Cyber ​​Daming

Chapter 699: Law and Power
"Why don't you kill me?"

In a dark room, Yang Bai Ze sat in the corner with messy hair, dirty clothes, his left arm was broken at the shoulder, and his remaining right hand was holding a Wei Wuzu hammer with its head opened, which was pressed against his thigh.

His eyes and gun were directed at Shang Lu, a man who was bandaging his wounds not far away.

The knife wounds and bullet holes on his body looked horrifying, but Shang Lu didn't care much. He just tore off a piece of his clothes to wrap it around the man and left it at that.

But the dripping nosebleed would not be stopped, like a faucet that could not be turned off tightly, making his face become paler and paler.

"Why should I kill you?"

Shang Lu wiped the blood off his face irritably and replied without even raising his head.

"Didn't you hear what those Honghu shouted? Shang Sigu has already surrendered to the Zhu family."

"You can believe what Hong Hu says? When did you become so naive?"

"Hong Hu's words cannot be believed, but your expression clearly tells me that this is not false. And you should have known that Shang Sigu would do this."

Yang Bai Ze pressed his back against the wall, trying his best to prevent his weak body from sliding down.

"I have always thought that being ungrateful and betraying one's own people is just a common tactic used by us Confucianists, but I didn't expect that even your legalists would do the same."

Facing Yang Bai Ze's ridicule, Shang Lu remained silent, but just kept wiping the blood dripping from his nose with his sleeve.

Yang Bai Ze raised the muzzle of his gun and tapped his forehead: "It's not too late for you to take off my head and take it for credit. If you keep delaying, it may not be worth much."

"Now the Huangliang of the entire Zhejiang Prefecture has been cut off by the East Palace. No one can tell what is happening outside. And..."

Shang Lu spoke slowly: "He is he, and I am me. There is more than one Shang Jia in the Law Order, and not everyone in the Shang Jia is Shang Si Gu."

"So you are innocent?"

Yang Baize shook his head and laughed, his eyes full of undisguised mockery.

"But there is one thing I really don't understand. Why did Shang Sigu think he could assassinate Prime Minister Zhang? Even if he succeeded, wouldn't this behavior violate your so-called law and justice? Wouldn't the gene of law and order collapse because of this?"

Yang Bai Ze said jokingly, "Or have you always regarded him as a traitor who brought disaster to the country and the people? All your previous actions were just for the sake of humiliation, and you actually want to kill him as soon as possible?"

"Yang Bai Ze, you can scold me, but you can't insult the law."

Shang Lu suddenly looked up and stared at Yang Bai Ze's face with cold eyes.

"Insult? Not only will I insult you now, I wish I could kill the entire legal order!"

Yang Bai Ze's eyes suddenly turned red, and a deep roar burst out from his throat: "If it weren't for the help of you people from Faxu, how could Lord Li not even have a chance to escape and be killed by that old dog Zhu Pingxu in the government office?!"

The anger on Shang Lu's face suddenly choked, and his trembling pupils seemed to be afraid to look at Yang Bai Ze, and he looked away sadly.

"With the rise of the various orders and the decline of the imperial power, you, the Law Order, should have been completely wiped out by the Confucian order and replaced with the Six Arts of Rites. It was the Prime Minister who saved you against all odds and even gave up 10% of the Huangliang authority, allowing you, the Law Order, to build the Huangliang Law Realm and preserve a glimmer of opportunity for a comeback."

"The Zhu family's tyrant was so mad that he secretly ordered Hong Hu to massacre the city. You should have been the ones to rush to the front and use your lives to prevent the mountains and rivers from sinking and the world from collapsing. But what happened? You pointed your knives at him. Shang Lu, is this the law you follow, the law you believe in?"

Yang Bai Ze's hysterical questions echoed in the narrow dark room.

Not until the echo completely died down did a hoarse voice slowly sound.

"Yang Bai Ze, let me ask you, who do you think the law should be established for?"

Yang Bai Ze blurted out: "Of course it's the millions of ordinary people!"

"How much is that? Is it one thousand or ten thousand? Neither. I tell you, this is a number that is huge enough to make people despair!"

Shang Lu lowered his head and looked at the ruler in his hand, which was full of cracks. He said calmly, "Today, you cut off someone's way of making money because you thought it was fair. Tomorrow, he might get into a dispute with someone and kill someone to vent his anger. The person he killed might be the pillar of a family. The hungry children in the family will have to live on the streets and make a living by blackmailing others."

"It is unjust to bully the weak with the strong, and it is also unjust to use the weak to blackmail the strong. There are tens of thousands of people in your speech, but there are more than tens of thousands of unjust things. But how many people are left in the current legal order? Even if we have the Huangliang Law Realm, how can we uphold justice for everyone?"

