Paranormal Investigation Notes

If economic factors are excluded, is it because the citizens of Blue Lagoon are conservative, but in recent years, the new generation has been influenced by the Internet thinking, their personality is open, and the concepts of the old generation and the new generation conflict, leading to an increase in the suicide rate?
Could it be that due to mistakes in urban planning and construction, the living space has been compressed, affecting people's psychology, leading to an increase in the suicide rate?
There are many, many possibilities, each of which has a certain probability.But alone, the possibility of being a criminal offense is very small.

It is always a real reality that no criminal clues have been found in hundreds of consecutive cases, right?
Feng Guozhu was a little unwilling, but he knew that he could only accept this result.

The superior seemed to see his emotions, and said: "If you want to investigate, you can also investigate again. And, you are also responsible for finding a team of social psychologists. In terms of funds, I can approve some for you. "

Feng Guozhu heaved a sigh of relief.

This is okay and acceptable.

"Thank you leader."

He has made up his mind.While looking for a team of psychologists to do a public psychological survey, you have to check it yourself.

At this moment, he already had a line of investigation.

With funds in hand and authorization from his superiors, Feng Guozhu immediately took action.He mobilized his contacts and quickly contacted the vice dean of the psychology school of a university in a nearby city. The vice dean introduced him and found a professor of psychology named Yang Liu.

Facing Feng Guozhu's invitation, Professor Yang Liu was very happy.

"Recently, I am leading graduate students to do a project on the impact of technological development in modern society on the suicide rate. The suicide rate in Blue Lake City has been high for the past two years. It is a good research sample. I have long wanted to study it .”

Professor Yang Liu is less than 40 years old, well-maintained, and intellectually elegant.She smiled and said: "It's just that it's difficult to apply for research funding, and it hasn't been possible to make the trip. If you can afford the research funding, I can leave here at any time."

With the funds approved by his superiors in his hand, Feng Guozhu was rich and powerful, so he agreed immediately: "This is no problem."

"That's good."

Yang Liu nodded, and was a little curious: "However, this kind of matter...doesn't seem to be under the control of your Public Security Bureau? Why did you come forward? Was it involved in some criminal case? Or did you already have some clues?"

Only in this way, it is reasonable for the Public Security Bureau to come forward.

Feng Guozhu couldn't explain too much, so he could only say vaguely: "It's really a little suspicious, and it's currently under investigation. The specific result depends on Professor Yang's conclusion of your investigation."

"That's it, that's fine. I'll form a team and we can set off the day after tomorrow."

After finalizing this matter, Feng Guozhu returned to Blue Lake City non-stop, summoned his subordinates again, and arranged the matter.

"There must be something odd about this."

The security officers under him nodded with sympathy.

Every effect must have a cause.Even if Blue Lake City's bad feng shui leads to a high suicide rate, that's the reason, right?

If you don't check it out, it's not like you're wearing this uniform for nothing.

"In terms of criminal investigation, we don't have to waste our efforts. First, we don't have so many manpower and funds to investigate one by one. Second, even if we have manpower and funds, we can't find anything. To If it can be found out, the brother team has already found out.

In terms of social psychology, I also asked Professor Yang Liu to lead the investigation, and we don't need to worry about this aspect.

Let's just focus on one line to investigate, that is, what these unreasonable suicide victims have in common! "

The three words "common ground" are Feng Guozhu's investigation ideas.

If these unreasonable suicides were intentional by a hidden force, then they must have a standard when selecting victims, right?
In the past, some serial killers sometimes chose specific people to commit crimes, such as some folk industry practitioners.Once the common ground is identified, it's easy to move forward.

After assigning a task, more than a dozen security officers under him immediately split up to attack.

The file of the suicide case cannot be too detailed.There are many things that require security officers to visit and investigate on the spot to know.

The day after tomorrow, Professor Yang Liu brought a few gentle-looking young male and female students to Blue Lake City.After a night's rest, they also started their investigation the next day.

