First-Class Lawyer

Chapter 170 Gray Bird

They were not pretending to be a couple at first, they didn't need to act, and they became more and more intimate after kissing for a while.

When the shuttle car sped out of the eastern suburbs, Yan Suizhi let go of Gu Yan's collar and leaned back on the driver's seat.

He unbuttoned a shirt button, and lowered the temperature in the car, and the slightly red neck slowly faded.

The rearview mirror was empty, and the obviously wrong cars had disappeared.

It was the first time for Barrister Gu to experience such a sophisticated car dumping experience, so he had nothing to say.

Although there were no suspicious vehicles in the field of vision, just in case, Yan Suizhi switched the driving mode to manual.

He folded his shirt cuffs up his forearms, held the steering wheel in a big circle, and turned straight into an elevated road.

As soon as he was driving, he became calm and calm again.

The lightning speed formed an extremely sharp contrast with his calm face.

After changing several roads one after another, after confirming that there would be no more cars to keep up with, Professor Yan unhurriedly switched back to the automatic mode, and said without raising his head: "Next time I can't let you sit in the side seat." drive."

Gu Yan's eyes moved, "Why?"

"Pretty beauty prevents me from concentrating," Yan Suizhi said.

Gu Yan: "???"

Lawyer Gu's first reaction was to look at the smartphone screen.

Yan Suizhi was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What?"

"I'll check to see if the communication with Joe has been cut off," Gu Yan said.

Yan Suizhi: "...you haven't hung up?"

"Just to make sure." Gu Yan raised his eyes and asked him, "What if it wasn't cut off?"

Professor Yanda touched his cheek, and said frankly: "...I don't care. If you really forget to hang up, you may need to go and comfort that little fool."

Gu Yan raised his eyebrows.

Although there was no danger, Barrister Gu's precious Fei Shuo was messed up after all.

The first thing the two did when they returned to the Fawang district was to enter a car wash.

The owner of the car wash was an acquaintance with Gu Yan, so he opened his mouth and yelled: "My God! This is your car? I don't believe it if I kill you. You still have a day when you ruin the car like this? Drink too much and choose the road?"

The one who was really messed up was buying water from a vending machine not far away. Lawyer Gu memorized the pot silently, and explained briefly to the boss: "I went into the mountain road on a business trip."

"Oh, what did I say!" the boss washer yelled, and the conveyor belt sent Gu Yan's car into the washing workshop, "It happened to be rainy recently, and a lot of mud fell down. I drove a mountain road that day, and I drove automatically The system doesn’t know if it’s flooded or something, it’s like a mentally retarded person, and it doesn’t know how to avoid the mud, and bounces back all the way, it’s like I’ve ridden a horse for two hours, and my butt still hurts when I walk today.”

Gu Yan: "..."

Yan Suizhi leaned against the vending machine, smiling and looking this way.

He found that he really liked watching Gu Yan get along with various friends. Obviously, Gu Yan's expression did not change obviously, but Yan Suizhi could see all kinds of psychological activities from it, which was more interesting than anything else.

After the boss complained to Gu Yan about the mountain road, the rain, and his sore butt, he was called in by another employee, who didn't know what he was talking about.

Gu Yan turned his head and saw Yan Suizhi holding two bottles of water with his eyes bent.

"Watching a play?" Gu Yan walked over, leaning on the window of the vending machine, taking advantage of no one's attention, bowed his head and kissed Yan Suizhi.

"The play is not as good as our teacher Gu's."

Yan Suizhi raised his chin to the boss in the distance, and said, "This boss is quite lively."

Gu Yan: "..."

The owner of the car wash with a beard and a muscular body, if he knew that he had been crowned with the adjective "lively", he didn't know what expression he would make.

"I found out that you are a frozen gourd, and the friends you make are very talkative. When the boss opened his mouth just now, I seemed to see Qiao Xiaozi No. [-]." Yan Suizhi said.

Gu Yan was silent.

