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Then they saw Lin Jiu'an pointing back and forth between them with his hand.
The knights and nobles nearby could vaguely hear Lin Jiu'an muttering to himself...
"A mobilization of troops, who gets called..."
After a while, amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, he pointed his finger at a middle-aged, obese nobleman.
"It's just you."
Lin Jiu'an stood on the execution platform they had set up for themselves, smiling and beckoning to the obese nobleman with a look of despair.
"Come on, come on."
“Tell everyone in detail what you and your family have done.”
"Remember to make your presentation engaging and comprehensive."
"otherwise..."
Lin Jiu'an smiled kindly and didn't continue speaking.
You know what will happen, right?
Chapter Thirty-One: Did Lao Tzu painstakingly consolidate power just to become Robin Hood?
The middle-aged, obese nobleman's face turned ashen instantly.
He looked pleadingly at the other nobles and knights, but seeing them all turn away, he could only tremble as he walked up to the execution platform.
"I...I am guilty."
“I illegally bought and raised dozens of girls to train them into a song and dance troupe to please my business partners, knights and the church.”
"They even colluded with the Knights to forcibly buy a residential area at a low price and transformed it into a commercial street..."
After finishing recounting some of the less important matters, the middle-aged, obese nobleman looked hopefully at Lin Jiu'an.
"That's it."
The middle-aged, obese nobleman nodded, saying pitifully and obsequiously, "That's really all..."
Before he could finish speaking, a wind blade pierced through his body, splitting him in two.
Intense pain swept over his entire body. The middle-aged, obese nobleman fell to the ground and howled violently for a long time, but Lin Jiu'an did not even glance at him again.
"next."
The other nobles and knights looked at each other in bewilderment.
It was unclear for a moment whether the obese nobleman was killed because he downplayed many of his crimes.
He was killed because of a crime.
After the third nobleman was cut in half at the waist, the fourth nobleman finally could not suppress his fear.
"Vigilante justice! This is vigilante justice!"
"Whatever we did was the law to judge us; you can't treat me like this..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was cleaved in two by a wind blade, and a violent wail replaced his angry and terrified question.
"law?"
"I feel like I am the law."
Lin Jiu'an glanced at them with a half-smile.
"What do you think?"
“I think you’re right!” the remaining nobles and knights hurriedly replied.
"what about you?"
Lin Jiu'an nodded slightly in satisfaction, then looked at the tens of thousands of Mondstadt citizens kneeling below the platform with a sincere, questioning expression.
The response was overwhelmingly positive.
"Since you all agree, let's continue."
"next."
The fifth nobleman who was chosen had completely given up any hope of getting away with it.
He knelt down on the stage as soon as he got on, weeping bitterly and pounding his chest.
"I confess, I admit it, I'm a complete beast!"
"I..."
Because the other party's 'confession' contained so much information, this confession lasted for almost twenty minutes. It included not only a lot of evidence of crimes that Lin Jiu'an had collected in his previous life, but also many crimes that he had not yet discovered. The other party even mentioned that he had peeped at women taking a bath when he was eight years old.
"Confiscation of all property, life imprisonment, no parole, no reduction of sentence, what do you think?"
People always like to reconcile and compromise by nature.
For example, you said.
Everyone would not allow you to confiscate all their property and spend their entire lives in prison;
But if you advocate killing them all, they will come to negotiate, willing to give up their wealth and spend the rest of their lives in prison.
They should even be grateful to you!
I watched the man's expression as he wept with joy upon hearing that he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
Lin Jiu'an always felt like he had lost out.
With this man's example as a precedent, other nobles, knights, and priests also realized the crux of the problem. Although they were very unwilling, for the sake of their lives, they all confessed their crimes in public, just like him.
This confession lasted from noon on the first day until the early hours of the second day.
The Mondstadt citizens listening below the stage gradually went from disbelief and anger to numbness.
None of these nobles, knights, and priests were clean. Accepting bribes in various ways and using their power to open back doors were the least of their crimes. Most of the important figures had their Mora stained with blood.
"Next please."
After Lin Jiu'an cleaved a priest who was toying with young children in two with a single stroke. [The rest of the text appears to be random characters and symbols, possibly a corrupted or incomplete string of characters. A direct translation is not possible without further context.]
