Chapter 148: Lonely Justice
The old smuggler captain roughly discerned what they were talking about.
It seems that the young man with severed fingers was bullied by the thugs, and a young and vigorous paladin of Tyre, the god of justice, stepped forward to speak for him, only to be surrounded by a group of thieves from the local gang.
The honest-looking young man locked himself on the ground with tears on his face, allowing others to kick and beat him into the dust, but he clung to his head and did not fight back.
And the surrounding people who came back from work, the aunts on the way home from grocery shopping, the boring guys who watched the shops, the ragged sailors passing by, the little nobles sitting in the carriages, etc., the large crowd of onlookers hid far away, and watched the bloody disputes in the field.
Nathaniel munched on the bread and beef slices in his hand with a blank face, and looked at the sturdy warrior thieves opposite, and began to humiliate the young paladin.
"It is unjust for you to bully the weak in this way! Your original sin will be judged after death, and if you are not forgiven by God, you will fall into the abyss!" The young man, who was surrounded by six or seven members of an active social group, had the courage to 'reprimand' the gangster's unrighteous deeds, although his face was obviously a little lacking in confidence and his heart was beating with trepidation.
A few gangsters naturally didn't dare to stab this church paladin with a "backstage" in front of the public.
This kind of thing is just like those social conflicts in ordinary times, it's good that it hasn't spread, once someone goes out and hypes it up: The holy warrior of Tyre, the god of justice, can't even beat a few gangsters on the street. Or the torii that represents "justice", tainted by evil.
It has created a huge social influence in public opinion, making people feel that evil is entrenched and law and order is not in place, and it has lost face to the Tyre Church and other official forces.
Then even if the power of the Church of the God of Justice has greatly shrunk in the number and influence of believers in recent years, and the upper echelons know that the affairs of such large and small gangs and gangsters cannot be managed, they must send a high-level holy warrior to lead the group to "destroy" the evil and save the face of their own Church of the God of Justice.
But although the thugs did not use their knives, they kept pushing the young holy warrior with immature faces in their hands, and they kept spitting out foul language and provocation on their mouths.
"Yo~ It's actually a freshly baked rookie holy warrior, I'm so scared~~~ Didn't your god say anything~'If you don't encounter malicious temptations, will I save you from evil'? Why didn't anyone come to save you?" In the middle, a nine-fingered thug with a ponytail on his face vomited and disgusted the other party: "By the way, your god also said that as long as you convert sincerely, you can forgive some sins." Then if we kill your whole family, then we will take refuge in your God. Will your god forgive us the debts we owe~ When the time comes, we will still be like a family~!ahahaha~~~!!"
The gangsters insulted the 'decent people' who were usually envious, jealous and hated with excitement on their faces, and they all helped: "You also tell us a big reason." Do you think that we are as ignorant and naïve as you? Those big capitalists and bureaucrats who raise prices and land prices on weekdays, suck blood and harm people to death, donate a lot of money to you gods and religions to build god statues, or buy indulgences to obtain [God's salvation]. In these years, who still doesn't know that the gold belt of murder and arson, and the old bridge is paved without corpses. It is said that your god's eyes seem to be blind by the god of the good god camp - the goddess of the earth, Chauntea, because of the unequal distribution of land among people, and the landlord and the church pastor partnered to lend and collect the land, and then inflated the price of the land, and then drove up the price of the land, right?"
"No! No!! there is still justice and fairness in this world!! you don't talk nonsense, justice will definitely be demonstrated, it's not that there is no retribution~ It's just that the time God said has not yet come! Good people will definitely have good rewards. You are talking nonsense, after death, you will go to the 9th floor of hell to suffer!!" The words of the gang member on the other side were so irritating to the young paladin that he almost couldn't help but pull out the long sword in his scabbard, but there was no temple of their church in this city, and no one could help him if something happened here.
"It's good, people have good rewards!~ You go and ask the officials in the yamen yourself if they believe this!hahahaha...... I'm laughing to death...... In these years, people believe in money and power~ Don't you see that most of the believers in the god of Tyre have mostly converted to Pluto, the goddess of wealth? It's so naïve and ridiculous. ”
A few smiling guys pushed him and laughed, and the foul language was like a surging river.
The poor young man was tall and thin, but a little thin, and he was dressed in heavy scale armor, and at his waist was a standard great sword, which was somewhat formidable.
It's a pity that now he is alone, and his voice is not as loud as the other party, and he dares to be angry but dare not to shoot for nothing, the young holy warrior clenched his fists angrily, and stared at those ugly guys angrily with his neck stiff.
"Hmph, naïve!" Nathaniel thought with some schadenfreude: "A little boy who doesn't know the height of the sky, has seen too much of those boring adventures of love and justice, and really thinks that he is the protagonist of the background to the sky, singing the 'poetry of justice' can easily lie down all the corrupt officials and settle the injustice in the world! I don't know how to be a human being~!"
The young holy warrior was humiliated by the people, and he looked at the cowardly Hu with indignation, and the honest young man who was kicked around was also inexplicably dissatisfied with his attitude of not daring to resist.
This dissatisfaction reached the peak of his rebellious catharsis after he found that the money bag in his arms had been stolen in the chaos just now.
And he also saw that the local sheriff's subordinates had already stood on the street corner in the distance, watching the play from afar.
Apparently.
Even if he reports to the official, the sheriff will at most arrest him and put him in the detention center, and then each of them will be given 50 boards, and each person will be imprisoned for a few days according to fighting and obstructing public order, and then fined a few more money. Or, wait for someone to come and walk through the back door and ransom people with face.
What reason will the government give you?
The people of the security team are generally only responsible for washing the floor afterwards, and they only get a meager salary for this work, just to live or be more prestigious, but they will not work hard for the poor or cheap "justice"~
At this time.
For a moment.
The young paladins of Tyre were also greatly shaken by the idea that when he swore in front of the idol, he professed to help the poor, save the good, and eradicate the evil.
But then, because of his long-term psychological inertia, he felt that he was deviating from the firm faith in righteousness that he had been exposed to since he was a child, so he developed a great sense of guilt, and silently recited the scriptures and teachings of the god Tyre in his heart, hypnotized himself and repented.