The square in the center of Beishan Town, it is nearly dusk.

The sun is hanging on the west mountain beam, and it will not set, according to the local timekeeping method of Daxizhou, there is still about half an hour before the official start of this burning at the stake.

In fact, there is still a while of time, but the audience is almost exhausted, and a large number of people watching the execution have begun to gather.

In fact, there are two places to observe the punishment.

One is near the perimeter of the execution table that has just been built, which is already three floors inside and three layers outside at this moment, and even the nearby rooftops are full of people.

It's close here, you can see it clearly, but the environment is not good, there are too many people, it's uncomfortable to huddle together, this is a place for civilians to watch the excitement.

The "elegant seat" of the real nobility has to be the place where Lin Shuo is currently staying, on the top of the city wall of Beishan Castle.

Although it is a little far away, you can see it clearly, and the surrounding scenery is good, there are all kinds of drinks and refreshments, and there are high-grade companions.

Lin Shuo and Nemea were waiting here shortly after lunch.

One is to wait for the next to start burning people, and the other is to wait for the companions who are watching the execution together.

There are several groups of companions, first of all, the envoy of the mission, Miao Chengyun.

Master Miao has been busy with official business lately, and he sleeps late, so he usually doesn't get up until dinner.

This is especially true today because it is the last two days and he has to have fun.

Therefore, Miao Daren is the closest to the top of the city wall in terms of distance, but he is the latest to come in time.

The second group of companions, who were members of Nemea's cabinet and close associates.

In the Great Western Continent, there are five cabinet members in a normal principality: religious priests, military commanders, foreign affairs seals, interior ministers, and intelligence chiefs.

Except for the religious priests, who were appointed by the Imperial Temple, the other cabinet members were often the more powerful earls and lords in the principality, and joining the cabinet itself was a political bargaining chip, which the duke could use to win people's hearts.

But the Duchy of Mia is not the norm at this time, the old duke just died a year ago, and the succession process of the entire Duchy has not yet been completed.

Therefore, Nemea's cabinet is mainly the same team as his own earldom before, the religious sacrifice Amphitrite is assigned by the empire, the military commander was originally Hercules and now Lunne, these two are taken care of by Lin Shuo, because these two are masters with ninth-order combat power.

The other three cabinets are almost there, regardless of their ability on weekdays, at least the cultivation is not high, the level of the seventh or eighth order.

There are two in the cabinet that are noteworthy, and among Nemea's group of cronies, there are three others that should not be underestimated.

These three are all elite warriors in the hands of Nemea, all of them are ninth-order ranks, and they are only one step away from being a titled master.

These people, strong and weak, are all added together, about twenty, and there are seats on the top of the city wall, that is, the position is relatively backward, and the view is blocked by the battlements of the city wall, and the burning at the stake is actually invisible.

The really good location, that is, like Lin Shuo, is not far from the edge of the battlement of the city wall, and you can directly see the execution ground when you look down, except for Lin Shuo, Miao Chengyun, the two representatives of the mission and Nemea herself, they also belong to the last group of guests tonight.

"County of Silan, Count Garcia to !!"

"Earldom of Nanling, Countess Zofia to !!"

"County of Barron, Count Enzo to !!"

"County of Kangshan, Count Pichaa to !!"

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With the arrival of these earls and lords of the Duchy of Mia one by one, Lin Shuo was actually secretly reflecting in his heart at this moment.

Children, you have to give birth, but you can't have too many children.

This old duke Mia, who has seventeen children in this life, no matter how big the family business is, it is not enough, this belongs to the father and mother to make trouble for the children.

I still have to have eugenics, and I now have four children, which is almost enough.

Otherwise, the car ahead can be learned, you look at this house, how chaotic it will be.

The eldest sister was about to be burned to death in public, and several younger brothers and sisters watched collectively, and then each had a ghost in their hearts.

These counts, Lin Shuo had already met separately a while ago, and they also had some exchanges.

