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 Rhard, Lin Nian, was already standing 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 applicants, and even school staff were allowed to attend the hearing. 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 stated any of his opinions on the hearing. All those who tried to interview him were 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 attend the hearing in person is probably no different from the emperor who personally takes his palace guests to watch a shadow puppet show. They are all just 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 in the front row, wearing noise-cancelling headphones with his eyes closed and listening to music, and a group of neatly pitched black dogs behind him.
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"Don't mess up. The position of the student union is not important to us now. Don't forget the winning formula. Keep an eye on your home and your opponent." The vice-principal looked at the suit sitting on the complaint area with vigour. Andrew Gattuso and Patsy Gattuso glanced at the murmuring jury from time to time, as well as King Solomon who frowned slightly dissatisfied with the order of the scene, their eyes 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 Natsumi, who was dressed in black. 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 model application site for GUCC and CHANEL.
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", "year treasure" and "nian nian". They are recognized as a major evil force on the secret party Internet. They are praised by forum friends on the Night Watch forum. They affectionately call them "Nian's 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 quite a lot on one thing. There was an amazing consensus - they would kill whoever fucked Lin Nian, at all costs. If the situation worsened, Su Xiaoqiang and Xia Mi would take the lead in pulling out the bouquets in their hands and slap the old faces of the investigation team as a sign The horn of 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 this 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 is something they worked hard for.
"Where's Lu Mingfei? Why hasn't he come yet?" The 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 these 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 the investigation team put a sack on him and beat him with a stick on the way here."
"What kind of girl is he? Is a sap so easy to beat?'S "The level is his bloodline, not his sex rating in Galga...!"
On the hour, the clock tower bell rang in the distance outside the window of the Hall of Valor Conference Store. Groups of white doves fluttered out from the golden woods. The noisy discussions in the conference hall all descended from the simple and grand bell. After calming 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 determination 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 organizers have sworn to be responsible for their statements."
"First, let me introduce the jury panel." 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, and be honest
In good faith and impartial judgment, the outcome of this hearing is also the jury's final verdict. "
—The people in the jury box lined up are all dressed in black, and they are as old as if they were dug out of graves. Some of them are holding pipes, some are polishing monocles that symbolize gentry, and there are even more. Each person gnawed on the crunchy celery with different expressions. When King Solomon was speaking, they all clenched their right hands and placed them at the heart, bowing 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. Their impartiality does not need to be questioned. 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 picked up 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 subjects of this hearing, Lin Nian and his lawyer and instructor 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 dressed in a dark green school uniform. He stood upright, his hands hanging naturally at his sides, and there was not much expression on his face.
"According to the materials submitted in advance by the investigation team of the school board and the college management team, there is a lot of controversy over the ancestry of the "S"-level 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, an extremely dangerous warning was given to the student Lin Nian's bloodline, 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, talking nonsense' and "Using a large number of mothers to throw into the lake to attract fish,: this is my original text paraphrasing the words of Master Flamel. It is a pity that these two I can't understand the sentence very clearly."
"'Sitting in a well and looking at the sky' is a Chinese idiom, which means that a frog sits at the bottom of a 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 sarcastic short-sightedness and lack of progress. The meaning of the material is It is pointed out that the investigation team and even the school boy's association who accused the student Lin Nian of his bloodline were too narrow-minded and too conceited, and they spoke nonsense when they didn't understand anything." said the vice-principal.
"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 Chinese slang, and 'making a nest' is a term in the fishing field. It refers to the way the fish hooker puts the fish at the hook point in order to improve the fishing efficiency." To break away from the bait of the fishing hook, 'mother' can be literally translated. The whole slang meaning is 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 To 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 could get the laugh were Chinese students. Those who understood 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 silently looked at all the malicious looks, and beside him, Andrew’s mouth
Sitting steadily on the chair with a smile, he did not protest against this subtle insult and asked for a "yellow card" to be given to the vice-principal and others... 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, and I have the advantage." The vice principal replied in a low voice.
"Vice principal, thank you." Fingel quietly gave a thumbs up.
"You come again 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 president a come-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 college management team is dissatisfied with the investigation team sent by the school board of directors and Resistance was entirely the fault of the investigation team. After settling in the college, they built plank roads in secret and secretly
In order to achieve control of the argument and an absolute advantage at the hearing, they even imprisoned our interrogator and several of our witnesses, and subjected them to several days of psychological 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 no choice but to bang his 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 the person on trial and multiple witnesses and lynched them 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 the personnel involved in the Chicago Harbor Incident. Since the mission incident is highly confidential, safety and closure must be ensured during the questioning process. Therefore, we have also reported to the Executive Department A formal application was submitted, and after it was approved, private window talks were held, and these talks had nothing to do with this hearing.”
"I think the Minister of Execution should serve as a witness to corroborate this statement." King Solomon surrounded them.
"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 documents 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 submitted along with it. 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 Nanxun people during that meeting?" 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 floors 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 intolerable. Several students involved were gathered together and managed individually. It was like...a concentration camp!"
King Solomon looked at the investigation team. Patsy Gattuso immediately stood up and said calmly, "We admit that the students involved did live in the "ecological warehouse" for a period of time, but as mentioned before, this is for The interview process must maintain a considerable level of privacy regarding the choices made, sacrificing the environment of residence.
This is the awareness that every student should have in exchange for information. Moreover, we are also guaranteed clean and tidy beds and three nutritious meals a day. The living environment is definitely not like the concentration camp that the other party has 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-class student Lu Mingfei was also one of the students you called involved, but he claimed to be locked up in an ecological rainforest warehouse where an Amazon anaconda was inhabited! He was almost attacked by that anaconda! What if If the alarm was not triggered and the school administration department arrived in time, he might have been absent due to serious injury 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 clicked his tongue.
"Please pay attention to the order of speech." King Solomon reminded.
"A security failure does not mean that we have abused students. We still oppose the 'concentration camp' remarks proposed 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 when 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 backward, he subconsciously guessed what the vice-principal was up to. The joke.
Andrew quietly leaned into his ear and deciphered the secret for him, "Fingel von Flins is of German descent. 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!
