Hearing Hu Zongren go straight to the point, Mr. Du seemed a little surprised. So he subconsciously glanced at Zhao Jing, meaning that he was really an insider. Then he said to Hu Zongren that she was a woman who wore white clothes, only a face, no facial features, and curly hair.

When Hu Zongren and I heard Mr. Du describe it so specifically, it shows that the manager of this ghost collision is not only unbelievable to him, but even unforgettable, otherwise it would be impossible to remember it so clearly. But he mentioned that he didn't have a face, which I really didn't expect. Usually the ghosts we encounter are more or less directly related to the state before death, that is, if there are video materials or photos, people who know the living person of this ghost can basically recognize it at a glance. However, there are also some ghosts who will refuse to show their true faces because they are hiding or because they are unwilling, just like some time ago, Hu Zongren and I helped the private detective handle the case in the Liberation Monument, the female ghost is to fabricate herself as a beautiful woman to achieve the effect of confusing the living. But what is this faceless to express?

Many years ago, I once watched a Stephen Chow movie, I forgot what the name was, and there was a villain in it, a man with no face. And in our folklore, there are also certain records of this kind of faceless person. For example, "Lin'an Mansion Chronicles" has recorded some anecdotes about various places before the Qing Dynasty, including some ghosts and monsters, this book I read is a revised version of a Qing Dynasty literati, a large number of ancient texts made me, a young man who dropped out of high school, really like tearing up this book with a claw. But the book was handed down by the master's master, if I tore it, it is estimated that the master would have to tear me up, and in this book, in addition to the various categories of ghosts in folklore, such as starving ghosts, hanged ghosts, hanged ghosts and other categories, there are also some species between ghosts and demons have a certain explanation, one of which is called "faceless ghosts".

Face, so there is no face, and in that book it is called "faceless". This speciation is said to be very peculiar, and it itself is a synthesis of some negative emotions such as shame, low self-esteem, loneliness, and many more. This kind of ghost has been described in "Lin'an Zhifu", if translated into the current vernacular, it roughly means this: people have seven emotions and six desires, and all kinds of different emotions affect people's expressions, and people happen to be the most abundant expressions and emotions in life, such as anger and anger, all belong to the category of "anger", but the embodiment of the expression on the face is not very different, and the smile and the big smile also belong to the same "laugh", but the way of expression and intensity are also very different. Therefore, when some excessively negative emotions are concentrated on the body of a ghost, then it will gradually not know what kind of expression to use to express itself, and over time, it will become only the shape and contour of the face, but no facial features.

In addition, there are some descriptions of such ghosts, but most of them are conjectures and speculations of later generations, and have not actually been verified. And earlier, there were masters who claimed to have encountered this kind of ghost, and they also left notes, but the description of it is very different, because there are no facial features, so the distinction between men and women can only be distinguished from hairstyle or body shape, because there is no expression, so we can't guess whether it is happy or angry, and according to the height of the deceased before his death, it is difficult to agree on the appearance, but almost all the depictions of faceless ghosts I have seen, everyone will mention such a few commonalities, One is that they will take the initiative to attract the attention of others, because one of its negative emotions is loneliness, and loneliness is divided into many kinds, some people are lonely because they want to have fun, and some people are lonely but they just want to find someone to accompany them, even if they don't talk. The second is that they usually do not take the initiative to hurt people, which comes from their inferiority complex in negative emotions, wanting to contact with people, but afraid of contacting people, and the contradiction itself is also a negative message. Third, this kind of ghost has no fixed temperament, and is basically a madman, but once it is provoked, it is basically more than lucky.

But even so, with a wealth of theoretical knowledge as a basis, I have never seen such a ghost, not even my master.

Hu Zongren asked Mr. Du to explain the incident as carefully as possible, because the more carefully he said, the less detours we made. Mr. Du told us that the beginning of the matter started about a year ago, when he had just taken over the house, and the community was a new community, so he entrusted a decoration company to decorate it, and he was busy with work, so he couldn't keep an eye on the construction progress, so he had been living elsewhere for a few months. Hu Zongren interrupted him and asked, where did you live at that time? Mr. Du said that after returning to China, he applied for this job soon after, and the income was not bad, so in the early years, he also mortgaged another house, because he felt that he had begun to get older, so he also wanted to change to a big house to see if it was time to get married.

