The day I was forced to be a detective pendant

Jack and I fled all the way back to school—it was already late at night. If it was Cthulhu’s regiment, it would not be a good thing to come out at night, and I don’t know if this regiment will have “lack of sleep at night and all judgments will drop the next day.” annoying setting.We had a brief discussion and agreed that SIP should not be taken for granted, so we quickly split up and went back to the dormitory to sleep.

At night, KP wanted to trick me again, first by asking me to listen, and then to make a will check. Fortunately, the dice favored me, and I didn't wake up because of any bad luck.It's a pity that Xiaohong is miserable. She listens very well. She wakes up early in the morning with a pale face. She said that she had a nightmare. Not only did she hear the wailing and screaming of similar people, she lost a little san value, and the motherboard of the laptop was also inexplicable. The ground burned and exploded—fortunately, she avoided the flying debris, otherwise she might have been injured.

The six of us sat in the school cafeteria, surrounded by student NPCs eating with plates, and no one was interested in such a strange combination of us.Jack and I shared what we saw and heard at the Apple store yesterday, and at the same time took out the green pills and each gave one.Tie Zhu looked at us calmly taking out the green pill to share, with a weird expression on his face, but he took it directly without saying anything.Zhao Yingjun complained: "You sent that brain photo yesterday, which caused me to sancheck, okay?"

I said helplessly, "Didn't the title say don't open it?"

"Isn't this more tempting to open and take a look!" He said angrily, and asked the others: "Have you opened and looked?"

The other four shook their heads one after another, Tie Zhu rolled his eyes, and said, "If you want to open this kind of thing up, don't you mean to seek death?"

Zhao Yingjun said depressedly: "Forget it, it's for the sake of finding the treasure chest."

"What about you, what did you find?" I asked.

"We went to the library to look for the "Necronomicon", but found that the book was missing. According to the borrowing records, the book was finally borrowed by the physics professor and never returned." Xiaohong said, "Theory In fact, this book is a precious collection, and it must be read in the library under the supervision of the library staff, and cannot be borrowed. However, since the other party is a school teacher and a frequent visitor to the library, an exception has been made."

"What's the name of this professor?" Zhao Yingjun asked.

"It's called Shen Jing." Xiaohong said.

"An NPC with a name must be an important person." Zhao Yingjun and I thought exactly the same.

"Let me check this Shen Jing." I took out my phone and poked the only "SIP" APP in it to search, and clicked on a short encyclopedia entry.

"A world-renowned theoretical physicist and computer scientist who once went to study in the United States and then taught in the United States. Returning to China in the mid-60s drove the vigorous development of theoretical physics and quantum physics research in China, and made major breakthroughs in the field of computer science..." I read I couldn't help but said: "Uh, with all due respect, why is such a great scientist reduced to teaching middle school physics in a second- and third-tier city like Zhuozhou?"

"I know this. I talked with the old man in the guard room." Xiao Hei said, "It is said that this great scientist was indeed very prestigious in the academic circle, and his father was also an intellectual. It is a pity that he was labeled as a rightist in wenge. He Same with his father. He was reported and persecuted by his own students. In short, the whole thing was miserable, and he ended up a little crazy. Zhuozhou is his hometown. After he was rehabilitated, he has been teaching here, but socially a bit Obstacles, he doesn’t talk very much at ordinary times, basically just come and go every day, and he didn’t even get a title of senior teacher or excellent teacher. He didn’t like to listen to the students in class, he felt bored, and he was very tired in school. It doesn't exist."

"It's no wonder I didn't think of such a person before. I'm also a school teacher." Tie Zhu said, "I'll do some inspiration to see if I know more about this teacher?"

KP: "You pass."

KP: "Pass the inspiration test. You think that Shen Jing has been absent for the past two weeks without any reason, which has caused a lot of trouble for other physics teachers in the school. Although Shen Jing is usually low-key and honest, he is really not popular, which leads to no one knowing that he is here. Well, no one speaks for him."

"Miserable." Xiao Hei said.

"Then have you gone to the teacher's house to look for it?" Jack asked.

Tie Zhu pursed his lips and shrugged his shoulders, and said, "Can we go and have a look now? Let's go...to the teachers' dormitory at the school. He has no family or friends, and he probably lives in the dormitory assigned by the school."

"Okay, just do it."

