Yu Chengheng graduated from a serious graduate degree in network information engineering.

After graduation, I didn't want to be angry with my boss, so I chose to go it alone.

With solid and excellent technology and long-term accumulated reputation, we can always receive some outsourcing orders.

It's okay to live a good life, eat and drink well, and live well, but you can't save money.

His usual screen name is 'Internet Migrant Worker 1024'.

Usually idle and boring, the most he can do is high-intensity Internet access, key politics in the group, driving, and spraying people on the Internet, there is nothing he doesn't dare to spray.

Of course, he is also very professional in ethics, if he is close to hundreds of millions of people, then it is okay to call him a father...... There is no shortage of money, but it is not too much money, and it is difficult to get along with money.

For example, the old brother who sent him money before and asked him to help find someone,

For this old brother, Yu Chengheng's attitude changed from inexplicable at the beginning to amiable at the end.

No matter how you look at it, this old brother must be a good person, so there is no problem at all to help good people.

"Hmm...... Post ......"

Turning over from the bed in the bedroom and sitting down in front of the computer desk, Yu Chengheng raised his head and looked out the window through the gap in the curtains,

It's late at night, but for him, the day is only halfway through.

Lowering his head and using the computer, Yu Chengheng opened the link to the post sent to him by the brother who was close to him.

Swiping the mouse, he slowly skimmed through the content of the post, and then the speed became slower and slower.

“…… It feels a little bit like what's going on......"

He was also a little curious, and at least confirmed that the two photos containing his ID card were the same person.

At the same time, it was verified that no similar posts had appeared on the Internet, and the photo was not a network map.

At the end, Yu Chengheng saw that the poster had no new messages, thought about it, and clicked on the poster's homepage.

The poster's account homepage is set to private, and you can't see what posts he has made or replied to.

Yu Chengheng clicked on the private message to this poster,

"Internet migrant worker: Hello, landlord, I saw your post, I believe your words! Because I feel the same strange feeling now, I'm in the capital too! ”

High-end hackers often only need the most simple means.

It's just a pity,

Yu Chengheng's methods didn't work this time,

The message on the station sent in the past was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no reply to the message after waiting for a while.

“…… Made, isn't this a problem......"

Yu Chengheng pursed his mouth, muttering in his mouth, but the movements in his hands were not slow.

Compared to his major, his hacking skills are completely self-taught, but they are not bad.

……

"Let's start today's meeting...... Does anyone have any situation that needs to be reported? ”

A relatively closed conference room with no windows and closed doors.

Twelve people sat around a round table, and there was no one else in the room except the twelve in attendance.

The twelve dressed in different ways, and the difference made it seem that the twelve sitting at the round table did not have the same world.

Some people wore suits and leather shoes, some wore linen rags and ragged clothes, some wore old-fashioned old military uniforms, and some wore casual clothes.

Some people have their heads up, their faces are calm, and some people have their heads down, and their heads are hooded, and their faces cannot be seen clearly.

The person presiding over the meeting was the man in the old military uniform, who had some patches on his military uniform, and he didn't know how many times he had worn and washed it, and it had faded.

But the neckline of the military uniform is still very neat, and the red star on the military hat on the head is still very straight.

Wearing this military uniform, an old man of about sixty years old, sitting on a stool, his body still upright, and his voice was calm and powerful, full of energy.

"Sneer......"

After the words fell, there was a burst of laughter in the conference room.

“…… What else is there to say, there is no salvation, what can we do? ”

These words seemed to be a mockery of the others in the room,

The one who sneered and said this was the man who wore a hood and kept his head down, so that he could not see his face clearly,

The voice that came out was not very old, and even when he spoke, he never raised his head.

The others next to him, including the old man in military uniform, turned their heads when they heard the sound and looked at the man with the hood and bowed his head.

However, no one was angry about it.

"Crawler, how are you doing?"

Next to her, a middle-aged woman wearing a gorgeous skirt like a noble lady asked aloud to the hooded man called 'reptile',

I don't know if I felt the eyes of everyone, or the words of the middle-aged lady,

The reptile fell silent, then replied,

"The whispering in my ears has become more and more serious, and it seems as if I can see a terrifying and twisted world at any time...... No, sometimes I feel that the distortion and chaos of that world is beautiful. ”

The reptilian voice was a little hoarse, and as he spoke, he paused again,

"Kill me as soon as possible, so that I may not die and become a scourge."

“……”

"We'll think about it."

The old man in military uniform paused, answered, and turned to look at the others.

The reptile had lowered its head and did not speak again.

It's not that he doesn't want to look up, it's that his head has already been broken off during a mission, and he still has an unhealable wound on his neck at the moment.

