Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

Chapter 937 Petitioning in Beijing (3-in-1) (Updated first, revised later)

What are chips?

Did Grand Secretary Chen have any other bargaining chips?

If Grand Secretary Chen had any leverage at this moment, he wouldn't have reacted so drastically when the Bad Commander appeared.

As for why there are no chips?

For a high-ranking official like him, it wouldn't be difficult to fabricate something or create traces to pin the blame on certain people, especially for a group of wanted players he had already targeted and taken into custody from the Wanbao House several days ago.

But why doesn't he have any chips?

Because... before meeting the Bad Guy Commander here today, Grand Secretary Chen almost thought that as a Grand Secretary standing at the pinnacle of power, the entire Bad Guy organization was practically his territory, controlled by the five of them. Here, they were kings, and in the minds of countless players, they only needed to unconditionally obey his orders. So, according to this logic, based on the status and prestige he enjoyed, he shouldn't need any bargaining chips.

After all, what I say goes. If I say those people are guilty, then they are guilty. As for wasting time and effort thinking of ways to frame someone, it would be better to plan how to handle Yin Shisan.

Look at him, so arrogant, he even shows disdain for being framed.

Chen Ge's long-term pampered lifestyle had almost made him forget that there was still a supreme leader in this organization above him. This leader was just no longer involved, not dead. And the Bad Guys organization was not a one-man show for the five old dogs. The reason why the Bad Guys organization was called the Bad Guys organization and not the Chen Family Army, and why the Cabinet was the core power institution under the Bad Guys organization and not a power organization above the Bad Guys organization, was because there was still one person in the Bad Guys organization...

That person is called the Bad Guy Commander!

But it was precisely because of the long-standing delegation of power and the long-standing absolute authority that Grand Secretary Chen had long forgotten that if he wanted to pursue procedural justice, he also had to abide by the procedures and provide something called evidence before conviction. He... because of disdain, because he felt it was unnecessary, and because of his condescending attitude when facing those wanted players, he never made any arrangements or preparations in this regard in advance.

What is a trial of memories?

That's a tactic the Court of Judgment usually uses when faced with certain unsolved or difficult cases where the evidence chain is insufficient to reconstruct the truth of the case. Of course, the case mentioned here must involve players of the Divine Path.

Otherwise, the Court of Judgments, an organization affiliated with the Bad People's Organization, wouldn't have taken over the case!

Memory Trial is a skill belonging to 'Cyber ​​Trial'. When Memory Trial is activated, the player's past will be played out in a movie-like manner, scene by scene, frame by frame, and presented on the big screen in front of everyone.

And those memories have several characteristics...

First, it must be true; second, it must be something that has already happened; and third, it must be strongly related to this case, or you could say it's about a suspected criminal, explaining why they ended up where they are today and what their experiences were.

The deepest memories hidden in a player's heart will be exposed.

Good, bad... light, dark.

Everything will be displayed on the screen.

Finally, the players of the Divine Path who witnessed these memories at the scene will be the ones to convict and judge them.

That's why this item's additional skill has this name: Memory Judgment.

Who should we start with?

The next moment, Fang Mo on the high platform looked around with his casual and leisurely gaze, a foxtail grass between his teeth. In fact, many people in the arena had been staring at the man ever since this young bad boy appeared, but no one noticed when or where he picked up that foxtail grass. Finally, his gaze fell on the red-clad figure standing at the front of the row of wanted players and the man with a shaved head next to her.

"I'll start with you... the boss of the gambling world, the conman!"

Grand Secretary Chen was startled, then a look of wild joy flashed across his eyes. If it were those wanted players, Grand Secretary Chen might not be able to guarantee that they were all heinous criminals. The scenes exposed during the memory trial might be detrimental to Grand Secretary Chen. But just look at Old Qian. He had a bright future with his dungeon attribute items and could have developed into a good civilian organization. However, he gave up all of that and instead focused on making money, opening a branch of dungeon attribute items and engaging in 'gambling' games, turning it into a gambling industry.

It would be a miracle if a conman, who is obsessed with money, had a completely virtuous past. Others might become wanted players by accident, but for a conman, it's definitely because of his nature. Greed, anger, and ignorance are sins etched into the bones of a person, and a greedy person has almost all three of these sins!

However, professional con artists are synonymous with high intelligence and a split personality...

Therefore, it's not hard to understand why someone with a dark side and a love of money would also feel sympathy for other players who are wanted due to injustice or hidden reasons.

Just as the Bad Commander finished speaking, the old swindler, whose eyes were still bloodshot and showed some fatigue, slowly raised his head. A meaningful glint suddenly flashed in his eyes, revealing a hint of excitement and agitation.

It seemed as if they were waiting for the Bad Commander to say those words.

Yin Shisan noticed the subtle gaze and pursed his lips. He didn't actually know what the conman had been through, but he believed that a conman who could take in people who were wrongly convicted or forced into a corner by some unavoidable circumstances could not be an utterly wicked person.

