Chapter 5 Chapter Four

Monday, June 25. Xiao Nuo finally encountered "that person" last weekend. If the neighbor hadn't accidentally turned off the electric switch of the whole building when changing the fuse, she might have fallen to her death just like Su Xuejun. Xiao Nuo, who was lucky enough to escape, was so frightened that he never closed his eyes or approached the computer all night. The next morning, Xiao Nuo's mother found that her daughter's face was pale, and her body temperature reached 30 degrees. Xiao Nuo, who was seriously ill, lay at home for three consecutive days, and had to ask for leave of absence from Monday's class.

But she told no one about that night, because no one would believe it.Xiao Nuo lay on the bed clutching the quilt and looked at the silent computer on the table, feeling unspeakably afraid.There is no doubt that Tang Jing's death must be related to this QQ, and Su Xuejun is the same.Where did that mysterious QQ come from?Why were they chosen?Are there any other victims?Countless question marks hovered in Xiao Nuo's mind, but she no longer had the courage to pursue it. Xiao Nuo, who has been investigating this matter alone, now really hopes to have someone she can trust by her side.

Ti Yunzong seems to be very reliable, but Xiao Nuo can only contact him online, and now she dare not open QQ online at all. Suddenly, Xiao Nuo who was lying on the bed thought of another person. "Xiao Nuo, it's better to be careful recently, there may be some unclean things around you." "Hey? You asked me for my cousin's phone number?" Cao Fangrui shouted in surprise while holding the phone. "Yes, yes, I want to ask him some questions about books. Don't you say he reads a lot?" Xiao Nuo said, trying to make his voice sound more natural. The last time she met Cao Fangrui's cousin Ma Ming on campus, he told Xiao Nuo that there were some unclean things around her. Looking back now, it was the day Xiao Nuo hit a ghost.She thought maybe this person could be of some help.

"He and his friends rented a house near the university. That guy doesn't have a mobile phone. Let me give you his home number." "Okay, is he a good talker?" "Ah, it's okay, I haven't seen him lose his temper, it's just weird... But if you're looking for any books, you really found the right person by asking him." "Yes, yes." Xiao Nuo put down the phone, and then dialed Ma Ming's number. She felt that this kind of thing couldn't be explained clearly on the phone, and she didn't know whether Ma Ming could really be trusted, so it was better to meet him in person.

"Hello..." A boy's voice came from the phone. "Hey, please find a horse..." Before Xiao Nuo finished speaking, a series of brisk messages came from the phone: "We are not at home now, if you are looking for Ma Ming, please press one; if you are looking for Jiang Ruoning, please press two; if you support the bid for the Olympics, please press three; if you hate F4 Please press four for those with a bunch of bad faces; press five for those who believe that International will eventually come true... If you are long-distance, please hang up." "&*%&"

Xiao Nuo couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this unique phone message.She left a message to Ma Ming saying that she had something to ask him, and left her home phone number. Ma Ming called back that afternoon, and Xiao Nuo repeated his request for a meeting, and he agreed without hesitation, and the two made an appointment to meet at the black tea house near the university at four o'clock the next afternoon.From the beginning to the end, Xiao Nuo didn't reveal the slightest hint of "ghost bumping". Tuesday, June 26 at 4pm. When Xiao Nuo came to the black tea house, Ma Ming was already waiting at the door. He was still wearing the "elegant" cultural shirt that day, leaning against the wall with a book in his hand, reading with relish. The title of the book was "Dragon Spear Chronicle" .

"Hello!" Xiao Nuo walked over and said that Ma Ming noticed that she was by her side, hurriedly adjusted his glasses, and said "Hello". Xiao Nuo noticed that his glasses were very strange. The screw connecting the frame and the temple was gone, and a bent pin took its place. The pointed needle stood straight up, and if you were not careful, you would stab the eyeglasses. finger. The two walked into the black tea house and found a seat to sit down.Xiao Nuo ordered pearl milk tea, while Ma Ming unceremoniously ordered a glass of water. "Do you believe there are ghosts in this world?"

