Magistrate Xu couldn't think of any opportunity that would require dismissing all the constables. But faced with the prospect of survival, he still wanted to give it a try.
"President Jing, what opportunity?"
The other two listened attentively as well.
At this moment, Jing Zhe said, "As I just said, given the grave crimes you have committed, two of you will die, and only one will live. As for who will live and who will die, that is up to you to decide!"
"..."
The three were taken aback: "It's up to us to decide?"
Master Kongjing was the slowest to react, and then he took two solid kicks to the chest, knocking him to the ground.
The reason it was two kicks was because both Magistrate Xu and Master Feng kicked him once each!
Master Kongjing was directly kicked into enlightenment!
Good grief, so letting us decide is just a way for the three of us to fight to the death! The one who survives will naturally be the one who lives!
Magistrate Xu and Master Feng were clever enough that they immediately understood the situation and directly attacked Master Kongjing, whom they considered the weakest.
Seeing that the two were about to attack him again, Master Kongjing immediately shouted, "Master Feng is so foolish!"
The two people stopped for a moment after being shouted.
Upon seeing this, Master Kongjing immediately said, "Master Feng thinks I'm the weakest and that you can survive by teaming up with that Xu guy to kill me first? Don't you think about it? How can you possibly be a match for that Xu guy on your own? The best way is for the two of us to fight that Xu guy together, just like before. After we kill him, we'll have a final battle to the death!"
"..."
Upon hearing this, Master Feng thought it made some sense!
He had no chance of winning a one-on-one fight against Prefect Xu, but he had a good chance of winning against Master Kongjing! So the key now was to cooperate with Master Kongjing and kill that Xu fellow first!
"Master Kongjing is right!"
Master Feng, having come to his senses, nodded.
Upon hearing this, Master Kongjing wiped the sweat from his brow and let out a long sigh. Although he couldn't defeat Master Feng very well, he was much better than Prefect Xu. Most importantly, he no longer had to fight two opponents at once. So, he was indeed clever!
Seeing that the situation was not good, Magistrate Xu immediately took action!
"Go to hell with you!"
They charged at Master Kongjing, the easy target, with a mix of cursing and beatings. Once they crippled him, Master Feng would be no threat!
Feng, the wealthy man, naturally wouldn't let him succeed so easily. He rushed forward as well, and in an instant, a brawl broke out in the prison cell.
The other prisoners were stunned: They actually did that? This was much more intense than the beating they'd just witnessed!
Jing Zhe was pleased to see this, but he didn't stay there. Instead, he walked outside and called back the constables he had just dismissed.
"Look everyone, they're fighting again!"
Jing Zhe reminded him.
When the constables entered, they also discovered the chaotic melee involving Prefect Xu and the other two. Moreover, the three of them were fighting much more fiercely than before. After all, before, Prefect Xu would not fight back, and at most, it was just the two of them ganging up on him. But now it was a melee, and judging from the strength of their blows, they seemed determined not to stop until someone was killed.
"President Jing, should we stop them?"
The constables asked worriedly, "If they keep fighting like this, one of them will die sooner or later!"
Jing Zhe thought for a moment and said, "Sure, whoever goes first can go in and pull them apart. I'm not going, what if I get splattered with blood again?"
"..."
Although he said he was afraid of getting splattered with blood, the constables could tell that Jing Zhe was clearly not going to let anyone pull him away!
They wouldn't want to make a fool of themselves, so they quickly chimed in.
"Of course, what if we get splattered with blood?"
"They're not children, we'll stop when they're tired of beating them!"
"Yeah, what, are you going to actually kill one?"
"..."
After listening to the constables, Jing Zhe nodded and said, "They definitely can't be killed. How dare they be so bold? Committing violence right in front of us officials, they completely disregard us! If someone is killed today, I will execute them on the spot!"
"..."
The constables seemed to have sensed something, but Magistrate Xu and his two companions were so engrossed in their fight that they didn't hear their conversation at all.
...
Surrounded by Jing Zhe and others, screams and the sounds of punches and kicks could be heard from the cell from time to time.
Finally, after a quarter of an hour, someone shouted, "He's dead!"
It turned out that although Master Feng and Master Kongjing joined forces to fight Prefect Xu, Prefect Xu was younger and stronger, and he took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on Master Kongjing.
Master Feng beat him, and he beat Master Kongjing.
Master Kongjing hit him, and he hit Master Kongjing back.
Even when the two of them stopped, he continued to attack Master Kongjing.
Master Kongjing is an old man, how could he possibly endure this?
So after a series of "bangs and crashes," Master Kongjing finally collapsed, becoming the first person to be eliminated.
The happiest person was none other than Magistrate Xu. With one dead, the remaining one was no threat! So his gaze toward Master Feng turned much darker: "Die!"
After saying that, he pounced on her.
"Good heavens, they actually dared to commit violence in front of people!"
Jing Zhe said, and then drew the Emperor's Sword.
"It seems I must teach him a lesson about the law! Open the cell doors!"
"Yes, President Jing."
The constable agreed and could only unlock the door with the key. In that short time, the excited Prefect Xu punched Master Feng in the temple. Master Feng fell straight to the ground, his head making intimate contact with the cold floor with a loud "bang".
Even if he wasn't beaten to death, he'll probably have fallen to his death!
"They're all dead! I won! I won!"
Magistrate Xu, with blood all over his face, body and hands, clapped and cheered as if he had gone mad.
The constables outside exchanged bewildered glances: They won? They won the right to be stabbed to death by Jing Zhe with a single sword strike?
After celebrating for a while, Prefect Xu quickly turned around to find Jing Zhe and ask for a reward. Just as he turned around, he saw Jing Zhe walking in from outside the prison cell carrying the Emperor's Sword.
"President Jing... what are you doing...?"
Magistrate Xu was still somewhat bewildered.
"You committed this crime openly in front of so many people, completely disregarding the laws of Da'an! You were once the Prefect of Jiangling, yet you knowingly broke the law and committed murder; your crimes are heinous!"
Jing Zhe pointed his sword at Prefect Xu and sneered, "What do you think I'm doing?"
"President Jing, didn't you just say that?"
"What I said? What did I say?"
"You said that two of us had to die, and that if the three of us hurt each other, the one who survived could be spared the death penalty! I listened to President Jing, and now that the other two are dead, I don't have to die!"
Magistrate Xu said excitedly.
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