13 Mink Street

Chapter 38 They, what are they!

Karen stood up and looked at Rot, who was leaning on crutches with both hands and supporting himself with his chest to help him maintain his balance.

take a deep breath,

Feel dizzy in the brain,

For a while, it was not clear whether it was hypoxia or drunk.

But in my heart, after all, I suddenly loosened, and the boulder that was suppressed in my heart seemed to be moved away at this moment.

It's just that this kind of emotion can't be expressed in words, not because of its complexity, but because the tragedy of another family is right in front of you, and the moral principle prevents you from saying any inappropriate words.

If you're not there, but on the phone, it's perfectly fine to:

"Hey, Rot, I heard that a family died on your street. It scared me. I thought something happened to your family."

in the face of death,

Most emotions will be dyed gray;

In many cases, it is not because of respecting a dead person, but because of respecting life;

After all, when most people look at the deceased person lying there at the mourning service, they have in their minds what it must have been like to lie there.

Of course, inner relief is understandable, and there is no need to feel guilty about it. It is difficult to achieve true commonality of human suffering and sorrow, especially for strangers.

"Karen, Karen?" Uncle Mason yelled again, "Are you okay, help this car."

Karen turned around, walked over, and helped the stretcher.

Uncle Mason ordered again: "Ah Fu, you and I can carry the one inside, Karen, if you can't push it, wait for us here."

Karen tried to push the stretcher cart by himself. If it was on a smooth road, it would not be a big problem, but there are potholes here, and the wheels are easy to sink into.

At this time, Sarah's mother came over, grabbed the other side, and helped Karen push the stretcher.

Rot was walking alongside him: "Mr. Karen, do you know that on this street I am called the crippled Rot, and the one lying on it is called Hisoka the Broken Hand."

"Speaking of which, his father and my father used to be fellow workers. When we were young, our fathers often drank together, and we played together."

"Later, we went into the same factory together. On the day of the accident, we were both crushed under the equipment. I lost a leg because of it, and he lost an arm."

"He once comforted me like this, hey, Rot, I really envy you. You still have a pair of complete hands that can make slippers out of car tires, but I can't use these feet to weave gloves."

"His family is actually more difficult than my family. I can earn hundreds of rupees a month to subsidize my family in the summer by making slippers, and my wife can still work in the textile factory with a salary.

Most of the time, he can only go to the garbage dump to pick up leftover meat and sell it to the schnitzel. However, he often brings home the freshest and most complete meat, and he will also share it with us.

Every time he brings me meat, he says:

Hey, even if the meat is left over, it still tastes delicious, just like the two of us, missing arms and legs, but we are also human. "

"His wife has always had a heart problem and couldn't do tiring work, so he and his mother folded paper boxes for others at home. One hundred paper boxes can be exchanged for 2 rupees in wages, and it often takes a whole day to fold them."

"After the parade came back that day, we were all very excited. He said to me, Rott, have you seen that Mr. Hickson is still standing with us, and he is still the pride of our East District."

"He is already distributing how to spend the 200 rupiah he can receive every month. He said he wants to save it and ask his wife to go to the hospital for a heart check. He said that his wife's heart problem seems to be getting worse, but he His wife said that the money should be saved for the children to go to school, and when the children go to junior high school, the tuition and book fees should be more expensive.”

"Just last night, after Mr. Karen left, I visited his house and showed him the beautiful business card you gave me."

"He was very surprised and said that he saw the hearse parked on the street. When he passed by, he also felt emotional. How could a family member lie in such a luxurious and comfortable car to attend his mourning meeting after death? ?”

"I told him about you having dinner at my house. He said that after his baby enters junior high school, he should also meet classmates from good families. When he brings the classmates home as a guest, he has to prepare something to entertain him. In order not to lose courtesy.”

After the stretcher was pushed behind the hearse, Karen opened the rear compartment of the hearse and pulled a backing plate from it, so that the stretcher could be pulled up directly. This is a configuration that the old hearse did not have.

Karen went up and pulled up first, while Sarah's mother and Rott reached out and pushed down together.

Finally, the stretcher carrying the "Broken Hand Hisoka" was pushed onto the hearse.

Karen got out of the car and looked into the distance, looking for the figures of Uncle and Ah Fu.

