Chapter 7014 Unable to Repay

Chapter 7014 Unable to Repay
"What's wrong, Bo Ning?" Chen Xi watched the grand martial arts competition shrink, a group of elites were fighting fiercely, and it was very exciting to watch. However, he found it a bit strange that Man Chong, who had been squatting with Liu Ye, had come over.

"Something came up, I'll go take care of it." Man Chong didn't say what it was, just gave Chen Xi this answer. Chen Xi was slightly taken aback, but didn't know what it was, so she could only nod and let Man Chong handle it.

"Then I'll be right back." Man Chong nodded to Chen Xi, asking Chen Xi to release his access and let him out. There was no other way; in a small world with such a large difference in time flow, if Chen Xi didn't take precautions, an ordinary person entering or leaving would suffer a huge backlash. So, Man Chong, who could normally leave at will, had to report to Chen Xi to reduce the backlash.

"This thing can go and come back in one trip?" Chen Xi muttered with a hint of unease and a hint of teasing after watching Man Chong leave. However, Liu Bei glanced at Chen Xi but didn't reply. Instead, Liu Tong seemed quite interested in the matter.

Don't be fooled by Man Chong's seemingly insignificant presence; he is a legitimate official among the Nine Ministers of the Central Government, serving as the Minister of Justice, a high-ranking official with a salary of two thousand shi (a unit of grain). Since Chen Xi took control of Chang'an ten years ago, he has been in charge of the Minister of Justice faction, and judicial trials have been entirely under Man Chong's control for many years. He is a truly formidable figure.

Moreover, the Court of Justice is a whole bureaucracy, not just a small department. Ordinary cases simply cannot be sent to someone of Man Chong's rank for handling.

Conversely, cases that reach Man Chong's level are the kind that can't be resolved quickly. To put it bluntly, cases that reach Man Chong's attention are at least backed by political forces and media manipulators who manipulate public opinion, so they're not things that can be solved quickly.

As a result, Man Chong actually dared to say to Chen Xi's face, "I'll be right back," which shocked Chen Xi.

"Any major cases lately?" Liu Tong asked with some curiosity. Her team had already secured a top-five position in the overall standings. Although they had suffered setbacks, including Sivani feeding kills, Zena and Anada battling Zhang Yong with top-tier gear, and Kuyel and Zhang Liang fighting to the death, the Princess team had lost 66% of its elite members. But the remaining players, Gorna and Pratt, were putting up a desperate attack!

Our main focus is on one thing: although we two brothers don't have the strength of Zena and Anada, we can maximize the emotional value for Her Highness. These two brothers have already accumulated 100,000 points so far, making them the kings of all trades. Our main focus is on one thing: no matter what we encounter, we'll crush it!

Of course, simply being a ruthless hammering machine isn't enough to get so many points. The main reason these two were able to score so many points was that Gorna stabbed himself eight times, leaving him half-dead, luring his opponents into an ambush, and then Pratt took him out with a six-fold combined air-piercing armor-piercing stun grenade.

This fighting style is extremely sinister. Gorna, as a bastard with the ability to take the fall, similar to Su Zong, makes himself look like he barely escaped after a major battle. That is absolutely genuine. As for Pratt's finishing move, let's just say that so far, there is no armor that cannot be broken!

Even though it takes time to reach the seventh level, with his sincere thoughts and the Dragon Bone Steel Sword given to him by Liu Tong, this guy can really unleash the Desperate Slash. Combined with the previous set of composite armor-piercing finishing moves, unless it's someone like Sun Er who has no blind spots in any aspect, as long as there's even the slightest weakness, they will be forcibly armored, and once their armor is broken, they will die!

The Han army, Rome, and even the Huns and demons were all killed by these two brothers. The 100,000 points were not obtained by cheating like Ma Ye did by killing Su Zong, but by actually killing people bit by bit. In terms of the number of kills alone, Pratt is probably already in the top three.

Therefore, after calculating her points and confirming that she would secure a top-five finish and strive for a top-three position, Liu Tong acted like a wealthy woman who had already secured her wealth. Naturally, she paid less attention to the battles in the small world and instead focused on Man Chong's affairs. After all, cases that could be handled by the Court of Justice were all major matters.

Of course, such an important matter would be delivered to Liu Tong's desk by tomorrow at the latest, but Liu Tong, who had nothing to do at the moment, was very interested in this thing, so he decided to learn about it first.

