Yuanshen: The sea of ​​sand at the beginning, straight to the seat of God

Chapter 373 Chapter 371 - Another Criminal

Funina was sitting on pins and needles.

She was sitting on the high platform as usual, overlooking the performance in the opera house in boredom, and waiting for everything to end as usual - it had been like this for many years, when Villette announced the decree and ruled the cardinal's final ruling, and the people cheered. The wise supreme judge cheered. The god was a mascot sitting on the stage, always looking blank, as if he did not care about the outcome of the judgment in front of him.

But something has changed.

Obviously no one said anything, but the atmosphere of the entire Opécle Opera House changed.

"what happened?"

After a while, she asked timidly.

She looked at Navilette first, but the ancient dragon king just looked down at Marcelle without saying a word and had no intention of explaining.

So Funina turned and looked at Rama.

"Something happened that should have happened a long time ago." Rama's smile could not be said to be bad, it could even be called gentle, "Something that mortals should know."

"What did you do?" Funina asked subconsciously.

"Why must it be me? You think this is a bad thing, but your first sentence is to ask me what I did?" Rama raised his eyebrows and said, "Ms. Funina, you are too prejudiced against me. too heavy."

Funina pursed her lips and summoned up her courage, "I don't think so. Before you, everything in Fontaine was obviously normal."

It does not take much courage to argue against Rama.

Funina knew who was standing behind her, and she also knew that Rama was actually good at profit, and would not be angry at anyone's questions. Including that he deliberately forced some Fontaine people to choose to oppose the gods, but also to achieve his own goals, rather than really wanting to tell the Fontaine people that he was their father.

He is indeed not such a boring God.

But before denying Rama's remarks, Funina still prepared her courage.

"That's the problem, my dear lady," Rama quipped. "You treat some precious things as ordinary, and now I remind them how expensive these things really are."

“When they don’t know anything, they are fearless.”

"But once they know how much the treasure in their hands is worth, they will be afraid and cautious, worried that they will accidentally break such a treasure."

"This kind of thing, we can simply call it, awe."

Funina looked at Navilette. Cologne's face showed no sadness or joy. His eyes were fixed on Marcelle, but his actual thoughts had already strayed.

"When you say awe, do you mean that mortals are in awe of Villette?" Funina shook her head, "That's not right. Don't they have enough respect for Villette?"

To establish a monument and establish a legend? Word of mouth?
None of this is surprising in Fontaine, where people have used many ways to express their respect for Navilette.

"No, no, no, you have misunderstood." Rama said softly, "This is just respect. It is the respect that people should have for a good man who has persisted in working for a long time, done a good job, and brought many kinds of help and protection to the people. That’s all.”

"He has made such great contributions to a country and its people, and it is natural for the people to respect him."

"But this is not reverence, Lady Fonina."

"How can this be considered awe? They are not afraid of Villette's anger. There are still people who dare to do things that displease Villette. His power has not been demonstrated. The victims would rather choose to compromise with the criminals than to compromise with the criminals. Choosing to believe in the Tribunal... Such things have happened before and will never cease in the future." He said with great interest, "Tell me, how can this be considered awe?"

"Are you saying that no one in Fontaine would dare to violate the law represented by Villette, and that would be regarded as awe?" Funina's first reaction was of course disbelief, "How could you say such nonsense!"

Villette represents the law of Fontaine, and the Tribunal cannot stop working to this day. This situation is not actually special. After all, the Seven Kingdoms have never heard of that country being able to be completely peaceful without the constraints of the law. , people will automatically live according to the standards set by the law.

Who cares about such a thing as the law without armed guards behind you?
But Rama said that as long as Fontaine is not so clear that the people take the initiative to abide by the law, they do not respect Navilette.

Is this more than nonsense? His mind is simply out of whack! He actually expected that human beings would make no mistakes at all and would not want to make mistakes.

Rama didn't answer, but looked at Navilette who was standing on the other side of Fu Nina.

"We all know that people usually choose to violate the law in two situations." Rama said softly, "The first is that the solution provided by the law is no longer enough to eliminate the resentment or anger in the heart of the person involved, and they are determined to Use some more direct and efficient means to comfort your heart."

"As law enforcement officers, we still have to stop such people and declare that such people have actually done something wrong, but we cannot really think that the other party is an irredeemable bad person, because sometimes the solutions provided by the law are wrong. We are responsible for the majority of people and cannot make exceptions for the minority. They do have reasons to use their own methods to get the justice they want. We stop it because this is the rule that we need to defend and let the rules protect more people. Multiple people.”

"But the second situation is that you already know what you will offend by doing this and what price you need to pay, but after thinking about it, you still feel that these costs are not worth fearing, or you think you will not be so unlucky, so you still choose to do it ”

Rama paused for a moment and asked: "So Ms. Funina, which type of criminals do you think is more common in the trial court?"

"Of course it's the latter." Funina almost didn't hesitate.

Between having to sin and actively choosing to break the law, of course the latter is more likely.

It is difficult for ordinary people to be forced to the point where they have to commit a crime. Even if they do get to the point of "having to", they will still hesitate and hesitate, rather than simply choosing to be a bad person.

"Then, people who are lucky and think that the benefits outweigh the punishment so they can do this, aren't their actions essentially because the cost is not enough." Rama said.

Funina pursed her lips, unable to reject Rama's words.

There is always a reason for behavior, even if it is just an unreasonable reason that I like, there still has to be one.

