Aoba Office

"Ms. Xu, please express your condolences. It is still unclear what the cause of Mr. Long's death was. You said that the ghost was a frequent customer of Mr. Long. Did Mr. Long mention his situation to you? His name, Identity, destination, family situation...Have Mr. Long asked?"

"Uh... no, I don't know. I only know that he is a student, he should be a student. He only said that the student often hangs out late at night markets, bars and other places. He seems to be quite rich. He takes a taxi in the middle of the night. Back home...people are a little strange. There are some rich kids who don't learn well...I don't know very well..."

"Is the taxi-hailing app used by Mr. Long still there?"

"Deleted it. He later changed it to a taxi-hailing app and didn't drive to the place where he originally picked up that... thing."

“Can I ask the names of those two taxi-hailing apps?”

"I used to use Feifei, but later I changed it to Extreme Speed."

"OK."

On October 27, 2015, Long Tao’s colleague Hu Shan was contacted. Audio file 09320151027.wav.

"Hello, Mr. Hu. Thank you for taking the time to accept our interview."

"You don't need to be so polite. Well, Long Tao is also my colleague. Although we don't know each other very well, we can see each other without looking up..."

"We interviewed Mr. Long's wife before, and she mentioned one thing. A few months before the incident, Mr. Long had suspected that he had seen a ghost, and because of this, he suffered from insomnia, anxiety, and a very bad mood. She also mentioned It’s up to you to give them some advice to help Mr. Long calm down.”

"Oh, that..."

"Mr. Hu, you don't have to worry. We are a new media on the Internet. There are many ways to publish articles, some of which are not news channels, but we can also publish articles. We want to comprehensively explore Mr. Long's car accident and discuss taxis. We would like to know about the drivers’ working environment and living conditions. We would like to know about any rules and habits in your industry.”

"This...actually this matter..."

"Before interviewing Mrs. Long, we had heard of similar things. In fact, encountering ghosts in night rentals is a very common theme in the film and television industry. This is nothing. You can say it with confidence. Published later We will withhold your name from the article.”

"Well... what you're saying is... you can't see this kind of thing in movies nowadays. A few years ago, in the 1980s and 1990s, there were quite a lot of taxis encountering ghosts in ghost movies. Yes. I started driving a taxi in the 1990s. I also drove trucks and vans for private owners in the 1990s, and I started driving at night when taxi companies started to develop. There's not much... There's not much nightlife at night, the limit is at 11 o'clock, and there are very few people playing all night long, unlike now, where there are concerts, plays, musicals, movie premieres, and midnight. There are many places to visit at one or two o'clock. There are no buses or subways, so you can only take taxis. There is quite a lot of business at night..."

“Have you ever experienced anything strange while burning the midnight oil?”

"Well, this... I have encountered it. I remember that in the early 2000s, there was a concert that lasted until two o'clock. There were many taxis parked and lined up outside the theater. When it was time to end, People were pouring out. Those who wanted to take a taxi lined up at the waiting point, and the process was quite fast. When I arrived, she was just a young girl, probably in her twenties. She didn't look like the people next to her. The same thing. Everyone around her was smiling, and there were many little girls talking, and some were tired. She was just... expressionless, and she was sitting in the passenger seat. The girl also came up and sat in the back seat. I thought at the time... the little girl who got on the bus behind had been talking to others. After getting on the bus, she waved goodbye to her friend and was a little bit different from the one who got on the bus in front. There was no communication. But after the two of them got in the car, neither of them spoke... nor did they object... I..."

"What happened next?"

"I was about to drive... I asked where I was going. The one in the back seat answered, but the one next to me didn't say anything. You need to wear a seat belt in the front seat. She didn't move, so I reminded them. They both fastened their seat belts. I drove away without saying a word. The one in the back paid the car and I saw them get out of the car at the same time. Then I walked into the community, and the woman... the woman sitting in the passenger seat suddenly disappeared..."

"What did you do next?"

"What can I do? I drove away immediately. I have been driving a taxi for so many years, and this kind of thing... is actually not the first time I have encountered it. Sometimes I see people waving for taxis on the roadside at night. Some people act like that... You know, right? It's like that... no legs, no shadow, and a snow-white face... I always drive away when I see someone waving like this. That's the one time."

"Mrs. Long mentioned that there was a Buddha in your car."

"Yes, after that time, I asked for a small Buddha statue, Maitreya Buddha, to be placed in the car. It was gold, maybe not real gold... but it was blessed. I originally wore a gold chain. Later I saw that the gold chain was not safe. So I prayed for a Buddha statue. I go to Guanyin Temple every month to worship.”

"Mr. Long found you after he encountered something, and you recommended Guanyin Temple to him, right?"

"Yes. He came to see me that day, and I thought something was wrong with him... He didn't look like a ghost, but his complexion was very bad and his face was sallow. I am in charge of logistics and dispatch, and I don't usually have much contact with him. I was transferred to Before the logistics, we were not in the same team, we just met each other a few times and would say hello. He came to me and I felt very embarrassed when I saw that something was wrong with him, so I took him to dinner that day. He didn’t even eat, he just drank. After drinking too much, he told me what he said..."

"Did you hear about this elsewhere?"

"...Yes...Yes. Alas...Xiao Liu also came to see me before. He also encountered the same thing...Xiao Liu and I are closer. He took over from me a few years ago, and I transferred him In terms of logistics, new people will come in to help. I stopped driving, so I gave him the Buddha statue.”

“Didn’t that Buddha statue do the trick?”

"No...I don't know why. I've been praying for that Buddha statue for many years...Maybe it's because the Buddha statue was asked for by me, not by Xiao Liu... He is the same as Long Tao, that new taxi-hailing app, They used that thing to get the car called by the ghost, and after driving over, they encountered the ghost. "

"Can you tell us the specific situation?"