endless tricks

Wang Xiaohong just came back from the outside, took off the mask on his face and exhaled a big breath of cold air. After running around all day, his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.Yang Yuanyi poured two glasses of warm water and handed them to him and Xia Lanlan respectively, and asked after they took a breath, "How is it?"

Wang Xiaohong took out a thick stack of files from his backpack and took pictures on the desktop, saying: "There are forty middle schools in the city, we went to ten middle schools today, and all the materials we got from them are here. Including the one that happened the day before yesterday. In this middle school, all the student materials involved in the accident are here."

Yang Yuanyi opened the file and checked carefully, and found that not only the nine middle school students had an accident the day before yesterday, but also a girl from another middle school died at home.

"This female student's death has something to do with the 'game'?"

Wang Xiaohong poked his head and glanced: "Yes, she played a horror game called 'Throwing Mary' to death."

Yang Yuanyi: "How is this game?"

Wang Xiaohong: "There is an urban legend called 'Mary's Phone'. A little girl threw away her doll Mary when she was moving, and received a call from Mary at night. Mary was approaching gradually, from the discarded garbage bag Go to the street, to the phone booth, to the apartment building, to the door of the room, and finally come to the girl and kill her. The horror game of 'throw away Mary' originated from this urban legend, first buy a doll, and treat the doll as if it were your own. , Promise to it every night 'never throw it away, stay together forever', get along with it for a month and then throw it away, it will call back to revenge."

Yang Yuanyi shook his head: "I really don't take my own life seriously." He looked down and found that there was another file with a red label under it. Generally, a red label means a serious case. "This is?"

Wang Xiaohong straightened his face, and said in a serious tone: "Red files, serious sexual crime cases, the strange news in the case is called 'Teke', 'Ka Chi Ka Chi'."

Yang Yuan was taken aback for a moment: "Why is the name so strange?"

Xia Lanlan originally walked back and forth with her warm and stiff limbs, but she stopped when she heard the words, and leaned her elbows on the back of the sofa chair to support her upper body, and said, "Actually, it describes the sound made by Yiwen walking, and it is named after the sound it makes. "

Yang Yuan always felt that something was wrong: "How did it walk?"

Xia Lanlan: "Crawl, or jump. Because it is a monster with only the upper body, if it is crawling, it is the friction sound made by the upper body being cut in half, dragging the ground; if it is jumping, it is the two hands landing .This is a man-made anecdotal monster whose only purpose of life is to kill and take revenge."

Yang Yuanyi: "What do you say is artificial?"

Xia Lanlan looked at Wang Xiaohong: "You explain."

"Okay." Wang Xiaohong nodded, and then pointed to the red file: "A serious sexual crime case is also a school bullying case. The original urban legend originated from a woman who was bullied by a group of people and was caught by a passing train while escaping. Crushed in two, the upper body crawled for a long time, trying to survive but was still bullied by a group of people. Therefore, it became a half-dead with great resentment. If anyone who heard its story and saw it would be punished Cut in half. The so-called serious sex crimes are people in a class, and the class leader takes the lead in bullying a girl, and creates a half-dead soul with an extremely bad and playful mentality."

Yang Yuanyi was shocked: "You mean, someone heard the urban legend of 'Teke', so they bullied their classmates and probably killed them in order to create a half-dead spirit? Is this a game?"

If it is true, it would be too insane.

Wang Xiaohong: "That's why it was listed as a serious sex crime. Until now, the squad leader was still under strict surveillance. She planned the whole thing. This is worse than those serial killers or cannibals in society. It is even more terrifying, because when she was underage, she designed to incite her classmates to insult and bully another classmate with the mentality of playing games, and finally caused this classmate to have an accident and was cut off by a glass block falling from a tall building. However, even if the matter is found out, the squad leader cannot be convicted, because from the beginning to the end, she did not participate in the bullying and did not kill anyone-it is terrible, right? The person who directed all this did not actually participate in the bullying. "

Yang Yuanyi felt horrified, "What kind of mentality does she have to hurt others?"

