Volume 1 Chapter 26, Midnight Murder Q (13)

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon of July 7, Bengbu.

Ma Ming and Xiao Nuo went to Xinhua Bookstore in Bengbu City first, Xiao Nuo stood at the stop of the latest publication, picked up a few romance novels and flipped through them, while Ma Ming walked straight to the bookstore, not knowing what to do.

After a long time, he walked out with a bunch of things in his hand and went to the cashier to pay. Xiao Nuo walked over and wanted to help him get it, but saw that Ma Ming had bought two books, a lighter, and a large handful of pencils. One book is the Diamond Sutra and the other is the Lotus Sutra.

"What are you doing with all these things?" Xiao Nao asked inexplicably.

"Hehe, you'll find out later." Ma Ming blinked.

When I came out of Xinhua Bookstore, it was only past four o'clock. So the two first found a restaurant to order something to eat, and then took bus No. 4, all the way through Youth Street, Huayun Baida Supermarket, Mechanical and Electrical Corporation, Hongqi Road, and finally got off at Zhanggongshan Park. Ma Ming saw that it was still early, so he found an Internet cafΓ© nearby to kill time.

When it was sixty-five o'clock, the sky was a little dark, so Ma Ming and Xiaonuo came out of the Internet cafΓ©, bought tickets, and walked into Zhanggongshan Park.

Zhanggongshan Park is the largest park in Bengbu City, according to the tourist guide, the park is composed of Zhanggongshan and Huapi Lake, covering an area of more than 50 hectares, and Zhanggongshan is 71 meters above sea level. That's quite a park. Xiao Nuo was worried about whether he would be able to find the 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 the Jinshui Bridge in Beijing, but it was not so gorgeous, with a fountain in front of it, and Zhang Gongshan was facing the entrance of the park, and the two paths were to the left and right, stretching to the mountainside. The mountain is mostly pine trees, which grow luxuriantly.

"So, how do you get there?"

Xiao Nuo asked Ma Ming, who frowned and looked around, and stretched out his hand to the left road.

The two of them walked along the left road towards the mountain, and there were many branches along the way, and the branch roads were large and small, although not too complicated, but they were enough to get confused by the first-time visitors. Ma Ming did seem to be guided by someone, turning left and right without hesitation, and Xiao Nuo had no choice but to follow him closely.

The two of them walked deeper and deeper along the path, and after about fifteen minutes of searching, they came to a rather shady secluded place, and there were no pedestrians around. The lush branches of the trees half-obscured the sky, making the already thin sky even darker.

Ma Ming suddenly stopped.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Arnold, stand there and never move. He said in a deep voice, his face unusually serious. Seeing him say this, Xiao Nuo hurriedly stood in place and remained motionless.

Ma Ming carefully opened the plastic bag, took out the pencils, and inserted them one by one into the ground, the soil was very 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 the Chinese Ancient Books Publishing House, tore off the preface and commentary, tore up the text, and then lit it with a lighter.

"What are you doing here?"

Arnold stood in the circle, confused. After Ma Ming did all this, he stood up and said to her, "You remember, my glasses can capture some things that are invisible to the naked eye. ”

"Yes, yes." Ma Ming took off his glasses and handed them to Xiao Nuo. Xiao Nuo took the glasses and put them on, and then looked around, almost taking a few steps backwards in fright.

Through her glasses, she saw that the clearing in front of her eyes was filled with the same form of dirt as in her computer, and it was much thicker than the dirt she had seen that day.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ This...... Could this be ......?"

"Yes, if it's a good estimate, this is the scene of Xia Weiyi's suicide, that is, Zishan. That's how I found it along this grime. ”

Xiao Nuo's face turned slightly pale, and the ground where she stood was the place where Zishan committed suicide by taking medicine, and the corpse had been lying here for a whole day and night. It was as if she could imagine the scene, which made her even more uneasy.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Right now...... I'm going to do a test, it's going to be dangerous, you have to be mentally prepared. After Ma Ming finished speaking, he carefully stretched out his right hand, letting the ashes of the scriptures in his hand spill a little bit on the ground. Xiao Nuo wore glasses and saw that the moment the ashes touched the ground, the whole ash suddenly startled, like a king cobra in a rage, and began to swim around. Ma Ming's hand slowly opened wide, more and more ashes fell on the ground, and the flow of ash and dirt became faster and faster.

When his palms were completely flat down, and the last trace of ash was sprinkled on the ground, Xiao Nuo saw the ash and grime "swoop" into a curtain of ash, like the waves of the sea rushing towards the two of them.

"Ahβ€”β€”β€”β€”!!h

Xiaonuo screamed, subconsciously stepping back. Fortunately, Ma Ming desperately grabbed her shoulders and didn't jump out of the circle. Xiao Nuo closed her eyes, and felt a strong gust of wind blow in her ears, and she could barely stand. The wind was extremely cold, and it made people feel chills from their bones.

