Chapter 467: Investigation
The taxi stopped, and Zhao Feng asked the female translator to settle the starting fee with the driver, and then got out of the car together and walked back to Maung Qiang.
Wang Dean knew this old brother and roommate very well, and knew that he must have a reason to do this, so he didn't make a noise and followed silently.
Although the female translator was puzzled, her job and main task was to assist Zhao and Wang, so naturally she would not raise objections, paid the money quickly, and then continued to exercise the work of translator to help Zhao Feng communicate with Maung Qiang.
Returning to Maung Qiang's side, after communicating with the Burmese teenager for a while, the female translator frowned and said to Zhao Feng: "Maung Qiang said that when we came out just now, he saw the opposite side of the street at the door...... Over there, there was a white man wearing sunglasses, who asked him about the illusion yesterday, and he didn't think that person was feeling good about him. Then you decide to go to him and ask him a few words, and we crossed the street together and stopped the white man from talking. After chatting with him for a while, we called for a taxi directly on the side of the road and prepared to leave. The white man had already hailed a taxi and left before we could call for a taxi. ”
Wang Dean suddenly said: "I think back now, after we finished eating and checking out, my memory jumped directly to the place where we called a taxi and said goodbye to Maung Qiang, how we got out of the hotel, how to cross the road to this side, I can't remember." ”
Hearing him say this, the female translator also said thoughtfully: "It seems to be really ......."
Zhao Feng asked the female translator, "Does his father remember anything?"
After the female translator asked Maung Qiang's father, she said: "He has no impression either, he remembers that after we came out after dinner, he was ready to leave, and he doesn't remember any white people." ”
Seeing the conversation between them, as well as the interpreter's inquiry about his father, Maung Qiang obviously realized something, and hurriedly said a few words to the translator.
After listening to it, the translator said to Zhao Feng: "He said that there was a problem with that person's voice, and when he communicated with us, he didn't seem to be speaking English, but we didn't react, and we all seemed to understand." That person might be able to hypnotize us all. ”
Zhao Feng asked again where they had stopped the white man from communicating, and then walked over and looked around, wanting to see if there were any cameras or anything like that.
But here in Myanmar is not like almost every store in the country has a camera, or even more than one, and there are not many cameras here that can shoot the road near the store entrance.
However, after observing for a while, they still found a store with a camera that could capture the vicinity, and then asked the female translator to use her "money ability" to communicate with the people in the store there, and obtained the qualification to view the video.
Turning the time forward, they saw a group of five people passing by the door, and then forward, and under the identification of Maung Qiang, they saw the "white man".
But because of the angle of the video, I can only shoot the lower half of the body, and I see a pair of dark trousers and a pair of leather shoes that are not cheap to look at.
Although the five of them did not catch up with this person to communicate, it can indeed be seen from the movement trend of the five of them in the surveillance video that they were chasing the white man, and they did not have any impression of this memory.
"Are we really hypnotized by that person?" Wang Dean turned around and whispered to Zhao Feng.
Zhao Feng nodded slightly: "I'm afraid it really is." As he spoke, he asked the female translator to ask Maung Qiang why he was speaking that English sentence when he was next to the car at that time-because that English sentence made him feel very strange, as if it was not the first time he heard Maung Qiang say it.
After knowing that the English sentence was spoken by Chang Qiang and him during a short conversation at the door of the hotel, they returned to the door of the hotel and asked the hotel to adjust the surveillance video of the lobby.
Zhao Feng inquired about the content of their conversation in detail, and then walked to the door of the hotel with Maung Qiang, and repeated the previous conversations.
After hearing Maung Qiang say in a pole accent: "I feelis not good." And when he pointed across the street, Zhao Feng's mind vaguely popped up some pictures and a very strong sense of familiarity.
"I remembered something, that white man was very problematic. Zhao Feng said affirmatively.
It is very unreasonable for that white man to have this kind of hypnotic ability that completely subverts common sense, and it is even more unreasonable to use it on the street for so many people, plus he also asked about the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant illusion" yesterday, Zhao Feng naturally couldn't let go of this clue sent to the door - they came to Montamira to investigate this kind of thing.
