Chapter 2 : C2
TL: IDevK11
Editor: Capitano
Public executions have a success rate of at least 50%, and the success rate can be artificially increased to 100%.
The benefits of a successful execution are significant. You can also frame anyone, easily toppling the leader of the opposition party within the community!
With such a retainer, isn’t it logical to use her?
Ever since Zuo Chang obtained Blood Rose, he treated her as his right-hand woman. Even though her stats were low, he nurtured her carefully and continued to use her from the early to the later stages of the game.
He still remembers when his community reached “1555,” facing internal and external difficulties, with extremely low stability and high dissatisfaction. The government’s policies couldn’t be implemented, and there were protests on the streets every day.
In order to break through the predicament, even though the failure rate of public executions was 50%, Zuo Chang had Blood Rose create a false case, attempting to turn the situation around–
But it failed!
Just when it seemed like a dead end, there was an unexpected turn of events, a chance for survival.
It was extremely difficult to bring a community from 99999 to 1555.
During the impeachment period, when Zuo Chang’s subordinates looked left and right, they felt that they didn’t have the ability and that it was better for “Heavenly King General” (Zuo Chang’s game ID) to lead them.
However, some treacherous officials had to be eliminated.
First and foremost, Blood Rose!
Who was she?
Cruel and ruthless, arrogant and domineering, framing loyalists, and killing the innocent!
A lowly secret police officer, how many pillars of the nation had she killed!
Therefore, a deal was placed in front of Zuo Chang:
【Your ministers are willing to restore your power and serve you once again, but they have a demand: hang Blood Rose.】
【They have sent representatives to negotiate with you, and you…】
【1. Refuse. Game over.】
【2. Kill Blood Rose. The more you rely on her, the more your subjects will hate her. Choosing this option will give you unprecedented support and praise, with no opposition party within the community, and the subjects will be united like never before. However, your retinue who follows you will be chilled by this. Treason will be met with execution, and loyalty will be rewarded. Consequently, the loyalty of all your retinue will decrease by 20 points.】
【3. Exile Blood Rose. You compromise and choose to exile Blood Rose, promising to never use her again. Choosing this option will bring all the values of the community back to normal levels.】
Zuo Chang chose the third option.
There wasn’t much meaning in loading a saved game. The situation was terrible at that time, and conventional methods were unlikely to restore the community’s values to normal levels.
As for why he didn’t choose the second option…
Zuo Chang didn’t ponder deeply on that.
At that time, he was just playing a game and didn’t think so much.
Now–
“Will I encounter her?”
Zuo Chang inexplicably thought to himself, but quickly shook his head.
“What I did sitting in front of the computer, what does it have to do with now? If my actions in the game are ‘real,’ that would be terrifying… Just the people I ordered to be executed directly would number in the hundreds, right?”
Moreover, Zuo Chang lost in the final battle against the Celestial God. If all of that is true, how is he still alive now?
Squeezing through the crowd, ignoring the recruiters’ solicitations, Zuo Chang stepped across the city gate, formally entering the city before him.
Beyond the city gate was a large square meticulously paved with square bricks.
Around a circular fountain, white doves perched, and a ten-meter-tall black stone sculpture stood in front.
Zuo Chang squinted his eyes and felt that the statue looked somewhat familiar.
“Mommy, look at that big brother.”
A tender voice rang out from nearby. Zuo Chang lowered his head and saw a little girl with braided hair pointing at him, saying to a woman next to her, “That big brother looks like the statue of the Heavenly King General!”
Wait, wait…
The statue of the Heavenly King General?! Zuo Chang raised his head again, staring with wide eyes.
It didn’t resemble him much.
It could only be said to bear a faint resemblance, with significant discrepancies in the details.
But the “Heavenly King General”…
That was his game ID! Zuo Chang approached the woman and asked, “Excuse me, is this the statue of the Heavenly King General?”
The woman was taken aback but soon smiled, “Yes. The Lord of the Heavenly King City greatly admires the Heavenly King General. He wants to be like the Heavenly King General, leading the community to break through the double-digit ranks and fight against the Celestial God! So, he built this statue for people to admire.”
Upon hearing this, Zuo Chang’s heart was unsettled.
He asked, “Are there people who worship such a cruel tyrant like the Heavenly King General? I heard that he engaged in constant warfare and, during the later stages of his reign, turned farmland into drug fields, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people due to starvation.”
The woman seemed uneasy after hearing him.
