Chapter 34: The Social Club (3)
The rumours spread quickly.
A group of seven people who had been living high on the hog, indulging in extravagance and vice, had been arrested all at once.
The citizens of Underdog City always talked about it whenever they got together in groups of three or more.
"Well, they were trying to get in the way of the new Deputy Mayor, and they got caught."
"Oh, aren't they the ones who used to treat the common people like bugs, and now they're in charge?"
"But what do you think will happen to them? The new magistrate's personality doesn't seem normal, so they won't just be released, will they?"
"Aye, they're still the second generation of a native family, I'm sure he'll let them go with a moderate amount of humiliation."
The crowd naturally turned their heads away.
In the northern part of the central square, a banner was still fluttering in the wind.
<Article 00, paragraph 0 of the Constitution of the Autonomous Region of Baskerville. Law on the Prohibition of Illegal Trafficking in Persons... Penalty: Death>
<Constitution of the Autonomous Region of Baskerville, Article 00, Section 0. Law against illegal gambling... Penalty: wrist amputation>