The tour guide seemed to think it was no big deal and asked again, "Are you going to be together all night?"
The actress's face was about to be buried under the table. Mr. Nick asked angrily: "You suspect the suspects among us, but what about you? You don't have any law enforcement power, right? And how can we be sure that the real murderer is not you?"
"You suspect the murderer is among us, and I suspect the murderer was committed by your resort. You use this as an excuse to put us under house arrest so that you can kill us one by one."
"The road was fine at other times. How could it be such a coincidence that a mudslide occurred just after someone died?"
"It's definitely weird."
Everyone at the table, who were already in a trance, raised their heads in unison and looked warily at the strange tour guide who had a fake smile on his face.
The director in the actor group then said, "That's right."
"I remember you told us on the first day we arrived at the resort that we could take anything we wanted. But since the resort was built, no one has been able to take anything out. When I asked you the reason, you just gave me a mysterious fake smile. There's something wrong with you."
The eldest daughter, who was walking in front, rubbed her belly and knocked on the table, "So when can we have dinner? I haven't had breakfast yet, I'm so hungry."
The tour guide smiled apologetically at the eldest daughter, "I'm sorry, Miss Nick, because of the two murders, the kitchen forgot to prepare the food in a panic. I just told them, and they are rushing to prepare it."
"Looking at this time," the tour guide looked at his watch, "it should be almost ready."
A "gurgling" sound came from the eldest daughter's belly.
She shook the chair under her with a feeling of grievance and restlessness. The metal chair rolled on the jade floor, making a creaking metallic sound.
The piercing sound continued, making the room, which was already filled with tension, seem even more tense.
The director slapped the table and said, "Hey, tour guide Thomas, don't change the subject. Tell me, are you the murderer?!"
The tour guide smiled helplessly, "Sir, look at these servants standing in the corner. This is only part of the resort. Look at the food you eat and the place where you sleep. If the resort wanted to kill you, you would have died many times. How could there be only two dead and one missing? Anyway, there is no one here to help, right?"
"Useless normality will only lead to mental exhaustion. It's almost ten in the morning now. Instead of wasting time suspecting us, you might as well quickly tell us your alibi to eliminate suspicion."
Tour guide Thomas slowly scanned the ten people present. "Mr. Nick and Miss Elizabeth are cleared of suspicion for now, but we cannot rule out the possibility that they are covering for each other and giving false testimony, so you two cannot act together from now on."
"Next, Mr. Ashley, where were you last night?"
Mr. Ashley wiped his hands elegantly with a piece of silk. "My wife and I love each other very much. We have lived together since the first night. My wife's room is mine."
Mrs. Ashley's complexion had improved a lot, but she still looked a little haggard and had traces of tears on her face. She wiped the tears from her eyes with a piece of silk and nodded sadly: "Yes, I can testify for my husband that we were together all night."
The tour guide stared at the two of them for a few seconds and asked: "Is there anyone else who can testify for you?"
Mr. Aisley: "No, we are a legal couple sleeping together. There is no need to report it to others, right? After all, two people who are not legally married can sleep together."
Mr. Nick's eyes widened instantly. Actress Elizabeth didn't dare to speak the whole time and could only lower her head to look at the table in front of her.
The tour guide smiled and said, "I'm really sorry, Mr. Aisley, please forgive my unintentional offense. I was just doing my routine work and didn't mean anything else."
"Although you testified for each other, because you two are husband and wife, you are still suspected of perjury, so you two cannot act together from now on."
Mr. Aisley's face flashed with displeasure, but he still took two deep breaths and said nothing more.
The guide's eyes moved and fell on the eldest daughter's face, "Miss Nick, where were you last night?"
The eldest daughter of Nick's family had a rumbling stomach. She irritably scratched the table with a steel fork. The harsh "squeak" sound made many people present frown.
She lazily lay on the table, her expression as if the sky was about to fall: "I have been in the room the whole time, and I fell asleep as soon as I touched the pillow."
Tour guide: "So you were alone last night and not with anyone, so there is no one to testify for you."
"I'm sleeping alone in my room. Do I really need to invite someone to stand by my bed and watch me sleep?!" The eldest daughter knocked on the table with a steel fork. "Didn't you say the food would be ready soon? Why hasn't it been delivered yet?"
The tour guide smiled apologetically again: "Sorry, please be patient, it should be ready soon."
Just as the tour guide finished speaking, there was a knock outside the restaurant, "Ladies and gentlemen, your meal is ready."
The waiter closest to the king opened the door, and waiters pushing food carts came in one after another, placing the food in front of each person in an orderly manner.
As soon as the food was placed in front of the eldest daughter, she immediately grabbed the knife and fork and started to eat.
The sound of wolfing down the food echoed throughout the room, but to others it did not give the impression of a strong appetite, or even a slight feeling of nausea.
The philanthropists Mr. and Mrs. Asleigh frowned in disdain.
How can this be the elegant eating of a noble lady? This is clearly a fat pig eating pig food!
Before the meal was even served, the eldest daughter had wolfed down every last bit of food.
After she finished eating, she grabbed the sleeve of the servant behind her with her greasy hands and said anxiously: "Give me one portion, I'm not full."
The attendant looked at the tour guide, then at the eldest daughter, his eyes full of guilt: "I'm sorry, Miss. Because the road is blocked, our purchasing vehicle can't go out to purchase. The food stored in the restaurant is running low. In order to have food to eat the next day, we only prepared one portion of rice per person this time."
The eldest daughter immediately sat up from her chair and shouted in a high voice: "What?! Only one serving?!"
She pulled the plate open roughly and found it was empty.
"Are you kidding? I'll starve to death with just this little food. I need to eat at least ten servings."
"What a rubbish resort this is! Are you trying to starve me to death?!"
The servant just bowed respectfully and apologized: "I'm really sorry, we don't do that either, but there's nothing we can do. In order to ensure the freshness of the food for you guests, the raw materials for your food are all fresh ingredients that have been sent out that day. The food you are eating now is still made with the raw materials of our servants. Although the taste is not as good as fresh ingredients, it is not worse than outside."
"In order to ensure that you have enough food, we have reduced our own food intake to one meal a day. We really can't give you more food, otherwise we will starve to death."
The eldest daughter glared at the servant. She suddenly turned around and snatched the food that the eldest son-in-law was about to touch with the steel fork, grabbed the bag and took a big bite, as if swearing her rights.
The eldest son-in-law was so timid that he didn't dare to move until the food was snatched away. He just kept picking up the knife and fork, then slowly put it down and said softly to the eldest daughter, "You can eat it all, just don't fill yourself up."
The eldest daughter was unmoved. She pushed the eldest son-in-law's face away casually, looked at the Baili Xin people and Jiaer who was facing Baili Xin, and said arrogantly: "Don't you dislike the food here? Every time you eat very little or nothing? Give me everything, don't waste food."
Having said that, without waiting for Baili Xin's answer, he reached out his hand in front of Baili Xin and pulled the food in front of him in front of himself.
After doing this, she repeated her old trick and planned to take Emile's.
Emile glared at her and stabbed the back of her hand with his knife and fork. Seeing this, the eldest daughter quickly retracted her hand in disappointment, not daring to touch even a bit of Emile's food.
She couldn't get the food from Emile or Hongyue, and although she didn't eat the food in front of Gal, because of the distance, she couldn't reach the right food even if she stood on tiptoe.
Unless the other party sent it themselves.
But did Karl deliver it
No.
She didn't give the food to herself like she did last time. Instead, she lazily held her chin with one hand. She couldn't see the eyes behind the veil, but she was absolutely sure that this woman didn't even take her seriously.
The eldest daughter didn't feel much. Compared to dignity, what she wanted most now was to fill her stomach.
She turned her head again and faced the other side of the table, and directly grabbed the bag and plate that her younger daughter had just taken two bites of.
The little daughter's whole body stiffened and her shoulders tensed instantly.
He looked at his eldest daughter with a pale face and shrank back. After seeing the threatening look in her eyes, he quickly lowered his head. He could do nothing but grit his teeth in grievance.
Her long brown hair blocked her cheeks. Tears slowly fell from the corners of her eyes and landed silently on the table. She looked at Mr. Nick aggrievedly. Mr. Nick just said casually, "You usually eat little, so you can bear the hunger. Your sister is different. She will feel uncomfortable all day if she doesn't eat enough. You have such a sister, why do you care so much? You are so petty."
