Chapter 4 third chapter

"Why have you been in a hurry recently? You ran away after class. What are you busy with? You're not secretly making a boyfriend." Cao Fangrui held Xiao Nuo and asked suspiciously.After class that day, Xiao Nuo just picked up her schoolbag and was about to leave when she was stopped by her sitting beside her. "Stop joking, how is it possible! That kind of creature has already returned to the moon." Xiao Nuo made a serious distinction. Cao Fangrui took her arm and said in a sympathetic tone: "I know your cousin died, you are very sad, but don't be too sad. I will go shopping with you, let's relax, don't be bored at home alone."

Xiao Nuo has been digging into Tang Jing's hard drive for the past few days, and found a lot of clues, but none of them are groundbreaking. She is a bit deadlocked, and she is also feeling bored.She thought to herself, it would be good to go out for a walk, so she nodded. The two walked out of the classroom and walked towards the school gate while chatting.There was a lot of people around, and it was the afternoon activity time on the campus, which was very lively.Several couples walked around holding hands as if no one else was around, a group of boys in basketball shirts ran past with basketballs in their arms, and there were colorful club posters on the notice board in the distance, many people were watching, and there was a self-proclaimed romantic love saint on the lawn While playing the guitar, he squinted at the girls passing by.

Cao Fangrui held Xiao Nuo in one arm, pointed at the boys from the basketball team who had just run past with the other hand, and made comments one by one. Xiao Nuo just pursed her lips and smiled. "What are your plans for this summer vacation? If you go to Tibet, I have acquaintances in the travel agency who can give you a discount." "Travel, I don't have any thoughts yet." "If you don't do well in the exam, you have to go out to relax... Uh? Wait a minute." Suddenly Cao Fangrui raised her right hand and waved to the front, shouting loudly: "Cousin! Here! Look here!"

Xiao Nuo followed Cao Fangrui's line of sight, and saw a boy sitting on the steps in front of the library. He was of medium build, thin, wearing a T-shirt and ripped jeans, with a pair of black-rimmed glasses on his nose, and holding a With several books.Hearing the shout, he also waved his hand in this direction, stood up, and patted the dirt on his buttocks. "...This...Who is this?" Xiao Nuo asked with a look of surprise. "Let me introduce to you, this is my cousin, Ma Ming, a senior from Xinchuan (Journalism and Communication) College. This is Xiao Nuo, my classmate."

Cao Fangrui pointed to the boy and said that Xiao Nuo thought the name was very strange, and noticed that there were two words written on the cultural shirt: "Fengya", which was written crookedly, without any taste of elegance, and looked very funny. "Oh, I've been looking forward to it for a long time, it's a pleasure to meet you." Ma Ming's voice is not high, it sounds very gentle, but the use of "Jiu Yang" is really nondescript. "……Hello." Xiao Nuo also nodded in return, feeling baffled. "Hey, cousin, why do I meet you every time at the library gate?"

"Live to be old, learn to be old, there is no limit to life, but there is no limit to knowledge." Ma Ming said with a smile, and handed over the book in his hand at the same time. "Do you want to read it? I finally found this book in the library." There are two books in total, one is called "Chinese Nonsense" and the author is Wen Yansheng; the other is "Chinese Mythology" and the author is Yuan Ke. "Come on, come on, don't scare my classmate, Old Antique!" Cao Fangrui slapped him on the back of his hand. "What antiques? This is a book that was only published in the 1970s. Haven't you heard of Mr. Yuan's book? Tsk tsk, young people nowadays..."

Ma Ming shook his head, rolled up the book and stuffed it into his trouser pocket, glanced at Xiao Nuo, frowned slightly, and suddenly said: "It's Xiao Nuo, right? Your complexion doesn't look very good." "Go! You're talking nonsense, did someone provoke you? My cousin loves to joke, so ignore him." Cao Fangrui said loudly. "I'm serious, Xiao Nuo, it's better to be careful these days, there may be some unclean things around you." "The dirtiest thing is your stinky shirt!" Cao Fangrui's words were not wrong. The collar of Ma Ming's t-shirt was sweat-stained, and it was soaked yellow. The clothes were either dust or spider webs.

