Tyrant Code

This way of going to prison... really suits him.

"What are you, you fell in a pit and fell again?" Gordon sighed.

Ryan's dusty face was full of frustration: "I don't want to either."

Goldo thought about it, and waved to Ryan: "Come on, tell me first, why was it reported this time?"

Gordon took two steps forward, picked up the chair beside him, and seemed to sit down and listen to him slowly.

Ryan began to explain the ins and outs with some helplessness.

He traveled in disguise to a town near the sea in Seranka, and happened to meet the church sending a pastor to this town to spread the gospel.In addition to leading the crowd to pray and presiding over local baptism ceremonies, pastors also diagnosed and treated some local patients.

Of course, it is not an ordinary diagnosis and treatment.Pastors do not compete with ordinary doctors for food. Compared with doctors, pastors take care of patients with incurable diseases.Either the disease is bizarre, or the disease is rapid, or the cause of the disease is unknown... In short, only patients suspected of being possessed by evil spirits will be diagnosed and treated by the priest.

Of course, if it is a family with a lot of money that burns, you can also invite the pastor to see the common cold.That's up to each other.

The treatment that Ryan interrupted belonged to the latter. It was a seemingly wealthy family, a luxuriously dressed woman and a potbellied man, and the patient was their son.

"The kid is 11 years old, but he has been refusing to talk, ignore others, and keep himself in the room all day." Ryan said, "And it is said that he is always lethargic during the day, wandering around at night, and sometimes spontaneously. He talked to himself with words that others could not understand, so his family believed that the child was bewitched by a demon... But I have been in contact with that child, although his behavior is weird, his physical reactions are quite normal, and he does not look like he is being bewitched by a demon at all. Possessed look!"

Goldo was thoughtful: "Well, what then?"

"The priest took the money and performed the exorcism. You don't know how outrageous it was," Lane said angrily. "They made the kid kneel under the idol, poured a whole bucket of holy water on him, and whipped him with a wicker stick." His back! That's not just pretending, it's a real pumping, bleeding is coming out. The pastor must make the child repent, saying that the devil can't repent, only by reading the words and sentences in the "Oath of Confession", they Only then can we judge that the child’s soul is really clean. But he has not spoken, and the priest still wants to take off his clothes—”

"And you rushed up?" Gordon asked.

Ryan: "...Well. I also scolded them."

Goldo: "..."

Ryan: "You don't know, I only heard later that the child's mother died when he was born, and now this is the stepmother, who has never treated him very well. It was the woman who first asked the priest to exorcise the demon. .This is simply to persecute a child who is a little different in the name of faith!"

Gordon rubbed his brows: "...so you were reported by the priests?"

Ryan nodded sadly: "The family members of the patients nearby are still helping to testify. Shameless!"

Goldo: "What about the patient?"

Ryan: "I was saved...but then I was imprisoned by the church, and I don't know what happened to him afterwards." He lowered his head worriedly.

"You should worry about yourself first. I read the file. Originally, your case could be settled properly only by paying a fine of five thousand gold. The money I gave you before should be enough to pay the fine. But the situation is different now. You will be arrested here for trial because some suspicious potions were found in your room... What are those potions used for?" Goldo asked him.

Ryan broke down even more after hearing this. He pulled his hair and said, "It's the potion that changes the color of pupils and hair!"

Gordon raised his eyebrows: "Black magic potion?"

"No, that's right. What was found was the initial potion I made. When you want to use it, you can hold it in your hand and read the spell to take effect. But it's just a mixture of magic materials, and it doesn't have any magic breath. " Ryan said weakly, "Otherwise I'd be finished, and you wouldn't be able to see me."

Ryan: "The most terrible thing is... the potion I'm using now will be invalid by tomorrow evening..."

If he loses his disguise, it is possible to expose the fact that he is a wanted man by Archhid.

Goldo: "..."

After Ryan finished speaking, he looked at Gordon with a confused face: "Then what should we do now?"

"I'll help you figure out a way." Gordo pondered for a moment, "You report your formula to me first. I'll see if there is room for manipulation."

Ryan graciously reported the formula of the potion.

On the other side, while listening, Goldo opened his pharmaceutical panel, filled in the names of these materials, and began to analyze the possibilities of various combinations.

"Pharmaceuticals that can change the color of pupils and hair..." Gordo spent about ten minutes, and Ryan waited obediently. After a long while, Gordo seemed to be sure, and said to Ryan, " In this way, when the trial is held tomorrow, you will say that these medicines have not been completed yet, and you still need three grams of scale pollen, five grams of red marrow stone powder, three purple freesia plants, and..."

Ryan heard him report about five or six kinds of materials, as well as some processing methods such as isolation heating: "What do you report these for?"

"These materials can replace black magic and make your original formula work. It can dye people's hair red. To change to other colors, the formula needs to be adjusted." Goldo said, "Just say you are selling A merchant of hair dye."

Ryan: "...Is it true? I've never heard of this recipe."

Goldo: "You'll know if you try it tomorrow. This is the imperial capital, and you can get all the materials you want quickly. As long as you prove your innocence, you will be released in court. But about the child's stepmother and the pastor You'd better not talk about the transaction, otherwise there will be trouble."

