From Pokfulam to Central

Chen Shuo couldn't resist the order to evict the guest, so he had to leave first, leaving him at home, but before leaving, he told him to call him if there was anything to do, and don't resist by himself.

Driving away from Qu Zhi's house, Chen Shuo planned to go back to his work unit to work overtime to deal with unfinished work. There was an intentional homicide case to be held in court tomorrow morning. As a clerk, he needed to prepare some materials in advance.

But the more the car drove, the more restless Chen Shuo became. In his mind, he recalled all the things that Qu Zhi had experienced recently, from Li Yan's conspiracy, to careful accidents, from being discovered in secret investigations, to the intervention of the Lawyers Association, and then Up to today's sudden change, the final frame was fixed in his few obsessed words to himself, echoing in his ears over and over again.

Chen Shuo heard these words at the time, it was just a stress reaction that would naturally appear in the heart when a person experienced a major change, but now that he thought about it carefully, he felt that there seemed to be another deep meaning in it.In the final analysis, Qu Zhi is a person with a heavy heart, and he is not used to expressing his feelings on weekdays. Now that he said such a thing, it can only show that the emotions in his heart can no longer be resolved in silence.This is not a good sign, Chen Shuo felt that he smelled danger.

Qu Zhi's strange expression when he said those words appeared in front of his eyes for no reason, and it was particularly eye-catching in the silent and gloomy night. Chen Shuo felt a little terrified, but for a while, he couldn't tell what was so weird.

In a trance, a blinding strong white light suddenly lit up in his field of vision. Chen Shuo turned the steering wheel several times to avoid colliding with the muck truck turning in the opposite direction. flute.

"Brother Shuo, I hate it, I hate myself, and I also hate the person who pushed me into the abyss and stepped on a few more feet."

In the short-term blindness brought by the strong light, Qu Zhi's face inexplicably overlapped with the defendant who will appear in court tomorrow. Chen Shuo was so frightened that he slammed on the brakes and parked the car improperly in the middle of the intersection, almost drenched in cold sweat A top that is not flimsy.Chen Shuo was stunned to discover that Qu Zhi's dark eyes were filled with the endless murderous intent only a murderer could have.

Chen Shuo works in the criminal court, and he has seen many vicious criminals on weekdays, and because of his family background, he has come into contact with some soldiers who were born and died on the battlefield.These people are all murderous beasts without batting an eyelid, what they see is different from ordinary people, and now this appearance actually appears in Qu Zhi's eyes.

Chen Shuo asked himself that he was not mistaken, it was a kind of extreme and paranoid after losing respect for life.

Indeed, for Qu Zhi, whether it is the serious lawsuit or the death of his mother, they are all closely related to that Li Yan. Although he is not the main culprit, he has also played a role in fueling the flames. .Coupled with the unspeakable matter before, if Qu Zhi really wanted to kill anyone, it must be him.

broken.Qu Zhi is not an indecisive person, as long as he decides to do something, he will definitely seize every opportunity to put it into action.Remembering that he once told himself that Li Yan was a workaholic and often worked overtime by himself until late at night, Chen Shuo seemed to instantly understand the reason why Qu Zhi had to send him away tonight.

Thinking of this possibility, Chen Shuo didn't dare to delay any longer. He made a sharp turn and drove towards Qu Zhi's unit. On the way, he called Zhou Mi and briefly explained the situation. In or not.

After seeing Wu Haolong today, Zhou Mi was left by his father to discuss the company's equity with Wan Zhenting. Zhou Xianli took the opportunity to bring up the marriage of the two children again.Wan Zhenting uncharacteristically did not immediately veto it. On the one hand, he had already believed Zhou Xianli's statement that someone maliciously edited that recording to slander and frame Zhou Mi. On the other hand, he began to realize that he let Zhou Mi The Wu family's strategy of checking and balancing each other is not perfect. The Wu family, especially Wu Haolong, has too many small tricks in private. If they are allowed to develop, they may be breeding tigers for trouble, and it will be difficult to control in the future.

Wan Zhenting's loose attitude towards the marriage cast a haze on Zhou Mi's already depressed heart. After seeing off the guests, he sat alone in the office until the tip of the moon. Confused by the explosive information stuffed inside, he was silent for a while before recovering, then grabbed the key and rushed out the door.

As soon as Chen Shuo drove the car to the entrance of the office building, he saw a familiar figure flashing in. He jumped out of the car and tried to catch up, but was stopped by the night guard in the lobby, so he watched Qu Zhi enter the elevator.

"The judge handles the case!" The matter was urgent, Chen Shuo took out his court ID and waved it in front of the guard, temporarily bluffing him, "Stop that person who just came in! Where is the elevator control room?!"

