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The lawyer went out and made a cup of hot tea, and when he finally calmed down, he brought it into the study, and said in an orderly and gentle way: "I have taken over this case, and no matter how much defense space it has, I will try my best to fight for it. For a while, I will turn down other businesses and put all my energy into it, so please trust me and adjust your mentality."

"Thank you." Huo Yang took the teacup and thanked in a hoarse voice, "If there is anything...you can find me if you need me, I'm not a busy person."

"There are many things that need your help." The lawyer pointed to the file on the table. "The details of the case are kept confidential at this stage. I can only tell you the facts of the case as much as possible."

Huo Yang could only say this: "...Thank you."

"You're welcome." The lawyer sat down at the table. He was a fat, middle-aged man who looked very calm, with a pair of sunken bloodshot eyes showing a serious edge. "At present, he has 21 charges. The serious ones are intentional homicide, intentional injury, and illegal detention. The direct victim suspected of intentional homicide is Ye Han, but his criminal record is not a good thing. Economic crimes are okay, which capitalist has no original sin, that's it If the three criminal offenses are confirmed, it is best to have a death reprieve."

Huo Yang's head buzzed continuously, causing a sharp pain in his temple.

For a moment, many memories bubbled up, and the voice was hazy and distant, like the voice deep in his mind.

"...That's fine, see you at the spring..."

"It's also hard for me to imagine that the evidence submitted by the whistleblower actually contains video data." The lawyer leaned back in the chair and habitually crossed his legs. Feeling unsatisfactory, he took out a cigarette and put it on, but did not light it. , "The whole process of my client shooting the victim was photographed. The picture quality is quite rough, and there are faces of both sides. I plan to start with this video first and find some experts... Both the murder scene and the place where the body was thrown out were found. The victim’s DNA, so far, the police have not seen any traces of forgery.”

"This is one." The lawyer didn't turn over the case file, and continued on from memory, "There are two other people, Ye... Jingling, and Ye Yinling, both of whom are related to the client. But I think these two are still There is room for debate. Ye Jingling was in a car accident and became a vegetative state, and was later pulled out of the life support device by an unknown murderer; the other was under house arrest, did not eat or drink, and starved herself to death."

"...Old Jing, Old Yin, I made you kill me for saying a wrong sentence. Why do you have to do such a terrible thing?..."

"...Your ass, how can you sit so steadily..."

At that time, he didn't know that Ye Qijun was beating Ye Lang with a poisonous whip, with barbs on it, tearing off a piece of flesh every time.

Seeing that his face was extremely ugly, the lawyer paused for a moment, but heard him ask: "Why is there a video? Was it recorded by... the people present?"

"It must be." The lawyer's finger lightly tapped the handrail, "But sell the boss, please be safe, after all, it is legally an accomplice."

"..." Huo Yang was silent for a long time, "Can I...can I see him?"

The lawyer shook his head, "At present, only I can see. If you have anything to say, I can bring it to him."

Huo Yang searched his brains for what little legal knowledge he had, "Then what about release on bail?"

The lawyer looked at him and explained patiently: "The circumstances of his crime are too serious, and he directly stipulates that he cannot be released on bail. Even if he has a good attitude and makes a special case, do you know the amount involved? No one can afford the same amount." You have to pull out all the wealth of the richest man."

All the roads in front of Huo Yang were blocked. This time, what he was facing was not only unpredictable people's hearts and treacherous fate, but also the impregnable walls of the whole society.He doesn't have monstrous power, but with a nimble and soft figure, he can drill a small hole no matter how big a pinprick is, and glance at the people over there.

Ever since the lawyer uttered the word "death reprieve", he was a little unable to turn his head, and now he is completely rusted.There was a strong sense of vomiting in his stomach, and he stood up unsteadily, "I... I'm sorry... I'll come back tomorrow..."

The lawyer wanted to call a car for him, but Huo Yang shook his hand roughly and rushed out.

There were a few residents standing by the elevator, he didn't care much, he retched for a long time while leaning on the wall in vain, until his internal organs were twisted into a ball.The shadows of the past and the heart-piercing pressure weighed down on him, making him unable to straighten his waist, breathing heavily like a dehydrated fish.