Xiao Nuo held the cup in both hands and stared at Ma Ming. Hearing this question, Ma Ming raised his eyebrows and said seriously. "Of course, there is one standing behind you now." (additional sentence: wow, ha ha) As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Ming saw that Xiao Nuo's face turned pale. He thought the girl was timid, so he quickly apologized and said that he was just joking. "...Didn't you say that there were some dirty things around me that day...Didn't you tell me to be careful?" Xiao Nuo lowered her voice and said softly with her head slightly lowered.

"Oh, well... I can't explain the feeling, anyway, it feels very strange, not a good thing." Ma Ming scratched his head, took off his glasses and shook them, "When I put on these glasses, I can often see some strange things...how did you become?" Xiao Nuo picked up the cup and took a sip of the milk tea. Then he plucked up his courage and told what happened last Friday. He also explained the mysterious deaths of Tang Jing and Su Xuejun, his doubts about the cause of death, and the results of the investigation. Speak up. After listening to Xiao Nuo's narration, Ma Ming's expression became serious.

"That is to say, it was the mysterious QQ that killed your cousin and Su Xuejun, and this series of events is also inextricably related to a group called 'Remnant Star Building' on the Internet?" "That's right, that's it." "It's really spooky, it sounds like a ridiculous ghost story...but I believe it's true." Ma Ming smiled and put his glasses back on.Xiao Nuo nodded gratefully, and said in a low voice: "I really don't dare to continue the investigation by myself, but I still want to know why Tang Jing died, so..." "Hehe, if you don't mind, I can do my best. To be honest, I'm quite interested in this kind of thing."

