Chapter 888 Business is business
Chapter 888 Business is business
Twenty bronze pillars were erected on the Immortal Execution Platform. The immortal officials who were once otherworldly, celestial, and righteous were now trapped in a spread-eagle position and firmly locked on them with immortal chains.
Every half an incense stick of time, twenty bolts of thunder would fall and hit the copper pillar with incredible precision. The immortals locked on the copper pillar would tremble in unison, shaking like sieves.
These twenty immortal officials were all handsome men and beautiful women before they fell into trouble, with supermodel figures and looks. Except for some with strange habits, there are rarely ugly people among those who have become immortals.
They are all middle-level immortal officials. They are neither the old man in the medicine garden, nor the yellow-turbaned strongman, nor the medicine cauldron boy. They are not forced to maintain a specific appearance. They enjoy more personal freedom in their personal image and keep their appearance at the peak.
Now, the immortal who was once considered to be slightly more powerful than the other immortals has fallen. No matter how good-looking he was, he was struck continuously by thunder and began to tremble violently and unconsciously. There was no trace of his beauty left, which made the onlookers feel sympathetic.
Many immortals gathered around the Immortal Execution Platform to watch the execution. This was an anti-corruption warning and education activity in the Heavenly Court specially organized by the Jade Emperor, in order to deter those corrupt officials who still had a fluke mentality and were unwilling to pay back the stolen money after embezzling "my money".
Wen Rui did not participate in this event. He was currently in the Creation Palace with a golden treasure chest in front of him. He was taking inventory of the fairy jade treasures he had looted from the treasure chest while watching the live broadcast of the execution on the Immortal Execution Platform through the projection screen.
Counting money, spirit stones, and fairy jades had always been Wen Rui's hobby to help him adjust his mood and relieve stress. The number of fairy jades in the treasure chest was quite considerable, but he was not very happy counting them.
Looking at the unfortunate immortals who were suffering on the Immortal Execution Platform, Wen Rui felt more and more uncomfortable.
Logically, as the nominal ruling group of the Three Realms, Heaven should be the most civilized organization in the Three Realms, but its style of behavior is like that of a primitive tribe, revealing an inexplicable sense of barbarity and brutality.
Such punishments as throwing people into alchemy furnaces to burn them, tying them to pillars to be burned by fire, struck by lightning, drowned by water, stabbed by flying swords, or pouring red-hot iron balls and copper liquid into their bodies were common.
Not to mention compared with some modern Western countries where saints are rampant and the death penalty is abolished and criminals are made into sacrifices, even compared with normal countries where the most severe punishment is the humane lethal injection, it seems to be in a barbaric and uncivilized state.
The immortals seemed to be accustomed to cruel and harsh laws. They had never considered fighting for their own human rights. They endured everything numbly and truly regarded themselves as straw dogs.
"I only envy the mandarin ducks, not the immortals. It turns out that I am not envying the love of mandarin ducks, but the freedom of birds..."
Muttering something, Wen Rui simply threw away the handful of fairy jade in his hand, stepped into the space jump gate, and the next moment he arrived at the Shenxiao Lei Mansion and went straight to the Thunder Lord Hall.
The last time Wen Rui came over, Wen Zhong was directing the gods of thunder to lay mines in front of the Jiuzhou map, looking like a workaholic who was too busy with thunder to be distracted. But this time, there was no sign of Lei Zun in front of the map.
Standing in the center of the empty hall, Wen Rui scratched his head and suddenly realized that it was all his fault. His cheap father's business volume dropped sharply, and he had almost nothing to do every day and was almost bored to death.
According to the laws of nature, if there is thunder, it will rain and clothes will be put away...
Wen Rui has taken over all the lakes and seas in the mortal world. The atmospheric water cycle has been completely interrupted. It's like Mars, where there hasn't been a drop of rain for decades. There's not even a cloud in the sky, so how can there be thunder?
After realizing this, Wen Rui did not stay for long. He walked towards the inner courtyard of the back hall as if he was going back to his own home.