Wang Xiaohong's eyes were cold: "The mentality of playing games is to test whether the legends can come true."

Yang Yuanyi: "Did it come true?"

Wang Xiaohong nodded: "The doubt is that the thirty people in the class were all safe and sound, maybe they are familiar with the rules of the game, as long as they don't understand the story, or avoid seeing the half-dead, they won't be cut in half. "

Yang Yuanyi opened the red-marked file and glanced at the date: "In 89?"

Wang Xiaohong: "Back then they were a group of middle school students who were underage. They could not be convicted and the law does not hold them accountable. Now they have married and started businesses, with families and children. But here comes the problem. Nearly 30 years later, horror games have become popular among middle school students. Now The students confirmed to have died during the investigation are more or less related to this group of people."

Yang Yuanyi: "So it's revenge?"

Wang Xiaohong: "In the three horror games I have encountered so far, except for the first 'Answer Man' out of jealousy, the other two originated from revenge. The anecdotes of 'Cracking' and 'Throwing Mary' are both It is by cultivating the emotion of resentment, so that the rumors will in turn 'revenge' the murder."

Xia Lanlan: "A more specific term is 'death'."

Yang Yuanyi agreed: "I can only say incisive."

"Didn't it say there were survivors? Have you checked?"

Xia Lanlan crossed her arms: "I went there, but we were kicked out. Even though we went there as a policeman, we were still kicked out. The only survivor was named Huang Yi. She was greatly stimulated and had a mental breakdown."

Yang Yuanyi: "There was an 'Answer Man' game before, and the survivor also had a nervous breakdown—if possible, can we investigate her?"

Wang Xiaohong: "I'll try."

Yang Yuanyi: "Is it the same case in other schools?"

Xia Lanlan: "I'm not sure, those schools are being investigated by other strange news. We will summarize the information we have found later, but it is related to 2000 million yuan, so I don't think there will be any useful news."

Yang Yuanyi: "Well, we can't count on it."

"Then let's do this first. I'll look at the files again. You all go to rest first." After speaking, Yang Yuanyi took the pile of files in front of him back to his room to study, and asked Wei Yanqing for advice.

Wei Yanqing pointed him to the files on the third and fourth floors, and he could find them just by entering the serial number.Yang Yuanyi was surprised: "Do you remember?"

"Photographic memory." He said, "I used to be bored, so I just watched them all to pass the time."

Yang Yuanyi: "Compared to the horror stories I have encountered before, this group of strange stories has more resentment, and the purpose of revenge... Is it possible that they are for revenge, or are they just playing games? Is it possible?"

If the purpose is revenge, it is easier to control, and the revenge will not hurt other innocent people.If it is for the purpose of the game, there will be endless crimes and murders.

Wei Yanqing suddenly asked: "How many people did that half-dead spirit kill in total?"

Yang Yuanyi opened the record in the file: "Since his death in 89, it has been circulated in various high schools. The total number of deaths is... zero?! No one died? But it is listed as a red file, which is a serious crime. It’s impossible that no one died. What’s more, half-dead spirits have been circulating among students for nearly 30 years, even if there is no previous story, there should be strange news.”

Wei Yanqing: "What kind of image is it spreading among students?"

Yang Yuan paused as he flicked through the file, then raised his head: "You mean—if it is circulated as an image of being bullied, then students will have more sympathy than fear for it."

Wei Yanqing: "If the person in charge of this case was worried that half-dead spirits would really form, more people might die. So they chose to announce part of the truth of the case back then, overshadowing people's fear of the urban rumors of 'Teke', leading to All [-] students survived that year and there have been no casualties so far... According to this speculation, it is not impossible."

Yang Yuanyi: "Aren't the thirty students familiar with the rules?"

"People don't remember the rules when they are afraid. The only possibility is that the horror of the original urban rumors was deliberately covered up. However, nearly 30 years have passed, and the middle position has changed. The person in charge of the case was transferred away and deliberately spread it. The truth was suppressed by the new person in charge—to protect the minors." Wei Yanqing knocked on the table and said: "Although these minors were already adults at that time, the truth was covered up due to various factors such as avoiding people's deliberate imitation. And the original urban legend is making a comeback."

