So Hu Zongren and I faced the direction of the two ghosts, then moved backward to the edge of the guardrail, and then slowly moved towards the exit. During the movement, the two ghosts were gradually blocked by the guardrail.
, so when we couldn't see them, we were actually only a few meters away from the exit. When we walked to the exit, I was surprised to find that the candle that was lit on the ground earlier had fallen down and
It went out. We know the original length of the candle, so judging from the length, it should have been not long after we entered the inner hall. It was probably when I was scratched on the neck by the ghost that the candle went out and fell.
Hu Zongren picked up the candle and opened the door without looking at it carefully. After the two of us walked out, Hu Zongren quickly closed the door. It didn't mean much whether it was locked or not. Then Hu Zongren took out the candle and opened it again.
Relighted and glued to the outside of the rope tack I knotted earlier.
I asked Hu Zongren, do you have any thoughts now? Hu Zongren said, have you noticed the water on the two ghosts? I said of course I noticed it. It was so obvious that these two guys might have drowned. Appeared in this
In the cinema, he probably watched a movie here on the day of his death, and judging from our current situation, that movie was probably "Cape No. 7".
Hu Zongren said, but wasn’t this movie made several years ago? I said yes, so these two ghosts should have been dead for at least two years, because this movie was made in 2008. Hu Zongren said, but
There is a child. Which parent would take such a young child to watch movies and love movies? I nodded and said to Hu Zongren, this is also the last thing I can figure out. Hu Zongren
I didn't say anything, so I continued my analysis. I told Hu Zongren, you also know that people who die in water often cannot achieve transcendence because of the confinement effect of the water itself, so this kind of ghost accompanying the death environment,
For example, they are more difficult to communicate with dripping water on their bodies, and their obsessions are often very deep.
I saw that Hu Zongren didn't understand, so I explained that if he drowned while going swimming, then about half of the chances were that he met a water ghost and found a substitute, and the other half was because of bad luck. And since they
Being able to appear in the form of ghosts means that they were not killed by water ghosts. In addition, these two people were wearing clothes, but no shoes. The child's clothes were even close to the clothes of this season. Let me ask this
In this kind of weather, how many people can go swimming in the water? Let alone swimming with clothes on. I didn’t wear shoes because I probably lost them when I jumped in the water. If I’m not wrong,
The child should have drowned first, and then the woman went to save the child, and both of them drowned.
Hu Zongren nodded first, then shook his head and said to me, that doesn't seem right. If he died for the reason you mentioned, there would be no reason to come back to watch a movie after such a long time. I thought about it.
That's right, but I really don't know why. According to my current speculation, the most I can think of is this.
Hu Zongren said, otherwise, because now we can be sure that only this ghost and that movie are definitely connected, then we will go find Mr. Li and ask him to check that they will start adding midnight theaters in their cinemas.
Before the show, there must have been time for this movie in all the scheduled scenes. I immediately understood what Hu Zongren meant. He wanted to say that because this was a movie that had already been released, usually movie theaters would not do it in order to make money.
When playing low-end movies, they will choose new movies that are currently in theaters. And as Mr. Li just said, they have opened midnight screenings just recently. Although it may not always be these movies, it is exactly
The theater was haunted because it was scheduled to start at the time of this movie. If we could check the movie theater's earlier schedule during the official release of "Cape No. 7", we would be able to go to the theater based on that time.
Learn something about what happened during that time.
So we called Mr. Li. As expected, he was too timid to stay alone in the office, so we had to go outside to find him, and then went back to the office with him. In the office, he quickly passed the search
He found the original show schedule through various methods, and he told us that except for the period when it was being shown, the movie was only played again after the midnight show was recently opened, and it was not shown at other times during this period.
passed this movie.
So this almost confirms the death time of these two ghosts. Before that, the movie was screened in this cinema on February 14, 2009, and it was released 20 days later. That means these two ghosts
The time of death was within 20 days from February 14th to early March 2009. So I said to Mr. Li, please let me borrow your computer. Mr. Li stood up and I started to use his computer.
