Chapter 3 Chapter two

At 3:30 pm on June 18, Monday, City S. Although Xiao Nuo was determined to solve the mystery, she was neither a professional detective nor a full-time police officer, and she didn't have much free time. She was a student after all. The freshman year is called "the playground of the college age", but there are always classes. Especially on Monday, it was the busiest day of Xiao Nuo's weekly class. It started from the flag-raising ceremony early in the morning and ended at three o'clock in the afternoon. There was only more than an hour of lunch break in the middle, and there was no way to do anything at all.

The last section is intensive reading. The teacher is a veritable "intensive reading" teacher. Pastor Jin's article was thoroughly read from beginning to end. The stumps of adverbials, predicates, and objects are spread out on the blackboard.Xiao Nuo looked at the hour hand on the watch and sighed anxiously. After finally waiting for the teacher to yell out the word "end of get out of class", the class has dragged on for more than fifteen minutes.Xiao Nuo, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, picked up her schoolbag and left without saying a word. A few close classmates called her behind her, but she didn't hear her.

According to the address given by the reporter, Su Xuejun's family lives in Dongsheng District, Shanghai, and Xiao Nuo's home is just diagonal to the university.Even with the most optimistic estimate, it takes more than two hours to go round-trip by bus; the taxi is fast, and it only takes more than 20 minutes to walk along the viaduct, but the cost is at least 50 yuan, which is too expensive; The subway and light rail have not yet extended to that area, so Xiao Nuo had to race against time to squeeze the bus and go home before seven o'clock. She called Su Xuejun's home last night, claiming to be Su Xuejun's friend, and expressed the hope that she could go to her home to express her condolences, and Su's parents welcomed her.

The condition of the road today was not very bad. Although the bus moved slowly as usual, there was no traffic jam. Finally, Xiao Nuo finally arrived at Dongsheng District before 4:40. Su Xuejun's house is in a high-rise building called "Cailongju", which stands out from the surrounding low gray family buildings, and Xiao Nuo found it without much effort. When she walked into the yard, she immediately noticed that there was a layer of sand sprinkled on the concrete space in front of the building. If you looked carefully, you could see some dark red sand mixed with it. Personal pointing.

"This must be the place where Su Xuejun fell from the building." Although Xiao Nuo didn't know Su Xuejun, she felt pity for a while. After all, a good life suddenly disappeared like this, just like Tang Jing. Su Xuejun's house lived on the fourteenth floor, Xiao Nuo walked to the door of the building and pressed the intercom corresponding to the house number. "……Hey……" The voice from the intercom was sad and weak. "...uh... hello, I'm Xuejun's friend..." "Please come in." After speaking, the electronic lock of the door "creaked" and opened. Xiao Nuo walked in and took the elevator to the fourteenth floor.When she stepped out of the elevator, a middle-aged woman with tear-stained face was already waiting there. She was tall and thin with bulging cheekbones.

"Hello, Auntie." Xiao Nuo hurriedly and cautiously greeted her, and at the same time bowed slightly. "Let's talk in the house." Su's mother replied. Xiao Nuo followed her into Su Xuejun's home.This is a big room with three bedrooms and two halls, it is extremely spacious, and the decoration is very luxurious, but also very tacky.A man with a big belly was sitting on the sofa with his head bowed. He should be Su's father.When Su's mother introduced Xiao Nuo, he just raised his head and nodded, without saying a word. Su's mother poured Xiao Nuo a cup of tea and said in a low voice:

"Thank you for coming all the way to visit Mr. Xue." "I didn't know what happened until I read the news yesterday. Aunt and Uncle ask you to express your condolences by the way." "Alas... a person who is so good, if he says no, he will be gone." "I never thought this would happen, it's so tragic." Xiao Nuo was telling the truth. "That child, why can't you think about it for a while..." Su's mother took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes, her expression was very similar to Mrs. Xianglin's. After Su's father heard these words, he suddenly burst into anger, staring at his blood red eyes and shouting loudly:

"Why can't you think about it for a while! It's because of the broken Internet! I told her to stop using it, but she just didn't listen! I shouldn't have bought a computer in the first place!" "...Don't say this in front of Mr. Xue's friends." "I just want to say! You judge the reason. Mr. Xue is in a trance because of this broken Internet fan. He doesn't do anything else all day long. It's all caused by the Internet. If he is not a decent person, why did he suddenly leave Jump upstairs!?" Xiao Nuo thought that this girl's enthusiasm for surfing the Internet was not inferior to Tang Jing's.Su's father continued to blame his wife.