Ryan's eyes lit up, he nodded, and then he said doubtfully, "Gordo, why do you even know how to make hair dye..."

Goldo: "..."

This is entirely due to Ryan's luck. The original formula is more than half similar to the formula stored in the game system.

Before Gordo could find an excuse to answer, Ryan talked to himself and rounded things up: "Damn, you are Gordo. It's not surprising that you can do anything."

Goldo: "."

With his character, he was not wronged if he was arrested.

the next day.

The venue used for the formal trial was larger than that of the previous seminar, and the layout was more formal.

On the head of the judge was Karanzi whom he had seen before, while Gordo was still sitting on the lower level of the jury.

The rule of the trial court is that once it is determined that a person being tried is a dark wizard, all judges need to sign their names on the death penalty certificate, representing responsibility for the trial.As a juror, Goldo also had to sign his name in the witness column.

Before everyone came, Goldo looked around, and sure enough, he was the young one even in the jury.And Karanzi, who was sitting in the chief seat, was extremely conspicuous among the gray-haired colleagues.

"Judge Karanzi is very young." Gordon sighed.

Piero next to him rolled his eyes lightly: "You haven't even heard of Mr. Karanzi? Their family has been a judge of the court for generations, and his grandfather was once the chief editor of the "National Code". Karan Mr. Zi's enlightenment book is the "National Code."

I get it, it's a family history.It is indeed completely different from the half-baked guy who was airborne like him.

Gordon nodded, not angry, still calmly waiting for the trial.Piero next to him couldn't stand it anymore: "Don't you have any admiration? You are a nobleman, and you will become a judge in the future. If you can't study the law like Mr. Kalandz No matter what kind of magical genius you were and what achievements you had before, it is useless!"

Goldo lowered his eyelids and gave a soft "hmm": "I don't plan to be a judge for the rest of my life."

The appointment came at a very strange time.Ryan was also inexplicably transferred from the local court to the Holy See Inquisition.He went to visit Ryan yesterday, and the journey was unimpeded, and except for a guard at the door symbolically guarding the door, he did not meet any monitors...

It was clear that someone sent Gordon here on purpose, and sent Ryan to him on purpose.

Thinking of this, Gordon's face was even more ecstasy.Piero became angry when he saw it, and simply changed his seat.

"If Lord Karanzi hadn't ordered me to take you with me, I wouldn't want to go with you!" He said and left angrily.

Goldo: "..."

After a while, everyone finally arrived, and Ryan was escorted to the middle of the hall, standing under a huge stone cross, as if he would be punished by the cross if he behaved disrespectfully or said a wrong word. crushed to death.

"Now, the court begins." Karanzi tapped the hammer in his hand, briefed the background of the case and the name of the defendant, and then announced the charges of the first trial:

"Now you have two charges. One has been confirmed, which is the crime of obstructing the priest from spreading the gospel and disrespecting the Holy Lord. The second is the crime of manufacturing black magic potions. Interrogator, do you confess to this?"

Ryan looked up: "I don't recognize the next item."

There was an instant burst of discussion in the courtroom.

"What arrogance!" said a judge incredulously, with contempt in his eyes.

Kalanzi just smiled slightly, raised the hammer again, and said, "I'll give you a chance to explain. But if you can't fully cleanse yourself of the crime, you will be severely punished for your words and deeds just now."

"Well, let's start with the first charge. Didn't you, interrogator, interrupt the priest's exorcism?" Karanzi said.

"Forgive me for the offense, but I don't think it was an exorcism at all. It was a torture," Ryan said. "I have a little medical knowledge, and I don't see anything different from the child who was exorcised." It’s not that he can’t speak, he thanked me after I stopped the willow vine from whipping him. This shows that he’s just relatively withdrawn. Instead, I have to question this exorcism ceremony: who Is the pastor really proficient in exorcism, and has he ever successfully exorcised demons before? Is the method of pouring holy water and whipping canes really effective for exorcism? And how does the priest determine who is "devil"? Possession', is there a perfect standard for this?"

Although Ryan seems to have a pure personality, when he encounters something that he feels unfair, his brain turns quickly and his tongue is very sharp.After he asked this series of questions, the whole court was silent for a moment.The judges also realized that this was not a stupid person on trial.

Karanzi was silent for a moment, and ordered the people around him: "Go and check the records of that pastor." Then he said, "I will answer part of your question first, and I will send someone to investigate the rest. First of all, Whether such an exorcism ritual is effective, the answer is yes. This is an exorcism method affirmed by the hadith and history. Secondly, about how the priest judges that a person is possessed by a demon-if a dark breath is sensed, then naturally conclusions can be drawn.”

"One more thing, Your Excellency." Goldo said, "according to the investigation of the hadith and actual cases, holy water does have the effect of exorcising demons, but the effect is very small. Whipping does not directly help exorcism— —In the past, there were always priests who believed that letting the possessed devil feel the pain of the human body would help expel the devil, but this was entirely conjecture raised by the ancestors. As for the method of whipping when exorcising the devil, it is entirely up to the priests according to their personal style The real choice of exorcism is to use as little as possible external objects and use one’s own light magic power, which is the simplest and most effective.”

