Chapter 47 Chapter Forty Seven

"Too many teachers, students, and parents who visited the school died in Harimazaki Middle School. The death toll of students reached as high as an entire class. There was blood everywhere in the classroom. It is not easy to clean up. Such a serious situation is very difficult. The quickest and most effective way to completely conceal it is," said Takeshi Nagashima, "to silence or seal it up." I swallowed.Since the upper body was tightly bound to the chair, even swallowing was a little hard. "Is this too messy?" "I thought so too at the time, but Ogata-sensei was very determined and asked me without hesitation, 'Which side do you choose?'"

I felt like I was Jo Nagashima, an old teacher of unknown age, with short hair and wrinkled face, standing in front of me and asking me, "Which side do you choose?" At this time, the two had walked out of the classroom where the corpses were strewn all over the place and came to the corridor, and were about to go to the next classroom to give an explanation. "Which side? I can't decide, right?" Jo Nagashima, who was still a general servant at the time, replied in a trembling voice. Ogata frowned and squeezed out more wrinkles, "If you choose to silence, do you know what it means? That is to say, only the teacher is an exception, and everyone else must die, including all the students in the next class."

"Including the students in the next class?" Nagashima Jo asked, pointing to the classroom diagonally ahead. "That's what silence means. Kill everyone and make up another truth." "What other truth?" "A group of unidentified militants invaded the school and killed the students, and the teachers who resisted were also injured or died. This is probably the case." After Ogata finished speaking in one breath, the astonished Takeshi Nagashima couldn't help asking : "Did you just come up with this?" Ogata said in a troublesome tone: "This is a fixed pattern. Too many things in the world have their fixed processing patterns, or it can be called an inevitable process. Things like today must have happened in the past. As long as some As soon as the situation arises, a certain fixed processing mode is applied, and the cycle is repeated, and changes will occur over time, and the so-called system will gradually evolve due to these changes.”

Mizushima Jo was at a loss when he heard this, so he remained silent.Ogata continued: "It's like a mathematical theorem, a physical law or a chemical law. I have spent more than half of my life learning these fixed patterns. But you don't need to worry about these, I will only tell you the most important and most important thing. Simply yes." "What's up?" "If you choose to silence, you have to die too." "If you think about it carefully, it's a matter of course. Since he wants to kill everyone and fabricate false truths, how could he keep me, a general servant, alive? I was shocked when he said that." Mr. Yongdao said. Calm and elegant, as if narrating an embarrassing incident in childhood, we couldn't laugh. The unbelievable word "silence" weighs like a heavy stone on our chest.

"By the time I recovered from my surprise, I had chosen one of the two options." He said it with a little shame, but I don't think he needs to be ashamed.Compared with myself and more students being killed, of course "seal" is the correct choice. "Ogata took action without a moment's hesitation." Takeo Nagashima said, "When he walked into the next classroom, the teachers and students inside were already in a panic. They must have heard the gunshots and screams. At this time, Ogata quickly Step up to the podium and say, 'Everyone, calm down'."

Standing at the back of the classroom, Yongshima Zhang thought to himself, under the current situation, how could it be possible to calm everyone down with such a sentence?But unexpectedly, the noisy commotion in the classroom calmed down in an instant. "The instructions given by a confident person have the power to make others obey." Takeo Nagashima took another bite of the fruit, "The more chaotic the scene, the more people want to rely on confident words. Then, Ogata spoke at the podium The Internet explained the truth of the incident to the students, and the content was just as he told me in advance, "a group of gangsters who invaded the school killed the students, and several teachers who resisted also died."

"This can't be called the truth!" Oshikura Nosuke said in a voice close to wailing.I also nodded in agreement. Mizushima Jo also nodded, but he said: "This is the truth. The so-called truth is always pieced together after the fact. The most suitable plot to be the truth is the truth." "The students all believe this truth?" "Even I almost believed it." Nagashima Jo said with a smile. "Of course the students were very scared after listening to Ogata's explanation. Just imagine, it is understandable that a group of gangsters with weapons broke into the school. It is understandable to be afraid. Every student's face is pale, but after listening to the explanation, they are indeed more than before. Calm down a little bit. Explaining can make people calm.”

