The young man stood under the overpass, nervously looking at the traffic shuttling around him, and his body trembled slightly.

"Don't ...... Don't send it again...... Don't ......"

The whisper was full of fear, and it came from the young man's mouth, and he saw the young man's eyes glued to the mobile phone screen in his hand, as if praying for something. However, the flame of hope that had just been ignited soon disappeared again, and as the phone screen lit up again, a new instruction followed.

【Go up to the overpass, go to the central location.】 】

The young man's hands shook suddenly, but even though he was extremely resistant, his legs still involuntarily began to move, and he walked step by step towards the designated position in the middle of the overpass.

Since starting this "game of death", he has no possibility of quitting.

At first, it was just out of curiosity, thinking it was just some kind of bad fun game on the Internet, but the reality is that he can't get rid of the devilish text message instructions, even if he changes his mobile phone number and all his contact information, the shadow is still there, forcing him to hurt himself and pulling him step by step towards the abyss.

Moreover, there is no room for refusal.

[Step over the fence.] 】

New instructions came again, and the moment he saw the text message, the teenager almost burst into tears.

"No...... Don't!!"

The boy broke down and shouted, while his right leg seemed to defy his will and stepped directly onto the flyover fence.

"Snap ——!"

The phone was thrown on the ground, and the boy grabbed the fence with his free hands, as if trying to stop the crossing, but contrary to his expectations, his arms uncontrollably pushed in the opposite direction, and with the force of his arms, the boy's left leg also stepped over the fence.

"I'm not playing!I'm quitting!!Leave me alone!Please let me go!!"

The boy looked at the endless traffic under the overpass, desperately trying to struggle, but he couldn't control his body at all, and the new message flashing on the mobile phone screen on the ground directly pushed him to despair.

- [No. 】

"Hey, what are you doing?!Come down!!" A passing uncle noticed the boy's strange appearance and hurriedly wanted to come over and grab the boy.

However, it was still too late.

The boy turned his head to look at the galloping uncle, but on that childish face hung a frightened and distorted face.

"Save ...... Help me——!!"

Cries of despair fell from the overpass with the boy's thin body......

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"Tsk, it's suicide again...... This is the first time it has happened!"

A young police officer looked at the latest report of the case and shook his head with a sigh.

"I heard that it seems to be related to some kind of 'death game', it is said that this thing is a perverted ritual from abroad, and I signed up online, and then carried out self-harm step by step according to the instructions, and finally committed suicide, and I couldn't quit halfway...... This game is spreading very quickly among junior high school and high school students, no, because the social impact is too bad, the network management department and the criminal police team are doing their best to crack down on it. Another middle-aged police officer said as he busied himself in front of his computer.

"I said that those children are not good at reading, how can they participate in this kind of brain-dead activity? Is there too little homework??"

"Who knows, maybe it's because those children are still young and mentally immature, so they are easy to be bewitched......"

"Ahem......"

A reminder cough drew the attention of the two officers from the suicide case, and they remembered that there was another man in front of their desk with a pestle, looking at them with a complicated expression.

This is a young man, although he looks handsome and fair, and his appearance is dignified, but his eyes always look like he can't wake up, coupled with the messy hair, there is a strange sense of disobedience with his fairly clean and tidy dress on the whole, not so much a white-collar worker, but a frustrated young man.

"Ahem...... Well, the case statement form has been filled out?" the young officer cleared his throat, took the form from the young man's hand, and looked at it twice.

"In order to find talents, I accidentally 'strayed in'?" ...... Hmph, how can we get a report that you are trespassing on a private house?" the young officer glanced at the seemingly calm young man and snorted coldly.

"That was a misunderstanding. The young man spat out four words without being salty.

"Hehe, if it's a misunderstanding, we'll naturally check. The young officer was obviously a little unhappy with the attitude of the man in front of him, but he didn't intend to continue arguing, but went straight to the man's information registration form.

"Let's check the basics first. Your name is Jiang ...... What is Jiang?" The young police officer looked at the words in the name column on the watch, and he was stuck for a moment.

"'爻', pronounced the same as 'remote'. The young man glanced at the officer with illiterate eyes, as if he had become accustomed to the situation. "My name is Jiang Yao. ”

"Oh...... Ahem, you can write clearly!" the young officer seemed a little embarrassed, and quickly changed the subject. "And then there's the age...... How old are you this year?"

“23。 ”

"Occupation?"

“…… Unemployed. ”

"Unemployed?" the young officer raised his head, looked at Jiang Yao with some surprise, and then looked at the registration form in his hand. "Yo, I graduated from Huaqing University, it's a famous university in China, and I can't even find a job?"

"......" Jiang Yao lowered his eyes and did not speak, but this kind of performance seemed to be a kind of thief in the eyes of the police officer.

"Hmph, at a young age, I don't think about how to find a job, but I learned to be a thief, and I really have such a good diploma in vain. The young officer pursed his lips with a look of disdain.

"I repeat, I went to that West End House to find someone, not to steal. ”

Jiang Yao's expression was still unfazed, but in the depths of those eyes that seemed to be unable to wake up, there seemed to be a trace of fierceness, and the young police officer obviously didn't expect that the handsome man in front of him would burst out with such a sense of oppression, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, so he could only ask:

"Who are ......you looking for?"

"My roommate, Xiao Yuan. The fierceness in Jiang Yao's eyes gradually faded, and he regained his calm again. "It's been half a month since he disappeared, and the last place he was found to be the "West End Villa". ”

"So you sneaked into the investigation?" said the young police officer, putting down the registration form, crossing his fingers, and looking at Jiang Yao. "Although that villa is vacant now, it still belongs to someone else's property, and you are not qualified to trespass without permission! Besides, you won't call the police if the person is missing...... You think you're a cop?!"

