Chapter 51: Keeping an Eye on the Haunted House
The four of them drove back to the teacher's village, and after parking the car, Xu Shaohua said, "How did we start the investigation? Did it start with the development period of this community? ”
"Yes, that's right, you need Ah Hua to be in charge of real estate development, Zhonghui you are responsible for understanding the situation of other residents, Zhou Jie and I went to the haunted house to carefully inspect the room again to see if there was anything missing before. Pen, fun, and pavilion www.biquge.info," Wang Dao said after getting out of the car.
"OK, then I'll go to Mr. Dong and see if he knows the developer of this community." After Xu Shaohua finished speaking, he drove away.
"Teacher, Brother Jie, how can I find out about the situation of other residents?" Kang Zhonghui asked.
"Find the aunt of the neighborhood committee, they have a lot of information and like to chat, as long as you can find a topic to arouse their interest in chatting, you can collect a lot of information." Director Wang said.
Kang Zhonghui nodded and walked in the direction of the neighborhood committee. Wang Dao and Zhou Jie took the elevator upstairs and entered the haunted house to begin to inspect the items in the room.
The things that the owners leave in the haunted house are mainly large pieces of furniture and appliances that have been fixed, such as air conditioners, water heaters, etc. The two of them separately inspected the living room and the room very carefully, and almost did not remove the ceiling, but as on the previous occasions, the two still found nothing.
"What the hell are we missing, why can't we find any clues?" Director Wang put down the tools in his hand, sat on the sofa and said.
Zhou Jie gently tapped his shoulder with a detection rod, walked up to Director Wang and said, "I don't think we will use the wrong way at all, maybe we should check it in another way." After all, the sprites are invisible and shadowless, and the traces of spiritual power left behind are extremely difficult to detect. ”
Director Wang raised his head, tapped his fingers on the armrest of the sofa, and fell into deep thought. It is indeed known that the traces of the sprites are difficult to detect, and they should theoretically be able to find traces of the sprites' spiritual power in such a carpet search. Now I can't even find traces of spiritual power, as if the dragon has never been here, so how can I find out the reason why the dragon is doing something wrong in this house. Could it be that the dragon deliberately erases the traces of his spiritual power before leaving every time? While it is true that the Monster has such abilities, what is it doing it for?
Zhou Jie also sat down on the sofa and said, "Let's think about it from a different angle, why does the dragon scare the owner's family away, why does it not appear during the day, but only at night?" ”
"Could it be to protect something important to this house?" Director Wang guessed.
"And what is there that only needs to be protected at night?" Zhou Jie asked.
"Need protection at night? I want to think about it, what is the difference between this house during the day and at night. There is moonlight at night and the sun during the day. Could it have something to do with moonshine? Director Wang began to open his mind.
"Brother Dao, your guess is a bit too unreasonable. I think it's important for us to stay here tonight and see what happens. Zhou Jie said seriously.
At this time, there was a knock at the door, Director Wang stood up to open the door, and found that Xu Shaohua and Kang Zhonghui, who had gone to investigate the development of the community and the surrounding residents, had returned.
"How? What's the catch? Director Wang asked the two.
Xu Shaohua shook his head and said: "I had a call from a few workers of the construction team when the community was developed, and they all said that the construction process was smooth and there were no abnormal problems. ”
Kang Zhonghui sat on the sofa and said, "I have gathered some information. The aunts of the neighborhood committee knew everything, and I talked to them about the horror legends in the community, and three of them knew that the house was haunted, and one of them provided some information that we didn't know before. She said that after the owner's family moved out, the security guard found that the lights were still on in the bedroom of the house for several nights. At that time, everyone thought that the owner's family was tidying up things overnight, but later learned that the owner had never appeared in the house at night since the day the coffin appeared in the living room, and it only took them two days to pack up and move, and they never came back since.
After learning the news, many residents living next door were afraid to go home, and two families even temporarily stayed in hotels. Later, the house returned to normal, and the mood of the residents gradually stabilized. However, it is said that a month ago, there were many strange phenomena in this house again, such as neighbors passing by the door at night, many of them said that they heard strange noises coming from this house; Also, my aunt told me that she was visiting a friend the day before yesterday and passed by this house and actually heard a man's voice inside. When Kang Zhonghui said this, Director Wang and Xu Shaohua were a little embarrassed, because they knew that the afternoon before yesterday was the time for Zhou Boxi to visit the haunted house.
"Wait, Zhonghui, did you just say that this haunted house appeared again a month ago, it is said that the owner moved into this haunted house a year and a month ago. It should not be a coincidence that the two supernatural phenomena appeared exactly one year apart. Xu Shaohua said suddenly.
"And such a thing?! And so on, did this happen two years and a month ago? What does this one-year interval really mean? Director Wang asked in surprise.
"Two years and a month ago, the building here had not yet been topped out, and as far as I know, there had never been such a thing." Xu Shaohua has talked to the workers on the phone, so he is still relatively clear about the construction schedule.
"Regardless of what happened two years and a month ago, let's first look for the internal connection between the two time nodes of a year and a month ago. Everyone searched the Internet to see if they could find some relevant information. ”
Everyone took out their mobile phones and began to search for the news that happened at these two time nodes, as well as the weather, geology, hydrology and other natural environment in Changsha before and after these two time nodes. In half an hour, the four of them found a lot of similar or related information on these two time nodes, but they could not establish an organic connection with the monsters in this haunted house.
"No, no, the amount of information that comes out of this search is too large, and none of the four of us have learned information retrieval, which will only make us dizzy, and it will be difficult for us to grasp really useful information." Director Wang threw his mobile phone on the sofa and gave up continuing to search for information.
