Chapter 1056 You Know Better

Thursday, August 11, 2011, sunny.

Kassel Academy, Valhalla Square.

The yellow and black engineering drilling rig for excavation stood quietly above the Well of Annihilation. The direct sunlight reflected the dazzling light from the metal of the cantilever. The drilling rig that arrived from the ocean was not working, and the Plaza of Valhalla was silent and in chaos.

The huge rooster statue standing in front of the well was broken into huge stones in the earthquake and fire the night before and scattered in every corner. The entire open area was covered with black scorch marks, as if it had been bombed by napalm bombs. Once again, plastic buckets for cleaning were piled up next to the head of the rooster statue, and not a single person was seen in the entire square.

The gavel gently tapped the base with dragon head-shaped gilt carvings inlaid on the four corners. The crisp sound suppressed the noisy discussions in the Hall of Valor conference hall, and also attracted Chu Zi, who was expressionlessly looking out the window at the bright sunshine in the square. Hang's sight.

The clock hanging in the conference hall now points to eight fifty-five, five minutes to nine o'clock, and the impeachment hearing against Hilbert Jean Angers, the current president of Cassel College, is about to begin, and Angers' replacement is about to begin. The character undergoing trial, 'S'-class trainee Richard and Lin Nian, was already standing quietly in the wooden grille of the dock, waiting quietly.

Chu Zihang sat in the window seat on the right side of the conference hall. Next to him were Lancelot and Susie, the two vice-presidents of the Lion Heart Club. They were whispering together and seemed to be nervously discussing how to proceed with the hearing. When it is the witness's turn to speak, does Chu Zihang have a more perfect speech? They are always like this. Whenever their president needs to speak publicly, he will write a statement of less than 600 words. Write a 1,200-word annotation on it, and treat Chu Zihang like his child who is preparing to give a speech under the national flag for the first time.

Chu Zihang looked forward from the auditorium and had a clear view of the layout of the entire Hall of Heroes conference hall, which was divided into several parts.

Taking the high platform area of ​​the Law Table where King Solomon sat as the boundary, the left side is the jury seat for this hearing, the right side is the investigation team that filed the lawsuit, the people on trial are in the wooden grille in the middle, and behind it is a through In the red carpet aisle at the entrance of the Hall of Valor Conference Hall, there are orderly auditorium seats on the left and right sides.

Witnesses do not have special seats. When it is the witness's turn to speak, the clerk will bring him into the scene from behind the door deep on one side of the conference hall. After finishing his speech, he will be taken away from the scene along the same route to ensure fairness and order in the entire hearing process.

King Solomon, who was already seated, turned back and glanced at the wall clock. It was less than five minutes before the hearing officially started, and the atmosphere in the conference hall had already begun to warm up.

The slogan of this hearing was openness and fairness. Selected student groups, professors with strong qualifications and applications, and even school staff were allowed to enter and observe. Half an hour before the hearing started, students had already taken their seats one after another. After taking their seats, the two student groups with different stances, the Student Union and the Lionheart Club, tacitly took their seats in separate lanes. This also resulted in the auditorium being almost divided by clear red and black colors.

Everyone felt that the president of the student union, Caesar Gattuso, was aggressive this time. Before the hearing began, he had never publicly expressed any opinions on the hearing. Everyone who tried to interview him was blocked. Outside the door of Anbo Pavilion.

Such an ambiguous attitude makes many people not optimistic about the student union's alignment this time. Especially today, when they saw that the front of the auditorium on the side of the student union was an all-lace girl ballet troupe, some people were already sure that Caesar was going to prepare. Beat up the drowned dog.

Is this probably a good show for him? Taking his own girl dance troupe to the hearing in person is probably no different from the emperor who personally takes his harem to watch a shadow puppet show. It's all for fun.

In comparison, the Lion Heart Club looked extremely serious. They were all wearing red school uniforms, with white scarves stuffed in their breast pockets. They sat in the auditorium with a uniform posture, as if they were a well-trained army. , the whispers coming out from time to time are probably discussing the layout of the attack and retreat routes during the robbery of the law field?

On the left and right sides of the interrogation seat, the vice-principal and Fingel were present in formal attire, gathering together to observe the current situation. Fingel saw Caesar Gattuso sitting in the auditorium with his legs crossed and sitting in the front row wearing noise-cancelling headphones with his eyes closed and listening to music, and a group of neatly pitch-black dogs behind him. He had a stern look on his face: "The person who came here is not evil. "

"Don't mess up. The position of the student union is not important to us now. Don't forget the winning formula. Target your home and your opponent." The vice-principal looked at the suit sitting on the complaint area with vigour. Andrew Gattuso and Patsy Gattuso looked like they were looking at each other. From time to time they glanced at the murmuring jury and King Solomon who frowned slightly dissatisfied with the order of the scene. Their eyes were full of contempt.