Of course, this kind of thing is called a strong dragon that is difficult to suppress the head snake, even if Lin Shuo is under the banner of the deputy envoy of the empire, he can't force them to express his position immediately.

Everyone said that they would consider it, but as for how they thought about it now, Lin Shuo didn't know, and it was estimated that they themselves would not have an idea at this time.

In the end, it still depends on what happens to the scene in the end, and everyone is riding on the wall to watch.

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When the seats on the city wall were almost full, Miao Chengyun dragged his shoes and yawned.

Sitting on the seat of Lord Zheng, who was beside Lin Shuo, Lord Miao whispered in the dialect of Huaxia Jiangnan: "Things are not quite right. ”

Miao Chengyun grew up in North America, but he is a genius in language, not only mastering eight foreign languages, but also having a lot of southern and northern accents in the Chinese territory.

Of course, his Wu Nong's soft language is not so authentic in the ears of Lin Shuo, a person from Jiangnan, but at this moment, as a code word for direct communication between the two, it is enough, at least the others here can't understand it.

In fact, Nemea was chatting with his younger siblings, and his attention was not on them.

Lin Shuo's face was as usual, and he asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's not right anywhere. Miao Chengyun's face was relaxed, as if he was pulling a family routine, "I asked Lao Wei to withdraw at that point, but this kid hasn't withdrawn so far, and it seems that he can't withdraw back."

Not only could he not come back, but Yang Baokun, who went to deliver the letter, seemed to be unable to come back.

In addition, I don't need to remind you that you should have found out, but right now under our feet, in the dark room of the city wall, there is a master hidden.

Spiritual condensation and blood are strong, we don't know who this person is, but the strength should not be below you and me.

Su Dongdong had to guard the stairs of the city wall to prevent those elite soldiers from coming up, and the two mallets of Ponweiser and Tang Kede couldn't be counted on in the first place, not to mention that they were now in the execution ground.

So right now, this person under our ass is staring at no one, and I have to come myself.

That means that you're alone, and you're going to have to deal with everyone who is currently on top of the walls.

Then, you look at the current execution ground. ”

The characters on the top of the city wall just now were one after another, and Lin Shuo's attention was on them.

What was going on in the execution ground below, Lin Shuo didn't pay attention to it for the time being.

And after such a distance, the sky gradually darkened, and Lin Shuo's eyesight was affected because he had prepared classes under the kerosene lamp in his early years, so now he is about the same level as ordinary people.

Looking at the execution site at this distance and in the light conditions, you can only get an approximate view.

He vaguely saw that on the burning table, the burning pillar was erected at this time, but the firewood had not yet been piled up.

And right next to the stake, a table was placed, and a white tablecloth was laid on it, and a candle was lit in the middle of the tablecloth.

At both ends of the table, a man and a woman were sitting across from each other.

The meal was good, a good medium-rare grain-fed Tomahawk steak with red wine.

What is eaten Lin Shuo can smell with his nose, but Lin Shuo can't see the faces of these two people clearly at this time, he can only confirm that the female one is Artemis.

As for who the man is, it's not hard to guess.

This scene is very weird.

Seeing that they were about to be burned at the stake, the torturer and the executioner ate together first.

"The rules of this Great Western Continent are still different from other places. Miao Chengyun said, "In our Huaxia in the past, before death row prisoners died, a full meal would be arranged in the cell.

However, there are relatively few people who really eat, and they generally have no appetite, so it is just a formality.

But you see that the two of them are dining in a restaurant like a young couple, isn't this style of painting a little wrong?"

The problem that Miao Chengyun pointed out at this time, of course, Lin Shuo also realized it.

In fact, when it comes to the end, what I am most afraid of is this situation.

It's just the situation at that time, I can't understand it.

If you can't understand it, you can't refine effective information, and you can't make effective judgments based on on-the-spot information.

Today's matter, in terms of nature, is not what Lin Shuo is good at, and he can do his best to get here.

