dear archimedes

Chapter 12 Pipa and Nautilus (2)
Haili realized that she would never be able to win against this logic-minded son in debates, so she simply said, "Honey, if you don't go, I will take back all our books in your library."

Yan Su raised his eyebrows: "Look, threats and violence are the usual methods of politicians."

Haili left with satisfaction, and bid farewell to Zhen Ai Owen gracefully before leaving.

After Haili left, Owen asked, "What happened to the analysis just now?"

Su Yan said lightly: "There is a trace of a pin passing through the left chest of her sweater. It is short and small. It is not a brooch, but a small emblem of a political women's group. There is dew and yellow pollen in her hair, where she can go this season , is my grandmother’s greenhouse flower garden. As for Mrs. Hawkinson and Mrs. Chawells, Mr. Hodgkinson’s sex scandal was broadcast on the Internet. AT Communications of Chawells’ family has recently had high-level changes and turbulent stocks. Of course, I hope the outside world will buy more shares."

After finishing speaking, seeing that Zhen Ai didn't seem to be listening to him, but glanced at the invitation from time to time, he stretched out his hand and pushed the invitation in front of her, with a strange tone: "Do you want to go?"

"No, I saw that the location is in Hampton, and I heard it's very beautiful." After finishing speaking, the man got up, "Alright, it's time for me to go too."

Zhen Ai didn't have many things, so she packed a small backpack and went out.

When he left, Yan Su stood straight at the door without bowing his head, and just looked down at her arrogantly: "That's great, the bad chef who emits female hormones is leaving, goodbye."

Owen on the side punched him hard.

Yan Su stood up again, paused, nodded slightly with sullen face, behaved politely and elegantly, like a gentleman, and said in a robot-like steady tone without pause: "Miss Zhen Ai, the person who lives with you Have a great day and I will miss you."

Zhen Ai walked past him expressionless: "Lie!"

Yan Su nodded: "Of course."

When she was changing her shoes, she heard him say softly, almost in a low voice: "Remember to exercise regularly."

Zhen Ai's heart suddenly warmed up, thinking of walking silently with him these past few mornings, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her lips, and she gave a low "um".

Pushing open the door, someone just came outside, it was Jasmin.The two looked at each other in the wind, Zhen Ai was calm and unwavering, Jasmine looked surprised: "Why are you here?"

"I'm getting ready to go."

Yan Su looked at her with no interest: "He died again?"

Jasmine's eyes turned red: "I'm going to die."

Yan Su Momo: "Then why don't you go to the hospital immediately?"

Four people stood in the narrow hallway, and crows flew by in the cold air.

Zhen Ai stood at the door, the cold wind made her hair fly, she subconsciously tightened her neckline.Suddenly someone stretched out his hand in front of him, pulled the door, and the cold wind shut the door.

She followed that white hand with well-defined knuckles, Yan Su had already turned her head and looked at Jasmine: "Tell me something."

Jasmine frowned deeply, flustered and frightened: "After the witness investigation, before you called me, I thought that the ink in the blood drop at the scene might be on a baseball card. I guessed that Zhao He might be the murderer. At that time His roommate came to the police station to take notes, so I asked another police officer to hint him..." She raised her eyes to catch Yan Su's cold gaze, and lowered her head in shame, "Let him say, make sure his baseball gold card is in Zhao He In his hand, it has become evidence at the crime scene. Let him testify in court at that time."

Owen was stunned: "The time you said these words to him was earlier than the time when Zhao He's locker was searched. At that time, the police did not find Zhao He's stolen goods. This is misleading witnesses and manipulating the evidence collection process."

Jasmin's voice was trembling with anxiety: "How did I know that I could find the key evidence later? After I opened Zhao He's locker, I didn't intend to do so. But the bad thing is that the recorder took the policeman and his house together. Friends’ words were recorded and included in the prosecution’s evidence, only to be discovered by the defense’s lawyers.”

Both Zhen Ai and Owen were startled.

Yan Su still had no expression on his face, looked at Jasmine, and said calmly, "Congratulations, you saved a vicious murderer."

After the case was closed, Zhen Ai went back to the dormitory and sent Jiang Xin's belongings back to China.

Before getting out of the car, Owen said: "Ai, don't be afraid, it's okay."

Zhen Ai was puzzled: "What happened?"

"Actually, you were worried that the people around you died because of your troubles, right?" He reached out and patted her emaciated shoulder in a signature way, "Now the truth has come out, and it has nothing to do with you."

Zhen Ai looked into his blue eyes and was suddenly so moved that she couldn't say a word.

She did wonder if someone from the organization came after her and killed Jiang Xin by mistake when she was about to kill her.She knew very well that if it wasn't for Owen's request, Yan Su would never have participated in such a small case.

And she followed Yansu to understand the process, and she got rid of the idea of ​​bringing disaster from the beginning, and she did not suffer mental torture.

Everything is thanks to Owen's care and consideration.

Zhen Ai smiled brightly: "Thank you, because of you, I have a very relaxed life these days. You know, the word relaxed has always been a luxury to me."

Owen blushed suddenly, this was the first time he saw Zhen Ai's real smile, from the corners of her lips to the bottom of her eyes, a little shy, a little jerky, but she couldn't hide her cleanliness and purity.

He knew that when she really smiled, she looked good.

When not smiling, just quietly, it is so beautiful that people can breathe slowly, such a smile, just shallow, seems to make people's hearts stop.

A truly rare beauty, no wonder people have been chasing her footsteps.

He turned his head away and stared straight ahead in embarrassment: "I asked SA to go through the evidence of Jiang Xin and Zhao He, and found no other passwords, nor anything related to you, so you don't have to worry about it .”

"Ok, I know."

He was still blushing, Zhen Ai had already got off the car.Owen immediately rolled down the glass, but the near-zero air couldn't blow away the ironing on his face.

When I went upstairs, the cordon at the door of the dormitory had already been removed, and when I opened the door to enter, it was full of the smell of disinfectant.

Zhen Ai closed the door and just started collecting Jiang Xin's belongings when the phone rang, an unfamiliar number.

"Hello?"

The other party obviously blocked for a while, and after a while, he was quite dissatisfied: "Why didn't you save my phone number?"

Zhen Ai rolled her eyes: "Who are you?"

He was slightly surprised and depressed: "You can't hear my voice?"

Zhen Ai: "..."

"Who are you" means "who do you think you are" not asking "who are you".Why can't this man understand human speech?
"I mean, you didn't tell me your phone number."

The other side lost their temper, said "Oh" calmly, and then said: "I called to tell you that Zhao He was released without charge."

After several days of no contact, his voice was both familiar and unfamiliar, and through the phone line, there was a kind of low-pitched sweetness.

In fact, Zhen Ai found out the result from Owen at noon——

Although there is a video recording that Zhao He entered the gymnasium wearing Taylor's clothes and carrying a sports bag with blood on his back, his sports bag was also found in his locker. Bloodstained baseball card (exactly matches the blood spot on the scene).

But the jury still did not convict Zhao He criminally unanimously.Because the public prosecutor violated the most basic and inviolable principle in the process of obtaining evidence-justice and truth.

The country represented by Jasmine and her colleagues induced witnesses to make statements against the defendant during the evidence collection process. Because of this stain, all the evidence was cast in a shadow, and it was suspected of framing the defendant unfairly. .

Since twelve angry men (Twelve Angry Men), most of the 12 members of the jury are biased towards a law: it is better to let go of the bad guys with a probability of 99.9% than to judge the good guys with 0.1%.

Yan Su said on the other end of the phone: "Who can be sure that the conclusive evidence wasn't framed by the police?"

Zhen Ai was speechless, she knew that Yan Su was very sure, but he was able to accept the result so calmly, his psychology was really puzzling...or maybe it was a kind of strong tolerance.

"You expected this result a long time ago, didn't you?"

"Well, Zhao He will definitely be released without charge, and then continue to kill people."

