Darkness is Coming

The Court of the Awakened can be independent from the secular judicial system, but it cannot avoid the pressure from the top of the parliament. Under the instigation of Yu Qian and the entire cabinet, Xu Le was finally charged with the crime of disobeying orders during wartime, and was sentenced to life imprisonment and transferred to the dream cage to serve his sentence. .

After the announcement of the verdict, there was an uproar in the circle of awakened people. Most of the awakened people firmly believed that Xu Le was only framed by mutants during the Malawi campaign, even if Xu Le left the organization and risked harming the interests of the country. Risk smuggling to the United States is a serious crime of disobedience, and should not bear such a heavy punishment.

However, at present, the number of Awakened is still relatively rare. Once they have unique superpowers, most of them can get into a good level. Therefore, the Awakened who are paying attention to this case soon learned from various channels that such a punishment is actually a kind of punishment. a rare kindness.

   At the same time, this intimidating conceptual new punishment in the Dream Cage is well known to the awakened.

  Xu Le was able to get a beautiful dream because his deeds outweighed his deeds, and he didn't actually commit a crime. If he violated the law that the awakened must abide by and the circumstances were bad, who knows what kind of dream he would be sent into?

   When it comes to punishment before, the most serious one is the death penalty. Even if it is torture that makes life worse than death, sooner or later, people will be tortured to death. As a rare and noble awakened person, it is inevitable that they will have a bit of luck that they will not be punished by literati. Even if they have no intention of breaking the law, they will subconsciously think that even if they break the law, they will not be sent to the execution field. Because each Awakened's unique superpower is a precious resource, a resource that neither the parliament nor the national government can waste.

   Maybe the prison for the Awakened is better than the Qincheng prison!

But the dream cage is different. A dream world that is real enough can make people enjoy the joy and happiness that they have never experienced before, and it can also raise the horror of punishment to an unprecedented level, allowing people to live in a world that will never die. Slowly experiencing the most terrifying punishments in the world can really make people unable to survive, and unable to die.

   What is even more frightening is that after stealing the memory of the dreamer, the dream builder can design and construct a near-real world according to his own needs.

   What does this mean? This means that the tortured Awakened loses all negotiating capital.

Imagine that you are an awakened person who is locked in a dream cage, because you have committed crimes and entered the dream cage to serve your sentence, or you are locked in a dark little dark room and subjected to various cruel tortures, or you are banished to a barren desert. You will die on your own. Finally, one day, you suddenly wake up from a dream and say to you: The country needs you, the parliament needs you, use your abilities to contribute to the people, and make up for it!

   What can you do? Desperate for revenge? Do your best to escape? But how can you be sure if this is the real world, or another dream within a dream carefully designed to test you?

   You have no choice but to obey the command you received. Oh, there seems to be a choice, you can also die, and it's better to die happily than to live in torture, isn't it?

Of course not, this is a false proposition - let's not mention that if it is a dream in a dream, you can't die even if you want to die, so if you don't die happily, it's just to find yourself unhappy - as long as the above promise is fulfilled After the mission, you can enter a better dream. Most of the prisoners who are imprisoned in the dream cage and tortured will do everything they can to risk their lives to complete the mission.

   Sad.

   is also the foreseeable future.

   Protest is useless, why? Because the protesters can't come up with a substitute, even if the Awakened and the central government work together, it is impossible to build a prison specifically for the Awakened. It may not be possible to imprison the Awakened with special abilities. Once the Awakened prisoners unite, they can organize a large-scale escape in minutes.

   In contrast, the dream cage has low cost, good utility and high safety factor. What reason do the parliament and the government have not to choose it?

As more details were revealed, the far-reaching impact of Xu Le's case was gradually revealed. Some Awakeneds who had suffered in small sections were all in danger and quickly formed a group, but they knew very well that the principle of not blaming the public for the law would not work for them. , think about how many heads were killed by President Yang and Commander Liu in Yuanjiang! Those naive idiots who thought that hugging each other to strengthen each other's courage could scare off the butcher's knife, are now dead under the knife.

  So the Awakeners who held a group thought of another way to protect themselves. They began to use relationships to exert influence on acquaintances in the parliament, in an attempt to interfere with the parliament's revision of the subsequent bill and the determination of the penalty system in this way. This move is a bit taboo, but it is still within the safety line. After all, the Council is a card table made by the three bigwigs Yang Yuliu. As long as you bring your chips, you can enter the game, provided that they abide by their rules of the game.

So far, the Awakened circle is still a very small circle, and they are somewhat related to each other, so soon, the Inner House of Representatives split into two factions on the issue of dream cages. One is radical and the other is conservative. The disappearance shows that this dispute is unprecedentedly important, so that all the neutrals couldn't help the interests thrown by the two factions and began to choose to stand in line, so that the awakened people of the two factions won over the neutrals at all costs and tried their best to persuade their opponents.

   The system for the Awakened to manage the Awakened has been formally established since this dispute with all his strength, and it has moved forward step by step in the process of exploration.

   In addition, the Xu Le case brought unexpected changes in other respects.

  For example, the identity of the dream builder Su Yue has been improved by leaps and bounds. From a little person who was ranked at the bottom of the ranking and was not valued, he became the warden of the Awakened Prison overnight. In the past, affected by the remnants of defeating the corpse, Awakeners with combat abilities always had a strong sense of superiority when they met non-combat Awakeners like Su Yue. After all, in the eyes of the former, they belonged to the latter. Protective shield, they can 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 who everyone wants to flatter, why? Not to mention that Su Yue has to meet with President Yang every day, and can reach the sky to hear, just say that Su Yue is the only builder of the dream cage, and no awakened person dares to offend her easily. Did a friend do something wrong?

This change made Su Yue both excited and distressed. There was no other reason. Because she was worried that she would be assassinated, the organization considered arranging for her the same level of security as Tang Tao, the former battalion commander of the Heavy Cavalry Battalion. Strongly opposed, but her security level still jumped up, almost no personal privacy.

   Just when most of the Awakened were worried and worried about the future changes, the elite Awakeners of the Yuanjiao Society and the Council gathered in the secret meeting room, and like the others, they frowned.