Chapter 130 Public Execution (2/2)
”Shh…” Suddenly, Xiao Mo gestured at Lin Huang to stop talking and said quietly, ”The public execution is starting, we’re not allowed to talk.”
Lin Huang nodded and kept quiet while looking at the people at the arena. The arena was completely silent. It seemed like everybody was aware of this rule.
Three young men in green uniforms were shoved in from the entrance of the arena. They looked like death row inmates with dead eyes and expressionless faces. There were three executioners in black behind them.
The three young men in green uniforms walked slowly to the middle of the area. One of the man in black who was wearing sungla.s.ses walked towards them with a sealed box.
”What is happening?” Lin Huang asked quietly.
”They’re asking the young men to choose how they would die by drawing ballots,” Xiao Mo explained.
Lin Huang was solemn as he watched the events transpire.
The three young men extended shaking hands into the sealed box. They then pulled out a wooden piece each.
”Say your name, ranking and the style of execution,” the man in sungla.s.ses said into a loudspeaker receiver the size of a palm. He then pa.s.sed the loudspeaker to the first man. The receiver was turned on and a long antenna came out from it and stopped by the man's mouth. As it turned out, it was the mouthpiece for the loudspeaker.
The young man stuttered, ”My name is… Han Yang… I'm ranked… last in the point rankings... for the past… 10 days. My death… would be… by beheading…”
He cried as he said those words out loud. He was terrified!
Lin Huang could tell that this person was only iron-level rank-2, a rank which was considered to be the weakest in this training camp, so it was not out of the ordinary that he ranked last.
After the young man's report, the man in sungla.s.ses took the loudspeaker receiver from him and nodded to the executioner who was standing behind him and he took a few steps back. The golden ring on the executioner’s hand transformed into a sword and he held the young man on the ground by force. Soon, the sword came down on the young man and a head shot up into the air as blood gushed everywhere.
Lin Huang frowned as he watched. Although he had killed people before, it was the first time he watched an actual execution happen. He thought it was gruesome and unethical. However, the man in sungla.s.ses did not seem to be affected at all. He then walked across the pool of blood in his pair of black leather boots and handed the loudspeaker receiver to the second man with an expressionless face.
”My name is Lu Shen, I ranked second last in the past 10 days. My death will be execution by gunshot,” the second young man said with a gloomy expression. The man in sungla.s.ses nodded to the executioner again. The golden ring transformed into a pistol and he pointed it at the left side of Lu Shen’s head. The executioner pulled the trigger without a moment's notice. ”Bang!” A bullet was shot, and the young man’s head exploded. It was Lin Huang’s first time witnessing the power of a gold-level gun.
The man in sungla.s.ses then walked to the last person and handed him the loudspeaker receiver.
”My name is Zou He, I’m ranked the third last in the past 10 days. My death will be through... Dismemberment...” Suddenly, an uproar broke among the crowd as the young man mentioned how his execution would be carried out. Many were discussing the execution as it seemed like it had been awhile since the last time someone was executed by dismemberment. The man in sungla.s.ses was stunned as well but his surprise slowly turned to anger as he frowned at the noisy crowd.
”Silence!” The man in sungla.s.ses shouted into the loudspeaker receiver and the arena went silent. Once the man made sure that the people were calm, he took a few steps back and nodded to the executioner. The executioner then sealed Zou He’s movement from the back of his neck. His clothes were removed and he was tied with a metal rope before he was hung on a metal shelf. He looked like a beast waiting for slaughter.
Soon blades appeared in the executioner’s hands and he began performing his knife skills on Zou He. His skills were refined from years of experience as he slowly sliced the flesh off Zou He’s body. Once his clothes were completely removed, each of the wounds were clear before everybody’s eyes. Zou He was groaning in pain, and the sounds were transmitted, loud and clear through the loudspeaker. Lin Huang had heard of such executions before had never imagined it to be this gory and cruel.
It lasted for more than three hours. Zou He was finally dead with thousands of slices of his flesh were carved from his body. The execution was carved into everyone’s mind and they were in fearful awe of the executioner. Zou He’s groan echoed in Lin Huang’s head as he walked back to his room.
”It seems like the Purple Crow is a cult…” he thought. It was the first time he had seen something so gruesome since he joined the training camp.
Xiao Mo had been quiet ever since they got back to their room and he has not spoken a single word since the incident. Lin Huang soon noticed his odd behaviour and asked, ”Xiao Mo, what’s wrong? Were you traumatised by the execution we saw earlier?”
”I will die 10 days from now…” Xiao Mo said after being quiet for awhile.
”What do you mean?” Lin Huang wondered as he thought what he said was ridiculous.
”I’m one of those who will be executed in the next batch,” Xiao Mo mumbled as he did not want to explain any further.
Lin Huang then realized what Xiao Mo was trying to say. As he was only an iron-level rank-3 hunter and his combat strength was limited. He had ranked at the bottom for a while After the three young men were executed, Xiao Mo was the next one who was ranked last on the leaderboard.
”Don’t worry, there's still another 10 days to go. There must be a way.” Lin Huang said as he tried to improve the morale between them. He did not know what else to say. ”Try to stay longer in the training tower for the next few days.”
Each room in the training tower could only accommodate one person and each mission had to be done alone. There was no way for Lin Huang to help Xiao Mo.
”Oh, yeah... How far are you from filling up your Life Power?” Lin Huang asked.
”My Life Power is full but I don’t dare to level-up because once I arrive at bronze-level, I won’t be able to enter the iron-level training room any further. I’d acc.u.mulate points at an even slower rate...”
Xiao Mo was in a vicious cycle. He could acc.u.mulate points by killing iron-level monsters but the points were much lower compared to bronze-level monsters. On the other hand, if he chose to level-up, his abilities were still insufficient to kill bronze-level monsters and this would slow him down even more. Lin Huang was at a loss as there was nothing he could do to help in this situation.