AWB Chapter 230 The dust has settled
Chapter 230 The dust has settled
Following the soldier's guidance, Lind came to a secret door. As the secret door slowly opened, a staircase appeared underground. There was an oil lamp in the room below, emitting soft light, illuminating the stairs.
Lind followed the guards up the stairs and slowly came to the hidden room. It was a depressing place. The air was heavy and humid. The room was filled with the smell of rotting wooden tables and chairs. Doug was locked in this room with shackles.
Seeing Lind coming, White stepped forward and saluted, explaining: "After seeing the defeat of the demons, Doug did not choose to escape, but did the opposite. He let his stand-in and the guards flee to the Surde area, while he hid in the secret room of the castle."
So it wasn't White who locked Doug up here, but Doug himself chose to stay here, and the shackles were put on him after he was found.
Seeing Lind enter the secret room, Doug couldn't help but start moving his eyes. In the soft but dim light, he carefully looked around Lind.
"keep the change."
Lind interrupted Doug's last fantasy: "Lena didn't come."
Doug's idea was the same as his two younger brothers. Although he had committed serious sins, if Lena was there, he might be able to survive. This was also the reason why Doug did not really flee towards the demon clan. He was useless now. Regardless of whether he could escape to the control area of the demon clan, it was still hard to say whether the demon clan would take him in.
It would be better to do the opposite and hide in the secret room, waiting for Lena to come out and beg for mercy, where you have a greater chance of survival.
It's a pity that Doug was still caught by White. But Doug was not panicked. After all, at his level, White couldn't do anything to him.
But when Doug saw Lind appear in front of him without Lena, he was really panicked. His thoughts were self-evident. He didn't intend to give himself a chance to beg for mercy.
"Hey, can we reconcile?"
"Reconciliation? At this moment? Doug, are you kidding me?"
Lind almost laughed at Doug's request. As Lind gave the order, several guards immediately held Doug down and prepared to drag him out of the secret room.
"No, Lind Rowe, you can't do this to me!"
Seeing that Linde was unmoved, Doug's last line of defense was also breached, and he began to shout frantically: "I am also the governor appointed by the capital, we are on the same level, you have no right to judge me!"
"You damned fellow, I am the orthodox of Lars, you are just an outsider, you..."
Doug wanted to say something else, but the guard blocked his mouth with a piece of rag.
"Your Excellency the Governor..."
White came up to Lind and asked about the next step.
"Let's start the trial right away and gather the remaining residents of the outer city. The sooner the better."
White left after receiving the order, and Lind, feeling the depressing atmosphere in the secret room, finally made up his mind and left the dungeon of the castle.
Some things had to be resolved quickly. Although Reina didn't have much political intelligence, she was not stupid. If things were delayed for too long, she might be able to react.
So Linde had to deal with the matter before Lena could react.
Although he had thought about communicating with Reina, to be honest, Linde was not sure he could convince Reina. He felt that he would be convinced by Reina. After all, among the white-collar workers nowadays, as long as Reina wanted to protect someone, she would definitely protect him.
And the most important thing is that there are some things that Lena cannot do, or even participate in. Such brutal things can only be done by Lind alone.
White also knew what Lind was thinking, so he acted very quickly and directly gathered the people from the outer city.
I don’t know if White was really in a hurry or if there were really not many people in the outer city area, but the crowd coming to watch the trial was very sparse.
But Lind didn't care. This trial was not just for these people to watch, but also for those trembling nobles.
Soon, Doug's two younger brothers were pressed forward, and in order to prevent these two former alternative governors from spreading rumors and misleading the public, their mouths were also blocked.
The trial was supervised by Linde himself and presided over by Lucanus himself.
Lucanus came on stage and narrated the crimes of the two men in a bard's tone.
To be honest, these two people didn't actually do anything wrong. They just served as Doug's backup and supported Doug. But this was only compared to Doug. Putting aside their identities, just participating in the murder of Archduke Lars was enough to be skinned alive.
It can be seen that the two gentlemen were so scared that their pants were wet. They never expected that Linde would execute so quickly and resolutely.
The only good news is that Lind does not intend to torture the two and directly orders their execution.
And the method of execution was beheading, which could be considered a kind of mercy to the two. It was almost the least painful way of death. At least Lind did not intend to do any strange or torturing behavior. He specifically notified the executioner to be clean and neat and not to cause too much pain to Reina's two uncles.
Ordinary prisoners were beheaded with axes, but Lind chose a sword this time. Although he felt disdainful of the fact that these nobles even followed etiquette in death, Lind still chose to respect them.
Soon, the trial of the two uncles was over. The executioner moved quickly and decisively. After all, a human neck is much more fragile than that of a demon monster.
Doug's list of crimes was long, ranging from murdering Grand Duke Lars to exploiting the people and colluding with the demons. The charges alone were enough to get Doug killed several times.
Seeing Doug also being tried directly, the nobles standing by were horrified. If these charges could be put on Doug, why couldn't they be put on them?
Doug kept struggling, and it was obvious that he was unwilling to accept such an outcome, but Lucanus' words calmed Doug down.
"If you keep moving, it might take more than one chop to decapitate you."
Lucanus' tone was threatening and playful, and he even seemed to really expect Doug to continue struggling, but it also carried a magical power that made Doug quickly calm down.
The executioner looked at Linde who was supervising the execution not far away. Seeing Linde nod slightly, the executioner ended Doug's life with the most expensive saber inlaid with gems in Doug's castle.
The most troublesome thing about human relationships is that if you want to kill someone, you have to kill his entire family as well.
But strictly speaking, Linde was also a relative of these people, and he must not be implicated too much, otherwise Linde himself would have been chopped to death. So Linde controlled the scope of the killing and only cleaned out the immediate relatives of these three brothers.
As for the remaining people of the Lars family, Lind planned to wait for Lena to come and let her deal with them. Lind had played the good guy role, and it was Lena's turn to play the bad guy role.
In this way, another governor of the North ended his life, and now, the North has only one master.