Harvey looked at Xia Mingzhi sitting next to him like he was looking at a devil.
Although the boy rarely spoke recently, mostly to please him, Harvey still felt that his agent was now simply a stranger.
He must be reacquainted with him.
"You said that female student hypnotized you?!"
"That's right. I obviously didn't kill the deceased. But she tried to convince me that I was involved."
"Why get involved?"
"Mr. Lawyer, I don't mean to offend you, but as a serious student who graduated from law school, you are not like a dawdling person like me. And you are a lawyer who specializes in criminal cases. Shouldn't you be more exposed to crime? Psychology, personality psychology, Jungian analysis, etc. Why are there no attempts at psychological hypnosis?”
Harvey is almost on the verge of shooting!
A mother has already suffered enough, but now she has an additional son
Only now could he understand that Xia Mingzhi was definitely Ma Jiaxunyi's biological son.
And I understand how parents can use such weird means to reshape their son into a new and incompatible new personality.
After Harvey's expression calmed down, Xia Mingzhi continued speaking gently and nonchalantly, "Psychological hypnosis works on the same principle as suggestion. It is impossible to completely insert a new idea in a short period of time. It must be guided for a long time. And I didn't kill anyone, and there was no way that little bitch could make me admit that I did it in the short term, but that little bitch guided me! She made me feel that I had completed the follow-up of disposing of the body with her, so I was mentally disturbed. I would feel that I must have done something bad to that corpse, otherwise I shouldn’t deal with something so disgusting, do you understand?”
Harvey simply waved his arm, indicating that he understood almost everything and allowed him to continue.
"When I entered the room, she suddenly put on noise-cancelling headphones for me, the kind that are fully enclosed and noise-cancelling. There was music, but the music was simply fused with a few words. She occasionally makes music herself. , so, you know, it’s easy to do.”
Said, "I trust her." Harvey didn't quite believe what Xia Mingzhi said. He appears to be above everyone else and contemptuous of all species.
"So, how did she know how to hypnotize you? I mean, you just said that even the top international hypnosis masters would have a hard time hypnotizing a person suddenly..."
Sure enough, Xia Mingzhi interrupted Harvey's last words.
"She is my landlord! She is my only landlord since I studied in Germany. And she is also my amateur driver. That woman's driving skills are absolutely terrible."
"… You did not answer my question."
Xia Mingzhi finally showed the weak expression that Harvey had seen for the first time after being discharged from the hospital. "Yes, I told her myself. Including how to wake me up."
"What do you mean, wake up?"
"Sometimes... for treatment, I will sink into self-hypnosis mode. I don't succeed in waking myself up every time, so I have an agreement with her."
“The protocol must be described in detail.”
"Is this necessary?"
"Yes. Any tiny detail between you will become a weapon for her to attack you, and I am your shield. How do you put it, that sentence? A conflict of contradictions? In short, you must first strengthen your shield before you can be better. Okay, I’ll help you protect your vitals, do you understand what I mean?”
Harvey is not a person who likes to attack people. Although he is very good at attacking opponents in court, it is out of professionalism and is completely different from casual conversations in daily life.
Some people have misunderstandings about lawyers and debaters, thinking that a person who is very strong when debating must be the same in life.
Some people will indeed continue their talent for debating, but truly smart people will curb their sharpness in daily life, and even show a dull side.
It's not to try to fool people, but to get closer to the social level of ordinary people. Once you are above it, you will be attacked unconsciously by the other party over time, and gradually become a social object that is abandoned.
Harvey is a man who knows his stuff, so in order to better win the trust of his client, he will deliberately show off his slow speech in conversations with his client.
His speaking speed can reach a high frequency that exceeds that of popular talk show hosts. However, he usually speaks at an extremely slow speed when talking to people, even when talking to judges, and does not enunciate too hard.
Unless he is weak.