Upon hearing this, the younger daughter lowered her head in disappointment and loneliness.
There was another portion of food in front of her. The eldest daughter no longer cared about elegance and etiquette and just started to eat. Although the portion was not enough to fill her stomach, she felt better than before.
In the room, everyone else had finished eating long ago, and the only sound in the air was the eldest daughter's swallowing.
Five minutes later, the table was a mess.
The waiters immediately and skillfully cleared the table, but in the blink of an eye, the restaurant was no longer as clean as it was at the beginning.
When the waiters pushing the dining carts left the restaurant, the eldest daughter asked the tour guide impatiently, "When will lunch be served?"
The tour guide looked at his watch and said, "It's ten o'clock in the morning. Lunch will be served around 12:30, ma'am."
"Now that everyone has finished their delicious breakfast, let's continue with the question we left unfinished."
"Ms. Nick fell asleep in her room by herself. I don't have any evidence."
"You're next, sir." The tour guide was referring to the eldest son-in-law.
The eldest son-in-law's face turned pale, his eyes were vague, and he glanced at his little daughter beside him evasively.
The little girl's face was pale, her eyes were straight and expressionless.
The eldest son-in-law stuttered, "I, I was... at... last night..."
"Why are you so nervous when you speak?" The eldest daughter patted her eldest son-in-law on the back twice and said, "Be more confident. What's wrong?"
"Haha, of course Xu is nervous," the son-in-law next to the youngest daughter suddenly said, "Sister, where did your husband go last night? My wife has the final say."
The younger daughter and the older son-in-law looked at the younger son-in-law at the same time, their eyes filled with fear.
The eldest daughter didn't know the situation yet: "What do you mean?"
The son-in-law sneered and suddenly pulled the little daughter's hair hard, pulling her neck up hard: "What I mean is, the night is long, and our lovers didn't look for us, but sneaked out and had a secret meeting outside. If I hadn't been thirsty and drank water in the middle of the night and heard what they were talking about hiding at the stairs, I would still be kept in the dark."
"You usually look like a harmless little rabbit, but you are actually a slutty fox. You eat our food and wear our clothes, and you even betray us. Tell me, how long have you cheated on us?"
The little girl was pulled by her hair and thrown to the ground.
With a dull thud, her body fell heavily to the cold ground, her face distorted in pain.
She lay on the ground, raised her head with difficulty, and saw her son-in-law raised his arm. The little daughter's pupils shrank when she saw this, and she subconsciously hugged her vital parts with both arms, her movements were so skillful that they hurt.
It's like this every time.
The son-in-law beat and abused me in any corner of the house, and no one helped me even if my father, sister, or brother-in-law passed by.
Not only will they not help themselves, they will also attack themselves even more severely.
Just like no one would save me before, no one will save me now.
Although she was the second daughter of the Nick family, her life was even more miserable than that of a servant. If he didn't love her, why did he give birth to her? Was it just to torture herself
However, after a long time, the expected pain did not come.
She opened her arms and looked up cautiously, and saw that her son-in-law's arm was being held by someone.
He was a very handsome man and she noticed him at first sight in the car.
It seems that his eyes contain the stars in the sky, and if you look at them for a long time, you will feel as if you are deeply immersed in them.
She never dared to look at anyone twice.
She always felt that someone was very similar to herself. Although the other two people kept saying that they treated him as their own family, they still treated him like an inferior.
He is actually very pitiful.
Now no one in the restaurant dared to stop the son-in-law's evil deeds, only he stood up.
The light from above shone on the young man, casting a faint halo on his body. The little daughter seemed to vaguely see a pair of pure feathers behind the young man.
Savior, when he was most desperate, he appeared before him like a savior.
The son-in-law's already condensed facial features were almost wrinkled together because of anger. He turned to Baili Xin who was nosy beside him and said, "What are you doing? This is our family affair. Don't meddle in other people's business."
Baili Xin: "Sir, I am not intervening in a family matter. Although I don't understand our laws, I think our country should have a sound set of criminal laws, right? Beating people is not against the law? Although there are no police at the scene, there are so many witnesses. If this lady waits for the police to come, they can immediately send you to prison and let you feel the taste of being beaten there."
The son-in-law exhaled angrily: "She betrayed me, and you won't let me beat her?"
