Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 331 Validity

The story of old man Liu Baohua is over.

Lu Ming feels that this story cannot be made up by the old man himself.Of course, there may be elements of fiction and personal processing, but the overall framework should be credible, or have reference value.

Then based on this story, if we interpret the situation at this moment, the truth will be obvious.

The archway was demolished, and the ghosts came out of the cage, causing trouble and killing people.

Lu Ming didn't believe this statement.But he also knows that behind some seemingly absurd stories, the truth is often hidden.Because the story may be false, but the logic is true.At worst, this story is also very likely to contain some enlightenment, which can point some paths to the truth.

"Master, thank you. It turns out that this custom here on Nanlin Street came about like this."

Lu Ming thanked old man Liu Baohua repeatedly.It was not easy for someone to listen to him babbling so much fully and with great interest, and the old man Liu Baohua was also very happy.

"It's okay, it's okay, what else do you want to know, just ask me, sir. I know everything and talk about it."

Lu Ming and the others asked a few more details before leaving.

Back at the internal office specially assigned to the three by the Public Security Bureau, Zhang Dingshan looked at He Wei: "What is the specific situation of the Wu family boy's case?"

"The records of the Public Security Bureau are the same as Uncle Liu said, suicide. The reason for suicide is both emotional and economic factors."

The so-called relationship, of course, means that the daughter-in-law divorced and changed her surname with other people's children, and economic factors mean that she owes gambling debts.

"The Public Security Bureau also arrested those who lent usury to Wu Biao at that time, and each punished them. Those people also confessed to the process of demanding debt from Wu Biao."

"Is there any doubt?"

"Judging from the dossier, no. The dossier is solid and of high quality."

The local Public Security Bureau obviously had no problem handling this matter.Action Two could not have asked for more from them.

Even if another super-skilled detective comes in, for Wu Biao's case, he can only come to the conclusion of suicide in the end.After all, there was no trace of homicide at the scene.There are too many reasons for the deceased to commit suicide.

But combined with Mr. Liu's statement, this conclusion seems a bit unreliable.

"Let's visit the old neighbors and residents on Nanlin Street at that time. One is to verify Wu Biao's suicide case, and the other is to verify the Eight Diagrams Mirror. Lu Ming, go and check the archway."

"Yes."

Of course, the second team of the operation will not rely solely on the words of one family.Multi-party verification, multi-party confirmation, mutual comparison, and mutual confirmation are the most basic principles.

After that, the three began to split up.

Zhang Dingshan and He Wei are mainly responsible for verification in reality, that is, interviewing witnesses, asking insiders and so on.Lu Ming is mainly responsible for searching for evidence from historical records, documents and archives.

Generally speaking, for a building like an old archway, as long as the history is long enough, there are decades or hundreds of years, it will be recorded in history or archives.The same is true for Nanlin Street Archway.

According to the old man Liu Baohua, this archway has a history of at least a hundred years, and there must be many places where it is recorded in historical materials or files.

Lu Ming came to the archives, and started searching the internal database with the word "archway" as the keyword.

Within the area of ​​Blue Lake City, relevant information about hundreds of archways that still exist or have been demolished immediately appeared.

Over the past hundred years, the vicissitudes of life, historical changes, place names and administrative divisions have also undergone tremendous changes.Just like the current Blue Lake City, there was no such thing as a small fishing village before.The area of ​​Nanlin Street used to be called Wushui Town, which was under the jurisdiction of Wu County.

Lu Ming limited the search area to Wushui Town, and after searching for a while, he found the record about "Zhou Family Archway".

According to the county records of Wu County, there is a large Zhou family in Wushui Town, with thousands of acres of fertile land and hundreds of fishing boats. They both farm and fish. Wealthy and powerful, it can be called the hegemony of Wushui Town.His eldest son has even reached the level of a county magistrate when he is an official outside.

But later, the Zhou family encountered some accidents, and the family situation began to decline.

In the county annals, what happened to Zhou's family was vague, and they didn't say it clearly. They only mentioned one point, saying that his eldest son was convicted and imprisoned, and the family had "frequent visions". To pray for blessings, Zhou's family built a memorial archway.

