"I ate before!"
One child raised his hand, and the miners were somewhat silent.
Mines are just like concentration camps. Life is not guaranteed, let alone food every day.
Starving and freezing are the daily routine of all the victims here.
"Now, please vote again to decide whether he will live or whether he will die and vote for execution. Please raise your hands."
The shield guard who was presiding over the trial process stood up, and the miners below were chatting with each other.
"I think although this man is terrible, he is not worthy of being executed. He is also a poor man."
"He is not worthy of pity. He has beaten and scolded us. Anyone who has bullied us should pay a corresponding price. Otherwise, if you forgive him, you will be sorry for those relatives who have died."
Obviously, there are people supporting both opinions, but the former has more support. Most miners believe that the fat white bear should not die, so only a few people raised their hands and voted for execution.
Majority versus minority, another vote clearly had a result. The fat white bear soldier was spared by the miners, and he was able to live.
"Huh~"
The fat white bear soldier breathed a sigh of relief, his legs were still a little weak, but just when the black armored shield guard came up to take him away, a small hand was raised when others put down their hands, and a childish voice sounded: "This unfair!"
"Xiko, what are you talking about? Everyone agrees."
The friend next to me pulled the sleeve of the open little girl beside me.
"Yes, everyone agrees. Even I agree that this person does not need to be executed, but I don't agree that he can be let off easily without having to do anything."
Xi Ke pointed at the fat white bear soldier.
"He once whipped my father many times. I think he can avoid being executed, but at least he must be whipped back. One, no, one is not enough, at least three whips before I can forgive him."
If Xi Ke is serious, he will give all miners a warning.
Death penalty can be avoided, but living crime cannot be avoided.
"That's right, I have to whip him at least a few times before I can forgive him."
Compared to letting him go or killing him outright, this kind of intermediate punishment turned out to be just right. There were no surprises. This statement won the approval of all the infected miners.
When everyone agreed, the result of the trial changed from "let him go" to "must whip him a few times to relieve his anger before he can let him go".
Although this was not the best injury-free result, compared to those sentenced to execution, the fat white bear soldier happily accepted this punishment.
After that, the other guards who were tried did not fall out of the following three categories:
First, he is a villain who is full of malice and hostility towards the infected, and rises to the level of evil in his daily behavior;
Second, they are soldiers who do not have much malice towards the infected, but still have a repulsive mentality towards the infected and act according to the orders of their superiors;
Third, they are ordinary people who have some goodwill and empathy towards the infected, but due to environmental reasons, they can only try their best to provide help through similar evil behaviors.
Among them, the second type of people are the most numerous. They have nothing to do with themselves and only follow the orders of their superiors.
During this period, they followed orders and killed many infected people. The miners also knew that their relatives died at the hands of these people. This is an indelible hatred.
Because these people have never sympathized with the miners, so at this moment, the miners cannot sympathize with or forgive these people.
The number of people in the first category is second. Under the continuous propaganda of the Ursus Empire for more than ten years, the image of the infected has already been somewhat demonized.
For anyone who believes this, it is completely normal to hate infected people.
But strictly speaking, this is more like an unlucky person theory. For example, if there is a recognized unlucky person around you, when you suddenly have bad luck one day, you will not think that you are really unlucky at the first time. Instead, he would think that it was the unlucky guy who made him unlucky.
Even if that unlucky guy didn't do anything, you would still think so.
The infected are the ones recognized as the 'unlucky ones', and all bad things can be blamed on them, including some guard troops who will send themselves to the Snowfield Mine, this cold and cold place, to serve as guards. The misfortune was blamed on the infected miners.
This kind of people have deep-rooted prejudice against infected people, and their attitude towards infected people is also the worst. Similarly, infected people do not give these people a good look. Except for the fat white bear who looks evil on the surface, basically all of them were voted to execute this person. result.
As for the third category of people, they are the smallest group of people, because there are only a few people who do not follow the trend or blindly follow the crowd, let alone go against the trend and do things that are unsociable and even put themselves at risk.
Therefore, after the public trial, only 11 of the 67 prison guards were brought back to the place where they were previously held and imprisoned again, while the remaining 56 guards were imprisoned. He tied his hands with a rope and drove to the snow outside the mine.
The snow is very white, and yesterday's red color has been covered by the continuous and non-stop light snow.
Just like what happened here in the past, it's just that this time the people holding weapons and preparing to be executed, and the people standing on the snow waiting to be executed, have moved away from each other.
After the sound of firing the crossbows, the snow here turned red again. After the execution of the miners holding crossbows that originally belonged to the guard army, some people knelt down and howled directly on the snow. .
"Mom, did you see it down there? Your son has avenged you!"
The young man with black horn clenched his fists and smashed them on the snow. He was laughing and crying, but he was shouting.
And this person was just one of the miners who was present, venting his emotions, and infected.
Yelena held the crossbow with no arrows in her hand. As the first elected representative, she had just killed a guarding soldier with a crossbow arrow, but she did not feel as happy and happy as others...
On the contrary, the girl felt confused.
Is this really the right thing to do?
Will doing this really make my grandmother who is sleeping here feel gratified or even happy?
Yelena didn't know, but she vaguely felt that it wouldn't be the case because her grandmother was a person who loved life.
When I was still alive, someone among the soldiers guarding the mine got sick, and my grandmother was willing to step forward and treat that person.
The man who had been treated was not sentenced to execution yet. Among the eleven people who were still alive, his name was Pitner. He was a cold-faced man who occasionally gave food to children.
Wu Ke stood on the white snow not far away, the cold wind blowing his gray cloak in the air. Looking at the crying and laughing people over there, his inner emotions were a little complicated and indescribable.
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