Chapter 55. Case 10: Strange things happen one after another

Hu Zongren interrupted Mr. Xia and said, "A wet figure? Is it male or female? Your neighborhood is relatively old, could it be a homeless person in the neighborhood or something? Mr. Xia smiled bitterly and said, It's a woman's figure, but it would be nice if it was a wanderer, yes, can I still find you two? I feel very embarrassed, I don't understand why Hu Zongren would suddenly ask such a stupid question, people must have found us because of ghosts, otherwise why did you invite me to come, come to tea?

Mr. Xia went on to say that at that time, our worker was frightened, and immediately stepped aside and picked up the broom we used to clean on weekdays, and then asked the figure at the door loudly who you were, and the other party stood there motionless all the time, because it was too dark, so I couldn't see whether it was facing the house or facing away from the house. After shouting a few times in a row, but there was no response, the worker became a little anxious, grabbed an ink cartridge from our printer on the table, and smashed it at the figure, probably thinking that if it was a living person, it would be a big deal to apologize. As a result, the cartridge fell directly through the figure and fell to the ground outside the door.

Mr. Xia said, it is very strange to say, from the very beginning, when our worker saw this figure, he didn't think it was a living person, otherwise why would he be so afraid. And when he saw the cartridge passing through the figure, he shrank into the corner of our factory, and strangely enough, the figure didn't chase in or anything, but kept standing. After a long time, the machine near the door of the factory suddenly rang again. It stands to reason that the worker himself unplugged the power not long ago, and now that the power is out again, there is no reason why the machine will suddenly start on its own, and when the machine scanning light suddenly turns on, through the faint light, we workers can see clearly, it is a short-haired woman standing facing the room, and when the light sweeps, I also see a pair of eyes without black eyes staring at him.

Mr. Xia said that he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground all of a sudden, thinking that he couldn't beat it anyway, so he began to close his eyes and keep his hands together to chant Amitabha, a few minutes later, he closed his eyes and noticed that the surrounding light seemed to be lit up, and he mustered up the courage to open his eyes and found that the power had been restored, and the lights in the factory were also on.

Mr. Xia continued, in the middle of the night, he was the only one on duty, and there were no 24-hour patrols in our community, but after such a thing, he didn't dare to continue to stay in the factory, so he called me, and I told him not to wait for me to come before he left, but he said that he would not say anything, and said that he would rather not have this job and leave here immediately, and called me just to tell me. In fact, I didn't even know what was going on at the time. So I persuaded him to close the door of the factory, and then ran to the intersection where there were lights and people waiting for me.

Guanyin Bridge is also a city that never sleeps, and even if it is late every night, there will always be people of various identities passing by, so it is a wise choice to stay under the street lamps on the side of the road. Mr. Xia said that at that time, he felt that although he didn't know what to do with the worker's phone call in the middle of the night, he was so emotional, but because he was a relatively friendly boss to employees on weekdays, he knew that he would never do it for no reason, so he immediately got up and got out of bed and drove out.

Mr. Xia told us that he had only listened to the worker tell him about what had happened before under the street lamp, and although all this sounded a little ridiculous, Mr. Xia himself was a student of the I Ching, so he still had some understanding of metaphysics and knew how to respect it. So he drove the worker home very humanely, then took back the key from the worker, and said that he would rest at home for a few days, without deducting wages, and then come back when the matter was clear, and then drove back to the factory.

Mr. Xia said that there was no way, the customer's business orders were piled up, and if he didn't continue to start work overnight, the construction period would be delayed, so he took over the previous worker and continued to work. Hu Zongren asked Mr. Xia, "Have you checked that strange machine?" It was inexplicably powered on before, was the power plugged in when you looked at it? Mr. Xia said that the blame is in this place, the connector of the power supply is open, and there is a ballast used to ensure the stability of the voltage, so generally speaking, it will be tighter when plugged in, and it is not easy to tear it off. But when I checked the machine, I found that the power supply was the same as the previous worker's description, only half plugged in, in this case, the machine is generally in poor contact, and it will automatically start the safety protection system of the machine itself, which cannot be energized and insulated the power connector in the ballast to prevent leakage, but the half-plugged power supply is not only not insulated, the machine is also working in Ulaula, as if printing something, but the paper tube is empty, but it is rotating, in other words, if there is paper on it, maybe something will be printed, but everyone doesn't know what the content of the road will be.

