Chapter 148: Punishment
Yes, after Mo Yan woke up from the dream, he kept pretending to be demented and controlled. With his excellent acting skills, it is easy to play a character that does not require too many words, but only needs to remain demented all the time, and even the demon who has been deceiving me for a long time in hell cannot see through it.
What the succubus discussed in front of him seemed to him to be funny. However, Mo Yan didn't do this for fun, and he didn't have the leisure to make such jokes with everyone. What's more, he also knows the story of the princes of the Beacon Theater, and if he is not serious in such a serious matter, the consequences will only be the loss of people's hearts and the reduction of trust, and it will not benefit anyone in doing so.
Therefore, this is not a farce but a test, a test that Mo Yan wants to test the integrity of the system he has established. Thunder Cliff is not something that can be run by just one person, Mo Yan, who has never been in power, doesn't know how to build a stable power organization, and he doesn't know how much of a role the system he has built can play.
The succubus matter made him see his mistakes, and everything in Thunder Cliff was not under his nose, although a monitoring agency had been established, there were still great deficiencies. If one day Mo Yan needs to leave Thunder Cliff for a long time, will everything still run as it did when he was there?
With such doubts, he had already decided in his dream that he would pretend to be controlled after waking up to see if the mechanism he had set up would work. The results of the test made Mo Yan very satisfied, and the SS discovered the abnormality on the day he behaved abnormally. Regel's investigation of what happened was all in his vision.
Thunder Cliff's countermeasures were quickly activated, and everyone quickly worked hard to rescue him, so there was a scene like today. This made Mo Yan believe that even if he was really controlled, these people in front of him would rescue him. Whatever their intentions, they really made Thunder Bluff their own.
"So it's a test. Mo Yan sat on the throne and looked at the few people below the high platform and said, "I'm just pushing the boat down the river and making Lilith and the others think that they have succeeded." I will remember the merits of all of you here today, and you will be awarded medals of honor and bonuses in recognition of your loyalty and dedication. ”
Mo Yan's explanation made most people feel more comfortable, and the honors and rewards promised by the Minotaur soothed the last dissatisfaction in everyone's hearts. After dealing with this drama of "Beacon Fire Drama Candidates", then it is up to the Minotaur to deal with the initiators of this attempted rebellion. If it weren't for the strength of the Minotaurs who destroyed the witchcraft, they would have succeeded in their rebellion.
The strength of the Minotaur may not be accurately understood by the rest of Elan, but he has spent a lot of time in Thunder Cliff and has seen a lot of things, but everyone understands the power he represents. If you really fight with Mo Yan, who is being controlled, even if everything goes according to plan, then at least half of the people here will not survive, and they are here at great risk.
But this is Thunder Cliff, everything here is calculated by the Minotaur, and as for how to deal with these two betrayers, it will also be up to the ruler of Thunder Cliff to decide. But if the punishment is too light, although everyone present will not make it clear what they think, they will still feel disappointed in their hearts, after all, this is not an ordinary fault or sin.
"Lilith and Vivien. Whether it was acting or something else, Mo Yan's eyes became fierce as he looked at the two succubi, a dangerous aura permeated his body, and the minotaur said in a somewhat thick tone: "This should be the third time you want to kill me, right?"
"Yes. Lilith and Vivien pressed close together, but there was no fear in their eyes as they looked at the dangerous minotaur on the throne. Although they knew that this was their life-or-death moment, they had seen too many such scenes in hell.
They had also come into contact with demons that were more dangerous than the Minotaurs, so they knew that all they had to do was to stay calm and find a way out of this dangerous situation. The Minotaur had promised them that as long as he didn't feel disgusted with them, he wouldn't harm their lives.
And the two succubi also think that they are also very good at their usual work, and a large number of official documents in the entire Thunder Cliff have made them organize in an orderly manner. If Mo Yan decides to kill them, there will be no better person to take their place, and neither the Salts nor the Grey Dwarves are proficient in this.
