Yue Xingwen led everyone to quickly search the 4th floor, except for the photo albums, documents and other information in the drawer, no other clues were found. The room was very neat, and there were no traces of fighting, this was obviously not the first scene of the crime.
There was also a flight of stairs off the 4th floor that led to the attic at the top of the villa.
Everyone went up the stairs, and the attic was made into a sky garden with many flowers. At this time, most of the flowers had wilted, obviously no one had taken care of them for a long time.
Yue Xingwen just wanted to speak, a dazzling light suddenly lit up in front of his eyes. Everyone closed their eyes reflexively, and when they opened their eyes again, they were still standing in the attic of the villa, but the surrounding environment changed from night to day!
The students held spirit lamps in their hands and looked at each other.
The instant transition from night to day was like a sudden crossing over, which made people unable to adapt to it for a while.
Ke Shaobin rubbed his eyes, walked to the edge of the attic, looking into the distance—— The garden downstairs was full of black roses, but there was no pit they dug, and naturally there were no three bones piled up in the pit.
Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses and wondered, “This is what the villa looks like during the day. Have we arrived in another space?”
Yue Xingwen said, “The night villa should be the illusion in the painting, and everything we saw at night can be interpreted as a serial painting drawn by Leah’s consciousness, leaving many clues about the murder case. We finish unlocking the mechanism in the paintings and are transported to daylight. And the villa during the day is what the villa should be?”
Liu Zhaoqing simply said, “Just go and verify it.”
Jiang Pingce raised his right hand and directly used the coordinate system to send everyone to the garden downstairs. Zhang Xiaonian consciously summoned the excavator and dug the garden again according to the location in his memory—— However, there was only one corpse in the garden!
Everyone was stunned.
Ke Shaobin scratched his head. “How is it just one corpse?”
Liu Zhaoqing walked over to check it and concluded, “Judging from the bone age of the corpse, this is Leah.”
Ke Shaobin was puzzled. “What about her parents? The three corpses of the villa at night are obviously buried together ah!”
The others couldn’t figure it out either.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce glanced at each other, and at the same time turned to walk towards the villa.
Unlike the villa at night, the villa during the day—— There were no hanging paintings at all.
The hall on the 1st floor had a marble background wall and did not have those four abstract paintings. The wardrobe and bedside tables in the nanny’s room were empty, and the kitchen seemed like it had been unused for a long time.
There was a pair of copper deer symbolizing good luck at the entrance on the 2nd floor, and there was no <Mona Lisa>.
There were no oil paintings such as <The Last Supper>, <Starry Night> in the drawing room and study on both sides. The drawing room on the left only had some children’s painted flowers and drafts thrown in the garbage basket, and the study on the right was empty, not even a single book left.
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Thinking of it, after Leah was adopted by the couple, it was impossible to copy so many strange paintings hanging at home, and what they saw and heard in the villa the night before was an illusion. In the real villa, there were no such paintings.
Yue Xingwen looked around thoughtfully and said, “Have we collected all our clues?”
Ke Shaobin said, “The mechanism of the night oil painting have all been opened, and the rooms of the sisters, parents, and Leah have all been carpet searched, so we should have found everything, right?”
Jiang Pingce suddenly said, “There’s still one.”
Yue Xingwen looked at him and said tacitly, “The cat?”
Jiang Pingce nodded. “En. LEah had been holding the white cat, and we haven’t found the cat’s bones near the villa, so if the cat is still alive, it could reveal the whole truth.”
Where would the cat be?
Everyone opened their eyes and looked around, and Yue Xingwen simplys said, “Ke Shaobin, turn on the radar and find it.”
Ke Shaobin quickly summoned Xiao Tu the robot and turned on the radar scanning.
Xiao Tu’s radar monitoring had a wide range, he asked Xiao Tu to scan the entire villa and garden, when suddenly, a mass of green dots appeared on Xiao Tu’s screen. Judging from the size, it was a cat!
