Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 272 - 209 Ayun’s Case

Chapter 272: Chapter 209 Ayun’s Case

At 10 p.m., Chu Ge once again entered the game world of "Dark Sand" on time.

After choosing the identity of Zhang Renxia, he continued to attempt to clear the instance.

At this time, his position was as a legal aide in Guangzhou State, and his primary responsibility was handling various civil and criminal cases.

The cases in the first stage were relatively simple. Chu Ge handled them according to the laws of the time and generally didn’t make any major mistakes, successfully clearing them all.

After the scenario in which he met Yu Jiaxuan, the content of Zhang Renxia’s instance naturally progressed to the second stage.

At this point, there were still nine years until the Battle of Niuzhu.

Chu Ge had thought that the challenges of the second stage would change, but surprisingly, his task remained the same: to handle various types of cases.

Although these cases seemed more complex than those in the first stage and some contained traps that required careful discernment, overall, the nature of the work was unchanged.

Chu Ge didn’t think too much about it; he just methodically handled one case after another.

Just like Emperor Taizu of Sheng had originally reviewed memorials, he sought out legal clauses, made judgments in his mind, and then the game system automatically executed the details and reported the handling of these cases to Wang Wenchuan, who by then had become a significant political advisor in the royal court.

One by one, the cases were swiftly handled.

Chu Ge had thought he handled everything without issue and should have been able to proceed to the next phase, but unexpectedly, after he processed the last case, the scene before him became foggy, and he found himself back at the initial state of the second stage.

"Failed?"

Chu Ge was extremely surprised, as this was clearly an indication of failure in clearing the stage.

But why did he fail?

"Strange, I clearly handled all the cases according to the law, there shouldn’t have been any serious misjudgments or erroneous judgments...

"Could it be, among these cases in the second stage, there are some major cases that I failed to notice?

"No way..."

Chu Ge re-entered the game and went through the various cases he encountered in the second stage once more.

Unlike the first stage, this time the degree of repetition in the cases increased significantly, and he had previously seen most of the complex cases.

Clearly, the "judging of cases" in the two stages also followed different game mechanics.

The cases in the first stage were particularly simple, so if players were allowed to attempt repeatedly, it would be easy to clear them, which required strong randomness.

However, the cases in the second stage were much more complex. Without knowing the correct answers, players could not possibly solve the cases by brute force, leading to many cases reoccurring.

Moreover, based on his previous experience playing as "Emperor" in the role of Emperor Taizu, Chu Ge deduced that within these cases of the second stage, something was hidden waiting for him to uncover.

Just like when playing the role of "Emperor," he needed to sift through the mountain of memorials to find key cases like the North and South List Case and the Blank Seal Case, and also to find the link where Sima Yan was murdered.

Thus, Chu Ge went through them carefully once again.

Until he saw a name he had seen before: Ayun.

"This case... could there be another way to handle it?"

Chu Ge carefully reviewed the case involving this person again.

"Ayun, a woman, was engaged to Wei during the mourning period for her mother. Ayun, who had yet to marry and disliked her ugly fiancé, waited until he was asleep in his field house, armed with a knife, and struck him, inflicting over ten wounds, but failed to kill him, cutting off one of his fingers. The officials, unable to find the thief, suspected Ayun and arrested her for interrogation. Under the threat of torture, she confessed..."

The content of the case itself was not complex.

In Guangzhou State, there was a thirteen-year-old girl named Ayun, whose father had died early, and after her mother’s death, she was left alone and married off to a man named Wei Da by her uncle for several bags of grain.

Wei Da was unattractive, and Ayun did not want to marry him, so one night, she sneaked into his home while he was sleeping and attacked him with a firewood knife.

However, Ayun was young, only thirteen at the time, so she failed to kill Wei Da, only cutting him to create over a dozen wounds and severing one of his fingers. Shocked awake in his sleep, Wei Da raised his hand in panic, causing Ayun to drop the firewood knife and flee.

The official investigating the case decided that it was not the act of a thief, so they arrested Ayun and after some questioning, she revealed the truth, admitting her attempt to murder Wei Da.

There was no torture to extract a confession, nor was there any framing or entrapment; the details of the case were clear, and there shouldn’t have been any significant doubts.

Chu Ge knew well that "Dark Sand" was a game that tested a player’s judgment rather than their investigative skills. Since the game did not require players to personally interrogate the criminal or inspect the crime scene, it meant that this information could generally be trusted as a basis for solving the case.

Thus, he had initially sentenced Ayun to death according to the laws of the time but later changed it to hanging.

The reason for this sentencing was that under the laws of the Qi Dynasty, plotting to murder one’s husband was conclusively punishable by death; and an ordinary "attempted murder leading to injury," meaning an attempted murder that resulted in injury, was punishable by hanging.

Chu Ge initially thought this was a case of plotting to murder a husband, so the decision could only be decapitation.

But later he noticed another known condition, "being engaged to Wei during the mourning period for her mother." That meant that Ayun was engaged to Wei Da while she was still mourning her mother.

According to the laws of the time, children were not allowed to marry during the mourning period, so the engagement itself should have been void.

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