Chapter 107: Counting of Votes
Volume IX, Chapter 107, Counting Results
The whole world was silent at this moment.
Because the banquet was broadcast live to the whole country. So, when it happened, it was unreservedly visible on public television in the street buildings and square gardens of the bustling city of Fiyan, as well as on the television screens in the living rooms and bars and restaurants of thousands of households.
When the fat man walked into the banquet hall with Barbara on his knife, everyone had not yet come to their senses.
When the fat man shouted out to seek justice, everyone thought that this was just a madman who looked like Lieutenant General Le Lei Tian Xingjian, but he didn't know why he was stimulated and had a mental breakdown.
When Li Fo stepped forward and talked to the fat man with a pale face, the political celebrities beside him, as well as several high-ranking officials in the police and military circles, all subconsciously persuaded him.
"Don't be impulsive. If you have something to say, it's good to say. ”
"If there is any grievance, let's sit down and talk, you put down the knife first"
However, after a few seconds, their voices stopped abruptly, and one by one their mouths opened wide and stunned, the muscles on their faces, their eyelids, and the corners of their mouths. I twitch uncontrollably
"She me!"
The fat man wept in mourning.
His neck stretched forward slightly, and on a mournful big cake face, a pair of small tricky ears stubbornly beckoned forward. His facial features have been pulled together, the corners of his grinning mouth are pruning downward, tears and snot are mixed together, and the painful appearance is like a Shar Pei dog that has been robbed of his chastity!
In the banquet hall, people's eyes were straight and their expressions were glazed.
The people in front of the TV screen opened their mouths stupidly, looked at this fat man who was not outstanding, and turned to look at Barbara, who was charming and sexy.
The singers on the stage forgot to sing, the guests went to drink, the hostesses forgot to work, and even the bartenders who were playing fancy bartending forgot to catch the shaker in their hands.
In the speeding flying car, An's mother pointed to the TV screen and looked at her daughter next to her in surprise. An Lei looked dazed and turned her head to look at Margaret. Margaret's eyes lit up with excitement.
The chubby face on TV is just frozen in the footage without a freeze frame.
A moment later, the whole world was like a bomb falling on the surface of the water, and after stirring up a monstrous giant*, the sounds, the movements, all flowed back from the frozen time.
No one could believe that the president held a banquet. Someone actually took hostages with a knife. No one dared to believe that the woman who was so beautiful and sexy that people could lose her soul at a glance was actually claimed by this gangster, took possession of his body, and forced away the woman he loved the most
The noise exploded with a bang, and people were going crazy.
That charming woman, ** the man covered in flesh?
This is too outrageous!
On TV, the fat man was crying bitterly, and the hand holding the knife was shaking incessantly.
"You scoundrel," he burst into tears and scolded Barbara with a crying voice: "It's not enough for you to ** me once, and you also used your brother's authority to let his men arrest me and bring me to your Beverly Manor, ** me twice, three times"
Barbara, who was strangled by his arms around her neck, had blank eyes, like a lifeless rag doll. Only those who are close can see her humiliation and anger that is almost to the limit through her trembling body.
In Barbara's life. It may not be the most dangerous, but it is definitely the most humiliating.
When the fat man grabbed her like a chicken, strangled her neck, and put a knife on her neck, she instantly imagined countless images in her mind, and imagined countless possible actions and statements of the fat man.
But she never dreamed that this fat man would say that she ** him!
It's a basin of cold, dirty water!
I'm afraid eleven out of ten people won't believe in fat people.
However, Barbara could clearly understand at this moment that this despicable fat man did not intend to slander himself with such an almost absurd statement, or that he had never thought of explaining anything to these people here and justifying anything to the people in front of the TV.
This demon is playing.
Although he cried a lot, only himself and his nearest brother Li Fo could see the vicious smile in his eyes.
He is passionate about acting, and the more people there are, the more energetic he becomes.
Now he is completely excited and has entered the play.
He kept rubbing tears and snot on his neck, constantly performing his grief and indignation in front of people, constantly pouring the most vicious dirty water on himself, and gushing endlessly in front of the entire Republic of Filipino, portraying himself as a yin baby**.
He didn't care how ridiculous it was, he didn't care if people believed him. He's just humiliating and torturing himself in this way!
It's a game for him.
A game of cat and mouse.
He was elated!
Looking at the fat man's tearful face and complaining expression, Barbara's heart became colder and colder.
The tears and snot on the neck slid into the body like ice slag. It made her tremble all over. The fat man's breath sprayed on her neck. Being strangled by this vicious man is like being entangled in the body by a cold poisonous snake.
Looking at his sister's face that had gradually changed, Li Fo's heart was as painful as a pinprick.