The female translator immediately took out her mobile phone and said, "I'll contact Lao Fan." In the face of this special and strange situation, she is still very calm, and Fan Peng can rest assured that she will take Zhao and Wang to investigate in Montamira, obviously she is also a person from the secret department of "Shenxing Technology", not just a translator and guide.
Zhao Feng continued to chat with Maung Qiang in bulk English: "Are you OK?"
But as soon as he said this, Wang Dean next to him laughed.
"What?" Zhao Feng asked, "My grammar is wrong?"
"No, no, I also have bad English, you keep talking, I just thought of a video I watched before. Wang Dean quickly put away his smile and said.
So Zhao Feng continued to ask: "Why do you remember him?"
He knew that Maung Qiang understood what he meant, and asked why he was not hypnotized and did not have amnesia.
Maung Qiang shook his head: "I don't know why."
After observing his expression, Zhao Feng asked again, "Are you scared?"
It stands to reason that when encountering this kind of strange thing, that kind of strange person, he and Wang De'an, a former policeman who is accustomed to seeing all kinds of worlds, feel a little hairy in his heart, this Burmese teenager should not be so calm, I can't see his expression of fear and fear at all, but after they confirmed that he had talked to the white man and was briefly hypnotized, he looked relieved.
Maung Qiang replied with certainty: "No." ”
Then he opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but perhaps his English vocabulary was limited and he couldn't say it, frowning and hesitating for a while, and when he saw the female translator who had finished the phone calling, he said a long list to her in Burmese.
The female translator was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but still relayed to Zhao Feng: "He said that he knows what he is really afraid of, so he is not afraid of other fears, as long as he knows what to do and what not to do, anyway, whether he is afraid or not, these will not change." ”
After the female translator finished speaking, she paused slightly, frowned, and said, "I'm not sure what he means, anyway, it's probably because he has something more to fear, so he doesn't think he needs to be afraid of other things?"
In fact, Zhao Feng and Wang Dean instantly understood what Maung Qiang was trying to express, because similar words, they also heard from those suspects when they investigated the two cases of "eight-armed and eight-eyed monster hallucinations" in China.
So, Maung Qiang was not affected, and it had something to do with the fact that he had seen the vision?
In this case, combined with the fact that the white man had asked Maung Qiang about the illusion yesterday, the white man may not have anything to do with the large-scale hallucinations of Montamira on the night of the 8th, but like them, he came to investigate this matter.
But why did he hypnotize them? Is it because of what is being exposed?
After receiving a call from the female translator, Fan Peng drove over with two people in a car after a while.
Fan Peng communicated with them for a while, and then after observing the situation on the street, he said with certainty: "We will find that person." ”
Zhao Feng didn't doubt this, and the female translator also told him before that the capital power of "Shenxing Technology" has a strong influence in several Southeast Asian countries, and there are enough local resources to help them conduct some investigations.
Zhao Feng glanced at the father and son not far away, and expressed to the female translator that he was a little worried about their safety, afraid that the white man would realize the reason for the failure of hypnosis and go back to them to find trouble.
The female translator said: "We will arrange for people to pay attention to their safety, don't worry." ”
Just when the group of them sent Maung Qiang with an axe in a car, ready to track down the whereabouts of the white man, Fan Peng answered a phone call and said to Zhao Feng: "'Mr. Liang' is looking for you." ”
Zhao Feng was stunned for a while when he heard the low and hoarse sound that seemed to be rubbing against each other as if there were metal particles rubbing against each other when he spoke, and the imaginary picture of this voice in his mind was Bane with a mask in the movie "Batman The Dark Knight".
"Mr. Liang" first inquired about the image of the white man, this information was actually obtained from Maung Qiang, although Zhao Feng later remembered part of the memory, but most of the pictures in that memory were still relatively blurry and confusing.
"Mr. Liang" then asked about how he felt after being hypnotized, and his subjective judgment of the white man.