"Spiritual beauty is the most important thing. Since ancient times, beauties have been so unlucky. Why do you want to be so beautiful?" "Come on, let's go, don't talk to you anymore." Cao Fangrui dragged Xiao Nuo away, Ma Ming scratched his head, without muttering anything, slowly sat back on the steps, and then took out the book to read. "Your cousin, your words are really...uh...special." Xiao Nuo left the campus, looked back to see that Ma Ming had not followed, and said to Cao Fangrui. "Let's just say he's weird. Even though he's only a senior, he doesn't even have a full beard, but he always speaks in an old-fashioned way. This guy is a bookworm. Know how much you can read, famous nerd."

Xiao Nuo and Cao Fangrui went shopping until after four o'clock in the afternoon, and then they parted ways and went home. Back home, Xiao Nuo habitually turned on the computer first, took off his coat, went into the bathroom to wash his face, and suddenly thought of the inexplicable words of his cousin Cao Fangrui, so he couldn't help but carefully looked in the mirror, and couldn't see anything Abnormal, just looking at the computer for several days, the eyes are a little red. In Tang Jing's hard drive, apart from the WORD martial arts novel and the group photo, there are no other new discoveries for the time being.The chat records are still being interpreted, but there are too many data, I am afraid that there will be no progress in a short time.So the day before yesterday, that is, Wednesday, June 20th, Xiao Nuo decided to change the direction of the investigation and go online to actively search for netizens who are familiar with Tang Jing, hoping to know the whereabouts of the other three people in the "Remnant Star Tower".

In the name of Tang Jing's cousin, she sent a message to every avatar on Tang Jing's QQ, asking if they knew anything about "Zishan", "Jinghong", "Liuli", "Shengzhou", "Ming " and the key words "Remnant Star Building".At the same time, she used Tang Jing's IE browser favorites to successfully find seven or eight online BSS forums that Tang Jing frequented, and posted posts with the same content in those forums under the name "Belia". I would like to ask you one thing. Hello everyone, I am a newcomer, and I am a friend introduced by Blues Xiaoyuyun and Jinghong.

