Chapter 677 Who is the murderer?
"The appearance of the ghost has caused drastic changes in Ruicheng."
"The city government is dysfunctional, the streets are in chaos, fear is in everyone's heart, people die every day, and there are countless ghost stories."
"The story of the 'dismembered murderer' that once calmed children's night cries has become as lovely as a fairy tale."
"Everyone is hoping that someone will come forward and provide a way to make the ghosts disappear."
“At this time, the prophet appeared.”
"The prophet was very old, wearing a cloak and holding a candle in his hand."
"He told everyone on the radio how to avoid ghosts. Don't put your shoes facing the bed when you sleep, don't comb your hair in front of a mirror at night, and don't go to a crossroads..."
"Under the Prophet's guidance, the chaos stopped and the number of deaths caused by goblins decreased dramatically."
“So the prophet became the most respected person in the world.”
"The prophet told us that the reason ghosts appear is that human sins have angered the Holy Spirit. If we want to make the ghosts disappear, we have to send a team to the bottom of the Valley of the Dead to atone for our sins to the Holy Spirit..."
……
No matter how the world changes, Fatima's family must go on with their lives.
Because of the rampant evil spirits, Fatima's fur business plummeted. In this situation, people no longer cared about their appearance, but were more concerned about how to survive.
In order to make a living, Fatima had to sew some fur dolls like her mother. These dolls could help children relieve their fear, so they sold well.
But Cohen tried his best to stop her, saying that these fur dolls would remind him of his mother, so he did not allow Fatima to make them.
This is just one of the unusual changes that Cohen has experienced since the ghost appeared.
When the TV announced that ghosts did exist, Cohen began to become nervous, always looking out the window in sudden fear, or talking to himself while drinking.
It seems like he is worried about finding something.
But Fatima had no time to care about her father's mental state. She had to make money to support herself.
So she converted her family’s basement into a workshop, sewing fur dolls out of Cohen’s sight.
After a while, a woman named Martha, who looked very similar to her mother, came to the fur shop and brought Fatima a big business.
When Martha was young, she wanted to imitate the saying "gathering fur from the armpits to make a fur coat" and make herself a coat made only of fox armpit fur, so she accumulated a lot of soft fox fur.
But the appearance of the ghost made her give up her plan to sew a coat for herself, and instead wanted to use the fox skins to sew a big fur doll for her daughter.
This was a big deal, enough to keep Fatima's fur shop going for a long time, so Fatima gladly accepted it.
Cohen was returning from the tavern when Martha left the fur shop.
When the two met, Fatima noticed that Cohen's eyes became terrifying for a moment.
Cohen had this look in his eyes the night before his mother disappeared more than a decade ago!
Fatima shook her head, thinking that she might be overthinking it.
Over the next few days, she stayed in the basement, working day and night, and finally sewed a perfect fur doll, but Martha did not come to take the doll away.
This gave Fatima a bad feeling, so she found Martha's house and saw that they were holding a funeral.
After she inquired, she found out that Martha had disappeared for a few days.
It was not uncommon for people to disappear in those days, and everyone believed that Martha's disappearance was the work of evil spirits.
But Fatima, who had been keeping an eye on the dismemberment murderer, was certain that this was the work of the dismemberment murderer!
Moreover, she confirmed the identity of the dismemberment killer!
It's her father Cohen!
Cohen acted panicky after the ghost appeared because he was worried that the people he had killed would come back as ghosts.
He didn't let Fatima sew the doll because he didn't want to recall the scene of his mother's death.
Cohen looked at Martha with a terrifying look because the similar temperament aroused his desire to kill!
Add to that Cohen’s unusual behavior before her mother disappeared more than a decade ago... everything fits together, there’s absolutely no way he could be wrong!
Fatima felt a chill in her heart.
She hesitated for a long time, not knowing whether to forget it all or take action.
Then she remembered that she had also seen that scary look in Cohen's eyes when she was playing with dolls as a child!
In other words, Cohen had once targeted her!
If she continues like this, sooner or later Cohen will lose his patience and let her become a victim of the dismemberment killer!
So Fatima decided that she couldn't go on like this, she had to eliminate the hidden danger and avenge her mother and those innocent missing people!
……
The next night, Fatima put a sufficient amount of sleeping pills in Cohen's wine.
Cohen was caught off guard and passed out. Fatima tied up the unconscious Cohen, dragged him into the basement, and sharpened the knife in front of him.
Somewhat strangely, Fatima did not feel sad or panicked about the impending killing of her father. Instead, she felt a sense of anticipation and relief.
When Fatima grew up, Cohen, who was drinking all day, had become a burden. After Cohen's death, her life would be much easier.
Anyway, there are ghosts everywhere now, and if someone dies, no police will come to investigate...
Half an hour later, Cohen woke up to the sound of knife sharpening.
He looked at Fatima, whose expression was grim and full of fear. When Fatima came over with a knife, Cohen was sweating profusely and struggling violently like a fish out of water.
Fatima held the knife to his neck and ripped the tape off his mouth.
"At this point, do you have anything else to say?"
Cohen's tone was a mixture of sadness and fear: "I should have known earlier that you and your daughter are the same, both murderers..."
"What did you say?" Fatima was shocked. "Aren't you the murderer who dismembered people?"
Cohen blinked, somewhat understanding the current situation.
So next, he told Fatima another version of the story.
"More than a decade ago, I discovered by chance that many of the dolls your mother made for you had no hair on their leather."
"I am also a furrier and have never seen this kind of leather before, so I studied it and was horrified to find that these hairless leathers are tanned human skins!"
"After that, I have been secretly paying attention to your mother's whereabouts, and I found that every time someone went missing, she happened to be not at home!"
"She is the murderer who dismembered the body!"
"So I talked to her openly and honestly, hoping she would stop, but she said she was addicted to killing and couldn't stop at all!"
"I can't let her be caught by the police, otherwise our family will be ruined, and neither you nor I can continue to live in Ruicheng. So I can only imitate the method of the dismemberment killer, kill your mother, and hide her body..."
After hearing this, Fatima was in disbelief. She couldn't accept that the gentle mother in her memory turned out to be a murderer who dismembered corpses.
But this statement is more reasonable than saying that her father is a murderer. She thought about the loopholes in Cohen's words and questioned him loudly.
"Impossible, you are lying. If the dismembered killer is my mother, how do we explain the disappearance of Ms. Martha?"
After hearing this, Cohen was silent for a long time.
"You've been to Martha's..."
"Then didn't you realize that Martha disappeared before you took over that business?"
(End of this chapter)