"Explains that it can make people calm down?" Gotanda Masaomi said sullenly.His tone was different from just now, I found it a bit strange, he seemed to be concerned about a certain crux. "On the contrary, if you are in a state of not being explained for a long time, people will become restless. For example, if the siren sounds, if no one pays attention to or deal with it, everyone will be very upset, but as long as you explain to everyone that 'it is a disorderly elementary school student' Press the siren, and everyone will feel more at ease. At this time, everyone will never think that there is no elementary school nearby, or that the installation of the siren is too high, and elementary school students cannot press it. They will just accept this explanation impatiently For the same reason, Ogata’s explanation was also very successful at that time, and the students all accepted it. No, it should be said that they almost accepted it.”

"It's not over yet?" I asked.Judging from the meaning of his words, it is obvious that there is a follow-up. "Because the father and son are still alive." Junichiro Mabi, covered in blood, came to the next classroom with Toshiro Mabi, who was unconscious, on his back. There was an uproar in the classroom, piercing screams one after another, mixed with the sound of chairs being overturned.Junichiro Mabi leaned against the table beside him, as if he might fall down at any moment.There was a sticky trail of blood on the ground, like the slime left by a slug crawling.

Under the eyes of the students, Junichiro Mabi pointed at Ogata on the podium, and shouted with all his strength: "This teacher killed all the students in the next class, and he wants to kill us all! There is something wrong with this school." !" There was silence in the classroom.The students looked left and right, at Shunichiro Mabi, who was covered in wounds and might die at any time, and at Ogata, who was standing expressionlessly on the podium.Everyone panicked and didn't know which side to believe. "The father obviously hadn't survived for a long time, his abdomen was bleeding continuously, and his mental state was not normal. I found out later that he had mild delusional symptoms of persecution. He seemed to know that he didn't have much time, so he worked hard. He kept repeating a sentence, but the students onlookers couldn't understand what he was saying, and I couldn't understand what he was saying either." The expression of Jo Nagashima revealed his sympathy for the deceased Mabi Shunichiro.

