Chapter 10 Chapter nine

At 3:30 pm on July 7th, Bengbu. Ma Ming and Xiao Nuo first went to the Xinhua Bookstore in Bengbu City. Xiao Nuo stood at the latest publication and picked up a few romance novels to read, while Ma Ming went straight to the bookstore, not knowing what to do. After a long time, he came out with a bunch of things and went to the cashier to pay.Xiao Nuo went over to help him get it, but saw that what Ma Ming bought were two books, a lighter and a lot of pencils.One book is the Diamond Sutra, and the other book is the Lotus Sutra. "What are all these things used for?" Xiao Nuo asked inexplicably.

"Hey, you'll find out later." Ma Ming blinked. It was only after four o'clock when I came out of Xinhua Bookstore.So the two first found a restaurant and asked for something to eat, then took the No. 4 bus, passing Qingnian Street, Huayun Baida Supermarket, Mechanical and Electrical Corporation, Hongqi Road, and finally got off at Zhanggongshan Park.Ma Ming checked that it was still early, so he found an Internet cafe nearby to kill time.At sixty-five minutes, it was getting dark, so Ma Ming and Xiao Nuo came out of the Internet cafe, bought tickets, and walked into Zhanggongshan Park.

Zhanggongshan Park is the largest park in Bengbu City. According to the tourist guide, the park consists of Zhanggongshan and Huapi Lake, covering an area of ​​more than 50 hectares. Zhanggongshan is 71 meters above sea level.This is quite a big park.Xiao Nuo was worried about whether he could find the only place where Xia Wei committed suicide in such a large park, but Ma Ming looked confident. As soon as they entered the gate, the two saw a small bridge similar to Beijing's Jinshui Bridge, but it was not so gorgeous. There was a fountain in front of it. Zhanggong Mountain was facing the entrance of the park. The two paths stretched to the left and right and to the mountainside.There are mostly pine trees on the mountain, which grow very lush.

"So, how should we go?" Xiao Nuo asked Ma Ming, Ma Ming frowned and looked around, then stretched out his hand to the road on the left. The two walked up the mountain along the left road. There were many forks along the way, and the forks were big and small. Although it was not too complicated, it was enough to confuse the first-timers.Ma Ming seemed to be guided by someone, turning left and right without hesitation, and Xiao Nuo had no choice but to follow him. The two walked deeper and deeper along the path, and after searching for about fifteen minutes, they came to a rather shady and secluded place, with no pedestrians around.The lush branches half covered the sky, making the already waning sky even darker.

Ma Ming stopped suddenly. "...Xiao Nuo, stand there, absolutely don't move." He said in a deep voice, his face extremely serious.Seeing what he said, Xiao Nuo immediately stood there motionless. Ma Ming carefully opened the plastic bag, took out the pencils, and inserted them into the ground one by one. The soil was soft, so the pencils could stand upright.Soon the pencil was inserted, and it happened to circle around Xiao Nuo and Ma Ming; then, Ma Ming took out the two Buddhist scriptures published by China Ancient Books Publishing House, tore off the preface and annotations, tore up the text, and then I lit it with a lighter. Both the Diamond Sutra and the Lotus Sutra were not particularly long, and they were quickly burned to ashes. He carefully collected the ashes and held them in his hands.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Nuo stood in the circle, confused.After Ma Ming finished all this, he stood up and said to her: "You remember, my glasses catch things that the naked eye can't see." "Well, yes." Ma Ming took off his glasses and handed them to Xiao Nuo.Xiao Nuo took the glasses, put them on and looked around, almost taking a few steps back in fright. Through the glasses, she saw that the open space in front of her eyes was filled with the same form of dust as in her computer, and it was much denser than the dust she saw that day. "...This... Could this be..."

"Yes, if I guess it's right, this is the scene where Xia Weiyi, that is, Zishan, committed suicide. I just followed this dirt to find this place." Xiao Nuo's face turned pale slightly, the land she was standing on was the place where Zishan committed suicide by taking medicine, the body had been lying there for a whole day and night.Xiao Nuo seemed to be able to imagine the scene at that time, which made her even more uneasy. "...Now...I'm going to do a test, it will be very dangerous, you have to be mentally prepared." After Ma Ming finished speaking, he stretched out his right hand carefully, letting the ashes of the scriptures in his hand spill out a little bit on the ground.Xiao Nuo was wearing glasses, and saw that the moment the ashes touched the ground, the whole piece of dirt suddenly started up, like a king cobra that was furious, and started to swim around.Ma Ming's hand slowly opened, more and more ashes fell on the ground, and the flow of dirt became faster and faster.

When he laid his palms down completely and sprinkled the last trace of ashes on the ground, Xiao Nuo saw that piece of dirt "swish" into a gray curtain, like a huge wave of the sea rushing towards the two of them . "what--!!" Xiao Nuo screamed and subconsciously stepped back.Fortunately, Ma Ming tried his best to grab her shoulders, so he didn't jump out of the circle.Xiao Nuo closed her eyes, feeling a strong gust of wind blowing past her ears suddenly, she could hardly stand still.The wind is extremely cold, making people feel a chill in their bones. I don't know how long it took before Xiao Nuo opened her eyes and found that everything in the woods had returned to calm. The dirt was no longer alive, but collapsed on the ground like real dirt. A few were broken off in the middle.

