mechanical court

"Impossible, the guilty person is obviously the mentally handicapped lord." "Seal"'s Adam's apple twitched, and replied hesitantly.

"you are right!"

Seeing that he said what he wanted to say, Ivan immediately showed an expression of deep agreement:

"The chief culprit for all this is Sherlock. Those who are qualified have just evolved a new way of living in the harsh living environment. If you can't survive without killing, then killing can't be a crime. It's this set of crimes that are guilty." Makers of the rules!"

"Heretics!"

The woman in white gritted her teeth, and an uncontrollable anger flashed in her eyes, like an enraged female leopard.

"What a messenger of justice, when you let the flash leopard attack me, you were not as righteous as you are now. This kind of ambiguous attitude really makes people unable to tell whether you are kind or timid."

Yiwen showed a sarcastic expression, and suddenly stretched out his arms lightly, his five fingers hooked like lightning, and grabbed her wrist like lightning, and with a light pinch, the other party couldn't help but let go of the hand holding the gun.

pat--!

The pistol landed lightly.

"..."

"Piranha" held the stinging wrist, his face was gloomy to the limit.

"I'm a newcomer, even if I wait to die, I have more time than you guys."

Ivan didn't even look at the weapon that fell on the ground, but turned his attention to the "seal":

"Discussing morality here is tantamount to discussing freedom and democracy in a slave society. In the end, there will only be a dead end. If you don't want to become a martyr, I hope you can seriously consider my thoughts."

"What should I do? I think what he said makes sense."

"Seal" glanced at "Man-eating Flower" and then at "White Bear", showing an eager expression:

"The sense of morality that bound me before seems to have disappeared without a trace. Since I can't leave here without killing people, killing people must not be our fault!"

"Don't listen to his nonsense, we can be considered human just because we maintain our humanity." The woman in white saw him wavering, and suddenly showed an eager expression.

"I have an old proverb here for you - if a god wants to destroy a country, he will hand over the country to the rule of the moralists." Seeing her stubborn look, Ivan became more and more impatient.

"..."

"Man-eating Flower" took a deep breath, tried to calm down, and gritted her molars tightly and asked:

"Since you insist on instigating everyone to kill someone, how did you feel when you killed someone for the first time?"

"Feel?"

Ivan narrowed his eyes, thinking of the scene where he killed Ozymandis, and replied truthfully:

"I have power."

"..."

The woman in white froze for a moment, as if she didn't expect him to say that, then raised her eyebrows, and was about to retort, but was interrupted by a vibration from the soles of her feet.

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Om-!

Accompanied by bursts of humming, the magnitude of the earthquake became stronger and stronger, and the light bulb hanging from the ceiling swayed from side to side, making a bang and bang sound.

"White Bear" reacted quickly, reached out and hugged the computer, tightly protecting it in his arms. "Piranha", "Seal", and Yiwen didn't care about the dispute at this time, and ran to the blinds together, looking out quietly.

It was already dark outside, and looking down through the gaps in the blinds, there were only a few places in Flying Mouse Town that still had faint lights, and most of them were street lights.

The faint streamer of moonlight in the night sky is extraordinarily clear in the dark and depressing skyline, like a light silver makeup, pouring down on the constantly shaking town.Unlike the increasingly noisy city, there are no lights in the buildings, and the only thing that exists is a nearly frozen darkness.It seemed to be confused with his own shadow, sinking into the night.

As the shaking of the ground intensified, the moonlight was quickly blocked by the rolling dark clouds, and within a few seconds, the ensuing torrential rain swept towards the ground like thousands of water guns.

It's not an exaggeration. In his two lifetimes, Ivan has never seen such a heavy rainstorm. Every rain line has the force of a high-pressure water gun.

Whoa-!

Amidst the deafening sound of rain, the water flowed into the river channel along the city's drainage network, and the river surged along the trend and quickly overflowed the river bank, and then reversed and submerged the town.

The dark clouds are getting thicker and getting closer to the city. When lightning flashes across the sky, the color of the sky can be vaguely seen behind the torn dark clouds.

The light of the lightning also covered part of the dark clouds, flashed by, the oval-shaped dark clouds were moving in the darkness, another lightning flashed across the sky, and the oval-shaped dark clouds changed like an angry face.

Cuckoo——!

The dark clouds that continuously released lightning thundered, the rain became heavier and heavier, and strange sounds continued to be heard from the depths of the city-as if a giant who had been thirsty for a long time was drinking nectar.

"It woke up."

"White Bear" said lightly.

"Seal" stared at the constantly shaking ground like a torn rag outside the window, deliberately lowered his voice, and said to himself: "This time the scale is unprecedented... What happened?"

"..."

Ivan knew that the 'it' they were talking about referred to Flying Mouse Town itself, so he didn't ask any further questions.

Woo-woo-!

The wind is howling, and the sporadic lights are on and off, like a lonely ghost at night, wandering in the boundless world.

Violent vibrations emanated from every corner of the town, and a large number of cracked ruins and rubble splashed wantonly. At this moment, the huge town seemed to be under the baptism of the earthquake, and the dust and smoke kept rising, and then it was quickly flooded by the rain.

And just as the earth was shaking and the mountains were shaking, red light leaked from the windows of the rows of buildings, and they opened like pupils, the door let out a low roar, and the figure rose up clumsily and slowly— Like animals waking up from sleep, they stretched their waists and came to life one by one.

Before the rainstorm, Flying Mouse Town was still a lifeless and abandoned town. After the rainstorm, all the buildings in the city were immersed in the rain and came back to life.

All of this seemed like an absurd and bizarre nightmare.

Even the tube building where Yi Wen and the others were located rose from the ground amid violent vibrations, collided with each other, squeezed and moved slowly, and then swayed leisurely like a fat middle-aged uncle.

Meanwhile, Yi Wen and the others who were hiding inside its body held their breath and did not dare to make a sound.

"White Bear" also turned off all electronic equipment including the computer, for fear that the tower would find out that there were aliens inhabiting his body—if he was exposed under such circumstances, he would undoubtedly be surrounded and beaten by all the buildings.

……

According to the trajectory and movements of the towers, Ivan suddenly discovered that these buildings are not 'everyone is equal', but follow a strict hierarchical concept.

The bigger the body, the more status it seems.

Huge structures like stadiums are giants, firmly at the apex of the building hierarchy, followed by skyscrapers, which are giants of physical size.The next sequence is public buildings such as police stations, hospitals, and parks, and private villas and tall and thin electric towers are in the third sequence.Then there are residential houses such as tube buildings, storefronts in commercial streets, and the smallest telephone booths...