Chapter 613 - 402: Confession! [Double-Length, Please Vote!]
Chapter 613: Chapter 402: Confession! [Double-Length, Please Vote!]
"Mr. Sun, you don’t want the court to sentence you to death yourself, do you..."
Xu Liang’s face showed a squinting smile.
As his words fell.
The whole visitation room seemed to sink into a deathly silence.
Sun Hu’s expression was extremely ugly, his whole face seemed to droop onto the floor. Looking at Xu Liang, his pupils quaked, his heart in shock, as if furious waves were crashing inside him.
’LSD... drugs, he knows the truth about the "stamps"!!!’
’How does he know? Provoking me? Or bluffing!? No... he already stated it accurately...’
’What should I do, what should I do...’
Sun Hu’s breathing grew more and more agitated, his mind suddenly went blank, countless thoughts churning nonstop in his head.
Only after a long while did he force himself to speak:
"I... I don’t know what you’re talking about."
After speaking, Sun Hu clenched his jaw tight, his face taut, refusing to say another word.
"Don’t know what I’m talking about? Really?"
Xu Liang’s face showed a slight smile; then he leaned back, changing into a more comfortable posture.
The other party isn’t just being stubborn like a dead duck; most likely he’s trying to test exactly how much Xu Liang knows about this!
If it were an ordinary person who only knew bits and pieces, right now they’d be showing their clumsy hand, letting Sun Hu catch a flaw. But unfortunately for him, Xu Liang knows even more than Sun Hu guessed!
"In ’04, Sun Long disappeared. When he turned up again, it was to confirm that he’d died down in a sewer."
"When his body was processed, the coroner found a ’stamp’ in Sun Long’s mouth. Unfortunately, because the stamp was too badly corroded, it didn’t draw any attention at the time."
"They just classified the case as an accident—Sun Long slipped and fell to his death."
"But..."
As he spoke, Xu Liang stared straight into Sun Hu’s eyes, a faint, elusive smile creeping onto his face.
His voice was like a whisper in the ear, threading straight into the other man’s head.
"In reality, Sun Long had a drug craving attack, so he put a ’stamp’ in his mouth outside."
"And on that stamp was ’Lysergic acid diethylamide’, better known as LSD, a very powerful synthetic hallucinogen."
"Its hallucinogenic effect is extremely strong, and as Sun Long took it, he fell into a hallucination."
"In the end, that’s how he silently, without anyone noticing, died down in the sewer!"
Lost in a hallucination, Sun Long might have fallen by accident, or he might have willingly lifted the manhole cover and jumped in.
In any case...
"Mr. Sun, do you understand what I mean now?"
Xu Liang smiled, looking at the sweating Sun Hu in front of him, both hands clenched tight, his gaze seemingly gentle.
Looking at Xu Liang through the glass.
Sun Hu was dumbfounded.
Right now he just felt his head buzzing!
Sun Long is almost a year dead. The body’s been cremated, only some bone fragments left!
The stamp in his mouth can’t possibly be analyzed now for LSD content; even professional coroners who tested the "stamp" back then didn’t detect anything.
But it’s been a year...
How can Xu Liang know the truth of the cause of death one year later!?
You have to understand, a year ago Xu Liang was still in Hanhai City busy with lawsuits; theoretically, there’s no way he could know about this!
But regardless... right now this matter has been laid out on the table by the other side.
How is he supposed to face it?
Admit it?
The moment he thought of what would happen after he admitted it, Sun Hu’s heart trembled. He gritted his teeth hard, squeezing out a sentence from between them.
"Lawyer Xu... I don’t know what you’re talking about."
He had to gamble.
He’d gamble that since Sun Long is already dead, Xu Liang can’t dig up evidence to prove what he just said!
"Heh, you don’t know?"
Xu Liang chuckled, no anger on his face, only...
In a blur, he suddenly shifted his tone, a hint of contempt in his voice.
"In your home..."
"Do I really need to spell out what’s hidden in the chicken coop?"
Hidden in the chicken coop....
Those few words landed.
Like peals of thunder crashing through Sun Hu’s mind.
His face went deathly pale in an instant, and he jerked his head up, staring at Xu Liang in disbelief.
LSD "stamps" are hidden in the chicken coop, and high-purity ones at that—how does he know!?
Didn’t Feng Xiang say he’d already taken them? How could... how could....
"You..."
Sun Hu stared fixedly at Xu Liang in front of him, panting hard, yet it felt like he wasn’t getting any oxygen, his mind in a complete daze.
"Spit it out. After all, this is a good chance to earn some merit. Mr. Sun, don’t let it slip by."
Xu Liang reminded him from the side.
Doesn’t matter whether he actually has the stuff in his hands or can show it to him.
As long as he says it out of his own mouth, that’s enough!
Feng Xiang isn’t in Upper City anyway.
The guy can’t very well, with his drug craving, call Sun Hu out of nowhere and say the LSD in the chicken coop has all been "destroyed", that Xu Liang is just tricking him.
That’s simply unrealistic.
So..... with Sun Hu’s personal freedom restricted, whatever Xu Liang says, becomes the truth!
"Mr. Sun, you’d better think this through."
Xu Liang was still smiling pleasantly; his voice sounded gentle, but in the other man’s ears it was no different than having a knife pressed to his neck.
"You’ve already been sentenced to death with reprieve. If this comes out and the sentences are combined..."
"You really will be sentenced to death!"
The words "death sentence" landed.
Sun Hu’s pupils shrank sharply, as if his skull had been smashed with a club.
"You!"
He stared up at Xu Liang in disbelief, wanting to say something but unable to, only clutching at his collar with both hands, fixing his eyes on the other man.
Eastern Country’s handling of drug offenders is extremely strict.
The stuff Sun Hu hid in the chicken coop isn’t in huge quantity, only a few dozen stamps, less than a hundred.
Each one carries several thousand or tens of thousands of micrograms of LSD.
Say tens of thousands, but in reality it’s just a few milligrams, not even a single gram.