The Executioner's Work (Happy New Year)

Avoiding the surveillance cameras, the young man reached a corner. With a soft footstep, he suddenly turned and darted out. The prison guard on routine patrol was startled by the sudden appearance of the figure. Before he could even shout, a deliberately hushed voice accompanied by a coin appeared before his eyes—

"From now on, you may only make a sound by answering my questions in a low voice."

"Okay." The prison guard quickly took the coins and put them in his pocket. Although his expression was still terrified, he had fallen into a slightly stiff state.

The training young people receive goes beyond just developing protection and training their senses; it also includes how to investigate intelligence, how to use various tools, and—how to maximize the effectiveness of coins.

For example, his statement actually contains three trade-offs: answering questions, lowering one's voice when answering questions, and remaining silent.

Of course, because there are many requirements, the person being traded also has more choices, such as not answering questions and just remaining silent, but that is not important. The Libra executioner can get 3-10 coins depending on the difficulty of the task and the severity of the target. This way of questioning is just to reduce consumption. If the other party really doesn't speak, he doesn't mind using one more coin.

However, this prison guard clearly lacked that backbone; after the young man asked about "William Lester's location," he immediately gave an answer—

"At the East District restaurant."

"Thanks." After asking a few more questions about guarding, surveillance, and patrol patterns, the young man turned and walked towards his destination.

The prison guards behind him seemed completely oblivious, standing there blankly, because he was "not allowed to make a sound" when not answering questions.

Following the prison guards' information and avoiding the cameras, the young man easily arrived at the so-called East District Restaurant. However, before he could even get close, shrill music, noisy cheers, and all sorts of unspeakable sounds reached his ears.

He approached the restaurant, taking advantage of the noise, only to witness a scene that utterly astonished him—

Inside the restaurant, which could accommodate a hundred people at once, a scene resembling a disco was unfolding: prisoners in their uniforms were holding up various bottles of alcohol and dancing wildly to blaring music.

Some dining tables had been turned into gambling tables, and others had been put together to form beds in a love hotel, with obscene scenes being performed in public. He even saw people huddled together doing drugs, which made him wonder if he had entered a prison cafeteria or some underground entertainment venue.

However, he quickly recovered from his shock and his gaze swiftly locked onto his target.

At this moment, some of the guys who hadn't yet gotten too carried away with the fun noticed him. With a question of "Who are you?", the young man walked into the restaurant and silently closed the door behind him.

The prisoners in the dining hall burst into laughter at his action, but their laughter soon subsided.

The physical strength is four times that of a normal person, which is far more exaggerated than imagined. However, with each punch exerting at least 400 kilograms of force, few people can guarantee that they can withstand it and still stand. Moreover, the physical strength required to launch such an attack is not something that can be effectively damaged by mere bottles or tables and chairs.

(Tyson's punch weighed approximately 500 pounds, or over 200 kilograms)

The young man was like a car speeding across the sidewalk, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. And that was only after he had held back; otherwise, with the killing techniques he had learned from his instructor, no one in the restaurant would have survived.

In fact, the young man also wanted to kill all the scum in the restaurant, because he believed that almost everyone who ended up in that prison was a bad person.

But the moment he became the executioner, he had already entered into a contract with a coin. Faced with these scumbags, all he could do was to strike hard when it came to "self-preservation."

Screams and screams filled the restaurant. Before long, the few who were still somewhat conscious huddled in a corner like chicks, seemingly praying not to attract the attention of this Ominous God.

The young man didn't attack again, but instead stepped over the mess on the ground and came to William, who had been slapped to the ground by him at the beginning.

"Dude, don't be impulsive. What do you want? Money? Women? I... Ouch!!!!"

A scream that seemed capable of shattering glass replaced the pleas for mercy; it was the mournful cry of William's right hand being crushed by immense force.

"[Victoria's profanity], what exactly do you want...?"

"Following the Scales Code, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood." The young man pulled a document from his pocket—

"A total of sixteen people have been permanently disabled because of your atrocities."

As he spoke, the young man's movements didn't stop at all. Starting with his hands, he moved upwards, one foot after another, like rolling out dough, slowly grinding it up...

