Are You Crazy? He’s only an Intern Lawyer?
Chapter 570 - 563 Tracking Records? Reinforcements Have Arrived

Chapter 570: Chapter 563 Tracking Records? Reinforcements Have Arrived

Wednesday, afternoon

Guan Ping’s residence.

Since Guan Ping had "a new place" to stay, this house was naturally empty.

The house was still relatively simple.

A standard rental, with two bedrooms and a living room.

One room for sleeping, the other served as a storeroom for his repair tools and miscellaneous items, and the living room had also been converted into a workspace with a workbench.

Guan Ping, a burly guy, obviously had no habit of tidying up his room. Many plastic bags and tool packs and toolboxes were just discarded on the floor, placed haphazardly.

The workbench was cluttered with wrenches and repair tools, as well as some assembled parts, altogether quite a mess, enough to make anyone with obsessive-compulsive disorder uncomfortable for an entire day.

"Lucky that those people were surveilling him every day, otherwise it would have been really difficult to find the black umbrella in such a mess!"

Zhang Wei complained as he opened the toolbox and gave it a quick look.

Inside the toolbox, was where the black umbrella was stored, but unfortunately, it had already been sent to the investigators.

"Those guys are really something!" Zhang Wei complained again.

Becoming aware of the hearing results in real-time, knowing that the prosecution lacked critical evidence, and then promptly delivering the "murder weapon."

These people were not just well-connected; they were incredibly powerful!

"So this means there are people from the other side in the hearing, whether it be Zhu Yuansi, Bao Yansu, or someone else?"

With so many targets, Zhang Wei couldn’t pinpoint the suspect.

But he knew that the person behind the scenes absolutely possessed such power.

"Since these guys have searched here, doesn’t that suggest that any evidence that could relate to them would have been cleaned up?"

Zhang Wei searched through the messy living room, the bedroom with just a bed and a clothes rack, and the even more cluttered storeroom, but didn’t find any clues.

Either Guan Ping was careful and prudent, or those people had taken away the black umbrella and conveniently dealt with this place as well.

But thinking of how Guan Ping returned here after the hearing and stayed another night, the former seemed more likely.

However, it was also possible that Guan Ping was too tired, failed to check when he got back to the residence, and missed the details.

Otherwise, if Guan Ping had checked his toolbox immediately upon returning home, maybe he would have noticed the disappearance of the black umbrella.

"Speaking of which, if Guan Ping had always been tracking Lin Berte, could he have left any records behind?"

Zhang Wei pondered another point.

Guan Ping wasn’t smart, and he definitely didn’t have a photographic memory, so having tracked Lin Berte for so long, he surely would have kept records.

And these records hadn’t turned up in the investigators’ hands.

Because such tracking records could also serve as solid proof of Guan Ping’s motive for murdering Lin Berte.

If you didn’t want to kill someone, why would you monitor them every day?

Definitely, these surveillance records could prove Guan Ping’s motive, and together with the "murder weapon black umbrella," Guan Ping wouldn’t be able to defend himself.

Yet, these records hadn’t been handed over to the investigators, indicating they had to still be here.

Where would Guan Ping have placed them?

Zhang Wei felt that his search hadn’t been thorough enough!

He went over Guan Ping’s bedroom and tool room once more, even checking under the bed, almost ready to disassemble it.

Every storage box in the tool room, even the cardboard boxes on the floor, he opened and checked one by one.

Unfortunately, he found nothing.

Finally, Zhang Wei returned to the living room, which was Guan Ping’s workbench.

"If I had known, I should’ve asked Guan Ping before coming back if he had kept any records!"

Zhang Wei felt like he might have done a futile effort.

But he couldn’t just call to ask.

Because he wasn’t sure whether Guan Ping’s phone was being tapped.

Should anything go awry, wouldn’t it scare off the quarry? Everything must stay low-key until Silly arrives.

Zhang Wei’s gaze swept across the entire living room. If there was nothing here, it meant that Guan Ping hadn’t left any records.

After several inspections, he noticed that there indeed seemed to be no place in the living room to store records.

