Chapter 142: Epilogue (Part 2)
"Did I get it right?" Yin Chuan said calmly, "Don't worry, I won't forcefully open your suitcase in a train compartment like this. If it causes unnecessary panic, it won't be good for you or me."
"What if I refuse to admit it?" Vina Yun stared at Yin Chuan tightly, as if she wanted to cut off the flesh of Yin Chuan's body.
Yin Chuan was even more unhurried, seemingly more relaxed than before. "Once you said this, can I take it as an admission of yours? So... I don't think it's necessary to open the box."
Vina Yun bit her lip and said, "I don't understand, how did you start to doubt me?"
"At first, I didn't take Luo Mei's accusations against Ma Lao Ba or Du Yunzhang's suspicions about Clark seriously. Their reasoning was full of loopholes. But when Linlang proposed that the murderer was Douglas, who had never appeared, even though her reasoning wasn't the truth, it still reminded me. Aren't the clues she relied on all acquired through observation and experience during her time with you? Could this have been intentional misleading on your part? It wasn't until you accidentally said something when Douglas's body was discovered that I was completely certain of your identity as the murderer."
"What I said? What did I say?"
"He's really pitiful!" Yin Chuan spoke fluently in English. "How is it? Is my pronunciation pretty standard?"
Vina Yun rolled her eyes and said, "Yes, I said this, so what?"
"How do you know the body is a boy? 'He' in English refers specifically to a male, and you blurted out that the deceased was a male?"
Vina Yun was stunned, "Isn't he Father Douglas?" But as soon as she said this, she suddenly realized that she had said the wrong thing and was speechless.
"What? Did you say something? At the time, we only knew that this kid was the eleventh victim, but we didn't know he was Douglas!"
Vina Yun was silent for a moment, then said weakly, "What are you going to do?"
Yin Chuan didn't answer immediately. Instead, he looked out the car window at the slowly receding outline of the fields in the night. After a while, he spoke: "Can you tell me about your motive? Is it related to your deceased daughter?"
Vina Yun was silent for a moment, then took out the photo again. It was a photo of her and her daughter taken at a photo studio. The girl had small eyes and was very short. There was a noticeable birthmark on her left cheek, but she was smiling brightly.
"Yinyin is very sensible. Although others ridicule and bully her, she never complains in front of me, never feels sorry for herself, and always faces me with the most sincere smile. The only thing that breaks my heart is that she occasionally asks me where my father has gone. Seeing my grim expression, she stops asking.
"She was such a good child, but she was bullied by those foreign kids just because she was Chinese, plain-looking, and had a single mother. What was even more intolerable was that the villagers' kids, who wanted to curry favor with the foreigners, joined in bullying my daughter Yinyin.
"Two years ago, when Yinyin's body was fished out of the water by boatmen in the canal, I discovered bits of cloth in her mouth, and a row of small teeth marks on Andy Douglas's left wrist. So... there's no doubt he was Yinyin's murderer, and those children were accomplices."
Vina Yun gently patted the suitcase at her feet. "Your evidence is inside. The teeth marks are still very clear. I took the severed limb away not only to prevent you from finding the evidence, but also to remind me how much Yinyin wanted me, her mother, to save her when she died unjustly."
"So you first killed and dismembered Andy Douglas, then took advantage of the Satanists' kidnapping of the villagers' children to kill them one by one, and then used the four severed limbs to make a sacrifice, leading all the clues to the Satanists." Yin Chuan said.
"Maybe some of these kids didn't participate in bullying Yin Yin, but since I'm determined to get revenge, I can't spare any of them. I can only apologize to the wronged kids."
"Hmph, what a 'sorry'!" Yin Chuan glanced at Vina Yun with disdain. "Did you know? That day, Linlang left your place and went to a family surnamed Li. Their child was also kidnapped by the Satanist Cult, and I'm sure she was one of the children you killed. The child's name was Dong'er, about the same age as your daughter, and she was said to be born mute. The Li couple were quite kind, and I don't think their child would bully your Yinyin. Yet, she was killed by you in such an unclear manner. Do you think you can just let it go with just three casual words?"
After hearing this, Vina Yun lowered her head and was speechless.
At this time, the train whistle sounded, and Vina Yun slowly stood up. "Mr. Yin, thank you for telling me this. When the train arrives at the next station, I will get off and turn myself in to the police station. If you are worried, then get off with me and go with me."
"No need. Whether you go to the capital or not has nothing to do with me. It's just... I have one last question for you."
"What's the problem?"
"Did you deliberately arrange the four severed limbs along the cross pattern simply to draw suspicion towards Satanism? Or was there something else?"
Vina Yun frowned, "Something else? What do you mean?"
"Isn't there some organization that instructs you to do this?"
"An organization? There's no organization's instructions, it's just..."
Yin Chuan's eyes lit up, "Just what?"
"Just over twenty days ago, in the storage room of Douglas's room, I found a card that described how to use a child's four severed limbs to complete a sacrificial ritual. Judging from the tone, it wasn't written for me, but more like it was written for Andy's father, the real Father Douglas. By then, I had already killed Andy. This card gave me some inspiration, and that's how you deduced."
"Do you still have that card?"
Vina Yun shook her head. "I've already burned it, to prevent others from finding out and suspecting me."
Yin Chuan seemed to have thought of something, and murmured with a sense of understanding: "I see, so this is how they gave the hint for the last word!"
Just as he was saying this, there was a sudden roar from the front, and the train braked suddenly, causing Yin Chuan and Vina Yun to stumble in their seats. Soon, the people in the carriage began to stir, and the conductor rushed towards the front of the train while maintaining order.
"Excuse me, what happened?" Yin Chuan asked, grabbing a passenger who was running in the opposite direction from the front of the car in a panic.
"It seems like the tracks ahead have been blown off. If we don't brake, the train will flip over."
"The railroad tracks were blown up? Who did it? Bandits?" Vina Yun asked, standing up and looking out the window.
"Okay, who knows. I have to go to the back car to find someone to lend me my way." After saying that, the passenger broke free from Yin Chuan and continued to walk to the rear of the car.
Yin Chuan thought, it is exactly the same as what happened to Lin Lang. Those people will definitely not let us leave Jushuitun so easily. What should we do now?
As he was thinking, he inadvertently looked down and suddenly found that the suitcase that Vina Yun had been placing at her feet was missing.
"Doctor Yun, where is your suitcase?"
Vina Yun looked down and was also shocked.
"He was by my side just now, how come he's gone?"
In a trance, Yin Chuan seemed to think of the previous scenes. The syringe that Doctor Zhang found outside the queue army camp and the egg in the arms of the fourth concubine in the tomb were all antidotes for these people controlled by the organization. Could it be that the broken limbs in Vina Yun's suitcase also contained this thing?
So, the real Father Douglas, Andy's father, may have already... died?
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