Chapter 144: Carrying Out the Death Penalty

Wang Yuan nodded in satisfaction. "You all handled this very reliably."

"Let's go. Today, we're taking these little ones out to see the world."

The man leaned close to Wang Yuan and whispered, "Deputy Military Chief Wang, is doing this really a good idea?"

"They still look like they're in their early twenties. They're much too young."

Wang Yuan, however, maintained a calm expression. "It's no trouble at all. Let's go."

The man cast a sympathetic glance at Xu Han and the others before taking the lead.

Wang Yuan followed right behind.

One by one, everyone got out of the vehicles and followed Wang Yuan deep into the prison.

As they walked, Wang Yuan introduced the location. "This place is the Spring City Maximum Security Prison."

"Everyone locked up in here has been sentenced to death or life imprisonment."

"Even the executions for the death penalty are carried out right here."

"Now, it's time to reveal the final training exercise to you all."

"That is—except for Su Li, everyone else will personally execute a death row inmate, one per person!"

"Of course, Su Li will still observe the execution process up close."

As soon as these words were spoken:

Everyone except Xu Han widened their eyes in shock.

Jiang Yuchen furrowed his brows, his gaze filled with complete incomprehension.

Hua Piaowu's voice trembled as she spoke.

"Instructor Wang... What... What did you say? Personally execute death row inmates?"

"This... This can't be right, can it?"

Wang Yuan calmly replied, "Rest assured."

"The gentleman beside me is the warden. I have already arranged everything with him."

"Furthermore, I have already discussed this training exercise with the Supreme Military Chief and your academy's principal."

"They both highly approved of it."

Zhu Junjie frowned deeply and blurted out, "Impossible!"

"We're just students! You want us to carry out executions? Isn't that asking us to become murderers?"

"Besides, this is far too inhumane!"

The others nodded in agreement.

Only Xu Han looked at Wang Yuan with complete calm.

Wang Yuan chuckled. "Inhumane?"

"Wait until you hear what these death row inmates have done. Then you can talk to me about whether it's inhumane."

"Let's move, Warden."

"Understood!"

The warden at the side nodded.

Soon, the group arrived inside a room.

The room was vast and completely bare of furniture.

Four people, their upper bodies bound, knelt on the ground.

Three men and one woman.

Their ages were roughly similar to Xu Han and his peers.

Standing directly behind them were several fully armed guards.

Hua Piaowu frowned and asked, "Instructor Wang, are these people death row inmates?"

"At such a young age, how could they possibly be on death row? What crimes did they commit?"

Wang Yuan turned his gaze to the warden. "You explain it to these rookies."

The warden nodded, took a step forward, and began. "The two on the left."

"They are graduates of Spring City Fifth High School."

"After graduation, because their vocational awakenings were poor, they strayed onto the wrong path and took up thievery."

"They scouted the home of a newlywed couple, and taking advantage of the empty house, they secretly broke in."

"Upon seeing the wedding portraits and noticing the bride's striking beauty, they changed their minds."

"That night, when the couple returned home, these two men subdued the husband and brutally assaulted the wife right before his eyes."

Xu Han's eyes narrowed, a cold light flashing within them.

His fists clenched involuntarily, radiating a murderous intent.

The others likewise wore expressions of intense anger.

Zhu Junjie gnashed his teeth and glared at them. "Animals! Worse than beasts!"

The warden continued, "They violated the wife continuously for three days straight, even forcing the husband to cook for them."

Zhu Junjie cursed aloud, "They aren't even men!"

"If that were me, I'd fight them to the death!"

Wang Yuan said expressionlessly, "Oh? And what, you would just disregard your wife's life?"

Zhu Junjie's expression shifted, and he fell silent, unable to retort.

The warden sighed and said, "The husband chose to obey their every command solely to save his wife and preserve her life."

"And the wife cooperated with them for the exact same reason, to keep her husband alive."

"Yet in the end, fearing their crimes would be exposed, these two beasts murdered the couple anyway."

"It wasn't until the couple's parents grew concerned after days of failing to reach them and went to the house that this tragic atrocity was discovered."

"Now, do you still think sentencing these two to death is inhumane?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Zhu Junjie glared at the two male inmates, grinding his teeth. "Scum like this deserve to die a hundred, a thousand times over!"

The warden then pointed to the next two individuals. "Those two conspired to lure and entrap young women."

"They trafficked them to White Elephant Country, forcing the innocent girls into prostitution and compelling them to service clients."

"By the time they were finally captured, they had already trapped nearly fifty young women."

The expressions of the group shifted, and they turned their fiery gazes filled with rage toward the remaining death row inmates.

Wang Yuan spoke up, "If those girls were your older or younger sisters, would you still consider the death penalty inhumane?"

"If it were me, I'd only feel that death is far too light a punishment for them!"

"Too humane! It wouldn't even begin to vent the fury in my heart!"

Xu Han kept his fists clenched tightly as he stared fixedly at the four individuals.

He had killed before.

The scorpion-man compared to these people was equally heinous!

Killing scum like this carried no psychological burden whatsoever!

He only felt that he hadn't killed enough!

That it wasn't ruthless enough!

They were even lower than ferocious beasts!

Seeing the blazing fury in everyone's eyes, Wang Yuan nodded slightly.

"Warden, have them prepped. Carry out the executions."

"Understood!"

The warden nodded.

He led the group forward toward the death row inmates.

Several guards stepped up and handed daggers to Xu Han and the others, then retreated to the rear.

Each student approached a death row inmate from behind.

The inmate kneeling before Xu Han was the first.

The young man sneered, "Go ahead and kill me! Twenty years from..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Xu Han's dagger flashed like a streak of silver light, instantly sweeping across his neck.

In a split second, his head was severed from his body!

Fresh blood splattered across the room, some of it staining Xu Han's clothes.

With a cold gaze, Xu Han slowly put his dagger away.

A terrifying murderous aura radiated from his body.

He slowly turned his head to look at the remaining death row inmates.

The inmates who had just been moments away from hurling taunts locked eyes with Xu Han.

They immediately clamped their mouths shut.

Their eyes were filled with sheer terror.

It was as if they could see all the victims they had murdered standing right beside them.

The slaughtered couple, the trafficked girls—all of them had come back to collect their debts!

"Aah! Ghosts! There are ghosts!"

One of the inmates finally snapped under the psychological pressure and shrieked in terror.

The floor beneath him grew wet with a spreading puddle of liquid, releasing a foul stench.

The warden exclaimed in utter astonishment, "That student has an incredible murderous aura!"

"And he didn't hesitate for even a second. If that kid isn't someone who has slaughtered mountains of people, then he's a born executioner!"

Wang Yuan smiled. "Of course."

"In the future, he will be an executioner—a professional executioner!"

"An executioner who will strike terror into the hearts of foreign nations!"