It is not easy to prove my guess about the identity of the witch, but fortunately, we have a lot of clues on hand now, and the most important thing is that the specific search process does not need me and Qiao Wei to do it.

Perhaps Qiao Wei's father felt that the trickiness of the matter was no longer suitable for his son to exercise and study, so he also personally arranged for someone to investigate. The first thing to investigate is naturally the origin of Gerald's aristocratic identity, as well as the family history of their family, and the second thing to investigate is the beginning and end of the murder of the Stephensons.

Three days later, the person in charge of investigating these matters sent us the results of the investigation.

Gerald was not an aristocrat, just a wealthy businessman. The history of their family began after the end of World War II, and the person in charge of the investigation did not find out the source of the original funds, but he could also figure out that this money was absolutely inseparable from Spencer.

The investigation of the Stephensons family is just like what Shu Xin said before, because the matter has passed for too long, and the investigators arranged by Qiao Wei's father can't find anyone who knows at all. However, this does not mean that the Stephensons will remain a mystery forever, as a police file contains secret information about the Stephensons' murder - they are stored with Jack the Ripper's investigative materials.

This information can be regarded as a confidential file, because it involves some very important links, which are not mentioned in the old newspapers.

According to the records of this secret file, four members of the Stephenson family did die, but the deceased were not exactly the family of four in the painting. In addition to Stephenson, the male suicide victim, three other women were killed, aged thirty-six, twenty-three, and six, respectively.

This is where the key question lies.

The painting was painted in 1917, ten years after the death of the Stephensons, and a six-year-old girl died, meaning that a new member of the Stephensons had been added to the family in the intervening decade. Judging by the age of the deceased, the only surviving Stephenson family is the short-haired girl in the painting "Dark Surge" looking out the window.

It is clear that one member of the Stephenson family is not dead, and the Weishenme newspaper does not mention half a word, which is definitely a mystery, and the mystery is hidden in the corpse.

The body of Stephenson, the only adult male in the family, was found in the barn, where he hanged himself naked and just like that. The secret police file also records that he did suffocate to death, but he received a blow to the head and a large amount of bruise in his skull, which was enough to make Stephenson unable to discern his direction or even walk.

A person with such severe injuries could not have hanged himself on his own, so the only plausible explanation is that the murderer was someone else.

The other two women in the family were stabbed to death with a sharp knife and disemboweled. Their intestines were pulled out and hung on their shoulders, and their hearts, livers, and kidneys were all dug out and cooked in a kitchen pot. The six-year-old girl in Zuihou died of asphyxiation with severe lacerations to her lower body, apparently a sexual assault.

Stephenson had a history of mental illness and violence, so the police determined that he killed her wife and daughter before his death and sexually assaulted his six-year-old daughter. Perhaps he hated the little girl's screams, so he gagged the little girl, which eventually caused her to suffocate to death.

The police know that there is another survivor in Stephenson's family, and this survivor is also very likely to be the real murderer of Stephenson. But the police felt that Stephenson's pervert was absolutely innocent, and it was also to protect the only survivor, so the police decided to let the details of this case never be exposed. And because the deaths of two of the women are similar to Jack the Ripper's murder methods, this case is kept with Jack the Ripper's investigative materials.

That's all there is to the investigation of Gerald and the Stephensons, and it is impossible to find any other more detailed information.

But with all the information I have, I already have a tragic and perverted story in my head, and the starting point of the story is Stephenson.

Stephenson was a violent neurotic who was hospitalized for it. After he was discharged from the hospital, this violent desire was hidden by him, but there was one thing that could not be changed in any way - he was a pervert.

A few years later, the adult Stephenson married a local woman. After marriage, Stephenson transformed his violent lust into a perverted desire to control, he controlled everything about his wife, he didn't allow his wife to go out, he didn't allow his wife to talk to anyone, not even a smile.

When their first daughter was born, a family ethics tragedy began.

Stephenson not only committed violence against his wife, but also vented this uncontrollable desire for violence on his daughter. Maybe at first her daughter would have rebelled, and she didn't know what had happened to her, but by the time she understood everything, it was too late, and she had become a controlled puppet like her mother, a walking corpse with a dead soul.

Stephenson's second daughter, who didn't know what had happened to her when she was younger, only that her father would hurt and that neither her mother nor sister would come to help her. But afterwards her father was very kind to her and gave her a pony as a gift.

The Stephensons often provided crops for a winery, and a helper at the distillery named Spencer was very good at drawing, so Stephenson asked Spencer to paint a portrait of the family.

Stephenson's wife and eldest daughter have long been mentally devastated, their smiles have become stiff, their souls have long since died, only the second daughter still has a simple heart, and will be happy to see her horse.

Spencer was a genius, and like many artistic geniuses, he had an insightful soul. He captures the waves that lie deep behind this house, and this waves are perfectly reflected in his paintings. Although he did not give the painting any name at the time, later generations did it for him.

Four years later, the innocent girl suffered the most painful experience of her life, she became pregnant, and gave birth to a baby girl! During the year she was pregnant, she couldn't leave home, she couldn't live a normal childhood like other children, and her life, everything about her, changed forever.

When it was all over, she also became numb like her mother and sister.

Six years later, when Stephenson extended his claws to the girl who had just turned six, the teenage girl who was the mother of the child finally broke out! She unleashed the anger and humiliation that had been pent up in her heart, she killed Stephenson, who was violent towards her, killed her mother and sister, who were indifferent to her and never reached out to help, and dug out their hearts.

That night, the girl, who had grown into a big girl, rode her favorite horse, took the painting to Spencer, and told Spencer what had happened.

Spencer took the maiden in and took her to London. Later, Spencer also painted a painting completely different from his Fauvist style, in which the girl in the painting was radiant, and through this painting Spencer wanted to tell the girl that even if she had killed someone, even if her body was no longer pure, she still had a pure soul, as clear as the morning.

Spencer's comfort gave the girl hope, and she willingly followed Spencer to live her new life.

But everything is just wishful thinking on the part of the girl, and Stephenson's ugly face always appears in her dreams, as if his ghost has never gone to hell with his death, and has been haunting the girl so that she will never have peace. The girl told Spencer about her troubles, but Spencer had already poured everything he had into painting, and the girl's request for help was simply to comfort her, "It's okay, it's all your hallucination."

Spencer's attitude causes the girl to lose her way again, and at this time she comes into contact with witchcraft, and she feels that only through witchcraft can she find true salvation, so she finally becomes a witch, and Spencer becomes the first victim of the girl as a witch.