Chapter 141: Chapter 139: Daring to Resist Desperately (Subscribe Please) Chapter 141: Chapter 139: Daring to Resist Desperately (Subscribe Please) Lin Rui entered the main hall and imdiately saw a muscular, beardless eunuch in his thirties sitting above.
He was only dressed in thin garnts and was flushed with anger, berating those below him in a fierce voice.
Lin Rui thought this must be Eunuch Wang Zhenli from the Mariti Bureau of Jingang City, whom the County Magistrate had specifically ntioned before his assignnt.
This person, despite holding a minor rank of the sixth grade, was a source of great headache for the Zhuang Mingyue family.
Standing beside him were sixteen fully ard guards, all glaring with fierce and malevolent expressions.
Beneath the platform were a group of county soldiers ordered to search the Mariti Bureau of Jingang City; several squads were present along with Qu Zhang.
Though they seed to be confronting the guards, they all bowed their heads, reprimanded like grandsons by the eunuch.
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To the side were over a dozen officials and clerks, likely all clerks working under the Mariti Bureau.
They were either sitting or standing with varied expressions—so anxious, so curiously peeking, and others whispering in hushed tones.
Beside the eunuch was a clean-faced civil official in a sixth-grade official robe, who looked curiously at Lin Rui as he entered.
This person must be Li Dan, the supervisor of the Mariti Bureau, whom the County Magistrate had also specifically ntioned.
An ally!
Theoretically, the supervisor of the Mariti Bureau was supposed to be the chief official of Jingang City.
However, since 2000 years ago, the Emperor of Great Song had been deploying a large number of palace eunuchs to major tax ports and mariti bureaus to oversee these key fiscal locations.
With the Emperor’s and the inner court’s support, these eunuchs gradually invaded the official powers of the original chiefs and had beco the de facto heads of these agencies, with the Mariti Bureau supervisors essentially becoming their deputies.
Eunuch Wang Zhenli also saw Lin Rui, his narrow and sinister eyes glaring fiercely: “So you’re Lin twelve, the newly appointed Defense Commissioner of Wang City?
Was it you who ordered the seal on the Mariti Bureau?”
His anger was indeed flaring.
Just last night, he had gone to sleep in the governnt office when a group of heavily ard county soldiers burst in, claiming that the rchant Yuan Ji had colluded with the Heavenly Demon to assassinate the newly appointed Defense Commissioner of Wang City.
Acting on the new commissioner’s orders, they ca to search the Mariti Bureau for any clues related to Yuan Ji and the foreign Heavenly Demon.
Initially, Wang Zhenli was sowhat panicked, given his deep connections with Yuan Ji and many of their shady dealings.
Luckily, he soon received a ssage from Yuan Ji.
Yuan Ji did hire people from the Blood Blade Society to assassinate the new commissioner, but the evidence Lin Twelve captured was limited—all indirect.
As for the accusation of colluding with the Heavenly Demon, it was completely baseless.
As long as he could stand firm under pressure tonight, there wouldn’t be much problem.
Wang Zhenli pounded his fist onto the desk in front of him with a force that resounded like a thunderclap: “I think you’ve grown too bold!
Who gave you the authority?
Who gave you the audacity?
So, you say it’s for demon inspection.
Do you have solid evidence?
You extend Heavenly Demon searches to our Mariti Bureau.
Don’t you know that in a month it’s our tax day at the Mariti Bureau?
If public duties are delayed, can you, a re military officer, bear the responsibility?”
As he rebuked, he walked down from the platform, pointing at Lin Rui’s nose: “Now either explain yourself and provide solid evidence, or kneel down here and apologize.
Otherwise, I swear you won’t get away with it!”
Lin Rui couldn’t be bothered to argue with the man and simply threw the syringe wrapped in the handkerchief onto the ground.
The soldiers and guards in the hall didn’t recognize the item, but the officials and clerks of the Mariti Bureau were well-inford.