After Tie Zhu went to the dormitory manager to get the spare key, our group came to the door of the missing professor's dormitory.After the iron pillar opened the door, an old smell wafted out. It was a mixture of old furniture and musty smell. The second floor is so damp.

Stepping into this dormitory, what you see before you can almost be described as poor. There is a dark brown wooden desk in the center of the room, and a whiteboard stands by the window.There is a maroon sofa chair in the corner, the armrests and cushions are all tattered, and the cotton can be seen inside.The most spectacular, or richest, is the bookcase that occupies almost the entire wall, the shelves of which are bent downward due to weight and age.

Tie Zhu and Zhao Yingjun quickly went into the inner room to search around and came out: "There is no one, there is only a bed and a broken wardrobe inside, the bed has not been moved for a long time."

Jack was the last to come out from the back room, and said: "Most of the clothes in the closet are there, there are no empty hangers, and the suitcase on the top of the closet has not been touched. Shen Jing probably didn't take the initiative, at least not in a planned way." Far away."

"When we entered the door, the door lock was good, and the windows were also locked. Look, it's covered in dust and hasn't been touched." Zhao Yingjun touched the shelf of the bookcase and said, "There is no trace of illegal entry, and nothing is there. Signs of being tampered with."

"There is no Necronomicon in the bookcase." Xiaohong said, "I checked."

I walked to the huge and heavy desk and pulled out the drawer, which was full of paper materials.I took out a thick stack and flipped through it. They were all physics papers like heavenly books. I couldn't even understand the titles at my level of education.I simply took out all the materials and manuscript papers in all the drawers and stacked them up, and greeted: "Xiaohong, come quickly, come to the library, it's time for you to shine."

Xiaohong walked over, easily passed a library test, and found a suspicious piece of paper. The contents of the entire manuscript paper were written in extremely distorted handwriting. graffiti.The entire sheet of paper is covered with repeated arrangements of many 0s, and at the bottom seems to be two mathematical formulas, all of which have been crossed out with a pen. The force of scratching off the paper is very strong, and the paper has been scratched a bit.

There is a note next to the formula: "We were all wrong, hahahaha!"

Me: "Uh... what is this? It's weird."

"I don't know, what is this, what plus one doesn't equal zero." Xiaohong thought for a while and said, "I need to pass a knowledge check."

KP said: "You can learn the contents of this piece of paper through a difficult physics or mathematics test."

Xiaohong is gearing up: "Come on, let's pass mathematics, I am very high."

As everyone expected, Xiaohong passed the difficulty test. She paused and said, "I learned that the formula on this paper is a special Euler's formula, which belongs to the field of complex analysis. It relates trigonometric functions to complex exponential functions." , also known as the most beautiful formula in fact.”

"No, Euler's formula... I remembered it when you said that. This draft paper says 'not equal to', and Euler's formula is clearly 'equal to'." Zhao Yingjun said.

Xiaohong looked a little surprised: "You know? I just read it out according to what KP told me. The formula that was crossed out below is Schrödinger's equation, and its original calculation result is also 'equal'."

"Hiss—this is scary." Jack said, "If Euler's formula is falsified, there will be trouble."

Zhao Yingjun seemed a little hesitant at first, as if he didn't want to show off, but after hearing what he said, he also said: "Commonly known as God's formula, it seems to mean that this formula combines the five most important elements in mathematics, namely e, i, π , the combination of 0 and 1, especially this 0 and 1, is also very important in the field of philosophy, but I don’t know too much.”

At this moment, I really want to have a psychology with Zhao Yingjun, I always feel that he knows something else.But in this dungeon where even Zhai Qi is pretending to be tough, it's no wonder that everyone is careful to preserve their strength.

"What are these zeros, binary?" Tie Zhu asked.

Jack shook his head: "That's 0 and 1."

"However, this manuscript paper is full of only 0," I said, "the equal sign of these two formulas has been changed to not equal to, and with the sentence 'we are all wrong', does it mean that the professor accidentally discovered ...or mistakenly thought that he had discovered something contrary to the truth of the existing world, and thus fell into madness."

I don't know if it's an illusion, but I feel that after I finished saying this, Zhao Yingjun gave me an extra look.

"By the way, the bottom drawer of this table is still locked. Anyone of you with lockpicking skills come and try."

"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Xiao Hei said, "I'll do it, maybe the Necronomicon is inside!"