"It's all you. If you had smashed the computer earlier, such a thing would not have happened!" "...? You... did you smash her computer?" Xiao Nuo, who was about to ask a question, couldn't help being surprised when he heard this, and asked quickly. Su's father nodded and pointed to the balcony. Xiao Nuo stretched his head over and saw a monitor with a smashed screen upside down. The chassis beside it was twisted into a strange shape. Fragments of the fan were scattered all over the place.Obviously, this is the result of violent people smashing it with brute force.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Nuo felt a chill in her heart. It seemed that she couldn't count on checking Su's computer, and her parents obviously didn't understand computers at all. I'm afraid they didn't even know what QQ was, let alone their daughter. Who were you talking to at the last minute? "Excuse me, can I see Mr. Xue's bedroom?" Xiao Nuo was unwilling to get nothing like this. "Yes, come this way." Su's mother nodded, stood up and pointed to a room. The two walked into Su Xuejun's bedroom. The inside was very tidy. A bookshelf was placed on the right side. There were a few books and many small ornaments inside. There were also a few framed pictures, most of which were Su Xuejun's alone photos, and some Group photo; next to the bookshelf is a pink wardrobe, from its size you can tell the amount of clothes the owner has; a large window is closed, and next to the window is a large dark red sandalwood table, the table is empty, There is a rectangular tabletop that is lighter in color than other places, and it is obvious that the computer has been placed there before it was smashed.Then there is a big bed, which is as beautiful as a palace item; several large posters of Japanese and Korean stars are pasted on the wall.

