Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 351 Woodcarving, straw man, sand painting
The five people who are suspected to be extremely capable have been passed down from generation to generation, and have been passed down to the present.

In the beginning, the master was too old to be able to identify who it was, but the next four people have all been identified.

But... all of this is still just my own guesswork.No matter how much rationality there is, no matter how strict the logic is, without actual evidence, it is just speculation.

Our side is still not [-]% sure that they are capable users.

Maybe it was only because of some coincidence or some misunderstanding that they were counted in by mistake-even if the probability is low, it is still possible, isn't it?

The second action team did not stop, and immediately invested in the search for realistic evidence.

After the "suspect" is clearly identified, it is not difficult to find realistic evidence according to the map.Soon, very solid evidence was found about the first person with suspected ability.

After interviewing local elderly people, an elderly person recalled that Gu Dacheng, the first person with suspected abilities, had a very special habit.

Compared with other masters of his time, this habit of his is very uncommon.

He is used to doing it with the help of "wood carving".He even bought a kind of wood suitable for woodcarving in the village at that time, and used it for carving.

Another old man who has a certain relationship with Gu Dacheng recalled that once he broke into Gu Dacheng's room while playing and opened a box.There are many carved wood carvings in the box, vivid, there are pigs, dogs, people, chickens, ducks, geese, cats and so on.

A client also specifically asked Gu Dacheng about this matter.Gu Dacheng's explanation at the time was that he did it through wood carving.The wood carvings he carved can act as a kind of stand-in, allowing evil spirits and ghosts who have caused harm to people to possess themselves on the wood carvings, and then be trapped, so that they cannot harm people.

However, the second action team has now proved through experiments that people with abilities like Wang Quan must concentrate on recalling the interaction process with the victim before launching the curse.

Wang Quan's sketches are a means of assisting memory.

From this point of view, Gu Dacheng used wood carving as an auxiliary means.

After Gu Dacheng, Li Qingmin, after investigation, has the habit of weaving straw figurines.His statement is slightly different from Gu Dacheng's in details, but the whole is the same, and they all claim to use the straw man to achieve a certain purpose in the practice.

After Li Qingmin, Wei Jianzhong made sand paintings.He is used to getting a basin of fine sand, smoothing it out, and then sketching images on the sand.His rhetoric is more or less the same.

In follow-up investigations, more people confirmed this statement.The final outcome of these things was that at the request of the person concerned, they were burned by a fire before the person died.

This should be regarded as solid evidence.

After confirming that Gu Dacheng, Li Qingmin, and Wei Jianzhong are all capable persons, plus the current Wang Quan, with these four specimens, the common ground analysis can already be carried out.

In the entire Blue Lake City, from more than 100 years ago to the present, there may be a total of millions of people who have appeared and lived here.Among such a large population, why are these four people possessing this ability?
Lu Ming didn't think it was a coincidence.Well, since it is not a coincidence, there must be its internal reasons and logic.It was for this reason that it was four people who finally possessed this ability, not the rest.

Finding out this particularity and finding out the reason why these four people have this ability can take the investigation of the case a big step forward, and even finally find out the essence of this ability.

"First of all, these four people are all from Blue Lake City. Second, these four people are all men."

Based on the available information, the four members of the second action team immediately came to a conclusion.But at the same time, the four of them also realized that this conclusion was meaningless.

There are more than 90 people in Blue Lake City who are also men.Why not the rest of the men, but these four men?
"It's about finding some common ground that is specific."

Just like the Mountain God case back then.Those victims share a relatively rare gene, and the number of specimens is extremely large, so that they can be regarded as having a specific common point.

"Look up their biographies."

In a large number of interviews and investigations in the early stage, apart from the original master, there are already a lot of information about the lives of the other three masters, Gu Dacheng, Li Qingmin, and Wei Jianzhong.As for Wang Quan at this moment, that is needless to say.

As long as the second action team is willing, Wang Quan can find out how often Wang Quan wetted the bed when he was a child.

So, not long after, the biographical information of the four people, such as when they were born, family background, environment, parental experience, schooling experience, marriage history, illness experience, major life event experience, etc., amounted to hundreds of thousands of words. It appeared in front of the four people.

At this time, the data analysis team intervened again and jointly started the analysis of this data.

This took about two days.

Two days later, the final results appeared.

"The analysis shows that there are a lot of commonalities in the life experiences of the four people. For example, they were all born in rural areas; their family conditions were average when they were young; their wives were not far from their home; ..."

These commonalities, the data analysis team has listed hundreds of them in total.

Looking at the densely packed hundreds of similarities, Lu Ming shook his head.

These commonalities also exhibited similar characteristics to the previous commonalities, that is, they were not at all specific.It was hard for Lu Ming to believe that the ability appeared on these four people because of these things.

Because my family is poor, the daughter-in-law I married is close to her, her education is not high, and she has a bad relationship with her, so I have this ability?

There is no such thing as bullshit.

From the lives of these four people, it should be impossible to analyze anything.

Lu Ming sighed in his heart, planning to give up trying in this regard.He Wei frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "Wait."

"Oh?"

"Is it possible that..."

She considered the language: "Among so many things in common, every one of them seems to be ordinary. But, is it possible that the common point of these four people that really caused this ability to come is actually these four people , each possesses all of these commonalities?"

A look of surprise appeared on Lu Qingliang's face.

He understood the meaning of He Wei's words.

Having one thing in common doesn't count, you have to have so many features at the same time.

Each of these commonalities is very common, and countless people have it.But there may be only these four people who have so many things in common.