He's done everything he can, but so far, some of his original ideas haven't come to fruition.

For example, the evidence that overturned Artemis's crimes, he did not find.

The reason why he didn't find it was that Lin Shuo had been in modern society for a long time and was used to the existence of the modern judicial system, so he looked too highly at the legal system of the Tianlan Empire.

As a result, he later learned that there was no judicial system in the Tianlan Empire at all, and it was very casual to convict a person.

There is no evidence or legal reasoning, and it is all based on the insistence of "God".

How does the will of "God" come about, divination.

It is divination that can cheat, so it is technically simple to slander a person as guilty.

Artemis's intolerable crime lies not in the fact that she was actually caught in her behavior, but in the fact that she did not master the temple beforehand.

Amphitrite, the priest of the Duchy of Mia, slept in the same bed with Nemea, and the two of them wanted to work together to deal with her, but of course she didn't have a chance.

Therefore, in order to overturn Artemis's crime, there is no need to talk about evidence, but only need to make the necessary situation to force Amphitrite to overturn the previous divination results.

Things have actually been simplified, but the problem is that Lin Shuo can't understand the current situation.

These so-called masters on the city wall, Lin Shuo didn't pay attention to them.

Lin Shuo took this person hidden under the city wall in his eyes, but he believed that Miao Chengyun could block it for him.

But the situation at the stake, he didn't see it very clearly.

A man and a woman were eating quietly together, whether this was a maverick ritual performed by the executioner of "decapitation" Tu Liang before he started, or the situation over there, which had completely departed from his previous assumptions.

In Lin Shuo's previous thoughts, the executioner was a relatively unimportant person, nothing more than a killing tool, as long as he cut off the hand holding the tool, then the executioner itself would not become a threat.

And just this afternoon, he learned about the unique executioner customs here, and also learned that the executioner who was executed today was the well-known "severed head" Tu Liang in the industry.

Then the situation is different, Tu Liang's role in this matter is actually very similar to his own group, they are all people who have taken over the deal.

After receiving the sale, there will be a problem, that is, the buyer and seller will have a rigid demand for the payment of remuneration.

Who is responsible for cashing in the payment, the financier.

Tu Liang's deal, who is the owner of the money, Nemea.

Therefore, as long as Wei Xingshan kills Nemea with one shot, he will inevitably be retaliated by Tu Liang.

This is also the practice of hunting and trading, if the owner is killed in the process of trading, then as a hunter, you have to avenge the owner, and then carry the head of the murderer to find the heir of the owner, so that the heir of the owner will pay the reward.

Lin Shuo and Miao Chengyun got this information, and they also took this layer into account, Miao Chengyun knew that Lin Shuo was dragged by Nemea and couldn't give orders, so he directly ordered Wei Xingshan to withdraw.

With Wei Xingshan's ability, it would not be difficult to kill Nemea with one shot, but he would definitely not be able to resist the revenge of Tu Liang, a two-character title master.

As a result, Wei Xingshan didn't withdraw for some reason, and even Yang Baokun, who went to report the news, didn't come back.

So far, Lin Shuo's understanding of the situation is, can Yang Baokun stop Tu Liang?

But looking at the situation on the other side of the execution ground, it doesn't seem right.

What is wrong, Lin Shuo doesn't know at this time.

Fortunately, soon, a gust of wind blew, and the smell information came to his nose, and he knew.

So he glanced at Miao Chengyun and warned: "The person at the execution ground is not Tu Liang. ”

"Hmm, why?" Miao Chengyun asked directly.

"The smell of an executioner is different from that of ordinary people. Lin Shuo said, "The man on the execution ground has no blood smell on his body. ”

"And who is he?"

"It doesn't matter to you who he is, because he is not under your control. Lin Shuo said, "The person you want to keep an eye on is downstairs." ”

"What do you mean?"

"This person downstairs is Tu Liang. ”

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