The Shenxiao Thunder Palace is an important military base of the Heavenly Court. If an ordinary god accidentally enters the Thunder Palace, he will be sentenced to exile to the mortal world like Lin Chong.
Wen Rui leapt into the Shenxiao Thunder Palace without hiding his tracks and triggered all the formation alarms that could be triggered, but not a single Thunder Palace general came with his troops to arrest him.
On the way to the inner courtyard of the rear hall, he also met the Lei soldiers on guard and the Lei generals patrolling the courtyard. When they saw Wen Rui, they pretended not to see him. Some Lei generals even stood at attention and saluted Wen Rui to show their respect.
Wen Rui had almost completely bribed these soldiers and generals under his cheap father through his huge military merits in leading the army to an expedition last time and sharing the profits. In addition, given his father-son relationship with Wen Zhong, there was no difference between Wen Rui walking around the Lei Mansion and strolling around his own backyard.
When they arrived at the inner courtyard of the Lei Mansion, General Lei, who was guarding the gate, saw that it was Wen Rui. He was about to go in to report, but Wen Rui raised his hand to stop him.
He first made a gesture to silence General Lei, and then Wen Rui raised his eyebrows and looked a little more fierce, and General Lei shut his mouth obediently, not daring to breathe. Wen Zhong was very strict in managing the army, and his soldiers were intimidated by his majesty and obeyed his orders, so how could they dare not report it if they knew about it.
But the other party was Wen Rui, and the soldiers would often choose the lesser of two evils. If they angered Wen Zhong, the worst that could happen was military punishment, but if they offended Wen Rui, the tragic end would be unimaginable without any imagination.
The journey was smooth and they quietly arrived at the gate of the exquisite courtyard in the deepest part of the Lei Mansion's inner courtyard.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard a sweet and innocent female voice coming from inside.
"Brother Wen, these days are the happiest time of my life... I thought you would never have time to accompany me."
"I once promised your brother that I would take good care of you, but I failed to keep my promise due to the Conferred Godship. I have felt deeply guilty over the years."
"Huh, so you're nice to me just for this reason?"
“Well… not all of them…”
……
"Cough cough..."
Originally, he thought it would be interesting to sneak in and take a peek at the emotional life of middle-aged and elderly immortals, but after hearing just a few words, Wen Rui got goose bumps all over his body. It was so embarrassing that he simply took the initiative to remind him, fake coughed twice, and then pushed open the gate and walked in.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Wen Rui saw Huo Linxian and Wen Zhong were very far away, one was admiring the flowers in front of the flower bed at the eastern end of the yard, and the other was watching the fish by the pond at the western end.
Wen Rui smiled and teased, "Dad, Aunt Huo, I didn't ruin your fun, did I?"
"Don't talk nonsense, kid!"
The Fire Scale Fairy glared at him and said angrily.
The corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up, and she looked at him as if he were her own son, her eyes full of doting and love.
"Son, how did you get in?"
Wen Zhong felt that he was like meeting an enemy, and there was a sense of hostility as soon as he opened his mouth.
"I walked in through the main entrance. Who dares to stop me? Who can stop me?"
"Humph, relying on your father-son relationship with me, you disregard the rules of the Heavenly Law. Is that what I taught you? People always say that a good father will have a good son. You are the unicorn son of the Wen family, but I don't see any similarities between you and me!"
"If you don't want to acknowledge me as your son, then we can just call each other by title. Wen Tianzun, I'm here to discuss work with you, so please behave properly."
Wen Rui shrugged his shoulders, walked in front of Wen Zhong, and without any nonsense, he raised his hand and used the nanorobots to build a projector, which played the execution scene on the Execution Platform.
"Do you know that among the twenty immortals who were punished by the Jade Emperor, ten were completely wrongly convicted, five were given heavy sentences for minor crimes, four were given punishments that were commensurate with their crimes, and one was given a light sentence for a very serious crime?"
(End of this chapter)