of humanitarianism, and this is the truth of what you call justice!"
Pattani was a little choked by Cheng Mo's words, and she didn't understand why a piece of historical progress that was obviously worth rejoicing in Cheng Mo's mouth was full of copper smell, and it was so bloody, Patarni was silent for a moment, and said strongly: "Even the support of interests has promoted the progress of the legal system, so that the scale of the slave trade has gradually decreased, so that there is today's freedom and equality, such justice is not justice, so what is justice?"
"How can you be more naΓ―ve than me as an Interpol, the data of 2016 reported that there are still more than 45 million people living in the modern slavery system around the world, but the form of modern slavery is completely different, basically debt slavery, these people are fishing slaves who can never see the coast, child laborers who work day and night in the big Ma factories, children who are forced to be on the streets and even made into various disabilities, and 4.5 million x slave victims who exist in various ways. That's right, this set of data includes 4.5 million X slaves, or 10% of the world's total modern enslaved population, and this number has been increasing in recent years. No, I only see sin evolving, not society....."
Patani seems to have finally found a loophole in Cheng Mo's language, and she said confidently: "So we must fight this crime all the more! Stop it from happening, and save the poor people! And what are you doing? You are complicit with criminals!"
Cheng Mo looked at Pattani with a look of pity, as if to laugh at her ignorance, "Stop? As long as human beings still exist, the crime will not stop, even if you can destroy Penglai Mountain this time, can you really stop the human trade? It's just an underground human population trading center in a different place!"
After a pause, Cheng Mo said sarcastically: "Of course, for you, you have made a great contribution to cracking a big case, but can you really stop the crime? Those who have been rescued may reappear in the market after a while, and during the period of losing Penglai Mountain, a large number of traffickers cannot find buyers, what will they do? Will they let go of the goods in their hands with a kind heart? Will they stop trading?" They're going to control costs, they're going to monetize as quickly as possible, maybe those poor modern slaves will become organ providers, maybe they'll be sold to slaughterhouses, maybe they'll starve to death without even food..... Therefore, your justice is meaningless, destroys the normal market, and will only make some people's lives more miserable, and will not save more people in dire straits..... Of course your name will appear in the newspapers, you will appear in the news, you will be respected on the Internet, you will be called heroes.... Especially you, Miss Pattani, look at you, how touching you are, so beautiful that you can sneak into the lair of criminals and get evidence of the other party's crimes.... How brilliant, how beautiful, how able to demonstrate justice!"
"However, you are only maintaining the semblance of social stability, giving people a cheap sense of security and peace of mind for the ruling class.... Look here, look here, whose kingdom does it belong to? The elites of the whole world are here to get drunk and die and release their stress, and they will not know that this is the largest population trading center?"
Pathani clenched her clothes, she did not cry in the face of a desperate situation, but at this moment she left silent tears, although she did not want to admit it, there was a great doubt in her heart, doubting whether the just cause she loved was really meaningful, and she said loudly: "You are only quibbling!
Cheng Mo turned around and walked towards Jingquan's corpse, and said without looking back: "There is no such thing as reasonable or unreasonable, evil will not be eliminated by your self-righteous sense of justice, and the progress of society and human beings can only rely on the progress of science and technology and the deepening of cognition, and you ..... It's just a tool of the ruler, so don't think you can represent justice!"
Patani looked at Cheng Mo's back and was a little confused, Cheng Mo's words gave her a great shock, but she didn't think Cheng Mo was right, but she couldn't refute it, Patani saw Cheng Mo flip out his mobile phone on Jingquan's corpse, and asked unwillingly: "Who are you?"
Cheng Mo replied: "It's okay with you, hurry up." β
Patani said stubbornly: "No! Salman can't die in vain, I want to find evidence that Penglai Island is the center of population trading, you must know!
Cheng Mo didn't even look at Patani, stood up next to Jing Quan's body, and sent a message to Jing Xing with Jing Quan's mobile phone, asking him to come to the fourth floor of the Genting Bar quickly, and after getting Jing Xing's "good" reply, Cheng Mo turned his head and glanced at Pattani and said: "It's meaningless, now that the entire Penglai Mountain has been burned down, it is estimated that this will not be the population trading center of Southeast Asia in the future." β
Pathani said with a look of surprise, "What?" She staggered to her feet from the ground, grabbed the railing of the birdcage and walked to the other side of the floor-to-ceiling glass window, where she saw a miserable scene as if war had raged.
"What's going on?" Thinking of what Cheng Mo had said, Pattani didn't have much joy in his heart, and his tone showed mixed emotions because of this.
"I am not obligated to answer your questions. Cheng Mo said coldly, then he glanced at Patani and said, "If you don't leave, I don't guarantee that you will be able to leave later!"
Pattani hesitated, "Tell me, where is the body of my colleague Salman?"
Cheng Mo was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "Help you one last time, I will send you a message to tell you where your colleague's body is, leave now, or I will handcuff you back to the railing again." β
Pattani didn't say "thank you", she buttoned up the black suit she was draping on, walked to Cheng Mo's side, forced her eyes to look at him, and said, "I will definitely find out your true identity! If you are also a criminal, I swear I will definitely catch you!"
Facing Patarni's resolute gaze, Cheng Mo said indifferently: "Arrest me, then you might as well study the Black Death and see why this evil tumor still exists until now." β
"I will!" Patani walked towards the door without looking back, and soon pushed the door open, disappearing from Cheng Mo's vision.
Cheng Mo retracted his gaze, sat on the scarlet sofa and quietly waited for the arrival of Jing Xing, he looked at the firelight and starlight all over Penglai Mountain, and thought: This world is so chaotic, light and darkness are not pure to each other, the world and history are driven by interests to roll forward, never because of human kindness, but because of the selfish genes that allow us to evolve.
What is true justice?
Perhaps only the Batman in the comics can represent true justice, in the dark, but for the light to enforce the law.
Only the shadow can stand on a fair position impartially.
"And I'm Shadow. Cheng Mo murmured in a low voice.
The voice was lonely, lucid.