companion ghost

Shen Lie walked through the security inspection room of the prison, put his mobile phone and bag on the conveyor belt of the machine, and walked over to let the prison guards in the security inspection scan his whole body. Ning Yuan still wobbled behind him.

After the prison guard finished checking, Shen Lie followed him, and Ning Yuan followed Shen Lie, sighing as he walked, "This women's prison is different from a men's prison."

Shen Lie saw that the prison guard walked some distance away from him, and whispered, "What's the difference?"

Ning Yuan ignored the volume and replied, "Don't you think the women's prison is much quieter? The inmates in the men's prison are screaming so loudly that my ears hurt."

Shen Lie: "..."

Are you talking about people or monkeys?

"But having said that," Ning Yuan poked Shen Lie, "Are you sure Joanna will tell you the truth? That mouth is so strict?"

Shen Lie patiently told him: "Now that the court has been held and the closing statement has been made, even if she admits it, I can't use her as evidence. It doesn't make any difference to her."

Ning Yuan rubbed his chin: "That's right, people tend to vent and stimulate her. She probably can talk about it. After all, there is something hidden in her heart that is easy to get sick."

Shen Lie snorted his head: "She is already sick now."

At this time, the prison guard said to the walkie-talkie: "No. 67, District D, apply to open the door."

After the control room received the message, there was a beep, and the automatic door of the prison opened. The prison guard turned to let Shen Lie (and Ning Yuan) in, and then told the control room to close the door, and then walked aside.

Joanna was wearing an orange prison uniform, her complexion was no longer the arrogance and domineering she was when she first met Shen Lie, her expression was indifferent: "What are you doing here?"

Shen Lie sat down opposite her: "I'm here to find an answer."

"Answer?" Joanna sneered, "Don't you already have it? What answer do you want from me?"

Shen Lie put his hands on the table like a tower, and looked at her: "I have always been puzzled, why did you kill Peggy, or in such a cruel way? She is not as good as you in everything, and she can't do anything to you." What threat, why bother? Put yourself in?"

Joanna didn't speak.

"Don't worry, it's time for the closing statement. Your lawyer should have told you that nothing will change. It all depends on how the jury discusses the verdict."

Joanna smiled indifferently: "Didn't you say that I am sick? Didn't you say that my personality is flawed?"

Shen Lie said: "If there is a defect, there must be a fuse, right?"

Joanna looked at her hands, and those nails that used to be painted with delicate and beautiful patterns have now returned to their original colors: "As for me, I always don't pay attention to people who come from small places like Peggy. , but Peggy is different from them."

Shen Lie didn't speak, but listened to her.

"Peggy also has a rural atmosphere, but what can't be concealed is her confident and sunny feeling." Joanna's eyes were slightly empty, "That feeling is really very attractive, even Luke, who confronted her tit for tat at the beginning, thought that everyone else was stupid, but he couldn't hide it from me, the way he obviously likes you but wants to fight you, really seems to be back when he was a child."

Shen Lie said: "You really misunderstood him, Luke kept talking for you in the interrogation room."

Joanna smiled sarcastically: "Really? He didn't realize it himself. After I got engaged to him, he kept mentioning Peggy intentionally or unintentionally. Later, we had a quarrel because he wanted to give it to me personally. After Peggy made a gift but kept it from me and was exposed by me, he refused to admit it."

Shen Lie frowned slightly: "Just because of this? Are you still because of Luke?"

Ning Yuan touched his hand lightly, signaling him not to worry.

Joanna was very contemptuous: "Luke? What kind of thing is he?"

Shen Lie was a little dazed in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, but Ning Yuan whispered in Shen Lie's ear as if he vaguely understood something: "Jealous."

"On the second day after my quarrel with Luke, I was going to the bathroom at school, and I overheard a few girls laughing and discussing me and Peggy, saying that I'm not easy to get close to, and it's more comfortable to be with Peggy. Joanna's face twisted, "Since when did this world start to revolve around Peggy?"

Shen Lie understood, and then asked: "So what exactly did Peggy tell you that day to anger you?"

