Zhang Zifan opened a long letter from a fishing boat, which said that since I was young, I realized that I was a very conflicted person. First of all, I have a problem with fantasizing that is uninspired. I remember reading a book when I was a child, and every time I saw someone throw a bottle containing an important document into the sea, my heart was always indescribably excited. To this day, this charm has not disappeared, so I took this practice - wrote my confession, put it in a bottle, sealed it and threw it into the sea. I suspect that there is a glimmer of hope that this confession will be discovered, and that the mystery of this hitherto unsolved murder case will be revealed. In addition to my fantasies, there are other aspects of my personality. I was clearly sadistic and loved to see or cause death with my own eyes. I still remember doing some cruel experiments with various insects or small animals...... From a young age, I was well aware that I had the urge to hurt others. But at the same time, I have another character that is the opposite of me - a strong sense of justice.

I am afraid that my misdeeds will cause innocent suffering. I deeply feel that only justice can prevail over all. One thing that may be understandable — and I think some people will understand — is that it was because of this idea that I ended up being a case officer. And the temple Shaoqing almost satisfied all my thoughts. The pursuit of criminals and the punishment for sins has always fascinated me. I like to read all kinds of crime novels, and I have imagined the most ingenious way to murder people in order to relieve my boredom. After a few years, I became the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and my other secret nature was inspired to develop. I always feel great joy when I see a criminal struggling in the lobby, tormented, and finally confessing his guilt. The difference is that if there was an innocent person standing in the lobby, I would not be in this happy mood. So every time I find out that the people in the hall are not guilty, I will try my best to clear their name. On the whole, however, most of the people I have tried have been guilty from time to time, so I have punished them according to the law. Here I want to explain that this is the case of Dong Qing. His appearance and demeanor create an illusion, and he leaves a good impression on people. The evidence was unobvious, but it was clear, and from what I knew about the offender over the years, I was convinced that this man had committed the crime: he had brutally murdered his brother. I have a reputation as the "Executioner's Judge", but that's not just. I was always strict, fair, and very cautious in my final sentence. All I have done is to make people feel less emotional, not to be swayed by the arguments of some litigators who provoke people's feelings. I always draw their attention to the hard facts. For a long time, I found that my heart was changing, I was becoming more and more unable to control myself, and I wanted to abandon my identity as a Shaoqing of Dali Temple and take action on my own. I want ...... Frankly, I guess...... Kill people with their own hands.

I know I've been brewing for a long time, but I just don't have a chance. It's like a student who has been in the cold for many years, looking forward to scientific research. And I feel like I'm going to be a big guy in crime. The imagination that I had suppressed before gradually turned into a tremendous force. I must, I must kill someone myself! And more importantly, it's not just ordinary killing. My murder case had to be wonderful, it had to be shocking, it had to be extraordinary. In this regard, I think I still have endless energy and creativity. I just wanted to do something extraordinary. I'm going to kill someone...... Yes, I'm going to kill...... However, I know that if I can't murder any innocent person, it will take a moment for my idea to become a reality.

But then on, I was inspired by a remark I accidentally said during a casual conversation. Then a thought came to me. I was talking to a beggar, a dirty beggar. He incidentally mentioned that some murderers committed crimes, often beyond the reach of the government. He gave an example - about a man named Lin Yong, who had received alms from Lin Yong, and then stayed in his cowshed for nearly half a month, and Lin Yong robbed someone else's wife, which was not right, but he didn't actually do anything to the woman. But then the woman's husband came and killed Lin Yong and his old mother. He also forcibly slept with his wife, and finally forced his wife to hang herself, and after the man did all this, he swaggered away with his wife. Later, when he heard that the case was closed, it was closed. He also spoke of many similar and recurring cases, which were committed in such a way as to be extremely cunning, all of which were not punished by the government. That's where it all began. My mind suddenly cleared, and I was determined to do it. So a nursery rhyme from my childhood reappeared in my heart, a nursery rhyme about ten demons. I was just two years old and I was fascinated by it – there were fewer and fewer demons, and it felt like there was no escape. I began to secretly search for my victims. I don't want to go into the details of this episode here. The conversations I had with everyone I met were conducted according to a certain procedure – and what I learned was amazing.

During my illness and recuperation. I collected the case about Nangong Jin. The man who cared for me was a strong advocate of abstinence, and he enthusiastically proved to me the consequences of alcoholism and told me a real story. A few years ago, a doctor drunk and operated on a pregnant woman, but the pregnant woman died in childbirth, and her husband could not accept this reality and committed suicide. After that, I pretended to be unintentional and found out about the pharmacy and the doctor he was talking about. It didn't take long for me to gather the necessary clues. It didn't take much effort for me to find out the situation of Nangong Jin and the patient named Liu Hong.

