Chapter 185 Suddenly it became extreme!

Western Wilderness, Zhaojia Village.

A big event happened in the village today:
An eight-year-old boy from another family actually poisoned his great-uncle. The poor old man was completely unsuspecting and ate half a piece of the cake that the old man gave him two days ago. He died on the same day!
The old man lived alone and there were not many people at home. No one knew he had died. It was only until the neighbors went to his house after not seeing him for two days that they checked.

It turned out to be a shocking discovery that the person had been dead for a long time!
The murderer couldn't be found at first, but fortunately a neighbor remembered that the boy had been to his uncle's house two days ago and he was the one who delivered the cake.

This was a serious matter. Everyone was outraged. The only thirty or so people left in the village all came, grabbed the boy and took him to the village entrance!

After all, this was poisoning, and it was a young person poisoning an old man, which was considered unfilial, which made everyone even more angry:

Upon checking, it turned out to be true!

This kid from another family has a lot of the same poisonous cakes at home. If he feeds the cakes to the dog, the dog will die after eating them. This is confirmed!

"Take him and sink him in the pond!"

"Buried alive! This bastard!"

"..."

Amid the crowd's roar, the little boy tied at the entrance of the village became very panicked and kept saying that he did not poison anyone.

But it didn't work.

His last name was Xue, which was considered an outsider in Zhaojia Village. His parents insisted on moving the family out, not only because the crops would surely be greatly reduced this year, but also because they could not stand the villagers' rejection of people with other surnames.

Normally, if it's just a trivial matter, you can be dealt with severely, but now it's poisoning and murder, which is naturally more serious!

Seeing everyone saying "drowned in a pond" and "buried alive", Xue, a precocious boy, was terrified. His legs were shaking like sieves and his face was pale.
If I had known this would happen, I would have followed my parents to find the immortal...

"No! It's because of that immortal!"

Xue Xiaohei looked sad:
The cake I have is originally given by that immortal!

The immortal had bad intentions. He appeared to be kind and compassionate, but seeing that he was not going to the fairyland, he gave him some cakes as a gift.

In fact, these cakes are poisonous. The immortal just wants to poison this troublemaker to death!

He never expected that although he did not develop any magical powers after three days of practicing Taoism, he achieved the effect of fasting, so much so that he did not eat for three days.

Unfortunately, I had given a piece of cake to my great uncle as a gift in order to ask him questions about the Heavenly Palace...

Now that my great-uncle has been poisoned to death, I’m afraid I won’t survive either!

Thinking of this, Xue Xiaohei couldn't help but burst into tears.

[“Xue Xiaohei! I want to ask you where this cake came from!”]

[The highly respected Zhao Cunzheng asks you about the origin of the cake. ]

[You cried and told me everything that happened a few nights ago: you saw an immortal, and the immortal gave you cakes...]

[When you said this, many people were stunned! ]

[Because they all knew the people who ran away from the village a few days ago, and they also knew about escaping to the fairyland to enjoy happiness. The reason why they didn't follow them was that they didn't believe in this ridiculous beautiful wish.]

[Everyone knew that those who left would be in great danger, but no one thought that the immortal who picked them up would specifically give a poisonous cake to a child! ]

[Will an immortal with such bad behavior really take mortals to the fairyland to live a good life? ]

[From this, it seems that those who left must have met with misfortune...]

[Many relatives of the people present also passed away a few days ago. When they heard about the poisoned cake, they suddenly felt depressed.]

[You hoped that Zhao Cunzheng would let you go because of this. After all, you were really young and ignorant, and you didn’t know anything about the poison cake…]

【However, your expectations were dashed. 】

[The old villager frowned and thought for a long time. Although he also believed that you were innocent, after all, someone died in the village, and you were also considered unfilial.]

[Plus, a group of people just left the village a few days ago, which made him, the village chief, very embarrassed, so he had to maintain his authority. It just so happens that you are from another family, and no one will say anything if you die...]

【Snapped! 】

[With a clapperboard, the old village chief pronounced the verdict: Although you are young and ignorant, and you did not intentionally poison your elder, your actions are still against filial piety. As the saying goes, if you kill someone, you must pay with your life, and if you owe someone money, you must pay with your money. You must pay with your life today! ]

[After the verdict is pronounced, your mind buzzes and you become completely dumbfounded...]

[After careful consideration, Laocunzheng believes that sinking you into a pond is too cruel, so he sentences you to be buried alive! ]

[Two strong young men who had been waiting nearby jumped out immediately. In front of everyone in the village, they took you, who were in a daze, to a distant open space and dug a pit on the spot. The whole operation was as smooth as flowing water...]

"..."

Zhao Si was stunned:
Is this a private execution ground?

"That's not right. Not to mention that the protagonist is an eight-year-old child, the fact that he committed a crime unconsciously should be punished lightly. There is a huge difference between unintentional and intentional, right?"

