Chapter 53: Urban Weirdness

Yi Annie did not drive home again, but was sent back by the so-called secret commissioner, Wang Yuxin couldn't help but be very curious.

In line with the principle of information exchange, Yi Annie communicated with Wang Yuxin about the day's events from the printer failure in the news center in the morning, chatting with Emily in the morning, and later going to the artillery barracks.

Wang Yuxin couldn't help but sigh: "Your life as a mysterious editor is too amazing." ”

Yi Annie lamented: "There are so many editors, films and television in the world who do secret content, why am ......I the only one who suffers?"

No matter how Yi Annie complains, the next day is another Friday that everyone likes to see, Yi Annie's car was left in the news center yesterday, but fortunately, Wang Yuxin has to go to school to hand in the report on Friday, and Yi Annie does not need to take a taxi to work.

Who is still in the mood to work seriously on Friday, Yi Annie just took a cup of coffee from the lounge to the workstation, and Victor came up on the side: "Annie, do you want to go to the bar at night?" ”

Yi Annie thought about it, although she was going to go to the ore exhibition in Blue Beach with Wang Yuxin the next day, but it was Wang Yuxin who was driving, and it was okay to sleep less tonight, so she agreed: "No problem, together at night!" ”

"Yay!" Victor made a triumphant gesture and went back to the appointment.

Anne looked at the work area, Emily was still not there, and looked at what the system showed that Emily's field work would probably last until Friday afternoon.

Emily had previously told Anne that she had an interview with the Icefall crew on Saturday, so at least that's when she was back.

At first, Yi Annie thought about whether she should care about whether they had found the information they needed in the end, but found that she didn't have the direct contact information of anyone there, so she gave up.

She shook her head, took a sip of her coffee, and was about to get to work when Matthew leaned over and smiled, "Annie, what about the interview with Xiande that you asked you to help with yesterday?" ”

"Oh, I almost forgot!" As she spoke, Anne took out the voice recorder from her pouch, plugged it into the computer, and flipped out the recording of the chat with Xiande yesterday afternoon.

She looked at Matthew: "Shall I send you an email, or will I copy it to you?" ”

Matthew handed over a USB flash drive: "I want both, the IT department has been busy in the past two days, I'd better get more backups." By the way, don't delete the copy in your voice recorder for the time being! ”

Yi Annie wondered, "Hasn't the printer been repaired yet?" Didn't you say that the contractor of the printer shipped a new printer yesterday afternoon? ”

This message was seen by Anne in the news center's chat group.

Matthew shook his head and nodded again: "The printer that was newly installed yesterday is all broken today...... Not only printers, but today the elevator was also broken twice, but fortunately, no one was locked in the elevator. ”

The editorial office is on the second floor, and Yi Annie has always been too lazy to wait for the elevator, so she has no idea that the elevator is broken.

At this time, when I heard Matthew say this, I took out my mobile phone to look at the group chat, and there were really many people complaining about the broken elevator. North Americans are generally obese, and although the obesity rate in Xiacheng is relatively not very high, there are many people in the news center who cannot take the stairs at all.

"There are strange things every year, and this year there are a lot of them." Matthew took the USB flash drive with the transcription of the recording, thanked Anne Yi, made an appointment to have a free meal, and then went to study the recording.

Thinking that there were only two days left before the next delivery of the Mystery Edition, Anne finally decided not to waste any more time and quickly started writing a draft of the new issue.

Since this week, Yi Annie has basically been sorting out the information, and the content of the information is basically to cross-compare the public's revelations with the newspaper clippings that Steven gave her before, and she really found some strange stories with high repetition and credibility.

Anne Yi likes to watch Japanese-style urban weird movies and TV shows, and knows that the existence of urban weird stories is closely related to the history and culture of the city. Over the past week, Anne Yi has also learned a lot about the unknown history of Summer City from Xiande and Inferno, so she found a few strange stories about Summer City to analyze.

The city we are in now, Summer City, experienced a huge explosion nearly a hundred years ago. A ship laden with ammunition collided with other freighters in the harbor, causing an explosion that nearly flattened the entire city, causing heavy casualties in the city. Since then, some supernatural stories have been handed down to this day.

There are two of the most widely circulated stories, which everyone should have heard, and maybe they have experienced.

One is that a hundred years ago, the priest in the church heard the explosion and looked out the window, only to be stabbed in the face by the shattered glass and died. Since then, the church has undergone several reconstructions, but sometimes at night, in front of the window where the priest died, one can still see a bloody face.

Another story is about a library in the city center. The library is a semi-underground stone building, with one and a half floors of three floors underground. After the explosion, the stone library was intact, but the wooden houses around the library largely collapsed, and the area was used as a cemetery.

So basically, the basement of the library is actually lower than the cemetery, so people often encounter various supernatural events when reading books on the basement floor of the library.

Later, the area where the library is located was developed as a city center, and most of the cemetery was moved outside the city, but a few small cemeteries were preserved as attractions for ancient buildings, so mysterious incidents of the library still occur from time to time.

These mysteries include the sighting of books being stolen from the other side of the shelf, but no one on the other side; footsteps behind nobody's bookshelves; and when the library closes, there are people reading books on the tables inside, and so on.

Overall, these ghosts who like to come to the library are quite civilized. At the beginning of this year, the new library was built and opened, just opposite the old library, which was also closed for demolition.

Behind the new library is the largest cemetery in the city, and the basement level is a parking lot, but rumor has it that the new library actually has a second basement floor that is not accessible to the public, presumably for ghosts.

In addition to the big explosion, if you go back five years, Xia Cheng also experienced another tragic event that attracted worldwide attention, that is, the sinking of the Titanic. The sea area where the Titanic shipwreck occurred was close to Xia City, and afterwards, many of the bodies of the victims were found in the harbor here and then buried in the city's cemetery.

Later, due to urban development, most of the bones were moved to a promontory 40 minutes from the city. To this day, some small wreckage and daily necessities on the Titanic are still in the Summer City Maritime Museum.

There is a mysterious incident about these relics, and since the press center has received dozens of revelations over the decades, the credibility is also quite high.

It's about a folding chair on the Titanic in the Maritime Museum exhibit, and the night guards sometimes see a man in a sailor suit sleeping on it, but no matter what they do, they can't film the scene.

Most people who have heard about it think it's just a prank, but the problem is that, first, the folding chair is in a closed glass display case, and second, the wooden chair that is more than 100 years old can't hold much weight. So, how did that "person" lie on top of that folding chair?

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