When I went out, I accidentally rescued a man named Ah Hu outside Qingyang Town, and I learned about Cao Bao and Hua Yun Shitai from the things he mastered. Mrs. Hua Yun listened to the master's words and was unwilling, so she deliberately provoked the contradiction between the junior sister and the senior sister, and then instigated the junior sister to find her senior sister to compete, and finally the junior sister was killed and the senior sister jumped off the cliff. Another person who had just returned from Shanxi told me about Monk Yuanzhen. Twelve years ago, the monk Yuanzhen in Huayin County, with Ah Hu and others, claimed that they could successfully have children by sincerely seeking Buddha in their temple for one night, but in fact they deceived a group of women into going to their temple, and forcibly had sex with these women at night so that they could eventually give birth to children. When it was discovered, the women committed suicide in shame. But Yuan Zhen escaped the arrest of the government.

Fang Yulong was selected after I heard about him by chance, and after some investigation and inquiry. I felt that he was indifferent to his manslaughter of two people, and that he was irresponsible for life, and this attitude of life was like a mustard, which made me feel that he should not continue to stay in the world. It was only natural that Shen He should be included in my list, and some of my colleagues had been very frank about Fang Shi's case. At that time, I thought that he was very likely to have given false testimony, and that he, as a head catcher, should be based on facts and laws, otherwise how to uphold justice and protect the interests of the people. Finally, Liang Feiyan. I heard it by accident when I was on a trip to Goryeo. One night, late in the night, it was just me and a good-looking young man in the tavern, his name was Xiao Ping. Xiao Ping was depressed and unhappy, in order to use alcohol to kill his sorrows, he really drank a lot, and was in a state of spitting out the truth after drinking. I didn't have much hope, but I started my particular conversation. The harvest was amazing, and I still remember what he said. "You're right, murder isn't like what most people think of: poisoning food, pushing people off cliffs and things like that," he said. He leaned forward, his face almost touching mine, and said, "I know a female murderer." Tell you that I know her, and more importantly, I loved her......

God bless me, sometimes I think I still love her, it's hell, hell...... Did you know? In fact, she did it for me to some extent...... But I never dreamed that a woman's heart could be like this—it was so vicious—you wouldn't have thought of such a girl—beautiful, straightforward, cheerful—you never thought she would do that, would you? She sent a child to the lotus pond and watched him fall in and drown—you don't think a woman could do such a thing, do you? ”

I asked him, "Can you be sure she did it on purpose?" "As he answered, he seemed to be suddenly conscious." I'm 100% sure. No one thought of it but me. But the first time I saw her, I understood—it was when I had just returned—and later, she knew I understood, but what she didn't understand was how much I loved that child. He didn't say anything more, but it was enough for me to get the story straight. I only need ten victims. Later, I found the Ah Hu I had saved. He also did a lot of shady things. Including what he did with Monk Yuanzhen in Huayin County twelve years ago, of course, there are some others, anyway, they are all shady things, and I rescued him, and he also told me that he was hunted down because he knew Cao Bao's secret and used it to blackmail.

While searching for these victims, my plan was gradually formed in my mind. Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. I just need to find a good time to do it. The last thing that pushed me to do it was that I was told that my time was running out. And at this time, I received a letter from my brother Ouyang Xun, yes, you read it right, Ouyang Xun and I are brothers, but when we became adults, we parted ways because we chose different paths, and we have never been in touch again. He wrote to me out of the blue this time to tell me that he was terminally ill and wanted me to see him. So I went naturally. As for myself, I actually know that I don't have many days left. So I felt like I had to start my plans as soon as possible! Now let me tell you what the murder case on Kiyofujima is.

First of all, I went to the island to meet Ouyang Xun, and we felt indescribably happy with each other, so we stayed together for three days day and night, and he told me about his years of life. I also learned about his relationship with my victims. So I had a definite plan in mind. He died a few days later, after Liang Da and I arranged his funeral. I asked Liang Da to go back to his hometown, and then I used Ah Hu to help me cover my whereabouts, which was an easy thing for him. Ah Hu is an expert in this kind of thing. After carefully studying the material I had gathered for several of the victims, I had set up a suitable bait for each of them. Every arrangement in my plan was successful, and on July 14 all my guests arrived on Qingfeng Island, including myself.

Of course, I had already made arrangements for Ah Hu's fate before this trip. After asking him to arrange a coachman and boatman for me. I let him go, but before we left, we drank alcohol, and then I put a medicine in the wine, which took a few hours to attack, and it was colorless and tasteless, and if it wasn't for an expert in this area, he wouldn't find out at all, so he wouldn't have a seizure until he left Qingyang Town. When the time comes, even if you find out, you will think that you have drunk too much and die...... Of course, Ah Hu was very afraid that Cao Bao would find him again, so he acted very carefully, so I was not afraid that he would expose me when he did those things for me.

