Chapter 6 chapter Five

Wednesday, June 28. Su Xuejun's parents received a strange guest today.The guest was very young, probably in his early twenties, wearing dirty glasses, and a slightly wrinkled suit. As soon as he entered the door, he claimed to be sent by Cailongju Property Management Company. "Regarding Qianyuan's misfortune, our company expresses deep sympathy to the two of you. Since this incident happened in the community managed by our company, the company specially sent me here to understand the situation." The guest said respectfully that Su Xuejun's parents knew about his coming.There have been cases in Shanghai where the owner's child drowned in the pool of the community, and then sued the property company.The Cailongju property management company was probably also concerned about this, fearing that Su Xuejun's parents would sue the property management company for bad management, so they specially sent someone to find out.

"Oh, the little girl committed suicide. The police have confirmed this." Su Xuejun's father replied flatly, with a somewhat dissatisfied tone.His daughter's accident happened on June 16th, and the property company came to inquire on the 28th, so it took a little longer. The guest nodded repeatedly, then took out a bouquet of white flowers and said, "I wonder if we can present a bouquet of flowers to Qianjin to express our company's condolences?" Su Xuejun's father's face softened a little, and he took him to his daughter's bedroom.The bedroom was tidy and there was a photo of Su Xuejun before his death on the table.After entering the bedroom, the guest looked around, placed the white flower next to the photo, bowed respectfully, and carefully looked at the computer desk, and then hurriedly left.

"The quality of the employees of this property company is getting worse and worse, why send such a person here." After the guest left, Su Xuejun's father complained to his wife. When Xiao Nuo came to the Red Tea House, Ma Ming had already arrived, and was sitting on his seat slowly flipping through the books.There is a glass of white water on the table, and a stack of books and magazines borrowed from the library are placed beside it.The waiter in the tea house looked at him with blank eyes and didn't care. "Hi... uh... this..." Xiao Nuo opened his mouth to say hello, but he didn't know how to address him.Calling him "Old Ma" or "Xiao Ma" does not match his age; calling him "Ma Ming" is a bit blunt and rude, and a mouthful; calling him "A Ming" is too intimate: "Classmate Ma", "Classmate Ma" "The two titles sounded extremely weird. In the end, Xiao Nuo hesitated again and again, recalling the Japanese dramas he had watched before, and finally chose a title that was more or less "Hari".

"Senior, it's so early." Hearing Xiao Nuo's greeting, Ma Ming raised his head, closed the book in his hand, and put it on top of the stack of books. "Xiao Nuo, I just arrived too." "Sorry, I'm late for a while, I've been very busy recently, and the final exam is coming soon." Ma Ming showed a sympathetic smile, he didn't have to worry about such things as a senior.The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and immediately got to the point. Ma Mingshen took out a three-inch disk from his pocket and put it on the table, and said to Xiao Nuo: "There is bad news, there is good news, and there is one that is neither bad nor bad." news, which one should you listen to first?"

"...Well..." Xiao Nuo held his chin and thought about it, "Let's listen to the bad ones first, then the good ones, and save the good ones for the last." "It seems that you are an optimist... The bad news is that the hard drive cannot be recovered, and it seems to have suffered a considerable shock. It can only be reformatted and used as a new one. The data in it... tsk tsk, there is no way gone." "That's it..." Xiao Nuo frowned, maybe there were some more valuable things in the hard drive that hadn't been excavated, and it was wasted like this.What's more, she promised Tang Jing's parents to sort out her article, and she was about to renege on her promise, and Tang Jing's unfinished posthumous manuscript was not rescued.She sighed at the thought.

"Don't be sad, there is good news." Ma Ming said, taking off his glasses and wiping them, "very important good news." "Oh? What is it? What is it?" Xiao Nuo urged. "Hehe, I went to Su Xuejun's house today." "...what are you doing there?" "It's very important to confirm some things." Ma Ming's eyes flashed a smug look behind the lens, "Guess what I saw in her bedroom?" "That photo?" "Not only that..." Ma Ming tapped on the frame of his glasses, "Although they cleaned the computer desk, I still found a few traces of dirt on the desk, just like your computer."