"What's that sentence?" "Ando Chamber of Commerce." Yongshima Zhang said.The words shot through my thoughts like a bolt of lightning. "It turns out..." I murmured, "It turns out that this word has something to do with this incident." "Have you heard of it?" Yongshima Zhang looked surprised, it was the first time I saw him with such an expression. "Have you heard of it?" Gotanda Masaomi also asked me. "I just went to Iwate Kogen, where the Ando Chamber of Commerce is located, not long ago, and I heard that Junichiro Mabi lived there for a while." Jo Nagashima was stunned and speechless.I felt a little refreshed, and felt that I had regained a little face. "Watanabe, how did you know those things?" Gotanda Masaomi's tone was full of surprise and displeasure. Although Takeshi Nagashima was surprised, he continued to lobby for the story five years ago. "Shunichiro Mubi was delirious at the time, and he kept saying: 'Ando Chamber of Commerce, Ando Chamber of Commerce...' Later he shouted: 'I have long felt that something is wrong here! This school is more dangerous than I thought, everyone. Run away to the Ando Chamber of Commerce!'” "What happened next?" I asked this sentence, but I had already guessed what the result would be. "Ogata shot and killed Mabi Shunichiro." In my mind, I seem to see Junichiro Mubi still protecting his son after he was shot and fell to the ground. "After Ogata shot, he said to everyone: 'Today's incident is absolutely forbidden to be spoken about.'" "It's not that simple to completely shut everyone's mouths?" Gotanda Masaoomi asked.Joyo Nagashima hurriedly got up from the sofa, walked to the window, squinted his eyes and looked out the window. "I don't know when, a group of men with guns entered the classroom. I later found out that they were the special forces of the police department who rushed over after being notified by Ogata. In short, the classroom was suppressed by some kind of power organization in an instant. In a chill atmosphere, Ogata said something to everyone." "What did he say?" "'Your every move is being watched.'" "Surveillance?" "He said, if you tell others what happened today, and leak information other than the 'truth' just told you, we will definitely know, then don't blame us for being ruthless. So you must not say a word, Can't even care about it." "Care?" A light flashed in my mind, "Is it like searching the Internet?" "That's why there's that code program?" Gotanda Masaoomi seemed to understand, "It's used to filter out who has searched for that incident on the Internet?" "Using Internet search to monitor is the simplest method. Of course, this part is indispensable, but it is only a small part of the monitoring system. In short, all the students present at the time and I were forced to make an agreement, that is 'Co-owning only one truth and giving up the others'. Do you know what is the most efficient way to get people to keep their promises?" I know exactly what the answer is.No, I simply keep experiencing the answer first hand. "That is to emphasize how miserable the end will be for the other party to violate the agreement." Yongjima Zhang said: "If you violate the agreement and try to get closer to the truth of this incident, you will encounter disaster. Just let everyone understand that this has always been the rule , no one dares to reveal the secret.” "If you get closer to the truth, you will encounter disasters!?" Oshikura Nosuke seemed to remember his unpleasant memories of being framed and arrested, and opened his mouth to shout: "But I have nothing to do with that middle school incident, and I have no intention of investigating. I just looked it up on the Internet!" Takeshi Nagashima tilted his head, looked at Oishikura Nosuke who was facing away from him, and said in a sympathetic tone: "If you want to blame, you are to blame for searching the Internet." "So that's what happened." Gotanda Masaomi seemed to have fully figured out the cause and effect. "What do you mean? What's going on?" Oshikura asked. Takeo Nagashima interjected: "If someone hears information or rumors about something from somewhere, what will he do? Most people will first confirm whether the information is correct, or who else has heard it besides themselves. These rumors, right? In other words..." He turned and sat back in his chair, "He can surf the Internet, combine several keywords, and press the search button." "So all you have to do is find people who search for relevant keywords online." "However, searching for that incident on the Internet is not necessarily to investigate the truth of the incident, is it? Like me, I have no such plan!" "Oshi, think about it, this is the same as writing a program. When we want to classify and process information, the judgment conditions can't be general and ambiguous, right? Then how do you let the machine judge whether a certain person is 'informed about the truth of the incident'?" interest'? Who knows what other people are thinking? In contrast, if a machine can tell whether a person has "searched the Internet with words related to the event", it is possible. It is difficult to program the human heart, but Human actions are analyzable." "However, doing so will make some innocent people wronged!" "It doesn't matter if you kill a hundred people by mistake," said Yong Dao Zhang decisively: "The important thing is to make the number of people who try to get close to the truth close to zero." "It's too much!" Oishikura accused, but I knew it wasn't Nagashima Jo who was too much, and he also admitted frankly that "this has always been the rule", obviously the rule was not set by him. "The locked keywords can't be the ones that most people want, otherwise they won't be able to filter out specific people." Takeo Nagashima said: "For example, there must be countless people who search for compound keywords like 'the truth about the Harimasaki Middle School incident'. , so the keywords we check and filter are words that only those who were there at the time