My computer tried to combine several keywords, such as "2009, drowning, Chongqing" or "2009, February, drowning", but I couldn't find it after searching for a long time. No matter how small a matter of human life is, it is a big deal.
, and such a small child drowned, this will definitely be recorded by the media, but I don’t understand why it can’t be found. At this time, Hu Zongren said to me, this place is closest to the water source that can drown people.
Where? I suddenly woke up, so I changed the keywords a little, clearly wrote the place name, and then searched again, and a few people's livelihood news actually popped up.
I checked the time and found that it was very consistent with this case, and the deceased who were rescued happened to be two people, one large and one small. It was just out of respect for the deceased in the press release, and netizens may not be able to accept it.
It was a photo of a dead person, so the body was actually mosaic-ed, but I noticed that the child's body, although the clothes on the belly were slightly lifted, the skin also looked a bit black and blue because it had been soaked in cold water for too long.
But I could clearly distinguish that the deceased child in the photo was dressed exactly the same as the child who grabbed my hand in the screening room just now. I said to Hu Zongren, I found it, it must be these two people. So we started reading.
The content of the news was indeed very different from my guess. It was not that the child accidentally fell into the water, but that he committed suicide. And what I find particularly unacceptable is that in this bizarre suicide, it was the mother who jumped into the water with her child in her arms.
And die.
After reading the news report, I felt it was a bit hard to accept, but soon we also understood the reason why she took her child with her to seek death. At the bottom of the news report, there was a crying man. The man looked very thin.
His hair was neatly combed, and he looked about 40 years old. From the messy beard, it could be seen that he had not shaved for several days. Although he looked very haggard, he was well-dressed. It was not difficult to tell that,
He was a man who had some achievements in his career. The content of the press release was that a couple had a quarrel and after watching a movie on Valentine's Day, the woman went home and threw herself into the river with her child in her arms. The female deceased was not yet young.
By the age of thirty, since they are a couple, it means that the two are not married, but they have a child. Is this child the woman's child from a previous marriage? The press release did not say that.
I have mentioned many times before that committing suicide is a serious sin, and if one does not have a strong obsession with committing suicide, it will basically not go to that point. Therefore, many people make angry remarks and talk about committing suicide.
It's impossible to settle things like this. People who die by suicide will definitely be more guilty than those who die in other ways. Hu Zongren and I don't like to come into contact with suicide ghosts because we want to send them away.
If they don't resolve their obsession from the root, it will usually be very difficult. But the child did not commit suicide. It was even said that he was killed by his own mother, although children of this age may not have any problems.
Obsession, but why has he never left?
I quickly figured out why. I asked Hu Zongren, do you still remember the child holding his mother's hand in the screening room just now? Hu Zongren nodded and said, remember, what's wrong? I said, do you think it is possible that he died?
The lost mother missed her child too much, so she kept her child by her side. This seemingly caring approach was an invisible constraint for the child, making him unable to find the path he should take, leading to
Now I can't keep those I want to keep, and I can't leave those I want to leave. So when I thought about this, I decided to send that child away no matter what. As for its mother, the female ghost, she died of suicide after all.
It's harder to say.
I sorted through the clues I got and discussed with Hu Zongren. We feel that the sad man with mosaic eyes in the photo may be the only person in the world who knows the whole truth. We need to find him, and
To resolve this obsession, I can only let him come in person, because I really don’t want to do anything to these two poor ghosts. But since it was news more than a year ago, even if the police station investigated the cause of death at that time,
This man had left his contact information. After all, it had been so long. It was really difficult to find it. So I thought about it and decided to call the media source of this news directly and bet my luck if the reporter at the check-in desk was still there.
If he works for this media, then maybe he can still recall the situation when he wrote this press release.
So I started to look up the 24-hour news hotline of this media on the Internet. Generally, regular newspapers will have a number specially designed to provide news clues to the people. After calling it, after a burst of ringtone-like music, an operator answered the phone.
"Hello, we are the news hotline of XX newspaper. How can we help you?"
"Hello, I want to contact your reporter Ran immediately. I have exclusive news to tell only him."