Chapter 416: Legal Aid Must Be Legal!

Zhou Yi himself was not entirely asleep either; after all, the situation here was special.

At this moment, he suddenly woke up, poked his head out to look, and holy cow, it really was true—there were actually a few people sneaking around opening the doors, seemingly about to move things out.

"What do we do? Should we rush up and stop them?" Shizi asked from the side.

"Call the police first!"

No matter what, calling the police first is always the right move.

"First floor of Guangming Peak Building, Qiji Fitness, yes, yes, yes, we see many people have opened the doors and are stealing the equipment inside..."

There is a technique to reporting to the police; put it this way, can you say he is filing a false report?

Of course not. It's pitch black and I couldn't possibly get close to look, so who knows who they are? What if they really are here to steal things?

And besides this point, you also need to state the location of the incident clearly to make it convenient for them to dispatch officers.

As for why you ask me why I'm setting up a tent here in the middle of the night, that is my own personal reason; as long as the building's Property Management allows it, there is no law forbidding it, right?

After reporting to the police, the next step is to call the Property Management security guards.

"This... I think we could go up and stop them ourselves; if we wait for them to come, they might have already moved everything away." Shizi watched Zhou Yi making non-stop phone calls from the side and couldn't help but speak up.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yi did not explain, but first finished calling the security guards he had left his number with today, saying the same thing: telling them someone was stealing things!

Thanks to the few packs of cigarettes he had given them, the night-shift security guards hurried over here very quickly!

After all, this was also their duty; the Property Management side had actually told them to pay attention and not let people move the equipment away casually.

After all, this fitness center still owed a portion of its rent.

After finishing the calls, Zhou Yi began to issue a call to action in the group chat, and started calling the users with larger amounts one by one to notify them.

Once everything was done, Zhou Yi then said: "Brother Shizi, for Legal Aid, we must first clarify one point: be legal, you must be legal!"

"Rushing up to have a conflict with them directly is extremely unwise; even if a conflict is going to happen, it must be stated in the police report beforehand, saying that we are going up to perform a righteous act to stop them."

Although this feels a bit like doing something unnecessary, being careful never hurts!

Many people end up in trouble themselves while seeking Legal Aid; some get put into Detention, and some even end up suspected of committing crimes, so one must be very cautious!

Shizi rubbed his head and nodded; although he felt there was no need to be this careful, being careful didn't seem like a bad thing either.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Zhao Zhipeng kept urging the few people to move faster.

But this was a fitness center, and there was quite a lot of equipment; it really did take some time to move it all, and there was no helping the urging.

Fortunately, no one had discovered them, and Zhao Zhipeng wasn't too worried.

Just at this moment, several bright beams of light suddenly appeared at the entrance!

"Stealing things, are you? All of you, stop!" the security guard in front shouted there.

Although he was already... at an age where you couldn't tell how old he was, the old gentleman's legs and feet were still very nimble, and he shouted directly there.

The flashlight shone straight onto Zhao Zhipeng's face!

Behind him were a few slightly younger security guards.

"At that age, can he handle it?" Shizi glanced at those security guards and said, a bit speechless.

Zhou Yi smiled upon hearing this: "It is precisely because of his age that it is effective."

"There is Monitoring everywhere here; at that age, if they dared to give him a shove, the person might just end up lying there. Everyone is doing this for money, so who would dare to do that..."

Could this be considered a different kind of protection?

In any case, in many places now, security guards are basically all of a certain age, or they are the very young type.

Sure enough, Zhao Zhipeng here was a bit at a loss after seeing the few security guards appear.

Their operation was very secretive, specifically chosen for this time, and they came sneaking around, thinking they wouldn't be discovered at all. Are the security guards here this responsible?

However, he had thought about this situation before coming; while letting those movers continue to move, he walked up and very naturally took out cigarettes.

"Come on, everyone, have a smoke first."

The few security guards looked at them; they also knew clearly what was going on in their hearts, but hey, a free cigarette is a free cigarette.

So they stepped aside a little and took them to start smoking.

Only the old security guard in front curled his lip; what kind of cigarette was this? It was far worse compared to the cigarette that young man had given them.

There was no helping it; Zhou Mouren himself didn't smoke, but there were definitely no shortage of cigarettes at home, all of which were for giving to others when he went out.

Seeing that the other party had smoked the cigarette, Zhao Zhipeng then very naturally said: "About that, let me explain, we aren't here to steal things; we were hired by someone else to move these things."