The sun rises from the end of Fruit Wine Lake.
The golden sunlight shone on Lin Jiu'an's face, which was stained with blood and wore an unchanging faint smile.
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Human nature is always a compromise.
When you present the facts and reason with people.
When evidence, obtained through desperate efforts, exposes the numerous crimes committed by criminals.
They'll think it's something you should do.
And if you have even the slightest blemish, they'll get excited like adventurers who've discovered some rare treasure, or like heavy smokers who've been without cigarettes for a month and suddenly get a whole pack, proudly announcing it to everyone else.
'See? I knew he was no good!'
But when you really are a demon.
They will desperately search for your positive qualities and then tell themselves that you are actually a good person.
We generally refer to it as PUA.
The Mondstadt residents, who had been kneeling for a day, looked at Lin Jiu'an and those hateful nobles, and suddenly felt that this person was not so hateful after all, and even exuded a kind of sacred aura.
perhaps...
Is he a good person?
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It was evening of the second day.
The trial, which lasted for more than a day, has finally come to an end.
After having the convicted nobles, knights, and priests sent back to the prison he had just spent the day before.
Knights of Favonius, Grand Master's Office.
Lin Jiu'an put his legs on the table and leaned back lazily in his chair, while some knights and nobles stood in the room.
These are all 'innocent people'.
Although Mondstadt has been rotten to the core after five hundred years of wild growth, it would be absurd to say that everyone in the city is evil. Apart from some people who have been ostracized, there are also people like Frederica who already have great power and do not need to go any further, and who are very careful about their reputation.
Although they could find a charge against him if they wanted to, Lin Jiu'an needed some dogs, so he left some 'living' prisoners.
"Lock down the city, and then ransack all those people's homes."
"I don't want to hear any news of people who should be in jail escaping before I wake up tomorrow."
"Otherwise, I will blame everyone here, understand?"
"Yes."
Frederica, who was in the lead, no longer had her previous confident and arrogant demeanor. With a somewhat humble smile, she asked, "May I ask?"
"Should the assets seized from those homes be returned to the people?"
The words fell.
Frederica felt that Lin Jiu'an's gaze towards her had become extremely strange.
"What nonsense are you spouting?"
Lin Jiu'an looked at her with a puzzled expression.
"What was the point of me spending over half a month of my hard work killing you all?"
"To become Robin Hood?"
"Why don't you let them look in the mirror and see themselves? Do they even deserve to be my Robin Hood?"
"Am I the one who's sick, or are you the one who's sick?"
What is the purpose of authoritarianism by respectable people?
They're just trying to make money!
Otherwise, how can we realize the great dream of socialism?
No matter how many dreams others have, Lin Jiu'an doesn't have any dreams right now. He's worked hard all his life, can't he at least enjoy himself?
Now that the rights have been obtained, it's time to sustainably exploit the resources to the fullest extent possible.
"Now that we've come this far, I've made myself clear to you."
"If I find that even a single word of the money that should have been in my pocket is missing."
Lin Jiu'an smiled warmly and said, "You'd better think carefully about the consequences."
Chapter Thirty-Two: The "Doctor's" Interest
Winter Country.
In a somewhat dark laboratory.
'Tap tap.'
The "Doctor" frowned slightly in displeasure, put down the experiment in his hand, and said indifferently, "Come in."
A member of the Fools walked in, his gaze instinctively following the stench of blood and screams to the testing table. Looking at the 'corpse' on the table, which was no longer human but whose chest was still rising and falling slightly, a look of fear flashed in his eyes.
"what's up?"
The "doctor" said calmly, "You know I dislike being disturbed when I'm conducting experiments, right?"
"That's right, Doctor."
The man hurriedly said, "News has come from Mondstadt. A coup has occurred there. An outsider has carried out a massacre and overthrown the Knights of Favonius's regime."
The doctor frowned slightly upon hearing this.
Mondstadt was a relatively stable source of human subjects for him to conduct experiments.
Unlike other places where theft and robbery are often resorted to various means, the rulers of Mondstadt are weak and easily intimidated. They will readily hand over a bunch of high-quality test subjects if they are intimidated. The change of regime may result in a significant reduction in the number of test subjects for a period of time.
However, it was clearly not worth disturbing him during his experiments.