Chaowen said, death can be carried out.

I slandered: This "K", that is, the mastermind behind these deaths, is quite a bit of a literary and artistic bad taste.

But at the moment, all my attention was attracted by the four words that came out of Ji Lan's mouth, and I couldn't help but think of the theories that Shen Tangzhi told me, so I asked, "There is only one game program stored in that hard drive?" Eternal Game ...... What kind of game is that?"

"Have you ever heard of the urban legend of the 'non-existent game'?"

Ji Lan didn't answer my question, but instead said another term that I didn't know.

Just when I was a little dazed, the door of the interrogation room was opened, and Shen Tang, dressed in a white forensic uniform, walked in with a gust of wind, and the door closed behind her with a "bang".

"I've heard the story." Shen Tang walked to my side, and motioned for me to help her pull out the chair with his eyes, for the sake of demeanor, I had to do it with a dark face and unwillingly, "Thank you." The corners of her mouth curled slightly.

The non-existent game, an urban legend that circulated in the online world of Jinguancheng, this story spread in the online community of Jinguancheng as early as the BBS era.

The story is very simple, it is about an ambitious programmer who wanted to write the most perfect game in the world, for which he spent 20 years, but of course he did not succeed in the end, and after uploading the unfinished source code of the game, the programmer committed suicide by cutting his wrists.

After that, there were rumors on the Internet: if you use the city network in Jinguancheng to download the game, there is a very small probability of downloading a file called "404NotFound", the file is in A4W format, and it cannot be opened, but if you manually change the file format to EXE, it will become an executable program, and you can open this program with a double mouse click - if someone really does this, then, this person will be possessed by the programmer's unjust spirit, and then commit suicide by cutting his wrists.

While recounting this story, Shen Tangzhi also handed me an autopsy report, which Cheng Cheng and I had already read at this time.

The cause of death of Huang Bainian, like the previous 5 "suicides", is still the strange way of death of "part of the brain marrow is cooked at high temperature".

The time of death was between 11:30 last night and 12:30 in the morning, the deceased had no external injuries, and the body at the scene showed no signs of moving.

At the same time, the corpse's face showed a strange zombie - an extremely happy smile, and there were very slight subcutaneous electric injuries on both temples.

Everything is exactly the same as the previous 5 deceased.

"The victim's computer will automatically format its hard drive until it is cut off, and the mysterious program that killed the victim actually ceased to exist at the moment of the victim's death, because no one could recover the data of the mysterious program from the victim's computer hard drive." Shen Tangzhi's eyes burned, "This is an urban legend called 'Game That Doesn't Exist', right, Ji Lan?" ”

"That's right. However, why didn't you say the most important thing: if you can beat this 'non-existent game' in one go, then not only will you not die, but you will also get a near-eternal life - the life span of all those killed by this game will be transferred to you. ”

When Ji Lan said this, Shen Tangzhi smiled slightly-I guessed that she was cheating Ji Lan, and sure enough, Shen Tangzhi said: "It seems that we have indeed heard the same urban legend." Then, she sat down more comfortably, turned to us, and said, "Alright, I'm done with what I'm going to say, and now it's time for you two to do what you do best." ”

I glanced at Cheng Cheng, who nodded at me, signaling that this case was now dominated by me, and I asked Ji Lan: "So, in your hard drive, there is that 'non-existent game'?" ”

Ji Lan said: "That person-K, let me describe the whole process of the whole thing to you in detail, this is my last task, so please Mr. Ji must help me complete it." ”

"Before that, answer my question."

"That game? Yes, it's stored on my hard drive. ”

"Have you beaten the game?"

"Nope." After Ji Lan finished speaking, he suddenly smiled, "You don't think this urban legend is true, right?" ”

"Isn't it?"

"Of course, urban legends are just listened to, how can there be such a thing as getting unlimited lives after clearing the game? What are you kidding, how can it be so easy to gain eternal life! Ji Lan suddenly became excited, Cheng Cheng threw an inquiring look at me, and I motioned for him to be calm.

Ji Lan's emotions were quickly restrained, but her expression became very serious: "I'm sorry, I didn't make it clear." That 'non-existent game' isn't really nothing, it's just a prank, and it doesn't have the magic to kill. What I have on my hard drive is made by K, a real 'non-existent game'! ”

"Eternal Games?"

"Yes, the Game of Eternal Life."

Ji Lan nodded, her face was like iron, and her originally pretty face turned out to be a little hideous: "You should be satisfied, Mr. Ji." Next, can you listen to me? ”

I nodded, and raised my hand for her to continue.

The urban legend of the "game that doesn't exist" is actually like the legend of the "Death Song" - it is a song called "Black Sunday", and it is said that everyone who listens to this song can't stand the sad melody of the song and accepts God's invitation - but in reality, the story is the story, the song does not kill, the game does not do, and if someone does die because of it, it is because that person wants to die in the first place.

However, people are curious, and there are some things that they know are deceptive, and they will want to give it a try.

In this case, Ji Lan laboriously downloaded the legendary death game - the "non-existent game": "404 Not Found".

When I opened the game, Ji Lan found that this was a stand-alone game, the picture was shoddy, and the content was also made up, judging from Ji Lan's game aesthetics for many years, this is simply a garbage game, and even the slightest sincerity is lacking.

Ji Lan was very disappointed, and immediately deleted the game, then took a shower and went to sleep.

When he went to work the next day, Ji Lan found that there was an extra email in his mailbox, the source of the email was an anonymous CC, there was no sending ID, no payment, and the content was one sentence: Do you want to see the real "non-existent game"?

Underneath this text is a URL - a URL that has no logic and cannot be accessed by a browser if copied to it.

Ji Lan immediately understood that this was a dark web URL.

When he got home from work, Ji Lan, who hadn't entered the dark web for a long time, took some trouble and finally entered the URL left in the email.

The URL was smoothly translated, and it turned out to be an anonymous chat room - the simplest and most primitive kind, after Ji Lan entered, the number of online members in the entire chat room was 4.

Ji Lan typed: hello——

The first to respond to Ji Lan was a guy named "asdasdadasdad": yes?