And so, the instant the old swindler's strange gaze met the calm eyes of the Bad Guy Commander, with a wave of his hand, a bright moon appeared directly in the dazzlingly colored hall above. The round, full moon peeked out from below the platform like a retractable projector screen, and the eyes of the players below the platform and in the official forum live stream of Shenlu players were all focused on this sliver of moonlight peeking out from below the four characters 'Cyber ​​Ascension' on the platform...

The conman's memories will be shown next, and then the players in the audience will judge him!

Immediately afterwards, the next moment, the old man closed his eyes, and his consciousness entered the darkness. His memories were directly extracted from his mind by Cyber ​​Sentral and projected onto the large screen in front of him. The instant he closed his eyes, a relieved smile seemed to appear on the corner of the old man's mouth, as if he had been waiting for this moment for a very long time.

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In 2008, it was a cold winter in Yanjing, but the heart of a mother was warm. She came from southern Henan. Her aging body could no longer support her to stay up all night like a young person. She had spent three nights on the train, even though she had a seat ticket. When she arrived at the station, it was already past midnight. Dressed simply and in tattered clothes, her eyes were bloodshot, revealing deep exhaustion. However, her steps as she walked out of the train station were so firm, as if she were carrying a strong mission. However, this old woman, who looked obviously over fifty, was stopped by the staff before she could even leave the train station...

"This is the old swindler's memory? What role did the old swindler play in this? I don't understand, what does this old woman have to do with the case being tried right now? Aren't we trying a wanted player? This old woman doesn't look like a wanted player at all..."

"And look at that scene that looks like a train station, with the five Fuwa mascots hanging on either side of your head. This must be Yanjing in 2008, when the Olympics had just started or were about to start."

For many Chinese born before the millennium, 08 was a pivotal year: the Beijing Olympics. Everywhere, from the streets to the alleys, the familiar song "Beijing Welcomes You," sung by dozens of celebrities, could be heard playing outside shops. Alongside this national event, the government launched five mascots: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. The images revealed in the memory trial of Lao Qian show the words "Beijing Welcomes You" on a huge train station backdrop, along with the five well-known Fuwa mascots.

"Who is this old woman? What is her relationship with the con artist?"

"Could this person be Lao Qian's mother? But that doesn't make sense either. How could her mother appear in Lao Qian's memory trial? If this old woman is her mother, then where is Lao Qian? Why does the story begin with Lao Qian's mother..."

On the official forum for Shenlu players, a barrage of comments flashed like a scrolling screen. The moment the Memory Trial began, Fang Mo, the Bad Guy Commander, turned off the overwhelming subtitle effects similar to those of Qin Shang before, for fear of affecting other players' view of the screen during the Memory Trial. He also thoughtfully changed the format of the comments, allowing players to swipe the screen if they only wanted to see the screen and not the comments. This was almost indistinguishable from other mainstream platforms.

"Hey! Look, this old lady was stopped just as she was leaving the train station. The security bell rang again. What's going on?"

"I don't know, I'll just watch and see. I'm just curious when this guy called 'Old Swindler' will make his appearance."

"Damn it, is the official memory trial tool broken? Why haven't we seen the conman in all this time? Besides, what does this have to do with the wanted player? Wasn't 08 the time when our second server region just opened?"

"I've never heard of a guy named Lao Qian among the beta testers. Even if he became a Divine Path player, it must have been around 2008 or later. He's still a Divine Path player at the Order Realm. Logically speaking, even at the current fastest leveling speed of 'licking cockroach jade feet,' it would still be half a year later, right? Besides, Lao Qian couldn't possibly be the second 'licking cockroach jade feet.' Don't worry about the grammatical error; the order in which they appeared doesn't matter. Anyway, what I mean is... even if we go by the fastest, he wouldn't become an Order Realm player until the end of 2008, which would give him a chance to be wanted by the Divine Path server. His current outfit is winter clothing, so it's obviously still early 2008. The Olympics haven't even started yet. Even if Lao Qian is a Divine Path player at this time, he hasn't done anything that could deduct his reputation points, has he?"

The next moment, a man appeared on the moon-shaped screen. The man was dressed in the uniform of a train station worker, his hair was slightly messy, as if he had been working overtime for several days without having a chance to go home and take a shower. His hair also looked a bit oily and dirty, and the stubble on his chin was almost sprouting. The man had his hands in his pockets and a cigarette in his mouth but it wasn't lit. He was probably craving a cigarette but his boss was still nearby or he was too busy with his work to sneak away for one.

His blonde highlights in his hair weren't exactly unfashionable in the era of the "emo" and "non-mainstream" fashion trends. It just seemed like he brought that aesthetic to the present. For example, the con artists on the platform right now all have this look, with almost no change in hairstyle except for the color.

Moreover, compared to other types of con artists back then, they seemed to be more conservative in their choice of hair color. They wouldn't go so far as to use a two-tone hairstyle, or even have different hair colors on both sides of a middle part.