Chapter 228: Capital Punishment
Song Kuiyi, as the chairman of the Doomsday Government, sat in the middle of the stage, but no matter how he looked at it, he was not as imposing as Ouyang Yan beside him.
Ouyang Yan's face was yellow, he was already very old, before the end of the world, he needed to use hair dye to ensure the brightness and shine of his hair, and now, his hair could only show its original dry white color. But he seemed very energetic.
Ouyang Yan was sitting next to Hu Zhiqing, this man was not very old, about forty years old, and he was originally in his prime.
Song Kuiyi glanced in Zheng Jieming's direction, and a strange smile appeared on her face, which made Zheng Jieming feel a little inexplicably uncomfortable.
And when Hua Feng looked at Yu Zekai, he felt that this young man was a little familiar.
"The second one on the left is Yu Zekai, right?" Hua Bong asked Zheng Jieming again for confirmation.
"Yes, the youngest one." Zheng Jieming replied.
"Then I'm sure I've seen this guy, but ...... I can't remember where it was. Hua Feng recalled carefully, but the memory was already very vague, and there was no particularly good clue.
"If you have seen him, you may have seen the photos when you were in Lan Yuting, and the house we lived in at that time was theirs." Zheng Jieming said.
Hua Feng shook his head, he hadn't paid attention to the photos in Lan Yuting.
Ma Tengdong continued to preside over his survivors' morning meeting, the content of the meeting was nothing more than to muster up confidence and unite to deal with zombies and the like, Zhou Jitang felt drowsy, while Geng Zhi carefully observed the politicians opposite, some of whom had appeared on TV, but perhaps the real people were at the end of the world, looking older and more ugly.
After Ma Tengdong finished the stinky and long mobilization, they intervened in the main topic of the morning meeting.
"The country cannot be controlled, although it is the end of the zombie rampant, we still have to establish a legal system. It's just that the mechanism of social operation has been completely changed, and we can't adopt the original legal provisions as they are, so we can only gradually build a system that adapts to the end of the world......" Ma Tengdong explained at length.
Among the survivors, a man's snoring interrupted Ma Tengdong's generous speech.
There was a burst of laughter in the room.
"Ma Tengdong, to be brief, the survivor meeting is not your past meeting in the agency." Yu Zekai reminded Ma Tengdong in a whisper.
The snoring man is woken up by someone next to him, the snoring stops, and the meeting continues.
"In short, the guilty must be punished! The punishment must be severe! As you can see, in the middle of today's meeting, there is a special audience member who has been hanging on our penal pillar. Ma Tengdong paused and stopped his tirade.
Everyone focused on the person on the pillar, the person on the pillar was hanging, and his head moved, Zheng Jieming finally saw clearly this time that this person was the man who besieged the express hotel before-Rui Zhili!
No way! Wasn't he taken away by Yu Zekai!? Could it be that Yu Zekai's purpose in taking him away was to punish him in public?
"This person, against the will of the doomsday government, abuses our armed forces, and kills innocents indiscriminately! Originally, his mission was to go out to recruit survivors, but after he got the armed forces, he also carried out a massacre of those who would like to join us! Ma Tengdong made an impassioned statement.
The survivors cheered up and looked at Rui Zhili with strange eyes. At this time, Rui Zhili was like being pierced by ten thousand arrows, and his heart was full of hatred for Yu Zekai.
I'm your subordinate! I also received your military instructions! Why do you want to humiliate me in this way when you fished me back!!
Helplessly, Rui Zhili's mouth was sealed with duct tape, his hands were tied to the pillar behind his back, and he couldn't speak or move his body.
Yu Zekai frowned, he was a little dissatisfied with Ma Tengdong's words, but he turned his head to speak to Song Kuiyi.
"I seem to have told you that it's better to stop the accusations against Rui Zhili." Yu Zekai said.
"Yes, Boss Yu, it's just a symbolic talk, and it will soon get to the point." Song Kuiyi said.
Rui's trial continues.
"For the current doomsday government, it is difficult for us to formulate complex legal provisions, but there are three rules that must become rules -- those who undermine the authority of the doomsday government, those who kill innocents indiscriminately, and those who rape must be punished with capital punishment!! At present, we are facing the crisis of zombies outside, if we still have to carry out such internal friction, how can we rebuild our society! Ma Tengdong said the excitement, waving his fist and mobilizing the survivors in the audience, "You say, isn't it!! ”
"Yes!!" The survivors shouted loudly, but politicians and armed men responded little.
Yu Zekai interrupted Ma Tengdong's speech, he saw that the emotions of the survivors had been mobilized, and took this opportunity to grasp the initiative of words.
