Chapter 182: The Way Out (1/2)
Chapter 182: The Way Out
Translator: Pika
“How could that be possible?” Qiao Xueying was stunned However, her face soon lit up in delight as she replied, “Isn’t that even better? You just have to speak the truth, and the villagers will all be cleared of suspicion!”
“How dumb do you have to be to actually say those words aloud?” Zu An looked at Qiao Xueying with scorn in his eyes “Don’t you knohat the i the truth are? That’s basically affir the fact that heaven has decreed the emperor’s death! There’s no way the emperor would let us off if we report it in such a manner!”
“What do we do then?” exclaiers here are innocent too We can’t possibly force one of theht?”
“It won’t be easy to pull that off even if ant to do so,” replied Zu An coldly “The Qin Dynasty has extrerave disrespect to the emperor warrants nine farievous cried here!”
“Doesn’t that mean that it’s impossible for us to find thefelt her heart plu
“There’s a way out of this” Zu An turned his sight toward the villagers as his voice started turning chillingly cold
“What way?” asked Qiao Xueying
“If no one wishes to ad in the vicinity of the ers anyway, and the emperor doesn’t care too much about the livelihood of his people With that, we can successfully conclude this case without a hitch,” replied Zu An deeply
This was how the ‘Antares Occupying the Heart’ incident in the 36th Year of Qin shi+huang’s rule unfolded in history No one in the village ad those words, so the officials eventually had all of the villagers killed They would rather exterminate everyone than let the lad that he knew about this piece of history, so he knew the way out of this paradox, allowing him to clear the Heaven Seal far easier than the earlier two trials
However, Qiao Xueying immediately objected to it,” That won’t do! It’s too cruel I won’t agree to it!”
Zu An frowned “You should be aware that everything you see is just an illusion produced by the Heaven Seal They aren’t real people at all, so what’s so cruel about this?”
Qiao Xueying shook her head vehemently and said, “But from our earlier encounter with the hu myself to take the lives of so oals You can say that I’m naive and foolish, but this oversteps what my conscience allows”
Zu An scoffed in response, “But you sure were decisive when you chose to take ’s face immediately heated up “That’s a different story! You were bound to be an enemy, not to mention that you’re very hateful too You can’t possibly expect me to show mercy to you”
Zu An touched his own face and remarked, “Such a handsome face, and you actually foundmore than adorn
It was then that Lord wang rushed over and whispered to Zu An in a suppressed voice, “Lord Censor, we’ve interrogated all of the villagers, but none of the horite I think we should just”
He pulled his thuers “The et away this way, and we’ll be able to remain accountable to His Majesty”
Before Zu An could reply, Qiao Xueying had already interjected, “That won’t do!”
Lord wang’s face darkened “Young s, why don’t you propose another solution then? If we don’t kill these people, the ones to die would be us! Lord Censor, youtugged Zu An’s sleeves, seeking his support for this , interrogate theure out another solution”
“I understand, Lord Censor,” replied Lord wang with a nod
Just as he was about to leave, a soldier suddenly rushed forward and reported, “Bad news, ation, and his son is causing a ruckus right now He turns out to be a fairly powerful cultivator, and he has already injured quite a few of our brothers!”
Lord wang huffed in anger “Preposterous! How dare he mess around at a tiht to pay with his life Kill him!”
“Yes!”
The soldier was just about to leave the area when Zu An suddenly stopped hie chief die?”
“Lord Censor, the village chief was already ailing in health and the earlier shock worsened his condition Our brothers ation, but we ers were able to take it without any problee chief was the only one who suddenly dropped dead!” the soldier hurriedly replied as he wiped off his cold sweat
Zu An nodded in response Considering that the village chief was already in poor condition earlier on, it wasn’t too surprising for hiation It was the standard practice in this era to torture the suspects in order to get them to confess, so the soldiers couldn’t really be bla, capture his son and lock him up I’ll deal with him later on”
“Yes!”
The soldier quickly left the area to carry out Zu An’s order, and soon, Chen Wei found himself surrounded by a platoon of soldiers No led, it was hard for him to deal with so many enemies at once Soon, his hands were shackled in chains, and he was locked up in a roo to kill the anxiously
Zu An turned to look into her eyes for a , “Do you really intend to save theht away
He pondered for abrother’ fro you”
“I” Qiao Xueying’s face reddened She was only able to call hiht that she was already on the verge of dying and didn’t want to die ignorant There was no way she could bring herself to call hi brother’ under norhed deeply and remarked, “Looks like you’re all talk You spoke as if you really wanted to save all of these people, but in the end, you can’t even lower your pride to callhuffed angrily “You’re taking advantage of ed “Have I ever clai a bunch of people unrelated to me if there are no benefits on the line for me? Not to mention, they even tried to backstab ritted her teeth “Will you really save the brother?”