I want to die!

Inside the grain depot compound.

Faced with Zhou Xing's impassioned speech before his death, Wayne did not react much. He just stood there, without saying a word, remaining silent in the darkness.

The faint footsteps gradually faded away and disappeared completely as they approached the back wall.

The atmosphere was tense for a moment before a few hushed whispers broke out among the soldiers lined up behind him.

"This little beggar is quite a tough guy."

"He can't even survive himself, yet he's still thinking about not dragging those scavengers down with him... It's stupid, but that kind of drive is...tsk."

"More and more disaster victims are coming from the north, but the rice in the granaries is...sigh."

Famine ravaged the north, and refugees flocked south to the county town... This is a fact that anyone with eyes can see.

Some officers and soldiers might feel a little reluctant, but no one would open the granary for disaster relief out of mere sympathy.

If they actually did that, not only would their official positions melt away like butter, but their heads would be torn apart.

Even a local magistrate like Wayne did not have the authority to open granaries privately. Although the official report had been sent out, the decision to open the granaries, and the life or death of the officials, ultimately rested with the imperial power far away in the capital.

But the little beggar in front of them did it.

They did what they couldn't or dared not do, in the most intense and reckless way.

They can do what others cannot, and do what others will not.

Everyone has their own scales in their heart.

Although they didn't think Zhou Xing's actions were wise, people still felt a certain respect for this mere beggar.

But that's about it.

No one will defy the law for this and speak out for him.

"Arrest all the criminals and imprison them." Magistrate Wei's face was as cold as iron, and he showed no emotion whatsoever from beginning to end.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes... Zhou Xing had just breathed a sigh of relief when he was immediately pinned down and captured by several soldiers.

Suddenly, Magistrate Wei added:

"The theft of official grain is a serious matter. I will investigate the case thoroughly and report the facts. As for the punishment, it will be decided by the court in due course."

No, no, no, no... Zhou Xing was completely dumbfounded.

What do you mean by "the future will decide"? Does it mean he won't die today?

He's awaiting trial now, and it's already late at night... Doesn't that mean he survived the night?

But today is clearly the last day of Li Xuanqing's lifespan; there's something about a life-or-death deadline...

Could it be that there are more experts coming later?

"Lord Wei, things can change in the meantime. You need to step up and be more decisive!" Zhou Xing shouted as he was being held down and dragged away by two soldiers.

Wayne's expression visibly darkened.

I've seen people cry out for justice before their execution, but I've never seen anyone urge them to hurry up.

"Gag him!" he shouted, a hint of anger finally creeping into his voice.

"Our Great Mang has its own laws, and how to determine guilt is not for a mere criminal to comment on."

No, the atmosphere has reached this point, I've said my last words, and I've even taken off my shirt.

You said you're quitting, and we'll talk about it later?

"You corrupt official, have you even read the Great Law of Mang? You've broken the law, do you know that?!" Zhou Xing felt he could still be saved, so he decisively resorted to personal attacks.

However, his mouth had already been gagged, and he was dragged out by the soldiers and escorted towards the county prison.

Once the surroundings quieted down again, the officers and soldiers dispersed to inspect the granary.

Wayne didn't leave immediately.

He strolled into the granary, and by the light of the lantern handed to him by his attendant, he looked at the dark-colored, even hardened and blackened, old rice inside. He reached out and picked up a small handful, feeling a damp and sticky sensation on his fingertips.

He put it in his mouth and tasted it, and soon his brows furrowed.

As I walked out of the granary, my gaze finally fell on the ground to the side of the granary gate.

There were copper coins scattered on the ground, probably over a hundred, most of them old coins.

A single copper coin represents the theft of a portion of grain, and also a displaced person suffering from disaster.

He turned around and instructed his waiting subordinates:

"Afu, go and retrieve the case file from five years ago, when Wei Liu disemboweled himself to retrieve the powder."

.......................

The night was deep.

The Qingshui County government office was still brightly lit.

The lamplight was dim, and Wayne sat at a long table with files and documents spread out in front of him.

There was the case of Wei Liu disemboweling himself to extract powder five years ago.

There is also an investigation that began yesterday into the life of Li Xuanqing, a beggar from Huazifang in the south of the city.

From the moment he encountered a wealthy man surnamed Zhao three days ago, who drove a long nail into his forehead and caused him to faint, to his reappearance the next day as if nothing had happened...

Everything, from the details of the process, was now fully presented on his desk.

As Wayne compared the two case files, which were five years apart, his expression grew increasingly grave.

The case of disemboweling and extracting powder five years ago was actually suspicious.

Because of Zhou Xing's small family, the power of that mirror coffin wasn't a reload of the save file up to the moment before Wei Liu's death...

Instead, after Wei Liu's violent death, his body was forcibly kept alive, and Zhou Xing took his place.

