"Okay, I thought you would be so open-minded... I look forward to you sending me another 'Hesta'," Stella said with a smile, "If you can let me really meet Hesta. , I can give you another headline... Will she come to Tan Yi recently? "
"……Why do you ask?"
"You said she was excellent before," Stella blinked, "Now that such a big problem is here, I thought you would transfer her to cooperate with your work?"
Chiba laughed and did not answer.
The two of them chatted and walked downstairs to Stella's studio. Chiba and Stella stood in the shadow of the corridor together to avoid being discovered by passing patrol cars.
"It seems that you are not very well-informed this time. Rishi, Schmidt, and Tanglar all insisted that the murderer was Hesta. Fortunately, she has not been active in the third area recently, and the suspicion has been automatically cleared."
Chiba said, pulling up a photo on his phone, which was the message the murderer left for Schmidt in the album last night.
"It's signed 'Red Velvet'. I think this person came here to blame Jane, but I saw the murderer himself last night. He should be a man."
In the darkness, Stella quickly read the text message.
"I think... the murderer is most likely a woman."
"how do you know?"
"Qianye, has anyone ever told you that you are really ridiculously slow sometimes?"
"...?"
Stella smiled and returned the phone to Chiba, "I can't explain it to you. If you really can't understand it, just think of it as my intuition as a reporter... Goodbye, I have to go upstairs to work."
Chiba waved towards Stella, "Bye. You are working too hard."
Stella had already taken a few steps up the steps, but turned around when she heard these words, "If you don't work hard, you will get married in the future. I don't want to become a woman like Valenti..."
Chiba shrugged noncommittally, "I don't care what conflicts there are between you sisters. In front of me, you should be polite to your sister."
"Oh, she's an important friend of yours, isn't she?"
"What do you think?"
Stella smiled, "Then you'd better persuade her to get married and stop thinking about having children."
In the darkness, Qianye took out the cigarette from her pocket, and the fire ignited from her fingertips.
"Whether she gets married or has children is her freedom...it's not my turn to take care of it."
Stella seemed to have guessed Qianye's answer. She did not refute, but just lowered her eyes and said, "...If you don't care about anything now, then you have to be prepared to lose her in the future."
"What do you mean?" Qianye frowned, "This is not a wasteland. She is just giving birth to a child, and she is not killing chelates. What's more, she is a mercury needle working at the base. If something goes wrong, our medical technology will support her. end--"
"Ms. Chiba," Stella tilted her head, "Do you really think that only 'death' can take away your dearest friend?"
…
At two o'clock in the morning, Si Lei returned to his apartment.
She walked straight to the desk, sat down, and wrote down all the news she heard from Stella tonight in her notebook.
After completing the preliminary recording, Si Lei looked at the time and saw that it was almost three o'clock.
She had to go to the police station at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. It was time to go to bed now anyway, but she clearly felt the blood vessels on her forehead jumping.
Si Lei turned on her computer and quickly found the official website of last year's Third District Conference on the Promotion and Protection of Children's Rights. Most of the titles of workshops and talks were still there. After browsing for a while, she found Rishi's speech. .
The video lasts for 24 minutes, and Si Lei plays it as background sound while washing.
“Ladies and gentlemen, today we need to discuss a heavy topic, so heavy that it may even make some of my friends here feel ridiculous about it.
"We all know that in the past ten years, child welfare in the Third District has experienced unprecedented development. We strive to ensure that every child has a nutritious and balanced diet, has equal access to education, and most importantly - —We strive to ensure that every child is free from any form of exploitation.
"Everyone, everyone, don't applaud yet. Have we really achieved this last point? At least, have we really achieved the goal of keeping every child away from the problem of sexual exploitation?"
When talking about all this, Li Xi's voice was surprisingly infectious. There was both heart-wrenching compassion and heart-wrenching urgency in his words. Although Si Lei was brushing his teeth, he couldn't help but walk to the living room. Look at the picture.
Rishi on the podium wore gold-rimmed glasses and looked very gentlemanly. He frowned and opened his hands, as if cradling a painful question in his arms.
In short, the graceful Rishi on the screen was completely different from the frightened middle-aged man she had seen these past few days.
Si Lei's brushing of teeth gradually slowed down.
In the video, Rishi's voice suddenly became stern:
“According to survey data from the Conference for the Promotion and Protection of Children’s Rights of the Third District Coalition Government, one in every 27 children or adolescents in the Third District suffered from different forms of sexual abuse last year: underground sex trade, incest, sexual harassment... …In all relevant cases, 70-85% of children know the person involved, and about 90% of violent cases are not reported in a timely manner.
"Shocking...I can only say shocking! To this day, there are still many families in the third district who, for religious and conceptual reasons, ignore the real welfare of children and choose to conceal the incident after the incident. And the same What was pushed to the surface was the psychological trauma of the victim, and the perpetrator was left unpunished——"
When Rixi's voice and his emotions were about to reach their climax, Si Lei turned off the video. At this moment, the text message written by the murderer to Schmidt suddenly broke into her mind:
Before something happens, I am a well-intentioned warning person
When it happened, I was the perpetrator who couldn't control myself
After what happened, I became a critic who hates iron but cannot become steel.
Rishi's voice made her feel a little nauseous, and she didn't want to listen to it anymore.
Si Lei sat at the table and browsed emails aimlessly for a while. When she came to her senses, she turned on some soothing music and carried her pajamas into the bathroom.
Everything related to the case is still lingering in her mind.
Did that letter really just represent the murderer's threat?
If the story Stella told tonight is true, then the "I" in the letter seems to be more consistent with what Rich himself did, but the murderer sent this letter to Schmidt...
Could it be that all the nobles who appeared on the murderer's death list shared a common sin?
Si Lei is not sure, but if the answer is yes, then this letter obviously has a deeper meaning: the murderer is reminding each of his hunting targets that today is just like the past, except that the offense and defense have changed - —In the past, hunters became prey, and all retribution was unhappy.
In the steaming mist, Si Lei thought of the letter again:
never believe me,
Never offend me,
Never show your flaws to me.
From your birth to your death,
I'm always watching you,
I'm always looking for opportunities...
All the clues intertwined in Si Lei's mind and gradually merged into a blurry face of a red-haired woman.
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