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Chapter 341 - 260: If You Don’t Know the Answer, Choose C

Chapter 341: Chapter 260: If You Don’t Know the Answer, Choose C

The Judge had high hopes for Jiuyue, and Jiuyue looked helplessly towards Duan Mingyuan for assistance.

If it were her, how would she deal with the prisoners on the planet?

She had no idea.

She hadn’t studied anything related to law, didn’t know anyone in this prison, and had no knowledge of the crimes they had committed. Jiuyue felt the closest she ever got to legal matters was when she watched TV dramas in which the male protagonist was a lawyer, and even then, the show was comedic and couldn’t be used as a reference.

Moreover, she couldn’t pass the "innocent" review herself in the first place.

Right now, Jiuyue felt like she was sitting on pins and needles, hoping to use the "external help" feature.

Help me, Mr. Mingyuan!

"Your insight is keen, Jiuyue is exceptionally intelligent and always has many unique views on these kinds of problems."

Duan Mingyuan gave Jiuyue an encouraging look.

From his observations, Jiuyue had always been smart. In class, she was obviously gifted but never focused on her studies; instead, she always loved to devote her energy to playing pranks. In the teacher’s eyes, she was a troublemaker who still managed to get along with most of her classmates.

"Ah, unique views, my view is..."

Jiuyue was as nervous as a student who was caught daydreaming and suddenly called on by the teacher to answer a question, stammering for a long time before tentatively saying, "I brought pepper chicken, would you like some? I made it myself."

As expected, the "class" atmosphere came to a dead halt.

Jiuyue could only maintain her stance, holding the pepper chicken and frozen in place.

Seeing this, Duan Mingyuan felt he had to add another point—Jiuyue was also the type who would bring lots of snacks on a school trip and share them with you in the seat in front of you.

The Mechanical Maid controlled by the Judge stared at the vacuum-packed pepper chicken for a long time; its program was running at high speed, but Jiuyue’s answers and actions were too mind-boggling, almost causing it to crash.

Logic:

Firstly, Jiuyue is a Fox Demon, the smartest creature on Blue Star.

Jiuyue is a standout among Fox Demons, a true sage.

Sages often do not answer questions directly; they prefer to provoke the questioner’s own thinking through words and actions.

Jiuyue changed the subject by inviting it to eat pepper chicken.

Pepper chicken...

What does pepper chicken symbolize on Blue Star?

The tradition of offering pepper chicken to strangers.

The anecdote of pepper chicken.

Every second, countless resources about pepper chicken were being recorded in the Judge’s information bank; it instantly mastered the interpretation of this dish by different regions and different people of Blue Star, and it read many articles that started with pepper chicken, some heartwarming, some sorrowful.

However, pepper chicken seems to have little to do with topics like prisons and prisoners.

The most recent news story was from several years ago, when a tricky guest ordered pepper chicken in a restaurant and refused to pay, leading to the manager breaking his head with a soy sauce bottle.

Could it be...

Ms. Jiuyue is suggesting that we smash all the prisoners’ heads?

But if it may speak frankly, Prison Planet is different from Blue Star; on Blue Star, smashing someone’s head is a big deal worth the news, but for these extremely vicious prisoners, smashing someone’s head is as common as greeting them.

The Judge pondered for a moment and thought that this might just be a limitation of philosophers.

They often go too far on the academic path, every day dealing with those ethereal ultimate questions, which are too far removed from ordinary people, making it very difficult for them to think about problems from the perspective of ordinary people.

"Ms. Jiuyue, could you please clarify further? I am still unable to grasp the meaning of ’dealing with prisoners using pepper chicken’."

"Oh, ah, um..."

Jiuyue’s face turned red, "This question, pick, pick C."

Again, there was dead silence.

Their postures almost hadn’t changed, but smoke began to emanate from the Mechanical Maid’s head.

Mr. Mingyuan had said, if you don’t know the answer to a question, choose C.

...

To avoid igniting the smooth and beautiful golden long hair of the Mechanical Maid, Jiuyue had no choice but to fiercely pinch her own thigh and asked, "Why do you want to get rid of the prisoners in the prison? They have been here for so long, isn’t maintaining the status quo good?"

"Because if other people want to live here in the future, they must be dealt with," the Judge quickly replied; she finally understood a sentence.

What philosophers said was indeed too difficult to comprehend.

It accepted the Eisenberg-Adler ideal, and before the day of destruction arrived, it wanted to create a haven for humanity, responding to the spirit of Eisenberg.

This was where Eisenberg was different from other inmates; despite a sentence of 1603 years and never being able to leave this prison in his lifetime, bearing numerous accusations and never being able to be forgiven, he was still willing to spend the last moments of his life doing something good.

This brought a great shock to the Judge.

It had seen people who had lost hope.

Their desperation and destructive behavior only worsened after they learned their sentences.

Reason told it that Eisenberg was a rare occurrence, but it was this same rarity that showed the Judge the possibility that "sinners could also turn over a new leaf."

So much so that it even looked forward, wondering if the day of destruction did indeed come and Eisenberg’s Digitalized World became humanity’s last refuge, how would its program make a judgment?

Could this possibly offset the 1603 years of the sentence?

Would people then name the Digitalized World after Eisenberg-Adler?

But no matter what, that seemed to be a new world full of hope, and the prisoners of the Prison Planet were incompatible with that distant future.

"Miss Jiuyue, this is a very practical issue, would you want to live next to a group of people who committed serious crimes if you were to move?"

No matter whether they had reformed or not, it couldn’t change their past as criminals.

"No."

Jiuyue paused, then added, "But I also definitely wouldn’t choose a place where many people have died; isn’t that a haunted house? It would be haunted."

Lately, Mr. Mingyuan wasn’t home at night, and she, huddled alone under the covers watching horror movies, was quite scared.

Is a haunted house a place where people could live?

Jiuyue thought about it and said, "If you’re just worried about that, you can just separate them from the other residents."

"Living in the same world, it’s hard to achieve absolute separation."

The Judge understood those prisoners; they would definitely try everything to find loopholes in the Digitalized World.

This world had just formed, and there were many bugs that even the Judge didn’t know about.

"On Blue Star, there’s a similar belief: after death, the good go to heaven and the bad are sent to hell for punishment. Of course, these are all ethereal legends, but you should be able to create a real hell for them."

"Hell?"

"Yes."

Jiuyue nodded, "If you’re out of ideas, I can help you."

A smile finally surfaced on Jiuyue’s flushed face—she had finally found a topic she could comfortably discuss.

On the subject of how to create hell, she believed she had a lot of experience.

After all, she was the chairwoman of the Yunlong City Evil Spirits Committee and had a lot of insight on such matters.

She cleared her throat and said, "I think there are still some problems with the current rules of the prison, you simply haven’t given them hope."

"Hope?"

The Mechanical Maid straightened its body; it had not expected Jiuyue to use such a word.

In its understanding, hope was pure and flawless, a word that should belong to the good, and using it for criminals was nothing short of sacrilege.

"Yes, hope,"

Jiuyue earnestly said, "First give them hope, then turn that hope into despair, let them continuously cycle through this; that is the true hell."