They were all startled, quickly got to their feet, and stared at the syringe.
This object had beco sowhat common in the Great Song territory; even those who hadn’t seen it had heard about it.
“This was found in Yuan Ji’s warehouse; his collusion with the Heavenly Demon has been conclusively proven.”
Lin Rui gave Wang Zhenli a cold, wolf-like stare: “I’ve heard that you are on good terms with Master Yuan Ji; not only are you close brothers, sworn to fraternal bonds, but lately, you’ve even been seen sharing seats and frequenting restaurants and brothels together, wining and dining every day, haven’t you?”
Wang Zhenli glanced at the syringe on the ground, his face instantly turning pale.
His mind went blank, wondering how Yuan Ji could have left such an incriminating item in the warehouse.
If it were just the foreign Heavenly Demon’s injections, it might be forgivable as many powerful officials in the Great Song openly used them.
But Yuan Ji had erred gravely in using the Heavenly Demon’s thods to assassinate Lin Twelve, essentially hamring nails into his own coffin lid as if he were worried it wasn’t shut tightly enough.
Wang Zhenli’s fierce deanor instantly evaporated; he swallowed nervously and stepped back a few paces.
“Misunderstanding!
Misunderstanding!
My relationship with Yuan Ji is purely superficial—re acquaintances through food and drink.
All that talk of close brotherhood and sworn fraternities, none of that is true!
He just wanted my help, trying to ingratiate himself with .
I didn’t know he was in league with the Heavenly Demon.”
As he spoke, he continued to retreat, trying to find a sense of security among the guards behind him.
“—Defence Commissioner Lin, it’s Yuan Ji who has colluded with the Heavenly Demon, what has our Mariti Bureau got to do with it?
You have no right to seal off the Mariti Bureau, do you have any evidence that our Mariti Bureau is involved with the Heavenly Demon?”
The guards, previously intimidating, now turned pale, their hands shaking as they gripped their weapons.
If Wang Zhenli was truly implicated in collusion with evil forces, they would also co to no good end.
“I am now concerned with more than just sealing the Mariti Bureau.”
Lin Rui sneered dismissively: “By the laws of our dynasty, all cases involving demons are to be handled with the utmost severity.
Guilt is assud where there’s doubt!
Better to wrongly kill than to let go, since you are closely associated with Yuan Ji, you cannot absolve yourself from suspicion.
Seize him!
And should he resist, he shall be dealt with as a demon conniver!”
With the knife in his right hand, he began to gather montum: “As for whether there’s collusion with the Heavenly Demon, let the Imperial City Division judge and investigate,” he declared.
When Lin Rui uttered the words “take down,” the inspecting eunuch Wang Zhenli’s face twitched, and his expression grew uglier.
This Lin Rui clearly intended to put him in a deadly situation!
With such ruthless and fierce tactics at this young man’s disposal, how could he possibly survive once inside the Imperial City Division?
The surrounding county soldiers, however, hesitated, not from reluctance to obey, but due to concerns over Wang Zhenli’s guards.
This supervising eunuch had splurged on his personal attendants, with twelve of the sixteen being at the third realm and four at the fourth realm, their combined combat power far surpassing that of the county soldiers.
Though the color drained from the guards’ faces, their hands gripping the swords bulged with veins, steadying their weapons.
At that mont, Ji Xueying, guarding behind Lin Rui, suddenly flashed red in her eyes, and a fierce and overwhelming blade intent swept across the area, dealing a huge blow to the minds of all the guards.
So of the third-realm guards lost consciousness directly under the oppression of Ji Xueying’s ferocious blade intent, collapsing on the spot, and several fourth-realm Martial Cultivators also had their minds stiffened, with painful throbs in their heads.
Barely enduring the oppression of the blade intent, they saw a red figure suddenly dash in front of them.
Clang!
With this piercing sound of drawing a blade, a brilliant crimson thunder burst and covered a few ters around in the hall.
