Chapter 165: Savitar Did Nothing Wrong
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
~ Gandhi
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"No... stop it..."
The intensely realistic clairvoyant vision caused Cisco’s emotions to instantly collapse. Beads of cold sweat streamed down his cheeks, and his body began to twitch violently.
"Cisco! Cisco, what’s wrong with you?! Wake up!"
Caitlin, standing nearby, was terrified and desperately shook Cisco’s shoulders.
Hillel frowned and lightly flicked his finger. The Bio-field severed Cisco’s energy resonance.
This kid’s ability was somewhat unexpected!
He could actually channel a parallel world!
However, the price was also very heavy. If not for Hillel, his mind would have become lost in the void, unable to find the way back home.
Cisco violently gasped for breath, pulling himself out of the vibe state, and collapsed directly to the ground in exhaustion. His eyes were filled with terror, and even more so with anger and disbelief.
"What did you see?"
Hillel’s tone was calm.
"It... it turns out everything said was true. I saw... I saw that island... Little St. James Island... those children..."
"Oh!"
Then you hit the jackpot!
He had thought Cisco had seen the Viltrum Great Purge, scaring the kid out of his wits!
It turned out to be Rhode Island!
Hillel sighed.
This kid was going to have a few days of good dreams!
Right at that moment, Barry walked in, carrying several large bags of food, and flashed into the living room.
"Done! Central City’s best barbecue and pizza!"
Barry shouted excitedly.
As a result, his good buddy had collapsed onto the floor with a pale face and tear-streaked cheeks.
"Uh, what happened here?"
If not for Caitlin still being normal, Barry would have thought Hillel had done something unspeakable to Cisco.
"Cisco!" Hillel said, "You can choose to tell them what you saw, but I think you need to drink a cup of hot water first to calm your mood."
Under Caitlin and Barry’s comfort, it took a full half-hour before Cisco finally recovered his energy.
He gasped and told them the vision was real. The island. The cells. That kids had been taken there.
After listening to Cisco’s account, the previously lively living room instantly plunged into a dead silence.
Caitlin’s mind went blank, unable to snap out of it for a long time.
She clenched her hands tightly together, her nails digging deep into her flesh. "God... in this world... are there actually such beasts?"
As a doctor, just hearing Cisco’s description made her almost want to vomit.
Barry’s expression was equally ugly. He gripped his fists tightly, his heart plunged into extreme shock.
Central City’s criminals, compared to the ordinary people in The Boys, were practically white lotus flowers!
"Baby... the things they did, can’t your Earth use proper legal channels to punish them? Did you have to use this... this brutal method?"
"Ug, only hot hot girls can call me that," Hillel swallowed the barbecue in his mouth and sneered. "And about the law.. Hmm, Barry, you’re too naive."
"Do you know who is on that criminal list?"
"Half of America! Former presidents, current high-ranking officials, top chaebols, even Supreme Court justices, and generals holding heavy military power!"
"They are bound by thick and thin, using the power in their hands to protect each other."
"If we went through legal procedures, the whistleblower would die the day before the trial, the victims would be forced to sign agreements, all evidence would be wiped out overnight, and in the end, even my friends would have dirty water splashed on them!"
Hillel stood up, with no regret in his eyes, only the regret that he hadn’t been ruthless enough.
"So I made the choice on behalf of that world’s law."
"I chose to judge them with the most direct lynching, and moreover, I chose to make my actions public so that all of America would know what these people were doing behind the scenes!"
The three of them were deeply shocked once again.
Having killed so many people, not only did he not hide his identity, but he even dared to publicly announce it to the entire world with great fanfare?
Barry swallowed hard. "As a result? Did the military and government not encircle and suppress you?"
Hillel said lightly, "Encircle and suppress me? With nuclear bombs? All the nuclear bombs on Earth bombarding me wouldn’t even blast off a layer of skin, and in the end, the ones who die will only be them!"
"In our world, the public stopped believing in the government long ago. They chose to let me act as the Sword of Damocles, and bestowed upon me a new title!"
"Regent!"
"Since the law has become an umbrella, I have become the new law."
Speaking of this, Hillel looked at Barry, who had fallen into deep thought, and his tone slowed down a bit.
"However, you don’t need to emulate this, Barry. The criminals in Central City are like quirky cats, just small-scale troubles, not worth you killing them ruthlessly."
Anti-hero plots, compared to traditional righteous heroes, were simply subversive.
It was no wonder Barry and the others developed self-doubt.
Back then, when he gave Superman a couple of words, he was directly driven away by that world’s will.
The CW Universe was still quite mild.
He had talked for a long time, and the Supreme Will hadn’t made a move. Perhaps the Supreme Will didn’t even exist in this world.
"Indeed, I haven’t seen that kind of criminal in Central City!" Barry said.
In the police department’s records over the past twenty years, large-scale crimes of this magnitude were rare. If even one occurred, everyone from Captain Singh to Joe, and down to him as a crime scene investigator, would have their official caps stripped off.
The local district attorney’s office was certainly not to be trifled with!
"Yeah, Captain Cold just wanted to make some money, the Trickster loved bullying the Flash, and the Weather Wizard just wanted to flood the city. Typical bottom-feeder mutual harm, plus a tiny amount of civil crimes."
Cisco wiped away cold sweat.
It turned out to be just sweat!
Caitlin thoughtfully handed tissues to Barry and Cisco.
When all was said and done, the only people in the CW Universe worth Barry killing ruthlessly were two people. One was the Reverse-Flash, and the other was Zoom.
The former killed his mother.
The latter killed his father.
Barry possessed the starting conditions of a web novel protagonist. Both parents dead!
Yet Barry was kind to the extreme, always adhering to the no-kill principle. Even his evil future god Savitar, after all his tossing and turning, only ended up wanting to kill Iris.
Savitar did nothing wrong!!
All in all, the people here were so kind that Hillel found them adorable.
Even the criminals in Central City looked like little kittens.
The four of them sat around on the floor, and the atmosphere had eased up a lot. Because they had all seen heroes like Hillel, such as the Green Arrow in neighboring Star City, who also used lynching and carried many charges.
But Oliver was a good person. By conversion, Hillel was also a good person.
Late into the night.
Hillel looked at the weary group. "It’s about time. My house is quite big. If you’re tired of playing, just go straight to sleep. You can rest here tonight!"
Upon hearing this, Cisco immediately slapped the table and stood up. "Bro! Sleep? Only useless people sleep! Gamers never rest, we can beat Dead Island 2 tonight!"
At a glance, Cisco had never played Dead Island 2.
This game was worlds apart from its promotional CG, experiencing frequent delays, and the quality of the game delivered could only be called passable.
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