"Organize an event in the company, plan a performance or something, these things are generally done by our personnel. However, when discussing the specific details, people from other departments will also participate and discuss with us, but they are all above the supervisor level, and ordinary employees are not eligible to participate.

Tong Xiaodong is a veteran manager of the sales department, although he is not very popular with others because of his character problems, but he and we are all veterans of the company, and we can still study together in some things.

Although Zhang Rucun is not the head of the operation department, her qualifications are enough, and the general manager of the company has also hinted to me that I will correct her once I have the opportunity. And the head of operations happened to be off duty that day, so he temporarily let her participate.

Except for Zhang Rucun, the other people who participated in the meeting that day were all above the supervisor level. Zhao Danyang is the personnel director, Wang Yuliang is the after-sales manager, and Gao Mingyu is the design director.

It was the five of us sitting together that day, discussing that we were going to put on a show this Halloween. ”

The more Sun Meiyuan talked about it, the more she felt that it was a common denominator, because it was the only time they had in common.

After Sun Meiyuan finished speaking, Xiao Mo and the others all glanced at each other, like Li Sixuan and Chen Musheng, they all showed the meaning of inquiry, as for Wen Qiayun and Xiao Mo, they had eye contact, thinking that they both tacitly thought about the same thing.

"What exactly did you all discuss? Did you mention the red-robed ghost or anything along the way? ”

Wen Qiayun said what Xiao Mo wanted to ask in a comprehension, and after Sun Meiyuan heard it, she thought about it and replied:

"I guess there's been a discussion. But I don't have any idea who proposed it, because each of us said a lot of combinations at the time. Again. Wearing a red robe and a grimace mask is too normal for Halloween abroad.

That's why I don't remember it exactly, because no one thought it was a scary thing to discuss at the time of the discussion. On the contrary, I think it's quite fun. Everyone wears strange costumes and ghost faces, guessing who each other is.

As soon as this suggestion was raised, everyone agreed. It's just that there is an objection on the question of whether to have a dance party or a dinner, after all, few employees in the company can dance, and few can enjoy dance music.

Even if it's really like the West, rent a whole floor of a hotel, and then put candles, pianos or something. But the people involved can neither be elegant nor romantic, and they will definitely not be able to get that feeling when the time comes.

Therefore, this mention is only supported by Zhao Danyang, Zhang Rucun, and Gao Mingyu. As for the other three people, including me, they all thought it would be better to book a restaurant and sit together for a meal and some wine. ”

"So what happened in the end?" Hearing this, Li Sixuan couldn't help but ask curiously.

"In the end, we decided to ask the employees to see what they meant. In this way, the choice problem is no longer on our side. We held a poll in the company's group, and 70 percent of the employees expressed interest in participating in the masquerade, while the remaining 30 percent said they didn't care.

The minority obeys the majority, and then we decided to hold a masquerade party in the company on Halloween.

But before the event was actually launched. Tong Xiaodong and the others disappeared one after another, although most of the employees did not know about it. ”

After listening to Sun Meiyuan's narration, Xiao Mo pinched his chin with a contemplative expression on his face. I don't think there's anything wrong with their discussion. Since there was no talk of ghosts or anything like that, the focus of the discussion was on choosing the form of a ball. Or in the form of a party table xiàn on.

If their discussion had nothing to do with the ghosts choosing to target them, several of the victims were in it. This has to be said to be a coincidence. Xiao Mo has always adhered to the principle that a coincidence can only occur once, at most twice, and if it reaches three times, it will definitely not be a coincidence.

For example, there were only six people in attendance, four of whom had been identified as victims of the incident, and three had already been killed.

Therefore, the real situation of this seemingly insignificant discussion meeting will definitely not be as simple as Sun Meiyuan said.

After thinking like this for a while, Xiao Mo raised his head and asked Sun Meiyuan:

"Did you watch the video during the discussion?"

"Yes...... What's wrong? Sun Meiyuan didn't know how Xiao Mo guessed it, in fact, even she forgot about this matter.

