Noon in Yunqin is the time when the sun is the strongest in the day.
Yunqin people believe that executing prisoners at this time is not only truly upright and exposes the crimes committed by the prisoners to the world, but also that no grievances and ghosts of curses can exist in this world under the scorching sun at noon.[
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At noon, at the Waiguan Road crossing in Donggang Town, the blazing sunshine shone down, shining on Xu Chengfeng and other eleven principal criminals who were kneeling on the execution platform.
These people are usually very bright, but at this moment their faces are pale, and most of them can't stand up straight and are slumped on the execution platform.
Countless people have gathered in the audience, including Feng Zeyi's elderly mother whose corpse was floating on the river and ultimately caused the Yingoufang case. At this time, her hair was whiter than before the corpse was identified in Donggang Town. On her forehead, there were
There was a small scar. In addition to her, there were many family members of the women who died unjustly in Yingoufang.
The people around them spontaneously moved aside, allowing these people to come to the front of the team, so that they could clearly see the fate of these beasts on the stage.
Lin Xi, Jiang Wenhe, Du Weiqing, and Lu Mingyi, who is currently in charge of the prison, appeared on the stage. Seeing Lin Xi's appearance, Feng Zeyi's mother knelt down in front of him without making a sound, and her gray hair was heavy
fell to the ground.
Silently, many people in the front row knelt down and bowed down to Lin Xi.
For a moment, there was silence in front of the execution platform where countless people gathered, without any unnecessary sound.
A group of officials from the Criminal Department were sitting behind the case behind the execution platform. They were all a little moved as they watched the evening. They verified that the criminal's true identity was correct. After Lin Xi and others signed the relevant documents from the Criminal Department, a criminal
The executive officer of Si Zheng Liupin stood up and announced loudly that these people had verified that it was correct and it was officially executed.
A stooped gray-haired old man carrying a small iron box and a burly black-faced man as tall as an iron tower who had obviously drunk a lot of strong liquor walked onto the stage.
As the Criminal Division official's face turned solemn, he shouted loudly: "Behead!" The black-faced man as burly as an iron tower took a deep breath, stepped forward, stretched out his left hand and lifted Xu Chengfeng's body.
The criminal next to him who was paralyzed on the ground hit the back of his neck, and then roared fiercely. The sword flashed, and the thick-backed ghost-headed sword in his hand accurately cut into the joints of the cervical vertebrae.
With a swish sound, the criminal's head slumped up, and blood spurted out from the neck cavity, splashing far away.
With a crash, many people were frightened and took a big step back.
"drink!"
The executioner from the Criminal Division did not stop at all. The head of the first criminal was still rolling on the stage. He had already stabbed him again. Blood was shining in the sky, and another head rolled off.
As the beheadings progressed, the onlookers gradually became bolder, thinking about the viciousness of these people, and cheers gradually sounded. And the cheers became louder and louder, making the noon sun seem to become even brighter.
of fiery.
When Xu Chengfeng was taken out, he had already collapsed on the stage. When the first criminal's head fell, he was so frightened that he fainted.
The rickety gray-haired old man carrying a small iron box just squinted his eyes and watched motionless. After all the heads of the other criminals were beheaded, he walked carefully among the blood flowing on the stage.
Walking behind Xu Chengfeng, he calmly opened the small iron box on his back and took out three slender silver needles.
Amidst the heavy breathing of all the people in the audience, the rickety gray-haired old man twisted the three silver needles and inserted them into Xu Chengfeng's scalp like acupuncture.
Xu Chengfeng suddenly let out a groan, and his whole body shook violently.
The rickety gray-haired old man slapped him on the spine like lightning. He who had been sitting paralyzed instantly sat up straight, and his whole body was stiff and unable to move.
Seeing the methods of this old executioner, the audience suddenly burst into loud cheers.
A sharp and extremely thin knife appeared in the hand of the old executioner of the Criminal Division. With a few strokes, Xu Chengfeng's clothes were all cut off, almost naked, and a thin barbed wire mesh and a large box of ointment were cut off.
He took it out of his iron box.
Seeing these two things in the corner of his eyes, Xu Chengfeng seemed to be trying to jump up from the ground, but he couldn't move at all, even his tongue was stiff, and he could only utter the simplest and most vague words.
The shout sounded extremely miserable.
He couldn't move his neck, but his eyes were fixed on Lin Xi's direction, full of fear, despair, anger, and a deceived look.
Lin Xi turned his head slightly. He didn't like bloody scenes. Feeling Xu Chengfeng's gaze at this moment, he just thought coldly... Although I promised to give you some pleasure, I didn't say that I would let you go without it from the beginning.
The death of consciousness.
"What method did you use to make his death more pleasant?"
Bian Linghan, who was standing behind him, felt a rare coldness on his face and asked in his ear in a voice that only two people could hear.