Affected by Chen Shuo's determined and urgent aura, the guard began to cooperate with leading the way, "Stay with the surveillance room."

The security guard in the monitoring room was dozing in a chair at first, but was startled awake from his dream by colleagues and strangers who broke in suddenly. After hearing the meaning of his arrival, he frantically called out the monitoring of the elevator that Qu Zhi was in.

Chen Shuo took a closer look, and saw Qu Zhi abruptly pulled out a sharp knife from his waist, and the sharp blade flashed a cold light on the low-resolution display screen, which made him feel shocking.Chen Shuo's heart sank, and seeing that the number showing the floor was still rising, and only half the distance was left from the 56th floor where Xinjie was, his voice suddenly changed in anxiety: "Stop it!"

At the same time, Zhou Mi rushed to the house without being blocked by anyone, and called Chen Shuo to inquire about the situation while running all the way.Knowing that Qu Zhi had already gone upstairs, Zhou Mi turned over and jumped over the turnstile that required a work permit to pass, and rushed into the elevator room as if fleeing for his life.Because it is night time, in order to save energy in the office building, only three of the eight elevators are open, one is the full-floor elevator that is used directly, and the other is the high-rise elevator that only stops on the first floor and above forty floors. Now it is displayed on the top floor In standby mode, the only one that happens to be on the first floor is the low-rise elevator, which can only reach the fortieth floor at most.

"Who the hell are you? Show me your work permit again."

"Stop the elevator first!"

"This is not in compliance with the regulations. We have to confirm your identity first. Are you really a policeman?"

"Which one is the control cabinet?!"

The voice of Chen Shuo eager to negotiate came from the mobile phone that was still on the call, but things were obviously not going smoothly.Zhou Mi has no choice but to get into the only elevator that stops on the first floor right now, and how many floors he can go up.Zhou Mi didn't know if he would be able to stop the person in the elevator in time, he only knew that once Qu Zhi opened the door and entered the place where Li Yan was, and he was locked out by the door guard, he would really have to let him stay. Someone was hacked inside.

Breaking out of the car that had stopped steadily on the [-]th floor, Zhou Mi didn't dare to rest for a moment, then plunged into the stairwell in a blink of an eye, and rushed all the way up desperately, running several steps until his legs were sore and his feet were weak, and his body was broken. He was dripping with sweat, but his throat felt as if it was about to split open, so that even the hot breath he exhaled carried a sweet and salty smell of blood.

"Stop, stop," Chen Shuo finally heaved a sigh of relief on the phone with his shocked voice, "——Floor 56."

The elevator car jerked violently, then went on strike for no apparent reason.Qu Zhi glanced gloomyly at the display screen, realized that he was stopped by someone, so he held the white blade that was still in his hand with his backhand, and raised his wrist to press the brim of his hat, trying to block his deep frown .The matter between him and Li Yan has nothing to do with others, Qu Zhi didn't want to implicate the innocent, but if this obstructive person insisted on doing it, he would have no choice but to block and kill gods, and Buddhas to block and kill Buddhas.

Hatred filled his heart, since he came, he didn't think about retreating completely.

Stepping on the last step, Zhou Mi raised his head to look at the number of floors with difficulty, then with all his remaining strength, he opened the heavy fire door that had been closed all year round, and staggered to the elevator door that displayed the word "pause" outside.Sitting down on the floor with exhaustion, Zhou Mi was panting like a broken bellows in his lungs, managed to get up after taking two heavy breaths and said, "I'm here."

The elevator resumed operation under Chen Shuo's control, and the automatic door slowly opened.

The lighting in the car seemed to have not fully recovered from the power outage just now, the dazzling white light flickered on and off, and also cast Qu Zhi's dark shadow crookedly on the ground.Seeing this, Zhou Mi shuddered violently in his heart. For a moment, he almost thought that everything in this door had climbed up from the depths of hell.

Today, it has been more than a month since the last time the two said goodbye.During this period of time, due to company affairs, Zhou Mi worked so hard day and night that he was so skinny that Qu Zhi couldn't recognize him at first sight under the light with unstable voltage.

It wasn't until the power supply system in the car was fully restored to normal, Qu Zhi, who had already been mentally numb and had already clenched the sharp weapon in his hand, suddenly saw clearly as if waking up from a dream. careful.His heart suddenly tightened, and Qu Zhi's whole body trembled almost imperceptibly, and then, like a child who has done something wrong and happened to be beaten by his parents, he sank his head deeply under the cover of the brim of his hat .

Zhou Mihou was so afraid that goosebumps appeared on his body layer after layer. During the days when he failed to see each other, he survived almost every day by looking forward to the day when the two reunited, but he never thought of it. Goodbye is such a scene.

"Take off the hat," Zhou Mi said first, with a hoarse voice, "Look at me."

