Part 2: Outwitting Capitol Hill (15) - The Lost Memory Puzzle
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Legend has it that the ghosts of the cemetery gather in front of the statue every year, so there is no grass around the "Black Mourning Queen". Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ Info also says that if you sit on the statue for a night, you will be possessed by a ghost from the cemetery, and the fraternity of a local university uses this as a way to train candidates for membership, and another theory is that if you stare at her face, her eyes will glow red and blind you. In short, there are all kinds of different versions, and if you ask the locals, they will always be able to tell you a few words.
In 1962, a night watchman discovered that the arm of the "Black Mourner" had been secretly cut off during the night. Police found the missing bronze arm in a sheet metal worker's car. The sheet metal worker told the judge that it was Black Wai Ji who cut off his arm and gave it to him. This story has led people to start paying more attention to the Druid Ridge Cemetery. Now, thousands of people sneak into the cemetery every year in search of excitement.
Annoyed by General Agnes' descendants, the statue was donated to the National Museum in 1967.
However, for many years, the Black Mourning Queen has been sealed in the museum and has never been exhibited.
Now only a granite platform remains of the Agnus family statue. But that didn't stop curious visitors from continuing to the cemetery, where they were surprised to find that the grass around the land was beginning to sprout.
Zhou Jia continued to search and retrieved the video files of the "National Haunted Houses" taken by those young people, and there was nothing special about it - the manual camera style and the swaying shots in the dark environment were all deliberately created to create a terrifying and scary atmosphere. Hatti was aware of the police's internal investigation, and that the man "just" fell from the building accidentally, and there was nothing ghostly about it.
Zhou Jia closed the webpage and rubbed his temples, trying to recall the little memory left that night.
Ha asked, "Did you think of anything?"
She pointed to the information in front of her and said, "Didn't you say that there is a blueprint for the mansion built by the Addams couple before the original hotel was built, help me find it." β
Hattie raised an eyebrow: No one had dared to command himself like this before. He smiled helplessly, took out a brown paper bag from the pile of materials, and pulled out the blueprints from it.
Zhou Jia stood up and walked over, and the two worked together, carefully spreading the yellowed design drawings on the carpet in the middle of the hall.
She picked up her phone, stood on a chair, and took pictures one after another. After that, it was sent to Pierre.
After a few minutes, the phone rang.
After she answered, she immediately said, "The drawing I sent you is ......."
It's a pity that Pierre, who is not weird, is not Pierre, he interrupted Zhou Jia's words and asked: "Tut-tut, don't you want me to say hello to Your Excellency my fiancΓ©, the kitten is too interesting!"
Although "......" didn't watch the news, Zhou Jia knew that the report of yesterday's White House dinner must have been flying all over the sky, and Pierre must have hacked into the Internet, and he could see himself and Hattie through the camera, so she sighed helplessly, and she pressed the hands-free button.
"Good day (in French)!Your Royal Highness the Prince, you can't bully my kitten...... Otherwise...... Hum hum ......"
"Kitten?" Hattie frowned, quite displeased with this man who spoke presumptuously and dared to call her "kitten" affectionately, and he asked Zhou Jia, "Who is this person?"
"A friend of mine, I asked him to help look things up. Zhou Jia quickly diverted the topic and said to Pierre on the other end of the phone, "I sent you the blueprint, you compare it with the architectural drawing of the Haye Adams Hotel." β
Hatti suddenly remembered: "I forgot that I have an electronic version of the hotel blueprint, so I asked them to send it right away." β
"Your Royal Highness the Prince is saying that the copy you have on your secretary's computer? β
Hatty raised his eyebrows at Zhou Jia and smiled and made an exaggerated expression, but his heart suddenly became serious. The person on the other end of the phone, who can break through the firewall of his computer, is obviously not an ordinary person, but what people often call a geek and geek, and he is the most powerful kind. He became intent, wanting to see what Zhou Jia and the others were going to do next.
