"If you don't know it in advance...... I'd think I'm watching a thriller adventure — and the storyline is too ......," the old knife thought about it, trying to find a suitable word in his head to describe it, but he failed," ...... You know what I'm going to say anyway. He said the last thing.

"MR Yang (Lao Dao's original name is Yang Fengqi), I understand. Because when I first read the contents of the diary in this notebook, I wondered whether the events recorded in it really happened or whether the recorder had imagined it out of thin air. Hyde touched his big golden beard and expressed his deep sympathy with the old knife's words.

I looked solemn: "If this recorder is not a family, then he must have an extraordinary ability to conjecture. Because it seems to me that the story he is writing not only has many details, but also has no contradictions, and it does not seem to have been made up out of thin air—so, who is the owner of this notebook? ”

The stories in the diary have become more and more bizarre and unsettling.

What exactly are they looking for?

I became more and more desperate to know the answer to this question, as if there was an invisible hand that pinched my heart, and the name of that hand was "anxiety".

That's right, not "curiosity", but "anxiety".

My eyes looked directly at Shen Tangzhi and Hyde, they came back after three months of inexplicable disappearance, brought back a secret, and refused to tell the truth to everyone, including me, always trying to cover up and be vague, I have to start to wonder if they also encountered something during those three months?

Or some remarkable clue uncovered in the investigation—perhaps a part of a more mysterious and sinister event;

Or maybe K threatens Shen Tangzhi and Hyde, and what is used as a bargaining chip must be extremely important to the two of them.

In addition, it is a clear fact that whatever is possible is related to me......

- So, got it?

That's why I'm tormented!

Although Shen Tangzhi has been hinting to me in various ways that she must abide by her agreement with K (in a very reluctant way...... I understand very well that she doesn't want to tell me the truth, but I'm a little impatient, and I can't help but wonder - Shen Tangzhi or Hyde, do they really know the truth of everything?

Or maybe it's all K's doing, using Shen Tangzhi and Hyde, using our friendship — or whatever else he can to play with us.

K must have a very large and terrible plan, and I am very sure of that—and this is what I know most at this moment.

I once read in a book that in the primeval forests of the Americas, there lived a poisonous spider called "Taranto", which was terrifyingly large, the largest of which could be nearly 5 inches in size, and the color was extremely bright and beautiful, and the Taranto spider would weave webs between the bushes or towering branches of trees near the ground, preying on prey including rats and birds, and its venom would paralyze the prey and gradually dissolve, and in the process of being devoured by the Taranto spider, those poor prey would stay alive.

The name Taranto comes from an Italian town called Taranto, where there is a popular legend about poisonous spiders - after being bitten by that poisonous spider, it can cause Taranto spider disease, the patient cries and jumps, and then begins to dance a dance called "Tarantella", and eventually dies in the dance, this legendary terrible spider is called Taranto.

K is very much like a Taranto spider.

From the moment he appeared, he began to weave a terrible web, and now, everyone in the room has fallen into K's cobweb...... By the time K bares his fangs, it's too late.

I don't want to try to get the paralyzing venom or, as legend has it, get Taranto spider disease and die dancing to the "Tarantella".

I just want to figure out what happened before I get into it, and get everyone's lives back on track - I told myself that I could do it as I had been helping all my clients since I became a detective.

First and foremost, I had to convince Shen Tangzhi and Hyde, because the two of them seemed to me to be controlled by K—before they knew it—I had to make them aware of this, and this is the foundation of all things.

"I need you to tell me now......" I took a deep breath to make myself look as calm as possible, "what the hell is going on here?" ”

Shen Tangzhi raised her chin slightly and looked at me, her eyes did not show any fragility or wavering, but the fingers that were originally tapping on her kneecaps stopped and became flat on them, and her slightly thin shoulders were slightly raised to the sides, revealing the neat lines and graceful curves of the collarbone under the neck.

She still looked strong and cold, just as I had when I first met her, except that her "inadvertent" little gestures had betrayed her.

At this moment, I couldn't help but feel a little unbearable to ask her any more.

I know it's tough, and she didn't do anything wrong – I just had to.

"Tell me." I repeat.

"Listen, Ji." Hyde explained, "We're here for your good, and for everyone's good—"

"Do you understand what you're doing?" I interrupted Hyde a little rudely.

“hat……？” The two broad, reddish eyebrows on Hyde's forehead mingled together.

"Have you ever seen a puppet show, Hyde? You are now like marionettes, manipulated by manipulators, through fear, which is the thread that connects your joints. You know? In the face of the unknown, if you are frightened and begin to retreat, then there will inevitably be an abyss behind you! ”

"Gee-"

"Listen to me, Hyde!" My expression was extremely serious, "In all the weird events I've experienced, Murphy's Law has worked very well, sometimes even more like the truth of the world than the laws of physics. Things that go wrong will always go wrong, it has nothing to do with what you do, nothing but being brave and facing it, and if you're worried about something happening, then it's more likely to happen – what are you afraid of? That's how K threatened you and controlled you, right? ”

"We're just...... That can't be explained, Ji, I've never seen anything like it, so...... I can only choose to believe. I've tried, we've spent a long time trying to understand everything - God, how could we have taken three months otherwise! Even if it's a trip around the world, it's enough! ”

Hyde said, his expression agitated, but I immediately caught the crux of his words.

"So, let's start with this topic - what have you done in these three months? What did you 'try to understand'? I asked.

“……”

Hyde was speechless, he raised his arms to say something to me, and finally lowered his arms again, and said in a dejected voice, "Ji, you know, I can't say it yet. ”