Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 349
In addition to the homicide case, there are other seemingly bizarre cases.

For example, this one, the case of a ghost encounter in an abandoned factory building.

It is said that there was a bachelor who picked up rags, and his family lived in a tin house, and he was very poor.But he still likes to drink and eat meat.I usually pick up junk and sell it for money, and I would rather not eat but buy some loose wine to drink.

For a while, the surrounding residents suddenly discovered that this bachelor had started to get rich.Not only did he start buying roast duck, roast goose and pork head meat, he even stopped drinking loose wine and started buying whole bottles of wine.People became curious, and someone followed him secretly, only to find that he had started stealing scrap iron from the abandoned factory in the suburbs to sell.

That factory was abandoned because of a fire that reportedly killed a dozen people.The nearby villagers all heard that the abandoned factory was haunted. Many people said with certainty that when they passed by there at night, they could hear faint cries and cries for help.

The nearby residents never go there if they have nothing to do.The children in the village were also told by thousands of exhortations not to go there to play.

There is an old man watching the gate during the day, and the old man does not stay there at night, and is in an unguarded state.But after such a long time, the contents inside have never been lost.

No one dared to steal anything there.

Now this rag-picking bachelor has eaten the guts of a bear and a leopard, and dares to take the contents.

The kind-hearted neighbor advised him that the things inside were unlucky, so take the things inside and be careful not to be retaliated by ghosts.

The bachelor was still anxious, and said that he had never been there.

Seeing that he would not listen to persuasion, the neighbors had no choice but to let him go.

After a while, one morning, the old man watching the gate suddenly fled back to the village crying and screaming.After asking, I found out that the old man went to work today, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw the bachelor hanging there on the steel beam in front, and he had died long ago.

A group of villagers teamed up, armed with weapons in their hands, and went to the factory together, and finally got the bachelor's body down.

Later, the police were called, and after the inspection by the security officer, the conclusion was still suicide.

The bachelor was buried hastily, and some people who persuaded him before lamented that I had persuaded him not to take the things inside, but he didn't listen, and now something happened.

Only then did the rest of the villagers realize that the bachelor had been stealing the contents all this time, and they suddenly realized.

In the current situation, needless to say, he must have been killed by a ghost before he went there and hanged himself.

Afterwards, the haunting in the abandoned factory spread like wildfire, spreading all over the country, and even decades later, some people still remember it.

In Lu Ming's view, this is also an abnormal suicide case that deserves attention.

Lu Ming and Zhang Dingshan have identified a lot of cases that seem to involve abnormal suicides, such as the wild boar homicide case or the abandoned factory ghost case.

The time span of these cases is extremely large, the oldest even went back to 90 years ago, and the most recent one was investigated before Wang Quan mastered the ability to curse and kill, that is, 14 years ago.

A total of 189 cases were initially screened.Among the 189, 101 were recorded by the Public Security Bureau.The rest were either lost due to the age of time, or the neighbors and relatives did not report the case at all, or simply spread rumors, etc. In short, there is no record at all.

The screening focus of the second action team is the 101 cases recorded by the Public Security Bureau.

"If before Wang Quan, after the master who built the Zhou family archway, there were people with this ability during this period of time, then I think the distribution of the dead killed by him should be clustered."

Just like the dead who were killed by Wang Quan, there was a gathering with Nanlin Street as the core.

This is also based on that principle: if the perpetrator wants to kill the victim, he must at least have contact with the victim, at least he must know the existence of the victim.

A few decades ago, a business model similar to Nanlin Street had just started, and the turnover of people was much less than it is now.Judging from the law of committing crimes, the surrounding areas where the perpetrators are located should be the high incidence of abnormal suicides.

In this way, as long as it is confirmed which area is the high-incidence point of abnormal suicides, the approximate location of the perpetrator can be pinpointed.

