Chapter XXVI. Case 5: Plastic model

I don't know how many people in Langdao have encountered such a situation. For example, when I was home alone, I heard movement outside the door but no one knocked on the door, so I stood up and quietly ran to the cat's eye to look out, but saw a person I didn't know was looking through the cat's eye, the feeling of being separated by a door, close at hand but looking at each other. So when I saw the translucent woman's face in the picture, my heart suddenly felt like I couldn't breathe.

Hu Zongren and I have seen many ghosts in our lives, all kinds of types, and there are many good-looking and ugly ones, but what I don't like the most is the kind of ghosts that appear slowly or suddenly in a completely unexpected way, which often catches me off guard. Because I am naturally timid, every time I encounter this situation, my heart suddenly becomes nervous, and I have a feeling similar to being out of breath.

After looking at the camera through the diamond-shaped hole for a few seconds, the face began to rotate counterclockwise with the center of the right eye until the whole face turned into an inverted form, and then continued to move slowly upwards until the most lusk forehead disappeared from the camera. And so we saw the store again, and the gentleman who was standing next to the model at the beginning was still standing there, but this time with a straight face and eyes looking in the direction of the camera.

I don't know if the gentleman noticed something when he was covered by a grimace, but it was clear that he had noticed that the camera was secretly filming, and he was probably just thinking about whether to open the door and rush out or something. After the last moment, he stepped back in the direction of the camera, walked to the counter, put back the clothes he had held in his hand and intended to change for the model back on the counter, then took the key on the table, and then slowly walked to the back door, when he opened the door, the camera shook for a while, presumably Mr. Fan noticed that someone came out of the back door, so he quickly took back the camera and turned to leave.

This video is relatively long, so there's enough footage to analyze, I mean if that's necessary. But as far as Hu Zongren and I are concerned, this is not necessary at all, and anyone who sees this video will undoubtedly be aware that it is haunted. Mr. Fan told us that it was because of this strange video that made him restless after seeing it. Because he thinks that the scary female ghost has found himself, although he was very similar to quitting this commission at first, but since he is eyeing himself, even if he doesn't continue to investigate, he should suffer because of it.

Hu Zongren and I glanced at each other, thinking that this is not necessarily, the behavior pattern of ghosts is largely similar to that of us humans. For example, if two people are playing chess, and suddenly there is another person on the side, the person playing chess may not remember what the person watching the chess looks like. But since Mr. Fan found us, he must have his own reasons, so I asked Mr. Fan, did anything strange happen after you watched the video that night? Mr. Fan said that he didn't know if he was too sensitive, and after he recorded the ghost, he was prone to associate a lot of abnormal events with the female ghost, thinking that it was coming to him to ask for his life. Hu Zongren asked him, then what else happened to you, just say it, let us know as clearly as possible.

Mr. Fan said that the morning after seeing the video, he woke up and heard a knock on the door, thinking it was a newspaper delivery person, so he opened the door and went to the newspaper box to get it, only to find a dead bat corpse in addition to the newspaper of the day. Mr. Fan said that the opening of their newspaper box is so small that it would be difficult to stuff the newspaper into it if it was thicker. A bat can't fly in under any circumstances, unless someone opens the bolt of the newspaper box and throws the bat in. He also said that in addition, when he went downstairs to buy cigarettes that afternoon, because it was an old house, there were only stairs, and the floor where he lived was not high, so climbing the stairs was considered to be exercise, but on the wall of the exit of the unit on the ground floor, he found a stripped plastic model. He said that the model's hands were broken and dirty, and even though it looked like someone else had piled it up at random, he still felt a little scared because of the unusual behavior between the gentleman and the model he had photographed the night before. And that night, I was reading at home, but I heard a loud bang on the glass of the balcony window, and then it shattered.

Mr. Fan said that because their house has a low floor and is in an old neighborhood, there are many naughty children around, and occasionally there are incidents such as smashing glass. So he got up and went to the balcony to check to see if there were some bear children below, and when he stuck his head out to look out of the balcony, he found a hand, a plastic model's hand, under the street lamp on the ground floor. When Fan Xian said this, he rubbed his hands, still looking nervous, and he told us that that hand should be on the model with the broken hand I saw when I went downstairs. If these things appeared alone, maybe he wouldn't feel anything, but if they happened one after another, they were more or less related to what he had seen and heard before, which had to make people wonder. I was going to quit and quit, but now I don't dare.