Yang Bai Ze sneered and asked back: "If you can't do it, can you just not do it?"

"Of course we have to do it. But in this empire, people have forgotten the law for many years. Now everyone regards the law of the jungle as the norm. If the law itself cannot be strengthened, how can we correct the deformed world?"

"Ridiculous! If people's hearts don't change, how can your law and order be strong?"

Shang Lu looked gloomy: "So law and power are inseparable from the beginning to the end."

"It is ironic that the law, which should be a powerful force in itself, now has to rely on other powers in order to survive!"

"The law is supreme, but the legal order that implements the law is not. Since Emperor Yizong established the order, the law has gradually been embodied in the legal order, and has begun to decline since then."

"Using humanity to replace the law, the Zhu family really has a good plan!"

Yang Bai Ze snorted coldly: "So this is your excuse for backstabbing the Prime Minister?"

“That’s not an excuse, that’s a reality.”

Shang Lu said: "Prime Minister Zhang has done a favor to Faxu, but what if he loses? At that time, the entire Faxu will inevitably be slaughtered."

Yang Bai Ze refuted: "Then it is only you, the law order, who will die, not the human heart law! To put it bluntly, you are just afraid of death, why do you have to find so many excuses for yourself?"

"Has Faxu ever been afraid of death?"

Shang Lu looked heavy-hearted and shook his head, saying, "We just can't sit back and watch the law weaken any longer, because we don't know how long this lawless situation will last? Ten years, or fifty years? We can't wait any longer."

Yang Bai Ze said sarcastically, "Then do you think Zhu Yiyan will give you another chance to rise and tie his own hands?"

“He promised.”

Shang Lu's answer was barely audible, but to Yang Bai Ze it sounded like thunder.
"Promise? Hahahaha"

Yang Bai's eyes suddenly widened, and he laughed angrily: "Shang Lu, is there a word like 'promise' in your laws?!"

"The weak have no choice but to gamble."

Yang Baize stared at the dejected man in front of him, gritting his teeth and speaking word by word.

"The law and order of the Ming Dynasty is truly not worth dying for!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Lu's figure suddenly jumped up, and the ruler he swung was not towards Yang Baize, but went straight to the closed door!
Bang!
The door was violently smashed open from the outside, and as soon as the muzzle of a gun was inserted, it was cut off by a ruler.

Shang Lu rushed out of the door, raised his knife and killed all the Honghu who were chasing him.

patter
Blood was still dripping from the tip of his nose. Shang Lu raised his hand to wipe it off. The scarlet blood that was rubbed off covered the dried bloodstains, layer upon layer, making his face look even paler.

Suddenly, Shang Lu heard a sudden sound of a broken mirror. Then his vision was rapidly distorted and changed, with light alternating between bright and dark.

When his vision became clear again, there was no body of Honghu in front of him, only a section of the door that had been kicked in pieces lying at Shang Lu's feet.

"These damn rats"

Shang Lu gritted his teeth, staring at a figure who walked slowly into the courtyard. On the opposite side of the door was a striking golden mask, which Shang Lu recognized. The person was Zhao Yin, one of the Nine Lords of the East Palace.

In other words, this is another Huangliang ghost who took over the position.

"The criminal Zhao Yin is guilty of treason, indiscriminate killing, and dream theft. He is guilty of multiple crimes and should be sentenced to death!"

Shang Lu acted decisively, and directly pronounced Zhao Yin's guilt in a loud voice, and then jumped out.

Zhao Yin, who had just entered the room, seemed to be shocked and suppressed by the power of the law. He stood there in a daze, motionless, allowing the sword as sharp as a knife to come straight at his head.

But just when he was about to succeed, Shang Lu's heart suddenly trembled for no apparent reason, and the piercing ruler subconsciously deviated an inch.

嚓啷
The ruler rubbed against the golden mask, creating dazzling sparks.

"It seems that the thing is indeed on you. Shang Lu, you can't run away, and the Huangliang Law Realm can't protect you."

A faint laugh came from under the mask, and then Zhao Yin's body disappeared like a bubble.

Still a dream!

Shang Lu's pupils suddenly shrank, and he finally broke free from the dream and found himself still in the room.

And the ruler that was stabbing at Zhao Yin was now close to Yang Bai Ze's ear and penetrated deeply into the wall!
Just a hair's breadth away and Yang Bai Ze would have died in his own hands.

“I’m not saying anything, but you are also the Order of Law. How could you be led around by the nose by the Order of Yin and Yang?”

Yang Bai Ze wiped the bloody wound on the side of his face with his thumb, looking helpless.

boom! boom! boom!
There was a sudden clanging of metal outside the house, bringing about a torrential rain of bullets. The bricks and stones were like soft tofu, and could not provide any protection at all.