"No, I mean, the girl group of the student union is really a fierce rival." Fingel whispered.

"Oh? Really?" The vice-principal immediately turned around and glanced at the auditorium. When he saw the black lace on the legs of the girls group, he gradually showed a serious look, "It is indeed a powerful team that cannot be underestimated. But I I don’t think we will lose to them!”

"Yes, we are not bad here either." Fingel looked at the Lion Heart Club. Two rows in front of the Lion Heart Club, who were dressed in red, were Xia Mi, who was wearing a white dress and holding lilies in her hands, and Xia Mi, who was wearing a black dress. The "support group" led by Su Xiaoqiang, who was wearing a dress and holding tulips in her hands, looked at the sea of ​​beautiful girls walking up with a score of 8 points. Those who didn't know it thought this was a GUCCI and CHANEL model application site.

The girls were all wearing "war makeup" and their brows were filled with murderous intent, as if they might rush forward at any moment and devour the jury and prosecutor alive.

These girls are a group of women who appear on the forum all year round and are identified by "my year", "nianbao" and "niannian". They are recognized as a major evil force on the secret party Internet. They are praised by friends on the Night Watch forum. They affectionately call them the "Nian Family Army", which is similar to Principal Angers' "Hot Team".

But what is different from the "Hot Team" is that this group of "Nian Family Army" are basically girls. They may be in different grades, study different majors, and speak different languages, but they can achieve considerable results on one thing. There was an astonishing consensus - they would kill whoever fucked Lin Nian, no matter the cost. If the situation worsens, Su Xiaoqiang and Xia Mi will take the lead in pulling out the bouquets in their hands and slap the old faces of the investigation team as a clarion call for charge.

Lionheart would appreciate this kind of attitude and energy, so he specially approved this group of girls to sit at the front and act as facades, while also destroying the prestige of the student union next door. But this also caused Professor Guderian and Professor Manstein, who came to observe, to be caught in the group of girls. They looked very uncomfortable, but there was nothing they could do, because there were only so many places, and these two The position was earned through hard work.

"Where's Lu Mingfei? Why hasn't he come yet?" The vice principal frowned slightly. He noticed that the seat next to Ling in the auditorium was empty. That was Lu Mingfei's seat, but now he was not here.

"I don't know. He couldn't have overslept, right? I heard he wasn't staying at Norton Hall in the past two days? Didn't Chu Zihang wake him up when they came?" Fingel also found the empty seat and was a little worried. , "He is one of the main players. We can't do it without him."

"The earth will continue to turn without anyone else. Just think that he was bagged and beaten by the investigation team on the way here."

"What kind of girl is he? Is Sap so easy to beat? The 'S' level is his bloodline, not his sex rating in Galgame."

On the hour, the clock tower bell rang outside the window of the Hall of Heroes conference hall in the distance, and flocks of white doves fluttered out from the golden woods. The noisy discussions in the conference hall were all subdued by the simple and grand ringing of the bell. After coming down, everyone's expressions returned to calm.

The bells stopped ringing.

King Solomon raised his gavel and struck the base. With a crisp sound, he said majestically, "I announce the beginning of the hearing. This is the public hearing on the dangerous bloodline ruling held by Cassel College. The special investigation team of the school board, versus Lin Nian and the Kassel College management team hereby convene a public hearing. The language of this hearing is bilingual in Chinese and English. The entire hearing is videotaped and uploaded to the intranet. This hearing is expected to end at 12:30 noon today. All witnesses and advocates have sworn to take responsibility for their statements."

"First of all, let me introduce the jury group." King Solomon raised his left hand, and everyone looked at the seats lined up on the left side of the conference hall. "The jury is composed of 12 people in total, including elders, department heads, and tenured professors. All 12 people have sworn to participate in the trial in accordance with the Abrahamic Blood Contract Law, faithfully perform their jury duties, be honest and impartial, and make impartial judgments. The jury will make the final decision as a result of this hearing."

The people in the jury box lined up in a row were all dressed in black, and they were as old as if they were dug out of graves. Some of them were holding pipes, some were polishing monocles that symbolized gentlemen, and some were even worse. They gnawed on the crunchy celery with different expressions. When King Solomon was speaking, they all clenched their right fists at the heart and bowed their heads to the investigation team, the interrogators, and the auditorium.

They are a group of living fossils who can be the students and even the grandfathers of some professors. They were dug into the scene by a hearing. There is no need to question their impartiality. The school board cannot unilaterally influence their decisions. They will not be influenced by anything. He will not be bribed by anyone and will not be threatened by anyone to ensure the absolute fairness of the hearing results.

