Chapter 11 Chapter 10 Collective Hallucinations

While waiting for the cement banshee at the night party, I asked Viagra to search for information about the Daily Building on the Internet, and learned that its current property management company and the construction company that built the building are subsidiaries of the same listed company.And in the staff list of the property management company, the name "Huang Jie" was found. Could it be that he was the heartless man who buried his wife alive?In order to learn more about the cement banshee and what happened that year, Zhen Zhen and I immediately went to the property management company to talk to him.

The "Huang Jie" we were looking for was the HR director of the company, and it didn't take us long to find him in his office. "Do you know a woman named Chen Yan?" After I revealed my identity, I got straight to the point. His cheeks twitched slightly, showing an unnatural smile: "She is my late ex-wife." "How did she die?" Although it was an obvious question, I had to ask it because there might be another answer from him. His cheeks twitched again, his expression changed unnaturally: "She slipped on the construction site and fell into a pile that had just been poured with cement, and was buried in it..."

"Really? But as far as I know, she was still alive when she fell into the pile, and was then filled with cement and buried alive!" I stared at him sternly. His body trembled suddenly, he lowered his head unconsciously, and his voice became trembling: "Well, it was an accident, no one wanted it to happen..." "It was indeed an accident at the beginning, but later it turned into a murder case, and the murderer was you! You buried your wife alive with your own hands!" I snapped. "No, that's not the case! I was also forced, and there was no other way..." He suddenly raised his head, with tears welling up in his excited eyes, and slowly told about this unbearable past——

At that time, I was just a migrant worker doing hard work on the construction site, and my family of three relied on my hands to support them.Moreover, my son's health is not very good, he often gets sick, and he spent a lot of money just to treat his illness.So no matter how tired I am, I have to keep working. I remember that day, after we poured cement into the ground piles, we went to eat together.When I came back, I heard someone calling for help in the pile, and the voice was very familiar, very much like my woman.I ran over immediately and found that Xiaoyan had fallen into the ground pile, her whole body was sunk under the cement, only her head was exposed.

She was still awake at the time, and I asked her why she fell in. She said that her son had a high fever and she had no money with her, so she ran to me and asked for some money to take her son to the doctor.But when I came, I didn't see me, so I accidentally fell down.She said that she originally wanted to climb out by herself, but the more she climbed, the faster she sank, and finally her whole body sank. At that time, I was so anxious that I wanted to go down and pull her up, but was stopped by others, because the cement had not completely solidified, and even I would sink into it when I went down at this time.Later, everyone found ropes and wooden sticks to pull Xiaoyan out, but the cement had already started to solidify, and only her head was exposed. To pull her out, she had to wrap a rope around her neck.But in that case, the person would have been hanged before he was pulled out.

Our group are all coolies, and we have no education. After much deliberation, we can't think of any way to save her. We can only watch the cement gradually solidify and worry.Later, people from the construction company came, and I discussed with them how to rescue Xiaoyan.At that time, the cement had basically solidified, and the only way to save Xiaoyan was to destroy the piles.But the ground piles were destroyed, and the entire foundation had to be redone. Of course, they refused to agree, because that would cause a lot of losses for their company, and it would also delay the topping date of the building.

Just as I was arguing with them about whether to save Xiaoyan, a reporter came and took pictures.They were afraid that the incident would become a big issue, so they robbed the reporter's camera and beat him up.Then they made a condition to me, saying that they would give me 200,000 yuan and let me pour cement into the ground piles to bury Xiaoyan alive. I was really flustered at the time, Xiaoyan kept crying and asked me to save her, and there was a son with a high fever at home, and the construction company refused to budge.At that time, I thought, Xiaoyan would definitely not be saved, and they would never agree to destroy the piles. If this drags on, my son might have an accident... So I agreed to their proposal and added to the piles with my own hands. Pour cement and bury Xiaoyan alive...

Immediately afterwards, I rushed home to take my son to the doctor.When I took my son to the hospital, he was a little delirious, and he had to stay in the hospital for three days before his fever subsided.During the period, people from the construction company came and gave me 20,000 yuan, telling me not to talk nonsense.I didn't think about anything at the time, I just thought about curing my son's illness, and I didn't have the time to think about other things. Later, his son's illness was finally cured, but he had sequelae and often fell asleep.Only then did I realize that the 200,000 that the construction company promised to give me was only 20,000, so I went to their company to ask for money.Their leader probably felt sorry for the money, and if he didn't want to give it to me, he talked to me and said he would arrange a good job for me.