I don't know how long it took for Little Nuo to open her eyes, and found that everything in the woods was calm again, and the gray dirt no longer had vitality, but was slumped on the ground like real dirt, and a circle of pencils around her was staggered, and even a few of them were broken from the middle.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Call...... Good ......"

It was Ma Ming who spoke, he wiped the cold sweat on his head and breathed a long sigh of relief. The two walked out of the park along the way they came, took a taxi back to Xiangrui Hotel, and no one said anything along the way. Back in his room, Xiao Nuo went to the bathroom and rinsed his face with cold water, looked at the mirror for a long time, and then walked to Ma Ming's room next door. She saw Ma Ming reclining on the bed, his face half covered with newspaper resting. She walked over and tore off the newspaper and asked, "Hey, tell me, what the hell is going on?" ”

Ma Ming lazily motioned for her to be on the sofa next to her, then folded the newspaper, and then said, "Since the deletion of Zishan's post in the Remnant Star Building, I have had some doubts about this person. From April to June, the only thing that can be called a big change in the entire Remnant Star Building is that she was deleted from the post, in other words, she is different from the other four members of the Remnant Star Building, and there have been twists and turns between them. ”

"Yes, I feel that way too."

"Carefully recall the timeline of this series of events. At the beginning of April, the Remnant Star Building was established; On April 29, Jinghong began to write a background novel about the remnant star building in which she and Zishan appeared as a couple; On May 1, Liuli and Jinghong and Zishan had a party; On the fourth of May, Rishan returned to Bengbu; On May 6, she committed suicide; Then on May 9, a friend in Shanghai, who may have been Jinghong or Liuli, called her; On May 10, Jing Hong stopped writing the novel, and on the same day, Zishan's posts were all deleted. What does this mean? "Something must have happened at the Shanghai party." "Yes, let's put aside this line and look at what happened just now. I just bought Buddhist scriptures and pencils to test what happened to Xia Weiyi (Zishan) after his death. ”

Arnold felt a chill run down his spine.

"When people die, they always leave behind dirt, which is a spirit-charged particle - it's okay to call them ghosts.

It's just that after the death of ordinary people, those particles lack energy support, gradually lose their activity, turn into dirt, and slowly disappear.

However, there are special circumstances, if a person's thoughts before life are extremely strong, then there may be a situation where the spirit of the person dies - that is, the so-called ghost or ghost. β€œ

"You mean, Zishan has become a ghost?"

"That's right, the ashes of the Buddhist scriptures I burned just now are to test the strength of the reflection of those ashes. They are very sensitive to this kind of stuff and very hateful. ”

"That'...... Then what we just saw is Zishan? ”

Ma Ming laughed, he shook his head, and said, "How is it possible, if it was really Zishan, the two of us would have been finished a long time ago."

Those are just the mental residues left at the suicide scene after Zishan's ghost body left. So we can estimate how strong the ghosts of Zishan are through the vitality of these ghost residues. You also saw it just now, it's quite dangerous, which shows that Zishan is an out-and-out ghost. β€œ

"Those pencils are ...... again"

"In high school physics, lead is the hardest substance to traverse. The dirt is essentially charged particles, and the same applies to them. Pencils used to be to prevent them from touching the two of us. This is the low-cost exorcism I came up with. ”

Speaking of this, Ma Ming's eyebrows danced, and his face showed a smug look. Xiaonuo coughed lightly and whispered, "...... Cough...... This one...... In fact...... There is no lead in the pencil, and the lead core is made of graphite......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Belch...... Graphite is also difficult to cross...... Ha ha...... Don't worry about these details for now......" Ma Ming waved his hand a little awkwardly and continued, "Since it can be determined that Zishan was a powerful ghost after her death, it means that she must have suffered a great blow during her life to form a strong grudge. Judging from the timetable, the members of the Remnant Star Building must have a deep relationship with it. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I'm a bit confused......"

"Ah, let's put it this way. Zishan went to Shanghai to attend the gathering of the Remnant Star Building, then came back in a bad mood and committed suicide, then the Remnant Star Tower deleted all her posts, and then all the members of the Remnant Star Building died in June. You can guess what you can conclude from this. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Yes...... That is to say, because something happened between Zishan and the other members of the Remnant Star Building, he committed suicide in a negative anger and turned into a ghost, and came to those people for revenge? ”

"Not bad! Typical vengeance. Now, aside from the fact that we don't know what that incident was, all other clues are consistent with this speculation. ”

In this way, Shengzhou's sentence before his death, "Let's vote, be careful of knowledge", may actually want to say: Zishan is here. He realized that it was Zishan who had come to take revenge, so he wanted to remind the others to notice ...... before he died."

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Alas, if only that memorabilia were still there......"

Arnold sighed lightly, and the truth of the matter was finally half clear, far beyond what she had imagined when she began to investigate. Now she finally knows who killed Tang Jing, but why she was killed is still vague.

