Chapter 156. [Case 19] and then return to the theater
I smiled and said, I'm not a police officer, and if you hadn't pretended to be a police officer, you wouldn't have met me at all, would you? The man looked a little angry and said, "You are pretending to be a police officer, this is a crime, do you know the truth?" Since you're not a police officer, I don't have much more to tell you. Of course I know it's against the law, but you have to find a way to report me. So I told the man, if you want to know what the Tao is for, we will ask you out today, you had better cooperate with us obediently, otherwise you will suffer at that time. The mistakes you make have to be borne by yourself, no matter how much others do, they are just auxiliaries, and you, if you don't go with us today, will hurt others, harm those who have nothing to do with your.
The man asked suspiciously, what the hell are you doing? I ignored him, but Hu Zongren told him that we were dealing with dead people, and the dead people we were dealing with this time were the same woman and child who died because of you before. The man didn't seem to understand Hu Zongren's words, and his face was puzzled. Hu Zongren said, the last place you met was that so-and-so movie theater, right? The man said yes. Hu Zongren said again, then the movie you watched together the most was the Taiwanese movie "Cape No. 7", right? The man nodded yes. Hu Zongren said that now that movie theater is haunted, and the haunted time is when this movie is screened.
Obviously, Hu Zongren's words sounded very absurd to this man's ears, he shook his head in disbelief and said, you are crazy, you are all crazy, how is this possible, how can there be ghosts in this world. Hu Zongren walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder and said, You believe me, many years ago, I thought exactly the same as you. Then Hu Zongren suddenly locked the man's neck with the crook of his arm, and then said to him, anyway, you have to go with us today if you want to or not, my temper is not very good, if you don't want to suffer a physical loss, you can be obedient and solve the trouble, which is good for you and others. After saying that, Hu Zongren pulled him and planned to walk towards the door.
I also went out with him, because the owner of this teahouse knew that I had always been rough, especially when Hu Zongren followed me, I didn't say anything, I went to the counter to settle the bill, and asked Hu Zongren to wait for me at the entrance of the building, and I went down to stop a taxi. In order not to let this guy babble on the road, so much so that this taxi driver pulled us to the police station. So when I stopped the car, I first told the taxi driver that the two people who were going to get on the bus were drunken maniacs, so you ignore them and just pull me to the underground garage of a movie theater on a certain pedestrian street. Although I don't know if the taxi driver really believed me, at least no matter how the man called for help along the way, he didn't take us to the police station, and because he tried to escape several times, the man was still punched by Hu Zongren a few times. On the way, I called Mr. Li and asked him to rush to the cinema as soon as possible to wait for us, so when we arrived, it happened that he had arrived too.
Hu Zongren and I were like two escorts to catch the prisoners, and we took the man to the cinema as much as possible to avoid people's eyes, and after Mr. Li locked the door, we released him, because he now had nowhere to escape. Mr. Li asked us, is this the person in the news photo yesterday? I said yes, the reason why I called him this time is because there is a debtor and a debtor, and the grievances between them are understood, so that we can take those two ghosts on the road with peace of mind. But before that, you'll have to wait for me.
So I walked outside the office and called the reporter Ran, and I said that now that the parties have arrived, many things will get a happy result today, are you still interested in following up on this case? If there is, you can come to such and such a movie theater. Ran said that he would come over for a maximum of half an hour, so during the half-hour of waiting, I tried to make the man understand what we were doing in a slightly gentler way, although he might not really understand. After all, we couldn't let him come in a daze, so Hu Zongren and I took turns telling him about what we had encountered the night before, and Mr. Li also told the man about the haunted situation of the movie theater during these days. We even dug up yesterday's news and told him that we found you because of the clues in this news.
Presumably because this man had never really believed that these things really existed in the past few decades, so until today, after he heard it, it seemed difficult to digest for a while, and I knew that he was actually very reluctant to believe what we said, but he couldn't find any flaws to refute it, so deep down he actually knew that we weren't lying. Still, when we describe the first day of confronting the ghosts, the man looks very scared, and when he learns that we are going to take him to face to face with the two ghosts, he resists.
