As the trial continued, the defendant's lawyer suddenly raised the question of whether the photos had been artificially modified or other technical means to forge the content. Moreover, the lawyer also put forward the "alien incident" that has been widely spread in recent years and has had a great impact as an argument. The impact of this incident exceeds most people's guesses.
The alien incident is very famous throughout the Western world, and even to this day, the subsequent impact of this incident continues to ferment. The cause of the incident came from a freelance contributor who claimed to be a wild creature photography enthusiast. He took out a photo. The main composition of the photo was a bird standing on a branch preening its feathers. But on the right side of this photo, you can see a flat thing with certain mechanical properties and part of a bracket, as well as a monster with a triangular head and big eyes.
The freelance journalist claimed that he did not notice any abnormalities when he took this photo. Later, some scientists came forward to explain it to him, claiming that it was a very sophisticated optical deception effect, and even used it to A so-called crude model was produced and demonstrated in some public places. Immediately afterwards, the whole world was in an uproar. Some mechanical enthusiasts said that the content that was not completely captured in the picture should be a flying vehicle. Some of the supports on the ground were the best proof.
Driven by various forces, people finally knew what was so scary about this photo. Not long after, the Imperial Daily published a press release with the title "We Are Not Alone." In the news, many contributors Based on this evidence, we believe that aliens do exist and may even be living around us. The reason why we cannot discover these aliens is because they have technology that is beyond the times, making them invisible to the naked eye from the outside, but machines can capture them.
For this reason, the freelance contributor also won many awards and was invited by many relevant organizations to give speeches. He suddenly became a social celebrity.
The following year is the year when the alien craze explodes. It seems that aliens have occupied the earth overnight. There are more or less things that may be related to aliens in many photos, such as aircraft, blurry... The back is even a clear face. When people's curiosity about aliens lasted for eight or nine months, the enthusiasm suddenly turned into fear of aliens because of a book called "Raising". The author of this book himself hoped to use aliens to help Influence makes money.
However, there are many similar books on the market, and hot spots remain hot spots, but books may not necessarily sell well. In addition, most of the author's works are murder thriller novels. He decided to go against the mainstream and reverse the appearance of these "peace-loving" and "observation-loving" aliens, thinking that all of them are A conspiracy. Human beings are just test subjects raised by aliens on the earth. When they need to experiment with some kind of medicine or other things, they will randomly grab some test subjects for experimentation.
There is also a creepy view in the book. Perhaps these invisible aliens are around us, and they may even be right next to you watching you read this book.
This counter-mainstream content was a huge success in an instant, but it also quickly transformed the positive culture of alien fanaticism into a negative fanaticism with conspiracy theories. People began to gather in crowds to demand that the government remove aliens from the planet. On the other hand, some people believe that aliens should be found, seize their technology, kill them, and regain control of mankind's own destiny and take the initiative.
Amid the huge changes in public opinion, the first freelance journalist who discovered aliens was criticized by some people as a "stooge of aliens", believing that his purpose in releasing this photo was to create a false atmosphere. Allowing human beings to more smoothly accept the existence of aliens and even rule them.
Under verbal and even physical attacks from many enthusiasts, the freelance journalist stood up and admitted to the public that he had faked the photos because he accidentally caused the negatives of the photos to have a second exposure. It was precisely because of this mistake that he had some ideas. Perhaps he could use such technology to achieve success in his career. Then he came up with such a photo of an alien that was taken by coincidence, and successfully triggered a heated discussion and a trend of public opinion among the people, and he also gained huge wealth.
This is the alien incident and its impact. Even today, there are still people who claim to have captured images of aliens and submit articles to major newspapers in the hope of earning a commission.
The defense attorneys of the defendants argued that the photo forgery was not a random attempt. It can be said that their attorneys studied some of the basic evidence provided by the plaintiffs in great detail, and directly found the first point that could be regarded as a breakthrough and launched a critical attack. If it could be proven that the photo was forged, not only would Du Lin's accusation against them be unfounded, but they would also be able to turn around and make a false accusation against Du Lin.
