Chapter 544: A Narrow Escape
Chapter 544: A Narrow Escape: Resurrection
Chapter 544: A Narrow Escape
"Did you say… that all the five victims were prostitutes?" Lin Sanjiu pulled her gaze away from the newspaper and stared at the young man.
"Yes, I did not get it wrong!" emphasized the young man before he turned his focus to the large headlines in the newspaper. He was perplexed. "I did not lie to you. It's historically accurate. Nevertheless, this is a simulation after all. Once extraneous people enter the equation, things will definitely be affected. You can't blame me for that…"
There was actually nothing wrong with his argument. Ever since the players came into the picture, the development of this 'Jack the Ripper' case had moved further and further away from the historical facts. Not only was one of the victims a couturier, but the simulation also did not seem like it was going to end any time soon even after five deaths.
Lin Sanjiu fell into a trance. Her thoughts were a muddled mess. She had an inkling that something was amiss, but she could not point it out.
"Besides, the woman told us that there were two casualties when we came in here." The young man never gazed into people's eyes whenever he was talking. He kept his head low as he continued to explain, "It's natural for me to think that, just like before, the two casualties were prostitutes. The hell if I know it wasn't!"
"Fine, fine!" With furrowed brows, Lin Sanjiu waved her hand at him. " Let's wait and see if the simulation will end."
The simulation did not end.
She waited for several hours. The sun in the simulation rose and set, but the simulation continued. The Potato brothers did not e out from the coachman's house the entire time, and Lin Sanjiu grew suspicious. She rushed into the man's house only to discover that the two men had escaped from the back door. When she questioned the coachman and his wife, neither of them knew where the brothers had gone to.
They could no longer use historical events to determine the course of the simulation which had long derailed from actual history. Another victim died that night. When her corpse was discovered in a corner of the street, they found out that the victim had died in the same manner as the people before her.
Subsequently, after several people died consecutively, the streets near Whitechapel became emptier. The homeless prostitutes and vagrants somehow found their own ways and means to hide. When rain poured at night, there were even fewer people on the street.
The rain was getting heavier.
It was a dark stormy night. Occasionally, a stray ray of light would illuminate the living room. Lin Sanjiu sat in the living room with a corpse which was already showing signs of rigor mortis. There was plete silence.
Her presence at that moment would probably scare anyone who barged in. However, after the young man went out to look for Jack the Ripper again, no one else would ever return to this apartment. The candles had all melted, but Lin Sanjiu had nowhere to go. Since discarding Annie's corpse outside was not an option, she placed the body on the couch and sat next to it.
While Lin Sanjiu did not wish to see the dead body, she had to make sure that it did not go missing. In the end, that was her only acceptable option.
Lin Sanjiu continued sitting silently for some time. Despite that, she could not comanize her thoughts and felt no less vexed. In addition to that, she was sitting next to a cold, lifeless body. Every time a ray of lightning brightened the room, she would be able to see Annie's body through the side of her vision. In the darkness, it gave Lin Sanjiu the impression that it would suddenly resume breathing and e back to life.
'Should I move the body into the room?' Lin Sanjiu thought inwardly, but she was not sure.