Of course, there are some loopholes in this.For example, if the perpetrator is a mobile crime, then the aggregation will not appear.Or the perpetrators do not have a fixed residence at all, and they move around, walking through the streets and alleys like a merchant, so there will be no aggregation.

In short, let's see if there is any aggregation.If not, consider the remaining possibilities.

According to the locations of the 101 cases, Lu Ming took out the map of Blue Lake City and marked the locations of the crimes on the map.

This time, the two of them immediately noticed the clue.

Sure enough, there is agglomeration.And the aggregation is quite obvious.

Among the 90 cases dating back as far as 101 years ago, there are a total of 3 convergence points.

The first gathering point is Niuzhuang Village on the eastern outskirts of Blue Lake City.With it as the core, there are a total of 5 cases in the surrounding area of ​​70 kilometers, a total of about 21 square kilometers.

The second meeting point is located in the urban area on the southwest side of Blue Lake City.

The higher the population density in urban areas, the more obvious the agglomeration here.

With the intersection of Fenglin Street and Nanxing Road as the core, within 1 kilometer of the surrounding area, a total of about 3 square kilometers, a total of 23 cases occurred.

The third gathering point is near the southern mountainous area of ​​Lanhu City, with Sanli Village as the core, and within 4 kilometers of the surrounding area, a total of about 50 square kilometers, with a total of 16 cases.

The remaining 41 cases were scattered in various areas of Blue Lake City, and there was no obvious distribution pattern.

These three convergence points caught Lu Ming's attention.

After analyzing these cases more carefully, Lu Ming discovered a new clue.

"These cases...have clustered not only geographically, but also temporally."

Zhang Dingshan looked at the time of the incident and immediately came to the same conclusion.

譬如第一个汇聚点，牛庄村这里。这里的21件案件，其中有足足18件发生在70年前到50年前的这20年之间。

The timing of the remaining three cases is either undetermined or deviates greatly from this time period.

第二个汇聚点，枫林大街与南兴路交叉口这里的23件案件里，有20件聚集在了52年前到36年前的这16年间。

第三个汇聚点，三里村周边这里的16件案件，其中有14件发生在32年前到14年前的这18年时间里。

"Ok?"

Zhang Dingshan frowned slightly, his eyes sharpened.

"Not only is there regional and time aggregation, but also, there is an obvious inheritance relationship between different time periods?"

In particular, the concentrated outbreak of these cases around Sanli Village occurred from 32 to 14 years ago.And what happened 14 years ago?
14 years ago, Zhou's archway was demolished.Madman Wang Quan who lives in Nanlin Street somehow has the ability to curse people to death.That year, he shot for the first time and killed Wu Biao's family.

What this means is already obvious.

"Perhaps... this kind of ability also has an inheritance relationship? It must be inherited by the next person after the previous capable person loses this ability? If so, what is the relationship between these capable people? Blood inheritance relationship ? Master-student relationship? What do these ability users have in common? What caused this ability to appear on them?"

This requires further detailed investigation to be sure.But at least, at this moment, we already have a relatively clear direction of investigation.

The focus of the investigation at this moment is to find out those ability users who may have existed in the past.

"Recall He Wei first."

Zhang Dingshan made a decision.

Lu Ming made a phone call, and half an hour later, He Wei with a slightly tired face came to the meeting room.

"The investigation is not going well?"

He Wei nodded, seeming a little annoyed: "I checked those cases over and over again, but found nothing. At present, most of the cases can neither be confirmed to be abnormal, nor can they be [-]% confirmed to be normal."

"Is there anyone who confirms that there is an anomaly?"

"No."

Zhang Dingshan nodded: "This can already reveal some information. Let's end the investigation in this direction."

He Wei was a little surprised.

Lu Ming explained: "I have made new progress with the captain."

He took out the map of Blue Lake City, and marked the location and time of the crime.

He Wei looked carefully for a moment, and then she also saw the abnormality.

"Spatial aggregation, time aggregation, and there is a sequence between time..."