It's a frozen stuffed gourd, and it belongs to a little fool. In just one sentence, it is considered a skill to be able to personally attack two people.

He thought for a while and replied: "Using your words, make another friend who is like a frozen stuffed gourd, and practice Zen face to face?"

I don't know what Professor Yanda imagined, he put Gu Yan's shoulder and laughed for a long time.

The two were chatting and waiting for the car, when the boss came back again.

"The car washes very quickly, and it won't be long. You can feel free here, and there are snacks over there. I'll go home." The boss complained jokingly, "My love, didn't you run into a shuttle machine when you went out to play a while ago?" Accident, it has been stuck on the track for many days, it is a little jet lag to come back now, rest at home, I will get her something to eat."

Yan Suizhi was taken aback when he heard the words, "Shuttle accident?"

"That's right, didn't you report it before?" the boss said, "It's just that recently the page has been taken up by infection treatment centers and the like, and the incident has been resolved, so no one mentions it."

"I know about the accident, has the shuttle arrived at the port yet?" Yan Suizhi asked.

"Yes, I just arrived yesterday morning, or the day before yesterday?" The boss knocked on his forehead, "I was disturbed by my wife, and I'm a little confused about the time. Anyway, it hasn't been long since I arrived in Hong Kong."

The boss said hello, and left in a hurry, leaving the car wash shop to his staff for the time being.

Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan exchanged glances.

As the boss said, there are too many things to do these two days, and they are a little confused about the time.

None of them bothered to read news reports on the web, and they knew nothing about the arrival of the shuttle to Hong Kong.

"Have you still sent messages to the landlord in the past two days?" Gu Yan asked.

Yan Suizhi: "Unfortunately, I posted it the day before yesterday, but I haven't posted it since yesterday."

But at the same time, there is no news from the landlord, which is easy to worry——

Will there be any danger?

Or... have you changed your mind?

Yan Suizhi considered for a moment, then called out Mervyn Bai's communication number and called him.

When I was stuck on the accident track before, no matter how I dialed this number, the signal was wrong.Right now it only rang three times before it was connected.

"Hello?" Mervyn Bai's voice sounded.

For a moment, Yan Suizhi actually felt that this voice was a bit long-lost.

"Have you returned to Decama?"

The landlord said: "Yes, I just arrived yesterday morning. You don't know, as soon as the shuttle was connected, my smartphone database was about to explode. Hundreds of messages flooded in at the same time, and my fingers were numb all morning."

His tone was very natural, no different from before, and he couldn't hear any questions for a while.

Yan Suizhi glanced at Gu Yan and said, "It's good to land safely. It's not peaceful recently. I don't feel relieved that I haven't received your message."

"Didn't I send you a message?" The landlord was also stunned for a moment, and then said again, "There were too many messages at that time, did I go back and forth and forget?"

Yan Suizhi raised his eyebrows, "Let's just trust you."

He finished jokingly, and then said: "Then you should rest for a few days first, and reverse the jet lag. I heard that your tongue is a bit loud now, so you haven't slept?"

The landlord said: "You installed a surveillance camera in my house? You know all this?"

"Didn't sleep?"

"Well, packing up." The landlord smiled and asked again, "Are the two barristers free now?"

"It can be drawn." Yan Suizhi said.

"Then please come and help me."

"it is good."

Yan Suizhi came down, and just about to cut off the communication, the landlord added, "Don't rush to hang up, it's not the house that I want to rent to you. I'll send you the address later, don't miss it."

After hanging up the communication, Yan Suizhi showed some doubts on his face.

"What's wrong?" Gu Yan asked.

"The landlord is a little strange." Yan Suizhi said.

"for example?"

"I can't tell." Yan Suizhi thought for a while, frowned and said, "But I always feel that something happened to him."

A moment later, Yan Suizhi's smartphone received a message.

The source indicated a number that was not commonly used by Mervyn White.

- No. 115, Yanglin Avenue, Fontaine District, enter through the small door on the side, the password is a picture, I will send it to you later.

