Since the system became my girlfriend

Su Rui watched from the street corner as Lord Daril escorted the prisoners to the central square. He did not appear to meet Lord Daril, but only secretly observed from the corner.

"These are all traitors and spies who colluded with the Brotherhood! Behead them here today and show them to the public. Anyone who dares to collude with the Moraka Brotherhood will suffer the same fate!" Lord Daryl roared.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" the NPC soldiers roared.

"Holy crap! What's going on here?"

"Killing people after the update is finished?"

"Who knows what this expansion pack is all about..."

The players on both sides were discussing among themselves. Just then, the soldiers escorting the prisoners pushed and shoved them to the center of the square.

Each prisoner was guarded by four soldiers. The shackles around their necks had been removed, but their feet were still shackled. Their hands were tied behind their backs, and a bamboo stick with a piece of white paper wrapped around it was inserted behind their necks. The paper listed their crimes.

"Kneel down!" After the prisoners arrived in the middle of the square, the soldiers behind them kicked their knees, and they all involuntarily knelt on the ground. Although a few of them tried to stand up again, they were held down by two people on their shoulders and could not struggle at all.

In the blink of an eye, the sun had reached its zenith, and Lord Daryl gave the order: "Execute!"

"Yes!" Several burly men dressed in red short coats walked over, each carrying a large, ghost-headed dagger.

The executioners approached the prisoner from behind, ripped off the gun from the back of his collar, and threw him to the ground. At that moment, a soldier brought him a large bowl of strong liquor.

After the executioners took the wine bowls, each of them took a big gulp. They swallowed half of the wine and spat the other half onto the executioner's broadsword.

"Pfft..." The liquor sprayed from the executioners' mouths, and a rainbow appeared in the sunlight.

Then the executioners swung their broadswords and brought them down!

"Puff puff puff puff puff..."

With each muffled thud, heads fell to the ground.

The execution went very smoothly without any obstacles. Although these beheaded men were members of the Brotherhood, their ranks were too low. The Brotherhood would never send someone to do something as dangerous as storming the execution ground for cannon fodder like them.

After killing these spies, Lord Daryl continued his sermon, essentially telling everyone to stay away from the Moraka Brotherhood and that anyone who colluded with the Brotherhood would come to a bad end.

"That's amazing... to actually watch executions..."

"Yeah, but without the blood-soaked buns, it's a bad review..."

"You're kidding me, this is a game. Didn't you see that no blood spurts out when someone's head is cut off? Blood buns? If that scene actually existed, it would probably be censored!"

……

The NPCs in the city were indeed intimidated while watching the spectacle, but the players were more nonchalant. After all, the laws in the game only apply to NPCs, not players, because players aren't afraid of dying at all...

However, what players didn't expect was that the beheading in the central square wasn't a unique feature of the new expansion. They soon discovered that beheadings would be performed in the central square almost every day at noon.

A few days later, the NPCs in the city were already in a state of panic, while the players had become numb. After all, it was the same routine every day, and everyone gets tired of it eventually.

The players were getting bored, but the ordinary NPCs were too scared to go out. After all, seeing seven or eight heads every day was just too terrifying.

At first, they killed people who colluded with the Moraka Brotherhood, and there were witnesses and evidence to prove it. But later, it became a matter of just saying, "If you're a member of the Brotherhood, then you are," and then they would just drag you away and kill you.

With things escalating to this point, the city is truly in a state of panic.

As players, although we can't actually kill them, the missions we can take on are almost all about investigating Brotherhood spies. There are practically no other types of missions available.

For the first few days, Su Rui spent his time leveling up outside the city and didn't pay much attention to what was happening inside. However, the forums were in an uproar because it wasn't just Xuanwu City; now all the main cities were basically following the same pattern. Every city was killing people, and the NPCs were acting like madmen. Soldiers were running around the city, accusing anyone they saw of being a Brotherhood spy, and then dragging them away to kill them.

Although these riots were mostly confined to the NPC level, they still caused a lot of trouble for players. For example, some unlucky players had just accepted a hidden quest and painstakingly completed it, but before they could even turn it in, the NPC who gave them the quest was taken away by soldiers right in front of them and then beheaded in the central square.

Since the NPCs who issued the quests are all dead, naturally no one will be there to complete the quests. All the effort that players put into completing the quests will ultimately be in vain.

Players have complained to the official website about this, but the official response is that this is a major historical event, and only by solving the plot can this special period end.

On the fifth day after the update, Su Rui returned from leveling up outside the city, and his level had increased to level 24.

"It's him! It's him! He's the Moraka Brotherhood spy!" When Su Rui returned to the city, he found a soldier pointing at his captain and shouting loudly.

"Bullshit! How could I possibly be a spy for the Moraka Brotherhood? Don't you dare accuse me!" the captain roared, but Su Rui noticed that the guy was sweating.

“It was you! I saw you meeting with the Brotherhood with my own eyes!” the soldier said.

"You're slandering me! Just because I saw you stealing yesterday and punished you with fifty lashes, how dare you slander me like this!" The captain was truly panicked, because he knew very well what the consequences would be if he were labeled a Brotherhood spy.

“I saw it too! He’s the spy!” Just then, another soldier stepped forward and identified him.

"You bastard! I saw you harassing women last time, and I didn't expose you, I just gave you twenty lashes. I never expected you to treat me like this..." The captain's lips began to tremble.

“We’ve proven it too! He’s a Brotherhood spy!” Two more soldiers stepped forward; they were the same guys who had been punished by the captain before.

“We…we…saw it too…” Some of the other soldiers felt the threatening gaze of their comrades.

At that time, the atmosphere in the entire kingdom was like this: when everyone was pointing out spies, even if you knew that he was being framed, you had to join in the accusation. Because if you had good intentions and didn't point it out, you would be labeled as an accomplice of the spy. If you didn't want to suffer the same fate, you had to go against your conscience and frame others.