“Judge…” After a brief exchange with Feng Bujue, Gui Xiao narrowed his eyes and said weakly to the judge, “I’ve changed my mind… I plead not guilty, and I agree to hand over the defense entirely to Feng Bujue.”

“Alright…” The judge responded, then looked at Jue-ge and said, “Defense attorney, you may begin at any time.”

Feng Bujue didn’t stand on ceremony and went straight to the point, “Your Honor, I would like to call a witness.”

“Defense attorney, this court has not received any applications for the summoning of witnesses or evidence before the trial,” the judge replied, “If the witness you need to summon is not in court, we will be unable to assist you.”

“No matter,” Jue-ge replied, “I am well aware… that all the witnesses I need to summon are already in court.”

“Is that so…” The judge’s tone changed slightly as he continued, “Then please proceed.”

Feng Bujue chuckled and turned around, looking at the door he had kicked open and said, “The first witness I would like to summon is…”

As the first half of his sentence left his lips, a black shadow appeared in the doorway.

That black shadow… truly was a “black shadow” in every sense of the word.

The figure looked like one of those soon-to-be-doomed culprits in a Conan case, before their true identity is revealed.

His entire being was like a shadow, with only a pair of eyes that shone with a ghostly blue light; the surface of his body had layers of bizarre wrinkles, and one could vaguely see a blood-like liquid flowing in those wrinkles, as if… his blood vessels were on the outside of his body and were transparent.

“…Alden,” Feng Bujue announced the figure's name as he appeared.

For a moment, whispers arose from the audience and jury seats.

However, the noise was not yet enough for the judge to demand order.

“Hmph… defense attorney…” Biff sneered at this moment, looking at Jue-ge and saying, “Is your first witness an escaped ‘wanted criminal’?”

“Precisely,” Feng Bujue replied matter-of-factly.

“Defense attorney, I must remind you…” After two seconds, the judge also spoke, “After Alden has testified, the bailiffs will not allow him to leave the courtroom.” He paused, “Also, given his identity, the credibility of his testimony will be affected.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Feng Bujue said, “These… I already knew.”

“Hmm…” The judge pondered for a moment, “Then, please begin the witness examination.”

As they spoke, Alden had already walked to the witness stand and stood silently.

The Truth Court’s witness stand did not have things like Bibles on it, nor did they require witnesses to undergo any swearing-in process; because this was the “Truth” Court… this court itself was a combination of religion and law, a form of extreme belief.

“Please state your name.” Feng Bujue didn’t waste any time, quickly walked to the witness stand and asked directly.

“Alden,” Alden replied, his voice was similar to that of a middle-aged man, without many characteristics.

“Your identity is?” Feng Bujue asked knowingly.

“Currently, I am a wanted criminal,” Alden replied, “Formerly… a wanderer in the Prime Universe.”

“Do you know the defendant?” Feng Bujue asked again.

“I know him,” Alden’s answer was also concise, “He is Devourer of Heavens, Gui Xiao.”

“Have you met in the past?” Feng Bujue asked.

“I have,” Alden said.

“Please briefly describe the situation at the time,” Feng Bujue said.

Alden nodded slightly, “In the Divine Calendar 493, I was collecting the fear of the locals on Syrup Star. In a village, I happened to meet Gui Xiao. He asked me some questions about the village, and then we parted ways.”

“Objection!”

At this point, Prosecutor Biff raised his first and last objection: “The content of the defense attorney’s questioning is irrelevant to the case.”

“Objection sustained,” the judge replied.

“Your Honor…” Feng Bujue spread his hands and continued, “My question was simply to prove that… Devourer of Heavens, Gui Xiao is not the kind of ‘crazy’, ‘cold-blooded’, ‘focused on hunting uniqueness data’ serial killer that the prosecutor described.” He gestured towards Alden, “If he were… then Alden should have been killed when he met him back then.”

“Hmph…” Biff snorted, “Perhaps he didn’t have the ability back then?”

“Do you have evidence to support that statement?” Feng Bujue asked.

Biff raised his head and replied smugly, “Heh… that’s a reasonable assumption.”

“Oh~” Feng Bujue nodded with a smile, “So, in the absence of evidence, you’re taking your subjective bias, reversing the process and motivation from the result, and fabricating some content that fits the above conditions and treating it as fact?” He touched his chin, thoughtfully, “Hmm… is it really okay to have such a person as a prosecutor?”

“You…” Biff’s face turned black from Jue-ge’s words, “Isn’t what you just said… also a reasonable assumption?”

“Ha!” Feng Bujue chuckled and gave the other party a contemptuous look, “Of course not.” He paused for a second, and continued, “Mr. Prosecutor… do you even understand what is called a presumption? What is called argumentation?”

“Then you tell me, what’s the difference?” Biff, filled with “disapproval” on his face, asked Jue-ge this question in return.

