The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 530 Suspicion (Part 1)

Imelda Paterson is an exceptional lawyer, beyond question even by the standards of the entire galaxy.

In her short fifty years of practice, she handled countless cases, including those involving high-ranking military officers, as well as those involving sensitive individuals like Jiang Hui who were not fully awakened, and even some war criminals with special identities. Of course, the main characters were mostly military officers and soldiers with military backgrounds.

She had encountered all sorts of bizarre cases. Although Imelda was still young, she had already experienced a great deal and developed an unyielding heart of stone. She had become able to calmly deal with many things in this world.

Today's events left even this intermediate-level judge, who had already accumulated enough experience in the resident star system and was preparing to advance into the inner star system, somewhat amazed.

She looked at the scene model that Jiang Hui had recreated several times before stopping it amidst the discussions of a group of assistants and members of the evidence collection department.

"Alright, I have received your testimony." The tall judge lowered her head slightly, looking at the not-yet-fully-awakened individual who was barely up to her shoulder.

Jiang Hui's expression relaxed slightly, knowing that she had passed this hurdle. This wasn't just because the other party had heard the testimony; it meant they acknowledged the reasonableness of the evidence and testimony she had submitted, believing it met the submission requirements. This also meant that her accusations were preliminarily established, and now it was up to them to identify the other suspect.

Phillips intended to send people to check them one by one, but Imelda stopped him.

"Could you please ask Colonel Zong to borrow some personnel to help review the candidates whose testimonies match those requested by Ms. Jiang?" she asked Zong Ting, who was standing next to her.

The officer, who had been unusually quiet since they arrived, lowered his eyes slightly, seemingly considering whether to grant Imelda's request... He then nodded, summoned his adjutant, and instructed him to retrieve a group of non-training sergeants from the warship to carry out the task.

Imelda glanced at someone who was clearly unhappy about this and said, "Colonel Phillips, you should know that this is not just a simple assault. Your army may also be involved in the fairness of the exam. To ensure the evidence, we can only take outside personnel. This is not because we have any problem with you. Please understand."

They put it politely, but it was practically a blatant accusation that his subordinates were problematic and that they didn't trust him to investigate...

That's for sure. They had suspected from the beginning that someone intended to sabotage the exam and had done a lot of tampering, leading to this chain of events...

If Jiang Hui hadn't filed a complaint and called the military legal department, the subsequent procedures would probably have been handled by the military legal department as well.

Of course, whether or not the problem can be uncovered in the end depends on Phillips's skills. If it involves certain interest groups, there is a high probability that the matter will be dropped.

Therefore, although Phillips was very unhappy about this, he for some reason kept quiet, which was taken as tacit agreement. However, his face became even uglier, and he crossed his arms, looking like he was saying, "Let's see how you put on this show."

How did they perform? Actually, there weren't any big movements. Everyone was very well-behaved, and everything proceeded calmly.

Although Jiang Hui did not use any amplification equipment when he was speaking, many of the people present were high-level mental power users with keen senses, and they could basically guess some of the meaning.

Even though some people were not entirely clear about the details, or did not quite understand what Jiang Hui was saying, they generally understood the characteristics of the suspect Jiang Hui had pointed out. Most of the people who hadn't done anything were unhappy about being inexplicably subjected to this investigation, but since they hadn't done anything, there was nothing to panic about, and they naturally cooperated.

Especially for those who were victims who inexplicably encountered minor problems during the exam, or those who, like Jiang Hui and the others, were attacked, they felt a sense of relief.

They lacked the ability to catch the person who harmed them, and even if they had suspicions, they couldn't necessarily outmaneuver Jiang Hui like he had. Therefore, they were all hoping that the military could follow the clues provided by Jiang Hui and find the culprit. Ideally, they wanted to expose all those scoundrels and avenge them.

The soldiers that Zongting dispatched all had experience in reconnaissance. These soldiers had developed keen eyesight. Although Jiang Hui provided few clues, they all had clear directions and were easy to identify.

There are a total of seventeen people with injuries or missing upper arms. Among them, nine are ordinary humanoid armor and transforming armor, and only five have a dark gray or light-colored body that can reflect light... This basically allows us to define a fairly clear range.

Whether out of anger at being inexplicably dragged into this matter or harboring ulterior motives, the five of them were all pale-faced, their eyes filled with suppressed anger as they looked at the inspectors and Jiang Hui's group.

Jiang Hui spotted a somewhat familiar figure among them and was taken aback; he was there too.

Immediately, as if sensing Jiang Hui's gaze, the other person looked over, their eyes blazing with anger at being offended. If looks could kill, Jiang Hui wouldn't know how many times they would have seen through her, how many times she would have died...

However, Jiang Hui didn't care at all. After all, it wasn't like she was deliberately targeting anyone. If it really wasn't the other person who did it, she could just take a quick look and move on without any loss. But if he had ulterior motives, tampered with things, or was even involved... then she couldn't be blamed. Jiang Hui was the one who needed to be investigated.

The officer in charge of checking the report came from the leading sergeant and brought the five selected men to him.

Honestly, apart from Taylor, Jiang Hui had hardly interacted with anyone else who came to take the exam. She never expected to meet these people in this way.

It's baffling which of these five people hates her so much that they'd risk their own exams to target her.

We've narrowed down the suspects to a preliminary level, but we're still one step short—

Imelda gestured for several soldiers to remove the sensor straps from their hands.

Next, they were to export the height points recorded within the sensor strip on the spot. This type of data recording, typically done by capturing the horizontal plane at a fixed frequency at specific times, is a form of dimensional data recording and is generally used for drawing route maps or topographic maps. They never imagined that one day someone would use it as evidence in a case…

However, Jiang Hui's method of corroboration is quite one-sided, so all they need to do now is accurately identify the suspect who best matches Jiang Hui's testimony.

(End of this chapter)