But I made another assumption in my mind! If I hadn't harmed the mutated tree cuckoo king, the ant colony's mother, the ant colony, might not have become so manic even if it received the information that there was an invasion from a foreign enemy. Then the existence of natural predators may be able to restrain the attack of giant ants, and it is not impossible for us to escape by luck.

But I don't know if this assumption is true!

The black heart incident of Gaoligong Mountain is caused by a complex mix of many accidents and emergencies to cause today's result, maybe it is completely my responsibility, maybe only part of my responsibility. Either way, my deadly shovel was counterproductive, and there was no difference between full and half blame for me.

I know that Anna has good intentions, and she did not hesitate to leak this to me, and she did not want me to dwell on my past mistakes. If something has already happened, it can't change the outcome, and being immersed in self-blame all the time won't be good for my life in the future.

But how could I have come out of this nightmare so easily, this wound will definitely stay with me for the rest of my life. But maybe it's not a bad thing, it always reminds me not to be reckless in everything I do, and to be careful in sailing the ship of ten thousand years.

"Thank you!" I said to Anna sincerely.

"You don't have to thank me, I didn't say anything." Anna replied slyly, and then she continued: "Let's go ahead, now let's look at a new case, you can analyze it!" ”

After saying that, Anna handed me a dossier, and I opened it to see that there was not a lot of information in it, only a few photos and a few pages of records of events.

This is the case file. A family of four, a couple with an eleven-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son. The family is very ordinary, the couple are ordinary migrant workers, the daughter is in the fifth grade of primary school, and the son has just entered primary school.

One day, the siblings went out to play, but in the evening they did not return home, and the husband and wife went out to look for them, and found their sleeping daughter in a small garden not far from their home, but the girl's brother was nowhere to be found. The couple woke up their daughter and asked her where her brother had gone, but the girl only remembered that she was tired and lay down and fell asleep, and she had no idea where her brother had gone.

After searching for most of the day, they couldn't find any trace of their son, so the couple called the police. The police searched for a long time in the park where the siblings played, but found nothing, and the boy disappeared out of thin air.

After that, the police visited the neighborhood in many ways, but no one saw such a little boy, and the girl did not know anything because she fell asleep, so the police were helpless by this bizarre situation.

And the strange thing is that on the third day after her brother's disappearance, suddenly the girl told her parents that she had a dream that her brother was dead and buried, right next to a railroad track.

Her parents were surprised, but told the police about their daughter's strange dream. Naturally, the police did not take the girl's dream seriously, but after the couple's repeated pleas, the police had to send people to search along the railway line not far from their residence.

Unexpectedly, the trace was found, and the boy was really buried in a very remote place along the railway, and the boy was suffocated by someone who strangled his neck.

As for why the boy was killed and buried there, the case file does not say.

After reading the document, I picked up the photo and looked at it, which was a photo of the family of four in the case file, as well as a photo of the scene where the little boy's body was buried.

Seeing that I had finished reading it, Anna asked me what I thought of the case.

I looked at the pictures and thought, to be honest, I don't really believe in dreams or telepathy and other things that can't be seen or touched. This case seems simple, but in fact, there must be a secret behind it.

First of all, I have a lot of suspicions about the girl falling asleep inexplicably, as an older sister taking her younger brother out to play, she shouldn't just let her younger brother go alone because of a moment of exhaustion, and find a place to sleep, which is not logical.

Another point is that no matter how much you miss your loved ones, it is impossible to dream about the place of murder so clearly, although some people explain that it is a subtle connection in blood relations, but I think this is a far-fetched statement.

Finally I looked up at Anna and said, "My judgment is that it is very likely that this girl witnessed the murder of her brother!" ”

This judgment sounds a bit absurd, and it is in stark contrast to the situation in the case file, but I still speak my own opinion.

Anna was noncommittal, she asked me indifferently, "Tell me how you made such a judgment?" If you think your claim is valid, can you describe the process of the case in your judgment? ”

I glanced at the case file in my hand and said to Anna, "Because there are many details that are not reflected in this file, I can only make a bold inference based on the only things I have. Maybe my judgment is outrageously wrong, don't blame me if I say something wrong. ”

Anna said: "You should be able to see that this is not all the content of the whole case, what you have in your hands can only explain what happened in this case, and the rest depends entirely on your personal understanding and speculation, so it is normal to say how outrageous it is, and no one will blame you." ”

I took a deep breath and looked at the photos of the siblings, especially the girl I had been looking at for the longest. Then I said, "My guess is that the siblings may have run into traffickers while they were out playing, and they found a way to get the girl's attention and then steal the boy."