"I don't know." Chen Xi stared intently in Zhao Zhen's direction. Yang Tuo had brought Zhao Zhen but hadn't encountered Hasgard. Instead, they had run into Gao Yi. This battle was truly unavoidable.

Unlike the relatively easier-to-handle and resolve conflicts on foreign battlefields, the biggest problem for the Han Dynasty in settling scores was the internal war.

Because during the civil war, Chen Xi did not have the current ability to control the situation, and the hatred between many veterans was not a matter of fighting on the battlefield.

Frankly speaking, fighting on the battlefield, each fighting for their own side, is actually easier to manage. After all, war is how it devours the lives of soldiers. Every soldier who goes to the battlefield is prepared to be killed while killing. So, fighting on the battlefield is relatively easier to resolve.

After all, in situations that seem illogical, there is often another logic to follow.

What's really difficult to deal with isn't the fighting on the battlefield, but the senseless massacres. Back in the early years, before Chen Xi's morality was shaped into universal morality, winning a battle and then massacring a city was not a problem at all. In Huangfu Song's words, "I finally defeated the enemy, but I don't have enough rewards. How can I reward the soldiers if I don't hold a three-day ban on swords and a three-day search?"
And that's not all. Some are just meant to intimidate their opponents. They'll slaughter everyone they pass by. Let's see if you're scared!
If your city dares to resist, then I will take it down and kill everyone, leaving no one alive. Let's see if you dare to continue resisting!

In short, before Chen Xi arrived, the civil war was pretty much this chaotic. It was only after Chen Xi appeared that, through various means, he managed to barely control this group of madmen, and the overall situation gradually improved.

It should be noted that when Chen Xi first attacked Qingzhou at Mount Tai, he had to use some obviously massacre-like methods to stabilize the army. By the time of Nanpi, Chen Xi was able to restrain the army's behavior to the point of not massacring and suppressing it to the scope of plunder. By the time of the division of Yuan into three Liu states, Chen Xi was able to carry out targeted plunder without harming the local people.

While he wouldn't claim to have committed no offenses, he at least managed to keep his sword from being drawn and slaughtered like pigs and dogs. As for the issue of violently enforcing military orders against the people, Chen Xi only managed to resolve it somewhat after five years in Yuanfeng. Even so, Chen Xi was already quite remarkable.

However, the grudges and debts accumulated during the civil war ultimately fell to Chen Xi to repay. Chen Xi was speechless; some people really did treat him as an omnipotent person.

To be honest, Chen Xi felt that he was in no way able to repay certain debts. But in Gao Yi's case, they were a local family in Xuzhou, a large family of four generations. They were not particularly wealthy, but they had land and houses, and the family lived a warm and comfortable life. They had a wife, children, parents, nephews and nieces. Then, when Gao Yi went out hunting, his entire family, young and old, was slaughtered by Cao Cao's men, and their ancestral graves were dug up.

Chen Xi has no way of repaying this debt, not even a damn way!

If Chen Xi were to go through this, he would be even more ruthless than Gao Yi, because Chen Xi really has the ability to slaughter Cao Cao's entire family and exhume and whip the corpses of all eighteen generations of Cao's ancestors!
Essentially, large-scale martial arts demonstrations are not for entertainment, but rather a channel for venting frustration.

There were too many people like Gao Yi in the last era. Their whole families died, and some died so badly that even their ancestral graves were unknown. Chen Xi could find hundreds of them!
How many veterans does Chen Xi know? Thousands, I guess, but he can find hundreds of guys in such a miserable state!

To put it bluntly, Sun Er, Zhang Yong, and Jiang Guang are only in their forties. What about their parents, their brothers, and their nephews and nieces?

Are they born to be lonely people?
They're all dead, all of them died in the previous era!
The fur coat, charcoal, and peppered charcoal create a warm room; by day, it is covered with heavy mats, and by night, it is locked in warm clouds; the northern wind cannot penetrate the tortoiseshell pattern.
Reed catkins and tattered catkins, like ice silkworms' blades, are harvested in autumn to kill starving souls, and buried in desolate graves in winter, where the remaining snow still seals the frozen bones.

Heaven kills people, earth kills people, knives kill people, but in essence, isn't it still people killing people?

