Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters!
Chapter 401 - 290: Let’s Seek Refuge!_3

Chapter 401: Chapter 290: Let’s Seek Refuge!_3

"Not particularly capable, but you’ve got quite the sympathetic heart," scoffed Wang Hao at the idea. "Do the relatives of the bad guys need sympathy too?"

"They eat and drink and live this so-called life in Paradise, all snatched from others. How many people have died for that? They don’t deserve sympathy."

It’s said that in some areas along the border of the Great Xia Country, drug trafficking is rampant. "One gets caught, the whole family flourishes" has become the slogan of these people.

Since current laws don’t have a system of collective punishment, even if the perpetrator is caught, the inheritance they leave behind can provide a good life for the whole family.

The local government has spent a great deal of effort trying to stop them without success, as the profits are too substantial and there are far too many who follow suit. If there’s a 100% profit to be made, people are willing to trample all laws of the Mortal World. If there’s a 300% profit, they dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of execution!

Finally, a sage devised a brilliant strategy. In front of the drug smugglers, he blew up their newly-built western-style houses, leaving their wives and children homeless and destitute, which finally deterred the other criminals.

Good and bad, right and wrong, are hard to perfectly judge in different environments.

There are also some who have their spouses and children abroad while they themselves become so-called ’naked officials’ in the country, amassing wealth. Even if they are caught, their children can still live a wealthy life.

For these people, there still isn’t a good solution, after all, their children have already fled.

However, Wang Hao thought that chasing them down abroad might not be such a bad thing. He could go to the dark web, buy some madmen with Bitcoin, publicly execute those corrupt officials, and the deterrence it would create would be a billion times better than so-called "criticism and education."

Fortunately, Comrade Li Qingshan, the Game Main Character, didn’t have an outburst of saintly motherhood.

[You hesitated for a moment, feeling that killing criminals is justified. As for their relatives, what the hell have they got to do with you?]

[Thinking this, you feel a sense of realization. Oh great Demon God, overturning heaven and earth must have a small goal to start with. How can this filthy Mountain and Sea Realm be truly revolutionary?]

Is this asking me?

Wang Hao mused to himself, "The overall situation here is about one-fifth of ours, oh, one-fifth is actually not bad. Although the Great Xia Country has its own assortment of issues, high housing prices, 996 and 007 work hours, and absurdities like ’female empowerment,’ but how to put it... before reaching true communism, the world will always have contradictions."

Not aiming too high, establishing basic order, if the living conditions in the Mountain and Sea Realm could reach one-tenth of Earth’s, that would already be quite good.

[Outlander, the Demon God doesn’t bother with your doubts. Perhaps the issues you ponder are but a meaningless Pus Sore in the eyes of that great God.]

[You snap back to reality, crawling cautiously as you scout your surroundings. The Great Witch, a maternal deity, also had water-related Divine Power attributes, but this place, after all, was the prime turf of the Water Ghost King.]

[Suddenly, you discover that a small fraction of the population here is gathering their belongings, preparing to flee! And some elderly, weak, and women, for some reason, have fainted to the ground.]

[As the order within the island descends into chaos, you gradually sense that something is amiss.]

[Just then, other scouts report back: it turns out, on the night of every full moon, is the fixed day of worship for the Water Ghost King. Given that the "Water Ghost Pirates" haven’t brought back any sacrificial offerings, the people on Lake Heart Island have begun to panic. [Photo]]

[You decide...]

[1. Further investigate the situation on the island.]

[2. Take advantage of the islanders’ escape and disorder to direct the main forces in the rear to launch a full-scale attack.]

"Could it be that they’ve discovered our troops?"

Wang Hao pondered slightly, somewhat uncertain, and clicked open the photo, which this time was an ink painting.

In the very center of Lake Heart Island stood a majestic temple, possibly ten meters tall, contrasting sharply with the other buildings. The walls were painted with images of fierce ghosts, green all over, with bull horns on their heads, eyes like copper bells, and gaping blood-filled mouths, truly terrifying.

And the islanders, in small groups, were discussing something.

Some well-dressed women, Great Witches, and bandits were directing servants to transport goods onto boats.

While others seemed to have been drugged and lay paralyzed on the ground.

To choose "1" would mean giving more time for the islanders to escape.

Choosing "2," of course, would ensure no one could escape, but landing on the island directly would incur some unknown risks.

Wang Hao studied the photo closely and suddenly realized that so-called Lake Heart Island was not any Paradise, but a primitive tribe based on slavery.

"I knew it, how could the Water Ghost Pirates not have a backup plan! They’re already prepared with the ’Water Ghost King’s’ final batch of food!"

"Even if they haven’t caught anyone, they could still sacrifice these servile fools, allowing their families to escape comfortably."

"If we delay the attack, and the thieves’ families all escape, what’s left would just be the victims."

He resolutely chose "2," to launch the attack immediately!

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"Dad’s been out for half a month; why hasn’t he come back?"

"Let’s leave Lake Heart Island and lay low." The elegantly dressed middle-aged woman kept urging her subordinates to move quicker, "Hurry, move faster, take everything away! Quick!!"

Not far away, an old man with white hair approached.

"Great Witch!"

The old white-haired man was the fourth in command here and possessed some innate abilities, doubling as the post of "Great Witch": "Tonight is the night of the full moon, and since the leader has not returned, we have no choice but to abandon these servants."

The servants had been preemptively drugged and had collapsed on the ground.

"That damned man, who knows what mess he’s gotten into, delaying important matters! Not even returning on the night of the full moon..."

"With all these servants nearly dead or injured, where will we find more?" The woman clenched her teeth in frustration, never having considered that the Water Ghost Pirates could be completely wiped out. In recent decades, with the court’s power waning, who can control them?

Yet in that instant, with a "boom," a wooden ship suddenly burst into blazing flames!