Chapter 3085 3097 [Finding a Ghost] Asking for a monthly ticket (`)
Mao Lilan obviously thought that the latter was the case. She considerately helped Yamaguchi Hideo change the subject: "I never thought that the truth behind the 'haunting' was so simple. Speaking of which, it would be great if Dr. Shinde came with us - he must be good at chemistry, and he might be able to distinguish the smell of ammonia and dirt on the spot."
Jiang Xia glanced at her and said, "Why did you suddenly mention Dr. Shinde? Have you seen him just now?"
Mao Lilan nodded: "I just came back from seeing him this afternoon."
Calvados, however, keenly grasped a key word: "'Also'?"
Jiang Xia nodded: "When I came here, I saw him nearby. He said he was a little curious about the haunted legend here, but he was embarrassed to disturb it, so he just watched the situation from a distance."
Calvados: “?!!”
That goddess is also nearby?
...What do you mean sorry to bother you? It must be because she wanted to visit, but because of this group of uninvited guests who arrived earlier, she had to temporarily give way!
"These guys really ruined my plan." Calvados looked at Jiang Xia and the others with a chill, "But..."
I recalled my many behaviors in the afternoon: for example, I was startled by the ghost hand on TV, the ghost hand in the toilet, and fought with the moths that kept flying towards me for no reason...
There was a moment's silence, during which Calvados's hostility toward the detective lessened slightly.
——If it was Vermouth instead of this group of people who saw his embarrassing situation, he would have wanted to die.
"Come to think of it, is that goddess still nearby?" Calvados realized something belatedly. He looked out the window at the dark night and muttered to himself:
"This detective's reasoning seems to be reasonable, but he didn't explain the cause of the ghost hand at all. And I just ran around like an assistant to help him... It was too ugly."
"Also, I must not let him put the blame of 'being frightened and hallucinating' on me. I must prove that the ghost hand really exists and his reasoning is wrong!"
Thinking of this, Calvados turned his gaze towards the toilet.
——The hand in the water tank might still be stuck in some corner. Even if I can only find a piece of finger, it can prove that I really saw that thing.
The others nearby saw Mr. Yamaguchi go silent for a while, then turned and walked towards the toilet. They couldn't help but wonder, "What happened?"
Jiang Xia sighed: "Maybe he remembered the bad experience just now and felt nervous - let him relax first, and then we can take a look at the ghost outside the window."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the window in the corridor.
While everyone was talking, the ghost on the window had not disappeared, and the figure with a faint glow was still floating outside the window.
Jiang Xia: "This is not actually a ghost, but a living thing - if you get closer, you can see its true appearance."
"Is it true?" The otaku who was not so afraid of ghosts hesitated for a moment and walked over carefully.
As the distance got closer, the texture of the screen on the window appeared clearly in front of my eyes. What also caught my eye was countless moths lying flat on the window.
The moths were crowded on the window, forming a snowman-like head and body, and in the position of the "head", someone had pasted three pieces of black paper on the window to form the shape of eyes and a mouth.
"Ah!" The otaku who was not afraid of ghosts took a step back suddenly, frightened by the dense group of moths, "Why are there so many moths!"
Jiang Xia: “To be more precise, the ones gathered here are all male moths. The puppeteer used an insect repellent mixed with female moth pheromones to spray a rough human figure on the screen.
“He then cut pieces of black paper into the shape of eyes and a mouth and pasted them on the window screen.
"Soon, after a while, a large number of light-colored male moths will come and gather on the window, creating a swaying ghostly figure peering into the house."
At this point, he glanced at the bathroom and said, "When the ghost first appeared tonight, Mr. Yamaguchi bravely opened the window to check the situation, and even leaned out to find a place to stay upstairs and downstairs, hoping to prove that the ghost was a human in disguise.
“Although he failed to find the person, his action did pick up some of the sex pheromones on the window screen, so the moths kept flying towards him.
"As for why the ghost gradually disappeared, it was because Mr. Banmachi had placed a fluorescent lamp in his room in advance.
"His room is located in the lower right corner of the corridor window, not far from the haunted window. As long as the light is turned on regularly, the ultraviolet light released by the fluorescent lamp will attract the moths that originally lay on the screen window - compared with sex pheromones, this kind of light can attract moths to gather more."
"Of course, there are always a few moths that are too lazy to move, or run slower than the others. In order to prevent the remaining male moths from causing his plan to be exposed, when the moths outside the window began to move, Mr. Banmachi pretended to rush forward excitedly and pulled the window open with force.
“This sudden movement and vibration will shake the remaining moths off the screen, making the ghost disappear completely.
"As for the pieces of paper stuck on the screen window, they are originally black and inconspicuous in the night. After overlapping with the window, they are even more easily overlooked."
Jiang Xia looked at the puppeteer: "In other words, the first person who approached the window and watched the 'ghost' disappear from a close distance but pretended not to notice anything unusual was the mastermind behind all these supernatural phenomena."
In the corridor, everyone was busy solving the case.
In the bathroom.
Calvados searched the toilet tank from top to bottom but found nothing.
"I looked for it when I put the phenolphthalein here just now, but there was nothing..." His brows were twisted as if they could pinch a moth to death, "Could it be that the hand was dissolved in water and has been washed away?"
After a brief moment of loss, he suddenly remembered another thing and regained his confidence.
"There was another hand!" Calvados slammed his palm. "That hand appeared on TV. I was startled and shook it off... It seemed to fly out of the window."
Calvados recalled his new room and walked out of the apartment: "Judging from the location, it should be under the wall, or in the abandoned building opposite."
…
An organizational cadre was busy looking for someone.
In the corridor, the graduate student nodded as he listened: "These materials are indeed easy to obtain, and the method of haunting is also very scientific... But there is still a question, why did Mr. Banmachi go through all this trouble?"
(End of this chapter)
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