But after the archway was erected, it is not known whether the situation of the Zhou family has improved.

But that's okay too.At least these materials have shown that the Zhou family really existed, and this archway was indeed built.

Some of the following materials, etc., also involve the existence of this archway.In those records, this Zhou family archway even became a landmark building in a certain sense.When it comes to some agreed places, it is "meet Zhou's archway", or "at a certain time on a certain day of the month, see or leave Zhou's archway" and the like.

This also corroborates its construction time and builder.

Other travel notes, notes, records, etc. that do not involve the archway occasionally mention that the Zhou family in Wushui Town was "unkind to the rich" and "oppressed the village".

From these records, Lu Ming can be sure that at least this Zhou family used to be the hegemony of Wushui Town, but the family tradition was bad, oppressed the village, and later the family fell into ruin, and the Zhou family memorial archway was built.

As for whether there are so-called throwing corpses, retaliation for wronged souls, blessings from ancestors, changing fate against the sky, I don't know.

After looking through the records in the earlier era, the subsequent records are much clearer and more formal.It began to appear frequently in official documents, not only as a landmark, but also in documents such as survey and protection and cultural relic assessment.

It was ultimately not recognized as an antiquity, and officials deemed it of little conservation value.

In the end, along with the official document of "Reply on Demolition of the Zhou Family Archway in Nanlin Street" issued by the Blue Lake City, it ushered in the fate of being demolished.

According to the document, after investigation, the existence of the Zhou Family Archway on Nanlin Street has already hindered the traffic to a certain extent, and has a negative impact on the decision to plan Nanlin Street as a food and leisure street.And after investigation, Zhou's archway has been in disrepair for a long time, and there is a risk of collapse.Based on the above considerations, it was decided to remove it.

It was eventually torn down, turned into a pile of garbage, and shipped to the landfill.

So far, Lu Ming has figured out its past and present lives to a certain extent.

Back in the internal conference room, Zhang Dingshan and He Wei also finished their investigation.

"We interviewed some old residents on Nanlin Street and asked about Zhou's Memorial Archway. The stories told by several insiders are roughly similar to the old man Liu Baohua. There are only some differences in details, but they can be ignored."

Lu Ming also said: "I have inquired about the records of the Zhou family archway, which also partly corroborates the old man Liu Baohua's statement."

The three had a detailed exchange and exchanged the information they had obtained.

"Based on common sense, the Zhou family was rich and unkind at the time, oppressing the villagers to the point that the possibility of ignoring human life did exist, even very high. Combined with the changes in the Zhou family's circumstances at the time, their motivation for building this archway was indeed very strong. It may be to change the fate of the family. From this point of view, it is quite possible that the old man Liu Baohua said that this archway is to suppress the wronged souls."

It doesn't matter whether it is effective, whether it can really suppress the wronged souls, or whether it can really change the fate of the family, but the motivation of the Zhou family to build this archway at that time is indeed very likely to be the case.

This logically provides support for the old man Liu Baohua's follow-up statement that "when the archway is demolished, the ghosts will come out to make trouble".

"I noticed that before the archway was built, there were many records of the Zhou family's rich and unkind deeds in various township annals, county annals, notes, legends and other materials. After the archway was built, the records of negative news about the Zhou family did gradually decrease. And, the final ending of the Zhou family, until the establishment of the world government, did end up as an ordinary wealthy family.

From this point of view, the construction of the archway seems to be the node of the Zhou family's family style change.This in turn seems to prove the influence of the construction of the archway on the fate of the Zhou family. "

If a memorial archway can indeed affect the fate of a family, then it naturally makes sense that the archway can suppress evil spirits.

Zhang Dingshan shook his head: "When looking at historical materials, one should not only look at the small environment, but also look at the big environment. The Zhou family's era, the big environment has changed."

Lu Ming was taken aback for a moment, and then thought about it.

At that time, the current situation was changing rapidly, and it was on the eve of changes in the overall social environment.It is also possible that the Zhou family was aware of this change. In order to protect themselves, they took the initiative to change themselves, and it has nothing to do with whether to build an archway?
This is also possible.

