A Westerner in the seat below stood up and said, "I am his defender. Please allow me to go on stage to defend him."
The judge looked at the two island owners.
Ji Guanglai and Ning Fengquan nodded at the same time. Allowing defense is the principle of public trial. No matter how much they hate James, they cannot change this.
The judge said: "You can go on stage to defend, but I must remind you that this is Kowloon Island, and you can only defend according to our rules. Don't use your Western legal system and vocabulary to disgust us."
The defender came on stage and began to defend James.
"First of all, everyone must understand that this is not killing, this is a religious ceremony. They are all voluntary. This was clearly recorded in the process of James preaching to them."
He took out a hard drive and said, "This is the video of James giving them the first bath. It clearly records that the girls voluntarily accepted everything James did to them with the gift of God."
The judge took the hard drive and asked someone to move the large TV screen out of the lobby on the first floor of the town government, connect the computer reading device, plug in the hard drive, and start playing.
Sure enough, there was a scene of a girl kneeling in front of James.
James's voice came from the screen: "Are you willing to follow God's will and bathe in the light of the sun forever?"
"I do." the girl said.
"Are you willing to burn your body like the sun to expel darkness for the sake of eternal light?"
"I do."
"Can you dedicate everything you have to this ideal, including your body, your soul, and even your life?"
"I do."
…
After asking many questions, the girl kept saying "I do". People who didn't know better thought she was attending a wedding, not a trial.
After saying "I do" many times, James took out a cross and waved it over the girl's body, as if using a magnifying glass to look at the flaws on her body to determine whether the product was qualified.
After shaking for a while, James said:
"Next, before you officially become the daughter of the sun, I will baptize you to wash away the dirt on your body, so that you can leave the filth of the world forever and accept the radiance of God's holiness. I will baptize you in your soul.
Implant your faith into your heart, just as you just promised. My daughter, I want to tell you, if one day you lose your faith, you will lose the love of God, and your holy soul will collapse.
, falling into darkness forever. Let me ask you one last time, don’t you regret it?”
"I do not regret."
"I will use the holy body given by God that I obtained in advance to have intercourse with you and let you bathe in the holy river of love. Then, I will blindfold you, cut open your body, and take out your heart, liver and kidneys,
Wash your sinful body and let you drift on the sea. If you pass the test, someone will take off your blindfold when the sun rises, and you will be reborn in the first ray of dawn.
.”
"The light of your face rises from the darkness, and the sky is covered with colorful clouds. Facing your fire, the world is filled with joy... You make the stars recede, and you make the earth bright. You are the king of the gods. Facing your fire,
We go to eternal life..."
In the video, James begins to sing a hymn of praise.
The girl kneeling in front of him looked up at him and sang along, her face full of divine happiness.
After this scene ended, the video cut to the next scene. It was still the same scene, with the same words, but a girl was returned.
The people in the square were silent.
The simple islanders have never seen such a thing or heard such words. They are at a loss and don't know how to face it.
People who have lived on the sea for generations believe in God. They believe that without the protection of God, no one can survive on the wild and vicious sea.
In their hearts, God is kind and beautiful.
Although their intuition told them that there was something wrong with James' God and his actions, it was difficult for them to refute it with their limited knowledge and rationality.
"You see!" A proud smile appeared on the corner of the defender's mouth, "They were all voluntary. The girl you mentioned was just because she failed to pass God's test and was not reborn at dawn, so she died, but God
It is better to return her body and let her go home. Otherwise, how do you think a body drifting on the sea was discovered and brought back by you?"
It seems to make sense.
The defender was even more proud: "So, this is just a religious ceremony, not a murder! In the past, you ignorant Easterners often used boys and girls to sink into the rivers and seas to please the gods. But that was not a god, that was a demon. Because
None of those boys and girls were voluntary. Not willing is a sin! But these girls whom James enlightened were all voluntary. How can it be considered murder if they voluntarily accepted baptism!"
This set of rhetoric is naturally untenable in a normal country and mature society, but it is very powerful on an island that does not have a perfect legal system and relies entirely on public opinion.
Just when people were silent and James was feeling proud, he suddenly heard a voice asking:
"So, what about the missing girls? Did God forget to return the bodies?"
The person who spoke was Sister Mei.
Sister Mei was very angry. Very angry.
As a famous Lanmen thief, what kind of things have she not experienced? But nothing has ever made her so angry that her lungs are about to explode.
This is the real murderous devil!
"They?" the defender smiled slightly, "Of course they have been reborn and become the daughters of the sun. In the world of God, they will always be bathed in the divine glory!"
"Really?" Ning Fengquan, the owner of the three islands, said coldly, "Is it like her?"
He pointed to the side of the square with his hand.
The crowd parted, and someone pushed a cart over. There was a cage installed on the cart, and in the cage was a disheveled thing with a slimy body.
The thing was lying in the cage with a bulging belly, resembling a toad with a human head.
The defender's expression changed.
When the islanders saw such a thing, they were baffled and didn't know what it was.
Ning Fengquan stood up, pointed at the person in the cage and said, "Elders, open your eyes and see who she is?"
A gust of wind blew from nowhere, blowing the hair of the toad man in the cage.
Only then did people see clearly that it was a person, and they couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
Some sharp-eyed people exclaimed: "She...she is Yaya! It's Yaya!"
After being reminded like this, many people recognized him.
Yaya's parents rushed up first, threw themselves in front of the cage, and shouted in pain: "Yaya! Yaya!..."
Then he turned around and knelt down to Ning Fengquan, praying, "Master Three Islands, why has my daughter become like this? Master Three Islands, you must save her!"
Ning Fengquan helped them up, with a sad look on her face, and said: "You two, please be sorry, Yaya is dead, she was harmed by them!"
He pointed at James and his defender, "Is this what you call the daughter of the sun? Is this bathing in the light of God? No! This is hell! You devils! You still hurt people like this.
Sophistry here. In the name of God, he deceives good women, rapes them, kills them, disembowells her heart, disembowels her in the sea, and uses magic to turn her body into a demon, turning her into a human and a ghost. Demons like this,
If we let him go today, our Kowloon Island might as well sink!"
"We can't let him go!"
"Revenge for Yaya!"
"Kill for life!"
"Sink him into the sea!"
"Yes, Chen Hai!"
"Shen Hai!"
"Sinking into the sea! Sinking into the sea! Sinking into the sea!..."
The islanders shouted in unison, their anger rising into the sky.