Chapter 18: The Blood of the Bird
Watanabe Law Firm.
"Get off work, Su Qi, don't you go home?"
"I still have some things on hand, teachers and seniors, you go first."
"Then I'll leave with the teacher, you should go back early, don't be too late."
Ueno-senpai and Watanabe-sensei left the law firm.
Su Qi lay on the table with a headache.
Don't want to go home......
He really didn't want to go home.
The phone call I took during the day.
That "Miss Mary" phone call.
When he learns that Yuki can't recognize its existence, he can be 100% sure that it's a ghost.
That's definitely a ghost!
……
Su Qi suffered a loss in the song club.
The card-reading ghost related to the eternal celebrity Mr. Cotton Valley.
At that time, it was the sound that almost interfered with his cognition, making him reveal that he could see ghosts.
This time it's even worse.
The ghost actually called him!
In fact, when the phone was inexplicably fully charged, Su Qi sensed that something was wrong.
But he never thought that there would be such an operation as a ghost call.
It's really a trench and a wisdom.
But the question is, whether we can cross this threshold now.
The ghost, named "Miss Mary", already knew that he could see it.
According to the laws of the ghosts, it must have eaten itself, and it has also made a reservation for dinner.
Eat right in your own home......
As soon as he thought of this, Su Qi didn't want to go home.
Or, spend the night at the law firm.
Su Qi thought about washing his face in the bathroom.
However, at this very moment.
His phone rang.
Caller ID: Mary.
Su Qi's heart tightened and he connected the phone.
has been noticed by this ghost, and the self-isolation of not answering the phone does not help him.
Conversely, answering the phone may also give you a chance to get some information.
But......
"Hello, I'm Miss Mary, there's no one in your house, I'm at the door of the law firm."
"Toot ......"
Busy.
Su Qi's scalp was numb in an instant!
Why are you still looking for this?!
……
"Hello, I'm Miss Mary and I'm in."
"Toot ......"
Busy.
It's too fast.
It's coming so fast!
Su Qi's hands and feet couldn't suppress the trembling of fear, and his forehead was sweating profusely.
He heard it.
He heard the faint sound of high heels colliding with the ground outside the bathroom door.
He thought that as long as he hadn't arrived home yet, he would be able to delay a little bit and find a way.
He thought he would at least be safe until he went home.
He never expected that this ghost would actually find the law firm directly and kill him by surprise!
"Hello, I'm Miss Mary, and I'm outside the bathroom door right now."
"Toot ......"
Busy.
It's too late!
Su Qiyi gritted his teeth, opened the door of the toilet cubicle next to him, and hid in.
……
toilet cubicle.
Filled with the smell of disinfectant and mothballs.
The small, cramped and dark space is claustrophobic and fraught with frightening elements.
Su Qi lowered his head and pressed his hand against the compartment door.
However, behind you.
Scarlet suit, blood-stained kitchen knife.
The ghosts whispered behind their backs.
"Hello, I'm Miss Mary and I'm ...... right now ......"
Su Qi raised his head slightly with his back to Mary, and the strange and crazy painting skin covered his human nature.
The scarlet dress was silent, and the raised kitchen knife did not fall for a long time.
"You're not...... You're not ......."
Miss Mary murmured ghostly whispers.
In front of him is a ghost.
The person she's looking for isn't here.
"Where...... Where......"
"You can see it...... Where is it...... You can see ......."
"Hello, I'm Miss Mary, looking for you, looking for ......"
Su Qi looked in a daze with empty eyes on the spot, raised his hand, and wiped his mouth from the root of his ear.
The blood-stained blade of the kitchen knife stabbed out from behind.
"Poof!"
It smashed into the door of the compartment, and cut through a large hole like cutting pork.
"Poof! Poof! ”
The kitchen knife kept passing past Su Qi's ear.
Su Qi just stood quietly in the "storm", reaching out to wipe his lips from time to time
I don't know how long later.
The scarlet suit squeezed through the chiseled and tattered compartment door.
Left the bathroom.
As Miss Mary vanished, the chiseled compartment door was restored in a few moments.
Su Qi's phone rang again.
"Hello, I'm Miss Mary, I can't find you, I'll go back first today."
"Toot ......"
Busy.
Su Qi's eyes were hollow, and he stood in place blankly.
Silent, no feelings.
After a while, the skin of the painting is dry and cracked.
The divinity is extinguished, and the humanity is returned.
Su Qi's heartbeat soared suddenly, his whole body trembled uncontrollably, coughing violently, and he felt that he was having trouble breathing, as if he was going to die in pain.
Fourth ......
He's just used the paint four times!
Su Qi was almost swallowed by madness and chaos, and he clearly knew that he had just almost died.
He stepped on the threshold of hell.
It was only because of good luck that he fell to the side of life in the free swing of his body and came back to life.
Let him do it all over again, and maybe he will fall to death.