Baili Xin pointed to the side and said, "It takes two to tango. If you want to punish someone, you should treat them equally. Why would you punish only women and not men? Isn't there another one over there?"
The eldest son-in-law trembled all over.
Seeing that the younger son-in-law had seen it, the older daughter's eyes widened and she said, "How dare you! Just try to touch my people."
As she spoke, she glanced at her little daughter who was lying on the ground in a mess, "Bah, you bastard."
After cursing, she stood up with a wronged look on her face and ran behind Mr. Nick, "Dad, look at your sister. There are so many men in the world that she could steal from, but she chose to steal from me, her elder sister. She did it on purpose. She is just like her mother."
The younger daughter suddenly heard the older daughter mention her mother, and her face turned pale.
The people around remained quiet, but it was easy to see their excitement from their gradually flickering eyes.
Even the tour guide did not say anything to stop the farce, allowing it to continue to ferment.
Baili Xin secretly glanced around the restaurant and found that the black package in the hands of the previous director was held in his arms. The zipper on the package was opened a little, and a black lens reflecting bright light was vaguely visible.
Is he secretly taking photos
"You're right. She's just like her slutty mother, she only knows how to cheat everywhere." Mr. Nick's voice attracted Baili Xin's attention again. Mr. Nick's insults were like the last straw that broke the camel's back. The younger daughter suddenly got up from the ground and rushed towards the older daughter and Mr. Nick hysterically: "Why do you want to insult me like this? My last name is Nick too. I'm also your child, Dad. How can you be so cruel as to insult your daughter like this?"
"If you didn't love me, if you hated my mother's betrayal, why did you give birth to me? Why didn't you just kill you?"
"Why does my sister have everything, but I have nothing? Did I steal my sister's husband? He was my boyfriend. My sister has always liked to steal my things since she was a child. She took the flowers I planted and put them in her room. She also took away the dolls I made. She even took away my boyfriend and made him her husband."
"But what about you? Not only did you not criticize her immorality, but you helped her instead."
"It wasn't me," the little girl cried desperately, "I didn't have an affair with him at all. He came to me at night and said that he couldn't hold on any longer and was about to be driven crazy by his sister. That's why I went to the back garden with him to comfort him."
"Yes, we also ran into Mrs. Nick."
"She stole a lot of gold and silver jewelry from the resort and planned to hide it inside."
"She bumped into us and used this incident to threaten us. I wanted to explain, but this cowardly man only knew how to beg for the lady's forgiveness and didn't give me the time to explain."
"He said he was driven crazy by my sister, but he couldn't bear to give up the good life and wealth my sister and Nick's family gave him. He is a good-for-nothing. I was blind to fall in love with such a man. Now I think he is dirty even if he is given to me, but my sister treats him as a treasure." The little daughter's eyes flashed with the pleasure of revenge. "One is a trash and the other is a trash collector. You two are a perfect match."
Everyone at the table smelled a strong scent of gossip and had already left the table, surrounding the man.
The director just happened to be next to Baili Xin. Baili Xin looked at the director inconspicuously. The director held the package in his arms carefully with excitement in his eyes, and did not notice Baili Xin's scrutiny at all.
The little daughter chattered away.
"Shut up!" Mr. Nick yelled angrily, "Shut your stinky mouth. You are nothing. You are a bastard, and you are worthy of scolding my good daughter?"
I don’t know if it’s because of the pressure of the death case or other reasons, but these people’s emotions seem to have reached an exaggerated extreme.
The usual restraint and cautiousness all disappeared, and people gradually revealed their undisguised desires and guilt.
The past that should have been forgotten was also torn open with broken scars.
When the younger daughter heard Mr. Nick's defense, she did not continue to question hysterically, but just sneered at herself.
Mr. Nick pointed at his little daughter's nose and yelled, "I brought you to the Nick family, do you really think you are the second daughter of the Nick family? I tell you, you are nothing, you are just a bastard."
"Your good mother had an affair behind my back, and I discovered it. The product of that affair is you."
"Your mother died of heavy bleeding when she gave birth to you, leaving you behind as a bastard. She died, but the humiliation she put me through did not disappear, so I made you the second daughter of the Nick family and gave you the title of a daughter, just to torture you and make sure you can never leave the Nick family, so that you will pay for your mother's sins for the rest of your life."
