Chapter 1411: Fallen

Fallen

"Next, the final judgment result of the Nine Great Bases upon the biologist Ye Mu will be announced..."

"The defendant Ye Mu, during his time living in the South Sea Base, illegally conducted human Calamity fusion experiments. He kidnapped children aged 15-18 to conduct human experimentation and used his authority to secretly dispose of their corpses. He utilized his identity within the medical system to purchase and privately hoard patient organs, and illegally produced spiritual potions mixed with Calamity cells..."

"Following deliberation by the higher-ups of the South Sea Base, it was submitted to the joint judgment of the Nine Great Bases. The final verdict is to deprive the biologist Ye Mu of his political rights for life, expel him from the South Sea Base, and eternally ban him from stepping into any human base."

Dazzling lights shone upon Teacher Ye's body. A majestic and firm voice came from above, echoing within the massive courtroom.

Numerous figures were standing at the judge's bench, coldly looking down at this harmless-looking scientific researcher wearing a dress shirt, not concealing the dread and disgust in their eyes in the slightest...

In the defendant's seat, Ye Mu's chest heaved violently.

"No... No!! I didn't!! I question the judgment result of the Nine Great Bases!!" His face flushed red as he spoke angrily.

"Ye Mu, which part are you questioning?"

"Are you saying that the nine human bases are slandering you together?" At the judge's bench, a voice snorted coldly.

Ye Mu was stunned for a moment, but immediately retorted:

"I don't know. I don't know why you guys are doing this... But I can be certain that I didn't do anything!"

"Stop quibbling. We have already conducted a systematic screening this month. The facts prove that besides you, no one else had the clearance to accomplish this. Everyone in the laboratory has an alibi. Only you... perfectly missed every time a crime occurred."

"Then where's the evidence?! If you want to judge me, you at least have to produce evidence!! For those crimes mentioned above, do any of you have human witnesses or material evidence?!"

As soon as Ye Mu said this sentence, the entire courtroom fell into silence.

"No! You guys have nothing! Relying solely on some screenings and speculations, you're going to pin crimes on me?? Is this the fairness and justice of the nine human bases?!" Ye Mu spoke, nearly roaring.

"We don't know what methods you used to affect those people and delete their memories of you... We also don't know what methods you used to actually make the victims voluntarily lie on the test bench without leaving even a single fingerprint behind... But all the suspicious points point to you."

"I, Ye Mu, swear to the heavens that I absolutely did not privately use children for human experimentation!! Nor did I absolutely privately traffic organs, nor secretly sell addictive potions in human bases!! The disappearance of those children truly has nothing to do with me... truly... truly..."

Ye Mu truly didn't know how to prove his innocence. Furious and exasperated all at once, he could only fix his gaze on that figure in the very center of the courtroom.

"Chu Changqing!! I am your teacher!! Are you not clear on what kind of person I am?!"

That young figure standing tall at the judge's bench remained silent and speechless.

"I get it... It was you all along." As if he had realized something, Ye Mu laughed bitterly.

"I was wondering why you had to steal my thesis on fusion, as well as my own blood samples... You were worried I had deciphered the secret of fusion, causing you, the high and mighty Lord of the South Sea, to lose your uniqueness? So you came up with this method to expel me from the Human Domains?"

Long cyan hair cascaded over the courtroom floor. That youth standing at the very top finally spoke for the first time in this trial:

"The thesis and samples, I took them..."

"Chu Changqing, you..."

"I just can't figure it out." Chu Changqing paused for a moment. "I know where my uniqueness lies, I know why I can fuse with those Calamities, and I also know what exactly I paid in order to fuse with them... But Teacher, I really can't understand it through research...

"How did you, an ordinary person, fuse with a World-Ending Calamity? Not only were there no side effects, but you also regained your youth after the fusion?

"I clearly used to be your student, we did so many complex projects together, but... but I actually can't understand those theses of yours, nor those data of yours that I don't know where they came from, and all sorts of baffling reference materials...

"Teacher, is your fusion... and my fusion...

"Really the same?"

Ye Mu froze slightly. Under the dazzling lights, he clearly saw Chu Changqing's gaze...

A faint glimmer of tears clouded those eyes tinged with cyan. This former favorite student of his was looking at him with a suspicious and fearful gaze, as if he was no longer human, but some kind of monster wearing human skin.

"That is the thesis I poured my heart's blood into writing, something summarized after my brain power was enhanced by fusion! Of course you can't understand it!" Ye Mu responded furiously.

Ye Mu roared hysterically from the defendant's seat, placing labels like "ungrateful wretch" and "selfish hypocrite" onto that disciple of his who was once his most favored, and bitterly denouncing the unfairness of the South Sea Base and their complicity with the other nine human bases.

Because there was no concrete evidence, everyone present was somewhat hesitant. Their gazes all turned towards Chu Changqing, seemingly waiting for his final decision...

Ultimately,

Chu Changqing still slowly closed his eyes.

"What this base carries is one-ninth of humanity's future... No matter what, no uncontrollable dangerous factors can be allowed to exist." Chu Changqing turned around and slowly walked out of the courtroom.

"Execute the judgment. I will bear all the consequences alone."

Numerous figures rushed into the defendant's seat, bound Ye Mu, and led him away in another direction.

"NO!!"

"I DO NOT ACCEPT THE JOINT JUDGMENT OF THE NINE GREAT BASES UPON ME, I DO NOT ACCEPT IT!!!!"

...

Above the devastated desolation, Teacher Ye abruptly opened his eyes!

Cold sweat slid down from the corner of his forehead. His entire back was already soaked. Looking as pale as if he had a nightmare, he stood in place, the hem of his dress shirt fluttering in the wind mixed with the smell of blood...

"Where... is this?"

Teacher Ye looked around blankly.

The mangled corpses of the Pu Family members lay collapsed on the earth beside him. Bone-piercingly cold seawater had already submerged his heels. The whimpering cold wind poured in from the tortoise shell that had been completely blasted to pieces, directly freezing the seawater mixed with blood into bright red frost...

Teacher Ye slowly pulled his feet out from the bloody frost. Only at this time did he belatedly react.

"We... fell?"