Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 337: Chestnut Cake

What Zhang Dingshan said was extremely solemn.Aware of his seriousness, the security guards who carried out this mission also felt awe-inspiring.

People have heard of the abnormal suicide case in Blue Lake City.And the three people in front of them are investigators sent by their superiors.They said it could be life-threatening, and of course it was true.

as well as……

Looking at it like this, the three people sent from above seem to have some important clues?
The security guards were both nervous and excited.

With the assistance of the local security station responsible for the security of Nanlin Street, an investigation was carried out quietly.

Nanlin Street has a lot of people turnover here.The restaurant opens and closes down, closes down and opens up again, today this boss will take over, and tomorrow another boss will take over, the turnover is frequent.The same is true for the old residents. Some of them came to live here for a few months, and left after a while, and some opened their own shops.To investigate who has stayed here for a long time, it is not enough to rely on file inquiries alone, and on-the-spot investigations are necessary.

So this year's floating population screening operation started ahead of schedule.

Such actions are carried out by the Nanlin Street Public Security Station every year.Anyone who has stayed in Nanlin Street for a long time knows it well.

It's just that this time, more elite soldiers and strong generals quietly added in, and entered the front line of investigation.And the investigation process is more formal, and the attitude is better when communicating with merchants and residents.

This was specifically requested by Zhang Dingshan.

In case a security officer's rude attitude provokes the hidden murderer and loses his life for no apparent reason, it's not worth it.

The entire investigation process lasted for three days.During these three days, every merchant, every tenant, and every household was checked in a dragnet style.And in accordance with the order of the second action team, the security officers also traced back to the past year during the investigation.

Such a huge operation hardly attracted the attention of unrelated personnel on the bright side.Nanlin Street is still full of traffic and crowds.Each store is still full of customers during peak hours.

Three days later, all the investigation materials were gathered here at the Blue Lake City Public Security Bureau.After screening with the previous restrictions, soon, a person's file was placed in front of the three members of the second action team.

There are tens of thousands of permanent residents in the entire Nanlin Street, and this person is the only one who meets the screening criteria.

This person is called Wang Quan.

Zhang Dingshan, Lu Ming, and He Wei looked at Wang Quan's photos and information on the screen with solemn expressions.

On the screen, Wang Quan is a middle-aged man with a slightly ugly appearance.

He has small eyes, thinning hair, an upturned nose and pockmarked face.He is short in stature, only 1.6 meters, thinner, and weighs only 53 kilograms.46 years old, primary school education, unmarried.There is only one sister in the family.

His parents have passed away.The only elder sister married to another city, and she had a bad relationship with him. She broke up with him almost 20 years ago after a big fight.

Wang Quan is an old resident of Nanlin Street. His family has an old house on Nanlin Street, but it is not facing the street and has limited commercial value.It is now in disrepair and dilapidated.

He does not have a proper job, and currently sells a snack called "chestnut cake" for a living.He made chestnut cakes at home, and he pushed a small food truck to the street to sell them during the peak dining hours on Nanlin Street.

A side survey showed that Wang Quan was introverted and eccentric, and basically did not communicate with others.

With Nanlin Street becoming a gourmet street, its popularity is increasing day by day, and the old residents of Nanlin Street have made a fortune one by one.Even if you don't have a serious business, you can rent out your house to open a shop and restaurant, and you can live a good life on the rent alone.It can be said that Wang Quan's life is so miserable, and his standard of living is even lower than that of ordinary people.

Such a person... could the murderer be him?
Looking at Wang Quan's ugly face, Lu Ming had some doubts in his heart.

In his mind, after mastering this kind of supernatural power that can make people commit suicide, even an ordinary person can use this ability to live a prosperous life without any hidden dangers with a little bit of thinking.

In fact, Lu Ming was already mentally prepared to find out a certain invisible rich man.He really didn't expect that the person who was finally found out was such a person at the bottom of society.

Single, no children, no stable income, living in a dilapidated house, no matter how you look at it, you are at the bottom of the class, right?

How could it be so miserable?
Could it be a mistake?
"Check first and then talk."

Zhang Dingshan made a decision.

"Yes."

