Chapter 462: Trial
"There are not many high-level psychics in the guard team. If the other party forcibly takes people away or kills them, we will be in a passive position," Zhuang Mingxu said. After thinking about the few people he brought, he sent He Song, an earth-type psychic from the Miracle Team, to protect Xing Lu closely.
After a busy night, the Jiaoyang team did not find anyone. At the trial the next morning, Ling Jiaoyang attended the courtroom which was temporarily converted from the office with dark circles under his eyes.
Lu Weiyi and Zhuang Mingxu attended the event together. Before leaving, Zhuang Mingxu felt that he might not see such a court trial scene again, so he brought Zhuang Aiyi and Taotao along, using the excuse that they wanted to broaden their horizons.
As soon as the family of four got out of the car, the members of the various bases who were invited to the scene fell silent for a moment. Tang Bai, who was sitting not far from the defendant's seat, responded to Zhuang Aiyi's greeting and whispered, "This is a trial, why did you bring your child?"
"Everyone from our base has arrived, and there's no one to look after the children, so we have to take them along," Zhuang Mingxu said solemnly.
"Uncle Tang, Aiyi will be good and won't speak loudly." Zhuang Aiyi hugged Tang Bai's arm and shook it. Taotao immediately followed his example and hugged his legs, smiling at him with curved eyebrows.
"Oh, you two are really..." Tang Bai immediately picked up Taotao and sat him on his lap, kissed him on the face, and then seemed to feel something was wrong, so he held him in his arms and shook him, "Master Zhuang, how old is Taotao? Why do I feel like he hasn't grown much?"
Zhuang Mingxu and Lu Weiyi glanced at each other inadvertently. Since Taotao appeared in the outside world, he has been with Zhuang Aiyi most of the time and rarely returns to the space. At the beginning, he and Lu Weiyi could not be too far apart, but after a long time, there was no restraint. The only obvious point was that he had not grown taller in the past few years, and even his appearance had not changed much.
Fortunately, I can speak fluently now and I am much more flexible. I am no longer as ignorant as I was at the beginning.
Zhuang Mingxu held Zhuang Aiyi in his arms and sat him in the seat between them as if nothing had happened. "He has some health problems. The doctor said he may be developing slowly."
"It's that technology..." Tang Bai didn't finish his words, but Zhuang Mingxu understood what he meant.
After all, he had openly explained the origin of Zhuang Aiyi, which was achieved through advanced technology, but the public would feel that there were problems with things that were not popularized.
"Not sure. You know the current medical situation..." Zhuang Mingxu sighed and looked at Taotao who was looking around curiously with a distressed look on his face.
"Just live well. For us as parents, everything else is secondary. As long as we can survive, we can accept any situation." Tang Bai has a daughter of his own. He has been living in fear in the past few years since the end of the world, and he has been experiencing it in a trance the most.
A few people laughed and murmured for a while, and people who wanted to participate arrived intermittently, and the trial began.
There were five people sitting in the judgement seat, two of whom were from the Kyoto base, and the other three were from the Pingjin base, the Mengbei base, and the Hope base.
Xing Lu was brought in by the guards. After the presiding judge read out what happened, he turned around and asked Xing Lu if he had anything to add.
"Yes," Xing Lu said calmly, "I panicked yesterday."
People from various bases were talking in low voices as if they were watching a fun event. The grown men seemed to be keen on gossip. They were given a plate of melon seeds each and their saliva was flying everywhere.
On the other side, Ling Jiaoyang sat up straight nervously, while Ling Shengge beside him looked like he was planning something, with his legs crossed and the other man he had brought with him before in his arms. The man, who was not small in build, was in a leaning posture, which looked awkward no matter how you looked at it.
"All of this was planned by Ling Shengge. If she succeeds, she can steal a batch of advanced weapons and supplies from the Yuebanwan base. She planned everything. If she fails, she can humiliate me. It's a win-win situation anyway." No one expected Xing Lu to say such a thing. The originally calm Ling Shengge sat up straight at this time and looked at Xing Lu with indifference.
"Mr. Xing, that's not what you said yesterday," said a member of the Jiaoyang Team.
"Yesterday, I was in the Jiaoyang Team. If I hadn't followed her instructions, I would have been dead long ago." Xing Lu looked towards the Jiaoyang Team's position sarcastically. "She hates me because she likes her biological brother Ling Jiaoyang, and I am Ling Jiaoyang's first love."
“Oh shit, oh shit…”
"In the end times, can we still hear such explosive gossip?"
"No way. I saw Ling Shengge wearing a small camisole and entering Ling Jiaoyang's bedroom in the middle of the night before, and I felt something was wrong. Now it really is..."
"No, you mean something happened between them..."
…
The rustling sounds around them were not concealed at all, and even the looks from the members of the Prideful Sun Team when they looked at the brother and sister were filled with scrutiny and doubt.
Zhuang Mingxu originally thought that someone from the ruthless team would turn against Ling Jiaoyang and teach him a lesson immediately, but unfortunately, a few people just looked a little unhappy, said something to Ling Jiaoyang, turned around and left the courtroom.
At this moment, Ling Jiaoyang was hit by this sudden truth and didn't know how to react for a moment.
