The three of them walked down the alley in front of Victor's mansion, and on the way they found the broken wood floating on the river, and the holographic map showed that the river was flowing to a point with the core of the underground city, and Luna walked down it, and soon they came across the cause of the broken wood: an armored heavy sailing ship was moored there, its mast had been destroyed, and at the same time the shore was full of crew, some were carrying things from the ship, some were sitting on the sand with their hands tied and looking dejected, There were men walking into the large dome next to them, and there was a group of soldiers standing beside them, who were none other than Adolf's organization Death Scythe.

Luna wasn't sure why they were tied up, but it was clear that they were captives. They don't look like people in the army, they look like people in the neighborhood, and after a while, a small steamboat comes ashore, and Luna understands why.

"Report, sir! Second Lieutenant Martin had already gone to the source machine of the core. One of the soldiers shouted. In the distance, a man dressed in a missionary's robe walked out, Luna recognized him, he was the pastor who had escaped with Berenwell last time, hmph, it seems that after Berenwell's death, he was promoted, "We need to requisition a good ship so that we can escape before this place is destroyed." He had a pistol in his hand and looked around warily.

That's why, those who were captured were supposed to be the sea merchants of this underground city, who traded with Wharton above by ship, so the Reaper's Scythe wanted their ships, and it seems that I was right, this organization is as bad as pirates.

The merchants were almost as fond of food as they were of alcohol and tobacco, and as a result most of them were fat, but one of the captives was more ruddy and bloated than his companions, a typical silly man in the mouth. Luna hears his name: Adelaide Aix Nite. He looked up when he heard the word "Second Lieutenant Martin", but until then, he had been hunching his head to the sand, as if wondering why he had fallen into such a predicament and how to get out.

"What are these guys going to do?" A soldier with a tricorn hat and leather armor asked.

The monk narrowed his eyes at Adelaide, a sinister smile on his lips, "You should know how to execute pirates, right?" ”

"Yes!" The soldier saluted the monk, then turned and walked to the corner, the monk walked to the side with great satisfaction, and the soldier picked up a chair from the corner, no, it was a special chair, and there was a small hole in the back of the chair, and the hole was tied with a steel cable from the inside out, Luna knew about this device, of course I had seen it in ancient texts.

This instrument was used for a form of punishment called spiral hanging, which according to historical records originated in the second human century in the two European countries of Spain and Portugal, the ancestors of the Osroni people.

The punishment was for the prisoner to sit on a platform, with his arms tightly tied and his hands tied in front of his abdomen. At the same time, he leaned back against a chair, dug a hole in the back of the chair, and put a hemp rope from the hole, and braided it into a ring to put around the prisoner's neck. In addition, the two ends of the hemp rope are knotted on the other side of the pull, and a stick is inserted in the middle, and when the people turn the club, the ring is tightened, so that the prisoner is strangled to death. This primitive method of strangulation can not hurt the carotid artery in the slightest, but it causes the person to slowly suffocate to death.

In the following years, the ancestors of the wise Osroni improved the form of punishment by replacing the rope with a metal chain that did not have any elasticity. Soon, however, the chain was replaced by a belt-like metal collar with threaded screws attached to it, which passed through the back of the chair through a kind of rack.

The screws on the collar can reduce the diameter of the neck circumference to determine the degree of tightening of the prisoner. This screw was controlled with a large key, which was later switched to a handle. To execute the prisoner, it is enough to turn the screw three or four times. However, the process of such executions was long.

And first of all, two force pipes must be fixed at the top of the screw, so that the executioner can turn the screw in the same way as a balance bar. As long as the arm is shaken violently, the screw will turn rapidly, and the neck will be tightened at once, and the trachea and throat of the neck will be smashed.

The process of punishment and death is very painful, and during the execution, the prisoner will struggle violently due to the lack of oxygen, and there will be scratching with both hands and kicking on the rough surface of the execution ground with two bare feet. Moreover, the execution time is relatively long, the death process is slow, and they will go through five painful steps.

