Chapter 14: I Still Think So, Freedtrika

"—So, I don't want him to be attacked by those people."

Kasumi turned her chair around and looked at the somewhat obese director of the orange cat behind her.

In the midst of Dodkison's sigh, Kasumi said seriously, "I also don't want people to regret what they said and did now when they calm down again."

If it had been two years ago, when Kasumi had not yet left the school, she would have been angry at the stupidity of these people, and she would have lost her mind; If it had been a year ago, when Kasumi had just met Ultramarine, she would have felt sad and disappointed for these people, confused about the path she had chosen, and hesitant about her future. If six months ago, she hadn't undergone neurological modification and had been tormented by unspeakable pain, she would have gone to someone she trusted, such as Ultramarine, Ice Water, or her father Dodkison, to ask what she should do.

But today's Xia is completely different from her then.

"When people calm down..... it won't take long for them to realize that what they're doing will only make the overall chaos on the island of happiness worsen, and any short-term benefits they get will only be taken away several times over in the long run - or more explicitly, when they realize that the 'order' and 'rules' on the island of happiness are actually protecting them from robbery, they will have to calm down."

Xia's tone became as cold and indifferent as ice water, like a handful of ice water: "They don't have clear evil thoughts in their hearts, nor do they firmly walk on the path of harming others and benefiting themselves. It's just their fear and anxiety that make their bestiality stand out, hysterical like wounded beasts.

"They don't know what they're doing. The eyes of the masses are not always clear, or in other words, the masses can only see the reality in front of them and the presentIn the age of the Internet, it is easier for those with ill intentions to take advantage of this characteristic."

"..... the tone in which you say this is like ice water."

Dodkison said helplessly, "It's not like you can say anything at all."

He kept wiping the sweat from his forehead, but the sweat was also leaching out as he wiped it.

Part of the reason is that the weather has started to get hotter lately, and fat people are not so resistant to heat; Another part of the reason is that he just received a text message from his daughter and rushed back from the company.

"Because that's what Ice Water said."

Kasumi admitted calmly, "And the sentence at the beginning is a revision of a sentence that my brother said before."

"You're really good at learning from others..."

"Because I really don't know anything but study."

Kasumi sighed, a look of loss on her face, "I'm basically sure that most of the time Bingshui and my brother are fine."

"Indeed."

Dodgerson nodded, not caring about the leak and telling Kasumi the truth, "At least the board didn't do it."

"Sure enough," Xia nodded clearly, "Brother, he disappeared suddenly, and he really had a special plan."

"..... when did you become so close to Russell? I remember you used to call him Ultramarine, embarrassed to call him by his first name."

"Probably because I grew up. The girl's heart, which would feel shy just by calling the other person's name, has disappeared with all kinds of bad luck."

Kasumi was silent for a while, then looked at Mark who was frozen on the screen beside him and raised his hands angrily before replying in a low voice.

Her voice was calm, "That's your problem, old man. A female college student like me, who has just graduated, has to grow up to deal with all this damn shit..."

"..... I can't say anything, you know."

In the eyes of ordinary people, Dodkison, as the director of the Big Seven, is undoubtedly the spokesperson for the words "big shots" that everyone can say and everyone loves to say. But now he only smiled bitterly, admitting his incompetence in front of the daughter he loved: "It's like Bingshui accepting her mother who doesn't exist.....

"—Haven't you already accepted the fact that Dad doesn't really have any power?"

"Yes, that's why I'm able to tolerate the many evils of the island of happiness."

Kasumi turned her head, looked into Dodkison's eyes, and said with great seriousness, "Otherwise, I will ask you to give people fairness and return the facts to justice. It is precisely because I know that there is no fairness in this world that I want to find that 'justice' myself.

"—I found it, old man."

As she spoke, she pointed to the screen next to her.

Kasumi reached out and tapped the screen lightly.

Mark, who had raised his hands in anger, raised his voice in the loudest voice of the crowd who were cursing at him—in his voice, which had been mellow and calm, but now had broken his throat and had become hoarse, and said, "Listen to me, and everyone must exercise restraint! Companies want us to be chaotic, they want us to hate each other – but we don't have to!

"Listen to me, calm down and think about it! If the day of resource depletion is imminent, then it is impossible for the market price to not fluctuate before; The big guys are even less likely to watch you loot your goods, can you beat the mercenaries and the assassins? And if the time for the resource to run out is much later, then what everyone is doing now is wasting the few resources that are left.

"And we only know that there are resources that will run out – but what resources are going to run out? Is it fuel or food? Is it ore or crude oil? We simply don't know! Stop listening to the unscrupulous media that peddle anxiety!"

Mark's voice was drowned out by the crowd of curses, the cries of children, the screams of assault or theft, and the crash of fists against flesh.

"—do you mean Miss Dailan is lying to us?"

Agitated voices were heard in the crowd.

Then another angry shout followed: "She's been sniped, do you still want to believe it? This is information from the chief reporter risking his life, do you mean that Ultramarines are also lying to us? Is the barber lying to us?"

"But Miss Dairy's words are not that the world is about to be destroyed! If this news came from the Tian'en Daily, then there must be other people besides Dailan who would have known, but none of them, including Miss Dailan, had rushed to buy the money - that would be a long time later! You see that the board of directors is not responding now..... this is very simple logic!"

Mark tried his best to reason, but unfortunately no one listened.

What he said was indeed a truth that could be easily deduced. But people's brains have been burned to the point of dry blood, and no one has even used their brains to think about it for a moment.

And Kasumi watched all this outside the screen and said calmly, "This is justice.

"When I was a kid, you told me...... Right and wrong have their own justice, and justice is at ease in the hearts of the people. Seeing all this, do you still think so?" After a long silence, Dodkison looked up.

The orange cat, who always seemed to have a good temper and squinted eyes, opened his eyes for the first time in a long time.

The emerald green of his pupils was still visible, and his voice was still steady.

"—I still think so, Freedtrika."

Dodgerson replied with great seriousness.