Dis stood behind Karen and looked at his grandson.

When the others were so frightened by the scene before them that they collapsed to the ground,

present,

Only their grandfather and grandson showed peace.

"Can you see anything?"

Karen turned around, glanced at Dis, and shook his head.

"Didn't see anything?"

Karen shook his head again and said:

"It's disappointing."

"disappointment?"

"Yes."

Although he had deliberately provoked the other party on the phone before, Karen still had some expectations in her heart.

It is indeed inappropriate to use "expectation" and "disappointment" to describe the scene in front of her. In fact, when Karen put down the phone and came with her grandfather, she was also worried that something would happen to Mrs. Hughes;

However, the human spiritual level is inherently complex. You can worry, be anxious, feel sad and angry for the death of old Darcy, but at the same time peel off another layer to measure and consider the "work" in front of you from another perspective.

, is not contradictory.

And in front of grandpa, Karen doesn't have to hide too much.

"Where is the disappointment?"

"Monotonous, cliche, nothing new."

"Does this count?"

Dis looked ahead again at "Old Block Darcy".

"That's it." Karen shrugged, "In the final analysis, the decoration in the Crown Ballroom is more like the environment that made the murderer's work. This time, it is his true level."

"Are you really here to admire it?" Dis asked.

"No, there should be other interesting things." Karen's eyes began to wander around, "I remember that when I was on the phone with the murderer, he was worrying about the final piece."

"so what?"

"If you look at it from the perspective of investigating the case, after hanging up the phone, the murderer should have forced himself to put the last link together."

"So, are you looking for that?"

"Yes."

"I'll help you find it together."

"Thank you, grandpa."

Karen walked to Mrs. Hughes first and stretched out her hand to help her up.

Mrs. Hughes is very white. When I saw her for the first time, I thought she was white. But when I get up close, I can see that she is really white;

Some whiteness is superficial, static, boring, and boring;

And some whiteness has connotation, is dynamic, is emotional, and can be put down.

Uncle Mason and Aunt Mary had both warned themselves to be "careful" about Mrs. Hughes. As people who had experienced it, they both knew what Mrs. Hughes meant.

"Old Darcy..."

Mrs. Hughes cried till she was full of tears.

"Madam, you should call the police now."

"Oh...ok." Mrs. Hughes was a strong woman after all. After wiping away her tears, she walked towards the phone.

As for the three people still lying on the ground, Karen did not go to help them, but began to search the incineration room on his own. Diss was also walking around to take a look.

The area of ​​the incineration room is not very large, but after all, there are three incinerators, so it cannot be too cramped.

Karen first noticed the still hot incinerator, went over to take a look, and found nothing unusual.

Immediately afterwards, Karen came to an incinerator nearby.

"Um?"

Karen was slightly confused, reached out and pulled up the wrench next to him, opened it, then used force to pull it out.

On the shelf, there was a person lying face down.

This person is wearing the overalls of the Hughes Cremation Society.

"ah!"

Mrs. Hughes called out from behind Karen, making Karen tremble.

"Here, there is...there is another one!" Mrs. Hughes was very panicked.

"No, it's the same one." Karen bent down, picked up the pair of pliers, and then pulled the hand of the corpse on the shelf.

The hand was pulled out of the cuff;

Immediately, Karen pulled the corpse's head again, and the head was also pulled out from the neck of the clothes.

When the head was pulled out, only half of it was left, only the back of the head and no front part.

The same thing goes for the hand, which is only half of it, but has no bones and only the outer skin is left. It looks a bit like processed "boneless pickled pepper chicken feet".

Karen turned around, came to the table where the urn was placed, and used pliers to turn over the foot in the urn.

The previous "feet" means "standing" sideways;

After turning it over, I found that the foot had been cut in half, and only half was left.

Then he stood up slightly on his tiptoes, and used pliers to pull out old Darcy's head in the urn at the top. When he turned his head away, there was only half of it, and the back of the head was empty, like a watermelon cut crosswise.

so,

There is half an old Darcy lying there on the shelf of the incinerator, and there are only half of the assembled old Darcy piled up on the countertop.

The murderer split old Darcy into "two halves".

"There are things here too." Dis pushed a two-wheeled cart over. It was originally used to transport ashes and other sundries, but now it contained hammers, nails, string balls, ropes and several bottles.

jar jar;

"This bottle contains..." Karen pulled it with pliers curiously, but there was no label on the bottle.

"It's strong glue," Dees said.

"Glue..."

Karen took a few steps back and silently returned to the phone.

Dis came over, stood beside Karen, and asked: "There is a half-body on the shelf of the incinerator, and it is also here in the urn. So, what does the murderer want to do?"

Karen pursed her lips and said to Dis:

"Old Darcy is burning old Darcy."

"Is this what you mean?"

"The murderer likes to use irony to express his artistic emotions. Half of the old Darcy is lying face down on the shelf, and the other half of the old Darcy is standing next to him with a small hammer and gloves, ready to push him into the incinerator.

.

Or maybe that half of old Darcy was incinerated, and then the other half of old Darcy was going to break his bones and put them in an urn.

Choose an angle and look at the past tense, and something divided into two can be seen as two complete people."

"Like a wax figure," Dis said.

The wax figures in the wax museum are designed to look like they are doing something, such as farmers plowing the fields or soldiers charging.

"Yes, grandpa, your metaphor is correct. I believe that feeling is exactly what the murderer wants to present."

"But, if that's what the murderer wants to show, why is it like this now? Is it because of your phone call that he was too late?"

"What I think more is that he found that he was not capable of completing such a delicate work. Separating the body and then sewing it together not only required a lot of work, but also required a high level of 'tailoring'.

So, I could only settle for the next best thing and become what I am now."

No wonder that when I was on the phone with the murderer, the murderer's mood "exploded" after a few slight provocations, because at that time the murderer was in a decadent state where his creative ability could not keep up with his thinking level.

"But, Grandpa, there's something I'm very confused about. In the Crown Ballroom, the murderer used "Song of the Soul" to mock the Berry religion. It stands to reason that this time it should also be related to religion.

Criticizing authority, ridiculing religion, and being sober when everyone else is drunk are common factors that generally make artists high-spirited."

"This is actually the one in front of me." Dis said, "In the teachings of the Church of the God of the Abyss, there are records about the God of the Abyss. According to legend, he divided himself into two halves;

Half of them will fall into hell forever;

The other half turned into crystal powder and ascended to heaven.

Then,
To be continued...