I lent my brother 500 yuan, and he offered his wife as collateral.

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There are twelve seats in the pending review area.

As soon as the five members of the Su family completed their entry and binding, the two Yun family elders on the left, the three representatives of the Fengyi branch on the right, and the two chamber of commerce deacons behind them all pulled their chairs half a step outwards.

The seven seats were separated by an empty circle.

These people already knew that the Su family would be sitting here.

As soon as Su Qingxue's name appeared on the waiting table, they opened their personal recording devices and all pointed them forward.

Su Lie looked up at the center of the hall.

The core candidate area still has a main seat, which also has the three words "Su Qingxue" written on it.

Below the nameplate is another line of gray text.

[Eligibility reserved, not yet bound.]

The invitation granted core qualifications, but Santa locked the real person in the interrogation area.

The intention to oppress people is already clear.

Just as Su Lie was about to call the recorder, Qin Feng had already pulled out a chair.

"sit."

Su Lie frowned.

"The invitation stated that he was in the core leadership position."

"Leave it empty."

Qin Feng pulled out Su Qingxue's chair and sat down to her right.

"Once they put the allegations in the public record, they can file a countersuit here."

A low chuckle came from the side.

The Yun family elder closed the recording device in his hand.

"Even after entering the trial phase, he's still thinking about filing a countersuit. Mr. Qin's understanding of Santa Fe's rules is quite novel."

Qin Feng turned to look at him.

"The agenda hasn't even started, and you've already condemned Santa?"

The Yun family elders' faces darkened.

"I'm just reminding you to recognize your seats."

"The seating is arranged by Santa, and responsibility follows the evidence."

Qin Feng looked away.

"Are you in such a hurry to link these two things together? Isn't the evidence you have solid enough?"

The elder of the Yun family pressed his fingers on the table and did not take the call.

Su Qingxue has been adjusted to the seating arrangement rules.

The seating arrangement entrance is at the very top.

There is also a line of smaller text at the very bottom.

Su Qingxue immediately closed the seat selection page.

She attended the meeting today as the head of the Su family.

She won't touch the candidate agreement.

"Recorder".

The recorder in charge of the waiting area came over.

"Master Su, what's the problem?"

"Publicly confirm the authority of the judges in the pending trial."

The recorder replied, "The person being tried may speak after the host gives permission."

Su Qingxue threw the disputed clause onto the table.

"I asked for full permissions."

"Once the public review begins, the party under review has the right to respond, present evidence, file a counterclaim, and apply for verification of the source."

She looked at the recorder.

Are these four measures still effective?

The recorder paused for two seconds.

"Specific authority will depend on the agenda for this session."

"This sentence is not in the invitation rules."

Su Qingxue opened the issuance page.

"If the rules have been modified, please submit the effective date, the modified content, and the signatory. If you cannot provide these, please confirm according to the current terms."

The voices nearby gradually subsided.

Several representatives of the old clans turned to look here.

They were originally waiting for Su Qingxue to compete for the core seat.

If she causes a scene, the Holy Tower can accuse her of disrupting the court assembly.

Su Qingxue didn't even glance at the chair in the center.

She was eyeing the procedural rights that were the most difficult for Santa Fe to reclaim.

The recorder still wanted to delay.

Su Qingxue raised her hand to submit a procedural objection.

The agenda entrance in the center of the hall then turned gray.

The authority of the entity pending review is in dispute.

The review agenda cannot be written into the public record until the dispute is resolved.

The recorder's expression changed slightly.

The order from above arrived quickly.

He can only enable public confirmation.

Four lines of text appeared simultaneously above all the attendees' seats.

The party under investigation has the full right to respond.

The party under investigation has the legal right to present evidence.

The party under investigation has the right to file a countersuit against the accuser.

The party being reviewed has the right to request verification of the source of the evidence and the qualifications of the reviewing body.

Su Qingxue did not close the page.

"Additional confirmation."

"These permissions will not be revoked prematurely based on seat position, candidate status, or review results."

