After a simple rebirth

Like Zhang Zun, no, his name was changed to Zhang Dian.

After talking with Zhang Dian, Fu Ying still had something else to do, she had to find Chen Weiss.

Fu Ying thought about this for a long time and found that Chen Weiss was the most suitable person to do it.

When she was just reborn, she helped Bo avoid being deceived by his friends into a pyramid scheme. It was also at that time that she remembered the pyramid scheme hideout opposite the company and was ready to call the police when the time came to free those people as soon as possible.

She had a deep impression that pyramid schemes were rampant after 08, with many cases of people pulling in and harming each other.

At the beginning, some people really wanted to make their relatives and friends rich, but there were too many good and bad people, and some illegal actions were hidden in pyramid schemes that had not yet been convicted.

Many people were cheated out of all their property, and they bought a lot of food that they couldn't even eat, and they kept asking their relatives to join them.

Until 24 years later, Fu Ying still saw many people say that the things their family members bought after being brainwashed by pyramid schemes were still piled up at home and unused for more than ten years.

In addition to the Bo incident, Fu Ying also came into contact with a pyramid scheme company because of her work as a tour guide. Strictly speaking, that company was not an illegal pyramid scheme and its products were not bad, but it did have a pyramid scheme culture of forced brainwashing.

At that time, they acted as tour guides and took the company's agents to the factory gate. They were taken in by special factory staff and brainwashed. During this process, Fu Ying and others were not allowed to enter.

There is a red stone at the entrance of that company, which is praised as magical. Everyone who comes out rushes to take pictures with the stone. The company even prohibits taking pictures, but the more it prohibits, the more obsessed people become.

Then there is a tourist attraction in the middle, but everyone in the car shares words praising the company's products and their ideal life after joining the company, and finally dresses up to attend a ball that seems to be part of the upper class.

Many people's ideal life is written as:

Ten years later, because of being the agent of the company's products, he achieved financial freedom and drove a sports car worth millions of yuan out of the three-story villa. His family happily watched him go to work. He held a meeting in the company's office, discussing tens of millions of orders, talking about how many stores he would open and how many friends he would bring to become rich. Then, during his breaks, he would drink the company's tea products to lower his blood pressure and use the company's skin care products.

Fu Ying was astonished when she heard it for the first time. How could they believe it? It didn’t sound right!

However, after Fu Ying had contact with these agents many times, she found that they were quite firm in their belief, especially that drinking a certain type of tea could lower blood pressure, improve immunity, and cure all diseases.

Fu Ying recalled that this might be their sustenance against the reality of impotence, because having faith gives one the strength to persevere, just like the Christianity that Fu Dagu believed in.

There are not many young people here. Most of them are middle-aged people in their thirties or forties, mostly women. Their lives are too hard, and the so-called family of a company may be able to give them the understanding and kindness they want.

In the following years, the negative impact of the pyramid scheme company was too great, and it was convicted and severely cracked down on at the legal level. The company also declined, and Fu Ying found that many of the stores selling its products also went bankrupt.

Many people in that company may have volunteered, but in the pyramid scheme industry, many people entered it out of mistaken intent, and some were even illegally brainwashed, just like the den of Fu Ying’s previous company.

It would have been better if Fu Ying didn’t know about this kind of thing, but if she knew she wouldn’t be able to remain indifferent.

Call her a saint or a meddler, but as a young person born under the red flag, she will definitely do what she can.

Fu Ying thought about it many times and only had two options: one was to use a more reasonable normal alarm method, and the other was a more strange remote alarm.

The reasonable way is for someone passing by there to pick up the note for help, take it seriously, and then call the police and successfully rescue those people.

This method was not what she learned from watching movies, but was the actual development of the situation. That was how those people were rescued.

She learned about how the pyramid scheme opposite her company was rescued from the news she had read.

At that time, short videos had not yet become popular and people loved to read public accounts. She remembered reading a public account once, and the general content was that the police received a report and cracked down on a pyramid scheme den, rescuing a dozen young men and women who were trapped.

The information attracted her to read it carefully because it happened to be in her city, and she found that the address of the hideout was the community opposite the company.

Opposite the company is an old residential area with cheap rent, which is a bit like a village in the city. Many people choose to rent a house here and work in the nearby business district.

Fu Ying shared a house with her friends somewhere else and did not live there.