At this moment, Mr. Rot, who had been talking, suddenly moved his face in front of Karen, his expression became a little distorted, his eyes were completely red, and he roared almost hysterically:

"Mr. Karen, a father who was still thinking about how to entertain his daughter's family-friendly classmates last night, he committed suicide by taking poison like this. Do you think it is possible?"

"I……"

"He died, Hisoka died with a severed hand, his mother hanged himself, his wife jumped off the building with her daughter and died, I went to see that scene, I couldn't watch it, I couldn't watch it at all, and I couldn't bear to watch it.

Mr. Cullen, their little Mira is the sweetheart of their family.

No matter what happens, they will definitely protect Mira with all their might, especially his wife. His wife suffered from heart problems after giving birth to Mira.

His wife regards her daughter as more precious than her own life.

Even if she wants to seek death,

How could he bring his own daughter to die together! "

Karen didn't know how to answer Rott's words.

Rot grabbed Karen's clothes with his hands, and Sarah's mother pulled her husband from behind, but Rot didn't let go.

"Also...why is it Mr. Karen who came to pick Hisoka?

God,

Can he afford the funeral?

His family even needs to pay for the cremation.

How can there be money to hold a mourning party!

look,

He now lies in this big comfortable car,

This is something that he didn't dare to think about when he was still alive yesterday! ! ! "

"Plop!"

Rot's two crutches fell to the ground, and then he fell into the puddle, splashing a piece of sewage, but even though he was disabled, he always loved cleaning, but he kept patting the puddle with his hands :

"Who can tell me what's going on! Who can tell me what's going on!

Why did those reporters come so fast!

Why did Hisoka scold Mr. Sixson in his suicide note!

God,

He is a broken-handed Hisoka who can't even understand his daughter's elementary school questions, and needs to bring her to ask Sarah for homework questions! "

At this moment, a group of reporters who had already finished taking pictures came out from inside;

Holding umbrellas and protecting their cameras, they stepped carefully over the puddles and bricks. When they passed by Rot, who was slapping the puddles frantically, they all showed expressions of shock and contempt, and walked around from a distance.

Let Rot continue to sit there alone and shout crazily.

At this time, with the help of a policeman, the uncle also pushed Hisoka's mother's body out.

Farther away, Ah Fu pushed another stretcher cart over by himself, and there were two people lying on it under a white cloth.

All the corpses were transported to the hearse, and the wheels of the stretcher were put away. Hisoka and his mother were placed in the pit in the middle, and his wife and daughter were placed in the places where the passengers on the two sides were originally seated.

After Mason signed the form with the police, he got into the cab.

"Master, get in the car." Ah Fu reminded Karen.

Karen got into the car, and the body was lying on the seat where he was sitting. Karen could only sit with Ah Fu under it, and at the same time stretched out an arm to prevent the body from sliding down due to the bumps of the car.

finally,

The hustle and bustle outside began to fade away, and the hearse drove out of Mine Street.

"Ah Fu, get me a cigarette." Uncle Mason, who was driving, shouted.

Ah Fu walked over, took out Uncle Mason's cigarette, handed one to Mason's mouth, and helped Mason light it again.

When Ah Fu was about to put the cigarette back, Mason pouted behind him.

Ah Fu understood, and at the same time, he also remembered the scene that he and Ms. Molly smoked together with the great existence on the window sill on the second floor of 128 Minke Street, and then laughed out loud.

Alfred brought the cigarette to Karen's mouth,

Karen took the cigarette, but refused to help light it.

"uncle……"

Before Karen could finish speaking, Uncle Mason who was driving immediately shouted:

"Suicide, suicide, suicide, fucking suicide!"

Prepare the deposit of the funeral club in advance, make an appointment, and then the whole family commits suicide, waiting for the body to be collected. Arrange the funeral by yourself.

But a deposit of 100,000 rupiah,

Inmelas Funeral Society,

Could this family in Mine Street afford it?

The person who paid the deposit had known for a long time that someone would die, and if he died today, the whole family would die!

It's not the case of collective mourning after a generation has died!

So, what kind of suicide is this?

others don't know,

Outsiders don't know,

Could the Inmeles family, who received the deposit in advance, be unclear?