Most of the guards were sent flying, hitting the walls around like cannonballs, causing a resounding rumble, and dust fluttered down within the hall.
Ji Xueying, having received a hint from Lin Rui, had still shown rcy by using the back of her blade.
Yet, even these fourth-realm Martial Cultivators couldn’t withstand her strike; they couldn’t mount an effective defense and were left in dire straits with broken bones, bleeding from mouths and noses, so with their chests caved in, nearly on the brink of death.
Upon seeing this, the supervising eunuch Wang Zhenli cried out in horror, “Lin Rui, how dare you!
You are outrageously bold, I am a dignified sixth-grade internal supervising eunuch, under only the inner court’s jurisdiction, you have no authority over !”
Seeing the blood-jade-like eyes of Ji Xueying turn his way, he felt utterly terrified and instinctively leapt into the air, fleeing towards the back hall.
“You scoundrel, framing and slandering, spouting lies!
I’m going to the provincial city now, to plead with the chief supervising eunuch, I will definitely make you regret this—”
He thought he absolutely must not fall into Lin Rui’s hands, or he would surely die!
Even the chief supervising eunuch or Prince Han might not be able to save him!
At this mont, a hint of sheen appeared in Lin Rui’s eyes.
He’s fleeing?
Great!
This clearly indicates an attempt to escape out of guilt!
If this eunuch were not guilty and apprehensive, why would he flee?
At that instant, the nurous Flash Thunder Talismans scattered around Lin Rui exploded simultaneously,
“Dare to flee out of guilt and resist stubbornly?”
Clang!
Lin Rui’s long blade was unsheathed, transforming into an almost invisible purple blade light that pierced through twenty ters of void.
However, this Thunderclap Absolute Slash sohow didn’t manage to kill the supervising eunuch Wang Zhenli outright.
The man wore an extrely strong defensive armor; Lin Rui had to strike four consecutive tis, barely breaking through the armor’s outer layer of defense and severing the eunuch Wang Zhenli’s feet.
Wang Zhenli fell from the sky to the ground, emitting an agonizing wail, and cursing loudly, “Lin Rui, you bastard, you beast!
How dare you lay hands on , you’re courting death—”
He had only cursed halfway when a group of county soldiers pounced on him, pinning him to the ground, leaving him unable to speak further.
At this mont, a county soldier and officer subtly reacted, rummaged inside Wang Zhenli’s bosom, and then pulled out two items, turning his head with a strange expression: “Defense officer, sir, this man also had possessions of the Heavenly Demon on him!”
Lin Rui looked at the items in his hand, and couldn’t help but be montarily stunned.
Those were two unopened special enhancent injection syringes, apparently manufactured by ‘Zhengguang Pharmaceutical Group,’ type 3 enhancent syringes.
Lin Rui pondered whether this could be considered an accidental strike on the mark?
He had not anticipated beforehand that Wang Zhenli would carry such items on him—
At this ti, supervising eunuch Wang Zhenli’s face turned ashen, he had chosen to flee because of the two syringes related to the Heavenly Demon on him.
He had worried earlier about being discovered by the county soldiers, so he had kept the syringes directly on his person.
Wang Zhenli never expected Lin Rui not only to find evidence of his colluding with Yuan Ji, but also daring enough to lay hands on him personally, turning these two syringes into deadly evidence.
Lin Rui lowered his head to carefully inspect the two syringes, then burst into laughter: “Indeed, in cahoots with extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons!”
A sharp gleam shot through his eyes: “Search!
Dig three feet into the ground, search for evidence of collusion with demons in the Market and Mariti Bureau!”
At this ti, most officials from the Market and Mariti Bureau inside the hall looked shocked and pale, except for the composed custodian of the bureau, Li Dan, whose eyes sparkled with surprise as he watched Lin Rui intently.
Is this the person recomnded by Miss Zhuang?
Truly formidable!
Incisive!
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