Chapter 12 Videotapes
I said in my heart, Chubby can really fool, and it's strange to be able to donate. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Uncle nodded at us and smiled and said, "You two should learn more from this fat classmate, you are young, not only do you like to study, but you can also sacrifice small profits and take care of the big righteousness, rare, rare." ”
Xiaopang listened to his uncle praise him, and the beautiful snot bubbles were about to come out, shaking his head at me and Zhang Meng, and making both of our noses crooked.
After coming out of Zhang Meng's house, Xiaopang coughed twice, imitated his uncle's tone and said: "Xiao Zhang, Xiao Guo, you two young people should learn more from Comrade Wang Yu, learn from his spirit of hard study of academics, and his advanced ideas of high style and brightness. Then I smiled at us proudly, I glanced at Zhang Meng, and together we went up and pressed Xiaopang to the ground and beat him violently, so that Xiaopang was forced to forgive.
While he was making a fuss, Chubby's mobile phone rang, it was one of his customers calling, and there was some urgency to find Chubby. In the private detective industry, although the time allocation is relatively free, many times you need to rely on the recommendation of your customers to pick up new jobs, so credibility is very important, and Xiaopang hung up the phone and left in a hurry.
After Chubby left, Zhang Meng and I also broke up, Zhang Meng went back to our store to take care of the business, and I drove to the National Library.
Since I came back from Xi'an, I have always wanted to go to the National Library, although I am a person who usually does not like to read much, but I also know the truth that 'the book has its own golden house', it is said that the National Library has the largest library of documents and archives available to the public in China, and I believe that I can get some answers to the things I want to know.
When I arrived at the National Map, I went up to the digital inquiry area of the collection on the third floor of the South District. Since there is no inquiry certificate issued by a professional department, it can only be searched in the public literature area, although some confidential documents cannot be queried, but it also covers more exclusive materials than can be found on the Internet.
I showed my ID card, entered the query area, sat in front of a computer, and said strangely, although I had all kinds of mysteries in my mind before and wanted to find some clues through the query information, but when I actually sat in front of the computer, I felt that my mind was cluttered. There's no way to start. I don't know what to look up.
After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered to check the information about the Loulan handscroll and Pengjiamu first, but to my disappointment, the information I found here was not much more than what I learned from my uncle. Even information about the Loulan handscroll cannot be found here. It's just that some of the deeds of Pengamu as a scientist and the specifics of his disappearance are a little more detailed than what I learned from my uncle.
I recorded some information of interest and took some pictures of it with my phone. I'm sure that the person who looks like me in that particular old newspaper won't go to such great lengths to hand me the Loulan handscroll for no reason, maybe this is a breakthrough, and I hope to get some useful information from it. Thus helping me decipher the truth of the whole incident.
After that, I looked up some information about witchcraft, strange animals recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, as well as some information related to the bizarre events I had encountered before, such as Yuquan Mountain, Tiangang Tomb, and even hallucinations and supernatural events. Although the information is very comprehensive, I have a new understanding of some things that I didn't know much about before, and I have increased a lot of knowledge, but after all, they are all seemingly unrelated and independent things, and what I need is how to find the correlation between them, so as to analyze the ins and outs of the whole incident, so this kind of rambling query is not very helpful to me.
After checking for more than two hours, I didn't find anything particularly useful for me, and it seems that my trip to the National Library was in vain.
Just when I was feeling a little disappointed, I smelled a fragrance wafting from nearby, this aroma is very special, people smell a feeling of "facing the sea and spring flowers", I raised my eyes and saw a beautiful woman walking in front of my computer, saying that it is more appropriate to walk over, it is better to say that it is more appropriate to float over, this fragrance is the smell of perfume emanating from her.
This beautiful woman has long hair, fair skin, a slim figure, a white dress, an elegant temperament, and this special perfume smell, which makes me a little drunk. Although I usually don't think I'm a womanizer, but after all, I'm also a common man, and when a beautiful woman floats in front of me, it's inevitable to look twice, I believe that as long as it's a normal man, there will be such a move, even if some men don't dare to look blatantly, it's just pretending to be serious, and secretly I can't tell how many eyes have been peeked. In fact, there is nothing to criticize that men love to look at beautiful women and women love to look at handsome guys, as the saying goes, everyone has a love for beauty, which is just from the perspective of pure appreciation, and it cannot be understood as an evil.