I have been resting at home for the past few days just to wait for this "suicide"?

Mason is not a fool, of course he has already seen it.

But after venting the emotion,

Mason added:

"Karen, there are a lot of reporters today. I believe that there will be more reporters at the mourning meeting tomorrow. The sheriff told me just now that the chief above him is also watching this case. There are many reporters in the city government. People are watching the case."

Karen pursed her lips;

There's some traffic jam ahead,

Uncle Mason frantically honked:

"Beep beep beep beep!!!!"

Then,

He said dejectedly again:

"So, what can we do, report and report that we have already received a deposit of 100,000 rupiah? Say all this is premeditated?

Are we going to get justice?

Are we going to expose the darkness?

Are we going to do justice to the four guests in the car now?

Karen,

This is the game of the big men,

Since they dared to give us a deposit generously, and gave us such a large deposit, they would not be afraid that we would speak out, because they had the confidence to stop us.

You can use rupees,

certainly,

It can also be like the family in the car, their mouths can no longer speak. "

Afu looked at Mason, who was constantly emotionally ups and downs. He felt that Mr. Mason's words were not so much comforting his nephew and making him look at the dark side of this society, but rather that Mr. Mason was comforting him. Himself, to comfort the upright heart in him.

He is not unraveling Karen, but unraveling himself.

"I see, Uncle."

Karen had some headaches, maybe it was a "misunderstanding" at the beginning, which involved too much energy, and now sitting in the hearse, he even felt motion sickness.

Uncle Mason no longer spoke loudly, but drove with peace of mind, and the urgency of honking the horn from time to time could reflect his inner impatience.

perhaps,

If time could be turned back, he would not have chosen to take this order.

Making money is to improve the quality of life, and improving the quality of life is to make the mood more pleasant, and now he is not happy.

Karen looked at the girl lying on the chair next to her. She was younger than Sarah, after all, she was only in elementary school.

"The neighbor saw it. It was her mother who took her to the rooftop." Alfred reminded.

Karen looked at Ah Fu;

Ah Fu seems to want to use a smile to ease the atmosphere at this time, but the smile is a bit too inappropriate at this time, so he can only continue with a serious and deep face:

"Young Master, maybe you can go back and ask Grandpa, that is, Mr. Diss."

This sentence,

Overheard by Mason who was driving:

"It's useless to tell my father. My father is an upright person, but my father is just a priest. Telling him about this will only make my father distressed."

Karen heard Ah Fu's implication;

Suicide was not only because of leaving a suicide note, but also because many neighbors witnessed the scene where the wife and daughter came out of the house and walked towards the Tongzilou.

No one threatened them, it was the wife who took the daughter to jump off the building.

so,

There may be problems here.

It turns out that

At least from the side of the Inmeles family, it is very clear that this family cannot commit suicide, and everything has been premeditated.

But the problem is that the death of the wife and daughter was "voluntary" without any coercion.

Therefore, there is a problem here, a paradox;

And a certain existence has the ability to create paradoxes beyond the normal human thinking mode, that is...

"Strange demon."

Karen whispered to Ah Fu.

Ah Fu nodded and sat back.

The hearse returned to Mink Street near noon.

When we are almost home,

Uncle Mason who was driving suddenly yelled:

"Damn, what's going on!"

turn out to be,

Just at the gate of No. 13 Minke Street, that is, on the road in front of Inmeles' house, a group of people gathered, each of them was sitting there with a bouquet of white roses in their hands.

When the hearse came over, the group of people who were sitting on the ground immediately got up, held up the rose, and showed sadness on their faces.

The bouquets of white roses were held very neatly, and I felt very skilled, as if I had rehearsed.

At the same time, a lot of journalists with cameras got off the nearby car. When the hearse began to unload the bodies, they began to take pictures non-stop.

"Let it go! Let it go!"

Uncle Mason yelled, but it was no use.

"White roses" clustered around each stretcher that was moving forward, weeping and mourning. At the same time, white roses were placed on the remains of each stretcher that went in.

With Ron's help, all the stretchers and the remains were pushed in.

Journalists still want to come in,

But it was stopped by Aunt Winnie and Aunt Mary:

"The body needs to be tidied up. The mourning will be tomorrow. Thank you. Please don't disturb our work."

