Chapter 159: Eyes Are Sharp
In fact, the public trial had already been going on before Levi and Seraphine arrived.
This was also specially arranged by Levi.
He deliberately let the masses preside over the public trial first, let the slave laborers tell the crimes of those on trial, and then let the leading cadres convict those arrested based on the masses' response.
Therefore, before Seraphine arrived at the heated public trial, more than half of the arrested people had already been tried by the public and their corresponding punishments had been determined.
Many of them were sentenced to immediate execution.
It's not that the leader is too violent, but that these lackeys of Takeda and Saito usually do inhuman things.
Sentencing them to death was considered a light punishment. They did not follow Takeda and Saito's example and send them to an alchemy laboratory to be used as consumables. This was already considered humanitarianism on the part of a leading cadre.
After being sentenced to death, these remnants of Takeda's followers all lost their former prestige and collapsed to the ground with looks of despair on their faces.
Until Levi and Seraphine arrived, they sat on the main throne of the public trial under the respectful gazes of the leaders.
Especially Seraphine, this lovely, well-dressed pink-haired girl, who looks like a kind-hearted girl from Piltover.
"I, I am innocent!"
The death row inmates cried and begged her as if they had grasped at a lifeline.
Seraphine looked at Levi for instructions, and Levi stood up and pressed his hand, signaling everyone to keep quiet.
Then he smiled and said, "Comrade Seraphine and I came here this time to ensure the fairness of this public trial, to ensure that no good person is wrongly accused and no bad person is let off."
"We will review all the cases that have just been reviewed by the masses."
“If any of you feel that you have been wronged, you can come up to the stage one by one and explain the situation to Comrade Seraphine.”
This made the death row inmates happy.
They also don't know what role Seraphine plays in the Leader, and why she is qualified to influence the outcome of the trial, but since there is still a chance to survive, they will never let it go.
Soon, a death row inmate came on stage to defend himself.
The first person to come on stage was a middle-aged man who looked very honest and had a very different temperament from those thugs.
"Who is he?" Levi asked the crowd first.
"He is Takeda Saito's lackey and a big landlord who owns several streets of land!" the crowd said angrily.
"Oh." Levi understood.
Although the land in Zaun is not valuable, it is not something that ordinary people can own.
And this guy was able to expand his business and firmly occupy several streets of land under Takeda Saito's sustainable rule of exhausting all resources...
The probability of him being a good person is about the same as the probability of finding a piece of gold in a cesspool.
But the landlord cried and said:
"I, I am innocent!"
"I love to work, manage my household frugally, repair bridges and roads, and am generous and charitable. Every poor person in the Zaun Coast has tasted the food I gave them. Every silver wheel in my vault is soaked with my hard work. I got rich through hard work and made my fortune with wisdom. I am confident that I have never done anything wrong in my life..."
Before he could finish his words, Seraphine interrupted him.
"Sir, I know some of what you said is true. You really love to work, and you manage your household frugally. You have repaired bridges and roads in Zaun, and you have distributed food to many poor people..."
This is truly a kind person.
"But can you explain how you earned the huge fortune you use for charity?"
"Is it because of your labor and your wisdom?"
Doing good deeds costs money.
Not only building bridges and paving roads, but also distributing food to every poor person in a district - such a huge expense is not something that ordinary small property owners can afford.
So this great philanthropist is not only rich, but also extremely rich.
In the 21st century-style Piltover, common people still have a chance to make a fortune with their genius wisdom.
But in the 19th century-style old society of Zuan, under the rule of Takeda Saito, how could one become rich, and extremely rich, simply through labor and wisdom?
You must be kidding. Is Baron Takeda blind and unable to see that there are fat pigs to be slaughtered?
"Have you ever lent money at high interest rates to the poor? Have you ever forced women who couldn't pay back their loans to sell themselves, or men to work as slaves?"
"Why did Takeda Saito allow you to occupy the land on this street and earn this money?"
