Chapter 46: Wu Yu 07 (1)
Soon, an overall picture of the matter formed in my mind.
The perpetrator must be Zhu Shuyun.
Zhu Shuyun was abducted twenty-five years ago when he was five years old. Since he was mentally handicapped and the Zhu family had many children, according to him, the Zhu family had quickly given up on him after a brief search.
Ultimately, he joined a group of thieves and became a master thief. Now, he was coming back now to exact his revenge on the family that left him.
He abducted four children, including his nephew, Zhu Zhihan, from the area he grew up in. Perhaps like what Tan Jiao said, he had abducted so many children for the sake of companions, or perhaps it was just a diversion.
By sending out the terms of ransom to another family, he was able to manipulate the police. Simultaneously, he secretly communicated with the Zhu family, luring them out to this hill and trapping them.
The mental torture and toying with the Zhu family’s emotions一first, he threatened the child’s life, then he suggested stabbing three people, and finally, he let them choose one to die一was nothing more than his vengeance and test for them.
In the end, the Zhu family failed the test, as none of them were willing to sacrifice themselves for the child. As such, Zhu Shuyun sentenced them to death.
I believe this was what Zhu Shuyun wanted from the start: to kill his family members. Everything else was merely torture.