At around nine o'clock at night, Sanpang and I took his car and arrived at a community in Donghai City.
I looked up at the house number above, Room 501, and I confirmed that this was indeed our goal this time, the home of "Laughing at the Football World".
Ever since he learned that the video of "Laughing at the Football World" could not be uploaded, Sanpang became more and more certain that it was a supernatural incident. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, he decided to go to the home of "Laughing at the Football World" overnight to confirm it with his own eyes.
Let’s check the authenticity of that football game video.
The intelligence center of Bureau 749 not only has the function of collecting intelligence, but can also directly query the internal information of various domestic institutions. By investigating the forum IP, the three fat men followed the clues and quickly locked the true identity of "Laughing at the Football World". His real name
My name is Zheng Lei, a native of Donghai, male, 28 years old, currently alone, living in a community in Donghai, not far from us.
When we stood at the door of Zheng Lei's house, there were clearly deafening sounds of the game coming from the door. Needless to say, this guy must be watching the game.
"Dong dong dong!"
I knocked on the door softly a few times and waited for a while, but there was no response in the room. I turned my head with some annoyance and said to the third fat man: "Isn't this guy already asleep?"
"Impossible, I'm probably obsessed with watching the football match. Let me do it!"
The third fat man pushed me away, and then started banging me hard, causing all the voice-activated lights in the corridor to light up.
This time, a man's voice finally came out from inside the house.
"Who the hell is this? Why are you knocking on the door in the middle of the night?"
Seeing a bright light appear in the cat's eyes, the third fat man shouted: "Hello, is Mr. Zheng Lei at home?"
"I am, who are you looking for?"
The third fat man smiled but did not respond, and motioned for me to take out the police card I had prepared and held it up to the front of the cat's eye.
"Please open the door. We are the police and want to find out something from you."
"Police?" The voice inside was a bit shocked, as if they didn't understand why the police came to the door.
Perhaps because I didn't quite trust the third fat man's words, I saw the man peering through the peephole for a long time before carefully opening a crack of less than ten centimeters in the door.
The third fat man was obviously impatient because of the other party's ink. He grabbed the ID from my hand and stuffed it through the crack of the door. After the people inside looked at it carefully, he opened the door with confidence.
The person standing behind the door is our target Zheng Lei. He is similar to the one in the photo. He is tall and thin, close to thirty years old. The only difference is that he is wearing a pair of thick glasses on his face at the moment.
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After we came in and sat down, there was indeed a World Cup game playing on the computer in the room. Zheng Lei did not pour water for us, but directly asked: "What do you want from me?"
As he asked this question, his eyes kept glancing at the computer, obviously his mind was not on us yet.
Seeing his distracted look, San Pang walked to the computer without hesitation and closed the screen with a snap.
Zheng Lei immediately jumped up as if he had been pricked by a needle, and said angrily: "Hey? What's wrong with you? I'm watching the game!"
The third fat man also said with a straight face: "Look at Mr. Football, don't you care more about why we are looking for you than the football match?"
"How do I know..." Halfway through his words, Zheng Lei suddenly looked at the third fat man in shock, "Wait a minute, how do you know my online name?"
The third fat man grinned at him and said, "Not only do we know that you are called Xiaoxiao Watch Football, we also know that you encountered something strange today."
"Strange, weird thing?" Zheng Lei's face began to become uncertain, "What are you talking about? I don't understand."
I couldn't stand the three fat men's pretentiousness, so I simply got straight to the point: "That's it...Mr. Zheng, we are from the special investigation team of the Donghai City Public Security Bureau, and our job is to solve incidents related to supernatural incidents. This time we are here
, is to investigate the strange incident you mentioned online, and I hope you can cooperate."
"Special Investigation Team?" Zheng Lei's expression was quite complicated. He was surprised, confused, and mostly still disbelieving, but it didn't matter, because the purpose of our visit this time was just for the game video.
"I have said before that we are a special department of the Public Security Bureau responsible for investigating all supernatural phenomena. We are here this time just for the video of the game you mentioned online today. We suspect that this video may be related to supernatural phenomena.
The phenomenon is related.”
"Supernatural phenomenon? Are you saying that the video I recorded captured a ghost?" Zheng Lei looked at us in great surprise.
The third fat man said: "It's hard to say. Everything is still under our investigation. Just answer my questions."
After hearing this, Zheng Lei quickly shut up and nodded.
The three of us sat on the sofa. The third fat man took out a tape recorder and started recording Zheng Lei's confession.
"Two police comrades, the thing is like this... In the past few days of the World Cup, the Chinese team has entered the finals as never before. I originally planned to take a few days off and stay at home to watch the game, but my leader is a woman.
I have no passion for football, and I don’t understand the significance of this World Cup to us fans at all. I asked for leave several times but refused to approve it. If my parents hadn’t found this job through connections, I would have quit my job long ago!”
The third fat man coughed and interrupted: "Stop talking nonsense and get to the point quickly!"