Xiao Nuo looked around for a while, but didn't see anything special, and felt disappointed. It seemed that this trip must be wasted, so she couldn't help but sighed secretly.When she was about to exit the bedroom, when she glanced at the bookshelf for the last time, she suddenly saw a very familiar figure.She quickly took a few steps closer to look at it, her whole body was shocked, and she stared at a photo with her eyes wide open. The background of the photo is the newly opened Dynamic Digital Plaza in Shanghai. Su Xuejun and Tang Jing are standing together, smiling sweetly... "...Please...excuse me...who is this?" Xiao Nuo didn't expect to find a photo of Su Xuejun and Tang Jing here, and the shock in her heart can be imagined. She picked up the portrait frame, pointed to Tang Jing and said to Su's mother. Su's mother took the photo and looked at it, frowned and said, "I don't know this girl, maybe she is also Xue Jun's friend." "Can I take a look at this photo?" "It doesn't matter." So Xiao Nuo took the photo out of the frame, and the edge of the photo that was originally blocked by the frame can be seen. There are several numbers on it: 010501. This is the photo time automatically recorded by the camera, and the time is May 1, 2001. May 1st?Xiao Nuo carefully recalled that it was the first day of the Labor Day holiday. Originally, she had asked Tang Jing to play in the forest park, but Tang Jing said that there was a gathering of netizens that day, so she turned it down. Could it be that the netizen Tang Jing mentioned refers to Su Xuejun? The two were netizens, and they committed suicide suddenly and inexplicably while surfing the Internet at the same time on the same day.This is too much of a coincidence. Also, Tang Jing and Su Xuejun are in the photo together, so who is taking the photo of the two of them?Could it be the third netizen?Did he or she also encounter the same situation at twelve o'clock on Saturday night? These thoughts flashed through Xiao Nuo's mind quickly, and she tried to calm herself down. It was still too early for the truth, but she felt that she had touched the handle of the door. Xiao Nuo casually turned the photo over, and found that there were a few words written on the back, the words were small, but the handwriting was beautiful. "Liuli & Jinghong". Perhaps this is the screen name of the two of them.Xiao Nuo secretly remembered these two names, and then put the photo back to its original place. Then Xiao Nuo comforted Su's mother a few more words, seeing that it was getting late, she left and went home.Su's mother kept saying thank you to her, which made Xiao Nuo feel a little guilty. When I was walking back, I was not as lucky as when I came here. There was a traffic jam when I passed the business district, and I didn’t get home until after 7 o’clock.When her mother asked, Xiao Nuo casually made an excuse and evaded it. After eating, Xiao Nuo went back to his room and wrote down all the gains of the day in his notebook. "Next, it's Tang Jing's hard drive." It is impossible to move Tang Jing's computer home, not to mention that most of the information useful for investigation, such as QQ chat records, are stored in the hard disk, and other parts of the computer are meaningless to her, so from the beginning, Xiao Nuo locked Tang Jing's hard drive. On this point, Xiao Nuo is very sure.Tang Jing liked to write articles very much during her lifetime, and she wrote very well. Everyone knows this.Xiao Nuo can ask her aunt for the reason of "sorting out the manuscripts in the computer", and her aunt and uncle will definitely not refuse.This is not a lie, Xiao Nuo had exactly the same intention in the first place. Tang Jing's hard drive should contain key clues, or at least key hints. Xiao Nuo believes that this must have a great relationship with Su Xuejun and the mysterious QQ message. Xiao Nuo originally planned to pick it up in a few days, but seeing Su's father smashing the computer today, he felt that this matter should not be delayed, so as not to have long nights and dreams. If Tang Jing's computer was smashed or sold, it would be a pain. Missed opportunity. So she immediately put on her coat, picked up her bicycle keys and went downstairs.It's only 8:30, and it only takes 20 minutes to go to Tang Jing's house by bicycle, which is enough time. There is a narrow path between her home and the main street. The street lamp was broken by someone, and it has not been repaired yet.Only a little bit of moonlight shone down, and the whole road seemed to be covered with a layer of dark white gauze.When Xiao Nuo rode a bicycle through there alone, there was no one around, and a gust of night wind blew by, which made her shiver. Xiao Nuo inadvertently lowered her head, and saw her own shadow sticking to the ground blackly, as if someone was following her closely, inseparable, and couldn't help feeling disgusted.This feeling is no different from the fear that suddenly hit her when she saw the last QQ message and when she made up her mind to investigate this matter. Thinking of this, Xiao Nuo pedaled faster, and the bicycle was bumped because of the high speed, and rushed to the street in one breath.Seeing the bright street lights, she breathed a long sigh of relief. When Xiao Nuo arrived at Tang Jing's house, she explained her intentions in the future, and her aunt and uncle agreed without saying a word.So my uncle found a screwdriver, helped Xiao Nuo open the case, and removed the hard drive.When taking it apart, Xiao Nuo noticed that the blood stains on the keyboard and the desk had been wiped clean. Thinking of how sad her aunt would be when she wiped her daughter's blood stains, she couldn't help but want to tell her all the doubts in her heart. Aunt.But in the end she refrained from saying anything, because the matter was still hidden in the unknown waters, and it was far from being able to describe it in words, and speaking rashly would only add to the sadness. It was almost eleven o'clock when she got home. Xiao Nuo's home is only three kilometers away from the university. She is a commuter student and doesn't need to live in a dormitory.But even at home, she can't go to bed too late if it's not the weekend, firstly, her mother will nag, and secondly, she herself has no interest in staying up all night.So she saw that it was eleven o'clock, so she had to put the hard drive in the drawer