The afternoon sun shines into the compound of the detention center. The detainees are wearing blue livery, walking in twos and threes. There are not many people talking to each other. You can only hear a rustle on the sand. Most people have their faces. With a kind of numbness and indifferent accustomed to.
The patrolling armed police with live ammunition, the barbed wire high walls, and the slogans painted out of lime on the walls have long been accustomed to them.
This was the twenty-fourth day that Chen Shi spent in the detention center. He was impressed by the strong adaptability of human beings. In the first few days he had a huge psychological gap. He lived a regular and rigid life like a clock every day, learning with other detainees. , The tasteless meals, he was full of resistance to these.
Gradually, all this is no longer annoying and unfamiliar. He has formed a standard biological clock. He will wake up when it's time to get up, hungry when it's time to eat, and even go to the toilet on time.
Of course, habit does not mean liking. The air here is full of emptiness and boredom. The daily repetition of life makes people feel weak and painful by a small fire. Most of the time, he is thinking silently by himself. He made a list in his mind about what to do after leaving here. He looks forward to the days when he meets Lin Dongxue and Tao Yueyue again. It is these expectations for the future that support his spirit and make every morning come alive. significance.
Several detainees were kicking homemade sandbags, shouting and screaming as happy as elementary school students. This is a sport allowed by the detention center. A man wearing glasses greeted: "Brother Chen, let's play together!"
"Something." Chen Shi smiled and declined the invitation of the inmate in the same cell, and walked straight to the southeast corner.
Many people stopped to look at him and murmured in surprise. Few people usually dared to approach that area because the feared serial killer was sitting alone on a pile of old tires, and his hair gradually fell down. He covered his eyes, making his expression more gloomy. In the subconscious imagination of some detainees, even the air that Zhou Xiao exhaled was poisonous.
Zhou Xiao and Chen Shi came in at the same time. It is a long-standing subculture in the detention center to give the newcomer a chance to get rid of it. Both of them received varying degrees of "friendly" welcome in their respective prisons.
After Chen Shi performed several grappling techniques on those "hospitable" roommates, everyone was finally able to get along with each other in peace.
In contrast, Zhou Xiao's counterattack was more brutal. On the second night he entered, he bit off one of his roommate's ears.
After three days of confinement and punishment, he pierced another roommate’s eyes with his bare hands. Since then, no one who doesn’t open his eyes dared to provoke him. No matter when he is out, he will always be A person is like a lone wolf wandering away from the crowd.
So when Chen Shi walked towards him, everyone became nervous inexplicably.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Zhou Xiao woke up from the state of wandering, raising his head, Chen Shi stopped half a meter away from him, neither greeted nor approached, the two looked at each other.
Zhou Xiao took the lead in breaking the silence, "Why, wait for me to tell you a joke?"
Chen Shi took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and threw it to him. Zhou Xiao caught it with a suspicious expression on his face. Chen Shi said, "Yueyue sent it in. She said she promised to buy you cigarettes."
"Did you see her?"
"You probably don't know, you can't see your family before the trial begins."
Zhou Xiao understood Chen Shi’s veiled sarcasm and smiled. He sniffed the cigarette deeply and put it in his pocket, “Song Lang, don’t you expect to use a pack of cigarettes to get something out of my mouth. ."
"Don't worry, I don't have any thoughts about an incurable person."
"Song Lang, you have to admit that we made you, without us criminals, where is the police legend."
"I admit it, but I would rather not have a police legend. These false names are not as important as the lives you killed."
"Speaking like this, when the criminals were caught and the medals were put on, I was still very happy? Don't you police want more people like me?" Zhou Xiao sarcastically, as a counterattack just now, "We Complement each other, just like light and shadow."
"Zhou Xiao, do you know where you planted?"
"Do you have a good education for Tao Yueyue?" Zhou Xiao grinned, Yin Yang said weirdly.
"You planted on yourself, you killed Gu You, and you told Yueyue this stinkingly. You can't imagine how much it will hit her. You forced her to make up her mind to arrest you. Life is nothing in your eyes. If you ignore life, your fate is both accidental and inevitable."
Zhou Xiao nodded slightly and appeared indifferent. He said, "If my life could be repeated again, I would still choose this kind of life. This is my nature and nothing can be changed."
Chen Shi didn't want to talk in depth. They weren't people of the world at all, and there was no need to reason with the beasts in the cage. He just said indifferently: "Good luck to you."
When the release ended, an armed police called Chen Shi's number. This string of numbers was as sensitive as he heard someone calling his name, so he went out and the armed police said, "Your lawyer has come to see you."
When he came to the interview room, a fat middle-aged man in a suit and glasses sat at the table and nodded to Chen Shi. He smiled and said, "I can't tell whether you are called'Mr. Chen' or'Mr. Song'. "
"It's better to be'Mr. Chen'." Chen Shi also smiled.
"Mr. Chen, you will have to wait a month for your case to open. I hope you can be patient."
"I'm very patient." Chen Shi said, "What about Zhou Xiao's case?"
"His case has caused a huge sensation in the outside world. It is estimated that it will be held in front of you. Speaking of this matter, the media has been trying to interview your monitored person during this period. Officer Lin said that he needs to ask for the consent of his guardian. I have rejected all the reasons, and I want to ask your opinion this time."
"I don't want her to be surrounded by the media every day, so let's get rid of it all, unless she herself has the urge to confide in the public, but I don't think she can't be based on her character."
The lawyer nodded and wrote it down in his notebook. He said: "The most important evidence of your case is Zhou Xiao's confession, but he didn't say anything during the pretrial. The gunshot wound that Captain Peng mentioned four years ago. The forensic doctor was indeed found in Zhou Xiao, but this is still only a solitary evidence, it is difficult to prove your innocence."
Chen Shi's heart sank until he heard the lawyer say "but".
"However, when the police were investigating the case of Lie Guoxiao, a man named Wang Xi provided some strong evidence. Lie Guoxiao had hired Zhou Xiao gang to kill police officer Han and Lie because they had control of Lie Guoxiao at the time. Some of Guoxiao’s criminal evidence, the same person cannot be killed twice, and you have confiscated Lie Guoxiao’s money, so as long as I can prove that Zhou Xiao killed Police Officer Han and Officer Li, you will be acquitted. Hope, and this hope is great, because many people outside are helping you, including some people you don’t know."
"What!?" Chen Shi was startled, "Zhou Xiao's goal back then was Han Luoxi."
"Yes."
While Chen Shi felt a tingling pain in his heart, he also felt a little relieved. It turned out that blaming the blame was just pushing the boat along the river. They were killed in order to fight the criminals.
The recollection of the past turned into a sigh and exhaled from Chen Shi's mouth.
"How are they?" Chen Shi asked.
The lawyer knew who he was referring to, and said: "During this period of time, Officer Lin has been living with Yueyue in your house. Officer Lin is very concerned about the progress of the case. On average, he comes to our office every three days. Sometimes I I don’t know how to answer their questions. By the way, they brought some things to you. I handed them to the management staff of the detention center. They will send them to you after they have checked them."
"I also wrote a letter to Yueyue, and they will give it to you afterwards."
"There is one more thing..."
"Say it!"
"An old man asks you if you want to come back to be a policeman after the lawsuit is over."
Chen Shile said, "I am unsure about my life and death. The worst result is that I and Zhou Xiao were shot together."
"Mr. Chen, don't you question my business ability, okay?"
"Okay, okay, you know what I want to express. I haven't written the horoscope yet. I'll answer him after the lawsuit is over!"
"That old gentleman hopes that I will answer with him today."
Chen Shifei stroked the table with his hand, "Can I continue to assist the police as a consultant? By the way, is Xiao Lin awake?"
"He is awake, and he wants to see you too."
Chen Shi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I was under a lot of pressure, and I suddenly wanted to stay here for a while."