At this point, he was out of options.

He sighed, ready to leave reluctantly.

But just as he approached the door, Zhang Wei heard footsteps.

"Eh, someone’s coming!"

From the sound of the footsteps, there should be two people, their combat abilities yet to be determined.

But Zhang Wei didn’t want to take any risks, so he quietly retreated to the storeroom and found a storage cabinet to hide in.

Soon, the footsteps drew closer, and the door of the room was opened.

"This is the target’s residence, right?"

"Yes, it’s said he’s been monitoring that Cleaner!"

"Let’s see if there’s any surveillance record. The higher-ups asked us to search again to ensure nothing was missed. If we find it, our boss made it clear, we’re to contact him directly!"

The sound of their conversation came from next door, but unfortunately, Zhang Wei, hidden inside the storage bin, could hear it too faintly to make a recording.

Then, the sounds of someone rummaging through boxes and drawers came from next door.

"Darn, they better not search this way," he thought.

Zhang Wei was worried that his hiding place might be discovered.

If those two surveillance guys had blood on their hands, he would have to fight for his life.

Although he had been learning martial arts from Zhang Xinwu and often sparred with her, he was actually completely overpowered every time.

His combat abilities were only slightly better than the average person.

He could handle one or two strong men, but he was no match for those seasoned fighters.

As Zhang Wei considered his situation, the storage room door opened.

The atmosphere immediately became tense.

"Have we searched in here twice already? Do we really need to look again?"

"Look for what, damn it? It’s all mechanical parts in here, all covered with grease. I don’t want to dirty my clothes!"

"Then I’m not looking either, my clothes are new. If it’s all greasy, it will be hard to wash."

Well, Zhang Wei hadn’t expected that what stopped these two from finding him would be the motor oil in the storage room.

Anyway, the two people outside seemed to have searched the storage room before, so they were too lazy to do it again this time.

And they didn’t seem to have high hopes about finding their target in the storage room.

Soon, like Zhang Wei, they searched the place all over and found nothing.

"Damn, we’ve been monitoring this guy for several months now. If there really was a record, how could we not find it!"

"Yeah!"

Annoyed, the two of them sat on the workbench.

"Damn it, I wouldn’t have taken this job if I knew it would be like this from the start!"

"No way around it, if the boss tells us to do it, we’ve got to do it."

"By the way, that guy named Guan Ping was locked up in the detention center today, right? Didn’t his lawyer bail him out?"

"Probably too lazy to bother. I heard there’s a hearing tomorrow; the lawyer doesn’t care about a day or two."

"That’s true."

The two chattered away for a while, then prepared to leave.

Crack!

But just then, the workbench seemed to be unable to withstand the weight of the two men and split open.

Crash!

Then came the sound of something heavy falling to the ground; the workbench collapsed, causing both men to fall onto the floor, quite embarrassingly.

"Shit, what kind of crappy quality is this damn table?"

"Wait a minute, this thing is hollow. There seems to be something hidden inside!"

Zhang Wei, who was in hiding, got a jolt when he heard this.

Could it be that Guan Ping hid something important inside the hollow workbench?

Goodness!

No wonder he, as a criminal defense attorney skilled in criminal investigation, couldn’t find it—it was right under their noses all along.

There’s a good question to ask: where is the safest place to hide a treasure?

Hiding it in the furthest place where no one can find it, that is the wrong answer.

The right answer is to hide it closest by, where everyone thinks it isn’t a treasure at all!

So Guan Ping had hidden everything inside the workbench, which was the first thing anyone would see coming into this rental room.

You have to admit, although Guan Ping wasn’t the brightest, occasionally he could pull off a surprisingly clever move.

Unfortunately, his luck was poor, as he happened to encounter two people who were idle and bored.

With both of them sitting on the bench, it broke under their weight.

Now, the secret was completely exposed.

"Haha, found it!"

Sure enough, one of them found a notebook. Upon opening it, they discovered it was full of timelines and notes.

As they flipped through the pages, each was filled with Lin Berte’s movements, what he did that day, and records of whom he met.