Pierre said: "Okay, I've received it all, it will take a few minutes to process the images, let's talk about it, what are you going to do next?"
"I hit a ghost yesterday!" Zhou Jia said, "in the bathroom of this room, you can help me compare the two blueprints, and that location should be where the old Adams mansion was." β
"No problem, it shouldn't be too long to hand over to the 'chariot'. The sound of keyboard tapping could be heard, and he continued, "Honestly, what the hell?"
"If I'm not mistaken, it must be the ghost of Mrs. Shamrock, and I smell her almonds, and I can't be mistaken. β
"Ahh I heard that she died of potassium cyanide, so the resentment is hard to dissipate and the ghost is not gone?"
"Do you really believe in ghosts?" asked Zhou Jia in surprise.
"Why not? It can't be said that scientists don't believe in ghosts and gods, and besides, the 'ghosts' or 'gods' are just a kind of past cognition, maybe we just don't know the truth, and how many predecessors have encountered the problem of 'God's hand' at the end of their studies. How many scientists are using modern scientific methods to try to verify the existence of souls...... We can't close our horizons, can we?"
Zhou Jia nodded: "That's right. β
Hattie interjected: "What else did you see, what you heard, and tell you what happened, maybe you overlooked something, if you can recall more details, maybe it will be more helpful." β
Zhou Jia let out a long sigh, and she said helplessly: "Actually, what scares me the most is not the ghost, but how I lost consciousness and memory later......"
"No wonder you asked, 'Did I carry you to bed?'. β
Zhou Jia's face turned red, and he quickly turned his gaze to the side.
Hatti looked at her shyness, and felt a little emotional.
Both of them were silent, and Pierre cleared his throat at the right time: "Really, I think His Royal Highness the Prince has a good idea, you try to tell about the situation encountered, maybe it will help." β
Hattie walked up to her, took Zhou Jia's hand, brought her to the comfort of the sofa, put her arm around her shoulders, and asked her to sit down.
"Relax......" he said, "try to breathe deeply......"
Zhou Jia closed his eyes and tried his best to recall the scene of last night: "I went to the bathroom, sat on the floor, read the information given by the teacher for a while, and I don't know where the smell of almonds wafted from......"
The olfactory memory was the most impressive, she felt her heart beat suddenly, and countless memories came flooding back: "The light in the room has dimmed, but I saw a dog by the light projected on the magnetic stripe...... It ran past my eyes, ran into the corner and disappeared, I thought it was ...... Maybe there's a dog!"
She said this with her eyes slightly open and looked at Hatti.
Yes, I thought about whether it would be a means for His Royal Highness the Prince to please the girl, but this thought disappeared in an instant.
She continued: "I stood up and wanted to find the dog...... But suddenly the room became so cold...... It's cold......
Pierre, who was on the phone, took a deep breath and said, "I often hear that with the appearance of ghosts, the room will go into a state of hypothermia...... It's funny. β
Zhou Jia listened to Pierre's words, and suddenly felt a tightness in his stomach, as if he was once again invaded by that oozing coldness.
Suddenly, her whole body was cold.
Zhou Jia is not familiar with "fear". In her thirty-four years of life, one of the most unfamiliar feelings was "fear."
Her hand trembled slightly, but it was tightly covered by Hatty's large, warm hand.
Zhou Jia slowly raised his head, Hattie half-squatted on the edge of the sofa, holding himself with both hands, with a look of concern in his eyes.
A warmth came from the clasped hands, Zhou Jia was like a sleeping beauty sealed in an ice coffin by an evil mage, rescued from the cold demon cave by a brave knight, the blood flow on her body was restored, her eyes were full of irrepressible gratitude, she said softly: "Thank you......"
Hattie didn't expect such a strange thing to happen when he was asleep, looking at this weak and stubborn little woman, this "thank you" was like a heavy fist hammered into the softest part of the heart of this proud son of heaven.
