Rene was stunned for a long time, and a trace of embarrassment and shame flashed across his face very quickly. However, the person in front of him was Si Lei after all, and he couldn't do it directly. Rene unconsciously looked in the direction of Hesta. Take a look——
In the distance, Hesta was sitting in a wheelchair, with no expression on her face, no sign of happiness or anger.
Rene suddenly had some suspicions in his heart. He didn't know if Si Lei standing here today had anything to do with Hesta. Is it possible that Si Lei's appearance was ordered by Hesta? So can Si Lei's attitude towards himself also represent Hesta to some extent...
As soon as this idea came up, it was immediately rejected by René himself.
He had noticed early on that the relationship between Hesta and Si Lei was not that close, at least not as close as that between Rico and Chiba. Si He always maintains a certain politeness between them, which is exactly a sign that both parties are "outsiders".
What's more, Si Lei is a bit stubborn. It sounds like he is principled, but in fact he is just claiming to be noble. Not to mention that Gobelin’s decision to throw out the “Adjudicator” today was entirely due to Gobelin’s sudden situation. Even if Hesta himself didn’t want to come forward and wanted to find an agent temporarily, Si Lei would never be found. How could he be expected to do so? Is a person like Lei obedient?
After such a set of analysis, Rene calmed down a lot.
"Of course you can tell me to 'shut up'. You police officers are used to being arrogant and arrogant. They slander people without evidence and order them to shut up when they protest. Ha, I understand..." Rene raised his hand to smooth his hair and said softly, "But The truth won’t shut up, it—”
"If everyone has no objections," Si Lei turned around, "then our speech process will follow Tasia's suggestion."
…
Everything went smoothly.
The five people still drew lots to determine the order of speaking, but five separate votes for individuals were inserted in the middle. Each audience member needed to write down their approval or objection on a piece of paper, fold it in half, and put it into a makeshift voting box. All votes will be counted at the end.
Si Lei was the first speaker to take the stage. She talked about some of her worries and plans, as well as a few points that needed close attention at the moment. Hestad almost immediately realized that she must have gone through these issues many times alone during Si Lei's sleepless days and nights. . Otherwise she would not have been able to analyze everything at such a fast pace in such a short period of time.
Si Lei focuses so much on the problem itself that every reality she emphasizes is as concrete as a sharp shovel, shovel after shovel, wedged into every listener's head.
Although Hestad herself had no idea what to say in such an occasion, she could still feel that Si Lei's speech was not good enough-an intuition that reached its peak when the second man took the stage.
The man immediately after Si Lei is called Adams, 29 years old, and a pipeline engineer who has worked for less than five years. He first told a story, saying that when he was young, he went hunting with his father and encountered a pack of wolves. He and his father worked together to help each other and finally escaped.
Then, he talked about the first time he and his good brother heard about survivalism at the age of sixteen. The two began to build their own doomsday shelter brick by brick - learning radio technology, learning about mechanical disassembly and assembly, and learning about the wilderness. Survive... And a few years ago, he was lucky enough to go to District 1 and make more like-minded friends in Roboglier's house...
"He has been speaking for eleven minutes." Rico said softly, "It's been overtime for such a long time, is it okay?"
"The other four people on the stage don't care, so let's just leave it alone." Hesta looked at the dial, "And I'm a little curious..."
"I wonder how much longer he can talk?"
Hesta laughed, "Yes."
Time passed quickly in the man's story, and Hesta kept looking at her watch - after nearly twenty minutes of remembering the bitterness and sweetness, she felt that the man's speech should be almost over, because the man began to talk about his dead father, He told how he held his father's hand before he died, listened to his father's teachings, and recalled the courage, responsibility and manly responsibility inherited from him...
"Twenty-seven minutes."
Amidst the thunderous applause, Hestad's eyes moved from her dial to Si Lei - Si Lei's face was very ugly. It was obvious that she also realized her problem while listening to Adams' speech.
However, what puzzled Hestad was that she still did not interrupt Adams' story. She just sat there and listened to the whole story without saying a word.
"Officer Si Lei," Tasia touched Si Lei's hand worriedly, "Are you okay?"
Si Lei's body shivered almost imperceptibly, and she shook her head, "...I'm fine."
"Oh, because you seem a little tired."
"It's true that I'm a little tired, but...it's okay."
Si Lei sat there, looking forward. She responded to Tasia's concern, but she had no idea what she was talking about. At this moment, her brain seemed to no longer belong to her and was no longer under her control.
Not long after Adams started speaking, her mind began to flash back to the scene where she had just spoken on stage.
Standing in the third person's position, she suddenly felt like a joke - telling a lot of awkward questions and waving her arms like a madman threatening the public...
In fact, the greatest value of this speech should be to show one's reliability, that is, to tell everyone "who I am."
How could it be...I didn't expect this.
Over the past few days, numerous things have flooded into my mind - those things I should have done but failed to do, those things I shouldn't have done but ultimately crossed the line... These thoughts fell from the sky like a mountain, weighing Si Lei out of breath, and there seemed to be strings in his mind. The roots broke, and this hall where people gathered suddenly made her feel ashamed and suffocated.
...It’s really useless, Si Lei.
That's all.
Not far away, Rene was revising the outline of his speech with a brush. Adams's speech also deeply inspired him and bought him time to revise the draft.
Adams' vote soon ended. Tasia took a deep breath and stood up.
"That." Rene raised his hand.
Tasia turned around, "...what's wrong?"
Rene did not look at her, but looked at Bernhard not far away, "We said that everyone can only speak for a maximum of five minutes. Adams seriously overtimed like this, which is so unfair to others! "
"The people behind you should pay attention to the time." Bernhard replied nonchalantly, "I will chase them away when the time is up."
"That doesn't make up for the fact that he spoke for 27 minutes," Rene said, head held high. "I asked that everyone be extended to 15 minutes."
"Okay, I don't have any objection anyway, we have one morning," Bernhard looked at Gobelin, "What do you think?"