Because the defendant requested a legality test of the plaintiff’s basic evidence, many questions based on the photos could not be continued and had to wait for the next court session. The next court session is initially scheduled for one month later, and the negatives of the photos will be checked for authenticity by four testing departments at the same time to ensure that the final results are authentic and valid.
A wonderful and hot flashpoint was played out in the most boring way by both parties. In addition to people shouting that it was boring, some people also saw the underlying truth behind this court debate. That is, Dulin's lawyers seemed to have chosen the wrong strategy. They did not use the effective evidence that had formed a chain of evidence as a firepower to win over the jury. Instead, they gave some ambiguous testimonial witnesses, which changed the simple and clear matter. Gotta get complicated.
Some people think that there is something wrong with the team of lawyers Dulin selected this time, but more people believe that the decisive point in this world-famous lawsuit is the same as in all previous cases. The result will not be in the court, but outside the court. .
There are too many things in this world that can interfere with judicial justice, and Dulin has been removed from office, but he is fighting against the current mayor of Otis City, as well as the old aristocratic plutocrats who have wide friends and deep-rooted power in the north. As a minority It is difficult for Dulin to win this lawsuit that belongs to him.
Newspapers are constantly analyzing why the first court hearing of this lawsuit ended in this way. Under the influence of some cute little pieces of paper, most of the newspapers' public opinion is in favor of Dulin, the "victim" , the image of his victim vividly appeared on the page, and the general public, including part of the middle class, were inclined to Dulin.
The trend of public opinion soon caused some business problems for the Capet family. The first to attack was the Fatima family, which the Capet family believed had the strongest cooperative relationship. As the largest aristocratic financial group in the north of the empire, the Fatima family is a weathervane in itself. Her Majesty the Holy Lady believed that people with dirty morals should not be allowed to tarnish the reputation of the Fatima family, so she chose to suspend the plan for cooperation with the Southern District.
This punch made old Capet look like stars. The Fatima family had already told everyone that I wanted this cake, but now he suddenly put the cake back on the plate. Even if he said that I didn't want to eat it, there was no one else. Dare to stand up and say that if you don’t eat, I will. Old Mr. Cape made a prompt decision and went to the Fatima family in person to explain these matters to Her Majesty the Holy Lady, hoping that the cooperation between the two parties could continue.
At the same time, the Capet family also began to realize the impact of public opinion on them, and began to recruit a group of newspapers to speak for themselves, but their actions were a little slower. Once mainstream public opinion forms a trend, it cannot be easily stopped. The newspaper they bribed cannot directly state the view that the Capet family is innocent. They were still bragging about Dulin before, but now they turn around and brag about the Capet family. Everyone knows what happened here.
Will they continue to be a newspaper in the future, and will they still have credibility
Some remarks that were suspicious of Dulin had no effect at all. Instead, they further promoted the conspiracy theory that the outcome of this matter was not in the court, which made the Capet family anxious for a while. Facing the angry public opinion, they realized for the first time that this was no longer an era when aristocrats dominated society.
"What will a child do when he is beaten and can't beat the other person?" Mags drank a light scented tea while pushing a chess piece one step further on the chessboard.
Dulin frowned. He was a little hesitant in the face of Mags's offensive. He was not very good at playing chess. If Mags hadn't suggested it, he wouldn't want to play this game at all. After thinking for a long time, he moved a chess piece, and then with a faint smile on Mags' face, he pressed his chess piece on Dulin's "king".
At this time, he straightened up with a hearty laugh, took off his eyes, wiped his hands with a hot towel, "If I were you, I would ask some powerful teachers, find a group of powerful friends, and then try Let’s beat me on the chessboard together,” he said, changing the topic, “You had a lot of fun in the West during this time?”
After Dulin went to the west, Maggs had some thoughts in his mind. He actually didn't want Dulin to go to the west. He hoped that Dulin could come to the imperial capital to help him. In this way, he could always control Du Lin within a reasonable and appropriate range, but he also realized that this might be an opportunity for Du Lin to torment Memnon.
Mags hated Memnon, a third-party leader who relied on political speculation and was full of dirt. He had destroyed the political structure of the empire, but there was nothing he could do about him.
Dulin, this is the opportunity!
(End of chapter)