Chapter 214 - 170: Sense of Security (1 more update)
Criminals are not all the same.
Committing a crime against different victims yields different severities of punishment.
Injure an ordinary person, get locked up for years, perhaps decades, and you might still live to walk out of prison.
Even if you kill an ordinary person, there’s a process to follow: interrogation, investigation, and execution after autumn.
But if the one you’ve killed is an official from the Foolish Underworld, well, all those intermediate steps vanish; they have the right to kill the criminal on the spot.
This [Neng Yanwen] is crafty in that he hurt someone without killing an Underworld official on the spot, but rather injured them to the extent that they needed emergency rescue.
If the Underworld person lives, then normal proceedings follow—whatever should be done will be done, with perhaps a higher priority for interrogation and torture, throw in some extra seasoning, a bit more cruel punishment than the ordinary person could endure.
But if the Underworld person dies, then soon someone could come over, take him out, and execute him without any need for a paper trail.
So what is Fang Yu doing? He’s bypassing the middleman, one step to the end!
"A look at him and you can tell he’s no good, definitely a demon! Drag him out! Drag him out!"
As soon as Fang Yu spoke, the prison guard dragged the person forward.