"You..." Someone next to him came up hesitantly and patted him on the back, "Are you okay?"

"..." Huo Yang slowed down for a while, and barely stood up straight, "It's okay."

After getting off the elevator, he searched for several times before finding his car, and sat in the driver's seat several times before inserting the car key into the ignition hole.

On the road, he kept his speed at around [-] mph. From time to time, he would be followed by a crazy horn sound from the back of the car, and a taxi driver who rushed past and rolled down the window to spit "stupid" at him.Huo Yang treated them equally, ignored them all, and stepped on the accelerator and brake indifferently.

He also thought indifferently, so what if the house is sealed off, even if Lao Tzu wants to go back, he will be imprisoned if he has the guts, what he wished for!

However, Ye Lang's house has not been seized, so what he did when he left, he was still what he was when he came, it was very ruthless.Huo Yang pushed open the door, and in a daze, he saw Dabai running happily, wagging his tail, the faint aroma of the food, and a question of "Are you back?" came from the kitchen.

It was like a hallucination, but it dissipated in the blink of an eye, and it was too late to make people addicted.

Only then did he realize that his steps weighed more than a thousand catties, and every step was dragged with great difficulty.Huo Yang had ups and downs all day long, and he really didn't have any strength left. He fell on the sofa in the living room, couldn't move his eyes, and landed on the dark blue aquarium in a daze.

The school of fish is carefree, wagging their gorgeous tails and their scales are shining.

The low sound of the water and the quiet lights miraculously soothed Huo Yang's nerves and made him slowly close his eyes.

"...I have raised seven tanks... This is the eighth tank."

"...some fish can't be kept together, no matter how gentle the big fish...will eat the small fish..."

"...I... will have to pay the price sooner or later..."

Blood red slowly rolled out in the fish tank. At first glance, it looked like a mermaid's crimson skirt...

The big fish swallowed the little fish, but the little fish broke out from the belly of the big fish, tearing the heart and intestines of the fish into flying rags...

Huo Yang woke up from the nightmare, sat up sweating profusely, and his first reaction was to go to the aquarium.

...Fortunately, it was a dream.

He covered his face with his blood-poor cold hands, panting in the dark for a long time before he recovered.

He fell asleep without eating last night, Huo Yang was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and he went to the kitchen to find something to eat.He opened the large refrigerator with a side-by-side door, and saw that there were several bread wrapped in fresh-keeping bags in the refrigerator.

There is a note on the transparent plastic sheet: "Smoked chicken with green sauce, with oily tomato. Oven at 200 degrees, three to four minutes."

Huo Yang was dumbfounded for a long time, and quickly took out another fresh-keeping bag from inside.

That was actually the little cake he had eaten before!

There is also a note on it: "Panettone, egg yolk, butter, rum and cranberries. Spray a layer of water on the surface and put it in the oven, 250 degrees, three to four minutes."

There were also some breads that he hadn't eaten before, and all of them were pasted with sticky notes, telling him what kind of filling and how to heat them.Trembling, Huo Yang spread the bread randomly on the desk, wiped his eye sockets with the back of his hand, and searched for the oven like a mouse.

When he found it, he found that there was still a sticky note on the door of the built-in oven: "Remember to preheat."

"Get out!" Huo Yang yelled hysterically, and kicked hard on the cabinet door, "Fuck, you bastard! Ah——!"

He turned around and swept all the hard bread on the table to the ground. He even unplugged the juicer and smashed it against the wall. "Is it interesting!!!"

He fell to the ground and collapsed for a moment, overwhelmed by rage and great grief.After the fragmented loud noise, the empty and dead home, he could only hear his hoarse breathing.

At last he was so hungry that he was about to cramp, so he got up and stumbled to pick up the bread on the ground.

"This madman," he sniffed, "a fool with a sick brain... crazy..."

wait-

Neuropathy?

Huo Yang suddenly scrambled out of the door, rushed into the living room, rummaged eagerly, and finally found the mobile phone that had fallen into the gap in the sofa, and immediately dialed the lawyer's number.

It took a long time to get through the phone, and it was 04:30 in the morning, and the lawyer's half-asleep voice came: "What's the matter with you..."

"Lawyer Chen," Huo Yang tried his best to gather himself, even though his hands were shaking and his voice was trembling, "I, I suddenly remembered something."