Followed by a charcoal sketch.

Gu Yan's car was washed quickly, and it returned to its usual low-key and steady matte black, with no mud stars visible.

It took them nearly two hours to cross the entire French district, and found the so-called Yanglin Avenue on a seashore in the Fontaine district.

That piece of seaside is not a place suitable for sightseeing. There are too many rocks, obstructing the line of sight, and the scenery is mediocre.The houses here are a bit old, whether it is apartments or shops, the facades are faded.

On the side close to the sea, there is a lot of old salt and frost, exuding a salty smell, which is not so good.

The entire Yanglin Avenue is very crowded. Because of the undulating terrain, the heights of the houses are very messy, and it is difficult to figure out which building is the number.What's more terrible is that you will feel dizzy if you go around in it twice, because every lane is so similar.

- You tricked me into walking the maze?

Yan Suizhi did not call this time, but sent a message to the unknown number.

The other party quickly replied:

- i have seen you.Now you turn left, go in the alley at hand, go to the penultimate building, then turn right, count up to four buildings along the alley, and then look up.

According to the description in the message, Yan Suizhi dragged Gu Yan through the maze.

"The fourth building..." He counted the places one by one, then stopped and looked up.

On the second floor of a small building on the left, a figure wearing a mask waved at him.

Seeing that he was wearing a mask, Yan Suizhi became cautious subconsciously so as not to cause trouble for the other party.

He looked around to make sure there was no one following, and then he found the legendary small door on the side.

He took out the charcoal sketch and scanned it before the password.

There was a soft click from inside the thick small door, and it slowly opened a crack.

Yan Suizhi closed the door, turned around and was shocked by the scene on the first floor of the small building.There are old or operating optical computers, instruments, and countless simulated paper pages hanging in the air.There is quite a menacing momentum that overwhelms mountains and seas.

The sound of rustling footsteps came down the stairs.

Yan Suizhi rushed downstairs to Mervyn Bai and said, "Are you going to do post-disaster reconstruction?"

Mervyn Bai snorted, and said angrily, "You young man, why do you speak so badly?"

Yan Suizhi said modestly: "It's not bad, thanks."

Mervyn White: "..."

He scanned the house and asked, "Is this your house?"

"The old residence." Mervyn Bai thought for a while and said, "It's not too old. After resigning, someone took over this small building, but I don't live here. It's only used to store some materials."

Even if the pages in the room are virtual and can be folded, it can be seen that they are piled up like a mountain.

Using "some" as a description is really too modest.

Gu Yan followed his master's wishes and put on the mask.His peripheral vision was full of half-organized pages, and he could see that most of those pages were documents, signed agreements, and a large number of research drafts, with diagrams and pages full of data.

He could pull down a page to read it with a stretch of his hand, but following the principle of no evil, before the landlord opened his mouth, he remained polite and kept his eyes on the whole process.

"You want us to hold hands?" Yan Suizhi asked.

Mervyn Bai pointed around casually, "There are too many materials, help me sort them out."

"What kind of arrangement?"

"The research drafts are put together, regardless of the order." Mervyn Bai explained briefly, "All other types of documents are scanned together, and the key point is some signed documents. If you see them, please help me to collect them."

"Row."

Instead, Yan Suizhi saw some inscriptions on those research drafts, such as the words "Iris Medical Pharmacy Research Center".

He is no stranger to this name. When he was investigating the truth about his parents' genetic surgery before, he would always come across this research center unexpectedly on some materials.

"Is this where you worked back then?"

Since I helped sort it out, it was impossible to turn a blind eye to the contents of those research papers.Yan Suizhi flipped through a few pages and asked Mervyn Bai, "Is this what you studied at the beginning?"

"Yes." Mervyn Bai nodded, "but it's only part of it. After I resigned, on the one hand, I didn't want to have anything to do with them, and on the other hand, I felt that some things might be useful in the future. This kind of ambivalence led me to finally Only a part of the materials handled have been retained."