Yang Yuanyi: "Your guess is reasonable. But, what is the connection between the urban legend of half-dead and the other two legends? As the three major horror games that are quite popular among students, the number of students who died because of half-dead But it is zero...Xia Lanlan said that a similar incident should have happened five years ago, but there was no strange news about half-dead spirits involved."

Wei Yanqing: "Perhaps, after decades, the content of the original urban rumors has changed."

Yang Yuanyi was noncommittal: "Maybe."

He decided to ask Wang Xiaohong to investigate again, because the horror game about "Half-dead" only has red files from 29 years ago.During the past few decades, nothing but zero recorded casualties.

At night, Wang Xiaohong investigated the female student who also survived the "Answer Man" horror game five years ago.

"Her name is Zhang Fen. She was insane and sent to a nursing home five years ago. She was discharged from the hospital two years ago and worked in a garment factory. She is relatively silent and slow to react. Besides, she is related to Huang Yi, who survived the day before yesterday. relation."

Yang Yuanyi: "Is there any more?"

"Also, Zhang Fen is the mastermind in the major crime case in 89, she is also the sister of the monitor."

"Biological sister?"

"Yes."

"The age difference is a bit big."

"A late comer. Her parents were very dissatisfied with the incident caused by the class monitor. In addition, they have special household registration and can have a second child as long as the first child is not a boy. As for Huang Yi, she is the class monitor's daughter."

Yang Yuanyi: "So it's revenge?"

"It can be guessed like this." Wang Xiaohong: "I investigated Zhang Fen's residence in the afternoon and went to find her. She resisted at first, and when I heard Huang Yi mentioned Huang Yi, she smiled abruptly. The kind of sneer, with a bit of hatred and relief She suddenly became terrified and sad. It took a long time to calm down and tell me her experience back then."

Zhang Fen is an old man in the family, and her parents love her very much.She knew that there was an older sister Zhang Yan in the family who was eccentric, who dropped out of school early to work outside. She would send a little money back every month but would never come back during the holidays.The first time I saw Zhang Yan, Zhang Fen was already five years old, a sensible age.Zhang Yan brought her boyfriend with her when she went home and informed her parents that they were going to get married.

The parents strongly disagreed, drove her boyfriend away and beat Zhang Yan again.Zhang Fen was very scared and was hurt repeatedly when she was alone with Zhang Yan.The last time, Zhang Yan pressed Zhang Fen's head in the water to drown her, but her parents found out.The parents drove Zhang Yan away in horror, and the latter got married as he wished.

Zhang Fen met Zhang Yan again when she was in middle school, and she stared at her coldly at the door opposite the school.Zhang Fen was afraid of her, but also longed to be liked by his sister.Unexpectedly, Zhang Yansai gave her a mobile phone and left without saying anything.

A middle school student owning the latest mobile phone can satisfy his vanity, so Zhang Fen secretly accepts it without telling his parents, and then shows it off in class.

"They sneaked into the school to play games, but Zhang Fen's mobile phone was out of power. She didn't dare to take out her mobile phone in front of her family. It hadn't been charged for several days. So she was excluded from the game and saw her own A part of the classmate's body was taken away, so she became insane. During her insanity, Zhang Yan came to her to stimulate her. It turned out that Zhang Yan had known the urban legend of "Answer Man" for a long time, and deliberately seduced Zhang Fen, but Zhang Yan did not expect Finn's phone will die"

Yang Yuanyi: "Does it have anything to do with the half-dead spirit?"

Wang Xiaohong: "There is no record, but Zhang Fen mentioned that when she ran out to ask for help that night, she heard the sound of 'clicking' and followed her all the time. She remembered what her mother often said, walking at night When you meet a ghost, you must not look back, so from running out of school to meeting other people, you never look back."

Yang Yuanyi: "It seems that because of this, he managed to escape disaster."

