"The driver tried to extort money from me, and before I could even say anything, you rushed out to protect him. Is he some kind of relative of yours?" Lin Jingge said sarcastically.
The sentence was full of irony.
Su Ru, who originally thought she was upholding justice, suddenly lost all her momentum and was no longer as confident as she had been at the beginning.
If it were someone else standing opposite, it wouldn't matter, but as early as yesterday, because of Old Qin, she had already felt resentful towards Lin Jingge.
Therefore, even though he knew he was in the wrong, he was unwilling to show weakness in front of Lin Jingge.
"You knew it was a misunderstanding, why didn't you say so earlier? Were you just waiting to see me make a fool of myself?!" Su Ru not only showed no remorse for framing Lin Jinge, but instead turned the tables on him.
Anyone with common sense present could see that Su Ru was being aggressive.
Lin Jingge utterly despised this fabricated accusation.
"What, you want to jump out and pretend to be a good person, and I'm supposed to stop you?!" Lin Jingge was so angry at the other party's words that she laughed.
The people around her were also talking about Su Ru's distorted and distorted words.
Here, no one knew her identity, but due to her status as a Great Spirit Master, everyone only dared to whisper about it.
However, once Su Ru reached this level of cultivation, even though those voices were deliberately suppressed, she could still hear them clearly without missing a single word.
She was furious when she heard someone describe her as arrogant and domineering.
She, the dignified young lady of the city lord, had never suffered such injustice!
However, before she could do anything, the butler, who had finally managed to squeeze out from the gap in the pile of monster carts, collapsed in front of Su Ru.
The butler shook his head slightly at Su Ru and transmitted his voice to her: "Miss, we should hurry back now and avoid causing any more trouble."
Even so, the butler was unwilling to see his young mistress suffer, so he threw the person he had caught when he drove over in front of Su Ru.
"I just happened to run into this coachman when he was hiding over the monster carriage. Now I'll capture him and give him to Miss to deal with." The steward rolled up the reins of the monster carriage, held them in his hand, then jumped off the carriage and walked over to the coachman who had been thrown down like a dead dog.
The driver was so frightened by the menacing-looking people staring at him that he almost wet himself.
He dared to trick Lin Jingge because he saw that she was traveling alone and dressed in a low-class manner. Even if she was exposed, he was sure that she wouldn't dare to make a big deal out of it.
But now another person has been involved, and someone who seems to have quite a lot of influence.
He had never even seen such a luxurious beast-drawn carriage before, let alone ridden in it.
The driver quickly got up from the ground, knelt down, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
"My lord, please spare me! I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have overcharged and cheated people. Please, my lord, have mercy on me because I have elderly parents and young children to support!"
"Miss, what do you think we should do?" The butler didn't even glance at the coachman.
He was merely a Spirit Realm cultivator, not worthy of his attention. If it weren't for his young lady's intervention, he wouldn't have bothered with him at all.
Su Ru was furious at the whispers and gossip of the people around her.
She couldn't kill everyone present to vent her anger, but she could deal with the person in front of her.
"Since he enjoys lying so much, let's cripple his cultivation and cut out his tongue," Su Ru said casually, uttering a cruel statement.
However, the way these words were spoken didn't sound like a punishment, but rather like a handout or a blessing.
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone around her immediately fell silent, not daring to say another word.
For a moment, the kneeling coachman thought he had misheard.
However, when he saw the butler, who was channeling orange-red spiritual energy, walking towards him, he knew that the other party was serious.
The driver was so frightened that he scrambled to his feet. He looked at the two people in front of him as if they were some terrifying demons. In his panic, he ran towards Lin Jingge.
"Please save me!" The driver ran towards Lin Jingge with all his might, shouting for help.
Now, he was no longer afraid of Lin Jingge. He felt that Lin Jingge was much kinder than the two people opposite him.
Seeing the person rushing towards Lin Jingge, Xiao Shi hesitated for a moment: "Gege, are you going to save him?"
Clearly, Xiao Shi also felt that Su Ru and the other person had gone a bit too far.
While it's wrong for a driver to cheat people, it's really not that bad.
However, Xiao Shi forgot that he was no longer in the interstellar world protected by interstellar law. In this new world, might makes right.
Lin Jingge pursed her lips and glanced at the person who had already run up to her.
"I don't want to save her." She said this to Xiao Shi in her mind before heading straight for the main road outside the town.
Judging from this, they clearly had no intention of paying any attention to the coachman.
The coachman never expected that Lin Jingge would abandon the demon beast carriage and run away immediately because of his plea for help.
He immediately stopped in his tracks, stunned.
As soon as he stopped, the butler grabbed his shoulder tightly.
Before he could even feel his shoulder being grabbed, the meridians in his body were severed by the other person's palm.
The driver's eyes widened immediately.
The pain of a broken meridian is far greater than physical pain. He was in so much pain that he couldn't stand up and fell to the ground, curling up in a ball. However, he only managed to utter one cry before realizing that he could no longer make a sound.
Everyone looked away from the blood-stained tongue in the butler's hand, shut their mouths, and dared not look or speak again.
There were no more of those chattering, mocking students, nor those strange looks, especially when those eyes swept over the crowd and saw the fear on their faces.
For some reason, Su Ru felt much better.
The butler casually tossed the tongue in his hand onto the ground like trash, then took a handkerchief from the storage container to wipe his hands clean before walking towards Su Ru.
"Miss, everything is settled. We should get going."
Seeing the coachman writhing on the ground in pain and everyone instinctively avoiding her gaze, Su Ru nodded in satisfaction.
"Well done," she praised the butler, and then, with his help, she stepped into the luxurious carriage.
After the carriage left, and until it disappeared from sight, everyone dared to breathe loudly.
Seeing the driver writhing in pain on the ground, some people felt sympathy, while others gloated. People had all sorts of emotions, but no one dared to step forward.
...
Lin Jingge didn't take the main road, but instead plunged into the dense forest.
[Gege, are you really not going to save him?] Xiaoshi, perched on Lin Jingge's head, quickly scanned the surrounding illusion while asking Lin Jingge.
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