"Rats...... You can tell me about the recent summary of the situation. ”

"Okay."

The rat was the middle-aged man in ragged linen clothes.

He was unkempt and filthy, as if he had just crawled out of a sewer, and he emitted some stench, which was completely polar to the middle-aged lady sitting next to him.

“…… The senior investigators of the Bureau of Abnormal Investigation may have sensed a significant increase in the frequency of special incidents in their jurisdictions. ”

"According to the data you have put together, yes, it is......"

The mouse opened its mouth full of yellow teeth, and seemed to open its mouth to smile, but it couldn't see the slightest smile.

"There are more and more weird, twisted, chaotic disgusting guys...... It seems that our world is about to reach some tipping point that will lead to an explosion of these twisted and disgusting creatures. ”

“…… As far as Wang'an City, which I am in charge of, since two months ago, more and more strange guys have popped up, and in addition to the impact of the general environment, what is about to happen in Wang'an City...... But I don't know what's going on. Maybe we need help from the bureau in this matter......"

"I just want to say that if we don't stop this from happening as soon as possible, maybe some people in the city, on the way home from work, on the way home from dinner, at home...... You'll bump into some twisted and disgusting guys...... Then you go crazy, and you become a pile of rotten flesh scattered all over the ground like toppled building blocks, or you become a pus-dripping monster. ”

"We may ...... It's time for the Bureau of Anomalies to add some more staff. ”

The rat finished speaking, looking at the other senior investigators.

“…… But this means that more people will know about the 'real world'...... We had previously judged that these twisted and disgusting creatures had some kind of memetic contagion nature. ”

"Our diffusion of related knowledge may also increase the possibility of mutations, appearing, more, more terrifying monsters...... Probably more monsters feel our 'shout' and come to our world...... These perceptions are toxic. ”

The middle-aged lady next to her said loudly.

"But we don't have time to deal with these things, and the monster that can't be dealt with can still directly spread the cognition of its existence."

The mouse added.

The other investigators were silent, and they seemed to be in a kind of predicament.

“…… Mouse, you seem to smell even more. ”

"Hmm...... It's changing some of my habits. ”

Before taking the potion, the rat was also a handsome middle-aged man, not the unkempt and street beggar he is now.

The effect of the potion was reflected in everyone present.

"Another ......"

The calm voice of the old man in military uniform sounded again, and the others looked at him,

"Some of the people in the Bureau's possession, who have a certain premonition of unknown dangers, have recently sensed a strong, great fear slowly descending...... Their feelings, trembling, as if they were on the edge of the abyss, as if they were at the end of the world. ”

"This painful torture is almost on the verge of death."

"It seems that something terrible is about to befall you recently...... More serious than ever. ”

The words of the old man in military uniform made the investigators even more silent,

“…… Have a clearer hunch? ”

"No...... What we know is that these people, who have a strong sense of the danger ahead, have only a vague sense of the danger that is coming...... It is impossible to have a clear message.

To put it bluntly, these people are just more inspired than ordinary people...... In today's world, that's not a good thing...... You're not low in inspiration, and maybe you feel the same way. ”

“…… I've been having nightmares lately...... Dreaming of a blood-colored world. ”

"I dreamed it too."

"I didn't...... But there is also some oppressive feeling lingering......"

Twelve investigators spoke up one after another,

In the end, it was confirmed that for the time being, only the old man in military uniform, the rat, and the middle-aged lady had the same similar nightmare, and the others just felt depressed and insecure.

And the area that these three people are responsible for happens to be right next to each other, in and around the capital.

“…… Mouse, as you just said, what has happened in Wang'an City recently is more frequent than in other places......"

"Yes...... The most common is the 'glutton'......"

"Hmm...... We will send more investigators to Wang'an City. ”

“…… Shall we ...... Ask Him about this time? ”

At the end of the meeting, someone carefully proposed.

“…… Who goes? ”

"I'll go, I don't have much time anyway."

The reptile propped up the round table and said loudly.

“…… Wait a minute...... We don't always get the information we want. ”

"Crawler, you save it until you need to sacrifice it."

"That's right. Xiao Mao, are there any results from the experiments on gluttonous eaters? ”

“…… The main person in charge of the research on the flesh and blood of gluttony eaters is Professor Qian Yixue...... Now it is only found that the flesh and blood tissue on the gluttonous eater has strong vitality, but the genetic level is like a chaotic mess, like a random stack of various genetic fragments...... It's as distorted as we see it...... However, in terms of application, it has been found that the flesh and blood of gluttonous eaters have a strong effect on some diseases of the human body...... However, it seems to have an effect on the human spirit. ”

"Sneer......"