Although he said that they are all together, don't care about the order.But when Yan Suizhi sorted them out, they were still arranged according to the page number, and so was Gu Yan.

This makes them have to look at the content of the manuscript a few more times.

Soon, Gu Yan saw something useful in it.

"This gene fragment analysis diagram..." He handed the page to Yan Suizhi, frowned and said, "Is it the same as yours?"

Hearing the words, the landlord came over, let out a low "ah", and looked at the page carefully for a while, "This is the core part of the early research results..."

He was silent for a moment, and said to Yan Suizhi, "Do you have any remnants of this fragment in your body?"

Yan Suizhi nodded, "Lin Yuan has been helping me analyze this fragment, it caused my two gene modification effects to conflict with each other, and caused some...uncomfortable reactions. We are trying to clear it, but we just haven't found a suitable one. way."

Affected by his words, the landlord recalled something.

At the beginning, there were wild and shrill screams of animals in the laboratory, and there were some "addicts" who looked like "addicts", with red eyes, haggard, curled up on the ground, rolling and twitching, claws scratching on the safety glass cover, making toothache sounds .

Most of those things were triggered by this original research result.

Of course, in those years they were known as the product of failed experiments.But until Mervyn Bai resigned and left, he did not see a few successful products.

The only difference is the length of the incubation period.

Some can maintain a stable inert state for a long period of time, without any abnormalities, and even once there is no problem with the gene.But some may be born unlucky, and within a short period of time, all the symptoms will appear, and the deaths will be more miserable than the other.

"Why are there residues in your body?" Mervyn Bai asked again.

Yan Suizhi froze for a moment, "What? Shouldn't there be?"

The landlord was silent for a moment, and said: "How should I put it... This is actually a research project I had for a long time. When I received the project, the purpose of this research was normal, at least the part I came into contact with was normal. ——It is to artificially create a perfect universal gene fragment to replace the patient's problem gene, so that there will be no headaches due to finding a suitable gene source during the operation."

"But this kind of research is like building a nest. One piece here, one piece there. When you are obsessed with the local area, it is difficult to find out whether the general direction has deviated. By the time I found out that the trend of the research project was different from what I imagined, it was too late .In fact, it can’t be called late. The original intention of the Manson brothers has never changed, but we were too stupid to believe their carefully packaged rhetoric.”

"But... Although the subsequent development is not under our control, the foundation is still there. When we established the research foundation, we made a setting that this gene segment can be completely removed or completely covered. In this way, if the replacement effect It’s not satisfactory, and there’s still room for regret.”

The landlord frowned and said, "It's really beyond my expectation that such a thing remains."

When he was explaining, Yan Suizhi just turned to the page of follow-up reactions and complications, where words like "mental disorder" and "drug addiction" made him frown slightly.

He recovered his expression before Gu Yan noticed this side, and then calmly put this page at the bottom of the stack of documents.

"Then... is there any possibility of complete eradication?" Yan Suizhi asked.

The landlord said, "Let me answer this out of thin air. I can't give an accurate answer. How about this? Didn't you say that Lin Yuan is doing analysis? I'll give him the original manuscripts later to see if I can find some suitable methods. "

"It couldn't be better." Yan Suizhi said, "Actually, I am not the one who is urgent. Many people are waiting for such a result to continue their lives? With your help, Lin Yuan should get some breakthroughs. "

Mervyn Bai shook his hand, "Don't give me ecstasy soup, flattery is not easy for me. I have quit my job for more than 20 years, and I don't remember as many things as dogs. At most, I can help a little bit on the basis of these research manuscripts. busy."

In this small building, there are countless research manuscripts like this, and it seems that each one carries a lot of information.

It's a pity that there are too many professional contents, which cannot be digested by the two barristers in a short while.Otherwise they can just switch careers.

Even if Lin Yuan came here, it would be impossible to understand all the research content in this half a day.After all, this is the result accumulated by Mervyn Bai and the others over the years.

