Shawn tried to circle around from the left, looking at his face.
But his view was blocked by his constantly moving back.
Shawn circled to the right, with the same result.
Shawn simply walked forward, raised his hand, and lightly tapped his head, saying exasperatedly,
"If I kept circling around you, wouldn't you start spinning like a top?"
Carl grimaced, holding his head, and turned around, looking up at Shawn.
"Then I'll turn into a top and keep circling around you instead."
After speaking, Carl glanced around, clutching the bow Shawn had made for him.
Turning his head back, he looked seriously into Shawn's eyes.
"You already know about Wales's matter now?"
Shawn nodded, curious to hear what he wanted to say.
"Do you want me to shoot off his balls for you? My archery has improved a lot now!"
Carl nocked an arrow on the bowstring, looking somewhat angry as he spoke.
Hearing the first half of the sentence, Shawn frowned, then used his knuckles to tap Carl's head again.
"Didn't I tell you to learn less from Merle?"
Carl resumed his posture of holding his head.
"Uncle Merle already went out with you; I heard Shane say that last time."
Upon hearing it was Shane, Shawn instantly understood.
Because if Shane felt it was necessary, he really could do something like that.
Coming back to his senses, Shawn's hand was already being held by Carl.
Before Shawn could even speak, he pulled Shawn towards the high wall.
At this time, thousands of people poured into the Prison; the front lawn was full of people, and Carl pulled Shawn to a quiet corner.
Carl looked mysteriously at Shawn, then nocked an arrow and drew his bow towards the corner directly in front of them, and with a 'whoosh', the arrow suddenly flew out.
Before the arrow even hit its target, surprise had already appeared in Shawn's eyes.
Shawn knew the poundage of this bow and arrow, but he didn't expect Carl to be able to fully utilize its performance so quickly.
Under the gaze of both of them, the arrow flew straight through a vertical wire mesh and then embedded itself into a tin can behind the wire mesh.
"Hmm?"
Seeing Shawn's surprised expression, Carl couldn't help but smile triumphantly; it seemed that making Shawn surprised was his greatest motivation to move forward.
"Shawn, you said before that as long as I could shoot a Walker through the wire mesh holes, you'd let me hunt Walkers."
"Look, although there's a high wall now and I can't practice on Walkers, I can still shoot a can through the holes."
"Cough, cough." Shawn coughed twice strategically.
At that time, he had clearly wanted to make it difficult for Carl so that he would grow while focusing on practicing archery, and by the time he was old enough, Lori would naturally let go.
But Shawn didn't expect that this little guy actually managed to achieve this with such a low-grade, broken bow.
So, taking advantage of the coughing spell, Shawn's brain worked frantically.
Got it!
Shawn's eyes lit up as he looked at the platform inside the high wall.
"Carl, you did very well."
"But killing Walkers is by no means an overnight success; even Daryl and your father and Shane all got there step by step."
"If you want to go out and hunt Walkers, then you must at least kill 100 Walkers from the platform across the high wall."
"This is the most basic; if you can't even do this, I can't take you out."
Shawn somewhat regretfully pulled out the final right of interpretation and redefined the rules.
Does it sound familiar?
It should!
This was the task Shawn had set for Beth back then, and now he was giving the same task to Carl.
Beth could then use a spear to pierce through the wire mesh at close range, but for Carl, killing with an arrow would not be so simple.
'Hope this can curb Carl's constant desire to go out and kill Walkers.'
After speaking, Shawn silently thought to himself.
Carl listened intently and nodded forcefully.
"I will do it!"
There were no complaints, no doubts, no objections; Carl simply accepted the new challenge decisively.
He ran towards the platform with arrows on his back.
Looking at Carl's back, Shawn suddenly felt a pang of conscience.
"Is it really okay to deceive a child like this?"
But then Shawn returned to normal.
"No, I don't have much conscience to begin with, why am I feeling a pang?"
"Besides, aren't children just for playing with?"
The evil mastermind, Shawn, had already silently decided Carl's next task in his heart.
If Carl came to him soon, Shawn would once again give him a new challenge.
And he would call it: Unleash your youth, young man!
Carl - Future Youth Version
After being in a dark mood for a while, Shawn then found Rick with a bright, big-boy smile on his face.
At this time, Rick was somewhat worried about how to accommodate the people Shawn had brought.
Shawn had only focused on painting a grand vision but didn't know that after bringing them back, all the troubles piled up on Rick's shoulders.
Rick - Super Scapegoat - Grimes!
Shawn, upon hearing this, looked at Rick strangely: "What's so strange about that? Just let them all live in the cells, isn't that it?"
Rick rubbed his tired brow and handed over a stack of photos.
"Take a good look; Diana gave these to me. She said this was their previous living environment."
"The Community environment inside is even much better than Woodbury, all villas; we can't satisfy them now."
Shawn patiently comforted Rick after hearing this.
"Don't worry, there will be bread, and there will be milk; it's just that there isn't any right now."
Shawn slightly emphasized his tone, the key point being in the latter half of the sentence.
"Actually, I've already thought about it: as the population grows, living conditions demand more, but the labor force also increases."
"Diana's husband, Reggie, is a professional architecture professor."
"I plan to expand outwards from the Prison as the center..."
"I'll take care of all of this."
Shawn first gave Rick a reassurance, and then the two discussed many development matters. Later, when Shane joined, their discussion suddenly became heated.
"No matter what, it's not okay. Letting some stay inside the Prison is fine, but we still need to find a way to accommodate the rest of the people. Too many people inside will always cause problems."
When it came to the safety of their own people, Shane became much more assertive.
Fortunately, Shawn was there; if it had just been Shane and Rick's battle, they would probably have found a separate room and started arguing long ago.
The gradually heating atmosphere between the two was shattered by Shawn's single clap.
Rick and Shane turned to look at Shawn almost simultaneously.
"Both of you, stop fucking arguing!"
After seeing them both quiet down, Shawn spread out a map of Georgia and used a red pen to circle the 70 kilometers of land near the Prison in the southern part.
Under their gaze, Shawn's lips curved into a smile.
"I have an idea."
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