Hannibal's Love and Son

Passing through the plant maze, Hannibal and Will sat in the center and sipped afternoon tea.

Starling and Lauren arrive for a visit.

"Please sit down." Hannibal got up to welcome Starling and Lauren to their seats, and made afternoon tea for them.This is full of warmth in the cold afternoon.

Lauren opened the seat and sat down. She almost forgot her original intention and looked around at the surrounding plant maze and said, "It took a little longer than I thought."

"But you came out, you are smart." Will took a sip of tea and said, "It's still early."

"If you think this can prevent us from catching you, you are wrong." Lauren warmed her hands with hot tea and joked.

Will smiled, raised his hand and said, "You caught us."

"So although you as outsiders shouldn't be involved in this kind of thing, our bureau is in a mess right now and we can't do anything about it. We can't let the damage continue to spread. Starling insisted on asking me to come and talk to you, saying that I will suddenly find new things. Let’s break into the case to solve the case.” Lauren said, “So I have to catch you and get involved. If you really have excellent insights and analysis skills as Starling said, please use your abilities to me.”

In order to help Lauren solve the case, make the murderer eat the bitter fruit as soon as possible, and prevent the damage from spreading, Starling, as a linker, has roughly talked about their intentions to Hannibal on the phone and got Hannibal's consent.

"Do you still wake up in the middle of the night, Clarice," Hannibal called Starling's name, "to hear the hissing?"

Will thought about the missed call from Starling that night.

Starling put the macaron, which was so sweet and greasy enough to numb the bitterness in the mouth, into her mouth, "It's no longer that often."

"We found that most of the victims were outsiders," Lauren said after drinking afternoon tea. "Their chests were torn open, as if they had been eaten by ferocious birds and beasts. Some people in the bureau even suspected that brown bears appeared in the city." , except that no relevant DNA was found on the victim. We checked the city's traffic monitoring and found no suspicious animals."

"The bear's hobby is to bite the head, not to tear the ribcage." Will pointed out that their starting point was wrong. "Are those outsiders Jewish?"

"There were Jews, but not all, and the only thing the victims had in common was that they were outsiders, they didn't know each other, they had nothing to do with each other," Lauren said. .It wasn’t Nazism, and it doesn’t look like indiscriminate murder. Is there something we haven’t discovered, which allows us to investigate suspects. Now it can be said that there is no progress in suspicion.”

Lauren took out the file bag, put out the photos of the crime scene and the brutalized corpse on the tea table, and showed Will a case file.

After looking at the photos and the case file, Will said: "A serial killer from the upper class, with self-identity confusion, he is as confused about his self-identity as a lion cub without parental guidance. Judging from the degree of tearing these wounds It can be seen that these were not the fatal injuries of the victim."

That day Lauren received a clue that the murderer was looking for prey at a high society dinner.However, nothing was found. The authorities suspected that someone might have given false information to confuse the public.

"You mean, there is only one murderer, or a young man?" Lauren said in disbelief. The speed and the number of victims appeared so fast that it was impossible for people to compare them with a man from a high society. young people connected.

"A lion, so to speak from his abilities," Will said, giving the murderer a little approval, even though he was indeed not a big one compared with his predecessors, "judging from the fact that these outsiders became victims, The murderer did not regard them as the same kind, but only as a link in the lower food chain. The large number of victims appeared because he would not feel full no matter how much he ate, but it did not come from the hunger in his stomach, but from the hunger of his stomach. From a hole in his heart. He tried to imitate the way a lion hunted, but he would never be a real lion."

"The murderer is of mixed race?" Lauren got the hint, and asked vigilantly. If this is the case, it can be said that the case has achieved a big breakthrough.

"Check the guest list of the banquet you arranged that day, and maybe you will find the clues you want," Will said.

"This, it's amazing, you can gain insight into this step based on these photos and the analysis of the case file..." Lauren couldn't help being surprised, "Starling told me that you used to have friends in the FBI, didn't you You also wanted to be a detective before?" So I put a lot of effort in this area, and I was able to see with a special eye that ordinary people can't see with professional knowledge.

Will smiled, but didn't answer, and asked, "May I ask, is anyone in the local police station also an outsider?"

Will's words made Lauren's expression suddenly change, the hairs stood on end, and a biting cold wind blew past in the afternoon.

"I am," Lauren said, "I transferred here a few years ago."

Will looked at Starling, "And you, Starling, you have to be careful."

The dead leaves are falling, and new shoots are about to sprout.

"When I was ten years old, because of family factors, I went to the ranch of my mother's cousin, and her husband is a ranch owner." Starling said at the suggestion of Hannibal that her childhood had been buried deep in her heart Shadow, that was the first time she heard hissing in the iron darkness.This is also the condition of making love that Hannibal agreed to analyze the case for them.

Surrounded by a labyrinth of plants, she is surrounded by friends who have taken good care of her during this time and people she can trust.

The ambiguous sense of security finally made her utter the secrets in her heart that she had been unable to open her mouth and face up to, and had never spoken to anyone, even a psychological counselor.

"There are a lot of animals like sheep and horses on the ranch, but most of them have physical diseases or problems. They are raised on the pasture and then slaughtered to make glue or fertilizer, and they are also made into dog food," Starling said. At this point, thinking of the darkness that I don't want to think of, I can't help but stop to relieve my emotions, so that my voice can continue to speak normally.

"That must have been tough on you at ten," Will said.

"I wanted to save the poor animals, but there was nothing I could do. There was a mare 'Hannah' in the pasture who I took care of, a mare with an eye disease. One night I woke up in the dark and heard There was a shrill neigh. It was the spring lambs, and they were being slaughtered in the barn." Starling said, "I couldn't do anything but run away. So I finally made up my mind to run away, or I'd see and hear Hannah was slaughtered. I left the ranch and went to a charity for children, the Lutheran Home."

"That must have greatly stimulated you in your young heart, unfortunate childhood." Hannibal reached out to wipe away the liquid that was about to overflow from under Starling's eyes.

Starling breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, and found that her eyes were wet with tears unconsciously while recalling and narrating.

"The ravenous mouth of darkness devours all you hold dear, do you think catching those murderers who devour the cherished will silence the screaming in your head?" Hannibal said.

Starling didn't answer without denying it.

Will saw Starling's self-destructive tendencies in Starling's eyes, because she felt guilty about the animals she had been with and "Hannah" in her childhood that she couldn't save them. The dissipated screams drove her closer to the dangerous serial killer.

Martyrdom, or redemption.Even she herself doesn't know which one she wants and which one she can pursue.

But Will knew Hannibal knew.

As they walked out of the plant maze, Hannibal said there was something he wanted to give Starling in return for the limited number of donuts they brought with them when they visited.

Hannibal went inside to get his gift in return.Lauren got a call from the authorities and stepped aside to answer her cell phone.

"Do you have anything to say to me? You seem to have some advice to give me." Starling and Will were left in front of the court, and Starling asked Will with a smile.

"Run," Will said, "that's my advice, the farther you go, the faster you go."

"Thank you for your suggestion." Starling said, "But I have my own consciousness. This is the sacred oath I made to my profession when I joined the job."

Wandering is not enlightenment, and you are not divine.But Will didn't say the last sentence, but nodded in respect of Starling's choice.No one can wake Alice from a dream she has spun herself.