The Pale Knight's guess was indeed correct. Schiller found a family photo in the oldest man's pocket. Judging from the location, the family composition was indeed as the Pale Knight said.
And one important detail can be seen from this photo, that is, there is a pasture behind the house of this family, which is likely to make a living from breeding.
Schiller turned the photo over and found a line on the back of the photo: "To my sweet little Jenny on her 6th birthday - Daddy Hef."
It seems that Hef is really the father of the 6-year-old girl outside, and the people who died here should be his wife, son, father, daughter-in-law, etc.
The first thought that others had after seeing the photo was, could this be the family that drank mutton soup?
The owner of the diary once mentioned in the diary that he felt very sorry for the 6-year-old girl. Jenny's appearance and the words behind the photo all corresponded to this clue.
"But how did they die here?" Bruce frowned in confusion, looked back at the little girl's body in the distance and said, "Although the diary does not say how they died, it can be seen from the date of the diary.
It can be seen that this must have happened several days ago, how could the body be so well preserved?"
Schiller was also thinking about this problem. The temperature in the lighthouse was not low, and it was not supposed to have a preservation function. However, judging from the state of the bodies in the lighthouse, they should not have been dead for more than 24 hours.
This does not match up with the time of death of the family mentioned in the diary indicating the appearance of the Prowler, but it does not rule out that this family is different from that family, or that the flow of time in the lighthouse is different.
Problems or something like that.
It is known that there is no shortage of food in the lighthouse, and there are many ways to replenish liquids, so it is unlikely that the family is attacking each other because of robbing survival resources, then it is possible that they are controlled by monsters.
Schiller suddenly thought that although the diary said that the family was crazy, it did not say that they were all dead. Perhaps they might have escaped and hid in the lighthouse. After hiding for several days, the monster still did not appear.
Let them go and let them kill each other until they perish.
After searching around the sixth floor, there was nothing but corpses, so Schiller went up to the sixth floor, where he found a bedroom with a lot of letters on the bedside table.
The recipient's column is all written with "Andersi", but there are several different names in the signature, which proves that these are letters written to Andersi by several different people. Schiller thinks that this Andersi
He should be the keeper of the lighthouse.
Seeing the familiar names at the signature, Schiller knew that the highlight was coming, because the people who sent letters to Adsey included Harold, the owner of the diary, Jeff, the last survivor in the lighthouse, and even
Madeleine.
Some people may wonder why there are so many handwritten letters in modern-day stories. Normally, shouldn't they all be phone calls or direct emails?
It can only be said that this is overestimating the quality of the communication network in the United States. There are some extremely remote villages in the United States that do not even have electricity, let alone signals.
When many people watch some American blockbusters, they wonder why they didn't call for rescue or call the police after a car accident. In fact, it's not that the protagonist is stupid, but that there is no signal at all.
Even in the suburbs around big cities, the phone signal is terrible, and the network signal is even worse. As long as you find traces of human civilization activities gradually disappearing next to the highway, then don't have any hope of calling for rescue. You can only ask for help.
What a blessing.
Based on Schiller's understanding of this village, their most efficient means of communication may be wired telephones. Of course, there should also be mobile phones, but they should be used more by young people.
The fastest way to convey news within this kind of village is to take a verbal message. When the information is complicated, it is better to write it on paper.
Schiller began to read the letters in order.
Then he discovered a problem - they, a group of outsiders, had already come to the village long before the Prowler incident broke out.
In this kind of small village, basically all the villagers know each other, and there are almost no outsiders. Once they see a new face, it will cause a sensation in the whole village. They do not welcome strangers.
The first letter was sent by Jeff to Andesi. It mentioned that the richest fleet owner in the village hired a doctor to treat his wife. He heard that the doctor was a college student who graduated from a prestigious university.
In the letter, he complained that the boss would rather spend money to hire a bad guy who didn’t know where he came from than hire a good sailor like him.
So Schiller knew that this Jeff was actually a sailor, and that Bruce said that he came here to investigate a rare case was true, but this rare case was the wife of the owner of the boat racing team in this village.
It is not difficult to see that this village is a very primitive small fishing village. The men go to sea to work as sailors, and the women keep some animals at home. Jeff's family should be structured like this.