As for the order of death on the island, I have carefully arranged it. My clients have committed different crimes. I decided that the lesser sins would die first, without having to go through the longer torment and fear of the more vicious murderers. Fang Yulong and Lady Qin Zhong died first, one in an instant, the other in a peaceful sleep.

I know that Fang Yulong lacks the benevolence and morality that we have, and that he is a young man who does not speak of morality. Madame Qin was not involved in the murder, but she did not stop it while she watched from the sidelines, and I have no doubt that it was largely influenced by her husband. I need not go into detail about the circumstances of their deaths. The cause of death could easily be ascertained by the yamen. These poisons were collected by me in the past. I took some with me, and in the chaos in the room after the scroll announced everyone's crimes, I easily put it in Fang Yulong's almost empty glass.

In the process of drawing the scroll, I can say that I have observed the facial expressions of my clients very carefully, and through my long experience in handling cases, I am convinced that all of them are guilty. Because I have been suffering from severe pain lately, Lang Zhong prescribed me a sleeping pill. I've accumulated a lot of money that can kill people. So after guiding Shen He to meet Mrs. Qin, I put medicine in her teapot, and Mrs. Qin was originally poisoned by my ecstasy, so it was easy to let her drink this medicine again. Moreover, her death under sleeping pills will make everyone lead the direction of suspicion to the divine doctor Nangong Jin. Cao Bao accepted his death without pain, he didn't hear me coming from behind, I used that blowtorch, and it killed him in one fell swoop. Of course, I chose the time to leave the platform very carefully, and everything went very smoothly. As I expected, a big search was carried out on the island, and as a result, no one was found on the island except for Ouyang Xun and the seven of us who had died. This immediately created an atmosphere of suspicion. According to the plan, I need to find an ally as soon as possible. I chose Nangong Jin, who is more gullible to people. Based on my appearance and status, he thinks that a person like me, who has been a Shaoqing of Dali Temple, is absolutely impossible to be a murderer. His suspicions were all focused on Monk Yuanzhen, and I pretended to share his opinion. I hinted to him that I had a plan that might make the murderer fall for the trick and expose himself. Although the room has been searched, it has not been searched on everyone. It was destined to be the turn of the near future.

In fact, my original plan for Qin Zhong was to lead Shen He to his wife's room, so that he could find out that they would take action or fight, and once they fought, I would take the opportunity to plot against him, but I didn't expect him to die in the hands of Shen He. And I took advantage of the chaos caused by the discovery of Qin Zhong's body, sneaked into Yuan Zhen's room and took his secret weapon. I knew he would carry a secret weapon with him—I actually told Hu. This matter was raised when he invited Yuan Zhen to come. Then, at breakfast, I took the opportunity to pour tea a second time for Mrs. Hua Yun and put the last of the psychedelic drugs in my hand into her cup. We left her in the chamber, and after a while, I slipped back - she was almost unconscious by then, and I could easily have stabbed the poisonous flying needle into her. The Wasp is a little childish in his work - but I'm proud of it, and I like to tell everyone to die as much as the nursery rhyme says. Immediately after that, what I had foreseen happened...... In fact, I proposed it. We're all in favor of a thorough check-up. I have safely hidden the hidden weapon, and I have run out of drugs and poisons.

It was at this time that I told Nangong Jin that we had to put our plan into action. The plan was simple - I had to pretend to be a victim. This could make the killer panic, and anyway, as long as everyone thinks I'm dead, I'll be able to move around the house and spy on the unknown murderer. Nangong Jin strongly supports this plan. We got into action that night. A small piece of red clay plaster was applied to the forehead - the string of Buddhist beads, the hat and the square stone were almost ready, and the surroundings were also arranged. The candle light flickered, and the only person who examined me carefully was Nangong Jin. Things are going well. Liang Feiyan screamed when she found the aquatic plants I had placed in her room, shaking the whole room. Everyone rushed upstairs, and I took the opportunity to pretend to be a new victim. They found out that my reaction was exactly as expected. Nangong Jin performed very expertly. They carried me upstairs and put me on my bed, and no one cared about me anymore. They were full of suspicion and fear of each other, and they were all scared to death. Nangong Jin and I met outside the house at midnight when we were almost ugly. I led him to a path on the edge of the cliff behind him. I told him that if anyone came over, we could all see from the place, and that the room was all facing the other direction, and the people in the house wouldn't notice us. He hadn't been suspicious at all until this point—but he should have been alert, as long as he remembered the verse in the poem: "One demon was swallowed up by the dragon alone, and only three were left in the world." "He should have guessed something. But he didn't take it to heart at all. It didn't take any effort for me to finish him off. I looked down the cliff and screamed to see if there was a hole underneath. He immediately leaned down. I quickly gave him a hard push, and he fell into the raging waves. I went back to the house.