At this time, Hu Mier, the editor-in-chief of "Luo Jia Daily" who was sitting in a car by the side of the road, told the people beside him:

"Don't let them foolishly go in and take pictures of the corpses, do they want to take pictures of the bloody effect after jumping off the building? Damn it, putting it in newspapers like that won't arouse the public's anger at all, and the public will only feel disgusted and nauseated.

Let those reporters come back first, and take pictures of the sitters.

After the remains are sorted out and become normal, they can be photographed at the mourning service, so that they can look calm. Only when readers see the photos in the newspaper can they arouse anger in this kind of photos, understand! "

...

into the living room;

Uncle Mason was so angry that he threw his hat on the ground.

"Crazy, crazy, those idiots with white roses outside came faster than our hearse!"

Aunt Winnie said: "The mayoral candidate Ford's office secretary called and asked when we could sort out the remains. He was going to pay his respects. I said tomorrow.

In addition, various newspapers also made appointments for the mourning meeting, saying they would send reporters to attend;

Representatives of trade unions in various regions, some officials' offices of the city government, and even some celebrities in Luojia City, their assistants also called to ask when they could pay their respects to the deceased. "

Aunt Mary said, "Mason, I think there is something wrong with this list."

"roll roll roll!"

Uncle Mason, who was already on the verge of losing control, yelled directly,

Then squatted on the ground,

start crying.

Ms. Molly approached Ah Fu and asked in a low voice:

"What's the matter, Mr. Mason?"

Ah Fu replied in a low voice: "He is a good man."

Karen walked up the stairs in silence,

From the first floor to the second floor, then from the second floor to the third floor.

"It's so lively at home today." Pu'er asked while following Karen along the handrail of the stairs.

Karen said nothing;

"Karen, if you have something on your mind, you can actually talk to Dees."

talking,

Pu'er also deliberately lowered his head, looking at the two strange monsters below who were looking up the stairs:

"Dear Karen, for the sake of the squirrel mandarin fish, I remind you, don't listen too much to the words of those two strange demons, you have to listen to your grandfather's words, and Diss' words are the most suitable and safest.

He can always, always give you the most appropriate and calmest advice. "

Karen stopped and looked at Pu'er.

Pu'er wagged his tail,

road:

"In short, you can't be impulsive. There is a saying that those who are impulsive will eventually be swallowed by evil gods."

After finishing speaking, Pu'er tilted his head,

road:

"What am I talking about, meow."

Karen walked to Diss's study room, hesitated for a moment, and knocked on the door anyway.

"Do...do...do..."

"Enter."

Karen walked into Diss's study room. Diss was writing something with a pen in his hand and asked without raising his head:

"It's very lively outside, has that order been received?"

"Yes, Grandpa. All four members of the family died, leaving a suicide note. They died by coincidence on the last day when the deadline we agreed on was feasible."

"oh."

"They live in Mine Street, and their family is very poor. With a deposit of 100,000 rupees, they can't sell their house even if they sell it ten times."

"oh."

"I don't think it's suicide."

"Well, apparently someone arranged for their deaths and pre-booked funeral services at our home."

"so……"

"You can call the police and tell the police that you know that Sheriff Duke, don't you? Oh, he may not be in charge of the East District, then you can call the City Bureau and tell them this clue, next to the telephone on the first floor In my phone book, there is the phone number of the city bureau."

"A group of sit-ins with white roses came outside, as well as a large group of reporters. Tonight or tomorrow, when the mourning service is held, a large group of officials and celebrities will come to attend the mourning event."

"Oh, it seems that they are very powerful, and they should be involved in political struggles."

"Yes, so calling the police...should be useless. They have told us clearly and almost directly in advance that they are going to kill people. Let us spare time to collect the corpses. We have confidence. Even if we know, we will treat them No effect."

"Oh, then don't call the police, it's useless anyway."

"..." Karen.

Diess was still writing, as if writing a report;

This is indeed the case, and Diess is writing the second investigation report on the Belwyn drop.

Karen took a deep breath, turned around slowly, and prepared to leave.

He really didn't know what he could do,

On a more selfish note, he doesn't know what he's suited for.

