Chapter 2 Chapter One

At 8:15 am on June 17th, Sunday, City S. The accumulated water beside the road reflects the white clouds floating in the sky. The rainy season that lasted all night finally stopped.The air after the rain is fresh and pleasant, and the entire city of S looks extraordinarily peaceful under the sunshine in the morning. Xiao Nuo walked down the street with a light blue umbrella slung over her shoulders, humming Stefanie Sun's "Moonlight", and from time to time deliberately stepped into the stagnant water and stomped her feet vigorously, splashing water in pieces.Whenever she puts on her rain boots, she always likes to walk like this.This is a habit she has developed since elementary school, and it is still the same when she is in her freshman year.Pedestrians looked at her inexplicably, but she herself never tired of it.

She is going to work as a tutor at her aunt's house today.Her cousin Tang Jing is a sophomore in high school this year and will face the college entrance examination next year. Naturally, her cousin, who got into the city's foreign language college with a high score, is duty-bound.So every Sunday, Xiao Nuo would go to Tang Jing's house and give her two hours of English and math tutoring. Xiao Nuo and Tang Jing have been playing together since they were young. They love each other as sisters, and they talk about everything. Tang Jing's mother likes Xiao Nuo very much, so this tutoring is very easy and stress-free.It is more appropriate to say that it is two girls who get together to study instead of family tutoring.

Today is the third tutoring session, so Xiao Nuo got up early and left the house after eating breakfast.She doesn't prepare lessons, and teaching high school English is easier for her than skipping classes in college.It happened that the rain had just stopped in the early morning and the air was refreshing. She didn't even ride a bicycle at all. She put on her rain boots and walked all the way to Tang Jing's house. When she walked downstairs to Tang Jing's house, Xiao Nuo stopped, and she felt that the atmosphere was a little strange, as if something had happened.She looked around, found nothing strange, shrugged, and pressed the button of the elevator.

The dilapidated old elevator was an unearthed cultural relic unearthed in BC. It was extremely noisy, and it swayed leisurely while moving.Standing in the elevator, Xiao Nuo suddenly shivered for no reason. Tang Jing's family lives in 702 on the seventh floor, and the old elevator took nearly a minute to get there.As soon as the iron door opened, Xiao Nuo quickly jumped out of the elevator and stuck out his tongue. When she came to Tang Jing's house, she was about to reach out to knock on the door, when she suddenly found that the door was ajar.Xiao Nuo froze, gently pushed the door open, put his head in while taking off his rain boots and said:

"Auntie? Uncle? Tang Jing?" No one answered, only a burst of crying came from the house.Xiao Nuo recognized that it was her aunt's voice, and was startled. She quickly took off her boots and ran into the living room in three steps at a time. In the living room, Xiao Nuo first saw his uncle with a livid face standing on the window sill, holding the phone in one hand and twisting a burning cigarette with the other; while the aunt was kneeling beside the sofa, crying with her hands in her arms, her shoulders trembling violently with.It was Tang Jing who lay motionless on the sofa!

"...this...this...what happened?" Xiao Nuo was stunned, unable to speak, and froze in place, even forgetting to put the umbrella in the umbrella tube. "Xiaojing... something happened to her." My uncle turned his face from the window sill, his voice was low and hoarse, and the face of a man in his thirties suddenly looked much older. With a "boom", the umbrella in Xiao Nuo's hand fell to the floor, his face changed drastically, and he ran to the side of the sofa.Tang Jingping was lying motionless on the sofa, her eyes were closed tightly, her expression was distorted, her face was frighteningly pale, she seemed to have been terrified before she died, and she couldn't feel the breath of life in her whole body.

"Tang Jing!!" Xiao Nuo held her right hand, and found that that hand was cold and stiff, without the usual warm, soft and smooth touch.She took a closer look and found that there was a narrow and deep wound on the right wrist. The edges of the wound were neat, as if cut by a sharp knife; a bloodstain snaked down from the wound. "Yesterday, your aunt and I went out to socialize, because it was very late, so I called home to tell, but no one answered, we thought Xiaojing had gone to bed early. We only returned home ten minutes ago this morning. .As soon as we got home, we saw Xiao Jing lying in front of the computer desk, holding a knife in her left hand, her right wrist was cut open, bleeding profusely..."

When my uncle said this, he choked up and couldn't go on, and the auntie cried louder again. "Then, why don't you call an ambulance?" "We just called 110 and they will be here soon...but it's too late..." Tears welled up in Xiao Nuo's eyes, she slowly put down Tang Jing's hand, and turned her head to look into the bedroom.It was supposed to be the time for the two of them to sit there laughing and studying, but one of them had disappeared forever without warning. The bedroom door was wide open, Xiao Nuo stood up, wiped away her tears, and walked inside.She can't tell what she wants to do, probably just want to take another look at her life and feel her breath.

As soon as he entered the room, Xiao Nuo smelled a faint smell of blood.She took a deep breath and walked to the computer desk.The computer screen was pitch black, the desktop below and most of the keyboard were dyed red, and blood-red fingerprints were clearly left on several keys, and the same blood stains were also on the mouse, which was shocking; The blood flowed from the wrist into the keyboard, and then flowed along the gap between the keyboards to the desktop, and then dripped to the floor, forming a large pool of blood under the chair.A fruit knife was placed beside it, with blood on the blade.Obviously, Tang Jing cut her wrists—or was cut by someone else—and then lay down on the keyboard, and finally died in this posture.

Suddenly, Xiao Nuo heard a low whining sound. She looked around and found that it was the noise from the fan in the case, and the indicator light of the case was still on.With a thought in his mind, Xiao Nuo carefully stretched out his hand to the mouse and pushed it lightly. The blood had already solidified and would not get on his hand.With the movement of the mouse, the 29-inch monitor lit up with a "snap", the WINDOWS interface appeared on the screen, and the wallpaper was a group photo of four handsome guys from F4 with bright smiles. Tang Jing's computer system waits for 10 minutes, which means that if there is no operation within 10 minutes, the machine will automatically start and turn off the display to save resources.But the whole system is still in operation, just move the mouse to restore the screen display.Tang Jing's parents didn't know much about computers, and when they saw the black screen, they thought it was turned off. In addition, when their daughter died suddenly, they were too flustered to think about anything else, so the system has been running in an energy-saving state until now.

Suddenly, Xiao Nuo thought that bloody fingerprints remained on the keyboard and mouse, which meant that during the period of time when Tang Jing's blood flowed into the keyboard after cutting her wrist, she or someone else operated the computer with the blood-soaked keyboard and mouse. That's why blood-red fingerprints are left behind. "If you are still operating a computer when you are about to die, what is it for?" Xiao Nuo felt that no matter whether the fingerprints belonged to Tang Jing or not, this move must have an extraordinary meaning.Yesterday she was discussing with Tang Jing on the phone about going to Huangshan during the summer vacation, and she couldn't see any sign of her committing suicide, so she didn't believe that Tang Jing committed suicide at all. So she looked up at the screen. If no one had touched the computer after Tang Jing's death, then the system should retain the traces of the user's last operation. The two small computer icons in the lower right corner of the screen are still on, indicating that they are still online; the network ants continue to download MP3; the three IE browser windows are minimized in the task bar below, and the contents are respectively the Sina homepage and the banyan tree. A literature station and a mobile phone ringtone station; the QQ dialog box hangs in the middle of the screen, showing the last message sent by others in QQ.The avatar is blurry, faintly reddish in the lead gray, and there is a blank space where the name should be displayed: (2001-06-17 00:01:20) hit the road ... Seeing this message, Xiao Nuo felt a chill in his heart, and thought of the blood-stained keyboard beside him, he couldn't help shivering. This was sent by someone on QQ, and it was the last message, so he or she must have had a conversation with Tang Jing before.Xiao Nuo cautiously pushed the mouse and moved the arrow to the option of "Chat Records", wanting to check the previous records. Just as she was about to click, she heard a burst of chaotic footsteps and shouts outside the house, and the 110 had already arrived.Xiao Nuo usually likes to read mystery novels and comics, knowing that the murder scene should be kept in the same state as when the crime happened, so she quickly let go of the mouse and walked out of the room. The policemen came to the bedroom and began to conduct investigations in an orderly manner; a police officer took a notebook and a garden pen to question his uncle, a forensic doctor conducted a preliminary examination of Tang Jing's body, and Xiao Nuo was in the aunt's room. Surrounded by her constantly comforting her, the room was crowded with people.When the neighbors heard the news, they all looked here from the window or the door and whispered to each other. The forensic doctor soon made a preliminary conclusion: the time of death was around 11:00 to 1:00 at night. The cause of death was that the right arm artery was cut, causing excessive blood loss, and the deceased seemed to have been greatly frightened before death. "Around 11 to 1 at night?" Xiao Nuo suddenly remembered that the last strange message was sent at 0:01, but she did not tell the police. "...Yes, when I found out, my daughter's eyes were still wide open, and I closed them." Tang Jing's father told the police that when Xiao Nuo heard this sentence, thinking of Tang Jing's pale face and frightened and distorted expression, she couldn't help crying again. Xiao Nuo's parents also rushed over after hearing the news. Tang Jing's mother was already crying and lost her mind, so Xiao Nuo and her mother took her back to their home, and her father stayed behind to help her uncle deal with the aftermath. Back home, it was almost noon, Xiao Nuo's mother made some seaweed noodle soup, but Tang's mother didn't eat anything, and Xiao Nuo didn't feel like eating anything, so when she picked up the chopsticks, the circles of her eyes became red again.Her mother sighed, helped Tang Jing's mother into the room, and continued to comfort her. Xiao Nuo went back to the bedroom alone, her mind was extremely chaotic, and she was in no mood to do anything.There are too many things about Tang Jing in this room. The vase she gave, the group photo of the two of them, the paper stars folded together all night, and even the rogue rabbit on Xiao Nuo's mobile phone are all the things she chose when she and Tang Jing went to the street together. of.Xiao Nuo hugged the pillow, thinking about all that, the tears that had been suppressed desperately just now finally flowed out. In the evening, Xiao Nuo's father came back with a tired face.Xiao Nuo had already finished crying at this time, and asked about the specific situation with red and swollen eyes. "The doors and windows showed no signs of being pried, and it was the seventh floor; only Tang Jing's fingerprints were found on the handle of the fruit knife and in the entire bedroom. The police's initial conclusion was suicide." "Impossible!" Xiao Nuo shouted in her heart, how could it be a suicide, she clearly remembered that in Tang Jing's computer, the Internet ants were still downloading things, how could a person who was about to commit suicide do such a thing.Also, before Tang Jing died, why did she have such a frightened expression?Why do you still use QQ to chat with others after cutting your wrist?Intuitively, she felt that all this was related to that mysterious QQ message. The adults talked behind closed doors all night, and Xiao Nuo didn't want to go online at all.Although she often chats online, she is far less crazy than Tang Jing, especially after this incident happened, she is even more careless.So she leaned on the leather sofa in the living room alone, staring at the ever-changing TV screen in a daze, but kept thinking about the weird phrase "Go to death" in her mind. "A suicide case occurred in this city today. The deceased was a high school girl..." Xiao Nuo suddenly heard such a sentence from the TV, and couldn't help being startled. He quickly turned his head to watch, and found that it was the city's news program at nine o'clock, and the news host was reporting in a purely business-like indifferent tone: "...The name of the deceased is Su Xuejun, female, 17 years old, a sophomore in high school. At about twelve o'clock last night, the deceased jumped off the window sill on the 14th floor of his own house and died immediately after falling to the ground. According to the investigation, the deceased was using the Internet at the time. According to expert analysis, it is likely that the deceased had hallucinations due to the excessive time spent on the Internet and extreme fatigue. Under certain sensory stimulation, he induced nervous hypomania, lost control of his mind for a while, and caused tragedy. Attention, parents, while encouraging children to use the Internet to learn knowledge, we must pay attention to its negative effects, and moderately control the time spent on the Internet..." Then a picture of Su Xuejun appeared on the right of the host. It was an ordinary girl with short hair, small eyes, thin lips, and many pimples on her face. Xiao Nuo suddenly felt that this girl looked very familiar. He didn't know her, but he must have seen her somewhere.She also died at around twelve o'clock yesterday, and also when she was surfing the Internet... Could it be just a coincidence?And that message, did Su Xuejun also receive it?Thinking of this, Xiao Nuo couldn't help trembling slightly. All of this is just guesswork without evidence, and maybe