"This is what the boss wanted us to find. Just hand it over to the Procuratorate Headquarters, and that guy will definitely end up in prison!"

"Heh, mission accomplished. Now we can finally go back and report!"

The two men outside were elated, as if they could finally end their miserable mission. They couldn’t help but smile.

Clang!

But at that moment, a noise came from within the storage room.

It sounded like something had fallen to the ground.

The sound wasn’t jarring, but in the quiet room, it was somewhat unsettling.

"With all that noise just now, something in the storage room fell too?"

One of the newcomers began to speculate.

He nudged his chin toward the other person, signaling him to go in and have a look.

"Do we need to do that? We’ve already searched through everything in there. If there was anything important, we should have discovered it earlier."

"Just have a look, it won’t hurt!"

"Fine, then!"

The second person shook his head, sounding somewhat impatient, but still he went over.

As he opened the door to the storage room, and barely got halfway through his scan, a hand that came from the shadows grabbed his neck and dragged him into the storage room.

"You, you are... "

Pitter-patter, bang-bang!

As the man shouted out half a sentence in alarm, a series of chaotic sounds of struggle ensued.

"What’s happening!"

The first man was somewhat astonished.

Was there a third person in this room?

"Hey, what’s happening with you, what’s the situation in there?"

Seeing his partner making no movement, the first man started to panic, quickly picking up a wrench from the ground, preparing to sneak up cautiously.

Just as he reached the door of the storage room, ready to peek inside, the door suddenly opened, and a storage box flew out toward him.

"Fuck, an ambush!"

He yelled out, lifting his hand to block, deflecting the storage box.

Immediately after, he saw a figure rushing towards him, his eyes quickly focusing on the attacker, trying to capture their movements.

"Quick, take the chance to escape!"

But the person who struck called out toward the bathroom.

The first man was greatly shocked; there was a fourth person in the room, hiding in the bathroom.

"Wait, we’ve checked the bathroom, there’s no way someone could be in there!"

He then realized that apart from the storage room, they had thoroughly searched everywhere else.

A small bathroom, how could it possibly hide a person from his and his partner’s watchful eyes?

This was a fake, no one was hidden inside.

But as he came to this realization, because of his earlier contemplation, his movements were already half a beat too slow.

He had just lifted his hand to prepare to fend off an attack when he got punched in the stomach.

Struck hard in the stomach, he folded with pain, his back arched, and he fell to the ground curled up like a shrimp.

"You..."

"You what? Hand it over!"

The ambusher didn’t care for explanations, simply snatched the notebook from his hand, and then dashed out the door, running downstairs in an instant.

A few seconds later, sounds of movement came from inside the storage room, and then the second man came out staggering, holding his forehead.

Clearly, his head had taken a heavy blow, and his body had lost some balance.

"Are you okay?"

"I’m fine, although I can’t quite stand up yet, but I should be fine!"

The man on the ground panted heavily, responding to his partner.

"However, that person took the notebook we found!"

"What should we do now?"

"Did you get a good look at that person’s face?"

"Seemed like a young man, in a suit and tie, looking just like a... "

"Lawyer!"

"Right, right, like a lawyer!"

The two exchanged glances and then they both realized who that person was.

"What do we do?"

"What else can we do, of course we notify the boss, let him take care of it. Now that we’re exposed, we’ll need to mobilize the gang’s strength!"

The later person spoke as he struggled to rise, clutching his stomach and said coldly, "In this area, there’s nobody that our Qing Jiao Gang can’t handle!"

...

At the same time.

Zhang Wei, having obtained the tracking record, immediately headed for the hotel where he was staying.

As soon as he arrived at the hotel, Zhang Wei grabbed Old Tie without a word and dragged him to change locations.

"Old Tie, stop resting, we need to move quickly!"

"Zhang Wei, what are you doing, can’t you let people rest properly?"

Tie Ruyun was bewildered, he was just about to rest, and here Zhang was pulling him away—wasn’t this inappropriate?