and continue tomorrow. On the second day, that is, Tuesday, June 19th, Xiao Nuo rushed home immediately after finishing school classes. At that time, her parents hadn't come back yet, and she was alone at home. She opened the case of her computer, carefully installed Tang Jing's hard disk, adjusted various settings, and then started the computer with the hard disk system.While waiting for the boot, Xiao Nuo went out and poured himself a glass of orange juice and put it on the table, then closed the bedroom door and window, drew the curtains, and then sat back on the chair, looking at the background wallpaper of F4 smiling on the screen With the opening music of "Meteor Garden" unfolding in front of my eyes. Xiao Nuo has now entered Tang Jing's world. It is now two o'clock in the afternoon of June eighteenth. Xiao Nuo was sitting in front of his computer at home, but the screen in front of him displayed the data in Tang Jing's hard drive. To use a forced analogy, it's like transplanting one person's memory into another person's body.In a more Chinese way, it is: borrowing a dead body to resurrect the soul. Tang Jing’s hard drive is 20G in size, and the inside is very tidy. Apart from the necessary system and tool directories, it can be roughly divided into several major categories: MUSIC, GAME, CARTOON, and PICTURE. Animations and idol dramas, as well as some pictures and photos, and the novels in "My Documents" and Tang Jing's own articles. Xiao Nuo held the mouse with his right hand and stared at the screen, feeling like he was peeping into Tang Jing's memory. The first thing to investigate is Tang Jing's QQ chat history. Xiao Nuo didn't know Tang Jing's QQ password, but according to the habits of ordinary users, the QQ on his computer will be set to automatically log in, so there is no need to enter the password every time it is started.It would be best if this is the case, otherwise Xiao Nuo, who doesn't know hacking skills, has to ask a friend to help, and it's easy to cause complications. From the very beginning, Xiao Nuo made up her mind to investigate this matter by herself, and didn't want to involve other people. There was a hoarse dial tone from the 56K kitten, and soon the machine was online.Xiao Nuo lightly clicked on the penguin icon to start QQ. Sure enough, as she expected, Tang Jing set QQ to automatically log in, saving her the trouble of guessing the password. "Great, this is a good sign." Xiao Nuo thought to himself. QQ is a stealth login, and as soon as I go up, there are several short "beeps" and coughing sounds from the speakers. Xiao Nuo extracted the messages one by one, and they were all messages from Tang Jing's friends. Greetings such as "Why didn't you come up yesterday?", "Are you there? Rain Cloud?" It is about the system broadcast of mobile phone text messages. People on the other side of the network never imagined that the person they greeted had disappeared, Xiao Nuo sighed with emotion. Although Xiao Nuo knew that Tang Jing made a lot of friends online and had countless friends, she did not expect that she had so many friends on Q. She kept scrolling down the list of friends, and it took a long time to reach the bottom of the list. It was roughly estimated that there were at least one hundred friends. From one hundred and thirty, the screen names are all strange. Xiao Nuo couldn't help but let out a small exclamation. According to her concept, the number of QQ friends is around forty, which is very impressive, and Tang Jing has twice as many as hers. "Then, let's find out the profile picture of 'that person' first." Xiaonuo especially likes to read the novel "Harry Potter". In that novel, people call the villain Voldemort "that person", so she decided to call this mysterious friend without a name "that person". Xiao Nuo combed through the entire friend list three or four times from beginning to end, and spent nearly thirty minutes before and after, but found nothing. No one is the lead gray fuzzy head that Xiao Nuo saw that day, and no one uses a blank as their name. "Maybe he changed his name or changed his avatar." Move the mouse back to the top of the friend list, open the chat record manager, and search again.Xiao Nuo plans to check the last sentence of each friend's chat history one by one. If the content of that sentence is "go to death", then it should be that person.The name can be changed, the avatar can be changed, but the chat history in other people's machines cannot be changed. It's hard work, and the number of friends is simply too high.This time it took a full forty-five minutes to search from the beginning to the end, but I didn't find even a similar sentence.Xiao Nuo let out a sigh of disappointment, took a drink from the cup, and rubbed his sore eyes.She is not used to doing so long in one go in front of the computer. "Since it's not on the friend list, will it be on the stranger list?" Xiao Nuo checked the list of strangers, even the blacklist, but couldn't find it.After Tang Jing's death, no one should have touched this hard drive, but the traces of "that person" disappeared out of thin air as if it had been formatted, as if it had never existed. I can't find it online, either through Tencent's homepage or through QQ's own search function, and I can't find the "blank" name.Generally speaking, as long as you enter a space in the QQ name column, you can achieve the effect of "the name column is empty", and after such modification, you cannot find it with the search function.Perhaps "that person" took advantage of this loophole and completely disappeared from Q. But Xiaonuo recalled what she saw at her aunt's house on the 16th. In the message box sent by that person, not only the email address and name were blank, but even the Q number was not displayed. She had no way of knowing how to do this. It's here. Xiao Nuo shook her head, feeling a little frustrated. At first she thought that Tang Jing's QQ records could help her solve her doubts, or at least give her a direction, but until now she still had no clue. Suddenly, she thought of that photo, a group photo of Tang Jing and Su Xuejun. The two people in the photo died tragically on the same day and at the same time, and they both used the Internet before they died.On the back of that photo, there are two words Liuli and Jinghong written, which looks like a net name. Tang Jing's name is Blue Rain Cloud, but there