Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 546 Journalism in the 19th Century
The rain outside the window is still pattering, and it seems that this night will never end.

The candlelight swayed in the shadow of the rain, and the room was quiet and dark.

Lin Sanjiu sat on the ground, her fingertips still trembling slightly; with lingering fear, she stared straight at the woman in front of her—the low-legged table was knocked over by her in shock, and she shouted After making a sound and still not answering, she also pulled the sofa away, finally revealing the owner with the white face underneath.

Anne Chapman still had a thick face of makeup, her bright red mouth was slightly open, and her eyes were struggling out of her deep eye sockets, as if they were about to pop out.

She looked the same as before, except for a bluish-purple bruise on her neck; the bruise had spread, and it had to be carefully identified to barely make it out that it was a handprint.The corners of the skirt were still wet from the rain, and one of the shoes was missing—Annie's dry and wrinkled bare feet were exposed, and the toes were full of mud.

Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but took a deep breath, and turned his gaze away - when he turned back, Annie's face frozen by death was still lying on the ground looking at her blankly.

When did Anne die?How did the dead body come to Brother Dalton's house?
She stared blankly at the female corpse on the ground, and her mind became a mess for a while; just when she didn't know what to do, she only heard the door lock "click", and someone pushed the door open.

"So you're back," the young man said with a sullen face, leaning in and looking up, his eyes fell on the female corpse.His face changed abruptly, he stepped back two steps, and knocked down the coat rack by the door with a bang—the young man pointed at the female corpse on the ground with a trembling voice and asked, "This...how is this going on?" thing?"

"I didn't kill it!" Lin Sanjiu said hastily, "As soon as I came back, she was already under the sofa."

"Sand, under the sofa?"

The young man was taken aback.At this moment, a daze suddenly floated on his face, permeating like a winter fog; it seemed that these four words were a huge puzzle to him.

"Yes," Lin Sanjiu stared at him closely, "This place, only the four of us can enter—"

"I didn't do it!" The young man suddenly became irritable, and shouted loudly—— Lin Sanjiu jumped.The anger he felt when he just entered the door gradually came back, and the veins on his forehead were throbbing: "How could I waste time doing this kind of thing—I—I—"

His strange appearance was quickly answered.The young man kicked the coat rack on the ground violently, and said bitterly in the echo of the sound: "I never thought I would miss Jack the Ripper!"

So that was the case, Lin Sanjiu immediately understood.

The place where the dead body was found was not far from the alley where they were chasing Annie; if he hadn't been so busy chasing Annie, he might have met Jack the Ripper with Lin Sanjiu.For this young man, there is probably nothing more meaningful than this - now that four people have died in the blink of an eye, there is not much time left for him.

The young man cursed again in a low voice and angrily, and glanced at Anne on the ground from time to time; after a while, he finally forced himself to calm down, and began to mumble to himself vaguely.

"There are several carriages next to the dead body." I don't know if he said it to himself or Lin Sanjiu: "Yes, that's right... Before I came in, I always thought that Jack the Ripper was a A coachman. The body found on the road seemed to have been dead for a while, and it was not killed tonight. This is exactly in line with my previous guess—he killed someone and stuffed it into the carriage, neither will be killed Discovery, it is also convenient for him to transfer the corpse. Besides, the coachman is generally strong and big..."

Before Lin Sanjiu could speak, he grabbed the raincoat on the ground, turned around and went out.

"Where are you going?" Lin Sanjiu hurriedly followed and yelled at him.

However, the young man didn't turn his head back, and didn't even respond to a word, he just walked forward with big strides——Lin Sanjiu was about to chase, but he saw Brother Tudou in front of him just at this moment, pushing open the courtyard door, and his footsteps Hastily approached.

As soon as the two sides met each other, they stopped for some reason.The rain was heavy, and it poured on the body one by one, so that people could not open their eyes; the younger brother wiped his face, then stared at the two of them in a daze, and asked: "...What are you doing standing outside?"

"Nothing," the young man replied dully, and was about to bypass them and go outside.

"Are you going to chase the murderer?" Brother suddenly asked.

"Ah."

"It's too late for you to go now," the younger brother immediately added, "He just caught another prostitute, but the woman's cries for help were heard, so Jack the Ripper left her and ran away—"

Lin Sanjiu was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly realized that Jack the Ripper failed to kill her, so he naturally changed his next target. Thinking of myself passing by Jack the Ripper again—"And that woman is dead, too," the younger brother looked at his expression, and continued, "The murderer stabbed her to death before he ran away, probably I don’t want people to know what I look like.”

This means that there are now a total of five dead!

As soon as this thought surfaced, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief.She has been confused by this game for a long time now, and just wants to get out early; but at this moment, she is the only one who relaxes—the elder brother of the Tudou brothers scolded "fucking", As for the young man, there is no need to mention it.

