Chapter 351 Wood Carving, Straw Man, Sand Painting

These five people who are highly suspected of having abilities have been passed down from generation to generation until now.

The first master couldn't be identified because he was too old, but the next four people have all been identified.

But... all of this is still just speculation. Even if there is more rationality and no matter how strict the logic is, without realistic evidence, it is just a guess.

We are still not 100% sure that they are capable people.

Maybe they were mistakenly counted just because of some coincidence or misunderstanding - no matter how low the probability is, it is still possible, right?

Operation Team 2 did not stop and immediately devoted themselves to searching for realistic evidence.

After the "suspect" is clearly identified, it is not difficult to find actual evidence according to the picture. Soon, very solid evidence was found regarding the first suspected ability user.

After visiting local elderly people, an elderly person recalled that Gu Dacheng, the first suspected ability person, had a very special habit.

Compared to other masters of his time, this habit of his was very unusual.

He is used to doing this with the help of "wood carving". He even purchased a kind of wood suitable for wood carving in the village at that time and used it specifically for carving.

Another old man who was related to Gu Dacheng recalled that he once broke into Gu Dacheng's room while playing and opened a box. There are many finished wood carvings in the box, which are vivid, including pigs, dogs, people, chickens, ducks, geese, cats, etc.

One customer specifically asked Gu Dacheng about this matter. Gu Dacheng's explanation at the time was that he did it through wood carving. The wood carvings he carved can act as a kind of stand-in, allowing the evil spirits and ghosts who are causing harm to people to possess the wood carvings and then be trapped, so that they can no longer harm others.

However, Action Team 2 has now proven through experiments that a person with abilities like Wang Quan must concentrate on recalling the interaction process with the victim before launching the curse.

Wang Quan's sketches are a means of assisting memory.

From this point of view, Gu Dacheng used wood carving as an auxiliary means.

Li Qingmin, who followed Gu Dacheng, found after investigation that he had the habit of weaving straw figurines. His statement is slightly different from Gu Dacheng's in details, but overall they are consistent. They both claim to use the straw man to achieve a certain purpose in the practice.

Wei Jianzhong, who followed Li Qingmin, made sand paintings. He used to get a basin of fine sand, smooth it out, and then draw images on the sand. His rhetoric was pretty much the same.

During subsequent investigations, more people confirmed this statement. The final outcome of these things was that at the request of the person concerned, they were burned in a fire before the person died.

This should be considered solid evidence.

After confirming that Gu Dacheng, Li Qingmin, and Wei Jianzhong are all capable people, plus the current Wang Quan, with these four specimens, the analysis of commonalities can be started.

In the entire Blue Lake City, from more than a hundred years ago to now, there are probably millions of people who have appeared and lived here. Among such a large population, why do these four people have this ability?

Lu Ming doesn't think this is a coincidence. So, since it is not a coincidence, there must be an inherent reason and logic. It is for this reason that it is four people who end up possessing this ability, and not the rest.

Finding this particularity and the reason why these four people have this ability can take the investigation of the case a big step forward, and even ultimately find the essence of this ability.

"First of all, these four people are all from Blue Lake City. Secondly, these four people are all men."

Based on the available information, the four members of the second operation team immediately came to a conclusion. But at the same time, the four of them also realized that this conclusion was meaningless.

There are more than 900,000 people in Blue Lake City who are also from Blue Lake City and are also men. Why not the other men, but these four men?

"You have to find some common ground that is specific."

Just like the original mountain god case. Those victims share a relatively rare gene, and there are a very large number of specimens. Only in this way can they be regarded as having something in common with specificity.

"Look up their lives."

During the extensive interviews and investigations in the early stage, in addition to the original master, there was already a lot of information about the lives of the other three masters, Gu Dacheng, Li Qingmin, and Wei Jianzhong. As for Wang Quan at this moment, let alone that.

As long as the second operation team is willing, they can find out how often Wang Quan wet the bed when he was a child.

So, not long after, the biographical information of the four people, including when they were born, family background, environment, parents' experiences, schooling experience, marriage experience, illness experience, major life events, etc., amounted to hundreds of thousands of words. It appeared in front of the four people.

The data analysis team was called in again at this time to jointly analyze the data.

This took about two days.

Two days later, the final results appeared.

"The analysis shows that there are a lot of commonalities in the life experiences of the four people. For example, they were all born in rural areas; their family conditions were average when they were young; the wives they married are not far from their homes; they are not highly educated; they are generally not emotionally compatible with their wives... …”

The data analysis team listed hundreds of these commonalities.

Looking at the hundreds of common points, Lu Ming shook his head.

These commonalities also exhibit similar characteristics to the previous commonalities, that is, they are not specific at all. Lu Ming found it hard to believe that that ability appeared in these four people because of these things.

Because my family is poor, I married a daughter-in-law who is close to me, has low education, and has a bad relationship with my wife, and then I have this ability?

There is no nonsense like this.

There should be nothing that can be analyzed from the lives of these four people.

Lu Ming sighed in his heart and planned to give up trying in this area. He Wei frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly said: "Wait a minute."

"oh?"

"Is it possible that this is the case..."

She considered the words: "Among so many things in common, each of them seems ordinary. But is it possible that the common ground between these four people that really led to the advent of this ability is actually these four people? , does everyone have all of these things in common?”

A look of surprise appeared on Lu Qingliang's face.

He understood the meaning of He Wei's words.

Having one thing in common doesn’t count, you have to have so many characteristics at the same time.

Each of these commonalities is common and shared by countless people. But these four people may be the only ones who have so much in common.

