De Witz naturally felt the black star's compulsive gaze, but he was not taken by his momentum at all, but calmly retorted: "But he is not dead. “

"Dead people can't speak."

"Dead people can't stand here properly."

"Dead people don't think about what it's like to die."

His voice was a little mean: "The justification you just made me feel that this is a kind of disrespect for those who are really not alive. ”

"Nonsense, my client is naturally not a dead person, does this need you to say?" Black Star snorted coldly, "I mean, even though he didn't really die, he really experienced that feeling...... From this point of view alone, can the bone-chilling of death be regarded as non-existent? ”

"No, of course it is, and then what?" De Witz asked rhetorically.

"Huh?

"No matter how real the senses are, as long as the body is unscathed, consciousness remains...... Shouldn't it be a self-evident truth that it cannot be called true death? De Wittz looked around and said slowly, "You've probably heard of VR technology...... Although nowadays, we can't experience 100% virtual reality games, but with the development of technology, one day, we will have the opportunity to break free from the shackles of the physical body and travel freely in the virtual world composed of data......"

"At that time, our bodies in the virtual world will probably get the same feedback as our real bodies...... The degree of truth in all aspects, I think, will never be inferior to reality. “

"Of course, while getting positive feedback, we also have to accept those negative feedback, such as 'death'......"

"If there really is a day when we are killed in the virtual world and experience the fear of death, does that mean that we will also send the 'murderer' who 'killed' us in the Internet to prison?"

"It's a change of concept!" Black Star retorted with a cold face, "These two situations are fundamentally different concepts, and they can't be treated as equal at all...... The death of the virtual world, no matter how close to reality, we all know that such 'death' is fake! ”

"You mean that Thomas's death at that time is real?" De Witz wiped the dandruff off his shoulders and sneered, "Maybe all of us are just illusions built up by Mr. Thomas when he was dying!" ”

"Avoid the important and light! In fact, we all understand that it is not important what Thomas felt at that time, what is important is that it is a kind of 'early warning'! Black Star grimaced and said slowly, "If he doesn't come up with a solution in more than ten seconds, the foreseen future will become a reality!" If my client had really stopped the car at that time and was shot to death by Myerlen, he would not even have a chance to stand in the dock now! If that's the case, who are you upset about? ”

"Is it easy to take away Mr. Myerlen's life just because of a 'forewarning' that will not necessarily come true?

"At that time, it was either you or I died, no matter how extreme the act was, it was a helpless move, right?" Blackstar said lazily.

"Helpless, not necessarily, right? Is what the eye sees real? Is the future he foresees a real future? Whether he can foresee the future is not yet known, but one thing is clear, and that is the past that has happened, the future before the crime...... It wasn't Myerlen who pulled out his pistol and shot Thomas, it was Thomas who drove a sports car and killed Myrlen! “

"Isn't this the result of my client's change of life?" Black Star said leisurely: "If the future cannot be changed, then what is the meaning of our existence? ”

"Hey! Since there is no one result from the discussion, why not ask the jurors what they think? De Witz sneered, then turned his gaze to a female juror at the side of the jury, and asked, "Your Excellency Juror, do you think Thomas was intentional homicide or justified self-defense?" “

The female juror, who was in her forties, apparently did not expect De Witz to suddenly ask her questions, and her face was visibly hesitant for a moment, and then she replied, "This ...... Although it didn't happen yet, Thomas did feel the death and, in my opinion, should have been justified in self-defense...... Right? “

It seems that she herself is a little hesitant about the answer.

De Witz did not get an answer in his favor, but he was not too anxious, but bowed slightly and asked the female juror a question that seemed unrelated to the case: "Ma'am, do you like desserts?" “

"Huh?" The female juror didn't react for a while, and after a while, she calmed down and hesitated: "I like it quite a bit." “

"Do you usually go to a dessert shop?"

"Occasionally."

"Very well, then I'd like to ask you one more question - what if, I mean, you have the same ability to see the future as Thomas. This is the premise of all assumptions. “

"One day, you missed the taste of the cake in a certain dessert shop, so you left for the dessert shop and ordered your favorite cream cake."

"It didn't take long for the clerk to take the cream cake you ordered from the shelves and put it in front of you, and since there is only one cover on top of the cream cake, you can taste the sweetness of the cream cake immediately as soon as you take off the cover."

"Herein lies the problem - because you have the ability to foresee the future, in the future, you have already eaten the cake in front of you, and you have already eaten the cake in advance......"

"In a sense, even if you ask the clerk to take the cake back to the shelf now, it doesn't stop you from already experiencing the taste of the cake — because that's one of the possibilities."

"And that's exactly what you did."

"And my question is...... Do you think that's right? Or to put it another way, do you think you should pay a dessert shop? ”

"Of course not!" The female juror muttered, "Why should I pay the dessert shop." ”

A determined smile appeared on the corner of De Witz's mouth, and he asked, "Why don't you pay?" You've already experienced the feeling of 'eating the cake'! “

"But that's just a possible timeline for the future, right? In reality, I didn't touch the cake for half a minute, which means that even if I asked the clerk to take the cake back to the shelf, the store wouldn't lose anything! “

De Witz smiled and said: "What you said makes a lot of sense, even if anything happens in the future, but at this point in time, the 'cake' is unscathed......"

"So now, do you still think Thomas is innocent?"