June 18 at 3:30 p.m., Monday S City

Although Arnold is determined to solve the mystery, she is neither a professional detective nor a full-time police officer, so she has not so much free time, and she is a student after all.

The freshman year is called the "playground of the college years", but it is always a class class.

Especially Monday, it was the busiest day of the week for Arnold, starting with the flag-raising ceremony early in the morning and ending at 3 p.m., with only a little more than an hour lunch break in between, and there was no way to do anything.

The last section is intensive reading, the teacher is a veritable "intensive reading" teacher, and a good article of Pastor King's "I Have a Dream" has been kneaded by him from beginning to end, and almost every sentence has been analyzed and fragmented, turning into a large number of stumps of adverbials, predicates, and objects spread on the blackboard. Xiaonuo looked at the hour hand on his watch and sighed in vain.

Finally, when the teacher shouted the word "out of class", the class had dragged on for more than fifteen minutes. Xiao Nuo, who was impatient for a long time, didn't say a word, picked up her schoolbag and left, and a few good classmates called her behind her back, but she didn't hear it.

According to the address given by the reporter, Su Xuejun's family lives in Dongsheng District, Shanghai, and Xiaonuo's home is diagonal to the university. Even the most optimistic estimates would take more than two hours for a round trip by bus; The taxi is very fast, it only takes more than 20 minutes to walk along the viaduct, but the cost is at least more than 50 yuan, which is too expensive; Neither the subway nor the light rail had yet extended to that area, so Arnold had to race against time to squeeze the bus and get home by seven o'clock.

She had already called Su Xuejun's home last night, claiming to be Su Xuejun's friend, and expressed her hope to go to the home to offer condolences, and Su's parents welcomed her.

Today's road conditions were not very bad, although the bus moved as slowly as ever, but there was not a single traffic jam, and finally Xiaonuo finally arrived in Dongsheng District before 4:40.

Su Xuejun's house is in a high-rise building called "Cailongju", which stands out from the crowd compared to the surrounding low gray family buildings, and Xiao Nuo found it without much effort.

When she walked into the courtyard, she immediately noticed that there was a layer of sand sprinkled on the concrete clearing in front of the building, and if you looked closely, you could see some dark red sand mixed in it, and a few people pointing in the distance.

"This must be the place where Su Xuejun fell from the building."

Although Xiao Nuo didn't know Su Xuejun, he felt a burst of compassion in his heart, after all, a good life suddenly disappeared like this, just like Tang Jing.

Su Xuejun's family lived on the fourteenth floor, Xiao Nuo walked to the door of the building and pressed the intercom with the corresponding house number.

“…… Hey......"

The voice over the intercom was sad and weak.

“…… Belch...... Hello, I'm a friend of Xuejun......"

"Please come in."

After saying that, the electronic lock of the door "creaked" open, and Xiaonuo walked in and took the elevator to the fourteenth floor. When she stepped out of the elevator, a middle-aged woman with tears on her face was already waiting there, tall and thin, with high bulging cheekbones.

"Hello, auntie."

Xiao Nuo hurriedly and cautiously said hello, and bowed slightly.

"Let's go inside."

Sue's mother replied.

Xiao Nuo followed her into Su Xuejun's house. This is a large three-bedroom, two-living room, extremely spacious, luxuriously decorated, but also very tacky. A pot-bellied man sitting on the sofa with his head down should be Sue's father. When Su's mother introduced Xiaonuo, he just looked up and nodded slightly, without saying a word.

Su's mother poured a cup of tea for Xiaonuo and whispered:

"Thank you for coming all the way to visit our family Xuejun."

"I only found out that something happened when I watched the news yesterday, and my aunt and uncle ask you to mourn by the way."

"Alas...... A person who is good at breaking off, says no, and it's gone. ”

"I never thought this would happen, it's so tragic." Arnold was telling the truth.

"That child, how can you not think about it for a while......" Su's mother took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes, her expression was very similar to Xianglin's sister-in-law.

When Su's father heard this, he suddenly burst into anger, staring at his blood-red eyes and shouting loudly:

"I can't think of anything for a while! It's the one who broke the net! I told her to go less, but she just wouldn't listen! You shouldn't have bought a computer in the first place! ”

“…… Don't say this in front of Xuejun's friends. ”

"I'm just going to say! You give a judgement. Xue Jun is in a trance for this broken net fan, and he doesn't do anything else all day. It's all harmful to the Internet, if you don't have a good person, why suddenly jump off the stairs!? ”

Xiao Nuo thought to herself that this girl's Internet momentum was not inferior to Tang Jing. Sue's father continued to blame his wife.

"It's all you, if you had smashed the computer earlier, there wouldn't have been such a thing!"

“……？ You...... Did you smash her computer? ”

Xiao Nuo, who was about to ask, couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

Su's father nodded, pointing to the balcony, Xiaonuo stretched his head over, and saw a monitor with a smashed screen facing the sky, the case on the side twisted into a strange shape, the motherboard split in half and the messy cables were half exposed, and the fragments of the fan were scattered all over the ground. Obviously, this is the result of brute force smashing by people in a fit of rage.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Nuo's heart was cold, it seemed that she couldn't expect to check Su's computer, and her parents obviously didn't understand computers at all, I'm afraid they didn't even know what QQ was, let alone who their daughter was chatting with at the last moment.

"Excuse me, can I take a look at Xuejun's bedroom?"

