Chapter 137: Whitechapel Serial Murder Case Fake News…
It’s so easy and simple.
Kim Bonnar thought.
For her, making everyone like her is as easy as breathing.
Judy was stunned by his question.
……indeed.
It seemed like from the moment I first saw that girl, I couldn't help but relax?
During her time at the FBI, Judy Stelling had seen women who appeared gentle and quiet, but were actually ruthless killers or agents from other countries.
After seeing this so many times, she herself began to distrust other people's first impressions.
Regardless of appearances, Judy never lets her guard down.
But why did she subconsciously think that the girl was a harmless ordinary person?
She opened her mouth and was about to speak when the cell phone in her pocket suddenly rang.
It was a call from a colleague from the FBI.
She then hurried over to Jin and said a short apology.
Then he picked up the phone.
"Captain?" came the anxious voice of a young FBI agent from the other side. "Is anyone around you?"
"Only Kim," Judy replied quickly. "What happened?"
"Captain, have you seen the news?"
"Something big has happened!"
"I sent an electronic copy to your email!"
Judy opened her mailbox swiftly.
The attachments sent by the team members contained the front-page headlines of several newspapers.
[Shocking! The descendant of the 'Ripper' has been discovered, and it turns out he was the killer who brutally murdered multiple women!]
Schindler's stock price plummets! The reason is...
[Police concealed the truth about the bloody "copycat case."]
Judy: ? ?
What the hell?
She clicked on the headline and read it carefully.
The further she looked down, the darker her face became.
Jin looked at Judy quietly, waiting for her to speak and synchronize the information.
"These media outlets are going too far!" Judy was furious. "They're just making up all this fake news!"
“Fake News! It’s all fake news!”
"They actually said that the copycat killer chose to kill at Schindler & Co. because he was instigated by the real 'murderer behind the scenes'—Thomas Schindler, the boss of Schindler & Co., and that Thomas Schindler was a descendant of the real Jack the Ripper from the 19th century!"
"How is that possible? Aren't they afraid that Thomas Schindler will sue them for spreading rumors?"
Judy complained.
Kim listened to Judy's words quietly and said, "No."
Judy didn't understand: "What?"
"Thomas Schindler won't sue them for spreading rumors." Jin touched the cold wall of the coffee cup and threw it into the trash can on the side of the road.
"The instigation is false. Rainer Bart committed the crime on impulse. There is no instigator."
"But it's 80% true that Thomas Schindler is a descendant of Jack the Ripper."
"Only when news is nine truths and one falsehood can that 'one falsehood' exert its greatest destructive power."
"If it is true that Thomas Schindler is a descendant of Jack the Ripper, then Schindler & Co. cannot sue the media for spreading false information."
"The most we can do is sue on the grounds of violating citizens' privacy rights."
"But if he does that... it will confirm that he is indeed a descendant of Jack the Ripper."
"Then, the news that 'Thomas Schindler is the instigator' that comes out along with this news will be regarded by the public as true information."
Jin said calmly.
Most of the public doesn't care about facts and evidence.
In this entertainment-first age, the public doesn't mind adding fuel to the fire of rumors as long as there's fun to be had.
It's none of your business anyway, so why not have fun with the big shots, watch them fall, and then comment on them?
As the boss of the recently popular Schindler Company, Thomas Schindler is a figure of some importance.
As for who did this, who manipulated public opinion...
The image of the girl sitting in the middle of the crowd, smiling sweetly, emerged in Jin's mind.
Who else could it be besides her and the group of "friends" around her?
A guy who can't sit still.
However, there is no need to tell Judy about this.
The FBI shouldn't meddle.
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"A-choo!" Lin Xi sneezed violently.
"Sister Lin, do you have a cold?" Hongshu looked at her worriedly.
Is the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors too big?
Sure enough, the air conditioner in the company shouldn’t be turned on so high!
He should have worked with Noah to hack into Schindler Company's temperature control system and secretly raise the indoor temperature!
Upon hearing this, Haibara Ai also looked over.
"Ah...I'm fine."
Lin Xi touched his nose.
With her current physical condition, it is impossible for her to catch a cold.
Rather than guessing that the temperature difference was too big, it would be more reliable to guess that someone was teasing her from behind.
But after Lin Xi thought about it, he was still not sure who had tickled the cricket.
There is no way, there are too many options and I can’t eliminate them all by elimination.
However, it doesn't matter who teases her. There are more important things waiting for her to deal with now.
She looked at the newspaper in front of her and stared at Hiroki Sawada silently.
Hiroki Sawada caught the gaze and laughed.
"Hiroki—"
The sound was long and drawn out.
"Ahaha, Sister Lin!" Sawada Hiroki no longer looked like a good boy. He jumped off the chair and whispered in Lin Xi's ear: "I did it... I'll explain it to you later! Sister Huibara is still here!"
Sister Haibara is only seven years old this year, and it is not appropriate for her to know these "adult" things!
He finally got the chance to be a brother, and he didn't want his image to collapse in the eyes of his sister!
Hiroki, who was thinking this, didn't notice at all that he was also a child under ten years old.
