101 4.25 The Cold Case on A Hot Afternoon

Pornsak assisted in cleaning the bathroom afterwards, getting rid of all the flower petals and the ashes from the joss stick that had been stuck in a crack on the bathroom wall.

As she used a hose to spray the petals down the drainage of the bathroom, perspiration can be seen dotting her fine face especially her forehead. The task was not too taxing, but someone who can feel between good and bad energies would feel a certain kind of heat emanating from the petals.

The team leader and I had called a takeout food delivery service from the nearby restaurants as the rest of the team member busied themselves to arrange the equipment. Even the scared shitless guy had regained most of his composure and was on smiles when he helped the rest of the team.

The SPI team set up the last tape that they had recorded on the head mounted strap when they approached the house. The notch of the tape was removed to prevent any accidentally rewriting over. A small Hi8 player was set up next to their TV in the living room and before playing, the leader asked the benevolent Monk if it was alright for the scared shitless guy to view the tape as he was recently involved in it.

"It's alright. It's one way for him to recover from his trauma. If not now, then when would the best time be if he kept the fear in him and not letting them out. Furthermore, I am here so, on with the show."

With that, the team leader dimmed the lights in the living room and pressed the play button on the Hi8 player. It was a simple device, no red record button, just Stop, Play, Forward and Rewind.

A simple analogue counter was on it so they were able to track the timeline. As the head-mounted video camera had a fixed view range finder, it was set to auto focus so there was no pan or zoom function, just like a cheap CMOS lenses video cam. Luckily there was a supporting 5w portable light that was carried along with a spare external battery.

The head-mounted video camera captured everything; from the house's former glory right to the sight of a grovelling scared shitless man who was on all fours and eating the roasted pork and lastly chewing the candle like it was a piece of candy.

The scared shitless shuddered at the sight of the previous him munching the red candle like a candy spoke up, "Did this really happened? How did I get separated from you guys? The last thing I remembered was sitting together and eating the fruits we had picked from the nearby plantations."

The team leader paused the tape and the screen froze at the face of a man who was devouring the red candle as if he was enjoying every single bite from it.

"Yes, it is true, pheurn. We didn't even know you left and headed to the house. We were watching out for each other. Maybe there's a case of Spiritual disturbances that took you away from us and found you in that state. Thankfully it is now over, and our dinner has just arrived. "

He switched off the TV and everyone stood up to receive the packages of food that had been delivered by a rider of the restaurant that the team leader had ordered from. After paying through the ATM machine portable gadget that the rider carried, we all headed to the dining table to spread the glorious food around.

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There were 9 people altogether but ordered another 4 packets of plain rice to ensure we have enough rice to eat. The rest of the dishes were simple. We had stir-fried water spinach in a spicy kind of thick sauce known as sambal, we had also two kinds of egg omelette, 2 pieces of egg omelette with prawns while the other was 2 pieces of egg omelette with oysters. There were 4 large deep-fried mackerel that was cut into 3 parts per fish and was garnished with shallots, chilli and a dash of lemon juice and 2 servings of braised pork belly in salted light colored soya beans with sprouts of spring onions, garlic, onions and chilli that made the dish explode in a multitude of colours.

We all sat down on the floor of the living room and soon dug in. Later we soon discovered that we were quite hungry as we helped ourselves to the remaining packets of extra rice around. Bonding and eating together really improve the camaraderie of the group, as well as making it a fun eating environment. It's hard to have such a scene where everyone eats as a family and even if they do, they had the screen of the smartphones stuck to their very noses! Who agrees with me?

We were so famished that we had simply finished everything that we had ordered. Luckily there was still some leftover fruits in the van and someone remembered it and brought it inside. Fortunately, the fruits were unaffected by the spiritual disturbances and within the bewitched zone.

We were quite full by the meal and simply took to sitting on the floor with our legs stretched in front of us and using the sofa or whatever we could just to rest our backs. After some minutes, the team leader proceeded to switch the screen back on. The image of the grovelling scared shitless guy was still there and he simply pressed the play button again and the rest of the video followed.

The quality of the screen that captured the events folding in the video was quite bad, it was even worse than 300x300 pixels but everyone had the rough estimation of the event unfolding. It was 90 mins later that the footage ended as it reached the end of the tape length.

The team leader looked at the Benevolent Monk for any actions before he spoke up, "Benevolent Monk, should we bring this tape to the police to hold as evidence that the two ladies in White were actually in the footage? Could we bring justice to them as requested by them through Pornsak and Aroon here? What should we do?"

"We hang on to the tapes until the very last moment. Make copies of it first. We shall report to the police later of this matter saying that we had a lead. And if they ask where we find the lead, just say that you were being summoned back into the house for some reasons."

"If they start to cross-reference for investigative matters, then stick to the main part of the story. Just provide the details of those wretched murderers and also to give them to a pinpoint location of where the bodies were buried. This part would be covered by Pornsak and Aroon as the footage didn't cover that part."

The rest of the group nodded in agreement and started to duplicate the tape and pack the rest of the equipment away. At the meantime, we tried to stick to the story as close as possible, and not reveal anything about the tape.

As we had settled those parts, all 9 of us boarded the rented van and headed to Sai 4 Community Police Station that was within Thawi Watthana District about 5km away. We drove from Chon Buri about close to two hours to the station.

By the time we reached the station, it was close to dusk and everyone slowly embarked and entered the station. After paying our respects to the Station Master, the Benevolent Monk spoke on our behalf as we believed seniority plays the most part rather than youngsters like us.

"Station Master, we would like to present to you new shreds of evidence to the case of the abandoned house of Thawi Watthana and the lifting of the mystery of the ladies in white. We understand that the case had gone cold but with these new pieces of evidence, we are sure it would shed new light to the case and make these unsolved cases be solved once and for all."

The Station Master looked at the Monk and then to the youngsters that stood behind him and gestured the Monk to sit down and narrate the whole situation from A to Z.