Chapter 342 Reversal of the Death Penalty
"This is the video footage from before and after the incident." Legal officer Ga Le handed a small data pad to Xiao Zhen. With the Governor's special permission, the legal officer's attitude softened significantly. After handing over the data pad, he said, "Please check it. But I don't think the ending will change."
After pressing the data pad, a 3D holographic image appeared in front of everyone. The holographic image showed Cuilian'an Restaurant. The first floor was full of diners, and the seats were occupied. Ren Anzhi appeared at the door. He looked up at the second floor, as if he wanted to go up. A waiter passed by him with a plate. After Ren Anzhi said something, several diners next to him suddenly laughed and applauded, while other diners stood up and quarreled loudly. Then someone threw a plate and a cup. After two diners were hit by flying tableware, the situation turned into an uncontrollable mess. Within a few minutes, all the alien diners present were involved in the dispute. Everyone fought fiercely and beat each other to death.
Xiao Zhen played the video twice, and the video showed a fact: it was Ren Anzhi's words that triggered the commotion.
"What did they say?" Liu Xingquan said.
Xiao Zhen checked the surveillance video audio and found that there was something wrong with the audio recording. The restaurant was extremely noisy, mixed with the noises of various diners, and it was impossible to separate and analyze Ren Anzhi's voice. The waiter in the surveillance video just blocked Ren Anzhi, and his front was in a blind spot of the surveillance, and his lip movements could not be analyzed. Legal officer Gala said: "Although there was no direct record of his words and deeds at the time, there were people at the scene who could testify." He took out a stack of documents, "This is the investigation report and witness testimonies. There are at least five witnesses who heard the suspect's words."
Xiao Zhen said, "What did he say?"
"A Lola Homo sapiens named Ren Anzhi said that the Legion is a %@#%￥%."
Captain Madara said, "Tsk tsk."
Liu Xingquan said in confusion: "What? Yan Zhen, what did he say about the Legion?"
Xiao Zhen said: "Oh, your intelligent translation system muted this word."
"What?"
"This is a dirty word, even dirtier than anything you can imagine, and extremely insulting. To be honest, if someone insults me like this, I will immediately smash that person's jaw." Liu Bei said, "No wonder those legionaries were so excited."
"Don't put yourself in this situation!"
Liu Xingquan said: "Yan Zhen, Ren Anzhi is innocent!"
"Um?"
"How could an Earthling know the dirty words of this planet? He must have been framed!"
Xiao Zhen did not comment. He flipped through the witness's testimony and turned to ask the legal officer Gale, "Can we go meet Ren Anzhi?"
Legal officer Ga Le showed an unhappy look again, "This requires an application."
Xiao Zhen smiled and said, "I believe the Governor will agree to our request." Since Mr. Cat could ask the Governor to show up and put pressure on a small legal officer, it would be no problem for him to meet the death row inmate. He only needed to show a confident look to put invisible pressure on the legal officer, and he would believe that they were some big shots from the Eye of Supervision.
It turned out that the Governor's personal communication was really useful. After some formalities, they were soon able to meet Ren Anzhi under the guidance of the legal officer Gal.
Ren Anzhi was imprisoned in a single cell. When Xiaozhen and others passed through the cell passage, several other serious criminals looked out from their cells and glared at them with angry eyes. Xiaozhen recognized some of them. They were the prisoners who jumped and hit the hardest in the surveillance video just now. They were lizards with scales and pink fluffy flat jared people. What they have in common is that they are strong and violent. It seems that they can break the wall with one punch and turn Ren Anzhi next door into a ball of meat paste. In comparison, Ren Anzhi, who was imprisoned in a single cell, looked like a weak little chicken (this metaphor certainly does not mean to describe Captain Ban as weak).
The current big star looked very embarrassed, one of his eye sockets was swollen and purple, and half of his handsome face was red and blue. The prison guards obviously had no intention of treating this felon who was about to be sentenced to death. His fans on Lola would be heartbroken when they saw the scene in front of them. As soon as he saw Xiaozhen, Ren Anzhi immediately shouted: "Xiaozhen! You really came to save me!"
It's still unknown whether you can be rescued, so you'd better not hold on to too much hope. "I want to know, how did you get here?" Xiao Zhen asked.
"I won a lottery ticket," Ren Anzhi said. "It was a free interstellar travel event. Someone took me on a ship, and I'm here."
"Lottery? What lottery?"
"Boss Han sold me the lottery ticket," Ren Anzhi said with some pride, "and I won the first prize right away."
It turns out that Boss Han is a jerk. "Looking at your situation and hearing the name Boss Han from you, I'm suddenly not surprised at all." Xiao Zhen sighed, "Let's put this aside for now. The point is that you traveled thousands of miles to get here, why did you provoke in Cui Lian'an Restaurant?"
"Provocation?" Ren Anzhi looked bewildered, "I didn't provoke."
"What did you say when you came into the restaurant?"
"I asked the waiter if I could go up to the second floor." Ren Anzhi said, "Then suddenly some diners laughed happily, and others jumped up and wanted to tear me apart. They started fighting, and I was dragged in. Then I saw you." Ren Anzhi leaned forward, his eyes full of hope, "Xiao Zhen, you can save me, right?"