However, the girl is very smart, she finds out about the trafficker's behavior, so in order to save her brother, she secretly follows the trafficker. And the boy, who is already six years old and has a certain cognitive ability, struggles desperately when he finds himself being taken away by strangers, perhaps still shouting. In order to prevent being discovered, the traffickers took extreme measures to kill the boy by mistake, and in order to hide the body, they chose a quiet place to bury the body.

And all this is seen by the girl who is hiding in the shadows, she can't believe the reality of her brother's murder for a while, so her brain is stimulated, she has a mental disorder, or maybe a selective amnesia, and in a mental confusion she returns to the garden where she played with her brother, and then faints.

By the time her parents arrived, the girl had forgotten about the previous incident, so she couldn't say anything. But these were the realities she had seen with her own eyes, and while she was asleep, they repeated themselves when her willpower was at its weakest, and this was when she saw her brother dead and buried in her dreams. ”

I observed Anna's expression as I spoke, and she listened quietly, her face unchanged, and she didn't show any mood fluctuations until I finished speaking. My heart darkened, and it seemed that my inference was not outrageous.

"What is the basis for this?" Anna asked me after waiting for me to stop.

I said, "First of all, I am very suspicious that the girl fell asleep in the park for some reason, and even if a teenager is a girl, she is very energetic, and there is basically no situation where she falls asleep when she is sleepy, so I suspect that the girl has suffered some kind of mental blow and has fallen into a coma." My first guess was that she was stunned, but I immediately disproved this idea, because if that was the case, the police would have found the traces, which was not in line with the conclusion that she had seen her brother killed. ”

Seeing that Anna didn't interrupt me, I continued: "Then there is the place where the corpse is buried, and it can be seen from the photos that the burial of the corpse was handled in a hurry, indicating that the murderer is likely to be temporary, and there must have been some accident in between." All I can think of is that the murderer inadvertently killed the victim, which led the murderer to decide to hide the body and escape, and it was this scene that stimulated the girl's nerves and led to what happened next. ”

"Anything else?" Anna asked me.

I thought about it for a moment and shook my head. There is so little content in the case file, and I can make it up to be extraordinary. At least I feel like I've connected all the information and clues I saw in the case file.

Anna nodded, took out a stack of printer paper from under the table and handed it to me, "This is a detailed report from the police after the final police investigation of this case, you can take a look." ”

I took it a little nervously, and I didn't know how different the real situation would be from what I had predicted.

I quickly read more than a dozen pages, which not only contained the police investigation process and results, but also several confessions, and the last one was a psychiatric evaluation, and the person who was identified was the girl.

Through these contents, the real history of the entire case is restored.

There was no trafficker in it at all, but it was true that someone had kidnapped the boy, and the kidnappers were the boy's second uncle and second aunt.

The case arose out of a question over the distribution of family property.

The father of the little boy is two brothers, the elder brother is upright and honest, but the younger brother is lazy. After defrauding the old man of his savings for many years, the second son severed the parent-child relationship with the old man, and even did not interact with his parents and brothers for more than ten years, and taking care of the old man has always been done by the eldest son. It was not until the property needed to be inherited after the death of the old man that this unfilial second son reappeared.

However, according to the old man's will, the house in the old man's name was completely inherited by the eldest son, and the second son, who had severed ties with the old man, could not get a penny at all.

More than ten years ago, the house was not worth much, but in recent years, the house price has risen sharply, and the old man's house has become a lot of wealth. In the past few years, the second son and his wife have already lost the old man's savings, and in desperation, they started the idea of the old man's inheritance.

But in the face of a legally protected will, they couldn't change the result, so they changed their eldest brother's mind, and they hoped that the eldest brother would take the initiative to give up the inheritance or give them half of it.

After many inappropriate discussions, the second son had bad intentions and decided to secretly kidnap the eldest brother's son, who was regarded as a pearl in his palm, to blackmail his brother.

On the day of the crime, when it was found that the niece and nephew had only two children out to play, the younger brother and sister-in-law finally found an opportunity.

They squatted near the eldest brother's house for many days, just to find the time for the nephew to be alone, but the eldest brother and his wife usually take strict care and never found a chance to get off.

After the two children went out, they played hide and seek in the park, and when their niece was blindfolded and her nephew was hiding, the couple secretly covered their nephew's mouth and took him away.