Chapter 967: A Surprise Attack at the Elevator

He didn’t call 110. Instead, he contacted his connections in Nancheng City, the same ones he’d contacted last time.

The call went through, so his goal now was to avoid letting the two men behind him catch up.

Although he figured that even if the two men caught him and grabbed him, they wouldn’t kill him right away. They would definitely take even more brutal revenge on him.

Still, he wasn’t going to let them capture him that easily.

His thinking was wrong, though.

If Zhang Yao and the other man caught him, they would definitely hack him to pieces on the spot.

But at least, by a stroke of luck, he was right about one thing.

Zhang Yao and the Purple-Shirted Man chased Lawyer Chen Sanshui at full speed, but for a while, they just couldn’t catch him.

Both of them were exhausted, panting hard.

They gasped for air.

“Seriously, how can someone wearing a suit and leather shoes run so fast?!”

Zhang Yao looked down at his standard sportswear. Even dressed for running, he still couldn’t catch the man ahead of him, whose outfit was obviously ill-suited to running.

The Purple-Shirted Man was exhausted too. “You’ve been here much longer than me, so you’ve probably been cooped up at

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“When people don’t exercise for a long time, their bodies get weaker and weaker.”

“As for that heartless lawyer up ahead, I reckon he exercises plenty.”

Zhang Yao cursed through gritted teeth. “Damn it, just let me catch him! If I do, I’ll chop his little brother off and use it as a drinking snack!!!”

Just as the Purple-Shirted Man had guessed, although Chen Sanshui was busy with his work as a lawyer, he set aside time to exercise every week.

And if anyone had seen him without his clothes, they would have discovered that Chen Sanshui had an eight-pack.

Thanks to those eight-pack abs, Chen Sanshui did pretty well with women.

But he had a particular fondness for young female college students.

He often drove a car worth over a million yuan to pick up women at various universities.

That was why Zhang Yao and the Purple-Shirted Man, despite being better equipped than their target, still couldn’t catch him.

All they could do was wear themselves out chasing Chen Sanshui around in circles.

At last, they circled back to the entrance of Alice Apartment.

Zhang Yao shouted, “Oh no!”

He wasn’t shouting because they couldn’t get out.

Chen Sanshui could get out.

It was because two police cars were parked at the entrance.

Zhang Yao grabbed the Purple-Shirted Man and ran back inside.

When Chen Sanshui reached the entrance, he immediately pointed out the fleeing Zhang Yao and the Purple-Shirted Man to the officers who had gotten out of the cars.

Now the police were chasing the two men instead.

As for Chen Sanshui, he was so exhausted from being chased that he didn’t even care about getting dirty. He simply sat down on a ledge near the apartment entrance.

He lowered his head and panted hard.

About fifteen minutes later,

the four officers returned.

They brought Zhang Yao and the Purple-Shirted Man back with them.

In the end, the two men hadn’t managed to get away.

Chen Sanshui looked at them and curled his lips into a sneer. “Weren’t you two so damn cocky? You chased me for ages. Why’d you stop?”

Zhang Yao looked thoroughly unconvinced. “Let’s see you do that without calling the police.”

Chen Sanshui said, “You, I told you that if you were willing to settle things peacefully, I’d let today’s business go. But after what you’ve done, if I don’t make sure you go back inside for another ten-plus years, then I’m no Chen!”

“And you!”

He pointed at the Purple-Shirted Man. “You two! Couldn’t you just have lived your lives in peace?! You had to go looking for trouble, and now you’ve landed yourselves in prison. There goes the best years of your lives! Serves you right!”

The Purple-Shirted Man was speechless. He thought, “I deserve this. If I’d known it would come to this, I wouldn’t have helped Zhang Yao.”

The four officers cut them off. “All right, stop arguing. Mr. Chen, you’ll need to come to the police station with us as well and give a statement.”

Chen Sanshui nodded. “Sure.”

Then he shot Zhang Yao and the other man a disdainful glance.

The group rode in the police cars to the Nancheng City Police Station.

Zhang Yao and the Purple-Shirted Man were taken to separate interrogation rooms for questioning.

Chen Sanshui also gave his statement.

Once he was done, he had explained everything, so there was nothing more for him to do.

Chen Sanshui left the police station, feeling uncomfortable all over.

The sun had been blazing all day, and he’d spent so long being chased around in the heat by those two men.

His whole body was drenched in sweat.

Alice Apartment was quite a distance away, too.

So he simply bought a few sets of clothes at a nearby clothing store.

Then he went to the nearest hotel.

At the hotel, he took a wonderfully refreshing warm shower.

Afterward, he sat on the bed in the air conditioning and rubbed his face with both hands.

He had to admit, that chase had been thrilling.

“A bunch of paupers, thinking they can win lawsuits.”

“They have no idea that in this world, power, connections, and money are what really matter.”

Chen Sanshui lay on the bed for about ten minutes, then picked up his phone.

He opened an app.

On the app, he saw photos of lots of young women.

In the end, he chose one.

Half an hour later, there was a knock at the door of his hotel room.

He went to open it. A fairly attractive female college student, about 1.7 meters tall, walked in.

Chen Sanshui glanced at her. “I’ve been waiting for you for ages.”

The female college student put down her bag and apologized. “Sorry, bro. My school is a little far from here.”

Chen Sanshui kept her busy for a little over an hour.

When they were done, the college student left first.

He left later.

He hailed a rideshare and returned to Alice Apartment.

It was already past seven in the evening.

He was a little tired.

He glanced at the upscale Alice Apartment and the somewhat dusky sky above it.

All he wanted was to go

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His steps felt heavy.

He passed through the glass automatic sensor door of Building No. 2.

The entire first floor of Building No. 2 was empty and quiet.

Then he went to the elevator and rode it up.

He pressed a floor button.

Soon, the elevator reached that floor, and the doors opened.

The moment they opened, Chen Sanshui jumped in fright. A man was standing right outside the elevator, staring straight at him.

His gaze was frightening, almost sinister.

Chen Sanshui turned sideways to get past him, but the next moment,

the man suddenly pulled a knife out from behind him with his right hand and swung it straight at Chen Sanshui’s neck.

Chen Sanshui tilted his head and dodged. He was just beginning to feel relieved when

he realized the man had a small hammer in his left hand as well. The metal hammer struck him directly on the head.

The blow drew blood and left his head spinning.

“You?!”

Chen Sanshui rushed out of the elevator and made a desperate dash toward his apartment.

But his unsteady steps didn’t carry him far. With a thud, he fell face-first to the ground and passed out completely.

“I’ve been waiting for you for ages! Finally got you.”

The man chuckled as he dragged Chen Sanshui away in one direction...

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Dazed and muddled, with a faint ache in his head,

and accompanied by a jumble of strange gurgling noises from outside,

Chen Sanshui gradually emerged from his nightmare and regained consciousness.