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    "Everyone!" Du Ze raised his voice and shouted, "The carnival is over!"

    His tone was completely different from before.

    With his words and silent orders, the door of the banquet hall was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and Dark Warrior No. 2 walked in under the gaze of everyone, holding his long neck and monster head.  Its head shook nervously from side to side, and the sharp multi-layered teeth in its mouth were looming.  Immediately afterwards, thirty fully armed skeleton warriors lined up into the banquet hall, each holding a weapon and blocking the door.  Due to the hostile behavior of the skeleton warriors, the originally lively atmosphere at the scene suddenly changed.  Even the noisiest people immediately fell silent and waited quietly for the further development of the matter.

    "Umahuh"

    Dark Warrior No. 2 still hasn¡¯t learned to speak.  It made an incomprehensible groan as it walked straight through the banquet hall and towards the dining table where Du Ze was seated.  When it came, the people who had been standing in the middle of the banquet hall shouting loudly and talking about territorial affairs hurriedly made way for this uninvited guest, for fear that their movements would be slowed down and fall behind others.

    "Oh haha"

    It walked up to Du Ze, beat its own chest with one hand, and performed a military salute.  At the same time, the skeleton warriors blocking the door of the banquet hall also neatly expressed their belonging in the same way - this action reminded others in the banquet hall that this humanoid monster seemed to have walked out of a nightmare.  , as well as those skeletons holding weapons, are all Du Ze's men.

    Knight Angus drank a glass of wine and let out a deliberately suppressed laugh.  The knights sitting around him also laughed.  They've all been frightened by Dark Warrior Number Two, and are happy to see others as frightened by him as they are.

    Some people finally remembered the rumors that the new lord was a magician.

    In the early days, because his attitude was so weak, it was easy for people to ignore this point unconsciously.

    Some people began to regret their reckless behavior just now.

    "You can't do this! You are trying to threaten us with force! If you insist on shameless exploitation of business practices, we will never continue to endure it silently!"

    In the awkward silence, a middle-aged man with a very similar body shape to Mayor Barnett stepped forward and broke the silence. He was the leader of the local chamber of commerce in Washa Town and had always maintained a relationship with Mayor Barnett.  He has a good relationship. In order to maintain this relationship, he recently married his thirteen-year-old daughter to the latter's son, who is in his thirties and has some mental retardation. He just toasted Mayor Barnett with a glass of wine.  , congratulate him for having the courage to express his views in front of the lords, fighting for the interests of the merchants, and publicly supporting those proposals.

    "Are you just going to watch like this?" The fat middle-aged man turned around and loudly encouraged the guests who were similar to himself.  "This man wants to use force to make us surrender and make us become sheep in his pasture! This man commands a hateful monster, threatens the loyal people of the viscounty with force, and pays for his endless greed!"

    This fat middle-aged man is not an agent of the Faceless Men.

    The reason why he stood up at this moment was entirely because he had not yet understood the situation, let alone what had happened in places he could not see.  He thought that Du Ze sent those moving skeletons to intimidate everyone just to break his previous promise to consider tax cuts.  Of course, as a successful businessman, the characteristics of loving money as much as life and putting interests first are also one of the important reasons why he chose to take the initiative.

    Under the temptation of "reducing all tax burdens to one-tenth of the original tax rate", he boldly stood up and firmly believed that other businessmen and Mayor Barnett would support him, thus completely ignoring the advice given to him by the latter.  hints of the opposite meaning.

    Du Ze did not directly answer the chamber of commerce leader¡¯s question.

    He gave a silent order to the undead servants.

    A skeletal warrior wearing leather armor and holding a bow and arrow pulled out an arrow from his back, put it on the bow, and shot it out.  The bow and arrow grazed the fat middle-aged man's cheek and was nailed to the far wall, with a trace of fresh blood on the arrowhead.  "Ah!" The leader of the Chamber of Commerce covered his face and screamed loudly: "Killing! Killing!"

    "it's a pity."

    Du Ze muttered, looking at the arrow nailed to the wall with a somewhat regretful look.  In fact, he did not let the skeleton warrior miss the target intentionally, but the skeleton warrior's arrows were always accurate.  In order to calm down the yelling man, he asked Dark Warrior No. 2 to walk over, and the effect was immediate - looking at the humanoid monster walking towards him, the leader of the Chamber of Commerce immediately stopped.With simmering sobs, he retreated one after another and hid in the crowd.

    Seeing the scene in the banquet hall quickly quieting down, Du Ze clapped his hands with satisfaction, attracting everyone's attention.

    "Now we can talk about something serious." He stood up from his seat.  "I believe many people have long had doubts about this. As you can see" He raised his arms, showing the holes, dust and blood stains on his sleeves, as well as the wounds on his arms.  "This is not because I fell when I got up."

    Thanks to what just happened, no one tried to interrupt him.

    "The Viscounty is facing a group of insidious and cunning enemies. Some of you have heard of them for a long time, and some of you have even maintained a cooperative relationship with them. They call themselves the Faceless Men. According to the results of my investigation  , they have a very close connection with the assassination four years ago, and are probably the real murderers who planned the assassination. There are many more crimes they have committed, including attempts to murder me, both the legal Viscount Rosen and the Viscount Rosen.  The lord is here." He lowered his arms.  "This morning, I was assassinated by the Faceless Ones for the second time since I returned to the Viscounty. Fortunately, they still failed to succeed this time."

