Chapter 61

"The entire Tao family has been arrested. Their assets, after deducting the portion needed to compensate the victims, will be confiscated by the government."

"As for those Tao family members who are already overseas, it's not easy to handle. Cross-border law enforcement has always been troublesome, and there's not much I can do on my end. Besides, Tao Weimin has always been very protective of his family in this regard. Except for his youngest son, who has a criminal record for driving a minor girl to suicide, the other members of the Tao family haven't committed any crimes."

"After all, this is the modern era. We can't resort to the ancient practice of punishing the entire family. You should understand that."

"My suggestion is to leave it at that. Tao Weimin and his youngest son are facing the death penalty, no question about it. But the other members of the Tao family are difficult to deal with."

"Moreover, I spoke with the person behind the Tao family. He didn't interfere in this matter, but he still has some ties with the Tao family and wants us to spare the others."

In the hotel, Su Yi didn't feel surprised after hearing Lin Jianye's proposed solution to the aftermath.

He smiled and said:

"We are all law-abiding citizens, so we must act according to the law. I have no objections to the official verdict."

"That's good. I have some other matters to attend to, so I'll end the call here."

Lin Jianye holds a high position and is definitely not that idle.

Taking the time to make a call specifically about this matter is already a great favor.

After hanging up the phone, Su Yi looked at Yue Ling, who was doing yoga on the hotel floor, and said helplessly:

"Ordinary people do yoga to maintain their figure and flexibility. Do you have such concerns?"

"No," Yue Ling blinked her eyes:

"I just thought you would enjoy watching me do this. Don't you like it?"

"I do,"

Su Yi answered very honestly:

"But can you not do it during the day? Otherwise, I'll be thinking about that kind of stuff all day long, which is a bit unprofessional."

"There's no such thing as professional or unprofessional. Doing what you want to do is professional," Yue Ling snorted, but still stood up as he wished.

Then, without any hesitation, she sat down beside him:

"Speak, what do you want to do with the Tao family? I got Tao Weimin's blood that day at the police station."

Su Yi didn't directly say what to do, but instead asked:

"Do you think it's reasonable for an entire family to live a life of luxury because of one person's crime, and then for those who benefited from his criminal gains to not be punished by law after he is brought to justice?"

"Not very reasonable," Yue Ling pondered:

"Where we come from, if something like that happens, the entire family is usually killed. But I feel like that doesn't seem very reasonable either."

"You're right," Su Yi nodded:

"In fact, there are indeed cases where the criminal's family is completely unaware of his crimes. Punishing the entire family in such cases would be too unjust to those who are completely ignorant."

"But for those who know the truth, enjoy the benefits brought by the criminal, and are able to get away scot-free after the incident because they haven't committed any crimes, ignoring them is equally unreasonable."

"So, you mean you want me to use truth magic to interrogate the Tao family, and then only use blood magic to retaliate against those who knew about Tao Weimin's crimes?" Yue Ling tilted her head.

"No!"

Su Yi, who had been rationally analyzing the situation a moment ago, suddenly laughed:

"Just follow the methods of your world, don't let a single one go. Don't use the kind of magic that instantly kills people like you did with the Zheng family. It's best to use more torturous magic."

"Let the entire Tao family suffer from some strange diseases one after another, causing them unbearable pain, and die one by one within six months."

"Remember, principles are for telling others, not for restraining ourselves."

"Tao Weimin attacked my people first, so it's only right that I attack his entire family. As for whether his family is innocent, that's not my concern. Isn't Zhou Yan innocent?"

"Then why within six months?" Yue Ling asked, puzzled:

"If you want, I can make them struggle in pain for the rest of their lives."

She doesn't care about things like 'a quick death is better than a lingering one'. If Su Yi says so, she'll do it.

"Because Tao Weimin is scheduled to be executed in six months. During this time, I will have people constantly inform him of the situation of the other members of the Tao family."

Killing is about striking at the heart.

He likes to play dirty tricks, so Su Yi will not only make him pay the price but also make him truly realize his mistakes before he dies.

This kind of person who commits all kinds of evil but protects his family so tightly that they have no criminal record.

Before he is executed, he will see his relatives being tortured by illness and dying in front of him, will he regret what he has done?

Yue Ling naturally had no objections.

She immediately sat up straight, with a faint red glow in her eyes, and a scarlet magic circle appeared in front of her.

Then, the drop of blood that she had collected from Tao Weimin earlier slowly fell into the center of the magic circle.

The next moment, a red light flashed, and the room returned to calm.

"Done,"

Yue Ling's voice was light, without any signs of fatigue.

Obviously, this kind of thing is nothing to her.

"Speaking of which, is your curse magic proper magic? You, a dignified elf princess, actually know such sinister things. Do you have any other part-time jobs?" Su Yi couldn't help but ask.

He has wanted to ask this more than once.

According to the usual tropes in novels, shouldn't these insidious methods of killing people invisibly and wiping out entire families be something only villains have?

"Magic doesn't have good or bad, whether it's proper or not depends on the user," Yue Ling smiled:

"I listen to you in everything. Even if I really become some kind of great demon, it's you who corrupted me."

"Okay, okay, you're surfing the internet so much every day, not learning good things, but learning a bunch of broken memes," Su Yi scolded with a smile.

Her words are like parents shifting blame, saying that their child was led astray by someone else.

After the two joked around for a while, Yue Ling used the excuse of cooking for him and went directly to the kitchen in the hotel suite.

As for Yang Yiyi, she was playing games in the hotel's e-sports room.

The bedroom was immediately left with only Su Yi himself.

"It's about time, I should go give Weiwei the things I promised her, and also discuss what kind of business to do with the free trading opportunity next week."

The 20,000 tons of grain that arrived at the Shanghai port had already been taken into his storage space.

He even used the Water of Life to find the owner of a large food processing company in Shanghai and bought the 20,000 tons of grain that the company had just ordered.

A total of 40,000 tons of grain, plus the bows, arrows, and armor that he had already made for Weiwei, were enough to complete this transaction, and there was even a lot left over.

With a flash of light, Su Yi disappeared from the room.

At the same time, an invisible magical barrier appeared at the door of his bedroom.

Before he returns, no one from Blue Star can enter this room.

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