★ Emergency call
Sometimes, we receive some strange calls. The people on the other end of the phone say words we don’t understand or can’t hear, or something else. It’s always those strange calls that are said to be calls from another world by some people who claim to be psychics.
I didn't believe it at first, and asked myself, then the SIM cards used in the other world are also from China Mobile or China Unicom? Otherwise, how can they call our phones?
But then a story told by a friend of mine shook me. He was a media reporter working in a provincial city. One time when we were chatting on QQ, he told me about a strange thing he had interviewed.
One summer at 2pm, he received a tip-off that a murder seemed to have occurred in a suburban vegetable market, and a large number of police rushed over, and the caller also called 120 for help. The caller was a 120 staff member, and he violated the rules and gave the caller's phone number to my friend because they had a good relationship.
My friend drove to the crime scene and called the tip-off number. A man answered the phone. There was no sound except his voice. The man said that they were on the top floor of a teahouse, which was an underground casino. Because of the gambling money, two gangs fought and two people were hacked to death. He hid outside the door, very scared.
My friend was very confused. If he had killed someone, how could he not hear any noise outside the door? My friend said he wanted to find this person, and this person said, "Ask Zhang's mother who runs a teahouse in the market. She is just upstairs from their house."
When my friend got there, he was shocked to see seven police cars and a riot vehicle parked in front of the market, as well as many special police and criminal police. It was a big scene. He asked, "Who is Zhang's mother?" A policeman glanced at him and ignored him. Then an old lady who was talking to the policeman said that she was Zhang's mother.
My friend asked, "Is there a murder?" Zhang's mother said no. I was also surprised. The police suddenly surrounded my teahouse. At that time, I thought it was Bin Laden hiding in our teahouse in disguise, which attracted a large number of police. I was scared to death. If he crashed his plane into our teahouse, we would not be able to bear it.
The policeman asked Zhang's mother again, "Is this the only teahouse in your house?" Zhang's mother said, "It's the only one. If you don't believe me, go ask others."
My friend called the police and asked, "Uncle police, have you checked their house?" The police said, "We checked the three-story building, but found nothing, not even a drop of blood."
My friend said, maybe someone has a grudge against Zhang’s mother and made a false report to the police?
The police said, that's possible, we are going to track this phone number. But it's strange, people who make false police calls usually know the consequences, and they will choose to call from a pay phone so that the police can't find him, but this guy kept calling from a cell phone, and it seemed like something really happened on the other end of the phone, there was a sound.
My friend quickly took out the phone and showed it to the police. The police said it was this phone. My friend said, there was no sound on the other end. I’ve called before.
The police frowned, turned on the device immediately, called the number, and got through. Someone answered, but the voice was still crying, and the same words were said. After searching for a while, the call was hung up. The person on the other end said it was very strange. They had called this person 11 times today, but they couldn't find this phone number anywhere. This was something they had never encountered before, unless there was no such number. But how could he make a call without this number?
My friend laughed and said, "We've always seen informants playing tricks on us, but today we saw someone who dared to play tricks on the police. Is Bin Laden dead or not ? That's so funny." The police looked at him and said, "You're just looking for trouble. You're wasting so much public resources by making a false alarm. It's against the law. What's wrong with you? Are you a psychopath?"
My friend was quite embarrassed, and said, yes, arrest him, torture him, whip him, and drip wax on him, and see if he dares to make a false police report!
The police laughed and asked, "Is Bin Laden dead or not ? You are quite good at this, bro? Are you an s or a masochist? Can we punish him? How come you, a journalist, don't even know this? We can only detain him for 10 days."
My friend said, that’s fine, just detain him and let him play hide and seek in the detention center, we won’t kill him.
The policeman's face turned pale and he said, "Let's go to the telecommunications company to check this phone number." My friend and I followed him. As a result, this number did not exist at all. The telecommunications company said, "What do you think? Have you ever seen the number 144? It's obviously fake."
They were speechless and said that this was a strange thing. They played reporters and policemen and almost scared Zhang's mother to death.
However, the last sentence was indeed wrong. At 2 pm the next day, something happened in Zhang's teahouse. Several people were playing mahjong and got into a fight over money. Two people were hacked to death.
My friend said, how come someone called the police the day before if it happened the next day? Moreover, the time of the incident and the time of calling the police were both 2 pm, which was exactly 24 hours apart. How did that strange phone number come from?
If you see a strange phone number, don't borrow it, because you don't know what it could be…