Xiaoyan is dead, if I continue to work on the construction site, it will be difficult to take care of my son, and after coaxing them a few times, I agreed in a daze.At that time, they arranged for me to be the security officer in the current property management company. Considering my level, it was indeed a good job, but this job was bought with Xiaoyan’s life, and my son even got a The sequelae of dozing off, so the more I think about it, the more I feel unconvinced.In addition, after my son found out that I personally killed his mother and often ignored me, I became even more angry. After the Daily Building is completed, our company is in charge of managing it. I think it's time to let out a sigh of relief.When I was chatting with the security guards of the building, I deliberately brought up Xiaoyan's case, and said vividly that many terrible things happened during the construction process.Of course, I didn't tell them that Xiaoyan was my wife, I just used this incident to scare them, and said that Xiaoyan vowed to take revenge on everyone before she died.In fact, I did this just to relieve my anger, but I didn't expect that this matter would become more and more suspenseful. Everyone said that there was a female ghost haunting the building, causing panic.

Afterwards, things got serious, and the head of the company probably guessed that I was behind the scenes, so he talked to me about it.In order to keep my mouth shut, they even promoted me to be the HR director... After listening to Huang Jie's narration, I couldn't help but have many questions in my heart.According to him, the so-called haunting of the Daily Building is just a product of rumors and suspicions, not some ghosts and monsters.And he mentioned that his son often dozed off, which reminded me of the security guard Huang Yu, so I asked him: "Is the security guard Huang Yu of the Daily Building your son?"