The investigation of Wang Quan is still extremely careful and secretive.Zhang Dingshan gave the death order, no matter what, he must not be alarmed or let him know that someone is investigating him.

After all, he has not been cleared of suspicion and has the possibility of mastering supernatural power.

When formulating the investigation plan, the security officers found that Wang Quan's stall had a roughly fixed location.And not far from his booth, there is a surveillance probe managed by the Public Security Bureau.It's just that the performance of this monitoring probe is limited, and it is not clear to take pictures.

With a phone call, Zhang Dingshan transferred a super-high-performance monitoring probe from other places and installed it directly.Not only that, Zhang Dingshan also asked Lu Qingliang to contact a cutting-edge acoustics laboratory, and found a high-performance directional radio that was not available on the market and belonged to the category of customization.

This receiver can adjust the aiming direction by itself.Once aligned, even in a noisy environment, the farthest can capture the normal voice of people talking and communicating 100 meters away in this direction.

Under normal circumstances, the distance between Wang Quan's booth and the monitoring probe and radio will not exceed 50 meters.In this way, both Wang Quan's image and sound will be fully captured.

Having settled down Wang Quan's "work place", the security officers also made corresponding arrangements for Wang Quan's residence.

Wang Quan lives in an ordinary small courtyard that is basically no different from a farmyard.On the street where Wang's family went to work, security officers also installed hidden monitoring and radio devices.

On the outer wall of his house—this belongs to another family, it is basically impossible to install things here, and it also installs invisible radios that can be eavesdropped on the wall.High-performance surveillance equipment is installed on the building that is [-] meters away from his house in a straight line, which can directly shoot into the courtyard and windows of his house.

As for the interior of Wang's family, no arrangements have been made for the time being.He Wei once suggested that when Wang Quan was not around, sneak in and install wiretapping and monitoring equipment in every room of him, but after thinking about it, Zhang Dingshan still rejected the proposal.

The reason is very simple. Before Wang Quan has supernatural power is ruled out, entering his room without authorization may have unfathomable risks.

For now, it is still important to be safe.

Thus, such a network of heaven and earth was constructed.And Wang Quan should be completely unaware of all this.

In the early morning of the second day after completing all this, three members of the second operation team came to the monitoring room.

During the monitoring, through the window, a high-performance camera captured Wang Quan still sleeping on the bed.After a while, he rolled over and got up.After that, I ate something casually, and then I started to work in the kitchen.

The steamer, dough, eggs, chestnuts, etc. are all ready.Obviously, he was going to start making chestnut cakes.

Lu Ming noticed that Wang Quan did not use the natural gas delivered by the municipal system to make chestnut cakes, but the atmospheric tanks he bought himself.

Inquiring about the municipal natural gas system, Lu Ming saw that Wang's family had been connected to natural gas, and there was no arrears.Why use a gas tank? Lu Ming guessed that it might be because the natural gas firepower is not strong enough.

It was busy till noon, and the fluffy and soft chestnut cake was finished.

The chestnut cake is one board by one board, one meter long, about 60 centimeters wide, and about ten centimeters thick.When it's time to sell, he will use a knife to cut it into cubes with a length of about one decimeter, and sell them piece by piece.

On this day, he produced two boards.If you sell it, you can make 120 copies.The price of one copy was set at 7 yuan by Wang Quan.If you buy 3 yuan, you will get one yuan discount, 20 yuan.

If they are all sold out, he can sell them for about 800 yuan.Excluding the cost, it looks like I can earn about 350 yuan.

This income seems to be not bad.However, according to previous surveys, Wang Quan usually can't sell so much in a day, and sometimes the weather is bad and he can't sell the stalls, so his income is a bit unstable.On average, I can only earn less than 5000 yuan a month.

But he is a bachelor, and the money is enough for him to live on.

After making the chestnut cake, he moved it to the small dining car. Before going out, Wang Quan washed out the water from steaming the chestnut cake and went out with a sewage bucket.

Not far from his door is the sewer.But instead of pouring the water into the sewer, he poured it directly on the right side of the door.

The concrete road, which was already full of potholes, suddenly became muddy.

After that, he put the bucket into the house, pushed the small dining cart, and walked towards Nanlin Street on the left side of the door.

He Wei frowned.