knew.” "Such as 'Harimazaki Junior High School' plus 'Ando Shokai'?" I asked.The people present at the time heard Junichiro Mabi kept muttering the word "Ando Shokai", and they were likely to investigate the connection between Ando Shokai and the incident itself. In addition to this, there was also "individual counseling", which was also the same. After silently posting his post, Yongshima Zhang said: "Although the search is to obtain information, don't forget that people who search online may also be being searched themselves." "Searched? By whom?" "People from the system. Since the searcher will search for 'Harima Distortion Middle School' and 'Ando Chamber of Commerce' together, it means that this person knows that these two things are related in some way, right? You might as well imagine the search engine There's someone in-house who's analyzing these cases." "Could it be an elf living in the search engine?" "It doesn't matter if you imagine it as an elf. In short, they will use the keywords entered by the searcher to analyze 'what this guy wants to know' and 'what this guy knows', and further obtain the searcher's personal information." "How is that possible?" I couldn't help asking.Although I had been skeptical for a long time, I couldn't hide my astonishment when I heard Jo Nagashima's words so convincingly. "Getting the profile of a web searcher? Can it be done?" "It can be done." Yong Dao Zhang replied without thinking, "So even I dare not investigate online." "Investigate what?" "The connection between the Ando Chamber of Commerce and that incident. As long as there is an investigation, my concern for that incident will be seen through, right? So until today, I still don't know the details of the Ando Chamber of Commerce. " "However, everyone is just browsing the web, how can they leak personal information?" I still can't believe it. "No, it can be done." It was Gotanda Masaomi who answered. "Why are you so sure? Gotanda-senpai." "I'm the one who analyzed the monitoring program, okay?" "That program will request the personal information of Internet searchers from the Internet operator's system," Oishikura Nosuke said.He seemed to have regained his spirits a little. I remembered that it was Gotanda Masaoomi who discovered that the dating website program of Gosh Company would monitor search keywords, and Oishikura Nosuke also studied that program. "What? You also analyzed that program?" "Thanks to Gotanda-senpai for the code analysis program you left behind." "Ah, you found that?" Gotanda Masaoomi was quite surprised, so I told the story of the process when we reversed the tape he left behind and heard his message.At this time, we were like a group of young students chatting leisurely in the classroom. "What are you doing? It turns out that you were the ones who discovered the agency. It's really boring." Gotanda Masaomi muttered. "But what about asking for information from the systems of Internet operators?" "I don't know the detailed structure, but the principle seems to be to use an external general-purpose program to send it through an external packet. I have never seen the name of that packet, so after researching it, I found that its function seems to be to send data to the network. The operator’s system requests information,” Oishi said. "Just like the intermediary program used by the police system, as long as you set up an authorized account and password, and lock a certain website, you can obtain information from the records of the Internet operator." The more I listened to it, the more I felt that I seemed to have talked about similar topics with someone recently. When I thought about it carefully, it turned out to be the manga artist Satoshi Tezuka I met at Shiori Ando's home.When he talked about Junya Ando's past, he did mention "information provided by Internet operators". "How can a dating website program connect to such a system?" Although I knew the answer, I couldn't help but ask. "I didn't understand this before." Oishikura said softly. "You should understand now, right?" Gotanda Masaomin raised his chin and pointed at Jo Nagashima. "Since it is a trick created by the state, what is impossible?" Perhaps because he had completely cleared up the mystery in his heart, Gotanda Masaomi gradually recovered his usual calmness. "Take Nagashima, I have already understood the mode of operation of your monitoring of Internet searchers. And according to my speculation, according to the difference in the compound keywords used in the search, the severity of the damage to the searchers is also different. Bar?" "How serious is the harm?" "For example, people who search for 'Harimazaki Middle School' plus 'Ando Chamber of Commerce', and people who search for compound keywords by 'Harimazaki Middle School', 'Ando Chamber of Commerce', and 'individual counseling', the degree of system vigilance is Different." "There are grades?" Dashi said. "Isn't it reasonable to do this?" Gotanda Masaomi said: "However, relatively, this approach has its risks. Once everyone who tries to investigate something or searches the Internet with certain keywords encounters unfortunate accidents, it is likely It draws the attention of others and generates all kinds of rumors." "That doesn't matter. Terrible rumors can arouse people's curiosity, but curiosity alone can't get close to the core of the truth." I suddenly remembered what happened last night.I stopped at a red light in front of a pedestrian signal late at night, and was criticized by my wife for "unconditionally accepting the rules set by others."I feel that I am simply obeying the red light stop and green light, but this may also be unknowingly restricted by traffic rules. The traffic accident reports that are heard from time to time, the information of the violators that are made public, and the truth of the victims Existence, these are invisible threats that make me dare not violate traffic rules. On the way here just now, Gotanda Masaomi once looked at the transparent