The real Lin Sen is dead.

This case will not be closed until a week later.

Lao Dao and I were at Lin Sen's house, and the hidden small room we found solved the mystery of "Lin Sen's" suicide in the secret room.

The murderer didn't leave after the killing, but waited for the police to leave before leaving, so that a secret room was formed, and the fingerprints in the house and the surveillance near the community did not find anything unusual, because the murderer was Lin Sen himself.

And the deceased turned out to be Lin Sen's twin brother, named Lin Hai.

Speaking of which, this involves an unsolved case nearly 20 years ago.

Lin Sen's parents disappeared when Lin Sen was a child, and the police just treated it as a missing case, and after many years, there was no way to investigate.

But when I read these lines in Lin Sen's file, I shivered.

Maybe I won't be able to find out the truth, but my gut tells me that it won't be as simple as it seems, especially after reading the story between Lin Sen and his brother.

After his parents disappeared, Lin Linhai took them with his grandmother.

Lin Sen studied very hard and was very smart, but his younger brother was very stupid - it is conceivable that in this case, coupled with the family's very bad economy, what choice would Lin Sen's grandmother have?

That's right, as a result, Lin Sen continued to study, while his younger brother Lin Hai only studied until the second grade of primary school and dropped out of school.

The family's economy mainly depends on grandma's farming, and Lin Hai picks up rags to barely support it.

That changed when Lin Sen went to high school. At this time, Lin Sen, with his perennial top-notch academic performance, could already rely on tutoring to obtain income, and when he arrived at university, Lin Sen was able to support himself and his grandmother and younger brother in the countryside by being a tutor.

At this point, we can already understand why Lin Sen has a twin brother that goes unnoticed. Even I, on this issue, have a superficial taste, first, this is indeed a blind spot, and second, even if I want to investigate, I have no way to start.

And, as it sounds, it's a very warm, inspirational story, even a little tear-jerking.

But the autopsy report of the medical examiner shattered this "warm story".

Forensic examination showed that many old traces of blunt force injuries could be found on Lin Hai's skull - there is reason to believe that it was these blunt force injuries that caused Lin Hai's brain to be traumatized and become mentally retarded.

It's a thrilling discovery.

With a little imagination, I believe that anyone can paint a cruel and cold picture in their own imagination.

In this case, there is another suspect, and that is Meng Rong.

Naturally, the police could not let her go, but the problem was in the evidence.

Except for the reasonable speculation that Lao Dao and I made through Meng Rong's behavior, there is no other substantive evidence.

There is no way around it.

Lao Dao and I both understood that since Lin Sen wanted to complete his plan alone, he would definitely not leave a threat to Meng Rong - Lin Sen didn't even let go of himself in the end, how could he leave evidence that was unfavorable to Meng Rong?

The apparent connection between Meng Rong and Lin Sen has been completely severed since the day Lin Hai died, and there is no chance for the police to leave at all.

In Liu Yao's phone, there is indeed a call record between Meng Rong and her. However, this is just a synthetic recording, of course, it is not Meng Rong's mobile phone, the content is to tell Liu Yao to go downstairs, Meng Rong is waiting for her in the car downstairs, there is an emergency, it is about Lin Sen's death.

After the 48-hour detention period, the police had no choice but to release Meng Rong.

On the night of her release, Meng Rong left Jinguancheng, and I couldn't even see her for the last time.

***

The case is closed, but Lao Dao and I have been discussing some of these details from time to time for a long time.

I've selected some of the important parts and organized them in a conversational way as follows:

Old knife: "Aji, does the red satin exist?" If so, who is she? ”

Me: "Red satin, in fact, is the 'nightmare' itself. You can pretend she doesn't exist, but she could be any of the five. ”

"From the dream of Lin Sen relayed by Luo Xing, as well as the content of Luo Xing's own dream, we can get the following information."

"First, in the killing of previous lives, Red Satin did exist, and every life ended with the death of Red Satin."

