Chapter XXVIII
He took a cautious and deep breath, and Zuihou said, "I have never seen this highness before, but I have long heard the prestige of His Highness Diarlando. On that day of the Battle of the Double Dragons, I was in the hotel where I was staying from beginning to end, if I had never believed that there was a dragon on this shijie before. After that day, my perception changed completely. ”
His speech immediately aroused a heated discussion among everyone in the audience, you must know that for hundreds of years, they have firmly believed that there is no dragon on this shijie, even the country across the sea has always had dragon beliefs and various shrines, and they all scoffed at it, thinking that others were just superstitious. At the moment, some people insist that there are dragons, and everyone thinks it is incredible.
Zack's eyes showed a look of adoration, and he said with a yearning expression: "I have never seen such a beautiful creature, huge, majestic, and overwhelming presence, and we say that dragons are just myths and legends, and more than ten days ago, I saw the legends with my own eyes." In Turanda, everyone knows that His Highness Dearrando is the successor of the Starlight Dragon, the son of the Dragon. ”
Lovelan looked at the jeweler's dreamy praise for the dragon and the dragon contractor, turned around and whispered to Deirlando, "Are you so famous?
Diarlando replied with a wry smile: "How do I know that there are such helpful fans on this ship, what should I do now?" ”
Lovelan said, "Don't be afraid, they don't have any evidence that the Starlight Dragon did what happened that day." ”
Katya finally interrupted Zack's gushing descriptions and praises of the Starlight Dragon, and then asked, "Then did you see the magical creature that attacked the Black Wind Fleet in the early morning of July 17, 5685 in the canonical calendar?" Whether it's the same species or creature as the Starlight Dragon you've ever seen. ”
Both Dearlando and Lovelan paused, waiting for each other's answers, because once he said it was the same one, it would be difficult to believe that Reses existed.
Unexpectedly, Zach replied very simply: "I don't know." ”
"What?" Katya's original witnesses debunked the opponent's lies step by step according to the route he designed, but he didn't expect that Zuihou's step was actually this answer.
"I was frightened during the day and drank a lot of seawater, so I slept very deeply at night and didn't see the accident you mentioned. ”
"But you ...... before"
Lovelan immediately interrupted Katya's accusations: "Protest, protest against the other party's agent threatening to imply that the witness will change the testimony as she wishes. ”
"The protest is effective. Katya Agent, please pay attention to the way you are questioned. The chairman of the council immediately issued a warning to Katya.
Katya glanced at the jeweler indignantly, then turned to the host and said, "I'm going to call a new witness." ”
"Wait. I have questions for this witness. Lovellan immediately stepped forward. Prevented Katya from making a substitution.
Justin moved his finger and motioned for her to ask.
"Mr. Zach, before today, you knew that the ship repelled pirates. Was it His Highness Dearlando who saved you?"
The jeweler shook his head: "I don't know. That's not what they used at the time. I thought he was just an ordinary nobleman. ”
"Okay, so what did you see him do at the time?"
Zach thought for a moment, then said seriously, "He is the smartest, bravest, kindest, and most personable person I have ever met. ”
"Oh, what do you think?"
"He was the first to notice the change of course. He was the first to subdue the pirate leader and snatch control of the pirate ship. In what was then a very urgent situation, he did not abandon any of the passengers and crew on board. And...... And he also behaved very gentlemanly towards the two female pirates who were injured. ”
He also told the details of the day, there were some things that Dierlandor himself did not remember doing, and in the eyes of the fanatical fans, he really did what he did right.
After Zach finished saying a lot of compliments, the clock had already struck twelve, and before he knew it, a morning had passed in nonsense. The President of the Council called for a temporary adjournment and invited everyone to leave.
Dearlandor grabbed Lovellan and asked, "I'm not going to stand in that no-nothing room until the afternoon session, am I? If you're going to make me hungry, I'm going to be as mad as Reseth." Besides, Dino can't go hungry!"
Lovelan immediately made a request to let Dearlando return to the Lily Palace to rest, but it was denied. But Justin finally agreed that Dearlando could move from the current defendant's room to the ordinary witness room, and he could also eat and rest at noon.
Sure enough, after the stone chamber sank back into the ground this time, the four giant guards took them to another room, although it was also relatively simple, but there were chairs and tables, and after a while Lovelan rushed over with lunch. Although it was not enough for Dearrando to stuff his teeth, it was still a good thing to eat, and his empty stomach was a little more comfortable.
"Today's situation looks optimistic. As the princess ate, she summed up the morning's situation, "They agreed to transfer you from the defendant's cell here, which means that everyone's impression of you has changed, and if we work hard in the afternoon, we may be able to win." ”
"This is child's play, and the words of a few witnesses can change everyone's opinion," said Dearlando, nibbling on a hard-boiled luncheon bread in the Grand House of Parliament. If Zach just now insisted that it was Ryses who destroyed the airship, then wouldn't I still be drinking the northwest wind in my cell at this moment?"