Shang Lu knelt down and pushed Yang Bai Ze to the ground, using his raised back to support the collapsing roof.

Boom!
In the split second, a pair of murderous eyes suddenly emerged from the rising smoke and dust!

Shang Lu flew out of the smoke and dust, and charged into the crowd against the rain of bullets.

The black ruler stirred up streams of scarlet blood and disrupted the deafening sound of gunfire.

This group of Honghu who followed the scent were not ordinary thugs. Not only were they well-equipped, but everyone had a rank. Even in the face of such a bloody scene, they were still not afraid. They drew the short blades at their waists and swarmed over from all sides, intending to surround Shang Lu in the middle.

"Guilty criminals, surrender!"

Shang Lu's eyes suddenly burst into awe-inspiring majesty, and he shouted angrily in a deep voice.

Invisible shock spread out, and the arms wielding knives all stopped in their tracks, standing still in the air. The ferocity on their faces froze, and they were ready to be killed!
Pfft!

The ruler emitted a pitch-black light, and the dull sound of the blade entering the flesh and the crisp sound of bones breaking merged into one.

The dark red black clothes fluttered in the wind, and Shang Lu rushed towards the last Honghu. His ruler followed his arm and cut a deep wound on the opponent's chest, almost splitting the entire chest open.

clang!
What emerged into Shang Lu's eyes from under the flesh and blood was a cold metallic light!
"Order of the Soldiers."

Shang Lu couldn't help but frowning. He shook his wrist and the ruler was like a swimming dragon, ready to pierce into the opponent's body through the gap between the mechanical bones.

boom!
A ray of cold light approached his face. At the critical moment, Shang Lu forced himself to twist his body, but a bloody line was still cut on his shoulder.

The physical pain was secondary, but the sword seemed to have cut into Shang Lu's mind. His eyes suddenly went dark and he flew backwards.

"The guilty one."

"I am not a member of your Ming Dynasty. Even this body is made of steel. Your laws are of no use to me."

The soft voice interrupted Shang Lu's roar, and the woman with charming features smiled.

The sword flashed suddenly, piercing bloody holes in the body of Shang Lu who was retreating in embarrassment.

His hands and feet were gradually getting cold. He held his breath and swung the ruler to try to fight back, but the woman kicked him in the chest and he fell next to Yang Bai Ze.

"It's Shen Tu from the East Palace, hurry up and leave!"

Shang Lu gritted his teeth and turned over, but before he could stand up straight, he staggered forward and smashed one knee into the brick and tile fragments on the ground, blood gushing out of his body.

"You are no match for others. I am just a low-ranking Confucian scholar. How can I run away?"

Yang Bai Ze replied unhappily, biting the loaded Wei Wuzu rifle with his teeth, and stood up with one hand on the ground.

"Honestly, why are you so soft-hearted? Do you only bully ordinary people who have no power or influence?"

Yang Bai Ze took off the pistol and held it in his hand, then looked down at Shang Lu and joked.

"Give me your authority, and you still have a chance to survive."

Shen Tu strolled leisurely among the corpses scattered on the ground, scarlet blood dripping slowly from the tip of his sword.

"Fuck your mother's fart."

Shang Lu spat out a mouthful of blood, not knowing who he was scolding.

Suddenly, he smiled: "However, your provocation is not that great. You can even see through my magic order. You are still far from being skilled enough."

"You are still as cunning as ever, so shallow that you can see through it at a glance. If you can't even compromise, how can you restore the law?"

"I've already said it before, I'm not Shang Sigu."

Shang Lu stood up shakily while holding the cracked ruler. "Who do I need to bow to when I am in a position of power and order? If I am given a chance, the first person I will kill is the Ming Emperor Zhu Yiyan!"

"Hahahaha, that's right, this is what a law should say. Before the law, how can there be any distinction between noble and humble human lives?!"

Yang Bai Ze laughed out loud, a murderous look flashing between his brows, and he suddenly raised the muzzle of the gun and pointed it at Shen Tu, who had an indifferent expression.

"Since neither of us wants to leave, let's just fuck him!"

boom!
The gunshot exploded along with Shen Tu's body, scattering into pieces all over the sky.

Yang Bai Ze looked at the smoke coming out of the muzzle of the gun in his hand in disbelief, and Shang Lu next to him was also stunned.

Shang Lu's throat rolled, and he murmured, "Are you Yang Baize or Prime Minister Zhang?"

"I have traveled thousands of miles to save you, but one of you wants to be my father?"

Zhang Siyuan appeared in front of the two men, swaying his body, carrying a gun shaped like the Doyanwei on his shoulder.

"Isn't this a bit too much?"

(End of this chapter)