Chapter 266 Execution

The next day.

All of Haiqing City – warriors and even common folk alike – simmered with commotion, all because of one story.

Be it warriors or common folk, everyone thronged the streets, heading towards the community plaza of the city.

At the square, a sea of black swarmed like a mass of black ants undulating erratically.

Tens of soldiers, all of them armed to the teeth, standing at attention at the center of the plaza with their weapons all fully loaded.

A line of prisoners, all of them with their heads hooded, knelt on the ground in a straight file.

"Is this a shooting execution?"

"Looks like it. What have these people done to warrant such a punishment, I wonder?"

"Well, it's carried out by soldiers. You can bet the prisoners aren't our usual garden-variety thieves. They must be some heinous villains or something."

A drone of hushed murmurs rose over the mob of spec