worlds apart

"Perhaps the sixth point is that we should speak of Mrs. Jones's relationship with Mr. Hamel. In the course of our investigation, Mrs. Jones spoke a great deal of bad things about Mr. Hamel, leaving us with the impression that they had gotten along so badly during the trip that Mrs. Jones hated Mrs. Jones to the bitter end. And when I asked Mr. Hamel, I felt the same way. Mr. Hamel told us that in the later stages of the trip, he basically avoided it, tried his best not to get close to the old lady, and told Xu Meng or the waiter Amelia about everything, and then the two of them conveyed it on their behalf. Originally, the dislike between two people who would definitely not have dealt with each other for a long time should be an insignificant matter, and we don't want to bother with it. But I didn't expect that when we just casually asked in the Xinya restaurant that tour groups often visited, there was a completely different statement. The waiter at the restaurant told us that the tour guide got along very well with the tour group and left a deep impression on them. Especially with the eighty-year-old lady, like a pair of mother and son who have not seen each other for a long time, they always talk and laugh, and the old lady always puts delicious food on his plate. The waiter's words were very different from our interview with the two of us. Why should they judge the two of them?! Later, I thought about it again and again, and maybe this statement would be more accurate. Until the dead body is found, people are acting as normal. But once the dead bodies are exposed, lies that conceal the truth emerge like shadows, and this innate ability to deceive human beings begins to reach its peak. Do you think my statement is accurate and subtle?! In fact, compared with the drama performed on the stage, the drama in ordinary life is more vivid and realistic. You say don't you?! ”

This time, instead of looking away, Rahman took turns staring at Mrs. Jones and Mr. Hamel, whom he had just spoken. Mrs. Jones, who was sitting in a relatively spacious chair not far away, looked at Rahman with a serious gaze. Look at Mr. Hamel again, he just tilted his head and smiled unnaturally, but one of his cheeks twitched.

"Seventh, let's talk about some quite interesting things involving Xu Meng's sleep. Xu Meng is the only temporary tourist in the entire travel agency. She had told us more than once about how she slept during her travels, and she said that perhaps it was because the environment was so quiet, or because there was some miraculous force of nature between the mountains that controlled her body, that she slept very soundly and deeply every night. The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. So without Xu Meng's knowledge, in the name of the need for soldiers to strengthen the prevention of infectious diseases, we collected a tube of blood from her and conducted relevant tests. As expected, a considerable dose of long-acting sleeping pills was found in her blood components. The effect of this sleeping pill is that once swallowed the drug, it can sleep for a long time at a fixed time every night, but the side effects are not small, one of the most likely is to cause the patient to partially or completely lose the excretion warning function in the sleeping state. ”

When I heard this, my heart tightened. I had two episodes of urinary incontinence in the past few days. At that time, because I was ashamed, I didn't confide in anyone. After that, in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes again, I never dared to drink water again in the evening, so I always felt like my throat was smoking these days. I really didn't expect that this unspeakable unfortunate thing happened because someone gave him sleeping pills!

Rahman looked at me with concern, and I smiled in relief. But the others around me were dodging my eyes, obviously avoiding me.

Rahman's sonorous voice continued to echo around me.

"Fortunately, the side effects were not clearly revealed. This long-acting sleeping pill was definitely not requested by the person herself, so why did she secretly take sleeping pills without her knowledge?! It must be something she did at night that she didn't want her to know, what are these unspeakable things?! Who's behind it?! Why so ulterior motives?! Rahman's voice dragged on for a long time.

"Let's talk about the eighth point. In hindsight, the investigation of these few days did leave us with a surprising impression. In the course of the investigation, no matter whether the object of questioning is old or young, or male or female, a suspect will be clearly thrown out at the end of the questioning, and this suspect is neither a Jiangyang thief who changed places with a shot, nor is he a horrific murderer, but an ordinary person in the small circle of our tour group, old or young. It's really interesting! In the end, one person was finally excluded from this small circle, and this was Xu Meng. Only Xu Meng, who is not familiar with the world, is frank and unknowing, which has aroused our vigilance. So we pondered and studied more carefully for a long time, carefully scrutinizing and meticulously playing with each passenger's maverick speech and demeanor, and finally slowly exposed one after another the hidden flaws. In fact, the narratives heard from the mouths of every traveler here seem to be very pertinent and useful at first glance, and they are worth studying, but as long as we bury our heads in careful examination and research, we will find that these tricky words in simple terms do not stand up to in-depth scrutiny at all, and are just some false hearsay, or they are just fabricated out of thin air. So the reason why every guest and tourist here behaves like this is actually for only one purpose, which is to confuse black and white, confuse our thinking, muddy a pool of water, hold our noses, and turn us dizzy one after another, so that the ugly events of perverse actions are deeply buried...... Am I talking about the ugly thoughts that you keep buried in your hearts all the time?! Rahman burst out laughing. The room was as quiet as a grave at night, except for Rahman's reminiscent laughter.