Zhen Ai wondered: "Why does he continue to kill people?"

"Zhao He didn't even say a word of self-defense at the court trial. This person has no concept of right and wrong, no mercy, always does things according to his heart, and is extremely out of group. Such people often become more paranoid after being greatly stimulated. And this murder will be the key to evil."

Zhen Ai gave a meaningful "Oh" and secretly thought: I always do things according to my heart, and you are also very out of group, isn't this talking about yourself?
Yan Su's voice sank: "Stop the boring thoughts in your head immediately."

Zhen Ai pursed her mouth, she could feel it through the phone line, it was amazing.

Zhen Ai suddenly thought of something, and deliberately teased him: "The person who was arrested was released like this, do you feel regretful and hold your breath?"

Yan Su was very calm: "No."

"why?"

Over there, his voice was unusually stable and tense: "This is the rule of the game. Standing on the righteous side cannot use unjust means to attack the evil side in their eyes. This is the rule and fairness. You know, justice It is right, but the person who represents justice is not necessarily right. In other words, no one can represent justice."

Zhen Ai was silent for a while, then smiled slightly, yes, human beings make mistakes.

Is this the difference between the rule of man and the rule of law?
She opened the window, looked at the pale blue sky in the distance, smiled, and asked, "Do you think that if Zhao He is convicted this time, it will be a failure of the law?"

"Yes." The characters over there clanged, "He is guilty, but the justice must be fair."

"And," rebelliously determined, "next time, I will still catch him."

Zhen Ai looked at the sky, took a deep breath calmly, this man really looked like what she saw at this moment - vast, clean, as transparent as the sky, as eternal as time and space.

However, the sky has another attribute, cloudy or cloudy: "Hey, it's time for you to talk."

Zhen Ai was stunned: "Ah? What?"

There was a pause over there, holding back the emotion of protest: "After I finished speaking, you actually remained silent. Hmph, you should learn more about sociolinguistics. Put the responsibility of maintaining the chat and dialogue on me, This does not constitute a harmonious and interesting exchange."

Finally came to a conclusion: "Miss Zhen Ai, you don't know how to chat."

Oh, it turned out that he called to chat with her.But, Mr. Yan Su who can chat, is it really good to choose this kind of content for chat...

Zhen Ai answered with a sense of mission: "Well, did you go to the court hearing?"

"Of course," he raised his voice a little, haughtily and pompously, "it's wonderful to have a case of police breach of professional ethics."

She knew his focus was weird.

"Then, what about Jasmine, will she be punished?"

"Her colleague was fired for misleading testimony and she was not implicated."

Is this the "politics" that Yan Suan said?
Zhen Ai considered again and again, but still asked: "What's the relationship between her and you?"

"It's okay." In a flat tone.

"But, she has the same surname as your mother..."

"Oh, I remembered, after my mother and my father divorced, because I lived in China, my mother felt lonely, so she adopted a little Chinese girl."

Zhen Ai has black hair, everything in the world should not be so insignificant to you, okay...

However, what happened to her sudden happiness?

She smiled secretly and forgot to speak.

After a long period of silence, Zhen Ai realized that the atmosphere had turned cold. It was time for her to speak, so she hurriedly said, "Jiang Xin's parents are so pitiful, they must be so sad."

After speaking, it seemed to be even colder.

Zhen Ai scratched her head, why are you so bad at chatting.

Ke Yansu took it without any burden: "I contacted her parents with a lawyer and asked them to come to the United States to file a civil lawsuit. Although the criminal court found not guilty, the civil court will determine intentional homicide and huge compensation. Zhao If you have no money, there is effective death insurance."

Zhen Ai was taken aback, she almost forgot that criminal conviction and civil compensation are independent.What she didn't expect was that Yan Su would do this for a stranger.

Although this person is arrogant and eccentric, he is also kind and upright.

She was so overwhelmed with emotion that she forgot to answer the conversation again.

After another strange silence, Yan Su became unhappy: "Zhen Ai!"

