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Chapter 37. [Case Seven] New Canopy

If someone asks me a question one day, as a ghost hunter, which horror movie do you think is the scariest? I think the person who asked me this question must have listed it in his mind.

There are several options. If I hit one or a few of them in his mind, it might make him happy for a while. Maybe many people will think of things like "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", "The Grudge", "The Ring", etc.

The movie ranks at the top of the inner horror index, but for me, the first movie that scared me to tears was the scene in the 1983 version of "Journey to the West" when the white-bone demon turned into a bone. But that was after all.

It can’t be considered a horror movie, so what impressed me most was a Japanese monster movie I saw on TV when I was in elementary school. It was about a spider-like monster that liked to kill people’s heads.

Pull it off and put it on your body. The name of the monster is Hiruko.

But when I grew up, especially after I became a teacher, I saw too many things that gave me a sense of fear in real life, and those expressions of film art could no longer attract my attention. This is actually very sad.

One thing, I seem to have a disease called phobia, although I don’t know if there is such a name. I also often watch horror movies, especially when I first started dating Sister Cai, I always like to invite her to

I watched ghost movies together, and from the beginning of the movie, I had been expecting her to hide in my arms out of fear.

In fact, after she found out about my true occupation, we never watched a horror movie together again. And I never thought that the scenes in the first horror movie that Sister Cai and I watched together would actually be real.

Appear in my world.

That movie is from Thailand, and it's called "Ghost". The content of the movie is roughly about a young boy who suddenly transformed into a very good photographer, and then every photo he took during a certain period of time.

There was a vague figure inside. When the figure was connected, he discovered that it was his ex-girlfriend who was gang-raped to death by him and his friends many years ago. And among them, I think the most terrifying thing is a full-grown man.

The female ghost with blood on her face and eyes wide open looked like when she was crawling upside down from upstairs to downstairs. When I saw it with Sister Cai, I laughed it off and said that it seemed quite scary. Who knew that she would be like this many years later?

When the scene appeared so close to me, I couldn't help but laugh.

The incident happened at Beibin Road in Chongqing, a relatively well-known Wangjiang real estate. The victim was a senior manager who was responsible for supervision in a large shopping mall. He seemed to be an official, but to be honest, he was just a part-time worker. And

The previous victims were almost the same. When they encountered problems, they had to go back and forth several times before contacting Hu Zongren through the Xuanyuan Society. But this time it was Hu Zongren who called me to tell me. I didn’t have to do anything like the previous one.

In that way, we received a direct call from someone from Xuanyuan Hui. This also means that the other party has actually known the news of our reconciliation, although we have no ability to find out who is secretly responsible for the relationship between the two of us and Xuanyuan Hui.

Eyeliner, but I am sure that Hu Zongren and I both know this person. If he is not an ignorant fool, he must be a very dangerous person.

So after I received a call from Hu Zongren that day, we made an appointment and we met.

Since this is a commercial community that has not been rented for a long time, it was not difficult for us to find the owner. We just found it after asking the security guards in several buildings. The person who opened the door was a man in his thirties.

The eldest sister, who was in her forties, and standing by the door at the same time, was a tall, thin man with a bald head and a beard. He looked a few years older than the eldest sister. He looked very much like my beloved teacher Li Boqing.

After identifying ourselves, they let us into the house. The eldest sister's surname was Zhu, and her husband's surname was Huang. When eldest sister Zhu saw that Hu Zongren and I were both young people, she couldn't help but show suspicion on her face.

I have long been used to it, so I turned a blind eye to it. For such customers, I always speak as little as possible. I don’t deliberately prove it, but let you understand that I am here to help you eliminate disasters just to make money.

Your money. So when Hu Zongren and I sat down and lit the cigarettes handed over by Mr. Huang, before I had a chance to take a sip of water, I said straight to the point, please tell us as much detail as possible about the situation you encountered this time.

Let’s talk about it.

What I mean is, let’s forget about our polite words and testing each other’s depth. Your expression already told me the answer when we entered the room. After hearing what I said, Sister Zhu and Mr. Huang looked at each other, and Mr. Huang nodded.

Head, so Sister Zhu started to tell us the ins and outs of this matter.

The thing started about a month ago, because I live on a higher floor. On the 22nd floor, even though the lighting is relatively good, the residents on the higher floors always have more trouble with shelter from wind and rain than the residents on the lower floors.

My heart. The community is close to the river, and the river wind blows endlessly in summer. So whenever it rains, if you hang clothes on your balcony, those items near the railing will definitely be wetted by the rain.

Hu Zongren turned sideways, looked at the balcony behind Sister Zhu and said, "Then why don't you install a window or something?" I also followed Hu Zongren's eyes and looked over. The balcony was S-shaped, with the protruding

Some parts will definitely be more susceptible to rain.

Sister Zhu said that when she first moved in a year ago, she did think about installing windows after encountering this problem. However, because the outer edge of the balcony is irregularly wavy, it would be more troublesome to install it, and it would last all day.

