’25 families, these are the descendants of the families who know a little about the case and have confirmed the participants in the Folsom family massacre.’
Nick has compiled all the information and looks solemn, ‘Together with the revenge reported by the Folsom family, there are now a total of 42 confirmed participants.’
He stands in Paige’s office and looks at Paige.
Paige sat at her desk, her face pale. She looked at the data in front of her and was overcome with a sense of oppression.
In the past, when she heard Jasper talk about this period of his life, she felt sad, but she also felt that the old man shouldn’t be so biased as to harm the entire country of A because of this period of his life…
But now that she is re-investigating the old case and is caught up in it, she is gradually understanding that kind of hatred.
There were too many wealthy families in Country A who had become successful by eating the wealth of the Folsom family. The Folsom family knew that many of the murderers were hiding among them, but they were unable to confirm it. No one would admit publicly that their ancestors had committed evil deeds, and no one would admit that the money in their family had come from dirty sources…
25 families, 25 newly confirmed families. How dazzlingly successful these 25 families had become by stepping on the bones of the Folsom family, and how many generations had they developed?
‘Knock, knock.’
The door was knocked.
‘Come in,’ Paige said.
The door was pushed open from the outside, and Blanca, dressed smartly, walked in from the outside, followed by the chubby Beinice.
‘Paige, I bought you some fruit on the way here. Eat it,’
Beinice came in, put two boxes of fruit bought on the way by the wall, and said, ‘What’s the matter that you called us over in such a hurry?’
Paige glanced at Nick, who handed them the documents in his hand.
After reading them, the two siblings fell silent.
‘Retribution, it really is retribution!’ Beinice gnashed her teeth, ‘These people almost wiped out our entire Folsom family back then, and in the end their descendants fell into the hands of our Folsom family descendants!’
They were all taken care of by Paige.
It really is karma.
Blanca didn’t say anything, but a flash of hatred flashed in her eyes. As a member of the Folsom family, she couldn’t help but hate.
‘If you didn’t want Big Sister to investigate, why did you do all this?’ Blanca looked at Paige strangely.
‘I was just casually checking, but I encountered an accident. Someone has been committing bizarre suicides one after the other, and there have already been six. Among them, Ashburn and Mr. Wilkie are the two people whose families can be confirmed to have been involved in the Folsom family blood case. The remaining four people are all very old. On the way to the interview, they passed away without getting anything out of them.’ Paige said indifferently.
Upon hearing this, the two siblings changed colour.
‘Someone wants to suppress the truth about the murder? They don’t want us to continue investigating?’ Blanca said coldly.
‘So far, it seems that way.’
Paige had to admit that Enrico’s worries had all come true. Someone was watching them from the shadows and preventing them from making progress.
‘Maybe someone started keeping an eye on us as soon as we returned to Country A from the Folsom family,”
Blanca said. ‘The person who silenced us must have been one of the participants back then, or even the mastermind.’
‘I’ll now tell you about the progress I’ve made.”
Paige stood up from her desk, turned her head towards the computer screen in front of her, and showed the information on it to the Folsom siblings. “We’ve interviewed a lot of people and pieced together the news that after the 82 families collaborated with each other to massacre the Folsom family, they split the spoils and all lost contact with each other, and they swore a blood oath to each other that they would never tell anyone about it.”
The Folsom siblings looked at the information.
‘Moreover, not all of these 82 families knew each other’s background, and even when they went to the Folsom family, they used various methods to cover their faces or let their trusted subordinates go in their stead,’ said Paige.
‘Then how did they cooperate?’ asked Beinice.
‘There was a mastermind.’
Paige pulled up on the computer the drawing she had made based on what Mr. Wilkie had said. The man in the drawing was tall, and he was covered in a black cloak. He was showing two rows of teeth marks on the side of his right wrist, and he was wearing an ancient bronze snake ring on his thumb. The snake on the ring was carved lifelike, spitting out its tongue, looking extremely eerie and strange.
“This is the mastermind?’
Blanca was surprised. None of them knew that such a man existed in this bloodshed.
‘Yes, this is based on the accounts of many descendants of those involved at the time,’
Paige tapped the screen with her pen, ‘this is the mastermind. He united 82 families to plan the Folsom family bloodshed. The number 82 is the number of blood fingerprints everyone was made to swear under oath. Those people used the number of blood fingerprints to confirm how many collaborators they had.’
“Bang!’
Beinice slammed his hand down on the table so hard that his teeth almost ground blood. ’82 bloody fingerprints, can they all fit on one page?’
How dare they?
‘That’s not the point. The point is that the mastermind didn’t share any of the loot, but he seemed to be looking for something, and he never found it. For this reason, he kept harassing the collaborators back then, causing them to be on edge, and some even died of fright,’ Paige said.
There are two key points here: the first is the thing they were looking for, and the second is that those collaborators were very afraid of the mastermind, fearing him as they would a ghost.
‘Looking for something from our family, the Folsom family?’
Blanca shook her head, ‘After our grandfather escaped, he didn’t say anything about any special treasures in the family. After all, the entire Folsom family was robbed at that time.’
Grandfather completely started over from scratch back then.
‘These descendants being questioned can’t explain it clearly either,’ Paige said.
The participants at that time remained silent about everything, and what was left behind was only a fragmentary account.
Blanca stood there, suddenly understanding something, and she looked at Paige, ‘You only called us, not Big Sister, is it because you have found something important?’
That’s why Brangelina can’t be allowed to know so much, for fear that she will lose all hope.
Hearing this, Paige’s eyes drooped as she continued, ‘In those chaotic times of the plutocrats, everyone could fall from grace one day, and everyone could rise to power one day. But there shouldn’t be many people who could make the 82 families fear them even after they rose to power, and even scare them to sudden death, right?’
After she said this, not only the two siblings of the Folsom family, but even Nick figured out the gist of it, his expression changing, and he silently took a few steps back.
‘…’
The two siblings were silent, looking at Paige with complex expressions in their eyes.
‘If you won’t say anything, I will.”
Paige stood by the desk, her long eyelashes fluttering slightly. After a moment’s pause, she said, “Back then, there were only three families with the greatest power in the entire country of A: the Folsom family, the Gustin family’s villa, and the Davis family.”
The Folsom family were the victims.
The Gustin family’s villa is now full of people, but they are all useless. There is only one Enrico, and he is not yet powerful enough to frequently silence people before her.
That leaves only… the Davis family.
If it is the Davis family, then the silencing of people can be explained. The two families have become one family because of her alliance with Enrico, and their relationship is so good. Once the truth is revealed, everything will change. Naturally, the Davis family now does not want the truth about the bloodshed to be revealed.
‘Paige…’
Blanca looked at Paige with some concern, wondering what kind of mood she was in, having reached this point.
‘I don’t want to believe it, but it’s a reasonable speculation,’ Paige said indifferently.