Hearing Sun Meiyuan's surprised words, when Chen Musheng and Li Sixuan looked at Xiao Mo again, they both admired each other, and said in their hearts that Xiao Mo, the captain, was really not in vain. “

Xiao Mo completely turned a blind eye to the admiring gazes of Chen Musheng and others, and he continued to ask Sun Meiyuan:

"What kind of video are you watching?"

"It's a video of a masquerade ball, I searched for it on the Internet casually at the time, and after I found it, I played it on a projector in the conference room for a while, but because it was a little scary, it was turned off by Tong Xiaodong.

After that, because of time, we didn't look for it again, and everyone laughed at this matter and no one paid attention to it. ”

Speaking of this, the expression on Sun Meiyuan's face tightened, and she asked uncertainly:

"Isn't this video the root of the haunting?"

Sun Meiyuan has also watched a lot of horror movies, and it is very common for horror movies to be cursed in the video.

"Is there the red-robed ghost you saw in the video?"

"I don't remember it, but I don't think so." Sun Meiyuan recalled it carefully, but there was no impression in her mind.

"Ask the other two if they know anything about the red-robed ghost. Just ask them if they see a person in red and wearing a ghost mask in the video. Xiao Mo mentioned yì Sun Meiyuan to call the after-sales customer service and the two people in the design department.

"Okay." Sun Meiyuan knew very well in her heart that whether she could solve the truth of this matter was related to her life, so she didn't dare to procrastinate at all, and hurriedly used the company's landline to dial the subjective Gao Mingyu of the design department:

"Hey. High supervisors? Well...... I wanted to ask when we were discussing the Halloween masquerade in the conference room that day. That video that was put on...... Yes, yes. That's the video. Do you recall, did a red-robed man appear inside? It's a red-robed man with a ghost face.

…… Can't remember? If you think about it, it's very tall, with a very square mask on his face, and two knives in his hands...... Do you have an impression now?

…… Not sure...... It's nothing, it's just that I suddenly remembered to ask...... Well...... Well, that's hung up first. ”

Sun Meiyuan hung up Gao Mingyu's phone, and then spread her hands to everyone:

She said she wasn't sure if she had seen a man in a red robe, as if she had. It doesn't seem to be any. I'm calling Wang Yuliang to ask, he has a good memory, and he should have an impression. ”

Sun Meiyuan picked up the phone again, looked at the employee address book displayed on the computer, and called Wang Yuliang, who had experience in the after-sales department.

"Hey, Manager Wang, I'm Sun Meiyuan from the Personnel Department, and I want to ask you for something to verify......

Don't you have an impression of the red-robed man? Wearing a very conspicuous red robe, wearing a ghost face, and holding two knives in his hands...... You're not sure, are you? Can you remember what the name of that video was?

…… Red Masquerade? Are you sure it's the name......? ”

Hanging up the phone with Wang Yuliang, Sun Meiyuan hurriedly said her gains:

Although Wang Yuliang also said that he couldn't remember it clearly, he remembered the name of the video, which was called Red Masquerade. No, we'll just search the internet. In this way, whether there is a red-robed ghost or not, we will know at a glance. ”

Hearing Sun Meiyuan's suggestion, Xiao Mo did not immediately agree. Instead, he went on to ask:

"Was that video downloaded or watched online?"

"It's in the conference room anyway. I think it's online...... I'm not sure either. Sun Meiyuan couldn't be sure after thinking about it, she took out her mobile phone and looked at the time on it. Seeing that no one was using the conference room at this time, she directly led everyone into the conference room later.

The size of the meeting room is not very large, and it can accommodate up to 40 people. In the middle is a long round table with a laptop and a projector.

Xiao Mo asked Sun Meiyuan to open the laptop, and then he said to Wen Qiayun:

"You'll see if you can find that video locally."

