"How did you do this?"

I looked at the black lump in my hand that smelled like plastic, and struggled to relate it to the hard drive case.

"High-voltage electric shock." Cheng Cheng still had a little chagrin on his face.

"The high temperature of the electric shock is one thing, but the more serious thing is ......" The fat man named Tang Yuan pointed to the various parts lined up on the workbench, most of those parts were scorched black and deformed, but the disk array of the hard disk was quite complete, but Tang Yuan's next half of the sentence made my heart cold for most of the time, "These disks have been demagnetized." He said.

I moved my gaze to Cheng Cheng's face.

Cheng Cheng knew that if he didn't explain the whole thing clearly, I might have a seizure, so he sighed and told me what happened more than an hour ago from the beginning.

After I gave the three names provided by K to Cheng Cheng, the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Chengnan Police Bureau immediately deployed police forces to closely monitor the three targets.

At 12:01 a.m., Cheng Cheng received a message that someone was about to enter the room of one of the targets.

Cheng Cheng immediately made a decision - don't block it, let this person in, but immediately carry out the arrest operation.

When Cheng Cheng's command vehicle arrived at the scene, the suspect had been subdued, and the target in the room, a program engineer named Huang Bainian, had been confirmed dead, and a preliminary on-site investigation had begun.

The identity of the suspect is actually an old friend of ours: Ji Lan.

According to Cheng Cheng's order, the criminal investigation team members present waited until Ji Lan entered Huang Bainian's house before starting the arrest operation, but unexpectedly, Ji Lan walked out of Huang Bainian's house in less than ten seconds, and collided with the police who carried out the arrest operation in the corridor!

Ji Lan reacted immediately—but not running away—she immediately opened her handbag and threw a lump directly downstairs......

The house where Huang Bainian lived was a slab structure, and Ji Lan was on the nineteenth floor at the time, and what she threw downstairs happened to hit the high-voltage power line downstairs!

Ji Lan didn't put up any resistance, and was controlled by the criminal investigation team - but she was very emotional at the time, she seemed indifferent to the reality of her arrest, and instead kept talking to herself almost crazy.

I glanced at the unbearable hard drive, and I didn't have to guess what it was that Ji Lan threw downstairs, and I asked Cheng Cheng, "What did she say?" ”

"It's true, that theory is true!" Cheng Cheng paused, "Just this sentence, until I arrived at the scene, she was still talking to everyone who approached her over and over again. ”

My heart sank.

I held back the shock in my heart and asked Tang Yuan, "Can't you recover any data?" ”

Tang Yuan grabbed his golden explosive head and glanced at me: "The hard disk thrown down from the nineteenth floor, or the instantaneous temperature of several thousand degrees caused by high-voltage electric shock, is actually not too deadly, I can recover most of the data by reorganizing the disk array, but at that time, a small strong magnetic field environment was formed, which is equivalent to a complete degaussing of the hard disk and completely destroying the magnetic record...... So, I'll try my best, but don't get your hopes up. ”

Ji Lan also talked about the existence of that hard disk on my side, so I checked some information about this kind of information storage device, and I can probably understand most of Tang Yuan's words, but Cheng Cheng obviously didn't quite understand, he pointed to the disk on the workbench that was still complete: "Aren't these discs all good?" It can't be that there is no way at all, right? ”

Tang Yuan was not angry, he picked up a disk with tweezers: "Ordinary mechanical hard disk, is to use this kind of disk to store information, its basic principle is to use magnetic technology to record the state of magnetism, just like writing with chalk on a blackboard, degaussing is equivalent to you use a board brush to erase all the words on the blackboard, and even the traces of writing will not be left - in this case, it is basically impossible for you to recover the information on the blackboard." ”

The results given by Tang Yuan are undoubtedly desperate, and although he has repeatedly said that he will do his best to recover the information on the hard drive, we all know that the chances are slim.

In the interrogation room, I saw Ji Lan again.

"Mr. Ji, you're here—I've been waiting for you for a long time." Ji Lan brushed her hair behind her ears, and her eyes flashed with a strange excitement, "I told them that I won't speak until you are present." ”

I have to admit that despite being behind bars, this woman is still beautiful...... Even her flushed face was more vibrant than when I first saw her.

I glanced at Cheng Cheng, who nodded slightly at me and admitted that it was true.

"Well, then, I'm sitting in front of you now." I looked into Ji Lan's eyes, "Miss Ji, what's going on?" ”

Ji Lan simply admitted the fact that she "assisted suicide" - she had long known that Huang Bainian would commit suicide, and she even had the key to Huang Bainian's house in her hand, the key was given to her by Huang Bainian himself, and she went to Huang Bainian's house to confirm whether Huang Bainian was dead, and second, to get back the hard drive.

"Originally, I still have a video in my mobile phone, which can prove that Huang Bainian committed suicide voluntarily, and I am at most charged with assisted suicide......" Ji Lan smiled at me, "However, there is no need now." ”

Cheng Cheng nodded at me again, indicating that there was indeed such a video.

I shook my head secretly, in fact, the existence of this video is insignificant, and it will not have much impact on Ji Lan's conviction, which makes me even more puzzled - Ji Lan is not smart to do this, legally speaking, letting the suicide leave a certificate cannot exonerate her, this is not direct evidence - but how can a woman who is not very smart plan this series of deaths?

"Why is it not necessary?"

I knew I couldn't be in a hurry now, and when I asked this question, I already thought of the answer - I remembered that Cheng Cheng told me that when Ji Lan was arrested, he kept shouting, "It's true, that theory is true!" ”

What theory is true?

"Because, K's theory has been confirmed?" I asked.

Ji Lan frowned and said, "I don't know his name, it turns out that his name is 'K'?" ”

Ji Lan's profession is an HR of a joint venture company, but her hobbies are the Internet and games, and outside of work, she is a veritable otaku.

In her spare time, Ji Lan's most common thing to do is to hook up a VPN and then surf the dark web.

The dark web is a dark world - only about 4% of the Internet we can see, and about 96% of the Internet data is not accessible through standard search engines, and the total amount of effective high-quality content in the latter is at least 1,000 to 2,000 times that of the former, but there are also some violent, pornographic and horrific black information, such as child traffickers, bitcoin money laundering, hallucinogens, bounty hacks......

Ji Lan posted the "suicide" mission on the dark web, and Huang Bainian was the sixth volunteer to accept the mission.

The mastermind behind all this is "K" - Ji Lan did everything possible to hang this commission on my side through Shen Tangzhi's relationship, and it was also out of K's instructions.

Of course, the name of that mission cannot be called "Suicide Mission", but "Asamido".

Only after passing Ji Lan's approval and officially becoming a volunteer can you use the hard disk in Ji Lan's hand, and in the hard disk, a magical program is stored.

I asked, "What program?" ”

"It's a game." Ji Lan replied, "...... the Eternal Life Game." ”