9. Corruption and immortality
Zhang Lu and Bob Quinn went to the same university, but Bob enrolled ten years earlier than Zhang Lu.
In Zhang Lu's first year of school, Bob Quinn gave a homecoming speech, so Zhang Lu knew Bob Quinn as a person and admired him very much. However, the two did not have any intersection, and Zhang Lu never thought that Bob Quinn would take the initiative to find him four years later, and it was just three days after he was acquitted.
When Bob Quinn appeared at the door of Zhang Lu's house, Zhang Lu was completely panicked, and his whole person was also shrouded in fear.
The former admiration for Bob Quinn has long since disappeared with Bob's imprisonment, and in front of her is no longer an idol from her college days, but a murderer!
But with Bob's words, Zhang Lu's hanging heart fell to the ground suddenly, and at the same time, he also became interested in Bob.
"I read your article in a magazine, and I remember you, you asked me two questions four years ago when I was speaking at university. You ask me who I hate the most on Shijie, and you ask me what I think of using despicable means to achieve success. You have made a deep impression on me, so I came to you this time to tell you a few of my secrets, first of all, I need to admit that I was lying about my answer in that speech. ”
Zhang Lu didn't know what kind of trait she had at the time, but now she knows, in one of her boss's comments about her: you have a keen insight into sin.
It was probably this special insight that made Zhang Lu vaguely aware of the evil hidden in Bob Quinn's heart, and after a few years, Bob Quinn stood in front of Zhang Lu to show her his dirty soul without concealment, which Zhang Lu could never refuse.
So, Bob Quinn spent two full days talking about his family, his childhood and adolescence, and the sins of adulthood to Zhang Lu in detail.
When Zhang Lu heard about Bob Quinn's first murder, tons of fear also hit her again, but another kind of excitement and curiosity made her overcome her fear, and supported and pushed her to listen to Bob Quinn's story completely.
When all the experiences were recounted, Zhang Lu asked Bob Weishenme what he was going to tell her, wasn't he afraid that they would become evidence of his imprisonment?
Bob smiled elegantly and replied, "These records have no legal effect, everything is just a story I imagined!" However, I am not an expert at writing stories, and you are, so I hope to lend your hand to turn my story into a classic, and if one day I die, I hope that my soul will be immortal. ”
Zhang Lu fulfilled Bob Quinn's request and also wrote his experience into a crime novel.
This book has indeed imprinted Bob Quinn's name in the hearts of countless crime fiction mysteries, and it has also brought Zhang Lu a huge financial reward.
Now, ten years later, Bob Quinn has unexpectedly died at the hands of a violinist, and the newspaper headline is not Bob's death, but the murderer with wings on his back, which is probably a kind of irony for Bob Quinn.
But this irony will probably only last for a few days, and it is believed that with the discovery of Bob Quinn's execution ground, his crimes have been made public, and his name will forever be engraved in the history of crime, although he will never surpass the status of Jack the Ripper, his purpose has definitely been achieved, and it is destined to be achieved, it is only a matter of time.
Zhang Lu slowly recounted everything in the past, and only after finishing did she take a sip of tea and exhale a long breath.
"So you agreed to come to see us just to find out what we found in Quinn's house, didn't you?"
Zhang Lu raised his head to look at me and nodded lightly.
Probably infected by the heavy aura emanating from Zhang Lu's body, my tone became uncontrollably heavy, "We found the corpses sealed in cement, the stumps of the corpses to be precise, and he dismembered the women in the basement of a villa in the woods, then sealed them with cement and buried them in the ground. ”
Zhang Lu's body trembled slightly.
"Are you alright?" I hurriedly asked.
Zhang Lu immediately shook his head, "Is there anything else?" ”
"Yes!" I nodded, "In addition to the corpse, Bob Quinn did another perverted thing, this is what he didn't tell you, he locked his mother in the basement of his villa, let his mother watch him dismember those prostitutes, and in this way he was taking revenge on his mother." You've asked him a question before, and I think that's the answer, the person he hates the most is his mother. ”
Zhang Lu didn't show any surprise at my answer, which surprised me a little, as if the woman had expected this, or maybe Bob Quinn had already told Zhang Lu about it, but Zhang Lu didn't include it in her book.
I don't want to go into this because I don't think it's the point we're going to investigate this time.
Seeing that Zhang Lu was no longer silent, I directly asked the next question: "After you finished writing the book about Quinn, did a reader write to you or something?" I mean does anyone believe that what you write is true? ”
"Yes."
This time, Zhang Lu answered very happily.
"How many?"
"A lot...... No, very much, I can't remember exactly, maybe thousands? ”
"So much? What do they say in their letters? Q: Do you weishenme know so many things about Bob Quinn? Ask if you're ......" I hesitated, but Zuihou continued to ask, "Is it Bob Quinn's lover?" Or one of the victims? ”
Zhang Lu nodded calmly, "The last few questions are the most asked, and they think that only the people closest to Quinn will know so many things." But they were all wrong, and Bob Quinn only shook my hand before leaving, which was the only contact I had with him, and he was a gentleman. ”
"That's why you named the novel 'The Bloodthirsty Gentleman'?"
"Not only that, he was a gentleman, and if it weren't for his childhood, he would have been a very good man, a man with a perfect soul, but his experience corrupted his soul. He himself knew this, so he wanted to make his soul immortal in another way, and I felt that he was a pious man, a gentleman despite his bloodthirstiness. ”
"Soul Corruption?" Zhang Lu's words made me feel cold, and I immediately turned my head to look at Qiao Wei and asked, "Is there such a sentence mentioned in the novel?" ”
When I was watching "The Bloodthirsty Gentleman" before, Qiao Wei translated it for me, and Qiao Wei never mentioned any sentence about "soul".
Qiao Wei frowned and recalled, "I don't think I remember!" As he spoke, he also looked at Zhang Lu and said, "Miss Zhang, did you mention such a sentence as 'soul corruption' in your novel?" ”
"No, it's just what I thought in my heart." Zhang Lu replied: "He doesn't want me to add any judgment to my supervisor in the novel, he wants to show his experience in a very objective and direct way." ”
"So there's no religious tendencies in the whole novel?" I pressed on.
"No, I'm a Christian, but I was very careful with my diction when I wrote that novel, and I can be sure that I didn't reveal anything religiously in my words, and I didn't give that kind of hint."
Bob Quinn was killed with information related to God and religion everywhere, and Zhang Lu confirmed that he never wrote any hints about religion in the book, which seemed to be a filter to help us sift through the thousands of letters that could be valuable!
After thinking about it, I immediately asked Zhang Ludao: "In those thousands of readers' letters, do you remember that anyone mentioned God, or that God would punish Bob Quinn, and that Bob Quinn's soul has been corrupted, and so on?" ”
Zhang Lu was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, there is a person who has been discussing this with me, discussing Bob Quinn, and it has hardly been interrupted in the past ten years. ”
This time, Zhang Lu's answer made my eyes light up, and it seemed that we were finally about to find the person who was possessed by God!