"Having so many common things in common at the same time" is what only these four people have in common among so many people in the world.

Is it possible that this is what makes these four special?
Lu Ming thought for a while, then shook his head: "He Wei, you think this is a radish pit."

He Wei was startled for a moment, but then she reacted, she was immediately discouraged, and no longer insisted on her own ideas.

Everyone knows what the meaning of the radish pit is.Generally speaking, it refers to tailoring requirements for a well-paid position that is being competed by many people, so as to match a certain applicant who has been pre-selected.

In this way, the remaining competing candidates have nothing to say on the surface.After all, I don't meet the requirements of this position, so what else can I say.

Back to the common ground analysis here at the moment.According to what He Wei said, then, not only these four people, but four people randomly selected from this world, as long as they are customized and analyzed bit by bit, they can always find a set of "common points". Only these four randomly selected people have on the Internet.

In this case, do these four randomly selected people also have some kind of specialness?

Obviously not.

That being the case, why can it be determined that these four ability users are special?
Lu Qingliang nodded: "It is true. This cannot be regarded as the common ground of these four people."

Zhang Dingshan said slowly: "If we can't find anything in common from life experience and social background, then is it possible that these four people did something before mastering this ability?"

This is indeed a line of research.If it can be proved that at a specific point in time—for example, when the last capable user just died, he happened to do a certain special thing—such as going to a certain place, worshiping a certain god, or performing a certain ceremony Human beings can inherit this ability, which is also a major breakthrough.

By verifying the particularity of this kind of thing, it will also help our side find the source and essence of this ability.

Lu Ming thought for a moment, and immediately recalled the previous investigation materials.

Gu Dacheng was originally an ordinary person.When he became no longer ordinary, one thing happened.

He went into the mountains for a trip, and it was different after he came back.

The same is true for Li Qingmin.At that time point, he had a serious illness and was hospitalized in a coma for three days before waking up. After that, it was different.

The same goes for Wei Jianzhong.At that point in time, he fell into the water by mistake. Although he knew how to swim, he encountered an undercurrent, and because of his age, he almost drowned.Fortunately, someone happened to pass by and rescued him. After that, he was no longer ordinary.

But... what about Wang Quan?

Wang Quan didn't seem to encounter anything.

Wang Quan himself claimed that he had this ability inexplicably, and nothing major happened.

Psychology and psychiatry experts who participated in the interrogation all believed that Wang Quan's confession was highly credible.And, our investigation on Nanlin Street shows that during that period of time, apart from Wang Quan's fondness of wandering around the Zhou Family Archway and talking to himself, there really wasn't anything major happening.

If the previous generation of ability users had to encounter a relatively significant event before they could inherit this ability... then is there such a possibility?
Are psychologists and psychiatrists wrong in their judgments?Could it be that Wang Quan, who was originally crazy and abnormal at all, had forgotten that relatively important matter?
Also, Wang Quan's neighbors are not aware of this incident, so is it possible that this incident is relatively private and happened in a private environment?

For example, Wang Quan may have fallen at home and was unconscious for a long time before waking up.If you were an ordinary person with a family and a business, you would definitely be found by your family and sent to the hospital.Even if no one finds out for the time being, he will go to the doctor by himself when he wakes up.

But Wang Quan was abnormal.Will he wake up from the coma and make chestnut cakes again as if nothing happened?

This possibility cannot be ruled out.Then, the possibility that Gu Dacheng and the other three inherited and mastered this ability after encountering a major incident cannot be ruled out.

"What happened when Gu Dacheng went to the mountain?"

Lu Ming muttered to himself.

Gu Dacheng didn't tell anyone about this incident, so no one knew about it.

"Li Qingmin and Wei Jianzhong, all the things they encountered were life-threatening, and they were in a situation where they would die if they were not careful. Then, did Gu Dacheng also encounter life-threatening in the mountains? Wang Quan, who was mentally ill, was at that time Is your life in danger in your own home?"

It's been too long, and there's no way to verify it.But at least, the authenticity of Li Qingmin and Wei Jianzhong, two people who clearly encountered life-threatening incidents, can be verified.

"Li Qingmin once had a serious illness and was hospitalized in a coma for three days? What kind of illness did he have? Which hospital did he go to?"

Gu Dacheng's death and Li Qingmin's serious illness both happened 50 years ago.However, hospitals capable of dealing with the symptoms of "three days in a coma" must be relatively large hospitals.

It is impossible for rural clinics to deal with such symptoms.

Even 50 years ago, such relatively large hospitals had already established a relatively complete medical record system.Then, the records of Li Qingmin's hospitalization at that time should still be there.

"I'll check."

He Wei got up immediately and contacted the local health department.With the assistance of relevant departments, it was soon confirmed which hospital Li Qingmin went to.So, after some searching, a medical record with yellowed and brittle paper was sent to several members of the second action team.

After looking it up, Lu Ming quickly found Li Qingmin's medical record at the corresponding time point.

However, the records in the medical records did not match the information obtained by the investigation by the second action team.

"The patient complained of headache, nausea, and vomiting. There was no obvious abnormality after examination, and it was suspected to be a mild concussion. Disposal results: fluid rehydration, close observation, and bed rest were ordered by the doctor. Four days later, the patient's self-reported symptoms disappeared and he was discharged."

Lu Ming felt a little confused.

"Didn't you be in a coma for three days? How did you record it? Mild concussion? Nausea, headache, and vomiting? No obvious abnormalities in the examination?"

He Wei also fell into doubts.

"Why do I feel like this person has spent four days in the hospital, but in fact he is fine at all?"

(End of this chapter)