Hell of Others (3)

Of course Lu Qi refused to say anything. What if Su Liu conducted a "fishing expedition"?

Su Liu then revealed his emotional journey after seeing those petitions. "Do you think I'm idle every day? I'm busy with all these miscellaneous matters, seeking justice here and there, making this land a mess. It's like I'm a tyrant, employing the wrong people, favoring villains and alienating virtuous ministers. If they say you're guilty, isn't that an indirect slap in my face?"

Lu Qi became happy and nodded, saying, "Those untouchables, if they die, they die."

"I heard that you publicized that he was drunk and accidentally bumped into an upright fruit knife. There was blood wine on the table at the time, so you didn't pay attention. By the time you found out, he had lost too much blood and died? This was an accident." Su Liu coaxed.

Lu Qi nodded vaguely, denying his previous statement, "I didn't kill him. That's exactly what happened at the time."

After all, their biggest secret has been revealed by Su Liu, so it doesn’t matter how they were killed.

"Your original plan for rebellion was this month, right? Who were you going to cooperate with? At dawn tomorrow?" Su Liu gave some more details.

"How do you know?" Lu Qi avoided his gaze.

"The previous king placed people in 'The Dawn of Tomorrow'. Do you think he knows about it?" Su Liu said with a half-smile.

Lu Qi's defenses were broken. It seemed that their Lu family had been right to support Su Liu's ascension to the throne. Otherwise, they would have been liquidated by the previous king sooner or later. "It's not that I didn't give him a chance. I asked him to hand it over, but he refused, insisting on dying a heroic death. He even threatened me, saying that if he died, he would present the evidence to the king and told me not to be complacent. A lowly person dared to speak to me like that. It really pissed me off."

Su Liu asked, "Why are you so confident? Aren't you afraid that if he dies, your secret will be exposed?"

"He has my people by his side. I sent him a beautiful girl. I know everything he does every day." Lu Qi said proudly, "For a Beta like him who is incompetent, it is the most difficult to resist the temptation of beautiful women. The little girl I sent to his side has already seen him thoroughly. He has no time to hand over the evidence. Most of it is carried with him."

"How come you are so foresighted? Have you done the background check so early?" Su Liu asked again.

"...At first I wanted to buy his shop, but land there is very expensive and I didn't have that much money, so I thought about finding his weakness," Lu Qi rubbed his chin with his hand, feeling a little embarrassed.

"This matter has become so serious now. You and your father must hand over one of them, as well as those subordinates." Su Liu said calmly.

"You...you go back on your word!" Lu Qi was very angry.

Father Lu also cursed: "What evidence is there? Can a few words be called evidence?"

As he spoke, he looked at the people around him with an extremely vicious look in his eyes.

"You fabricated the evidence yourself when there was no evidence. Do you need me to teach you this? Find a lesser crime to confess to! You won't say that he really bumped into the man, but you shouldn't try to clear yourself so much either. Just apologize and say that you were also at fault for not noticing that something was wrong with him in time. Isn't that enough? I'll lock you up first and sentence you to a few years. I'll let you out after the public's anger subsides." Su Liu was very disappointed.

"Su Liu!" Father Lu called him by his name. "You're really calculating. Just because you became king, you're going to use my son as a target? What? Are you trying to establish a good image for yourself as someone who 'speaks for the people'? You're dreaming! My son didn't kill anyone!"

"Since you insist on doing this, then I'll tell you the truth. I'm not discussing this with you, I'm informing you." Su Liu's smile was kind. "If I really wanted to do something to you, I wouldn't be here now."

"Aren't you here to save that kid? You say it so nicely." Lu Qi pointed at Yu Tu with his chin in a sarcastic tone.

Yu Tu just woke up, and as soon as he met Lu Qi's gaze, his whole body trembled.

The girl in the blue dress beside him patted his shoulder to comfort him.

"That's right, there's still his issue that hasn't been resolved." Su Liu took out a document, thrust it in front of Lu Qi, and asked, "What's written on it?"

That was Yu Tu's indenture contract, which detailed his relationship with Su Liu.

"He is your fiancé?" Lu Qi looked in shock at a corner where the former king's male favorite was squatting.