There was a "hmm" over there.

"Ye Lang has mental...problems." He was unwilling to say the word "mental illness". "I found Valium in the drawer of his house, and there are a lot of psychotropic drugs, oh yes! And medical records!"

"Oh?" The lawyer became more sober, "Isn't his house sealed off?"

"No." Huo Yang spoke several times faster, "I'm looking for the medical records of those medicine bottles now, can this be used as evidence? Can mental illness crimes be given light sentences?"

"Look at his situation." The lawyer yawned as there was a rustle over there, "I just fell asleep...I'll call when I have something to gain."

"Excuse me, excuse me." After Huo Yang apologized, he immediately became motivated.He first went to the kitchen with his stomach in his arms, took a piece of bread and stuffed it into the oven, devoured it, and then trot upstairs, rummaging through boxes and cabinets frantically.

Turning from the study to the bedroom, it was a dark journey, not a single book or pocket was missed, but there were no medicine bottles, medical records, or any scum.Huo Yang found out a real estate transfer document from the drawer, and his eyes turned black with anger.

When did Ye Lang secretly press his fingerprints!

People are gone, what does he want a house for, will he face another blow when he comes back someday!

Huo Yang followed his memory, he remembered that Ye Lang ran up from the basement when he saw the surveillance camera lose his temper at him one night, and rushed down immediately.

The basement is under the garage, on the second basement level. Because there is a wine cellar next to it, there is no ventilation and it is very cold.The anti-theft door is heavy and gloomy, equipped with an encrypted fingerprint lock, but it is not locked, and the door is open openly, allowing people to search.

Because the computer motherboard inside has been removed, there are only a dozen screens, tables and chairs, and some furniture, which proves that the owner of the house is indeed mentally ill, and he likes to scare himself by nesting in the ground.

This small monitoring room is fully equipped with all internal organs and audio equipment. When Huo Yang saw the collection of CDs on the opposite wall, he suddenly felt a pain in his heart.

These furniture... seem to be from that little gold room.

Huo Yang wandered around in the "safety version of the small gold house" for a long time, constantly telling himself that there is no unparalleled road, after all, his opponent is a very serious obsessive-compulsive disorder with a terrifying thoughtfulness, and it is normal not to be able to catch these obvious clues .

He first called Assistant Guan, but it was still "shut down".And now it's too early to go to Ye Lang's company. Based on the scene he went to last time, it is estimated that there is already a nameless existence.

Huo Yang thought about going to his office to try his luck. When he took out the car keys from his pocket, he took out Lawyer Chen's business card.

"Chen Tianshi, Beijing Gaoyue Law Firm, senior partner."

"Criminal defense, corporate legal affairs, finance, corporate mergers and acquisitions and restructuring."

It suddenly occurred to him that there is indeed no way out of heaven.

Because there is another person in this matter who must know the inside story.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Huo Yang's car was parked outside Ye Lang's company building, and the door there was closed.He slowly leaned into the driver's seat, lowered his head and dialed Lawyer Chen's phone.

This time the other side quickly answered, "Hey, did you find the evidence?"

"No, he threw them all away." Huo Yang repeated to Lawyer Chen what Ye Lang had said before, from finding An Ding to his own confession.He lit a cigarette and took a long puff, "I don't have any clues now."

"Hmm..." Lawyer Chen was also silent for a while, "You just said that he received short-term treatment? When and where did he do it? Are there no clues?"

"I don't have one," Huo Yang said, "I know someone who might have one. But I can't get in touch with her."

"Is it his family?"

"Lawyer Chen, you said you were entrusted by someone." Huo Yang asked suddenly, "Who entrusted you?"

Chen Tianshi took a sip of tea, then put the lid on the teacup crisply, his tone was still gentle, "I must keep the client's information confidential. Besides, even if the client doesn't hire a lawyer, the court will assign him."

Huo Yang quickly finished smoking a cigarette, put it out, wrapped the cigarette butt and the ash in his palm into toilet paper, and lit another one, "I checked your official website today, Chu Zhongxiao is the independent director of your company ? If it weren’t for the directors, I don’t think they would be able to afford a senior partner to take on such a case.”

