A handsome young man in military academy uniform came out, nodded to them, and put on gloves.
"..."
Hearing this, Mu Qingyun frowned. It was one thing to be taken advantage of, since the man was good-looking, but it would be terrible if it turned out he was a woman.
“If you hide behind me, they probably won’t be able to find you.” Kazel casually grabbed her arm and pulled her behind him without making a sound.
His thoughts were the same as Mu Qingyun's: since the trial team had been mobilized, Xiong Ruoyou must have something to hide.
They just need to stall until the things on Xiong Ruoyou are found.
Thinking of this, he glanced at Xiong Ruoyou resentfully, wondering if Xiong had no brains at all.
"Hmm." Mu Qingyun responded faintly and hid behind him.
Su, who was standing nearby, witnessed their actions throughout. Her face remained expressionless, but she felt extremely uncomfortable inside.
Why are these two so close?
At a time like this, why are they still talking to each other? What are they even saying? Why not just talk to him a bit more and let him try to talk to the review team? Wouldn't that solve the problem?
Seriously, how can this person be so clueless?
He lowered his head and stopped looking at Mu Qingyun and Kazel.
"Found it!"
Over there, the female judge found a small bag in Xiong Ruoyou's storage bag, held it high, and exclaimed, "I found the berserk powder, this is it!"
Wow, there really is one?
[Damn, my house has collapsed. I'm speechless. What's wrong with Black Bear? Wouldn't it be better to have Brother Mu as a powerful backer? Why didn't he just throw away the banned drugs sooner?]
[The person upstairs must have questionable values. Banned drugs are illegal to carry; it's her fault for bringing them!]
"Impossible!" Xiong Ruoyou stared at the small bag in the judge's hand, her face turning pale with disbelief.
That thing was given to her by His Highness.
Moreover, when His Highness gave it to her, there was no one around, and her live stream was turned off, so it was impossible for anyone to see it.
Wait, no way—someone will see this?
"No, no, she's the pride of the planet, she wouldn't do this to me." She shook her head and muttered a denial of her own conjecture, but once the thought took hold, it couldn't be stopped from creeping into her mind.
"..."
Mu Qingyun glanced at Xiong Ruoyou, whose face didn't look too good, and sighed softly. This child was probably really hurt this time.
“Xiong Ruoyou, who gave you this? Tell us now, and you still have a chance.”
"It's Mu Xueyao!" Upon hearing this, Xiong Ruoyou immediately stopped hiding it and called out.
"Alright, we've already found everything here. Are you going to drag others down with you?" The female judge was clearly a supporter of Mu Xueyao, and she sneered disdainfully, "You didn't say anything before, but now that we've found it, do you think we're fools?"
When the other judges saw that physical evidence had been found, they immediately stopped the body searches. "I regret to inform you that because of the personal actions of your teammates, your entire team will be eliminated."
"It wasn't me! It really wasn't me!" Xiong Ruoyou suddenly realized that Mu Xueyao wasn't targeting her, but rather Brother Mu!
"This morning, when I went to the river to fetch water, I ran into Mu Xueyao. She gave me this thing and asked me to keep it for her. This thing really isn't mine!"
Xiong Ruoyou shook her head repeatedly, tears welling up in her eyes, but she held them back. "I was trying to clean up the water droplets that splashed on the live stream device, and I accidentally turned off the live stream. That's when she gave it to me!"
"Alright, shut up!" The female judge had clearly lost her patience. She snorted coldly and grabbed Xiong Ruoyou's arm. "How could it be such a coincidence? And why would Her Highness target you? Her Highness is such a gentle and kind person, why would she only treat you like this?"
Wow, this woman's way of speaking is a bit......you know.
"What's wrong? I think she's absolutely right. How could it be such a coincidence? And according to Black Bear, didn't Her Highness plan this all along?"
[Really, our Highness couldn't possibly do that, right? I bet it's because Black Bear likes Brother Mu, and Brother Mu and Your Highness don't get along, so when Black Bear's affair was exposed, he dragged Your Highness into it.]
Does nobody believe Sister Black Bear? I don't think she would do something like that, given her personality.
[The person upstairs clearly hasn't experienced the harsh realities of society. Not everyone who wears a human skin is human. You can't tell a person from a monster just by looking at their appearance.]
...
"Xiong Ruoyou, have you touched that thing?" Mu Qingyun asked Xiong Ruoyou loudly, completely unaffected by the female judge.
"No, Mu Xueyao put this in the bag. I didn't touch it," Xiong Ruoyou quickly replied.
Hearing this, she turned to look at the handsome young man in front of her, "Brother, as the trial team of the military academy, you can't be so arbitrary in your actions. If Xiong Ruoyou touched that thing, it must have her fingerprints on it."
If her fingerprints weren't detected, it means this wasn't her intentional act; it's possible someone else brought it to her, or it could be as she said.
She finished speaking in one breath, using every word the original owner had in her mind.
The handsome young man was slightly taken aback when Mu Qingyun started talking so much. He subconsciously turned to look at the group leader next to him.
He had only recently joined the trial panel and did not have that much power.
"There are many ways to erase fingerprints," the team leader said coldly, staring at her.
In this high-tech planetary era, if we rely solely on fingerprints to solve cases, there would be countless wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice in the world.
“However, I apologize for what our inspector said earlier,” he continued. “One cannot be too arbitrary in one’s actions, and what she said was indeed offensive.”
After saying that, he took out a testing device from his storage bag and handed it to the handsome young man next to him, saying, "Go check it out."
"Yes." The handsome young man nodded, took the testing device, and quickly walked towards Xiong Ruoyou and the others.
“Even if we can’t find the fingerprints, there’s no way to prove that this thing isn’t hers,” Kazel whispered in Mu Qingyun’s ear as he watched the handsome young man leave.
“I know,” she said coldly, looking up at the detector. “Today’s setup was inexplicable, but we can find a loophole and downplay the incident.”
To downplay a major issue?
"So, you want Xiong Ruoyou to accept this injustice?" Kazel raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.
Judging from Mu Qingyun's personality, she doesn't seem like the type to let herself feel stifled, nor does she seem like the type to say things like "make a big deal out of a small one."
Even if Xiong Ruoyou could tolerate this grievance, Mu Qingyun certainly couldn't.
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