Under the complicated gazes of everyone, Eric Killmonger pulled out the long knife stuck on the side, walked to T'Challa, slowly raised the knife, and prepared to slash at T'Challa who was kneeling down.
Charla.
"No!"
"T'Challa! Stand up!"
Princess Su Rui shouted anxiously, and the queen couldn't help but cover her mouth, her eyes filled with fear.
Although the former King T'Chaka did not speak, the nervous look and anxious eyes on his face said everything.
However, the sacred challenge ceremony cannot be interrupted. The ceremony will not end until one party surrenders or dies. At this time, T'Challa is extremely hopeful that T'Challa can admit defeat. He doesn't care if he loses the throne, but he can't lose it.
His own son!
"T'Challa..."
It's a pity that the stubborn T'Challa has no intention of admitting defeat. Although he is seriously injured and kneeling on the ground and unable to get up, his eyes are still full of unyielding and persistence.
Just as Eric Killmonger's raised sword was slashing at T'Challa, a spear suddenly stabbed from the side, blocking his sword.
Everyone looked along the spear, only to find that it was the high priest Zu Li who had been standing aside to stop him in time, destroying the challenge ceremony and saving T'Challa.
Of course, this was also because Eric had reservations and did not use all his strength. Otherwise, if Eric had used all his strength to strike this blow, Zu Li would not have been able to block it anyway.
"Let him go. If you want to kill him, then kill me. It was all because of me that your father died!"
With that said, Zu Li let go of the hand holding the spear and let the spear fall into the pool. He looked at Eric with eyes filled with the will to die.
After so many years, he still couldn't let go of what happened back then. Although he never admitted it, they did make a mistake.
Today, let him use his own life to atone for his sins.
When Eric Killmonger heard this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he stared into Zu Li's eyes. As expected, it was as God said, his father's death was because of Zu Li.
Eric put down the long knife in his hand and walked towards Zu Li menacingly. The incapacitated T'Challa, the queen, Princess Shu Rui and others saw this and quickly shouted to stop him.
"No!"
"Zu Li!"
"don't want!"
Amid everyone's anxious shouts, Eric walked up to Zu Li and looked down at him coldly. However, he did not directly kill him with a knife as everyone thought, but looked at him.
He asked with cold eyes and a cold voice.
"Can you plead guilty?"
"I'm guilty!"
As Zu Li spoke, he knelt down on the ground and lowered his head deeply. The river water reflected his face, which was full of pain and regret, as well as a hint of relief that he was about to be released.
Although he did not kill Prince Nejobu with his own hands, Nejobu died because of him. The most important thing is that he and King T'Chaka left Eric Killmonger and his son behind.
Let them fend for themselves.
Although Nejob is guilty, his wife and children are innocent. They are the people of Wakanda and should be taken back to Wakanda to get the status, rights and life they deserve, instead of living in the slums.
Survive.
But they chose to escape and abandoned their compatriots because of their own mistakes. This was what he couldn't forgive himself for the most. After more than twenty years, regret still surged up in his heart from time to time, torturing him.
He also secretly went back without telling King T'Chaka, wanting to see how their mother and son were living, but he could not find them anyway. It seemed that they had completely disappeared from this world.
Zu Li once thought that the two of them had been killed. Without the protection of her husband and father, it would be difficult for orphans and widows to survive in this chaotic slum. They might have died at the hands of a gangster who broke into a house, or they might have died in some dark place.
They were shot dead in a corner, and both of them died because of their cowardice and escape!
Zu Li, who returned from the United States, was completely disheartened. Regardless of T'Chaka's reuse and retention, he resolutely gave up his identity as the head of the "War Dog" of Wakanda's intelligence department, threw himself into the arms of the Leopard God, and became a priest.
.
When he learned that Eric Killmonger was the son of Prince Nejobu, Zu Li's mood was extremely complicated.
It turned out that he was not dead, and Zu Li couldn't help but feel a little lucky. In this way, he still had a chance to atone for his sins.
Zu Li couldn't agree more with T'Chaka giving up the throne to Eric Killmonger. He deserved it, they owed him, and it was not enough to offset what they had done.
, the harm done to Eric by the mistakes he made.
But T'Challa had nothing to do with it. After becoming a priest, Zu Li never married and had no children. He always treated T'Challa, who he grew up with, as his own son.
Seeing that he was about to die under the sword of Eric Killmonger in his fight for the throne, Zu Li could no longer care about anything else, and resolutely violated the traditions and rules of the challenge ceremony, stretched out the priest's spear in his hand, and blocked the attack.
Eric Killmonger cut off the sword and saved T'Challa.
T'Challa is innocent, he should not have been involved, Zu Li is willing to use his own life to end this and make up for his mistakes.
Eric Killmonger lowered his head and glanced at Zu Li who was kneeling in front of him, then turned to look at the former king T'Chaka and asked in a deep voice.
"T'Chaka!"
"Can you plead guilty!?"
Under the complicated gazes of everyone, Tchaka, who looked complicated, slowly walked into the baptismal pool, came to Eric, and suddenly knelt down in the water.
"Father!"
"T'Chaka!"
Princess Su Rui and Queen couldn't help shouting.
T'Challa looked at his father who was kneeling in front of him, his face full of guilt and remorse. He was extremely entangled in his heart and opened his mouth, but no words came out.
"I'm guilty!"
T'Chaka looked up at Eric Killmonger and said in a low voice. From Eric's face, he seemed to see the shadow of his brother Nijobu. This was his relative, his nephew.
, but after he accidentally killed his father, because of cowardice and because he did not dare to face it, he chose to escape, abandoning their mother and son, and ignored them for more than 20 years. He was guilty!
Looking at the two people kneeling in front of him, Eric Killmonger tightened the long knife in his hand. Just when T'Challa's eyes tightened, he held himself up and planned to save his father at all costs.
, but Eric threw the long knife in his hand into the water, raised his head and said loudly.
"You made an unforgivable mistake back then!"
"Now, since you two have confessed, I will hand you over to the Council of Elders, and the elders of each tribe will judge your crimes and give you a fair verdict!"