Farming Road from Baron to Emperor

Chapter 173 Ling Chi
"My lord, please listen to my explanation. Let's not force ourselves to be helpless." Thomas said obsequiously with a smile on his stomach.

"Say!" Charles' tone was cold, revealing a trace of murderous intent in the coldness. Those tauren could understand, but even human beings have eaten each other, which is a crime against nature and reason.

"My lord, the outer castle has been breached. We can only stay inside the inner castle. What happened was too sudden. There is not enough food in the inner castle. In order to survive, we can only... we can only do this , otherwise all of us here will die. Is it wrong for us to survive?"

Thomas showed his true feelings, especially when it came to surviving, he even brought himself into it. In the past few days, he really tried his best to survive.

Charles sneered, when he was a three-year-old child.Whatever you say is what you say.

"Lock them up, each in a separate room, and interrogate alone. If someone knows and tells the truth, I can give them a decent end."

After Charles finished speaking, the Iris infantry stepped forward, pulled Thomas, Richard, Tommy and a dozen others into the room, and began to question.

After a while, the Iris soldier walked up to Charles and asked in a low voice, "Master, can I use torture?"

"No, I'm going to interrogate myself. I really want to know what kind of conspiracy is hidden here. How dare you eat human flesh in broad daylight. You really want to die."

Charles walked towards the house where they were imprisoned, picked one at random and walked in.Charles didn't believe that they could turn over in the prisoner's dilemma.

Two suspects who committed a crime together were put in prison and could not communicate with each other.If neither denounces the other, each will be imprisoned for three years due to uncertain evidence; if one denounces and the other remains silent, the informer will be released immediately for meritorious service, and the silent one will be imprisoned for ten years for non-cooperation; If they expose each other, both of them will be sentenced to eight years in prison because of the solid evidence.Since the prisoners cannot trust each other, they tend to denounce each other rather than keep silent.

Shire didn't believe that these people could have such firm confidence that their accomplices would definitely not expose them.

At this moment, Tommy was leaning against the corner timidly, when he suddenly saw the door was opened, and the person who gave the order just now came in.

"Tell me, why do you want to eat human flesh, and how Khamis Castle fell, tell me all about it."

Charles sat on a chair and looked at Tommy coldly.

"My lord, I really don't know. Suddenly the gate of the city was knocked open by those minotaur monsters. We had no choice but to stay inside the inner fort. There wasn't enough food in the inner fort. We could only pick some from the outside. Dead bodies come to eat, sir, we are only here to survive."

Tommy snotted and burst into tears, and said miserably.The Iris infantry present even had empathy and compassion for their tragic fate.

Charles stared at him very coldly, like the highly concentrated expression of a falcon hunting its prey.When he entered the city from the city gate just now, he noticed that the huge crossbar blocking the city gate was not broken. How could it be possible that the tauren broke through the city gate and rushed in.

"Thomas has said everything that needs to be said. I advise you not to believe them. I guess you know better than me what kind of people they are. Do you know what will happen to you in the end?"

Charles looked at Tommy with a sneer, then took out the dagger in his hand and gestured towards Tommy.

"You will be worse than those tauren kobolds. They were hammered to death. You can only use a wooden hammer to break their internal organs little by little, and finally bleed to death. This process usually lasts for several 10 minutes to several Hours vary.

But you, your behavior is worse than theirs, so your end will be even worse. Have you seen the dagger in my hand?I specially invented a criminal law called Ling Chi for you people. The so-called Ling Chi is to use a dagger to cut off your flesh little by little. You cannot die during this process. You must stop the bleeding and let you live.

In the end, you have to cut 2000 knives. The best effect is that when you die, there is only a skeleton left, and all the flesh on your body is removed. But for the first time, everyone has no experience, so cut more than [-] knives Knife will do. "

Charles stared at Tommy, shaking the dagger in his hand, as if thinking about where it would be more convenient to attack.

Tommy looked at the dagger in Charles's hand in horror, and the pressure in his heart was getting bigger and bigger, and his doubts about Thomas were getting bigger and bigger. Thomas wouldn't really say it.

~ thorn ~
The dagger was inserted into the wooden table immediately, Charles dropped the dagger and walked out, uttering four cold words.

"Lingchi execution! Not less than two thousand knives"

"Yes, Lord Count."

At this moment, Tommy's psychological defense was instantly broken, and he shouted hastily.

