Chapter 26 Section 1

Outside the rain started ticking again. Search Director Leonardo Binda was almost breathless because the story was so shocking.After listening to the story, he took a deep breath.However, as soon as I found that the sound of my inhalation seemed too loud, I immediately exhaled carefully. "It's unbelievable..." The master said in a hoarse voice while exhaling: "Is that true? Is it the truth?" "It can't be proven," said Clyn Mistry.His voice remained low. "However, according to the results of my many years of investigation, I believe so. And yet there are so many letters from people claiming to be Jack that people all over the world are wrong."

"Indeed," said Master Binder with a sigh. "I plan to compile my research results into a book. After the book is published, it will cause a worldwide sensation!" He said nonchalantly, so it sounded like he was joking. "Yes...if what you just said is true...however, after the police's real autopsy, the 'Egyptian star' was still not found in the intestines of Mary Ann Nicholas or Elizabeth Steady '?" "There is no record of this matter in the public information. However, the official public information is usually only a small part of all the information, but the information of Scotland Yard is carefully sealed and preserved. It will not be until 1993 It will be fully disclosed in a year. That is to say, in another five years, the evidence on which my reasoning is based will appear. I believe in my reasoning."

"You mean, Jack the Ripper is a woman..." "Mr. Conan Doyle, who was very famous at the time, also suspected that the murderer was a woman, or a man wearing women's clothing. This is the record leaked by Conan's son Adrian Conan. Mr. Conan really has a discerning eye." "That makes sense. In the East End of London at the end of the nineteenth century, if a woman did what Jack the Ripper did, it wouldn't arouse suspicion. Tsk, tsk, it's surprising... But wait, wait!While the investigation is still under wraps, doctors might have found diamonds in the intestines of Mary Ann Nicholas or Elizabeth Steady, hadn't they? "

"No, Director, that's impossible," Kling said. "impossible?" "Yes, it is impossible. Unless it is a person suffering from constipation, the diamonds swallowed in the stomach will definitely be excreted out of the body within a day or two. This is already common knowledge in medicine. However, people in the nineteenth century still Without such common sense, it can be said that it is crazy to want to find diamonds from the intestines of the dead." "Well, yes! It's true for laymen. Even if I am a modern person, I can't think of such a thing for a while. But... the diamonds swallowed in the stomach will really be excreted in a day or two ?"

"If it's a healthy person, it's usually like that." "Will it be stuck somewhere in the body..." "Perhaps Maria also thinks so! Such hopes are too optimistic." "Oh..." Master Binda sighed in a daze.After both of them fell silent, only the sound of rain outside could be heard in the space. After listening to the sound of the rain quietly for a while, Director Binder said, "What happened to that lady named Maria Korona? Has she been sent to a mental hospital?" "There is no record of this. It must have passed her calmly."

"how is this possible?" "Women are generally like that. But when pushed to the extreme, most women run the risk of going temporarily insane. It's a kind of hysteria, so to speak." "But……" "I understand your feelings very well, Director. But please think about it, Director: Is the soldier who killed dozens of people on the battlefield of the Great War 40 years ago now living the rest of his life in peace surrounded by his grandson? Human beings are like this Yes. Human beings are inherently sinful." The director was silent because he disagreed with such a statement.After a while he added: "Well, maybe! Maybe it's what you say, but my profession doesn't allow me to endorse that statement."

"I feel the same way. To be honest, I don't think she can live a peaceful life in the future. I think she should have experienced hardships that we don't know about in the following days." "Because she has no diamonds?" "She's out of diamonds." "And what about her fiancé? What happened to the young man who owned mines in France?" "Robert Zimmerman died as a result of the riots of September, 1888." "What? He's dead?" "He was dead. The riot was violent and dangerous. He was shot by a workman. Maria didn't seem to know it until 1889."

"Sure enough, that's how things always turn out." "That's right. Anyone who believes in the existence of God will probably feel the same way." "Don't you think so?" "I also believe in the existence of God. However, I still have a little different feeling. Her resentment in my bureau has not been relieved, so it will happen like twins a hundred years later, Exactly the same incident." "Ah! Yes, what we want to solve is this incident." Director Binda suddenly remembered and said loudly. "Shhh!" Kelin raised his index finger in front of his mouth to stop the director from making a sound.Then he said in a low voice: "So, this time she will definitely come to check on the long-legged Liz's belly that was too old to be cut open at that time. What a stubborn idea! Look, it's finally here."

The back door seemed to be open.Because the sound of the rain became slightly louder, then the door was closed cautiously and slowly.The lights in the room and in the corridor were, of course, off at this time.There is a mercury lamp like a London gas lamp on the other side of the atrium. The light of the mercury lamp in the rain should be blurred.The light of the mercury lamp flashed from the atrium through the windows next to the corridor, and disappeared in a flash. No footsteps could be heard.The door seemed to open and close automatically, and there was no sense of anyone approaching the corridor.Is the hallway floor made of stone?However, someone did come in.The upper half of a ghost-like figure appeared in the corridor window.