Wang Xiaohong: "More than that, she entered the nursing home and heard the sound of 'clicking'. As long as she was alone or sleeping, she would definitely hear it, which made her spirit worse. The situation was that when she was admitted to the nursing home Improvements were made in the second year, and that year a patient died unexpectedly. The method of death was cut in two by a scythe, because it was thrown by the family. The nursing home lost some money and suppressed the matter. It was not published in the newspaper. No police were called, so there is no record on file."

Yang Yuanyi murmured: "It's not 'zero' death."

Wang Xiaohong: "Zhang Fen said that she changed rooms, clothes, and nameplates with her patient that night. I guess Halfling thought her patient was Zhang Fen."

Yang Yuanyi: "Why change rooms?"

Wang Xiaohong: "Her patient was addicted to role-playing during that time. I specifically investigated the nursing home, and that person was indeed addicted to role-playing."

Yang Yuanyi: "Where's Zhang Yan?"

Wang Xiaohong: "She's still alive. We went to find Huang Yi this morning. Her father drove us out, but Zhang Yan didn't move. I thought she was overly sad. But when I think about it carefully, her expression was very numb at that time. Emotion, more like fear."

At this moment, Xia Lanlan received a call back and said, "Zhang Yan is dead."

Yang Yuanyi: "How did you die?"

Xia Lanlan: "She was in the hospital. When she came back, she passed a place with no street lights. She was cut in two from the waist. Before she died, she crawled forward for a long way, and pedestrians were terrified when they saw it."

"The desire to survive is very strong." Yang Yuanyi: "Has she also encountered a half-dead?"

Wei Yanqing, who was silent from the beginning to the end, suddenly said: "The revenge has begun."

"Huh?" Yang Yuan tilted his head: "What?"

Wei Yanqing put the mobile phone screen in front of everyone: "The media has spread."

The phone page is exactly the urban horror game news broadcast by the relevant media. The examples given are from the nine students who were wiped out playing the "Answer Man" game five years ago to the nine people who died the day before yesterday. They even put photos.Although the photos are coded, you can still see how bloody and terrifying the scene was.

Wei Yanqing: "More than one media broadcast, the content is not only 'Answer Man', but also other horror games, the examples are more complete than what we have investigated."

Yang Yuan looked solemn: "What's going on? Didn't you say you will control the media?"

Wei Yanqing: "Maybe someone leaked the news, or maybe something was deliberately told to the media. The media will not let go of such a big gimmick."

Yang Yuanyi: "There is no way to remedy it?" He took Wei Yanqing's cell phone and opened it page by page, "The speed of Internet transmission is extremely fast, which will make the strange news even more terrifying...Huh? Not many people seem to believe it. .”

Wei Yanqing crossed his hands in front of his abdomen, and said with downcast eyes: "Nowadays netizens have big brains, great curiosity, and the ability to accept new things very quickly. Correspondingly, it is even harder to believe in certain new things. For example, strange news And ghosts, with such a big fanfare, you won’t believe it.”

Yang Yuanyi: "What I'm afraid of is that they are very curious and want to try these announced horror games."

Wang Xiaohong suddenly smiled and said: "No, on the contrary. People of this generation have experienced so many baptisms of film and television novels, even if they doubt the authenticity of these, they will never commit suicide. Curious people who want to commit suicide are often a minority, and most people I cherish my life even more."

Wei Yanqing: "Photos can be faked, cases can be fabricated, and even videos can be faked. It's impossible to ask them to believe such absurd things. The only trouble is the story of half-dead spirits. It's really troublesome to spread it on the Internet. gone."

At present, apart from the original urban legends, the rest of the story about the half-dead is the case that happened 29 years ago.That case has become a new urban legend, and if the story that spreads is accompanied by blood, it will produce fear instead of sympathy.

He pondered for a moment, then said to Elder Sun: "Notify the relevant departments to quickly refute the rumors and block the news. The more upright you are, the less people will believe it, and the more you swear, the more you will be suspected."

Old Sun: "OK."

Yang Yuanyi: "What's next?"