Su Qi breathed in the air and slapped his face with water to sober himself up, he didn't even dare to blink now.
He was afraid of being consumed by that madness again.
An hour passed......
Su Qicai slowly came back to his senses.
It was only then that he realized that Mary was gone.
The fourth time to paint the skin, it is a taboo of life and death.
Being discovered by a ghost is a certain death.
Su Qi smiled bitterly, this world is so difficult.
……
It's getting late.
Su Qi didn't know if Miss Mary's matter was over, but recalling the content of the phone call just now, he should be safe at the moment.
Out of danger for a while.
Su Qi felt dizzy.
Excessive blood sugar depletion.
He went back to his desk and packed his things.
turned off the lights and locked the door, left the law firm, entered the dessert shop near the law firm, ordered cakes, desserts......
"Nikaido sensei?"
Su Qi was stunned for a moment when he saw the person sitting in the seat in front of him with the dinner plate.
Isn't this the gold medal lawyer of the law firm opposite, Masato Nikaido?
Su Qi looked at his desk again.
Pink girly strawberry cake.
Su Qide admitted that he was thundered.
Who would have thought that legal elite, black-hearted barrister Nikaido, would have such a girlish heart.
"You're the one from Watanabe's law firm."
The second order hall had also seen Su Qi.
"Yes."
"Sit, together."
Su Qi originally planned to perfunctory the past, but was invited to sit down by the Second Order.
"Didn't Lawyer Watanabe take that case last time?"
Su Qi knew that Nikaido was talking about the suspected case of insurance fraud in Chongcun, which he deliberately introduced.
This is a relationship between two law firms, Su Qi didn't want to talk about this, so he bluntly changed the topic.
"I didn't expect you to like this kind of shop."
"Sugar helps the brain think, and I'm still a Gold member here."
Nikaido gave Su Qi a wad of dessert shop membership cards in his card bag.
"I am an honorary member of the Tokyo Sweets Association."
“……”
Ha? What the hell did Su Qixin say?
"Your name is Su ...... Su Qi? Am I not mistaken? ”
"That's right."
"Watanabe still likes to pick cases as he always does? You Watanabe-sensei and I turned out to be colleagues. ”
"Yes......"
Su Qi was perfunctory.
Mr. Watanabe told him not to have anything to do with the person of Nikaido, and if you meet Nikaido, don't pay attention to Nikaido, just go directly.
It's just that in this situation, Su Qi, a junior of a law firm, is so impolite and inappropriate.
The second order hall looked at Su Qi for a while, shook his wrist, and said with a smile on his face while taking off his watch:
"Junior, I'll tell you a story about Watanabe-sensei......"
"Brother Nikaido."
A voice interjected.
Nikaido looked back.
"Kuroki Police Department?"
Su Qi looked for the sound, two plainclothes.
A raunchy dead fish-eyed uncle, the Kuroki Police Department in the mouth of the Nikaido teacher.
He was followed by a young female police officer.
"Newcomer?"
"Chang Shouxu, a newcomer this year."
The Kuroki Police Department yawned and said without much energy.
The young rookie female police officer was very energetic, standing upright, like a serious report.
"A Metropolitan Police Department search lesson! Long Guard! ”
"Oh! Not bad! Newcomer! ”
Nikaido said as he put his watch back on.
"What's the matter with the Blackwood Police Department? I also deliberately found a time for the law firm to get off work. ”
"Your law firm is busy, so you probably don't have time to receive me."
As he spoke, the Blackwood Police Department glanced at Su Qi, who was sitting next to him.
"Shingo student, if you say anything, don't get in the way."
"There are cases."
"I fight a lawsuit, no matter how I solve the case."
"The prisoner has been caught, you are an interrogation expert, and the prosecutor wants to ask for your help."
"Why didn't they come in person."
"They think I'm on good terms with you."
"I have the best relationship with money."
"Then let's take it as such, have you heard of a recent large-scale child abduction case in Adachi Ward?"
"Twenty-three in one week."
"All of the victims' families had similar precursors, with blood stains on the children's clothes being dried, and then the children abducted the next day."
"Very high-profile modus operandi, since the criminal has been caught, what are you looking for me to do."
"Only one person was caught, and we suspected that it was a gang, but we couldn't pry his mouth open."
"I'm very expensive."
Kuroki took out an envelope and gave it to Nikaido.
Nikaido looked into the envelope and smiled.
"You're in such a hurry to come to me, that Hamamoto prosecutor's child, you're not very old."
"Looks like you've been paying attention to this case for a long time."
"That's right, the money was given to you by Prosecutor Hamamoto, three hours ago, there were blood stains on the clothes of the child in Prosecutor Hamamoto's house, and he is in a hurry now."
Nikaido stood up with a smile, tightened his watch, and said to Su Qi:
"Junior, we'll talk about it next time."
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