Xiao Nuo's eyes immediately opened round. "This shows that it was the same ghost that attacked Tang Jing and Su Xuejun on the night of the 16th. There must be a deep connection between their deaths." Ma Ming continued to analyze and said that Xiao Nuo felt that his thinking became clear all of a sudden.Sure enough, the deaths of these two people are related!Finally, there is conclusive evidence this time! "Attacking two people on the Internet at the same time, it seems that this ghost's attack is mediated by the Internet..." Both of them had the scene of a hideous ghost transformed into a "bit" galloping among tens of millions of computers.

"The following news is good or bad..." Ma Ming pushed the three-inch disk on the table to Xiao Nuo, "...you can enter the forum of the Canxing Tower." "Huh? Really?" "The guy I live with is a master of programming. I asked him to compile a cracking program, which easily broke through the password restriction. Just run this, and you can log in to that forum as a moderator." (Add One sentence: Hey, many people want to know him) "So, you've already been there? Did you find anything?" Xiao Nuo asked eagerly, leaning forward, his eyes full of expectation.

Ma Ming tapped his head with the index finger of his right hand, and said, "How should I put it, there is nothing particularly valuable to discover. That forum may have fewer users, so there are few posts. From April to now, there are only three forums in total. There are only a dozen or so posts. I read it, and there are no posts that can explain their identities." Xiao Nuo sat back in the chair in disappointment, and complained in a low voice, "This is not good or bad, it's obviously bad news." "Hehe, don't worry, I haven't finished yet. I found two doubts in that forum... Are you free now?"

"...um...you can do it before six o'clock, why?" "There's no evidence for what you say, find an Internet cafe, and I'll show you." Xiao Nuo looked at his watch, then nodded. "Uh-huh!" There is a saying: the money of college students is the best earned.They can play better than middle school students, have more money than middle school students, but are as unrestrained as middle school students.So next to the university, there are all kinds of shops and stalls, ranging from fried rice noodles with tea and eggs to computer accessories, all of which are tailor-made for the hobbies and wallets of these proud children.