Zhao Feng answered them one by one, and mentioned that Maung Qiang's "suspected immunity" to white hypnosis was probably related to the "eight-armed and eight-eyed giant vision".
"Mr. Liang" naturally talked about the two of them in China's investigation of the "eight-armed and eight-eyed monster hallucination", praised their cleverness, and then asked them whether there was a connection between the large-scale "eight-armed giant vision" that appeared on the night of Montamira on the night of 8 and the similar hallucinations in China.
Zhao Feng chatted with "Mr. Liang" for more than 20 minutes, from the beginning he was shocked by the voice, and after later habits and adaptations, he felt that this "Mr. Liang" was a very good communicator, and there was no general kind of leadership, more like a person who did technology, basically discussing and developing problems and things, and the impression was very good.
But in the end, "Mr. Liang" told him not to track down the white man, and not to contact him directly if he met him in the future, just report to him.
Not only him and Wang De'an, but also Fan Peng and the female translator, should not be tracked down.
But "Mr. Liang" also told them not to worry, the reason why the white man carried out similar hypnosis operations on the street on several of them was actually to discover their identities, and he was more afraid of them, so under normal circumstances, he would not take the initiative to provoke them.
This kind of explanation made Zhao Feng realize that "Mr. Liang" may know the origin of the white man, and also know how he managed to make all four of them lose their memories for a short time, but "Mr. Liang" did not answer these questions.
No longer tracking the whereabouts of the white man, Zhao Feng and the others continued to investigate the "Eight-armed and Eight-Eyed Giant Vision" as planned.
They went to a hotel in Montamira, where there was a Chinese tourist who had experienced the riots and group visions on the night of the 8th.
But this middle-aged man named Jiang Chun has been missing for more than 48 hours, and he did not lose contact on the night of the 8th, he also went back to the hotel on the 9th, but after leaving at noon on the 9th, he never came back, and the hotel failed to contact him through the reserved phone, and the emergency contact number was empty.
Zhao Feng and the others came to investigate, just to see if the disappearance of this middle-aged man named Jiang Chun had anything to do with the illusion.
However, when they checked some surveillance, tried to review Jiang Chun's whereabouts, and tried to contact his relatives and friends to no avail, a medical record sent by Fan Peng made them stop the investigation.
Because judging from the medical records, Jiang Chun is terminally ill, and he has not lived for long, and he has not been treated, he has sold all his property in the country, and he has started to travel everywhere half a year ago, and now there is no money in the account, he has an obvious suicide attempt, and it is very likely that he has found a place where no one is around.
So Zhao Feng and the others began to visit other Burmese locals who had experienced group visions on the night of the 8th, or Chinese tourists who were still in Montamira, and two days later, they left Montamira and went to another port city in southern Myanmar to question another Chinese national, but it was a suspect.
The suspect, along with fellow fugitives from China, kidnapped a domestic businessman, and later infighting ensued, and all the kidnappers died except for the suspect and the kidnapped businessman. In the end, it was the kidnapped man who drove the boat that kidnapped him back to the port to take the surviving kidnappers to the hospital.
The reason why Zhao Feng and the others wanted to question the suspect was because the people of "Shenxing Technology" learned through some channels that the surviving suspect confessed to the Burmese police that before the kidnappers on the ship had infighting, they had seen a humanoid sea monster with many arms and many eyes climb onto the boat.
His description bears many similarities with the "eight-armed and eight-eyed vision" seen by Montamira's people.
A few days later, when Zhao Feng and the others saw the suspect lying on the hospital bed, the blonde white man who had had had brief contact with them had already entered the country.
Liushi, next to a botanical garden far from the city.
In a deserted clearing around the corner of the mountain, a medium-thin white man with curly blond hair and sunglasses squatted on the ground, gently caressing the overgrown ground with his left hand.
After a few moments, he took off his sunglasses and put them in his pocket, took out a small white porcelain knife and held it in his hand, and slowly wandered around.
If Xiang Kun saw this scene, he would definitely be very vigilant.
Because this place is the last place where he and Guo Tianxiang fought, and the small white porcelain knife in the white man's hand looks very similar to Guo Tianxiang's.