A voice suddenly sounded in Deirlando's head, and the queen smiled happily and said, "You can guess that he suddenly fell asleep and died, and did not see the attack in the early hours of that morning. ”
"Isn't it...... Did you just do something?" Dearlando blurted out, drawing Lovellan's puzzled gaze, and he quickly vaguely moved over.
"Now no one in Hovland will testify against you, and I will have to help you here, aunt. Hurry up and finish the meeting and come back in the evening to talk to me. Queen Allen gave a light command, and then disappeared from Deirlando's mind.
After lunch, everyone rested for another half hour, and at one o'clock the trial resumed again, and Diarlando and Dino returned to the dock where they had been in the morning, and continued to participate in the boring meeting of the second half.
Katya called several witnesses, and while they all proved that Deirrando had repelled the pirate ship, none of them could prove that he had sunk the airship of the Black Wind fleet. To Zuihou, even the people on the ship of the Dreadhorn King himself admit it. It was dark. The attacking creature was attacking from the sky, so no one could see what it really looked like.
At first, Katya also prepared a portrait of Ryses based on the description of the crowd, but the witnesses who came in the afternoon revised their testimony one after another, and the portrait changed more and more. By the time Zuihou arrived, he had become a creature with two heads and a round belly with a pair of black wings, like a wild boar.
The face of the agent of the Dreadhorn King became worse and worse. There is nothing to say to zuihou. The testimonies of witnesses I found were inconsistent. Attack each other.
Under Lovelan's careful guidance, a conspiracy against Deirlandor gradually emerged before the eyes of the councilors. She alluded to the fact that the other party lied about the attack on the Black Wind fleet this time, in order to delay Dearlando's important diplomatic trip. And the deep-seated reasons behind it. Let everyone think for themselves.
At about 4 p.m., the assembly finally entered the zuihou voting stage. More than 300 members of the mass council and five permanent representatives of various ethnic groups voted behind closed doors.
By the time Deirrando returned to the dock, a red document had been placed in front of Justin, the chairman of the meeting. The audience stood up, waiting for the results to be announced. The men and horses opened the documents in public, and then announced: "On the 18th day of the seventh month of the 5685th year of the canonical calendar, the case against the Black Wind fleet against Prince Turanda Diarrando Birmington for attacking them is not established......"
However, before he could finish speaking, the dock where Diarlando and Dino were staying suddenly exploded. The loud roar and the roar of the air knocked the entire chamber to the bottom, and the councillors who were closer were crushed by the cracked bricks and wood, and many of them were bruised and bruised.
When everyone got up from the rubble in a daze, a strange scene appeared before their eyes. Within fifteen feet of Dearlando and Dino, everything was still, even the flames of the explosion and the erupting gases froze in the interior of the sphere space. A twenty-foot-long white dragon covered the top of the orb, and it seemed to be the one who created the space-time orb that had stopped.
But in this immobile sphere, there is another person who can move normally, and that is Dearlando. I saw him pull open the railing made of pure iron as thick as a finger with one hand, jump out of the dock with Dino in the other, and then run away from the explosion point with Princess Loveland, who was about to be impaled by the debris of the floor. After he ran out about twenty feet, the sphere that had stood still exploded with a bang. It was as if someone had paused the time there for a moment.
In the panic, only a dozen people saw what happened at that moment, and the white dragon that was still hanging above everyone's heads just now disappeared in an instant. Guards flocked to help transport the wounded out. And the scene of the explosion was isolated.
The princess asked in shock, "What happened just now?" Diarrando checked up and down, and there were no wounds on her body except for a little dust, and her hanging heart suddenly relaxed.
If you hurt Queen Bixia's baby daughter in front of you, you really can't live the rest of your life.
Dino is also fine, the bomb just now exploded directly on the floor under the buttocks of the two people. If it weren't for the alertness in Rises's heart and the instant opening of the protective layer, although he would be fine now, Dino and Lovelan would definitely be seriously injured.
"It must have been the Dreadhorn King's doing, it looks like he's already planning to use force against me directly. The last time we met, he made it clear that he was going to do everything he could to kill me and replace the pact between me and Rises. Dearlando explained to the princess.
Lovelblaun wiped the dust off his face in horror and said, "Oh my God, he's so lawless, even if he wants to kill you and cause an explosion in such a populated place." It's a shame that he figured it out, if you hadn't blocked it just now, at least a dozen people would have died here!"
"No, I will file a lawsuit immediately, because his actions have seriously threatened the safety of the deputies of the Great Council and constitute the crime of obstructing the order of the country. I am going to apply for a nationwide manhunt for him at once, and I am sure that after this incident, most of the parliamentarians will approve of my proposal. ”
Diarrando sighed and said, "I'm afraid this is no longer the easy battle you used to have with paper and paper. The Dreadhorn King is not the kind of person who can be caught with his hands tied, and he will definitely use his fierce means against those who try to capture him. (To be continued......)
PS: Finally caught up, tears