Chapter XXXVII. Case 7: A new canopy
If someone comes to me one day and asks me a question, saying that you are a ghost hunter, which horror movie do you think is the scariest of all the horror movies you have seen? I think the person who asked me this question must have enumerated several options in his mind, and if I hit one or more of them, it might make him happy for a while. Maybe many people will rank films such as "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village", "The Grudge", "Midnight Bell" and other films in the top few of the inner horror index, but for me, the film that scared me to cry for the first time since I was a child turned out to be the scene when the white bone spirit in the 83 version of "Journey to the West" turned into bones. But after all, it can't be considered a horror movie, so what impressed me the most was when I was in elementary school, I saw a movie about a Japanese monster on TV, which was probably about a monster that resembled a spider and liked to tear off people's heads and put them on their bodies, and the name of that monster was Hiruko.
And when I grew up, especially after I became a teacher, I saw so many things that gave me a sense of fear in my real life, and those expressions of film art could not attract my attention. It's actually a very sad thing, I seem to have a disease called fear of loss, although I don't know if there is a name for it. I also watch horror movies a lot, especially when I first dated Sister Cai, I always like to invite her to watch ghost movies with me, and from the beginning of the film, I have been looking forward to her hiding in my arms because she is afraid.
In fact, after she found out about my true profession, we never watched a horror movie together again. And I never thought that the bridge in the first horror movie I watched with Sister Cai would actually appear in my world.
That movie is Thai, called "Ghost Shadow", the content of the film is roughly about a little deflated three suddenly transferred into a very awesome photographer, and then there is a blurry figure in every photo he takes for a certain period of time, and when this figure is coherent, he finds out that it is his ex-girlfriend who was killed by him and his pig friends and dog friends many years ago. And in the meantime, I think the most terrifying,Is a female ghost with a bloody face and round eyes when she climbs upstairs to downstairs upside down.,I laughed when I saw it with Sister Cai.,It seems to be quite scary.,Who knows that when this scene appeared in front of me many years later,But I couldn't laugh.。
The place where the incident happened was on Beibin Road in Chongqing, a relatively well-known Wangjiang real estate. The victim is a senior manager who works as a supervisor in a large shopping mall, and it seems that he is an official, but to put it bluntly, he is just a part-time worker. Similar to those previous incidents, when they encountered problems, they tossed and turned several times to contact Hu Zongren through the relationship of the Xuanyuan Society, but this incident was told by Hu Zongren on the phone, and I didn't need to receive a direct call from the Xuanyuan Society like the previous time. This also seems to be the news that the two of us are reconciled with each other, although we don't have the ability to find out who secretly acted as the eyeliner between the two of us and Xuanyuan Society, but I am sure that this person I and Hu Zongren both know each other, if he is not a fool who does not know the height of the sky, then he must be a very dangerous person.
So after I received a call from Hu Zongren that day, we made an appointment and we met.
Since it is a commercial community that has not been handed over for too long, the process of finding the owner of this house is not difficult, just ask the security guards of several buildings and find it. The door was opened by an older sister in her thirties and less than forty, and at the same time, there was also a thin, bald-headed and bearded man who looked a few years older than this eldest sister, and looked very much like my beloved teacher Li Boqing.
After identifying ourselves, they let us in. The eldest sister's surname is Zhu, and the husband of the eldest sister Zhu is surnamed Huang. When Sister Zhu saw that Hu Zongren and I were both young people, she couldn't help but show that kind of suspicious expression on her face. I have long been accustomed to it, and I will turn a blind eye to it, for such customers, I have always been able to talk less and talk less, without deliberately proving it, but to let you understand that I am here to eliminate disasters for you, just to make your money. So after Hu Zongren and I sat down, lit the cigarette handed over by Mr. Huang, and before I had time to take a sip of water, I said straight to the point, please tell us as much detail as possible about the situation you have encountered this time.
I mean, let's save ourselves from the politeness and mutual temptation, and your look on our face when we enter the room already tells me the answer. When Sister Zhu heard me say this, she and Mr. Huang glanced at each other, Mr. Huang nodded, and Sister Zhu began to tell us the ins and outs of this matter.
It started about a month ago, because the floor is relatively high, on the twenty-second floor, although the lighting is relatively good, but for shelter from the wind and rain, the residents on the upper floors always have to worry more than the lower floors. The community is close to the river, and the river breeze blows endlessly in summer. So whenever it rains, if you hang your clothes on the balcony of your house, the few pieces near the railing will definitely get wet from the rain. Hu Zongren turned sideways, looked at the balcony behind Sister Zhu and said, "Then why don't you install a window or something?" I also followed Hu Zongren's eyes, the balcony is S-shaped, and the protruding part will definitely be more likely to be caught by the rain.