"Who are you?" He stared at the fat man.
Although he knew that the person in front of him was Lieutenant General Lelei named Tian Xingjian, they had the same figure, the same dress, their demeanor was very similar, and their appearance was only three or four points different, but he still needed to be sure.
"Me?" The fat man then cried and blew his nose vigorously: "I am Lieutenant General Tian Xingjian of Le Lei!" ”
This blatant admission made Barbara and Lever unable to believe their ears.
Li Fo was still just guessing, but Barbara saw the fat man change his face with her own eyes. Originally, she thought that this fat man had changed his face because she didn't want people to recognize him. Unexpectedly, as soon as my brother asked, he openly admitted it!
What does he want to do?
With the fat man's shout, the officials and generals in the banquet hall were all stunned. And on the side of the street, in the square, people are looking forward to the TV screen. There was also an uproar.
"Switch to Lieutenant General Tian Xingjian's photo."
The director of the TV station, under the order of the director of the station behind him, quickly found hundreds of photos of Tian Xingjian, and released them all at once.
On the screen, like a goddess scattering flowers, there are all fat people's avatars. There's his propaganda poster, there's his battle screenshots, there's his interview image
The photos revolve around the fat man holding Barbara hostage, densely packed. More than 65% of the similarity made the people all dumbfounded, everyone look at this one. Looking at that one again, I only felt dizzy and couldn't tell whether it was the same person or two different people.
"Okay, General Tian," Li Fu gritted his teeth, "I don't know why you did this, but I still hope you can calm down." ”
"Let go of my sister." He stared at the fat man and said word by word: "You must know that even if you are the leader of the bandit army, an ally of the Filipino Alliance, and have immunity, but once you hurt my sister, you will still be sent to a military court, or even killed on the spot."
"I'm not afraid!" The fat man let out a howl, interrupting Li Fo's persuasion.
"She smacked me! She s*** me! She s*** me! This slut shamelessly twisted this tattered topic, stalking his neck and howling with grief and tears streaming down his face, like the hero who wants to die or live in an ancient earth romance TV series.
"You're spewing blood!" Dawson, the presidential candidate who had been standing by and looking nervously at Barbara, finally couldn't hold back any longer. He stood up suddenly, pointed at the fat man with his finger, and shouted. "Let go of Miss Barbara at once!"
If the eyes could kill, then Dawson's eyes would have already opened a few bloody holes in the fat man's body.
He said angrily, "If you don't listen to the dissuasion and cause Miss Barbara to suffer any harm, I promise, you won't be able to get out of this room." ”
With tears streaming down his face, the fat man's eyes widened and he sniffled with a snort.
"Who are you?"
"Who am I?" Dawson laughed angrily. At this moment when the results of the presidential election are about to be announced, is there anyone in Feiyang who does not know who he is?
"I'm Dawson!" Dawson gritted his teeth.
"I don't know." The fat man had a straightforward face. I sniffled again.
"In a little while, you'll get to know each other." Dawson's eyes turned green with fat man's anger.
He took a deep breath and turned his head to look at Barbara.
The sharp gaze made contact with Barbara for a moment, and became soft and affectionate: "Barbara, don't worry. If he dares to hurt you, I swear, I will use the power of the entire Feiyang. Make him pay! ”
As he spoke, the corners of Dawson's mouth trembled slightly.
Barbara's weak and helpless appearance made his heart cramp. He gritted his teeth and said to the fat man, "If you can let her go, I can take you hostage!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the people in the banquet hall were shocked.
Dawson stared at the fat man, covering his mouth and looking at his wife Gina in horror not far away, ignoring it at all.
From an unknown little person, he stepped into the political arena, and then step by step to his current position, it can be said that he was completely discovered and nurtured by Barbara.
He loves Barbara.
Madly in love with this woman.
From the first meeting, until now, it has even been obsessed to the point of a kind of pathology.
Barbara's smile and gestures are all so beautiful. She was the most undesecrated goddess in his mind, everything to him. No matter what she wants to do, as long as she says a word, he will not hesitate to carry it out. Regardless of the reason, regardless of everything.
He wanted to stand up for a long time.
However, in front of Li Fo, he is not qualified.
And now, he couldn't help it. He couldn't accept a filthy fat man pouring this vicious dirty water on the goddess of his mind. Seeing Barbara strangled by a fat man, his heart was bleeding as if it had been cut by a knife. The pain was unbearable for him!
"You take her place?" The fat man looked incredulous, and exclaimed, "Why, who do you think you are, President Feiyang?" ”
The fat man's words choked Dawson's forehead.
Everyone knows that this guy is playing dumb, and everyone knows that he Dawson will win the presidential election tonight. But he's not there yet!