"... Huh... so dangerous..." It was Ma Ming who spoke. He wiped the cold sweat off his brow and let out a long sigh of relief. The two walked out of the park along the way they came, and took a taxi back to the Xiangrui Hotel. No one spoke a word along the way.Back in his room, Xiao Nuo went to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water, stared in the mirror for a long time, and then went to Ma Ming's room next door.She saw that Ma Ming was reclining on the bed, resting with his face half covered with a newspaper.She went and tore off the newspaper, and asked: "Hey, tell me, what's going on with all this?"

Ma Ming lazily motioned for her to sit on the sofa next to her, then folded the newspaper, and then said: "Ever since Canxing Building deleted Zishan's post, I have had some doubts about this person. From April to June in Canxing Building, the only thing that can be called a big change is her being deleted. In other words, she is different from the other four members of the Canxing Building, and there have been twists and turns between them." "Yes, I feel the same way." "Think carefully about the timeline of this series of events. At the beginning of April, the Canxing Building was established; on April 29, Jinghong began to write the background novel of the Canxing Building where she and Zishan appeared as lovers; on May 1 On May 4th, Shan returned to Bengbu; on May 6th, she committed suicide; then on May 9th, a friend in Shanghai, either Jinghong or Liuli, called her; On May 10th, Jinghong stopped writing novels, and on the same day, Zishan’s posts were all deleted. What does this mean?”

