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Anyone who saw such a thing in front of their bed in the middle of the night would probably be terrified, and Wei Feng was no exception. He opened his mouth wide and couldn't speak for a moment, and the words he had just started to complain were stuck in his throat.

“Wei Feng…you’ve committed a crime. Come with me.” A gloomy voice echoed in the room.

"You...you are...what...people are you?" Wei Feng almost blurted out "monster," but fearing to anger the other party, he forcibly suppressed the words that were about to come out.

"...Where...where are you going to take me?" Wei Feng was so startled that he stammered and could not speak properly.

"The judge has summoned you. Wei Feng, your case has been solved."

"Wh...what Judge?" Wei Feng was completely bewildered. His mind was still a mess. Being woken up in the middle of the night and the intense fright left him dazed. He huddled under the covers and kept backing away, trying to get as far away from the monster in front of him as possible.

At that very moment, his gaze fell once more upon the conspicuous tall hat of the strange being before him, bearing four ancient seal characters, which he then recognized.

"We're here to catch you."

Suddenly, some folk customs knowledge hidden deep in his memory flashed through his mind like lightning. Wei Feng's eyes widened, and he trembled as he reached out his hand, his words trembling even more violently: "You...you...you are..."

"No...don't grab me...I don't want to go with you!!!"

"Help! Help! Help!" Wei Feng shouted, trying to call for help. His assistant lived next door, and there were always security personnel on duty on his floor. After all, a rich man like him wouldn't sit under a dangerous roof, and he valued his life very much.

This time, however, no matter how much he shouted, the person outside seemed deaf, and there wasn't the slightest sound...

The person in front of him clearly had no intention of communicating further. With a flick of his wrist, the chain coiled out like a snake, wrapping around his body several times before pulling...

Wei Feng felt an irresistible force strike him, and he staggered as he was pulled off the ground, being led forward by the person in front of him...

"No!!! I don't want to!!! I don't want to go!!!" Wei Feng tried to struggle, but the chains seemed to have some kind of magic, making his whole body weak and powerless to struggle or resist. He could only protest in a panic.

However, the other person didn't listen to him at all and just pulled him forward regardless. Wei Feng kept turning around, hoping that someone could hear him and come to help him. However, just as he turned around, a discovery made him feel cold all over in an instant!

That is, he discovered that at this moment, his bed was not empty, but still had someone sleeping soundly, and vaguely, that was his own face!

However, if you were the one sleeping in the bed, then who is being dragged along now?!

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承和三十七年 2016年4月7日03:55 晋安阴司判官殿

"My lord, the prisoner Wei Feng has been brought here!" With a sinister voice, Wei Feng, who was still locked up, was dragged into the main hall.

In Wei Feng's view, this gloomy and terrifying hall surrounded by ghosts and gods was extremely frightening. On both sides of the dark hall, there were huge figures with gloomy eyes looking down at him. In particular, the huge god in the lead, who was as big as a mountain, was so majestic and terrifying that Wei Feng trembled and dared not look up again after just one glance.

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind History Books: Chapter 803 Good and Evil Will Ultimately Be Rewarded

Beside the main hall, a person whose fate was unknown was being whipped. A tall, three-meter-tall ghost wielded a long whip, lashing it again and again. The person being whipped was clearly unconscious, a sight that chilled the heart.

When Wei Feng arrived at the main hall, even the most obtuse person could roughly guess where he was. However, this great man, who was usually seen as profound and dignified by many, was now trembling uncontrollably, clearly not yet fully accepting this sudden reality.

"No...no...no...how could this be? How could this happen? I...I shouldn't have died, I shouldn't have died..." Wei Feng murmured, but his body was suddenly pulled by the chains, and he involuntarily knelt down.

At this moment, the person being whipped had finished his torture. With the last lash, Wei Yuan, who was already unconscious from the beating, was dragged up like a dead dog. Wei Yuan was then dragged to the main hall in a daze and lay there, completely unaware of the world's happening.

"That is..." Wei Feng, who noticed someone being tortured as soon as he entered the hall, naturally looked over as well. The more he looked, the more familiar the person seemed, and he soon recognized him. Wasn't that his trusted confidant, Wei Yuan?!

However, before he could say anything, the enormous judge in the hall waved his hand, and Wei Yuan was led out and disappeared from the hall, his whereabouts unknown...