She slapped the table and stood up abruptly: "Let's go."

Lu Ming originally wanted to do some more preparatory work, conduct some peripheral investigations, data collection and so on.But under the urging of He Wei, he could only hurry up and immediately brought the security guards to the first case gathering point, interviewed the elderly in the village and the descendants of those who committed suicide on the spot, and collected relevant information and records in the village.

Lu Ming, Zhang Dingshan, and He Wei all agreed that if there is a person with abilities other than Wang Quan, he is also a lunatic or a fool, and the possibility of not following common sense when choosing the target of the crime is relatively small.

Then, if it is a normal person, there must be a reason when choosing the target of the crime.

Either this person has enmity with himself, or this person has a conflict of interest with him, or this person's death can bring him some benefits, or he just simply doesn't like it, and kills people in the name of doing justice for the sky, There will always be a reason.

That being the case, when almost a dozen dead people have been confirmed, by checking their social relations, interests, etc., there is a great hope that that capable person will be locked in, and there will be no such thing as Wang Quan, who checks the society. A situation where relationships get nothing.

Normal people are sometimes easier to deal with than fools and lunatics.

However, during this investigation, the three members of the second operation team and many security officers collected all the data they could, but still failed to find any clues from the aspect of social relations.

The deceased were neither relatives nor relatives, nor did they live in the same village, and most of them did not know each other.Besides, it was decades ago, and there are very few people who still remember these things, and the information they can provide is also very limited.

With the support of this limited data, the second action team has no way to make a judgment on the next step.

but……

"I have noticed that the families of the deceased are generally relatively wealthy. Not to mention the richest man in the village, or the richest man in the township, but at least they belong to the upper reaches in their respective villages. Either someone in the family is an official, or the family has a business. "

"What does that mean?"

He Wei asked back: "You mean, the perpetrator is jealous? Jealous of them? Jealous of the rich?"

Unlikely to be hate.After all, these people are too scattered, and it is understandable to have hatred against one family. How could they have hatred against so many families.

There should be no conflict of interest.The reason is the same as above.

Lu Ming thought about it and said, "Is there such a possibility... The perpetrator used the same method as the master who built the Zhou family archway? It's just that the master still has integrity and a bottom line to create these cases. The ability user... is purely for money?"

He Wei immediately became serious.

This is indeed possible.

Simply put, it's a trick.

That ability user specially selects a wealthy person in the family, and kills someone in the family by cursing, supplemented by rumors and legends to create the illusion of "running into an evil spirit" and "offending a ghost". Then come forward as a "master" to settle these things for this family.

Families who have such a thing as "a relative committing suicide inexplicably" will definitely feel panic.Under fear, there is a high probability that they will look for figures such as masters to watch things, ward off disasters and pray for blessings, exorcise souls and catch ghosts.

If this ability user is found, this ability user can collect money to do things, and then there will be no more strange things in this family, thus gaining fame and money.

If another master is invited to come and see, this ability user might still be able to continue to cause trouble in secret. When the family sees that strange things continue to occur, they will naturally think that the master they invited before is invalid, and they will find someone else instead.Until he finds this ability user, he will stop after collecting money.

There is fame and money.

Lu Ming said: "I've thought about it for a long time, if I have this ability, how can I realize it. I found that besides having a certain status, such as competing with another person for a big business, I can use this method In addition to cursing the opponent to gain huge benefits, it is actually not easy for an ordinary person to realize this ability."

Even if ordinary people can kill people without consequences, so what?If you kill someone, you should have no money or no money.Even if a person dies, the money will not reach his own hands.

I am afraid that the only operable and relatively simple and convenient way to cash out is to pretend to be a master and give people peace.

"So... I think that if these cases are really caused by people with abilities killing people through curses, then his identity... is probably a master. And he is a master with a certain reputation."

　I will take a day off tomorrow. . .Resume update the day after tomorrow

　
(End of this chapter)