The recorder stared at her.

With the main agenda still unresolved, he had no other choice.

"confirm."

The public record has been written.

The central agenda entry lighted up again.

Qin Feng picked up the water on the table and handed it to Su Qingxue.

"This table is usable now."

Su Qingxue took a sip.

"One more step."

"Let them submit their evidence first."

The two spoke in low voices.

The seven people in the surrounding seats could hear it clearly.

The Yun family elder reopened the recording device, his expression no longer relaxed as before.

The trial stand was originally intended to put pressure on Su.

Now that these four rights are written into the public record, this place has become the entry point for Su's counterclaims that he can initiate at any time.

However, he quickly regained his breathing.

The first charge that Santa Fe was preparing had been shelved for years.

After entering the Central Region, the Su Clan received a large amount of wastewater from the earth's veins.

Based solely on the cumulative energy, the scale is sufficient to warrant the highest criminal liability.

If Su Qingxue acknowledges this debt, Saint Tower can then include proactive review as a condition for mitigating its liability.

If she protests, first secure her criminal liability, then use the grounds for dismissal to force her to sign the application to travel to the United States.

In the end, everyone must walk to the Taiyi Spirit-Seeking Mirror.

Shen Banxia ignored the surrounding confrontation.

She squatted by the table and placed the Shen family data box close to the array pattern node.

The old code on the data box jumps once every time it gets close to an interface.

She took out her portable reader and scanned three nodes through the seal.

The reader emitted a soft sound.

[Shen's L-7 Life Calibration Protocol.]

[Readback link missing.]

[The one-way input link is running.]

Shen Banxia raised her head.

"Boss, this table used to be the Shen family's life calibration table."

Su Qingxue put down her water glass.

"Can you confirm?"

"The protocol number, handshake code, and readback slot all match up."

Shen Banxia pointed to a thin line on the corner of the table that had been cut off.

"The outer isolation array was added later. The underlying readback link was cut off, leaving only one-way input."

Su Lie bent down and took a look.

"What did it do before?"

"Collect the candidate's vital signs and calibrate the data."

"The core candidate is under review by the central government, so why is there a separate document here?"

Shen Banxia brought up the old version of the node table in the data box.

The central main broadcaster's number ends with "S".

The old number on the table in front of them ended up with an "F".

Shen Banxia's finger stopped on that letter.

"In the old rules of the Shen family, S represents standard load-bearing capacity, and F represents unstable diversion."

She looked up at the center of the hall.

"Those who pass the review will remain in the central government."

"Those who experience instability will be transferred to this set of nodes."

The area awaiting review fell completely silent.

The expressions of the Fengyi branch representatives on the right changed one after another.

A middle-aged man stared at the cracks on the table, his Adam's apple bobbing a few times.

"My sister failed her medical review back then and lay in bed for three years after returning home."

Someone in the back row spoke up in a low voice.

"My family sent two people in, but only one came back. The Santa Maria tower said the other one collapsed, and they didn't even give us the body."

In the past, no one dared to question the Holy Tower.

A single sentence, bearing the weight of failure, can silence all the old guard.

The table currently placed in the trial area contains Shen's life agreement.

A woman with gray hair took two steps closer.

"Is it possible to find out who has used it?"

Shen Banxia shook her head.

"No results found using the existing API".

"The usage records are linked to the historical sources of the Santa Ana. The source is not open, so the list cannot be retrieved."

She added another sentence.

"The array patterns in front of us can only prove the old function of this table, not who it was given to."

The woman did not ask any further questions.

She opened her personal logs and saved the protocol number, the disconnected readback link, and the node suffix.

This is not yet the final evidence.

At least, she finally had a starting point to investigate her family.

Wu Jie sat on the outermost side, his gaze already turned to the main control area.

The back-end operations of the public assembly will be simultaneously displayed in the audit panel on the side.

The two recorders who had urged the seizure of the data boxes upon entry were sitting on either side of the control panel.

Wu Jie zoomed in on the audit footage.