"The Doomsday Government has just been established, and before that, everyone is facing the threat of zombies, and their spirits are too nervous, so it is inevitable that they will do something out of the ordinary. But now we have the doomsday government, we have the society and the system that will not allow the chaos that began at the beginning of the apocalypse to happen again. Therefore, on the matter of Rui Zhili, several of our chairmen and deputy chairmen have communicated, and we have also privately consulted the opinions of some survivors and armed personnel, and finally decided to make an example of Rui Zhili, and use Rui Zhili's death to warn everyone that any incident of indiscriminate use of force and killing of innocents will be equivalent to today's punishment. Yu Zekai personally announced that Rui Zhili would be sentenced to death, which made Rui Zhili feel deeply desperate, he closed his eyes and looked up at the sky.
Zheng Jieming and the others were deeply surprised, Rui Zhili clearly belonged to Yu Zekai's subordinates, but now, Yu Zekai said that he would kill him.
"If this is led by Yu Zekai, then this person is not simple." Zheng Jieming whispered.
In fact, Yu Zekai was also forced to kill his loyal subordinate, but a series of negative information about Rui Zhili continued to come into his ears, the most serious two were about his close secret contacts with Song Kuiyi, and many armed personnel were dissatisfied with him.
Since the current punishment is not confinement or direct killing, in order to distinguish the different severity of punishment, capital punishment is divided into three levels. The first level is the lightest, directly wipe the neck, in order to prevent the corpse from changing, and then make a hole in the head; The second stage adopts the method of hanging, and the hole is also opened after coming down; The third level directly deprives it of its dignity as a "human" and directly hands it over to a zombie, whose teeth determine whether he dies or becomes a zombie.
Rui Zhili's punishment was the third level of capital punishment.
After the punishment was announced, everyone on the field sighed, Rui Zhili was taken off the pillar, but his hands and feet were still firmly bound, and a corner of the conference room was opened up as an execution ground, the so-called execution ground was actually a vacant space that was vacated.
A zombie with one foot tied was dragged into the conference room, and then the zombie was chained to the heater in the corner of the room, and it could only move in a small fan-shaped area.
Rui Zhili was re-tied to a stool and pushed into the corner of the house by the armed men, within the range of the zombies.
Soon, the zombies spotted the live prey and pounced on him.
Rui Zhili was firmly tied to the chair, no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't dodge, the zombie bit him on the face, and the blood splattered.
Some of the survivors couldn't bear to look any further and covered their eyes. Some even tried to leave in public, but were stopped by the guards.
"Although this punishment is more severe, in order to warn everyone, it has to be used in such a heavy way. In the future, anyone who does something that damages the majesty of the government of the end of the world and harms the lives of others will be punished severely. Ma Tengdong said.
Zheng Jieming and others felt a little big, and this approach of the Doomsday Government made him feel unspeakably uncomfortable.
What is the basis for conviction? If it's just because it's about us, it's a bit too much, right? It can't be that our loudspeaker propaganda has shaken their military morale, right? Zheng Jieming whispered.
"Leave them alone, I'm afraid they still have deep internal contradictions." Geng Zhi said.
Ma Tengdong symbolically said some other reassuring words on stage, and Rui Zhili's face had been gnawed to the bone. The next action was for armed men to lift Rui Zhili's body and circle around the venue as an example.
A woman behind Zheng Jieming couldn't bear to see this flesh-and-bone corpse, and vomited on the spot.
A child shivered and cried.
"Alright, enough is enough." Yu Zekai felt that Song Kuiyi and the others had arranged a little too much, and turned his head to Ma Tengdong and said.
Ma Tengdong looked at Yu Zekai and nodded.
"Alright, let's carry the body away. Today's "Just as Ma Tengdong was about to end his morning meeting, a politician's voice suddenly sounded from the venue.
"Wait! We have doubts about the fairness and completeness of this punishment! ”
Zheng Jieming looked in the direction of the voice, and a short-haired official* stood up.
"If Rui Zhili has been punished, then who is the person who instructed Rui Zhili to go out with armed forces?! Shouldn't you also be punished!! We had set up a plan to recruit survivors, each group only had one or two cars and a few people to go out, why could Rui Zhili have more military forces? Who opened this opening? ”
The man was clearly aimed at Yu Zekai when he spoke, Yu Zekai frowned and looked at the man carefully.
The man was a high-ranking official* in the Southern Province.
"Damn, I saved your lives and sheltered you, and now you want to target me!" Yu Zekai scolded secretly in his heart.