According to the request of the landlord, Mervyn Bai, they gathered all the manuscripts together, and did not look at the miscellaneous documents.

What attracted the attention of the two lawyers again were some signed documents in the house.

"Surgery agreement?" Yan Suizhi glanced at the general content, "Is this the agreement you signed with the hospital?"

Mervyn Bai nodded, "Yes, the success rate of genetic surgery was very low at that time, and everyone who underwent surgery had to sign a responsibility agreement with the hospital. People with a little common sense understand this kind of thing, but there may be many People don’t know, as a supporter of technology and research results, we also have to sign an agreement with the hospital.”

"Do you sign for every operation?" Yan Suizhi asked.

"Yes." Mervyn Bai said, "The riskier the risk, the more we will sign it, so that we can share part of the responsibility. For example, today's operation will use our result A, so it will be result A." Sign an agreement, use B, then add the item B, and all will be listed. It means that we use your technology, and if something happens, you can’t escape.”

Yan Suizhi nodded, looking at the agreement in a daze.

This actually gave him an idea.

"Did you sign such an agreement when my parents and I had surgery?" Yan Suizhi asked.

Mervyn Bai was always very apologetic when he mentioned this matter. He lowered his eyes and said softly: "Yes, I signed it, and signed it in the name of the research institute."

"Is that agreement still there?" Yan Suizhi asked.

"Not sure, I have to look for it, what's wrong?"

Yan Suizhi said, "Mr. Ewes has collected some large and small evidence over the years, and the information I have found over the years can also provide some scattered supplements. But there are still several key pieces of evidence missing. One of them is Manson The relationship between brother and this problematic gene."

He pointed to himself, "I have this gene residue in my body, which is a living proof. If the original agreement is still there, it can prove that this gene fragment of mine is the leftover trace of the original operation, and that The technical support for the operation is your research institute. I think...it is not too difficult to find evidence of the connection between your research institute and the Manson brothers, right?"

In this way, the thread is strung together.

The landlord was stunned for a moment, then slapped his forehead: "Yes! That's right! This chain of evidence has been connected! Come on! Come on, find that agreement."

If it is a separate database, it is not difficult to find this kind of agreement, just search for it with keywords.

It's a pity that when my dear Mr. Mervyn Bai resigned, he hated these piles of old documents from the bottom of his heart, so he didn't bother to organize them at all, so that these countless documents were stored in countless Optical computers, storage disks, private disks, encrypted disks, and physical databases.

Each database also has a different password.

So that any one-click search doesn't work, you have to decode them one by one and search in a small area.

Mervyn Bai rubbed his neck and beat his waist and cursed: "I was such a beast back then, how much I hated myself to cause such trouble..."

They didn't finish half of the search until the sky was dark and the Yanglin Avenue by the sea was dotted with lights.

But there is such a hope there, the mood is always good.

At around 8 o'clock at night, Gu Yan received a communication from Tianqin.

Qiao said straight to the point: "I've arrived, and I'm in the hotel now. It's less than one kilometer away from the detention center. But it's late at night on Lyra, and it's not convenient for the detention center to let me in. I have to wait until tomorrow."

Yan Suizhi leaned over and reminded, "Whether the Manson Brothers will take action, after all, you stayed in the villa hotel for one night, maybe someone sent a letter to let them realize that you and Mr. Ewes The relationship has been restored."

As soon as Master Qiao heard this, he said in a tone without ups and downs: "Dean, have you read today's web news feed?"

Yan Sui was stunned: "No, what's wrong?"

Joe continued to say in this numb tone: "If you read it, you will never say such a conjecture. Wait a minute, I will send it to you, and we will appreciate it."

Ding--

Master Qiao's fingering was fast, and he sent a few screenshots of the news in a blink of an eye.

Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan glanced at the ten lines together, and finally couldn't help laughing.

"The second ancestor of the Ivy Group went berserk in the early morning, slammed the door and smashed the car, and walked away." Joe was devastated. Is it? Dean, tell me!"

Yan Suizhi: "..."

