Chapter 543

The rain outside the window is still pattering, and it seems that this night will never end.

The candle light shook in the shadow of the rain, and the room was quiet and dark.

Lin Sanjiu sat on the ground, and his fingertips could not help trembling slightly; With lingering fear, she stared straight at the woman in front of her - the low legged table was knocked over by her surprise. After shouting a few times, she still didn't answer, she pulled the sofa away, and finally revealed the white faced owner at the bottom.

Annie Chapman was still painted with a thick face of powder, her bright red mouth slightly opened, and her eyes tried hard to get out of her deep sockets, as if they were about to burst out.

She looks no different from before, only with a cyan bruise on her neck; The bruises are scattered. You must carefully identify them before you can barely see that they are hand prints. The corner of the skirt was wet by the rain, but it was not dry enough. One of the shoes was lost - Anne's dry and wrinkled bare feet were exposed outside, and the cracks between her toes were full of mud.

Lin Sanjiu couldn't help taking a breath and turned his eyes away. When he turned back, Anne's face solidified by death was still lying on the ground staring at her.

When did Anne die? How did the body come to the Dalton brothers' house?

She stared at the dead woman on the ground, and her brain was in a mess for a moment; Just when she didn't know what to do, she heard the door lock "click" and someone pushed the door open.

"So you've come back," the young man said calmly, leaned in, looked up again, and his eyes fell on the female corpse. His face changed, he stepped back two steps, and knocked down the clothes rack by the door with a bang - the young man trembled, pointed to the female corpse on the ground and asked, "this... What's going on?"

"I didn't kill it!" Lin Sanjiu said in a hurry, "as soon as I came back, she was already under the sofa."

"Under the sand and sofa?"

The young man was stunned. At this moment, a daze suddenly appeared on his face, like a winter fog; It seems that these four words are a great puzzle for him.

"Yes," Lin Sanjiu stared at him, "only the four of us can enter this place -"

"I didn't do it!" The young man suddenly became irritable and shouted loudly - Lin Sanjiu jumped with surprise. When he just entered the door, his anger gradually returned, and his green veins jumped on the corner of his forehead: "how can I waste time doing such things - I - I -"

His strange appearance was soon solved. The young man suddenly kicked the clothes rack on the ground, and said with hatred in a loud echo, "I didn't expect to miss Jack the Ripper!"

I see. Lin Sanjiu suddenly understood.

The place where the dead body was found was not far from the alley where they were tracking Annie; If he hadn't patronized and chased Annie, I'm afraid he would have met Jack the Ripper with Lin Sangjiu. For this young man, I'm afraid there's nothing more meaningful than this - now four people have died, but there's not much time left for him.

The young man scolded a few words low and angrily, glancing at Annie on the ground from time to time; After a while, he finally forced himself to calm down and muttered to himself.

"There are several carriages next to the dead body," I don't know he said to himself, He still said to Lin Sanjiu: "yes, that's right... Before I came in, I always thought Jack the Ripper was a coachman. The body found on the road seemed to have been dead for a while, not tonight. This is exactly consistent with my previous guess - he killed someone and stuffed it into the carriage, which would not be found, but also facilitate him to transfer the body. Besides, the coachman is generally strong and bulky..."

Before Lin Sanjiu could speak, he grabbed the raincoat on the ground, turned around and went out of the door.

"Where are you going?" Lin Sanjiu hurriedly followed him and shouted at him.

However, the young man didn't turn back, and didn't even answer a word. He just walked forward with big strides - Lin Sanjiu was about to catch up, but he saw that the potato brother in front of him just at this time pushed open the courtyard door and hurriedly approached.

As soon as the two sides met, they somehow stopped. The rain is heavy, pouring on the body one by one, making people unable to open their eyes; The younger brother wiped his face. Then he stared at them and asked: "... What are you doing standing outside?"

"Don't do anything," the young man answered dully, and was about to bypass them and go out.

"Are you going after the murderer?" My brother suddenly asked.

"Well."

"It's too late for you to go now," the younger brother immediately added. "He just caught another prostitute, but the woman's cry for help was heard, so Jack the Ripper threw down and ran away -"

Lin Sanjiu was stunned, and then suddenly realized that Jack the Ripper couldn't kill her, so he naturally changed his target; She approached and looked up. The young man's face was blue. Obviously, she didn't expect to brush past Jack the Ripper again - "and the woman was dead," the younger brother looked at his face and continued, "the murderer stabbed her before running, probably because he didn't want people to know his appearance."

That is to say, there are five dead now!

