Chapter 3084 3096 [No Ghost]
The topic was successfully changed, and the otaku and the graduate student found what Conan described sounded more and more familiar.
Soon they realized something and all looked at the puppeteer with an unpleasant expression: "Isn't this..."
Jiang Xia: "Yes, this is the 'female ghost' that often appears on TV - that is to say, the disheveled woman in the picture is not actually a ghost, but a fake image pre-recorded by someone."
“This video that appeared on TV was not caused by ghosts, but the masterpiece of this puppeteer.
"The televisions in this apartment share a common antenna. Mr. Banmachi only needs to connect the TV output in his room to the antenna, and this shared antenna will transmit the image to a specific TV."
The graduate student thought about the principle behind this, nodded, and quickly shook his head: "In theory, it is feasible, but in practice, the TV that receives the image must be pre-adjusted to a specific channel.
"Also, the TV has to be on - but in fact, the TV in this apartment is very old and we don't even remember to watch it. In this case, how can we make it broadcast the image of the female ghost?"
The old landlord had come upstairs at some point and was listening quietly. Hearing this, he chuckled and said, "This is simple. Although my TVs are old, they are all big brands. There are many universal remote controls on the market. As long as you buy a remote control and adjust the mode, you can freely control the TVs in each room."
Jiang Xia looked at the rooms in the corridor and said, "This evening, we went to visit the landlord's room. We originally planned to stay until 8 pm, but soon we all fell asleep and didn't wake up until after 10 pm."
"Soon after she opened her eyes, Xiaolan saw a female ghost appear on TV. In addition, I heard that Mr. Yamaguchi next door also saw the same scene at about the same time."
As he said this, he looked at Calvados, as if to confirm with him.
Calvados nodded, but hesitated to speak.
Jiang Xia seemed not to see it, turned around quickly and continued: "The windows of these two rooms are facing the abandoned building opposite. Mr. Banmachi then calculated the time, adjusted the TV in his room first, and then entered the building with the universal remote control.
"He sent signals through the windows to the televisions in those two rooms and tuned them to the corresponding channels."
"As for why we and the landlord happened to fall asleep during that time..."
Jiang Xia looked at the puppeteer: "At that time, the curtains in the landlord's room were drawn, so you took the opportunity to step on the wall between the two buildings and poured some volatile anesthetics into the window slot of that room."
"After the gas has dispersed and everyone in the room has fallen asleep, you can time our awakening and start playing the ghost video.
"It's easiest to take this kind of fright seriously when you're half asleep or half awake. You hope to scare us away in this way, and at the same time spread the news that this place is haunted, so as to scare away all other potential tenants."
As he spoke, the TV in the puppeteer's room was repeating that image over and over again.
Mao Lilan was quite frightened at first, but as the same scene was repeated over and over again, the horror level of the video decreased sharply.
After watching the female ghost video that ended and started again from the beginning, Mao Lilan covered her face and realized embarrassedly that she was actually scared by a crude video.
But at this moment, looking at the disheveled female ghost in the picture, she suddenly realized something.
"This ghost... looks like a man." She looked through the tangled hair and examined the face that she had not dared to look at not long ago. Suddenly, this high school girl who was good at recognizing people realized something, "Isn't this Mr. Puppet Master?"
"Um?"
The others were stunned, and the otaku quickly picked up the remote control in the room and pressed pause.
The eerie female ghost was frozen on the TV. And in this still picture, a closer look revealed that the so-called female ghost was actually just a skinny man wearing burn makeup and a wig, who looked particularly scary in the dim light.
"... In order to scare people, you actually dressed up as a ghost." The landlord was silent for a long time, and sighed with mixed feelings. He raised his hand and patted the puppeteer's shoulder, "I only knew that you liked ghosts, but I didn't know you were so convinced in this regard."
The otaku was a little upset: "I've always wanted to take a picture of the ghost TV, but I haven't been able to do it... It turns out that the scene I've been pursuing for so long is actually this kind of thing?"
Calvados stared at the TV with a frown, but there was one thing he couldn't figure out.
After hesitating for a moment, he said, "But the female ghost I saw at that time didn't just stay on TV - it would crawl out and reach out to grab people."
"I've never heard of that." The landlord shook his head. "Could it be that you were too tired and distracted and saw it wrongly?"
"How is that possible!" Calvados frowned. "Also, when I was in the bathroom, I saw that hand appear in the water tank behind the toilet. Even the water surface in the water tank was fluctuating with it. This can't be an illusion!"
The famous detective touched his chin, as if thinking seriously: "When people are nervous and scared, their memories are prone to deviations, and they will arbitrarily stitch together different horror elements to form a false memory that is real enough...
"Have you read any ghost stories about 'hands' recently? - Or, because you were shot in the shoulder and are worried about losing your arm, have you unconsciously strengthened the association between 'hands' and fear?"
"I didn't." Calvados' eyes twitched, but he couldn't argue, so he could only keep emphasizing, "I really saw it!"
Jiang Xia still seemed unconvinced, but he did not ignore his defense and asked politely: "What does that hand look like? What is its texture? Are you sure you touched it?"
Calvados suppressed his temper and said, "Of course it looks like a human hand, but it doesn't feel like a human hand. It feels more like... a heavy sculpture?"
"Is that so?" Jiang Xia sighed, "In theory, something of this texture wouldn't disappear from the air or water for no reason. But in reality, no matter if it's a TV or a toilet, there's no such fake hand anywhere near them.
"——Why don't you think about it carefully? Have you really seen it? Or are you hallucinating because you are too scared?"
Calvados: “…”
(End of this chapter)
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