"Let's talk about the other people behind first." Father Fitch did not solve Lynn's biggest doubt immediately, "The second victim is Willow, the bakery apprentice."
Linn glanced at his watch.
It's half past three in the morning.
It's too late.
"You said."
"He came to me for the first time a few months ago, but he didn't want to confess anything, he just thought I might be the only person in the world who was willing to listen to him quietly." Father Fitch briefly said about apprentice Willow.
"His parents died young, he never went to school, and the house at home was occupied by his greedy uncle, so he had to live alone at a very young age."
Lin suddenly realized that Father Fitch was still kneeling and wanted to ask him to sit down and chat slowly.
But then I thought about it, Father Fitch must have his own reasons for kneeling, and it would be best to wait until the truth is revealed, so he calmed down.
"When he was a child, he often didn't have enough to eat. As soon as he smelled the aroma of a bakery nearby, he was particularly yearning for it. This also made him determined to be a baker when he grew up and eat as much cake as he wanted. Perhaps,
For him at that time, the bakery was the most beautiful place in the world." Father Fitch tried to understand his apprentice Willow.
"Um."
"But when he grew up and worked as an apprentice in a bakery, he found that all his previous beautiful fantasies about the bakery were shattered. Of course the cake was delicious, but as an apprentice he was not qualified to enjoy it as much as he wanted. Welcome him
Yes, there are just countless jobs and endless deductions from his boss."
This is a very true portrayal.
When a helpless child arrives at the bakery, the evil boss will only want to exploit him.
"I said that the bakery was the most beautiful place in the world to him. At that moment, after enduring countless hardships, he lost his yearning for the future. So, he decided to leave this world." Father Fitch said.
He smiled deeply and said, "Don't you think it's strange? Just because the bakery is not as beautiful as he imagined, he decided to die. But in fact, that's not the case. He had wanted to die for a long time because he was interested in the beauty of the bakery.
His fantasy has supported him until now. When his fantasy is shattered, he no longer cares about this world."
Hearing what Father Fitch said, Lin suddenly remembered an inconspicuous record in the file.
Records show that on the night of Apprentice Willow's death, the bakery was running low on cake ingredients.
Now combined with his experience, it is not difficult to understand the reason for the lack of cake ingredients.
Willow went back to the bakery to commit suicide, not to take revenge on his boss, but to use some of the skills he learned to make himself a cake late at night when no one was paying attention.
After eating the cake, his final wish came true, and he left this world with peace of mind.
A very inconspicuous person.
A very humble wish.
A very humble reason for suicide.
"Didn't you persuade him..." Lin En also felt sorry for Willow.
"I tried to persuade him, but it was of no use."
"All right……"
Immediately afterwards, Father Fitch talked about the subsequent deaths.
The third deceased, a female accountant, was diagnosed with a terminal illness three months ago. Under the fear of approaching death, she, who had always been upright, broke through the bottom line and began to help corrupt and bribed powerful people to make false accounts and profit from it.
due to expensive treatment.
But after spending a lot of money, my health has not improved.
This gradually made her despair.
So she began to accept the fact that she was about to die, and she no longer went to the hospital or helped the powerful in illegal activities.
He also compiled evidence of the powerful people's illegal behavior and secretly reported it to the supervisory department.
Before the powerful people could take revenge, he chose to jump into the sewer and commit suicide.
She chose such a dirty way to die because she felt ashamed that she had helped the powerful to commit evil, and she also wanted to be taken to a sewer to a place no one knew about and disappear without knowing it.
But she didn't know that the sewer was opened for repairs because it was clogged, and her death was discovered by maintenance workers the next day.
The fourth deceased was an ordinary person who lived an ordinary life and looked mediocre, and did not have a family until middle age.
Being deceived by a so-called close friend, he followed gambling and eventually lost his only house.
And he fell into the abyss step by step under the temptation of profit.
When he came to his senses, he had lost everything and finally chose to drown in the rented room.
The fifth deceased was a down and out painter. No one appreciated or bought his paintings, and he did not bother to do other jobs to make a living. Later, he gradually became extreme and decided to imitate those great painters and leave this world.
He believed that people would realize how great his works were only after his death.
Death is a trivial matter compared to the recognition of your work.
As for choosing to eat peanut butter allergy death.
Only this person with an abnormal brain circuit can figure it out.
He didn't tell Father Fitch, but Father Fitch guessed that he simply wanted to fulfill some of his wishes before dying, eat something that he had never touched before, and feel those feelings.
Until half past four in the morning.
Lin En just finished listening to the stories of ten people from Father Fitch.
To sum it up in one sentence, these ten people all encountered different difficulties. They unanimously came to seek help from the priest, or simply found someone to talk to, but the priest's dissuasion did not make them change their minds.
In the end, they all chose to leave this world.
But the question is, wasn’t there such a person a year ago? Why didn’t a similar situation happen?
Father Fitch has been explaining them, so how could he be the instigator?
Why did they choose to leave the world at eleven o'clock at night?
Why did five people die in a row that night?
"Now, can you answer my previous question?" Lynn waited for Father Fitch to reveal the answer.
"Actually, many people commit suicide every year. You will know if you investigate. I don't know why these ten people are all living alone now. It may be because they lack relatives and friends to talk to, so they can only find me. They have problems.
, there is no way for relatives and friends to help them solve it, so they can only digest it and bear it by themselves, which makes it easier for them to have such a mentality." Father Fitch said, "And why there are five people together tonight, I don't know either. This should have something to do with you.
, you want to bring all the residents to the church, which will affect their respective departure from this world, so they refused, and in order to avoid all subsequent interference from you, they tacitly chose to leave tonight."
It doesn't sound like there is any logical problem.
"Then why choose eleven o'clock, and why every two days?"
"I made the decision for them. I think since I can't change their determination to leave, it's better to let them die more valuable."
"What is the value of dying at such a time? I only see the fear of the people." Lin En was puzzled.
"I just want this to create fear, but this fear should not exist in the hearts of the people."