Ling Shengge, who was sitting like a queen, turned to look at Ling Jiaoyang with tears in her eyes, looking like she had been wronged but was stubborn and refused to give up.
"Xinglu, if you hate me for breaking up with you, just blame me. Don't say anything that will damage Shengge's reputation..."
"Does she have a reputation? When she drugged you and had sex with you, you didn't think about gaining a reputation anymore, right?" Xing Lu interrupted Ling Jiaoyang directly, "And I never hated you for leaving. Back then, Ling Shengge spread rumors to you that I was fooling around with someone else, and then sent me a photo of you in bed with a woman. Both sides misunderstood it, and this is the truth of our separation, so there's nothing to blame you for."
"Those words are false..." Ling Jiaoyang looked at Ling Shengge in disbelief, as if he had not expected it.
He loved his sister very much. Even though she had done something too extreme after the apocalypse, Ling Jiaoyang had never thought of doing anything to her, but he didn't expect that she would do the same thing again.
"Do you want to believe a liar?" Ling Shengge asked.
Ling Jiaoyang met her gaze without saying anything. After a long while, he said, "We might be in trouble this time."
"Not necessarily." Ling Shengge looked at Xing Lu fiercely.
Xing Lu looked at the two of them and smiled, "She hated that I could be with Ling Jiaoyang, so she destroyed our relationship. After the end of the world, I'm an ordinary person again. Keeping me by her side and sending me to others to sleep with is just the right way to bring her benefits, and also to vent her anger as I'm always carrying the reputation of Ling Jiaoyang's first love, so she chose me this time."
"Do you have any evidence to prove that what you said is true?" Ling Shengge crossed her arms and looked at him.
"I recorded it," Xing Lu laughed, "Also, I collected the things those two people left on my body and gave them to the guards. Changhong Base cannot do DNA testing, but Kyoto Base happens to be able to."
Just at this moment, someone took the broadcasting equipment and walked to the podium. After some operations, a clear recording was played. It was the whole process of Ling Shengge assigning him to trick people, except that some parts that blamed Ling Jiaoyang were deleted, and the purpose was completely targeted at Yuebanwan.
At the same time as the test report was submitted, one of the people who had just been arrested yesterday was also escorted up.
All the evidence has been collected in a complete set, leaving no room for excuses to refute it.
The defendant, Lu Weiyi, didn't even have a chance to speak. He listened to the judge reading out the various results and leaned over to ask Zhuang Mingxu, "Why did you change the purpose?"
"Of course it's to make an example of someone, so that those who have all kinds of thoughts will remember this case and consider their own strength." Besides, if he said that the other party's target was Ling Jiaoyang, it would at most provide some gossip to the people around him, which would be a personal grudge and would not be as easy to make a big deal out of it as raising it to the base level.
"The occurrence and process of the incident are all clear. Do the plaintiff and defendant have anything else to complain about?"
Lu Weiyi and Xing Lu both shook their heads.
"The court ruled that the Jiaoyang team lost the case. According to the compensation previously agreed upon, the Jiaoyang team is required to pay one million crystal cores to the Yuebanwan base as compensation."
"No, we didn't agree on an amount." Ling Jiaoyang knew very well what one million crystal cores meant. Upon hearing the verdict, he stood up and shouted.
"Is he going back on his word? Does he have no shame at all?"
"Which is more important, face or money?"
"Haha, so what if you don't regret it? Can you come up with one million crystal cores? That's equivalent to one million zombies. I mean, it's hard for a single force to come up with so many."
"Tsk, you tried to take advantage but ended up hurting yourself"
"Don't you think that it's so easy to owe Yuebanwan?"
Amidst the discussions all around, Zhuang Mingxu stood up calmly and looked towards the location of the Jiaoyang Team. "Captain Ling, now that the truth has been revealed, please abide by our agreement."
He straightened his folded cuffs, looking calm and unhurried. "In view of the huge amount, I will give you five days to prepare. I hope you don't try to escape by chance. After all... our base camp is right there."
"There's really no need for everyone to go to the point of exchanging a crystal core for a life, right? What do you think?"
Zhuang Mingxu's nonchalant threat made the members of the Jiaoyang team turn pale instantly. He seemed to be unaware of it and looked at the people who came forward to have fun.
"Thank you all for taking the time to witness the final outcome of this unjust case. I hope you can promote our Yuebanwan base to prevent people from misunderstanding our base director without knowing the truth. Zhuang has booked a lunch at Yipinxiang, and you can enjoy it at will with your court trial ticket."
"Thank you, Director Zhuang."
"We will definitely promote it to others. Everyone should be on guard against this kind of team that does not seek to improve itself but only wants to cheat others."
"That's right, who knows when the plot will be directed against us."
Amidst the buzz of conversation, Zhuang Mingxu glanced at Xu Sa who was not far away. Xu Sa understood and called a few people around him to walk towards the direction of the Jiaoyang Team.
"Captain Zhuang, we agreed that I will produce all the evidence and you will protect my safety." Before leaving, Xing Lu took a few steps forward and said.
He looked in the direction of the Jiaoyang Team. Someone was already walking towards him, and it was obvious from the angry look on his face that he had no good intentions.
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