quadruple sleep

Chapter 291 There is a Voice
Before coming here, Hang Si had known Chen Hu. In addition to having an ideal job, he was also very particular about his life. He was not extravagant, but he was a petty bourgeois. Now he was so sloppy. It was true that a person's temperament would change drastically after losing hope.

The quilt was piled on the side of the bed, and the clothes were thrown all over the place. There was only a single sofa where you could sit, and there were a lot of miscellaneous items piled on it. Next to the sofa was a simple wardrobe, made of fabric with zippers, which was a must-have for renting a house and was economical. Next to the bed was a desk. Compared to the messy bed and sofa, the office was tidy. There was a trophy in front of the computer, with words like "Best Creativity" faintly written on it.

Most of the objects that caught my eye were dirty and covered in dust, but the trophy was polished clean.

Chen Hu was still suspicious and wary of their arrival, but he still knew to focus on Lu Nanshen's words, "What do you mean by clearing my name? Are you here for the car accident that happened half a year ago?"

Lu Nanshen smiled slightly, "So, you also have doubts about the car accident, right?"

A very affirmative statement.

Chen Hu narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Lu Nanshen. He felt that although the man in front of him was young, his eyes were extremely firm and deep. He had a sense of control over the overall situation that was very inconsistent with his age. It was hard not to be led by him. Chen Hu said, "A few days ago, a policeman named Chen came to our house to ask about the car accident. Now you are here to ask again. Aren't you policemen?"

Lu Nanshen spoke calmly and steadily, "Don't worry about who we are. You just need to know that if you are innocent in the car accident half a year ago, then I am the only one who can help you."

Chen Hu was stunned.

"So you're still planning on wasting time on our identities?" Lu Nanshen asked calmly, and looked around again, "Also, since you're a guest, it's not good to make you stand all the time, right? My girlfriend is a delicate woman."

Chen Hu finally reacted. He walked to the sofa and quickly picked up the sundries. He held them all in his arms. After a little thought, he put all the sundries on the bed and pushed the office chair over. "You... sit down."

Lu Nanshen asked Hang Si to sit on the office chair. The sofa was not dirty, but Hang Si understood Lu Nanshen's thoughts to some extent. Just now, when Chen Hu was tidying up the debris on the sofa, he pulled out a pair of men's underwear.

After Hang Si sat down, Lu Nanshen sat on the armrest of the sofa and pulled the office chair to the side, so that Hang Si was very close to him. Chen Hu sat on the edge of the bed, looked at Lu Nanshen uncomfortably, and licked his dry lips, "Um, you said you could help me, is that true?"

"What else? I come to your house for a trip?" Lu Nanshen raised his eyebrows slightly.

This sentence left Chen Hu speechless.

"I can help you, but the prerequisite is that you have to tell me everything that happened at the time. And," Lu Nanshen emphasized, "you have to tell me how you felt and what you thought before, during, and after the accident."

Chen Hu was stunned. "Feelings and thoughts?"

"Yes, tell the truth about how you felt and what you were thinking before and after the accident." Lu Nanshen said.

Although Chen Hu was puzzled, he still told the truth about what happened that day.

It was a Wednesday, a normal day, but it was unforgettable for Chen Hu. Near noon, Chen Hu was driving to meet a client, but he had an accident when crossing an intersection.

"The electric car seemed to appear out of thin air and rushed out all of a sudden. By the time I wanted to step on the brakes, it was too late." Chen Hu sat there with his head hung, deeply regretful for the past.

He swore that he was driving normally at the time, without accelerating or running a red light, and he also swore that he did not see the electric car.

Lu Nanshen did not doubt his words. The surveillance footage and the on-site investigation records showed that Chen Hu did not violate traffic rules before Liu Jun was hit while riding his electric bike. On the contrary, if Liu Jun had not run a red light, the tragedy would not have happened.

"Did you react when you hit someone?" Lu Nanshen asked.

Chen Hu nodded with an obscure expression.

"Since you knew you had hit someone, why did you keep driving forward?" Lu Nanshen asked the key question.

Chen Hu was silent, looking very depressed and a little embarrassed. Then he leaned over and felt under the pillow, and took out a cigarette case.

A box of Marlboro. He took out the only two cigarettes left in the box and crumpled the box with one hand.

He handed one of the cigarettes to Lu Nanshen, who declined. Seeing that he didn't want to smoke, Chen Hu thought for a moment and asked them, "Do you mind if I have one?"

Although this man is decadent, this detail shows that he is a decent person.

Lu Nanshen glanced at Hang Si, who didn't care and said to Chen Hu, "Go ahead, think about it slowly, don't be anxious, and try your best to recall the details."

Chen Hu nodded, his voice dry as he spoke, "Thank you." He held the cigarette in his mouth and rubbed the flint with his thumb several times before it lit up. After lighting the cigarette, he slowly unfolded the cigarette box that he had just wrinkled, and put the unsmoked cigarette back in.

"I know what people say about me. I mean the fact that I kept pressing the accelerator." After exhaling a puff of smoke, Chen Hu seemed to have gained courage. He emphasized the second half of the sentence and smiled bitterly, "They think I just wanted to crush the other party to death so that I can pay the money all at once."

Hang Si did think so, and she felt that she would think so under normal circumstances.

But after Chen Hu said this, she felt suspicious, it seemed that there was another hidden story.

Lu Nanshen said lightly, "This should not be what you think."

Chen Hu suddenly looked up at him, his lips trembling slightly, and then he was choked by the smoke that he had no time to inhale and exhale, and he coughed repeatedly.

Lu Nanshen waited quietly for him to calm down, and seeing this, Hang Si felt more confident.

When Chen Hu finally calmed down, he looked at Lu Nanshen and said, "I told the police before, but no one believed me. No, to be exact, no one understood what I meant."

"You can tell me about it." Lu Nanshen said slowly.

Chen Hu's hand holding the cigarette was still shaking from time to time. After a while, he spoke, "Actually, I was very sober at the moment I hit the person, and I stepped on the brakes. But I didn't know what happened at that time, it was as if a voice was telling me to drive past, drive past, don't stop..."

He was a little emotional when he said this, and took a puff of cigarette without thinking, "I don't know why I listened to that voice. It seemed to me that all problems would be solved if I drove the car over there. Everything in front of me was just a dream."

"I was bewitched by that voice, so I just... stepped on the accelerator and drove over." Chen Hu raised his hand and anxiously pulled his hair. "When I reacted again, I realized that I had run over that person..."