walls of the elevator and said that "transparent compartments will give people the illusion of being watched by others, and have the effect of strengthening self-regulation".Once people feel that they are being watched, they dare not act rashly. And filtering the search keywords on the Internet, is it also intended to cause a certain warning effect? "But, how do you deal with those parents who died in the school?" Gotanda Masaomi continued to ask.Seeing him talking more and more vigorously, I think he is probably looking at this matter with the mentality of reviewing the lack of the system. He is indeed a system engineer through and through. "Because you always declared that the gangsters were a group of unidentified militants, and you didn't mention the parents of the students at all." He asked a good question. All the news media we saw reported that the gangsters were unidentified. If the public knew that the so-called gangsters were parents of students, there would be all kinds of speculation and commotion. "Of course it was covered up. Parents who died in the school did not die in the school." "Impossible." Gotanda Masaomi said with a smile: "How can this kind of thing be covered up? Those parents have their own relatives, and there must be quite a few people who know that they went to school that day." "These are also suppressed." At first I didn't quite understand what he meant by "pressing down", but after a little thought, I figured it out, it's very simple, those people were also silenced.Maybe it was bribery, maybe it was threatened with violence, in short, everyone who knew the inside story was completely sealed. "If someone still insists on disclosing the truth, will he be killed?" Nagashima did not answer. "What about Bi Minlang? His father was killed. He won't keep silent about anything, right?" "He lost consciousness, and at the same time lost the memory of what happened, and could no longer speak a word." "But," it was me who asked the next question, "there are still many loopholes in this whole thing, right? Several parents of Harimasaki Middle School students disappeared or died one after another at the same time, and someone must have noticed something was wrong." At this moment, what I thought of It is a private detective plot that often appears in fictional novels.A certain detective was investigating the whereabouts of a woman. In the process, she found that she was not the only one who disappeared, and these missing persons were all parents of students from Harimasaki Middle School. The detective suspected that there was a huge conspiracy behind it and began to investigate in depth.It is not impossible for such imagination to happen in reality. "Yeah, you're right." Jojima Nagashima nodded and crossed his legs, "It is indeed possible that some people who are sensitive and capable enough to touch the truth." Joshimaki Nagashima then sighed , Changed his words and said: "No, it's not possible, but it happens often." "Often?" I had a bad feeling. "To put it more clearly, just now, another one appeared." Yongshima Zhang said.Before I understood the meaning of this sentence, I felt a chill down my spine. "What just happened?" I asked. "There's an Internet journalist in the next room. As you said, after investigating alone, he discovered the loophole of the Harimasaki Middle School incident, and he came to see me." same as us. "So we're not the only ones who did this?" Gotanda Masaoomi's voice revealed anxiety again. "Unfortunately, that's the way it is. You live your lives, and from your point of view, you are the main characters. So coming here to meet me is an adventure for you, but..." "But what?" "Adventures like this happen everywhere. The reporter just came here after an adventure of his own. It's nothing special." Although I don't think our actions are special, I am still stunned.The legs that could barely keep calm suddenly began to tremble, and they couldn't stop.A sense of loss enveloped me, what happened to the reporter in the next room now?Are you still in the next room?I wanted to ask these questions, but I was too afraid to ask them.At this moment, another thought flashed through my mind, like digging the wall of a dark cave desperately, hoping to find a glimmer of hope, "Mr. Yongdao, would you like to escape with us?" I resolutely asked decisively. Takeshi Nagashima was stunned. Although I don't know his position and considerations, but after a short time together, I feel that he has troubles and distress in his heart, and the status quo can't satisfy him. I think he might want to escape from his current position and role, so I tried Convince him. "Let's go to the Ando Chamber of Commerce I just mentioned?" I didn't think about what would happen if I went there, I just thought of Shiori Ando's bright smile, and suddenly felt that maybe just staying there would bring everything back to peace. Jo Nagashima stared at me, not laughing or angry because of my sudden proposal, but with a serious expression on his face thinking about the feasibility. The light of hope was about to emerge spontaneously in my heart, and Jo Nagashima said: "I would love to accept your offer." Dirt-stained hands finally dug a small hole in the cave, and the sun shines in from outside.I was so excited that my vision brightened up. "It's a good idea to run away with you." "Then do it!" I said.Although Oishikura Nosuke was confused, he happily agreed: "That's right! Let's do it like this!" "Unfortunately," Takeshi Nagashima looked at the ceiling and touched his nose, "I can't do it." "what?" "There are cameras and microphones in this room. We are being closely monitored. Everything cannot escape their eyes. I really want to escape with you. I also believe that the Ando Chamber of Commerce is a good place, but I have already disclosed the inside story of the incident. I told you, and you have listened." "so what?" "So it's too late." I wanted to cry but thought without tears: If I knew it earlier, I wouldn’t have listened.