So... the incident of cesarean section to extract powder five years ago actually happened twice within two days.

One time, Wei Liu was framed and provoked by Huang's jelly shop. He cut himself open to extract the jelly and died with resentment, leaving behind the unfulfilled wish to die with his eyes open.

One was Zhou Xing, who went to the Liangfen shop for the second time. When he died in the courtroom, he also tricked Manager Huang into dying.

At the time, Manager Huang thought that Magistrate Wei had poisoned his mind and sent Wei Liu's twin brother to take revenge.

Wayne certainly knew that there was only one "Wayne Six".

He couldn't help but get up and take a letter from a hidden compartment in the cabinet.

The letter is a handwritten letter from "Wei Liu" back then, with consistent handwriting, and tells the truth about his recovery from near death and his brief moment of lucidity.

Five years ago, a medical genius emerged from a mysterious, unnamed "organization" and gave you a brief resurgence of vitality...

"And now, 'Li Xuanqing' has also recovered from the brink of death, even healing the horrific injury of a long nail piercing his brain... Is this a coincidence?"

Wayne didn't know.

He had no evidence to suggest any similarities between the two cases, which were five years apart.

The only similarity is perhaps that "Wei Liu" back then and "Li Xuanqing" now, both of whom, after coming into contact with that mysterious organization whose name is unknown, have the same determination to achieve their goals, even at the cost of their lives.

Some past events can nail a person to the cross for their entire life, from which they cannot escape for five or ten years.

Wayne has been trapped in that past event for five years, and no matter how he investigates, he finds nothing about the organization mentioned in Wayne's letters.

That unnamed organization was like a mysterious and powerful extraterrestrial being that suddenly appeared in the world, leaving no trace.

Until today.

It was as if he had grasped the nail that had nailed him to the cross of life.

Wayne must consider whether this is his only chance in this lifetime.

As dawn broke, after a long period of deliberation, Wayne had made his decision.

"Li Xuanqing cannot die for robbing government grain, both for public and private reasons."

"This is the only clue to finding that 'organization'!"

Wayne closed his eyes. Now that he had made his decision, the only thing left to do was to figure out how to quell the uproar over the theft of government grain.

The laws of the country must not be violated.

However, as the head of a county, he actually has some room for maneuver in this matter.

"Ah Fu," he said softly.

A shadow flashed in the county government office, and a figure appeared before him.

Wayne is no ordinary man; he comes from the incredibly wealthy Wayne family in the capital region, whose wealth could even dry up the moat.

And Alfred, the butler beside Wayne, was no ordinary man either.

This man was as tall as an iron tower, with shoulders as broad as mountains, and a head of angry hair that shot into the sky like flames. Yet he was dressed in a sharp tailcoat, his bulging muscles making the tailcoat bulge, exuding a strong sense of oppression.

Afu, known in the martial arts world as "Black Tiger" Afu, is a master of imitative boxing.

His signature move, "Crow Flying in an Airplane," is renowned throughout the world, even more famous than Black Tiger Afu's name.

"Ah Fu, go to the grain store in town and buy some grain." Wayne, through his superhuman intelligence, decided to use his financial power:

"If that's not enough, we'll buy grain from grain stores in nearby counties or the provincial capital to make up for the shortfall caused by the theft from the granary."

"Secondly, contact the Crescent Moon newspaper in the city, bribe the storytellers, and also make contact with other beggar houses in the city..."

"Within three days, I will make the story of Li Xuanqing's act of 'risking his own life to save the people by robbing grain at night' spread throughout the streets and alleys of Qingshui County."

Thirdly, he ordered someone to donate grain under the pretext that the wealthy merchant was deeply moved by the story...

"Fourthly, there's the prison side..."

.................................

County town prison.

"You corrupt official Wayne, you've made me wish I were dead! Aaaaaaahh ...

A voice filled with rage echoed for a long time in the prison, like a wronged ghost demanding its life, lingering endlessly.

"Green Head, you're not dead yet, are you?"

In the adjacent cell, Luo Zitou sighed and looked at Zhou Xing, who was standing next to him, his expression furious as he vigorously shook the prison bars.

Now, Luo Zitou and five or six other beggars who had not yet escaped were all caught on the spot by the soldiers and regarded as Zhou Xing's accomplices.

Although he was an accomplice... such a serious crime as robbing a granary is, of course, a death sentence.

He couldn't understand what Zhou Xing was yelling about... Oh well, he'd never been able to follow Zhou Xing's train of thought.

"You should be laughing all the way to the bank. At your age, you're definitely going to die here this time. Unlike me, who's going to die a horrible death..." Zhou Xing shook the fence vigorously, making it clang loudly.

The player who placed the piece: "..."

He's now truly at Zhou Xing's mercy.

