sincerity of lies

"Knock-knock-knock-knock-knock-knock"

"Knock-knock-knock-knock-knock"

When the faint knocking sound came to Boss Wu's ears lying on the bed with a unique rhythm, Boss Wu thought he was dreaming.

It's really like a half-dream and half-awake ghost.

He closed his eyes, but he could feel a dim yellow spot in the dark distance, which was the bedside lamp he hadn't turned off; his body couldn't move, the air seemed to have condensed weight, and it was pressing against him, He was struggling to breathe; and the sound that had been relentlessly drilling into his ears, like... like what?

Like big raindrops, each drop hits the glass.

Yes, yes, before going to bed, the wind and rain are blowing outside the window, and the sound of raindrops is very normal.

But is this really the sound of rain?

The sound of rain is crisp and soft, but this sound is heavy and dull.

It's not so much the sound of rain, but it's more like... the sound of someone tapping the glass with their knuckles!

Boss Wu suddenly opened his eyes!

Horror, like an invisible monster, suddenly jumped out of the darkness and bit his heart fiercely.

He stared at the ceiling, which was covered with mottled spots like TV noise. He looked at the bedside lamp with trepidation. The weak light did not bring him peace of mind, but it made him realize his situation at the moment How dangerous it is! ...Because of this light, it only illuminates the circle around the head of the bed in the room, as for other places, the lower part of the bed, the sofa, the living room, the bathroom... all cannot be illuminated.

They are all hidden in the dark!

What else is hiding in the darkness with them?

And, and... yes, and there.

The sound that was still ringing, from the moment he fell asleep to the time he opened his eyes, was the knocking sound that was not slow, the sound hidden behind the curtain on the glass door leading to the deck.

what is that?What the hell is that?

Boss Wu hit the mineral water bottle on the head of the bed with his hand, and the mineral water bottle hit the ground with a bang.

The tapping stopped suddenly—

Before Boss Wu could feel his heart, he managed to escape from under the fangs of fear, and the voice that had stopped sounded again.

Enough, enough, what the hell, what the hell!

Xin did not escape, and his poor nerves became the captive of the monster named Fear.

The monster first poked his heart with its teeth, once hard and then lightly;

He rolled out of bed onto the floor.

He turned on the light first, turned on all the lights, the room was brightly lit, and the monster belonging to the darkness was driven to the corner, but the sound—the sound was still going on—was even faster, as if it had begun to get impatient!

Boss Wu shuddered heavily.

His teeth, facial features, brain, and his entire brain began to shake.

In fear, he found his thin reason, and he realized that he could not go on like this anymore, the unknown behind the curtain...the unknown is the most frightening, he should open the curtain, and take a look, maybe it is just something that has been hidden. The wind blew on the glass door, bumping against each other, an oolong caused by imagination... It put him in a dilemma between life and death!

He cheers himself up.

He groped to get up from the ground and walked towards the curtain tremblingly. He began to miss Xiao Han uncontrollably. He was his loyal bodyguard, and he did not treat him badly. enough.But now, Xiao Han was detained outside and joined the team of bodyguards, working hard for Mr. Liu who never gave him a penny...

Yourself!

You should be afraid here!

Resentment is like a spring, bubbling and bubbling in my heart.

But Boss Wu didn't dare to go to the main door of the room. It seemed that the door of the room that Mr. Liu ordered to close was more frightening to him than behind the curtain that kept making strange noises.

After all, there is no way for the spring to overflow the sea, nor can it overflow the owner of the boat on the sea, Mr. Liu.

He finally moved to the curtains.

The knocking sound was already obvious, as obvious as the finger knocking, not outside the glass door behind the curtain, but staying in his ear canal, it was in his ear canal, impatiently, again and again knocking...

Boss Wu never felt old.

But now, he thinks he is old, his body is weak, his limbs are weak, his brain is as sticky as paste, he can't think of any way to save himself, he can only hope for God's will...

Yes.

It won't be ghostly.

Not here to kill me.

It was just some accident, something blown up by the wind, a false alarm, everything was a false alarm...

He finally grabbed the curtain and quietly lifted a corner of the curtain.

