Lin An frowned after hearing this, not without the same thought in his heart.
only.
"If you take action, you may not be able to get any useful information."
"Also, the key point is I'm not sure if the Deserted Village incident was a meme or what."
"Do you remember the meme doll?"
"If I had directly forced Liang Shaoguang's wife to tell the truth, what do you think the consequences would be?"
"If Gao Tian's second guess was true, after Zhou Fengling told the truth, the doll would realize that it was his mother who killed him."
"You may even realize that your mother is partial."
"Then everyone will die and there will be no solution."
"On the other hand, even if it is the first case. If I get the truth by forcing her, do you think she will still be willing to "die" in front of the doll?"
"The doll detects that the person concerned is deceptive... Faced with it, it still cannot be solved."
"Memetic events change as their causes are understood, and that's where it gets tricky."
Zhang Tie was stunned after hearing this, not quite understanding what Captain Lin said.
He just felt it was so complicated.
Lin An sighed, knowing that it was useless to explain this kind of thing to Xiong Hanzi, so he could only summarize it in one sentence.
"To solve memes, we need to do more than just peel back the cocoons to find the truth..."
"Also find the balance between "cheating" people and memes..."
If not, memetic events would not be as famous as supernatural events.
That is a third-level or fourth-level existence that will perish.
The truth that is forced out is not necessarily the truth that can solve the problem.
Sometimes, it will be counterproductive.
The human heart is often more terrifying than ghosts.
....
Return to the village.
Not only Zhang Tie didn't want to stay near the pagoda, but Lin An also didn't want to stay there.
Subconsciously, there was always a strong sense of crisis driving him to leave.
Plan to follow the example of solving meme dolls.
After returning to the village, Lin An simply used coercion and inducement to get clues from the villagers.
Slightly irritable and frustrated.
Regarding the person involved, he was actually worried that the truth he reconstructed would affect the village chief's family.
This causes the underlying meme to change.
...
In the open space in the village, Lin An unabashedly summoned all the villagers and asked them face to face.
A mental barrier was laid casually to isolate Village Chief Huang and his family.
Somewhat ridiculous.
It's like interrogating the prisoner's accomplices in front of him.
Outside the mental isolation, Huang Dawei and his son and daughter-in-law looked at Lin An at a loss as he asked the villagers.
"ding dong"
There was a flash of white light, and gold jewelry scattered all over the place.
"Gudu."
Swallowing saliva.
The villagers who were summoned looked at the gold and silver jewelry piled on the ground in shock. The workmanship of many of the jewelry shocked them greatly.
"I need to know what happened in the village during this time since Yuanying entered the village."
"Say one thing and take away a piece of jewelry."
"But if I find anyone making up lies, I will kill him on the spot!"
Stepping on the pile of jewelry, Lin An looked at the villagers in front of him expressionlessly.
Jewelry and gold are just something you pack casually when you enter the secret realm. Anyway, these things will be worthless in the end of the world.
In order to make things easier, he specially asked the base members to bring in three cubes of gold.
The villagers in the deserted village had never seen such a scene before. For a moment, everyone looked greedy and eager to tell what they knew.
Oh my god, who is this person!?
"Sir! The winter when Yuanying came here was extremely cold! One of my old sows froze to death!"
"The well that calmed Yuanying was dug by my ancestors! The water from the well was so sweet! But no one dared to drink it later!"
....
There was a lot of chatter, and the villagers present were so coerced and tempted that they wanted to tell them what they were wearing in their underwear.
Keep promises.
Whenever a piece of news was revealed, Lin An would give some jewelry and gold.
Then carefully try to find relevant clues from a large amount of useless information.
Two hours later, the night seemed to get darker, but it did not affect everyone's excitement at all.
...
"Dad, what does this big shot want to do?"
"Did he suspect that we killed Yuanying? And made up lies to deceive him?"
Huang Dawei's son Huang Youwei looked blankly at Lin An inside the barrier.
They couldn't hear what the villagers said, they could only see the gold and silver jewelry and the foaming mouths.
Can't figure it out.
If a big shot with such tactics doubts himself, shouldn't he be forced to tell the truth?
Although he did tell the truth.
"Don't be afraid! We didn't do anything wrong!"
"That Yuanying is really a ghost!"
"It's not like we killed her!"
The old man tightened his grip on the crutch in his hand, as if to cheer himself up, and couldn't help but look at his daughter-in-law:
"Are you right?"
"Then Yuanying turned into a ghost at that time!"
"We have never killed anyone!"
Huang's lips moved twice after hearing this, and then nodded numbly.
Zhang Tie, who was responsible for guarding the three men, glanced at them sideways and chuckled.
Damn it, say these things in front of me.
What are you doing? Feeling guilty?
I don’t know why this thing is so troublesome...
Whether it is true or not, I believe Team Lin will be able to figure it out.
...
"Sir! I know one more thing! Last year, there was a man with a skinny head who went to the village chief's house and made a fuss, saying he wanted a wife!"
After a villager with his head wrapped in a cloth finished speaking, he pointed at Huang Youwei mysteriously.
"Huang Youwei is in bad health! Neither is his mother-in-law! He kept giving birth to girls a few years ago! After he brought Yuanying back that time, his mother-in-law was so angry that she went back to her parents' home!"
The gossipy village woman whispered the news, and then asked Lin An for a gold necklace with a flattering look on her face.
....
About half an hour passed.
After sending the villagers back after questioning but not allowing them to leave the village, Lin An rubbed his brows tiredly.
It's just that it's obvious that he feels a lot more relaxed.
Xiong Hanzi, who had been paying attention to him, noticed Lin An's changes and hurriedly asked in the team voice with excitement:
"Captain Lin, have you figured out what's going on?"
Nodding, Lin An responded, his eyes revealing his thoughts:
"almost."
"Although some evidence is missing, it should be correct."
"I'm making a fuss out of a molehill and making things too complicated..."
Smiling to himself, Lin An shook his head slightly with a smile on his face.
According to the villagers, he has roughly restored what happened.
Village Chief Huang did not lie to anyone, including his son and daughter-in-law.
However, they subconsciously hid an insignificant piece of news.
I was too cautious, but I didn't waste any time.
"Tie them up and let's go to the pagoda again!"
Seeing Zhang Tie's curious face, Lin An simply asked him to take Village Chief Huang and his family to the pagoda for a confrontation.
Now that the approximate truth has been restored, there is no need to worry about the meme changing.
After receiving Lin An's order, Zhang Tie suddenly laughed ferociously and geared up.
Huang Dawei's family, who were already worried, suddenly felt panicked when they saw this:
"Sir! What are you doing?"
His hands and feet were tied behind his back, panicked.
"What?"
Xiong Hanzi grinned, strode to put the man on his shoulders, and replied casually: