CH 122

A sergeant in dragon-patterned military uniform led a squad of soldiers and took Lin Wen away.

The venue fell into a deathly silence. In the following hour, the joint meeting dealt with several minor disputes between the states.

When Lin Wen returned to the venue, the sergeant in the dragon-patterned military uniform handed a thick file to the four elders.

Upon opening the file, the first page of the information read:

Normal human, healthy, no mutations, no biochemical modifications, no genetic changes, no traces of biochemical drugs, no implants.

Below was the seal of the Dreven Biological Research Institute.

Elder Cheng sneered, "What a farce."

He looked up to find the official lying on the ground, his face turning blue, his pupils dilated, having already committed suicide by poison.

"Drag him out. From now on, such accusations will not be entertained without solid evidence," Elder Cheng said coldly.

Everyone in the council seats looked grim, and Lai Juncheng's face was as black as coal.

They exchanged uneasy glances. Although Elder Cheng could not directly overstep the Supreme Council and other elders to interfere with them, no one wanted to offend the elder.

The trial procedure returned to normal.

"Lai Juncheng" was the first to take the stand.

"The first charge, Sheriff Lin Wen of Changshan County, upon taking office, he forged imperial documents, overstepped his authority to tender, openly accepted bribes and killed the innocent merchants who were forced to bribe."

"Here is the evidence."

"Lai Juncheng" presented the broadcasts, press releases, screenshots from the internet, the original version of the Imperial Main Plan, and Lin Wen's forged version from Changshan County at the time.

These pieces of evidence were passed to the elders one by one and displayed on the large screen behind.

Due to the lack of censorship, some of Lin Wen's spellcasting materials also appeared openly on the big screen, causing some commotion below.

No official had ever seen such things in such a setting. These crudely made images were considered a waste of time in their usual view, not even worth a live performance.

But now, they felt both absurd and thrilling, even covered with a touch of mystery, those rough images became attractive.

The leader of the Conservative Party, Elder Ye, immediately turned off the big screen and said coldly, "You say these filthy things were posted by Lin Wen himself."

"Lai Juncheng" replied, "Yes, all the IP addresses point to the office of the Sheriff of Changshan County, including many accounts below, all from one IP address."

Elder Ye sneered, "One man playing many roles, Sheriff Lin is quite the actor."

"Lai Juncheng" then presented a large amount of evidence, including eyewitness testimonies, the innkeeper's testimony, on-site car crash photos, and testimonies from family members, prostitutes in the car at the time, and others.

Lai Juncheng concluded, "The witnesses are waiting outside, they can be brought in at any time if needed."

Elder Wang said disgustedly, "No need, Lin Wen, you explain."

Lin Wen fearlessly took the stage, and also pulled Qi Mu up with him. The latter's legs were so weak that he couldn't even walk without Lin Wen's support.

When he got to the podium, Lin Wen whispered, "I'm going to ask you a question now, how to forge an IP address to post on a website."

Qi Mu's eyes lit up, and his legs stopped shaking.

Just as he was about to speak, Lin Wen cut him off, "Good, you go up and explain this question to everyone. Remember, everyone here is a novice, a network newbie, you need to use the simplest and most understandable language to explain to everyone."

Lin Wen picked up the microphone, "This question will be answered by my Chief Computer Network Conference Engineer and Senior Computer Language Expert, Mr. Qi Mu."

He handed over the microphone.

Qi Mu's face was flushed, his face severely overheated. He trembled as he took the microphone, looked up and saw a full house of imperial officials, as well as the thirteen governors below, and almost fell down again.

Fortunately, Lin Wen was quick to support him, "Just lower your head and look at the podium, pretend you're giving a lecture to newbies who just joined the company."

Qi Mu stared at the wood grain on the podium, focused his attention on his professional knowledge, imagined a group of newbie girls who had just joined the company, their big, watery eyes waiting for his explanation.

He was getting into the zone.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and began to perform.

At first, he stuttered a bit, but soon he was fluent.

In theory, it's quite difficult to forge an IP address from the ground up. The most common method is to use a botnet, so the recorded IP address becomes the botnet's address. The botnet can also use another botnet, forming multiple layers of disguise.

This was something Qi Mu did often, because work hours were too long. Even if there was nothing to do, he had to stay at his workstation for at least 15 hours a day.

So he often surfed the internet to kill time, but using an IP to visit the external network would trigger a regulatory warning. Bypassing the regulation was very troublesome and not conducive to wrapping things up.

So he hung a botnet on his boss's computer to evade regulation and surf the internet.

But this also had its drawbacks. It could only be used when the boss was not in the office and the computer was not turned off, and the timing had to be just right.

Otherwise, once the boss returned to the office and saw a bunch of spellcasting materials automatically popping up on his computer, the scene would be hard to clean up.