Snapped.

Dreams burst like bubbles.

The light from the room and the lightning from the sky together let him see the masked man standing outside.

The man held a gun in one hand and paper in the other.

With the gun pointed at his head, writing on the paper:

"I shoot."

"or"

"You open the door."

An earth-shattering scream rushed out of Boss Wu's throat.

He was a frail old man... the frail old man escaped the deck door with a speed not at all frail.He rushed towards the door of the room, and he didn't forget to lift up the cushion on the sofa halfway, using it as armor to protect his vitals!He did exactly the same thing as Boss Ponytail just now, slamming on the door and shouting:

"Ghost, the ghost is here with me!"

He yelled, and his hoarse yell unexpectedly twisted into joy:

"Mr. Liu! I found the ghost. The ghost is outside my window. I will open the door immediately. Come in quickly, kill the ghost and we will be safe!"

but.

That cold, belated voice still said:

"Don't move the door—"

"What?" Boss Wu roared in disbelief, "Do you understand what I mean? The ghost is on the deck, standing on the deck with a gun, separated from me by a glass door, never come again when the opportunity is not lost! "

Outside the window, Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin looked at each other.

Of course he didn't come alone, not only was he not alone, on his left was Huo Ranyin, and on his right was Meng Lingshan, but the two of them had hidden away earlier, as backup, just in case .

Just in time.

Ji Xun threw the gun to Huo Ranyin.

Huo Ranyin raised his hand and fired.

"Clatter", a glistening rain fell on the cracked glass centered on the bullet hole.

Huo Ranyin threw the gun back to Ji Xun.

Ji Xun whistled, quite unexpectedly.

Then he swung his gun at Meng Lingshan who was still invisible in the darkness like a ghost: Did you see it?trust.

Meng Lingshan gave him a cold look: something wrong.

But then, Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin did not step on the broken glass and opened the curtains, entering the completely undefended room.

Instead, they still waited patiently outside, quietly listening to Boss Wu's yelling.

"Did you hear that? Crash! The glass shattered!" The clatter was undoubtedly a heavy hammer, which shattered Boss Wu's sanity. open the door.

But the opposite force was exerted on this door.

Mr. Liu, that old and cold voice sounded: "You said there are people on the deck."

"Yes!" Boss Wu roared, "Let me open the door, you come in and kill him!"

"You said the sound just now was the sound of glass breaking."

"Yes!!! How many times do you want me to say it! Are you old and confused, can't you understand human words?!"

"People are outside, breaking the glass, why..." Mr. Liu, "Don't kill you?"

"..." Boss Wu suddenly became dazed.

The man is outside, smashing the glass, why not rush in and kill him?

Specter has already killed one, two, three people... Such a good opportunity, why not rush in and kill him?

He looked back tremblingly, and the wind was blowing the curtains, shaking them gently.

The curtains covered the deck and fell straight to the ground, and he couldn't see through what was behind the curtains... Has the ghost gone?Or is it still there?What does the ghost want to do?What are you waiting for?

None of this matters.

"Let Xiaohan come in!" Boss Wu suddenly said, "It's fine if you don't come in because you are afraid of death. Let my bodyguard come in. I paid him such a high salary, and now he has the responsibility to protect me!"

For a moment.

A long, contemptuous snort came from outside.

Mr. Liu laughed at Mr. Wu, who played this trick full of loopholes and ridiculously generous in order to call back his bodyguards.

"Boss Wu!" Xiao Han's panicked voice suddenly sounded from outside the door, "I can't go in...they pointed guns at me!"

"Liu Yan, I honor your ancestor!" Boss Wu soared.

The scolding inside became more and more intense.

The three people outside were still not in a hurry.Ji Xun counted the time until Boss Wu scolded for about seven or eight minutes, until his voice became hoarse, and Boss Liu, who scolded outside, was very annoyed, and said coldly:

"If you keep making noise, I'll shoot you a few times through the door."

The time has finally come!

Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin stepped on the broken glass, opened the curtains, and entered the room.

They moved swiftly but cautiously. First, they made sure that the door of the room was tightly closed. There was no bodyguard with a gun inside, only Boss Wu, who was sitting hunched on the sofa cushion, yelling at the door.