After sixteen repetitions, he finally looked down at William, who had fainted and then awoke from the pain, and turned a page of the document in his hand.

"The woman you insulted... [Victoria's profanity], why do you only have two?"

"No, brother, no!" Upon hearing the young man's words, William immediately understood what the other man was about to do, but then, a sharp pain shooting straight to the top of his head completely robbed him of his ability to speak, leaving only weak gasps and eyeballs that seemed to pop out of their sockets.

"Okay, bear with it, don't go into shock or die, this is the final step." Amidst the terrified stares of those lying on the ground around him, the young man turned to the last page of the document, frowning.

"Although a person can't die multiple times, I'll try to give you as many ways to die as possible."

The prison guards, who were forbidden to speak, were not discovered until three hours later. Having seen this strange symptom in the internet, newspapers, and other media, the guards immediately realized something was wrong and rushed to the place where the prisoners were partying.

However, as the doors of the East District restaurant opened, what wafted out was an unbearable stench of excrement, and the conspicuous sight of Scales Card, frequently featured in the news, affixed to a corpse nailed to the wall, no longer recognizable as human...

"The situation at Xiaoqiu County Nanides Prison is resolved; it's time for you to make your move."

"You bought a cell phone?" Jessica asked with a slightly strange expression when she heard Feng Xue's sudden question in the early morning. Although Feng Xue went out to "work" every day, Little Hill County was more than half of Victoria away from Bekeland. Besides phone calls and MSN, she couldn't think of any other way to quickly exchange information.

"Just think of it as the Oath Keeper's special connection to the executioner," Feng Xue vaguely glossed over the topic, because he couldn't tell Jessica that it was because of the transfer of ownership of the coin.

Using the special mechanism of coins, Feng Xue came up with many interesting ways to play. For example, she treated each task as a "transaction" and issued coins upon completion of the task. The difficulty and rewards of each task were different at the same time. In other words, Feng Xue could roughly deduce who completed the task by the number and time of the change in ownership of the coins she had.

But...

"Instead of asking me about this, you should immediately send reporters to Hillshire to cover the story. Also, it would be best to let the Lieyang Newspaper and Tasok Newspaper know a bit more, to ease the pressure and make our Newspaper Agency less conspicuous."

"I know, I know! It's not the first time! But... Xiaoqiu County Nanides Prison, that's a minefield... Not many people who end up there are easy targets, this is probably big news!" Jessica quickly stuffed a slice of bread into her mouth, then picked up her bag and headed for the door, but before leaving, she turned back and said:

"I plan to personally lead a team to Little Hill County. Do you want to come along?"

"No, I have other work to do. The current number of executions is still too small..."

Regarding the "adjustments" mentioned earlier, once you learn about them, you'll find them quite interesting; from a certain perspective, they can be seen as a battle of wits between players and the official team.

For example, Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon's ability is to show the opponent the Blue-Eyes White Dragon in your hand so that it can be Special Summoned.

Then guess what the player did?

"I won't watch!"

That's right. In one match, when a player showed their Blue-Eyes White Dragon to their opponent, the opponent chose "don't look." Not looking meant the ability requirement wasn't met, so the player couldn't use it for special recruitment...

Therefore, in the later adjustments to Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon, a new rule was added, "If the opponent doesn't look, it can be shown to the referee." However, it seems that later there were situations where the referee also didn't look (this is just personal speculation, and the specifics are not clear). Now, its adjustment has become. "Even if the opponent doesn't look, Blue-Eyes White Dragon can be processed normally as long as the hand is shown according to the normal procedure."

Similarly, there's Kaiba's famous "floor draw" scene. The anime version of Gate of Reversal's effect is "Negatively attack and draw a card; if it's a monster card, you can Special Summon it."

Since it only said to draw a card, but not where to draw it from, Kaiba drew a card from the floor.

Therefore, the actual card's effect was directly changed to "draw cards from the deck," and the Special Summon was changed to a Normal Summon. This can be considered an "adjustment" in a way. It's not that they're worried about players drawing cards from the floor, but rather about players drawing cards from the graveyard, banishing cards, or the Extra Deck...