"Master Earl, don't go, I said, I said, I beg you to give me a happy time when the time comes, and don't execute me in a hurry."

Tommy knelt on the ground and began to tell how Thomas opened the city gate to frame Khamis, how he forced other people to eat human flesh, and how he decided to tell Shire from the beginning, and finally even talked more and more happily.

After hearing this, Charles walked out with a livid face. He thought that the tauren disaster was caused by Khamis' negligence, but he didn't expect that it was a man-made disaster from beginning to end.

Charles strode into the house where Thomas was being held, and slammed the door shut with a bang.Turning his eyes to the fat man in the room, the dangling fat made him feel very sick.

"So your name is Thomas, tell me how you want to die."

Ciel suppressed his anger and said coldly.

Thomas put on an expression of innocent surprise.

"My lord, what happened here? Are we guilty of living? Are we all eating human flesh? Do we all have to die?"

"Hehe, Thomas, just now Tommy told me everything, how to let the tauren in, how to force other people to eat human flesh, and how everyone came to force me in the end. I have to say that you are so brave."

"My lord, have you misunderstood? I don't understand what you are saying." Thomas said innocently.

"Do you want me to call Tommy over so you can confront him face to face?"

Thomas was speechless for a moment, and after a while, he seemed to have accepted the fact, all the innocence just now faded away, and the ferocious brutality returned to him.

"Tommy, that coward, is really unreliable. I knew it would be better to kill him in advance. And why are you pretending to be a good person? At that time, you may not be as good as me. You nobles, just rely on your own status. If you give me a chance, I will definitely clean up all of you one by one."

Thomas' fat was congealed into a ball, and his eyes were fierce.

"How about it, shouldn't it be time to criticize me with your compassionate kindness and your noble virtues? It's really funny."

Charles looked at him coldly, and said three words lightly.

"you will die."

"I'm not afraid of death. Anyway, I've killed enough people. There's nothing to be afraid of."

"You will die, and it will be worse than those kobolds and tauren."

"Hehe, what's the matter, everyone in the inner castle ate human flesh, at worst they died together."

"You will die, you will be executed by Ling Chi, your flesh will be cut off with one knife, and your bones will be crushed into powder.

But before you die, your family members will die, and your family members will be treated in the same way, they will curse you, curse you, but they will die before you, and you will be powerless to watch them being cut into one Skeletal frame, thrown to the ground like wild dogs. "

After finishing speaking, Charles stopped looking at him and walked out directly.

Thomas started cursing, cursing Ciel, and when Ciel opened the door, Thomas was cursing to a hysterical level.

The cruelest punishment for this person who just wants to live is to let him know that he will be brutally killed, let him witness how his relatives are brutally killed, and let him be full of fear before dying, but he has no courage to go. suicide.

Time passed quickly, and Charles finished interrogating the others in a short while. The afternoon sun was just in time, and Thomas and others and their families, a total of dozens of people were hung on the wooden frame. The surviving villagers include Iris soldiers, and the kobolds and tauren who were executed not long ago.

Charles stepped up to the high platform and said loudly: "These people deliberately lured the kobolds into the Clivia Territory, opened the city gates and let the tauren in, forcing and deceiving everyone to eat human flesh. They committed a heinous crime and were sentenced to Ling Chi together with their families."

"Charles, you are a bastard, why should my family be involved in the matter of me sitting alone."

Charles didn't answer, and didn't bother to answer.

"Execution!"

A group of trained Iris soldiers walked up to them with daggers, and beside them were Iris soldiers who were holding hemostatic powder and were ready to treat them at any time.

Slices of flesh were cut off, blood dripped drop by drop, screams of howling ghosts and wolves continued to come out from their mouths, from hoarse at the beginning to hoarse and powerless at the end.

Even in the bright and warm sunshine, there was a trace of blood, as if he couldn't bear to look directly at this tragic scene.

The kobolds and tauren below the high platform were also full of fear. It turned out that these people were not the most ruthless when dealing with them, and they actually had more brutal methods to deal with their kind.

Violence and fear subjugate tauren and kobolds, a treatment they neither want nor dare to suffer.

Moreover, among the tauren and kobolds who believed in the law of the jungle, Shire's brutality was more conducive to his status as a leader. For these tauren and kobolds, if they were not good, they had to be tough.

The survivors in the inner castle were mingled with fear and gratitude, and secretly warned themselves not to violate the decree of this noble lord.

(End of this chapter)