When Ji Xun stepped forward, Boss Wu suddenly realized that there was someone behind him. He turned his head and saw a black muzzle first.

He opened his mouth, wanting to yell again, but in a hurry, his hoarse voice seemed to be tightly blocked by a handful of sand, and he couldn't utter any extra syllables.

The muzzle of this gun was neither fast nor slow. It first pointed at the door, then at Boss Wu's leg, and finally at Boss Wu's head.

Then he turned his gun and clicked on the sofa in the bedroom.

Boss Wu stood up resignedly, and followed the ghost who came in to the sofa... When he got here, he realized that there was another person sitting on the sofa.

The man was dressed in an elegant white suit, young and with a perfect figure, that was...Boss Zhou!

Boss Zhou is actually a member of the Ghost!

He couldn't believe it, but he suddenly understood, he finally knew why Mr. Liu and them were retreating steadily...

Huo Ranyin stuffed the towel into Boss Wu's mouth.

Ji Xun put down the gun and noticed that Boss Wu's gaze moved along the gun's landing point. He smiled slightly, picked up the gun and pointed it at Boss Wu again.

"boom--"

Boss Wu trembled all over, and two lines of tears fell down. After a while, he realized from the horror that the soft "bang" was not the sound of bullets, but Ji Xun's pseudo-voice.

He was so embarrassed that he turned his eyes away, not daring to look at the gun again.

Ji Xun put down the gun again.

He reached into his pocket and took out some A4 papers folded in half.

He shook it off and put the first one in front of Boss Wu.

On the white paper, a series of comic strips were drawn with vivid painting skills.

The first picture: the villain is boasting to the imaginary wolf

The second picture: The villain yells at the door

The third picture: the door opens, the villain falls in a pool of blood

Boss Wu began to tremble.

With the foreshadowing in front, facing this comic book again, even if the other party didn't have a word conversation with him, he was clearly aware of what the other party wanted to say.

Here comes the wolf.

Just now, he lost his mind and yelled madly because his psychological defense line was squeezed, which made Mr. Liu extremely impatient. Mr. Liu preconceived that all he did was to get the bodyguard back to him... Next, even if he risked his life to do something, Mr. Liu would not respond.

No, Mr. Liu will respond.

His response was - a shot to the head.

This is, this is all a phantom trick!The ghost is so scheming that it has reached this level!

Boss Wu's eyes were blurred, and he saw a line of words under this comic strip.

Four characters per line.

"Cooperate well"

He obediently, gently, nodded.

This piece of A4 paper fell to the ground lightly.

The second content came out.

A ship, an old-fashioned ocean-going ship, an ocean-going ship with the words "Jingbo" written on it!

Boss Wu shivered subtly.

How did they know this?Had they heard something deeper than that ghost story...?

"That's fake..." He whimpered, as if conveying his meaning.

But he saw another notebook.

There was nothing unusual about the notebook, but the notebook was opened before his eyes, and he saw those diaries belonging to 1976, and the diary attached to the back of the diary!

His body trembled uncontrollably.

At this time, he fixed his eyes and saw that there was a line of writing under the paper on which the boat was originally drawn.

"Feng Silong, Liu Yan, Lu Kun, Chu Xingfa, Yu Hai, Lin Xiaodao, Duo Duo, Cao Mo, Wu Lele, who are you?"

I……

I……

A piece of paper and a pen were handed to him by Huo Ranyin who was next to him.

He picked up a pen and wrote on the paper:

I, I am... Cao Mo.

This A4 paper also fell, and the third A4 paper appeared in front of Boss Wu.

Boss Wu saw the murder scene.

40 years ago, the murder scene where the captain, first mate, driver, and Fu Ge died.

He thought he had forgotten these things.

But these things... these things... are firmly stored in his heart, and he never forgets them for a moment.

"You found out..." he wrote messily, "You should know that I was coerced! I didn't mean it, they all did it like this, I can't help it...! If I don't follow them, I will die You will be like the second officer! You will be stabbed and dismembered in turn!"

"Really?" Ji Xun whispered, his voice was very soft, and he stopped after only saying such a sentence.

