Zhao Shuanghe's ultimate trump card for a comeback failed to be executed. This meant that in this battle, he had completely lost the possibility of victory. His face was as pale as paper. He tried his best to get up from the ground. However, just as he managed to prop up his body, a foot stepped heavily on his head. That foot exerted a sudden force, nailing his head firmly to the ground.
"The times have changed, old man.energy storage attacks are no longer in vogue. Now it's all about starting with zero frames." The owner of that foot kept uttering taunting words. Although Zhao Shuanghe couldn't understand a word of what the other party was saying, an unprecedented sense of great humiliation welled up in his heart. His eyes instantly turned blood - red, and tears gushed out of his eyes uncontrollably.Immediately after, sobs began to ring out, and the sound grew louder and louder.
Zhao Shuanghe was crying. This man in his late thirties was now crying like a child bullied by an adult. Even when he was just holding a funeral for his son, he hadn't been this heart - broken. It was embarrassing, extremely embarrassing! Zhao Shuanghe was aware of his disgraceful state. He tried desperately to hold back his sobs, but it was of no use. He was extremely frustrated in his heart! Why, why should he be so wantonly insulted and beaten by a young brat!
"He's actually crying?" In the sky, Lin Jing looked down at this scene with a look of astonishment on her face. Zhao Shuanghe's crying was so loud that even though she was high in the air, she could hear it clearly. In Lin Jing's eyes, Zhao Shuanghe was cruel - hearted and extremely scheming, a formidable enemy that she needed to spend years planning and plotting to deal with.
Yet such a difficult - to - deal - with enemy was now made to cry by Fang Yuan?! No, perhaps it was more accurate to say that he was scolded to tears by Fang Yuan. After all, Fang Yuan's mouth was extremely sharp. It was like honey, launching wave after wave of psychological offensives against Zhao Shuanghe... Lin Jing put herself in Zhao Shuanghe's shoes. If she were in his position, she might also be driven completely insane by Fang Yuan's words.
On Fang Yuan, Lin Jing realized for the first time that language was also a powerful force. It was sufficient to disrupt the opponent's mindset in a battle, preventing the opponent from giving their all and thus determining the outcome of the battle. It seemed that in the future, she should learn more from Fang Yuan about the art of speaking. After all, this was also a great learning.
"Tsk, a grown man crying his eyes out. You really opened my eyes..." Fang Yuan frowned. He was most annoyed by the sound of someone crying. Even the crying of women and children could make him feel restless, let alone a grown man wailing there.
Even that cowardly Zhao Jing didn't cry when his legs were broken by Fang Yuan. Originally, he thought the son was already spineless enough, but unexpectedly, the father was even more good - for - nothing! Fang Yuan pinched the center of his eyebrows and looked up at Lin Jing in the air again: "Master Lin, this is your last chance. Do you have anything to say to our county magistrate?" Lin Jing shook her head expressionlessly.
"Good. I really can't stand it anymore either." Fang Yuan raised his right hand, with electric arcs lingering around his fingertips. The sound of electricity, which represented death, rang in Zhao Shuanghe's ears. A suffocating sense of despair instantly welled up in his heart. Zhao Shuanghe forced himself to hold back his sobs, reached out and desperately grabbed the foot that Fang Yuan had stepped on his head, and begged for mercy: "Sir, please spare my life. I know I was wrong..." At this moment, he was exactly the same as his son, groveling at the last moment of his life.
"No, you just know you're going to die." Fang Yuan recited this classic line and pointed a finger at Zhao Shuanghe's center of the forehead. Zhao Shuanghe had pointed at him in the same way before, and now he returned the gesture. But obviously, Zhao Shuanghe didn't have Fang Yuan's strong defensive power. In just an instant, the electric arc pierced through his head.
[Killed a third - realm tyrant county magistrate, Good Deeds Points + 1000]
A prompt from the "Book of Good Deeds" came to Fang Yuan's mind. This "local tyrant" of Changqing County really gave Fang Yuan a super big reward all at once. One thousand! Just from the value of these Good Deeds Points, one could tell how many heinous crimes the other party had committed! You know, the cat demon, which had the highest Good Deeds Points before, had only over two hundred. That cat demon must have eaten a lot of people, but its Good Deeds Points were actually five times less than Zhao Shuanghe's!
"Whoosh..." Fang Yuan gently let out a breath, calming his mood. This amount of Good Deeds Points really surprised him. Anyway, the last boss of the Changqing County instance was finally solo - cleared by him.
