Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Strange Story of the Forest People
Fang Xunyi looked at the figure on the wall, and found that there were other figures next to him, and when he looked carefully, he found that there were figures on all sides of the wall, and he roughly counted them, there were six figures in total, different heights, judging from their height and body shape, there were adults and children.
Six figures appear on average on all four walls, seemingly facing the center of the room.
Fang Xunyi fumbled to turn on the light, and after turning on the light, he couldn't see the six figures, and when he turned it off and then irradiated it with a flashlight, the six figures appeared again.
It's so strange, were these six figures designed when this building was originally built, or are they related to the previous missing people?
Fang Xunyi tried to open the door again, but found that the door could be opened, and the moment he opened the door, he turned around again and looked at the wall, as if something deliberately made him find the shadow on the wall.
Bao Junhao and Suo Ning also opened the door and walked in at this time, asking Fang Xunyi what happened.
Fang Xunyi told the two of them about the shadow found in the house, and Bao Junhao immediately entered the house to check and found that it was exactly the same as what Fang Xunyi said.
But what does this mean?
Bao Junhao thought for a while and said: "Everyone is tired today, let's go back and rest, rest well, and talk about it tomorrow." ”
Suo Ning immediately said, "I don't dare to live here anymore. ”
Fang Xunyi realized something, and he immediately said goodbye and returned to his third floor, because he knew that Suo Ning would definitely live in Bao Junhao's room.
Fang Xunyi, who returned to the room, had nothing to do, so he could only record everything that happened today with a tape recorder, and looked forward to the rising of the sun tomorrow.
But even when the sun rises, I can't see it, because the house has no windows at all.
Early the next morning, Wei Chi knocked on Fang Xunyi's door, and the first thing he said after opening the door was, "Something was staring at me last night." ”
"What?" Fang Xunyi felt puzzled and asked Wei Chiran to enter the house.
Wei Chiran obviously didn't sleep well, and his face was tired,
After Wei Chi entered the house, he was not polite, and directly made himself a cup of coffee: "I didn't sleep well last night, I always felt that someone was next to me, so I got up to see what was in the house, and then found that there seemed to be someone in the gap in the ventilation." ”
Fang Xunyi subconsciously looked at the gap at the edge of the wall in his room, how could there be people in such a place?
Wei said slowly: "When I lay down and shined a flashlight, I clearly saw something passing by there. ”
Fang Xunyi asked, "Is it a woman?" ”
Wei Chiran wondered: "Why do you say it's a woman?" What do you see? ”
Fang Xunyi was not in a hurry to explain: "Isn't it?" ”
Wei Chi shook his head: "It's just that something passed by in a flash, and I'm not sure if it's a person or not." ”
Fang Xunyi then informed Wei Chiran of what happened last night.
When Wei Chiran heard this, he immediately said: "I have also been to that room, it is very depressing, in Suo Ning's words, it is like standing in an elevator full of people." ”
Fang Xunyi nodded and said, "That's right, I feel the same way, but what's going on with the figure on the wall?" ”
Wei Chiran thought for a while and said, "I'll go and see again." ”
The two came to the first floor, and after knocking on the door, it was Bao Junhao who opened the door.
Bao Junhao motioned for the two to be quiet, because Suo Ning finally fell asleep.
The reason why Suo Ning didn't sleep all night was that although she went to Bao Junhao's room, she was not used to sleeping in the bed there. Suo Ning chose the bed, so when she moved in, the bedding was brought from home, and even the mattress was moved.
But Suo Ning was afraid of the inexplicable things in the house, the contradiction made her almost sleepless all night, in the morning, although there was no window, but she knew in her heart that it was daytime, and her mood was relieved, so she asked Bao Junhao to accompany her downstairs, and returned to her bed before falling asleep.
Bao Junhao led Wei Chiran and Fang Xunyi to the room, and after observing for a long time, Wei Chiran turned his head and said, "I feel that Zhong Shan is right, that woman seems to be bringing him here." ”
Fang Xunyi also agreed, after all, the door was locked after he came in, and it couldn't be opened, and after he found the figure, the door naturally opened.
Bao Junhao frowned and said, "Are we talking about ghosts?" ”
Wei Chiran asked: "Mr. Bao, you are from the PW Special Cases Department, you have been exposed to many strange cases, what do you think of ghosts?" ”
Bao Junhao hesitated for a long time and said: "Many of the so-called supernatural cases I came into contact with back then were eventually confirmed to be man-made, or caused by some natural phenomenon, but there is one case that I remember deeply. ”
Fang Xunyi asked, "What case?" ”
Bao Junhao said: "Although this case should not be said, after all, I signed a confidentiality agreement, but it doesn't matter now, after all, even this case is not recognized by PW......"
The case Bao Junhao is referring to is a bizarre case that occurred in an aboriginal village near the airport in the southern district of Chinatown about 20 years ago.
