二十年後的真相

這件事，在當年喧騰了一陣子後， 就這樣沈入芭樂村的集體記憶深處。 年月流轉， 眨眼間，已經快二十年。 當年的小考拉早已長大， 草莓里與蘋果里的居民也換了新的一輪。 但那杯「怪味豆漿」始終像謎題一樣被留在村子裡的角落。 大家都知道： 兇手是豆漿， 幫兇是冰箱。 但「為什麼會這樣？」 「真正的機轉是什麼？」 卻沒有人能說出個所以然。 直到那一天—— 距離事件二十週年的某個午後。 芭樂村的鄉親們坐在活動中心外的涼椅上， 邊嗑瓜子邊聊起這段往事。 講著講著，又有人提起： 「到底是豆漿臭掉？還是冰箱壞掉？ 怎麼會害那麼多人拉成那樣？」 正在大家七嘴八舌的時候， 隔壁家的貓突然又開始亂抓、亂叫、亂撒尿。 牠每次出狀況，村裡通常就會發生點事。 果然—— 一陣風，從村口吹了過來。 下一秒，一台單車緩緩騎進芭樂村。 穿著白襯衫、戴著眼鏡、背著小包， 氣質像風一樣乾淨俐落的人停在大家面前。 沒錯。 他就是那個人—— Boss醫生。 那個曾經在大醫院裡做研究、 又帶著沉穩笑容的男人。 他剛好路過， 聽見大家正在討論二十年前的豆漿事件。 他停下腳步，微微一笑。 「你們這個故事啊……我聽到了。」 大家立刻圍過去。 「Boss醫生，你一定知道答案吧？！ 當年到底是怎麼回事？ 豆漿怎麼會害那麼多人？ 冰箱到底壞在哪？」 Boss醫生看著一臉求知的大家， 又看了看正在旁邊大喊大叫的貓咪， 意味深長地說： 「豆漿是兇手沒錯， 但冰箱……不是你們想的那個幫兇。」 所有人屏住呼吸。 他推了推眼鏡， 語氣淡淡卻帶著一種破案般的篤定： 「真正的幫兇—— 其實是你們一直忽略的『第 3 個角色』。」 大家瞪大眼睛。 Boss醫生緩緩開口： 「而我，剛好知道答案。 因為那一年…… 我也在場。」 故事到這裡， 正式進入下一章。 --- 英文版本｜Twenty Years Later, the Truth Returns After the incident back then, the chaos eventually faded, and the whole story sank into the quiet corners of Balaa Village’s collective memory. Time passed— almost twenty years. Little Koala grew up. New residents moved into Strawberry Ward and Apple Ward. But that cup of strange-smelling soy milk remained an unsolved riddle in everyone’s mind. People remembered the conclusion: The culprit was the soy milk. The accomplice was the refrigerator. But why? How did it spoil? What exactly happened inside that kitchen? No one ever figured it out. Until that day— on the twenty-year anniversary of the incident. Villagers were sitting outside the community center, chatting about old stories while cracking sunflower seeds. As usual, the topic returned to the infamous soy-milk incident. “How did it get spoiled like that?” “Was it really the fridge? Just when everyone was getting heated, the neighbor’s cat suddenly began screaming, running, and peeing everywhere— a sign, as always, that something unusual was about to happen. Right then— a gust of wind swept through the village entrance. A bicycle rolled in quietly. A man in a white shirt, glasses, and a small shoulder bag stopped before them. Clean, calm, with a gentle aura. The one people called Dr. Boss He happened to be passing by and overheard the discussion. He smiled lightly. “I heard your conversation.” Villagers immediately surrounded him. “Doctor! You must know the truth! What really happened twenty years ago? Was it the soy milk? Was the refrigerator really the accomplice?” The doctor glanced at the frantic cat nearby, then looked back at everyone. And he said, quietly but firmly: “Soy milk was the culprit. But the refrigerator… was not the accomplice you think.” Everyone froze. He pushed up his glasses. “The real accomplice— was a third character you all ignored.” Eyes widened. He continued: “And I know the answer. Because that year… I was there.” The story, from this moment, enters a brand-new chapter.