Yue Xingwen walked quickly towards the location marked by Xiao Tu, opened a large flower bush, and found that in the corner of the Black Rose Garden, there was a dirty cat curled up pitifully. It seemed that it had not eaten for a long time, and even its purr was very weak.
Yue Xingwen leaned over and gently picked it up. Jiang Pingce lifted the kitten’s head, and sure enough found its name tag on the neck, as well as the recording equipment hidden by its owner behind the name tag.
Jiang Pingce carefully took off the name tag and handed it to Ke Shaobin.
Ke Shaobin’s eyes lit up. “Leah later replaced the recording and changed it to a camera, perhaps, this camera just recorded the process of the crime! Let’s see it.” He took the memory card out of the camera, connected it to his laptop, and started playing it quickly.
The screen kept shaking and it was dizzying to watch, and it was supposed to be a kitten running across the floor. Then, a young woman’s face appeared on the screen. “Try this, can you record it at this angle? Baby, behave, don’t move.”
The image gradually became stable, except that the camera on the cat’s neck was recording vertically and the recorded image had to be rotated 90 degrees to be viewed.
Everyone tilted their heads, their necks were about to break. Liu Zhaoqing couldn’t help but complain, “Xiao Ke, can you flip your laptop 90 degrees? 13 people tilted their heads in unison to watch the video, as if we are being possessed collectively.”
Ke Shaobin’s ears turned red and said, “I was too excited and forgot!”
He rotated the laptop screen, and the image became right, correcting everyone’s head in unison.
At the beginning, the video was all Leah’s daily life with her parents in the villa, until one day, Leah happened to go out and left the kitten at home with her parents.
The old lady was watching TV in the living room, but unexpectedly, her youngest daughter, Alice, who was drenched, rushed into the house suddenly.
Mrs. Roland subconsciously stepped forward and asked, “Alice, what’s gotten into you?”
Alice’s eyes were red, she was like a female ghost fished out of water. Her hair was hanging down at both sides, and a pair of eyes glared fiercely at her mother. “It’s all your fault for having to marry me off to that playboy Jack! He actually beat me and told me to get out, look, my body, my face, all these injuries are from him, I really can’t live…”
Mrs. Roland looked at her daughter blankly as Alice turned madly toward the house, muttering to herself as she walked, “I have been the best person since I was a child. I’m the most beautiful in the whole school, and my family also has money. The men who chased me had to line up for two blocks… I will never be a loser, absolutely not!”
She didn’t expect that the tie her daughter was holding in her hand would be a weapon to strangle her!
At the moment when her neck was strangled, Mrs. Roland’s eyes almost fell out. Mr. Roland, who was weak because of chemotherapy, came down from upstairs and saw his wife was strangled by his youngest daughter and was struggling. He was so angry that his whole body was shaking, and he rolled down the stairs to the living room, smashing the cup, leaving a trail of blood. “What are you doing! Let go of your mother!”
Alice pulled her tie hard, until her mother lost her breath, she walked towards the man step by step. “Dad, why am I not your biological child? I also want to be your real daughter, and I want to donate bone marrow to you, it’s a pity…”
The old man pointed at her angrily. “You, you actually dare to kill your mother, you are simply not a human being!”
Alice broke down and said, “You were the ones who disowned me in the first place. The distribution of the property didn’t even include me, so don’t blame me for being cruel. I’m about to lose my husband and I can’t go on without money, I won’t be able to live…” With that, she quickly walked behind the old man and strangled the other’s neck with a tie.
Alice’s crazy laughter echoed in the villa, and she dragged the couple to the garden to dig a pit and bury them. The woman’s body and face were covered with mud, wretched as the devil. After disposing of the body, she returned to her room, took a shower, changed into beautiful clothes, and put on delicate makeup.
The kitten nestled in the corner, too frightened to make a sound.
After Alice did all this, she took a rag and wiped all the places in the villa, but in the dim light she did not see the blood on the carpet.
After cleaning the scene, she went upstairs in a panic, ran down with a ‘will’ and disappeared into the rainy night.
The image started to shake again, apparently the kitten running around.
