Chapter 250

Father Miller came out of the police station with a bent body. He looked heavy and unhappy. At the moment, even the bright sun could not smooth the tangle on his face.

"I've been a priest for 27 years. It's the first time I've seen the Lord sign a death order!" Thinking of the desperate eyes and pious confession of the death row prisoners in the dungeon, Miller couldn't help pleading with Victor around him: "I think it's better to exile them."

Victor shook his head and said, "I personally gave the order to hang the criminal, and I bear the responsibility. Father Miller, you don't have to blame yourself for this."

According to the Guangming New Testament, the Lord has secular judicial power and can impose penalties on criminals who violate the law, including imprisonment, hard labor, whipping, public display of cages, exile, and hanging. However, in practice, few lords hang the free people and the leading people under their rule, because the execution of criminals must be approved by the resident priest.

The church claims that the clergy have the responsibility to redeem the people and supervise the Lord. As long as people can devoutly pray for atonement, even criminals have the right to be redeemed. Of course, this is only the redemption of the soul, and the Lord still has the right to hang criminals. In fact, the church does not want to shield criminals. They regard believers as lambs. Even if some lambs have threatened the health of sheep, the wool that should be harvested should still be harvested before it is executed. If the chief executioner is a vassal, the stationed priest will never disagree.

What bothers the Lord is the supervision power of the church. In order to avoid losing a cruel reputation, most Lords will not ask about the criminal problems of refugees at all. Usually, the Sheriff has full power to deal with them, and the sheriff will hand over this thankless matter to the hyenas. The resident priests often take a tacit attitude towards this strange order, because the execution rate of the death penalty in the territory is directly related to their achievements.

As a voter of the Lord of glory, Miller has exceeded the limitations of the code of glory. His power is like an abyss like a sea. He can peep into the veil of the future and observe whether a person is evil or not from the soul level. However, Miller is essentially a kind-hearted old farmer. He doesn't even want to kill wizards, let alone ordinary people.

"You forced me to agree to hang 19 people! And said I was not responsible?" Father Miller muttered, "I think it's better to exile."

In the absence of conclusive evidence, it is common practice to release prisoners into the wild. Without the protection of villages and towns, the exiled people basically have no way to live. Randall led the wild without beasts and monsters, but the alchemical war mastiff is not vegetarian, but Victor needs a fair death penalty. He would rather offend Miller than execute secretly.

"These prisoners kill and bury their bodies. The criminal evidence is conclusive. It's not a pity to die! Even if you don't agree with my death order, I'll hang them! Give justice to the victims." Said Victor in good faith.

Facing the righteous Lord, Miller was at a loss.

Miller is a civilian priest who understands the holy power by himself and has not received the training of the monastery. In his more than 20 years of priest career, he spent most of his time preaching in a remote town, where the population is sparse, the people are simple, and there are almost no refugees and bandits. The villagers in the town live and work in peace and contentment, and the neighbors live in harmony and help each other. At most, there are several fights. That's why the boys are jealous for the girl they like. They don't even need mediation. They can make up soon.

It is a new challenge for father Miller to independently preside over the educational administration of more than 10000 people. He doesn't know how to deal with the Lord. He can only follow his heart and try to save some people.

"Lord, not all of these death row prisoners are bad people. Three people were forced to fight back. That's why they killed by mistake! They shouldn't be hanged." Father Miller carefully advised, "I agree to hang the others... Do these three people give them a chance to change their sentence to two years of hard labor?"

"How do you know they are good people?" Asked Victor curiously.

"Er..." father Miller paused and weakly explained, "didn't they explain?"

"That's just one side of their story!" Victor shook his head reluctantly and said, "the victim is dead. What do they say?"

"Well... I'm a priest. I can see if they lie. Other criminals are full of lies. Don't I believe it?" Father Miller had no way to explain things at the soul level to victor, but could only explain them vaguely.

"I can't agree!" Victor flatly refused and said, "how do you know that the victim will die? Can't he be redeemed?"

"This..." father Miller suddenly had nothing to say. Everyone was dead. How could he see whether it was a good man or a bad man.

"If there are too many people hanged by Randall, it means that I am not effective in educating the people! The top may have to send a priest to take over the educational administration here!" The old priest stuck his neck and played a rogue.

Victor only felt funny. With his current reputation and status, whether to change the resident priest was just a letter. Sylvia was not needed, and the Archbishop would sell him face.

Just when the two were entangled, Sheriff Linda came with a big stomach. "Good day, sir, good day, father Miller."

Linda was wearing a loose blouse and holding her stomach in one hand. She was about to bend her knees to salute. Victor quickly stopped and said, "don't be polite."

"May the Lord bless you, child." Father Miller told Linda, "pay more attention to rest and don't run around during this time!"