"Second, in every life, among the five of Lin Sen, there seems to be a person who recalls the memories of the previous life first, and has the ability to recognize the remaining four and Red Satin, acting as a 'prophet'; In Lin Sen and Luo Xing's dreams, the prophet is the 'old smoking gun', and the executors are Gu Ling and Xiao Guo. ”

"If nothing else, they will still follow these two rules in every future rebirth."

However, we can find that although the plot of Lin Sen and Luo Xing's dream is roughly the same, there is a drastic change in the ending. In Lin Sen's dream, Red Satin died at the hands of Xiao Guo in the end, but in Luo Xing's dream, Xiao Guo killed everyone except Red Satin. ”

"One of them is lying." The old knife interjected.

I nodded, "I think the person who lied is Lin Sen." ”

"Because this is the only way to explain why red satin does not appear in this life." I say.

The old knife was surprised: "The red satin didn't appear?" In this life, isn't red satin Meng Rong? ”

"Do you think that in Lin Sen's last words, he said that he was 'in love with her', who is this 'her'?" I asked.

"This still needs to be asked, it must be red satin - that is, Meng Rong in this life." The old knife replied without hesitation.

"Wrong." I shook my head.

The old knife showed a puzzled expression.

"Do you remember? In the dream, there was a person who was forced to kill Red Satin for Xiao Guo. ”

"Xiaoling...... Gu Ling? Old Knife's eyes slowly widened, "You mean—"

"That's right. Xiao Guo fell in love with Gu Ling. In this life, Xiao Guo is Lin Sen, and Gu Ling is Meng Rong. ”

"I don't quite understand." The old knife shook his head, "I was completely confused by what you said. ”

Although Gu Ling helped Xiao Guo kill Red Satin once, in fact, in that life, the best person to do it was Xiao Guo, because Gu Ling was punished for this: when Red Satin appeared, she was just a little girl. The old smoking gun said that if Xiao Guo forced Gu Ling to do it again, then in the next life, I am afraid that Gu Ling will be a baby. ”

Gu Ling hated and feared Xiao Guo because of this, but Xiao Guo seemed to have other feelings for Gu Ling. I suspect there must be an element of pity and guilt in there. Continuing to this life, Lin Sen's feelings for Meng Rong may be more profound and complex. ”

"Meng Rong's age is similar to Lin Sen, of course she is not a baby, so it can be seen that in the last life, Xiao Guo killed Red Satin. However, I don't know what method Xiao Guo used to make Red Satin agree to Xiao Guo's proposal. ”

"The exact content of this proposal is unknown, but it must have something to do with what Lin Sen said: 'I want to find a possibility for her'. This proposal is another 'possibility'. ”

The old knife asked, "What is possible?" Lin Sen said that this dead cycle has been broken, what other possibilities are there? ”

"I personally think that in this life, Lin Sen is actually essentially replacing the work of Red Satin, or in other words, the two identities of Red Sain and Lin Sen are combined into one in this life. Lin Sen completed what Red Satin asked for and killed the other four (including Lin Sen himself), but Lin Sen was also paid, Meng Rong, and was able to get out. ”

The old knife was silent for a while, and then asked: "There is another thing, in the dream of Lin Sen relayed by Luo Xing, Red Satin once had a silent lip talk, what is the content?" ”

Me: "I don't know. ”

Old knife: "I don't know? ”

I spread my hands and said, "That's true." In fact, the last paragraph that Lin Sen said to me has already explained everything. ”

"This cycle of killing does not end one day. This is retribution. "Old knife.

I sighed, "I hope I'm sorry." ”

I also hope that this cycle of karma and reincarnation has really been broken as Lin Sen said, but I also faintly see another terrible conjecture.

Perhaps the agreement between Xiao Guo (Lin Sen) and Red Satin is the beginning of another horror.

Meng Rong was liberated in this life, and Red Satin was liberated because he completed his task—then, what about the remaining four?

I remembered Lin Sen's last words again:

This cycle of killing does not end in a single day.

This is...... Retribution.