"Grandpa, what are you thinking about?" Seeing the knot on her grandfather's brow, Jin'er knew he must be facing something troublesome.
"Jin'er, do you think they should stay?" Old Flower's gaze swept towards the elderly and women tightly bound together.
"Grandpa, are you torn about this?"
"Hmm, some of the children among them are younger than your brother." The old man sighed.
"Grandpa, what's there to be conflicted about? If they made a mistake, they should bear the consequences. Even children know this simple truth. Since they dared to eat what they shouldn't have, they should have foreseen the consequences, whether out of subjective recklessness, objective ignorance, or being coerced, it doesn't absolve them of their crimes."
In Jin'er's view, humanity vanished the moment they broke the taboo; the naked bodies in the deep pit disclosed just how many lives they had harmed. How could one claim innocence?
And aren't there many pieces of evidence hanging in the cave?