If the windows are closed, the air will not circulate, and it will not be easy to dry the clothes you have washed, so the balcony will lose its meaning. I thought to myself, if I were asked to live in a closed environment, I would not want to.

Sister Zhu went on to say that after thinking about it, she thought that since there was no way to install windows, let’s make a rain shelter. This proposal was unanimously approved by the whole family, including her son, who is still in the sixth grade of elementary school. Then she thought, since we all have

If it is installed, then the windows of the entire house can be installed. The balcony is the largest, and even if it is larger, it will only cost a few dollars more. So the family soon found a business that specializes in custom-made awnings. A week later,

An awning has been installed at home.

In the first few days, it happened to rain, and the family realized that they could sleep well without the awning. After installing it, the raindrops hit the plastic sheet awning, making a clanging sound.

The sound was especially loud at night. But they comforted themselves that after all, it rained less often, and the endurance would pass. But more than half a month ago, the moon was sparse that night, and it obviously didn't rain, but in the middle of the night

I heard the sound of dripping on the awning, as if there were water drops hitting it.

Sister Zhu told us that the couple’s bedroom was square, with a small door on the wall near the entrance. Inside the small door was the bathroom of the master bedroom. In the center of the room was their bed, and on the other side was their bed.

There is a window on the side. Since the side where Sister Zhu slept was close to the window, she was easily woken up by the sound that night. She was so sleepy that she thought it was raining again, so she continued to sleep regardless.

When I got up the next morning, I found a small hole in the awning of the bedroom.

After speaking, Sister Zhu stretched out her hand to make a shape, and said that it was only about the size of half a coin, and you couldn't tell it unless you looked carefully. So she asked her husband to call the awning businessman to come over.

He had to rush to work, so he left the matter to his husband. Mr. Huang took over what Sister Zhu said and said that he called the other party to check that day. The other party said that the small hole happened to be between the two plastic plates.

, maybe it was caused by it not being glued firmly during installation. After a while of apology, the other party helped to re-glue the awning. I thought the matter was over, but who knew that night, almost at the same time, the awning appeared.

There was a sound of dripping water, and then when he woke up the next morning, he found that the hole had appeared again. Mr. Huang said that he thought it was a bit troublesome to ask the merchant to make another trip, and he had to wait at home. So he set up a bench.

I stood up and saw that there was a thick layer of glue on the bonding area, which was very sticky, so I reached out and glued it up again, and fiddled with it a few times to make sure it was really glued firmly this time, and then I went out with peace of mind.

Got to work.

But that night, before the first few nights, Mr. Huang recalled that around 11 o'clock at night, it was also a sunny day, and he heard the sound of dripping water again. So Mr. Huang guessed whether it was the air conditioner of the resident upstairs.

Drops of water, because the apartment upstairs is the same as my own home, and the position of the air conditioner cabinet should also be the same. However, because there is a blind spot outside their bedroom, they cannot see the upstairs from the balcony or another bedroom.

The situation, and now that the awning has been installed, it is even more difficult to see. So Mr. Huang climbed the stairs upstairs and knocked on the door of the neighbor upstairs, hoping that they could move the air-conditioning water pipe to a different direction so as not to affect his rest.

But after knocking for a long time, no one opened the door.

Hu Zongren asked, do you know the residents upstairs? Mr. Huang shook his head and said that the occupancy rate in this community is not very high. Many homes are still being renovated and no one lives in them. Everyone is unfamiliar with each other, so they don’t know each other.

Hu Zongren nodded and signaled them to continue. Mr. Huang glanced at Sister Zhu again, and Sister Zhu continued. So from that night on, the couple could only hold on for one more night and wait until tomorrow to find the neighbor upstairs. But the first time

The next day, around 11 o'clock in the evening, the sound of dripping water appeared again. Not only that, Sister Zhu also found something similar to a mop clattering on the awning of her house.

Seeing the cloth strips on the mop head hanging on the edge of the awning, dripping with water. This made Sister Zhu and his wife feel that the upstairs was a bit too much, and they used their own awning as a mop.

There was no place to drain water, and there was no answer when I knocked on the door, so I called the property management to complain.

Sister Zhu said that she got off work early the next day, and then went with the property management to knock on the door of the resident upstairs. However, after knocking on the door for a long time, a message came from the property management's intercom, asking who was with 22-5 now.

Are the owners together? The staff member who was with Sister Zhu said yes. The intercom also said, please tell the owner, after checking, there was no one staying on 23-5.

Sister Zhu yelled at that time and said, how is it possible! The mop was drained until I added the awning. How could there be no one living there? The intercom continued to say that the house has been handed over, but has not been moved in, and has not been registered with the property management for decoration. Our place

There is a key. If you want to go in and check for leaks, come and get the key.

Hu Zongren and I looked at each other and felt a little strange.


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