“What are you trying to do? You’re just slaughtering the innocent.” Su Shuang’s fingers were trembling. Hiding behind the security department’s guard team, he stammered out the question.
Lin Xiaohe had thrown caution to the wind.
The so-called Federation was nothing but a makeshift, amateurish operation.
The four big characters “Fair and Just” hanging above the courtroom were an absolute joke.
At its core, it was all about the strong ruling over the weak.
Lin Xiaohe’s expression was indifferent, but her words were dripping with thick sarcasm.
“Back when I tried to talk law with you, you wanted to talk about strength. Now that I want to talk about strength with you, you want to talk about law. What’s the big idea, playing games with me?”
The chief justice cleared his throat and said solemnly, “Federal interrogations follow a set procedure. If you’re unhappy with the result, you can file an appeal. There’s no need for such extremism.”
Lin Xiaohe was fiddling with a gavel. It was small, exquisite, and felt great in her hand. She had no idea what it was made of.
She gave it a light tap and said casually, “File an appeal? What for? I’d much rather be the chief justice than the defendant. It’s way more impressive, don’t you think?”
She swept her gaze across the crowd, then locked onto Su Shuang. “The Federation’s number one lawyer? I hereby find you guilty of selling counterfeit and shoddy goods. The sentence is decapitation!”
A chill ran down Su Shuang’s spine, as if countless icy hands were crawling over his back.
He shrank completely behind the security department’s guard team. In this position, Lin Xiaohe shouldn’t be able to kill him, right?
The echo of the word “decapitation” was still reverberating through the courtroom when a golden light, like a bolt of thunderous lightning, fell from the protective shield and struck Su Shuang.
After a flash of intense light, Su Shuang was gone, leaving behind only a grayish mark on the floor.
Lin Xiaohe clapped her hands and laughed. “Got what he deserved. Struck by divine lightning, his soul scattered. I’m just carrying out heaven’s will here.”
Her behavior was so unbridled; she clearly had no regard for the Federation, the court, or the security department.
What’s more, every single move she made screamed that she wanted everyone in this courtroom to die!
The security department guards made the first move.
They pressed the controls on their mech suits. In the blink of an eye, the cannons of thirty lightweight single-soldier mech suits aimed at Lin Xiaohe on the judge’s bench and opened fire!
A torrent of blazing flame, like a giant dragon, roared toward Lin Xiaohe.
But the scene they imagined didn’t happen.
Lin Xiaohe didn’t even flinch an eyebrow. She just let that fire dragon crash into her.
The moment the fire dragon touched Lin Xiaohe, it vanished into thin air, silently, like a stream merging into the vast ocean.
And Lin Xiaohe was still sitting there, smiling. But the smile didn’t reach her eyes. She sneered, “Is that all you’ve got? Why didn’t you just drop a nuke on me?”
The security department guards’ eyelids twitched violently. They knew more than the military and the others.
This ability to absorb energy was way too similar to the Zerg!
But wasn’t Lin Xiaohe a Stardust Mutant Plant Manipulator? How could she have Zerg traits?
The security department guards tried to report Lin Xiaohe’s anomaly back to the security department, but were horrified to discover their super-encrypted communication channel had been jammed!
This was a unique channel belonging to the security department! Even the military and Nuwa couldn’t intercept it.
Who was it? Who had such powerful communication technology?
Lin Xiaohe smiled playfully. “Can’t win, so you want to go tattle? Haha, go on, shout. Shout as loud as you want. Even if you scream your lungs out, no one’s coming to save you!”
The security department guards stared at her in shock and disbelief. “So you’re the one behind this?”
“Yep,” she said. Lin Xiaohe put her feet down, propped her elbow on the table, and rested her chin in her hand.
“Aren’t you guys the best at media warfare, at twisting the truth and turning things upside down? I can’t out-argue you, so I’ll just have to shut your mouths.”
She stretched lazily, completely unconcerned by the terrified and disgusted looks everyone was giving her.
Lots of people hate me. Who do they think they are?
Lin Xiaohe opened her hand. The round live-streaming camera obediently landed on her palm. “How impressive. Broadcasting live across the whole Federation. I’ve learned my lesson too. I’ll let them see what they should see.”
Cassian licked his lips, a bad feeling welling up inside him.
Here she comes, here she comes!
The crazy, maniacal clown from the Wasteland Planet is back!
Cassius’s hair stood on end. He felt that a faintly smiling Lin Xiaohe was far more terrifying than a cold, ruthless one.
“Principal, what does ‘what they should see’ mean?”
Cassian looked despairing. “That means what the audience should see in a little while.”
Lin Xiaohe swung the gavel and brought it down with a heavy, resonant thud. Her tone was firm and powerful. “Security department guards, acting as accomplices to evil, slaughtering the innocent. The sentence is decapitation!”
Learning from Su Shuang’s fate, the security department guards watched the yellow light on the protective shield warily.
But the next second, green vines burst up from the ground, wrapping around the single-soldier mech suits at incredible speed.
“Three, two, one!” Lin Xiaohe snapped her fingers.
The vines tightened and crushed.
The formidable, arrogant security department single-soldier mech suits shattered into pieces before everyone’s eyes.
Blood seeped out from the gaps between the fragments, slowly forming little streams on the floor.
“Ahhh!”
Many viewers who witnessed this scene screamed before being kicked off the Star Network by Nuwa.
Old Cao the Madman, who had been glued to the live stream, was completely stunned. “Lin Xiaohe really doesn’t plan on staying in the Federation anymore, does she?! Wait, hold on. Since when did the security department guards become such pushovers?!”
The selection process for the security department guards was super strict, even stricter than for the Central Military Academy.
And they were just… easily, casually crushed like that?!
Were they just that weak, or was Lin Xiaohe just that strong?
Was it really a wise move for the Federation to push someone as powerful as Lin Xiaohe this far?
Deep worry filled Old Cao the Madman’s eyes. He sighed quietly. This was just the security department’s style. They never understood the principle of leaving a way out for others so you could meet again on better terms.
Lin Xiaohe, having dealt with the security department guards as easily as chopping vegetables, turned her gaze to the jury.
The jury consisted of 101 people. In the previous vote, twenty civilian jurors and thirteen military jurors from the 456th Star Ring had voted against. Kaylen Reno and Mainley had abstained. Everyone else had voted in favor.
Lin Xiaohe had a great memory. She wouldn’t miss a single enemy.
She banged the gavel again. Every word she spoke was like a death roll call from the Grim Reaper.
“As jurors, you failed to uphold the fairness and justice of the law. You failed to make your choices from a position of impartiality. Corrupted by money, bending the knee to power, knowing it was a wrongful conviction, you still became accomplices to the executioners.”
Lin Xiaohe looked them square in the eyes and told them exactly why they had to die. “And most importantly of all, the person being convicted was me!”
She raised her voice. “On your playground, I was guilty. But this is my court. My will is the law. I find you guilty. The sentence is decapitation!”
As her voice fell, green ‘bullets’ came pouring out from all directions.
The scene turned into a slaughterhouse. The fallen bodies were almost piling up into a mountain of corpses. The air was thick with the stench of blood.
The military special forces soldiers, their eyes bloodshot, glared at Lin Xiaohe with fury. “Protecting every citizen of the Federation is the sacred duty of us federal soldiers! By doing this, how can you be worthy of the military insignia on your shoulder, worthy of the oath you swore under the Federation’s flag?”