Wei Yanqing: "They figured out a way to solve it themselves, anyway, I came up with an idea." After speaking, she hugged Yang Yuanyi and put her head in the socket of his shoulder.The hair scratched his neck, and Yang Yuan pushed it: "Itches, back away."

Wei Yanqing pulled a little distance away and said, "You don't need to tell me, they know how to solve it."

Yang Yuan laughed: "Then you still say?"

Wei Yanqing: "Anyway, I was hired, so I have to save face."

Yang Yuanyi narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I heard that the rules have been changed now. If anyone can solve the three strange stories, the bonus will be doubled."

Wang Xiaohong raised his hand and said weakly: "Well, there are people in front of you, so be more careful."

Wei Yanqing: "Go and find a companion if you have the ability."

Wang Xiaohong was silent for two seconds, and said to Sun Lao and Xia Lanlan with a face of making a small report and wanting to stir up trouble: "The president mocked us as single dogs."

Xia Lanlan said with a grim face, "There's nothing wrong with it."

Old Sun: "Have you ever seen two trees next to each other?"

When the instigation failed, Wang Xiaohong changed his expression in seconds: "Back to the topic, we can try to play those games and draw out all these strange stories."

Wei Yanqing: "Those anecdotes are higher in level than you, and smarter than you. You attract them? Don't let them attract you."

Wang Xiaohong: "Not at all." His level is indeed not high enough, but Xia Lanlan and Wei Yanqing's level is high enough.

Yang Yuanyi said hesitantly: "Those rumors that I tried to capture but failed five years ago, shouldn't they just die?"

Hearing this, Wang Xiaohong's smiling face suddenly froze: "Can't you?" He quickly turned to look at Sun Lao and Xia Lanlan: "Uncle Sun? Sister Lan?"

Xia Lanlan shrugged, her face full of indifference: "I was eaten."

Wang Xiaohong screamed: "Fuck! It's so dangerous?!"

"Nonsense." Xia Lanlan: "How else can money be so easy to earn? The target of these anecdotes is actually us. Swallowing up a anecdote is more enjoyable than killing ten ordinary people."

Yang Yuanyi: "Although the media exposed it, the matter is important and will be clarified soon. It feels more like diverting attention... No matter what the purpose is, we have to play a horror game."

Wei Yanqing whispered in his ear: "You can still find a helper."

In the middle of the night, a fat middle-aged man was walking home with a midnight snack. He took a shortcut.Short cuts are rarely taken, and there are no street lights.If a thief robs him, he will let him go and wait for the next fat sheep when he sees his figure.

The mobile phone pushed a lot of city alerts. The news about the death of nine students playing games the day before yesterday exaggerated many weird and terrifying urban legends.The middle-aged man sneered: "Stupid, idiot! You can't even play a crap... crap game, hiccup!"

He started playing games when he was ten years old, and later he played big games. Others said he committed a crime, but he didn't go to jail in the end.Didn't he still spend half his life chic and unrestrained?As for the useless things like family, wife and children, are they better than games?

But having said that, the middle-aged man misses the time when he used to play games with everyone.Do whatever you want, fear nothing... the law does not blame the public!

'Crack, click', 'click, click', 'click, click...click...click...'

The middle-aged man stopped in his tracks, shook his head, which had been dazed by cheap alcohol, staggered and turned around, and the darkness was full of still bushes.

"What, what?"

He walked forward a few meters, bent down to explore.Hearing the sound of 'clicking' again, he staggered and turned around suddenly: "I caught you!"

He leaned forward to look through the dim headlights of the car in the distance, saw a face full of scars, subconsciously shuddered, and looked under her body—the intestines were dragging on the ground, and there was a long line of blood.

The woman in front of her is only half of her body!

The middle-aged man's chaotic head suddenly remembered what he had heard a long time ago—'... Her intestines rubbed against the ground, making a 'cracking' sound. If you have heard her story, or seen her face, then she will take your lower body. '

He had seen her face and knew her story.

His last feeling in the world was—

It turned out to be so painful.