Hu Zongren thought about it and said, did you change the paper and check it at that time? Mr. Xia said that it was gone, because the paper was a very heavy roll, and it was a little difficult for a person to put it on, and after hearing about these things, his heart was still a little empty, so he cut off the power supply of this machine, and then he used another machine to finish the work of the previous worker, while facing the factory gate, looking nervously at any time, and stayed up all night.

Hu Zongren asked him, what else happened that night? Mr. Xia said that this was completely gone, but due to his mental tension, the rain stopped at that time, so that he could clearly hear any little movement outdoors, during which there was the sound of a wild cat chasing a mouse, but it was always a false alarm. The next day, in order not to affect the work of his colleagues, he kept this matter from him, and no one said anything, but then something happened, which made him have to pay attention, and caused a lot of bad influence among the workers.

Hu Zongren asked Mr. Xia what else happened later. Mr. Xia said that during the day, because he forgot to tell the workers that the printing press that had problems should not be moved for the time being, an unwitting person turned on the machine, put on the paper and began to print. He said that this batch of prints is a certain construction unit in Chongqing used to propose a picture album for the municipal planning department, as an official, you know that the requirements for prints are also more tricky, originally thought that it could be smooth and smooth, but when the workers bound the prints, they found that almost every cover of those albums had a strange shape, so they opened the source file for inspection, but found no problem at all.

Mr. Xia said that at that time, some workers came to report the situation, and it stands to reason that if there is a problem with the color registration of the machine itself, then every page printed by this machine will have the same imprint, but this time it is only on the cover. Hu Zongren asked him what shape it was, and he said that it was a triangle that looked like rounded corners, and there was a small dot not far from the flattest side of the triangle. Originally, this problem was difficult to find directly with the naked eye, because when they sealed the bread film, they said that nothing could be pasted in the range of the pattern. So there was no choice but to change a machine to reprint the cover, which also delayed a day, so that people have not yet settled the balance with themselves.

Mr. Xia's words made me confused, first of all, because I didn't know anything about printed products, and the technical terms he said sounded like I was listening to a book from heaven, but I roughly understood what he wanted to express, to put it simply, it was that the cover appeared something that should not have appeared when it was laminated, and he suspected that it was related to the inexplicable power connection of the machine the night before, and it meant that the strange figure appeared and this machine may have some sense of connection. You want us to find out.

Mr. Xia continued, it was not only that, because only one worker witnessed it, but because there were no witnesses, it could only be a one-sided statement, but on the third day after that day, another worker on the night shift injured his hand while operating the punching machine. Mr. Xia said that the printing plant sometimes has cutting or operation errors, resulting in the operator injury, it is inevitable, but in the night he received a call from the worker that he said that he was injured, he immediately asked him to go to the hospital for a check-up, and when he went to the hospital to visit the worker the next day, he learned another strange thing, that is, when the worker was operating the punching machine, he obviously fixed the printed matter in a size template, and then pushed it into the machine, and then turned on the power. This was for the sake of safety, but the machine, which was obviously powered off, suddenly started when he had just pushed the board to fix it, and suddenly drilled the worker's hand from the back of his hand to the palm.

I touched my hand, and it hurt just thinking about it. Mr. Xia said that the injured worker told me that when he put the board away, he was about to pull his hand out, but it seemed that he was caught by something, so that he could not break free, and he could clearly see every finger of himself, but he just couldn't move, and his clothes were not caught by anything. The worker also told Mr. Xia that he remembered the feeling very clearly, as if someone had reached out and grabbed his wrist to prevent him from moving, and he said that there must be a hand, but he couldn't see it.