Everyone is afraid of death, but when death really comes, this extreme fear does not come from physical pain, but from the process of waiting for death to come.

Sometimes the process is short, only a few seconds, and sometimes it is long, like a blunt knife cutting through meat.

Zhou Xuecen realized that she had collapsed to the ground, and in the blur of bloody eyes, she saw more and more people around her, and she could even clearly see the advertisement on the outdoor large screen on the third and fourth floors of the Beijiang Evening News opposite - "The unlimited 4G package is only 50 yuan per month, allowing you to enjoy wireless life!"

Yes, someone was talking and pointing, but she couldn't hear what they were saying.

Suddenly, she realized that there was one more important thing - that bulging backpack. The bag was right in front of her, and the contents of the bag had been thrown out and spilled due to the heavy blow.

Those materials were all painstakingly collected and sorted out by themselves, and they were originally neatly stacked in the bag. Now that he has been so messed up, how can he explain to others when he sees Chen Jizhou in a while? Zhou Xuecen reflexively wanted to stand up and pick up those materials. However, such an attempt was only a few seconds, and she found that she could not stand at all.

Immediately after, she felt that her head was wet and sticky, she tried to lift her head, but she couldn't move, so she subconsciously touched it with her hand, it was blood. Zhou Xuecen judged that her head should be broken, but why didn't it hurt at all? There was even a chilling feeling, and she saw a large amount of blood spreading rapidly from her head to all directions, like water overflowing from a pool, overflowing the backpack that looked dirty, soaking through the A4 paper on the ground, and flowing down the steps on the side of the road.

"You...... Are you alright?"

Zhou Xuecen felt that someone was lying in front of her and shouted loudly, and shouted a few times, but she didn't answer. The man looked flustered and took out his mobile phone to make a call.

Zhou Xuecen's fingers moved slightly, as if he was pointing at something. Passers-by speculated, but they didn't know.

So, she opened her mouth wide again, trying to say something, but she couldn't say it, and every time she opened her mouth, a big mouthful of blood gushed out of her throat and spit out of her mouth.

Everyone was frightened by this posture, and the timid hurriedly blindfolded, and the bold simply took out their mobile phones to shoot this rare scene. If such a picture is posted on the website, even if it is mosaic, the number of clicks will definitely not be bad.

Everyone watched as the woman lying on the ground gradually stopped moving, and even closed her eyes.

Zhou Xuecen also felt that his breathing was getting weaker and weaker, and his consciousness was getting weaker and weaker......

She wanted to sleep.

Over the years, she has hardly been able to sleep soundly on a night, close her eyes, dream of Nuoyi, open her eyes, her mind is full of north, too tired! Now she can finally take a good time, and ...... In the dream, the family can be reunited again. Thinking of this, there was a smile on the corner of her mouth.

It's really strange, it's obviously a terrifying death, why doesn't it hurt at all?

Zhou Xuecen slowly closed her eyes, and two lines of tears flowed from the corners of her eyes.

The roads were still congested as always, with the sound of horns, discussions, and cursing incessantly. This city seems to have reached the end of the world.

Ten minutes later, the ambulance arrived, the traffic police arrived, and the police arrived.

The paramedics did a brief examination of the distorted woman in front of her, and quickly concluded that there was no need to rescue her. In order not to affect the mental health of the people who eat melons, the medical staff took out a white cloth sheet and covered the woman.

The rest of the matter is naturally handed over to the police and traffic police.

The traffic police quickly got into working condition and began to survey the scene. At this time, there were more and more onlookers. Many people have taken out their mobile phones to take pictures and videos. For the media, the biggest impact of the Internet society is that journalists are no longer the monopolists of news resources. Take this car accident as an example, before the TV station arrived, onlookers had already posted it on the Internet in the form of a short video, which quickly spread.

The owner of the car involved was controlled by the police.

The owner of the car is a young man in his 20s, dyed yellow hair, and dressed stylishly. The vehicle involved in the accident was a hatchback Polo.

From the time of the car accident to the present, the owner of the car has been standing aside and watching, with an indifferent expression and straight eyes, looking at him trembling and fidgeting, obviously frightened.

"Tell me, what's going on?" the policeman asked directly.

"I don't know, comrade policeman. I don't even know what's going on, it's scary. Huang Mao spoke incoherently.