When he was playing with the king's male favorite just now, he was so engrossed in the fun that he felt like the king was being trampled under his feet. Only now did he realize how disrespectful this was.

"Yes, you are very bold. You dare to touch my people in front of me?" Su Liu slapped Lu Qi, and her tone became fierce. "Do you know how much time and energy I spent to raise him to be the well-behaved, sensible, and clean person he is now? You dare to insult him without saying a word. Are you deliberately provoking me?"

Lu Qi was stunned.

He has lacked supervision since he was a child, and has long developed the character of "those who obey me will prosper, and those who disobey me will perish."

This is the first time I’ve been slapped in the face.

"You..." Lu Qi was so angry that he even wanted to raise his hand to fight back, but he was fixed in place by his blood vessels and could not do anything except move his mouth.

"Slap him, twenty-one more times," Su Liu signaled to the original group in the attic.

Everyone seemed to have been petrified and no one took any action.

Seeing this, Luyao rolled up his sleeves and was about to go up.

Lu Qi recognized her, "Luyao, your waist is so thin. My previous male favorite said you felt very soft to the touch."

Lu Yao smiled. "I served your male favorite, and your male favorite served you. Rounding it off, it's like I'm having an affair with you. A lowly person like me can actually be connected to such a noble bloodline as yours. I must have accumulated eight lifetimes of blessings. I'm so lucky."

At this point, Luyao was so moved that she held her face in her hands, revealing a joyful expression, as if saying: "Oh my God, I am God's favorite."

It also seemed to be saying, "Such a noble vampire has been touched by a lowly person like me. I'm really lucky. Not only that, I've also seen his flawless body. I know exactly where his moles are. I'm so happy."

Su Liu looked at Luyao in surprise. Luyao was growing so fast that she was worthy of being his choice for the city master.

Lu Qi was furious. Seeing Lu Yao getting closer and closer, he cursed, "Dad, kill her!"

Father Lu closed his eyes at the beginning.

Obviously, he felt that compared to confessing his guilt, just slapping Su Liu a few times to calm him down was not a big deal.

Su Tao asked from behind Su Liu, "Why twenty-two palms?"

Su Liu whispered, "He killed 220 people, but I was kind to him and gave him a zero."

Luyao came back quickly after slapping him.

Seeing Su Tao was about to step forward, Su Liu shook her head slightly.

"Hurry up," Su Liu urged.

The few lackeys standing closest to them were in a dilemma and had to move forward hesitantly.

There are probably more than fifty people in the attic. If they don't take action, there are plenty of people who can. Why offend Lu Qi?

"By the way, let's change the rules of the game. You just say 'I like you' and then you play," Su Liu said with a smile.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at Su Liu with eyes that said, "You powerful people are really perverted."

"Start with you," Su Liu pointed at one of the lackeys.

The lackey was forced to do nothing but grit his teeth and whisper to Lu Qi: "I like you."

Then there was a slap.

The slap was obviously less forceful, leaving a lighter mark than those left by Su Liu and Lu Yao.

"Giving my all, do you look down on the vampires?" Su Liu said fiercely, "Anyone who doesn't satisfy me will be buried here today."

After that, the crowd finally moved.

Except for those who were still unconscious, everyone else was afraid that if they acted too late they would not be able to go back.

Su Liu saw a lot of things from the slaps of these people.

Someone said with a useful look: "I'm sorry, sir, I was forced to do so."

But he was extremely cruel.

There were those who gloated over Lu Qi's misfortune and had wanted to beat him up a long time ago.

There are also those jealous people who think, "What's so great about being powerful? If they do something wrong, they will be beaten by a bitch like me."

After the twenty-first slap, Su Liu raised his hand and made a stop gesture.

Then he turned around and said to Yu Tu, "You go and deliver the last blow."

Yu Tu stood there in a daze.

"What are you doing standing there? Hit me!" Su Liu's tone was calm, but his eyes looked like he was crazy.

Yu Tu clenched his fists and stepped forward.

"Just smile and say 'I like you' to him before you hit him. Don't look so sad. You treat him like this because you like him, just like he likes you and has to bully you," Su Liu's tone gradually became cold.

Yu Tu bit his lip and forced a smile that was uglier than crying. He said, "I like you."

