"Judge..." After a brief exchange with Feng Bujue, Gui Xiao squinted and said weakly to the judge, "I've changed my mind... I plead not guilty and agree to hand over the defense work entirely to Feng Bujue."

"Okay..." 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 wish to call a witness."

"Defense attorney, this court has not received any application from you regarding the summoning of witnesses and physical evidence prior to the trial," the judge replied, "If the witness you need to summon is not in court, we are powerless."

"No matter," Jue Ge replied, "I am well aware... all the witnesses I want to summon are present in court."

"Is that so..." the judge's tone changed slightly, and he continued, "Then please proceed."

Feng Bujue chuckled, turned around, and looked at the door he had kicked open, "The first witness I want to summon is..."

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

That shadow... was truly a "dark shadow" in every sense of the word.

This fellow looked like one of those culprits about to be cornered by Conan, but whose true face had not yet been revealed.

His entire body was like a shadow, with only a pair of eyes revealing a幽蓝 (you lan) color; his body's surface also had layers of strange folds, and one could vaguely see blood-like liquid flowing within those folds, as if... his blood vessels were on the outside of his body and were transparent.

"...Olden," Feng Bujue announced his name as the other party appeared.

For a time, whispers arose from the audience and the jury.

However, the noise was not yet at a level that would cause the judge to demand order.

"Hmph... defense attorney..." Biff sneered at this moment, looking at Jue Ge and saying, "Your first witness is a wanted 'fugitive'?"

"Precisely," Feng Bujue responded with righteous confidence.

"Defense attorney, I must remind you..." Two seconds later, the judge also spoke, "After Olden finishes testifying, 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 questioning."

As they spoke, Olden had already walked all the way to the witness stand and stood silently.

The witness stand in the Court of Truth doesn't have things like Bibles on it, nor do they require witnesses to take any oaths; because this is the "Truth" Court... this court itself is a combination of religion and law, an extreme belief.

"Please state your name," Feng Bujue didn't waste time, quickly walked to the witness stand, and asked directly.

"Olden," Olden replied, his voice like that of a middle-aged man, without much distinctiveness.

"Your identity is?" Feng Bujue asked, knowing the answer.

"Currently, a wanted fugitive," Olden replied, "Formerly... a wanderer in the main universe."

"Do you know the defendant?" Feng Bujue asked again.

"I do," Olden's answer was also concise, "He is Tuntian Guixiao (Devourer of Heavens, Ghostly Howl)."

"Have you met in the past?" Feng Bujue asked.

"I have," Olden said.

"Please briefly describe the situation at that time," Feng Bujue said.

Olden nodded slightly, "In the Divine Calendar year 493, I was collecting the fear of the locals on Syrup Star. In a village, I encountered 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 defense attorney's line of questioning is irrelevant to the case."

"Objection sustained," the judge replied.

"Your Honor..." Feng Bujue spread his hands and replied, "My question was simply to prove... that Tuntian Guixiao (Devourer of Heavens, Ghostly Howl) is not the kind of 'crazy', 'cold-blooded', 'focused on hunting uniqueness data' serial killer that the prosecutor described." He gestured towards Olden, "If he was... then Olden should have been killed when they met."

"Hmph..." Biff snorted coldly, "Perhaps he didn't have the ability back then?"

"Do you have any evidence for that statement?" Feng Bujue asked.

Biff raised his head and smugly replied, "Heh... it's a reasonable inference."

"Oh~" Feng Bujue smiled and nodded, "So, in the absence of evidence, with your own subjective bias, you're inferring the process and motive from the result, and fabricating some content that fits the above conditions and treating it as fact?" He stroked his chin, thoughtfully saying, "Hmm... is it really okay to have someone like that as a prosecutor?"

"You..." Biff's face turned black with anger, "Doesn't what you just said... also count as a reasonable inference?"

"Ha!" Feng Bujue chuckled and gave the other party a disdainful look, "Of course not." He paused for a second and continued, "Mr. Prosecutor... do you even understand what an inference is? What an argument is?"

"Then you tell me, what's the difference?" Biff, filled with "disbelief" on his face, asked Jue Ge in return.

His question... was simply courting death.

To put it another way, Biff's behavior was like making a gesture of reluctant acceptance 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 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 books he wrote..."

Feng Bujue over there... didn't know what Gui Xiao was thinking, and at this moment, Jue Ge was immersed in the pleasure of mentally crushing his opponent.

He walked quickly to Biff's face and said with full confidence, "Mr. Prosecutor, the witness has already stated very clearly in his testimony - that the time when he met Gui Xiao was in the Divine Calendar year 493; and that lengthy indictment in your hand..." At this point, he reached out and poked the stack of paper documents on the other party's desk "...also stated at the beginning - that Gui Xiao's involvement in the case was 'between the Divine Calendar years 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 and Olden met, he had already begun hunting uniqueness data."

The other 5% thought: "This Feng Bujue... apparently, he had been secretly eavesdropping when Biff began his case presentation, and 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 already within Feng Bujue's expectations, and he wasn't going to bother with them at this moment.

Right now, Jue Ge was focused on cleaning up the shit-faced birdman in front of him...

"Mr. Prosecutor." Feng Bujue looked directly into Biff's eyes, and said with a forceful momentum, "Let me ask, a person who in 492..." He suddenly picked up the indictment, pointed to the words on the paper, and recited each word with emphasis, "could 'unhesitatingly launch a cruel attack on the Time Official'..." He paused for half a second, widened his eyes, and looked at Biff with the expression of a normal person watching a moron, "...how could he possibly give up on attacking Olden in 493 because he thought he 'didn't have the ability'?"

Biff was speechless in response to this question, and could only stare blankly.

"That's impossible." Feng Bujue continued, "The real reason why Gui Xiao didn't attack Olden... I already said it just now, because the description of him in the indictment is wrong."

"Then... let's go back to the question you asked me, and the answer will be clear..." Feng Bujue said, raising his hand and gently patting his chest, "I, based on the testimony provided by the witness, make logical inferences to prove my point... this is called argumentation." He put down his hand, straightened his hands against the table, leaned forward, and grinned at Biff, "You, twice in a row, through subjective speculation and groundless imagination, put forward conclusions that contradict common sense, and still boast of it as a 'reasonable inference'... to put it nicely, it's called a 'wrong inference', 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 explode, and he looked at the judge again, "Your Honor! He..."

"Hey~ you better think clearly before you speak..." Feng Bujue immediately interrupted him, "If your actions aren't 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 an 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 and showed a cheap expression, "...undefeated or something... I can do it too~"

After saying that, the whole court was in an uproar, followed by a clamor.

Bang, bang, bang——

"Silence!" After a few seconds, the judge had no choice but to strike the gavel.

When the court returned to silence, the judge said to Jue Ge, "Defense attorney, this is not your personal talk show or lecture site..." He turned his head to look at the prosecutor who was already disheartened in the distance, and then sighed and said to Jue Ge, "You have already proven your point, so stop there..."

The judge's thinking was still very clear, and after saying this, he turned to the jury again and said, "Members of the jury, please do not adopt the prosecutor's 'reasonable inference' just now."

After speaking, 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 goal (defeating the prosecutor) had already been achieved, and now he could just launch the next step, "Please allow me..." He took advantage of the situation and continued, "to call the second witness."