295: Xu Le: I was wrong! I was terribly wrong!

The trial procedures in the Spirit Realm are not as complex as in the Human Realm. Even the trials and convictions are handled entirely by Law Enforcement Officers, and there are no lawyers to help interpret the law.

Xu Le looked at the three paper dogs serving as evidence and smiled. "These three paper dogs are fakes."

Old Li said, "Quibbling is useless. Our staff checked the rest of the paper dogs you sold, and whether it's the shape, the paper material, the cut edges, the patterns, or the spiritual power on them, they are all exactly the same."

Xu Le smiled. "Try tearing one."

Old Li was furious. "Do you take me for a fool? You want me to help you destroy evidence right in front of me."

Xu Le took off his paper ring. "This is also one of my paper products. Try tearing it. As long as you can tear it, I'll admit to any crime you say."

With the spiritual power reinforcement from Ghost, let alone an ordinary human, even a bullet couldn't pierce it.

Old Li tried a few times but couldn't tear it. With a stern face, he said, "This only proves that your paper ring is the real deal; it doesn't prove those paper dogs aren't fakes."

Xu Le said coldly, "Then you can't prove I made those paper dogs either. After all, imitating those fakes is far too simple."

Old Li snorted coldly. "With both witnesses and physical evidence present, you still want to quibble?"

Old Li then brought out the shopping receipts of the three deceased, the testimony of the companions who went out with them, and the testimony reporting him for manufacturing and selling counterfeit goods.

That was Tian Xiaolong, the only surviving boy among Xu Huan and the others.

Xu Le pointed at Tian Xiaolong's testimony. "I want to confront him face-to-face and ask him why he framed me."

Old Li roared, "What? You want to intimidate the witness? That won't work with me. He has already written his testimony and doesn't need to show his face again."

Xu Le asked, "What if he's making a false accusation?"

Old Zhang patted Old Li and explained, "His testimony identifies you for manufacturing and selling fakes. We estimate its weight at 20%. If it's a false accusation, the penalty will rebound on him. He will bear 20% of the legal responsibility for manufacturing and selling fakes."

"What about the other testimonies?"

"They're all the same. The penalty rebounds based on the weight of the testimony against you."

"That's good then!" Xu Le nodded. "The paper dogs I make all have anti-counterfeiting marks."

Among the batch of paper dogs Xu Le sold, he had written the character 'Le' on the tongue of every single one as a memento.

However, since it used Ghost's spiritual power, it required special Materials to manifest and needed to be magnified 20 times to be seen.

Old Li and the other man were surprised and immediately sent someone to verify.

The results soon proved that what Xu Le said was true, but instead of proving his innocence, it became ironclad evidence of his manufacturing and selling fakes.

—On the tongues of those three fake paper dogs, there was also an identical character 'Le'.

"What else do you have to say?" Old Li asked coldly.

"How much are you involved?" Xu Le replied coldly.

Those three paper dogs had clearly been swapped. Within a seven-meter range, nothing could escape his eyes.

If the three paper dogs could be swapped inside the Law Enforcement Bureau, any ironclad evidence he could provide would be useless; it would soon be replaced or patched, and the other party's 'ironclad evidence' would only become more solid.

"Nothing left to say?" Old Li sneered and began interrogating him on the rest of the crimes.

Behind every charge, there was clear witness and physical evidence.

Xu Le pointed to the testimony accusing him of colluding with the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit and said, "Can he really hear such private conversations?"

Old Li nodded, "Of course. He was only two meters away from you."

Xu Le scoffed, "At a distance of two meters, he could hide from the perception of both me and the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit?"

Old Li nodded, "Of course. His ancestral spirit is very special."

Xu Le said, "Then let him try and see if he can hide from my perception within a two-meter range."

Old Li showed disdain again. "You still want to harm the witness. It's useless. After a witness writes their testimony, they have fulfilled their mission. You won't be allowed to see him."

Xu Le questioned, "But he is clearly lying. I just want him to prove he has the ability to hide from my perception. That's the key to verifying whether it's possible for him to gather the information he claims to have, isn't it?"

Old Li shook his head. "You're still stubborn. I've already had an expert of the Blazing Sun Realm personally verify his concealment ability. Don't waste your effort."

Xu Le said, "How can you be sure that the perception of someone in the Blazing Sun Realm is stronger than mine? How can you be sure he didn't lie?"

Old Li scoffed, looking at Xu Le as if he were a fool. "That's my business. All you need to do is plead guilty and strive for leniency."

Xu Le took a deep breath and pointed at the testimony of the Spirit Vulture accusing him of selling out the core secrets of the Xuanwu Legion.

"Why is its testimony so detailed? It even includes my expressions and the psychological descriptions of the other party. Don't you find it absurd?"

Old Li shook his head. "Stop your futile resistance. It's useless. It has already confessed."

Only then did Xu Le realize that the target of the core secrets he supposedly sold out was actually that Spirit Vulture.

"I'm a newcomer. How could I possibly find out the core secrets of the Xuanwu Legion?"

Old Li nodded, "Right, that's what we want to ask as well."

Xu Le: "..."

This is so fucking ridiculous.

The people framing you are more prepared than you are.

Seeing that Xu Le still wanted to speak, Old Li reminded him, "Stop struggling. The Spirit Vulture was caught right at the place where you were staying."

Xu Le: "I had already left. Why would the so-called person I was trading with stay there like an idiot, waiting for you to come and catch them?"

Old Li: "The behavior of evil spirits cannot be judged by common sense."

Xu Le: "That reason is so damn universal!"

Old Li exchanged a look with Old Zhang and coldly pronounced the sentence, "Xu Le, I declare that all charges against you, including selling counterfeit goods and murder, are upheld. According to the Spirit Realm Xuanwu City Spirit Tamer Management Measures, you are sentenced to death, to be executed immediately."

In just two hours, the trial of the "heinous" Xu Le was completed.

Xu Le's expression changed from serious to angry, then to a bitter smile, and finally to one of relief.

Old Li said coldly, "Truly heinous. Even on the verge of death, you can come to terms with it so quickly. People like you really deserve to die!"

Xu Le shook his head. "Why can't it be that I've accepted my fate?"

"Accepted your fate? Someone like you knows how to accept fate? Hah, sign it. Although whether you sign it or not, the death penalty will be executed immediately."

Old Li was dismissive. He had seen many death row inmates who cried when death was imminent. Hah, what were they doing before?

"I have to say, you're the worst actor I've ever seen. You should at least shed a couple of tears or at the very least wail a bit. With how you're acting, it's hard for me to convince myself that you've truly repented."

Xu Le said with a serious face, "Of course I've repented. I overestimated my own tolerance and underestimated the shamelessness of some people. My biggest mistake was thinking that if I stayed far away, trouble wouldn't find me."

I was wrong, terribly wrong! If I truly want peace and freedom, I must kill! Kill until everyone's heart turns cold with fear, kill until everyone submits, kill until even when everyone sees me doing something bad, they have no choice but to give me a thumbs up and praise me as a hero of the age!"