Chapter 165: Righteous Judgment!
Under the complicated gaze of everyone, Eric Kermengo pulled out the long knife that was stuck in the side, walked up to T'Challa, and slowly raised the knife, ready to slash at T'Challa who was kneeling on the ground.
"No!"
"T'Challa! Stand up! ”
Princess Su Rui shouted anxiously, and the queen couldn't help covering her mouth, her eyes full of horror.
Although the former king T'Chaka did not speak, the nervous look on his face and the anxious look in his eyes spoke for themselves.
It's just that the sacred challenge ceremony cannot be interrupted, and the ceremony will only end after one party surrenders or dies, and at this time, T'Chaca's heart is extremely hopeful, T'Challa can admit defeat, he doesn't care if he loses the throne, but he can't lose his son!
"T'Challa ......"
It's just a pity that the stubborn T'Challa has no intention of admitting defeat, although he is seriously injured and kneeling on the ground and can't get up, his eyes are still full of unyielding and persistence.
Just as Eric Kermengo's raised knife slashed at T'Challa, a spear suddenly stabbed from the side, blocking his long knife.
Everyone looked along the spear, but found that it was the high priest Zu Li who had been standing by in time to stop it, destroy the challenge ceremony, and save T'Challa.
Of course, this is also because Eric has reservations and does not use all his strength, otherwise, if Eric slashes this blow with all his strength, Zu Li will not be able to block it anyway.
"Let him go, kill me if you want to, it's because of me that your father will die!"
As he spoke, Zu Li let go of his grip on the spear and let it fall into the pool, looking at Eric with a look of death.
After all these years, he still can't let go of what happened back then, although he never admits it, but they did wrong.
Today, let him atone for his sins with his life.
Hearing this, Eric Kermango's eyes were cold, and he stared at Zu Li's eyes, and sure enough, as God said, his father's death was because of Zu Li.
Eric put down the long knife in his hand, and walked towards Zu Li with a fierce attitude, T'Challa and the queen, who had lost their mobility, and Princess Su Rui and others hurriedly shouted to stop them when they saw this.
"No!"
"Zu Li!"
"Don't!"
In the anxious shouts of everyone, Eric walked up to Zu Li and looked down at him coldly, but instead of directly swinging his knife to kill him as everyone thought, he looked into his eyes and asked in a cold voice.
"Can you plead guilty?"
"I'm guilty!"
Zu Li said as he fell to his knees and lowered his head deeply, the river reflecting his face, full of pain and remorse, and a hint of relief that was about to be liberated.
Although he did not kill Prince Nichob with his own hands, Nichob died because of him, and most importantly, he left Eric Kermango's mother and son to fend for themselves, along with King T'Chaca.
Although Nichob is guilty, his wife and children are innocent, they are the people of Wakanda, and they deserve to be brought back to Wakanda to get the status and rights and life they deserve, instead of struggling to survive in the slums.
But they chose to run away because of their mistakes, abandoning their compatriots, which is the place where he can not forgive himself the most, and after more than twenty years, remorse still swells up in his heart from time to time, tormenting him.
He had also quietly gone back without the knowledge of King T'Chaca, to see how their mother and son lived, but he could not find them anyway, and it seemed that they had completely disappeared from this world.
Zu Li once thought that the two had been killed, without the protection of their husband and father, and that it would be difficult for orphans and widows to survive in this chaotic slum, they might have died under the knife of a burglar, or they might have been shot dead in some dark corner, and the death of both of them was because of their cowardice and evasion!
Zu Li, who returned from the United States, was completely disheartened, and regardless of T'Chaca's reuse and retention, he resolutely gave up his identity as the head of the "war dog" of the Wakanda intelligence department, threw himself into the arms of the leopard god, and became a priest.
When he learned that Eric Kermungo was Prince Nichob's son, Zuli's feelings were extremely complicated.
It turned out that he didn't die, and Zu Li's heart couldn't help but feel a little glad, so that he still had a chance to atone for his sins.
For T'Chaka to give up the throne to Eric Cummongo, Zu Li couldn't agree more, this is what he deserves, they owe him, and it is not enough to offset the damage to Eric caused by the mistakes they have done.
It's just that T'Challa has nothing to do with it, after becoming a priest, Zu Li never married and had no children, and he has always treated T'Challa, who he watched grow up, as his own son.
Seeing that he was about to die under Eric Kermengo's sword in order to fight for the throne, Zu Li could not care about anything else, and resolutely violated the traditions and rules of the challenge ceremony, stretched out the priest's spear in his hand, blocked the long knife cut by Eric Kermengo, and saved T'Challa.
T'Challa was innocent, he shouldn't have been involved, Zu Li was willing to end it all with his own life and make up for his mistakes.
Eric Kermungo looked down at Zu Li, who was kneeling in front of him, turned to look at the previous king, T'Chaca, and asked in a deep voice.
"T'Chaca!"
"You can plead guilty!?"
In the complicated eyes of everyone, Techaka, who looked complicated, slowly walked into the baptismal pool, came to Eric, and fell to his knees in the pool.
"Father!"
"T'Chaca!"
Princess Su Rui and the queen couldn't help but shout.
T'Challa looked at his father, kneeling in front of him, his face full of guilt and remorse, and his heart was extremely entangled, and he opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything.
"I'm guilty!"
T'Chaka looked up at Eric Kermengo and said in a low voice, from Eric's face, he seemed to see the shadow of his younger brother Nichob, this is his relative, his own nephew, and after he killed his father by mistake, because he was cowardly, because he didn't dare to face it, he chose to escape, abandoned their mother and son, and ignored them for more than 20 years, he, guilty!
Looking at the two kneeling in front of him, Eric Kermengo tightened the long knife in his hand, and just when T'Challa's eyes tightened, he was holding his body, and he was going to fight to save his father, but Eric threw the long knife in his hand into the water, raised his head and said loudly.
"You made an unforgivable mistake back then!"
"Now, since you two have confessed your guilt, then I will hand you over to the Council of Elders, and the elders of the various clans will judge your crimes and give you a just verdict!"
"Atonement for your original sins!"