Chapter 12 Going to the meeting alone
In the southwest corner of St. Ann's School of Magic and Wizardry is a magnificent, stately looking building, with a stone sculpture in front of the building's door, carving a robed giant holding a scale in both hands, and at each end of the scale are a small person and the universal currency of the kingdom of Ga, the Ga.
Some say it symbolizes justice and fairness for the people, while others say it means that life and interests are in the hands of the Parliament.
This is the council court of St. Ann's City, and the seven councillors were originally members of the major families who held the economic lifeblood of St. Ann's city, but after being elected by the public, they were no longer allowed to manage the internal affairs of the family.
The councillors' resolutions represent the will of the people of St. Ann's City, and what they do is as small as avenging others and as large as directly affecting the city's future.
And today is the day of the trial of Yao Shen's peak undercover Zhang Yu.
At noon, the two soldiers who had been guarding the door of the teacher's temporary apartment for a long time finally made a move, they put away their weapons and came to the door of Zhang Yu's room, and after a knock, the door of the room was opened.
It was Zhang Yu who opened the door, and at this time he was no longer wearing Fazheng's robe, but the student uniform of St. Ann's College, which Fazheng brought him last night. There is also someone else's name written directly below the school emblem on the chest of the school uniform, obviously this dress is not new, but Zhang Yu still doesn't know the words of this world, thinking that it is the name of the college.
Later, he learned that those two words were written on the law boy.
Zhang Yu was not surprised by the arrival of these two people, but calmly stretched out his hands, let one of the warriors take out the chain and hold it, and then stretched out his head, and was put on a mask similar to that on a ventilator by the other warrior, both of which were made of forbidden magic stones to prevent him from chanting spells and using magic halfway.
The court and the apartment are located in two diagonal directions, and the long journey made Zhang Yu find that St. Ann's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry looks no different from ordinary art schools from the outside, and the characteristic is that it is large, in addition to the many teaching buildings and various buildings that he can't name, all of which reveal the word heroism, the only thing that makes him feel strange is that he has not met anyone else along the way.
Zhang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that fortunately there was no "welcome in the middle of the road" the night before, and he didn't think that the two eldest brothers in front of him would give him a protective shield intimately.
The three of them finally walked to the steps at the entrance of the court, Zhang Yu actually began to panic in his heart, looking at the pure white steps that reached the sky, he almost really thought that he was a heinous criminal.
"Don't panic, Lao Tzu is not afraid of shadows, not to mention that Uncle Fa said that everything will be handed over to him, I just need to continue to pretend to be stupid." Zhang Yu took a few deep breaths, and the soldiers also pushed open the heavy stone gate more than ten meters high, making a rumbling sound.
As the door opened, Zhang Yu's eyes appeared in front of Zhang Yu's eyes as spacious as a football field, there was only one platform in the center of the open space that could accommodate one person to stand, and in the front position was a curved table that could overlook the entire courtroom.
Zhang Yu finally understood why he didn't see anyone else along the way, at this time, the circle around the courtroom, tens of thousands of seats were already crowded with onlookers, most of them were students in school uniforms, and the rest were people from all walks of life in St. Ann's City, some holding vegetables and fruits, some holding big banners and preparing to coax, and even holding children to breastfeed.
Half of St. Ann's came to watch.
"This TM is the Great Hall of the People or the World Cup scene." Zhang Yu wanted to complain, but he couldn't even shout a sound, and his legs kept stunned in place.
Seeing this, the two warriors pulled the chains violently to bring him back to his senses and continued to walk forward until they reached the position of the central platform under the gaze of tens of thousands of people.
After the warrior helped Zhang Yu unlock the forbidden magic stone captivity suit, he thoughtfully helped him open the door of the platform and motioned for him to go inside, and then locked the door.
This is really a very good position, the resentful eyes of the masses and the eyes of the inquisitor who seem to be able to hit their hearts are all gathered here, and the strong sense of oppression makes Zhang Yu dare not raise his head, he can only look at the floor, but he finds that the floor is smooth and can reflect everything around him, and finally has to squint and stare at the desktop in front of him.
"Silence." Wei Gongqing's deep voice resounded through the loudspeaker in front of the table, and the surroundings suddenly fell silent.
Wei Gongqing: "Name? ”
Zhang Yu: "......"
Wei Gongqing: "Name?." ”
Zhang Yu: "......"
Wei Gongqing: "Why the hell are you at home?!" ”
Seeing that Wei Gongqing was angry, a young man on the jury also stood up and said angrily: "Please respect the court, it is very detrimental to you to ignore the issue of the councillor like this." ”
"I spoke! Your microphone is silent! Zhang Yu was also anxious and shouted loudly. He had just answered the same microphone-like device in front of Wei Gongqing many times, but it didn't make a sound like the former.
Hearing this, a burst of laughter erupted in the audience:
"Hahaha, this dirt bun, I laughed to death."
"He can't be stupid by the judge, right?"
"Yao Shen's peak is really not a normal person."
It's no wonder they laugh, for people in the mainland, it's like talking on the phone without pressing the answer button, and blaming the phone for breaking down.
"You need to carry a touch of magic in your voice to amplify it." The man from the jury reminded.
Zhang Yu: "I don't know magic!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the hall burst into laughter, and even Wei Gongqing had to shout silence on both sides before the court quieted down.