As he spoke, Zhao Zhipeng pointed at the fitness center and continued: "Because this storefront is going to be renovated, the owner of this shop intends to move all this equipment out and put it in a warehouse for a period of time."

"If you don't believe me, you can take a look; the business license is on that wall, and I have the contract given by that boss here."

Anyway, they had made it all up themselves; they were very experienced in this regard.

As he spoke, Zhao Zhipeng had already taken out the contract; looking at the content on it, it was indeed correct.

The old security guard asked: "But this fitness center still owes our building rent, so you cannot move the things away right now."

Zhao Zhipeng got a bit anxious upon hearing this: "Don't be like that; look, we are just working for others, helping people do their jobs. We don't know about the boss's business, so why make things difficult for us?"

As he spoke, he took out the entire pack of cigarettes he had just opened and stuffed it into the old security guard's hand.

However, the old security guard threw the cigarettes right back.

"What is this for? Take it back, I'm telling you, we don't go for this sort of thing!"

If there hadn't been the "pearl and jade" of Zhou Mouren beforehand, then who knows if he would have accepted it at this moment.

But with so many cigarettes that Zhou Mouren had given before, now they didn't even look at these.

"You lot, stop for me! Are you trying to play dirty? If you dare to move anything else, I'm going to lie down right here!" the old security guard shouted there.

Yet the other few people were still moving things during this time, but were quickly stopped.

"What exactly do you want? It's only been a few days, it's just a bit of rent, why bother? Hurry up and move aside!"

"I am the boss here, these are my things, I am going to renovate now, so I need to move them away. I will pay your rent in a few days, how about that? If that doesn't work, shall I write you an IOU?" Zhao Zhipeng roared there.

The old security guard was a bit stunned; of course, they didn't know much about the law, and they hadn't expected the boss of this fitness center to come in person.

Seeing that the other party seemed to have dropped all pretenses, he hesitated a little.

Just at this moment, a voice rang out from the side: "So you're that Zhao Zhipeng, wait a moment, don't move anything yet, give us our money back!"

Accompanied by the voice, two people emerged from the corner; one was burly with a shiny bald head, and the other looked quite young.

Originally, they had intended to stay hidden and wait for the police to arrive before coming out, but they couldn't help themselves when they heard it was Zhao Zhipeng.

What is the saying "all the effort spent searching is not worth the ease of finding it"—they never expected to catch such a big fish!

Indeed, legally speaking, if they wanted a refund right now, they could only find this Zhao Zhipeng, so they would start with him!

Zhao Zhipeng looked at Zhou Yi and said, "What refund? Who are you?"

"Me? I'm a customer of this gym of yours. I topped up my account before, and there's still a long time left before it expires. Are you planning to run away now?" Zhou Yi said.

"What running away? I already told you, the shop is going to be renovated. We'll continue business after the renovation. Is there a problem with that?"

"You don't have to pay rent when your shop is being renovated, right? And even if it is a renovation, you should have found us another venue. You closed the door suddenly without a word—who are you trying to fool!"

As soon as Zhou Yi finished speaking, the door was pushed open and many people came in; they were all users Zhou Yi had called from the group.

How should I put it? Although everyone was watching from the sidelines, for those who had bought two- or three-year cards, there was a real sign of trouble, so they had to come and participate quickly.

As for those who didn't have much time left on their cards, they basically wouldn't come, so Zhou Yi didn't call them at all.

This gym was right next to the Guangming Peak Residential Quarter, so everyone arrived very quickly.

"Where are you going? Stop right there! Damn it, trying to run away, are you? I'm telling you, if you don't refund the money today, don't even think about leaving!" Some of the more hot-tempered ones had already started shouting.

"That's right, don't think about leaving, you spineless scumbag, trying to scam us!"

Accompanied by bursts of cursing, Zhao Zhipeng and his group were surrounded.

However, Zhao Zhipeng said directly, "Say whatever you want. Anyway, I didn't scam you. The shop is being renovated; it's you who don't believe it."

"As for the refund, I'm telling you, it's impossible. There is an agreement in the contract when you bought the cards—no refunds. What's the matter, none of you read it?"

"I'm calling the police now. Let's see who dares to stop me!"

Just at this moment, the police arrived.

"Who called the police? What's going on? Don't crowd, is there no light here? Go turn the lights on!" a police officer said there.

At this time, and with so many people, this had to be handled carefully; stability was the first priority.