He nodded slightly with a helpless expression: "Yes, he is my eldest son. He always thought that I killed his mother, so he refused to call me dad all these years. After I married my current wife, He was even more indifferent to me. I could have arranged him a better job, but he was always against me and everything he did was sloppy. In order to keep his current job, I didn’t remember to recite it for him How many scapegoats." "What's the matter with the red thread on his neck, is he born with it?" This is an important question. "It's the sequelae of that high fever, and the doctor couldn't explain why it happened." He expressed his concern for his son in his words. The haunting of the Daily News Building isn't real, but a lie?What surprised me even more was that Huang Yu turned out to be Chen Yan's son. Could he have something to do with this case?Thinking back carefully, it is not impossible. First of all, when He Xi saw the banshee, he was on duty with him, but he stayed in the security room and did not go upstairs to check with him.The subsequent situation was similar, every time he stayed in the security room and refused to leave, maybe he was using this to play tricks secretly.However, this is only my speculation, and to verify my speculation, maybe someone can help me. I asked Zhenzhen to go back to the crime team first and explain to the boss about the operation of "Subduing Demons and Demons" tonight. Chairman Mao said that if you want to reveal the true face of the banshee, I can't let me die alone.So I plan to mobilize the whole group. Apart from the two main players, Zhen Zhen and Xue Qing, the two mobilizers, Viagra and Miao Miao, cannot be spared. After driving Zhenzhen away, I went to the hospital where Xiaona worked to find her alone. When I arrived, she was about to leave work, so I invited her to dinner and planned to consult her.In the dining room, I told her about the haunting of the Daily News Building, and asked her if it was possible for a lie to have such power and disturb people. "Do you remember 'mass hysteria'?" she asked me with a smile. "Of course I remember. You told me about it when we were still together. However, you didn't make it clear at the time, you just said it was the scientific name of collective hallucination." I remember that at that time, I was writing a report on a supernatural case. And scratching my head, fortunately she told me about it, I wrote it into the report, and muddled through. "Your memory is still so good." She smiled at me and explained slowly: "Let me tell you what hysteria is first! Hysteria is 'mental disease', also known as hysteria, and it is a relatively common Neurosis. In fact, everyone may be a potential hysteria patient, because the formation of hysteria can be as simple as a word from someone else. For example, when someone just drank a glass of water, a friend around him told He, there is a worm in the water. He immediately feels sick and vomits. However, in fact, the glass of water is clean, and there is no worm that my friend said. This is a specific manifestation of hysteria." "Okay, now that we know that everyone is likely to suffer from hysteria, it is much easier to explain mass hysteria. Simply put, mass hysteria is that many people suffer from hysteria at the same time. Or if I give you an example, it will be easier for you Understand, the more common example is the collective food poisoning incident in the school cafeteria. Let us first assume that there are 100 students in the cafeteria. One of the students has a problem with the food, and he has symptoms such as vomiting after eating. The other 99 students There was no problem with the food, but 10 of the 99 students saw the same symptoms after seeing this student vomit one after another. Similarly, the remaining 89 students also thought that their food was sick after seeing other people showing symptoms one after another. There was a problem, so more people vomited. Then in this incident, except for the student who actually suffered from food poisoning, all other students who vomited were suffering from mass hysteria.” "What you mean is that Huang Jie's words frightened the security guards, causing them to think that there was a ghost in the Daily Building. After hearing the so-called ghost experience of the security guard, the other people in the building also became insane. Unfortunately, I thought there were ghosts in the building, so I frightened myself." I think I understood what she meant. "Well, this is also a manifestation of collective hysteria. At the beginning, only a few people may believe it, but then more and more people claim that they have encountered ghosts, and then the number of people suffering from hysteria will multiply. People who believe in it will also become dubious, and will become very sensitive to some subtle abnormalities. For example, if an object shifts, maybe it is just a misremembering, or someone else moved it unintentionally. If no one would care at all, But everyone said it was a ghost, so most people would doubt whether it was really happening, and frighten themselves." If the so-called hauntings were just mass hysteria, then the concrete banshee wouldn't exist.In this way, I can't help but wonder if Huang Yu is playing tricks in the dark. He may be angry with Editor-in-Chief Lin's family because of his mother's untimely death.Judging from the current evidence, he at least has the motive and time to commit the crime, and his ability to commit the crime is also questionable.The first is his height. With his height, as long as you tie small size shoes under your feet, you can step out of the shoe prints in the bathroom.Secondly, after he developed a high fever, he was left with lethargy and red threads on his neck, which is quite similar to the legendary flying head.If it is assumed that he is a flying man, then the case will be even more hanging. However, if Huang Yu is the cement banshee, there are still many doubts that cannot be explained. The biggest question is how the murderer escaped from the locked darkroom after Ning Yuyi was killed.If the murderer is Huang Yu, and he is a flying headman, then at most he can only let his head and neck pass through the air-conditioning duct, and there are shoe prints at the murder scene, and there are finger pressure marks left by the murderer on the back of the deceased's head.If the murderer's body is in a darkroom, it is impossible for him to escape from the scene even if his head can pass through the air-conditioning duct.And assuming that the murderer's body is outside the darkroom, and only the head and neck enter the darkroom through the pipe, it is impossible to leave shoe prints and finger marks.This is really a logical puzzle, maybe I guessed wrong. "Are you thinking about work? You are so engrossed in your thoughts." Xiaona's gentle voice interrupted my train of thought. "Well, sorry, I made you laugh." I smiled awkwardly.I was busy analyzing the case just now, and forgot that I was having dinner with Xiaona. "It's okay, I like the way you think seriously, you're pretty handsome." She didn't know if she was trying to imply something, but I didn't have time to think about it seriously, because what she said next caught my attention: " It’s a good thing to work hard, but you can’t put too much pressure on yourself. As a psychotherapist, I suggest that you, like me, learn yoga to reduce stress when you have time.” "Yoga..." I suddenly got a clue, and asked, "Can practicing yoga allow people to get into narrow tunnels?" "It's hard to say, I can't do it. However, I heard that some time ago, a yoga master came to perform locally. He was so powerful that he could completely get his body into a small jar, which was even bigger than this one." Smaller." She pointed to the water dispenser in the corner, the five-gallon drinking water bottle. I stared at the drinking water bottle for a while. The diameter of the air-conditioning pipe is not much different from it. Since the yoga master can get in with his whole body, he must be able to get into the air-conditioning pipe.Could it be that the murderer is a master of yoga, using yoga to come and go freely in the air-conditioning duct? "Do you know the name of that yoga master? Is he still here?" I asked. "I heard that he has left the local area. As for his name, I may find out for you." Her answer really disappointed me. It seems that to explain this case, we can only look forward to tonight, but I think tonight will be a fierce battle!