Before departure, Professor Yang Liu had already worked out the investigation plan with the students.Now you can proceed step by step.Facing this rare practical opportunity, which may also involve their own studies, the students also performed their duties diligently.

On the first day, with the assistance of Feng Guozhu, Professor Yang Liu retrieved the weather data, economic and population data, urban construction data of Blue Lake City over the years, and even the birth rate, the urban population inflow and outflow data over the years, and the average family car. Ownership rate, per capita disposable property, average life expectancy, infant mortality rate, average annual number of sunny days, cloudy days, rainy and snowy days, environmental pollution data, per capita alcohol consumption, etc., etc., are dozens of data.

This made Feng Guozhu couldn't help being surprised.

"These data...have something to do with suicide?"

"Of course it has something to do with it." Professor Yang Liu explained with a soft smile, "It's like weather data. Are you too lazy to go out when it's cloudy? Don't you feel depressed when there is no sunshine? Economic data is more direct. If you don’t have money, is it stressful? If the per capita alcohol consumption is high, does it mean that people have a higher need to relieve stress? These data will eventually be reflected in the final suicide rate.”

At this moment, Feng Guozhu had one thought in his mind.

This is called professional!

He used to think that things like suicide were more random and idealistic.But now, Professor Yang Liu's team clearly regards it as a science that can be accurately measured by numbers.

Feng Guozhu didn't know what to do.

"That... so much data, is it enough?"

Professor Yang Liu shook his head with a smile: "It's just getting there, it's far from enough. Later, we have to conduct field investigations and distribute questionnaires and the like. Looking at the data can't just look at the macro, but also the micro."

Sure enough, the next day, the students of Yangliu's team took to the streets.With small gifts bought in bulk, they set up stalls in different places such as subway stations, shopping malls, pedestrian streets, urban villages, urban suburbs, school gates, etc., and began to gather people to fill out the survey on a large scale with the promotional slogan of giving free gifts questionnaire.

Although those gifts are cheap, they are all things that can be used in daily life, such as shampoo, paper towels, toothpaste, toothbrush, washbasin, eggs, salt and noodles.

And the questionnaire does not involve any personal privacy.Personal name, place of origin, ID number, and contact information are not asked. There are only some specially designed ones on it, such as "What level of pressure do you feel you have faced recently from 0 to 9?" Where does the most stressful thing come from", "personal monthly income", "how do you feel about the weather recently" and other questions.

After filling out, there will be no on-site inspection, as long as the questionnaire is put into a sealed box.

In this way, people are freed from worries and can guarantee the authenticity of the answers as much as possible.

Feng Guozhu went to great lengths to apply for funds, which turned into mountains of small gifts and distributed to people, in exchange for answers to questionnaires one by one.

Professor Yang Liu's team is busy, and Feng Guozhu is not idle either.During the past few days, his security guards attacked everywhere, and soon, a large amount of information was gathered in his office.

At night, the security officers will gather together, analyze the information collected during the day, and begin to carefully screen and consider.

Originally, Feng Guozhu thought that this job should not be difficult to do.But as soon as the analysis began, he realized that he was wrong.

He found that it was difficult for him to use a unified label to classify the dead involved in unreasonable suicide cases.

Economic conditions?

Some of these people have rich families, and the richest family assets are estimated to be hundreds of millions.The poorest owe hundreds of thousands of debts due to serious illnesses in their families, and have to work on construction sites all day long.

Occupation?

The occupations of these people cover white-collar workers, teachers, construction workers, restaurant owners and so on.

age?

From childhood to adulthood.The youngest is in middle school and the oldest is retired.

disease?

Some people are in good health, some are just recovering from a serious illness, and some are chronically ill.

Intersection of time and space?
There is no one place or event that these people have all been to or done.Some of these people are atheists, some believe in gods, and there is no such thing as having performed a certain ceremony or worshiped a certain god.

Feng Guozhu has been busy for more than half a month, but finally got nothing.

At this moment, he even began to doubt himself, whether the suicides of these people... were all reasonable, the so-called unreasonable, just his own personal suspicion?