"Nobody, what kind of garlic." The fat man pouted on the side, and his face was full of disdain with tears in his eyes: "And use the power of the entire Feiyang, when the army and the police station are all run by your family?" ”
Looking at the fat man's excited tightening of his arms, it seems that it is a little difficult to breathe, Barbara. Li Fo could no longer bear to continue to delay time like this because of the conflict between Dawson and the fat man.
He interjected, "What the hell do you need to release people?"
As soon as Li Fo's words fell, suddenly, in the banquet hall, a burst of pleasant music rang out
Everyone in the banquet hall was awakened by the sound of the music.
It was 10:10 a.m., and every presidential election, when the final results were announced,
Everyone present had been waiting for this moment for a long time. Dawson turned, Lever looked up, and Barbara looked at the large screen in the center of the hall
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Walking on the silent sidewalk, looking at the traffic in the middle of the road like a river of light, Zhao Xi gently hugged his wife's still slender waist and walked silently.
"What are you thinking?" The woman rested her head on Zhao Xi's shoulder.
"It's like a dream." Zhao Xi smiled, his tone was not abnormal, but his eyes looked a little confused when he looked ahead.
"Actually, it's a good thing for me that you can't be president," the woman stopped and gently held Zhao Xi's face: "Being president is too busy, especially in such a period, the responsibility is too heavy, I don't want to be a first lady who often can't see her husband." ”
His wife's words of comfort made Zhao Xi's heart warm.
Although he may seem calm on the outside, it is indeed the biggest blow of his life.
From the very beginning of his presidential campaign, he did not have the luxury of becoming the president of this superpower. He just wanted to make his voice heard, so that the kingdom could at least be a little better because of his participation.
Originally, he was just walking forward one step at a time. No one expected that a bright avenue, under the footsteps of him and the team behind him, would emerge from the mountains and mountains.
It was a time of excitement. No matter how hard and tired they were, everyone gritted their teeth and walked forward, refusing to slack off in the slightest.
It's a pity that it's like a marathon, when everyone has run a full race, exhausted their mental strength, has seen the finish line, and is ready to sprint with their last bit of strength
They were stopped. With the game almost finished, it was stopped. You can only watch your opponent rush to the finish line.
This kind of blow made Zhao Xi really unbearable.
Looking into his wife's eyes, he smiled: "Listen, someone is calling my name." ”
He turned his head to the east, a small assembly square, where hundreds of his supporters were watching the big screens, calling his name. Although they knew that there was little hope, everyone was still so committed to supporting their presidential candidates.
The phone rang, Zhao Xi took out the phone, glanced at it, and said to his concerned wife: "It's Shen Lao, he called at this time, I'm afraid he came to comfort me." ”
He smiled, looked into his wife's eyes, and put the phone to his ear. After hearing only one sentence, the smile on his face froze.
"What's wrong?" The woman grabbed his hand nervously.
"Elder Shen congratulates me and let me" Zhao Xi's eyes were full of confusion, and he muttered in an uncertain tone, "Preparing for the inaugural speech?!" ”
The woman opened her mouth wide and subconsciously looked down at her watch, and the time was ten and nine at the moment.
She pulled Zhao Xi violently and rushed towards the small square in front of her.
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Shen Lao hung up the phone, nodded slightly to Hastings, and turned his gaze to the TV apprehensively.
In the luxury suite of the hotel, Bella, who was ready to sell all her family wealth and leave the country, sat on the sofa dejectedly, looking at the latest virtual light curtain in the center of the room with lost eyes.
In the empty waiting room of the air train, a female secretary of Zhao Xi's campaign team sat quietly on the waiting bench, holding a spaceship ticket to the Meima galaxy in her hand.
In her ears, plugged in earplugs, listening to music. Maybe it's because of Zhao Xi's words just now, she has been trying hard to control herself and not look at the TV with changing light on the wall of the waiting room.
When it was ten o'clock, a sky train pulled into the station, and she stood up. Before stepping into the car, she finally couldn't hold back anymore and looked up at the TV screen.
A member of the lower house of the United Parliament of the Filipino League from the Union of Siljak was tiredly leaning on the couch of the extended flying car, his eyes closed.
The members of the House of Lords, who are also in the same compound, have been proudly arguing for a whole day.
On this day, the House of Commons clashed with those villains. If the media is present, this may be the biggest scandal of Fiji!
Until now, there was a faint pain in his fist. However, the fist that swung in the face of the nasty guy received applause from the entire House of Commons.
The on-board TV in the car is quietly changing its light.
He sighed and opened his eyes when the music played.
In the police station, calm has been restored because of the middle-aged man who was fighting in National Victory Square. He sat in the police office and silently signed his name to the transcript.
