“If a free man destroys the eye of another free man’s son, his eye shall be destroyed.”, Code of Hammurabi, Article 196
Xu Zun opened a shroud shop on an old street south of the city.
By day, he sold spirit money. By night, he put the living on trial.
The rules had remained unchanged for nine hundred years: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye.
Human traffickers would experience the despair of being abducted and sold.
Thugs who exploited miners would be trapped forever in the darkness beneath the earth.
Murderers who harmed their own family would be forced to relive their crimes again and again.
Some had their bodies switched; others were caught in time loops. Awake and fully conscious, they became the very kind of people they despised most.
Some were given new bodies, some trapped in loops, and some became, with full awareness, the people they looked down on most.
His judgments never erred. The price was that every punishment dealt to the guilty came back to him threefold. After each case, one of his five senses would disappear at random.
He had gone blind, deaf, and mute.
But he didn’t care.
“I don’t judge them for the sake of justice.”
“I do it to repay a debt.”
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