The elaboration of 'Xiao Mao', there was another sound of laughter in the conference room.

……

"Internet migrant worker: Big man, the information you want has been found for you, but it took me a lot of effort.

Cautious Warrior: [Red Envelope] 200.

Internet migrant worker: It's my honor to be busy for the big guy! ”

"The other party has received your red envelope."

It's rare that I didn't sleep well all night, Jing Chen specially opened the message prompt before going to bed,

How do you know that this person is quite efficient, it was just dawn in the morning, and Jing Chen received a message from this person again.

"Internet migrant worker: Big man, then I'll send you the documents?"

On the other side, Yu Chengheng looked at the information he had collected, hesitated, and deleted the address information from it.

"Cautious Warrior: Okay."

Jing Chen replied to a message again, and saw the document sent by the other party,

After downloading the document, it is the information that Jing Chen wants.

"Name: Song Zhou.

Information: Working as a courier sorting job in a courier company, his parents did die in a flood in his hometown as he said in his post, and the person concerned also mentioned this incident on other social platforms.

Contact: Tel: 152......"

The information in the document is the contact information given by the online migrant worker who verified the poster's words on the side.

Jing Chen wanted this contact information, and he wanted to communicate directly with this poster.

"Cautious Warrior: Okay, I got it.

Internet Migrant Worker: Okay, big guy, come back to me next time you have something. ”

After replying to this message, Jing Chen turned on the dialing function, and after entering this phone number,

There was a pause, then another deletion.

I got up, went to the drawer in the living room, and found a mobile phone card that had not been opened.

This mobile phone card is anonymous, don't ask how it came about, ask is the ability to bank.

Put this SIM card into your phone and remove the other.

didn't call this phone directly, Jing Chen used this anonymous phone number to register a common social account.

Then I searched with the mobile phone number I found and found the poster's social account.

"Hello. I'd like to talk to you about the Scarlet World. ”

Watching this friend application message be sent, Jing Chen waited quietly.

This will definitely not be able to withstand the deliberate targeted investigation at the national level, but Jing Chen is just to fool the situation of expression.

Just quietly holding the phone and waiting for a long time.

finally

The mobile phone social software pops up again, and the friend application is approved.

"The water does not carry the boat passed your friend application ......"

……

"Sassy ......"

Song Zhou has been standing on the rooftop all night, even if it is blowing the cold wind from late night to early morning at this moment,

Nor could he hide even a little of his intense, painful uneasiness.

Throughout the night, Song Zhou wanted to jump directly from the roof of the building countless times to end the increasingly serious pain and torture at the moment.

Every word he posted on the Internet was true, and he was very uncomfortable now,

Strong, I don't know where the sense of crisis comes from, so he is at a loss for everything around him,

It seems that in the next moment, the heavens will collapse and the earth will sink.

A strong sense of depression was like a heavy mountain pressing him to the ground, unable to stand up and bend his knees.

Every breath made him extraordinarily heavy, and his overwhelmed heart was beating violently, as if it was about to jump out of his heart in the next second.

His face was covered with uncleaned stubble, his hair was messy, his dark circles and bloodshot eyes were heavier than before, his face was pale and bloodless, and his lips were dry.

Standing on the edge of the rooftop, he was shaky, as if he was about to fall to the ground in the next second.

Just as he was once again climbing on the fence of the rooftop,

The mobile phone that was thrown to the ground by Song Zhou suddenly made a soft sound.

It was just a soft prompt sound, and in Song Zhou's ears at this moment, it was like thunder.

His constant tense spirit made his heart stop suddenly and beat more violently whenever he received the slightest sound or other stimulation.

He fell back on the roof from the guardrail,

Then he didn't touch his phone, he collapsed on the floor of the rooftop,

His eyes were like dead eyes, fixed on the morning sky.

At last

It seems that the security guard of the community, who has finally woken up, saw him through the monitoring on the rooftop, and walked up with a stick.

"Huh...... What are you doing here early in the morning......"

It seemed that seeing that Song Zhou was still alive, the security guard breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted angrily,

Song Zhou, who collapsed on the ground, moved, then sat up, and then picked up the mobile phone on the ground.

He glanced at it and saw the friend application sent by Jing Chen.

Looking at that sentence, he finally passed.

"Huh...... Are you alright? Lad? ”

The security guard also saw Song Zhou's terrifying face at this time, first took two steps back, and then shouted and asked,

"Young man...... Don't even think about anything...... It's good to be alive, to be alive is to have everything, and to be dead is nothing...... Eh...... Lad......"

The security guard couldn't help but persuade Song Zhou.

Song Zhou held his mobile phone, lowered his head, stumbled down the stairs, and gradually went downstairs.

"Who are you?"