But it was useless to resist, he knew it himself. Hu Zongren blocked the door with a cigarette in his mouth like a hooligan, and what he was unwilling to do today was probably unbearable to him. Soon I received a call from reporter Ran, who said that he had arrived at the door but the door was locked, and asked me how to get in. So I asked Mr. Li to take the key, and then walked to the door and opened the door for Reporter Ran.
When I opened the door, I saw a bald man, a little chubby, wearing glasses, and a very fashionable beard on his chin. It's about the same age as me. It's just that he didn't come alone, and he was accompanied by a man with a camera in his hand. So I blocked him at the door and told him very seriously, if you want to come in and follow up on the report, I am willing, but I refuse to shoot, and I can only let you in alone. Reporter Ran said with a little embarrassment, how do you do it, you see that we are all here. I shook my head resolutely and said to Reporter Ran, it must be so, otherwise the two of you will please go back. I didn't leave any room for negotiation with Reporter Ran, and in desperation, he had no choice but to agree to me, so he asked his colleagues to wait for us nearby, and followed me into the cinema alone. On the way from the door to the office, I told reporter Ran not to be surprised, because what you are going to see next today may be very difficult for you to understand, and even resist. But what I need is not for you to focus on the process, but on the outcome of the case in the first place.
I said to Reporter Ran, I guess you also felt unfair because of the original incident, I can also read the mood when you wrote that manuscript at that time, I have to apologize to you I lied to you, because I am not a family member of the party at all, I am just a person who specializes in catching ghosts.
When I heard this, Reporter Ran suddenly looked at me with a very puzzled look, and he probably wondered if I was crazy. I said, I won't say more, you can see for yourself later. If you insist on writing about it in the report, then I can't stop you. Actually, I was testing him, although I really couldn't be sure of this, because I had read his news and felt that he was a person with a sense of justice, so I just believed him unilaterally. Reporter Ran did not give me an accurate answer, but told me to let him see first before speaking, he believed what the eyes saw.
After arriving at the office, Hu Zongren and I still escorted the man in the direction of the screening hall. Mr. Li didn't follow because he was afraid. Walking to the door of the screening room, Hu Zongren was still the same as yesterday, first lit a candle at the door, but the flame of the candle was strong and weak for a while, swaying and swaying, very unstable, but it was never extinguished, Hu Zongren told me that this is the ghost inside who began to notice the reaction of someone outside, but I think they may not know who we brought. Since the door was not locked before, Hu Zongren directly pushed the door open and walked in. The man refused to leave by the door, but I was pushed in at once, and reporter Ran was the last person to enter, and only after he came in, I closed the door, and in a short time, I first used the light of the mobile phone flashlight to find the switch of the master control.
Back in the screening room again, I couldn't help but peek towards the area near the guardrail from the moment the lights came on. That's where Hu Zongren and I really saw the ghosts of the mother and son. But when I went out into the open area, I saw nothing, and from my compass, the ghosts in this screening room were a little agitated, but I didn't know what they were talking about, and they wouldn't show up. So I asked the man, where were you sitting when you were watching the movie? The man pointed to the central area, which happened to be the same place where the projectionist and we had seen the ghost. So I asked Hu Zongren to take him to that seat while Hu Zongren and Reporter Ran sat in a few rows behind the man, and I ran to the screening room to play the movie directly. Since I didn't have time to turn off the machine before, fortunately, after the master control was turned off, the power was naturally cut off here. When I put the movie back into the screening room, the pillar of light that shot out of the small opening passed over the heads of Hu Zongren and reporter Ran, and when I passed the row behind the row where the man was sitting, I vaguely saw a shadow that seemed to be overhead, and it was difficult to notice it if I didn't look closely.
So I said to the man, don't look back now, if you hear something, close your eyes if you're afraid, but if someone asks you a question and talks to you, don't fail to answer. The man's body already looked a little shaky, and the only reason he hadn't escaped now was because he knew he couldn't escape. I turned back into the projection room, twisted the tripod on the projector a little looser, and then slammed the beam of light through the small opening to the row behind the man.
I heard a whoop oh scream, that scream was made by reporter Ran, because of the obstruction of the machine, I couldn't see him and Hu Zongren from the angle, but with Hu Zongren by my side, I didn't have to worry about it at all. And I also noticed that when the pillar of light was concentrated in that row, two distinct figures appeared, a woman and a child, sitting behind the man in a daze.