Chapter 45 Chapter 45 The Beginning of Bai Wuyin

Inside the court's waiting room, I stamped my feet anxiously.

It's useless to stay calm. You're going there to commit perjury, not to be the defendant! Okay, you can still be sentenced for perjury, but the nature of the punishment is different, so stop shaking your damn legs!

The police officer accompanying me stared at my wildly shaking left leg with a puzzled look. "Are you nervous?"

I took a sip of water from the table. "Hmm. This is my first time seeing such a big scene, and I'm about to face the deputy commander directly. I'm really scared."

The officer understood and, remembering my identity, patted my shoulder sympathetically, saying, "You're a victim, too. You have the right to speak out."

"As for whether speaking out is useful, I don't know."

The police officer didn't say the second half of the sentence, I made it up in my mind.

I looked up at the screen showing the live broadcast of the trial.

Sinloya stood in the dock, her head bowed, her expression unclear. Her defense lawyer, meanwhile, was spitting and refuting each piece of evidence presented by the plaintiff's lawyer. In his excitement, he even pulled a Bible from his pocket and slammed it repeatedly on the table, creating a loud noise.

Levin, sitting on the podium, could not tolerate this rude behavior, which was completely different from the behavior of lawyers in Shangxing City. He frowned and picked up the gavel to strike, "Defendant's lawyer, please be careful with your words and actions. This is your first warning!"

The lawyer, with his flamboyant appearance but crude manners, instantly put away his smile and bowed to Mr. Levin on the podium. "I'll try my best."

Then he started a new debate.

I was amazed through the screen and no longer felt nervous.

Look at that mouth moving so smoothly, how interesting.

The deputy head of the group sat in the plaintiff's seat, his face ashen and his eyes vicious, as if he wanted to shoot the defendant's lawyer to death on the spot.

Her lawyer also blushed and stammered, not knowing how to refute. The most powerful rebuttal he could come up with was "nonsense."

But he was right, the defendant's lawyer was talking nonsense.

I took a deep breath and picked up the newspaper in the summons room to relieve boredom.

This morning's freshly-pressed newspaper still has a strong scent of ink on it. When I rub it, my fingertips turn black.

I flipped through it casually and saw the headline on the front page.

Councillor Coriaron Ho proposes tax-related proposals

A closer look revealed that due to the intense fighting in the military zone, to better support the front lines and ensure robust logistics, the consumption tax will be raised to 37% and the personal income tax to 41% during the war. Furthermore, the government has opened a donation channel, urging citizens to actively respond to the policy and support the frontline soldiers.

The proposal was supported by the jury and decided to be officially implemented on the 1st of next month.

Hahaha, let me tell you, there's so much pushback on building public spaces. When it comes to money laundering, bribery, and making money, these Tianlong people are quicker than anyone else, fearing they'll miss out if they're a step behind.

I turned to another page and saw the analysis of the Sinroya case.

Before I could continue browsing, I heard the crowd's uproar on the screen above.

"My client is just a special student from Keya District!" The defendant's lawyer held up a printed transcript and showed it to everyone, especially the twelve jurors. "She has excellent grades, a lively and cheerful personality, and is always helpful at school!"

Among these twelve jurors, the team leader is one of them.

I put down the newspaper and watched it with relish.

In fact, not all matters in the Upward City require the participation of a jury. After all, there are only thirty juries, and the Upward City has a population of one million.

Therefore, the jury will consciously select important matters to deal with. This time, the murder of the deputy head's child involves the jury's public prestige, so the jury must participate in it, and the twelve jurors of the highest level are required.

The tax proposal put forward by Corialon was somewhat important, but not the most important, so he only needed to submit the documents to the jury and get their approval.

I couldn't help but start talking darkly.

Those officials' attempts to get jurors to approve the documents in advance involved bribery.

The defendant's lawyer's defense had reached the most important point, and I sat upright waiting to be summoned.

"I interviewed her classmates. Eight out of ten of them didn't believe Sinroya was the mastermind behind a murder! She may have kidnapped the victim, but do you have direct evidence proving she killed and dismembered the victim?"

The deputy head suddenly stood up and retorted, "When the body was found, the scalpel with her fingerprints was still inside my child!"

The defense attorney was unhurried. "Is this why you're accusing my client of masterminding this murder? Don't you think that's ridiculous?"

"She murdered my child and even dismembered his body and threw it into the garbage dump! If she is not the mastermind, then what is she?" The deputy head glared at him.

However, this sentence made the defendant's lawyer burst into laughter. He then turned to look at Xin Luoya and said, "Ms. Xin, I'm also curious. What hatred would make you do such a cruel thing to the deputy leader's child?"

Xin Luoya scoffed, "I'm innocent too. He resisted so fiercely at the time, and it was my first time doing this, so of course I didn't hold back. I had no choice but to destroy his glands and disable him. I just didn't expect him to bleed so much, so it's not my fault."

This shameless defense made the already angry deputy head completely lose his mind.

Her eyes were red, and she frantically took out her pistol from her waist and aimed it at Sinluoya, "You bastard!"

The plaintiff's lawyer panicked, "Your Excellency! Calm down, Your Excellency, this is a court!"

The defendant's lawyer, in a triumphant gesture, spread his arms and shouted at Levin, "Your Honor, you heard me. My client had no subjective intent to kill! So even if she did kill someone, it doesn't mean she's guilty!"

"Wow——" The crowd looked shocked.

I also gasped and fell back, unable to believe that I could hear these words coming from a lawyer.

