George is undoubtedly an unforgivable person. He kills in front of the victims’ families, drags victims into the alley to kill them under the gaze of all the residents, strangles them with clothes, drowns them in urine, chokes them with rocks in their mouths, burns them to death, beheads them, beats them so brutally that the unborn child in their womb dies in agony.
He has killed 37 residents, and over 100 have died because of him, which even surpasses the massacres committed by many evil spirits in the Vena Refuge.
And this is just the result of the investigation traced back by the Knights Order, the actual number of victims can only be more.
The locals, aside from giving George the fearso nickna "Butcher of Vena," also called him the man wearing strange skin, or a monster wearing human skin.
Everyone believed that George should pay the price for the sins he committed, except George.
When the knights sent him to the temporary gallows in the underground city, he still shouted his innocence to the point where the Mother of the Marsh wanted Lu Li to go to the gallows, for She wanted to know why a person so hated by the Alien God would say such things.
"You shouldn’t bla the knife, but hold accountable the one who uses it!"
Walking through the human wall ford by the knights, Lu Li arrived in front of the gallows.
Having killed so many, George couldn’t face death with composure, the noose around his neck nearly scared the nightmare of countless residents to wet himself. Helplessly yelling at the indifferent knights.
When George saw Lu Li approaching, he seed to grab onto the last straw: "Mr. Exorcist! Can you understand my words! Everything was driven by the Superior, all benefits and all sins should belong to him!"
Once again repeating the rhetoric Lu Li heard when coming.
"I am rely a knife in the Superior’s hand, you shouldn’t bla a murderous knife!"
Lu Li looked at George, whose face was sared with tears and snot, no longer seeing the fierce George: "But you are not a knife, you have your own thoughts, your own consciousness."
"It was all the Superior’s—"
"You enjoyed it."
Lu Li calmly observed George whose face froze in pain: "You love controlling the lives of others, you delight in the screams they emit in front of you. The Superior told you what to do, but how to do it was your own decision."
"I am not... That’s all..."
George’s denial turned into fragntary murmurs.
"Where is the Superior he speaks of?" Lu Li asked Matthias who ca to his side.
"Zote Brenni, one of the senators, eighth on the list."
Lu Li had so impression of this na, he had spoken so words as a senator in the parliant hall.
The eighth referred to the order on the execution list.
chanical operations sounded at that mont, George suddenly fell, the rope snapped taut, swaying like a pendulum before coming to a stillness.
"How do you know his thoughts?"
The Mother of the Marsh in the pocket asked.
"To hamr the belly of a pregnant woman, to stuff red-hot charcoal down a debtor’s throat, even those indifferent to life wouldn’t do such things."
Those who do not respect life do not deserve life.
"How many senators have done such things?" Ophelia rasped.
"Two senators participated, and another senator was involved with the outer ring affairs, temporarily placed in the guilty zone... Get him down! Get him down!"
Matthias suddenly shouted in response, prompting the knights to rescue the dying George.
"Get him alive! At least let him be temporarily alive!"
"What’s wrong?" Ophelia was puzzled.
"The gallows alone cannot atone for the sins they committed, we should utilize everything..." Matthias looked at Lu Li, voicing the newly sprung idea: "You can gain humanity from humans too, right?"
...
Perhaps it could be called luck, George could live for a few more minutes; perhaps it could be called an honor, all the executioners of the death row inmates turned into Lu Li; perhaps it could be called atonent, they could repay so of the pain borne by the people of the underground city.
The thunderous sound from the Spirit-Calling Gun echoed reverberatively in the underground city, Lu Li was dragged into the Death Retrace, the frozen body seemingly fell silent due to the loss of life.
After a dozen seconds, Lu Li’s outstretched arm dropped down.
"After shooting, I will enter Death Retrace, help take down the Spirit-Calling Gun." Lu Li said to the twisted silhouette.
"I can help you..." Ophelia said.
"The Spirit-Calling Gun will harm you."
The twisted silhouette could ignore this trivial damage.
The second brought to the gallows was Fengbus, one of the senators, ranked in front of Zote Brenni because of the harm to residents—he never kills, these acts are done by his subordinates, he only enjoys: capturing girls from the outer ring, imprisoning them in his basent to serve him: for venting, for toilets, for beds, for spit bowls.
Ironically, he was one of the senators who once firmly supported Lu Li and Matthias.
Unfortunately, support did not spare him from death.
"Toilet... does that an sitting on them?" The whisper of the Mother of the Marsh echoed.
Lu Li retrieved the Spirit-Calling Gun from the twisted silhouette, changing the bullets: "It ans excreting in their mouths."
"Can we go to hell and kill him once more?"
The twisted silhouette emanated an emotion called disgust.
"The soul no longer goes to hell."
And whether those killed by Lu Li, robbed of humanity, still possess a soul remains an unknown.
The third was Tom, an ordinary na, which ordinarily blended in at the Refuge, but his nickna "Skin Flayer" was known to all.
He and his Skin Flayers Gang wreaked havoc in the outer ring, their deeds akin to heretics, and exempted themselves from quite a degree of pain through continuous self-mutilation—perhaps over ti they could truly nurture the Evil God’s embryo.
Tom was ranked third rather than higher mainly because they didn’t harm won and children—considered as the rare rcy of the abuser.
However, the presence of eight mbers of the Skin Flayers Gang on the execution list also illustrated their cruelty.
Amidst Tom’s clamorous "I really want to hear what the Exorcist’s screams sound like," Lu Li ended his life rcilessly.
Still nearly a constant 0.1 portion of humanity.
It seems humanity is purely nurical, unrelated to the inherent aning of the word "humanity."
And with the continuous executions, Lu Li felt why the monsters loved to plunder humans.
The humanity of a mber of a monstrous tribe was only a fifth that of a human, and this ordinary monster required ten knights to counter, capable of slaughtering a small town.
Vena Underground City had a population of 80,000, possessing 8,000 portions of humanity.
Lu Li thought calmly.
After resolving that senator Zote Brenni, Lu Li asked as the knights carried the body away from the gallows: "How many are left?"
"There are fifty-one more, do you need a rest?"
Matthias worried that Lu Li’s sustained killings would cause fluctuations in Sanity Value and consciousness, providing opportunities for those monsters to take advantage.
Although they deserved it.
"No need."
The deeds of the criminals had obliterated the ager sentint of rcy in Lu Li.
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