Therefore, using Xia Mingzhi's previous tone to attack Xia Mingzhi at this moment is not his usual communication method. It can be seen that he is indeed so angry with this young man that his ribs hurt.
But what made Harvey even more angry was that Xia Mingzhi actually laughed at him, "Mr. Lawyer, it seems that your mental quality is not good."
Fuck you! Harvey cursed inwardly. Is it worth it for this little money
The answer is, it's worth it. Ma Jiaxunyi spends money generously and doesn't care about spending money at all.
If you tell her, as long as you give me XXXX million dollars, your son will be released directly. She will definitely do it. Complete disregard for justice, worldly ethics, and rules.
This is one of the main reasons why Harvey hates these invisible rich people in his heart.
He does not hate the rich. Most rich people have accumulated wisdom, connections, resources, and knowledge through generations of accumulation, in exchange for part of their own wealth.
In fact, everyone knows how to do it, but not many people can actually do it, so these people deserve to be respected.
However, people like Ma Jiaxunyi obtained a large amount of unfair social resources in a short period of time through abnormal means, and then used this wealth to do no good and bad things, destroying the existing precarious rules.
Harvey hated them deep down, so he was more willing to work for them, squeezing energy, wealth, and resources from them so that he would not feel any guilt.
He would deliberately expand the problem that could clearly be solved by more convenient means, even further angering his opponents, and ultimately forcing his employer to pay a greater price.
And for those who grovel, cut off pieces of flesh from themselves to cater to the rich, and use excessive labor in exchange for cheap wealth, Harvey considers them stupid. Even if those people have the same academic qualifications, knowledge, and status as him, as long as they think about how to save their employer money and trouble, they are stupid in Harvey's eyes.
Therefore, Harvey was very reluctant to cooperate with old Charlie.
Old Charlie is a sophisticated and smooth man, but he is too utilitarian and doesn't care much about how to maintain this shaky worldly law. It's going to be hard work working with him.
Harvey slightly leaned his upper body forward a few degrees, making him visually aggressive.
But looking at Xia Mingzhi's face, Harvey immediately realized that he had made a mistake.
This guy is very proficient in psychology! And very good at reading other people's expressions.
Harvey began to feel tempted to back out.
But his years of professionalism do not allow him to step back.
He struggled in his seat.
But the expression on his face was distorted, giving him away.
"What kind of agreement is there between you and that female student? Tell me. Young man."
Xia Mingzhi's posture was relaxed. Although Harvey had an intuition that Xia Mingzhi was not willing to tell him the private exchanges between himself and Anya, Xia Mingzhi was not afraid to describe the details.
"I will play Levi's symphony before entering self-hypnosis, and after self-awakening, I will switch to another one. The specific one is uncertain, and it depends on the mood at the time. If she hears Levi's music, and the third The second day without the music we agreed on during that period meant something was wrong and I needed her to help me wake up."
"Why are you going into self-hypnosis?"
"To honor someone's memory."
"Remembering someone? That person died."
"There is no physical death. But that person is dead to me."
"Why."
Xia Mingzhi laughed, and the laughter gradually expanded, and finally turned into a ferocious and terrifying laughter.
"I know, Mr. Lawyer. You don't need to know those details. Even the judge and jury are not interested in my personal affairs. But you are. You just want to know the details. I told you , to satisfy your curiosity.”
"The person I want to remember is the female forensic doctor, Ms. Che Linwan." Harvey showed a proud look in his eyes, but there was no smile at the corners of his mouth or eyes.
"You can say that."
In the closed courtroom, there were only a few family members sitting in the auditorium, all from Anya's side.
Anya's back was a bit stooped, a sign left by her mother who had been doing laundry for many years, but her father was not present.
"Where is your husband, madam?" Before the trial, Harvey deliberately took advantage of the break to communicate with Anya's mother. However, Anya's mother was always shrouded on her back.
Poor woman. Harvey muttered something silently in his mind.