"Gu Yan, tell me!"

Gu Yan: "..."

The silence between the two sides made this young master especially hurt.

Fortunately, Gu Yan noticed some important points in time and saved the precarious friendship, "If I remember correctly, Mr. Eves cleared the hotel security for the cutscene, and the security is very strict. Who can take this kind of photo?"

Joe froze, and suddenly realized.

In that case, there are only two possibilities for this kind of photo to be released. In order for the Manson brothers not to question the father-son relationship between Joe and the old fox, some businessmen will do everything——

For example, a sister sells a brother.

For example, a father sells his son.

Gone.

After a moment of silence, Joe said angrily: "I'll hang up first! I'll go to Ms. Eunice and Mr. Ewes to argue."

"Wait." Yan Suizhi said.

"Any more questions?" Joe asked.

Yan Suizhi originally wanted to say, tell Mr. Evers on my behalf that the evidence that has been waiting for a long time may soon be the key link.

But after a moment of deliberation, he still smiled and said, "Forget it, it's okay, we'll talk about it when there is a real result, after all, I have a crow's mouth."

Joe: "???"

After cutting off the communication with Joe, the three of them who had been searching for the documents finally felt hungry after a while.

The landlord's stomach growled even more in a face-saving manner.

"Is there a restaurant near here?" Yan Suizhi asked.

Gu Yan was about to search, but saw the landlord waved his hand and said, "Don't look for a restaurant, there is a kitchen here."

Yan Suizhi looked suspiciously at the dark kitchen, "It looks like it has been bombed, are you sure it can be used?"

The landlord said stubbornly: "... yes."

He got up and pawed on a certain table, found out the bag in the convenience store, and while looking for something to eat, he said: "What did I think at the beginning, I actually wanted you to be my tenant? Now that I think about it, it's okay." If I don’t live there, my lifespan will be cut in half.”

Yan Sui's face was calm.

Lawyer Gu was not willing to bother others. He saw that the landlord was struggling, so he proposed again: "There is a house 150 meters away when you turn left."

The landlord finally straightened up, "Let's just settle down first. It's best to clean up the things here tonight, otherwise it's hard to say whether there will be a chance to clean up later."

Yan Suizhi sensed the deep meaning behind his words, frowned and asked, "Did you meet someone? Or did you receive something?"

Mervyn Bai: "As expected of a lawyer, don't you receive threatening emails, you can guess it."

"When did you receive it? Who sent it? Content?" Gu Yan asked the key points in a concise manner.

Mervyn Bai called up the email, flipped it over to them, and said, "I received it when I got off the shuttle. As for when the other party sent it, I don't know, and it has nothing to do with me. Send the email." The person column is blank, without any data. Even a smart phone found on the black market can display a signal or number, but this letter doesn’t even have these, so it’s really troublesome to find it. This has nothing to do with me either. As for the content... "

He paused and said: "It's the most old-fashioned threat, warning me not to say what I shouldn't say, not to do what I shouldn't do, to put it bluntly, don't try to stand on the opposite side of Manson's two little beasts, otherwise I can only get two results. Either, I will be killed by Manson's minions without anyone knowing, or I will go to jail because of some unclear documents."

Yan Suizhi was stunned, "Prisoned?"

"Those documents at the time are actually very difficult to explain now. I said that I didn't know the purpose of the research. Would anyone believe it? Even if someone believed it, would the judge believe it? And the Manson Brothers have plenty of ways to keep me from turning over. But it's still not my business."

After saying this, he lowered his eyes and snorted, with a bit of humorous sarcasm.

This man, who has passed his prime, looks a little thin, with silver-white hair tied up at the back of his head at random, and he has the temperament of a chic artist, but his blue eyes have never been cloudy in the slightest, like a young man clear.

"A disgraceful funeral, or standing alone in the dock?"

He rethought the threat, then smiled nonchalantly in the light.

He said: "Fucking threats, I, Mervyn Bai, the last thing I fear in my life is threats."