May I ask who knows "Zishan", "Liuli", "Shengzhou" and "Ming"?Also, is the novel "Remnant Star Building" good? Hope to make friends with you. Today is Friday, which is the peak time for surfing the Internet. There should be many people who saw this post and received QQ messages. Xiao Nuo hoped that some valuable clues could be found among them. Sure enough, as soon as Xiao Nuo opened Tang Jing's Q at around 10 o'clock in the evening, she received more than a dozen messages in a row, most of which were asking why Tang Jing hadn't come up these days, and some people were talking about irrelevant gossip. But they all said they hadn't heard anything about the novel and the names of the five main characters. The same is true for BBS forums. Tang Jing goes to forums with topics such as martial arts, animation, and popular elements. The popularity is quite high, but the amount of water is also quite large.Xiao Nuo's message has only been posted for two days, and there are many replies and hits, but there are quite a lot of irrelevant things in it. Xiao Nuo stared at the screen and looked through the forums one by one, but there were almost no particularly valuable replies.Some replied "I don't know" or "I've never heard of it"; Even after reading a few forums, Xiao Nuo was a little discouraged.At this time, the mouse clicked to open a forum called "Youjian Inn". The theme here is "Martial Arts and Culture". The color of the forum is light yellow, which looks very comfortable.It is quite popular inside, the top few posts have hundreds of clicks, and dozens of replies.Xiao Nuo also posted a questioning post here yesterday, but a group of people on this forum are arguing about Jin Yong Gu Long's superiority and inferiority. Seven hits and one reply. Xiao Nuo shook his head, thinking that talking is better than nothing, so let's open it and have a look. Clicking on the post, Xiao Nuo saw that the only reply was a reply at 12:03 noon today, and the whole reply looks like this: Ti Yunzong Position: Director of the Beggar Gang Supporting State-owned Enterprise Reform Office Prestige: 3 Level: Disciple of Seven Bags Charm: 30 Experience: 567 gold holdings: 2839 two grains of silver Where: General altar identification: confidentiality has been set Total number of posts: 282 Registration date: 2001/01/21 Message View Search Friends Email Copy Quote Reply -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Re: Please tell me one thing How come you also know about this?It is inconvenient to say publicly, let’s talk about it on Q.My Q is 12005625. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Elders of the beggar gang, exercise!Come once every seven or eight years! Seeing this message, Xiao Nuo felt relieved. She immediately opened her QQ, and added the Q number of this person named "Ti Yunzong" to her friend list.The other party needed verification, so she wrote in the verification information: I am Beria.Coincidentally, Ti Yunzong happened to be online, and immediately let her pass the verification, and then added her Q as a friend. 2001-06-22 22:10:27 Ti Yunzong hehe Hello. 2001-06-22 22:10:39 Beria Hi. 2001-06-22 22:10:45 Beria Do you know anything about the Canxing Building? 2001-06-22 22:11:00 Ti Yunzong Why do you know about the Canxing Building? Where did Lan Yu go? 2001-06-22 22:11:23 Beria I just heard about it, I am looking for this urgently, thank you! ! Who is Lan Yu? 2001-06-22 22:11:30 Ti Yunzong Um, so... Did Lan Yu tell you? Oh, Lan Yu is the blues little rain cloud, for short, we all call it that, ha ha. 2001-06-22 22:11:40 Beria How should I put it, I knew it from her...but... 2001-06-22 22:11:45 Ti Yunzong You haven't answered me yet, where is Lan Yu? 2001-06-22 22:11:58 Beria ...Well, that's right.In fact, Little Nimbus Blues was my cousin who passed away last Saturday night. 2001-06-22 22:12:00 Ti Yunzong ... 2001-06-22 22:12:05 Beria It's true, it's true, her real name is Tang Jing, she cut her wrists and killed herself for some reason when she was surfing the Internet last Saturday night... (Xiao Nuo feels that it is more appropriate to use the word police at present.) 2001-06-22 22:12:15 Beria ? ? 2001-06-22 22:12:30 Ti Yunzong ...tell me this is your prank, I will appreciate it... 2001-06-22 22:12:43 Beria Sorry, it's true, I saw her remains with my own eyes. Can you tell me about the Canxing Building?This is very important, you should know Liuli too, she died too, she committed suicide by jumping off the building. (The other party did not respond for a long time. When Xiao Nuo was about to send another message, he found that he could no longer find this person in his friend list. There is only one possibility. She was thrown into the blacklist by Ti Yunzong. After about 10 A few minutes later, a system message came in, it was Ti Yunzong's application to join as a friend, and a message was attached: Sorry, I was too impulsive just now, I need time to calm down.) 2001-06-22 22:22:45 Ti Yunzong Sorry, I couldn't control my emotions just now. Why would you commit suicide by slitting your wrists? !Why did you jump off the building? !What's the matter with them? 2001-06-22 22:22:59 Beria I want to know too, so I want to know more about them. 2001-06-22 22:23:06 Ti Yunzong Well, I'll tell you what I know. 2001-06-22 22:23:24 Beria Thank you very much. 2001-06-22 22:23:40 Ti Yunzong ...A wry smile...the word thank you is unnecessary. 