the two dead people are completely unrelated.Xiao Nuo tried to convince herself in this way, but the doubts were still lingering in her heart.She is a girl with strong curiosity and tenacity, and she always has to investigate to the end when there are doubts. What's more, this time it was related to his cousin Tang Jing. Xiao Nuo thought of her pale face and felt that he did this out of a sense of mission. She secretly made up her mind. So Xiao Nuo jumped up from the sofa, dug out the Shanghai Yellow Pages from the cabinet under the phone, and quickly found the external number of the city's TV station, and then she picked up the phone. Suddenly, she felt an indescribable sense of fear about what she wanted to confirm further. "Now that you've made up your mind, let's do it to the end." She pushed her hair back and began dialing the number from the yellow pages. The phone rang seven or eight times before someone picked it up and said "Hello" lazily. "Hi, hello, I am a viewer who watched your news program just now. I would like to ask, is there any more detailed information about the high school girl who fell from the building just now?" "It's not our business." The tone of the other party was very impatient. "Then, where can I find out? Please, this matter is very important to me." Xiao Nuo begged.Probably because the girl's unique soft voice can't be rudely rejected, the other party thought for a while and said to her: "Go and ask the editorial room, this is the phone..." Xiao Nuo took a notebook to write down the number, and then dialed. The person who answered the phone this time was a middle-aged man. "Hello, the high school student Su Xuejun who fell from the building was broadcast on the news just now, do you know her address or home phone number?" "Why are you asking this?" "I'm her friend, but I haven't contacted her for a long time. I just found out that something like that happened on TV just now, woo..." Xiao Nuo said in a tearful voice that this sadness was not all faked, when she thought of Su Xuejun, she would think of Tang Jing. "Wait a minute..." Xiao Nuo heard from the other side of the phone that the person answering the phone was shouting to his colleagues, "Hey, who interviewed the news about the falling building?" "Oh, Xiao Han, he's over there." "Xiao Han, come here, someone is looking for you." Then the voice of a young male changed immediately on the phone. "Hello, I'm Han Fei, who is it?" Xiao Nuo said the request again. "Oh, that's it. Please feel sorry for me. I'll find it for you right now." "Thank you, by the way, I also want to ask, did Su Xuejun really jump off the building while surfing the Internet?" "It should be like that. According to her parents, they were both watching DVDs in the living room at the time, and she was surfing the Internet alone in the house. Later, when my mother walked into the house, she found that the computer was running there, and the windows were wide open. Look at it this way... tsk tsk tsk..." Han Fei briefly explained the matter, his voice cadenced, as if he was talking about storytelling. "That's right, thank you very much." "It's okay, it should be done, hehe." The reporter surnamed Han was very enthusiastic. Upon hearing Xiao Nuo's request, he readily told her the phone number and address of Su Xuejun's home, and added a sentence at the end: "If there is any news, please don't forget to tell me. Me, my phone is..." Although Xiao Nuo was a little dissatisfied with the last sentence of this person, he still recorded his mobile phone in the phone book. Putting down the phone, Xiao Nuo went back to her bedroom, turned on the desk lamp, took out a new notebook and pen from the desk drawer, carefully filled the pen with water, wiped off the excess ink with blotting paper, and threw it into the waste paper Put it in the basket, and turn to the first page of the notebook. She decided to sort out the clues she knew so far, so as to decide the direction of the next investigation.Don't look at Xiao Nuo's usual carelessness, but she actually does things in an orderly manner, very organized and logical, with a calmness that is not in harmony with her cheerful personality. 1. The last message Tang Jing received.The sender is unknown, the content of the message is "Go to death", and the time is 0:01 on the 16th. who is this 2. Judging from the bloody handprints on the keyboard, Tang Jing had operated a computer between the time of cutting her wrist and her death. What is so important? 3. Tang Jing's expression after death was so terrified that she couldn't rest in peace. In the end, it was her father who closed her eyes. what did she see 4. Su Xuejun, who died at the same time, was also surfing the Internet. Did she also receive a similar message?What is the connection between her and Tang Jing?Why do I feel familiar when I see her? (Attachment: Su Xuejun's home phone number and address) 5. It is absolutely impossible for Tang Jing to commit suicide. When writing the fifth point, Xiao Nuo heavily ticked the back and nodded involuntarily. She re-examined the five clues and questions listed here, and couldn't help sighing.The clues I have so far are too limited. Except for the fifth point, the other four clues have no necessary connection with each other, they are just scattered traces, and what connects them is Xiao Nuo's unreasonable sense of fear and intuition.On the contrary, the questions brought about by these four points, but each of them must be answered, otherwise it will be impossible to proceed.Even the fifth point is just Xiao Nuo's own opinion. The police judged that the evidence of "Tang Jing's suicide" was almost perfect. Regarding the questions about the first and second points, it seems that the only way to find clues is to go to Tang Jing’s home again and turn on her computer, even if you just remove the hard drive, Xiao Nuo can install it on your own machine and search . Regarding the fourth point, Su Xuejun already knew the phone number and address of Su Xuejun's family, and should be able to get answers from visiting her family members.If you are lucky enough to have access to her computer, even better. As for the third point, we can only know it after the questions about the other two lines are solved. So the conclusion is that the most important thing at present is to obtain Tang Jing's computer and the situation of Su Xuejun's last Internet access on the night of the 15th. Xiao Nuo wrote here, put down the pen, turned on the computer, connected to the Internet skillfully, and then opened her QQ, several friends greeted her one after another.On the Internet, her name is Beria. "Yesterday, Tang Jing was sitting on a chair like this, looking at the computer and chatting with netizens." Xiao Nuo tried to put herself into Tang Jing's feelings, but she still couldn't fit in. She has many friends online, but she still can't feel the real existence of that kind of friends.Everyone on the Internet is different from their true self, and the entire Internet is everyone's mask.The Internet brings the distance between people infinitely closer, but it also creates invisible barriers and distortions between them. "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog." Therefore, Xiao Nuo has never been able to enjoy making friends with netizens like Tang Jing and other friends, because she has never been able to put all her trust in it. Tang Jing always laughs at her as an antique and a Taoist, but the person who laughs at her now is no longer there.