Chapter 445: Chapter 445: Short Videos Are Not Official Announcements (Part 4)
[That’s right, why keep prisoners, just kill them all to save trouble.]
[Calm down, these are all high-value captives who can provide valuable confessions, not a single soldier among them, didn’t you notice?]
[Hmm... fine, if they’re high-value captives, I agree to interrogate them thoroughly before executing them.]
The heated discussions among netizens sparked a trending topic about how to handle prisoners, attracting streamers from various fields to post short videos expressing their views.
Some of these views were radical, while others were moderate, with differences on how many women and children should be killed, but all agreed that the main culprits must die.
High-value captives were social elites, leading to opinions that both spouses should die, or that they should take their adult children, especially those with inheritance rights, who as inheritors enjoyed better resources and treatment than their siblings from birth.
The topic then expanded to non-inheritors, who, despite lacking inheritance rights, held key positions due to their skills and had gained a lot during the war; such people should also die, and only those truly not benefiting should barely survive.
When discussing children, the conversation naturally turned to how to define Otherworld’s minors by their standards.
Due to the significant height difference between the two worlds, Otherworld children are about 1.4 to 1.5 meters tall at age three, yet they are indeed infants.
For such young children, netizens agreed not to kill them, as they weren’t responsible for their elders’ sins, but for those over ten, whether to kill them led to fierce debates among netizens.
Apart from these noble families, there were also the wizard apprentices in the wizard group, mostly teenagers or under 20, and once they upgraded to official junior apprentices, as per Otherworld countries’ customs, they had to go to Blue Star to join the frontline forces.
Therefore, Dahua Country’s netizens saw wizard apprentices as reserves, sparking debates about whether to kill them; some said simply shoot them all, while others found the wizard system intriguing, suggesting investigating if Dahua citizens could become wizards, thus rendering these old wizards unnecessary.
This discussion lasted several days, though as the authorities released new videos, netizens, after commenting, returned to the topic of whether to kill the prisoners.
Seeing the public opinion becoming increasingly passionate, many cylindrical granaries were erected within East Ridge Secret Realm over three to four days.
These were all Space Storage Awakened from the army, who used their space to bring them in; after setting up the granaries, they contacted Ye Nai to buy grain.
During the day, Ye Nai trained hard in the training ground, and after dinner in the evening, she entered the East Ridge Secret Realm to work.
Blue Star’s evening corresponded to the Secret Realm’s morning; even if the program crew woke up early, they wouldn’t go out filming so early. She quietly went and filled all those granaries, settled in points, immediately exchanged on the leaderboard, rising from Silver Level to Gold Level, while deliberately controlling her points, hung at the bottom of the board.
With netizens’ focus on debating the execution of prisoners, no one watched the leaderboard, so the decision was made to push Ye Nai up.
Those newly filled granaries still took only a tiny part of Ye Nai’s stockpile, enough to feed the prisoners until they faced trial and execution.
Ye Nai also sold some fresh meat; two large trailers used for storing fresh meat and beast hides in the space were already overflowing, with several large compartments filled with fungus.
Mainly because it was so easy to hunt in the Otherworld, Ye Nai relied on space transmission for travel, unless mutant beasts ambushed her as soon as she exited the transmission port; otherwise, she wouldn’t actively hunt.
Moreover, if the assailant was an advanced mutant beast, she would even let them go.
In her view, advanced mutant beasts providing Advanced Heart Cores sit at the top of the food chain, and after being overhunted for many years, are now rare protected species. Thinking this planet will eventually become Dahua Country’s territory, she felt preserving them was essential for biodiversity.
But ordinary mutant beasts without Heart Core value, daring to attack her, would directly be turned into beast meat and hides.
The military logistics happily bought everything with cash.
For delivery, Ye Nai even rode along to the cold storage once.
After the handover, Ye Nai produced a whole deer, having the logistics send it via the military to the East Ridge City Armed Department, telling them about her mother’s ordeal at the original workplace in May; at the time, using a cow, she had leveraged the East Ridge City Government and Armed Department to solve the problem, planning to deliver a deer as thanks after returning from the frontline.
With Ye Nai’s current status, it was not suitable for her to send gifts in her name, so handing it to the military was fitting.
The logistics department readily handled it, packing it up and setting off the next day, promising to deliver the gift with a suitable reason.
The next day, the batch of grain Ye Nai had just sold appeared in an official video, conveying that the prisoners’ food had nothing to do with Blue Star, and unlike the last prison camp video, this one showed more daily life scenes.
The prisoner camp was self-managed, including cooking in the mess hall, done by the prisoners themselves. Regardless of taste, they only had these supplies, so working for meal tickets to change dishes was their incentive, and a plate of rich, oily braised pork left them longing for more.
Due to food, all-level wizards who never considered land reclamation finally moved.
They were accustomed to enjoyment, having become wizard apprentices at the Wizard Academy, they enjoyed good food and drink while studying.
Making them clear land with physical labor, only consuming bland food, naturally, the wizards did not want to do it.
If they weren’t so many, those few civilian servants couldn’t handle it, and they wouldn’t even cook for themselves, preferring ready meals.
Once realizing they would genuinely starve without their labor, hierarchy played its part, with wizard apprentices working alongside civilian servants.
But now, having tasted the proper chef-made delicious dishes, and with fluent political work cadres telling them their wartime contributions meant postwar military tribunals awaited, the only way to reduce their sentence was to cooperate, or with their status, being judged a Class A war criminal and executed instantly was no problem.
Facing death due to war failure didn’t fit with wizard customs and culture, as previously, even losing everything in war, wizards wouldn’t face retribution and, if performing brilliantly on the battlefield, would be immediately sought by other nobles.
They protested, and the restrictions Ye Nai imposed on them kicked in, causing head-splitting pain, leaving them squirming and rolling on the ground, screaming or moaning without dignity.