C119 – Voting Post

The next day, at another hospital roughly a hundred kilometers away from the one before, the same situation occurred, with a number of people being taken to the hospital and treated for problems in their mental domains.

 

This caused more and more people to panic. If it was just one incident, they could still watch the event as complete bystanders, but if two, three, or even the next one was likely to happen near them, it would be difficult for them to continue to watch irrelevantly.

 

Therefore, there were more and more people accusing the owner underneath the post, hoping that he would stop this behavior that was extremely bad in nature, while at the same time, they ran to the military department’s official account underneath to ask about the progress of the investigation into this matter, hoping that this serious problem would be solved as soon as possible.

 

Just as everyone was feeling more and more angry and worried, the building owner had a new audio reply: [He Yishu, by now, do you want to continue to shrink back?]

 

Underneath this audio, there were various replies very quickly.

 

Reply #1: What the hell does that mean? What on earth does Rune Card Big Brother have to do with this? Can you please make it clear?

 

Passerby #2: Stop talking nonsense! There’s no way this has anything to do with Rune Card Big Brother. You’re just trying to frame him!

 

Passerby #3: If you really hate He Yishu, then go to him directly and use that potion on him! We are all just innocent people. Who are you to destroy our mental domains?

 

Passerby #4: Where is He Yishu? Hasn’t he been mentioned several times in this thread? Why hasn’t he shown up? Has he done something wrong and is hiding on purpose?

 

Passerby #5: Upstairs, please use your brain when you talk. This matter has nothing to do with him, so why does he have to come out?

 

Passerby #6: You’re the one with the problem. How do you know he has nothing to do with this? Even for the sake of everyone’s safety, he should be brave enough to come forward!

 

Passerby #7: Some of the people upstairs have big faces. Who are you to Rune Card Big Brother? You’re not Adrian, so why should he stand up for you? This kind of logic doesn’t exist!

 

 

Passerby No. 8: I’m covering my chest in frustration. Argue, just argue; don’t scatter dog food randomly, okay? This will cause harm to friendly parties.

[TN: dog food— PDA – Public Display of Affection]

……

 

Just like that, under this reply, a group of passersby directly argued, and they argued very ferociously.

 

With a very pleasant mood, He Yishu spectated the quarrel and recorded the names of those who supported him and those who wanted him to stand up for himself.

 

Then, he suddenly thought of something very interesting, and just as He Yishu was about to turn this idea into reality, his light device suddenly flashed with a string of unfamiliar communication numbers.

 

If it were according to his past habits, when he saw an unfamiliar communication number, He Yishu would have nonchalantly hung up directly; after all, there were just too many people who wanted to find him for various reasons nowadays.

 

But today, He Yishu’s mood was really good, so after hesitating for a while, he chose to connect to the video communication.

 

As soon as the video communication was connected, a figure that made him extremely surprised appeared in his line of sight: “He Yishu, hello.”

 

“Dean, hello.” The person who appeared in front of He Yishu was none other than the dean of the First Academy.

 

“I’m sorry to disturb you at a time like this, but there’s one thing that I must express my opinion on.” At this moment, the dean was sitting behind his desk, both of his hands crossed on the desk. His expression looked very serious, as if he were making a difficult decision. “Before this, I received an anonymous letter; they requested that I hand you over for the sake of other people’s safety, or at least not allow you to remain in the First Academy.”

 

He Yishu slowly sat up straight, but it looked like he wasn’t affected by the dean’s words; on the contrary, a small amount of amusement grew in his eyes. “So what does the dean intend to do?”

 

The dean sighed heavily and raised his eyebrows. “I did struggle; after all, the first academy is very important to me, and if the first academy is brought into disrepute because of this matter, I will also be personally affected. But you likewise haven’t made any mistakes, much less violated the discipline of the First Academy; if I were to kick you out of the First Academy because of this matter, it would be an equally difficult choice for me, so…”

 

Saying this, the dean fell silent.

 

He Yishu looked straight into the dean’s eyes and said, “So?”

 

“So ……” The dean’s gaze also landed on He Yishu’s face as he solemnly said, “I choose to let you continue to stay in the First Academy, or at least I won’t force you to leave here.”

 

This answer caused He Yishu to be a little surprised, but it quickly faded: “Has the dean really made a decision? Although it’s true that I haven’t done anything that violates the discipline of the First Academy, if the dean really wants to kick me out, it’s actually very easy to find a suitable excuse, right?”

 

“It is indeed very easy, but I am also really not prepared to do so,” the dean’s fingertips tapped on the table a few times, his brows finally gradually loosened. “Excuses are used to convince others, but the one who makes the decision is oneself; if I can’t find a sufficient reason to convince myself, even if I can convince all the other people, so what?”

 

“The Dean has made such a choice. Shouldn’t I express my gratitude?” He Yishu’s gaze flickered slightly.