"Blue stone ear... we learned in the toxicology class that it is not a poison. It is beneficial to take it on a daily basis, but it can easily numb people's consciousness when they lose a lot of blood." Lin Xi replied softly: "After about a hundred cuts, he will be dead.
He will be numb. Although I promised him to let him die a quick death, the injustice of those people...this hundred swords cannot be spared."
"You are still too kind." Bian Linghan snorted coldly and said scornfully: "What if this kind of person really cheated him?"
"What you said makes sense." Lin Xi nodded, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled it, "But I'm too lazy to think about it...I just did it when I thought of what to do."
Bian Linghan shook his head helplessly, thinking that luckily you were just lazy and casual, not pedantic, otherwise I might have suffered a lot in the future.
The thin barbed wire tightly wrapped Xu Chengfeng's body, seeming to divide him into many small pieces, with pieces of fair skin protruding from the grid. The fearful shouts in Xu Chengfeng's mouth were even more frightening.
, but the body is still unable to move.
The people under the execution platform burst into loud cheers again.
Countless people had witnessed Lin Xi's conclusion of the case and the arrogance of this official son. The more miserable he became at the moment, the more evil in the chests of the people in the audience became stronger, and they felt that the sky above Donggang Town was even more intense.
of uprightness.
"Whoa!"
The old executioner swung the knife gently, and with Xu Chengfeng's fierce scream, a piece of flesh and blood detached from his body and fell on the stage like a piece of shaved dough.
There was a sound of "Poof!"
Xu Chengfeng's feces and urine flowed out, and the stage was filled with filth.
All the people in the audience covered their mouths and noses, looking with extreme disgust at this official son who had just been stabbed and became incontinent. "It stinks!" Many people shouted with disdain.
Lin Xi shook her head slightly and walked a little further.
When she was far away from Xu Chengfeng, who was covered in stench, Lin Xi thought of the ninety-year-old man who screamed exhaustedly on the Yanlai River Dam and died without making a sound.
When the river dam is being rebuilt this time, many people in Donggang Town and Yanlai Town have raised money on their own initiative. In the future, a statue of the old man will stand on the high post where he was buried.
Everyone is mortal, but some people will be famous for eternity, and some people will be infamy for eternity.
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The midday sun shines on Yunqin.
However, in the extremely vast territory of Yunqin Empire, there are some places where even the sunlight cannot reach it.
For example, there are many places in the Dragon Snake Mountain Range.
For example, Donglan Valley, which appears to be extremely poor and rough elsewhere, appears to be very ordinary in the Long Snake Mountain Range.
The Dragon Snake Mountain Range is very winding. It borders the Great Wasteland to the east which is not part of the Yunqin Empire's territory. It is precisely because it is curved like a dragon and snake, and like dragons and snakes intertwined, that this huge mountain range has such a name.
The Dragon Snake Mountain Range is the easternmost point of Yunqin and is the territory of Yunqin, while the Great Wilderness is the territory of the cave barbarians to the understanding of the Yunqin Empire.
Because the Great Wasteland is huge... and is filled with muddy wetlands and swamps that can swallow people up at any time. It is endless as far as the eye can see. Even at Qingluan Academy in Dean Zhang's time, no practitioner has ever been able to cross this endless stretch.
We don’t know how many miles of huge swamp there is, so whether it’s Yunqin, Tangzang, or Damang, we don’t know how big this vast swamp is and what’s behind it. We only know that there are many cave barbarians.
Living in this huge swamp.
Cave means cave.
Barbarian means powerful and uncivilized.
Originally, the Yunqin Empire and the cave barbarians were in peace, but as the territory of the Yunqin Empire expanded, when the Yunqin Empire's exploration finally crossed the Dragon Snake Mountains and wanted to expand its territory to the east again, the merchants of the Yunqin Pioneers
Teams, adventurers and armies discovered this kind of indigenous people who have lived in the swamp for generations.
This kind of indigenous people live in wet and cold caves in some mounds in the swamps. They are extremely uncivilized. However, these people are born with extremely strong bodies. The size of these cave barbarians is generally taller than that of adult Yunqin people.
He is at least half a head taller, and is born with strength beyond the average person. In a one-on-one situation, even an ordinary soldier who has received long-term training will be difficult to defeat a young caveman in his twenties.
The Yunqin Empire discovered that the Dragon Snake Mountain Range and the Great Wasteland contained many resources needed by the empire, especially many useful medicines and supplements for practitioners, as well as many powerful beasts that could be tamed for military use.
However, the Cave Man also discovered that there is a different world behind the Dragon Snake Mountains, with some food and new things that they lack.
The Yunqin Empire with its powerful force wants to conquer, but these simple-minded cave barbarians have the most primitive rules flowing in their blood, and they want to rob.