Chapter 14: A Sudden Knock on the Door

The security guard’s words caused a stir. Obviously, the scam was not very clever, but at a special time (late at night) and in a special place (the factory), it had the desired effect and fooled everyone.

After the security guard finished speaking, he looked at me. I was sitting on the altar, chewing on a banana. After I finished the banana, I started chewing on an apple. For this scam, I didn’t eat any rice with pork floss, and I was starving.

When I heard the security guard finish speaking, I casually threw the apple core away, clapped my hands, and looked at the master and said, “What else do you have to say?”

The master pretended to be disgusted, and said, “I have nothing to say when someone is determined to harm me.”

With a look of indifference and a hint of slight grievance, people who didn’t know would really think I had framed him. People already believed me for the most part at this point, but of course there were still some who were a little shaken. After all, the master had a long-standing reputation, and it wasn’t easy to shake it.

In addition, the master’s acting skills were too good, and even I felt that he was somewhat innocent, let alone these ordinary people?

For a moment, the atmosphere was a bit tense. I didn’t care. I still had my trump card to play.

Sure enough, the master didn’t say a word, but his disciples were his perfect spokesmen. At this point, one of the disciples stood up and said loudly, “You want to frame my master. I don’t know where you got this tape, but we can’t do anything about it. But the so-called clear people are clear. There is a ghost here. These bosses came to us on their own initiative, not the other way around. Besides, there is more than one female ghost crying here, right? Someone also saw the evil spirit, like the skeleton. How do you explain that?

I knew it.

At this point, the crowd began to talk again. Indeed, it was a hoax, and no one had come to the door personally. And what about the skull?

I calmly took out a cigarette from my bag, lit it, and took a deep breath. When the white smoke came out, I said, “You don’t have to come to the door. When people are in a panic, it’s good to let people with good intentions spread your reputation, isn’t it? Everyone, think about whether this is true?

After thinking about it, they realized that it was true. How would ordinary people know anything about Taoist priests? Especially in a panic, if there is any useful information, they will definitely grab it!

The apprentice knew about this matter, and it was futile to argue. He directly and aggressively asked me, “What about the skull? How do you explain the skull?”

If they had asked me this two days ago, I would have been unable to explain it.

But in the past two days, I’ve been thinking about this, and together with Su Rou, we really figured out the reason. We tested it and it really worked.

I shouted, “I’ll prove it to you right away, Su Rou…”

I shouted, but Su Rou had already started to take action. At this time, he took out a black jumpsuit from his bag and asked for help to make it. On it, he had drawn a few bones with white paint and a little fluorescent powder.

After taking out the clothes, Su Rou directly put them on, and from a distance it looked like a big black bun that had been cracked. I suppressed my laughter and shouted, “Which buddy, help turn off the lights.”

Someone immediately took action and turned off the lights!

At this point, a magical thing happened. Su Rou, wearing the jumpsuit, could see nothing at all. All he could see were a few white bones floating in midair, emitting a little green light from their pale whiteness. It was a little scary at first glance.

“Okay, turn on the lights,” I said calmly.

As the lights came on, I touched my chin and said, “You can see the effect. I just want to ask, if I draw a skeleton frame on this black outfit and then make a black headband with a skull drawn on it, and then let the people who are half asleep have a glimpse of it in the middle of the night, what do you think the effect will be?

In fact, some things are just like that when you figure them out, and some tricks are very simple when they are exposed. But people often fall into these simple traps. Just like most of the current frauds, the tricks they use are even simpler, but there are still many people who are deceived, aren’t there?

It’s rare that these scammers have set up such a big scam!

This is my trump card, my trump card. I have completely cracked their scam. I tilt my head slightly and look at the master, who seems to be high above, to see what else he has to say.

But the master was still strong and calm, and sighed, saying, “I have been in the world for many years and have made many enemies. I never thought that someone would set such a trap for me to fall into. They took advantage of my kindness.

I was furious, stood up and pointed at the master, saying angrily, “What do you mean by that? Do you mean that someone deliberately made all this nonsense and then had someone invite you here to trick you?”

The master looked at me with contempt and said, “What do you think?”

“I spit” I directly scolded, and then said: “Since this is the case, as a master, haven’t you noticed that there are no ghosts? Didn’t you just say that ghosts are very powerful and communication is very difficult? Didn’t you say that you have to damage your own source and destroy the ghosts? Now you say it’s a trap. Do you have a face?”

Finally, the master couldn’t hold back any longer and became a little panicked. He perfectly demonstrated the act of slapping himself in the face. This is a group of liars!

I saw the master desperately looking at his apprentice, probably trying to give him a signal, but by now the dust had settled and I was relaxed. I just said, “Why has Taoism, which has been passed down in China for thousands of years, fallen into decline? It’s been ruined by you swindlers. There’s nothing to say. Call the police.”

At this point, people’s anger finally reached a climax, and everyone was clamoring to call the police.

The group of swindlers’ apprentices suddenly stood up, dragged the master, and yelled, “Our master is a good person.” “We are not swindlers!” while pushing through the crowd!

This is a common trick of swindlers. Once the scam is exposed, they create confusion and take the opportunity to slip away.

Sure enough, they were pushing their way to the door. If they ran away today, and then disappeared into the crowd, where would they be found again? And they had been operating in Chengdu for so many years, so they must have some connections. If it weren’t for the predicament of having such evidence today, they would have found a way out.

But the situation is chaotic now. I can’t stop so many people by myself. From time to time, I hear people in the crowd yelling, “Who stepped on my foot?”

“Oh, don’t push me.”

These crooks! I hate them so much that I gritted my teeth and shouted, “Everyone, don’t panic! The crooks are trying to run! Keep an eye on the door.”

I shouted out the purpose of the swindlers, and the people really calmed down a lot. Many people shouted, “Don’t panic, so that the swindlers won’t run away.”

After everyone calmed down, the escape of the swindlers was not so smooth. It took less than ten minutes for the group of swindlers to be surrounded by people. It was impossible for them to create confusion and run out in the midst of the crowd.

At this point, the situation was already under control, and I felt a sense of extraordinary accomplishment. I had finally dealt a blow to a group of people who were ruining the reputation of Taoism. It was even more satisfying than making money with the crispy meat.

I stood on the altar, looking down at the group, and then said, “Everyone surround them and take one of them to the police.”

When the swindlers heard this, they all looked desperate, including the master. They all looked very depressed, except for one person. I saw him staring at me viciously, not saying a word, just staring at me viciously. It felt like being stared at by a hungry wolf.

Under the gaze of that person, I suddenly had a bad feeling, and goose bumps rose on my back. To be honest, I knew that person. Wasn’t he the one who bumped into the crispy pork the other day?

He didn’t seem like a local Chengdu man. Most Chengdu men are humorous and gentle. He didn’t have that kind of ferocity in his bones, like a jungle beast. Who was he?

I suddenly had this question, but the next moment I was relieved. It didn’t matter who it was, because once I was in the police station, everything would be revealed. I didn’t expect that the master, who was so righteous, had such a person under his command. With his natural ability to deceive, how could he conquer such a person?

Just as I was thinking, the man who was staring at me suddenly spoke. He only said one word: “You…” Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. It sounded quite noisy. Who could it be at this time?

So, the man was interrupted, but I could clearly hear that his accent was definitely not Chengdu dialect. His accent reminded me of an acquaintance, Sun Qiang.