But at that time, the company's dormitory was opposite, and a female colleague with whom Fu Ying had a good relationship also lived opposite. Fu Ying had been there several times, so she was quite familiar with the opposite side.

Fu Ying was very shocked. She didn't expect that there was such a den in the old residential area with so many people coming and going. She also shared it with a colleague who lived in the community and asked her where the building was.

When the two met at the company, they compared them carefully and found that the building was just on the roadside and the room on the top floor was the former hideout.

It was also because the toilet in that room was close to the main road that the note thrown by the girl was repeatedly carried away by the airflow from passing cars, but fortunately it was also picked up by someone.

If it is a building in a residential complex, office workers are in a hurry during the day and may not look at the note on the ground. The lighting in the community is poor at night and it is difficult to see clearly, so rescue is estimated to be a distant prospect.

She read the message again and realized that those people were deceived and could not get out once they got in. They could only contact friends to join, but could not get out on their own. They had to accept the brainwashing words of the small leader every day, and if they resisted or wanted to escape, they would not be given food.

In fact, it's similar to the current online fraud, except that it doesn't hurt you as much.

One of the girls kept looking for opportunities to write a note and threw it out of the window vent when she went to the toilet to ask for help. She threw it many times and finally one day it was picked up by an old man who called the police.

Fu Ying remembered seeing information that they were rescued in 14. It was reported that the group had been trapped for a year, which means 13.

So as summer vacation approached, Fu Ying cared a lot about this matter. If the rescue could be done as soon as possible, the sooner everyone could see each other again.

Fu Ying sent a message to Chen Weisi as soon as she came online, and Chen Weisi finally replied.

Ying [I have something very important to tell you. I am not joking. You must take it to heart and don’t tell anyone.]

[Why are you talking so weirdly? What's the matter?]

Ying【By the way, do you believe in dreams? 】

[I definitely don't believe it, dreams are all fake, are you mentally ill? ]

It seems that the straight ball doesn't work, so Fu Ying has to change her strategy.

Ying: [Well, listen to me first and don't worry about the reasons. I'll just give you a little shock.]

Ying [I know you often go to eat barbecue with your classmates after school. You go to a barbecue restaurant after evening self-study and also secretly roll dice and drink. In addition to this restaurant, you also like to go to a Sichuan spicy hot pot restaurant. ]

[Fuck, what conspiracy do you have? How did you suddenly know this? Who did you ask about me?]

Ying [Shocked, curious! ]

Ying: [First of all, I didn't ask about you. You know it's impossible for me to like you, so it's impossible for me to know your hobbies like a pursuer, let alone know so much.

Secondly, here are the main points I want to talk about. Believe it or not, please read it first. 】

Ying [I have had dreams continuously these past few days. I dreamed that you didn’t go home for dinner after school. You went out with your classmates to eat both midnight snack and dinner.

You mostly eat near the school, but occasionally you go a little further away.

There were several times when you rode your bikes along the path near the elementary school to drink Royal Tea and then eat Malatang.

After passing the traffic light at the elementary school, you sometimes go in the opposite direction and sometimes go in the direction of the vehicles.

When you were walking in the opposite direction, I saw a small rolled-up paper ball floating towards you from upstairs. You were usually busy chatting with your classmates, so you didn't notice it.

Finally, when you were walking against the flow, a ball of paper fell right beside you. You thought it was a prank thrown by a kid upstairs. You opened it with a smile and saw the words "Save me" written on it. You even joked with your classmates that it must be a kid who didn't want to do his homework or got into trouble because he was beaten by his parents and wanted someone to save him.

But in my dream I seemed to have a God’s perspective. I saw that the source of the paper ball was a girl who was hiding in the toilet and threw out the paper ball.

Just above the building where you picked up the paper ball is a pyramid scheme den where several people are illegally detained. They cannot contact the outside world or call the police, so they use this method to send a distress signal. 】

After posting it here, Fu Ying changed the subject.

Ying: [You also think this dream is funny, right? The protagonists are you and that girl, and it’s just like the plot of a movie. I thought so at first too.

But I have dreamed about it several times, with very clear images and storylines, the scene of you passing by and chatting with your classmates, the No. 022 bus passing by, the repeated route you took to eat spicy hot pot, the note that the girl threw secretly, and the expectant face waiting for rescue in the toilet, I remember them all clearly.

