Chapter 15: The Horror Chat Room
Ji Lan: Do you speak Chinese?
asdasdadasdad:yes。
Ji Lan: Is there a real 'non-existent game' here?
asdasdadasdad:yes。
Ji Lan: How do I download it?
asdasdadasdad:no?
……
Ji Lan found that the guy named "asdasdadasdad" seemed to be more like a low-level chatbot, which would only answer "yes" or "no" plus a combination of various punctuation, and just when Ji Lan was bored, another member joined the chat.
1234567890: A game that doesn't exist?
Ji Lan: Yes, is there a real "non-existent game" here?
1234567890: The real "non-existent game"? Is it here? Yes.
Ji Lan: Can you tell me how to download it?
1234567890: Can I tell me how to download it?
……
After a few minutes, Ji Lan was annoyed to find that this guy is also a chatbot, it will only change the structure of your sentences, and all its answers are made up of shuffling the word order in your words, although it also reveals some information, but it can also be interpreted as Ji Lan's own association - it is a kind of psychological suggestion to yourself, if you feel that the other party's words must contain deep meaning, then you must be able to find a suitable interpretation, no matter how reluctant it is.
Ji Lan spent another ten minutes asking some random questions, but unfortunately, Ji Lan only got those strange and illogical replies from asdasdadasdad and 1234567890.
Just when Ji Lan was completely discouraged and wanted to close the website, the last member of the chat room, who had not spoken from beginning to end, suddenly joined the conversation.
Username doesn't exist: Don't do it, Ji Lan.
Ji Lan was taken aback, because the other party actually called out his real name - but after thinking about it, Ji Lan did not encrypt his IP information when he entered the dark web, and now the leakage of personal information is really serious, so it is not too difficult for this guy called "username does not exist" to find out Ji Lan's information in a short period of time.
Ji Lan calmed down: Don't do anything?
Username does not exist: Do not close the web page.
Ji Lan was stunned, and a question popped up in his heart: Why did the other party know about his actions?
Ji Lan began to feel that something was not quite right, and she couldn't help but type and ask: Why do you know about my actions?
The username doesn't exist: he knows everything in the online world.
Ji Lan: Who is he?
The username doesn't exist: Lili's body is itchy, something is biting her, and she can't sleep.
This brainless sentence made Ji Lan very puzzled: Who is Lili?
The username doesn't exist: Why didn't you help Lili back then, you're her only friend, aren't you?
Suddenly, Ji Lan remembered who Lili was!
A long-ago memory is like mud sinking to the bottom of a lake, suddenly stirred up...... Under the mud, a pair of lifeless eyes were revealed—
Gu Li!
Ji Lan's junior high school classmates!
No matter where the school is, there are always some guys who like to bully their classmates, and Ji Lan at that time, who was thin and withdrawn, was the target of bullying - Ji Lan will never forget that those female classmates who dressed like little sisters relied on the strength of the crowd and used all kinds of ways to abuse themselves, such as stripping her naked in the women's toilet, being beaten in all corners of the campus, and robbing her pocket money......
Gu Li was the only classmate who lent a helping hand to Ji Lan, and during a bullying operation, Gu Li called the school teacher and rescued Ji Lan, who was being blocked in the corner and beaten, and the two have become friends since then.
But those bullies don't intend to give up. One day after school, the two found that someone was following them behind them, it was a few social gangsters, and after being discovered, those gangsters simply followed the two openly. The two fled towards Ji Lan's house, and those people chased them all the way to Ji Lan's house, and when Ji Lan opened the door, Gu Li behind him fell to the ground and had been caught by those thugs......
Looking at Gu Li who was pressed to the ground, and the gangsters who scolded and rushed towards him, the terrifying memories of being bullied in the past instantly surged into Ji Lan's heart, and Ji Lan slammed the door shut!
The thugs outside the door kicked and banged on the door violently, and Ji Lan leaned his back against the door.
After a while, the sound of kicking the door disappeared, and in its place, it was Gu Li's mournful cry, but only a few sounds, Gu Li's mouth was blocked by something, and only the suppressed cry remained, faintly heard in the shouting and laughing of the gangsters.
Ji Lan trembled all over, cried and covered his ears with his hands......
Gu Li was at the door of Ji Lan's house, and was rounded by 3 gangsters.
It wasn't until Ji Lan's parents, who were on the night shift, came back that they found out about the tragedy, and during this period, Ji Lan didn't have the courage to open the door.
The police and ambulance came soon, Ji Lan will never forget Gu Li, who was carried into the ambulance, with lifeless eyes like a dead person.
After coming back, Gu Li's family moved, and there was no contact with Ji Lan from then on.
When the memories in her mind flashed back like a fast-forward movie, Ji Lan only felt a chill hit her, making her feel cold.
Ji Lan summoned up almost all the courage and typed: Gu Li, how is she now?
Username doesn't exist: never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you! Never forgive you!
This text hit Ji Lan's heart like a hammer, Ji Lan felt that the air around her was twisted and heavy for a while, she opened her mouth wide, but she felt that she couldn't breathe, self-blame, guilt, remorse and fear, thinking of countless huge black palms, tightly clenching Ji Lan's body.
Immediately after that, "username does not exist" sent a file, in jpg format, which was an image.
As if hypnotized, Ji Lan involuntarily opened the photo.
It was the scene of a woman who committed suicide by slitting her wrists in a bathtub.
The woman's body had begun to decompose, soaked in the water that had turned black, and a fat rat was burrowing through the rotten hole in the corpse's chest, and the corpse had its mouth wide open, and maggots were crawling and wriggling in her mouth, nostrils, and eyes......
But the face of the corpse was still recognized by Ji Lan - that woman was Gu Li.
Ji Lan was so frightened that she screamed, she threw anything she could grab at the computer screen, in the process, Ji Lan's body fell from the chair, she rolled and turned on all the lights in the room, and then knelt on the ground, crying and vomiting.