No one survived
Of course Ren Shanshan would not answer.
There are so many unreasonable points in this whole incident.
Turning back the time to the night when Ren Shanshan accidentally activated her superpowers and indirectly caused the death of the mentally retarded woman, the first unreasonable point appeared.
Quanzi's home lives uphill in the mountain village. According to Shanshan's mother, after the 100-day banquet, Quanzi's mother brought her sister home to help entertain her cousin's wife.
Then the illusionist should have run up the mountain road and seen his sister on the slope, but that day his sister's voice came from downwind.
It doesn’t matter whether the dragon’s beard candy was given by the mentally retarded woman or not. What matters is why the police officer in charge of the case accurately found my sister and Ren Shanshan.
The technicians must have found the sisters' fingerprints at the scene of death. The elder sister also went to the mentally retarded woman's house on that day, and it was definitely not as simple as the sister described herself, "giving a piece of candy."
If the sister had only taken a piece of candy from the mentally retarded person's home, she would not have had to lie for her younger sister and deceive the police into believing that her younger sister was with her when she took the candy.
The memory therapist speculated that her sister had already visited the mentally retarded person's home once before she entered the home, and it was very likely that her sister was also at home at the time. What the mentally retarded son said could confirm this.
The little boy said to the illusionist: "You are back"
He mistook the illusionist who was using Ren Shanshan's body for his sister.
It was definitely not a good thing for the sister to find the mentally retarded woman. When the illusionist saw the mentally retarded woman, she was slapping her cheeks madly.
Two conclusions can be drawn from this:
1. My sister did something bad to the mentally retarded woman, but she was unwilling to tell the police about it.
2. The elder sister knew that her younger sister had also gone to the mentally retarded woman’s house, and it was even very likely that she had witnessed the entire process of her younger sister accidentally using her superpowers and indirectly causing the woman’s death, but she chose to cover up for her younger sister.
No one saw the body of the sister after she died in the mudslide. The illusionist guessed that not only did the Ren family fail to dig out the body, they also failed to extort the compensation money from Ren Er in his dream.
It is reasonable to speculate that the sister had made an escape plan early on. However, given her age, even if she ran to another province or city, she would be sent back to her hometown if she was discovered.
It was even harder to run again after coming back.
So she thought of a good way to solve the problem once and for all - faking her death.
This is a method that sounds like a fantasy, but my sister implemented it successfully.
After she successfully faked her death, she needed money to leave her hometown and a new identity, so she must have an adult to help her.
The illusionist boldly speculated that this helper was Fairy Liu.
The reason for this speculation is that Liu Xiangu knows too much about Quanzi's family.
Moreover, what Liu Xiangu knew was very specific, and it was far from being as simple as described in the newspaper: "She pretended to be mysterious and made Quan Zi's mother think she knew the secret."
It’s easy to guess that Quanzi’s family’s money came from an illegal source.
The whole village was so poor that except for Quanzi's family, the Ren family even had to send their daughter away as a child bride.
Quanzi's mother has money, but instead of living at the foot of the mountain, she insists on building a two-story villa on the mountain. This is extremely unreasonable.
The only possibility is that Quanzi's mother did something bad outside and hid in the mountains where information was cut off.
But Liu Xiangu actually knew that Quanzi's mother had once miscarried a baby boy, which could not be based on speculation or reasoning.
Only family members can leak such private family matters.
There is a half-stupid Quanzi in the Quanzi family, and an elder sister who is raised as the future daughter-in-law. Only the elder sister can tell Liu Xiangu the secret of Quanzi's mother.
Liu Xiangu helped her sister fake her death, and her sister helped Liu Xiangu to cheat money by pretending to be a ghost. On the surface, it seems to be completely explainable.
But in fact, this was a deal that would make Liu Xiangu lose her pants.
First of all, in the eyes of Liu Xiangu, who has been pretending to be a charlatan all her life, my sister is just a child.
If my sister fails at any stage, she will be beaten half to death at most, and Liu Xiangu herself will be in danger.
