Chapter 158 This Is Not a Dinner Party

Time came to the next day.
Perhaps because the strong wind blew away the poisonous haze covering the sky, the sun came out in Zaun for the first time in a long time.
Seraphine and Levi flew hand in hand, facing the breeze and sunshine, and landed in the Zaun coastal area, the former territory of Baron Takeda Saito.
The street scene in Zaan is certainly not beautiful.
Especially now, the scene here can even be said to be horrifying.
When Seraphine dropped her pure white leather boots on the ground, she immediately felt that she had stepped on something sticky and slippery.
When she lifted her foot again, she saw that the edge of her white boot was stained with a circle of scarlet - it was blood, human blood.
The source of the blood is also obvious.
The street lamps on both sides of the street were hung with relatively fresh corpses.
There were so many bodies that there weren't enough street lamps to hang them, so even telephone poles were used to make up the numbers.
The food attracted countless seabirds, some of which crawled on the ground and drank blood thirstily, while others simply stepped on the heads of those "street lamp pendants" and pecked at their eyes before they had time to rot.
Rats, ants, and flies also became active.
Just looking at this scene, it is not an exaggeration to say that this place is hell on earth.
The common people of Piltover can't bear to see this.
Seraphine frowned.
"Seraphini, are you okay?" Levi held Seraphine's hand, subconsciously showing concern.
He has not forgotten that this girl was still a delicate young lady who would shed tears when her finger was scratched more than three months ago.
Not to mention seeing a dead person, even if she saw a dead cat she would cry out of sympathy.
But now... Seraphine just walked out of the pool of blood without changing her expression, and rubbed the soles of her boots stained with blood on the clean ground: "Alas, I shouldn't have worn white boots."
As she spoke, Seraphine frowned as she looked at the white stockings that tightly wrapped her calves and were almost splattered with blood. She thought about it and simply used her magic to control the breeze, making herself float off the ground like the goddess Janna.
It turns out that this is all she cares about.
"Don't you feel disgusted and sympathize with them?" Levi was quite surprised.
"No." Seraphine shook her head.
Although the scene of corpses hanging from street lamps is disgusting, and the tragic deaths are sympathetic, but...
"Every soul I hear here is cheering for this scene."
"I don't know what these corpses did when they were alive, but if their deaths can only be cheered by all Zaun people from the bottom of their hearts... I think they deserve to die."
Her tone was as firm as a warrior's, which made Levi stunned.
Oh, yes...he was wrong.
He always subconsciously thought of Seraphine as the delicate girl when he first met her, but in fact, as a veteran and meritorious member of the Leaders Association, Seraphine had long become a warrior.
In order to promote Janna's thoughts, she has browsed through too many memories of suffering Zaun people in the past three months.
She used to be very fond of crying.
But now, she had already shed all the tears she needed to shed for those Zaun people.
These street lamp pendants don't deserve her tears.
"But I don't like this approach either." Seraphine still had some opinions.
She looked at her boots: "This is unsanitary."
"Moreover, this may affect the outside world, especially the people of Piltover, in their impression of the Wind Leader Association."
" Levi , I don't think you should let them do this."
"That's not what I taught you." Levi shrugged.
I swear to God, he really didn't teach the people of Zuan how to hang street lamps.
They learned it by themselves.
And where did they learn it from?
Of course, it was from the masters who had bullied them for thousands of years.
When this place was still called Vaz'uan and was still a Shurima city-state, the city lords and nobles loved to hang the bodies of criminals on the city gates for public display;
Later, when the Age of Exploration began, pirates loved to hang the bodies of their enemies on masts to dry;
Later, the pirates were cleansed and became businessmen, and the businessmen gradually evolved into the Piltover tycoons and Zaun gangs. They liked to hang the bodies of Zaun people on street lamps to deter rebels.
"They just copied the master and used all the tricks he used on them on him."
"I didn't teach them that, and I even tried my best to get them to restrain themselves."
"But once the fire starts, it's not so easy to control how big it will be and how long it will last."
The power of the masses is great, but being great also means that it is difficult to control.
Yesterday, with the success of the shipyard riot and the demise of Takeda Saito himself and his main force, a huge fire, with the help of the strong wind, started blazing in Zaun.
One factory after another under the name of Takeda Saito, some under the leadership of the Leader's undercover agents, some completely out of spontaneous resistance by the slave workers, all launched collective riots in a short period of time.