Where did the Horry family find this rogue lawyer? Are they really not afraid of being assassinated after leaving the court?

Is this what it feels like to have someone to back you up? It feels so good.

The courtroom erupted in noisy discussions, and Levin banged the gavel for the second time, urging everyone to be quiet. "Silence!"

"Defendant's lawyer, I'm giving you one last chance. Watch your words and actions." Levin gave the defendant's lawyer a second warning.

This time, the defendant's lawyer didn't bow like a gentleman. Instead, he softened his tone and said to the crowd, "My client did kill someone, but it was unintentional. She also learned that her original intention was just to teach the deceased a lesson, but she didn't expect the process to go so smoothly."

"Admittedly, my client is an outstanding student in medical school, but she is from the Keya district. I dare to ask everyone here, would you allow your children to come into contact with people from the Keya district?"

No one answered.

It is a fact that the citizens of the Keya District are all inactive, vulgar, lazy, and lowly people with no sense of beauty. Otherwise, the President would not have gone to such great lengths to establish a military zone between the Keya District and the Upward City to isolate the poor atmosphere of the Keya District.

The defendant's lawyer clearly didn't like giving people face, and he openly revealed everyone's past. "Look, everyone here doesn't want to do this either."

"The deceased was the deputy leader's child. He had a privileged background, outstanding looks, and was an alpha," the defendant's lawyer said in a resounding voice. "How could my client have managed to kill and dismember someone like that all by himself for three days?"

"So, I think there's something wrong with this whole case. There must be a mastermind behind it!"

"We have a witness!" the defense attorney yelled.

Levin was already overwhelmed by the multiple twists and turns of the case.

He adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose and said, "Summons."

I curled my lips secretly.

Thank you to this lawyer for his hard work. After going through so much trouble to prepare the groundwork, he finally gets to the point.

The police officer patted my shoulder and said, "Let's go."

"Okay, thank you for your help."

The closer I got to the trial, the more dazzling the sunlight outside the window became.

It turns out it’s already noon, no wonder the sun is so scorching.

I reviewed the testimony I was about to give in my mind, and walked into the courtroom under the guidance of the police officer, facing the gaze of the crowd.

Damn it, stop shaking your dead legs!

You were very good at sweet talk before, so why can't you do that now even for a simple act of perjury?

Okay, okay, stop thinking about it and get rid of all the extra yellow waste. Otherwise it will be so embarrassing if you talk about it in public.

Damn it, I told you to stop shaking!

I took the witness stand.

A Bible was placed in front of me.

"Can you guarantee that what you are going to say next comes from your heart and is not false?"

"I promise that everything I'm going to say next is from the bottom of my heart and I won't lie." I put my hand on the Bible and swore.

In the whole text, only the first word "I" comes from the heart.

Facing everyone's gaze, I glanced at everyone present.

Judge Levin Scott, who literally had his heart on his left side, sat on the podium; the angry deputy head whose child was killed; the humble plaintiff's lawyer who suppressed the deputy head; the defendant Sin Roya, who didn't care from beginning to end; and the defendant's lawyer who caused a commotion by talking nonsense.

Of course, there are many other acquaintances.

For example, Weisha, Yosir and Banglinton.

It's just a death of one person, how could it attract so many people to come and watch, as if they take the case so seriously?

What about the tens of thousands of people who died in the slums?

Bai Wuyin asked himself and answered himself, perhaps it was because the real purpose of those hundreds of thousands of people was just to fill the soil.

Her legs stopped shaking, but her hands were still on the Bible, and she swore to God word by word: "I swear that what I do comes from my heart, and I look up to God in my words and deeds."

"Whatever I say and do next is worthy of God."

Bullshit, Bai Wuyin thought to himself.

Something that doesn't exist has no right for her to look up to, nor does it have the ability to make her feel guilty.

"Very good, Ms. Bai, please repeat the conversation between you and my girlfriend Ms. Xin on the 21st." said the defendant's lawyer.

Bai Wuyin took a deep breath, let the air circulate in his lungs, and then exhaled through his nose.

At this moment, in front of the camera, no one could stop her from speaking.

"I'm Bai Wuyong." She began to introduce herself and delivered the testimony she had prepared for three days.

"Before the 21st, Sinluoya and I had no contact at all."

"It's useless to repeat what happened on the 21st." Judge Scott reminded her.

Bai Wuyin didn't glance at the judge on the podium, but instead looked at the person in the dock. "On the 21st, I finished my internship and went to the square to relax. Then I ran into Sin Luoya, who was in a hurry."

"That area is reserved for the wealthy, and there are no surveillance cameras installed to ensure safety and privacy."

Hearing this, Bunlington Horry in the audience smiled slightly and stopped being lazy.

"I had no intention of disturbing her, but seeing Sinluoya in such a mess with blood on her hands, I approached her and asked if she needed any help."

Sinluoya raised her eyes slightly, and deep emotions appeared in her blue eyes.

"Xinluoya asked me to help her. Then she threw a box to me and said it came from the slums." Bai Wuyin spoke clearly, word by word, "The slums before the explosion."

"Swish--" A harsh pushing and pulling sound came from the audience seats.

Banglinton Horry and the deputy leader simultaneously cast angry glances at Bai Wuyin.

The former had no expression on his face, while the latter kicked the lawyer away, pulled out the gun from his waist, pointed it at Bai Wuyin's head and pulled the trigger!

"You ghetto bastard! How dare you slander me!"

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The author has something to say: In fact, even stories told from the perspective of "I" are not necessarily without falsehood.