"Ah..." Hidden in the cleaning tool room, Director Binda seemed to want to stretch out his body, looked at the situation outside through the crack of the door, and then let out a deep exclamation, the end of the voice was still trembling slightly. The figure was wearing a hat, as if he was going to tuck his hair into the hat, and pinned it up with a hair clip. His voice and appearance were like those of a woman living in the nineteenth century. A miracle happened.The rooms and corridors separated by the five coffins slowly opened little by little, as if symbolizing the slowness of a century.The hinges creaked like the gears of an ancient clock.As if opening the door of a time machine, the door opened, and "Maria Corona" stood in the doorway.

She was wearing an ankle-length brown dress, holding a closed flower umbrella in her left hand, lit by the mercury light penetrating from the atrium, and it could be seen that she was wearing a black straw hat on her head, and the rainwater Beads dripped from the tip of the umbrella and the hem of the long skirt to the ground. Director Binder's eyes grew bigger and his body became stiff.He opened his mouth slightly blankly.really?What the hell is this—his lips trembled, but no sound came out. Maria Korona slowly moved the wet umbrella, and immediately a small black puddle formed around the wet umbrella, and the puddle gradually spread outward.This is reminiscent of a scene that seemed to have happened a few days ago, but actually happened a hundred years ago - like in the Tian Belz bar, Maria walked into the bar, shook off the raindrops attached to the skirt without making a sound, and gently Tilting his head, he let the rainwater fall from his hat. Then, she walked to the five coffins, climbing, climbing, climbing, step by step slowly.The sound frightened the beholder.That is not the way of normal people walking, but the way of walking of a "human" who just woke up in the grave, or the way of walking like a robot that moves by mechanisms.In short, it was a strange way of walking, as if a person who had just learned to walk was supported by a wooden stick every time he took a step, and it also made strange noises. When she got to the side of the five coffins, she stopped and stood.Then, she slowly bent her knees, squatted down with slow movements, and took out something like a small wooden stick from somewhere in her body.As she lifted the thing up to her nose, the white light of the mercury lamp that came in through the gap in the curtains revealed the gleaming thing, which was the knife. After putting down the knife, she slowly opened the coffin closest to her.She uses her hands, very carefully. "Ah!" she whispered softly. Then, she moved her knee vigorously, moving to the coffin next to her because she said she didn't act fast, and then quickly opened the coffin's remodeling system. There was a "bang", it was a loud noise that almost stopped the beating of the heart.The lid of the third coffin was also lifted, and it also made a loud noise, breaking the silence of the night. As if it was finally his turn to appear as an actor, Kelin Mistry, who was hiding in the cleaning tool room, stood up, leaving the stunned Director Binda behind, walked slowly from the tool room to the big room, and opened the door Light switch on the wall. After the fluorescent lights flickered a few times like lightning, for those who were used to the darkness, the room instantly became as bright as day.A retro-dressed woman stood in the center of the room. Because of the sudden light, she raised her hands to protect her eyes.They thought she might disappear like a ghost, but they didn't expect that she not only didn't disappear, but also existed in their vision all the time. Her movements returned to their original slowness.She has always been like this, every movement is very slow, like a clockwork machine, every movement is also very steady, and then she puts her hands down. "Ah!" The man's loud voice resounded throughout the room. "Monica! Isn't this Monica?" Director Binda yelled, running out of the tool room while scrambling. "Why are you here?" the director asked blankly. "Where's the corpse? The five whores..." Monica asked in a low voice with a hoarse moan. "Where is the body?" "Poor lady, their bodies are still in the morgue. There are only empty coffins here." Kelin lowered his head and said sympathetically. "What!" Monica raised her voice like a scream: "Are you lying to me? Are you lying to me? Even Karl is lying to me!" she cried. "No, no, miss, that's not it. I'm the one who contrived to trick you. It's my own plan. Carl and Director Binda are completely unaware. I said to move the bodies of five whores to this room, Carl I just believed what I said, and let you know what I said. Because if I said directly that you are a murderer, no one would believe it. Only I know this, so you have to blame Just blame me, the director and Carl really don't know anything." "I don't know, until just now, I really didn't know anything..." Director Leonardo Binda murmured. "Even now, I can't believe it's true." Monica Fonfetton squatted down again.she cried.The metal cane beside her glowed dimly and silvery. "This world is full of depressing things." Kelin Mistry whispered with his hands behind his back, "Being forced to see things you don't want to see, to believe things you don't want to believe, no one I would like to encounter things. If I can, I will also move my eyes away, as if I don’t know anything. But if you are wrong, you are wrong, and you can’t let it go.” "I really can't believe it. But why..." the director still murmured blankly.Apart from the director's whispers, only Monica's crying and the sound of rain outside could be heard in the room.