Zhou Jie pressed his brow with his finger and said, "Indeed, this kind of information is too much, everyone will stop first, sort out the information they searched for first, and then let's go to have a meal." If it's okay at night, stay here and see what the Spirits do to us. ”
THE FOUR OF THEM GATHERED TOGETHER THE INFORMATION THEY HAD SEARCHED, KANG ZHONGHUI WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SORTING IT OUT WITH AN IPAD, XU SHAOHUA DROVE TO BUY TAKEOUT FOR EVERYONE, AND DIRECTOR WANG SET UP A GOSSIP TALISMAN ARRAY IN THE LIVING ROOM AND BEGAN TO DO REHABILITATION EXERCISES.
After Director Wang completed the whole set of Yang's Tai Chi Closing Styles, Zhou Jie asked, "How is it, Brother Dao, is your physical condition better?" ”
Director Wang wiped the sweat from his face and said, "I feel much better, and I should be able to fully recover in another three or four days." ”
"Brother Dao, if the dragon really appears tonight, don't make a move, let me come." Zhou Jie said after thinking for a while.
"The dragon doesn't have any offensive ability, and I'm not weak enough to be weak, so I don't sit on the cold bench." Director Wang said.
"Brother Dao, you dealt with the Qianyan Demon alone last time, so let me do it this time." Zhou Jie insisted on facing the monster alone.
"Yes, teacher, my wife also told me that she told me to keep an eye on you and not let you participate in the action without your body recovering. Moreover, with me helping Brother Jie, you can rest assured. Kang Zhonghui patted his chest and said.
"No, Zhonghui, you can't participate, the maze and spatial abilities of the dragon are famous in the entire spirit world, and your current ability can't resist at all. After eating, I need to set up a rune array, you can help me set up a rune array. Zhou Jie decisively rejected Kang Zhonghui's request.
"You have to find something for me to do, you can't really let me stand on the sidelines and watch, I really can't do this." Director Wang said.
"Brother Dao, I need your help to record it, because the dragon is invisible and shadowless, and we will definitely not be able to catch it, but we can get some useful information by recording the action patterns and shots of the dragon." Zhou Jie said to Director Wang.
Director Wang finally agreed, he knew his own business, and now his physical recovery is indeed not able to participate in this operation. So Director Wang began to seriously prepare the Spirit Eye Talisman and the Mirror Talisman as well as the Sanqing Talisman, preparing to make a super-large and enhanced version of the Peep Talisman Array.
Not long after, Xu Shaohua came back with takeaways, and the other three put down their work and started eating. After eating, the four of them threw themselves into the preparation work together. Finally, an hour and a half later, the preparations were complete, and now it was time for the Sprite to come to the door.
Xu Shaohua whispered to Director Wang, who was debugging the equipment in the living room: "Director Wang, it's been two days, Senior Zhou should be fine." ”
Director Wang motioned for Xu Shaohua to go to the balcony to smoke a cigarette, and the two walked to the balcony, Director Wang said: "I have been using the token to contact Senior Zhou for the past two days, but I have not been connected. However, since the token has not been called to the police, it means that Senior Zhou is fine. Don't worry, I have a hunch that we will be able to rescue Senior Zhou the day after tomorrow at the latest. ”
Xu Shaohua nodded and said, "I believe in you, Director Wang." It's just that every time I think that it was my proposal that put Senior Zhou in trouble, I always feel a little uneasy in my heart. ”
Director Wang patted Xu Shaohua on the shoulder and said, "Who would have thought of this kind of thing, I didn't expect that the monster who was doing trouble in this room would be a monster with strong restraint on other spirits. We are still concentrating on the implementation of the plan now, as long as we can find the weakness of the dragon as soon as possible, we can rescue Senior Zhou faster. ”
The two returned to the living room after smoking, and Zhou Jie began to arrange the order of the four people on duty. Since only Zhou Jie has complete combat effectiveness among the four, Zhou Jie must be on duty all night, and then Kang Zhonghui, Wang Dao, and Xu Shaohua take turns to monitor the equipment.
According to the owner's description, the supernatural phenomena in the house generally appear in the second half of the night, and they will not appear until after 11 o'clock at the earliest, so Kang Zhonghui, who is on duty from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, and Wang Dao chatted in the living room.
"Teacher, during this period of time, under Brother Jie's teaching, my basic ability has improved a lot. So is it time for me to move on to the next stage of my studies? Kang Zhonghui handed Wang Dao a washed apple and said.
Director Wang looked at Kang Zhonghui, took a bite of the apple, and then said: "After the affairs of the dragon are done, Zhou Jie and I will arrange a test for you, and if you can perform well, I will adjust the teaching plan and arrange for you to learn deeper knowledge and skills of demon hunters." ”
Kang Zhonghui said happily: "That's great! Just ask the teacher not to make the test too difficult. ”
"Don't worry, we will arrange the test according to your learning content, and you can prepare a little bit yourself during this time. I can only tell you that this is not an English level 4 or 6 test, it is mainly based on practical assessment, supplemented by knowledge assessment. Director Wang said.
The two chatted and chatted until nine o'clock, and Xu Shaohua, who was woken up by the alarm clock, got up to replace Kang Zhonghui. Xu Shaohua, who had just woken up, didn't seem to be in good spirits, so he stared at the laptop screen in a daze.
Suddenly, Xu Shaohua shook Director Wang, who was playing with his mobile phone, pointed to the screen and said, "Director Wang, look at what this is?" ”