Among them, the popular element of Internet cafes is naturally indispensable. Ma Ming and Xiao Nuo walked into an Internet cafe called Pleasure Rhythm near the university.This is a two-story building, and the lobby on the first floor has been set aside for business.There were more than a dozen bicycles lined up at the door, and shouts and shouts came from the room from time to time.The two of them walked in, only to see a warm "human smell" rushing towards them, Xiao Nuo couldn't help frowning and covered his nose, Ma Ming seemed to be used to it long ago, and his expression remained unchanged. When he came to the counter, Ma Ming took out his ID card, and an old man in his fifties at the counter carefully recorded the number in the book, and when he returned the ID card, he did not forget to say: "Young man, don't go to any messy websites. Nah!" "Do you think I look like someone who goes to that site during the day?" Ma Ming and Xiao Nuo worked hard past a group of boys who were obsessed with playing CS, bypassed a few masters who were in Lianzhong Xiashikoku, and chose the innermost empty machine to sit down.Ma Ming took out the floppy disk and inserted it into the machine, opened the homepage of www.cansnow.com, and began to crack it skillfully. It only took a minute or two to get the authority of the moderator. Xiao Nuo stared at the screen, she finally saw the forum of Canxing Building. The forum of Canxing Building is built with the most popular travel forum template nowadays, with a light yellow tone and dark red border, which looks simple and dignified.There are two sub-forums, one is called "Tingtao" and the other is called "Diaoqin". "Tingtao" has 38 posts, while "Tuning Qin" has only 6. Probably the first one is used as a chatting version, while the second one is an official novel discussion area. "The novels in 'Tuning the Piano' are the two on the front page, nothing special. Let's take a look at Ting Tao's version." Ma Ming looked at the screen and said, then clicked on "Tingtao", and Xiao Nuo saw that the posters and replies to those posts were all the names she had been looking for: Jinghong, Shengzhou, Liuli, Ming... "Wait a minute, why didn't I see Zishan's post?" Xiao Nuo asked. In the entire forum, she only saw these four people coming and going, but the name "Zishan" was missing. "Smart!" Ma Ming snapped his fingers, and moved the mouse to the "View User List" option on the screen, "Look, all the users in this forum are only these four people: Jinghong, Shengzhou, Liuli, Ming .” "it's wired……" "The strange thing is still to come..." Ma Ming then clicked on the system records. He is now a moderator, and he can check the operation records of deleting posts in the past.Immediately, a list of deleted posts appeared on the screen, all of which were related to "Zishan"!The time shows that the deletion action was on May 10, but unfortunately the content is no longer available. "May 10th..." Xiao Nuo secretly thought about this day. Ma Ming seemed to have guessed what Xiao Nuo was thinking, and turned his face to her and nodded. There must be some big change in this. The latest post on the forum was posted by Sheng Zhou at 4:02 AM on June 17th.Clicks are zero.The title of the post is "Tong Jian has been revised and can be restored at any time", and the content of the post is: I have processed the "Tong Jian" page, and it can be uploaded at any time. Let's vote, be careful "Everyone, let's vote carefully? What does this mean?" Xiao Nuo looked puzzled. "I don't know either... A typo. That's not the point. Look at the time: 4:02 am on June 17th. Can you see anything wrong?" "...Tang Jing and Su Xuejun both died around 12 o'clock. Sheng Zhou was still able to post at 4 o'clock in the morning. He was not attacked?" "I don't know...By the way, didn't you say that Shengzhou has also disappeared from the Internet since June 16th? Then it's hard to say whether he is dead or alive... Post a post and ask, let's just die As a living horse doctor, if he is alive, he will definitely come to this forum." So Xiao Nuo immediately registered a name of "Belia", wrote down the deaths of Tang Jing (Jinghong) and Su Xuejun (Liu Li) briefly and posted them on the forum, and hoped that if Sheng Zhou saw it, he would take the initiative to contact her , and finally left their own EMAIL and MSN. When Xiao Nuo bid farewell to Ma Ming and returned home, it was already past five o'clock in the evening.She looked extremely tired.When my mother was eating, she asked her if she didn't feel well, Xiao Nuo just shook her head, and then lowered her head to pick up the rice. "It's almost the final exam, don't affect the exam because of Xiao Jing's matter, don't be too sad." Mom put a piece of meat in her bowl. "Oh, I see." After dinner, Xiao Nuo went back to the house, turned on the computer, and connected MSN online, Ti Yunzong was always online waiting for her to come. (The following is in MSN format) Ti Yunzong said: You are here, I have been looking for you! ! Beria said: Huh? Ti Yunzong said: I have something very important to tell you! Beria said: Me too, but you go ahead. Ti Yunzong said: I found Ming. Beria said:! ! !where is she? Ti Yunzong said: I accidentally found her in a cosplay community. (Note: COSPLAY is an activity for anime lovers to disguise themselves into various anime characters) Beria said: Is she still there? Ti Yunzong said: ...In fact, when I went, people there were holding an online memorial service for Ming.In that community, her name is Xiaodi, and she is a character in the comics. Beria said:  … Ti Yunzong said: I went there and asked in detail. Ming is from Chongqing, and his real name is Zhang Chunhua.She had a sudden heart attack on the night of June 16 and died. Beria said: ...was she using a computer at the time? Ti Yunzong said: Because the cosplay club is in Chongqing City, many members there are very familiar with each other in reality, so they are very clear about the circumstances of Ming's death.Others have written about it in detail. Ti Yunzong said: Exactly, it is said that