Waiting for the beauty to float far away, I moved my eyes back to the computer screen, it seems that this trip to the national map is not completely fruitless, at least I saw the beauty, according to Zhang Meng's standards, this is already a big gain. But after thinking about it, how did I degenerate into the same vulgar realm as Zhang Meng, and I came to the library just to see beautiful women and think about what adventures I could have? I smiled self-deprecatingly.
After some more research, I put my notebook in my bag and left the National Library.
Because Uncle Chang next door has been monitoring me before, I temporarily lived in Xiaopang's house, and after driving back to Xiaopang's house, Xiaopang has not come back, I said hello to my aunt and returned to my room.
I took a break, took my bag, and was about to sort out my records, but when I opened it, I suddenly found that there was one more thing in my bag.
I took it out and looked at it, and it turned out to be an old-fashioned videotape.
Who put this thing in my bag and when? I recalled, when I went to Zhang Meng's house, I definitely didn't have this thing in my bag, I remember very clearly, Zhang Meng and Xiaopang will never put a videotape in my bag without saying a word, after coming out of Zhang Meng's house, I went to the National Library, on the way back and forth I drove by myself, and there was no contact with others, the only possibility is that when the National Library checked the materials, someone else put this videotape in my bag, but at that time my bag has been placed by my side and did not leave my sight...... Damn, by the way, someone must have stuffed this thing into my bag when I was looking at that beauty, damn, I didn't expect my wise and brave Yang Zirong to fall for the beauty trick today.
I was thinking wildly, no matter who secretly put this thing in my bag at what time, there must be a purpose for him, during this time someone always gave me strange things, first the old man named Hanako gave me that special old newspaper, and then the old lady in the school gave me the Loulan hand scroll, and now there is an inexplicable extra videotape in my bag, what does the person who gave me these things want to do?
But I thought about it again, it's better to give something than to lose something, maybe these people want to tell me something but can't tell me directly, they want me to get some clues from these things. I was curious about what was in the tape and didn't know what was in it.
This is a common videotape when I was in junior high school or high school, when the audio equipment at home was mainly VCR and combination audio, and then the VCR was gradually replaced by VCD players and DVD players, and now it is difficult to find that kind of old-fashioned video recorder.
I'm worried about this tape, where can I find a VCR that can play this tape? Surely the little fat family doesn't have it, and other people probably won't have this thing now, unless they are going to collect it as an antique, or maybe they have it in some special need place.
By the way, I suddenly remembered that there is a small shop at the entrance of the alley of Xiaopang's house that repairs watches and household appliances and recycles old household appliances, and maybe there can be a video recorder.
I reported the idea of trying my luck out of Xiaopang's house, came to the small shop at the mouth of the alley with watches and home appliances repair, pushed the door in, there was only an old man with glasses and a watch in it, it is estimated that this is the owner of the shop.
I asked the old man if he had a VCR, and I wanted to borrow it, but the old man looked up at me and held out two fingers at me, and I looked at his two fingers and didn't understand what it meant.
I thought the old man didn't understand what I said, so he said it again, I have a videotape, I can't find the VCR to play it, I don't know if he has it here, if he can borrow it for me.
The old man still stretched out two fingers, and after a while he said uncontrollably: "The deposit is two hundred, and the rent is fifty." He took his chin and pointed to the wall.
That's when I saw a price list on the wall that said VCR for rent.
I thought to myself that this small shop is really dark enough, and the service attitude is poor enough, but there is finally a video recorder, and it seems that there are still people who have such a demand.
I paid the money, and the old man played with the watch for a while, and I stood there for a long time, and then the old man unhurriedly took out an old VCR, cable, and other things from a broken cardboard box and handed them to me. I'm patient, and if it weren't for the sake of the urgent use of the VCR, I'd really like to give this old man a few words.
The VCR was finally found, and when I returned to Chubby's house, I couldn't wait to plug in the cable and take out the tape from the yellowed envelope of the videotape, only to see four small blue words printed on the cover: Internal information.
I inserted the tape into the tape case of the VCR, and as the VCR slowly rotated the tape, the picture began to appear on the TV.
The first thing that appeared was the opening of a film studio, a bit similar to the Changchun Film Studio in the past, but the sculptures and words of the characters were not Chinese, I took a closer look at the text, damn, it seems to be in Russian, where do you understand this.
After the opening credits, the film began to play, it was a documentary, sure enough, in Russian, fortunately, there were Chinese subtitles under the film.
The first subtitle was the title of the documentary, and I was taken aback when I saw it. (To be continued.) )