"I don't know what's going on, it's dead!" the policeman scolded.

The child is too young and has just become an adult, how can he withstand such a scolding and be frightened.

"I was in the right turn lane, and who knew she suddenly rushed out!" the yellow-haired owner defended.

"Did you drink?" the policeman asked as he took notes.

The yellow-haired car owner swallowed and vomited, and stopped talking.

How can such a behavior escape the eyes of the police. Soon, a traffic policeman gave him a simple test: an alcohol concentration of 50 milligrams, already suspected of drunk driving.

It was already getting dark, Chen Jizhou was a little impatient waiting in the office, he looked up at the clock on the wall, it was already past six o'clock, thirty or forty minutes later than the scheduled time. Could it be that Zhou Xuecen can't come because of something temporary? Then you have to call me and say it, and let me wait here stupidly, and I didn't even eat dinner!

The more Chen Jizhou thought about it, the more angry he became, he closed the office door, and walked around the building at will, when the mobile phone suddenly rang, it was a text message. Chen Jizhou opened it and saw that it was an unfamiliar number, and the content was: I got off the bus and arrived at the newspaper office in 20 minutes.

Don't guess, it must be Zhou Xuecen. 20 minutes, there's still a lot of time, keep walking.

At this time, most floors are already dark, especially the floor of the administrative department where Chen Jizhou is located, everyone brushes their faces and clocks in on time, and it becomes empty when it comes to getting off work. If you want to meet a living person in the unit, the best place to go is the reporter plane on the fifth floor. The large plane was also dark, except for the two lights at the duty station.

Chen Jizhou looked at several offices in the editor-in-chief's office, and Qu Changguo's lights were also on, and he was really diligent enough.

He knocked on Qu Changguo's door.

"Lao Chen, why haven't you left yet?" Qu Changguo hurriedly prepared the materials and asked without even raising his head.

"Oh, don't mention it, it's still because of the Xiangbei case. Chen Jizhou sighed.

"Xiangbei's case, as for being in such a hurry? It's been been investigated for several years, and it's not a bad day," Qu Changguo persuaded him, "Old Chen, you're not young, you have to pay attention to your body." ”

"There's no way, Xiangbei's wife Zhou Xuecen is rushing here. I wanted to tell her a different time, but she was so eager that I couldn't refuse. Chen Jizhou said.

"You, you're a good old man," Qu Changguo put down the materials at hand, "By the way, when it comes to Xiangbei, I've always had a question, how likely do you think it is to overturn the case this time?"

"It's hard to say, it's been two years, and I've checked it over and over again, but there is no result again and again. Chen Jizhou said with emotion.

"Actually, you and I both know that the reason why every time it ends fruitlessly is because of those two people. Now that they're all gone, it shouldn't be that difficult to find out. ”

Chen Jizhou understood who the two people in Qu Changguo's mouth were, one Zhao Qingdong and the other Yu Chongming. The departure of these two people is naturally good for the advancement of the case, but for a real reversal, conclusive evidence is needed. This evidence has always been difficult to obtain, and the things involved in the report letter are all old things, unless the person concerned takes the initiative to confess. Otherwise, it would be difficult to find out.

"Looking at it now, everything is unknown, maybe there is a coincidence that can solve this case," Chen Jizhou analyzed, "However, with my understanding of President Xiahou, who has just taken office, I may be able to break the ice this time." ”

"That's great, it's miserable to go north. ”

"It's not just that he's miserable, isn't his family also miserable? The child is gone, and I heard that she sold her house in order to fight a lawsuit, and she ended up working for someone else's confinement wife. It's really impermanent. ”

Although he has not been able to have direct contact with Zhou Xuecen, Chen Jizhou has been understanding the situation of Xiangbei and his family in the past two years, and he knows everything about what happened to Zhou Xuecen.

The two were talking thickly, and someone hurried by outside the door.

"Who is still outside on this big night, so dishonest?" Qu Changguo was displeased, this noisy movement directly disrupted the rhythm of the conversation between the two, it was really too eyeless, "Who is outside?"

"It's me, Mr. Qu, hehe. ”

It's a girl's voice. No need to guess, it must be Luo Fangyi, hehe, her trademark laugh.

"What's the matter, Xiao Luo, are you on duty today?" Qu Changguo asked.

