[Audience Expectation Value +3]
[Current Expectation Value: 25%]
"This..."
The defense lawyer rubbed his eyes and looked up at Fang Lichang in some astonishment, suspecting that this was a joke the Lord Prosecutor was playing on them.
But after he looked up, he discovered that Fang Lichang's complexion was even uglier than his own.
"These are top-tier dishes??" Old Man Ding widened his eyes. He grabbed a few Playing Cards and looked closely, even stuffing them into his mouth for a moment... and then forcefully spat a few times.
"This thing also can't be eaten!"
On the stage,
Fang Lichang looked at those [Six of Spades] Card Faces piece by piece. As if associating it with something, his pupils shrank slightly,
"What is going on here? Where are the dishes??"
"This... we also don't know." The crowd of waiters also had faces full of blankness. "When we were preparing the dishes in the Kitchen, the insides were still normal dishes... How come they became Playing Cards when they got here?"
"We are extremely sorry! We will go remake a few portions for you right away!" The leading waiter reacted the fastest, apologizing immediately, and then hurriedly left the banquet hall pushing these dining carts.
The crowd watched those departing [Six of Spades] dining carts with varying expressions, beginning to whisper among themselves:
"What's going on? Is it an accident?"
"Accident? Who would mix up a basin of Playing Cards with dishes? And it's so many dishes?"
"The most crucial thing is still those Playing Cards' Card Faces..."
"[Six of Spades]... How could it be like this?"
"..."
"Alright! It seems to be the hotel's negligence, everyone please don't take it to heart." Fang Lichang sensed the subtle change in the atmosphere. He immediately raised his glass again and said a few words, attempting to attract the crowd's attention.
Chen Ling leaned against an unnoticed wine table. Expressionlessly cooperating with Fang Lichang's words, he raised his glass, drank it, and set it down...
A few minutes later, the waiters pushed several dining carts and walked in again, covered in sweat.
"We're sorry gentlemen, they are truly here this time."
In order to ensure no accidents occurred this time, the waiters checked once in the Kitchen, and checked again before entering the hall door. There would absolutely be no mistakes. They pushed these several dining carts to the center of the stage and looked at Fang Lichang.
Fang Lichang swept a glance at the crowd of dining carts, squeezing out a smile at the corner of his mouth. "Alright, let us raise our glasses once again, to wish for a perfectly successful verdict in advance."
Chen Ling smiled and raised his wine glass. At the same time, his right hand tucked in his pocket gently shook. A Metal Fragment silently swapped places with the electric light switch.
Crack——!
Right at the instant the waiters opened the metal covers, the bright and transparent electric lights instantly short-circuited and exploded. After crisp explosive sounds, the entire hall plunged into dimness!
Pale candles surrounded the crowd. The flickering candlelight reflected the slowly lifted metal covers. Before the crowd could recover from the astonishment of the electric lights' destruction, someone saw the things on the dining plates by the dim candlelight, their pupils abruptly shrinking!
"[Six of Spades]... It's still [Six of Spades]!!!"
The crowd turned pale with fright. They only saw that on the dining plates were still the same Playing Cards as before, fully packed and almost overflowing!
If saying the first time they saw the Playing Cards, the crowd was merely somewhat doubtful and frightened, then the second time uncovering still being Playing Cards thoroughly shattered the crowd's original flukes. Combined with the suddenly extinguished electric lights, an extremely terrifying atmosphere began to spread across the top floor!
"Are you guys deliberately playing me??!" Fang Lichang's face turned ashen green. He widened his eyes at the several waiters, a surge of killing intent rapidly spreading.
The waiters were completely dumbfounded. Like seeing ghosts, they stumbled backward, tripped over an inadvertently outstretched foot, and sat down hard on their butts. "Impossible... Impossible!! We even checked once before opening the door! How did it change again... There's a ghost? There's a ghost!!"
The dim candlelight danced within the spacious hall, only able to illuminate this small area. Everything around was pitch black, as if concealing man-eating ghosts and monsters... Under such an atmosphere, everyone's hearts rose to their throats, and a voice sounded tremblingly:
"It's [Six of Spades]... It must be that he knows we are utilizing his name, so he's come to find trouble with us!!"
"He is right here! He's taking revenge on us!!"
"We really attracted a madman from the Dusk Society??! That's a group of perverted demons! Who knows what he might do?!"
"Shouldn't we quickly notify the Enforcers? Have them come catch the person?"
"Are you crazy? We just identified Han Meng as [Six of Spades] in the courtroom, and he's still locked in the Black Prison right now! Going to notify the Enforcers now, aren't we slapping our own faces??"
"All of you shut up!!"
Fang Lichang's voice instantly overpowered everyone. His gaze sweep chillingly over the entire dim banquet hall. "Playing god and acting like ghosts..."
Fang Lichang being able to become a prosecutor naturally meant he also possessed some strength. A Fourth Order Oppressive Aura poured out from his body, enveloping the entire hall within it... But even so, besides their few participating personnel, the darkness here was also completely empty.
"No one?" Fang Lichang furrowed his brows tightly. "Where exactly is he hiding?"
"He... he's a formless ghost!" A reporter remembered Chen Ling's description from just now and spoke in terror, "He is right here, it's just we can't see him?"
Fang Lichang snorted coldly. Just as he was about to say something more, another reporter suddenly raised his hand!
"Outside the window... There's a black shadow outside the window!"
As soon as this sentence came out, the crowd simultaneously turned to look. They only saw outside that giant floor-to-ceiling window standing tall high in the sky, a black afterimage flashed past in a blur.
"Trying to run?" Seeing that he had finally found the person hiding behind the scenes, a flash of ruthlessness passed through Fang Lichang's eyes. His figure swayed, rapidly tracking outwards. As that window explosively shattered with a boom, his figure disappeared beneath the night color in the blink of an eye.
Following Fang Lichang's departure, woo-woo cold winds swept in from the broken window, completely blowing out the dim candlelights. The banquet hall fell into a dead silence once again.
Old Man Ding and the crowd of reporters and lawyers just stood there in the dark cold wind, looking at each other in dismay.
Not knowing how much time had passed, a voice suddenly sounded.
"The prosecutor left, there's only us left here."
Fwoosh——
Chen Ling lit a pale candle with a match. The flickering candlelight reflected half of his face. An imperceptible smile hooked on the corner of his mouth,
"I hope no accidents happen to him... What do you guys think?"
The cold wind blew up numerous Playing Cards. Countless [Six of Spades] lightly spun within the hall with the wind, like there were countless phantoms dancing lightly, and also like there was a formless giant hand mockingly manipulating everything here...