vrcanaries Chapter 884 Impression
Chapter 884 Impression
The monkey felt the pain, turned around furiously, and slapped Carlos with its huge palm. The moment Jack stepped into the rain forest, he felt as if he had plunged into a humid steamer. The thick air, wrapped in the smell of rotten leaves, moss and unknown plants, went straight into his nostrils, and the heat and humidity made even his breathing sticky. Above his head, the tall trees were like a natural dome, and the layers of branches and leaves almost covered the entire sky. The sunlight could only penetrate the gaps, casting mottled light and shadows on the ground, like countless pairs of prying eyes. Carlos walked at the front of the team, his dark arms were muscular, and the machete in his hand was waving rhythmically. The sharp blade cut through the vines and bushes, making a crisp "crackling" sound, opening up a narrow path that only one person could pass through. Every swing of the knife would bring up tiny grass clippings and flying insects. Jack and Ava followed closely behind, constantly using their hands to drive away the mosquitoes that flew towards them. "Be careful of these ghosts." Carlos said without turning his head, and at the same time reached out and slapped a spotted mosquito that tried to land on his neck. "The mosquitoes here can spread malaria, which is more deadly than bullets." His reminder made Jack and Ava tighten their collars and cover their skin as much as possible. Ava carried a heavy backpack, observing the surroundings vigilantly, and occasionally looking down at the map in her hand. "Her nails dug deep into her palms," until I found out that he had even prepared a divorce agreement. "The final trial was full of gunpowder. I displayed the evidence of Lin Man's crime one by one, but at the critical moment, I found that the key witness was missing - the hardware store owner who had seen Lin Man buy lock-picking tools, his mobile phone was turned off, and the store was empty. In court, Lin Man put on an elegant mask again and cried to the jury: "I am just a poor woman who lost her husband..." After the court was adjourned, I was attacked in the underground garage. When the iron rod hit my scalp, I touched the recorder in my pocket - in the anonymous package I received this morning, in addition to Zhou Yuanshan's financial fraud evidence, there was also a video of Lin Man. While talking to a mysterious man, I could hear the sound of a safe turning in the background. As the sirens of the ambulance got closer, I finally saw the tattoo on the back of the attacker's neck, which was exactly the same as the figure climbing through the window in the surveillance video. Three months later, the truth came to light. Lin Man was sentenced to life imprisonment for intentional homicide, and Zhou Yuanshan's fraud case implicated a huge scandal in both the political and business circles. Shen Zhixia presented her newly designed jewelry series in court, with a small scale engraved on each piece. "The law may be late," she held up her work to the camera, "but the scale of justice will never disappear. "I stood on the rooftop of the law firm, looking at the city's neon lights twisted into a bizarre vortex in the rain. A news push popped up on my phone that a senior official had been dismissed for taking bribes. The night wind wrapped in drizzle hit my face, and I remembered Lin Man's last words. I suddenly realized that between the rise and fall of the gavel, every judgment is a weighing of justice. And those secrets hidden in the darkness will eventually be exposed under the light of the law. However, the peaceful days did not last long. Late one night, I received a new letter of authorization. The client was a mysterious woman wearing a black veil. She pushed a case file over. The face of the deceased in the photo was peaceful, but the cause of death was marked as "accidental fall from the building." "Lawyer Xu," she took off her gloves, and the hideous scar on the back of her hand was winding like a snake, "In this case, can you bear the weight of the gavel falling? "Thunder exploded outside the window, and lightning illuminated the USB flash drive she handed me. The flashing file name inside made my pupils shrink suddenly - it was a top-secret file about a medical accident twenty years ago, and the presiding judge at that time was the big shot in the legal world today. I held the pen tightly and signed my name on the contract. The ink smudged on the rice paper, like a mark that could never be erased under the gavel.
The dusk in Manaus was wrapped in the steaming humidity of the Amazon rainforest, covering the entire city like an airtight net. Jack Morrison curled up in the corner of the "Crocodile Tears" bar, his fingers unconsciously rubbing the cracks on the rim of the cup. The spiciness of rum surged in his throat, but it could not extinguish the frustration in his eyes - three months ago, his expedition in the Mexican jungle ended in failure. Not only did he gain nothing, but he also lost the team's most advanced geological detector. The email about the sponsor's withdrawal of investment lay in his mobile phone. The screen had long been turned off, but it was like a wound that would never heal. The chandelier in the bar swayed above his head, casting flickering light and shadow, cutting the tattered map on the table into fragmented puzzles. This was all the hard work of his five years of exploration career. It was covered with red and blue marks. Some places were repeatedly altered, and the ink was smudged into blurred blocks of color. The most recent date marked was half a year ago, and the location was written as "Suspected ruins in the Andes Mountains of Peru."
The strong wind created by the giant ape's attack swept the surrounding leaves and debris into the air. Jack staggered and almost dropped the gun in his hand. He pulled the trigger and the bullet hit the purple hair on the ape's shoulder, splashing a string of sparks, but only leaving a white mark on the thick skin. The ape beat its chest in anger and let out a deafening roar. The sound waves shook the surrounding trees and countless insects flew out from the cracks in the bark. Carlos rushed towards the ape with a machete in hand, trying to attack its lower body. But the ape moved incredibly fast. With a kick of its thick hind legs, it instantly jumped more than three meters into the air and avoided Carlos' attack. When it landed, its huge paw hit the ground heavily, shaking the entire earth. Carlos was unsteady and almost fell. Ava hid behind a big tree, keeping a close eye on the ape's every move. She noticed that when the monkey turned around, the bone necklace on its neck would make a "clattering" sound, and the glowing crystal-like substance on its chest would also flash. "Its weakness might be there!" Ava thought to herself, but at this moment, the monkey's crazy attack made it impossible for them to get close. The monkey attacked again, grabbing a small tree as thick as a bowl and sweeping it towards Jack like swinging a baseball bat. Jack rolled on the ground, and the small tree hit the ground, rubbing his scalp, and the splashing wood chips scratched his cheek. Before he could get up, the monkey chased him again, and the smelly saliva dripped on the place where he had just dodged, instantly corroding the ground into a deep pit. Carlos seized the opportunity, rushed up from the side, and chopped the monkey's hind legs with a machete. The blade chopped on the monkey's leg bone, making a loud sound like metal collision, but only leaving a shallow scratch.