"Besides, what right does a village chief have to decide the life and death of a person?"

This sentence of burying alive is obviously wrong! But... who made this a feudal society? And it was a feudal society in the midst of chaos...

"It looks like it's over. The protagonist has just started practicing Qi and cultivating immortality, and hasn't achieved anything yet. His body is just that of an eight-year-old child... He has no ability to resist at all."

Zhao Si was somewhat helpless:
He originally thought that he would have to die once he rejected the immortal who claimed to be from the "Western Religion", but the immortal actually let him go.

And now, I thought everything would go smoothly, but unexpectedly, it capsized in the stinking ditch. Before I could cultivate my virtue, the protagonist had to give up his first blood...

However, the following development caught Zhao Si off guard:
[You are tied up and thrown to the ground, staring blankly at the growing pit. When the pit is dug, your life will end...]

[You know the two strong guys from the same village who dug the pit, but because you are from a different family, they don't usually play with you. They even bully you and your brother occasionally and take your snacks.]

[Now, they are working even harder to dig a hole and bury you...]

[Old Village Chief, on the surface he seems to be highly respected, but in reality he is a hypocrite. He is very strict with people like you who are not from the same family. He makes a big deal out of even the smallest things, and people have long been dissatisfied with him.]

[You know, the reason he did this is to maintain his authority in the village, and to use the fact that there are many people with the surname Zhao to suppress your Xue family and several other small families with other surnames.]

[And now, he has even set up a private court and pronounced a strict sentence, trying to use your life to re-establish his absolute authority and appease the villagers who have been disturbed by the villagers' escape...]

[Those thirty or so villagers are not innocent either. Not only did they not stop the lynching, they even hoped for your death.]

[Their thoughts are similar to Laocunzheng's. They all want to use your life to calm their minds so that they can continue to live peacefully in this broken mountain village...]

【Everyone is evil! 】

[The dullness on your face gradually turned into indifference, and your eyes slowly changed. The childish innocence faded away, and your already precocious and complex mind was revealed...]

[Dad, Mom, brother... they should be gone too...]

[You think slowly, and the tragic death of them in your imagination emerges in your mind: being tricked by the vicious immortal, they must have died.]

[You are free from all worries...]

"I can die."

[You lie on the ground and say this to yourself silently. ]

[“But you don’t even think about living!”]

[Everything is reflected in your fierce eyes: the two guys who dug the pit, the old village chief who pronounced the death sentence in a pretentious manner, and the villagers who watched as all the villains...]

[Also, the vicious immortal, the corrupt court officials, the lackey army that suppressed the rebels, the dog emperor who ate and slept, the wealthy landlords who spent money like water...]

[Even... the long-destroyed mythical heaven, the last Xuandu Heavenly Emperor, the second Jinbing Heavenly Emperor, the first Dijun Heavenly Emperor...]

[Your thoughts are becoming more and more extreme, and your hatred is becoming more and more widespread: you hate those enemies who directly caused your family to be destroyed, you also hate those indirect enemies, and you also hate those gods and emperors in mythology.]

[“Why don’t you care about the human world? Why is the world so broken? Why do you want to leave people to suffer?”]

[“If you can save them, why not? Don’t you claim to be kind and benevolent? Your slogans are louder than the other, and your merits are greater than the other.”]

[“Is it that they can’t save him, or that they don’t want to save him? If they can’t save him, then why do they shout slogans that they can’t do it and give people meaningless hope? If they don’t want to save him, then why do they pretend to be so?”]

[“If you really can’t save them, then why don’t you just put an end to it all? As long as there are no more people in the world… wouldn’t that put an end to all the suffering…”]

[Your life has come to its final moments, and the two have already dug a pit. ]

[They grabbed you, threw you into a deep pit, and started filling it up with shovelfuls of dirt...]

[But even so, you are still not afraid, and only peace remains in your heart. ]

[“If you want me to die, of course I can die…”]

[“And you, all of you, whether good or evil, saints or sinners...you must die with me!”]

[Your breathing gradually becomes heavier, and the dirt covers your body, making it stiffer and weaker... and your mind goes from clear to paranoid.]

[Until the end, there was only one obsession left that couldn’t be more biased…]

【Nothing matters anymore.】

[On the ground, the old villager is preaching over and over again how important it is to kill you, what a good atmosphere it will bring to the village, and how the future will be a wonderful era: no more lack of food and clothing, everyone respects the elderly and loves the young...]

[However, no one noticed that a beautiful colorful bird was perched on a tree, cleaning its feathers, and its posture was like that of a real bird.]

【It is waiting for its master's order. 】

[So, the first and last instruction came out from the fresh soil, carrying the remaining will of the master.]

【“…”】

[The bird tilted its head, then flapped its wings, flew into the air, and then dived...]

【Thoughts suddenly became extreme.】

……

(End of this chapter)