He's just...a high school dropout.

Well, he still has two strange demons who have always believed that they are descended from evil gods. These two strange demons are very capable. Ms. Molly can swallow Mrs. Hughes in front of him, and Alfred should Somewhat more powerful than Ms. Molly.

He might be able to order, or call and induce these two strange demons to do something for him;

But he was a little scared,

As Pu'er said: Don't be impulsive.

The opponent is very powerful, in the secular world; and the consequences of abusing the ability of strange demons may be even more terrifying.

but,

And just as Pu'er said: Diss is always calm.

Yes,

Grandpa is very calm. Since calling the police is useless, he will not call the police.

Uncle Mason squatted on the ground crying in pain. As an ordinary person, he knew that he had no ability to compete with those people outside. He had a family, a family and a family business, so he could only squat on the ground and cry after becoming hysterical.

The same is true for Karen. What qualifications do I have to bring the whole family into a dangerous vortex?

Just for... that poor... sense of justice?

It wasn't the Rot family who died, was it?

Those who died were not people I knew or had contact with. I never ate or smoked together, and I never touched the little girl's head. So, it doesn't have much to do with me.

Did I feel a burst of relief when I saw Mr. Rotor was still alive?

so,

What am I struggling with?

This world, this society, is like this, what do you want to change?

It's better to think about making something delicious for dinner for the family, so that the uncle who is emotionally broken can have some appetite. This is the best choice for the family.

Karen opened the door,

Hearing the continuous swiping of the Diss pen behind,

Karen hesitated.

He turned around and said again:

"grandfather."

"Huh? Is there anything else?" Diss was still writing.

"We know that the family was arranged to die, but a neighbor saw the family's wife and daughter took the initiative to go to the roof and jumped off. As far as I know, the hostess would not hurt herself no matter what. For her daughter, she won't do something like watch her husband die and take her daughter to die together."

pen,

stopped.

diss,

He raised his head, looked at Karen, and asked:

"So, what do you mean?"

Karen replied: "I think there is a paradox here, and it is very likely that there is a strange magic power involved."

Diess capped the pen, put it back into the pen holder, closed the half-written report, stood up at the same time,

road:

"If there are strange demons interfering, then we will take care of it."

"Forehead……"

Karen was a little uncomfortable with the sudden change in Diss' attitude.

Diess opened the desk drawer and took out a black suitcase from inside:

"You should have a better understanding of the whole incident, so if the strange demon kills, where do you think you should track it down? I mean, it can be the strange demon, or the person who drives the strange demon to kill."

In fact, Karen didn't know how to investigate. He was not a policeman, and he was only a police consultant in his previous life.

But since Diss asked,

Karen gave a general answer, because the answer is obvious:

"I think this incident is a trigger. There are a group of people outside who are waiting to use this incident to hype it, which will eventually lead to the mayor's election and become a sharp weapon of public opinion to attack the old mayor.

Therefore, the biggest vested interest is the one who is most likely to become the new mayor if the old mayor steps down... called Ford. "

"Okay, let's go to Ford's and ask him if he did it."

"Eh..." Karen was stunned.

Diss carried a black suitcase, walked around the desk, and came to Karen. Seeing that Karen was motionless, he asked:

"What's wrong?"

"To...Ford's house?"

"That's right. Didn't you say that he is the biggest beneficiary? Wouldn't it be most convenient to ask him directly?"

"Grandpa, he is a candidate for mayor. In Luojia city government, the media, there should be many celebrities and financial groups, all of whom are his supporters."

"Well, then, what happened?"

"Shall we go directly to his house?"

"Ask him first. If it's not him, then ask him to name other suspects. Isn't this the most convenient and quickest choice?"

"That's right, but the opponent is very powerful, and if he can drive strange demons to kill people, it proves that the opponent's background should also have..."

Karen stopped talking,

Because he saw Diss smiling.

"hehe."

Diss reached out, patted Karen's shoulder, and asked:

"Have you read the book I asked Lent to bring to you?"

"Read a book."

"Which one?"

"Same Light."

"Well, there is a sentence in it, have you seen it?

That's the sentence:

The Cult of Order, as an existence that maintains order, should be treated equally under the light of Order. "

Karen nodded and said, "I see."