Chapter 190: Repeating Storyline (1/2)
Chapter 190: Repeating Storyline
Phoenix’s actions and words left Colombo shocked.
While it was possible for him to distrust things that he had merely heard, this was something that was happening right before his very eyes. Even if he wanted to deny it, he could not!
“Do you need a cup of coffee?” asked Chen Xiaolian. Watching the poor Colombo, Chen Xiaolian could not help but feel sympathetic toward him.
“Coffee? No no no… that’s not what I need, I need, I need something else.”
He trembled as he climbed up from the sofa and moved toward the wine cabinet. He retrieved a bottle of whiskey and poured a small cup for himself and gulped it down in one go. Due to his hastiness in finishing the cup, he ended up coughing a few times. He turned around to stare at Phoenix for a bit. Then, he turned his head back and poured himself another cup before gulping it down.
He calmed down somewhat after that.
Chen Xiaolian spent the next few minutes comforting Colombo. He used the same thing he said to Dr Mu to bluff Colombo.
A few minutes later, Colombo blinked as he looked at Chen Xiaolian. “… so, what you mean to say is, you people are not ordinary humans? You people are… superhumans? Meta humans? Heavens, if not for the fact that I am seeing it for myself, I would have believed that this is a Hollywood movie.”
“You have seen it for yourself,” Chen Xiaolian shrugged his shoulders.
Colombo gulped down another mouthful of whiskey before slamming the cup down on the table.
“May I have another look at those pictures?”
“Of course.”
Lun Tai immediately handed the mobile phone to Colombo.
Colombo then inspected the pictures carefully and his eyebrows furrowed up tightly.
“How about a cup?”
Chen Xiaolian suddenly heard Phoenix coming up beside him. In her hand was a bottle of whiskey she took from the wine cabinet. She also handed over a cup.
Phoenix cast a playful look at Chen Xiaolian and asked, “What is it? You are not about to tell me that you’re under aged and cannot drink, are you?”
Without saying anything, Chen Xiaolian accepted the cup and poured himself a cup.
Wine had a pungent taste – he was not into wine tasting, and knew nothing about it.
“You’re not drinking?” asked Chen Xiaolian as he threw a provocative expression at Phoenix.
Phoenix smiled. She raised the pomegranate juice in her hand and waved it before him. “Good girls do not drink wine.”
“Aaa!!!”
It was at that moment that Colombo suddenly exclaimed as he sprang up from the sofa.
“What is it?” asked Dr Mu, who quickly moved over. “What did you discover?”
“No no…” Colombo raised his head and said, “You… wait for a moment!”
Colombo rushed into a room. After a while, he came out with a laptop, which he placed on the table. Then, he turned it on.
After the computer was turned on, Colombo opened up a folder that was full of photos.
After searching around for a bit, he opened up one of the photos!
A photo appeared on the display screen of the laptop.
It was clearly depicting a murder scene. However, the photo was a very blurry, vintage, black and white photo. Additionally, there was a high rate of pixel loss on the photo.
The photo depicted a murder scene with one corpse that looked like a woman’s where the surroundings was covered with blood.
The corpse was dissected with its belly cut open!
Colombo then slid to the photos at the back.
The next few pictures were of the same murder scene, shot from different angles.
There was a corpse, internal organs in their complete state and blood… …
“This is?”
“These photos were taken by the police. They are the pictures of the first murder case committed by Jack the Ripper in 1888,” said Colombo, his eyes shining. “Due to the photography technology at that time, the photos taken are comparatively blurry compared to present day photos. Additionally, due to it being kept for too long, some losses in definition were incurred. However… did you notice?”
“What?”
Colombo quickly retrieved a pair of glasses from under the table. Then, he placed the mobile phone beside the laptop.
“Have a look.”
After looking at it, both Chen Xiaolian and Phoenix were stunned!
With the exception of the fact that the photo was in black and white with a different pixel count and of a different time…
The state of the corpse, its location and the dissection angle…
Almost all the details were the same!
In both photos, the deceased’s facial features were partially covered with blood, making it difficult to identify her original features. However… some of the details were shockingly similar!
One of the deceased hands was left jutting to the side while the other was bent. The corpse lying upon the ground formed the ‘片’ shape.
The head of the deceased was tilted slightly to the right, exposing the lower jaw area. Upon the mouth was a… …
“Is that a mole?” asked a frowning Phoenix.