"Old Tie, stop complaining, I got hold of a piece of evidence, but also stirred up some trouble. They might come after me..."

Zhang Wei was just about to say something when his phone suddenly rang.

It was a text message, and it was from Xia Qianyue.

[Zhang Wei, we’re in Longdu, right outside your hotel!]

Seeing the text message, Zhang Wei grabbed Old Tie’s hand and then let go.

"Oh, the simpleton has arrived, well, then there’s nothing to worry about!"

It usually takes about two and a half hours to fly from Dongfang Capital to Longdu.

Excluding buying tickets, preparing luggage, and waiting for the flight, leaving in the morning usually means arriving in Longdu by the evening.

So, it was natural for Xia Qianyue and her group to arrive around this time.

And with Xia Qianyue’s arrival, things were going to be different.

"All right, Old Tie, continue your rest, I’ll go downstairs to meet the simpleton and the others!"

"The simpleton?"

Tie Ruyun remembered that this was a nickname for Zhang Wei’s girlfriend.

"Sure, go ahead... Wait a second, you said ’they’..."

It took a moment for Tie Ruyun to react.

It seemed that Zhang Wei wasn’t referring to one person, but ’they’?

What was this situation, bringing your girlfriend on a business trip to Longdu is one thing, but why did you bring more than one woman?

Hey, hey, hey!

Even though it’s not a business trip on public expense and the law firm won’t reimburse the cost, you can’t do this...

Alas, Tie Ruyun’s complaints fell on deaf ears; Zhang Wei couldn’t hear them anymore.

He was now in the hotel lobby on the first floor, meeting his reinforcements.

"Zhang Wei!"

"Simpleton!"

Zhang Wei was thrilled to see Xia Qianyue, even giving her a hug.

"Zhang Wei!"

"Xiao Xiao!"

Seeing the second girl made Zhang Wei very happy, and he quickly touched her forehead.

Naturally, this caused the girl some annoyance as she inwardly remarked that she wasn’t a child anymore.

"Zhang~"

"Jessica!"

Upon seeing Jessica, Zhang Wei was excited, and he gave her a big hug.

All one could say was that it was, well, quite big!

"Zhang Wei!"

"Classmate Mo!"

Zhang Wei was happy to see Mo Yuzhu, and he waved to greet her.

Mo Yuzhu pursed her lips, seeming a bit unhappy.

Why do you hug Xia Qianyue and Jessica, yet not hug me?

Zhang Wei explained that he definitely could hug Classmate Mo, considering her ’size’ wasn’t small either.

But with the simpleton right beside him, he had to be mindful of the impression it might make.

"Let’s go, I’ll check you into your rooms, and then we can head up!"

After registering rooms for the four girls at the hotel front desk, Zhang Wei helped take Xia Qianyue and the others’ luggage upstairs.

Inside the elevator, Zhao Xiaoxiao and the rest started to chat.

"Although I came to Dragon Country quite early, this is my first time in Longdu, you know~"

"I’ve been here before, but the last time I visited Longdu, I was a child. Ever since what happened to my parents, I haven’t traveled for a long time!"

"Hehe, Zhang Wei is covering our expenses, so this time we have to visit all the places and cover every tourist spot, teeheehee..."

The group of girls were all very excited, especially the second girl, who had already started planning how to milk Zhang Wei for all he was worth.

"Zhang Wei, you mentioned you were facing some difficulties and needed our help?"

Xia Qianyue was different; her face was full of concern.

"Simpleton, there may be some people coming to find us later, remember to go easy on them, all right?"

Zhang Wei hastily advised, as people would definitely be showing up soon, but if Xia Qianyue didn’t control herself, it could very well end in fatalities.

He didn’t want Xia Qianyue and the others to get into trouble right upon their arrival in Longdu.

Besides, he already had two murder charges on his hands; he certainly didn’t need a third one cropping up.

At the same time, he hoped that those behind the two individuals wouldn’t push things too far.

Otherwise, he couldn’t guarantee what kind of extreme actions Xia Qianyue might take.

If things weren’t handled properly, there could indeed be a real fatality!