The policewoman, who was in charge of the transcript, turned on the TV. Then get up and pour water.
"Let's see," sighed the pretty and kind policewoman, "maybe, a miracle will happen." ”
At this moment, every city in Feiyang was quiet.
People gather on the roadside of every commercial building, every square, every bar, restaurant and other places where there are televisions, tilt their heads and hold their breath.
Although they had just been dumbfounded by the hostage incident at the banquet.
But when the moment came, they quickly focused their attention on the stagnant counter of the TV sub-screen.
Portraits of the four candidates, just above the counter. And the data below is still four big zeros.
The second hand, towards the zero position.
Counter, start beating!
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Feiyang's votes are counted automatically by Skynet and a supercomputer located at the capital's Heindfeld University. No one else can be involved in this work.
Tens of billions of votes can be counted and reviewed in seconds.
However, in order to be accurate, such calculations must be repeated hundreds of times, and each time the result must be exactly the same, and an error of 0.01 will be considered a major accident. It is likely to result in the invalidation of the election.
Since the founding of the country, there has never been a problem with this method of counting votes.
There have also been people who have tried to cheat. However, they simply could not find the point of intervention to change the system. Unless, they can do it at the polls.
In fact, under the watchful eye of relevant stakeholders and the guarantee of strict measures, it is even more difficult than invading Skynet.
Data is changing rapidly.
People stared closely at the number of counts on the side, muttering to each other.
“88,89,90”
“97,98,99100!”
At the same time that the last number was shouted out loud by the people, the tellers announced the results!
President-elect - Zhao Xi!
Direct vote rate, 39.649312%, second vote rate, 41.879945%!
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Time, frozen in this moment.
People can't believe their eyes. They rubbed their eyes and rubbed them again
A moment later, a burst of frantic cheers erupted in National Victory Square.
The supporters of Zhao Xi, who had been silent all the time, jumped up at this moment, and they jumped, screamed, and hugged each other with all their might!
Everyone was struck in the heart by the sudden happiness, and an electric current crawled into every inch of the body. The blood all over his body gathered on the top of his head at this moment.
At this moment, they were no longer the same group of people who were lying on the railings set up by the police, silently watching the laughter of Dawson's supporters.
At this moment, they are no longer the group of people who are sad.
At this moment, they need to scream and roar with all their strength to keep their hearts from jumping out of their chests.
Everyone's face was red because of the upwelling blood, and everyone's eyes were glowing with uncontrollable excitement! They were jumping in this huge square. At a glance, it is full of heads one after another, all of which are forgetful hugs!
Zhao Xi's posters and slogans rippled like an ocean.
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In the police station, a frantic scream rose into the sky.
The policewoman who poured the water trembled, and when she looked back, she saw the gentle middle-aged man, jumping and screaming in her office at the moment.
He took off the suit he had just put on, ripped off his tie, and ran around his desk with a red face waving his tightly clenched fists!
On the silent platform, the girl from the campaign team, staring blankly at the TV screen, suddenly covered her face with her hands, and squatted on the ground crying.
The train doors closed and drove away from her.
The girl suddenly threw away the spaceship ticket in her hand, grabbed her backpack, and ran quickly to the outside of the platform, tears flying all the way!
In the hotel, the wine glass in Bella's hand fell to the ground with a clatter.
He glared and slowly stood up. His lips trembled, and his steps staggered. Suddenly, with all his strength, he let out a wild scream that resounded throughout the hotel!
In the flying car, the councillor of Celejak, with trembling hands, dialed the phone.
"See?" He shouted at the other party excitedly, and there was only one sentence in his mouth: "Do you see, do you see?!!! ”
In the square, Zhao Xi, who was standing in the crowd, looked at the big screen stupidly.
The crowd jumped and shouted around him.
Countless posters and slogans have completely overwhelmed him.
Suddenly, a warm and soft body slammed into his arms, and his tearful wife used all her strength to hug him tightly.
"You've won! Oh God, you won! ”
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At Caesars Palace Hotel, everyone looked at the screen in dismay.
Li Fo was stunned.
Gambier was stunned.
Dawson and Perez have been completely stupid.
Barbara's body was trembling violently, and her lips were unusually pale as the blood faded rapidly.
In this nightmare that seems to never wake up. In my ears, the voice of a fat man sounded.
"Hey, I just want some physical loss, you don't have to pretend to be stupid, right?!"
From the morning closing to now, I have not come out of the small black room. Maybe I slept less yesterday and my brain has been groggy.
I don't know how this chapter works, but I'm actually very worried. I'm afraid I'm sorry for everyone's such strong monthly pass support.
Of course, at the end of the chapter, I still continue to ask for a monthly pass. Because I'm going to work harder!.
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