Chapter 928
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Empress Yekana took the opportunity to watch Josiah's new movie while her subordinates were cleaning up Sir Kenneth's henchmen.
"Madam, we've taken control of the guards stationed in this city. We've also wiped out all the evil sects you've marked. No one survived."
A knight slowly walked to Empress Yekana's side. She was very satisfied with the news he reported.
"What should we do next?"
The knight was wearing a helmet, but judging from his voice, he was a middle-aged man. There was a symbol of a sword and a flame on his armor. He was undoubtedly Empress Yekana's most capable guard, the Blacksmith!
"Wait quietly," Empress Yekana said.
"Wait?"
The knight glanced at the crowd below. Now was the best time to announce Sir Kenneth's' rebellion 'to the audience. They had already collected enough evidence. If they were to announce Sir Kenneth's deeds one by one to the people, his reputation would be ruined.
"What do you think of this movie?"
Empress Yekana had different plans. She turned around and asked the knight beside her.
"It's a little … boring." The Iron Forger was a man of steel who had seen the world. He had seen many movies in Nolan's cinema, but his favorite was still the special effects "Avatar".
As for "The Boy in Striped Pajamas", he had taken some time to watch it while he was chasing after the Nephilic Judge. He had a rough idea of the plot, but the movie was very boring to him.
Empress Yekana did not say anything. At that moment, the Blacksmith understood what the Empress meant. "Your answer is not good enough."
"If I'm not wrong, this movie is set in our country, and it's still in the middle of a war. The boy's father is only following orders from his superiors. The quarantine zone is also necessary. If I were the boy's father, I would never allow him to talk to the enemy's child. It's too dangerous."
The knight looked at the scene in the distance. The noble officer's son was neatly dressed, sitting in front of a prisoner's child. They were separated by a barbed wire fence, and the dirty marks on the prisoner's body formed a sharp contrast with the prisoner's clothes.
They were talking about soldiers. The conversation between the two children was very innocent. As the protagonist, the little boy did not have the concept of 'war' and 'soldiers' in his mind. He simply thought that his peer sitting in front of him was just a worker on a farm.
"Are you worried about the little boy?" Empress Yekana asked another question.
Knight was stunned for a short while. He realized that he had put himself in the movie.
"If it's my child, my lord."
"Don't you think the real pitiful one is the boy in the prison uniform in the quarantine area?"
Empress Yekana's new question was very fatal. The knight pondered for a while before coming up with an answer that he thought Empress Yekana would be satisfied with.
"I am a soldier, my lord … I will not pity the enemy, even if it is a little boy." He said in a firm tone.
"But the civilians in the Nation of Steel … will not." Empress Yekana looked at the expressions of the people on the Flower Square. Many people's expressions had changed a little because they saw the two little boys playing with each other through the barbed wire fence.
"But I don't think they will sympathize with the people of other countries because of this movie." Knight refuted Empress Yekana in a low voice.
"Maybe you're right."
Empress Yekana calculated and found that the movie had almost reached an hour. The little boy from the noble officer was the most portrayed in the whole movie.
The camera only focused on him, and there was not even a scene of the refugees in the quarantine area.
The only thing that could make the people sympathize with the refugees was a few scenes in which the noble officer beat the refugees' servants for no reason.
These scenes might make some soft-hearted people feel pity for the refugees, but Empress Yekana did not feel anything at all when she saw this.
Empress Yekana was waiting … If the goal of this movie was really to make the audience sympathize with the refugees, then the narrative method was too indiscriminate!
Until the plot progressed to the two people talking face to face in front of the barbed wire fence.
"The soil here is very soft! I can find a tool to go to your side, and I can sneak in, right? If I go to your side. "
"You can become like me if you dress like me, and then shave your head."
The noble officer's boy thought of running into the quarantine area on a whim. After all, in his opinion, the quarantine area was just an ordinary farm.
The two children began to discuss this plan excitedly, as if it was just an adventure.
"This is why I don't let my son communicate with the enemy." Knight's expression under the helmet had become very dignified.
The little boy did not realize how dangerous what he was doing was …
"You should first teach your son how cruel the world of adults is."
Empress Yekana's hands were already clenched. The little boy's innocent look reminded Empress Yekana of some sad memories.
The little boy's plan was very smooth. No one noticed that he came to the outside of the quarantine area with a shovel. The other little boy also brought clothes from the quarantine area.
So he put on the clothes that were just 'striped pajamas' in his eyes, and then used the shovel to shovel away the soil on the ground and went into the place that was just a 'farm' in his eyes.
"His father should find out soon."
The iron forger's eyebrows under the helmet had already frowned. He felt that after watching the story for so long, it finally began to tell the story of the encounter in the quarantine area.
Empress Yekana did not say anything … The plot in the movie progressed faster than she imagined.
The soldiers in the quarantine area violently drove the refugees out of the house, and then ordered them to go somewhere.
When the scene changed again, the little boy's mother had already realized that her son was lost. She hurriedly ran to his father and told him about it.
As the father, the noble officer also showed a panicked expression on his face. He immediately ordered his men to find his son.
When the scene turned to the little boy, he had already been pushed into a steel cast room with the crowd. Neither the movie nor the audience on the scene understood what would happen next.
But a premonition appeared in everyone's heart.
A small hole was opened in the steel cast room, and a soldier wearing a mask that could isolate poison poured some black dust down.
"What is that? Is it used for bathing? " Knight remembered that in the movie, there was a refugee who was very optimistic and guessed that the soldiers just wanted to give them a bath.
"Poison … Deadly poison. This place is not a quarantine area, but a slaughterhouse where the bodies of the refugees were burned after they were killed."
Empress Yekana finally figured out what the 'black smoke' that was always mentioned in the previous movie meant.
"It's … Damn it." Knight couldn't help but shout in a low voice after understanding what happened.
In the movie, the sky began to rain cats and dogs. The father sent all his men to search around, but finally, the mother followed the soldiers to … the entrance to the quarantine area that the little boy dug with a shovel. When she saw the clothes that the little boy had changed … all she could do was to kneel on the ground and cry bitterly.
After the boy's father learned this, he rushed into the quarantine area in horror, but everything was too late.
The happy ending that Empress Yekana expected did not appear. The whole movie slowly ended in this depressing atmosphere. The little boy finally died because of his naivety … under the vicious rationality of the adults.
"This is not a fairy tale." Empress Yekana finally understood what Josiah said when he introduced the movie to her.
When she looked at the cast list behind the scenes, she directly turned around and walked to the Blossom Square below.
Many people below had fallen into silence because of the abrupt ending of the movie. The woman covered her child's eyes, and the man took off the hat on his head … It began to drizzle above the Blossom Square.
But no one left.
"What is the producer of the movie thinking? Is he retaliating against us in this way?" The knight followed Empress Yekana and asked cautiously.
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