may be other names.On the Internet, it is common for a person to use different IDs in different places. Thinking of this, Xiao Nuo turned on the search function of WINDOS, and searched for the keywords "Liuli" and "Jinghong" in the hard disk.Soon the result came out, there are two files in total: One is in "My Documents", it is a WORD file, the name is "The Frightening Chapter of the Canxing Building", the creation time is April 29th, and the last modification time is May 10th. There is another one in the PICTURE directory, which is a PIC file named "Jinghong & Liuli", created on May 2nd. Xiao Nuo first opened the picture file with ACDSEE, and sure enough, this file was the same photo she saw at Su Xuejun's house.No wonder Xiao Nuo looked familiar. A week ago, she went to Tang Jing's house to look at some scanned pet photos. She also glanced at this picture while browsing, but she didn't pay attention at all. So, is there a photo of the guy who took the photo of the two of them too? But Xiao Nuo couldn't find it. In the entire directory, only the group photo of Tang and Su was taken on that day, and only this one. Perhaps they were looking for some passer-by to help, and this possibility was not ruled out, so Xiao Nuo decided to put aside the issue of "the third person in the photo". Then, Xiao Nuo opened the WORD file called "The Shocking Psalm of the Remnant Star Building", and the first sentence at the beginning was written like this: Remnant Star House series.Amazing articles.Ladies and gentlemen, I have finished writing the beginning, and you must hurry up. The next part is the main text, with more than ten pages of eloquence, and the number of words is 13,621. This is a martial arts story, telling the story of five young men and women Shan, Shengzhou, Liuli, Jinghong and Ming who co-founded the Remnant Star Building, lived in the Jianghu, and were involved in an emotional entanglement.This is an article about Jinghong, the protagonist is Jinghong, she and Zishan travel together in the rivers and lakes, but Zishan is injured on the way, surrounded by powerful enemies, and everyone else in the Remnant Star Building is not around, Jinghong bears him alone Fighting and fleeing, and finally seeing that they are no longer lucky, they both jump off the cliff, only to meet an unborn reclusive expert at the bottom of the cliff... That's all for this document, and there will be no more.The writing style of the novel is exquisite and gorgeous. Although the plot is mediocre, the atmosphere is created very well.This style is very familiar to Xiao Nuo, it is exactly from Tang Jing's handwriting. Tang Jing has always liked this style, even when writing high school essays.The teacher criticized that "too much work on rhetoric, so that the words will harm the meaning" and "flashy", but she didn't take it seriously. Instead, she declared that she would follow the path of Yu Xiu and Han Han, writing and publishing books in high school.She wrote several large volumes of exercises, which Xiao Nuo had seen before, and the style was exactly the same as this article. Jinghong in the article should refer to Tang Jing herself, because the heroine loves to eat lychees, wears purple clothes, and has a habit of touching the nails of her little finger on her right hand.These are all Tang Jing's own habits, and Xiao Nuo is too familiar with them. Since "Jinghong" is Tang Jing, then "Liuli" is naturally Su Xuejun; the other "Zishan", "Shengzhou", and "Ming" must also have real people, because the opening sentence "Everyone, I finished writing the beginning It's over", the tone was obviously meant for multiple people, not just for Su Xuejun—or Liuli—only one person. There are many things like this on the Internet, because this is an unlimited world, so the imagination that is usually suppressed in reality can be unfolded freely on the Internet.Many people take themselves and their friends as the protagonists on the Internet, writing touching or humorous stories one after another, and enjoying themselves in the stories. This "Remnant Star Tower" must have been a story created by these five netizens, and Tang Jing was responsible for part of it. "Or that Zishan is the third person who took pictures of Tang Jing and Su Xuejun." Xiao Nuo suddenly thought, because in the story he and Tang Jing (Jing Hong) are lovers, there is a strong love between the lines, or there is something Maybe the truth is in it.But then she shook her head with a wry smile. This is a completely unfounded guess. If they were really a couple and had a party in reality, how could Tang Jing not save his photo in the hard drive?You can't think too much about these things, and mislead the direction of the investigation. Are these five people related to that mysterious QQ message? Two people in the "Remnant Star Tower" have died, so what happened to the other three people? Xiao Nuo thought that in the QQ friend list just now, there were no names of the other four people.They can co-write online martial arts novels, and their relationship must be very good. It is impossible that there are no other four people in QQ.The only possibility is that the names "Jinghong" and "Zishan" are IDs only used in this novel, so the other four people use other names on QQ. If you can get in touch with the other three people, or check the chat records between Tang Jing and them, then you should be able to find some clues.However, to do this, you must first identify which four friends are "Zishan", "Shengzhou", "Liuli" and "Ming". This requires reading through the chat records of more than one hundred friends to be able to judge. , and this is almost MISSION IMPOSSIBLE for Xiao Nuo, the amount of reading is too much. Thinking of this, Xiao Nuo looked up, and it was already seven o'clock in the evening, and she had been sitting in front of the computer for more than four hours.Only then did she realize that her eyes were sore, and her fingers and arms were also sore. "If you can't become fat in one sitting, take your time." She let out a long breath, opened the window, looked out with her hands on the window sill, and closed her eyes.The cool night wind blows towards her face, slightly blowing her hair, the sky is rare tonight is clear, the moonlight streams out from the gaps in the thin clouds, and the sparse starry sky can be seen. "Tang Jing..." A drop of tear slid down the girl's delicate face.