Chapter 12: The Electromagnetic Lock of the Drawer

  The room is not big, and the interior is very simple. A desk, a chair, several stools stacked against the wall. Next to the stool are two cabinets with blue file boxes inside. According to the time sequence marked on it, it should be an inventory list of incoming and outgoing goods. Hurriedly took out the last one labeled 2007, opened it for inspection. On the top page, Xiao Luqi's name was listed:

  Name: Xiao Luqi.

  Age: 19 years old.

  Native place: Zhenjiang, Jiangsu.

  Cause of death: Cardiac arrest.

  Time of death: May 26, 2007 00:38.

  Entry time: May 26, 2007 00:47

  Outbound time: May 28, 2007 15:56.

  Transfer unit: Longhua Funeral Home.

  What's going on here?

  Xiao Luqi has been cremated? Wasn't she in the freezer at my house? Who received her body? Did Wang Yongshun really switch Xiao Luqi with another corpse?

  I hastily and carefully looked at the column where the recipient signed.

  The dragon flying and phoenix dancing words, with the emotional excitement of trembling, are difficult to recognize. But I followed the strokes of the pen, and recognized the first word as "Xiao".

  It should be her father.

  Can't her father recognize her?

  I felt a chill in my heart: What method did Wang Yongshun use to make Xiao Lüqi's father not discover that his daughter's body had been switched? This is too mysterious.

  Wait, so... what the gatekeeper said earlier about losing a body, wasn't it actually losing Xiao Luqi's body? That must be the body Wang Yongshun used to switch with. But that doesn't add up, if this lost body was used to impersonate Xiao Luqi, never mind whether it could be done convincingly or not, what about the family of this body? Wouldn't they come and cause trouble? Could Wang Yongshun really get away scot-free?

  My intuition tells me there's something fishy going on here. I have to get to the bottom of this.

  Put the files back in order and return them to the cabinet. I carefully searched Wang Yongshun's room, hoping to find some clues.

  I picked up the newspaper on the office desk and took a look, it was the May 28th edition of Wen Hui Bao. The newspaper had been flipped through in a messy way. There were also some medical journals on the desk, neatly placed and untouched, apparently Wang Yongshun wasn't interested in medicine. Next to them, an unnamed book and two travel magazines were worn out from being flipped through so many times. Opening the last page of the unnamed book, there was no publication number, it should be a self-printed and bound copy.

  I flipped through it, and it was written about some absurd and mysterious Taoist methods, extremely obscure and nonsensical. This book seemed to be a genuine martial arts manual. However, I have never been interested in this kind of thing, so I put it aside. I picked up a magazine with its spine facing upwards, letting all the pages hang down naturally, finding the spot with the most space between them, and inserted my finger - this way, the page I flipped to would definitely be the one Wang Yongshun looked at the most often, most carefully, and was most interested in.

  I took a look and this page is actually about the Caribbean Sea.

  Since the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" starring Johnny Depp in 2003, this sea area has attracted a large number of tourists. Is Wang Yongshun also a pirate fan? Want to explore this mysterious sea area?

  Of course, when it comes to the Caribbean Sea, the first thing that comes to mind is the Bermuda Triangle region in its north. This area of approximately 3.9 million square kilometers, located in the Sargasso Sea of the North Atlantic Ocean, is formed by the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, the US territory of Puerto Rico, and the southern tip of Florida, USA, where supernatural phenomena and events that defy physical laws are said to occur frequently.

  At that moment, my thoughts stretched from the Bermuda Triangle to the 30th parallel north. How many inexplicable things have happened on this line? How many bizarre rumors exist here? This is where the highest peak of the Earth's mountain range - Mount Everest - and the deepest part of the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean - are located. Several major rivers, such as the Nile River in Egypt, the Euphrates River in Iraq, the Yangtze River in China, and the Mississippi River in the United States, all flow into the sea at this latitude. What's more mysterious is that this line is also home to many of the world's most famous unsolved natural and cultural mysteries. For example, the ancient Egyptian pyramids built exactly on the center of the Earth's landmass, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Death Valley in California, the mysterious "Fire God" rock paintings in the Sahara Desert in North Africa, the "Magic Forest" in the United States, the Dead Sea, the Lebanon Temple, the ancient stone caves of Huangshan, the "Hanging Gardens" of Babylon, and the legendary lost city of Atlantis. These astonishing ancient structures and inexplicable mysterious places all gather here, making one feel an eerie sense of wonder.

