Paranormal Investigation Notes

At this moment, the scale and depth of the investigation led by the second operation team is undoubtedly much higher than that of the previous task force.

With this kind of investigation, Lu Ming soon discovered that the investigation at the network level was actually meaningless.

In the network, the dead do not have overlapping activity areas at all.

Because a considerable number of the deceased did not use the Internet at all.

Among the total of more than [-] dead, more than [-] people can't even use a computer.There is only one mobile phone for the elderly, and it has no functions other than receiving and receiving calls and sending and receiving text messages.How could such a person be active on the Internet?

Lu Ming had no choice but to give up the investigation in this area, and together with Zhang Dingshan and He Wei, joined the investigation of the real activity area.

The investigation in reality is not difficult, but more cumbersome.They need to count the approximate activity area of ​​each deceased, check every place he has visited before committing suicide, and mark it on the map.

For example, Zeng Jian's suicide case.The activity route of the deceased Zeng Jian is more complicated, and it needs a lot of surveillance and combined with interviews to restore them one by one.

This is relatively recent.If the time is far away, it is not only cumbersome, but also difficult.

For example, nearly ten years ago, the Zhang Lu suicide case was the first to be discovered with abnormalities, which opened the prelude to the investigation of the entire case. The company is only two points and one line, but in normal times, she also has more random travel events.

Go to a certain restaurant to eat, to buy something, to go to a certain park and so on.

Lu Ming knew that it was impossible for him to completely restore their trajectory and scope of activities.Restoring as much as possible in the existing data is already the limit.

A statistical map of the activity area of ​​more than 500 dead people was finally completed and presented in the internal office in front of the three of Zhang Dingshan.

Looking at the map, the three of them noticed a location at the same time.

Nanlin Street.

Lu Ming saw that among the total of more than 300 dead, more than 200 had documented evidence that they had been to Nanlin Street at least once in the year before committing suicide.Among the remaining [-] or so people, the daily activities of most of them are not far from Nanlin Street.

Only a small number of people's activities are located in another area of ​​Blue Lake City, which is far from Nanlin Street.

Nanlin Street is a pedestrian street and a food street in Blue Lake City.There are a total of hundreds of restaurants on this road about one kilometer long, selling a variety of delicacies.

This is only for dine-in service.There are also quite a few small stalls that only do takeaway.

It has a relatively long history. At least 20 years ago, there has been a trend of gathering food in restaurants, attracting a large number of diners.

People in Blue Lake City often meet up to Nanlin Street in their spare time, order some crayfish, grilled skewers, hot pot, etc., and have a few delicious drinks.

Even foreign tourists often come here.

"306 people have been confirmed to have daily activities including Nanlin Street. Among the remaining 209 people, another 185 people's activities are not far from Nanlin Street. We have reason to believe that they have also been to Nanlin Street, but we have no statistics. superior."

Such a place with many delicacies and good places for recreation and entertainment is so close to me, it is impossible for ordinary people not to go once.

Even if the remaining 24 activity areas are far from Nanlin Street, it is quite reasonable to visit Nanlin Street once in a while.After all, Nanlin Street is very famous in the entire Blue Lake City.

Who in Blue Lake City doesn't know that Nanlin Street has a lot of delicious food?
"Except for Nanlin Street, there is no statistics for the overlap of the rest of the activity areas."

He Wei said solemnly.

Lu Ming said: "Among these suicides, the proportion of high-end people is much lower than that of ordinary people. This seems to be a proof."

He Wei narrowed his eyes suddenly.

This is true.

The food street must be a popular and popular existence, which is more suitable for ordinary people to visit.It's not that high-end people don't come here, but in their daily life, they may prefer some higher-end restaurants suitable for business banquets.Besides, the absolute number of high-end people is far lower than that of ordinary people.

If Nanlin Food Street is the source of the anomaly, then the phenomenon that the proportion of high-end people among the suicides is lower than that of the general population can be explained.

"But...the food street has a huge flow of people, and it has a certain universality. This does not prove that there is the source of the anomaly."