"On my right and on your left are the school board investigation team, Andrew Gattuso and Patsy Gattuso." Solomon raised his right hand, and everyone looked behind the long table on the other side. The two young gentlemen with calm expressions in suits and ties, both of whom had Gattuso in their names, could not help but turn the attention of many people to the third "Gattuso" in the conference hall.

Caesar Gattuso had taken off his headphones during the court session and looked at the scene expressionlessly without any expression.

There was a faint sneer from the Lion Heart Club team, but it quickly disappeared. The student union glared back, but could not find the person who made the sound.

"In the middle are the persons under trial in this hearing, Lin Nian and his lawyer and tutor Flamel of the college management team (King Solomon nodded to the vice-principal, who also winked in the direction of the investigation team) and Fingel ·Von Frins."

Among the wooden grilles, Lin Nian was wearing a dark green school uniform. He stood upright, his hands hanging naturally by his sides, and there was not much expression on his face.

"Based on the materials submitted in advance by the investigation team of the school board and the college management team, there is quite a dispute over the ancestry of 'S' grade student Lin Nian, with both sides insisting on their own opinions. The investigation team severely condemned the behavior of the college management team. Negligence and dereliction of duty, the student Lin Nian's bloodline was warned of 'extreme danger' in order to impeach the current principal. The college management team claimed that this condemnation and warning was."

King Solomon paused for a moment, "'The frog is sitting at the bottom of the well looking up at the sky and talking nonsense' and 'Using a large number of mothers to throw into the lake to attract fish schools'. This is my original text paraphrasing the words of Master Flamel. It is a pity that these two I couldn’t understand the sentence very clearly.”

"'Sitting in a well and looking at the sky' is a Chinese idiom, which means that the frog sits at the bottom of the well and looks up at the limited sky, and firmly believes that the sky is only the size of the wellhead. It is mostly used in the context of satirizing short-sightedness and lack of progress. The meaning of the material is He pointed out that the investigation team and even the school board of directors who accused student Lin Nian of his bloodline were too narrow-minded and too conceited, making wild claims without understanding anything," the vice-principal said.

"What a rhetoric of imagery." King Solomon commented. He loves rhetoric and thinks it is the art of language. "What about the other sentence?"

Fingel took a step forward and explained politely, "'My mother makes a nest' is a slang term in China, and 'making a nest' is a term in the fishing field. It refers to the way fishermen put out broken fish into fishing spots in order to improve fishing efficiency." "Hook's bait" can be literally translated as "mother". The whole slang term roughly means that one does not hesitate to use one's own relatives as bait to achieve the goal. In the material, it means that the investigation team used the "dangerous bloodline" of student Lin Nian and other nonsense. Come and impeach the ugly face of the principal of our management team.”

Solomon seemed to understand, but it could be seen that he was still not very clear about the second slang term.

There was a sound of ridicule in the conference hall. Most of the people who understood and got the laugh were Chinese students. Those who understood further explained to others. This was the clever use of language differences by the vice-principal and Fingel. , justifiably insulted the investigation team. Then jeers broke out in the conference hall.

In the seat of the investigation team, Patsy looked at all the malicious eyes in silence. Next to him, Andrew sat steadily on the chair with a smile on his lips. He did not protest against this subtle insult and asked the vice principal to They showed him a "yellow card" or something and he didn't seem to care about this level of disadvantage.

"Bad!" Fingel took a step back and whispered to the vice-principal, "The provocation method doesn't seem to have any effect."

"Don't be afraid. Putting aside external factors, we are three against two. I have the advantage." The vice principal replied in a low voice.

"Vice principal, thank you." Fingel quietly gave a thumbs up.

"Come on in the next round." The vice-principal said, "Don't give him a chance to breathe, knock that damn smile off his face!"

Fingel gave the vice-principal a "leave it to me" look, walked to Lin Nian, who had been silent, and looked at King Solomon on the high platform with his head held high.

"The dissatisfaction and resistance of the college management team to the investigation team sent by the school board of directors is entirely the fault of the investigation team. After settling in the college, they built plank roads in secret and secretly built the plank road. In order to achieve control of public opinion and an absolute advantage at the hearing, they even did They imprisoned our interrogator and several of our witnesses, and subjected them to several days of unreasonable atrocities including psychological torture and physical torture!

Here, I publicly protest to the investigation team and the school board of directors. Cassel College is not a party that speaks for itself, nor is it a backward feudal system that acquiesces to the abuse of lynching! "

As soon as this statement came out, the conference hall was full of noise and shock. Some uninformed students were furious and gnashed their teeth. The sound of discussion was like boiling water bubbles gradually overflowing the edge of the pot.

King Solomon had to bang the gavel to control the order of the hearing. He looked at the investigation team and said seriously, "Please give an effective response to the investigation team."

Patsy Gattuso stood up and said calmly, "The other side's accusations that we imprisoned and lynched the persons under trial and numerous witnesses are all untrue. The other side secretly changed a very important concept. Our side The investigation team did invite some students to talk.