At this time, Lin Jing also landed from the sky. She walked up to Fang Yuan, looked down at Zhao Shuanghe's body, and said in a low voice: "Thank you, Fang Yuan." What had happened in the past two days felt like a dream to Lin Jing. Originally, she had decided to devote her entire life to the cause of revenge. As a result, her enemy was suddenly eliminated. In her heart, besides the joy of avenging her great hatred, a strong sense of emptiness welled up, and she even felt a bit lost.
"It's just mutual assistance." Fang Yuan waved his hand, not caring about it. After all, this was a deal, and in this deal, he didn't suffer any losses.
Lin Jing shook her head, trying to shake off the sense of emptiness in her heart, and then smiled and said: "But I thought you would electrocute Zhao Shuanghe to coke like before. I didn't expect you to leave him with a complete body." Zhao Shuanghe just had a small hole in his head opened by Fang Yuan, and his arm was cut off by himself. The other parts were all intact.
"Do you think I'm that cruel in your heart?" Fang Yuan asked rhetorically. Then he sighed and said, "It's not that I don't want to, but I want to leave this opportunity to someone else."
"Someone else?"
"Yeah, for example, you."
"Me? I'm not interested in desecrating a corpse." Lin Jing quickly refused.
"If you're not interested, others will be." Fang Yuan replied.
"Others?"
Lin Jing didn't quite understand what Fang Yuan meant, and Fang Yuan didn't explain. He suddenly turned his gaze to a flower bed in the corner of the courtyard. Behind the flower bed, a middle - aged man was still hiding. This person was Shang Wenshu, the county magistrate's assistant of Changqing County.
"Stop hiding and come out." Fang Yuan said, "It's so tiring to stick your butt up like that..."
Shang Wenshu walked out tremblingly. Before Zhao Shuanghe took action, he had hidden here in advance, and thus survived among the group of guests and successfully "won the game".
"I remember you're also an official, right?" Fang Yuan looked at Shang Wenshu and continued. His experience of killing Zhao Shuanghe made him understand that compared with ordinary people, killing an official would yield no less, but more Good Deeds Points.
Shang Wenshu felt as if he was being targeted by a hungry tiger. His legs went weak, and he knelt down with a thud, crying out: "Lord Shen, spare my life! Although I'm the county magistrate's assistant, I'm not on the same side as Zhao Shuanghe!" Then he turned to look at Lin Jing and said, "Master Lin, you can't kill me. This act of过河拆桥 is not what a hero would do!"
I'm not a hero in the first place... Lin Jing thought in her heart, but still pleaded: "Fang Yuan, spare his life. He's my informant in the yamen."
So he's an undercover... No wonder Lin Jing could get such detailed information. This undercover has even reached the position of the second - in - command in the yamen. He's quite capable. Fang Yuan then withdrew his gaze from Shang Wenshu.
Only then did Shang Wenshu feel the pressure on his body ease instantly. He let out a long sigh of relief, became a bit bolder, and quickly advised: "You two should leave quickly. Killing a county magistrate is a first - class serious crime. It will be regarded as rebellion, and the nine - generation family will be exterminated!" As a court - appointed official, the county magistrate represented the imperial power's rule in the local area. Killing a county magistrate was undoubtedly a serious provocation to the court's authority.
"Let them exterminate. Anyway, I'm the only one in my household register." Fang Yuan said indifferently, "One person feeds the whole family."
Although Lin Jing didn't understand what Fang Yuan meant by "household register", she understood the overall meaning of the sentence. She also nodded and said: "Let them exterminate. My family members probably won't have any objections." After all, her family members had all died more than ten years ago.
Shang Wenshu was momentarily speechless. So they're two orphans... But why do these two people take life and death so lightly? And even if they don't consider themselves, can't they think about him? If these two people are caught by the people sent from above and he, the mole, is found out by following the clues, he will surely lose his life!
Fang Yuan ignored Shang Wenshu's inner struggle. He picked up Zhao Shuanghe's body with one hand. Then he walked to the overturned coffin and picked up Zhao Jing's body as well. Carrying a corpse in each hand, Fang Yuan strode out of the county magistrate's yamen.
"Where are you going?" Lin Jing asked in confusion.
"Caishikou."
Fang Yuan replied. He had promised Zhao Shuanghe before that he would expose the father - son pair's corpses on the street. He always kept his word.