roccoschili Chapter 501: Choosing a Difficult Path
Chapter 501: Choosing a Difficult Path
Unable to describe her feelings, Lu Youyou felt a tightness in her chest, a feeling that she couldn't let go of.
Her mind was filled with Hu Zheng's words and Zhang Deshang's actions when they met.
Perhaps... no one was lying.
Humans are multifaceted.
She had just witnessed Zhang Deshang's polite side, but now she was seeing Hu Zheng's ruthless side.
"Youyou, I'm telling you the truth, don't be angry."
Wang Qiao hesitated, which was unlike her usual decisive and efficient self.
"You said I wouldn't be angry."
"That little black dog named Xiao Wu looks just like Xiao Hei when it was a puppy. It's injured, and I want to save it."
Lu Youyou hesitated.
Emotionally, she didn't want to see Xiao Wu, who looked just like Xiao Hei, perish in the sea of fire.
Logically, she is an adult, and it is her duty to attack thieves and maintain universal peace.
What's more, her 100,000 guards will arrive tomorrow, and she will personally lead them to attack the Thief Planet.
In any case, those thieves all met their end in death.
There's no need for me to play the role of a compassionate person here.
She hardened her heart.
“Wang Qiao, we’re going to attack them tomorrow. It might be a good thing if they die here. It’s better than watching all the thieves on the planet die tomorrow.”
Wang Qiao stared into Lu Youyou's eyes and gently shook his head.
"Youyou, you've misunderstood. The universe has its own laws. You don't have to die just because you did something wrong. Think about it carefully. What is our purpose in attacking the Thief Planet?"
Before Lu Youyou could speak, Wang Qiao took over.
"Besides gaining fame, we need an empty planet to build a cosmic prison to house those lowly monsters from the survival world who are trying to atone for their sins."
“Youyou, if all those thieves were sentenced to death, I would help you kill them. But right now we don’t even know if Xiao Wu has killed anyone else. Are we just going to watch it die?”
“I can’t do it. I always thought I was a heartless person, but then I found out… Xiao Wu and Xiao Hei are too similar. I also saw a chick among the group of thieves, like my angel, and a snake, like my Mengmeng.”
As Wang Qiao spoke, her eyes reddened.
"Youyou, I'm acting a bit irrationally. Why don't you knock me out? But before I do, I want to say something: I'm not against you. I will always support any decision you make."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Qiao saw that Lu Youyou had no intention of knocking her unconscious, so he took out a sleeping pill from his backpack compartment.
Just as I was about to swallow, I felt a sharp pain on the back of my hand.
Lu Youyou knocked the sleeping pill out of her hand.
“You’re right, the universe has laws, and I trust my eyes and my feelings.”
After saying that, Lu Youyou pushed open the teleporter's hatch.
Hu Zheng, with his sharp eyes, was the first to spot Lu Youyou, and he folded his wings and landed beside her.
"Sir, it's fortunate that you only encountered a small squad today. If we had encountered a large army of thieves, we really wouldn't have been able to handle it in a short time."
Lu Youyou went straight to the point: "Don't kill them, arrest them, hold a collective trial, and sentence them according to their crimes."
Hu Zheng's smile froze.
"Sir, are you feeling sorry for the thieves? Have you thought about the children who were killed by them?! How difficult it is to raise a child! Just because those inhuman monsters wanted to steal food, they killed children!"
Lu Youyou knew that Hu Zheng was an impatient person, so she wasn't angry when he was shouted at in public.
She asked only one question calmly.
"Can you guarantee that all thieves have killed children of every race in the universe?"
Hu Zheng fell silent.
Not only could he not guarantee it, but he could also name the thieves who had never killed children.
“Hu Zheng, the universe has laws. The fact that the former leader was able to send those criminals to the survival world to atone for their sins shows that he didn’t want the entire universe to become a cold-blooded place.”
"You've been with the former master for so long, you should know about an item called a memory connector, right? I recently replicated it, and I'll have those thieves wear it so their past will be immediately clear."
"Kill those who deserve to die immediately, and imprison those who don't according to their crimes. I don't favor anyone; I just want to make the universe more orderly."
Hu Zheng sighed.
How could he not know the good intentions of his predecessor?
However, with the constant presence of thieves, he lost sight of his original aspirations.
His only thought now is to eradicate all the thieves so that no new ones will emerge.
But the thieves, despite killing several waves, couldn't be killed, and their methods even became more sophisticated than before.
"My lord, the path you have chosen is very difficult to walk."
Lu Youyou: "I want to give it a try, at least to have a clear conscience."
Hu Zheng gave Lu Youyou a deep look and made up his mind.
He flew high into the sky, spreading his wings to deliver a message, ordering his men to stop.
After greeting Lu Youyou, they left in the teleporter.
With the fireballs gone, the flames on the ground gradually died down.
Zhang Deshang was in better condition. Although he had many burns, he was in good spirits and his eyes showed relief and a smile.
His men fared much worse; some were burned to death, leaving only charred remains.
Some people lay on the ground, half-dead, unable to catch their breath for a long time.
Lu Youyou opened her watch and released Xiao Ya from the pet space, letting it feed the surviving people the basic universal pills.
She had her own agenda.
Feeding them pills was a way to keep them alive to face trial.
The reason for not feeding them high-grade pills was to prevent them from turning against the butterfly family and themselves after they recovered.
Lu Youyou never expected that the crow she carried with her, which she intended to use as a protective weapon, would end up being her little nurse.
Zhang Deshang took the pills and stopped bleeding, but the scars and pain remained.
He grinned and approached Lu Youyou, asking in confusion, "Why did you save us?"
Lu Youyou retorted, "So you committed a capital crime?"
Zhang Deshang smiled bitterly: "I look like this, and I don't have any special abilities. I've already committed a capital crime, haven't I?"
"What do you look like? You're just like an octopus. I don't see any deformity."
Zhang Deshang: ...
"Forget it, there's no point in trying to reason with you humans."
"Have you ever killed anyone?"
"No."
He spoke so matter-of-factly that Lu Youyou stared at him intently: "I don't believe it."
"I have never killed a human being; I have only killed those humanoid beings."
"Humanoid? A race with human-like features?"
Zhang Deshang nodded.
"My lord, you should have noticed by now that we are all pure monsters, without any human characteristics."
We don't have multiple abilities, which is why we usually appear in groups, using a combination of the abilities of various monsters.
Lu Youyou asked, puzzled, "Why are you telling me all this?"
"My lord, you say I'm like an octopus, but my race says I'm not like an octopus, so I gave myself a human name. Does it sound nice?"
Lu Youyou nodded haphazardly: "It's alright, I guess. It's passable."
Zhang Deshang suddenly asked curiously, "Are there any humans with the surname Zhang? The Zhang of octopus."
"Have."
Zhang Deshang's eyes lit up, and he cheered, "Great! Are there any humans with the surname Hei? Like the Hei in 'black dog'?"
"Yes, but they are very rare."
Zhang Deshang turned his head and said to Xiao Wu behind him, "Did you hear that? There's someone with the surname Hei. From now on, you'll be called Hei Wu."
"Woof woof, good!"
Zhang Deshang then asked, "Are there any people with the surname Snake?"
"Yes, but they are very rare."
Are there any people with the surname "Tu" (兔)?
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