Chen Tianshi said calmly: "The client of the criminal case, until the official judgment is made, we will keep it a secret."

"I understand, you don't need to say it." Huo Yang looked ahead, a high-end commercial vehicle honked its horn angrily at the door for a long time, and the guard trotted over to open the door, "She and Ye Lang are children. After graduation, Ye Lang and I I haven't seen each other for ten years, and they have kept in touch... I said just now that someone might have a clue, that is, her."

Chen Tianshi: "If there is anything I need to know, I will find her."

"What I mean is," Huo Yang smiled, "Just let me meet an old classmate and give me a contact information, is that okay?"

Two hours later, Chu Zhongxiao finally replied to his text message with extremely concise words.

"Call you back at 8:45 p.m."

There was no news after that.Huo Yang was in the study, checking every book on the bookshelf again, when the phone rang at 45:[-].He ran over to pick up the phone, "Hello?"

"It's me." The background is the strong wind, and the faint singing and dancing beyond the wind, Chu Zhongxiao's voice is like a silver knife, unmoved by foreign objects, extremely cold.

Huo Yang was thinking about how to start the scene, Chu Zhongxiao sensed the coldness, and said openly: "I entrusted Chen Tianshi, my aunt was originally one of the founders of Gaoyue Office, and now I am working as a solo in it." Dong. If you want to ask anything, just say it, and I still have something to do here."

"Okay." After ten years, this person is still familiar with the formula, and Huo Yang cut to the chase, "I'm looking for materials that can prove that Ye Lang has depression, medical records, doctor's orders, and test results. Can you get in touch? The doctor and institution that gave him the psychological test?"

"I have to think about it." Chu Zhongxiao paused for a while, and the crushed ice and the wine glass made a shattering sound. She drank the wine and let out a sigh of relief, "When he first found out the mental problem, he was about six. Years ago? I don't know. We were both... overwhelmed. So I don't know where he got the test. Then he found a treatment center from nowhere, and I got mad and put that The Po place has been shut down. Now... probably no one can be found."

Huo Yang swallowed.

He had a very bad premonition in his heart that the treatment center would be the key to the problem, but he didn't dare to ask Ye Lang that night.For a moment, all kinds of strange news flooded into his mind, what about drinking water to death, what about Yang Yongxin... those four words seemed to be oozing with dark blood.

"That treatment center, what course of treatment did he use?"

"Give him a test first, and say that he has violent tendencies caused by childhood trauma, and he also has an anti-social personality; his personality is extremely depressed, his empathy is weak, and he has a bit of self-abuse." Chu Zhongxiao said while thinking, with a sad tone Get up, "Actually, I can detect these, but I really can't help it. I really... tried my best."

Repression, this is a word that Huo Yang sympathizes with the most.But the intersection between him and Ye Lang's world in college was too little, and they only knew each other for two years. Huo Yang vaguely touched this point at that time, but he couldn't do it at all.

"I am also responsible for this matter, but the biggest responsibility should be on him." Huo Yang touched the chair and sat down. "And then? What about the treatment?"

"The so-called treatment is to lock him up. First of all...'destroying idols', imitating his grandfather, while insulting and stimulating him, while discrediting his grandfather's image, let him get rid of the backlog of anger in the 'personality shaping period' during his growth." Let it out——" Chu Zhongxiao took a deep breath, "But this is not correct guidance at all, and he failed to build a healthy psychological pillar."

"At that time...he just wanted to make himself uncomfortable." Her voice began to tremble, "Those scumbags really did it, signed the agreement for him, and then added some electric shocks to the treatment, let him watch it once—"

She froze suddenly, and when Huo Yang was terrified, he felt that the thing that followed the "watch once" was very important, and asked repeatedly: "What do you want him to see? What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing... Someone came just now." Chu Zhongxiao said, "Let him see... what he thinks about day and night but can't get it. Watch it once, just give him a power call. Are you still doing some self-analysis with the help of drugs?" ', let him tell everything by himself, and then the doctor digs deeper into his psychological crux. After I heard... I, I flew over to find him overnight. You don't know what he looked like at that time— —I was crying so hard that I was about to collapse, and he didn't even look at me."

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I have final exams next month and it's very painful right now...

Not unfinished, I will try my best to finish this month...