The universality is that as a citizen of Blue Lake City, or a resident of Blue Lake City, no matter whether you like Nanlin Street or not, you will always have the opportunity to come here once in your long daily life.

Although you don't like it or don't feel it, someone invites you to a friend's party, will you come?After all, it's not to the point of disgust.

From this point of view, most of the victims of unreasonable suicide cases have been here, so it should be reasonable.

I am afraid that if 100 people are randomly selected from the street for investigation, more than 90% of them must have been here.

Lu Ming frowned slightly.

This is indeed a problem.

Just like a certain statistics on criminals shows that more than 99% of criminals were born in hospitals. Does this mean that being born in a hospital will increase the probability of committing a crime?

This obviously cannot.This is a clear attribution error.Because the vast majority of ordinary people are born from hospitals.

Lu Ming looked at the map carefully, thinking silently.

After a while, he shook his head: "No. He Wei, what you said is wrong. Statistics show that the range of activity of the vast majority of the deceased is not far from Nanlin Street. From this, it can be deduced that their frequency of going to Nanlin Street should be more High. Spread out from Nanlin Street as the core, the farther away from Nanlin Street, the fewer the number of unreasonable suicides.”

Places like Nanlin Street, for the vast majority of ordinary people, should meet the statistics of "the closer the distance, the more visits, and the farther away, the less visits".

Combined with the statistical data, one can clearly draw a conclusion: "The more people who visit Nanlin Street, the higher the probability of becoming an unreasonable suicide case. The less the number of times, the lower the probability."

He Wei thought for a while and had no choice but to nod: "Yes."

"Go to Nanlin Street and have a look."

Lu Ming made a suggestion.Zhang Dingshan said solemnly: "Then go and have a look."

In any case, with the development of the matter now, it is very necessary to conduct a field survey of Nanlin Street.

It's just that this matter is not in a hurry.It was already late now, and the few of them decided to wait until the next day to go.

The meeting is not over yet.After confirming that Nanlin Street had a certain degree of suspicion, several people immediately called out the information about Nanlin Street, including Nanlin Street's architectural structure diagram, historical evolution, flow of people, business conditions, number of permanent residents, reporting rate, and occurrence of criminal cases. rate etc.

But several people did not notice any abnormality from these data.All the data show that Nanlin Street is a normal food street, just like other cities.

The next day, in the morning, the three of them came to the entrance of Nanlin Street together.

There are already many people on the street in the morning, but compared to noon and night, it is much worse.

At the moment, there are only some breakfast shops and the like that are open for business, and the people who come to eat are also in a hurry, and most of them just take a bite and leave.

Several people walked slowly forward from this end of Nanlin Street, constantly looking at the environment and buildings on both sides, and also looking at the people who came and went in a hurry.

There was a tricycle parked in front of a restaurant. The staff of the restaurant came out and moved in baskets of vegetables, meat, seafood and other ingredients.On the left, a cleaner is slowly sweeping the street.

Ahead, a young man was holding a steamed bun in his hand, eating while walking, and watching with his mobile phone in the other hand.There is also a hot pot restaurant next to it, the door is open, and the waiter is mopping the floor with a mop.

Everything is just a common sight in everyday life.

A few people went from beginning to end like this.

Nothing out of the ordinary.Not at all.

Lu Ming believed that the original task force members must have also discovered the distribution pattern of the unreasonable suicide cases, and found that most of them were distributed around Nanlin Street, and as the distance from Nanlin Street expanded, the number of people increased. also decreased.

They should have suspected this too.But obviously, they didn't find anything suspicious here.Therefore, this point was not reflected in the investigation report.

Now, the three of us have also set foot here.

After looking at it casually, several people turned their heads and walked back and forth.When passing by an open restaurant, Lu Ming stepped forward and stopped a restaurant worker who had just dumped the rubbish into the trash can and then turned to leave.

After showing his ID, Lu Ming asked, "How long have you been working here?"

