I don't really agree that you can make a fortune and buy a villa by renting video tapes?

However, these videotapes don't look like ordinary feature films, they seem to be specially recorded expansion packs or something like that.

Why do you say that?

Because there is a string of Arabic numerals written on the white label on the back of each video tape.

No!

That's not a number, it should be a date.

I saw this box in my hand. The number on it was: 19930714...

If it is really a date, it would be: July 14, 1993.

Then I picked up another box, and the date on it was: March 11, 1994.

Well, it is indeed the date, that’s right!

After rummaging through it, I found that the earliest of these video tapes was from the summer vacation of 1991, and the latest was from the early spring of 1994. I did not find any video tapes older than this time span.

Therefore, I speculate that the content recorded on the video tape should be from the summer of 1991 to the spring of 1994, which is less than four years.

However, what was recorded in the videotape was not written at all on the label.

Of course I am very curious, what "interesting" content can be recorded in the videotape?!

When I thought about it, Ermiao was more familiar with digital products and video editing than me, so I asked him, how can I see what is recorded in these tapes?

Ermiao shook his head and said that there was only one way, and it had to be the oldest video recorder to play it.

It's a pity that you can rarely see that kind of VCR nowadays. Even DVD players have withdrawn from the stage of history. It is very difficult to see the contents of the video tape, unless you can find a VCR in this cellar.

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There are many boxes here, Ermiao and I rummaged through them carefully...

What a coincidence!

I rummaged through the bottom of the cardboard box, and found a video camera inside a flat, heavy cardboard box, which was used to shoot this kind of video tape.

This was more antique than a video recorder. Ermeow dug it out, blew the dirt on it, and found several power cords.

Judging from the feeling in Ermiao's hands, this thing should be quite heavy.

"Can this thing hold those video tapes?" I asked.

Ermiao opened a card slot on the side and saw the video and audio interfaces. He said: "If this machine is not broken, I think it should be OK, but it needs to be connected to the TV to watch..."

TV set?

It seems that there is a TV in the living room on the ground floor of the villa.

So, I asked Ermao to get the camera, and I randomly grabbed a few video tapes, and we climbed up the same way, and then returned to the villa.

There is a TV set in the living room, an LCD TV.

Although it is not the latest model, it is not old either. I wonder if it can be connected to the video interface of that antique camera?

Nowadays, people like to stare at their mobile phones, so there is no market for televisions, and there are not many young people who can tinker with televisions.

Ermiao is indeed a master. After plugging in the TV and camera, he fiddled with it for a while, plugging in all the terminals that should be connected, and then used the TV's remote control to search for the camera's signal.

As a result, the signal was indeed dialed out by Ermiao.

I gave Ermiao a thumbs up, then casually took a video tape and inserted it into the tape case.

After pressing the play button, the magnetic core inside began to rotate.

I have to say that the electronic products of the island country are of really good quality. This machine can still be used after so many years.

but……

Ermiao and I are not interested in product quality now, we are more looking forward to what is in the video tape?

It was very quiet in the villa. Ermiao and I stared at the screen and held our breaths at the same time!

Listening to the rustling sound of the magnetic core coming from the camera, after waiting for half a minute, the picture finally appeared on the LCD TV...

This picture is really unclear, even blurrier than I imagined!!!

Probably because the resolutions are different in size, the picture is forcibly stretched. Not only is the content in the picture severely deformed, but the snowflakes and mosaics are also enlarged countless times.

At first, Ermiao and I deliberately moved closer to the TV to watch it clearly.

Now we found that the closer we got, the harder it was to see clearly, so we had to step back to a position of about 3 meters, and finally we saw some pictures.

However……

After seeing the picture, I was instantly disappointed!

Ermiao was even more disappointed than me, because I heard his long sigh.

So, what exactly is the content of the video we see?

Okay, let me describe it briefly...

Actually, it's nothing special. In the picture, it looks like a classroom.

Yes, it's the classroom.

However, the students sitting on the desks and chairs are not real students.

Because they all look older, the youngest ones are all around Lao Chen's age, and most of them are white-haired old ladies and old men.

In front of the podium, there is a man giving a lecture, let's call him "teacher". There is a big blackboard behind the teacher. While he is talking, he will write some words on the blackboard from time to time.

It's a pity that the picture is so blurry that we can't see clearly what he wrote.

Moreover, we couldn't hear anything he said.

I don't know if the audio signal is different or if the video tape is broken, but there is no sound coming from the TV at this time.

The person holding the camera should have been standing in the middle of the classroom to take the picture. As the picture rotates, there will be some shaking, which makes the picture even more blurry.

After only watching it for a few minutes, Ermiao and I couldn't stand it anymore.

"What is this? Is this a university for the elderly?" Ermiao said with a sigh.

I think the word Ermiao is used very well. It does look like a university for the elderly, because the students are all old men and old ladies?

"Oh, I've been doing it for a long time and I'm sweating all over. I didn't expect that this is what I saw..."

With that said, Ermiao angrily turned off the camera.

Actually, I don’t want to watch it any more, because even in high definition it’s not worth watching.

After taking out the video tape, I took a look at the date number on it. It was from the summer of 1991. It felt like it was a bit early. What I thought at the time was that I had finally connected the machine, so I might as well look at other video tapes.

Will the content be different?

So, I picked another videotape from 1994. I thought that since it spanned more than three years, the content should be different, right?

I inserted the videotape into the camera and pressed the play button. Just like before, I waited another half a minute before the picture appeared...

This time, it should have been taken during the day, so it seems that the quality and clarity of the picture are clearer than the one just now, but it is only relatively clear.

The classroom is still in the picture, but it is obviously not the same place and is much larger than before.

What I mean is that the previous classroom could only accommodate thirty or forty people. The shooting location this time should not be said to be a classroom, but an auditorium.

Yes, it looks like a small auditorium with a lot of seats and can accommodate hundreds of people.

Moreover, less than 10% of the seats are empty. It seems that the attendance rate is still very high.

At this time, the camera turned to the stage, and I saw a man walking quickly onto the podium.

Judging from his quick movements, he must be young.

The cameraman zoomed in on the podium, and the picture became a close-up.

Then, he also gave a close-up shot of the face of the man who just gave a lecture...

When I saw the man's face, my heart seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer, and my whole body trembled violently!!!

This person...

It's actually...
Chapter completed!