2001-06-22 22:25:02 Ti Yunzong Lan Yu and I met on another martial arts forum "Qianfenggu". Her articles are very good.At that time, her ID was "Tang Shuangling" and she wanted to join the Tang Sect, and I was the head steward of the Tang Sect in that virtual community, so we became acquainted after going back and forth.Later, the community forum added a function where users could propose to each other, so I proposed to her, and she agreed.It was just a joke at first, but then I really fell in love with her. 2001-06-22 22:27:45 Ti Yunzong Later, through her introduction, I got to know the other four people in the Canxing Building at "Youjian Inn".They regard each other as confidants and feel like-minded.Once, she suggested that the six of us should write a martial arts novel with the six of us as the protagonists.Naturally, everyone agreed and named each of them.Her name is Jinghong, you already know the other "Zishan", "Shengzhou", "Liuli" and "Ming", and my ID is Pixiu - do you know how to pronounce these two words? ? PI2XIU1.And the name of the entire organization is Remnant Star Tower.I remember it was in April. 2001-06-22 22:30:24 Ti Yunzong April 11, I remember very clearly.Lan Yu, also known as Jinghong, suddenly told me that he wanted to break up the relationship with me as a couple.I asked her why, and she said it wasn't fun anymore. I was surprised and sad, but I didn't want to get her out of it, so I agreed.But the next day, I saw that in the chapter she wrote, the couple turned out to be her and Zishan. Zishan is very steady, has the temperament of a leader, is not annoying, and has a good relationship with me.I felt that I couldn't continue to stay there, so I applied to quit and had a big fight with Jinghong. 2001-06-22 22:33:07 Ti Yunzong The Canxing Building is strictly confidential to the outside world. When we established it, we agreed with each other that the ID, the content of the novel, and even the existence of the Canxing Building should not be known to others.Although I withdrew, I also abide by this agreement.So, it's normal for you to ask around in the forums and get nowhere.On the contrary, I was really surprised when I saw that you also knew about the Remnant Star Building. 2001-06-22 22:35:22 Ti Yunzong Shengzhou is a computer expert. He specially made a homepage for Canxing Building. Unfortunately, the address has been changed, and I don't know the new one. That's all I know. After May, I haven't been in touch with it again. 2001-06-22 22:36:00 Ti Yunzong How is it, is there any help for you? 2001-06-22 22:36:21 Beria ...So that's how it is... Then the other people, Zishan, Shengzhou and Ming, do you still have contact with them? 2001-06-22 22:37:24 Ti Yunzong Long gone, I deliberately avoided them, so as not to be sad.In fact, I am stupid. In reality, I really did not expect to be surprised. I just want to have such a reputation on the Internet, so that I can feel better. Xiao Nuo comforted Ti Yunzong a few words, opened the favorites of IE casually, read it from the beginning to the end, and did not find any address that might be the homepage of "Canxing Building". 2001-06-22 22:43:16 Beria I think the other three should be notified of her and Liuli's death. Can you really not reach them? Jinghong's hard drive is here now, but there is no such address in the favorites. 2001-06-22 22:44:13 Ti Yunzong Oh, and you can look up her history. It's unbelievable that a living person disappears in the blink of an eye... this feeling... I'll give it a try, I don't know if I can find them yet. 2001-06-22 22:45:16 Ti Yunzong By the way, I have been wondering since just now, since you can open her QQ, why don't you just check her chat records with other people?That would be more complete than I knew. 2001-06-22 22:46:03 Beria I don't know their names. There are too many chat records, and I can't see them all. 2001-06-22 22:46:10 Ti Yunzong Why do you have to look at them one by one? You can export the chat history and save it as TXT, and then use NOTSPAD or WORD to search for the keyword "remnant star building". Xiao Nuo secretly scolded himself for being so stupid, why didn't he even think of such a simple solution.So, according to what Ti Yunzong said, she opened the history of IE, selected "last week", and a large row of addresses was listed in a row.Xiao Nuo began to look for possible connections of pinyin and English spelling related to "Cansnow Tower", and finally locked on the three most similar ones. After opening it with IE, he finally confirmed the address www.cansnow.com. (Let me add: Everyone, are you interested in going to see it?) Sure enough, this is the homepage of Canxing Building. The homepage is FLASH, which is quite well-made and antique, and the background music is the melodious sound of guzheng.There are three powerful official scripts in the middle: "Remnant Star Tower", and five long swords on the right are placed horizontally, with rainbow shadows hidden on the blades."Changsheng", "Xianduan", "Zhuying", "Xiangqi" and "Tongjian" are respectively engraved on the body of the sword.That person named Shengzhou, FLASH has reached a professional level, is a master. Xiao Nuo clicked on the five swords one by one, and "Longevity" pointed to the "Member List". There are five people's information in it, but they are all the identity information in the Canxing Tower. There is no contact information for the actual situation: "Xian Duan " points to the "chat room", but a password is required to enter: "Zhuying" points to the "novel inventory", there are only two articles in it, the authors are Ming and Shengzhou respectively: "Shenyou" points to the "forum" , you also need a password to enter; the last "Tongjian" cannot enter, and once you select the browser, it will display "The page cannot be displayed. The page you are viewing is currently unavailable. The website may encounter technical difficulties, or you need Adjust your browser settings". 2001-06-22 22:56:23 Ti Yunzong I also went to see it. A general site will have several basic columns: forum, chat room, theme content inventory, member list, memorabilia, and contact information of the site owner.The column that cannot be entered may be memorabilia or contact mailbox. However, considering the name "Tongjian", it is likely to be a memorabilia of the establishment of the station. 