Sister Zhu said that when she just moved in 1 year ago, she did think about installing windows after encountering this problem, but because the outer edge of the balcony is irregular and wavy, it will be more troublesome to install, and the air is not circulated when the windows are closed all day, and it is not easy to dry the clothes after washing yourself, so this balcony loses its meaning. I thought to myself, too, if I were to live in a closed environment, I wouldn't. Sister Zhu continued, and after thinking about it, she thought that since there was no way to install windows, let's make a canopy. The proposal was unanimously approved by the whole family, including their son, who is still in the sixth grade of primary school. Then I thought, since they are all installed, then the windows of the whole house can be installed, and the balcony area is the largest, even if it is more, it will not be more than a few dollars, so soon the family found a business that specially made a canopy, and a week later, the family installed the canopy.
In the first few days, it happened to rain and the family realized that they could sleep well when there was no canopy, but after installing it, the raindrops hit the canopy of plastic sheets, making a clangling sound, especially at night. But they consoled themselves that after all, it rained less often, and the patience was over. But more than half a month ago, the moon was sparse that night, and it was clear that it was not raining, but in the middle of the night, I heard the sound of water droplets ticking on the canopy.
Sister Zhu told us that the bedroom of the two of them was square, and there was a small door on the wall near the entrance, and in the small door was the bathroom of the master bedroom. In the center of the room was their bed, and on the other side was the window, and because the side where Sister Zhu slept was close to the window, she was easily woken up when this sound appeared that night. I slept in a daze and thought it was raining again, so I didn't care about it and went back to sleep. When I woke up the next morning, I found that there was a small opening in the canopy of the bedroom.
After speaking, Sister Zhu stretched out her hand and compared the shape, saying that it was about the size of half a coin, and she really couldn't see it if she didn't look carefully. So at that time, she asked her husband to call the business that made the canopy to come, and she handed over the matter to her husband because she was in a hurry to go to work. Mr. Huang took over Sister Zhu's words and said that day he called the other party to check, the other party said that the small opening happened to be between the two plastic plates glued together, may be installed when not glued to the cause, the next apology after the other party also helped to re-glue the canopy, I thought this matter was over, who knew that the night of the road, almost the same time, there was a dripping sound, and then the next morning woke up to find that the mouth appeared again. Mr. Huang said that he felt it was a bit of a hassle to let the merchant run again, and he had to wait at home. So I set up a bench and stood up, and saw that there was a thick layer of glue in the bonding place, which was full of stickiness, so I reached out and glued it again, and I played hard a few times to make sure that this time it was really sticky, and then I went out to work with confidence.
But that night, before the first few nights, Mr. Huang recalled that it was about 11 o'clock at night, and it was also a sunny day, and he heard the sound of dripping water. So Mr. Huang guessed whether it would be the water droplets from the air conditioners of the residents upstairs, because the upstairs apartment type is the same as his own home, and the position of the air conditioning chassis should be the same, but because the outside of their bedroom is a blind spot, they can't see the upstairs from the balcony or another bedroom, and now that the canopy is installed, it is even more invisible. So Mr. Huang climbed the stairs upstairs and knocked on the door of his neighbors upstairs, hoping that they would be able to redirect the water pipes of the air conditioner so as not to interfere with his rest. But after knocking for a long time, no one opened the door.
Hu Zongren asked, do you know the residents upstairs? Mr. Huang shook his head and said that the occupancy rate in this community is not very high, many homes are still being renovated and no one has come in, and everyone is unfamiliar with each other, so they don't know each other. Hu Zongren nodded and motioned for them to continue, Mr. Huang glanced at Sister Zhu again, and Sister Zhu continued, so from that night onwards, the two of them could only continue to hold on for one more night, and wait until tomorrow to find the neighbor upstairs. But the next day, I still didn't find anyone, and the next night was also around 11 o'clock, and the sound of dripping water appeared again, not only that, but Sister Zhu also found that there was something similar to a mop on her own canopy with a clang, and she could see the strips of cloth on the mop's head hanging on the edge of the canopy, dripping with water. This made Sister Zhu and his wife feel that the upstairs was a bit excessive, and they used their canopy as a place to drain water for the mop, and they didn't come to the door when they knocked on the door, so they called the property management to complain.
Sister Zhu said that she got off work early the next day, and then followed the property management to knock on the door of the residents upstairs, but after knocking on the door for a long time, a sentence came from the walkie-talkie of the property management, asking if she was with the owner of 22-5 now? The staff member who was with Sister Zhu said yes. The walkie-talkie said again, you told the owner, checked, 23-5 no occupants.
Sister Zhu shouted at the time and said, how is it possible! The mops are all drained to my canopy, how can there be no one to live! The walkie-talkie continued, it has been handed over, but it has not been moved in, and it has not been registered and renovated in the property management, we have the key here, if you want to go in to check for leakage, come and get the key.
Hu Zongren and I glanced at each other, and we both felt a little strange.