"This man has no sense of public morality. Wouldn't it be better to walk a few more steps? You have to pour water there."

Wang Quan went to Nanlin Street to set up a stall. After a while, the door of Wang Quan's neighbor's house opened, and three young girls in the uniform of XX Hot Pot Restaurant went out together and also went to Nanlin Street.

Seeing a big puddle of sewage and mud in front of them, the three little girls were immediately unhappy.

According to preliminary investigations, Wang Quan's neighbor's house has been rented out, and the tenants are these three little girls.

The rent of this kind of farmhouse is very low, which is very suitable for those who come to work in Nanlin Street and those with poor economic conditions.

Their conversation was transmitted to the monitoring room through a high-performance radio, and was heard by the three of Zhang Dingshan and the rest of the security guards.

"This is too unqualified."

"Yeah, can you die if you walk a few more steps?"

"It's like this every day! It's so annoying."

"Xiao Li, let's go find him! He sells chestnut cakes at a stall not far from the street."

"Yes, make trouble with him! It's so unqualified!"

The two little girls were filled with righteous indignation, and they wanted to ask Wang Quan for an explanation.The other girl, who looked the most mature and stable, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Let's go, that person looks weird, in case he goes crazy..."

"Why are you so timid, there are three of us, and he is one, are you still afraid of him?"

"It still doesn't work. I heard him sharpening the knife in the middle of the night several times... It's terrible. Let's bear with it, save some money, and let's live in another place."

"..."

The three little girls chattered for a while, and finally decided to put up with it and suffer some grievances.

So the three of them carefully chose a place without mud and bypassed here.

It's almost midday peak time.The number of people on Nanlin Street gradually increased, and Wang Quan also welcomed his first customer today.

"How do you sell the chestnut cake?"

Wang Quan squinted at the customer, then pointed to the sign next to him.

"Bring me three."

Then came the second, and the third...

Everything was normal until the noon peak passed.

Wang Quan's business seems to be going well today.After noon, the first chestnut cake was almost sold out, with only five yuan left.

Another person bought three yuan, leaving only two yuan.

At this time, a man and a woman who seemed to be lovers came over.When the girl saw Wang Quan's booth, she came over excitedly and said, "Bring me three yuan."

Wang Quan glanced at the girl, lowered his head, and took the chestnut cake in silence.

In addition to the two pieces of chestnut cake left before, there was one piece missing.But Wang Quan did not remove the cloth on the second chestnut cake, but took another piece of chestnut cake from under the cart.

The girl suddenly became unhappy: "When did this happen? It's all dry, I don't want it, you cut it for me from this new piece."

Wang Quan whispered: "They are all the same, and they are all delicious."

"It's all dry, can it be delicious? I don't want this!"

"This big piece hasn't been cut yet, it's not worth cutting just one piece... just take this one, it's the same."

"Whether it's worth it or not is up to you. Are you selling it or not? If not, I don't want it."

"It's all the same thing, you have to ask me to cut new ones?"

Wang Quan's voice was a little bad.

"I don't want to, can I? Hmph, let's go."

A man and a woman turned and left.

Wang Quan instantly became excited.

"You can't go! You look down on people, don't you? Bully people? Isn't it great to be rich? Bullying me to be poor? Are you playing me?"

His face was distorted, and his eyes were full of fierce light, as if he had been wronged by something, and he looked like a wild beast.

The boy also became angry: "How do you talk? Who bullied you? If you don't sell it, we don't buy it? Why do you bully people?"

"I'm all pretending and you don't want it. Isn't it bullying? Is it easy for me to set up a small stall? You bully me if you think I'm poor? You bully me if you think I'm thin or short? You rich people Not a single good thing!"

Wang Quan screamed indiscriminately, and even picked up a knife under his excited expression.Although there is no intention to kill people for the time being, it is quite scary.

The boy showed no fear, and was about to continue to distinguish, but the girl calmed down.She grabbed the boy and said hastily, "Uncle, don't get excited, let's buy it, can't we buy it?"

"Xiaoqing, don't be afraid of him! He..."

The girl strangled the boy desperately to stop him from speaking, then hurriedly took out 20 yuan and put it on Wang Quan's dining car, grabbed the three chestnut cakes and left.

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