But please note that this is the school board’s reasonable questioning process for those involved in the ‘Chicago Harbor Incident’. Since the mission incident is highly confidential, security and closure must also be ensured during the questioning process. Therefore, we submitted a formal application to the Enforcement Department, and after it was approved, we conducted private window talks, and these talks were completely unrelated to this hearing. "

"I think the Minister of Execution should serve as a witness to corroborate this statement." King Solomon circled around.

"The Minister of the Executive Department was hospitalized due to injuries from the earthquake the night before and was absent from this hearing. But we have relevant documentation and procedures to prove the legality of our methods." Andrew Gattuso said with a smile.

This was the first time he spoke at the hearing, and a document was handed over. King Solomon nodded in approval after reading the document carefully, "The document is reasonable and valid, and the investigation team's accusation of illegal imprisonment is not established!" "

"So you don't deny that the investigation team mentally and physically abused our witnesses and interrogators during that interview?" Fingel suddenly took a step forward, his eyes blazing, "We have witnesses on this point. All the students who were abused by you are witnesses, and these witnesses are at the hearing now, do they need to temporarily attend to testify?”

The people in black on the jury began to whisper. Although the investigation team stated that the so-called "interview" had nothing to do with the hearing, this "interview" did occur in the preparation stage before the hearing. If the investigation team was at this time During the period, violence and lynching were used against students, which made them re-examine the conduct of the investigation team sent by the school board.

"May I ask the management team of the other party, what is your definition of 'abuse'?" Andrew Gattuso looked at Fingel with interest.

"I will not talk about psychological abuse such as intimidation and mental oppression for now, because you will definitely deny this kind of torture without leaving any trace." Fingel shook his finger, "But you will use the so-called torture in your mouth It is an indisputable fact that the 'students involved' were unreasonably imprisoned in the underground floor of the former technical building 'Eden'! As far as I know, the accommodation floors of 'Eden' are all on the surface, and the underground is only used for experiments and containment. The environment in the ecological warehouse is harsh and unbearable, and several students involved have been gathered together to manage it individually, it’s like a concentration camp!”

King Solomon looked at the investigation team. Patsy Gattuso stood up immediately and said calmly, "We admit that the students involved did live in the 'ecological warehouse' for a period of time, but as mentioned in the preface, this is for The choice made during the interview must be kept a certain level of confidentiality, and the living environment must be sacrificed in exchange for information security. This is an awareness that every student should have. And we also ensure clean and tidy beds and nutritious meals three times a day. The meals and living environment are definitely not like the concentration camps that the other party compared!"

"Should you ask me next what the definition of 'concentration camp' is?" Fingel suddenly became happy, staring into Patsy Gattuso's sea-blue eyes, "Our witness," S'-level student Lu Mingfei is also one of the students you call involved, but he claims to be locked up in an ecological rainforest warehouse where an Amazon anaconda lives! He was almost attacked by that anaconda! If not The alarm was triggered and the school administration department arrived in time. He might have been absent due to serious injuries before the hearing began. Does this exactly meet the expectations of the investigation team?"

"It was just a mistake." Patsy Gattuso frowned.

Because indeed, even he didn't know why there was a jumping anaconda in the ecological warehouse where Lu Mingfei slept. Those ecological warehouses should have been emptied and disinfected during the last evacuation of the technical department! This was a loophole, but it was caught by the cunning Fingel and became a powerful lever.

"Brother, you are at a loss for words." Fingel said with his tongue.

"Please pay attention to the order of speech." King Solomon reminded.

"A safety failure does not mean that we have abused students. We still oppose the 'concentration camp' remarks made by the other party." Patsy Gattuso is not prepared to tangle with Fingel on this topic for too long.

But then the vice-principal suddenly said something: "To be honest, the secretary of the investigation team, when it comes to the discussion of whether the ecological warehouse is a concentration camp, I think this young man here is undoubtedly better than You know a little bit."

Patsy was stunned for a moment, and so were the others. They looked at Fingel, and then someone laughed. The laughter spread throughout the audience like it was contagious!

Percy was a little dazed, but he caught a glimpse of Caesar Gattuso covering his face and looking at the sky in the auditorium, and Nono laughing so hard that he slapped his boyfriend on the shoulder and rolled forward and back, and he subconsciously guessed what the vice-principal was playing. Incredible meme.

Andrew quietly leaned into his ear and deciphered the secret for him, "Fingel von Flins is of German origin, and just like Flamel said, he does know more about concentration camps than you, an Italian. "

After regaining consciousness, Patsy looked up and saw Fingel and the vice-principal secretly high-fiving each other. The former even winked at him. His shameless and unrestrained level had taught this elite secretary from the school board a lesson!