According to plan, the court session went smoothly. Harvey also told the judge that after a series of psychological treatments, one of the suspects, Xia Mingzhi, had recovered part of his memory.
He clearly remembered that when he walked into the room, the body of the thief was already in front of him.
Of course old Charlie would object, saying it was Xia Mingzhi's sophistry.
But Harvey quickly took out the certified notes provided by Che Linwan, which showed that there were inexplicable freezing marks on the body of the deceased, similar to the kind that freezes a fish to death.
In fact, today's technology is enough to freeze people who are dying, but the process of thawing and resuscitation is still an unsolved mystery.
It's the same treatment as the many imperial tombs in Xi'an. Now people can't open them correctly.
Therefore, once a frozen person is thawed, the only outcome is death.
This is why most frozen people are on the verge of death.
Harvey's eyes followed his description and moved to the audience seat calmly.
As expected, the expressions on Anya's and her mother's faces changed slightly.
Anya's father is an engineer at Future Technology Company.
He is an unknown old engineer who has worked mediocrely for most of his life but was not promoted due to his immigration status.
He has the most cutting-edge technology and has signed a heavy confidentiality agreement, so it is impossible for him to change jobs in this life.
The expression on the prosecutor's face was wonderful.
Harvey's tone was very gentle, "I didn't question the meaning of your coroner, but they obviously lack more clinical experience. In this regard, our friend, forensic doctor Che Linwan who came to the local university for academic exchanges can give more information. A more professional explanation would be great.”
Living human freezing technology requires simultaneous internal and external freezing. In addition to rapid epidermal freezing technology, special freezing agents must be injected into the blood, which not only protects the activity of blood and cells, but also enters the same frozen state as the skin.
However, there were no signs of being covered with freezing fluid on the surface of the deceased's body, but a very small amount remained in the blood.
Before Anya agreed to call the police after persuasion, she had already moved the body into a bathtub filled with cold water.
Therefore, the forensic doctor who conducted the autopsy misunderstood that the coagulated blood was caused by ice water seeping through the skin. In fact, it was not the case. It was the result of thawing of the internal freezing agent that had been injected long ago.
Harvey's eyes once again moved to Anya, who was sitting in the trial seat just like Xia Mingzhi.
"Ms. Anya obviously knew everything a long time ago, otherwise she would not have deliberately moved the body into a bathtub filled with ice water to confuse her."
"Objection. This is the opponent's lawyer's own speculation." Old Charlie said weakly.
"The objection is valid."
But the words have penetrated into people's hearts.
This is often one of the measurements made by trial lawyers.
The judge will refer to the jury's opinion before reaching a final conclusion.
Although the lawyer's words may not necessarily become the judge's reference opinion, they will affect the jury's psychology to some extent.
The corners of Xia Mingzhi's mouth raised slightly.
When Anya turned to look at him, Xia Mingzhi did not look back.
Anya suddenly exclaimed softly. "Oh my God! What on earth did they do..."
But when Charlie asked Anya if she felt uncomfortable and needed a rest, she refused.
At the end of the trial, Anya whispered softly as Harvey walked in front of her, "You don't know Xia Mingzhi. You don't even know who he is."
But Harvey responded with the look in his eyes that he had already seen through everything.
What started out as a burglary and a murder case soon became a sensation again.
The first sensation was because the suspects were two outsiders, while the deceased was a local.
The second time is because of the real time of death of the deceased. Someone actually used high-tech means to influence the conclusion of the autopsy. This incident will undoubtedly have a greater impact on society. And successfully caused panic among the public and some "doomsday"ists.
Charlie Sr. became the headliner of interviews and interviews overnight. The gangster brother finally showed a kind smile on his face.
Harvey looked hesitant.
Anya said that he didn't know Xia Mingzhi at all and didn't know who Xia Mingzhi was. He vaguely guessed that the Xia Mingzhi mentioned by Anya should refer to his true original personality.