The two applications that have not yet been submitted are already mostly filled out.

[Limitations on Sue's jurisdiction in the trial proceedings.]

[Disputed record deleted.]

Before the agenda even started, the other party had already prepared the reasons for deleting the content.

"Look at those two on the right."

Wu Jie lowered his voice.

"They knew what the Su family would propose."

Su Lie followed his gaze.

"Is it moving now?"

"We can't move inside the venue."

"I said after the meeting."

Wu Jie touched his earlobe.

"Every background operation is recorded with an identity fingerprint and is also synchronized with an external time stamp."

"As long as they submit it, their names will be recorded."

Su Lie nodded.

"Then let's wait for them to make their move."

Deep within the council chamber of the Holy Tower, the Grand Master was watching the live feed of the trial area.

The four permissions were written into the public record without disrupting his plans.

Source verification is merely an application right.

As long as the main historical database remains closed, Sue will not be able to access the actual data.

The cavity inside the heart of the Santa Maria is still expanding.

The remnants of life left by the Shen family can't last much longer.

He needs the Nine Yin Phoenix Fate to resonate actively.

Only if Su Qingxue leaves a record of her actions can the Taiyi Spirit-Seeking Mirror register her as the new living master.

That historical landmark in Yanjing has been silent for many years.

The main control mechanism that Lin Wanrong took away back then has never received an effective response.

In the Grand Master's judgment, there was only an old coordinate that had lost its vitality.

The data box in Shen Banxia's hand can indeed activate the old protocol and may also uncover some historical records.

But it lacks a life waveform.

It cannot take over the Spirit-Seeking Mirror.

Two deletion requests have been prepared.

The data box can trace back to the next step, and Santa will stop recording at that step.

As for Su Qingxue, she only has two paths.

They acknowledged the land vein case and offered to proactively review it in exchange for reduced liability.

They argued to the end, first taking on the maximum criminal liability, then using the right to have her exonerated to get her to sign the application to travel to the mainland.

The Grand Master turned off the screen display.

"Meeting."

The golden seal of the Holy Tower above the hall slowly descended.

All attendees simultaneously connect to the main network.

Of the four exit channels, two were sealed off by golden barriers.

The chief recorder began reading the rules of the morning assembly.

The old families were no longer interested in listening carefully.

Their attention was entirely focused on Su's waiting table and the table bearing the old Shen family number.

Qin Feng looked up at the golden seal.

The fact that Su Qingxue was assigned here was by no means simply a matter of being suppressed by her position.

Old version of the life calibration station.

Pre-filled permission restrictions.

A dispute removal request is pending submission.

The data box triggers a source-level notification at the access control point.

All the clues point to the same location.

The tower is guarding against the reopening of its historical sites.

Qin Feng had already saved an original snapshot when the access control notification appeared.

He retrieved the document, superimposed the current public assembly time markers, and completed the second sealing process.

Su Qingxue turned her face to the side.

"Any results?"

"They were very well prepared."

"Can it be taken apart?"

Qin Feng looked towards the central main formation.

"Let's wait until all the evidence is on the table."

The rules have been read aloud.

The central hall did not have a core structure installed, nor was the ancestral home of Yanjing mentioned.

A red lock descended from the golden seal, covering the seats of the five members of the Su family.

The public censorship interface then unfolds.

[First item on the agenda for the Grand Assembly.]

[The Su family's case of illegally stealing the Central Region's land vein resources.]

[Scale of energy involved: Top-tier.]

[Recommended level of responsibility: death penalty.]

All the individual recording devices in the stadium lit up red simultaneously.

The chief recorder looked at Su Qingxue.

"Ms. Su, do you plead guilty to this charge?"

Su Qingxue didn't even glance at the line of punishment.

She raised her hand and activated the permissions she had just written into the public record.

[Request verification of the source of evidence.]

"The criminal charges will be put on hold for now."

Su Qingxue looked up at the chairman of the Santa Claus Association.

"Reveal your first piece of evidence, including its source."