"Hmm." Wen Qiayun nodded and sat down, and then began to type orders in "Run" that they couldn't understand at all. Although Li Sixuan and Chen Musheng both knew that Wen Qiayun was a computer expert, when they saw it with their own eyes, they felt something else.

After a while, Wen Qiayun already had the results, and she pointed to the video on the screen and said:

"Is that the name, "Red Masquerade"? ”

Sun Meiyuan leaned her head close to the screen, and after watching it, she immediately said:

"Is this the video, is it the video on the Internet?"

"No, it's a local video, but it was deleted before."

"Why is that still there?"

"I've restored it again, even if it's deleted in the recycle bin, there's still a way to restore it." Speaking of his understanding of computers, Wen Qiayun couldn't help but exude strong confidence.

"Oh." Although Sun Meiyuan usually uses computers, she only knows a little about computers, so what Wen Qiayun said she just nodded symbolically and pretended to understand.

However, regarding computer technology, it does not help much to solve this incident, and the problem in front of Xiao Mo and others is the question of whether to open the video in the computer.

If you don't look, you're likely to miss key clues. If you look at it, it is very likely that you will also be implicated.

And according to normal analysis, the probability of being implicated is higher than not looking. In other words, it is very likely that this video was the cause of the incident, and the reason is what he thought before, and all the victims have seen this video.

But there is a fifty percent probability of each of the two possibilities, so it is difficult for Xiao Mo to gamble on one of them and give up the other completely. After all, the supernatural event itself is strange and unpredictable, and it has happened many times in the past, and the kind of situation that seems to be the truth is actually the way of thinking.

And this time it is not so troublesome to carry another possibility, just leave one person to watch the video, and then explain the content of the video to them.

Xiao Mo didn't let everyone watch it, including himself, but let Sun Meiyuan, who was already a victim, watch it again.

Sun Meiyuan also knows that everyone is afraid of this video, she is not a fool, she can guess that they will be targeted by ghosts, probably because she watched this video cheaply. However, just as Xiao Mo said when she asked her to watch this paragraph, she had already seen it left and right, and she was also targeted by ghosts, so it was better to break the jar and break it, maybe it could provide them with some valuable clues to solve this incident.

In fact, Sun Meiyuan did the same, she just had some hand tremors when she picked up the mouse, but then she gritted her teeth and clicked on the video.

"The length of the video is only fifteen minutes."

Sun Meiyuan glanced at the time below the screen, and then described to everyone.

Everyone led by Xiao Mo nodded after hearing this, Sun Meiyuan no longer said anything, and began to look at it intently:

"It's a little gloomy on the screen, it looks like a very old film, and there are a lot of people with masks in it, but those masks are not too scary, and there are no people in red robes."

Sun Meiyuan watched and described to everyone:

"Seven minutes and fifty seconds, the last time I saw it, there was a singing, a very low voice, it was sung by those people wearing masks, and the voice was a little low.

Eleven, twelve, thirty seconds, the singing finally stopped, very depressing, in fact, I built yì you also listened.

At thirteen minutes and forty-five seconds, the men were about to take off their masks, and I was a little curious about their faces under the masks.

Fourteen minutes and fifty seconds, those people liked to take off their masks, but they ...... Yes......!!! ”

Sun Meiyuan screamed in fear again as she spoke, and then she slammed down the computer and said breathlessly:

"Those people don't have a face at all! They're just skulls with ghost faces!! ”

Sun Meiyuan's words undoubtedly made everyone feel the chill of Sen Senran, especially Chen Musheng's body trembled, and he stood behind Chen Cheng a little unnaturally.

However, Xiao Mo was still very calm, and he was also fiddling with his mobile phone at this time, as if he was unaware of Sun Meiyuan's exclamation, so he heard him say to himself:

"The Red Masquerade" is not a ball, but a short thriller film about Europe and the United States. There is no plot in it, but it mainly tells the story of a red-robed murderer wearing a red robe and a ghost face in a masquerade ball, killing all the participants with a knife. (To be continued......)