This was one of the reasons he was eventually kicked out.

About five minutes later, most of the people in the room understood. Qi Mu did a great job. He was eloquent, cited various examples, explained things in a simple and understandable way, and even caused some laughter with his interesting and appropriate examples.

Even though there were few people in the room who understood the network, they basically got the gist of it.

Qi Mu was in high spirits and wanted to continue with some deeper stuff, but Lin Wen snatched the microphone away.

"As you can see, these so-called pieces of evidence are not evidence at all, they are all forged. Even the highly difficult network evidence can be forged, let alone other evidence."

Everyone nodded in agreement, no one liked to admit that the knowledge they had just learned was simple.

"As for the witnesses, they are even less credible. In their testimonies, the business car was on the county exit highway, but the crash site was more than 800 meters away from the cliff of the county exit highway. I would like to ask Director Lai, did their car have a rocket booster installed? Why could it fly so far? Please explain."Upon hearing this, the testimonies of the witnesses were obviously full of holes and self-contradictory.

Elder Cheng nodded slightly, a hint of approval on his face.

The other three elders also felt that this accusation was most likely fabricated.

At this moment, "Lai Juncheng" stood up.

"I have additional remarks, this is new evidence."

He presented the property certificates issued by the families of Zhang Fatty and others, including gold, jewelry, and the Poseidon Sapphire.

"All these properties, there is sufficient evidence to prove that they belonged to the deceased investors. But they were subsequently sold at the Changshan County Finance Department."

"All transactions can be verified, there is evidence to follow, and the Poseidon Sapphire was even sold to the Saintess Rodem of the Western Federation at a high price of 2 million."

"Lai Juncheng" presented all the evidence, looking at Lin Wen coldly: "Do you have any explanation?"

Lin Wen seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world.

"Are you a pig? You can even say such stupid things."

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Lin Wen grabbed the microphone and instructed Qi Mu to hand over the stack of documents in the upper left corner of the suitcase.

"This is the proof of the financial department's cash flow, financial details, and receipt stubs, which show that all the money has been put into a special fund for disaster relief."

He turned to Lai Juncheng.

"Please use your intestines to think carefully, would anyone hand over embezzled valuables to the finance department and then put all the ill-gotten gains into the post-disaster reconstruction special fund? What am I embezzling for, to do good deeds? Do you think everyone is as shit-brained as you?"

The whole audience burst into laughter.

Someone even fell under their seat laughing: "Hahaha, no wonder he thinks with his intestines."

"Lai Juncheng's" face turned red with anger, he roared: "You're talking nonsense, you bastard..."

"Silence!"

Elder Cheng's voice overpowered the entire room, and the entire hall fell silent.

His icy gaze looked down, like a giant staring at an ant.

"Lai Juncheng, this is your first and last warning! If you roar again, you will be expelled from the meeting!"

Lai Juncheng bowed his head deeply: "I'm, I'm sorry..."

Elder Cheng's gaze turned back, and in an instant, it became gentle again: "You may continue."

Lin Wen bowed slightly and continued: "This is the patriotic heart of Zhang Fatty... Mr. Zhang and six other investors. They saw the people of Changshan County suffering from floods and couldn't bear to see them suffer, so they came from afar to help. This is their charitable donation."

"These are such kind people, such great people, but unfortunately, they died unexpectedly on their way back from the county."

"This in itself is already a tragic enough tragedy."

"But, what's even more tragic is!"

"Their deaths were exploited, they were framed, their good deeds were misunderstood, their good deeds were unknown, but their non-existent wrongdoings were widely spread!"

"This is the greatest tragedy in the world!"

"And the one who caused this tragedy! It's you!"

"Lai Juncheng!"

His words were powerful and full of emotion.

Of course, Lin Wen couldn't perform the part about being choked with emotion, but just being powerful was enough to shake the audience.

The four elders looked at the evidence, their eyes slightly surprised. The evidence was so detailed that it would be very difficult to fake, and it would be known with a simple investigation.

However, for them to believe that the always greedy investors would travel a long distance to help the people of Changshan County with their disaster relief efforts, it was as unbelievable as believing that a sow could climb a tree.

Only the always calm Governor Sheng showed a mysterious smile.

The Governor of Zhongzhou, Wang Bo'an, leaned in and said: "Sheng Huaixuan, tell me honestly, is this kid your illegitimate son?"

Governor Sheng glanced at him: "Wang Bo'an, if you don't want your eyes, you can donate them to someone in need."

Wang Bo'an laughed awkwardly, indeed Lin Wen and Sheng Huaixuan didn't look alike at all, but looking at Lin Wen's career trajectory and style, it was hard to explain if he wasn't an illegitimate son.