If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 420 Judgment
Hall of Valor, more often it is used as the venue where President Hilbert Jean Angers presents certificates and medals to graduates every year, but in a few times, it will also be used For serious occasions.

For example, the hearing of the secret party.

"Silence." King Solomon tapped the wooden hammer.

As a result, there was silence in the conference hall. The deans and tenured professors of the jury were expressionless. They stood on the side of the stage in black clothes like tombstones. Their old faces were full of burnout and indifference to history. Being a jury is really perfect, because their verdicts are absolutely fair and will not leave any chance for the sinner to escape.

On the left and right sides of the conference hall are selected student representatives, most of whom are cadres from the Student Union and the Lion Heart Club. blonde girl.

"I announce that the hearing has officially begun." Solomon, who was dressed in a black robe on the high platform, said solemnly, "The shooting incident in Carmel town has recently sparked heated discussions in the college. As to whether Mandy Gonzalez collaborated with the enemy and the rebel party or colluded with forces outside the party, the investigation team of the secret party representative party has put forward strong accusations and ironclad evidence."

He bowed his head and picked up the documents and said, "Including the fingerprints on the murder weapon, the source of the Philosopher's Stone, and the angle of the gunshot, the seven pieces of irrefutable evidence have been collected and presented in court in recent days, and the self-defense made by the accused so far Yes. No, the accused party did not engage in any self-defense!"

Discussions arose immediately in the conference hall, but the next moment Solomon knocked on the wooden hammer again, "Silence."

At this time, the investigation team on one side of the conference hall stood up, and the person speaking was a young man, with a slim suit and gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, showing his ability and calmness, "Your Excellency King Solomon, the accused party Remaining silent until now can already be regarded as a negative response to the court, I suggest to directly enter the final questioning process, and transfer the accused party under the control of the Executive Department as soon as possible."

King Solomon hesitated for a few seconds, but after his eyes fell on the girl who had been keeping quiet in the wooden fence, he finally knocked down the gavel, "Mandy Gonzalez, do you admit that you shot and seriously injured Commissioner Lin Nian of the Executive Department? ?”

His answer was silence.

"Mandy Gonzalez, do you admit that you belong to forces outside the party and that you carried out this assassination under the instructions of forces outside the party?"

Still silent.

"Mandy Gonzalez, after this hearing, you will lose all rights of defense, right of appeal, and will be transferred to the interrogation room of the Executive Department. Your silence will make you lose your last chance to defend yourself."

silence.

On both sides of the hearing, some people raised their hands.

King Solomon looked over and saw that the person who raised his hand was a student representative, and this person was quite important among the student representatives. He nodded his head for permission to speak.

Among the crowd, the president of the Lion Heart Club, Chu Zihang stood up and looked at the girl behind the wooden fence and said, "He will be very disappointed with your current appearance."

After saying this, he stopped talking, and looked at the girl quietly, and the girl remained silent, as if she was dead.

Chu Zihang sat down, and there was no more movement. King Solomon scanned the entire hall of the Hall of Valor, and no one wanted to speak. In fact, Chu Zihang's raise of his hand this time should have been ignored. But this time the hearing was too brief, it was like a simple questioning before the death penalty, a trial without any defense is tantamount to a unilateral sanction. He really wanted to see someone stand up and raise objections, but from the beginning to the end there was no Nobody speaks up for this girl, and she doesn't even defend herself.

Just when King Solomon was about to raise the gavel to strike, someone suddenly spoke again.

"If you don't do it, you talk."

"Silence, those who have nothing to do with it, please keep quiet." King Solomon said sharply, knocking on the gavel.

But everyone in the arena is now staring at the speaker with a heavy expression.

Behind the wooden fence, the girl heard the voice, raised her head slightly, looked over, and saw the black-haired girl, who was looking at her from afar, with complex emotions in her eyes that made people afraid to interpret.

Until the end, Mandy Gonzalez only showed an indescribable smile and shook her head slightly, not knowing whether she was giving up or really making an invalid defense to herself at the end.

The gavel of King Solomon also settled at this moment, and the final verdict was made, "Mandy Gonzales, suspected of first-degree murder, violation of party discipline and rules, collusion with outside party forces, contempt of court, bad attitude Seriously, after the judgment of the trial court, Yu Sheng will never have the right to appeal, the right to defense, no parole, no commutation of sentence, and life imprisonment!"

A hammer is fixed.

The picture on the laptop screen stopped, the progress bar came to the end, the picture dimmed and a pause prompt popped up.

Lin Nian, who was wearing a hospital gown, was sitting on a chair. He had watched the video from four months ago over and over again, and he didn't drag the progress bar back to the original position until this time.

He looked at Professor Manstein, who was sitting on the edge of the bed and was also accompanying him, and asked, "Life imprisonment?"

