Ling Chi, that is, what the folk call "a thousand cuts". Ling Chi is used as a name for the death penalty, which refers to the cutting off of the flesh on the human body when the person is executed, which is a kind of dismemberment punishment, that is, including the cutting and separation of the limbs of the body.

Ling Chi, regarded in France as the epitome of "Chinese torture", inspired countless writers and artists, and even continued until 1960 when a collection of Georges Badaiyer's photographs was published, which were later repainted by Chen Chieh-jen. These images symbolize China, its history, and civilization, and similar styles continue to influence Westerners today.

But in fact, the criminal law of all Chinese dynasties is not too powerful.

After the Han Dynasty, ancient China carefully defined the penal norms of the law. A good dynasty must do its best to curb the number of executions, and the most brutal forms of corporal punishment must be abolished. Therefore, the Sui Dynasty instituted the "five punishments" for their power: flogging, rod, imprisonment, exile, and death.

The Tang Dynasty also adopted this system, and subsequent generations followed suit, and the punishment in the Tang Dynasty was significantly reduced. If there is a priest who tortures in order to extract a confession, then the death penalty of hanging or beheading cannot be understood as inflicting pain on the defendant – the Tang Dynasty in 745 even considered abolishing the death penalty!

However, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, in order to suppress the national resistance of the Han Chinese, the punishment of Ling Chi was widely practiced, and its cruelty was far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty.

After sighing, He Zilong asked a few dead soldiers: "Is he dead......?"

"Dead, with so much blood shed, even if his heart can hold on, his body can't stand it. It's just dead, it's a pity, we haven't got any information......" sighed a dead man.

"Bury him, it's a man......" He Zilong sighed.

Several of the dead men looked at each other and nodded.

Everyone in the world is afraid of death, and those who are not afraid of death, and who can persist until death, are worthy of respect, even if both sides are enemies. If you die, you will no longer be an enemy, and you will have to give a few shares of face to a man.

The matter of the captives, at this point, can be regarded as a temporary end.

The number of people in the king's team is decreasing, but the people who can be kept are the only masters in a million, and people who can be absolutely trusted, just like the soldier who threw it here just now, even so, can be loyal to the king.

It's scary to think about!

It wasn't until the next day, when the crowd continued to walk forward, that they realized why there were captives thrown in that place. It turned out that they had deviated from the direction, and so did the king's side. The place they had walked to was a little different than before, and there was a branch of the lake in front of them to cross.

A wounded person was obviously unable to make the river, so he had to be thrown there.

He Zilong and everyone looked at each other, and found that everyone was a little afraid, sure enough, once let the snake bite, and ten years afraid of the grass rope. Of course, they are not ordinary people, and this estuary is not as far as before.

Everyone looked back and discussed it, and felt that if they made a simple wooden boat, they could get through. Swim over or forget it!

As soon as the outcome of this discussion comes out, it will be possible if it doesn't work.

Another day was wasted here, making a wooden boat, and everyone went up.

It's just that when the ship was halfway through, it suddenly hit a turbine, and no one was considered a good sailor. A sharp wave passed, and He Zilong and the others fell into the lake again.

However, unexpectedly, when I fell down and looked into the lake, this position did not seem to be deep. And, oh my God, there's a shipwreck underneath.

The wreck seemed to have been buried in the earth before, but this time the turbine turned around like this, and it turned out that a slight earthquake underwatered and shook it out. Immediately, there was a lot of garbage and damage in the wreck, and it floated up again.

In the water, there are some long objects floating, He Zilong took a closer look and was startled, it was a dead body.

There are fish people, but there are still normal human beings, and there are quite a few. Normal humans will never survive in the water for a long time, these people should have been killed by the fish-people, and then brought down, or they all died together, and then the boat also sank and buried underneath?

It didn't take long for bubbles to bubble everywhere on the ground at the bottom of the lake and at some of the holes.

There are bubbles at the bottom of the water, and in general, there are three possibilities.

First, there is a certain animal at the bottom of the water that likes to spit bubbles, and fish spit bubbles at the bottom of the water, mostly because of the lack of oxygen in the water, they surface to suck air. But with bubbles like this, it's obviously unlikely that the fish did it.

Second, there is some kind of chemical at the bottom of the water that can create bubbles. For example, there are a lot of dead bodies in the dirt, and the effect of decaying gases is there.

Third, there is a hollow place underneath, or a passage leading to a place where there is air.

It's just that before everyone can understand what the reason is, in those bubbling holes, the water suddenly moves violently, and some strange fish with fangs suddenly rush out of it.

These strange fish are in schools, very fierce and intimidating. Looking at their teeth, it's clear that they're meat-eating.

"Damn, piranha, run......" He Zilong couldn't speak in the water, and gestured to the dead soldiers with his fingers.

I don't know if there is any difference between the piranha here and the outside world, but as far as He Zilong knows, when the piranha is one, it is quiet and timid, and it is afraid of life. But as long as it is a group and they feel that they can bully people, then their temperament will change drastically.

Once the bitten prey spills blood, it goes crazy, using its sharp fangs to bite and cut like a surgeon's scalpel, and schools of piranhas are ferocious and crazy, biting and cutting their prey with their fangs until there is a pile of bones left.

The crocodile, which usually dominates in the water, once encounters a piranha, will also shrink into a ball in fright, flip its body to face the sky, put its hard back down, and immediately float to the surface, so that the piranha cannot bite the abdomen and save his life.

He Zilong didn't say a word, and left after the warning.

But a sense of danger also hung over him, even though the piranhas were not attacking him, but the dead soldiers.

"There is danger, I always feel that there is danger in one place, something is looking at me!" He Zilong now feels very spirited, and as soon as this feeling comes out, he begins to pay extra attention to his surroundings, and he does not relax his vigilance while swimming.

As he swam past a cliff in the water, a black shadow suddenly flew down from the position above his head!

Because He Zilong had long been wary of danger, as soon as this thing came out, his reaction was very fast, and he raised his hand to slash towards this guy with a sword in his hand.

Swords are of special material and are extremely hard. Obviously not flesh and blood can easily contend with it!

Sure enough, the sword slashed past, and there was a dull sound of the sword piercing through the flesh, accompanied by a shrill scream. It came out of the water, and it was extraordinarily muffled and distinctive.

When he looked closely, He Zilong found that it was a humanoid monster about the size of an eight or nine-year-old child!

I'm going, it's not going to be a kappa, is it?

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