Ma Ming heard Xiao Nuo's sigh and wanted to open his mouth to comfort him, but suddenly he thought of something, and then immediately jumped up from the bed and shouted, "Yes! It's good that the memorabilia is still there! Yes, it's still there! ”

Xiao Nuo looked at him as if he was suddenly going crazy, not knowing what was going on. Ma Ming stood up and pulled her to run downstairs without saying a word, Xiao Nuo was inexplicable but had to follow. The two ran out of the Xiangrui Hotel, and after Ma Ming asked where the nearest Internet cafΓ© was at the business desk, he immediately went straight. The two came to the nearest Internet cafΓ© to Xiangrui Hotel, paid the money and registered, Ma Ming jumped into a computer and hurriedly opened the IE browser.

Xiao Nuo initially thought he was going to the site of the Remnant Star Tower, but Ma Ming keyed href="http:///" target="_blank" in the address bar. SOON A SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD PAGE APPEARED ON THE SCREEN, WITH A LARGE WORD ON IT AND A LONG INPUT BOX UNDERNEATH.

β€œGOOGLEοΌŸβ€

"YES, GOOGLE, THE MOST POWERFUL SEARCH ENGINE ON THE INTERNET, CAN SEARCH ALMOST ANYTHING...... I'm so stupid, how can I even forget this. ”

Ma Ming half explained to Xiao Nuo, half told himself, and at the same time quickly typed the word "Remnant Star Building" in the search bar and clicked search.

SOON GOOGLE GAVE A LONG LIST OF RESULTS, SEVENTY OR EIGHTY. Ma Ming irritably typed in the Remnant Star Building again, this time adding an additional keyword "Tongjian", and soon the screen showed the results, and only one item matched: Remnant Star Building - Tongjian ............ April 6th. Guys, Today is the ...... /function/history.html 28k web page snapshot of the establishment of our Remnant Star Building--similar web page "found!! ”

Arnold screamed happily, but soon turned into disappointment, because when Ma Ming clicked on the address, the screen showed that the page did not exist.

"Still not working? …………”

"IT'S NOT EXHAUSTIVE YET, BUT GOOGLE HAS A WEBPAGE SNAPSHOT FUNCTION." Ma Ming stared at the screen and said without looking back.

When Google visits a website, it makes a snapshot of the page you have viewed, and if the server on which the page is stored is temporarily down, the user can still view the content of the page. Although the latest changes and web software effects cannot be retained in the snapshot, the text can be preserved.

Ma Ming clicked on this web snapshot of the search results, and the words on the screen appeared: This is a Google page.

A snapshot of the page library for a web page. Google has previewed each website and taken a snapshot archive of the page.

There may be an updated version of this website, please click here for the new version.

Google is not affiliated 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 6. Ladies and gentlemen, today is the day of the establishment of our Remnant Star Building, please cheer. Updated by: Victory Boat ..................

April 27. In three days, it will be the first gathering in the Remnant Star Building, so I'm looking forward to it. Updated by: Zishan May 1. After the party, photos and travelogues are uploaded every day, and a big secret is discovered.

Updated by: Liuli.

May 4th. Jinghong, Zishan, you two calm down a little. All members have a disconnected meeting tonight. Updated by: Victor 5 May. Jinghong, I'm already like this, do you still refuse? Please...... Updated by: Zishan May 9. ……… Everyone, I have something to tell you.

Updated by: May 10th. From now on, all information about Zishan will be deleted, except for the list of members of Changsheng. Updated by: Ming ...... Luo Xiaonuo 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 a couple on the Internet, and perhaps both of them have the intention of developing realistically. However, at the party on May 1, Jing Hong found that Zishan was posing as a man online, but in reality it 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, but it could not be reversed, and the other members of the Remnant Star Building may have participated in the incident, and did some humiliation to Zishan that she could not tolerate. Eventually, Zishan returned to Bengbu in a huff, where she committed suicide on May 6 with a grudge. On May 9, Jing Hong planned to make the matter clear thoroughly, so he called Zishan's home and learned the news of Zishan's suicide. She then informed the other members on May 10. Out of some psychological considerations, they deleted all traces of Zishan in the Remnant Star Building, and only kept the member information. The above is the full picture of the events that Ma Ming has inferred based on the "memorabilia" and other information that he has already obtained and his reasonable imagination. For the other members of the Remnant Star Building, this matter will be over until May 10; But unexpectedly, after Zishan's death, he turned into a ghost to take revenge on them, and as a result, all four members were poisoned on the night of June 16............ However, there is one suspicion that has never been clarified: that photo.

That photo is a photo of Jinghong and Liuli, and the person who took the picture for them is most likely Zishan. The two people in the photo are smiling, and there is no trace of anger on their faces. When taking this photo, Jinghong must have learned Zishan's true gender. If she was so resentful of Zishan's deception, then why did she invite Zishan to take pictures of herself and Liuli?

Ma Ming and Xiaonuo couldn't 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 ended their trip to Bengbu for only one day and two nights and stepped on the train back to Shanghai.

"So...... What do we do next? ”

Ma Ming looked at the scenery outside the window that kept passing backwards, and asked Xiaonuo.

Xiao Nuo lowered his head and was silent for a while, and replied slowly but firmly: "Find Zishan." ”