"Bang!!!" A thunderous sound of gavel rang out, and Wei Feng's heart skipped a beat. He dared not think any further and lowered his head.

"Is the person before you Wei Feng, the criminal?"

A deep voice echoed in the hall. This voice, along with the enormous, mountain-like ghost, gave Wei Feng an extremely powerful sense of oppression. Intense fear gripped his heart. Wei Feng finally realized that he might really have arrived at the legendary underworld!

At this moment, all the accolades that had always surrounded him seemed to have been stripped away completely—his family background, his noble birth, his immense wealth, his vast influence…

Above this gloomy and terrifying hall, everything is just a mirage!

"Yes... I am Wei Feng." Wei Feng's hands trembled uncontrollably. He didn't know how things had suddenly turned out this way! Why, why does such an absurd thing as a judge's trial really exist in this world?!

Am I still dreaming?!

He secretly pinched his arm hard, and hiss...

It would hurt, yet he didn't wake up; it all seemed so real!

"I am indeed Wei Feng, sir! Sir!!! Is there some misunderstanding here!!!" Wei Feng said hesitantly.

"I am the Martial Judge of the City God of Jin'an! Wei Feng, your plot to use evil magic to harm others by instigating the sorcerer Yu Huai has been exposed!"

Upon hearing this, Wei Feng's heart sank. In fact, when he saw Wei Yuan just now, he had already realized that something was wrong, and sure enough, the problem lay in this matter...

Wei Feng wasn't a mindless fool. When planning this, his original intention was to take a gamble, even if it seemed hopeless, and he had already considered the worst-case scenario. In his original plan, success would be ideal, allowing him to use the opportunity to plan his next steps. If it failed, it wouldn't be a big deal; casting a spell from afar, regardless of its success or failure, would be difficult to detect in terms of security.

Even if it were discovered, it is ultimately a form of witchcraft and sorcery practiced by sorcerers. There are no similar laws in modern law, so there would be nowhere to file a complaint. The An family would have no way to defend themselves...

Moreover, there are several layers in between, so it's impossible to trace him.

The investment is small, but the returns are substantial. Once successful, Xu Hanzhang will be in his hands, and he will be able to take a big slice of the pie no matter what.

However, despite all his calculations, he never expected that such a highly profitable method would lead to the arrest of him by the Jin'an City God Bureau!

What an incredible plot twist!

However, the truth was laid bare before his eyes, and whether he believed it or not, it had already happened!

If I had known there would be such risks involved, I would never have done it!

But there's no going back in life!

However, there might still be a way to remedy this situation... This judge keeps mentioning the City God... and considering the ghost that summoned him here earlier! Clearly, he is the legendary soul-collecting ghost messenger!

The person in front of us is most likely the civil and military judges enshrined in the City God Temple.

As a native of Dazhao, Wei Feng could not possibly have been unaware of the legends about the afterlife. He had simply not taken them seriously before. But now it seemed that the City Gods and other deities truly existed. If they did, then this judge was clearly a great figure in the underworld in the legends!

Wei Feng composed himself, having already made up his mind:

"Your Honor, please forgive me. I knew nothing about this matter. It's most likely a false accusation. Please, Your Honor, be wise..." Wei Feng said respectfully, bowing his head. He had made up his mind not to admit it. After all, he hadn't left any evidence. As long as he denied it, there would be plenty of room for discussion...

He then continued, "My lord, my Wei family is a family that has accumulated good deeds and has a good reputation in the area. We have made offerings to the City God during the previous worship ceremonies, but we were unaware of your divine power and treated you poorly!"

"Having witnessed Your Majesty's divine power today, Wei Feng is filled with admiration. I humbly beseech Your Majesty to judge my case with utmost clarity and clear my name. Upon my return to the mortal realm, my Wei family will certainly rebuild Your Majesty's temple and recast your golden statue. Thereafter, we will offer sacrifices every year without fail..."

After Wei Feng finished speaking, he kowtowed heavily. Legend has it that money can make the devil turn the millstone. If this is true in the human world, can ghosts and gods be exempt from it?

After the words were spoken, the entire hall fell silent. Just when Wei Feng thought things had taken a turn for the better, the deep voice rang out again from the hall:

"If money could influence the underworld, wouldn't I be a corrupt official? Don't try to use those petty, despicable ways of the mortal world in the underworld!"

"Wei Feng, look up and see what words are written on this hall!"