Chen Xineng can't repay a damn thing. What Chen Xineng does is achieve ultra-fast social development, directly moving from the second century AD to before the Industrial Revolution. Then, he uses ultra-high-level distribution and operation methods to forcibly smooth everything over with economic growth. After these people who have experienced hardship are intoxicated by the prosperity, they finally drown in the joy of realizing their dreams in the prosperity!

In fact, the reason why a grand martial arts competition had to be held in the tenth year of Yuanfeng to put an end to the past was because Chen Xi had gradually fulfilled his promise and had barely the strength to sever his karmic ties.

If Yuan Feng's previous policy of not holding grudges against Yuan Feng was a way of forcibly suppressing unrest through his personal prestige and reputation, then Chen Xi can now gradually release it through other means. It's better to guide than to block; the harder you suppress something, the stronger the backlash will be.

On the contrary, regarding foreign wars, Chen Xi can honestly say that he has never committed massacres in foreign wars since Yuan Feng took power. Even if he had some ulterior motives and allowed Li You to implement some accelerationism, which led to the Brahman prisoners slaughtering the southern noble people in the middle and lower reaches of the Ganges, Chen Xi can honestly say that, judging by actions rather than intentions, he can be called a saint in this respect!
Leaving aside what lies ahead, let alone external wars, even internal wars are nothing short of insane, relentless slaughter. It's not just Yangzhou that can be infinitely subdivided; once the civil war begins, every region can be infinitely subdivided.

Therefore, foreign wars are easier to manage. After the ringleaders are executed, even those Kushan soldiers who killed Han soldiers on the battlefield can be let go as long as they do not defy the Han government. For Chen Xi, the real difficulty is actually with local elite veterans like Gao Yi.

There is a real grudge between them, a blood feud, a true and irreconcilable enmity. No amount of morality can cover it up. Even if you put Chen Xi in that position, he would never forgive such a sin. It is a sin that is truly against humanity!
Moreover, forgiving others is self-torture and will only bring resentment. From the perspective of human psychology, only retaliation in kind can make people's beliefs clear. If the sins left over from the civil war in the Central Plains were to be carried out in kind, it would be no different from being completely destroyed!

Therefore, when Gao Yi appeared in front of Zhao Zhen, Chen Xi's gaze naturally fell on the two of them. Compared to Slavnis's rampage on the other side, this was the real priority.

Similarly, precisely because Zhao Zhen was about to encounter Gao Yi, Chen Xi didn't even listen properly to what Liu Tong was saying.

"You don't seem to be paying much attention to Man Tingwei's departure," Liu Tong said with a hint of surprise, noticing that Chen Xi seemed somewhat distracted by his words.

"Well, at most they're just big cases, maybe they'll only trace it back to a few remote areas. Bo Ning will handle these things himself," Chen Xi said nonchalantly.

"Isn't that a very big deal?" Liu Tong asked in surprise. To even say that they had investigated certain mountain peaks, wasn't this the beginning of something serious?

“It’s the tenth year of Yuanfeng now. Everyone will be here for the grand court assembly. Even if a major case is uncovered, we can deal with it boldly. Is there anything we can’t handle? As for a little loss of materials, what does that matter?” Chen Xi said nonchalantly.

As he said this, Chen Xi stared intently at Zhao Zhen. He had actually considered preparing some lines for Zhao Zhen to say when facing Gao Yi, but in the end, Chen Xi gave up. Whether a sentence is spoken from the heart or taught by someone else, some people on the other side who are deeply involved can tell. So how to answer this question can only be left to Zhao Zhen himself!
Even if such an answer would cause a clash of values ​​between the two parties, and thus lead to bigger problems, it must be Zhao Zhen who answers.

After all, Zhao Zhen came to quell the affairs of Yanzhou during the entire martial arts competition, while Gao Yi was a true flag bearer in Xuzhou. Compared to Huang Tao, who was carried away, Gao Yi was more like a flag bearer.

Huang Tao didn't harbor such deep hatred, so he naturally lacked certain qualities. To some extent, Huang Tao was an unqualified commander of Xuzhou in this matter. However, this is normal, as Huang Tao did not experience these tragic events. Although his father did not die of old age, he died of an epidemic, and there was no such grudge.

