"Of course not!"
Mr. Tan seemed very resistant to the official report on the case from back then.
"Although I was still young at the time, my uncle really was a good man."
"Think about it. How ruthless would someone have to be to attack his own family? If my uncle had been that ruthless, he wouldn't have let his younger brother adopt his own child because his brother had no children."
Mr. Tan's face was ashen as he said, "My father had doubts about it too, and he didn't accept that report at the time. His appeals were rejected several times. With no other options, he emigrated in anger."
I reminded him, "Mr. Tan, your family was able to do business overseas back then, and your uncle could even afford to build a manor. Very few people at the time could have matched that kind of wealth and background."
"So the police were unlikely to have handled your uncle's case carelessly. Since they issued that report and repeatedly rejected your father's appeals afterward, they should have had solid evidence."
Seventh Master nodded too. "When it happened, I hadn't settled in this city yet. It was only many years afterward that I heard a colleague mention your family's case."
"I remember the report said your uncle had superstitious leanings and firmly believed he could attain immortality. That was why he killed his whole family and then himself. His intention was to take his family with him into immortality, and that was how this case came about."
"The police also found some elixirs he'd refined himself in his basement. Those elixirs had powerful hallucinogenic effects, so the police surmised that your uncle had become too deeply mired in superstition and committed the crime after taking those hallucinogenic elixirs."
"That's what I