Wei Feng's heart sank, and he quickly looked up, only to see that the dark gold seal characters on the couplets on either side of the mural behind Judge Wu were emitting light:

The first line of the couplet is: "Never deceive your own heart in life, for the gods and ghosts are all too clear to let anyone off the hook."

The second line reads: Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, it's just a matter of sooner or later.

At this point, Wei Feng finally panicked, but he still stubbornly stammered, "My...my lord, I'm really...I'm truly innocent..."

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But the judge didn't say much. Then, a loud thud of the gavel rang out. Just like Xu Hanzhang before him, Wei Feng felt as if the space around him suddenly turned into a void, and he himself was kneeling on a huge scale pan...

Immediately afterwards, the androgynous voice of the whistleblower rang out...

"The criminal is Wei Feng, courtesy name Huiyuan..."

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An Huiling, standing to the side, continued to watch the trial of Wei Feng, just as she had with the trials of Xu Hanzhang and Yu Huai. The trials in the underworld were entirely different from those in the mortal realm, which required constant deception and backstabbing, endless arguments and deductions over a single fact. In this grand hall, a person's past life was revealed as clearly as the lines on their palm, each event crystal clear.

An Huiling watched as Wei Feng went from being utterly horrified at first, to turning deathly pale, and then gradually trembling all over as if he had been stripped naked and thrown out into the wind in the dead of winter...

Seeing all this, An Huiling felt a mix of emotions. The Wei family of Jin'an was a prominent and influential family, especially Wei Guang, who rose through the ranks of officialdom. After becoming a cabinet minister a few years ago, he was considered a leading figure in the officialdom of the entire Jian'an province. As a result, the Wei family's business also developed significantly, and everyone had to give him some face.

This is also why her father, An Zhengquan, tried to befriend the Wei family and offered a significant portion of the group's business to cooperate with the Maritime Bank. The consideration here was not simply about hometown sentiment, but rather the powerful influence behind the Wei family.

Therefore, not long ago, when An Zhengquan realized that Wei had ulterior motives, although he made a firm decision and took a series of actions, An Huiling knew that her father had always been uneasy. Although her father did not say it on the surface, she was still able to see it from his subtle expressions and actions because she was perceptive and insightful.

After all, the tradition that the common people do not fight with the rich, and the rich do not compete with officials has been deeply rooted in people's hearts for a long time. In the eyes of ordinary people, those powerful and influential tycoons are actually just people who know their own affairs and are not willing to get involved in politics easily. After all, whoever sets the rules has the greatest say.

Seeing Wei Feng's current predicament, An Huiling suddenly realized that, once stripped of his glamorous facade, this once powerful figure who commanded respect throughout Jian'an was as powerless as a child.

As one incident after another was exposed, An Huiling gradually realized that she had underestimated the greed of these so-called big shots. Compared to her own father, who had seized the opportunities of the times and was considered a "lucky one" and a "new capitalist" by many people.

Wei Fengyi, the head of Wei Yi's family, displayed a demeanor that revealed the true nature of Wei Fengyi's oppression and devouring power. Indeed, as the saying goes, when you find one cockroach in the kitchen, there are probably hundreds behind it. In the development of Haishang Bank, under Wei Fengyi's manipulation, this wasn't the first time he had secretly set traps for others. There was even a star listed company in An Huiling's memory that ultimately went bankrupt due to a major investment failure, causing countless families to lose everything in the stock market. Behind this, it turned out, was also Wei Fengyi's manipulation.

However, all of this comes at a price!

She subconsciously looked again at the dark gold couplet behind the martial judge:

Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and we only strive to come early and late.

In the end, she finally saw it clearly: indeed, the second mastermind behind this incident was the Wei family…

Ultimately, a common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime.

Having seen all this, An Huiling couldn't help but feel a little worried. The Wei family's actions were clearly preparing for changes in the future socio-economic environment. Businesses like her father's might not be a big deal during a period of rapid economic development and when humanity's thinking was focused on exploring the universe. However, if the economy were to become closed off and the exploration of outer space were to temporarily halt, would the Wei family's behavior be the only example of this?

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"Wei Feng! You were born into wealth and your family is prominent. You should have been an honest and kind person, but you were blinded by greed and resorted to trickery and plunder. You are cunning and scheming, and many families have been ruined because of you! You don't realize that you have gained wealth but lost your virtue!"

"Heaven is watching over you; you may win all before you, but lose everything behind you! Think carefully about every sip and every bite you take!"