The hotel boy seemed a little nervous.

Lu Ming saw it, but didn't become suspicious.It is normal for ordinary people to be a little nervous when they are suddenly questioned by security officers.

"Me? I've been here for two, no, three years."

"In the past three years, have any strange things happened here on Nanlin Street? Or, have you heard any bizarre rumors or legends?"

"Strange? What kind of strange?"

"It's fine if you think it's weird."

The hotel boy thought for a while, and finally shook his head: "No. It's all normal...huh? No, there is one, I remembered."

His face was full of excitement.

"Oh? Talk about it."

"About three months ago, it was still winter. At night, there was a beautiful woman. Wow, she was so beautiful! She had a good figure. She was wearing underwear, underwear! In winter, there was still snow on the side of the road, so she only wore Underwear ran past the door of our store, yelling for help while running! Killing! Someone is going to kill me! Later, two security officers appeared and threw her down and took her away."

The imitation of the restaurant boy was vivid, his eyes full of desire for knowledge: "Officer, do you know what happened? Is someone really trying to kill her? But I saw that there was no one chasing her at that time." .”

Lu Ming was speechless.

You don't need to check him to know what's going on.Either he's drunk, or he's high, or this person is abnormal.In short, my mind was definitely not clear at the time.

"The Sheriff's Office will take care of it."

Lu Ming didn't answer him, but said, "Is there anything else?"

"Other... nothing else."

Seeing that the little brother couldn't ask anything, Lu Ming ended the question and continued to move forward.

Along the way, I randomly asked some people, but the answers I got were all of no value.

Some people said they didn’t know, some people said some abnormal events that obviously did not involve “supernatural power”, such as beautiful women running naked, and some people said some weird things, such as the private room of a certain hotel at three o’clock in the morning Someone sang, saw someone walking on the street in the middle of the night, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, which restaurant had bad feng shui, and whoever took over would lose everything in the end.

This kind of rumor basically belongs to any city, and it has no verification value.

At noon, the three of them were a little hungry, so they solved it directly at Nanlin Street.

Briefly discuss what to eat, Zhang Dingshan and Lu Ming don't care, as long as they can fill their stomachs.He Wei chose carefully, and finally chose a noodle restaurant that claimed to be a century-old authentic Blue Lake noodles, and the three walked in.

"When investigating a case, there are not many opportunities to taste local delicacies."

He Wei was in high spirits and chattered endlessly: "This noodle is very famous. I bought instant food from the Internet before, and it tastes good. The taste of dine-in must be better."

When the three big bowls of noodles came with side dishes, Lu Ming took a sip and unexpectedly found that the taste was really good.He Wei became more and more proud: "Look, follow me, that's right."

While chatting casually, he ate the noodles. When Lu Ming went to check out, he saw a gossip mirror on the table inside the cash register, and there was an incense burner in front of him, and there were a few burnt incense sticks inside.

Lu Ming couldn't help taking a few more glances, and asked casually, "Bagua mirror? What are you doing here? Are you particular about it?"

It is not surprising that there are customs in different places.Lu Ming just asked casually.

The cashier also replied casually: "I heard from the boss that displaying this can ward off evil spirits."

After that, several people left the noodle shop.

It was noon, and although it was still not the time when the flow of people was the largest, there were quite a few people at the moment.All the restaurants are full of diners, and people call on friends and drink wine.The streets are full of people, full of the breath of life.

The three continued to walk forward.Passing by another restaurant with its doors wide open, Lu Ming took a look, and saw that there was also a gossip mirror on the cashier bar table beside the door.

Lu Ming realized something and continued to move forward.

The front cashier bar of the crayfish restaurant is inside.Lu Ming walked in, ignored the waiter's greeting, looked around and found the cash register, and looked again, and sure enough, he saw a gossip mirror.

Lu Ming began to observe carefully, and even looked at seven or eight houses, but every one of them was like this.

He couldn't help feeling a little suspicious.

"Is it the custom here on Nanlin Street that a shop must have a gossip mirror?"