After a long time, there was movement outside the villa, and the kitten seemed to smell a familiar breath and immediately ran out to meet the owner. Leah came back and found that her parents were not there, she opened the video in doubt, and her face instantly turned extremely pale.
She chose to call the police as soon as possible.
The police soon arrived at the scene of the villa, dug out the couple’s bodies, and arrested the murderer, Alice. This was also the reason why there were no bodies of the couple in the garden of the real villa.
The video was an ironclad piece of evidence, Alice could not argue at all. She was taken to jail with the mental state of a lunatic. The wills of the Rolands were found by the police, and the inheritance was divided equally between the two daughters, Daisy and Leah.
Leah left the villa with a large sum of money. The villa was sealed up and no one lived in it again.
She still held the cat and had a relatively uneventful time with it.
One year later, on the day of her parents’ death, she returned to the villa to pay respect, but she did not expect to meet Rhodes here.
Rhodes smiled gracefully and said, “The child is sick and Daisy is in the hospital with the child. She asked me to pay respect to her parents.”
Leah frowned, not saying much at her parents’ grave.
She simply presented flowers to her parents and turned to leave. Rhodes walked side by side with her, and when he walked to the garden in front of the villa, he suddenly said, “Leah, in fact, I used to like you very much, and you’ve always been the favorite of my heart. I remember that you liked sunflowers, so I let my child plant these sunflowers, and I bought the seeds for him.”
Leah sneered and said, “Don’t disgust me or insult the word ‘love’. As far as I know, after you married sister Daisy, you kept cheating on her, changing lovers more often than you changed your clothes?”
Rhodes’s face suddenly became distorted. “You don’t know, those people have your shadow on their bodies! They’re nothing more than substitutes for you! You’re the only one I want in my heart! Every time I see a sunflower, I think of when I was a child, you drew sunflowers in front of the blackboard…”
Leah sensed something was wrong and quickly turned around and fled, but was grabbed by Rhodes.
The image recorded by the kitten began to shake wildly, but the sound in the image was very clear—— It was the sound of Leah falling, as well as screams and cries for help. Her voice quickly became hoarse as she was apparently strangled.
Moments later, Leah’s cry for help disappeared. With a weird smile on his face, Rhodes dragged her body into the garden and buried it in the ground. He also shoveled the sunflowers in the garden and sprinkled a large path of rose seeds.
He stood next to the garden and said in a gentle voice, “I have long thought that one day when you die, I will bury you in the most beautiful garden, so that you’ll never be able to leave me. You like sunflowers, it’s a pity that I prefer this black rose, and I will let them replace me in the future and be with you all the time.”
In the distance, a woman wearing a hat stood under the tree, covering her mouth in horror.
—— It was Daisy who rushed to pay respects to her parents.
The image in the video stopped abruptly at this moment, just like the movie had reached the end of the film, when it hit ‘The End’.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and their moods were extremely complicated.
Ke Shaobin said, “These people are all perverts ah! Daisy should be the most pitiful, right?”
Xin Yan said calmly, “Daisy doesn’t love Rhodes, both of them just have the appearance of a married couple, but separated hearts. She witnessed this scene, and as long as she chose to call the police, Rhodes would be sentenced. Leah is her only relative, and Rhodes is her legal husband. She can inherit property in both of those names.”
Liu Zhaoqing touched her chin and said, “So, the mother Daisy and her son, on the contrary, are the ultimate winners?”
Leah ganged up with her biological parents, killed her adoptive parents and inherited a large amount of property; Alice killed her adoptive parents, but eventually broke down and became insane; Rhodes killed Leah and wanted to imprison the other party in this twisted way, but was witnessed by his wife…
Who lost and who won?
Those who were consumed by lust for profit would one day be consumed by it.
Thank you for the chapter! This arc was twisted ah
Creepy..
Thanks for the update ☺️
Everyone was awful and Leah too
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I really applause author for being able to make twisted story with all character grey like this.
Holy crap!
Thanks for the class! <3