Chapter 119 On the Mandela Effect

"When I arrived at the village where the suspect lived, I found him in the house where the man lived, but when I found him, he was already a dead man. Killed by gunfire, fired three shots in a row, each shot hit the vital part of the body, and was dead at least an hour before I arrived, only the body was still a little warm. ”

Xu Bugao continued to speak, but when he said this, although he still seemed to feel calm, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and he had betrayed his heart.

"The suspect is dead, what about the money that was stolen, where did you find it?" Zhuang Xiaoxian was quite interested in this, after all, for his character, every thing related to an unsolved case could arouse his interest.

"Why are you so excited about this kind of strange case, I'm afraid you're not a pervert!" The black bear, who was supposed to remain in a cold state, couldn't help but complain about Zhuang Xiaoxian.

"I can appreciate the perfect assassination as much as I can appreciate the mountain county—but I can appreciate it from the outside of its cage. Zhuang Xiaoxian returned to that translated tone, coupled with his deliberately made, contrived and barely elegant movements.

"You two, can you let the protagonist say, Xu Bugao, you continue, don't be disturbed by them. Candle Dragon rudely stopped the gags of Black Bear and Zhuang Xiaoxian, and asked Xu Bugao to continue his story.

Xu Bugao also recovered his emotions and continued to say: "Money, heh, of course the money was found, but there was only one million, a bag, and one million cash in it was not touched, when I returned to the police station with the money and the body, the task force actually announced that the case was closed, isn't it ridiculous, the cause of death is no longer investigated, and the lost money is no longer found, and all the suspects here are wiped out with the suspects who are about to be buried."

I thought this was just a delaying tactic by the deputy director, because after all, we didn't have any clues, and sometimes it was a common behavior to drop a big fish in the long run, and it wasn't suspicious until I saw the closing report that I knew that what I was thinking was just a ridiculous delusion. ”

"What's in the report?" the candle dragon asked.

"The report clearly states that when the suspect was arrested, the suspect was arrested and killed by the police on the spot, because the gas stove in the room was detonated during the exchange of fire with the police, most of the cash was burned, only more than one million dollars remained, and the rest were destroyed by the fire. Of course, there is also my personal second-class merit for heroic combat, and a collective third-class merit. Xu Bugao's tone of voice was quite playful, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"What about the room where it exploded?" Zhuang Xiaoxian questioned the closing arguments.

"Naturally, there is, the house where the suspect lived before has been burned to black charcoal, and even the traces of the explosion are quite obvious, and even the gas canister explosion is also quite obvious, and the surrounding villagers can fully confirm that they did see the police coming to arrest them at that time, and there was an explosion shortly after the arrest. I asked the residents one by one, and all of them had a clear impression of the day, and they all remembered that there was an explosion at 3 p.m., but when I left at 3 p.m., there was no explosion. Xu Bugao said helplessly.

"What? Why is this happening, are you misremembering?" or "Candle Dragon wondered.

"The Mandela effect!" Zhuang Xiaoxian gave his own answer.

"What's that?" Candle Dragon looked at the man in police uniform, as if he had an explanation for the matter.

"The Mandela Effect is an urban legend or conspiracy theory in which the collective memory of history does not correspond to historical facts. There is currently no scientific evidence of the authenticity of this "effect", but there is not enough evidence to oppose it. Zhuang Xiaoxian said in a popular science tone, of course, the candle dragon did not understand, and the black bear was also ambiguous.

"The first claim to have the Mandela effect phenomenon was in 2010 by an American blogger who studied paranormal phenomena, Fianna Boume, who found that like many people, she remembered that South African President Mandela 'should have died in prison in the 80s of the 20th century', but the reality is that Mandela did not die in the 80s of the 20th century, and was later released and became the president of South Africa, and was still alive until 2010.

However, it turned out that it was suggested as early as 2010, and he clearly remembered that Mandela had died in prison in the 80s. The presenter was able to recount the reports he had watched, television footage of the funeral, and even the tearful speech of Mandela's widow. When this statement was put forward, a large number of netizens responded, saying that they had the same memory.

In other words, these residents are likely to be affected by some special information factors like these netizens, which has affected their memories at the same time, causing them to also believe that the explosion occurred at three o'clock that day, right?"

"I didn't expect you people to be stupid. Yes, it didn't take long for me to investigate and I found out that the exact time of the explosion was actually at five o'clock in the evening, that is, shortly after I brought back the body of the prisoner, and the reason why everyone agreed to the time of occurrence was three o'clock was because of the non-stop news and documentary programs for several days.

Yangcheng TV made a week-long documentary report, presenting this major case in the form of a pseudo-documentary, which I did not pay attention to before because of my research on the case, and I only found out after consulting local witnesses.

The cooperation of this program, coupled with the fact that there were police cars and police officers in and out that day, soon after a large explosion occurred, and the police began to evacuate civilians. And after that, the police made many records intentionally or unintentionally to guide, the explosion that day occurred at three o'clock, but I also had a key piece of evidence. After speaking, Qiu Gaobu gestured to his neck.

The candle dragon reached over and found that Qiu Gaobu was wearing a chain around his neck, and the end of this chain was a square piece of iron that had been burned black, and the shape was vaguely a watch.

"The truth will never be covered up by a lie, it is like a candle in the night, as long as it is discovered, even if it is small. This is a charred quartz watch, and when the explosion occurred, the watch was also shocked, and the parts were directly shattered, and the time was forever frozen in the time of the explosion - '5:14'. ”

Zhuang Xiaoxian shook his head when he heard this, and said, "Since according to you, there are so many policemen who cooperate with the operation, how can there be such suspicions?

"So this watch was not found in the suspect's house, this watch was found in a family next door, the family has long since moved to the city to work, this watch is a fish that slipped through the net. I don't know if it's because Skynet is restored and not leaked, or if it's a creation that makes people, and I found it after looking for a few days.

After discovering the evidence, I didn't reveal anything to others, because I knew that the incident of so many people cooperating with it was definitely not a small problem, it was probably related to the big people above, and it could mobilize the cooperation of the entire police department, this kind of character was at least a hand-eyed figure in Yangcheng, I didn't think about really reporting or exposing anything, just to explore the truth. ”

Qiu Gaobu said this, but the tone of his voice did not even believe him, maybe it was just a sign of regret on his part.

"And then, how did you leave the police force, and how did you get here? What about the special forces here? Why are they gone?"

In the face of Candle Dragon's five consecutive questions, Qiu Gaobu didn't care, he only continued his rhythm, saying that it was more like he was telling a story than an interrogation, and it was more practical.

"And then, of course, what I said about Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky. Have you ever heard of Skynet?"