Since the punishment was often for young women, it usually lasted between five and ten minutes, and their punishment lasted for centuries. Later, however, it was even more absurd that this penalty was included in the Penal Code and officially adopted as a punishment for serious crimes.

And the fact that this punishment is also used for women of Luna's age makes me a little uncomfortable, even though this punishment has become a common occurrence in the past year, and she has experienced it twice at once!

"Nope! No! Excellency! Adelaide pleaded, "Our purpose is just to do a little business here, I'm a businessman......"

"Shut up! You damn pirate! The soldier with the winch chair angrily picked up the sand from the ground with his foot and threw it in the poor man's face.

"Your Excellency......," he froin, "my ship is only here to get some supplies. ”

"What are you waiting for! I think you're obviously trying to grab it! Stop talking nonsense! Whatever you're talking about, I think you're a pirate! The soldier picked up a stool and placed it beside Adelaide. Then, for unknown reasons, Adelaide's companions chose to escape, or rather, they tried to escape. As they struggled to their feet with their arms tied, they ran towards the alley where Luna had been hiding. At the same time, the soldiers watched their every move.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Bullets whizzed through the air and sliced into the walls around them, as Luna saw one of the merchants lying in a pool of blood and*. The other fell screaming. Then, dozens of guns were pointed at the rest of Adelaide's companions, and after a burst of screams, they all collapsed in pools of blood, some of their skulls were shattered, and blood and remnants* were spilled on the ground.

In the end, their guns were pointed at Adelaide, and the soldier in the lead smiled and said, "Give you two choices, run with them and be rendered by your own blood, two, obediently go to the stool, I will make your death easier." ”

Adelaide gritted his teeth, "Then I'd rather run!" So saying, he stood up and prepared to run away with a puff of smoke, but he tripped over the soldier's outstretched foot, and the soldier grabbed him by the collar and sneered viciously, "I still like you to die like a woman!" With that, he pulled him to the winch chair despite Adelaide's pleas.

Poor Adelaide, who had been accused of piracy, whose ship had been wrecked, and who was about to lose one, and who was about to be punished like a woman for five minutes, continued to do the only thing a man in the same situation could do: stammer, incoherent pleading, and maybe he would pee his pants.

Luna couldn't take it anymore and beckoned the two behind her to cover her on the rooftops on either side, and Luna drew her Victorian sword and ran with her back to the dark alley towards the nearest soldier, who looked at Luna dumbfounded.

He was indeed stunned for half a second, so he was killed for the second half second.

Luna raised the tip of her sword, sliced through his scythe-patterned vest, and then scattered his frozen entrails on the ground, then turned around and stabbed a third to the right of the blade, piercing the man's body, he slashed off the blade, twitched on the ground a few times before preparing to die, then Luna pulled out a switchblade and stabbed the soldier who had gone to the gallows in La Adelaide, and he let out a scream and retreated, blood gushing out from where the blade had stabbed it, staining his teeth red as he screamed.

Since they had left the last bullet for their fleeing merchant partners, and the Whartont Ordnance Corruption case had caused them a lot of old-fashioned muskets to be distributed, they were not slow to load, but they were too slow for a battle-hardened Luna, and their tricks could only scare naïve women, and of course Luna was used to them.

Luna stabbed him twice in the skull, then turned to face the last soldier, and he finally waited for the opportunity to shoot her, Luna heard the bullet whizzing through the air and bent down to dodge, the bullet shaved off several of her hairs, so Luna fought back in shock, she frantically slashed his arm until the gun in his hand fell, and he knelt down and raised his hand to Luna to beg for mercy, Luna showed no mercy, a stab pierced his throat, making him completely shut up, He slurred something and fell, blood spreading around him.

Luna breathed a sigh of relief, I was very satisfied with the battle, it was only a minute, the screams were not heard by the monks, and then she dealt with the nominal soldiers, Luna looked around, Adelaide in front of her and Tina on the roof, they looked at Luna with the same eyes, surprised and a little confused.

"You...... You are? Adrade said with a stumbling voice.

"Don't worry, I'm here to save you." With that, Luna helped him up.