Secondly, "Quanzi's family's money comes from illegal sources" is just a reasonable guess, and they don't know why Quanzi's family's money comes from illegal sources.
Although "Quan Zi's mother had a miscarriage of a boy" is a fact, it is a fact with little power. It is used to make Quan Zi's mother believe that Liu Xiangu really has the ability to see through the eyes of heaven and knows the secrets of her past.
What if Quanzi's mother is a materialist who doesn't believe in ghosts or gods at all, and doesn't care if others know about her past? Even if Liu Xiangu breaks her head on the table, she won't be able to cheat a penny.
To sum up, the Memory Master couldn't understand why Fairy Liu formed an alliance with her sister.
Looking at the corpse of Liu Xiangu who was dying with her eyes open, the illusionist suddenly had an idea - her sister had something on Liu Xiangu.
The only interaction between Xiangu Liu and my sister before was the mentally retarded family next door. Shanshan’s mother once mentioned that Xiangu Liu was “good at treating elderly people”, but Quanzi’s mother said that “the mentally retarded mother-in-law was cured to death by her”.
The illusionist had vaguely heard of this practice of hiring a witch to treat the elderly in the countryside and hiring a special nanny to take care of the elderly in the city.
When an elderly person becomes a burden to the family, the children are afraid to abandon him or be branded as unfilial, so they will hire a fortune teller or a nanny.
They would quietly help their family members "get rid of" the burden, and then take a large sum of money to join in the mourning.
However, a mentally retarded mother-in-law is clearly not a burden.
Before she fell ill, this mother-in-law must have been a healthy old lady capable of taking care of others, which is why her son felt comfortable leaving her and two mentally retarded people in the mountains and going out to work alone.
The memory master guessed that after being invited, Fairy Liu misunderstood the employer's meaning and thought it was just another "business" like usual.
Liu Xiangu killed her sick mother-in-law and was seen by the mentally retarded woman.
The mentally retarded woman babbled this incident to her sister who came to deliver the elastic bands, and her sister used it to threaten Liu Xiangu.
Liu Xiangu asked her sister to let the mentally retarded woman keep the secret, but since she was mentally retarded, no one knew when she would tell the secret.
My sister went to the mentally retarded woman's house that day to kill someone, because only the dead can keep secrets forever.
The illusionist did not know whether the murder failed or was interrupted halfway by Ren Shanshan.
The Memory Master only knew that the elder sister must be very satisfied with the younger sister's superpowers.
The death of the mentally retarded woman and her sister's escape from the police made Liu Xiangu decide to take a gamble and agree to cooperate with her sister.
The illusionist suspected that Quan Zi's delirium was not a coincidence at all, but was caused by his sister.
Even if the village chief did not take the initiative to ask Liu Xiangu to treat Quanzi, Liu Xiangu would pretend to pass by and act like a mysterious person to cheat people out of their money.
As an experienced witch, Liu Xiangu could not imagine that her sister's ultimate goal was to kill her.
My sister may have learned a truth from the death of the mentally retarded woman - only the dead can keep secrets forever.
She had endured for so many years and planned so many things, just for a brand new life.
To do this, she must kill Liu Xiangu, the only one who knows the truth.
She found an excuse and told Liu Xiangu that she wanted to help scare Quan Zi's mother, and made a detailed plan in advance.
The day before the incident, my sister crawled into the water pipe hole and hid in the closet.
Thanks to her poor family and her harsh future mother-in-law, her body had stopped developing long ago due to lack of food and clothing, and she was no different from her younger sister.
She hid easily in the cupboard and heard Liu Xiangu lead Quan Zi's mother into the kitchen.
Regarding the excuse used by Liu Xiangu, Master Huan Yi has never been a charlatan, but he can roughly guess that it is nothing more than Feng Shui and the Five Elements.
For example, the kitchen belongs to fire, and strong fire overcomes yin, so sleeping in the kitchen can prevent little ghosts from bothering you at night; taking a sleeping pill and falling asleep quickly can help you see the aborted baby and persuade him to get off his brother.
These reasons were made up by Liu Xiangu at random, because Quan Zi's mother was so scared that she had lost her mind and completely obeyed Liu Xiangu's arrangements.