"Is it because you are a good man who has touched Zuan, or is it because you are related to a senior cadre of the Takeda gang and pay him a large amount of dividends every year?"
Seraphine became more and more angry as she asked, and she simply cursed without caring about her image:
“If you return a little of the blood you squeezed out of the poor to the poor, do you really consider yourself a good person?”
"Among those debt slaves you sold to the Takeda factory, there are still a few survivors, and they are standing in the audience now—"
"Asshole, you still have the nerve to say you're innocent?"
"Take him out and shoot him!"
The landlord's face was pale and his expression was desperate.
He wanted to argue, but Seraphine directly opened the "group file sharing" and shared his dirty soul memory with everyone present.
Now he was completely speechless.
"Next." Seraphine sat back next to Levi angrily.
But no one dared to go up to the next one.
"She, she is a psychic mage!" The faces of the death row inmates turned green.
The judge can read minds, so how can they argue?
For a moment, no one dared to go up.
But no matter whether they were willing or not, Levi had to make them go.
Because Levi also wanted to know whether the eyes of the masses were sharp, and whether their identification and accusations of the reactionaries corresponded to the real situation that Seraphine read.
Then, one by one, the death row prisoners came onto the stage...
"Shoot him, next one." said Seraphine.
"Shoot him, next one." Seraphine said again.
"Kill them..." Seraphine was almost nauseated by the memories of these insects.
"Shot! Shot! Shot!"
She sent out death notices one by one with a grim expression.
Moreover, because Seraphine always shares the memories of the prisoners, even the death row prisoners themselves cannot question the results of her trials.
So with a command from Seraphine, the executioners of the Leader would drag the prisoners out on the spot and shoot them in front of the angry Zaun people.
Every time a gunshot rang out, everyone cheered.
The blood and corpses not only did not scare everyone, but instead made everyone happy as if it were the New Year.
"Hey!" The crowd spat at the corpses , "You sons of bitches, you lackeys, you deserve this day!"
“Hahahahahaha.”
Seraphine's rebukes, the prisoners' pleas for mercy, the sound of gunfire, the angry shouts of the crowd, and the happy laughter all intertwined and collided in the bright sunshine.
The movement started by the leader is bloody, violent, and unexpectedly romantic.
"Hmm..." This scene made Levi sigh.
The once naive pink-haired girl had grown into a cold-faced judge without anyone noticing.
This killing movement was also managed so skillfully and in an orderly manner by her.
If the Janna movement fails temporarily in a hundred years, Seraphine and he will probably be regarded by the world as a pair of cruel and bloodthirsty tyrants, right? Haha.
Thinking about how Seraphine’s future image might change from “Star Song Song Queen” to this... well, it seems quite interesting.
Levi smiled in his heart.
"The trial of the death row inmates has been completed."
Finally, the trial of Seraphine's soul came to a conclusion.
The results show that almost nine out of ten of deserved to die.
In fact, because the slaves and the masses had limited knowledge and did not have a deep understanding of the crimes of the Takeda gang, the charges they brought against these death row prisoners were much lighter.
And the remaining 10% of death row inmates were not wrongly accused.
Rather, he is guilty but his crime is not extremely serious, so there is still room for consideration and negotiation between the death penalty and life reform through labor.
This was beyond Levi's expectations.
Li Wei thought that this kind of public trial, which was easily influenced by the public's emotions, would lead to many wrongful convictions. But he didn't expect that everyone's eyes were really sharp.
but……
This may also be because the Takeda gang is so despicable.
There is not even a need for trial. Anyone who is related to Takeda and Saito will be shot directly. It is estimated that no more than 1 out of 100 people will be wrongly accused.
So even if the people's eyes are not sharp, even if they are blindfolded and shooting randomly, they can still kill people well.
"Very good, let's continue."
After trying the death row inmates, Levi confidently arranged for the remaining defendants to come on stage to accept Seraphine's soul judgment.
