Chapter 590 Inhumanity
“Boom!!!”
The night is as dark as ink, and the shadow of the knife is like a rainbow.
It was clearly a sword move, but when the golden dragon crashed into the group of bandits, a loud noise like thunder was produced.
In just a moment, countless bandits vomited blood and flew back, and were dead in the blink of an eye.
These people were still lucky, at least their bodies were kept intact.
There were many others whose heads and bodies had already been separated, or simply chopped into countless pieces by the sword shadows, which scattered in the air, and then fell to the ground with a "crackling" sound like blood rain.
In just one encounter, eighty percent of the hundred or so bandits were killed.
At this moment, looking at the corpses of their companions, the few bandits who escaped even forgot to run away, and many of them were feces and urine all over the place.
They had never seen such ferocious moves and such powerful warriors.
Even their head, the current Magistrate of Zhongling County, is only just entering the sixth rank, which is the middle third rank.
"ah!!!"
A terrified shout suddenly rang out, and a man with pockmarks on his face was the first to react. He dropped the weapon in his hand and turned and ran away.
Since he had already used the Dragon Lock, Wei Changtian was not worried that he could escape. He just took a glance and waved his hand again.
“Swish, swish, swish!!”
The long knife swept past, taking away more than a dozen lives without any hesitation.
At this point, the battle ended in just five breaths.
The front yard of the county government office returned to silence. Not even a wailing sound was heard. All that was left was a pile of blood and body parts.
If this "plot" were put into the exciting novel of the previous life, it would undoubtedly be "not exciting enough".
But Wei Changtian used the strength of the second rank to deal with this group of lower third rank bandits, so the result was indeed reasonable.
It would be really weird if he fought back and forth with this group of bandits and it was extremely exciting.
“.”
Recalling the hundreds of long swords in the air, Wei Changtian looked back at the group of women with wide eyes in the gatehouse, stepped over the corpses under his feet, and walked straight in the direction where the pockmarked man was fleeing.
When he stood in the court of the yamen, he saw at a glance that the armchair behind the desk had shown signs of having been moved.
It was obvious that there must be a tunnel under the armchair, and the pockmarked face wanted to use it to escape.
But unfortunately, he couldn't escape under the Dragon Lock.
The moonlight was cold, shining on the painting of the sunrise over the sea on the wall, making the several white pheasants in the painting appear particularly clear.
This picture is also known as "Sunrise in the East" in the market. As the background of the court, it should symbolize the officials' character of "clear as sea water, bright as the morning sun".
But now the better the picture is drawn, the more ironic the scene becomes.
“It’s quite a dark humor.”
Glancing at the "Integrity Plaque" hanging high above the picture, Wei Changtian muttered something, then walked to the armchair with a knife in hand.
The pitch-black entrance meant that his guess was correct. If nothing unexpected happened, the man with the pockmarked face should be in the tunnel at this moment.
Unable to go out or come back, he must have felt extremely desperate at this moment.
He may have understood that he was going to die, but he still retained a glimmer of hope, "What if that person didn't find this place?", so he hid in the tunnel trembling with fear and dared not show his head.
But for Wei Changtian, killing this "bandit county magistrate" was an extremely simple matter.
You don't even have to enter the tunnel, you just need to use a flying knife to kill people instantly.
But "Bang!"
“Bang, bang, bang!”
“Crack! Crack!”
With a wave of his hand, the tables, chairs and other items in the courtroom all shattered into pieces of wood.
With one move from Wei Changtian, these broken wood pieces came in one after another under the influence of his internal force, and then flew into the cave entrance.
“Huh~”
A flash of fire suddenly appeared, illuminating the tunnel in the cave.
As the fire continued to spread through the broken wood, and the air in the tunnel was poorly circulated, thick black smoke immediately billowed up.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough"
Squatting at the entrance of the cave, using his internal energy to blow the black smoke deeper into the tunnel, Wei Changtian soon heard a slight cough.
However, his body did not move. Not only did he still have no intention of entering the tunnel, but he used the Dragon Lock Technique again to completely seal the entrance.
It was obvious that Wei Changtian didn't want Pockmarked Face to die too easily.
It is hard to say whether this practice of treating others in their own way is "fair" or not, but it is definitely cruel.
Since the pockmarked face is of the sixth rank, he can naturally last longer than the average person in this thick smoke.
And the more this happened, the longer the pain he experienced before his death.
"Young man, ahem, spare my life."
"I will never dare to do that again."
Soon, a voice appeared under Wei Changtian's feet.
The owner of the voice has returned to the cave entrance and has touched the invisible wall of air, which is exactly the same as the "wall" that had just prevented him from escaping.
At this moment, the two of them were one below and one above, only half a foot apart, separated only by a transparent dragon-locking barrier.
The pockmarked man knew that if he wanted to survive, he could only beg Wei Changtian to spare him.
Therefore, no matter how much pain his body was in, he still struggled desperately to beg for mercy.
But Wei Changtian did not respond at all. He just looked down at him expressionlessly, without even a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
“Crackle.”
"ah!!!"
The fire is still not out.
The raging fire burned the pockmarked man's clothes and scorched his skin inch by inch, emitting a foul stench that mixed with his shrill wails.
Sixth-rank warriors are rarely killed by fire or smoke, but that doesn't mean they are invulnerable to fire or water.
They simply are able to escape danger before these injuries become fatal.
But now, the pockmarked face has no way to escape, and can only die little by little in endless pain.
And this process is undoubtedly long and painful.
Even those death row prisoners who committed heinous crimes in previous lives had never "enjoyed" this way of execution.
According to the legal interpretation, this is called "humanitarianism".
Then Wei Changtian’s current behavior is naturally very "inhumane".
But he didn't have any compassion at all and just watched everything indifferently the whole time.
Looking at the man whose whole body was burning with flames and whose skin was cracked by the burns.
Listening to his voice which was sometimes begging, sometimes cursing, and had become confused and crazy.
At a certain moment, Wei Changtian suddenly understood a sentence.
To condone evil is to trample on goodness; to be kind to evil people is to be cruel to good people.
“.”
"Die."
After the last sentence was spoken, the pockmarked face that had been struggling for nearly a quarter of an hour finally turned into a piece of charcoal in the raging fire.
Wei Changtian slowly stood up, looked at the corpse at his feet, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time.
He had killed many people after traveling through time, but this was the first time he killed someone in this way.
So no matter what, his mood at this moment was somewhat complicated.
If it were Xiao Feng, I think he would never act like this and would definitely kill the pockmarked man with a single blow.
Therefore, Wei Changtian probably would never be able to be a "gentleman" like Xiao Feng.
But at the very least, whether it is to "vent anger" or "revenge", his motive for doing so will never be "for fun".
From a certain perspective, that's enough.
(End of this chapter)
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