"Thank you, thank you." Xiao Nuo felt relieved a lot, and the hands that were holding the cup tightly relaxed. "Judging from the information we have so far, it is still not 100% sure that there is a connection between the Canxinglou network organization and 'that QQ', and it is not even certain whether Tang Jing's death is related to Su Xuejun's death—— If the latter cannot be established, all previous online investigations will be meaningless." Xiao Nuo reluctantly nodded and admitted that Ma Ming's analysis had hit the nail on the head.Her previous logic was this: Tang Jing and Su Xuejun died of "that QQ" at the same time. The two of them knew each other and belonged to the Canxing Building. The Canxing Building must have something to do with "that QQ".The basis of all this is: Tang Jing and Su Xuejun died in that QQ together, and she has no way to prove this, Su's computer has been smashed by her father, and there is no way to find out what Su went online at the last moment. "...By the way, can you let me take a look at your computer." Ma Ming drank all the water in the glass, Xiao Nuo hesitated for a moment, then nodded. When the two left the black tea house, Xiao Nuo insisted on paying the bill, but Ma Ming refused for a while, but did not insist anymore.Ma Ming came on foot, while Xiao Nuo rode a bicycle.So Ma Ming rode on Xiao Nuo's bicycle, let Xiao Nuo sit in the back of the car, and the two rode towards Xiao Nuo's house. On the way, Xiao Nuo suddenly asked: "Hey, what the hell is a ghost?" "This question, it all depends on how one understands it..." Ma Ming pedaled in front of the car without turning his head and said, "Actually, ghosts are human spirits, and they can also be regarded as aggregates of charged particles. Ordinary people’s spirit disappears after death, but if the mind is particularly strong before death, when the body dies, the mind still has enough energy to condense the spirit particles together, this is the so-called soul or ghost; individual A particularly strong consciousness can even form the memory and shape of life... then it is probably a ghost." "I didn't expect it to be so profound..." Xiao Nuo half sighed and half admired, "...does this belong to the category of psychology or physics?" "Neither, I figured it out myself." Ma Ming answered unambiguously, and Xiao Nuo almost fell off the bicycle when he heard this sentence, and burst out laughing with a "puchi".It was the first time she laughed since bumping into "the one". After arriving at Xiao Nuo's house, Xiao Nuo's parents haven't come back yet.The two came to Xiao Nuo's bedroom, and the computer was placed on the desk. "This is it." Xiao Nuo pointed at the computer, still feeling terrified. Ma Ming frowned and looked around for a long time, then looked up and down, and even leaned behind the computer to look at the pile of tangled wires.After watching for about three or four minutes, he turned around and said to Xiao Nuo: "Would you mind opening the case, I want to see inside." So Xiao Nuo found a screwdriver, unscrewed the screws of the case one by one, and then removed the cover.Ma Ming supported the sides of the case with both hands, poked his head in, his glasses slipped down from the bridge of his nose several times, and he had to clumsily free up a hand to straighten the glasses.Then he reached into the case with one hand and touched the CPU, memory stick, power supply box, graphics card, sound card and other components one by one, still muttering something, not knowing what to say. Finally, Ma Ming finally finished the inspection, stood up, and clapped his hands. "Yes... have you found anything?" Xiao Nuo asked anxiously. "Hmm..." Ma Ming took off his glasses and handed them to her, "You can see for yourself." Xiao Nuo took the glasses and put them on, and she began to feel dizzy. It was really difficult for her 5:00 eyes to wear 400-degree myopia glasses.After she got used to it a little bit, she set her sights on the disassembled computer. She saw that the exterior of the computer was dirtier than it had looked before, and there seemed to be some light gray dirt on the seams.She reached out to touch it, but couldn't touch anything.At first, Xiao Nuo thought that the lens was too dirty and wanted to wipe it off, but Ma Ming motioned her to continue watching. So Xiao Nuo moved closer to the computer, and found that the gray dirt was seeping out from the inside of the computer through the gaps, and...and it didn't seem to be attached to the machine, it was more like floating on it. After a little careful observation, Xiao Nuo noticed that all the traces of "gray dirt" seemed to have a fixed flow direction. If you push back along the flow direction, you will find that they all have a common source-Tang Jing's hard drive. "Snapped!" Xiao Nuo didn't pay attention for a while, her head was too low, and the glasses she was wearing loosely fell into the case.Ma Ming fished it out calmly and said to her. "Did you see it all?" "……What are those?" "Ghost air, this is a common saying." Ma Ming wiped the lens with his undershirt, "According to my theory, this is the charged particles left on the computer case when the ghosts are running wild in your computer, just like Like the slime that a snail leaves behind when it crawls." "...Are you saying ghosts are in my computer?" "It's not surprising, there are cockroaches in one of my friends' computers." Ma Ming said without any tension, "These things are invisible to the naked eye, but they can be seen through this pair of glasses-don't ask me why , I don’t know—I just saw that you seemed to be covered with such dirt, so I asked you if you touched anything unclean that day.” "Can't it be wiped off?" When Xiao Nuo thought of having these things on her body, she felt