    "I have been thinking that in order to completely eliminate the associates of the Faceless Men, I should take some more decisive and drastic measures to stop the Faceless Men's unscrupulous evil deeds." He paused and said nothing.  He believes that people can understand the meaning of this sentence.  These threatening words caused many people to start talking in low voices.

    "I don't think innocent people should be implicated" His words made most people sigh in relief, but his next words immediately caused a fierce reaction from a few people.  "So, I decided to punish only those who were clearly opposing me and the legitimate ruler of the viscounty."

    There was already a layer of cold sweat on Mayor Barnett's forehead.  Looking at the skeletons holding weapons, he tried to calm himself down and looked for flaws in the other party's words.  According to law and tradition, in theory, if a lord insists on identifying someone as a traitor against him, he can directly sentence him to death - although few lords will actually use this right, the new lord has already made a lot of sense this time.  It's obvious - if Mayor Barnett was in Washa Town at this moment, he could still gather some of his cronies to fight to the end, but now he is in the lord's castle.

    Not far away are those inhuman monsters, and there are multiple guards and hundreds of soldiers outside.  If the new lord ignored the negative impression and opposition caused by this, it would not be difficult to forcibly detain or even execute any guest who came to the banquet.

    Damn it, it turns out he was pretending to be weak just now!  I should have thought of it earlier!  He had to kill the previous lord under heavy protection to get where he is today!  How could he be a noble boy who could be manipulated by others!

    Titting his head to avoid looking into the eyes of the new lord, Mayor Barnett regretted choosing to cooperate with those people.  He always felt that the way the new lord looked at him seemed to express that he already knew about the good things he had done in private.  Although the reward promised by the Faceless Men is very exciting, it is obviously not more important than life.

    "You are not a legitimate ruler! You have not been recognized by the people!"

    After much hesitation, Mayor Barnett decided to take the initiative and find a way to save his life.  He made up his mind that as long as he could leave this castle alive, he would immediately pack his luggage and escape from the viscounty with his savings over the years.  With the wealth he had accumulated through various means while serving as the mayor of Washa Town over the years, he could live a stable and superior life again by escaping to any place in the Junshan Principality. There was no need to risk his life for those people's plans.  adventure.

    ¡°Oh, sorry, does anyone disagree with that?¡±

    The expression on Du Ze's face was as if he was really confused.  He repeated it twice, looking around as if searching for potential opponents.  Naturally, no one would raise objections at this time.  "You see, Mr. Barnett" He used the title 'sir' deliberately.  Hearing the other party call him this title again, Mayor Barnett's mood at this time was completely different from before.  "Looks like you're the only dissenter."

    Mayor Barnett, who was on the verge of despair, looked at the leader of the chamber of commerce with whom he had a good relationship.  Noticing that Mayor Barnett was looking at him, the leader of the Chamber of Commerce probably suddenly felt the pain on his face where he was scratched by the bow and arrow again, so he covered his face with his hands.  He looked at many friends who usually had good personal relationships with him and had close interests. However, these people either deliberately avoided Mayor Barnett's eyes, or simply turned their heads, or even looked at strangers directly.  Look at him.  Their current attitude is completely different from their usual attitude towards the mayor.

    "Youyou?¡­¡±

    Unable to get any help or support from his ¡®friends¡¯, Mayor Barnett fell into despair.  He roughly pushed aside a few people who were blocking his way, grabbed a glass of wine from the long table, drank it in one breath, and slammed the glass to the ground.

    "You ungrateful bastards!" He yelled: "My present is your future! Sooner or later you will die at the hands of this cruel and insensitive bastard wizard! Just wait and see!"

    After receiving the master¡¯s order, the two skeleton warriors walked towards Mayor Barnett, and people along the way gave way to them.  Two skeleton warriors grabbed Mayor Barnett's arms on the left and right, dragged him to the center of the banquet hall, and pressed his shoulders with their weapons to force him to kneel on the ground.  Dark Warrior No. 2 came over, hesitated on how to carry out the order, and finally chose his sword.

    Amid Mayor Barnett¡¯s desperate curses, howls, and pleas, it raised its sword and chopped off Mayor Barnett¡¯s head cleanly.  Blood immediately spurted out from the corpse's neck and spread all over the floor. Dark Warrior No. 2 was also covered in blood, making its image even more ferocious.

    One skeleton warrior grabbed the legs of the corpse, and another skeleton warrior picked up the corpse's head. They worked together to get the corpse out.  Except for the large blood stains on the floor, the thick smell of blood in the air, and the short screams of female guests who were frightened, all traces of Mayor Barnett's former existence seem to have completely disappeared.  .

    "The traitor's body will be hung on the city wall as a sign of punishment. His family will also be dealt with accordingly." Du Ze still kept smiling when most of the guests were horrified and disgusted by the act of beheading on the spot.  .  "I don't know anyone who collaborates with the Faceless Men, and I don't want to know. As long as those who have made wrong choices are willing to repent, sever ties with those who conspire for misfortune and disaster, or voluntarily remain anonymous or non-anonymous  Reveal some information about the Faceless Men - I will forgive their past sins, let all be forgotten, and even reward them according to their contributions."

    "In addition, in order to make up for the fright you have received, I will, as Viscount and Lord of Lawson, present a small gift to everyone who is in this banquet hall now." He said.  "The gifts will be delivered to your homes after my servants have finished counting the traitor's property."

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