  There are some things that make you marvel at the wonders of creation, even if you're an atheist. When faced with the vast and endless power of nature, one can't help but feel small and fragile. As someone once said, "When humans think, God laughs." Indeed, there's so much we don't understand. Suddenly, I wonder: could Xiao Luqi's bizarre death and posthumous movements be connected to the mysterious Bermuda Triangle and the 30th parallel north in ways I'm not aware of?

  But for an atheist like me, so-called supernatural phenomena must be things that have not yet been explained by science, but the laws within them are absolutely impossible to break.

  Science is the law that has been verified through people's long-term observation and experimentation. Observation and experimentation are based on a fundamental logical idea, namely induction and deduction. The person who created these two methods is called Socrates, the philosopher I admire most in human history, and his disciples and grand-disciples, Plato and Aristotle, have opened up human wisdom.

  Of course, although after encountering a billion white swans, you still can't deny the existence of a black swan. So when people in Australia first discovered the black swan, they called those accidental events that fell outside the rules derived from observation, generalization and induction "black swan events". These events may indeed belong to categories beyond human knowledge, but this does not mean they are unscientific. Science will ultimately encompass everything, I believe that no matter how bizarre it looks, whether it's the Bermuda Triangle or the Shao Lin Qi dead body moving event, when science advances, these strange and mysterious events will definitely be explained.

  For someone like me who has loved science since childhood, science is the greatest.

  I picked up another magazine, which only introduced tourist destinations in Chinese cities. I found the page that Wang Yongshun flipped through most frequently with the same method, and when I took a closer look, it was a page introducing Central South University in Changsha, Hunan. The university in the picture is magnificent and beautiful, making me think of my alma mater.

  However, now is not the time for wild speculation. I pulled out all three drawers of this office desk and found that except for the top one that couldn't be opened, the other drawers only had a small box containing twelve No. 7 dry batteries. The rest were just worthless documents with crooked handwriting recording some hospital meeting contents. But from the structure of the handwriting, every line was slanted to the right and down, indicating that Wang Yongshun's personality has a strong negative consciousness; From each character, it presents a shrinking posture, indicating that he is not fully self-grown, may have some inferiority complex; Moreover, the font extends downward very badly, which indicates that his personality is extremely repressed, with a strong need for expression. Moreover, Wang Yongshun's handwriting is very heavy, and the indentation of the characters is very deep, which undoubtedly shows that he is very subjective, always making decisions on his own, often refusing to listen to others, and doing things his own way.

  This drawer can't be pulled open, which makes me very curious: it can't be opened, but no lock hole can be found. I looked at the gap of the drawer and found that it was a small electromagnetic lock. Wang Yongshun indeed had a deep mind, installing such an electromagnetic lock in this inconspicuous drawer. If someone didn't know, they would pull it and find it couldn't be opened, and most likely think it was stuck and wouldn't touch it again.

  This method is perfect for people who don't suspect Wang Yongshun. However, it may not be very useful for me.

  This electromagnetic lock works by converting electric current into magnetic force to hold it in place. To open it, simply cut off the power supply. I searched around the desk and didn't find any wires, so I judged that its power comes from inside the drawer, probably from a dry battery. The problem with this kind of lock is that its switch is usually nearby, just like the electromagnetic door locks used in company gates, where the switch is on the wall next to the door. However, after feeling around the desk, I still couldn't find the switch.

  The significance of the lock lies in allowing only the owner to open it, while strangers cannot. If Wang Yongshun himself could not open it, then this lock would be meaningless. But why use a lock that requires the switch to be nearby? Wouldn't that risk exposing or accidentally triggering the mechanism and ruining the whole plan?

  But this damn thing has indeed hidden the switch very well. I thought it was a hole drilled, with the switch inside, and then the hole was covered with paper or plugged with wood of the same shape as the hole, and painted with the same paint to conceal it. But I've pressed every square centimeter of this office desk, and still can't find it.

  Where is the switch?

  I suddenly thought: the switch of this lock, if it's not hidden on this office desk, then it's entirely possible that it's a remote control switch, just like a car key fob. This kind of remote control device can be easily bought in small shops that repair TVs and air conditioners.

  I didn't expect Wang Yongshun to be so high-tech!

  I felt a thrill of excitement: what was this important thing that had to be made so complicated? I would definitely get to the bottom of it later. So I stood up and went back to the file cabinet, pulled out the 2006 folder, and the handwriting in it was completely different from Wang Yongshun's. It seemed that he hadn't started working at this hospital yet in 2006. I took out the 2007 folder and searched carefully, and Wang Yongshun's handwriting appeared for the first time on January 15th, 2007. In the following days, the previous handwriting and Wang Yongshun's handwriting alternated, until the 19th, when the previous handwriting disappeared.