The security guards ran to turn on the lights, and Chen Li finally got the situation cleared up.

In fact, she knew the situation as soon as she saw Zhou Yi.

"So, you were keeping watch here all night, and then you discovered them coming to move things in the middle of the night?" Chen Li asked, looking at Zhou Yi in front of her.

Zhou Yi nodded: "That's right. We figured he would take advantage of the night to move things, so this brother and I set up a tent here and kept watch continuously!"

Holy crap! Zhao Zhipeng, standing to the side, was truly stunned when he heard this.

No wonder today was so strange. He had just arrived and hadn't moved much stuff yet before being discovered. These security guards were also very strange; they came in a bunch, and they were so upright...

Most importantly, the police arrived so quickly too.

Chen Li looked at Zhao Zhipeng opposite her and said, "Tell me, what is going on?"

"I really intended to renovate this shop, so I had to move the things out..." Zhao Zhipeng said again.

But before he could finish his sentence, he was directly interrupted by Chen Li.

"You intend to renovate and need to move things, so you have to come at night? At this hour, you say you're coming to move things? Do you think we don't have brains?"

Who are you trying to fool? Everyone has normal thinking abilities.

Seeing that the police officer in front of him was not being polite at all, Zhao Zhipeng's expression changed directly.

"Then I don't care. That's what I thought. Believe it or not, it's up to you."

"There was an agreement when the cards were bought—no refunds. And I already said that membership fees would be paused during the renovation."

"But now, they say they won't let me leave. You police officers tell me, isn't this illegal? They are restricting my personal freedom!"

What is meant by "the only thing worse than a thug is a thug with an education"—this is exactly what it means.

Chen Li felt uncomfortable just looking at him. Take him back?

Taking him back to clarify the situation was certainly possible, but you could only clarify the situation.

The main thing was that the law did not stipulate that you could restrict someone's personal freedom just because there was an economic dispute; these were two different things.

Although the people were called by Zhou Yi, now that they had encountered the person in charge, and coupled with the fact that they couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and were all angry, they couldn't control the scene at all.

There was no other way; Chen Li and her colleagues soon took the main figures present back to let everyone calm down and, incidentally, to see if they could mediate the matter.

The Police Station was indeed a magical place; no matter how angry you were, you would become very calm after arriving there.

But the problem still couldn't be solved.

Because Zhao Zhipeng was now acting with no fear of consequences.

"If you think I shouldn't give a refund, go sue! You even say my contract is a Bully Clause and invalid? Go sue then, don't say these useless things."

"A refund is definitely not possible. If you don't follow the contract you signed, then what's the use of the contract? I'm just renovating now, and I'm right here. Who said I ran away!"

Honestly, it was only because Zhou Yi felt his temper had improved that he didn't react; otherwise, with the way the other party was acting, you would be so angry you'd want to go up and give him two punches.

It was obvious he had been taught how to speak. One sentence: this is an economic dispute, and if you feel it's not good, it is suggested to go through legal channels.

Even if Chen Li wanted to persuade him, it was useless. If no law was broken, you couldn't take compulsory measures.

Sometimes, you really can't do anything about such a scoundrel.

Shizi wanted to ask about the previous boss, but he was directly refused.

"This Company is mine now. I took it over. Why are you asking about the previous boss? What does it have to do with them? If you have any issues, just come to me directly."

"Go sue wherever you want. I'm doing business honestly, but now I've been turned into this by you all. I'm the one who's wronged!"

Holy crap, Shizi's fists were already clenched. If this weren't the Police Station, he would really want to go up and hit him.

He hated these kinds of words the most in his life!

"Go through legal channels," "Go sue," and looking at the other party's appearance, it seemed he wasn't worried about the Litigation at all.

Zhao Zhipeng has completely let go now; in any case, the worst-case scenario is just losing the lawsuit and paying money.

If everything goes normally, the Company can just go through bankruptcy liquidation.

If an accident really happens and he gets implicated, that matters even less, since he has no money anyway.

The time had arrived, and the Police Station had no choice but to let Zhao Zhipeng leave.

Many people felt angry; they were questioning Chen Li, asking why the Police Station wouldn't do anything when the other party was breaking the law like this.

Chen Li could only try her best to explain that it was an economic dispute, and they really couldn't intervene.

Just as Zhou Yi was pondering whether stalking was against the law, there was suddenly news in the group again!

"The store manager from before has been blocked, right at the entrance of the gym!"

Second update, minimum quota completed.

(End of this chapter)