"Okay, now we have found the answer to why the law is always violated. Now that we know the answer, we can start to think about solving this problem." Rama said with a smile, "How do you think we should solve this problem? "

It's definitely not an increase in punishment. Marcelle himself was doing the job of beheading, but he could still get away with it. If he hadn't chosen Kares's daughter like a lunatic, and ended up being caught and raped by Kares, he wouldn't be here at all now. This step.

People of Kares's level could only leave some specious evidence in the end. For ordinary people, it would be impossible for them to leave any evidence leading to Marcelle.

In a murder case like this, there is essentially no better way than hoping that Marcelle will reveal her faults on her own.

Because Marcelle has proven that the Inquisition is powerless in this situation, he can get away with it without any punishment.

Obviously, the core of the illegal law is to catch the criminal rather than how to punish the crime. The worst is death. Fontaine's law does not simply send nine or even ten tribes to heaven just because a person commits a crime.

If punishment is limited to individuals, death can only be said to be nothing more than that.

The key is to catch or even prevent the criminal in advance, rather than to discuss after catching the prisoner whether to give him a super double punishment based on his crime.

Rama knew, but the hints he gave were all about increasing the power of punishment, but he would not say so directly.

The words are not spoken directly, but are settled according to the other party's imagination.

Since it's the other person's imagination, the other party will naturally be responsible for any problems. You can't really take what you think as reality just because you're conjecturing it, right?

This is also something that makes no sense.

Funina was certainly not stupid. She quickly realized that there was something wrong with the hints in Rama's words. She wanted to grab the other person's pigtails, but when she looked back, she suddenly discovered that this thief was not straight at all. Frankly, you start killing people. If you kill too many people, the remaining people will naturally be too afraid to make mistakes... He really didn't say that, even if He hinted at it both inside and outside.

Villette also understood Rama’s hint of ulterior motives.

They will not change their original intention of doing things just because of Rama's few words. They have their own complete logical chain and usually only act according to their own logic.

But He listened.

It was hard for Him not to listen.

Villette did not deny the Tribunal's mistakes. This trial was indeed an order given by Him himself, and in the end, Kares did die in this trial.

Death is the end of all stories, which means that mistakes have been made into a mountain and there is no possibility of repentance.

Mistakes are mistakes, and Villette doesn't care about his own face in this regard, and is willing to take responsibility for his mistakes and pay the price... Although he does not understand Kares's worries, only this, What Rama said was in line with His thoughts.

Judging from the evidence collected later, it was clear that Kares had reached a tacit agreement with Marcelle. He would bear all the charges, and Marcelle would give up attacking Navia.

Of course, this tacit understanding is based on mutual deterrence between the two parties.

At that time, Kares already knew that his opponent was the real culprit in the serial disappearance of girls who had repeatedly escaped the pursuit of the Inquisition. He knew and understood that Marcelle had the ability to kill people and clean up the tail very neatly.

At that time, Marcelle was also intimidated by the key evidence claimed by Carres. When Carres admitted and did not produce any key evidence, he chose to remain silent rather than take action directly to avoid triggering Carres to stay. The backhand, which in turn led to everyone's death.

They intimidated each other and finally reached an alternative settlement.

This was the only thing that Villette didn't want to understand at all.

He even understood why Cares chose to compromise - the Tribunal had failed many times. Marcelle was not the first to commit a crime at that time. The case of the missing serial girl was already very famous, but the Tribunal did not do anything. evidence of.

Judging from the results, a father's reluctance to believe such a tribunal is justified.

He had to think about his daughter first, and obviously it was hard for a father to trust a law enforcement agency that had failed so many times before.

There was nothing Villette could do about this.

Not only were ordinary people in the Tribunal pursuing it, but He himself was also secretly following the investigation of the case, and personally went to certain sites to conduct investigations, but in the end no key evidence was found.

This case did not progress until many years later, and it had nothing to do with the trial court. It was purely a group of "enthusiastic people" who obtained the key evidence and submitted it to the trial court.

But these enthusiasts essentially obtained the evidence that Carres left behind.

Even as a party involved, Carres can provide more direct and efficient evidence to help the trial court solve the case faster.

He didn't do that. He chose silence at the critical moment.

Of these two people, one of the victims who voluntarily confessed to the crime ended up leaving evidence to help solve the murder, while the other tolerated the murder at the time but immediately mobilized security agencies to kill him after he said he would take action.

You are always going to do this, why not just get these things done right back then?
Carres said a few words, and Navilette promised that he would go to Baisong Town in person at that time and would never let any accidents happen.

Marcelle has done more, and now there really is no solution to this headless mystery.

Now Navilite needs to pay the price for the choice of these two prodigies at that time. After all, he made a wrong judgment and turned a good man - although he was unwilling to explain anything and even took the initiative to bear the crime - into a Victim, so He is willing to admit His mistakes.

But now the people were unwilling to let Him be wrong.

They expressed their views on the whole matter in a simple manner. It was Carres who was wrong. He was unwilling to believe the court, unwilling to trust the law enforcement officers, and even deliberately interfered with the investigation of the law enforcement officers - he was not a criminal but Taking the initiative to admit guilt made the entire case lose the possibility of continuing the investigation.

From this point of view, not only was Carres not an innocent victim, but he was a criminal according to the law, and he directly caused a real criminal to escape the pursuit of the law, and indirectly caused Marcelle to be arrested again. The innocent victim of the operation appears - he could have exposed the criminal, but he chose to "cover the other side".

He is another criminal.

(End of this chapter)