His question… was simply courting death.

To use an analogy, Biff’s behavior was like making a gesture of refusal and welcome when encountering logical rape…

“Okay, since you shamelessly asked, then I will righteously answer you.” In the next second, Feng Bujue replied very arrogantly.

“Hmm… although I know this guy is misusing idioms, why don’t I feel much of a sense of disharmony…” Gui Xiao, who was watching from the sidelines, thought to himself at this moment, “Is this the ability of a novelist… I suddenly want to read the book he wrote…”

Feng Bujue’s side… didn’t know what Gui Xiao was thinking, at this moment Jue-ge was immersed in the pleasure of mentally destroying his opponent.

He saw him walk quickly to Biff, and said with full confidence, “Mr. Prosecutor, the witness has already stated very clearly in his testimony—that the point in time when he met Gui Xiao was in the Divine Calendar 493; and that verbose indictment in your hand…” At this point, he reached out and poked the stack of paper documents on the other party’s table “…also stated at the beginning—that Gui Xiao’s involvement in the case was ‘between the Divine Calendar 492 and 501’.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the entire court suddenly understood.

95% of the people thought: “That’s right, that stinky and long indictment did mention this at the beginning, so… when Gui Xiao met Alden, he had already started hunting uniqueness data.”

Another 5% of the people thought: “This Feng Bujue… originally had been secretly eavesdropping when Biff started his case presentation, he deliberately waited until Gui Xiao was about to plead guilty before barging in to disrupt the situation.”

Of course, these people’s thoughts were also within Feng Bujue’s expectations, he wasn’t going to care about those at the moment.

At this moment, Jue-ge was focusing on cleaning up the bird-man with the shit-face in front of him…

“Mr. Prosecutor.” Feng Bujue looked directly into Biff’s eyes and said aggressively, “Let me ask you, a person who in 492…” He suddenly picked up the indictment, pointed to the words on the paper, and read word by word, “was able to ‘launch a cruel attack on the Time Official without hesitation’…” He paused for half a second, widened his eyes, and showed a normal person’s expression when watching a retard, looking at Biff and saying, “…how could he possibly, in 493, give up on attacking Alden because he thought he ‘didn’t have the ability’?”

For this question… Biff was speechless, he could only stare blankly.

“This is impossible.” Feng Bujue continued, “The real reason why Gui Xiao didn’t attack Alden… I’ve already said it, it’s because the description of him in the indictment is wrong.”

“Then… let’s go back to the question you asked me, the answer will be clear…” Feng Bujue said, raising his hand and gently patted his chest, “I, based on the testimony provided by the witness, make logical deductions to prove my point… this, is called argumentation.” He put down his hand, stretched out his hands and held the table, leaning his upper body forward, and smiled ferociously at Biff, “You, twice in a row, through subjective assumptions and baseless imaginations, put forward conclusions that contradict common sense, and still call yourself a ‘reasonable assumption’… this, to put it nicely, is called a ‘wrong assumption’, to put it bluntly, it’s just an idiot talking nonsense.”

“You… you’re abominable!” Biff was so angry that his blood vessels were about to burst, he looked at the judge again, “Your Honor! He…”

“Hey~ you better think clearly before you speak…” Feng Bujue immediately interrupted him, “If your business… is not an idiot talking nonsense, then it’s a person with normal intelligence fabricating facts, right?”

“I…” Biff thought about it, and seemed to decide to accept the name of idiot.

However, Feng Bujue didn’t even want to give him this opportunity…

“Everyone has seen it, this is the so-called ‘undefeated prosecutor’…” Jue-ge shrugged, turned to the audience, and smiled, “Heh… according to his way of self-justifying accusations…” He tilted his head, revealing a cheap expression, “…undefeated or something… I can do it too~”

After saying that, the whole court was in an uproar, followed by a burst of noise.

Bang bang bang—

“Silence!” After a few seconds, the judge had no choice but to knock the gavel.

After the court regained its silence, the judge said to Jue-ge, “Defense attorney, this is not your personal talk show or lecture site…” He turned his head and glanced at the prosecutor who had lost his soul not far away, then sighed and said to Jue-ge, “You have already proven your point, just stop there…”

The judge’s thinking was still very clear, after saying this, he turned to the jury again and said, “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please do not adopt the prosecutor’s ‘reasonable assumption’ just now.”

After saying that, he looked at Jue-ge again, “Defense attorney, in any case, the prosecutor’s ‘objection’ is still valid. Next, the questions you ask the witness must be related to the case, otherwise… please stop questioning.”

“Since that’s the case…” Feng Bujue seemed very calm, anyway, his real purpose (defeating the prosecutor) had already been achieved, and now he could just start the next step, “Please allow me…” He took the opportunity to continue, “to summon the second witness.”