"Do you know why I hate you so much? Because you have the same face as your mother. When I see this face, I will think of her betrayal of me, and I will be filled with disgust."
The secret was revealed. Although the scene was silent, the slightly trembling hands of the onlookers still revealed their excitement.
The little daughter stood there in a daze, her pupils suddenly shrinking and trembling rapidly.
She thought of many reasons why Mr. Nick disliked her. Maybe it was because he hated her weakness, her sentimentality, or she hated that she was not materialistic enough and was not worthy of the Nick family's style of doing things, but she had never thought of this reason.
The elder daughter stared at the younger daughter in front of her with eyes that were about to be squeezed out by flesh, "Dad is right, our mothers are different. My mother divorced Dad after she gave birth to me, and then Dad found your mother. But your mother is not honest. But I already remember what happened when your mother gave birth to you."
The little daughter sat on the ground dejectedly. Just a moment ago, the home she had always thought of was gone.
She looked up blankly at the strange yet familiar family in front of her: "So that's why you treated me so badly. You never loved me. It's not what you call beating is love and scolding is love. Everything you did was just to use me to get revenge on my mother."
"God, you've gone too far." The philanthropist's wife came in and held her distraught little daughter in her arms. "What does the mistake made by adults have to do with children?"
"All children should be blessed when they are born. Since you have raised her, you should treat her well."
The philanthropist's wife carefully wiped the mud off her little daughter's face with her handkerchief, "Poor child, you have suffered, live with me."
Seeing the philanthropist's wife was about to leave with her little daughter, Mr. Nick's face changed and he stopped her, saying, "Wait, she is from our Nick family, where are you taking her?"
Mr. Philanthropist stopped Mr. Nick's hand and said, "Stop it. Since you have revealed this secret in public, you must have made up your mind to abandon this child."
"Mr. Nick, I know your family has money, but you can try to see whether your Nick family is more capable or our Isley family is more powerful."
"My wife loves children very much. She won't tolerate any family trampling on a child like this."
Mr. Ashley looked at Mrs. Ashley who was carefully wiping her little daughter's face and said coldly, "I don't care about your messy family affairs, but since my wife likes this child, I will take care of this trivial matter for the time being."
"This child is an adult and has the right to make her own decision. We will ask the child about her legal rights. If she leaves your family and divorces a man who likes domestic violence, our Isley family will do our best to help her."
The son-in-law's face turned blue and purple in an instant. He glared at his little daughter fiercely, but because of the power of the Esley family, he didn't dare to say more.
Seeing that the matter had come to an end, the tour guide smiled and tried to smooth things over: "The fact that you all can participate in this trip to the Garden of Eden at the same time shows that you are all destined to be together. If you are so destined, why should you lose your harmony over a small matter, right?"
"Sit down, let's continue."
The farce ended just like that. The son-in-law stared at his daughter and said with a dark face, "If this woman and this man were caught by the lady in the back garden and were threatened, then these two people have a motive to kill."
"Killing two people in one night is impossible for one person to do it. It's just right for them to commit the crime as a gang."
The little daughter was sitting beside Mrs. Ashley in a daze. She trembled a little after hearing these words, but didn't mean to speak.
The eldest son-in-law quickly waved his hands: "No, it can't be the two of us."
"I am very timid. I will faint when I see a dead person."
"She," the eldest son-in-law pointed at his youngest daughter and spoke after two seconds of hesitation, "She gets dizzy and has a seizure when she sees blood. The scene is so horrible. How could the two of us do it? It couldn't be us."
The son-in-law muttered, "Who knows if you are pretending."
Younger daughter: “…”
Eldest son-in-law: “…”
"Ahem, anyway, before we have a solid proof, no one should be suspicious," the tour guide turned his gaze to Baili Xin, "Mr. Baili Xin, where were you last night?"
Following the guide's questions, everyone's attention fell on Baili Xin.
Baili Xin suppressed the inexplicable sense of disobedience and looked up to meet the tour guide's eyes: "Mr. Tour Guide, before I answer your question, I have a question for you."
Tour guide: “What’s the problem?”
Baili Xin: "I know, how can you tell whether a person's words are true or false?"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and turned to look at the tour guide.