"Uh, only you could say something like that." Liu Tong glanced at Chen Xi, and after hearing what Chen Xi said, she really couldn't keep arguing. Fine, she'd just continue watching Pratt and Gore fish for points. The two of them were really good at teamwork!

Yang Tuo looked at Gao Yi walking straight towards him from the horizon and sighed. To be honest, Yang Tuo had hoped that Gao Yi would encounter a tough opponent in the small world and be kicked out, so that Zhao Zhen would not have to face his greatest enemy in this life.

Indeed, in Yang Tuo's view, Gao Yi was Zhao Zhen's greatest opponent in the small world, because the opponent not only tested his strength, but also his mind and will. After all, Zhao Zhen had indeed slaughtered Xuzhou. As for whether he had slaughtered Gao Yi's family, that was hard to say.

"It's alright, you go over there, I'll win." Zhao Zhen said to Yang Tuo in a very calm tone, but Yang Tuo, who was extremely familiar with Zhao Zhen, clearly sensed the fluctuations in Zhao Zhen's mentality.

"Zhao Zhen." Gao Yi walked over step by step, not too fast, not too slow, but his imposing presence grew stronger and stronger.

"Gao Yi," Zhao Zhen said softly, looking at Gao Yi who was standing ten steps away from him.

"Before we take action, I have one question for you: have you ever actually spilled the blood of my family?" Gao Yi asked directly.

"I don't know, but my hundred-man squad did go to that area of ​​yours." Zhao Zhen spoke the truth. He didn't know if he had killed Gao Yi's relatives, but there was absolutely no doubt that he was responsible for it.

“You and Brother Yang saved my life,” Gao Yi said in a deep voice.

"After all, we were comrades-in-arms on the Ganges," Zhao Zhen said frankly.

"I will kill you, and then commit suicide in front of your grave." Gao Yi closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was no longer any confusion. He had come for Zhao Zhen, and he had already investigated everything thoroughly. Moreover, he had already thought it through when he issued the challenge. However, there were some things he needed to clarify.

“You can’t do it,” Zhao Zhen shook his head and said. “I can’t refute the sins of the past. I can only rely on my own strength to live on with these sins.”

"Die!" Gao Yi roared and charged towards Zhao Zhen. Unlike in Kandahar, using those petty tricks to fight Zhao Zhen was pointless. Gao Yi almost imploded all his talents within himself, and then maintained his state with the terrifying idealism of not dying to the people of Yanzhou.

Zhao Zhen coldly charged towards Gao Yi. The deed was done and could not be changed, so he would just use force to carry it out. There is indeed right and wrong, black and white in this world, but power is power!

The moment their fists collided, a force as powerful as a collapsing mountain surged into Gao Yi's body. That terrifying power was enough to instantly blast most of the sixth-level fusion cultivators into sacks. After all, once Zhao Zhen had reached a certain level of understanding in terms of power, he was confident that he could crush any opponent in the entire small world!
However, even such terrifying force could only force Gao Yi to retreat. His fervent and unyielding spirit was exerting its effects wildly. Even Zhao Zhen's power, which was enough to shatter Gao Yi, could only have a slight effect under such unwavering will!

Gao Yi, who had retreated five steps, suddenly exerted his strength the moment his back foot touched the ground, and once again blasted towards Zhao Zhen, who was charging straight at him.

However, Zhao Zhen neither dodged nor avoided, and both of them landed a punch on their opponent. The only difference was that Zhao Zhen only leaned back slightly, while Gao Yi was sent flying at an angle as if he had been hit by a tank.

“Really…” Gao Yi bounced on the ground, flipped over and stood up again, then looked at Zhao Zhen with a cold face. He did not feel any remorse from Zhao Zhen’s fist, only the determination to kill his opponent. Zhao Zhen had accepted all the sins of the past, but so what!

"Give it your all!" Zhao Zhen said coldly. "Is this all the hatred you have?"

"You don't even feel a trace of remorse?" Gao Yi's eyes were icy cold.

I carefully reviewed my book, and it is indeed dynamic. My friend Peipei helped me search for many names, and I'm quite satisfied with the results. Ordinary people are gradually finding their place in my book. It seems I admire the strong, and while I verbally advocate a heroic historical perspective, subconsciously I still stand on the side of a people-centered historical perspective. I'm quite pleased; after more than a decade, I've confirmed my true intentions.