Hu Zongren nodded and motioned for Mr. Du to continue. Mr. Du said that his new house was renovated for several months, and he was very satisfied after the renovation was completed, so he settled the salary, and put the deodorization of grapefruit peel and white vinegar in the new house, and the windows were also open for ventilation.

Mr. Du said, but not long after moving in, he always felt that when he went to bed at night, there was always a strange sound in the direction of the head of the bed, which lasted for just a few seconds, and then it would be quiet all night. I asked him if he could describe what the sound was like. Mr. Du said that his bed was a solid wood bed, and the head of the bed was made of wood, pressed against the wall, and the sound was very much like someone scratching the wood with five fingernails in the shape of a claw. After speaking, Mr. Du stretched out his hand and scratched it gently at a uniform speed on the table where we were eating, making a coherent but clear sound.

Mr. Du went on to say that because it is a new community, he has become the first batch of owners to settle in with such a procrastinating renovation, and at the same time, many homes in the same building are also being renovated. Mr. Du said that due to the size of his bedroom, when he was decorating, he dug 9 centimeters more than the wall at the head of the bed, and only half of the original 18 cm wall was left, so when he heard this sound a few times before, he thought it was the sound from other houses when he was decorating, or the sound from the pipe behind the wall, and he didn't care, so after more than a month, the sound suddenly disappeared, sometimes only once a month, but that time he heard it. But the more time passed, the more frequent the sound became.

Mr. Du said that he moved to a new house, many things have been replaced with new ones, so at first the house was relatively empty, so after half a year, some of the things that should be added are almost complete, so there is only more time to notice these subtle movements, the strangest thing is that he gradually found that the sound appears regularly, no matter how late he sleeps, the sound will always appear after lying on his bed, playing with his mobile phone and reading a book, taking off his glasses and closing his eyes and preparing to brew sleepiness a few minutes later, At that time, I usually didn't fall asleep, but my heart was very quiet, so I could detect the appearance of this sound at once.

He went on to say that from that point on, the sound gradually began to appear more and more frequent. From once a month, to once a month, then to once a week, to last month, it happened several times a week, sometimes three or four times a day. Hu Zongren said with a smile, it's addictive to scratching the plank, right? After saying that, he laughed, but seeing that no one echoed him, he found himself a step down and continued to ask Mr. Du what happened later. Mr. Du said that during that time, he sometimes waited for the voice to appear, trying to find out where it came from, but he finally heard it once, and the sound came from the wood at the head of his bed. Hu Zongren asked him, what are you for, and you are sure that it is there. Mr. Du said that after hearing the sound, he scratched the wooden board with his hand and found that the sound was actually the same.

Mr. Du said, but at that time he didn't feel anything too strange, because the sound was so small that it wasn't enough to affect his rest, and he thought it was probably new furniture, wood expansion or something. But gradually, not only the head of the bed, but sometimes in the wardrobe on the other side of the bed, there would be a sudden muffled "bang", as if something had fallen on the board, but that sound never appeared with the sound of the bedside, they were all separated from each other.

Hu Zongren asked him, didn't you open the wardrobe to check it at that time? Mr. Du said, of course, checked, their wardrobe is divided into two layers, the upper layer is slightly smaller in height, used to put their summer clothes and some clothes that can be folded, the lower layer of Confucius is higher, there is a horizontal stainless steel stick, which is used to hang those down jackets and suits or something, and on the ground plank on the lower floor, they also placed bed sheets, pajamas and other things. The door of the wardrobe is a sliding type, and from this point of view, it should be something that has fallen on the wooden board, and now the only thing that can directly touch the wooden board in the wardrobe is the door, the back wall and the upper and lower partitions.

Mr. Du said that if it was a knock on the door, the sound I heard would not be muffled. If it hits the back wall, then there is a solid wall behind it, and the sound will not be like this, only the partition, but what will be able to defy gravity and hit it from the bottom up.

Mr. Du told us that since he thought about it, he started to get a little scared.