"Let's wait for the game to end now." The younger brother sighed, and walked into the house with a bit of reluctance: "It's really... This killer moves so fast, it's inexplicable."

Annie's body was in the house--

As soon as this sentence came to her lips, Lin Sanjiu swallowed it back. Then she suddenly felt a cold war, and thought of something; she rushed up a few steps, and stopped her brother in front of her.

"It's you who killed Annie and hid her in the house, right?"

In the rainy night, everything was blurry, and the black shadow of her brother stood upright in front of her without making a sound.The young man was taken aback and turned around suddenly.

"What are you talking about?" My brother was impatient.

"If you didn't know that Annie was dead, why did you say that you just waited for the game to end?" Lin Sanjiu didn't know if he was being too sensitive, but only one of the four of them could hide Annie. The dead body is in the house: "—For you, there should only be four dead at this time!"

The two brothers fell silent together, only the sound of the rain hitting the dirty and messy courtyard.After a while, the younger brother suddenly said: "Four people, isn't it coming soon? I said it's normal to wait for the end."

Lin Sanjiu was taken aback for a moment. At first, she felt that the words were reasonable, but she vaguely felt that something was wrong; just as she was frowning tightly, trying to sort out the clues in her mind, she only heard the door of the next door open at this moment. Pushed away, the round head who had talked to her before greeted the two brothers with a smile: "Gentlemen! What are you doing standing in the rain? Why don't you come to my house and sit down?"

He is obviously still pimping his wife.

Lin Sanjiu glanced at him - in this moment, she suddenly understood what was wrong.

After discovering the body, she met Brother Tudou; it took about half an hour for her to find someone and return.After she came back, she met Roundhead at the door, who mentioned "Mr. Dalton just left" - at that time, she only subconsciously thought that the other party meant that the Potato Brothers left this cheap rental house half an hour ago ; Then there is nothing inappropriate to use the word "just left" to describe it.

But she almost forgot: In the game, the entire night is only four hours long.

In the four hours of darkness, a person who walks for half an hour is at least equivalent to having left for about an hour and a half in real life. In any case, it can't be regarded as "just left", right?

"After you hid the corpse, he overheard you when you left." Even though this was just a speculation, Lin Sanjiu still said to the two brothers in a low, unquestionable voice.

She intended to deceive them, but unexpectedly, the two brothers took a step back and sighed: "...Yes, that prostitute was indeed hidden under the sofa by us."

Lin Sanjiu was startled, and had no time to react, only to hear them say again: "But we didn't kill people!"

"You didn't kill her, so why did you bother to hide her in the house? Do you know the murderer?"

The two brothers fell silent for a moment, as if they mumbled "I don't know each other" in a low voice, but they fell silent again.

The round-headed coachman stood at the door of his house and couldn't hear their conversation clearly. He just saw that the two brothers were stopped by "Carol" from going in, so he couldn't help being anxious; he grabbed a few old newspapers from the house to cover his On the head, rushed into the yard, and pulled his brother's sleeves very enthusiastically: "You two should come to my house for a sit-down! I happened to buy some refreshments, and eat together—"

Lin Sanjiu turned impatiently, letting the coachman who was eager to pimp past him, still staring at the two brothers; he didn't close the door when he ran out, so the door was wide open, and people came out from the house. The light from the light bulb—as a coachman, he installed such an advanced object in his home, presumably for the convenience of his wife's guests.

The two brothers looked at each other, and looked at Lin Sanjiu at the same time; probably to get rid of her question, the two of them nodded in tacit understanding, and smiled at the driver: "Okay, let's go in!"

The coachman was overjoyed immediately, turned his head and saw that Lin Sanjiu seemed to be blocking her, raised his eyebrows and said, "Hurry up, go somewhere else today!" Seizing this opportunity, he went to the neighbor's house; the fat and white wife of the coachman immediately welcomed them into the room.

Seeing that the general situation was settled, the coachman ignored Lin Sanjiu, ran back, threw the newspaper on the ground, and closed the door.

Lin Sanjiu and the young man couldn't help but followed, but they both stood outside the door, not knowing what to say to each other in silence.

"Maybe they really didn't kill them," the young man suddenly said in a low voice, "...otherwise there is no reason to only admit to hiding the corpse, but not to murder."

Lin Sanjiu just stared at a certain place under his feet and didn't make a sound.

The young man muttered something again, but she didn't hear her, because all her attention was on the newspaper at her feet.

The headline of the headline reads "Victim No. 2 Appears Near Whitechapel" in old-fashioned English grammar, and there is a row of small characters below: "50-year-old tailor murdered".

　You guys are so heartwarming, I don’t have much confidence in my state, so I posted a lot of comments to encourage me...

　
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