"Yes...... Mr. Qu, I don't have time to tell you. I need to get downstairs quickly. Luo Fangyi replied while packing up his things, without raising his head.

Qu Changguo and Chen Jizhou walked out of the office and came to her desk.

"You, you're always in such a hurry, what's going on? Having been immersed in media circles for decades, this professional sensitivity has permeated his bones.

"I just passed downstairs and saw a lot of people at the door, and I went up to see that it was a car accident. ”

"Car accidents? When did our Beijiang Evening News fall to such a point?" Chen Jizhou said with a smile.

"Was the crash serious? After all, Qu Changguo has been in the post of deputy editor-in-chief for so many years, and he is more sensitive to news.

"A serious traffic accident in which the person who was hit died on the spot. Well, as it happens, the car accident happened downstairs. ”

"Then you have an advantage in grabbing the news. Chen Jizhou said.

"Hey, what's the use of grabbing it quickly, it's not as fast as Weibo, Moments and those self-media platforms. Luo Fangyi sighed. But even so, there is still a need to do this job. After all, self-media has the way of living from the media, and traditional media has the way of living with traditional media.

As a print media, the Bac Giang Evening News grabs such news firstly to provide material for the next day's page, and secondly, to provide real-time updated news to their own official website and client. From this point of view, no matter how far new technologies develop, timeliness will always be the lifeblood of the media.

"There are a lot of cars on the road now, pay attention to safety!" Looking at Luo Fangyi's back running away, Chen Jizhou reminded loudly.

"Take some photos and videos, and hang up the client tomorrow. He also admonished.

"Got it. Luo Fangyi didn't look back, leaving only a long voice.

As soon as Luo Fangyi entered the elevator, Chen Jizhou found an SD card on her workstation, probably forgetting to stuff the memory card into the camera in a hurry. Hey, this girl, when something happens, she will lose everything.

"Forget it, let's go down and have a look. Qu Changguo suggested.

"You Qu always go to report in person, this formation is a bit big. Chen Jizhou teased.

"What am I, it's a big battle when you go. ”

The two took SD cards and teased each other as they walked to the elevator.

Out of the office building, Chen Jizhou looked around, and the intersection diagonally opposite was full of pedestrians. This must be the scene of the car accident. He quickened his pace towards the crowd.

The scene of the accident was already surrounded by pedestrians, and it was impossible to see the inside from the outside.

Qu Changguo saw that so many people were around, and he was unwilling to squeeze in.

Chen Jizhou couldn't care so much, he searched around several times, but he didn't see Luo Fangyi's figure. Looks like she's squeezed inside. Chen Jizhou pushed left and right, and finally squeezed in.

"Xiao Luo. Chen Jizhou patted Luo Fangyi on the shoulder.

"Ah, leader, why are you here?" Luo Fangyi was concentrating on understanding the situation at the scene, and was taken aback by Chen Jizhou's shot.

"Why am I here? Don't you think something is missing?" Chen Jizhou sold Guanzi.

"What's missing?" Luo Fangyi was puzzled, and touched it up and down, no.

Chen Jizhou winked at her camera.

Luo Fangyi understood, specifying that there was a problem with the camera, no problem with the battery, no problem with the lens, no problem, and a problem with the memory card!

Luo Fangyi patted his head: "Look at my memory, alas!"

"Let's get to work. Chen Jizhou stuffed the card into Luo Fangyi's hands.

Luo Fangyi felt ashamed and subconsciously scratched his head: "Thank you, leader......"

"How's it going?"

"The deceased was a woman, and the exact identity is still being verified. Luo Fangyi said.

"Is there a cause of death?"

"I asked the traffic police just now, and they said that the preliminary inspection determined that the driver was drunk driving, and as for whether it was intentional, it had to be investigated again. ”

While speaking, Chen Jizhou carefully observed the scene, which was really tragic. The front half of the vehicle, which had been damaged by the heavy blow, was driving on the trunk of a tree, and the front lid was still smoking. The deceased was lying about two meters away from the car, and half of his body was knocked into the barrier made of greenery. Although the deceased was covered with a sheet, blood could still be seen seeping from under the sheet.

"Looks like this car accident is not light. Chen Jizhou muttered to himself.

Chen Jizhou saw some A4 paper-sized papers scattered not far from him, he bent down to pick them up, glanced at the contents of the paper, looked at it, and his heart sank suddenly. Oh no, something happened!