Countdown to Awakening

At this moment, a voice rang out from outside the crowd: "Stop arguing! I killed that beast!"

Everyone looked back when they heard the sound.

Ma Hui and his younger brother slowly approached, their faces devoid of guilt. They even looked a bit smug. Old Li lost his composure upon hearing this. He immediately stood up, charged at him, pointed at Ma Hui's nose, and yelled, "Ma Hui! You're a beast! Did my Wangcai provoke you? You're poisoning him?!" He then looked at Wangcai in his arms.

Ma Hui pinched his nose. "Keep it away! This beast is so dirty!"

Sun Pandi felt sick the moment she saw Ma Hui.

Qi Yuanyuan also looked over. This Ma Hui was nothing. He looked three parts human, still uneducated, and seven parts official authority, lifelike. Who did he really think he was?

Ma Hui, on the other hand, looked nonchalant. "Hey, Old Li, don't yell at me. Your beast deserves it!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. What did they mean by "the dog deserved it"? Did Wangcai, the son of Old Li, do something wrong?

Old Li quickly retorted, "You're talking nonsense! My Wangcai never pays attention to people he doesn't know, let alone saying he deserves it! My Wangcai is the best behaved child in the village!"

Everyone saw that Wangcai rarely went out, unless he went to work in the fields with Old Li.

"Ma Hui, please explain yourself clearly! What do you mean Wangcai deserves it? What did he do?!" A question from the crowd opened Ma Hui's mouth again: "This beast did nothing, but my Qiangzi went to the next village yesterday and was bitten by a beast from the next village..." Before Ma Hui finished speaking, Old Li retorted: "Your Qiangzi was bitten by a dog from the next village, and you come to poison my Wangcai?! What kind of talk is that?!" Old Li was so angry that veins bulged on his forehead.

Ma Hui said calmly, "Just listen to me first... The beasts from the next village bit my Qiangzi, so I thought we had dogs in our village too. To prevent them from biting my Qiangzi, I simply poisoned all the beasts to death."

The crowd sighed again.

"What the hell is this?! Ma Hui, you've gone too far!" a woman in the crowd shouted, and the others agreed.

"Is it too much? No. My Qiangzi is only four years old. There are so many beasts in this village. What if one of them bites my Qiangzi? You will be responsible!"

The villagers were all indignant for Ah Huang.

A villager said, "Let's not talk about Wangcai being the most well-behaved dog in the village. Even other dogs in the village wouldn't bite people! Your dog Qiangzi must have thrown a stone at someone and got bitten!"

"There are some dogs in the village that no one keeps. Are you going to poison them to death too?!" Zheng Haifeng asked.

"Of course, what if the animals are blind? No matter whether they are cats or dogs, whether they are raised by people or not, they will bite people. If they are not killed, they will not bite me, Qiangzi. Everyone has children at home. What if they bite your children? I am doing this for the sake of the village. Only by killing them can the problem be solved." Ma Hui said proudly.

"You...you will get your comeuppance!" Old Li's expression was indescribable. Pain and anger mixed with pain.

Ma Hui: "I have no choice but to do this. It's to stop them from biting people. Some animals appear to be very obedient and docile, but no one knows what they are really like. Only you believe in retribution..."

Qi Yuanyuan couldn't stand it any longer and interrupted, "A dog from the next village bit your son. Why didn't you go find the dog owner in the next village? You killed the dog in your own village?! Your son isn't a good person either, otherwise why would the dog from the next village bite your son?"

Sun Pandi was almost scared when she heard her say this and quickly grabbed her arm.

Ma Hui continued to pursue her relentlessly, saying, "You little girl, you don't understand, right? I've already told you that any dog ​​will bite. There's no difference between animals."

Qi Yuanyuan continued, "We all sympathize with your son for being bitten, but you can't just kill and poison innocent dogs. Their lives are lives too, not just your son's."

"What? Oh, this is the first time I've heard of sympathizing with animals! What's so precious about animal lives? Are they more precious than human lives? Don't think you're noble and loving just because you've read a few crappy books. If you have the ability, go and raise all those stray cats and dogs! They deserve to be killed because no one teaches and no one cares for them! They're just an eyesore in the village! Only human life is the most precious!" Ma Hui said while laughing.

What logic?!

Qi Yuanyuan was even more surprised that someone actually agreed with Ma Hui's opinion. Someone in the crowd muttered, "Yeah, it's just a beast. What if it bites someone? Who's responsible? I support Ma Hui."

The voice came from behind her.

"Did you hear that? I knew there must be people who think the same as I do. Sell all these beasts to restaurants! So they won't bite people again!" Ma Hui said proudly again.

The village chief then spoke up: "Ma Hui, every time you come up with something, it surprises me! Last time you wanted to marry Pan Di, it's not over yet, and now you're killing innocent people in the village again?! Old Li's Wangcai didn't bite your Qiangzi, and you poisoned him to death?! What are you thinking?!"

"Village chief, there are not only dogs from our village in that pit, there are also several dogs from the neighboring village...but we don't know them." Zheng Haifeng said.

"Ma Hui! Don't take advantage of your family's wealth to do whatever you want!" The village chief sighed. He couldn't do anything about Ma Hui because there were no rules to protect cats and dogs.

Ma Hui, still looking like he deserved a beating, spoke to the village chief: "Village chief, I advise you not to interfere in this matter. This beast bit someone and must be dealt with. I'm dealing with everyone else in our village because I'm afraid the beasts there might hurt someone too. After all, this beast has no human nature. If it hurts you again, it'll be a different story."

"Ma Hui! I think you're the one who's inhumane! I heard your son was the first to throw a rock at someone's dog!"

Ma Hui, who had been smug just now, suddenly changed his expression.

Just then, two people squeezed into the crowd. "I saw your son throw stones at Dahai's dog! Your son deserved to be bitten!" The man shouted to everyone, afraid that no one would know what had happened.

A woman in the crowd yelled, "This is outrageous! Ma Hui, you're the one who's inhumane!!"

Another person retorted, "I think Ma Hui did nothing wrong. Even if he threw stones at the dog, it shouldn't bite people! A dog like that is not a good dog! I've never seen anyone raise an animal as a child... Old Li, you're not even that kind to your own parents?"

Old Li ignored the man and cried, "Village Chief, you decide. How do you decide to deal with this?"

The village chief fell into deep thought.

There is no such thing as protecting cats and dogs now.