The call was actually from Liu Jinsong.

It's also an encrypted phone. At first, I didn't hear who this person was, (because this person's pronunciation was muddy, it sounded like he had a piece of sugar in his mouth, which affected his pronunciation) until Liu Jinsong asked me, don't you remember Qin Shi Huang's secret? I just woke up. "Are you Liu Jinsong, Brother Liu? Your tongue is not ......"

"It's not broken." Liu Jinsong said vaguely, "Later, after systematic treatment and replantation surgery, now I can say the initials, but the finals are not easy to master." So you might sound weird. ”

Next, after Liu Jinsong and I asked each other about each other's recent situation, Liu Jinsong finally got to the point, "I should know the person with the red birthmark on his neck." ”

"You know? Should? ”

Liu Jinsong let out a "hmm" from the inside of his nose, and then said, "I can't say I know, anyway, I know that there is a strange person who also has this kind of red birthmark on his neck." And they look very similar. Do you remember what I told me about tomb robbing? ”

(Liu Jinsong's strange experience is all recorded in "Death")

And some readers with good memories must still remember that there was a guy nicknamed "Mechanical Ruler" who robbed the tomb with Liu Jinsong back then, and this person was Liu Jinsong's tomb robbery gang back then. One of the only remaining core backbones.

According to Liu Jinsong, it is. "After something like that, there was no news of the mechanical ruler. It wasn't until I joined the research institute, probably this time last year, that I received a call from the mechanical ruler very unexpectedly. ”

I knew that there might be a red birthmark on the neck, referred to as "red neck", and there might be some degree of correlation with the mechanical ruler, so at this time, when Liu Jinsong was speaking, I listened quietly and did not disturb him.

Liu Jinsong said, "At that time. After quitting his old profession, he made up his mind to study more and change his way to make a living. He felt that the regret of living in this world was that he didn't study well back then. So in the following years, although he was not too young, he also began to be angry and strong, while taking self-exams, while learning all kinds of knowledge every day. At first, I planned to study accounting, but later I found that the more I learned about the accounting industry, the more bored I felt. And as more and more people studied accounting, the mechanical ruler had the idea of quitting, gave up accounting, and changed to archaeology. ”

"It took me three years to complete all the courses of the Junior College in Archaeology. Later, he tried to find a lesser-known school to teach and engage in archaeology teaching and research, but the qualifications and conditions were not enough, and no one wanted it. Immediately after that, he spent some money to enter museums, archaeological institutes and other research institutions to engage in scientific research activities, but in the end the matter was not completed. In desperation, the mechanical ruler had no choice but to enter the media industry and find a team engaged in archaeological promotional videos to help them produce the column "Exploring the Ancient Civilization of the Earth". ”

"At that time, the mechanical ruler had just joined the team, and like a young man, he was full of enthusiasm and ambition for his new job. He wants to use a camera to record all the ancient civilizations on the earth, and he wants more people in the world to understand all the unsolved mysteries of the earth. So from the Gobi Desert to the tropical rainforest, from underwater ruins to mountaintop wonders, from south to north, from the equator to the poles, everywhere left the footprints of the mechanical ruler. In the process, he met all kinds of foreigners and saw all kinds of customs and customs, but the one that impressed him the most was in a cemetery in a slum in the Philippines. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Jinsong paused, took a short break, and continued, "This one-of-a-kind slum is located in the Shibei Cemetery in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The environment here is much better than that of the poor who live in filthy sewage all day and crawl in a disgusting soup of feces every day. ”

"But that place was full of coffins, and there were things for the dead. Can you imagine what it's like to sleep in a coffin every night? Can you imagine what it feels like to get up and go to the toilet every day, whether morning or night, and feel a pair of cold eyes staring at you behind your back? The children there play with the bones of dead people who they don't know where to find them every day, and there are no lights at night, so they can only light candles for the dead. At night, it was even more gloomy, but fortunately the number of poor people living there was not small, otherwise if it was only a few dozen people, I am afraid that it would not be long before they would go crazy! ”

And at that time, the mechanical ruler hurried to the Philippines in order to shoot a feature film. At the end of the day, I heard that there was a poor kiln with a peculiar geographical location, which was related to the dead. At that moment, the mechanical ruler remembered his previous experience, and suddenly wanted to go to the poor kiln to have a look, maybe because the things he had been exposed to before were all dead people.

"Soon, after arriving at that place, the mechanical ruler saw a bleak and sad picture!"

Two skinny children lay on top of a row of gray stone pavilions, sleeping on their backs. The two children looked to be about six or seven years old, and like the rest of the locals, their complexion was dark brown, shirtless, and they wore a pair of tattered shorts that looked like they had been picked up somewhere. The body is dirty, there is mud everywhere, there are also a lot of black gangsters on the face, barefoot, lying on the coffin.