Yes, how do you tell whether it’s true or false
The tour guide chuckled, "I can't judge. I can only hope that the guests are honest. After all, I'm not a detective, and I don't have a lie detector, right? But I believe that as long as it's a lie, the flaws will be exposed. Maybe it can't be found now, but when there is more and more evidence, the person who lied will become more and more embarrassed in the future."
"Isn't that right, Mr. Prisin?"
Baili Xin stared at the tour guide for two seconds, then nodded slowly, "Second question, everyone seems to be very sure that these two cases are man-made, why don't you suspect some supernatural power? For example, the devil."
Everyone looked at each other, and the director was the first to laugh.
Director: “Are you kidding me here?”
"We believe in God, but this is the 19th century, not the decadent 16th century or the backward 15th century."
"Approaching Science is a good book. I think you should read it more."
Mr. Nick: "Or are you the murderer, using supernatural ghost stories to exonerate yourself?"
Baili Xin and Hongyue simply looked at each other and said, "But judging from the two corpses, it is impossible to accomplish all this quietly in one night with no one around, right?"
Mr. Ashley: "It's impossible, maybe just because we haven't arrived yet. You should watch the most popular "Mr. Detective" nowadays. There are all kinds of bizarre death scenes in it. They seem impossible, but in fact they are just looking in the wrong direction. As long as it is a crime, there will be evidence. There is no such thing as a perfect crime, let alone a supernatural murder case."
Looking at the nodding expressions of agreement from the people around him, Baili Xin finally understood what was going on with the strange feeling he had just had.
This movie, the current background and the characters in these movies firmly believe in science, and all the supernatural things are pseudoscience.
But the mysterious golden room, the apple tree in the back garden, the angel with huge wings, and the ugly crow on his shoulders all indicate one thing: this world is not a completely scientific world, but a world with supernatural life.
This is a huge information gap.
And information asymmetry is often fatal.
Baili Xin: "In the world, I also went to the back garden last night."
"I went to the apple orchard and saw the golden apple tree with golden trunk and leaves. When the moonlight poured through the gaps between the leaves, I seemed to see an angel."
Baili Xin paused. As he expected, the good people around him couldn't help laughing, but they were embarrassed to laugh.
Baili Xin continued without blushing: "I picked up this crow here. It's a poor crow, and its feathers are all bald. If I didn't save it, it would have died here."
The crow flapped its wings angrily: "Caw!"
You liar, you cheater, this devil was clearly caught by you!
Mr. Philanthropist: "Did you see anyone in the back garden? For example, Mrs. Nick and the others."
Baili Xin smiled sincerely and purely: "Not at all."
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Studio.
Tsk tsk, if I hadn’t watched the live broadcast last night, I would have believed it.
God Xin's face is so deceptive that he doesn't even blush when he lies.
So, where did the angel go? You know, because of your unexplained departure, God Xin still had to work hard to make up lies to deceive people.
Um, do you think Xinshen is having a hard time
Not at all… I think he enjoyed it.
So, where did the Angel go
What's coming will eventually come to pass, and I know who killed them both.
What is bound to happen will eventually happen. Now it is a similar environment to a closed room. The fewer people are alive, the greater the possibility that the murderer will show up.
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The tour guide's gaze stayed on Baili Xin for two seconds before he smiled and said, "The back garden was not as lively as it was yesterday. I never expected it to be so. Compared to the daytime, do guests prefer to visit the back garden at night?"
"Although Baili Xin told you what he was doing, like everyone else, no one has testified for you. Unfortunately, your suspicion has not been cleared."
"Now it's your turn, Mr. Emil."
Without the bloody conflicts in Mr. Nick's family, the questions and answers afterwards would be much more pleasant.
Emil, Hongyue, Chad and Gal were in the room the whole time. Since there were no witnesses, they were also suspects.
As for the last group of directors, they also answered that they were all in the room.
This is the end of the questioning.
The suspicion of all the members has not been cleared. The only purpose of this interrogation may be to gather everyone together and monitor them intensively, and to briefly understand yesterday's movements.
However, since there is no effective lie detection method, it is impossible to detect even lies.
The room on the wall was gradually getting darker and darker, and it was already twelve o'clock noon.
Baili Xin's eyes fixed on a certain position thoughtfully, and asked: "Mr. Tour Guide, has the missing Mrs. Ou De been found?"
Tour guide: "Sorry, not yet."