Chapter 7: The Internet Café Mystery

One of the largest and best-decorated farmhouses in the area, the "Family Carnival" is located close to the mountain where Xiangyangji Temple is located, just a 5-minute drive. When the "brown suit" who had scolded Bai Xiaoyue shook his collar and stepped into the door of the "Family Carnival", the boss hurriedly led the three waiters to greet him with a smile. The "brown suit" waved his hand to signal that the boss didn't have to be polite, just go and go straight to the middle courtyard.

There was a row of the most exquisite single rooms in the middle courtyard, and the "brown suit" knocked on the door of one of them, and Bai Xiaoyue, who was drinking from a large porcelain cup he had brought, invited him in.

"Elder is not at ease, let me come and see you. The "brown suit" sat on the sofa and motioned for her to sit down too, "Are you recovering well?" Bai Xiaoyue sat on the bed and replied, "Thank you for your concern, I think I'm okay and can go back to work." ”

The "brown suit" shook his hand: "No, the elder asked me to tell you, your symptoms this time are mainly caused by an overly nervous mental state, so you need to take time to recuperate." He gives you a week's off, and you don't have to go to work these days. You live here, the elders have taken care of the boss here, and you can find him if you need anything. Didn't I tell you last night, the environment here is very good, and I feel bored and take a walk nearby. "Then my salary ......" "Don't worry, I won't deduct your salary for the past few days." "Ah, thank you, thank you!"

The "brown suit" smiled disdainfully and got up to leave. "Team leader, I'm ......," she stopped him, "go back and thank Elder He for me, thank you for personally sending me here yesterday." Also, ...... "What else?" "I remember, yesterday during the day...... It doesn't look like it's a rumor, it looks like it's really ......."

"Look, let's just say you should recuperate. "Brown suit" looked indifferent, "Don't think about it, there are elders here, there are immortals in the temple, there will be no problem." ”

The Internet café in the village is not difficult to find, and the four big characters of "Flying Internet Cafe" are printed on the signboard with the macho men and women of "World of Warcraft" as the background, and it is difficult to see it from afar. It is also open all night, and it is almost half past nine at the moment, according to Li Wei's own experience of brushing up the night, the customers who stayed up late last night must have already left here, and a new batch of people who took over their "posts" are drilling into it one after another. "Hmph, it seems that even in the most isolated areas nowadays, the development of this kind of leisure and entertainment industry is not far behind. Li Wei muttered to himself.

Before deciding to come to the Internet café, Li Wei also guessed: Shang Yiming would not invite the man and woman to accompany him to the back mountain last night, but this assumption was quickly denied by himself. On the one hand, Shang Yiming shouldn't know those two people, and this guy never likes to deal with people he doesn't know who is not good at dealing with people; on the other hand, Li Wei didn't dare to think that if he really went to the back mountain with those two people, what was the sound and green light that the proprietress and the villagers were talking about?

With its dark walls, rusty iron windows, stagnant air, and all kinds of smudges and garbage on the floor, this Internet café is like a public toilet, find a "pit" with a monitor, and many people can keep it all day. The network administrator on duty on the day shift was not here last night, and he had no impression of Shang Yiming at all. Despite this, Li Wei described the appearance of his old classmates in as much detail as possible, trying to find a clue from their memories. "Height 1. 75 meters, Beijing city accent, may also bring a shoulder bag, fake Adidas brand, dark green, flat shape, with two straps, can be carried both on the back and ......" In fact, he asked a few words, and the network administrator just shook his head vigorously. It seems that it is useless to ask any further, but the line of Internet cafes cannot be easily abandoned. Maybe his web browsing history hasn't been deleted, and maybe he'll find some useful information in it. But who knows which computer he is driving? Li Wei remembered that this superstitious Shang Yiming was very concerned about whether the numbers were auspicious, so he took advantage of the fact that there were still many seats available, clicked on the number and opened the No. 6 machine, and then waited for the opportunity to switch back and forth between the No. 8, No. 26, and No. 28 slots, which made the network administrators baffled.

However, he found that none of the computers had "FIFA football" on them. "Network administrator, which machine do you have FIFA installed here?" Unexpectedly, after asking this sentence, the network administrator and a few little miscellaneous hairs who came to the Internet laughed together: "FIFA? Who else plays this? No one played it many years ago, they all played live!"

Li Wei didn't care to avoid the mocking gazes of those who kept pace with the times, and even greater confusion came to his heart: There is only live broadcast, no FIFA? But the grandson of this old guerrilla has always boycotted Japanese products and never played live broadcasts...... Or what is he doing? Even, did he really come here yesterday? Li Wei was eager to check all the browsing records on the computers here, but a few network management boys and girls on the other side of the service desk had already begun to look at him curiously. "What's wrong with this man, so weird?" "Looking at him like this, he can't be a reporter, right?" "Reporter, what are you doing here from the city?" "Oh! It can't be a problem with the Internet café?"

This group of little guys who are less than 20 years old feel more and more nervous and excited, but if they can sense Li Wei's mood at the moment, they will understand that their crankiness is nothing at all.

According to Li Wei's previous plan, if he couldn't find out about Shang Yiming in the Internet café, he would immediately call the police. However, now he had to dispel this thought, because at present, various indications showed that Shang Yiming's disappearance was more like active invisibility, whether this was a prank or something else, he still did not know. When he left the Internet café, he could only regret that I am not a police officer, and I have no right to check the ID records of the people who came to the Internet yesterday, otherwise I might have been able to get more clues.

Before returning to the guest room of the farmhouse, he heard the proprietress teaching a waiter at the gate of the courtyard: "How did you do it? Don't you usually stay up late watching TV and playing games, why did you doze off there before 10 o'clock yesterday?

Looking around the whole room, the things related to Shang Yiming are still the clothes and books left on his hard kang when he opened his eyes today. He simply grabbed the books, and it turned out that there were still a few newspapers in the books.

These seemed to be the ones he had seen on the bus that came here yesterday, but Li Wei noticed that according to the date on the headline, the newspaper was actually four years ago. What surprised him even more was that the news item on it that was crowded in the corner of the page still had handwriting that had not been erased, and the scribbled strokes knew at a glance that it was written by Shang Yiming. Shang Yiming has a habit of using a pencil to record his experiences and feelings on the pages while reading, and then he will transcribe these reading notes into a diary, and then erase the handwriting on the pages. However, he never read the newspaper so carefully, and threw it aside when he was done. There are also his notes in this old newspaper, indicating that he read them as documents.

Look at the headline of the news, it is "The theft gang broke into the construction site at night, fled in a hurry and lost its footing in the mountain stream", which wrote that the location of the crime was the county where they are currently located, although the name of any of the criminals was not mentioned, but the process of the case was quite similar to the strange accident that the proprietress said. Li Wei subconsciously grabbed the coat again, and found a small card pressed underneath, so he picked it up. This is like a small advertisement, the rough paper with black ink printed on the gate of Xiangyang Temple and the small map posted from Baidu, turned over to look at it, its back neatly written: "Yu Gong gift Dante, evil temple." ”

In the abbot's room of Xiangyang Temple, the "brown suit" said to Elder He, who was sitting on the Taishi chair drinking tea: "She's fine, basically nothing, but she always feels that she really saw something yesterday." ”

"Hmm. Elder He nodded, "But counting the days, it's indeed a bit strange." ”

Elder He stood up and looked out the window thoughtfully: "So, I let your younger brother go into the city early this morning." "You mean ......" "Hmm-" Elder He exhaled, "To be on the safe side, it is necessary to tell him about this." ”