Seizing Dreams [B1]

Ch 77.1 - Valentine's

A red glint then flashed through Medusa's eyes. Zhou Sheng immediately raised his shield to block, while the black dragon took the lead in rushing forward!

The bell rang, and the audience erupted into an uproar!

During summer vacation, Zhou Sheng went out almost every day - either for a morning or night run. Meanwhile, Yu Hao began his second job. He had to translate Chinese reports into English scripts this time, assisting the World Health Organization in establishing a database for the Greater China region for easier referencing.

Amongst them, the cases of crimes caused by psychological issues were just horrifying. Compared to the last batch of manuscripts, the current one was even harder for Yu Hao to go through. As he translated, he often stopped to wonder if the report was real. He checked the sources of the reports and the content of the newspaper clippings - they were all published by the local news media.

"Some people commit homicide." Zhou Sheng said, "Like those cases with dismembered corpses, and in order to get away with the crime, they would bribe the doctor to give them a false diagnosis. Of course, it doesn't rule out the fact that homicide can be committed by people who are actually psychotic, but nothing can be done about that. There are a lot of people who have been acquitted under the juvenile protection law as well."

Yu Hao said, "That's too cruel."

In the news he read before this, every single one of them had caused quite a sensation, like the case in Chongqing where a small girl had beaten up a one-and-a-half-year-old toddler in an elevator, or the rape and murder case in Changping's New Oriental School. However, those were merely the tip of the iceberg covered by the media.

What made him most uncomfortable were the cases he had never heard of before: the revenge killing in Tonghe, Heilongjiang Province; revenge for habitual theft of a minor in Dongguan......these cases were a little too much for his heart. Apart from the cruelty of the acts, what made him even more angry was how the criminals would only stay in the reformatory for one and a half years or even get released since they weren't deemed guilty under juvenile protection laws.

"I'll translate it in a few days." Yu Hao said, "I don't want to read these anymore, it makes me really upset."

"Those are just the ones you've seen." Zhou Sheng said, "There are still tons of cases out there in the world that you can't see. I had a classmate in junior high; he was a pretty good guy, but we weren't that close. He always bumped into me when we played basketball. I repeated a year while he went to high school, and he got into a pretty good school too. But because he was wooing a girl, he got surrounded by a bunch of people and got beat up in an alley. His skull was fractured, and he had to enter ICU; after he stayed bedridden for a month, he died."

"What about the murderers?" Yu Hao asked.

"Ran away." Zhou Sheng said, "Their parents helped. After staying away for a year, they were captured and got a three-year sentence. The case wasn't reported. The school and parents both thought of ways to suppress the case. Learning a bit of self-defenses still has its use, at the very least you wouldn't die in such a stifling way. If anyone dares to touch Laozi, then let's all die together ba."

Yu Hao got a WeChat message. Zhou Sheng was playing games in the upper bunk and had just unleashed a big move. His gaze shifted from his phone screen; he ignored Sun Wukong for awhile and turned sideways to glance at Yu Hao, who had his head buried in his phone to reply to his messages.

"That rich guy again?" Zhou Sheng asked.

After Yu Hao translated those scripts, he still hadn't recovered from his depressed mood, "Un......he asked me out for dinner."