"I still need to ask what the two of you are looking for for," Tang Ye turned his head and said casually.
Xu Haishui touched his nose and said, "Don’t you know what happened yesterday?"
"What happened?"
"There was a death."
"A death?" Tang Ye furrowed his eyebrows. That phrase sounded too simple in the post-apocalyptic world, but coming from Xu Haishui himself, it was anything but simple.
"Yes, just yesterday, soone in the Second Army Corps hoarded duty equipnt and attacked the Eighth Army Corps between two to four o’clock in the morning, damaging five dormitory buildings and resulting in seventy-four deaths and over two hundred injuries, both serious and minor."
"The reason for this incident was objections raised by the Eighth Army Corps at three o’clock yesterday morning regarding the death of Ding Fulong, leading to a midnight operation attacking the Second Army Corps and causing over thirty deaths in the Second Army Corps."
"How was it dealt with?"
Xu Haishui glanced at Gong Xiao. It seed like the latter also knew he had done sothing wrong, looked dissatisfied for a mont, and then lowered his head, muttering softly, "It’s not like you didn’t teach to be forgiving, Boss."
Xu Haishui ignored Gong Xiao and continued, "It’s not her fault though, yesterday when those attackers from the Eighth Army Corps retaliated against the Second Army Corps, they should have been killed on the spot, but Gong Xiao, seeing that they were seeking revenge for a comrade... let them go." Xu Haishui spoke the last few words very quickly, then added, "The final punishnt was fifteen days in building eighteen, which is half a month."
"This punishnt caused discontent within the Second Army Corps, and then this morning, they carried out the sa actions. The punishnt was more or less the sa, General Huang Quanjiu, to avoid affecting the morale of the Second Army Corps, didn’t enforce the usual punishnt but also sentenced them to building eighteen for a month. Moreover, the Second Army Corps willingly reduced their own Yajin to double the monthly Yajin distributed to all personnel of the Eighth Army Corps, that is, triple the monthly Yajin."
Tang Ye glanced at Gong Xiao, who still kept his head down and didn’t dare speak, causing Tang Ye to frown.
Indeed, inappropriate leniency could lead to greater reckless behavior. He had strictly said at the establishnt of the Peace Party that human-on-human slaughter was not allowed within the Peace Party. Until now, while the Peace Party controlled the vast United District, fratricide remained an inviolable red line!
Anyone who dared cross this line had only one fate—death!
And Gong Xiao’s leniency had created an exception to this issue, and this exception was a breach of ironclad laws!
Instinct told Tang Ye that such incidents couldn’t happen again.
"This matter has been dealt with."
"It’s long over. We just ca to ask for your opinion. This issue is not minor, and if left unchecked, it could affect the developnt of the United District."
"Let bygones be bygones," Tang Ye said, then, looking at Gong Xiao, ordered, "Raise your head, look at ."
"Boss," Gong Xiao weakly responded and then slowly raised his head. "Let this matter go, but I have to remind you, leniency must be governed by the tis, and any leniency must be within the rules. Crossing the line of rules, no matter the reason, is the most foolish. Tomorrow, you will spend a couple of days at the Enforcent Departnt. Without punishing you, others would have loose tongues outside."
"Gosh, you’re second-guessing after the event. When it first happened, there was no issue; as soon as it escalates, you turn your back."
Gong Xiao scornfully glanced at Tang Ye, who pretended not to see.
Who could have foreseen such a thing? He wasn’t a prophet.
Then, Tang Ye turned to Xu Haishui and said, "Let’s leave it at that with what Huang Quanjiu did today, but from today onwards, and every day in the future, if sothing like this happens again, shoot them imdiately, regardless of the reasons. Also, starting now, except for the vice-chairperson, no one in the managent, including the Generals, is allowed to change the United District’s rules on their own. After the drill, send soone to post the notice. I don’t want to keep seeing exceptions."
"Alright," Xu Haishui nodded.
But soon, he heard Tang Ye ask, "What’s the status of the attackers from yesterday morning?"
"Two are dead, nad Wang Dabiao and Cao Hongzhi."
"What about those from the Second Army Corps?"
"Four died, all Level 3 New Humans, who were beaten to death by the Eighth Army Corps yesterday morning."
"Don’t do half a year or a month for these people anymore, give them all one year! Don’t think that being alive ans they can take it easy; inform the guards in building eighteen to watch them closely! Make them train every day, with one al a day until they collapse!"
"Yes."
"Notify Ah Fu, let’s go."
Tang Ye waved his hand and left with Xu Haishui and Gong Xiao. The snow outside fell heavier, but today was a special day as the Peace Party’s Death Knight Corps had just replaced all the Death Knights’ mounts with Level 4 and above zombie beasts, and Tang Ye was eager to see the combat power of the Death Knight Corps.
Since the morning, what started as a trickle of snowflakes had beco larger, and now, the green strips on the roadside had begun to show specks of silvery white.
Pedestrians walking by left a trail of dampness.
"It’s snowing!"
"Yay! It’s snowing!"
As Tang Ye and his companions drove down the street, ahead several children with joyful smiles on their faces ran out into the road, their laughter uniquely childlike. They didn’t seem to worry that winter would bring any disasters, as it seed they always knew this place would remain the sa, with no one dying from the cold.
"Here cos a bunch of cars, where are they heading?"
"I don’t know!"
"Let’s build a snowman!"
"Let’s go ask them where they’re going."
A little girl ran toward the car Tang Ye was in, startling the driving soldier who quickly slowed down, and when the girl got close, he stopped abruptly.
"Be careful," Tang Ye warned the soldier, then rolled down the window and looked at the little girl, full of curiosity.
"What are you doing?" Tang Ye asked.
The little girl didn’t seem shy at all, smiling brightly she said, "Uncle, are you going to watch the soldiers’ performance?"
Tang Ye exchanged a glance with Xu Haishui, and instantly understood that the little girl was referring to today’s drill by the Death Knight Corps.
"Well, uncle, can you take us? We want to go too. Our parents left early in the morning and didn’t take us with them."
Tang Ye smiled, petted the little girl’s head, and said, "You can’t go, sweetheart. Your parents didn’t agree, and didn’t they tell you not to follow strangers?"
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