 

“You’re just getting the treatment you deserve. Why should you express gratitude?” The dean shook his head, slightly smiling. “And I made this choice after weighing the pros and cons. I’m more willing to believe in the benefits that you might bring to me, to the first academy, than I am to believe in some guy who hides his head, so you don’t need to be grateful to me at all.”

 

Hearing such a frank answer from the dean, He Yishu finally completely let go of his suspicions: “No matter what reason you made this choice, you will get your due reward because of this choice.”

 

Although He Yishu didn’t make his words very clear, the dean obviously understood his meaning smoothly and smiled as he admonished, “Although the First Academy is a relatively safe place, there are students from all over the universe here, so it’s best for you to pay extra attention to your personal safety during this period of time.”

 

“Thank you, Dean, for your concern; I will.” He Yishu smiled and thanked him as well, and the conversation between the two of them went on very pleasantly.

 

After a few more heartfelt chats, He Yishu hung up the communication, and then he immediately contacted Adrian. After briefly mentioning the matter that he had just communicated with the dean of the first academy, He Yishu went on to state his intentions regarding this incident.

 

 

After listening to He Yishu’s plan, Adrian couldn’t help but laugh: “Xiao Yishu, don’t you think you’re too bad?”

 

He Yishu raised his eyebrows and asked exaggeratedly, “Would you not like me because I’m too bad?”

 

“Of course not.” Adrian’s voice was extraordinarily low, and there was an ambiguous undertone: “I will only like you… more.”

 

Yishu subconsciously trembled and reached out to cover his ears. He felt that his ears might be pregnant: “No more talking to you; I’m about to do something bad.”

 

“Go ahead; when I go back at night, I’ll do other bad things with you.” Adrian intentionally aggravated his tone with the words ‘bad things,’ and the laughter in his voice became more obvious.

 

He Yishu hung up the communication with his heart racing, and after taking a few deep breaths and calming his emotions, he really started doing bad things.

 

He directly ran to the virtual network and posted a voting post. The title was simple and clear, and the voting options in the post were also very simple; there were only two, one for He Yishu and one for the others.

 

In order to prevent someone from not having enough intelligence to properly understand the meaning of these two options, He Yishu also thoughtfully explained them below.

 

Warm reminder: If you support me, please choose [He Yishu]. If you support me to sacrifice myself for others, please choose [Others]. I will use everyone’s voting result as one of the bases for the next behavioral planning.

 

Once this post came out, the virtual network immediately exploded, and all the people who were concerned about this matter all flooded in.

 

Concerned Passerby #1: Crap! Rune Card Big Brother actually showed up! Let’s take a picture!

 

Concerned passerby No. 2: So the significance of this post is that if there are more votes in support of the self-sacrifice of the boss in the end, will the boss really have to sacrifice himself? Terrified! Rune Card boss, you must remain calm. You don’t need to sacrifice yourself for others at all!

 

Outraged Passerby No. 3: Hehe, the person involved is finally willing to step forward, but don’t you think it’s a bit late? If you had known things would end up like this, shouldn’t you have stepped forward earlier? You could have saved more people!

 

Passerby No. 4: Why did someone actually choose the second option? It’s incomprehensible! If this happened to you and someone asked you to sacrifice yourself for others for some unfounded reason, would you really choose to sacrifice yourselves?

 

Passerby No. 5: But this incident was originally caused by him, and the people who were victimized are the most innocent ones, okay? Why should other people pay for their own sins?

 

Outraged Passerby 6: For those of you who think that Rune Card Big Brother is to blame for this, tell us what Big Brother has done to deserve your blame. Is it because he created Han character cards, which made the entire rune card industry take a big step forward? Or was it because he was willing to share his way of making Han character cards with others and made such a selfless choice? Those people who suffered misfortune were indeed innocent, but isn’t the Rune Card Master innocent? He’s just a victim, too!

……

 

As Outraged Passerby 6 said, at least in this current situation, there wasn’t any evidence that proved that He Yishu did have something to do with this matter, so in the end, he was also just a victim who had been deliberately defamed and framed by others.

 

Yet there were many who had already directly criminalized him, even ridiculously treating self-sacrifice as He Yishu’s obligation.

 

And along with these heated arguments, there were more and more people participating in the voting.

 

In the beginning, the people who voted in favor of He Yishu were in the majority; after all, there were many people who were sensible, and even if there were a few people who chose the second option, it only accounted for a very small percentage.

 

However, as time passed, when the third incident of the Empire’s people suffering damage to their mental domains occurred, and after more people suffered from unwarranted disasters, the number of votes for He Yishu to come forward, sacrifice himself, and save the others became larger and larger as well.

 

Everyone was worried that such an event would fall on them, and driven by such self-interest, what choices would they make? It could be imagined.

 

Watching the number of votes for the second option in the post rise higher and higher, He Yishu’s mood, instead of being adversely affected, became more pleasant.

 

The moment he thought of the cruel truth that these people were about to face, he felt extraordinarily comfortable.

 

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