The soft mat on the kitchen floor also proves that Quanzi's mother did not commit suicide. If she really killed her son by mistake and committed suicide by lighting natural gas in a state of collapse, she would not have prepared a comfortable mat on the floor for herself.
Before Quanzi's mother locked the doors and windows and fell asleep peacefully with the key to the house, her sister had already lured Quanzi out.
The hungry Quanzi ate the snacks poisoned by Liu Xiangu and the soup poisoned by his sister, and fell to the ground with a thud.
When Liu Xiangu heard the sound, she realized something was wrong. She rushed to the small hole where her sister was hiding, lowered her head and wanted to talk to her sister, but was stabbed to death by her sister.
Then my sister crawled out of the closet, turned on the gas stove, closed the closet door, crawled out through the small hole, and started a new life.
Her fingerprints on a narrow-bladed kitchen knife and her footprints on the floor of the chicken coop were all normal little things. These pieces of evidence were not even called evidence, but were called "fingerprints of people involved in the case" in the newspapers.
She was originally a poor girl who was treated as a daughter-in-law by her future mother-in-law. She did housework day after day and left her mark in a home that did not belong to her.
So after killing someone, she didn't even consider the aftermath and just climbed over the wall and left.
Regardless of whether Ren Shanshan could hear or not, after recounting the truth she had deduced, the illusionist calmly said, "It was your sister who killed everyone."
"There are no ghosts or gods in the world. They are all created by humans. In a sense, humans who can imagine ghosts and gods are scarier than ghosts."
The cold mountain wind blew the ashes from the burning yellow paper, forming small whirlpools.
The illusionist grabbed a handful of ashes and slowly closed Liu Xiangu's eyes:
"Her initial target was only Liu Xiangu, but in the end she was determined to kill Quan Zi's family, not to avenge herself, but for you, Ren Shanshan."
"From the moment she decided to fake her death, she no longer cared about the hatred in the desolate and barren mountains. Or rather, this level of hatred was not worthy of trapping her, but she was afraid that you would become the next her."
"Because you don't have your sister's ruthlessness, nor her courage. You are just a ridiculously stubborn murderer."
The illusionist looked up at the dark sky and asked: "What did your sister change her name to?"
Ren Shanshan answered the question irrelevantly: "My sister turned into a ghost and killed them. Ghosts and gods must exist in this world."
The air in the mountains was sticky and stuffy, and the illusionist suddenly had an absurd feeling. She felt that she was not in the mountains, but on a raised scar on the earth.
The scar slowly oozed tissue fluid, which then squeezed out yellow and white pus. It kept forming scabs and then being torn open again and again. Its owner seemed to enjoy this repetitive cycle of pain.
The illusionist rubbed his arms hard, but he couldn't wipe off the moisture on them.
She sighed and denied: "If your sister really becomes a ghost, she won't kill anyone."
"What do those people have to do with her? They are just someone's wife or someone's mother. Even if they have names, they are all called Zhaodi."
"Killing them is like killing an isomer of your future self. For someone like your sister, it's like admitting that you're afraid of a future in which you fail to fake your own death."
"Admitting this future means that her perfect plan may fail. The biggest fear of a gambler who is desperate is that he cannot even fully trust himself."
The illusionist's voice was hoarse: "But she still chose to kill people, and killed them all."
"Because she's alive, you're alive too."
Climbing back to the cupboard along the water pipe hole, the illusionist huddled in the corner and silently stared at the light coming through the small hole. She stretched out her hand to cover the small hole: "Shanshan, look, you are like this hand."
Ren Shanshan completely covered up the little light that her sister had created. She had clearly been admitted to university and left the mountains with a normal identity, but she repeated her sister's mistake and killed her roommate.
Sure enough, Ren Shanshan was still the easily angered Ren Shanshan. She no longer pretended not to hear the illusionist's voice. She shouted: "No, you are lying!"
Her voice was distorted due to excitement, and then she quickly calmed down: "There must be ghosts in the world. I was killed by a ghost-like fake person."
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