He Wei interjected: "We have no way of knowing the truth about what happened so long ago, and I don't think there is any need to investigate the truth. As long as we believe that the Zhou family built this archway, there is indeed a certain possibility that it was based on 'suppressing ghosts. The purpose of "the wronged soul" is enough."

Lu Ming nodded, agreeing with He Wei's statement.

"Okay. Next is Wu Biao's suicide case.

After interviews and investigations, it cannot be said that there are doubts about Wu Biao's suicide case, but there are indeed some rumors.

First of all, this Wu Biao is indeed just like the old man Liu Baohua said, he is a typical bum.His father died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and his mother died of cancer. Strictly speaking, these two diseases are indeed related to being in a bad mood for a long time.

There are rumors that Wu Biao's parents died of anger, but it is not without wind and waves.

Wu Biao really likes to drink, likes to gamble, has no stable source of income, and often domestically abuses his wife.In the end, his wife and children were separated, and he was alone, and it was inevitable that he owed a large amount of gambling debts.

Based on his "loafer" personality, his suicide aroused suspicion and rumors among the neighbors, and it did have a certain basis in reality.

It's just this kind of thing, how should I put it.Although from a psychological point of view, this kind of person will generally not commit suicide, but it is hard to guarantee that this kind of person also has some psychological softness?

Anyway, can't be sure.Speaking of abnormalities, there may indeed be abnormalities, but they are only possible.It is normal to say that it is normal.

As for those suicides by dogs, geese, and rats, a few people said they had heard of them, but they said that only the old man Liu Baohua had seen them with their own eyes.There is no way to be sure about this kind of thing. "

It is normal to have deviations in the memory of more than ten years.Sometimes this kind of deviation is not even noticed by the parties themselves.

Besides, in more than ten years, the rumors have long been distorted to the point where it is impossible to restore the truth.

Lu Ming let out a sigh of relief.

"So overall, the possibility of 'the archway built by Zhou's family to suppress innocent people, but it was dismantled in recent years, and a ghost came out, possessed and killed Wu Biao' is currently neither certain nor negable. We can keep an open mind for the time being.

In the follow-up, influenced by this story, almost every store in Nanlin Street has a gossip mirror, but this is reality.

Then, under the premise that there are a large number of abnormal suicides in Blue Lake City, we can start with 'verifying whether the placement of the gossip mirror is effective' to investigate. "

"I agree."

It is very simple to verify whether placing the Bagua mirror has any effect.It is enough to collect suicide data on Nanlin Street in the past ten years.

This data was quickly placed in front of the three members of the second action team.

The number of permanent resident population plus working population in Nanlin Street is actually not large, only less than 4.And this number is increasing year by year, that is to say, in the past years, the permanent population and working population of Nanlin Street were smaller.

Based on the calculation of 10 suicides per 12.6 people last year, it is normal for about 4 people to commit suicide every year among the 5 people.

Statistics show that three people committed suicide on Nanlin Street ten years ago, four people committed suicide nine years ago, three people eight years ago, and 4, 5, 4, 6, 7, 6, 5, 7 people.

This number is roughly in line with statistics.

Overall, the numbers show a slow growth trend.But this also coincides with the year-on-year population growth of Nanlin Street.

Can't tell from the numbers.

However, the three members of the second action team did not pay attention to normal suicide cases.What they focus on is unjustified suicides.

"There are a total of 54 suicide cases, and they will be screened to see if there are any abnormal suicide cases."

"it is good."

The files of these 54 suicide cases were quickly transferred.The three of them flipped through it and saw that, at least from the top of the file, there was nothing unreasonable.

This is also normal.After all, apart from being too obviously unreasonable, for the rest, a person who commits suicide can always find some reason to explain this behavior.

Human life cannot be smooth sailing, there will always be setbacks.Once the person commits suicide, the frustration becomes a justification.

If you want to know whether a person's suicide is reasonable or not, you have to make a comprehensive judgment based on his living environment, personality, psychological quality and other reasons.

This requires further field investigation.

The three members of the second team of the operation each led a team of security officers and invested in the screening of a total of 54 suicide cases.

(End of this chapter)