Prologue
November 7, 2008 was an ordinary day.
On that day, in a higher normal college located in Beibei District, Chongqing, a strange thing happened.
However, no one realized what had happened that day, because there were other things to watch out for at school that day. First of all, the graduate men's team of the Department of Philosophy lost to the English Department in the school basketball league in the afternoon because of the absence of the main scorer Shang Cheng, and only scored nine points in the whole game, losing face, until dinner, and many people took this game with a huge score as a topic. Secondly, that day was the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the campus BBS station, and the student union held a grand celebration for this purpose, and there were also amusement parties and art performances by students of various departments in the evening. The commemorative event was held very successfully, and the mood of the teachers and students who participated in the entertainment party was also very high, but it was inevitable that some people would be disappointed in the art show, which were all old-fashioned song and dance sketches, without any new ideas, but Shang Cheng, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy who could sing steppe folk songs in Mongolian long tunes, did not show up in the art show......
The next morning, Shang Cheng didn't arrive for the public class, and it was his classmates who took leave for him; In the afternoon professional class, his classmates also asked for leave for him.
This situation lasted for a week, until the head of the department, the secretary of the party branch, and the counselor were angry about it, and the classmates said that Shang Cheng had been "missing" for almost a week......
The secretary immediately put down the cruel words and asked them to inform Shang Cheng that if they didn't show up again within three days, they would wait for the school's disciplinary punishment!
Three days passed in a flash, Shang Cheng did not show up, the department gritted his teeth, and gave another three days of grace; After another three days, there was still no news from Shang Cheng, and the department endured it again and again, but did not stab the matter into the school; In the blink of an eye, it was another three days, and there was no news of Ke Shangcheng like the world evaporating, and the department couldn't bear it anymore, and finally decided to hand over the matter to the school to deal with.
The Student Management Office immediately dismissed the incident as a typical example of breaking school discipline and rules.
The first thing the staff of the Student Management Office did after taking over was to visit the dormitory of Shang Cheng, a second-year graduate student in the Department of Philosophy.
In the dormitory, they found that all of Shang Cheng's personal belongings, including mobile phones, wallets, credit cards, and passbooks, were locked in a drawer in the dormitory. There were jackets, sweaters and trousers littered on the bed, a pair of leather shoes stuffed with socks and a pair of sneakers in front of the bed, and under the bed was his travel suitcase, in which the change of clothes was neatly arranged.
The two classmates in the dormitory proved that no one had touched these things in the past few days after Shang Cheng left, and the clothes and leather shoes that were thrown away were still in their original places, and on November 7, Shang Cheng was wearing these. One of the classmates, surnamed Chen, also said that when he returned to the dormitory that afternoon, Shang Cheng had already changed into a jersey and pants, and the two had spoken a few words. He hasn't seen Shang Cheng since.
The ensuing investigation proved that no one had seen Shang Cheng since.
The graduate student surnamed Chen was the last person to have contact with Shang Cheng!
The staff of the Student Management Office immediately panicked, they did not dare to hide it, and immediately reported the matter, and ten minutes later, Shang Cheng's file was placed on the desk of the director of the school's security office.
111 Shangcheng, male, 26 years old, originally from Baoding, Hebei Province, studied at Xuejia Town Central School in Baoding City from 1987 to 1998, studied in the Department of Chinese of Hebei University from 1998 to 2002, worked in Inner Mongolia Hohhot Five Star Paper Company from 2002 to 2008, and has been a graduate student of the Department of Philosophy of the University since 2008; The family status is close to blank, with only the names of the parents; There is neither the contact number of the family nor the contact details of the parents on file......
The thin pages of archival materials in the file could not explain anything, and the director of the security department decided to personally lead the team to investigate, and the fourth floor of the No. 2 graduate school building was immediately disturbed by these people.
The involvement of the Security Service did not allow for any further progress in the incident, but only unearthed more bits and pieces of information about Shang Cheng's person.
Shang Cheng's social relationship is very simple, except for the teachers and classmates in the school, he has almost no contact with the outside world, and the leaders and professors in the department speak highly of him, which also explains why he left for more than 20 days without reason while the philosophy department has been hiding it. This person has a kind personality, is generous, does not cause trouble and is not afraid of things, and also talks about the righteousness of his buddies, so he has some prestige in speaking in graduate students......
These circumstances are of little help to the investigation of the incident.
Some classmates reported that they remembered that Shang Cheng once mentioned that his father left home to work in the south in the late 80s, and never went back and did not contact his family; His mother later remarried twice, and finally ran away with a northeasterner; He himself was raised by a lonely old man in the family who had no children and no daughters. Another classmate added that during this year's Qingming Festival, he saw Shang Cheng burning paper money in a secluded place in the school, and only after asking did he know that Shang Cheng was paying tribute to his grandfather, who should have raised him, and it seemed that the old man had passed away......
It seems that the way to start with his family situation is not working!
The graduate student surnamed Chen, who shared the dormitory with Shang Cheng, finally provided something "valuable".
According to him, when he returned to his dormitory that afternoon, Shang Cheng had already changed into his jersey and pants, and reminded him to hurry up and change his clothes. While he was changing, his girlfriend called him, and he answered the phone while he was changing; He remembered that Shang Cheng was sitting on the edge of the bed at this time, preparing to change his sneakers. When he answered the phone, he heard Shang Cheng's mobile phone also ringing, and it kept ringing; There was no one in the house, Shang Cheng had already gone out, and he remembered that he had shouted "Shang Cheng, your phone". He thought Shang Cheng had gone to the court at the time, but it turned out later that he was wrong......
Whether these words have value or not can only be judged by the police. The school security office has reported the case to the Beibei District Public Security Bureau of Chongqing Municipality. But the next words of the graduate student surnamed Chen are "very interesting" one by one
He mentioned that when he answered the phone, he was facing away from Shang Cheng facing the glass window leading to the balcony, and there was a mirror hanging on the buckle of the glass window, and the interesting thing was that the mirror was the mirror when he was talking to his girlfriend, and he saw the mirror in the lower left corner of the mirror, just like a stone thrown into a calm lake, and suddenly "rippled", and everything in the mirror became distorted and blurred; And this "ripple" does not stop somewhere, but crosses the entire lower half of the mirror, one by one it is moving! He was so frightened that he almost dropped his phone on the ground. In the blink of an eye, the "ripples" on the mirror disappear. He was just dazzled by himself and continued to talk on the phone. But for some reason, he kept staring at the mirror......
…… This time he could see it clearly. It's not that the mirror is "rippling", but that something is moving so fast on the mirror that it seems that everything reflected by the mirror is distorted in a blur. He didn't know what it was, and he couldn't describe it, but he described it as: "point......
He suspected that the "moving" "point" was the culprit of Shang Cheng's disappearance......
Neither the school security department nor the police officers of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Beibei District Public Security Bureau will accept the inference that "a little point on the mirror" caused a big living person to go missing. But the investigation has always been inconclusive, so this headless and unfinished case can only be gradually silenced into the thick legacy case file of the police station, like most other similar cases.
However, the "story of the dot" told by the graduate student surnamed Chen spread throughout the campus in one night, and was selected as the top ten news of the college in 2008 with the highest vote. The story also spread to colleges and universities in Chongqing as if it had wings, and then it was put on the Internet as a supernatural event, and it is said that it also caused a small sensation......
However, Shang Cheng, the protagonist of the story, has never stood up to "refute the rumors", nor has he returned to school, and no one has even seen him anywhere.
He really seems to have disappeared from this world......