He turned the A4 paper to himself, took a pen, and slowly drew a person and wrote two words on it at the door of the room where Fu Ge died.

"Yu Hai."

He then showed this piece of paper to Boss Wu.

Boss Wu tightly clenched the pen in his hand.His gaze was averted, as it had been from the muzzle of the gun, and he began to fear.

If the name Yu Hai has nothing to do with Fu Ge's death, why should he be afraid?

Without Boss Wu needing to speak again, Ji Xun's and Huo Ranyin's eyes brightened instantly.

Bet right!

Cao Mo, who survived the Dingbo ship in 1976 and turned into a wealthy boss Wu, actually knew the real culprit of the murder on the ship at that time!

Then it is absolutely possible to break through from him... as long as a little breakthrough, the last piece of the reasoning puzzle can be pieced together!

Ji Xun recalled Liu Yan's diary.

Seven diaries, ending with Liu Yan's diary... At the beginning of these seven diaries, Liu Yan had no obvious inclination, but after the death search by the chief mate and driver, the diary clearly stated...

Liu Yan and Feng Silong are together.

Cao Mo and his party even ran into a scene where they wanted to go out in a hurry at night when they wanted to discuss things with them.

Why did these two people want to go out in such a hurry, they actually gave the answer the next day...

They were discussing the "hundreds of thousands" treasure in Huo Qiying's luggage.

But there is a problem, a very important problem.

The post-event discussion about the baby in the diary was very clear. It was a dusty baby with no value at all. Liu Translator knew its value, but Brother Long didn't.

Then why did Translator Liu discuss the baby with Feng Silong? This is a very strange behavior, a baby that will not be recognized by others. Feng Silong, who had met so many times, shared this matter.

This is obviously not because Liu Translator has such a noble sentiment.

Translator Liu actively promoted the search of the entire ship after the first officer and driver disappeared, but after entering the first officer's room to search, he lost interest and did not even insist on finishing the search.

Why does he show such an attitude?

He went to these rooms with a purpose to find some clue—or rather, something.

The terracotta figurines worth hundreds of thousands can afford his waning interest.

Not long after, he accidentally discovered this treasure again.The treasure that was supposed to be in the chief mate's room unexpectedly moved around and appeared in Feng Silong's room, or on Feng Silong's body.

Miss Huo's luggage changed hands twice, once as the captain and once as the first mate.

Coincidentally, they were all killed by the same murderer.

Why would a person who doesn't know much about the value of pottery figurines steal pottery figurines?

Maybe it wasn't intentional stealing, but I accidentally picked it up during the fight. After all, it was only the size of a palm.Feng Silong took this unattractive cultural relic from the corpse, and because of this, he vaguely realized that it was of certain value when carried around, so he put it away subconsciously.

Translator Liu probably realized at that time that Feng Silong was the murderer, and he was shrewd and chose to surrender, or use his professional knowledge to win the position of Feng Silong's alliance.

When they were talking in secret, the conflict on the ship was almost irreconcilable. Liu Yiyi was naturally in an awkward position to get close to the management, and Feng Silong happened to be the big brother recognized by the sailors.

So Translator Liu simply took the antiques that belonged to Huo Qiying but were in Feng Silong's hands at this time as a bridge to surrender.

Selling antiques also involves a certain amount of technical work. It is easy to persuade Feng Silong, who has a relatively low education level but has a strong force, to accept him by selling as high a price as possible.

Ji Xun looked at Boss Wu.As if understatement, he wrote casually:

"Do you know Feng Silong is the murderer? Did Liu Yan tell you about it?"

The pen in Boss Wu's hand fell to the ground.

"Looks like I told you." Ji Xun nodded and continued writing, "Feng Silong killed the captain, Jin Song and Qian Zhenyi, but he is gone now, dead, how did he die?"

Ji Xun wrote down these questions.

He slightly raised his gaze to Boss Wu's face.

There was a playful light in his eyes, like a child squatting by the ant nest, watching a group of ants fighting each other, they were fighting so intently that they didn't realize that as long as the child raised his foot lightly, all the ants in this group would be All disasters.