Having witnessed Zhou Xing's astonishing strength, he harbored a thousand grievances in his heart, but could only suppress them.

A moment later, a jailer, disturbed by Zhou Xing's commotion, finally came forward with a frown:

"What are you making so much noise in the middle of the night? Do you want to die?"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes." Zhou Xing brushed aside his messy hair, revealing a long nail embedded in the middle:

"Shoot this way, shoot this way, don't miss, please, bro."

jailer:......

"Do you really think that just because you're using the 'robbing grain to save the people' label and putting on a facade, no one will dare to touch you?"

The jailer was so angry he laughed.

He turned around, grabbed the prison key hanging on the wall, and came in carrying a bloodstained nail-headed disciplinary rod.

"Li Xuanqing." The jailer looked down at Zhou Xing and sneered:

Do you remember Zhang De?

"Uncle De sends his greetings!" With that, he slammed the nail-headed club he was holding down hard on Zhou Xing's forehead.

I knew there were still experts out there!

Zhou Xing also breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang De, wasn't he just a granary soldier who robbed him of eighty taels of his life-saving wages?

With the grain robbery occurring, the soldier guarding the granary is likely to be in big trouble... No wonder he ordered his men to retaliate.

In the howling wind.

The spiked club slammed down hard.

With a loud crash, the jailer was sent flying backward and crashed into the bars of the fence.

He got up from the ground and looked again, his face immediately falling:

"Black Tiger Ah Fu...Master Fu?"

In this small prison, a third person has appeared at some unknown time.

His hair stood on end like flames, and his tailcoat accentuated his formidable muscular physique...

It was Black Tiger Afu, the steward of Magistrate Wayne.

"Zhang De dares to take on jobs he can't even figure out," Afu said calmly.

"After the grain robbery, he was barely able to protect himself. What use are his connections now?"

"Aren't you going to get lost? Go to the county government office and confess to the clerk in the criminal division."

Three sentences were uttered.

The jailer hurriedly scrambled out the door and disappeared in a flash.

"You're one of Magistrate Wei's men, aren't you? I saw you at the granary." Zhou Xing was completely at a loss.

"I knew he had bad intentions."

He closed his eyes resignedly.

At that moment, a flash of white light appeared, followed by a thunderclap that was deafening, as if it were right in front of them.

Black Tiger Afu frowned, got up, and glanced outside the cell:

"There were no dark clouds in the sky, but suddenly there was thunder, which collapsed the floor outside the prison door... It wasn't a big deal."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xing's heart sank.

He closed his eyes, shifting his attention from the body of "Li Xuanqing" back to the mirror coffin where his true self was.

But then, new words appeared on the six mirrors surrounding him.

Li Xuanqing

[Yangshou: -1 day]

Stephen Chow exclaimed that it made perfect sense.

I wonder how King Yama and the judge are settling accounts in the underworld right now.

[The deceased has survived the ordeal; their evaluation has improved.]

[This will once again alter Li Xuanqing's predetermined fate, extending his life beyond his natural lifespan, and his impending death will come at an unpredictable time.]

[Acquired: Possession (Li Xuanqing)]

[Possession (Li Xuanqing): Allows full access to Li Xuanqing's peak physical strength and talents, and the user can choose whether to perform corresponding appearance changes. Limited to one use.]

What "Reversed Heavenly Gang"? Turns out it was me possessing Li Xuanqing, and now the roles are reversed...

The one-time possession wasn't that important; what Zhou Xing cared about more was... his improved rating.

Think about it too.

If Zhou Xing were to die three or five days later, he would still die as a "thief who robbed grain for the people".

They robbed government grain, rescued refugees, and incidentally dragged Hua Zifang's good brother into the mess...

Now that the deeds that the violently deceased Li Xuanqing had not accomplished have been completed, the deceased's reward will certainly not be diminished just because Zhou Xing died a few days later.

Tonight's calamity was indeed a death sentence for the original Li Xuanqing.

Even if they didn't die at the hands of the granary soldiers, they would be beaten to death by the jailers.

The reason he didn't die was that Magistrate Wayne seemed to want to save his life for some reason.

So the question is, why did Magistrate Wei want to protect Li Xuanqing from death?

Zhou Xing already had the answer in his heart.

Five years ago, he transformed into a butterfly named "Wei Liu," flapped his wings, and changed the inevitable death of "Li Xuanqing" five years later.

Every drink and every bite is intertwined with cause and effect.

Thinking of this, he urgently recalled one of Wayne's mothers.

All that hard work is for a good death, and then you can furiously leave a good review?

Now that this has happened, Zhou Xing suddenly felt that even the burly Black Tiger Afu in front of him had become handsome.

My only concern...

That was the thunder that suddenly appeared outside the prison just now.

Zhou Xing subconsciously felt that the so-called death calamity that would come from time to time might not be the same as before.