Inside the conference room.
Lecturers and counselors from every course were present for a general meeting.
Once everyone had arrived, Dean Zhou Qinfeng spoke with a grave expression. "This morning, the Official Department issued its decision regarding Shen Yun and the other four. The existing legal procedures will be followed. The four will most likely be prosecuted for Excessive Self-Defense, while Shen Yun will face public prosecution not only for Excessive Self-Defense, but also for Intentional Injury."
Everyone in the conference room looked shocked upon hearing the outcome.
Everyone had previously suspected Excessive Self-Defense, but no one had expected Shen Yun to also be charged with Intentional Injury.
"Dean, that can't be right! If it's Intentional Injury, then given that multiple people died, Shen Yun would be charged with Intentional Injury Resulting in Death and sentenced to death!"
A lecturer spoke agitatedly. Shen Yun was a student he liked very much, and he found it difficult to accept such an outcome.
Several other lecturers also spoke up.
"How could there be Intentional Injury? Wasn't it established that those ordinary people attacked first?"
"Isn't an Excessive Self-Defense charge enough?"
"Could the Official Department be doing this to calm public opinion..."
Facing the chorus of doubts, Zhou Qinfeng continued, "The Official Department's reasoning is that several of the people Shen Yun killed were not armed. They were merely standing near those who had guns, yet they were caught in the spread of a damaging Mind Power Artifact and killed. As the artifact's owner, Shen Yun knew that his artifact had dispersal properties."
"This..."
The people who had questioned it earlier were momentarily speechless.
Guan Tong also recalled the condition of the bodies he had seen at the scene.
Judging by the wounds on those people, the artifact Shen Yun had used was