Wei Gongqing: "A witness mentioned that when I met you in the Arad Forest, you said that you had amnesia and didn't remember anything, so did you forget after amnesia, or were you born with no magic." ”
Zhang Yu: "Not by nature." ”
Wei Gongqing: "What? ”
Zhang Yu: "Born not to!" The shouting was accompanied by a frenzied shaking of the head.
In fact, Wei Gongqing roughly guessed the answer before Zhang Yu answered, because in their cognition, except for the elderly who are paralyzed to the point of being half-paralyzed, there is a small chance that they will lose the ability to mobilize magic, and mobilizing magic power is as simple as eating and drinking water for them. Even children with mental retardation can learn low-level magic under training, and forgetting is basically impossible.
Wei Gongqing felt a headache, and it was not good to let Zhang Yu shout and speak like this all the time, and it was the first time that a criminal had encountered this kind of problem after interrogating him for so many years.
"Councilor Wei Palace, I have an idea, wouldn't it be good to find a megaphone for him to use to assist the paralyzed old man in speaking." It was Cao Qianjiang, the head of the Cao family, who spoke, and he and several other heads of the family were also in the jury position.
"Okay, the trial will be suspended first, and I will be quiet." After saying that, he got up and left the table, and went to the inner room of the courtroom to rest.
Taking advantage of this gap, Zhang Yu's eyes began to look around in the crowd, but after looking around several times, he didn't see the person he was looking for.
In the apartment last night, in addition to bringing him food and school uniforms, Fa Zheng also said that he would always be by his side for today's trial, telling Zhang Yu not to say anything or admit anything he didn't know at that time, and that he would help him answer everything.
But now Zhang Yu didn't even see half of Fazheng's shadow, now he was even more flustered, it was okay if Fazheng wasn't so promised, he could still think of a way by himself, and now he didn't know how to deal with the next situation at all.
"Where did Uncle Fa go, what did you say last night about being angels who protect each other?"
In the midst of anxious searching, Zhang Yu's eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure.
That cute appearance is very outstanding even in the crowd full of young and beautiful students, so that in the crowd of tens of thousands, Zhang Yu only needs to catch a glimpse, and his eyes are firmly locked on her body, as if a magnet has swept an iron nail on the wooden board.
The latter has also been staring at Zhang Yu blankly, and the eyes of the two have met so far away.
I don't know where the courage came from, Zhang Yu actually waved to Xu Lanyi happily, he didn't expect to meet her here again.
Xu Lanyi's eyes widened as clear as the surface of a lake, obviously startled by Zhang Yu's dangerous move, and looked away to look elsewhere. At this time, the people around were discussing it, and not many people paid attention to this scene.
Zhang Yu also suddenly realized his current identity, and lowered his head in embarrassment and put away his smile.
Just when Zhang Yu was worried about whether his actions just now would affect Xu Lanyi, Wei Gongqing came back.
He was accompanied back to the courtroom by the two soldiers who had just arrived, carrying a freezer-sized instrument that looked full of age, and put an object that looked like an Elizabeth collar with a tube attached to it, making him look extremely funny, and then turned on the instrument that connected the collar, and the freezer made a humming sound of an old-fashioned air conditioner turning.
Wei Gongqing explained: "This machine will give the corresponding magic power to the frequency of vibration when you speak, and transmit it to the built-in amplifier. Now, I can answer my question. ”
"Hello?" Zhang Yu's voice seemed to come from a gramophone in the eighties, and the tone was also sharp and very strange, this time not only the crowd laughed, but even Wei Gongqing couldn't help but laugh out.
Zhang Yu felt like a wild child who had just entered the city at this time, being teased and ridiculed by the bad children in the city, and the feeling of shame made his face flush, but at this time he had no choice but to endure it, and he could only endure it as much as possible before the lace was restored.
At the same time, he will not forget the culprit who put him in such a situation, that ungrateful woman Weigong Mulan, he will definitely avenge this revenge, and let her feel ten times or a hundred times the humiliation he is now.
Wei Gongqing: "Name, age, where is home?" ”
Zhang Yu: "I won't say anything until my lawyer comes. ”
Wei Gongqing: "Lawyer? You want to talk about the caregiver, who is he? ”
Zhang Yu: "Fa Zheng, the director of St. Ann's College. ”
Wei Gongqing looked up and down: "What about the Fazheng people." ”
Everyone present got up and looked around, but they still didn't see Fa Zheng's figure.
"Councillor of the Palace." Hou Qing stood up from the jury: "I am Hou Qing, Vice Principal of St. Ann's, Director Fa Zheng told me yesterday that he was going to a neighboring country to collect some information, and it would take about two days to come back, and he didn't mention to me who he wanted to be a caretaker for. ”
Zhang Yu: "Impossible! He was with me last night. ”
Hou Qing squinted at Zhang Yu, and asked in a calm and sarcastic tone, "Are you someone from the law director?" ”
Zhang Yu was speechless.
Hou Qing: "You are not his student, let alone his family, and you even caused a group of them to almost die in the Arad Forest." As one of the honorary leaders of our hospital, why would you be the caretaker of an undercover suspect, are you too lacking in trust. With that, he returned to his seat.
These words suddenly made Zhang Yu break his defense, and something that had just been established in his heart began to waver.
yes, why do people trust me?
Zhang Yu himself didn't know, since there can be unjustified disgust, can't there be unjustified trust?
Wei Gongqing: "Anyway, the other person is not present now, it is impossible to suspend the trial because of this, you must start answering my questions now." ”
Zhang Yu: "Zhang Yu, 23 years old, homeless. ”
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