When Joanna heard this, her face became more and more ugly: "Although we were arguing that day, I didn't intend to do anything to her, until I accidentally kicked over her shopping bag, and all I saw were maternity and baby products , At that time," Joanna gritted her teeth, "I just found out that she was pregnant! How could she be pregnant? How could she be pregnant?!"

Shen Lie thought of the stacks of documents, and he understood, and asked the most important question: "Then where did you get Peggy's fetus and breasts?"

Joanna suddenly smiled softly: "Since everyone likes her so much, let her accompany you one last time."

Looking at Joanna like this, Ning Yuan suddenly felt chills.

After leaving the prison, Ning Yuan asked Shen Lie: "Why did Joanna react so violently when she found out that Peggy was pregnant?"

Shen Lie wrapped his hands into his own, and explained: "I read the documents that day, and there was a case of Joanna, who was unable to conceive due to too many miscarriages."

Ning Yuan suddenly said: "No wonder, although she doesn't care about a child, this kind of extreme jealousy will prompt her to dig out the fetus."

Shen Lie hummed, suddenly thought of a possibility, and stopped abruptly.

Ning Yuan was startled: "What's wrong?"

Shen Lie frowned tightly, and called Dino in another way without holding Ning Yuan's hand: "Dino, take everyone from the forensic department to the villa where the party is held immediately, give me a little bit Even if it is the fibers of the carpet, I have to know which carpet fell from it!"

Dino was very puzzled: "What's the matter?"

Shen Lie said: "I may know where the fetus and breast are."

Ning Yuan: "..."

Ning Yuan: "!!!"

You know you don't say it? !

I'm still waiting here!

Tribunal 5.

After all twelve jurors were seated, Judge Donovan asked, "Have the jurors reached a unanimous verdict?"

The chief juror stood up and said, "Yes, Your Honor." With that, he handed the verdict to the bailiff, who handed it to Judge Donovan.

At this time, Shen Lie and Gary stood up, including Joanna, waiting for the jury's verdict.

Judge Donovan looked at the verdict and said, "How does the jury decide for the first count of first-degree homicide?"

The chief juror glanced at Joanna and said, "Guilty."

Shen Lie raised the corners of his lips slightly, and Ning Yuan cheered.

"How will the jury judge the second degree of intentional injury?"

"guilty."

Judge Donovan lowered the hammer: "The defendant is immediately remanded in Rikers Prison [Note] for sentencing in three days."

Joanna didn't overreact, but was put in handcuffs with a smile on her face.

When passing by Shen Lie, she took the initiative to ask: "You have achieved your goal, are you happy?"

Shen Lie said coldly: "I represent the government and the people. It is not my purpose to get you a guilty verdict, it is justice."

"Justice?" Joanna snorted, but then smiled strangely: "But it's okay, I think prison life is not bad, there are many people who can play with me."

After she finished speaking, she was taken away. Ning Yuan looked at her back and poked Shen Lie: "Why do I feel so uneasy?"

Shen Lie patted his hand: "It's okay, let her go to jail."

It's too good to think about the prison.

For a little girl like you, if you go in, you will be played by others.

People, don't be too arrogant.

Joanna was convicted. After walking out of the courthouse, Dino and Casey discussed where to go for dinner and asked Shen Lie if he could go. Before Shen Lie could answer, the phone rang and he stood in front of the courthouse for a long time. On the long stairs, switch the briefcase to the left hand, and answer the phone with the right hand: "James?"

"Shen? Our team just completed the on-site evidence collection in that villa..."

Ning Yuan turned to look bored, and when he saw Shen Lie on the phone, he wanted to go over and take a look. He was so curious why didn't he tell him!

But at this moment, he suddenly saw a red spot appear on Shen Lie's chest.

Ning Yuan frowned, thinking that he was wrong, but in the next second, the red dot moved to Shen Lie's forehead.

Ning Yuan suddenly knew what it was.

His mind went blank, he felt cold all over, unable to think, he only remembered what he shouted with a different tone, and also Shen Lie's puzzled eyes, and finally the feeling of something passing through his body, burning him so painfully that he wanted to die , and the last piece of scarlet in front of my eyes.

"boom--!"

[Note] Rikers Prison: English is Rikers, which is one of the prisons in New York City.I'm pretty sure it's a men's prison. I don't know if there is a women's prison. Don't mind me.