Under such circumstances, he had no choice but to pin his hopes on Professor Yang Liu.

In any case, there must be an explanation for this matter.Even if there is no premeditated and organized criminal group, Feng Guozhu can accept the answer from social psychology.

Blue Lake City is Feng Guozhu's hometown.He was born here, grew up here, married and had children, and has always worked here.For his hometown, he must find out the truth.

You can't really say that Blue Lake City has a problem with Feng Shui, can you?
As a native of Blue Lake City, he couldn't accept this statement.

Professor Yang Liu's work is now coming to an end.The data that should be collected has been collected, and the analysis work should not take long, right?

On the third day, Feng Guozhu saw Professor Yang Liu, who had no intellectual elegance, haggard face and slightly greasy hair.

"Let's get straight to the conclusion."

Professor Yang Liu's voice was a little hoarse: "My team has collected all kinds of data and done all the work that can be done. We agree that compared with other cities, the suicide rate in Blue Lake City should be lower than the average. The value should roughly be between 10 and 10.9 suicides per 12.1 people per year."

This figure is 15.60% to 4.13% lower than the average.

Before, after Feng Guozhu removed the obviously unreasonable and ambiguous suicide cases, the figure obtained was only 1.59% higher than the average.

Feng Guozhu knew that among those suicide cases, there must be some unreasonable suicide cases, but he could not screen them out.

I just used the unsatisfactory events in my life before suicide as a criterion to screen.

If there is a major unsatisfactory event, it is considered a reasonable suicide.If not, it is considered unreasonable suicide.

Is it possible, then, that some people would not commit suicide under normal circumstances, even though they had major unsatisfactory events in their lives before committing suicide?
There must be such a person.But Feng Guozhu couldn't screen them out.

After removing the obviously unreasonable and ambiguous suicides, and those who have reasons to commit suicide but would not commit suicide under normal circumstances, the final value, Feng Guozhu believes, can probably match the final data provided by Professor Yang Liu.

The combination of the two further verified Feng Guozhu's guess.That is, there are indeed abnormal suicides, and there are a lot of them.

A security officer murmured, "Professor Yang, well, how come the predicted value doesn't match the actual value?"

Yang Liu said hoarsely: "Usually, this means that there is an error in the prediction and calculation model. We usually check the model in reverse to eliminate the error. But... this time, we did not find the error in the model."

She shook her head again: "Sorry. Social surveys and psychology are not omnipotent, nor can they fully reflect human social life. The data I provided can only be used as a reference. Why is the suicide rate in Blue Lake City so high... I can't answer that question. There's nothing I can do."

Feng Guozhu sighed: "Professor Yang, thank you very much for your work."

Yang Liu looked at the students sitting beside him attending the meeting, and saw that the faces of the students were full of frustration.

I have been busy for half a month, but I have achieved nothing. Not everyone can do this kind of thing and it doesn't matter.

"So... sorry. Let's go first."

The Willow team left.The security officers looked at Feng Guozhu.

"Captain Feng, what should we do next?"

He waved his hand wearily: "Seal the file. Report the result and let the higher-ups handle it."

He couldn't find it anymore.

As he expected, after reporting, there was no response.Obviously, the superiors don't think this matter needs to be reopened for investigation.

He can also understand this.After all, in this incident, the evidence proving that there is no abnormality in this incident is too much, too complete, and too convincing.There is too little evidence to prove that there is an anomaly in this incident. There are only some guesses and vague figures of my own, which are not convincing at all.

Time passed quietly, and several years passed in a blink of an eye.Feng Guozhu gradually got older, and finally retired from the front line of criminal investigation after seven years, and turned to do some management work in the second line.

This matter was also buried in his heart, and he never told anyone about it.

Until the young, newly recruited security officer was full of excitement and excitement, as if he had discovered some big event, he came to him.

"Leader, this suicide case is not normal! I suspect it's not a suicide, but a homicide! You see, the global average suicide rate last year was 10 per 12.3 people..."