"Ok?"

"You're a terrible conversation partner, I don't want to talk to you anymore."

Zhen Ai rolled her eyes, deliberately annoyed him: "Yan Su!"

"...Huh?" In a haughty tone.

"You're terrible too. Irving told me what you said, so there's no need for you to call me. Hmph, the information you provided is not timely at all, and it doesn't satisfy the needs of the linguistics, social and communication disciplines. The informative principle of dialogue!"

result,

The other party was silent as if aggrieved, really silent.

After Zhen Ai finished speaking, her heart skipped a beat, ah, shouldn't it dampen the self-esteem and enthusiasm of children who are learning to chat with others.

After the disturbing silence, his tone returned to his usual cold and haughty tone: "I called to remind you to stay away from Zhao He, and be careful that he will kill you."

"You crow's mouth!" Zhen Ai yelled at him in a low voice, making the packed things crackle.

"What are you doing, are you tearing down the house?" His tone was not good, and he could tell he was frowning.

"I'm packing Jiang Xin's things."

His voice suddenly turned cold: "Are you at the scene of the crime?"

"Nonsense, I..."

He actually hung up the phone directly.

Zhen Ai stared at the phone screen, feeling that he was incredible.

When she called just now, she had already packed the carton.There was no one to live in for a few days, the dormitory was covered with dust, and her hands were dirty.

Pushing open the bathroom door to wash her hands, she looked up and saw the mirror, Zhen Ai was instantly shocked.

On the mirror of the washbasin, there are a few hideous words written in bright lipstick, which at first glance look like human blood:

"for you, a thousand miles!" (for you, chasing all over the world!)

he came!
The man's voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "C, do you think you can escape?"

She was not Zhen Ai in the first place, but Miss C from the dark organization.

She knew very well that defectors never end well, like the tragic death of parents and older brothers.She can live until now, except for the protection of CIA agents and her changing identity thousands of times, more importantly, Mr. A and Mr. B did not want to kill her, but wanted to capture her alive.Otherwise, she would not have enough lives to survive.

But she can't go back, she doesn't want to be with the murderer who killed her relatives anymore, she doesn't want to live a life imprisoned by them, and she doesn't want to go back to that dark organization where right and wrong are reversed.

"For you, a thousand miles!"

The words on the mirror burned her eyes like fire, this is what he said to her himself.This was what she had seen countless times while running for her life, and it was a harbinger of danger coming.

he came!
Zhen Ai's face was pale, and her legs couldn't stop feeling weak. She twisted the doorknob tightly, and it took several seconds for her strength to recover.Subconsciously touched his waist, the gun was still there.

An instant of stability.

She leaned against the door and looked around. There was no one in the dormitory, and there was no movement, but it was suddenly terribly strange.

Suddenly, the door of the room was slowly pushed open with a melodious creak.

Zhen Ai's whole body was stiff, tightly gripping the gun at her waist, and she remained motionless.

She stared at the bronzed fingers on the door, her heart hanging in her throat.The moment he showed up, her heart almost jumped out, but then suddenly fell.

It's Zhao He.

Zhao He didn't expect that there was someone here, and he was slightly taken aback when he saw Zhen Ai, but after a while he smiled, closed the door, and unlocked it inadvertently.

Zhen Ai instantly calmed down the uneasy mood just now, and watched indifferently.The reason why he returned to the crime scene was clear at a glance.As Yan Su said, this man is a pervert, and Jiang Xin's death opened the black box in his heart.

Zhao He stood at the door of the room, looked at Zhen Ai at the door of the bathroom, and asked: "People have died here, are you not afraid?"

Zhen Ai ignored it.

Zhao He sneered a few times, took out a piece of lipstick, and wrote on the wall: "I didn't expect to meet her friend this time, I'm really not alone."

Zhen Ai recognized the lipstick in his hand as Jiang Xin's, and the words he wrote on the wall were also on the bathroom glass.

Zhen Ai tentatively asked: "Do you like this sentence very much?"

(End of this chapter)