Chapter 416
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Chapter 416: Brawling Incident (2)
Truthfully, Luo Ji’s office had never held so many people at once.
For the sake of fairness in this brawling incident, Luo Ji summoned Li Ke, the Wolf Tribe’s Chief, and Gou Miao, the Chief of the Kobold Tribe, from the Beastmen’s side.
As for the Human Race’s side, in addition to Luo Ji himself, he specifically called over Luo Jin, who was in charge of investigating the matter, Zhou Yi, the Mirror City’s defending General, and Luo Yong, who was stationed there.
Moreover, considering safety, a team of guards had to be arranged in his office.
Sun Mingrui and Sun Peng, the brothers, were kneeling below, along with Gou Shan, the other protagonist of this brawling incident, who was a kobold.
Looking at his crowded office at this moment, Luo Ji couldn’t help but wonder if he should expand it.
Now, he finally understood why ancient emperors held court in such a grand hall.
Wasn’t it because of the crowd? Look at how these people squeezed his small office!
“Hiss, it really makes sense for ancient emperors to build palaces; it’s not just for showing off.”
Luo Ji couldn’t help but sigh in his heart upon realizing this.
Of course, from his external expression, their emperor had been full of majesty from beginning to end.
Luo Ji had long been able to conceal his emotions.
His gaze quickly swept over the Sun brothers and the kobold Gou Shan.
Gou Shan also looked quite disheveled at this time, with numerous wounds, big and small, on his body.
Having already understood the entire story through the report submitted by Luo Jin, how could Luo Ji not know what had happened?
In simple terms, the locations of the five Beastman Tribes were already not far from Azure Water Lake.
To be even more direct, that Azure Water Lake was something Luo Ji had “borrowed” from Li Yuanjie’s Beastman Civilization, and it should technically be considered the Beastmen’s territory.
Given such close proximity, contact between the two sides was inevitable.
The incident began when Gou Shan, with money notes in hand, went to the fishing village, wanting to buy a few saltwater fish to try something new.
The one selling fish was precisely Sun Peng, Sun Mingrui’s good-for-nothing younger brother.
Sun Mingrui doted on his younger brother, and Sun Peng had been spoiled since childhood.
He was usually a troublemaker who would gather a group of cronies and cause mischief everywhere.
Upon suddenly seeing the strange-looking kobold, they naturally couldn’t resist mocking and ridiculing him, which led to an argument.
Originally, it was nothing; just a few quarrels.
Gou Shan had no intention of fighting.
Their kobold trait of bullying the weak and fearing the strong was often criticized by other beastmen, but this trait was sometimes a good thing.
This was because Gou Shan knew clearly that the Emperor of the Myriad World Civilization, Luo Ji, was a human, so humans were in charge here.
With this understanding, their nature of bullying the weak and fearing the strong naturally led them to tolerate humans to some extent.
However, Sun Peng unexpectedly pushed his luck.
Relying on his elder brother, who was an official, the habitually arrogant Sun Peng directly gathered his group of cronies, clearly intending to teach him a lesson.
Even a clay figure has a bit of temper, let alone a beastman, so how could Gou Shan just stand there and take a beating? He naturally fought back, and the brawl escalated.
When Sun Mingrui learned of this, concerned for his younger brother Sun Peng’s safety, he immediately dispatched the patrol team responsible for maintaining order in the fishing village, instructing them to apprehend Gou Shan.
He never expected that the patrol team’s involvement would further intensify the fight.
Facing such a large number of enemies, Gou Shan found it difficult to hold back and completely threw himself into the fight.
Without mentioning the others he injured, one person even had his throat torn open and died.
This was a serious matter!
When someone died in a brawl, the situation would escalate significantly, wouldn’t it?
For a moment, Gou Shan also felt some regret, thinking that his life was about to end.
However, he didn’t expect that after that, Luo Ji, apart from sending a team to control the situation, made no further moves and showed no intention of killing him until he was summoned here today.
Unhurriedly, Luo Ji flipped through the report in his hand. At this moment, he was merely putting on a show.
He had just finished reading this report earlier, and his memory wasn’t so poor that he would forget the contents so quickly.
“Sun Peng…”
Just by having his name spoken by Luo Ji, Sun Peng, who was kneeling below, shivered on the spot, and Sun Mingrui’s heart next to him also tightened.
“You incited trouble, gathered a crowd to assault Gou Shan, disrupted racial harmony, and later resisted arrest and fled. Do you admit your guilt?!”
This was the first time Sun Peng had ever met an emperor, let alone directly!
Facing such a scene, he was already scared stiff, his mind completely blank.
At this moment, he couldn’t even utter a single word.
On the other hand, Sun Mingrui, after hearing this, desperately kowtowed, begging for his younger brother Sun Peng’s life.
“Your Majesty, spare him! Please spare him! My younger brother is still young and ignorant. Please spare his life!”
“Spare him?”
A cold smile appeared on Luo Ji’s face when he heard this.
“Sun Mingrui, you now still have the energy to beg for others? You indulged your younger brother, Sun Peng, in harming his neighbors, and without distinguishing right from wrong, you dispatched the patrol team to apprehend Gou Shan, abusing your power for personal gain! And this!”
As he spoke, Luo Ji directly threw the report Sun Mingrui had submitted onto his face.
“Look at what you yourself wrote!”
Allowing the report to be thrown onto his face, enduring Luo Ji’s wrath, Sun Mingrui dared not even breathe loudly at this moment.
“You even dared to distort the truth and attempt to deceive me! Do you truly believe that just because I am in Mirror City, I cannot manage the affairs of Azure Water Lake?!”
At this moment, Luo Ji was truly enraged.
With each word he spoke, Sun Mingrui’s face turned a shade paler.
By the end, there wasn’t a trace of color left in Sun Mingrui’s face.
Although Sun Mingrui wasn’t a great talent, he could be considered a good one.
Furthermore, his loyalty was as high as 89 points, and Luo Ji had always valued him greatly.
However, loyalty, while proving faithfulness, doesn’t mean a person won’t make mistakes.
And if a mistake is made, it must be acknowledged!
“You have truly wasted my trust in you!!”
Looking at the pale-faced Sun Mingrui, Luo Ji was utterly disappointed.
This time, he was clearly furious.
Hearing this, Sun Mingrui’s face instantly turned ashen, filled with regret and shame.
Then, he suddenly lunged at a soldier who had escorted him, and, catching him off guard, snatched the long sword from the soldier’s waist.
“Protect His Majesty! Quickly, protect His Majesty!!”
This scene undoubtedly startled everyone present.
He Liang, the Guard Captain, immediately positioned himself in front of Luo Ji.
However, the sword-wielding Sun Mingrui rotated his arms, placing the blade against his own neck!
“Your humble servant, knowing the law, broke it and betrayed Your Majesty’s trust. Now, I am too ashamed to continue living! I only ask Your Majesty to spare Sun Peng’s life. Your humble servant is willing to atone for his sins with death!!”
As his voice fell, the sharp blade had already slit Sun Mingrui’s throat.
Hot blood splattered directly onto Sun Peng’s face, making the stunned Sun Peng suddenly regain his senses.
“B-brother, brother!!”