Then, he slapped Lu Qi hard.

“Pah…”

It was as if the shackles someone had put around his soul had broken.

Yu Tu was shocked.

Su Liu smiled with satisfaction and opened the system panel.

【System Mode: Dimension Upgrade 3.0】

[Required conditions for upgrading: Completed (automatically locked)]

[Core conditions for dimensional upgrade: 2/3 of a god-level soul; luck value 10/100 (%)]

[System Cache: God-level Fragment 1%, Luck Value 50%]

[Territory: Spark City (materialization)]

[City Lord: Su Liu]

[Hidden Identity: Spiritual Leader of the Resistance]

[Agent: Dai Ning]

Talent Reserve: 1410158... (Locked)

【Basic equipment:7/7】

[Reputation: 29904700... (Locked)]

[Talent Skill: Disaster Revelation Lv6 (New Function: Fate Weaving)]

Potential: Quantum Tunneling

[Bloodline: Bloodline Omega (Growth Type)]

It seems that he has successfully changed the fate of "The Upside Down".

Destiny weaving?

It turns out that when he was sixteen, the ability to move a mirror fragment was a skill only available at Level 6.

He likes this feature.

——Your destiny is woven by me.

Su Liu looked at Lu Qi and said, "Why isn't your face swollen at all? The vampires are really thick-skinned."

Lu Qi cursed in a low voice: Bitch.

Father Lu interrupted, "I've already beaten him. What else does Your Majesty want? Can I take my son away?"

"Why do you say that? If anyone wants to leave, it should be me. This is your territory," Su Liu said politely.

"How could that be? All land under heaven belongs to the king," said Father Lu sarcastically.

"Your brain works so quickly, how come you gave birth to such a stupid son?" Su Liu said.

"Who are you calling stupid?" Lu Qi stopped pretending after being slapped. He now hated Su Liu very much.

"I'm talking about you. How did someone get hold of something against you? What do you usually do? Why are you so stupid and careless?" Su Liu criticized earnestly.

“……” Lu Qi was stunned and suddenly felt inferior.

"You don't have any counselors around you? Are they all just bad friends and good-for-nothings? And you're still trying to come up with lies to deceive the people. Why not just say you killed him when your courtship failed?" Su Liu complained. He knew that Lu Qi's current situation was inseparable from the contribution of "Tomorrow's Dawn".

"He's already fifty years old, and I'm courting him? Am I crazy?" Lu Qi thought of something and sneered disdainfully.

"Anyway, in this matter, one of you and your father must come forward and confess. As for those who were present at the time, I don't want more, just hand over half," Su Liu stated again.

"Why? They are just untouchables. They will die if they die! Even if I admit it, what can those untouchables do?" Lu Qi's eyes were red.

"This matter is not up to me," Su Liu analyzed the pros and cons in detail with the Lu family father and son.

There are several reasons why this must be done.

Reason 1: Father Lu was not without rivals in the power center. If his rivals wanted to kill him, they could easily take advantage of this incident. After all, Xiucheng was now under the control of the four major families, not the Lu family. This scandal was enough to put the Lu family at a disadvantage in the power struggle.

Reason 2: People can raise funds through crowdfunding and hire a killer to kill Lu Qi.

Reason three: If a group of people were willing to risk their lives and imitate the "civil officials' death-defying remonstration" in front of Su Liu, writing a blood oath demanding a thorough investigation, then this matter would be made into an ironclad case.

"I heard that someone was instigating behind the scenes, saying that as long as seven representatives were elected, they would come to me and commit suicide to demand a thorough investigation, and they would not believe that I would not give an explanation. I...ah, this is difficult," Su Liu sighed.

This was done by Su Liu. Su Liu had asked Pei Yunxiu to spread the word and instigate the people to let the seven people commit suicide. The seven people stirred up trouble and pulled many people into a small-scale uprising, but they were high-level officials of "Dawn of Tomorrow" and they valued their lives very much, so it was impossible for them to commit suicide.

Su Liu emphasized to his subordinates: Those seven people must die first, and they cannot die anywhere randomly. They must die in front of him and in front of him. Then he will thoroughly investigate this case.

"Here is the list of those seven people, take a look... Hey, I was forced to do it," Su Liu reasoned.