uncomfortable. Ma Ming thought for a while and said, "Is there any stone calamus? That thing has been called 'Pu Jian' since ancient times, and it is the first of the five auspicious things in the sky. Clean up the dirt." "I never thought that a senior student would know these things. I always thought that only old men were proficient." Xiao Nuo said with a smile. Xiao Nuo's mother works in the city hospital. Shichangpu is considered a traditional Chinese medicine, so there should be a way to get it. "Ah, this kind of knowledge, you can know it by reading more ghost stories in street stall magazines." Ma Ming scratched his head embarrassedly. "By the way, turn on the computer, I want to see what's inside." "...Really...do you really want it?..." Xiao Nuo showed a look of fear. "Haha, don't worry, even if there is a ghost inside, it won't appear now. Think about it, you have been holding this hard drive for more than a week, but the QQ only appeared after 12 o'clock on Friday, which means that there is no At certain times, it is inactive." "Then go and open it..." Xiao Nuo pointed to the computer and whispered, while shrinking behind Ma Ming. Ma Ming smiled, sat in front and turned on the computer.The display screen lights up first, and then the main unit makes a buzzing sound to start self-test.However, soon the system showed that the self-test failed and could not be started.Tried restarting several times, still failed.After carefully checking the BIOS, he turned his head and said to Xiao Nuo: "It seems that the QQ attack last time destroyed this hard disk." "What?! How could this be?" "Now the computer can't detect the existence of the hard disk at all... Well, I will remove it and transfer it to my computer to try." "Then...would that be too dangerous?" Xiao Nuo was a little worried.Ma Ming shrugged, with an indifferent expression on his face: "If that's the best, to be honest, I haven't encountered a ghost yet." So he removed Tang Jing's hard drive and put it in a plastic bag, then put Xiao Nuo's own hard drive back and turned it on.Xiao Nuo's own Windows interface was quickly displayed on the computer, which made her feel a warm atmosphere. Ma Ming looked at the time and said to Xiao Nuo: "It's getting late, I'll go home first. I'll take this hard drive back to see if the data can be restored. If you have time today, go online and find someone from Canxing Building The other three." "Okay..." Xiao Nuo replied. "Now there is no way to determine whether the source of this ghost QQ is Tang Jing's hard drive, or from somewhere else on the Internet. Although the hard drive has been taken away, you still have to be careful. It is best not to surf the Internet for more than 12 o'clock. QQ is very dangerous. Yes, I suggest you use MSN first." "Uh-huh!" Xiao Nuo nodded vigorously, and at the same time wrote the address of the homepage of Canxing Building on a note and handed it to Ma Ming. "Tomorrow, it's still three o'clock. See you at the Red Tea House. We'll see the situation then and formulate a detailed countermeasure." After finishing speaking, Ma Ming left with the hard drive in his arms.Looking at his back, Xiao Nuo felt relieved that he finally had a comrade. (Add one sentence: So far, several typos have been corrected!) After dinner, Xiao Nuo nervously turned on the computer, dialed the number, opened Q, and then subconsciously checked the time: Fortunately, it was only half past seven. Ti Yun was not online, but sent a QQ message, asking Xiao Nuo to go to her mailbox 263 to receive the letter. The homepage of Canxing Building is still the same, without any changes. Xiao Nuo opened the mailbox of 263, and there was only one new email in it, which was from Ti Yunzong.The title is: About Zishan, Shengzhou and Ming. The letter reads: After you dropped the line that day, I deliberately went to several communities I frequented to see if I could find the other three people. Strangely enough, they've all disappeared - at least none of them have posted, entered a chat room, or posted on QQ with an ID that I know of.I also asked a few friends who are more familiar with them, but I haven't seen them for a long time. It's a pity that there is no way to find the real names and addresses of the three of them...so I can't contact them. One more thing... Can I announce the death of Tang Jing—I still used to call her Jinghong—and Su Xuejun to her other friends?She still has many friends online.I think I should tell them. If I do this, maybe the other three people will know too. Ti Yunzong Xiao Nuo felt that this incident was getting more and more weird: the other three people in the Remnant Star Building also disappeared, did they also encounter the murderous hands of that mysterious QQ?It's a pity that I couldn't find the identity in reality, and there was no way to verify it. After pondering for a moment, she felt the need to tell Ti Yunzong the whole incident.First, with the familiarity between Ti Yunzong and Tang Jing on the Internet, we should be able to find more information; second, the mysterious QQ attacked Xiao Nuo, so there is no guarantee that it will not attack Ti Yunzong, so he must be vigilant.Third, Xiao Nuo needs help.So, she wrote back a long letter to Ti Yunzong, writing down the whole incident, including her encounter with a ghost.Finally, she also reminded Ti Yunzong to use MSN or EMAIL to keep in touch, and try not to open QQ. Thirty minutes later, a sentence from Ti Yunzong was uploaded on Q: "OK, received. See you on MSN. Mine is [email protected], 886." In this way, Xiao Nuo has two allies: one is Ma Ming in reality, and the other is Ti Yunzong on the Internet.Three cobblers, one Zhuge Liang, she hoped to find out the truth faster.Now she feels like an FBI agent in "X-FILE" chasing mysterious events.