Behind them, there was a tawny earth dog.

It is no exaggeration to say that the earth dog is much cleaner than the two children at first glance.

The mechanical ruler walked over and looked at the faces of the two sleeping children. Immediately afterwards, he unexpectedly discovered that one of the back parts of the waist had a palm-sized poisonous sore. Because the mechanical ruler was attracted by the pitiful appearance of the two children just now, he didn't notice this poisonous sore at all, which was more eye-catching than the children's faces.

The festering surface of the poisonous sore is already very scary, and the inside of the poisonous sore can be vaguely seen, showing a purple state, and a purple-yellow pus occasionally flows out of the surface, and it is uncomfortable to see the stomach of the mechanical ruler.

What made him even more uncomfortable was that the child's face was a dark gray, and his complexion felt very dull, as if he was shrouded in a black veil.

He had only seen this kind of face on the faces of patients with poor kidney function. For example, patients with severe nephritis and uremia. And the human kidney, as we all know, is a detoxifying organ. So in an instant, the mechanical ruler judged that the child might not have a long life. His kidneys may be completely occupied by poisonous gas and toxins, and for such a poor teenager, unfortunately getting this poisonous sore, it is likely to directly endanger his life!

So he hesitated slightly, and at that moment, while the two children were asleep, he took a photo of the two children sleeping on the coffin.

Immediately afterwards, the mechanical ruler quickly woke up the two teenagers, and then gave them some money within the scope of his ability. Not long after, the mechanical ruler noticed that the young man with poisonous sores had a red birthmark on his neck, which was very eye-catching. Originally, the mechanical ruler planned to stay there that night to learn more about the local situation, but time was not allowed, because the mechanical ruler was leaving the Philippines the next day, so the mechanical ruler left the very special poor kiln with sympathy and regret.

……

Hearing this, I asked, "That young man is not very old, how can he be sure that he is the same person as 'Red Neck'?" ”

Liu Jinsong replied, "If this is the end of the matter, of course I can't call you anymore." I called you this because after the mechanical ruler returned to China, about five years after he went to the Philippines, the red neck appeared again. But you can't imagine what kind of identity he is. ”

"Tell me about it!"

"Have you ever seen the magic of the separation of the human head? There are similar head moves or something! ”

"Looks like I've heard of some!"

As the name suggests, the magic of separating the human head from each other is the magic of separating the head and body of the person being cast from each other under the props of the magician. The principle is that the magician uses the illusion of human vision to create the illusion of separation of the human head and body. When this kind of magic first came out, it was still very scary and very eye-catching. Especially when you look at it on the spot, it adds a thrilling and incredible feeling.

However......

After all, magic is magic, and it can only be performed successfully with the help of magicians' techniques and unique props.

Could it be that the red neck has anything to do with this magic trick?

Liu Jinsong said, "Five years later, the mechanical ruler went to the Philippines again for some reason. At that time, there was a magic troupe that was performing the magic trick of "separation of human heads" in the Philippines, and the mechanical ruler saw that the person who participated in the magic performance at the same time, that is, the person who separated the human head and body, was the red neck! ”

After Liu Jinsong's words were finished, I vaguely felt a sense of déjà vu from the bottom of my heart. On what demon blood.

If we say the magic of separating the human head, it is to divide a "normal person" into two parts in a sealed space, one is the head and the other is the body.

So the supernatural elevator incident that happened in Shanghai at that time was also a large-scale magic trick of separation of human heads?

The difference is that the others perform the magic trick of separation of the human head, using nothing more than a simple cabinet or box. But the place I was in at that time was in a large elevator space.

Could it be ......

What I've experienced is just a magic trick that causes visual errors?

I have to say that Liu Jinsong's words, no matter whether the truth is like this or not, at least he gave me a new enlightenment. Let me have a basic theoretical point that can be traced for the "elevator supernatural incident" I experienced a while ago. Whether this point is correct or wrong, it is much better than being at a loss.

"How is this magic troupe doing now? Is there a picture of the red-necked man in the Magic Troupe? ”

Liu Jinsong said, "The magic troupe has now been disbanded. I have a photo of the magic trick performed at that time, and I can send it to you later, you can confirm it. I think the similarity is as high as 100%! ”

After speaking, Liu Jinsong hung up the phone.

A few minutes later, comparing the photos sent to me by Officer Gao Ze and the several photos sent by Liu Jinsong in succession, Xiao Qicai, Li Mengzhu and others checked them one by one, and they all thought that that person was indeed a red neck.

But......

"The real reason for the disbandment of this magic group seems to be quite weird!" Subsequently, Li Mengzhu seemed to remember something, and said, "I remember that the super group has information about this magic troupe." I'm impressed! ”