What Shen He heard must have been my footsteps at this time. I went to Nangong Jin's room for a while and then left the house again. This time I deliberately made some noise so that they could hear it. I had just walked down the stairs when I heard a door open. They'll definitely see my back when I walk out the front door. They hesitated for a moment before they started stalking me. I walked around to the back of the house, through a back door window that I had opened beforehand, and back into the room. I closed the window and after a while broke the glass again. Then I went upstairs and got back into bed. I calculated that they would search the house again, but I guessed that they would not examine each body very carefully, nothing more than tearing the sheets, as long as they knew that the corpse was not Nangong Jin's disguise, they would walk away immediately. What happened then was exactly what I expected. I forgot to explain that I had put the hidden weapon back into Gen Zhen's room by this time. Some people may be interested in where the hidden weapon is hidden during the search. The concealment was placed in a jar in the storage room. I opened the bottom jar - I remember it was my daughter's red. I stuffed the concealment in it, re-stuffed it and sealed it. My estimate was absolutely correct, and it occurred to me that no one had thought to rummage through the pile of seemingly unopened jars.

Especially the wine jar above is all sealed. I took the hat in Liang Feiyan's room and hid it, which is very easy. The moment I was waiting for had come. The remaining three were suspicious and scared each other to death, so anything could happen, especially since one of them had a secret weapon. I watched them through the window. When Shen He walked back alone, I thought about how to deal with him, but I didn't expect that he went to Ouyang Xun's coffin, and then he should have been hit by the mechanism I set up in the wooden box, I initially thought that he would definitely go to see the wooden box when he saw it. But I wasn't sure when he was going, so Shen He withdrew from the party. And I came out of the window, and I saw Liang Feiyan kill Yuan Zhen with a secret weapon. A bold, witty girl. I thought she would have a slight advantage against him from the start. As soon as the duel was over, I set up a trap in her room. It was an interesting psychological experiment. Realizing that she had committed a crime, that she had just killed someone, that her nerves were still in a state of extreme tension, and that the hypnotic effects of the environment combined to put her on the path to suicide? I think it's possible. I guessed it. I watched Liang Feiyan commit suicide by hanging herself from a beam while I was standing in the shadow of the wardrobe.

Now for the final act. I walked out, moved the chair away, and set it up against the wall. I picked it up where the girl threw it away, and I was very careful when I took it, keeping the fingerprints she left on it. What am I going to do now? I'm going to finish this article in a moment, put it in a bottle and seal it, and then throw the bottle into the sea. Why? yes, why? …… It's because I'm determined to create a murder mystery that no one can explain. But I now understand that no artist can be satisfied with simply creating art. His desire for his art to be recognized by the world is insurmountable. I must admit that I have this poor nature, too, and I want to let others know how skillful I am in this matter...... In conclusion, I think the secrets of Seikaze Island will be unexplained.

Of course, the people in the yamen may be more clever than I estimated. After all, there are three clues to be found. First, the government was fully aware that Dong Qing was guilty, so they also knew that one of the ten people on the island was not a murderer in any sense, and according to the counter-reasoning, this person could be presumed to be the executioner of the other nine people.

The second clue is implicit in the seventh sentence of the nursery rhyme. Nangong Jin's death is related to dragon hunting, and a person will not go to find a dragon. This means that at a certain stage in the development of the matter, someone uses a stratagem to divert attention. Nangong Jin was fooled, so he died. This incident may become an important clue to solve this mysterious case. Because there were only four people left on the island at that time, and I was the only one of the four who could possibly have his trust.

The third clue is that if they find that Liang Da is missing, they should go to him, and if they find him, they will naturally know some things about me, and I think there is still a little bit of something to explain. After throwing the bottle into the sea along with the file, I went back to my room and lay down on the bed. I had a rubber band on me. I put the rubber band over the handle and fastened it to the concealment not too tightly. I thought about what was going to happen, I wrapped my handkerchief around my hand and pulled the machine, my hand fell back to my side, and the hidden weapon bounced towards the door due to the action of the rubber band, and was stuck by the handle and separated by the rubber band, and fell to the ground. The rubber band retracted and landed next to me would not arouse suspicion, and a handkerchief that fell on the floor would not go unnoticed. Consistent with the accounts of my dead companions, I will be found lying upright on the bed with a hidden weapon through my forehead. The time of death cannot be determined with great precision at the time of the autopsy.

When the sea calms down, there will be people coming up from the land in boats. What they find on Breeze Island will be ten dead bodies and a mystery that will never be solved. --Handwritten by Lu Feng

[End of the book!!] 】