Hearing Mr. Fan say this, I also feel that it seems to be a little related, but there is no evidence, and the only suspicion is that it is also the speculation of a layman like Mr. Fan, which is too risky. So after thinking for a while, Hu Zongren said, your tape recorder and DV will be placed here for the time being, let's compare them carefully. Then you tell us where the store is located and don't mention it to your employer for a while. I know what Hu Zongren means when he says this, he is saying that if the strange things that Mr. Fan encountered at home the next day are really related to the two, then the shopkeeper who noticed that he was secretly taking pictures should know some of the situation, and even know that Mr. Fan was secretly filming, so if Hu Zongren and I follow up the investigation, it is possible that they will also be detected or even haunted by ghosts, which is not a fun thing, so it is better to keep it secret for the time being.

After getting the address, we left the fast food restaurant with Mr. Fan one after another, we asked Mr. Fan to go home first, it is better to go out less recently, and then try not to let people notice their movements, and we will tell him as soon as we have the result. And because the place we made an appointment to meet was in the Liberation Monument, it was not difficult to find the store, and we found it quickly, but we didn't rush in, but observed it from a distance outside the door.

The business of this store is mainly women's clothing, and the style is relatively high, so in and out of the store are some tall and fashionable women, and the area of the store is not very large, so even if few people enter, they will feel that the business in the store is very good. Hu Zongren said to me, let's go in and have a look, since we can see the location of the model directly from here, the roller shutter door has been closed, and we can't find the last grimace, but since the model is regarded as a living woman by the shopkeeper, then there must be a supernatural reaction in the vicinity. I asked Hu Zongren, what is the effect of your reaction, the video recording has clearly characterized this matter! Hu Zongren said, but don't we have to see if there are any other places in this store that have these reactions? Think about it, if some unwitting people buy clothes to wear, isn't it easy to have an accident?

Hu Zongren is right, although I have not opened a clothing store myself, but I heard from a friend that there are different styles every season, and there is no reason to buy a new plastic model to wear and display every time a new style comes out, so those models themselves are reused, and the clothes taken from the models are also very likely to be taken away by consumers as unopened goods. So I nodded and agreed to Hu Zongren, but I asked him, will others be suspicious if the two of us big men go to such a fashionable women's clothing store? Hu Zongren asked me, what do you suspect? I said I suspected that we were both gay. Hu Zongren said with a smile, let them doubt it, anyway, it's not the first time.

So the two of us threw away the cigarettes in our hands and looked at the time, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, some companies with good welfare had already entered the end of work. In addition to shopping, there are also many commercial office buildings here in Jiefangbei, so those who get off work at this time are usually white-collar workers, they have enough spending power, and they have a greater chance of walking into this store than me and Hu Zongren, and in the same way, the greater the flow of people, the less easy it is for me and Hu Zongren to be found when they get in.

After stepping on the stairs of the storefront, there were not many people inside, and it was bustling, and a tall woman in a small black suit came over and said to us with a smile, two gentlemen, are you buying clothes for your girlfriend? Before I could answer, Hu Zongren smiled stupidly and said, let's take a look, and buy it if we see it. So Hu Zongren and I began to go around separately, the salesman couldn't take care of the two of us, and there were new customers coming to the door, maybe she was worried that the store was equipped with surveillance video, so she stood directly at the door of the store, while looking at me and Hu Zongren, while greeting the customers who came in. I saw that the opportunity had come, so I pretended to touch my phone from my bag and quietly took out the compass.

This is actually very conspicuous, but fortunately, the style of clothes in this store is really good, and many customers don't pay much attention to the compass in my hand, and even if they do, are they not allowed to take the compass to the store? I began to walk around, holding the compass in my left hand and hanging my fanny pack on my left arm, as if a person walking in the heat was taking off his clothes and taking a break, and I walked casually, watching the compass in my hand closely.

There are traces of ghosts everywhere in this shop, but some places are mild, some are more violent, so I can't tell if it's a ghost or if there are many. When I slowly walked around to the model kissed by the shopkeeper in the earlier video, the compass turned quickly, although I had expected it, but at this moment I couldn't help but be scared and thought:

If you turn so fiercely, how powerful should it be, me and Hu Zongren, can we really handle it?