[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

"I hate word games." Jack was still humming.

The forensic doctor avoided the crowd, lowered his voice, and asked quietly: "Why is this game the same as last time...?"

He wanted to say that the level of difficulty was not the same, but after thinking about it, the game seemed easy this time? It was because Jack pointed it out from the very beginning.If Jack hadn't figured it out, Guan Qiao? They might still be struggling with these equations, trying to solve the problem in all kinds of fancy ways.

"Because this is not a game for me." Jack replied in a low voice, "The jigsaw should have prepared a test for each of us,? I corresponded to the mortuary cabinet just now, and this brain teaser is for everyone except For someone other than me,? I guess it's you,? Because I'm a mathematician,? It's easy to see through his tricks, and a detective is easy to be smart,? Think too much,? Sometimes the more you think, the closer you are to the truth Far away. Therefore, if you do an elimination method among the remaining people, it will probably be you."

The forensic doctor breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, but at the time of the mortuary cabinet,? Then why didn't I hear Jigsaw tell you the rules of the game?"

Jack shrugged, showing a helpless look: "He said something, but I didn't want to hear it, so I turned it off."

The forensic doctor was speechless for a while, and silently gave him a thumbs up.

The detective ignored what they were muttering in the corner. This time, the combination disk of the safe had no dangerous facilities. He dialed the combination dial to 009. The door of the safe popped open, and there lay a medieval audio tape in the safe.

"Tape?" He grabbed the tape, flipped it up and down, and there was a small note on the side of the tape, with a string of words written in a blue pen on it: doctor.

He put the tape into the only player in the room, and there was a harsh noise and snowflakes on the old TV screen, followed by a black screen.Everyone waited in silence for a long time, and finally a dull phone ring came from the player, followed by the mechanical and electronic sound of Didi, which seemed to be a telephone recording.There are only familiar male voices and strange female voices in the recording. Jack can hear that the male voice belongs to the forensic doctor next to him, while the female voice has obviously been distorted by a voice changer. Both pronunciation and grammar sound very mechanical and stiff.

Male voice: "Hello, Louisiana Police Department Forensic Examination Unit, James Edward."

Female voice: "Hi, Mr. James, you may receive a report in the afternoon that a girl jumped from a tall building. Please remember my words: don't worry about it."

Male voice: "Hello? What do you mean? Who are you? Hello? Hello!"

Female voice: "I know you need money, doctor, your daughter is sick."

Male voice: "Who are you? How do you know about my daughter?"

Female voice: "Don't ask me who I am, I won't force you to forge evidence, I just need you to do your job - dissect the corpse, and then conceal part of the information, I will tell you what it is. You have everything Never mind, don't ask anything. I'll pay you $15 when this is over."

Male voice: "Are you trying to kill someone? Then bribe me to give you false testimony? Do you think it's easy to perjure yourself? Do you know that once the crime happens, I will go to jail with you?"

Female voice: "I can spend 15 to bribe you, I guess I still have money to bribe others?"

Male voice: *Silence

Female voice: "Also, I didn't ask you to give false testimony, I just asked you to do a good autopsy, don't write certain information on the autopsy report, and then just shut up and take the money."

Male voice: "I won't do anything for you."

Female voice: "Think about your daughter."

Male voice: "You dare to attack my daughter!"

Female voice: "I don't care about one more, but you do."

The recording ended here, the female voice hung up the phone, and the end of the recording was a blind tone of beep, beep, beep.

"'I don't care about one more', now we can be sure it's a murder, like a psycho doll said, Alice's death was not a mistake, but someone killed Alice." Detective turns to forensic , "The man in the tape is you, right?"

The forensic doctor pursed his lips cautiously: "That's right, it's me."

"You were bought by the murderer and gave false testimony?"

"No." The forensic doctor shook his head, "I did not perjure or tamper with the corpse, I swear to God. There is no trace of murder on the corpse, which is the part that frustrates me the most, the stomach contents There are no sleeping pills, no poison. Either the murderer didn't kill, the girl didn't struggle at all, but fell voluntarily, or the murderer's method was so clever that I couldn't even see it."

"Then why didn't you tell us at the beginning of the game."

"You." The forensic doctor pointed to the detective, "You used to be my boss. Even if you leave your job, you still have influence in the police force. If I tell the story, you may report me when you go back. I I will lose my job because of this, and what will I have to support me and my daughter?"

The detective froze for a while: "If there is no evidence at all, why did she bribe you in advance? She doesn't have the ability to ensure that you don't act rashly. If you hand over this recording to the police, she is at risk of being exposed."

The forensic doctor pondered for a while: "She just asked me to conceal, to conceal some clues. In fact, I do feel that something is wrong with the corpse."

"Not quite right?"

