The white-haired old man twitched the corner of his mouth, and a trace of sarcasm flashed in his eyes.
Young people are always like this—can’t stand being wronged, can’t handle being provoked.
So what if Lin Xiaohe is powerful? Isn’t she still falling right into their trap?
Right under everyone’s noses, Lin Xiaohe killed a Stardust Mutant Creature Controller and then tried to kill a member of the Security Department.
These two crimes alone are enough to sentence Lin Xiaohe to death!
Cassian knew all too well the despicable tactics of these people. He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, and could only keep trying to calm her down: “Lin Xiaohe, stay calm. Don’t fall for it.”
Cassius and the cadets from the Central Military Academy also joined in trying to persuade her.
“Lin Xiaohe, impulsiveness is a demon. If you really kill him, they’ll definitely convict you of treason!”
“Lin Xiaohe, there aren’t just court patrol officers here, but also the Security Department’s guard team and the military’s special forces. No matter how strong you are, you can’t fight all of them!”
“Think about your parents and your family. What will they do if you go through with this?”
The Lin family, Dong Yuxuan, Mori, Brother Thunderbolt, and Old Hei were all locked up in the adjacent waiting hall.
According to procedure, after Lin Xiaohe’s trial, it would be their turn.
Cassius quickly opened the partition to the waiting hall and said to the Lin family, “Quick, talk some sense into her—she’s gone mad!”
The appearance of her family caught Lin Xiaohe’s attention.
Lin Xiaohe pouted, a wave of grievance welling up inside her.
This lousy interstellar society makes no sense at all.
She had already accepted her fate and just wanted to farm quietly, yet they kept coming to stir up trouble.
Father Lin looked at Lin Xiaohe’s red-rimmed eyes, and his heart almost broke. He yelled at the top of his lungs, “Xiaohe, we believe in you! Do whatever you want. They’re all bad people, and they deserve to die!”
Grandma Lin and Grandpa Lin stomped their feet and kicked at the railings with a loud bang. “Let us out! Sweetie, we’re coming to help you! These mongrels dare to bully our sweetie? We’ll chop you all up!”
Lin Chiyang stepped back a few paces, got a running start, pushed off, and kicked—actually managing to bend the metal railing a little. “Some Federation this is. I’ve had enough! On the Wasteland Star, we never enjoyed any of the Federation’s welfare benefits, yet we paid so many taxes. So what if we betray the Federation?”
Brother Thunderbolt and Old Hei used to be members of the Iron Meteor Raider Gang, so they never thought Federation citizenship was anything to be proud of.
“Xiaohe, go ahead and do it boldly. At worst, we’ll just defect to the Empire!”
“Exactly! And if you don’t like the Empire, we’ll head to the Black Domain. The universe is huge—there’ll always be a place for us.”
Hearing this, Cassius nearly choked.
Seriously?!
This is how you talk Lin Xiaohe down? Aren’t you just pouring gasoline on the fire?
Sure enough, Lin Xiaohe grinned broadly upon hearing this, completely overjoyed.
She casually flicked her hand, and a yellow protective shield enveloped them, sealing them in tightly.
The white-haired old man’s pupils contracted sharply. According to their research on Lin Xiaohe, this protective shield should have been limited to her own use.
Had her Stardust Mutant Plant evolved again?
Lin Xiaohe looked at the white-haired old man. He was the one who had kept talking about cooperating with her, only to lure her into the high-level restricted zone.
Even without the incident with Chu Huaihuaizhi, he would have found some other way to make a move against her, wouldn’t he?
Lin Xiaohe had so many things she wanted to confront him about, but then she felt it would be pointless.
What was there to say to an ant?
He had never given her a chance to explain, so why should she listen to his blabbering?
Lin Xiaohe’s slender fingers applied a little pressure, and with a crisp crack, the old man’s neck was snapped.
Seeing this, Cassian was stunned into speechlessness.
How could Lin Xiaohe be so decisive and swift?! At least give him a chance to try and stop her.
A faint golden light, invisible to the naked eye, floated out of the white-haired old man’s head.
That was his spiritual power—and his last resort for survival.
There were still over a hundred cloned bodies in the Security Department. As long as his spiritual power survived, he could possess a clone and live again.
The white-haired old man sneered inwardly. Lin Xiaohe had killed someone in public; the charges were ironclad.
His eyes glinted as he stared at Lin Xiaohe’s extraordinary body.
This body had immense research value.
Just as he was fantasizing about how he would study Lin Xiaohe’s body, he felt a tremor from the very depths of his soul. The next second, he was pinched between two slender fingers!
His eyes flew wide open, his face full of disbelief.
How is this possible?!
How can spiritual power be grabbed? And by a physical body, no less!
Lin Xiaohe looked at the wisp of spiritual power, thin as an earthworm, between her fingers, and let out a soft tsk.
No wonder this old bastard dared to be so arrogant and unflustered in the face of danger—he had a way to save himself!
“Old bastard, I told you I was going to kill you, and that means obliterating you, body and spirit! If a tiger doesn’t show its teeth, you think it’s Hello Kitty?”
Amid the old man’s desperate struggles and shrieks, Lin Xiaohe crushed his spiritual power into dust like she was squashing a bug.
This was torture far more painful than being dismembered by a thousand cuts!
After making sure he was dead beyond any doubt, Lin Xiaohe felt a tiny bit happier again.
A true gentleman doesn’t delay revenge. Lin Xiaohe’s gaze shifted to the medical team members.
The head of the medical team bolted, his heart pounding like a drum.
Suddenly, a green bullet pierced his heart, and a voice like a female demon from hell came from behind him.
“For the sake of the nutrient solution, I’ll give you a quick death.”
The other medical team members collapsed to the ground, their legs trembling uncontrollably, their bodies shaking like leaves, tears and snot streaming down their faces.
“Please, spare us! I’m just an ordinary nobody doing a job! It was our boss’s orders—I had no choice!”
“Right, right! We were just paid to do a job. We never really wanted to kill you.”
“You are the future of the Federation, the brightest star in the galaxy. Your heart is as vast as the ocean. Surely you won’t blame the innocent, right?”
Lin Xiaohe looked at them with pity, speaking as if she truly understood their plight: “I get it, I really do. But sorry, my boss won’t let you off.”
“Who’s your boss?”
Lin Xiaohe placed both hands over her left chest and sighed deeply. “My boss is my own heart. And my heart says, ‘I would rather wrong the world than have the world wrong me!'”
Her eyes turned cold and fierce, like thousand-year-old ice, and her voice carried shards of frost: “My heart says that if I let you go today, my heart will never know peace again! Between wronging you and wronging myself, I can only choose to wrong you!”
The moment the words left her mouth, before they could even see how Lin Xiaohe fired, their bodies were riddled with green bullets.
“Ahhhhhhh!” A wave of terrified screams erupted in the courtroom.
The court patrol officers stood guard in front of the Chief Judge, their faces grave. “Chief Judge, we need to leave. Now.”
The military’s special forces shielded the jury members and prepared to flee.
As for the ordinary citizens who had come to watch the trial, only the cadets from the Central Military Academy stepped forward to organize their orderly evacuation.
Bang!
The first soldier who rushed to the main entrance was nearly sliced in half by the yellow protective shield.
The entire courtroom was now enclosed in a massive protective barrier, its flowing yellow light radiating a chilling aura.
Everyone looked solemnly toward the person sitting in the Chief Judge’s seat.
She had her feet propped up on the desk, her posture lazy and casual, but her eyes were icy cold. “Did I say you could leave?”