This is how Che Linwan explained Xia Mingzhi's personality problem to him. He has an original personality, which is the only personality we usually understand a person has when he is born.
However, due to the severe blow to this personality in the later period, the personality became distorted. The parents were too lazy to correct the biased personality. Instead, they used hypnosis to reshape a reshaped personality based on the original personality, so that they could have a self. The son you want
This couple is also very creative. Then why do we need children’s education? Everyone should just reshape their personality.
As the reshaped personality was affected by external forces, the original personality gradually reared its head, tried to regain control of the body, and made actions that harmed those around it.
In order to protect the people he cherishes, he chooses to reshape his personality again. Is it equivalent to system formatting
After formatting, only the initial version will remain, and the reshaped personality must disappear.
But after reshaping his personality, he had memories that he didn't want to forget, so he secretly opened a backdoor during the formatting process
So the second generation of reshaped personality appeared.
However, when the first generation tries to bypass the second and first generations for memory recall, downtime often occurs. This requires an external monitor.
As a result, something happened to the external supervisor, and he needed to take advantage of the formatting bug to protect himself...
Harvey put away the file, not wanting to foresee what would happen next.
In short, the case has entered a new round of investigation. The court also agreed to Ma Jiaxunyi's bail for his son. According to the current development of the case, Xia Mingzhi and Anya are likely to be innocent. The most correct thing about Anya is that she didn't report what she knew and hid the corpse.
Harvey walked out of the study and was about to go downstairs to the living room to pour a glass of red wine to soothe his throat when he heard the sound of something falling to the ground in the garden.
I didn't notice it at first, but when I walked to the wine cellar to choose the red wine for tonight, I heard another squeaking sound.
When I walked back to the living room, I saw Xia Mingzhi sitting on the single sofa.
He took in a breath of cold air instantly.
Fortunately, my wife took her two daughters to her grandmother's house outside the city, otherwise she would have been scared to death by this guy.
"You're still on bail. It's best to be quiet and don't make any noise."
"Wouldn't it be a bit luxurious to drink one bottle for one person?"
Damn it, it’s up to you to decide whether my red wine is extravagant or not! Although he thought so, Harvey still took an extra red wine glass and placed it in front of Xia Mingzhi.
"What else do you need from me?"
"I want Charlie's address."
"He doesn't have an address."
"What."
"That guy, he's a mobile guy."
"Always need a place to sleep."
"He owns a RV. But it may have been sold by him since the interview. Now I don't know which hotel he is in with which girl."
"Is this case of great significance to you?"
"Any case related to technology has received special attention from some people in recent years. The so-called wave of panic caused by advanced technology probably means this."
"But you didn't panic."
"Compared with being afraid of unknown things, I'm more afraid of known things." After a pause, "For example, you."
"Me? What do I have to panic about."
"What do you want from Charlie?"
"He hit the forensic car."
"Huh? What... wait, how long ago was that?"
"Don't you, the legal community, pay great attention to karma?"
"Xia Mingzhi, I'm warning you, all the media attention is on this case now, don't commit suicide!"
“If something happens to a competition lawyer, wouldn’t you be more susceptible to suspicion?”
"you… "
"Don't be nervous. I will come and see you often."
He conveniently took away the remaining half bottle of red wine, and then took away an invitation card under a hurricane lamp on the fireplace.
"That invitation card is not for you!"
Xia Mingzhi raised his hand.
Did he already know this? ! Harvey became inexplicably nervous.
"Oh, by the way, don't complain to the little forensic doctor. Did you know that my first-generation host created a second-generation host just to protect the female forensic doctor and prevent me from getting close to her again. Huh?"
Harvey didn't bother to heed his warning.
As soon as he watched Xia Mingzhi go out, he immediately turned on the infrared alarm in the whole house.
Then he ran back to the study to look for the contact number left by Che Linwan.
(End of chapter)