As soon as the idea floated, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She was confused by the game at the moment, and just wanted to get out early; However, at this time, only she herself relaxed - the brother of the potato brothers scolded "* * *", not to mention the young man.

"Let's wait for the game to end now," the younger brother sighed and walked into the room with a little reluctance. "It's really... The killer's action is really fast and inexplicable."

Annie's body is in the house——

As soon as this sentence rushed to his mouth, Lin Sanjiu swallowed it back, and then suddenly a cold war occurred, thinking of something; She rushed up a few steps and stopped in front of her brother.

"Is it you who killed Anne and hid her in the house?"

In the rainy night, everything was vague, and the shadow of his brother stood upright in front of her without making a sound. The young man was surprised and suddenly turned around.

"What are you talking about?" My brother is impatient.

"If you didn't know Anne was dead, why would you say such words as waiting for the game to end?" Lin Sanjiu didn't know whether he was too sensitive, but only one of them could hide Anne's body in the room: "-- for you, only four people should be dead at this time!"

The two brothers were silent together, only the sound of rain splashing in this dirty and messy courtyard. After a while, the younger brother suddenly said, "four people, isn't it soon? I said it's normal to wait for the end."

Lin Sanjiu was stunned. He just thought this was reasonable, but he vaguely felt that there was something wrong; Just as she frowned and tried to sort out the thoughts in her mind, the door of the next door was pushed open at this time. The round head who had talked with her before greeted the two brothers with a smile and said, "gentlemen, why are you standing in the rain? Why don't you come to my house?"

He is obviously still pimping for his wife.

Lin Sanjiu glanced at him - in this moment, she suddenly understood what was wrong.

After finding the body, she met brother Tudou once; It took her about half an hour to find someone and return. After coming back, she met round head at the door, and the latter said, "Mr. Dalton has just left" - at that time, she only subconsciously thought that the other party meant that half an hour ago, brother Tudou left this cheap rental house; Then there is nothing inappropriate to use the word "just left".

But she almost forgot: in the game, the whole night is only four hours.

In the four hour night, people who walk for half an hour are at least equivalent to people who have left for about an hour and a half in real life. In any case, they can't be regarded as "just left"?

"When you hid the body and left, he heard you." Although this is only a speculation, Lin Sanjiu still said to the two brothers in a low and indisputable way.

She intended to cheat them, but unexpectedly, the two brothers suddenly stepped back and sighed: "... Yes, the prostitute was indeed hidden under the sofa."

Lin Sanjiu was surprised and couldn't react. He just heard them say, "but we didn't kill people!"

"You didn't kill her, so why did you bother to hide her in the house? Do you know the murderer?"

The two brothers immediately fell silent, as if muttering a "don't know", but they didn't say anything again.

The round headed rickshaw driver stood at his door and couldn't hear their conversation clearly. He just saw that the two brothers were stopped by "Carol" and couldn't help worrying; As soon as he grabbed some old newspapers from the house and covered his head, he rushed into the yard and pulled his brother's sleeve with great enthusiasm: "you two should come to my house and sit down! I just bought some refreshments and ate them together -"

Lin Sanjiu leaned impatiently and let the coachman who was eager to pull the leather strap pass, still staring at the brothers; He didn't close the door when he ran out, so the door was wide open, and the light of the light bulb came out of the room - as a rickshaw driver, he also installed such advanced items at home, presumably for the convenience of his wife's guests.

The two brothers looked at each other, and at the same time looked at Lin Sanjiu; Probably in order to get rid of her problem, the two of them nodded very tacitly and smiled at the coachman, "OK, go in!"

The coachman was overjoyed at the moment. Turning around, he looked at Lin Sanjiu, who seemed to have a blocking intention. He raised two eyebrows and drank a sentence "go away, go somewhere else today!", One side actively blocked her - the two brothers had seized this opportunity and walked to the neighbor's house; The coachman's fat wife immediately welcomed them into the room.

As soon as the coachman saw that the general situation had been decided, and he didn't care about Lin San's wine, he ran back, threw the newspaper on the ground, and closed the door.

Lin Sanjiu and the young man couldn't help following, but they both stood outside the door, silent with each other and didn't know what to say.

"Maybe they didn't kill it," the young man suddenly said in a low voice, "... Otherwise, there is no reason to only admit hiding the corpse and not admit killing."

Lin Sanjiu just stared at somewhere under his feet and didn't make a sound.

The young man muttered something again, but she didn't hear it, because her whole mind was placed on the newspaper at her feet.

The headline of the headline, written in Old English grammar, "the second victim appeared near the white church", has a row of small words below: "the fifty year old old tailor was poisoned".