Great Qin, Heaven Capital City.
Ministry of Punishment.
Officials clad in ink-colored garments hurried in and out, their steps swift. Not one person initiated a conversation, rendering the atmosphere of the Ministry oppressive and forbidding.
Varieties of exotic birds descended from the sky from time to time.
Within the Ministry, major cases from all seventy-two counties of the world were gathered—cases with numerous entanglements or riddles, cases that local officials lacked the authority to adjudicate. Such matters were sent from every corner of the world to this place, where clerks bustled endlessly, their feet hastening merely to convey various messages to different government offices.