Chapter 1 The Weary Lawyer

In the early morning, at Shuangliu Airport in Rong City, Attorney An emerged from the airport looking weary. He got into the private car he had booked and headed straight for Dujiangyan.

"Driver, is it okay to smoke?"

Before the driver could answer, Attorney An took out a cigarette and tossed one to the driver in front.

He opened the car window, lit his cigarette, and felt like cursing.

He had already said he wouldn't come on this trip, suggesting the little boy go instead, maybe he could freeload a little.

After all, every hair on that person's body was thicker than an ordinary person's waist.

He could have rested, let himself go in the absence of his boss, and taken a little vacation.

Maybe even fly to Sanya and relax at a trendy hotel.

But man proposes, God disposes.

He came anyway. There were no flights from Tong City to Rong City at night, so he had to drive overnight to Shanghai Pudong Airport, barely catching a red-eye flight, arriving in Rong City early in the morning, and rushing to Dujiangyan.

His boss and the others were following the original plan to fly directly from Tong City to Rong City in the afternoon, then transfer to Dujiangyan. He, An, was there to scout ahead.

After all, he was the one who arranged for the construction of this nursing home, and he personally handled the later planning and security arrangements. Now that something had happened, he definitely had to come.

He had a vague feeling that this matter was definitely unusual.

Rubbing his temples, Attorney An felt a little irritable. He dialed several numbers in his phone's address book, but they were all turned off.

The situation at the nursing home was worrying.

The car exited the highway and turned onto a smaller road, close to Mount Qingcheng.

"Hmm? Why are there so many fruit trees here?"

Attorney An glanced out the window and noticed rows upon rows of fruit trees on the other side of the road. Even though he hadn't worked on a farm, he could tell that the density was too high, not suitable for fruit tree growth or fruit production.

"Hey, a few years ago, a team of surveyors in uniforms came and measured the fields, spreading rumors that the land was going to be requisitioned."

"And then?"

"Then the villagers in the local villages mobilized urgently, planting saplings frantically for two sleepless nights, hoping to get more money when the land was requisitioned."

"So, it wasn't demolished? They thought the cost was too high, so they didn't do it?"

The driver smiled, with a hint of schadenfreude, and said:

"Those surveyors were just vendors selling saplings who hired people to pose."

"That's a good trick."

"Alright, brother, the road ahead is closed today, so I can only take you this far."

"Okay."

Attorney An got out of the car and began to recall the route from his last visit, estimating that he could save time by not continuing along the road and instead crossing the mountain pass beside him.

Soon, the nursing home would be in sight.

But now you couldn't see anything related to the nursing home.

The nursing home, originally built on a dam,

was now a large area of ​​mud and swamp.

It was a mudslide...

Down below, there were two tents. As Attorney An walked over, he saw the security team leader who had called him before.

"Director An, you've finally arrived!"

The security team leader was a local in his forties. Seeing Attorney An at this moment, as if he had finally found a backbone, he immediately ran over crying.

Attorney An nodded, letting the other party grab his arm and cry incessantly, walking forward on his own. He saw two men in security uniforms sitting blankly inside the tent, probably scared out of their wits.

Taking a deep breath,

he turned to face the muddy ground in front of him again.

Attorney An felt conflicted.

He didn't believe it was a natural disaster.

That "spider" had stayed here for so long without anything happening. Something happened just when he took over. Who would believe it was an accident?

This matter had not been publicized, because the nursing home was not in the approval sequence. Attorney An had used his special means to create it, so to speak. It was a nursing home that did not exist in any documents, but existed in reality.

"Where are the others?"

Attorney An asked.

"They're gone, all gone. There are still three brothers inside, can't find them at all."

Attorney An took a deep breath upon hearing this.

Which meant that,

the residents here before,

were all gone,

those,

were all rich people.

…………

Attorney An was busy with the aftermath all day, paying compensation, giving out pensions, settling everything that needed to be settled.

How much money was spent was secondary. The most important thing was to minimize the impact of the incident here.

At least,

until the boss and the others arrived,

after solving the things that really needed to be solved,

whatever happened after that didn't matter.

Those rich people were dead, so be it. Anyway, their state of living was not much different from being dead. It might even be a kind of relief, but Attorney An felt a bit guilty about the security guards and offered their families the greatest sincerity in compensation.