"It was in the corner of the bathroom that she appeared...... She picked up the puppy and just stood...... Standing...... Zhou Jia closed her eyes again and continued, "Just when I thought I must be crazy, she moved, and walked towards me...... When I got closer, I could smell her almonds again...... I froze...... Then I just felt dizzy...... He fainted......"
She stiffened to her feet and walked to her bedroom, where Hattie followed closely. She looked at the painting next to the bed and said, "I don't know how I got back to bed and how I put things back...... My memory is all blank, and I can't figure out what's going on?"
Hatti was stunned for a moment, and thought carefully about what Zhou Jia said - the safe was specially prepared for her, and no one could open it. If she was unconscious, how could something go back to its place on its own.
Zhou Jia turned her head abruptly and said, "No, when I got out of bed, she was in the house." She remembered, "Right at this door, a white shadow flashed......"
She looked at the place where the ghost had been, her legs trembling despite her best restraint.
"I always feel like something is wrong...... Pierre thought for a moment before continuing, "to be honest, I don't know what you've been through, kitten." 'Loss of memory' is not my specialty, you are a doctor yourself, calm down and analyze it yourself!"
Pierre was right, all this was wrong, it was not possible to sort out the chaotic thoughts, Zhou Jia knew that he had to calm down now in order to recover the lost memory fragments and piece together a complete puzzle.
"There are two situations that cause amnesia - brain trauma or heart amnesia, and I can be sure that I didn't have a head injury, so it's not the former, it's the latter. Her voice grew calmer, as if analyzing someone else's situation, "I just can't remember what happened in the next few hours after the ghost appeared. This is explained as selective amnesia and is psychologically motivated. β
Pierre shrugged and said, "Please, seeing that is a huge shock to anyone, and you are the kind of person who is very yourself, and you have amnesia or something...... It's really possible ......"
Zhou Jia snorted, and then said, "However, I'm very curious, why did she appear? Why did I see this again?"
Pierre deliberately said in a strange tone: "I don't know anything else, but according to the world, ghosts haunt the house and linger ghosts, which is a kind of resentment." I checked, she was forty-two years old when she died, and it happened to be the thirteenth year of marriage.
After a long blank period, Zhou Jia said firmly: "People don't commit suicide for no reason, I want to check it." β
Hatty's eyes looked his fiancΓ©e up and down, just a few minutes ago, he thought she was so weak and pitiful, but now she suddenly changed back to the appearance of a strong woman.
"Maybe solving the mystery of why she committed suicide so suddenly will give you back your memory?"
This is exactly what Zhou Jia thinks in his heart, how to say that Pierre is also an old acquaintance with her, and this tacit understanding is still there.
"Kitten, where are you going to start?"
Hatti reminded: "I told you that she died very suddenly, and many people thought it was strange at the time, otherwise there would not have been rumors flying all over the world back then, and her husband's behavior was also abnormal. β
Zhou Jia thought about it for a long time and said, "That dog!"
"Dog?" said Hattie and Pierre in unison, something they hadn't expected.
"It's just a thought of mine, because that dog should be a ghost, too. β
Pierre was already working on the computer. The chariot is a multi-screen computer, on one screen, the photos of the design of the old Adams mansion sent by Zhou Jia are being spliced and processed, and on the other screen, the chariot is searching for all the information related to the haunted and the Addams family according to the preset keywords.
The new screen flickered, thousands of files and photos from web pages flashed at high speed, and the "Dididi" chariot made a crisp sound to remind that the command had been completed. Pierre saw that the design drawing had been processed, and he immediately dragged the drawing into another software, where the two drawings would be compared, and you could see where the presidential suite where Zhou Jia and them were now located was the location of the old mansion.
"Dididi!" came again. The search command for the "dog" that I had just entered was surprisingly fast.
The message points to Marianne's father, Robert Hooper, the most famous doctor in Boston of his time, who was a Harvard graduate, but he is best known for the fact that during his more than 30 years of medical practice, most of his patients were treated free of charge, and people called him "Doctor of Love." (To be continued.) )