The factory guards who received the news of Takeda's downfall had no intention of suppressing the rebellion and fled in all directions.
The fire burned more and more fiercely, and the slave workers went from silence to resistance, then to hunting and killing, and then to fanatical sweeps and liquidations.
Holding weapons and shouting slogans, they rushed out of the factory and into bars, casinos, high-end brothels, dim shops, middle-class communities, and any other places where Takeda's remnants might appear.
The slave laborers pulled out all the lackeys who were attached to Takeda Saito from their kennels one by one, beat them to death in the street, and hung them on street lamps.
Such bloody revenge is without trial.
Are there people who are wrongly accused by the masses? Are there people whose crimes do not deserve the death penalty? It is very likely that there are.
But as Levi said, "Struggle is not like cooking. You can't simmer it slowly if you want or boil it quickly if you want. You can't control the heat so accurately."
"Once the fire starts, it will definitely burn everything that is combustible."
Does it mean we shouldn't set fires just because they can get out of control? Of course not.
Because the leader never sets a fire.
The real arsonists are the alchemist barons who add fuel to their own fire day after day and sit on a powder keg without even realizing it.
The leader of the trend simply draws out the fire that already exists in people's hearts.
"I think this fire should be burned as it should be, and it's a good fire."
"Burn this filthy Zaun to the ground, burn it thoroughly, and a new world will be created."
"All we can do as leaders is to try our best to prevent the fires from burning in places where they shouldn't burn."
In fact, Levi has put in a lot of effort to achieve this.
He already had the ability to take over the entire Zaun, but he was still cautious and only started with one Takeda Saito, because he was worried that if he took a big step, the mass movement would become completely out of control.
In order to prevent the movement from getting out of control and becoming a blind action, we must have a team of grassroots cadres who are capable of leading the masses, have firm beliefs, are loyal and reliable, and have outstanding abilities.
Therefore, in the past three months, he has been focusing on cultivating a team of grassroots cadres who are leaders in building the industry.
But the leader still made his fortune too quickly and took too big steps.
Even if it was just to take over the territory of Takeda Saito and the hundreds of thousands of Zaun people including slaves, the grassroots cadres of the Leader would barely be enough.
However, these grassroots cadres have generally only received theoretical training and lack practical experience. They usually perform like experts, but when they arrive at the chaotic sports scene, they are like headless flies, anxious and at a loss.
Not only did they fail to lead the mass movement, they were also carried away by the masses and moved around aimlessly.
Levi even received a report that a leader's cadres followed the rioting masses to capture a shop that was said to be owned by Takeda Saito.
After the fight, he realized that this store had nothing to do with Takeda Saito, and he realized that he had just followed everyone in doing a "zero-yuan purchase" without knowing it.
Some cadres also rushed into Takeda Saito's mansion with angry slave laborers to liquidate Takeda Saito's family accomplices.
But the slave laborers were so eager to kill that the cadres were unable to restrain them, and as a result, they almost spared no children.
Fortunately, Levi appeared in time to avoid a tragedy.
Otherwise, if this matter was reported in the Piltover Daily News, it would probably be talked about by ordinary citizens for more than a hundred years.
After all, the common people always put themselves in the shoes of the baron, and only feel sorry for the children of the nobles and the noble blood.
As for how much blood these slaves shed, how many children they lost, who caused it, why they were so violent, so angry, and so irrational—
The people of Piltover, who have no worries about food and clothing, would never think about these problems, nor could they even imagine them.
There are many similar things.
In short, despite the Leaders Association's best efforts to control the situation, many chaos inevitably occurred during yesterday's massive riot.
The fire burned for a whole day, and it was not until today that the chaos was ended and order was restored thanks to the efforts of the Leaders Association.
"Seraphone." Levi said to her, "I brought you here today to ask you to help solve the problems caused by the fire." Yesterday, conditions were limited, and there was chaos and disorder. Bloody revenge without trial was naturally the norm.
But now that order has been restored, the trial procedure should also be restored.
Only in this way can these street lamp pendants die with a sincere heart, and only in this way can good people not be wrongly accused and bad people not be let off.
It also allows the public to truly understand why these people deserve to die.
Let everyone understand why yesterday's terror was just.
"The slave workers killed a lot of people yesterday and also captured a lot of people."
"Seraphone, your mission is—"
"Help everyone preside over the public trial."
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