Attorney An didn't call a construction team. The swamp in front of him couldn't be solved by a few excavators, and besides, it wasn't appropriate to make too much noise at this time.

As dusk approached,

Zhou Ze arrived here with Yingying and the little boy.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhou Ze frowned deeply.

"I've taken care of the aftermath. Several security guards were injured, and several are still inside." Attorney An reported in a low voice, "It is said that around this time yesterday, there was a sudden clap of thunder, and then a landslide triggered a mudslide, which directly covered this place."

"Those residents from before, they're all gone too?"

"Gone."

Zhou Ze remembered that there was a man who wanted to help him do research with his mother. What a pity...

But this was not the time for reminiscence.

The timing of this natural disaster was very strange,

so we had to guess what the motive behind this was.

It wasn't continuous days of heavy rain, and there was no earthquake. Where did the mudslide come from?

"Old An, just locate that entrance."

"Okay."

Attorney An nodded, signaling the little boy to follow him.

He originally wanted to call Yingying over too, but after thinking about it, he decided to give the little boy more opportunities to show off.

So,

the next scene was,

one big and one small standing in the mud,

the adult directing the little one,

throwing out huge rocks and reinforced concrete "bang bang bang",

this cleanup efficiency,

was much higher than finding a construction team, and the purpose of doing so was not to clean up the entire area, but just to get that "entrance" out again.

Zhou Ze found an open space on the opposite slope and sat down,

while Yingying returned to the highway on the other side of the mountain, carrying the three suitcases from the car back over the mountain.

If she wasn't afraid of damaging the car by dragging it over,

she might have really dragged the business van she rented after getting off the plane directly over the mountain.

Over there,

Attorney An was working hard with his companion, as if they were doing the work of an entire construction team.

Over here,

Yingying was hand-grinding coffee beans for Zhou Ze,

with a small stove next to her, burning a gas canister, and boiling mineral water.

Even though they were in the wilderness at this time,

Yingying brewed a cup of rich coffee for her boss.

Afterwards,

Yingying frantically added water to the kettle,

and then poured the coffee into the large iron can,

filling Attorney An's super cup,

Yingying got up,

and asked Zhou Ze:

"Boss, are you hungry?"

If Zhou Ze said he was hungry, Yingying might go directly into the mountains to hunt and make an outdoor BBQ for Zhou Ze.

"Not hungry."

Zhou Ze shook his head.

"Then I'll go down to help Attorney An and the others?"

"Okay."

"Okay, Boss."

Yingying went to the tent, changed her clothes, and then stepped into the mud.

Finally,

in reality,

Boss Zhou fulfilled a curious idea from before,

his Yingying,

finally worked as a construction worker in front of him,

the two zombies worked together,

Attorney An directed from the side,

working with great enthusiasm!

Zhou Ze took a sip of coffee and pursed his lips.

At Zhou Ze's feet, lay a Garfield cat, looking utterly hopeless.

Zhou Ze reached out and rubbed its belly, and when he was tired of rubbing, he patted it, causing it to roll over, and then rubbed its butt again.

The ferret had become accustomed to this kind of passive acceptance. Even with this Garfield cat cosplay, it only protested at the beginning, and then dared not say anything more.

However, as Zhou Ze kneaded its butt and changed its shape,

a rare look of depth appeared in its eyes,

while continuing to stick out its butt to cater to Zhou Ze,

its eyes were looking around,

with an attitude of "you do your thing, I'll play on my phone."

At this time, it was slowly getting dark,

and he instinctively felt a little uneasy.

He stood up, took a few steps to the side, looked up at the sky, and then looked back at the bookstore members clearing the mud in front of him.

He muttered to himself:

"Is that half-face still down there?"

After a while,

after that quarrel with himself,

a voice that hadn't surfaced for a long time slowly sounded:

"He…………still…………is…………"

"I thought you weren't there anymore."

Zhou Ze took another sip of coffee.

"Is…………there…………"

"Then what is this all about?"

"I…………don't…………know…………"

"You rarely admit you don't know so frankly."

"Go…………back…………"

"Huh?"

Zhou Ze was a little surprised,

Iron Head was,

backing down?

Oh my gosh,

this was truly a rare sight.

"Hey, this isn't like you. Hehe, tell me, what are you so afraid of?"

"I…………afraid…………my…………dog…………died…………"