However, the wife of the fleet owner who owns a ship has some strange disease that she doesn't know, and she has to go to a big city to seek medical treatment. This finally attracts Bruce's attention, and she follows the last ship of the year to this little-known place.
small village.
Then there is a letter written by Harold, the owner of the diary, to Andersi, the lighthouse keeper. It mentions that the police chief of the village who died in the incident has been buried, and the town next door will soon be buried.
A new police chief will be sent, I just hope nothing happens this time.
Schiller realized that this might be the origin story of Night Owl, who was transferred here because of the death of the village's police chief.
Schiller was a little surprised by Madeleine's letter, which was very long and finally revealed her motives for coming here and part of the truth.
"I feel very sad, Andesi, it has been almost 20 years since we said goodbye at Yale University. I once thought that your choice to return to your hometown was a waste of so many years of hard work, but now I understand that maybe you are
Yes."
"After my family members died, I received support from my relatives. It was a very difficult time, but luckily I got out of it. I worked hard to go to college, met good teachers, and made many friends. I thought they would
help me."
"But when I was running for the death of my family, they all avoided me. Only you were willing to say a few words to me. I am very grateful to you, Andersi."
"I am writing this letter to tell you that about two months ago, I lost my lawsuit against Siltec Medical Insurance Company again, and this time no court is willing to accept my lawsuit again. I think it is time to give up.
Already."
"I'm very happy about your plan to invite me to relax. I also decided to visit your beautiful hometown, but there is one more thing I want to accomplish. If you can understand me, I would be very grateful."
Schiller obtained the two most important pieces of information from this letter. The first is that Madeleine was invited to this village by her college classmate Andersi.
The second is that Madeleine did not receive normal insurance compensation for the death of her family, and she may not even have received normal death compensation, so she had to live in someone else's care.
Schiller instinctively felt that the insurance company's denial of compensation might be closely related to Madeleine's suicide and the current situation in the village.
From the few words Madeleine revealed, Schiller could infer that her previous family conditions were not bad, and could even be said to be very good. Such a family would not be stingy about buying insurance, and once the whole family died, the insurance company would probably
Huge amounts of compensation are required.
Schiller then looked down and found that the next letter was also written by Madeleine.
"...Thank you for caring about my family, Andesi. They should be living well in heaven now. As for the lawsuit...I don't want to explain too much, because it is completely meaningless."
"But I am indeed a little worried that you will misunderstand that I am making trouble unreasonably or defrauding insurance. I must tell you that my appeal is legitimate. It is that damn liar insurance company that has repeatedly shirked their responsibilities."
"I don't want to bring up my sad story, but I still want to say that they refused to pay the insurance for accidental death on the pretext that my family members attacked each other and died, and even sued me for insurance fraud. They said that our family has never
They are not harmonious, and this kind of deliberate murder is not covered by their insurance."
"They are just a bunch of liars! A bunch of devils who shirk their responsibilities! My family and I have always been good friends. Our family is very harmonious. They are controlled by those monsters and that's why they kill each other. You will definitely believe me."
,Is it right?"
After reading this letter, Schiller basically understood that the insurance company's refusal to pay was actually because Madeleine's family members killed each other. For example, the father killed his mother with a gun, and then his father was killed by his son.
.
Generally speaking, compensation for accidental death will not be compensated in this case, especially when both the murderer and the victim are insurance beneficiaries. This is a serious suspicion of insurance fraud, and it is not to blame Mader
Lin was defeated repeatedly in battles.
Schiller didn't know if there was any insurance against weird events in this world, but he thought that Madeleine later chose to study weird things, maybe because she wanted to prove that her family was indeed killed by weird things, and it was an accidental death, so as to recover money.
your own insurance money.
This reminded Schiller of the family who died in the lighthouse. It was obvious from the scene that they also killed each other, which means that the monster they encountered may be the same as what Madeleine encountered.
, that is, the mysterious prowler.
But these letters prove that Madeleine also came here before the Prowler incident broke out. In other words, Madeleine did not come here chasing the Prowler. On the contrary, it is possible that Madeleine brought the Prowler here.
here.
What does she want to do?
After sorting out Madeleine's logic in her mind, Schiller felt that if it was impossible to recover compensation and seek justice for her family, then the only thing she wanted to do was to let the insurance company that refused to compensate