Chapter 1: A Rainy Night
(This story is purely fictional, if there are coincidences, it is just the same.) Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoοΌ
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The cold rain and cold wind blowing on the winter night opened the door of a small two-star hotel due to a malfunction, and the cold filled the entire hotel lobby mercilessly.
It's 0:00 a.m., and only one security guard and one front desk service staff are still on duty in the entire lobby. The receptionist glanced at the door, and the cold rain hit the edge of the gate with the wind, and the water beads shot into the lobby floor. She was dissatisfied with this, and the efficiency of the hotel engineering department was too low.
The security guard leaned against the front desk, although facing the wind, but the only pleasure of working the night shift was being able to chat with beautiful girls, which was perhaps the only motivation for the night shift. However, the waiter at the front desk ignored him, took the mobile phone to play, and from time to time there was a few words without a word.
The quiet atmosphere was suddenly shattered, and a man in a suit rushed into the lobby soaking wet, his white shirt stained with blood. The man held a pistol in his right hand, quickly glanced left and right, gasped for breath, looked at the lady at the front desk, pulled the ID on his chest with his left hand, and asked, "Where is the elevator?"
The security guard and the waiter at the front desk were stunned, looking at the man, twenty-six or seventeen years old, with short hair, one meter eighty-five tall, strong and burly, giving people a natural sense of oppression.
"Elevator. The man repeated.
"The elevator didn't run after twelve o'clock...... I'll help you open it. The waiter at the front desk saw the man's eyebrows tightened, and subconsciously said, "The stairs are over there." β
The man didn't say a word, ran to the stairs, and the security guard said, "Call the police." He hurried away with the man.
The hotel is not high, it is on the ninth floor, the man sprinted in one breath, and when the security guard was still on the fourth floor, he had already reached the ninth floor. Another staircase is the iron gate, which is the iron gate of the roof.
The man pushed the door, but it was jammed, took two steps back, and kicked his right foot a few times. Seeing that the door was loose, there was a shock, and the body hit the iron door. The iron door was knocked open, and the man fell to the ground, but immediately got up and ran in a southeasterly direction.
To the southeast is the billboard, the billboard of the hotel, and on the edge of the neon sign hangs a man, a man of almost forty years old, with his mouth sealed with duct tape and his hands hanging from the billboard with ropes. There was a piece in the center of the rope that hung him, which glowed red from time to time.
On the ground five meters away from the person being tied, a sealed plastic bag was placed, and inside the plastic bag was a mobile phone, which was vibrating and emitting light. The man looked at the tied man, tore open the plastic bag, took a deep breath, and answered the phone in a calm voice: "Hey, I've arrived." β
"You're late. β
The man looked at his watch: "Two minutes and twenty seconds." β
"It's also late, and I don't understand why you were given plenty of time and you didn't arrive on time. β
The man replied, "Someone needs help." β
"So you're late. β
"Yes. β
"What's more important, is it your partner's life, or is it a stranger?"
"I was wrong, please give me another chance. β
"Mistakes will pay a price, say goodbye. β
"Don't. The man heard the sound of his phone hanging up and rushed to the billboard. The rope hanging the bound man suddenly exploded, and the tied man fell down like a sandbag. The man reached through the guardrail and touched his hair, and reached out to see his face, his eyes...... Watch him smash on his back in the open space of the parking lot.
The man looked at it sluggishly, heard the voice in his ear, and there was a mobile phone in the shadow of the billboard, the man took two steps, tore open the plastic bag, picked up the phone, and said fiercely: "Bastard, you are dead." β
"I don't think so, Officer Zuo, I personally admire you, this tragedy should not have happened, it's just that someone crossed the line, and those who crossed the line must die. β
The man asked in a deep voice, "That means you were going to kill him in the first place." β
"Yes. But I respect you a lot, so give you a chance, give you a choice, if you're not going to save the guy who is lying on the side of the road, bleeding, then you have plenty of time to rescue your partner. Your choice is stupid. β
"I'm going to catch you. β
"I'll wait for you, hehe. β
The man restrained himself from the urge to smash his mobile phone, this is evidence, and he has no right to do so. Physically and mentally exhausted, he sat down in the cold rain, leaned against the guardrail, pulled out a box of cigarettes, and took out one of them and lit it.
A few minutes later, the police car came, the helicopter appeared, and a dozen policemen arrived on the rooftop, no one paid attention to the man, and everyone silently collected all the evidence on the balcony.
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Court!
"Officer Zoro, here are my questions, please answer. The first question is, you're tracking the defendant, right?"
The man looked at the lawyer with a cold and empty look in his eyes and replied, "We have the right to track the suspect." β
"Of course you have the right to follow the accused, and then the accused got into a car accident in the middle of nowhere, and the accused begged you to save his wife, didn't you?"
"Yes. β
"Your partner, Officer Liu Mo, threatens that if the defendant does not admit his crime, then he will not rescue the defendant's wife, right?"
"We administered first aid and also called the emergency number. β
The lawyer leaned on the armrest beside the man, looked at the judge, and said, "According to the defendant's confession, Officer Zuo Luo, you are very enthusiastic about saving people first, but your partner, Officer Liu Mo, stopped you and punched you." Right?"
"I forgot. β
The lawyer said: "Officer Liu Mo dragged his wife to the defendant and asked the defendant loudly, right?"
"I forgot. β
The lawyer asked again: "In desperation, the defendant told Officer Liu Mo the clue about the yacht on the white background and red side of the East Coast Wharf. Through this clue, the police found a batch of jewelry on the yacht that had been robbed in Thailand ten days earlier, while also seizing several suspects. Is that so?"
"I forgot. β
"Witness, you are a police officer, and you have an obligation and must answer this question," the judge reminded. β
The man was silent for a long time and replied, "Yes." β
"That means you admit that your partner used the life of the defendant's wife to blackmail the defendant?"
The man was silent for a longer time, and while everyone waited, he replied, "Yes." β
"Thank you, Officer Zoro, my client is also the accused, and he himself admires you and says that you are a role model for the police. The lawyer turned to the judge and said, "Judge, the defendant is not a criminal, but he knows some bad people. At a banquet, he heard someone say that stolen goods were on the yacht. When his wife's life was threatened, he could only tell Officer Liu Mo the only information he knew and the police were interested in, in order to beg the police for help. β
The lawyer continued: "The confession confirms that one of the several people arrested on the yacht had attended a dinner party with the accused. I also have dinner surveillance here, which shows that the defendant and the suspect are not familiar with each other, but it just so happens that they are native English speakers, so they chatted a little more at the dinner. It was at that time that the defendant overheard the fact that there were stolen goods on the yacht. As a foreigner, he should have reported it to the police, but he was too timid to bring it up. All the statements and evidence to date show that the accused is innocent. Thank you. β
Scenes replayed in Zuo Luo's mind, car accidents, forced confessions, and falling from the building...... Zoro looked at the dock and was a man in his forties. The man was dressed in an expensive suit, his hair was neatly combed, and he was always smiling. In his breast pocket, a rose folded with black gauze was inserted, which was a tribute to his wife, who died more than a month ago.
"The defendant is not guilty and is released on the spot. β
The defendant stood up, half-bent to the judge and the observers, then smiled and nodded at Zoro, and left the courtroom with his lawyer.