I even remember that period was when you just started school and you went from wearing casual clothes to wearing school uniforms every day.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt it was wrong. I was afraid it was true. What if the people up there were really waiting to be rescued? After all, it’s better to believe it than not to believe it. 】

Ying: [And you know, I haven't been to the area near your school, nor have I talked to you much, but I know that the station is called Huayuan Road, I know there is a Shaxian snack bar and a pet hospital downstairs of that building, and I also know that your bicycle is white, your classmate's has a basket, but yours doesn't.

Also, in my dream I heard you say that your parents were planning to buy a house and wanted to buy it in Mingyue Garden, but there was a scene in the dream where you later said that your family bought the house through an agent. At first, they said it was for 70 yuan, and then they added another yuan when it was time for delivery. There were also handling fees and so on, which amounted to another yuan. Your family was quite unhappy during that time, but the house had been bought and could not be refunded, so they had no choice but to pay the money.

Do you believe the above? 】

[Besides the fact that the house purchase is wrong, the details you mentioned are really creepy. ]

What he said to Chen Weisi was naturally mainly what he said himself. After all, the two of them did have a good relationship in the past, and it was Chen Weisi who taught Fu Ying how to roll the dice.

But later, Fu Ying left the city, and Chen Weisi got married without informing her, and the two lost contact.

If he couldn't help, she could only call the police remotely, but that was even more troublesome.

In the past, Fu Ying was a good citizen who had never called the police and had no idea what might happen if she did.

Later, she called the police twice because of work and a minor car accident, and only then did she understand something.

110 is a public emergency hotline, but the country is so large, how can it know where you are? So after you dial out, the call will be connected to the central control console according to your dial-out location, and then the corresponding police station will be notified according to the address you want to report.

Fu Ying is not a professional, but this is her experience of calling the police.

She called the police, who asked for her address and the reason. A minute or two later, the town police called her from their landline to inquire about her situation and sent police on their way.

In other words, when Fu Ying called the police in Yunnan Province, even though the phone card was from Guangdong Province, the call was made from Yunnan Province and would be answered by the central control station in Yunnan Province. It would be more troublesome to transfer the call to Guangdong Province.

She couldn't say that she knew there was a pyramid scheme den up there. There was no evidence, no logic, no one would believe it, and it would affect her.

It shouldn't be a big deal that you'll be arrested and interrogated, but it's not good at all.

At first, Fu Ying thought that when she was working part-time during the summer vacation, she would find time to go to the area, call the police directly, and then say that she had picked up the note.

But Fu Ying discovered that this incident happened during the summer vacation when she was going from her sophomore to her junior year in high school. At this critical juncture, studying was intense and important, so she would definitely focus on studying and would not work as a summer job.

Fu Zhe didn't know whether to go to Guangdong Province to work as a summer intern. However, Fu Zhe was not mature enough and was not familiar with the area. It was impossible for him to be free every day. If he went, it would only cause more trouble.

Therefore, Chen Weisi, who was attending high school nearby, was the most suitable candidate. He did pass by there often, and Fu Ying also knew Chen Weisi. He was smart but not vigilant and easy to fool.

Ying: [How about this, you go ask your parents about buying a house first, whether they really want to buy one, and if you really want to buy Mingyue Garden, I suggest you take a look, the development of that place doesn’t seem to be very good.]

Ying: [And my talking to you about this matter does not affect your materialistic views. You should do what you should do.

The only thing I want you to do is to ask you to pay attention to whether there is really a ball of paper when you happen to be nearby. If there is, check whether it says "Save me" as in the dream I described. If so, call the police, but don't expose me and my dream. If not, just think of it as a dream I shared with you. 】

[Oh my god, I was thinking seriously about your dream, and you suddenly said these things, do you think I am serious or not? ]

Ying: [Just let it be. In the dream, school was about to start, but you haven’t had your summer vacation yet. Why are you in such a hurry?

If there really is a pyramid scheme den, but you don't pick up any paper balls when you go there now, it's possible that those people haven't been transferred there yet, and it's too early for you to call the police.

If you still can't pick up the paper ball after school starts, then no one gets cheated and everyone is happy.

So all you have to do is go with the flow, pay more attention, and do what you can. 】

This is not only what Fu Ying advised Chen Weiss, but also what she told herself. They would be rescued in the end. Doing more might backfire. It would be good enough to do what they can.