The Federation's Dark Laws

All these suited men had been specially assigned to Lin Yu by Lin Qingye after Lin Yu had strongly insisted on going to and from school alone. There were sixteen of them in total. Four were directly arranged and controlled by Lin Yu, while another eight kept watch from more concealed locations, ready to monitor the situation at any moment.

It could be said that within Aolai City, Lin Yu had the standard blade, guns, and cannons at his disposal. He could summon them in an instant, protected as securely as a demon king.

The two suited men who went over practically swaggered their way there before pinning those young men to the ground.

They then escorted them straight to Aolai City's police station.

After those youths were taken away, Lin Yu slowly walked toward Na'er.

The leader of the guard team beside him, who had been following him all along, said in a low voice, "Young master, this little girl has silver hair and purple eyes. She doesn't look like a local, so you should be careful. I recently heard about a group of evil soul masters who specifically use dwarves to impersonate children and swindle people."

"Aren't you all here?" Lin Yu knew Na'er had absolutely nothing to do with evil soul masters, but he answered casually anyway.

The man in the black suit immediately straightened up and gripped the soul-guided ray gun in his pocket.

"Rest assured, Young Master Lin. We will do everything in our power to protect your safety," the two men in black said together with the remaining black-clad guard. Then, the two stood behind Lin Yu on either side, their eyes fixed tightly on the surrounding area.

At the same time, the eight hidden guards also disengaged the safeties on their soul-guided ray guns, staring intently at the space between Na'er and Lin Yu from different positions.

Na'er also looked up at Lin Yu then, a trace of confusion appearing in her purple eyes.

For some reason, she did not dislike the aura around Lin Yu. Though she could also sense an extremely dangerous, sickly sweet scent emanating from him.

Lin Yu reached out and placed his hand on Na'er's face, wiping away the dirt on her cheek with his thumb. Then he asked, "What's your name?"

Na'er looked up at Lin Yu. After meeting his gaze for a long while and confirming that he truly carried an aura that felt both familiar and intimate to her, she nodded and said, "My name is Na'er."

Lin Yu nodded, quietly letting out a sigh of relief. He had been worried that Na'er might ignore him because he lacked a dragon-type martial soul and dragon bloodline.

Now, it seemed things were going rather smoothly.

"Where is your family?" Lin Yu continued probing as he handed Na'er a wet wipe.

After thoroughly wiping the dirt from her face, Na'er shook her head and said to Lin Yu, "I don't know. I don't remember."

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow, while the two black-clad bodyguards behind him frowned slightly. Clearly, they still could not fully trust Na'er's circumstances.

Lin Yu turned to one of the black-clad bodyguards beside him and said, "Call a car. It looks like she can't walk back to the residence with me."

Since Lin Yu had spoken, the guard naturally did not object. After giving Na'er another wary look, he walked aside, took out a soul-guided communicator, and quietly gave a few instructions.

Soon, a pitch-black sedan without license plates pulled up before Lin Yu and the others.

This kind of sedan differed somewhat from the cars of his previous life. It had three rows of seats. Lin Yu led Na'er into the middle row, while the two bodyguards sat in the back.

Of the two seats in the first row, one was occupied by the driver, while the other held another black-clad bodyguard. They surrounded Lin Yu and the others in the middle of the car, doing their utmost to protect Lin Yu.

Na'er seemed somewhat uneasy in such an environment. One of her little hands unconsciously grabbed the corner of Lin Yu's clothes, wrinkling the previously smooth fabric.

When they returned to Lin Residence, Lin Qingye had not yet gotten off work and returned home. However, the steward of Lin Residence, as one of Lin Qingye's trusted aides, already knew what had happened on the street.

After Lin Yu returned to the residence, the steward had deliberately prepared clothes suitable for a little girl Na'er's age, as well as hot water.

The moment Na'er entered the house, the smiling steward ushered her into the bathhouse to wash up.

Lin Yu had no objections to that. He set his bag aside, then went straight to his room and began thinking about Na'er.

"Two little bees open their mouths, beep beep beep beep beep..."

Just as Lin Yu was still thinking about Na'er, the sound of the soul-guided communicator abruptly interrupted his thoughts. He picked up the square-shaped communicator, and sure enough, it was Lin Qingye calling.

"You brat did pretty well today. You caught a few thugs who'd trafficked people before, and you even picked up a little girl. You've got potential." Lin Qingye's voice came from the square soul-guided communicator, full of teasing. Cold sweat immediately rolled down Lin Yu's face.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead in exasperation, Lin Yu said to Lin Qingye, "Can people who have trafficked human beings still be called thugs?"

Lin Qingye calmly replied, "This world is dark. Compared to the crimes committed by those truly wicked people, trafficking a few people is considered minor."

"You can't argue that they're good people just because there are worse people out there, Dad. They should still be severely punished."

Lin Qingye tapped the table, then said to Lin Yu, "Then you'll have to climb to a higher position someday and amend the Federation Constitution. Under the current laws, what they did really isn't considered a major crime. At most, they'll receive ideological reeducation for a year or so, then get out."

Lin Yu felt as if his entire worldview had been shattered. He immediately asked Lin Qingye, "Why would you say that?"

Lin Qingye said to Lin Yu, "The people they sold were indeed human, but they hadn't paid taxes to the Federation for three years. Under Federation law, once someone has gone more than three years without paying taxes, the Federation no longer protects any of their rights."

Lin Yu's temples throbbed. There was actually a four-tier social system here too. By that logic, those who did not pay taxes, ordinary citizens who paid taxes, and soul masters already made up three classes of people. Officials probably had some sort of exemption policy as well.

The four-tier social system had truly taken concrete form in this world.

"Then what about the little girl I brought back, Dad?" Lin Yu asked.

Lin Qingye replied indifferently, "Raise her. It's not like our family can't afford the food for one more person."

Lin Yu made one last attempt. "Is there really no way to deal with those thugs?"

Lin Qingye fell silent for a moment, then asked Lin Yu in return, "Do you really want to get rid of them?"

Lin Yu was silent on the phone for a moment as well. Then he said to Lin Qingye, "If you think it's difficult, then forget it."

Lin Qingye replied...