Zheng Lei nodded quickly and continued: "Because I couldn't ask for leave, I decided to record the game and planned to go home and watch the game as soon as I got off work. But because today's game is China vs. Brazil, I really couldn't hold it back and had to get off work.
When I was playing, I secretly watched the forum and knew the results of the game and the process of several goals in advance. But it was precisely because of this that I later noticed something was wrong with the game I recorded."
I took over the conversation and said: "Is this Carlos' first goal?"
Zheng Lei nodded: "Because after taking a look at their discussion before leaving get off work, I knew that the first goal the Chinese team conceded was Carlos's free kick. To be honest, although I am a fan of the Chinese team, I also particularly like the Brazilian team. So after I got home, while I was waiting for the takeout, I fast-forwarded the video in advance to see those goals. After the takeout arrived, I started watching again slowly. But I didn’t expect this. I found something was wrong with the game I recorded. The first goal in the video was obviously an own goal. If the Chinese team hadn't been so unlucky, the goal might not have been scored..."
After seeing this goal, Zheng Lei's first reaction was that he had recorded the wrong video because he did not have a video recorder at home. Zheng Lei used the video software he downloaded and recorded the video by regularly recording the computer screen. He thought
I may have selected the wrong live game channel when setting it up, so I recorded the previous warm-up games.
But when Zheng Lei played the video again, he found that his video was not wrong. This was the video of the match between the Chinese team and the Brazilian team that afternoon.
After confirming it, Zheng Lei thought that it was actually the netizens who were talking online who were really wrong, so out of good intentions, he replied to a post on the forum to remind them that they had written it wrong, and that it was actually an own goal.
What happened next was something that both San Fatty and I already knew. From other people’s replies, Zheng Lei discovered that he was the one with the real problem. Only in the game video he recorded did Carlos’ goal appear.
Hit the Chinese team's wall and turned into an own goal!
Zheng Lei said: "I have watched the entire game from beginning to end. Only when I scored the first goal, my video deviated from reality. But I can guarantee that this deviation was definitely not forged by me!
Although I know a little bit about computers, I’m not good enough to do special effects for videos!”
After listening to Zheng Lei's explanation, Sanpang and I did not express any opinions, but proposed to watch the video first. After all, this was the main purpose of our visit this time.
Whether that video was mutated due to some supernatural phenomenon, or whether it was just a self-directed and self-acted prank to gain attention, we will know at a glance.
When Zheng Lei turned on the computer again and was about to play the video, I thought about it and suddenly asked: "By the way, why did you say that the video couldn't be uploaded to the Internet?"
"I don't know, but as soon as I upload it, the computer will crash. I tried several times and it always happened."
The computer crashed as soon as it was uploaded? I didn't have time to think about it in detail. Zheng Lei had already found the video folder and double-clicked it to play it.
The video is indeed today’s match between the Chinese team and the Brazilian team.
In order to save time, San Pang jumped directly to the fifteenth minute of the video and started watching.
Everything we saw was the same as the goal highlights we saw on the Internet before. The Brazilian team got a free kick opportunity. Carlos sprinted and volleyed with his left foot. But then, the picture changed. The football did not
Just like in reality, it flew through the right side of the wall and flew into the goal. Instead, it hit defender Li Weifeng on the head. After changing direction, it entered the goal's blind spot in the completely opposite direction to the reality and hit the net.
As the goal whistle sounded, the players of the Chinese team were all discouraged. Li Weifeng even hugged his head with a confused expression on his face.
Snap!
San Pang took the mouse and played back the video once, twice, three times...
He watched the clip of the first goal over and over again about five or six times before he raised his head and looked at me and winked at me.
This is the secret code we both agreed on before, which means that the three fat men are sure that this video is indeed not fake. Instead, for some reason, this video recorded a game that is slightly different from reality.
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As for the reason why this happened, I thought about it and asked Zheng Lei: "Is this the first time you record a game like this today? Nothing like this has happened before?"
Zheng Lei said: "I have recorded several times before. Whenever work time conflicts with the game, I will use the computer to record the game. But this is the first time I have encountered this situation."
I said you'd better recall it carefully. There is a reason for everything. This computer could not have recorded such a video all of a sudden. Maybe it was some small thing in your eyes that caused the abnormality of this video.
Zheng Lei thought for a while, but still shook his head. He said that his computer usually only goes to football websites and watches football videos. It neither goes to pornographic websites nor downloads short movies, so it is unlikely to be infected by viruses.
After hearing this, the third fat man interjected: "I'm not asking if your computer has ever been infected with viruses, but I want to know if anything unusual has happened in your home recently? As long as it happened near this computer, it counts!"
Hearing what the third fat man said, Zheng Lei was stunned for a while and suddenly asked us: "Does being struck by lightning count?"
[Author's digression]: I don't know why Chapter 27 is not displayed. I am contacting the editor. I will add some chapters in due time. I'm sorry for keeping everyone waiting.