"Yes." Linda gently stroked her stomach and her face was full of the brilliance of maternal love.

When Linda took the bodyguard into the police station, father Miller asked Victor, "you won't let a pregnant woman execute the death order?"

Victor's face stiffened. After a while, he sighed, "father, do you think Linda is a good man?"

"Not really!" Miller muttered, "you don't have many good guards!"

"They are all mercenaries. They are really not good people." Victor nodded and said, "it's a bit exaggerated to say that they kill people like hemp. It's not wrong to be cruel and cruel."

"Three years ago, I took hundreds of refugees to open up Randall's territory. On the way, Linda killed a villain who bullied the good. In fact, the man was also a farmer. Although he was wrong, he didn't commit a crime to death. But I found that after Linda killed the man, no one committed a crime, not even theft! Father, do you know why?"

Miller asked blankly, "why?"

"Because sin is contagious like a plague!" Victor explained: "if I saved the villain at that time, he might become a good man, but sin will erode the souls of other refugees. They will think that indulgence of their desires can be forgiven, and there will be more and more criminals."

"Of course, severe laws would only disgust the people, but my strength was very weak at that time. Without the help of the York family, I couldn't even recruit followers. The people didn't have much confidence in my little Lord and were worried about the future. They were relieved after Linda killed the villain."

"Linda killed a villain who didn't die, and she also killed the sins in the hearts of the people. She virtually established the order of my authority and territory. It is precisely because of the order that the people return to their hearts. It can be said that without Linda's sword, there would be no Randall family today!"

"Order..." Miller frowned and muttered to himself.

"That's right! It's order!" Victor smiled faintly and said, "it's hard to define the criteria of good and evil. In order not to let his family starve to death, a refugee robbed other people's food and was killed. Then his family starved to death. Do you think the person who killed him was a good person or a bad person?"

Father Miller looked confused, his beard was about to be pinched, and there was no way to find out right and wrong.

"I don't have an answer. I don't need an answer." Victor shrugged his shoulders and continued, "the only thing I can do is to establish order, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and let the tragedy not happen again. Order can not cater to everyone, but no matter the good or evil of the people, those who break the order are bad people, and those who abide by the order are good people."

"Nelson, they fight for survival. They may not have innocent blood on their hands. But as long as they arrive in the town, they will abide by the local order, put their swords in the scabbard, spend money to get drunk, behave and be honest. Based on this, they are not really bad people."

"The same is true. Even if the three death row prisoners kill for self-protection, they must be punished if they destroy the order under Randall, otherwise the evil plague will destroy the walls of order and cause greater harm to the people!"

The three good people in father Miller's mouth may really resist killing because they are bullied, but if they kill and bury their bodies, they do not belong to self-defense, but follow the rules of free people.

Victor can tolerate the inherent order of refugees. In fact, the vast majority of Lords acquiesced in the outcome of the refugee struggle, and then let the law and order office control it after they decided the victory or defeat. The problem is that Randall's security system is too weak. In order to prevent the tail from falling and the guest from bullying the owner, Victor must first use a few human lives to establish his authority.

"Father Miller, Randall collar is more vulnerable than you think," Victor continued: "This is the development area. The fortress blocking the entrance of the Everglades has not been built, and my army is difficult to deal with the threat of ant people. The refugees in the territory are ready to escape at any time. The reason why they stay in Randall area is not only that there are job opportunities here, but also that the order of the territory is important."

"No one likes to kill except madmen. However, if I can't maintain order, Randall will fall into chaos, and those honest people will choose to leave here. Without these people, how can the fortress be built? The fortress can't be completed on time, the ant army can drown the human horse hills at any time, and even the whole Gambis kingdom is in danger. At that time, the people will be displaced Therefore, hunger and cold are inevitable. "

"Father, would you like to see this?"

Miller was stunned for a while, and his tangled eyebrows finally stretched out. "There are reasons for what will happen and what will not happen. Now I know the reason."

Is the hat too big to knock the old man out?

Victor touched his forehead and said tentatively, "father Miller, what are you talking about?"

"Child, I want to thank you!" Miller said sincerely.

"Thank me for what?" Asked Victor inexplicably.

"You let me know where I was wrong." Father Miller smiled and said, "order is the rule, faith is the order of our Lord, so there will be a sacred mark!"

"I can't redeem everyone, and I don't have to cater to everyone. Only by accepting my order can I be redeemed!" With that, father Miller turned and walked towards the chapel.

Victor looked at father Miller's relaxed back, frowned and shouted, "did you agree?"

"I agree!" Father Miller didn't look back, so he turned his back to victor and waved his hand.

Victor touched his chin, thought in place for a moment, shook his head and sighed, turned and walked towards the city hall.

The old man must have been fooled by me!