Xiaonuo was unwilling to get nothing like this.

"Yes, come over here." Sue's mother nodded, got up and gestured to a room.

The two of them walked into Su Xuejun's bedroom, which was very tidy, a bookshelf was placed on the right side, with a few books and many small ornaments, and a few photo frames with photos, mostly Su Xuejun's solo photos, and group photos; Next to the bookshelf is a pink wardrobe, the size of which tells you the sheer amount of clothes the owner has; A large window was closed, and facing the window was a large, crimson sandalwood table, the top was empty, and there was a rectangular table of lighter color than the others, and it was obvious that the computer had been there until it was smashed. Then there was a large bed, which looked like a court's goods; Several large posters of Japanese and Korean stars are plastered on the wall.

Xiao Nuo looked around, didn't see anything special, and felt disappointed in his heart, it seemed that this trip must be in vain, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly. As she was about to exit the bedroom, her gaze swept over the bookshelf for the last time, when she suddenly skimmed into a familiar shadow. She hurriedly took a few steps closer to look, and suddenly her whole body was shocked, and her eyes widened as she stared at a photo.

In the background of the photo is the newly opened dynamic digital plaza in Shanghai, Su Xuejun and Tang Jing are standing together, and the two of them are smiling sweetly......

“…… Please...... Excuse me...... Who is this? ”

Xiao Nuo didn't expect to find a photo of Su Xuejun and Tang Jing here, and the shock in his heart can be imagined.

She picked up the image frame, pointed at Tang Jing and said to Su's mother.

Su's mother took the photo and looked at it, frowned and said, "I don't know this girl, maybe it's also Xuejun's friend." ”

"Can you take this picture out and take a look?"

"It's okay."

So Arnold took the picture out of the photo frame, and the edge of the photo that had been blocked by the photo frame could be seen, and there were several numbers on it: 01 05 01

This is the time of the photo taken automatically by the camera, which was taken on May 1, 2001.

May 1st? Xiaonuo recalled it carefully, remembering that it was the first day of the Labor Day holiday, and she originally asked Tang Jing to go to the forest park to play, but Tang Jing said that there was a netizen party that day, so she pushed it off.

Could it be that the netizen Tang Jing said refers to Su Xuejun?

The two are netizens, and they suddenly committed suicide inexplicably while surfing the Internet at the same time on the same day. This is too much of a coincidence.

Also, Tang Jing and Su Xuejun are in the same photo, so who took the photo of the two of them? Could it be the third netizen? Did he or she suffer the same thing at 12 p.m. on Saturday night?

These thoughts raced through Arnold's mind, and she tried to calm herself, it was still too early to get to the truth, but she felt like she had touched the handle of the door.

Xiao Nuo casually flipped over the photo and found that there were still a few words written on the back, the words were very small, but the handwriting was beautiful.

"Liuli & Jinghong"

Maybe it's the screen names of the two of them. Secretly memorized both names, and then put the photo back in its place.

Then Xiaonuo comforted Su's mother a few more words, and saw that it was not too early, so he said goodbye and went home. Su's mother kept saying thank you to her, which made Xiaonuo feel a little sorry.

When I walked back, I was not as lucky as when I came, and when I passed through the business district, I was congested with traffic, and I didn't get home until seven o'clock. My mother's mother asked, and Xiaonuo casually said an excuse to prevaricate.

After eating, Xiao Nuo returned to his room and recorded all the gains of the day in his notebook.

"Next, it's Tang Jing's hard drive."

It is unlikely that she will move Tang Jing's computer home, not to mention that most of the information useful for the investigation, such as QQ chat records, is stored on the hard disk, and the rest of the computer is meaningless to her, so from the beginning, Xiaonuo locked Tang Jing's hard disk.

On this point, Xiaonuo is very sure. Tang Jing liked to write articles very much before her death, and she also wrote very well, which everyone knows. Xiaonuo can ask his aunt for the reason of "sorting out the posthumous manuscripts in the computer", and the aunt and uncle will definitely not refuse. This is not a lie, and it is exactly what Arnold intended.

Tang Jing's hard drive should contain key clues, or at least key hints.

Xiao Nuo believes that this must have a lot to do with Su Xuejun and the mysterious QQ message.

Xiao Nuo originally planned to get it in a few days, but when he saw Su's father's action of smashing the computer today, he felt that this matter still couldn't be delayed, so as not to have a long night and many dreams, in case Tang Jing's computer was smashed or sold, it would be a painful opportunity.

So she immediately put on her coat, grabbed her bike keys and walked downstairs. It's only half past eight now, and it only takes twenty minutes to ride a bicycle to Tang Jing's house, which is enough time.

There was a narrow path from her house to the street, and the street lamp had not been broken by someone and had not yet been repaired. Only a faint bit of moonlight shone down, and the whole road seemed to be covered with a layer of dark white gauze. When Arnold rode her bicycle through there alone, there was silence all around, and a gust of night wind blew, which made her shiver.

Xiao Nuo inadvertently lowered his head, and saw his shadow black on the ground, as if someone was following him closely, inseparable, and couldn't help but feel a sense of disgust. This feeling was no different from the fear that suddenly struck her when she saw the last QQ message and when she made up her mind to investigate the matter.

Thinking of this, Xiaonuo pedaled faster, and the bicycle was bumpy because of the speed, and rushed to the street in one go. She breathed a long sigh of relief when she saw the bright street lights.