"Yes..." Ji Xun wrote, "Killed by Liu Yan? When Liu Yan was about to kill him, did he tell you about his crime?"

Boss Wu's heart burst.

His trembling was bigger than ever before, so big that every bone knocked on another bone.

Up to now, all the secrets, from start to finish, these people know, how much do these people know... It's been 40 years... I don't know... Maybe the smartest Mr. Liu can tell the difference... But so what What about?Mr. Liu was outside the door...he was also played around by them!

The evil debts from that year have already come to the door, and I can't escape... I can't escape, can I let others escape?Let Mr. Liu, who doesn't care about him outside, escape?

Crack cack.

Crack cack.

The bones are ringing, they are suffering, they are begging for mercy.

He almost used pictures to express his inner astonishment: "How is it possible, how do you even know this?"

Of course it's guesswork.Ji Xun thought to himself.

Feng Silong's murder is different from Yu Hai's vengeful killing of Fuge.The sailors can empathize with Yu Hai's revenge, because Fu Ge is discriminating against and oppressing the sailors, and he already has Cao Hang's life in his hands.They use their own way to pay for their debts in blood.

But Feng Silong, the initiator of the murder on the ship, is the purest murderer.

Even if it was the end when everyone went mad, he didn't need to confess his crimes, or in other words, there was a high probability that he wouldn't say anything at all.

So how did they know this?

It can only be Liu Yan—Mr. Liu—who convicts Feng Silong when he wins others over to clear the obstacles!

It's ridiculous.

Among the criminals, there are also various crimes.

Ji Xun's questions didn't end there.In other words, when Boss Wu completely collapsed, the inquiry really started.

"When we were on the boat, who bumped into Liu Yan and Feng Silong plotting hundreds of thousands? How did Liu Yan kill Feng Silong?"

Boss Wu is already paralyzed.

He resignedly wrote:

"It was Chu Xingfa... We later found out that it was Chu Xingfa who wrote those notes... After we got off the ship, we went to Japan to change our identities, and then went to Xiangjiang... During this process, Chu Xingfa swept away a large number of us. The sum of money disappeared... They said it out of anger... After a few years of calm... Brother Long died of illness... On the surface, he died of illness... In fact, the appearance of death is the same as that of Fu Ge... I suspect Mr. Liu...Liu Yan instructed Yu Hai to kill him..."

"What name did Yu Hai change to?" Huo Ranyin asked suddenly.

So, with the trembling pen, wrote three words again.

"Yu Fanhai..."

Yu Fanhai.

Yu Cisheng's father.

Ji Xun had been with Huo Ranyin in Qin City, and had met him once, an old man with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, who ate fast and recited Buddhism.

He looked at Huo Ranyin, he felt that Huo Ranyin would be more or less touched, but Huo Ranyin was calm, as if this matter did not affect him in any way.The other party was just silent, or contemplative.

There are two more sheets of paper.

Ji Xun showed the penultimate one to Boss Wu.

flowers.

Large clusters of flowers surrounded a female figure.

Below it reads:

"What did you do to Huo Qiying?"

Boss Wu's eyes were glued to the piece of paper.

The wrinkles on his face, which was full of oil and sweat, and distorted by fear, actually stretched out, and those dry lines stretched out a relieved expression on his face.

An eerie relief.

This time he did not write.

But his eyes and other micro-expressions answered Ji Xun's question.

This is a question that does not require the parties to answer.

In the diary translated by Liu, who finally wrote the ending of Huo Qiying, as long as you put aside those long sections of self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, you can easily find...

Each of them entered Huo Qiying's room in turn.

Huo Qiying died.

On a ship, each man, in turn, enters a woman's room.

Then the woman died.

what happened?

What else can happen?

Boss Wu picked up the pen again, and he wrote a line on the paper:

"Forgive me……"

Ji Xun closed his eyes.

He shows Boss Wu the last piece of paper.

Exactly the same as the previous one, the flowers are surrounded by a flawless body.

"Who will spare Huo Qiying?"

Who will spare Huo Qiying.

This poor woman was gang-raped by you, slandered by you, robbed of her money by you, and even made her bones into ornaments.