"..." Xiao Zhen said, "Say again what you said to the waiter."
"Uh, can we go up to the second floor?"
Ren Anzhi's pronunciation was very standard, and it was obvious that he had an interstellar intelligent translation nanorobot in his body. And no matter which syllable or frequency band he spoke, his words had nothing to do with the extremely insulting swear word.
"are you sure?"
Ren Anzhi nodded, "I am sure, but these aliens don't want to listen to my explanation!!"
Xiaozhen stroked his chin, thinking silently.
"Xiaozhen, I am really innocent!" When he left, Ren Anzhi was still shouting tirelessly.
He then questioned the other prisoners in Ren Anzhi's cell, and their answers were exactly the same. They had all heard the open and vicious challenge from this wise man.
"Did you see that he said that?"
"That's what he said!"
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure. I tell you, the parliament is the %@#%￥%!"
After all the witnesses present, including the restaurant waiters, were questioned, everything was just as Gal provided him with the investigation report. Except for Ren Anzhi himself who completely denied it, all the witnesses clearly stated that Ren Anzhi was the source of the riot.
"I told you, the ending won't change." said Gala, the legal officer who had been accompanying Xiaozhen.
Liu Xingquan has always held the exact opposite view, "Ren Anzhi is innocent. How could an earthling know the local swear words?"
Captain Madara said: "Star Cloud, the fastest thing to learn in a foreign language is always swear words."
"I believe a sane adult would not swear in a strange place."
"..." Xiao Zhen thought about it, then he took out the data tablet again, sat down and watched the surveillance footage of Cui Lian'an Restaurant several times.
One time he went back a little further, and a chicken appeared at the entrance of Cuilian'an Restaurant in the screen, followed by himself, Liu Xingquan followed behind him, followed by Ms. Fei and the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang. When they walked up to the second floor, Ren Anzhi appeared at the door, and he looked up at the second floor.
It turned out that he came to this restaurant because he saw us. In other words, his original intention was to go to the second floor to find us. From this point of view, he should not be lying.
“Hmm…”
Mr. Cat walked over to his side and said, "Let me remind you, there is still an hour before they kill Ren Anzhi."
“Hmm…”
Liu Xingquan, who has been watching the video, said: "Maybe the diners in the restaurant heard this sentence was said by someone else, and these diners mistakenly thought it was a big star."
Guan Yu said: "You can see that there is no one else around Ren Anzhi in the picture. In this case, people present will not mistake the source of the sound."
Xiao Zhen suddenly stood up and pointed at the holographic image and said, "Ren Anzhi's clothes are different from those in prison. He changed into prison uniforms after being arrested."
"Hmm? Yes."
"Where are his original clothes?" Xiaozhen said to the legal officer Gala, "I want to check his clothes."
"..." Although he was still a little unhappy, Gale's efficiency was still commendable. Ten minutes later, Gale took out Ren Anzhi's original clothes.
"What happened to his clothes?"
Xiao Zhen said nothing as he shook out Ren Anzhi's clothes one by one. He looked up and said, " No, a coat is missing. He was wearing a coat in the video."
"This is what the suspect was wearing when he was arrested," said Gala. "Look at the registration form. I didn't miss anything."
"When I saw him, he didn't have his coat anymore," Xiao Zhen said to herself, "Yes, someone ripped it off during the commotion."
"What's wrong?"
"I need his coat!!" Xiao Zhen shouted, "Go to Cui Lian'an Restaurant!!"
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Cuilian'an Restaurant was undergoing internal maintenance because the violent riot had damaged many of the restaurant's facilities. Hearing that Xiaozhen was looking for lost items, the restaurant owner pointed Xiaozhen to a garbage dump two blocks away. He had already thrown all the garbage he had cleared from the mess after the fight into the garbage disposal station.
Mr. Cat said, "There are still twenty minutes left."
As soon as it finished speaking, Xiaozhen disappeared at the end of the street.
There are still ten minutes left before Ren Anzhi’s execution.
Xiaozhen dug out Ren Anzhi's tattered coat from the garbage that was about to be destroyed.
There are eight minutes left before Ren Anzhi’s execution.
Xiaozhen jumped in front of the legal officer Gal.
"Ren Anzhi is innocent!!" he said.
"Your companion has repeated this sentence more than twenty times." Gal said, "To overturn the verdict, we need fundamental evidence."
"Because he didn't make any malicious remarks, it wasn't him who said that. It was the diners next to him who thought it was him."
Gal said, "Where's the evidence?"
Xiao Zhen took out a "corn cob" from Ren Anzhi's coat.
"Festabaco has become inexplicably popular recently. Only aliens like you would be fooled into eating it," said Gala.
"The characteristic of Festa Barco is that its biological structure can record certain syllables. This is the reason for the commotion." Xiao Zhen pinched the "corn cob" and shook it, and the corn cob made a high-pitched voice: "Legion is a %@#%￥%! Legion is a %@#%￥%!"
“…”
"It was Festback who caused the riot, not Ren Anzhi. Ren Anzhi was a foreigner who knew nothing. He just thought he bought a local specialty." Xiaozhen said, "So Ren Anzhi should be released--"
"You should sentence this Festaback to death."