Karanzi was stunned, then nodded: "I see."

After a while, Karanzi ordered the errand runners to come back.He opened the pastor's file and looked at it, and was silent for a while: "...From the file, it is true that he has no successful exorcism cases recognized by the Holy See."

The court fell silent for a moment, then boos again.

Some objected.

"From the perspective of the exorcism itself, the priest's actions were not wrong," said a judge. "The child's symptoms were indeed similar to being possessed by a demon."

Goldo: "But please don't forget that we can't judge whether people are possessed based on their appearance symptoms alone. We must know that in addition to people possessed by demons, there are many people who behave strangely in this world. For example, a lunatic, or a genius. That child’s reluctance to speak may be because he sees the world differently from ordinary people. When he usually speaks, no one can understand him, but it does not mean that he is talking nonsense.”

Piero, who was a few seats away from him, snorted coldly: "Your Excellency Moran said that it seems that you and that child have a lot in common. Could it be that you have been praised as a genius all the time, and you feel that you Do you understand what the geniuses in the world are thinking?"

Goldo didn't like him inserting a digression at this time, so he casually said:

【Holy Lord is in the sky, Eternal Mercy is always present. 】

Piero on the opposite side looked confused: "What are you talking about?"

"This is an ancient language. It is a necessary language to interpret the ancient holy scriptures." He seemed to be telling a very common truth, shrugged and said, "Look, I am not talking nonsense, but you just can't understand me talking about something."

Piero blushed immediately, his lips trembled for a long time, and he couldn't hold back a word for a long time.

"The key is whether the priest sensed the aura of dark magic before performing the exorcism ceremony." Karanzi said.

Ryan subconsciously said: "Absolutely not." Just kidding that he himself is a dark wizard, can he still not sense dark magic?But as soon as he finished speaking, he subconsciously cried out.

Sure enough, someone questioned him: "Why are you so sure?!"

Ryan simply smashed the jar: "Because I once smashed the pastor's entourage in the hotel and received a large amount of money, which was given by the child's stepmother. If it was donated to the church for the exorcism ceremony, they would not It is necessary to trade in such a sneaky way!"

Gordon sighed and immediately covered his forehead.

The court fell silent again.

It has never been a secret that priests enrich themselves during exorcisms under the guise of donating money to churches.

However, this is the first time someone has opened up this matter and discussed it in the trial court.

Karanzi frowned and tapped the hammer: "Interviewee, do you know that you are making a very serious accusation?"

Ryan nodded, and then explained clearly the time of the transaction, the location of the transaction, and the appearance of the two parties to the transaction.

Karanzi gasped.

"...Okay, let's stop here." Karanzi quickly concluded, "According to the discussion just now, the person under trial did not intend to prevent the church from spreading the gospel, so the crime of disrespect can be removed, but the charge of disrupting the governance of the church Still in doubt."

Ryan breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, Your Excellency."

But thanks to you, we have a big case.The judges of the court thought.

"The next thing is about your second crime... Possession of black magic potions." Karanzi looked up, "Interviewee, you have the right to defend yourself."

"That's not a black magic potion, Your Honor." Ryan said confidently—in fact, he didn't know what to do. Goldo said it casually before, and he didn't really experiment with it. He didn't know if this new formula would work. , "Actually, I'm a hair dye merchant. That's a new product I'm formulating, and there's even some ingredients I haven't searched through yet."

Karanzi: "...hair dye?"

Ryan: "Yes."

Calanzi: "Show us your recipe. If the complete recipe works, then we can trust your word."

So Ryan reported those materials.

"I will immediately order them to bring the materials you asked for," Karanzi said.

The efficiency of the Court of Justice is really very high.Although the new material proposed by Goldo is not so rare, it is not a vulgar thing that can be picked up by bending down on the street.Within an hour, after a brief intermission, things were delivered to Ryan.

Ryan fiddled for a while...it really made him fiddle with a bottle of clear potion with no color.

Ryan: "..." It was agreed to be dyed red, why is there no color!

Karanzi was also a little puzzled.Most of the hair dyes he had seen before were brightly colored, viscous, and had a strong smell that took days to dissipate.But the small bottle in Ryan's hand didn't really look like a hair dye.

Karanzi: "What color hair dye is this?"

Ryan: "...red?"

Seeing his uncertain look, Karanzi twitched the corners of his mouth and called a guard. After discussing with him, the guard shaved off a bit of brown hair on the spot and tried to apply some potion on it——

I saw that the rice dumpling hair miraculously turned into a very natural, dark red with a faint luster.

Everyone: "..."

Ryan also twitched the corners of his eyes, but quickly reacted, smiling all over his face: "I told you, it's red hair dye."

...Don't say anything, Gordo is awesome!

Ultimately, the second suspected charge against Lane was cleared.

But before Ryan was happy, Karanzi informed him——

"The circumstances of the incident you reported earlier are too serious, so you can't go now. If what you said is true, you are a material witness. If you are lying, then you have committed a serious crime-so you still Go to jail for a while."

Ryan: "..."

Ryan: QAQ