"When Thunder Cliff was first built, I didn't care much about what you would do. The minotaur on the throne said, "And I don't care what you do to me, because I know that no matter what you do, no matter what I do, it is impossible to really do me any harm.
But now I'm angry that you're putting your hands where you shouldn't. Whatever you have done to me, you will not be able to touch what I have built. Everything here is built by me, and I don't like to make wedding dresses for others. ”
The Minotaur's words sounded contradictory, but they were what he really thought. It's like some people don't care about other people's pushing, but they get angry because they have been taken away from their hands. Mo Yan didn't care that the succubus wanted to kill him, because he thought that his strength was enough to resist the succubus's methods, not to mention that there was a boss behind him now.
Even if there is danger, he will be warned in advance, but he will not allow his power to be harmed. It would be fine if he was really controlled, he didn't know anything at that time and wouldn't care about it, but the problem was that he wasn't really controlled, and he saw the succubus's intention to succeed him as the master of Thunder Cliff, which made him very angry.
"We were wrong. The succubi looked at the minotaur and smiled sweetly, as if trying to appease the angry minotaur, and said, "We promise that we will never do such a thing again, and even if we do succeed in killing you, we will not touch what you care about." This is our promise, and you should know that the devil does not lie. ”
Because they cannot come to the main plane unless they are summoned through spells, the demons of hell often use various means to lure humans on the main plane to do things for them. The first lesson for all spellcasters who learn to summon demons to battle is to resist the temptations of demons and not to listen to their promises and words.
This is not to say that the demons will not fulfill what they say, but they will not break what they promised, as they say they themselves. But in fact, every one of their sentences has loopholes of one kind or another. They promised to give mortals eternal life, but they didn't say in what form. Banishing to a half-plane where time does not flow or being extracted from the soul into a magical device can be considered a kind of eternal life in a sense, isn't it?
"If it were a normal day, I might have let you go like this. Mo Yan closed his eyes and tapped his fingers on the chair in thought and said, "I have also heard of the demon's surname, and I know that you will keep the promise you have made. But today doesn't end there, and everyone is watching now. If I let you go so easily, it will definitely leave a bad impression on them, so ...... You must be punished. ”
"Okay. Lilith muttered and looked at the people staring at them under the high platform and said, "We didn't expect the master's power to be so strong, we thought that the power of witchcraft could hurt you, but it turned out to be a miscalculation as it was at the beginning. I want to give up......"
"You two will each be given a hundred lashes. Mo Yan finally decided on the punishment to be given to the succubus and said: "And in the execution ground of Thunder Cliff, all citizens will have the right to watch. I guess with the demon's constitution, this won't kill you, right? Of course...... If you are really killed, then I will have to replace someone to help me handle the official documents. ”
The flogging was based on other cities in Elam, but it was not the kind of futility that used the nine-tailed whip. A long leather whip made of calfskin that, when dipped in salt water, can make the skin open and painful even if it is lightly pumped. Even if a Salt were whipped seventy or eighty times, their backs would be whipped into a ball of flesh and they would die.
Even demons from hell could not withstand such a punishment, and a hundred lashes could almost kill them. This kind of punishment is satisfactory to most people, their leader is not a soft-hearted person, and anyone who offends him, even if it is a favorite concubine next to the pillow, will not be spared.
"I'm sorry to let you see this. After letting the two succubi retreat, the minotaur looked at Pasha, who had been watching, and said, "Now let's talk about the so-called secret covenant, actually...... What Lilith said just now was right, we in Thunder Cliff are not obligated to participate in the war. ”
"No one said that you should go to war for free, did you?" said Pasha as he walked back to the center of the hall and looked at the Minotaur and said, "Rich Carthage will not treat his allies badly, and you will receive more wealth than you can imagine, as long as you can do what you deserve." ”
(To be continued)