"Yes, before the destruction of the building, the victim had been out of school for half a year because of depression, and kept away from home in order to recuperate, and rarely appeared in front of others. Then the girl's body was seriously damaged. I relied on the dental records from the past six months. The identity was confirmed. The traces on the victim’s body did not match her medical history. Through autopsy, I found that her arm had an old callus, which means that she had a broken arm, but there was no record of her fracture in the medical history. , Also, there are many scars on her arms and palms, and some calluses on her fingertips and tiger's mouth, she doesn't look like a rich lady."

The lady suddenly said, "You mean she was abused?"

"No, actually...you can call it abuse, because there are many scars, but it doesn't look like abuse..." The forensic doctor rubbed his chin, lost in memory.

"I knew her father was not good to her." The lady lowered her head and wiped her tears with a handkerchief. "Actually, I had a hunch. She was recuperating at home. I seldom go home. Every time I go home, I find She has new bruises on her body. I thought she was abused, but my husband said it had nothing to do with him, my daughter secretly self-harmed, I have no proof, and financial constraints, I can't get mad at him. I should have divorced him with my daughter , if it could be earlier..."

"Depression, self-harm, falling in love with stepfather and being rejected..." the detective paced back and forth, "With all due respect, all of these point to one possibility—Alice committed suicide."

The noble lady did not speak, and was still sobbing in a low voice. On the contrary, the dancer who had been silent all this time raised her head, her face full of confusion: "Suicide?"

"Yes, she committed suicide. She fell in love with her stepfather. She knew that this love was unethical, and her stepfather rejected her because of this. She was heartbroken and disclosed the news to her former friends. Not only was she not forgiven, but she was punished by the school. Bullying, which made her suffer from severe depression. Depression made her in a trance all day long. When she was unconscious, she made up the holiday diary of her stepfather sexually assaulting her, and secretly used a knife to self-mutilate, or was abused by her stepfather, It doesn’t matter what you do, but her depression didn’t get any better, and in the end she chose to commit suicide in extreme pain, and she just jumped off the building and died.”

"It sounds reasonable." The forensic doctor curled his lips in disdain, "but what happened to the phone call before jumping off the building?"

"Maybe it's Alice's preview. She hopes you don't reveal that she committed suicide. If she commits suicide, the insurance company will not pay a huge amount of insurance money to her parents."

The forensic doctor sneered, "But I really received $15."

"She can entrust someone else to transfer the money for her, or—" the detective suddenly opened his eyes wide, as if enlightened in an instant, "She cooperated with her father, she committed suicide by jumping off a building, her father received a huge amount of insurance money, Afterwards, her father will transfer 15 yuan to you. But the plan can’t keep up with the change, and the stepfather was thrown into prison on suspicion of sexual/assault. He knew that if the police continue to investigate like this, the strangeness in the case of Alice falling from the building will definitely It was exposed, so he committed suicide and left the insurance money to his wife. Or...Alice directly cooperated with her mother, and after Alice died, the mother took advantage of the situation to frame her husband, so that one less person could share the money.”

Although it is very reluctant, it seems to make sense, the forensic doctor raised his eyebrows: "But Jigsaw said that the murderer is among us."

"The 'murderer' mentioned by that perverted doll does not necessarily refer to a murderer. In the same way, the case of falling from a building does not necessarily mean a murder case. The so-called 'murderer' may also be the cause of all this The culprits. For example, "the detective glanced nonchalantly at the lady and the dancer, "ignoring her feelings, causing her to suffer from depression, the mother who eventually chose to commit suicide, and the mother who shared the secret with her, but died because she hated her. Friends who bullied her on campus."

The noble lady stood up under the detective's half-smile gaze, and tried to straighten her spine: "What you said is your guess, you don't have any evidence."

"Evidence? There are still several rooms, do you think there will be any evidence in it?"

When the detective and the lady were arguing, Jack hugged the forensic doctor with his arms folded, patted him on the shoulder, and whispered, "Dude, have you never been in the country?"

The forensic doctor froze for a moment: "Uh...yes."

Jack put a finger in the air and shook it: "If you've been to the country, you know what the scar on Alice's arm is. It's not abuse, it's the scar from picking cotton. The cotton branch is very hard. , Even wearing gloves and long sleeves will still scratch your fingers and arms, which is why the United States used to do slave business, let black slaves do the work of picking cotton, because this work is simply not done by humans.”

The forensic doctor's brows slowly tightened: "You mean she has picked cotton? How is that possible? She is the daughter of a rich family, how could she go through that kind of hardship?"

"No, no, no...Think about it, Edward, you have to think about it. Of course, the rich lady would not pick cotton, but if—" Jack's voice was drawn out, and it was obvious amidst the quarrel between men and women. Everyone is humble, but they got into the ears of the forensic doctor like ghosts, "What if it wasn't Alice who died?"