Although Hiroki's voice was very low, the perceptive Haibara Ai still noticed it.
Ah... Hiroki is whispering to Sister Lin.
Is there something you don't want her to hear?
Haibara Ai was a little distracted.
She was always with Sister Lin, staying together and living together. Life was so good that she forgot that Sister Lin had her own interpersonal relationships.
She also has friends she doesn't know, her own life, and her own circle...
She was just a "poor little thing" who was picked up along the way, and she really shouldn't expect to understand everything about Lin Xi.
If Sister Lin and her friends want to talk about a topic that she needs to avoid, then she... should be more sensible.
Huiyuan Ai said: "Sister Lin, I'll go get another cup of coffee."
I have to find an excuse to avoid them and not make things difficult for them...
After she finished speaking, she was about to leave when Lin Xi stopped her: "Hey, hey, hey, kid, why are you drinking so much coffee?"
"Stay here. It just so happens that you, Hiroki, have been facing some difficulties in life recently, and maybe you can use Ai's help and advice."
"Sister Lin!" Sawada Hiroki's face flushed. "It's not as serious as you say!"
"That's not a life dilemma!"
To be precise, in Hiroki Sawada's memory, apart from the relationship between his father and mother which often gave him headaches, there was basically nothing that bothered him.
Whether in personal life or academics, his life was incredibly smooth... Everything was very simple for him and did not make him frown at all.
Even the matter of his father and mother, after so much time, he had long since let it go: their relationship was their own business, and no matter what, both of them loved him very much, and that was enough.
As for Thomas Schindler...
Hiroki Sawada touched his nose embarrassedly.
He hadn't been able to control him at all. The reason Thomas Schindler had the illusion that he had complete control over Hiroki was because Hiroki Sawada had deliberately made him think so.
Only by being in the position of the "prey" can you better control the "hunter".
But Hiroki Sawada is a little tired of this game.
He has almost obtained all the resources he can get from Schindler Company, and the most important thing is... [Cocoon] has been successfully developed.
So this time, while Sister Lin was here, he also wanted to completely get rid of Thomas Schindler...
The first step, of course, is to intensify the conflict.
So, he asked Noah to send the processed information directly to the email addresses of editors of major news media.
The information is evidence that Thomas Schindler is a descendant of Jack the Ripper, the 19th century.
One can always imagine the ability of unscrupulous media to seize hot topics.
Look, it’s not even been three hours since the murder happened in the company, and they’ve already written and published the report, right?
but……
Receiving Lin Xi's suggestive look, Hiroki Sawada glanced at Haibara Ai's slightly gloomy expression and held her hand.
This child was also picked up by Sister Lin, right?
Just now...she was showing signs of uneasiness, right?
Hiroki Sawada thought of the time when the two of them - he and June Sugishima - were taking classes in their small home in Linxi, Japan, and how June was also very nervous, so he held Haibara Ai's hand even tighter.
"Well, Sister Lin... what she said is not wrong. Although it's not a life-threatening situation, it's still a little troublesome, so..."
"It would be great if Ai could solve this problem with us!"
The blue-eyed boy squatted down, held Haibara Ai's hand, and said sincerely.
Sugishima Jun'e stood beside Haibara Ai and rubbed her head with a smile.
Haibara Ai was initially surprised when she was pulled, but gradually she became embarrassed.
Ah, so I was seen through from the very beginning?
Sister Lin’s friends are so nice…
The uneasiness that had been building up in my heart since the beginning of the trip finally dissipated at this moment.
Haibara Ai raised her head, looked at the group of people looking at her with smiles on their faces, and nodded seriously.
"Meow~"
Even Coconut jumped over, as if to give the little girl some encouragement.
ah.
Haibara Ai touched the coconut.
Speaking of this cat, Haibara Ai was shocked when she saw it.
It looked so much like Punch's cat.
White hair, blue eyes without a trace of impurities...
It was exactly the same as what Haibara Ai remembered.
Even the name is coconut.
The age is also right.
When seeing the white cat lying obediently in Lin Xi's arms, Huihara Ai felt for a moment that the image of Lin Xi and the image of Punch overlapped.
She quickly put this unreliable guess behind her.
Then she thought, could it be that Coconut came here because of her?
Even though Coconut and Punch disappeared for five years, Haibara Ai remembered that Coconut was very smart since he was a child, and maybe he still remembered her.
But soon Huiyuan Ai sneered and laughed at herself in her heart:
If the coconut were alive, it would be with Punch.
Why would he come to see me?
After all, when Punch left, Coconut disappeared with her.
She just took it with her.
When she learned that this cat was raised by Sister Lin's new friend, the young man named Morey Gaunt, for some reason, Huihara Ai felt a little disappointed while breathing a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, this cat is not that cat.
As for why the cat was still left with Lin Xi after the press conference ended and the young man left...
In fact, it was because the coconut cat refused to leave at the time of separation.
[Half an hour ago.]
"Ah, coconut!" The young man was very embarrassed.
"If you hook Miss Lin's clothes like this, they will be scratched!"
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