"......" Jiang Yao was silent and did not speak. In fact, he had already called the police as soon as possible, but Xiao Yuan still had no news in the past half a month, seeing that the days were passing, of course he couldn't just wait in vain and do nothing. Of course, Jiang Yao knew that these complaints were meaningless here, so he simply chose to shut up.

"Okay, you are a first-time offender, and you really didn't take anything in the villa, this time I will criticize education, don't do it again next time. Seeing that Jiang Yao seemed to be convinced, the young police officer also went down the steps. "After all, with such a good educational background, it would be a pity if it was recorded on the file because of detention. ”

Jiang Yao's body paused slightly, but soon returned to normal. He stood up and, after signing some of the necessary formalities, turned and left the officer's office.

"Alas, I said that this kid is quite unlucky, the "West End Villa" has been in a semi-abandoned state since it was half built, and no one cares about anyone entering or leaving, and I don't know why the real estate developer suddenly sent a security guard to manage it recently, no, this kid just hit the muzzle. ”

The young police officer looked at Jiang Yao's departing back, shook his head and said. "But why did he look for someone to look for that place, I heard that the villa is quite evil, not only has it died, but it is also haunted, and it is rumored to be a 'murderous house'!"

"I don't know if it's haunted or not, but it's true that someone died, and it was a week ago. The middle-aged police officer, who had been tinkering with the computer, suddenly opened his mouth and showed a news page to the young officer.

"Nine bodies were found, and it was a collective suicide...... The location is "West End Villa"!?" the young police officer read the title, and his expression suddenly froze. "No wonder the real estate developer has suddenly sent someone to take care of it recently, just for fear that someone will go in and have an accident??

"More than that, you look at the content. The middle-aged police officer pointed to a passage in the news and said meaningfully.

"These nine corpses, all of them were victims of that 'death game'. ”

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The high full moon looms under the shroud of floating clouds, and under the misty moonlight, a gloomy huge villa stands lonely in a corner of the suburbs, and the lively street market in the distance is diametrically opposed, but there are few people around the villa, except for a few patrol security guards at the entrance of the villa, and occasionally pedestrians passing by are also in a hurry, a picture of fear of avoiding.

However, there are always exceptions.

A slender figure quietly appeared on a street corner not far from the villa, only to see Jiang Yao calmly looking at several patrol security guards in front of him, and looking down at the time on his mobile phone.

23:57. In three minutes, all the security guards on duty in the villa will be evacuated.

The reason why he was able to make such a judgment was not because Jiang Yao was like a god, but because he hacked the security captain's computer in advance, and learned that the security team of the "West District Villa" would leave the villa as soon as it was past twenty-four, leaving only a few guards at the door, and the reason was not clear.

However, this saved Jiang Yao a lot of trouble, because he didn't expect that this long-abandoned villa would suddenly arrange security guards, and he was unfortunately caught, but this time Jiang Yao was fully prepared. Obviously, Jiang Yao, who was treated as a thief and experienced a "one-day trip to the police station", still did not give up his plan to sneak into this villa, and his persistence was justified.

Jiang Yao clicked on the phone screen and flipped out the text message that he had read countless times again.

[Little Yao, save me......]

The sender Xiao Yuan is Jiang Yao's missing roommate, and the time when he received the text message was the day Xiao Yuan disappeared.

Speaking of which, Jiang Yao and Xiao Yuan have been roommates for more than a year, compared to Jiang Yao, who is more indifferent to interpersonal relationships, Xiao Yuan's temperament is much gentler and steady, and he also takes care of Jiang Yao on weekdays, which makes Jiang Yao very grateful. Perhaps because the two of them also have no relatives, and they are both young people who work hard alone in this city, they have a feeling of sympathy for each other emotionally, for Jiang Yao, Xiao Yuan is one of his few friends, and he is also a brother and friend, so Jiang Yao can't ignore Xiao Yuan's sudden disappearance.

Jiang Yao couldn't help but think of Xiao Yuan's humble and weak appearance like a scholar, as well as the slightly worried eyes, and the worry in the other party's eyes seems to have a tendency to become more and more serious recently, could this be a harbinger of Xiao Yuan's sudden evaporation from the world? Jiang Yao didn't know, Xiao Yuan never mentioned his own affairs, but one thing Jiang Yao was very sure that with Xiao Yuan's usual personality, he would never suddenly say goodbye, let alone send that kind of prank text message, and now that he disappeared inexplicably, and sent a message for help, there was only one possibility - something happened to him.

"Bell...... Clang...... Bell ......"

The bell at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night came faintly from the bell tower in the distance, just as Jiang Yao expected, the security guards who were originally patrolling the villa area withdrew from the courtyard one after another, except for the two people who were left on duty at the door, the others quickly left one after another.

Jiang Yao waited for a while, and after the security guards evacuated, he quietly walked around the back wall of the villa courtyard.

Run, jump, jump, land. The movements are clean and neat, all in one go.

To be honest, compared to the special training of a certain "demon old woman", this obstacle seemed to Jiang Yao to be to the level of pediatrics, and there were no stranded security guards in the hospital, and things seemed to be going quite smoothly.

Jiang Yao stood up cautiously and looked towards the center of the courtyard, only to see a dark main villa building standing alone in the barren courtyard, with no lights and no people, which seemed a little ghostly. However, just as Jiang Yao was about to sneak into the villa, he suddenly noticed that something didn't seem right.

Jiang Yao raised his head and looked at the silent villa in front of him again.

The hazy moonlight reflected a dark window on the second floor of the villa, and behind that window, a petite figure was fixed there, staring at him indifferently.