The so-called aborigines of Chinatown, known as forest people, as the name suggests, are people who live in the jungle.
These people have their own unique language and script, and they also maintain communication with the outside world, but not much, just exchanging some things from the jungle for some items from the outside world.
At the beginning of the construction of the Chinese town, there were conflicts with these foresters, and there were even small-scale wars.
At that time, the T royal family thought that these people were also their own people, but the people he sent were snubbed by the forest people. The Lin people did not recognize the T royal family, they had their own king, and the T royal family was angry and no longer mediated, and those who developed the Chinese town at that time were tantamount to getting a holy decree and directly wanted to drive the forest people out of their homes.
In the end, the two sides led to a skirmish, but the developers of Chinatown did not take advantage of this war, even if they had guns in their hands.
Wei Chiran asked, "Why?" Isn't modern weapons crushing primitive tribes? ”
Bao Junhao shook his head and said: "That war was disgraceful, so few people knew about it later, I just found some clues from the old archives of that year, it seems that the soldiers at that time began to be infected collectively, which caused heavy losses on the part of the developers of Chinatown." ”
In the end, both sides could not afford it, so they had to sign an agreement that the Chinesetown would fund the support of the foresters, and give the foresters a piece of land of their own, which would not allow anyone else to enter, and respect their faith and rights.
At that time, the area of Chinatown was not large, but it was limited to the land in the current Liangjie City and the northwest district, and the habitat chosen by the foresters at that time was in the current southern district, that is, near the Kaitai International Airport in Chinatown.
Over the decades, Chinatown has grown rapidly, and this development has also influenced the foresters, who have been exposed to new cultures and knowledge from the outside world, turning their villages into small towns, but still enjoying the benefits of the original agreement.
This caused a large number of people in Chinatown to be dissatisfied, who believed that they were paying taxes to raise these parasites, while others thought that they had occupied other people's land in the first place, and that they should have done so, and besides, the whole forest population numbered only a thousand.
Just when the conflict intensified, a case occurred, a small businessman in Chinatown was killed when he went to the forest town to do business.
Bao Junhao frowned and said: "I died a miserable death, I became like that after I saw someone die for the first time." ”
Wei Chiran asked: "They have their own power, can you still go to investigate the case?" ”
Bao Junhao said: "There is a provision in the agreement that if someone from Chinatown commits a crime with them, after presenting definite evidence, we will approve it and deal with it, and similarly, if their people commit a crime in Chinatown, we will deal with it." However, if our people die with them, or if their people die with us, the two sides will have to work together to find out the truth, because the Lin ethnic group also has its own so-called police, called hunters, and later, because they knew the name of the police, they synthesized it and called the hunting police. ”
According to the agreement, only one person can be sent to investigate the case, and of course the Chinatown Police Department didn't want to care about this hot potato, so it directly asked the top and dispatched PW.
After careful consideration, PW asked the Special Cases Department to intervene and finally sent Bao Junhao there.
At that time, Bao Junhao was in his twenties, and he was not the best person in the Special Cases Department, but he was the golden mouth of the Propaganda Department of the Special Cases Department.
That is, at every press conference, he is the spokesperson, the one who can say black as white.
After all, in this kind of special case, and in the face of a special group, the first thing to do is to calm public opinion, not to find out the so-called truth.
Why? If it is found out that the merchant died at the hands of the forest people, then whatever the reason, the contradictions will inevitably intensify, and the radicals who have been preaching that they want to drive the forest people out will find an excuse to stir up public opinion.
So, the truth doesn't matter.
Bao Junhao rushed to the scene as soon as possible after rushing to Linmin Town alone, because the hunters were also very professional, they did not move the body and destroy the scene, but waited for the arrival of PW operators.
When the merchant's body was found, it was in a hotel in Linmin Town, although it was called a hotel, but in fact it was about the same size as some of the larger five-star hotels in Chinatown.
It is also because of this that Bao Junhao has doubts about the identity of the businessman, he is a small businessman, even if he can afford to live, it is very wasteful, and there is no need, the point is that the business he came here to do is just some simple medicinal material business, and these medicinal materials are the raw materials for the production of a certain kind of cosmetics.
Bao Junhao said: "The merchant died in bed, his whole body was covered with blisters of different sizes, the largest was the same as a fist, and the small one was only about a millimeter, densely covered with all over his body, I looked at it, and my hair was numb." ”
Bao Junhao's description alone made Wei Chiran and Fang Xunyi feel uncomfortable.
Wei Chiran asked, "How can it be this way of death?" ”
Bao Junhao immediately said: "You are wrong, you were the same as me at the time, you thought that he died because of blisters all over his body, but after the forensic doctor accompanying me examined, he found that the merchant's heart muscle cells had been damaged, and he was scared to death to say that to put it bluntly, he was scared to death." ”