"The secret prison in Chernobyl, you should know that place, three months ago she was escorted to the execution vehicle by the investigation team and the executive department, and arrived at the destination on September 9 after a long journey Today is the second month of her sentence," Manstein said.

"Life imprisonment, no parole, no defense, no appeal." Lin Nian said softly, looking at the blurred court scene previewed next to the suspension sign, "This is equivalent to putting an end to the rest of her life."

"It's an ellipsis. Being imprisoned there doesn't mean death. She still has a long time to repent and redeem herself in it."

"Self-salvation in a nuclear radiation area?" Lin Nian asked, "The most important thing is that she didn't do anything wrong at all."

"Lin Nian." Manstein opened his mouth, and finally ended with a sigh. He stretched out his hand and shook it twice, lightly pressing Lin Nian's shoulder on the chair, "...it's too late now."

"Don't talk to me in this tone, please? Professor Manstein." Lin Nian avoided Manstein's hand, stared at the screen and said, "You are her tutor, you know what she is like What kind of thing would a person do? I am a victim, don't you even believe what the victim said? The person who hurt me was someone else, not her. "

A trace of indescribable emotion flashed across Manstein's eyes. The words rushed to his throat and seemed to be stuck by something. Said, "Of course I know what kind of person she is, even if the evidence is in front of me, I don't want to believe it, I found him, please let me see her, I asked her why she didn't speak, why she kept it all the time What do you think she meant when she was silent and she didn't say anything, nothing?"

Default in disguise?
"The Beretta is her gun, and there are only her fingerprints on the gun. The surveillance video was shot down in advance, and there is no trace of the presence of a third person. The most important thing is her speech." Man Shi Tan Yin took a deep breath, "Her speech spirit is not the 'mountain' recorded in the case, the investigation team took her blood for testing, and it turned out that her bloodline did exceed the standard. The verbal spirit released by the forced inducement does indeed match the details of the shooting."

"Precepts." Lin Nian said.

"Collude with forces outside the party to murder the Commissioner of the Executive Department, do you know what the crime is?" Manstein's voice was trembling, and his hands couldn't help clenched into fists, "I told her not to plead guilty, if there is anything I will help her with things, but she is unwilling to tell me anything. She knows what she is facing, and she is willing to accept it. Do you know how many times I ran to the executive department until I was placed under house arrest by the investigation team? But she put It all fell on deaf ears and I wanted to help her, I really wanted to help her but I couldn't."

Lin Nian closed his eyes, as if he could feel Manstein's helpless and angry collapse. Mandy was his student, so he wanted to believe that Mandy was innocent, but his trust was repeatedly violated. The indisputable facts were crushed, and he was forced to accept this painful reality in the past four months. His student was a murderer, and his persistence was crushed into pieces like a joke. In the silence of words.

Lin Nian now understands that even if he is the only one who has the truth, his right to speak has been negligible, the trial has been settled, and the person has been sent to the place of detention. If death is not mentioned, then the coffin with Mandy Gonzalez written on it has been sealed in the soil, and the mountain peaks to be dug out and crossed are one after another.

"I understand." Lin Nian said, "This matter should be considered in the long term."

Manstein looked at Lin Nian and didn't say anything. He only thought that Lin Nian's defense for Mandy before was just trying to conceal the facts and help the girl get off the hook, because he knew Lin Nian, and this boy had some Always value friendship and affection more than anything else.

"This incident was beyond my expectation and involved many things." Lin Nian stopped arguing with Manstein, "I need time to sort out my thoughts."

"A lot has happened in these four months, and it may take some time for you to accept it, but your sister never stopped to see you during this time. I think you should spend more time talking to her. Talk." Manstein said with his head down, "I hope you can think about it, at least because you are fine for the time being, and she didn't really hurt anyone, so she was not directly purged by the party rules, but was imprisoned for life. "

"No, someone was injured, and the injury was serious, but it wasn't me." Lin Nian said.

"Who?"

"It's nothing." After a long time, Lin Nian slowly shook his head, "I'm a little tired now, and I want to be alone."

Manstein nodded, got up and left, and closed the door when he walked out of the ward, leaving Lin Nian alone in the room.

He closed his eyes, and the scene in his memory reappeared before his eyes, and the meaning of the girl's last roar finally emerged.

At the last moment, she didn't want to ask for help, but to remind Lin Nian.

It wasn't her that the shot was aimed at, but Lin Nian.

Or the person behind Lin Nian.

"Yelena, are you still there?" Lin Qingqing called out.

But no one in the ward responded to him, the curtains were blown up by the wind, and heart-piercing snowflakes drifted into them, freezing thousands of miles outside the campus.

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(End of this chapter)