Qu Zhi still lowered his head, and subconsciously pursed his lips, his two thin lips stretched into a straight line, trying not to show any expression, no matter he was ashamed, ashamed, fierce, or weak.

Looking at the person in front of him who made him feel very strange, Zhou Mi felt a surge of anger for no reason. As the silent seconds passed, it became more and more intense, and finally surged up and rushed straight to his mind, causing the veins on his temples to bulge. Jump.Raising his wrist without warning, Zhou Mi slapped Qu Zhi's head hard, "Do you dare to look at me!"

Zhou Mi's original intention was actually to knock off Qu Zhi's black hat to cover himself up, but the latter inadvertently dodges, but the slap also hit his pale and thin cheek.

Qu Zhi's face was knocked to one side, his tongue hit his teeth and blood gushed out, his ears were filled with buzzing beeps, but he could still hear every word that Zhou Mi said clearly. .

Afterwards, he saw that the person who had been beaten and scolded was actually sad instead of angry, and the murderous intent he was holding on to in his heart suddenly let go in front of someone he could trust without reservation, and he could no longer hold it with his exhausted hand. Anything, the sharp blade fell to the ground with a bang, and there was no more bloodthirsty sternness, and all that was left was sadness and grievance.

A mist brewed in his eyes uncontrollably, Qu Zhi turned his head away, not wanting Zhou Mi to find out that his eyes were red.

Zhou Mi didn't want to hit him, he felt sorry for Qu Zhi before it was too late, so he had already scolded himself thousands of times in his heart at this moment, but he didn't know what to do next, until Chen Shuo who came from the monitoring room finally broke the deadlock .

Chen Shuo could probably guess what happened just now from the expressions of the two of them. He looked up at the position of the surveillance camera on the ceiling as if inadvertently, then leaned over to pick up the hat that Zhou Mi knocked off, and put it back on Qu Zhi. "All right, all right, as long as nothing happens, this is not a place to talk, let's leave first."

Chen Shuo gave the steps, Zhou Mi quickly seized the opportunity, and stretched out his hand to show Qu Zhi's hand to show weakness, but before the latter could respond with acceptance or rejection, the three of them heard the siren piercing the night sky at the same time .

There was a brief blank on Qu Zhi's face, Zhou Mi looked a little nervous, Chen Shuo frowned, and then comforted him: "It should be for me, I just fooled the security guard with the work permit of the unit, they may have recalled coming."

"Then what should we do now?" Zhou Mi had absolutely no experience in dealing with such matters.

Chen Shuo looked out of the window, and there seemed to be red and blue lights flashing alternately in the night. It seemed that the police car should have arrived downstairs, "The three of us have too big a goal, so I go through the main entrance, and I know how to deal with it." They, you two leave through another door, Qu Zhi, you are familiar with this place, there should be another way to get out, right?"

Qu Zhi nodded blankly, as if he wanted to say something, but before he could organize his words, Chen Shuo took the elevator downstairs by himself, and then Zhou Mi pulled himself up to leave.

"Wait a minute," Qu Zhi stood still in place, and finally said the first words after seeing Zhou Mi, who turned his head back inexplicably, "Brother Shuo is right, our goals together are too big, and we also Let's go separately, you go back to the corridor in the direction of your company, that is where we met secretly before, I will go down by the side door, and we will meet at home."

Zhou Mi looked at Qu Zhi vigilantly, "Are you trying to dismiss me again? No, I can't let you go alone."

"Don't worry, Zhou Mi," Qu Zhi also seemed anxious, "I won't do stupid things anymore, I think, after all, you are the defendant, and if you appear at the plaintiff's law firm at this time, it will be troublesome if it gets out. .”

Zhou Mi was stunned for a moment, he really didn't think of this.In fact, ever since the accident happened in the company, a thought has quietly taken root in Zhou Mi's heart: He feels that the reason why the company has experienced these turmoil is because he did not handle the past with Shen Mingjuan well.Therefore, no matter for the company or his father, Zhou Mi personally has a lot of guilt, so no matter what he does or makes decisions later, it is inevitable that he will walk on eggshells.

"Don't hesitate," Qu Zhi stroked the back of Zhou Mi's hand with the other hand, and squeezed tightly, "We're running out of time."

Zhou Mi stared deeply at Qu Zhi's eyes, as if he wanted to distinguish the truth from his words, and finally gritted his teeth as if he had to make up his mind, and let go of the Qu Zhi that he had been holding so tightly until now. hand.Bending down to pick up the knife that just fell on the ground, Zhou Mi said seriously: "I'll take this, Qu Zhi, see you at home, you have to do what you say."

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Bug in this chapter: Basic-level courts generally cannot hear criminal cases of intentional homicide