many of them went to the Internet cafe all night together that day, and then most of them left first, only Ming and two or three others were left to play.Ming sat on the innermost machine, and when it was about 12 o'clock, her friend suddenly found her lying on the keyboard, and when she went over, she was unconscious. They rushed her to the hospital, but it was too late. The doctor said it was a heart attack, and she had a congenital heart disease. Beria said: Have they noticed the QQ thing? Ti Yunzong said: Probably not, everyone was in a hurry at the time, I am afraid no one noticed it, and this point was not mentioned in the article introducing the process.Moreover, after Ming was sent to the hospital, the owner of the Internet cafe immediately closed the door, and all the computers must have been turned off, so I am afraid there is no way to check. Ti Yunzong immediately sent the address of the forum mourning "Ming". Xiao Nuo opened it and looked at it. The first thing he saw was a photo of a girl who was very cute. She was wearing wide-rimmed black-rimmed glasses, black sweater, and a strange vacuum cleaner in his hand.There is a small note next to it, she is Xiaodi, a brigade member in the COS hunter.Underneath the photo is a eulogy written by her friend and what happened. The specific situation is the same as what Ti Yunzong said.A long string of posts followed, all expressing condolences. "The third……" Looking at the photo, Xiao Nuo couldn't tell whether she was sad because of the girl or excited because the clue was clear. She slowly flipped through the follow-up posts, and had a strange feeling that a person who died in reality was commemorated by people with an illusory name in the illusory network.Not only her, but also Tang Jing and Su Xuejun, they all have a name and life on the Internet that are completely different from those in reality. Although they are all dead in reality, Xiao Nuo can still feel that they are another person on the Internet traces of birth. "That's probably the fun of the Internet." Xiao Nuo thought of this, and then pulled her thoughts back to reality.Tang Jing, Su Xuejun, and Ming, three members of the Remnant Star House, died at the same time on the 16th, which cannot be explained by coincidence. However, there is still Sheng Zhou who was still posting at 4 am on the 17th. (The following is in MSN format) Ti Yunzong said: Are you okay? Beria said: Hmm :) Ti Yunzong said: I really didn't expect that... even Ming died, alas.All of a sudden, I lost three friends. It's really hard to imagine that it will be gone all of a sudden... Beria said: Please don't be too sad... Ti Yunzong said: wry smile...I know, but...don't worry about me, I'm easily emotional. Beria said: If we can find out the truth, it will be the greatest comfort to them, right? Ti Yunzong said: Laugh, thank you, I really appreciate it. Then, Xiao Nuo told Ti Yunzong the situation of the forum that he and Ma Ming saw today, and wanted to send the cracked software over. Ti Yunzong said: Haha, no need, since that brother Ma has already seen it, he must not have missed anything.I promised Tang Jing not to go to their forums before, and now I don't want to break this promise. Beria said: That's fine, I understand, you really... care about my cousin. Ti Yunzong said: Let it be, if there is no such person. Beria said: You mean knowledge. Beria said: Wrong... Zishan. After chatting online for the past few weeks, Xiao Nuo's typing speed has also become faster, but she still makes mistakes occasionally. She uses Smart Quanpin, and the phrase "Zishan" has been recorded in the custom lexicon, so you only need to enter the initials of the two Chinese characters ZS and it will be displayed directly.But there are quite a lot of phrases starting with ZS, and it is troublesome to choose, so Xiaonuo generally enters ZSHAN, which is more convenient.Just now, she was quick and pressed the space bar as soon as she entered the two letters ZS. As a result, "knowledge" was typed in the first place in the word selection box. "Wait a moment……" The hands typing on the keyboard suddenly stopped, and a word suddenly flashed in Xiao Nuo's mind. "Let's vote, be careful with knowledge." Could it be that what Shengzhou originally wanted to type was "Let's vote, please be careful?", but because of some accident, he hurriedly and mistakenly typed "knowledge"? Xiao Nuo immediately told Ti Yunzong this idea, and Ti Yunzong appreciated it very much, and further analyzed: Ti Yunzong said: The composition of this sentence is very strange. If what he wants to type is "Xiao Zi Shan Lai", it has nothing to do with the title of this post and the first half of the sentence "Let's vote". Beria said: Yes, it feels out of place. Ti Yunzong said: Maybe there is such a possibility, he originally wanted to enter other content, but something unexpected happened, so he didn't even have time for another new post, so he wrote it here and sent it out. Beria said: By the way, in fact, ZS may not necessarily be Zishan, it may be "suicide", "suicide carefully".Maybe he also encountered that QQ that night, just in time to post a new post, so he hurriedly warned others in the post.You know, both Tang Jing and Su Xuejun committed suicide. Ti Yunzong said: But the time is wrong... 4 o'clock in the morning... Could you please go to that forum to confirm the time when that post was published? Beria said: OK. Beria said: Confirmed, the time is 4:02 am on June 17th. Ti Yunzong said: "The hour difference is very far, but the minute difference is not that big. Jinghong, Liuli and Ming probably died at a fraction of a minute." Beria said: You mean... Ti Yunzong said: Assuming that Shengzhou's original meaning was "be careful to commit suicide", then it is almost certain that he met that ghost QQ.That QQ killed everyone else at midnight, but Shengzhou hurriedly called the police at four o'clock in the morning. You should have thought of the reason for this strange situation. Beria says: Jet lag. Ti Yunzong said: jet lag. Ti Yunzong said: Heroes see the same thing.