Suddenly, Rahman's laughter came to an abrupt end, and he said again meaningfully: "The ninth point, about the time and place of the death of the deceased. This has been very strange since the early stages when the deceased was first discovered, and the date of the deceased's death is still uncertain. After further in-depth examination and identification by the forensic doctor, an extremely rare Gula oil was finally found in the body of the deceased. Because the oil has penetrated into the acanthora of the epidermis of the skin, there is hardly any trace of the deceased's outer skin. This natural animal fat, which resembles lion oil, is now long gone, and if there are still some left, I don't think there are many, and I'm sure they were left decades ago. According to medical history books, this particular slightly dark green animal fat is only exposed after the death of an inbred ice peak snow leopard on a small patch of slightly flatter mountains on the north face of Mount Everest. This kind of oil has excellent and extraordinary therapeutic effects on preventing human blood clotting, which can significantly improve the blood clotting rigidity in all parts of the human body, and the oil itself has a miraculous effect of thousands of years of non-decay, so it can be called the best magic oil in a million. Once this divine oil is applied, it will greatly delay the blood clotting time and delay the time of confusion of death, so that it is impossible to determine the specific time of death of the deceased in detail. ”

"Furthermore, the place where the deceased was found was in a white cave that few people cared about in Qilin Mountain, and the appearance of the death was very special, which could be described as unique. The creeping body is wrapped in a miserable white plaster, and it looks like a human and a ghost. This kind of styling and furnishings, relying on the strength of only one person will not work at all, even if it is carried by two people, I think it is difficult to complete it nine times out of ten. So, I think there must have been a lot of people involved in the transportation and hiding of this body, how many people should be involved?! Rahman's small eyes slowly scanned each person's face, and his expression seemed to have a kind of mana that penetrated everything.

There was a deathly silence in the room, and everyone in the room, with the exception of Rahman, Thor, and me, had their heads bowed. They all look like they're searching for a hole in the ground where they can bury themselves.

Rahman did not rush to continue speaking, but picked up the bottle of mineral water in front of him and took another slow sip, but his eyes wandered wildly in the crowd.

I felt as if time was stuck in something. Perhaps in a little while, Rahman will attack again, but what is puzzling is that his next actions are contrary to what I thought.

Don't be in a hurry, it seems that the time has not yet come! Maybe it's time for these guys to think about it.

After a few more moments of stalemate, Rahman sounded the battle horn again.

"Let's put aside all these kinds of questions. I'll show you a few more pictures. ”

Rahman opened a book that had been in front of him for a long time, selected a few pictures from it, and presented them to everyone one by one. At the same time, Saul and I distributed copies of these pictures to the crowd sitting a little farther away.

"The book is not a short year, and it has been about twenty or thirty years, in which many brutal and bizarre major cases are described in detail, and one of the major cases caused an uproar in the public opinion circles at the time because of its grotesque and bizarre modus operandi, unbelievable background layout, and the large number of people involved, and also aroused our interest and attention." Rahman pointed to a very familiar middle-aged woman in the photo and said, "Let's take a look, who is this woman?" It seems like déjà vu, but in fact she is...... Mrs. Jones, who is eighty-three years old. This is a photo of her thirty years ago, when she stood at the door of the Supreme People's Court, facing a crowd of reporters who were indignantly accusing about something. The caption at the bottom of the photograph describes the extraordinarily large robbery and murder case 30 years ago, which is the important case I mentioned earlier. The police caught four suspects and sentenced them to death because of the conclusive evidence. And Mrs. Jones protested because the police did not catch the culprits at all, but only four accomplices, but these four accomplices were punished by substitution and were unjustly punished. And Mrs. Jones was the godmother of one of them, Lawrence, the criminal. As far as I know, Lawrence's biological mother died of illness when Lawrence was ten years old, she was the second wife of Lawrence's father, and Lawrence's father did not renew the string again, so Lawrence's mother's former bosom friend Mrs. Jones took on the responsibility of godmother. ”

"Look at the next picture. The scene depicted in this photograph was chaotic, with smoke billowing and an angry young man in the crowd throwing stones at police. If you look closely, you can catch a glimpse of the curved herringbone scar on the right cheek of this young man. Although the scar is not as conspicuous as it was thirty years ago, and is cleverly concealed in the hair, the observant can still get a glimpse of it. This photo is apparently an old photo of our traveler, Mr. Abi. The caption below the photograph reads, 'The brother of the suspect, Lawrence, got into a fight for judging the court's unfairness. ’”

"The next picture is of two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls wailing and crying. If you look closely, I think you'll already recognize it. This one is Leora. Rahman pointed to one of the girls who seemed to be about to cry and said, "The girl who has her in her arms is Jennifer." The photo was captured by reporters after the two little girls learned of the court ruling of their older brother Lawrence. ”

Rahman turned the page again, "This is a photo taken together by the four of them a year before the case was revealed." What a laugh the four of them had at that time! Lawrence in the center, Abi on the left, and Jennifer and Leora on the right. Although Abi is half-brother and sister with Lawrence and Leora, and Jennifer was adopted later, it can still be seen from the photos that the four of them have a good relationship. ”