The woman put the ring into her handbag without a word. The man resembling Sao straightened his hand for a half-hearted handshake, and then both of them disappeared from sight. Jack came back a few minutes later and collapsed into the chair. Some blisters on his face were already opened, leaking a mixture of blood and pus down his chin to his neck. Many of the guests covered their eyes. They did not look as the man cleaned the wounds with a pipette, dropping presumably some kind of medication onto them. It was really a disgusting thing to watch.
As he finished, he looked at his watch and jumped from the chair. In the realm of the investigation, it was eight o’clock, so it had gotten dark already. Mr. Fincher explained to the group that the time was not inevitably the same as in the other