"Something must have happened at the Shanghai party." "That's right, let's put this line aside for now, let's look at what happened just now. I just bought Buddhist scriptures and pencils to test and see what happened to Xia Weiyi (Zi Shan) after his death." Xiao Nuo felt a chill run down his spine. "After people die, there will always be dust left behind. These are spiritually charged particles - you can call them ghosts. It's just that after ordinary people die, those particles lack energy support, gradually lose their activity, turn into dust, and slowly disappear. .However, there are also special circumstances. If a person’s thoughts are extremely strong in life, then there may be a situation where the spirit of the dead person does not die—that is, the so-called ghosts or ghosts.” "You mean, Zishan turned into a ghost?" "That's right, the ashes of the Buddhist scriptures I burned just now are to test the reaction strength of those dirt. They are very sensitive and hate this kind of things." "Then...then what we saw just now is Zishan?" Ma Ming laughed. He shook his head and said, "It's impossible. If it was really Zishan, the two of us would have died long ago. Those are just the mental residues left behind at the suicide scene after Zishan's ghost body left. So we can pass these The vitality of the ghost residue can estimate how strong the resentment of Zishan's ghost is. You saw it just now, it is quite dangerous, which shows that Zishan is an out-and-out ghost." "Those pencils are..." "If you remember high school physics, lead is the most impenetrable substance. Those dirt are essentially charged particles, and the same principles of physics apply to them. Putting the pencil over is to prevent them from touching the two of us. This is what I came up with Low-cost exorcism." Speaking of this, Ma Ming's eyebrows danced with joy, and his face showed a smug look.Xiao Nuo let out a soft "cough" and said in a low voice, "...cough...this...actually...there is no lead in the pencil, the lead core is made of graphite..." "...Uh... Momo is also difficult to pass through...haha...don't worry about these details..." Ma Ming waved his hand a little embarrassedly, and continued, "Since it is certain that Zishan is a ghost after death, then it means She must have suffered a great blow during her lifetime and formed a strong resentment. Based on the timetable, the members of the Remnant Star House must have a deep relationship with her." "...I'm a little confused..." "Ah, let's put it this way. Zishan went to Shanghai to attend the Canxinglou party, then came back in a bad mood, committed suicide, then Canxinglou deleted all her posts, and then all the members of Canxinglou died in June. You roughly What conclusions can be drawn from it?" "...Ah... That is to say, because something happened between Zishan and the other members of the Canxing Building, he committed suicide and turned into a ghost, and came to seek revenge from those people?" "That's right! It's a typical ghost revenge. Except that we don't know what that incident is, other clues are very consistent with this speculation." "In this way, before Sheng Zhou's death sentence, 'Let's vote, be careful with knowledge', what he probably meant was: Zi Shan is here. He realized that it was Zi Shan who came to take revenge, so he wanted to remind other people before he died. people noticed..." "...Well, it would be great if the memorabilia is still there..." Xiao Nuo sighed softly, the truth of this incident finally became half clear, far beyond what she imagined when she started the investigation.Now she finally knew who killed Tang Jing, but why she was killed was still a blur. Hearing Xiao Nuo's exclamation, Ma Ming wanted to comfort him, but suddenly thought of something, and immediately jumped up from the bed, shouting: "Yeah! As long as the memorabilia is still there! Yes, it's still there!" Xiao Nuo looked at him as if suddenly going crazy, not knowing what happened.Ma Ming stood up, pulled her and ran downstairs without saying a word, Xiao Nuo was puzzled but had to follow.The two ran out of the Xiangrui Hotel. After Ma Ming asked at the sales desk where the nearest Internet cafe was, he went straight there.The two came to an Internet cafe closest to Xiangrui Hotel, paid the money and registered, and Ma Ming jumped into a computer and frantically opened the IE browser. At first, Xiao Nuo thought he was going to the site of Canxing Building, but Ma Ming typed www.google.com in the address bar.Soon a simple and clear page appeared on the screen, with GOOGLE written in large characters on it, and a long input box below. "GOOGLE?" "Yes, GOOGLE, the most powerful search engine on the Internet, can search almost anything...I'm so stupid, how could I even forget this." Ma Ming was half explaining to Xiao Nuo, half was telling himself, at the same time, he quickly entered the three words "Canxing Building" in the search bar and clicked search. Soon GOOGLE listed a long list of results, seventy or eighty.Ma Ming entered Canxing Tower again irritably, this time adding an additional keyword "Tongjian", and the results were soon displayed on the screen, only one item matched: Remnant Star Building-Tongjian ... April 6th.Everyone, today is the establishment of our Remnant Star Building... cansnow.com/function/history.html 28k webpage snapshots - similar webpages "found it!!" Xiao Nuo yelled happily, but soon turned into disappointment, because after Ma Ming clicked on the address, the screen showed that the page did not exist. "Is it still not working?..." "It hasn't reached the end of the mountain yet. GOOGLE has the function of snapshotting webpages." Ma Ming stared at the screen and said without turning his head. When Google visits a website, it will copy a webpage snapshot of the webpage it has viewed. When the server storing the webpage fails temporarily, users can still browse the content of the webpage.Although the latest changes and network software effects cannot be preserved in the snapshot, the text can be preserved. Ma Ming clicked on the web snapshot of the search results, and the following words appeared on the screen: Here's a snapshot of the page library at http://cansnow.com/function/history.html within Google. Google has previewed each website first, taking a snapshot of the webpage for archiving. There may be a newer version of this webpage, please click here to view the newer version. Please use this URL: cansnow.com/function/history.html as a link or as a bookmark. Google has no relationship with the author of the page and is not responsible for the content of the page. Your query terms are marked as follows: web snapshot google -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ April 6th.Ladies and gentlemen, today is the day when our Canxing Building was established, please cheer.Updated by: Sheng Zhou ... (omitted in the middle) April twenty-seventh.In three more days, it will be the first meeting in the Remnant Star Tower, so I am looking forward to it.Updated by: Zishan May 1st.After the party, photos and travel notes will be uploaded soon, and a big secret has been discovered.Updated by: Liuli May 4th.Jinghong, Zishan, you two calm down a bit.All members will have a meeting at the string tonight.Updated by: Sheng Zhou May 5th.Jinghong, I am already like this, do you still refuse?Please...Updated by: Zishan May 9th. ...Everyone, come to "string break", I have something to tell you.Updated by: Jinghong May 10th.From now on, all information about Zishan, except the list of members of Changsheng, will be deleted.Updated by: Ming ……slightly Xiao Nuo and Ma Ming looked at the rows of memorabilia and were silent. The last unknown link of the whole incident is finally clear. Jinghong and Zishan are lovers on the Internet, maybe both of them have the intention to develop in reality.However, at the party on May 1st, Jinghong discovered that Zishan had pretended to be a man on the Internet, but in reality she turned out to be a woman.Jinghong was furious because his feelings were deceived, and the two had a big quarrel. Although Zishan apologized to Jinghong afterwards, it could not be saved. Shan did something humiliating that she couldn't stand.In the end, Zishan returned to Bengbu sadly. She was paranoid and committed suicide on May 6 full of resentment.On May 9th, Jinghong planned to clarify the matter thoroughly, so he called Zishan's family and learned the news of Zishan's suicide.She then notified the other members on May 10.Out of some psychological considerations, they deleted all traces of Zishan in the Canxing Building, and only kept the member information. The above is the full picture of the incident that Ma Ming inferred based on the "Chronicle of Events" and other information he has obtained and reasonable imagination.For the other members of the Remnant Star Building, this incident will be over by May 10th; but they did not expect that after Zishan's death, their resentment would not diminish, and they would turn into ghosts to take revenge on them. As a result, the four members They were all murdered on the night of June 16th... However, there is one doubtful point that has never been clarified: that photo. That photo was a group photo of Jinghong and Liuli, and the person who took the photo for them was probably Zishan.The two people in the photo were all smiling, with no trace of anger visible at all.When this photo was taken, Jinghong must have known Zishan's true gender.If she was so resentful of Zishan's deception, why did she invite Zishan to take a photo of herself and Liuli? Neither Ma Ming nor Xiao Nuo could figure it out, so they could only put it aside and write the word "doubtful". The next day, Sunday, July 8th.Xiao Nuo and Ma Ming finished their one-day and two-night trip to Bengbu and embarked on the train back to Shanghai. "So... what should we do next?" Ma Ming asked Xiao Nuo as he looked at the scenery passing by constantly outside the window. Xiao Nuo bowed his head in silence for a while, then answered slowly and firmly: "Find Zishan."