The pursuit of the truth is a good wish that human beings have been pursuing for many years. Sometimes, however, the truth is unknown. For example, in crimes, there are always some that cannot be solved for various reasons, and over time, they become a mystery.
The more unknown it is, the easier it is to arouse people's curiosity. For example, many of the world's questions are simply unsolvable, how life originated, how the earth was born, whether there are alien civilizations in the universe, these questions have no definite answers that can be confirmed.
Where science can't explain, theology emerges. Cases that cannot be cracked by jurisprudence, literary conjecture.
Shiota Samurai's "Voice of Sin" is a literary crime-solving novel that explores the pursuit of historical mysteries. It is based on the real and unbroken "Silver Ten Thousand Incident" in Japanese history, and it launches a bold conjecture.
At that time, someone sent a tape to the grain and fruit company, which was recorded in a child's voice, claiming that poison had been mixed in the candy, causing the stock price of several companies to fall sharply. However, the case has not yet been solved.
Let's take a look at cases that the police can't solve, and how novelists can solve them.
The novel is told from two main lines, and finally these two main lines converge into one.
In the first main line, the protagonist Zeng Genjun also cleaned up the room and accidentally found a tape, which turned out to be a recording of the Yinwan incident, which turned out to be his own voice as a child, which could not help but arouse his curiosity to find out.
The second main line was that a newspaper was preparing to make a series of special reports on the period of the decades anniversary of the Yinwan Incident, and Akuzu, a reporter from the Ministry of Literature and Art who was good at foreign languages, was instead assigned this task. Because the bandits of that year may have imitated a kidnapping case in the Netherlands.
The interspersing of the two clues, expressed in language, is really a bit boring, because it is necessary to go down according to the clues bit by bit, the process seems to be more trivial and lengthy, but it is a bit of a style of original reasoning. Logically, the conjecture of the truth of the case is justified from the outcome to the process, at least it can be justified.
Of course, what the ultimate truth of the case is, it is estimated that after so many years, there is no way to find it. Although crime always leaves clues, some cases are not enough to solve the case, not enough to find the original truth and the real murderer.
What is quite surprising is that in fact, this is not a simple criminal case, there are many complex factors in it, some just want to warn the society, some are simply looking for money, there are social disaffonants involved, there are pure gangsters involved, and there is a split within the criminals, resulting in the tragic fate of several guys, and things eventually become uncontrollable.
In fact, there are many cases that have not been cracked in various countries over the years, some of which are due to the constraints of objective factors such as the simple conditions for cracking the case at that time, and some are affected by subjective factors such as low level, seriousness and irresponsibility, although people's pursuit of the truth behind the dusty case always stops, but it has to be admitted that there are always some truths that cannot be obtained!
Perhaps, for the long river of history, knowing and not knowing, always accompanied by birth, this is the normal state of the world.
The Voice of Sin
Author: 【Japanese】Shiota Samurai
Publisher: Henan Literature and Art Publishing House
Producer: Reader Culture
Original story: Voice of Sin
Translator: Zhao Jianxun
Publication year: 2021-7
Number of pages: 400
Price: RMB 59.00
ISBN: 9787555911876