She glanced around and whispered, “You shouldn’t say such things! It’s well known that the Heavenly King General treated human lives as insignificant. But he was also a charismatic figure, with an infamous reputation. Many ambitious individuals regarded him as an idol, and numerous scholars praised his courage to resist!”
“…”
What a tragedy! Zuo Chang recalled his various actions in the game, and his mind went blank.
No one told him it wasn’t just a game!
What should he do now? In the game, he followed the path of a tyrant, prioritizing efficiency above all else.
Under his brutal rule, just for the construction and upgrading of the necessary “wonders” for the community, nearly a million laborers died from exhaustion at the construction sites!
A million lost souls…
Would he be able to sleep tonight? Seeing Zuo Chang’s pale face, the woman asked, “Sir, are you alright?”
“I… I’m fine, just feeling dizzy.”
“Dizzy?”
Zuo Chang felt restless, unsure of what to do with his hands. “Um… ma’am, what is your opinion of the Heavenly King General?”
The woman looked around once more, then whispered, “He’s a tyrant! A demon! An outright mass murderer, responsible for the deaths of thousands, if not tens of thousands!”
A tyrant, a demon…
A mass murderer…
The woman’s brief yet forceful assessment echoed in Zuo Chang’s ears.
Zuo Chang tried to maintain composure and asked, “Is the Heavenly King General dead?”
“It is said that he is dead, or perhaps he has disappeared. The only thing we can confirm is that the community built by the Heavenly King General has fallen apart. Even if he were to appear now, it would be of no use. He will never be the ‘Invincible General’ or the ‘Butcher Emperor’ he once was.”
“…How long ago was that? When did the Heavenly King General disappear?”
I don’t know either. The woman glanced at Zuo Chang suspiciously. “It happened a year ago—aguh!”
She let out a cry of alarm, interrupting her own words.
Fear surfaced through every pore, and she stared wide-eyed in terror. Suddenly, she scooped up the little girl at her feet and ran for her life!
THUD!
Wearing high heels, she hadn’t run for more than a few steps before she fell to the ground.
Her knees and elbows collided with the stone bricks, causing them to bleed.
People in the square noticed the commotion and one person asked, “What’s happening?”
Another person smirked and said, “What’s happening? Hehe! Anyone who dares to insult the Heavenly King General in Heavenly King City is courting death! She thought speaking quietly would be fine, but doesn’t she know that the Heavenly King General’s former trusted subordinate, ‘Blood Rose,’ monitors the entire city? Once the keywords are triggered, she will be captured. This woman’s entire family is going to die! I don’t know which man is so unlucky to marry such a jinxed disaster!”
The person who asked earlier was shocked and exclaimed, “No way?!”
The other person shook his head, turned around, and said, “Let’s go! When Blood Rose takes action, bystanders should stay away to avoid unnecessary calamity!”
In an instant, the bustling square became empty. Even the white doves hovering around the fountain flapped their wings and flew away.
The little girl in the woman’s arms seemed to sense something and started crying out loudly.
Ignoring the pain, the woman struggled to get up and hastily fled, but she couldn’t help but look back—
In her eyes, there was only despair.
Zuo Chang realized something and turned his head to look.
The dazzling sunlight fell, casting a hazy glow on the woman’s golden hair. She stood there in a daze, her blood-red eyes trembling slightly, staring at Zuo Chang in disbelief.
Zuo Chang looked at the black whip with thorns hanging from her waist and recognized it as the gift he once gave to Blood Rose.
The “Soul-Draining Punishment Whip,” which inflicted extreme pain upon its target, causing their souls to tremble.
He looked at her with a slightly cold expression and said, “Blood Rose, do you remember me?”
“General Heavenly King…”
The woman’s lips curled up, as if she wanted to smile. But before the smile could bloom, tears welled up and fell uncontrollably.
She choked up and wiped her tears hastily, but no matter how much she wiped, they wouldn’t go away.
She sobbed and took a few deep breaths, trying to calm herself.
Then—
She raised her head high, stood straight, and saluted crisply, “General, former Chief Blood Rose of the Security and Defense Bureau, always ready to sacrifice for you!”
“…”
Zuo Chang was slightly taken aback but quickly smiled.
In the game, he had set Blood Rose as the mascot. Every time he returned to the lobby, her character portrait and lines were just like this.
Of course.
Back then, there was no “former,” she was just the Chief of the Security and Defense Bureau.
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