2001-06-22 22:59:10 Beria If only you knew the password, SIGH. Xiao Nuo chatted with Ti Yun while browsing the homepage of Canxing Building.This person is very talkative and funny, he has a lot of computer knowledge, and he really has a deep affection for Tang Jing.Xiao Nuo told him about Tang Jing in reality, and he told Xiao Nuo about Jinghong (Blue Rain Cloud) on the Internet, but he often talked more, with a bitter tone, and a sense of sadness permeated between the lines.Both of them felt heavy because of Tang Jing's death, but they chatted speculatively, and before they knew it, an hour passed. I don't know when it started, but Ti Yunzong kept asking: 2001-06-22 23:34:20 Ti Yunzong Hey?Hey?dropped it? 2001-06-22 23:38:18 Ti Yunzong ? ? 2001-06-22 23:45:55 Ti Yunzong Is it gone? Xiao Nuo was very surprised, how could the other party not receive it when he clearly sent the message.Tried a few times, it still doesn't work.In the end, Xiao Nuo simply stopped talking and sent "886" to Ti Yunzong, but I don't know if he received it. She looked up at the clock on the wall, it was almost twelve o'clock.Last week, she was used to going to bed early at 11 o'clock every day. Today is the weekend, so it's rare to talk so late. Today is a cloudy day, the moon and stars are covered by thick clouds, it is dark outside the window, a small wind flows in through the window cracks, and there is a chill in the coolness. "Yawn~~I'm so tired~~" Xiao Nuo stood up from the chair, stretched long, her eyes were sore.To keep her mother from nagging, she closed the bedroom door and turned off the fluorescent lights while surfing the Internet.Only the screen was on in the whole room, and this level of light was particularly taxing on the eyes. Suddenly, there was a strange sound from nowhere... Xiao Nuo suddenly felt a strange air coming towards her. When she looked around, there was a sharp whistling sound from the speakers, as if the level was out of balance. high-pitched speaker.Before she could react, the speaker returned to calm, and after a few seconds, the "beep" sound of new QQ messages came out again, and a picture of her QQ in the lower right corner of the screen was beating. She bent down and clicked out the new information with the mouse. In the next moment, Xiao Nuo's movements stopped suddenly, and her whole body froze there. 2001-06-22 12:00:00 ...on the road...on the road... The facial features of this head are blurred and dull, and there is red in the ashes of the face.It was exactly the same as what Xiao Nuo saw at Tang Jing's house that day!It is "that person". ...Xiao Nuo's breath became short of breath, and she felt as if an invisible big snake named fear was wrapped around her ankles, wrapping her body slowly and steadily, and she could even feel the cold snake body grinding past her. own body. 2001-06-22 12:00:05 Beria Excuse me... who are you? She typed out a few words with trembling hands and sent them, but there was no response for a long time, only the sense of fear from the bottom of her heart grew with time.At this time, the wind outside the window suddenly picked up, and the two windows began to swing "squeaky", "squeaky", and the darkness outside the window was unfathomable. The optical drive popped out automatically with a "swish", and the main unit began to spin rapidly, making a low buzzing sound. The orange juice on the table trembled slightly, and the speaker began to emit a crackling sound, which gradually became louder, like the laughter of something, not cheerful, but the kind of shriveled laughter that was on the verge of despair, Erratic and creepy.At this moment, the monitor went off by itself with a "snap", and the whole room was plunged into darkness, only the small light on the main unit flickered desperately, looking like a red eye in the dark. Xiao Nuo felt that her throat was very dry, but she couldn't even swallow her saliva. She felt that her clothes were slowly soaking through with sweat. The screen returned to light with a "snap", and the QQ profile picture seemed to have grown in size. His facial features were still chaotic, but the blood red on his face was clear and unusual. The "beep" sounded again, and another new message came in. This time it didn't wait for Xiao Nuo to press the button, and jumped out by itself. 2001-06-22 12:02:00 Hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road Hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road, hit the road The laughter in the speaker gradually turned into a murmur, saying the same sentence: ... Let's go... Let's go... One drop, two drops, the blood-red dots on the screen gradually increased and became larger, as if invisible blood dripped on the WINDOWS desktop little by little.Immediately afterwards, red liquid began to slowly seep from the ventilation holes of the display, the drive of the host computer, and the keyboard.Xiao Nuo smiled half-smile, her eyes were empty, following the murmur and the continuous QQ messages, she slowly walked to the window... Suddenly, there was a violent "cracking" sound from outside the window. The computer that was running violently stopped suddenly, the screen went dark, and the speakers were silent. Xiao Nuo, who had already poked his head out of the window, woke up suddenly, retracted his body, and fell to the floor with inertia. His whole body was drenched in sweat, and he lay paralyzed there motionless. "On your first day as an electrician, you were asked to change a fuse in your house. Why did you turn off the electric switches of the whole building?" Downstairs came the voice of the neighbor Uncle Zhao scolding his son. (Add one more sentence: The protagonist's luck is indeed better.)