More than ten minutes later, other members of parliament and representatives sent by their families to observe the trial arrived one after another.

Li Lin, Caitlin and Jace, who had just arrived, stood in the audience seats with other spectators.

With the friction sound of mechanical gears dragging chains to rotate, the closed metal steel plates on the top and walls of the parliament hall slowly separated.

The rising sun in the early morning shines through the thickened glass inlaid with bronze grids, refracting and diffusing into the large interior space.

People who were whispering to each other stopped talking, and the noisy parliament hall gradually quieted down.

Councillors Salo, Hoskal, and Voslaton all had gloomy faces.

Heimerdinger puffed his beard and glared. After what happened last night, he also seemed to be in a bad mood.

Councilman Bolpok's expression could not be seen because he had transformed himself into a machine.

Mel, who was used to smiling all the time, also restrained his expression. He was now sitting on the chair with his right arm supporting the table and holding his chin, with an expressionless face.

After a while, Karina looked around at everyone and spoke slowly in a strong and resonant voice:

"I believe everyone knows what happened last night, or rather, quite a few people experienced it firsthand."

As the most direct victim of last night's incident, she has the most say, so she will chair this meeting.

Because the law enforcement officers and parliamentarians have not yet announced that the real target of Kayinna Verize, the mastermind behind the scenes, is actually Jiraman.

Except for those who are capable of finding out the truth of the case themselves, most of the family members are completely in the dark and know nothing no matter what they are asked.

In addition, several parliamentarians' families deliberately leaked false information, and they really believed that Zaun had deliberately targeted the Shangcheng family last night and had planned an attack.

"This incident has had a very serious impact. Not only the aristocratic families in Upper City, but all those participating in the Evolution Day Conference, including the citizens, have been implicated..."

Then, Kalina picked up the list that had been prepared long ago on the table in front of her and read out the names of all the families affected.

After a while, she cleared her throat and continued:

"Piltover is a city of evolution, a city of wealth and dreams. Since the Sungate opened over two hundred years ago and Piltover's birthday—Evolution Day—was designated, we have continued to revolutionize and innovate our technology, possessing world-leading technology.

"Evolution Day is our most important annual festival. Every year, the most significant technological innovations are announced on this day. We put these new technologies into use and work together to push the City of Progress forward...

"But it was just last night!" Suddenly, Kalina changed the subject and her words became fierce.

"Just before we were about to unveil our greatest groundbreaking invention of the year, a group of Zaun bandits used Ionia's hypnotic flower to poison us all and plundered all our research!"

Li Lin, who was standing in the audience, couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

Even though Mrs. Karina had already told him in advance, he couldn't help but complain in his heart when he heard it said in public:

This is too outrageous!

Shente Miao has snatched away all the research results. How could those few mercenaries empty out such a large warehouse?

Next to Li Lin, Caitlin looked a little absent-minded, obviously not paying attention to her mother's speech.

Jace's expression remained unchanged because he had received a message from Madam Kalina last night and was very clear about the procedures of today's meeting.

Moreover, he didn't like politics, nor did he like to think too much about trivial matters that had nothing to do with science. Today he was just ordered to complete the task.

Then, when Lady Karina succeeded in stirring up the emotions of the representatives present, Councillors Saro, Bolpok and Voslaton immediately listed all the unrest in Zaun in recent days and the measures taken against the Upper City.

Some Zaun thugs committed armed robbery, some gang members beat up lone law enforcement officers, and even the orphans from the Zaun sewers "smuggled" into the city to steal things could be used as examples.

In fact, apart from the seizure of the batch of glimmer potions that could significantly increase a person's combat effectiveness that was seized from Hillco, these cases occurred every year on Evolution Day.

However, they did have one unexpected advantage, which was that Hilco was secretly preparing to lead Zaun to compete with Piltover.

Gradually, the emotions of the audience were incited by the righteous words of the parliamentarians and they began to discuss in low voices.

Seeing that the time was almost right, Salo, Bolpok and Councillor Voslaton signaled to Kalina.

"Ahem..." Kalina put her right fist to her mouth and cleared her throat.

The scene fell silent again.

Then, she cast her gaze towards Li Lin, Caitlin, and Jace who were sitting in the front row of the audience, and said:

"Next, I would like to invite Miss Gilaman, Mr. Li Lin, and Mr. Tallis, the three people who rescued me from the criminals in the basement last night, to tell us what happened."

Amidst the mixed gazes of the crowd, the three walked to the center of the congressmen's round table.

"These three are my daughter and two talented craftsmen from the Gilaman family. As I said before, they were the ones who developed this groundbreaking invention. They were also the ones who helped my daughter rescue us last night."

Karina briefly introduced the three of them to everyone.

Immediately afterwards, the audience representatives present were in an uproar and extremely surprised.

Some marveled at their young achievements, some were surprised that Senator Gilaman had been rescued by one of their own family members, and some wondered what kind of device they had invented to earn such deep affection from the Gilaman family...

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