"Having so many ordinary things in common at the same time" is what only these four people have in common among so many people in the world.

Is it possible that this is what’s special about these four people?

Lu Ming thought for a while and shook his head: "He Wei, you think this is a carrot pit."

He Wei was startled, then reacted, immediately discouraged and no longer insisted on her own ideas.

Everyone knows what Carrot Pit means. Generally speaking, it refers to specifically customizing the requirements for a position with a better salary that is being competed for by everyone, so as to match a certain candidate who has been appointed.

In this way, the other competing candidates will have nothing to say. After all, I don’t meet the requirements of this position, so what else can I say?

Back to the common ground analysis at this moment. If you follow what He Wei said, then, not just these four people, but four people randomly selected from the world, as long as you customize and analyze it bit by bit, you can always find a set of "common points" that is the world's Only four randomly selected people own it.

If this is the case, do these four randomly selected people also have some special characteristics?

Obviously not.

If this is the case, why can we conclude that these four ability users are special?

Lu Qingliang nodded: "That's true. This can't be regarded as something these four people have in common."

Zhang Dingshan said slowly: "If we can't find anything in common from life experience and social background, then is it possible that these four people all did something before they mastered this ability?"

This is indeed a line of investigation. If it can be proven that at a special point in time - for example, when the last person with abilities just died, he happened to do something special - such as going to a certain place, worshiping a certain god, or performing a certain ritual. Human beings can inherit this ability, which is also a major breakthrough.

By verifying the particularity of this kind of thing, it will also help oneself find the source and essence of this ability.

Lu Ming thought for a moment and immediately recalled the previous investigation data.

Gu Dacheng was originally an ordinary person. When he became no longer ordinary, something happened.

He went into the mountains, and when he came back he was different.

The same is true for Li Qingmin. At that point in time, he fell seriously ill and was hospitalized in a coma for three days before waking up. After that, he was never the same.

The same goes for Wei Jianzhong. At that point in time, he lost his footing and fell into the water. Although he knew how to swim, he encountered an undercurrent and almost drowned due to his age. Fortunately, someone happened to be passing by and rescued him. After that, he was no longer ordinary.

But...what about Wang Quan?

Wang Quan didn't seem to have encountered anything.

Wang Quan himself claimed that he had this ability out of nowhere and nothing major happened.

Psychology and psychiatry experts who participated in the trial all believed that Wang Quan's confession was highly credible. Moreover, our own visit to Nanlin Street showed that during that time, except for Wang Quan who liked to wander around the Zhou Family Archway and talk to himself, nothing major happened.

If a person with abilities of the previous generation must encounter a relatively significant event just after their death in order to inherit this ability...is this possibility possible?

Have psychologists and psychiatrists made errors in their judgment? Could it be that Wang Quan, who was already crazy and completely abnormal, had forgotten that more important matter?

Moreover, none of Wang Quan's neighbors knew about this incident. So, is it possible that this incident was relatively private and happened in a private environment?

For example, Wang Quan may have fallen at home and was unconscious for a long time before waking up. If it were an ordinary person with a family and a job, he would definitely be discovered by his family and taken to the hospital. Even if no one notices it for the time being, he will find a doctor by himself when he wakes up.

But Wang Quan is not normal. Will he wake up from his coma and make chestnut cakes to sell again as if nothing had happened?

This possibility cannot be ruled out. Then, the possibility that Gu Dacheng and three others inherited and mastered this ability only after they encountered a major incident cannot be ruled out.

"What happened when Gu Dacheng went into the mountains?"

Lu Ming murmured to himself.

Gu Dacheng didn't tell anyone about this incident, so no one knew about it.

"Everything Li Qingmin and Wei Jianzhong encountered was life-threatening, and they could die if they were not careful. So, did Gu Dacheng also encounter life-threatening dangers in the mountains? Wang Quan, who was mentally ill, was in danger at that time. Are your lives in danger at home?"

It has been so long that there is no way to verify it. But at least the authenticity of Li Qingmin and Wei Jianzhong, two people who have clearly encountered life-threatening incidents, can be verified.

"Li Qingmin once had a serious illness and was hospitalized in a coma for three days? What disease did he get? Which hospital did he go to?"

Gu Dacheng's death and Li Qingmin's serious illness both happened fifty years ago. However, hospitals that are capable of dealing with the symptoms of "three-day coma" must be relatively large hospitals.

It is impossible for rural clinics to treat such symptoms.

Even fifty years ago, such relatively large hospitals had already established relatively complete medical record systems. Then, Li Qingmin’s hospitalization record at that time should still be there.

"I'll check it out."

He Wei immediately got up and contacted the local health department. With the assistance of relevant departments, it was quickly confirmed which hospital Li Qingmin went to. So, after some searching, a medical record with yellowed and brittle paper was delivered to the hands of several members of the second operation team.

After flipping through it for a while, Lu Ming quickly found Li Qingmin's diagnosis and treatment records at the corresponding time point.

However, the records in the medical record are not consistent with the information obtained by the investigation of the second operation team.

"The patient complained of headache, nausea, and vomiting. There was no obvious abnormality after examination, and he was suspected of having a mild concussion. Treatment results: He was given fluids, closely observed, and the doctor ordered bed rest. Four days later, the patient reported that his symptoms disappeared and he was discharged."

Lu Ming felt a little confused.

"Wasn't he in a coma for three days? Why is this on the record? Mild concussion? Nausea, headache and vomiting? No obvious abnormalities in the examination?"

He Wei also fell into doubts.

"Why do I feel like this person has been in the hospital for four days, alive and kicking, when in fact they are not fine at all?"