He walked over with high spirits, and then failed the check to open the lock magnificently, and the little black face suddenly became darker, expressing that he would violently open the lock.So after a Strength check, he brute force destroys the drawer.

There was no Necronomicon, and a framed picture stood alone in this drawer.Jack took it out and looked at it. It was a group photo of two men. The background seemed to be in a foreign campus. One of them was pointed out by Tie Zhu to be Shen Jing himself—although it was many years ago when he was still in high spirits. , the other person we don't know.

"It's probably not from the school." Xiao Hei said, "I'm a security guard at the gate anyway, and the people who come in and out are more or less familiar to me. I had an inspiration just now, and I haven't seen this person at all."

I turned the photo over and saw that it said "Shen Jing and Xu Sizhe met at the University of Michigan, 1964".

"In 1964, Encyclopedia said that Shen Jing returned to China in the mid-60s. Before that, he taught abroad. Of course, he was teaching a university at that time." Xiaohong said, "Then this is the photo he took before returning to China."

"Xu Sizhe, Xu Sizhe, why does this name sound familiar? I seem to have heard it somewhere." I thought hard for a long time, but there was no result, and finally remembered that I was a hacker, and said, "I'll search the Internet."

While I was looking for the name on my phone, Jack knocked the photo frame back and forth, shook it again, and said, "Why is this photo frame so thick?"

He buckled the photo frame on the table, and removed the board behind it, revealing the interlayer between the photo and the bottom board, and six small green pills inside.

Everyone was in an uproar, and Tie Zhu said in surprise: "Our group is so awesome! We found all the treasure chests!"

Coincidentally, I also retrieved the results, and said: "Xu Sizhe is an investor, mainly investing in IT technology companies. He went to the United States to study in the early years, and later returned to China to set up factories."

"Look at what he's invested in," Jack said.

"Let me see..." I flipped through it quickly, and was attracted by one of the investment items: "Wow, look, our school is invested by him, the big benefactor father."

Tie Zhu patted his thigh and said, "He and Shen Jing are old classmates, so when Shen Jing fell into trouble, he used his status as an investor to recruit Shen Jing into his school and give him a job."

"Then Shen Jing should be very grateful to him, why did he lock the photo of the two of them in the drawer?" Jack pointed to the bookcase, "He also has some other old photos, which are kept outside."

The crowd fell silent again.

After a while, I said, "Could it be like this."

"Shen Jing was fine at first. As his autistic teacher, he always loved reading. This time, he accidentally borrowed an ancient evil book... Don't look at me like that. This book of necromancy doesn't make sense when you hear it. It was so right. Then Shen Jing read the contents inside, went completely crazy, denied all the truths in his cognition, and then ran away with the Necronomicon. He ran to find his old classmate - who was also a high-achieving student at first, but later Xu Sizhe, who started a technology company, shared this book with him. Xu Sizhe looked at it and found, "Wow! The world is not made of technology, but magic!" So he went crazy, and both of them became mad scientist, so started kidnapping and killing students, cutting their brains and putting them into mobile phones to make chips."

My random analysis stunned everyone present, Tie Zhu said: "Little classmate, you have a big brain, so what's the use of a mobile phone with a brain chip?"

"I don't know, but there must be some evil plan, such as dominating human beings." I said, "This is always done in movies, for example, this mobile phone can control its owner, just like a parasite controls its host.

"Ah!" Xiao Hei yelled, pointed at Zhao Yingjun and said, "Aren't the students discussing the newly upgraded iPhone system? I remember that after the new terms of use popped up, you clicked to accept, are you going to be banned?" The parasites are under control!"

Zhao Yingjun froze for a moment, and I also remembered this matter: "That's right."

Tie Zhu was stunned, and said, "I also received this prompt, and I clicked OK."

Xiaohong said, "Me too...don't you?"

I shook my head: "In my real life, the memory of my mobile phone is very small, so whenever I encounter an update, I am afraid that it will slow down my speed. I have always refused to encounter this."

Jack was even more calm: "I told you before, I am Huawei."

The most exaggerated one is Xiao Hei, with a decent smirk on his dark face: "I'm poor, and I use a domestic dual-card dual-standby local tyrant gold flip phone."

Zhao Yingjun: "..."

After we checked all of Shen Jing's apartment, it seemed that the time was almost up, and when I was about to be dragged back to the stone room, a message suddenly received on my phone.

"Help. 』

Just such a bare message.

I looked at the source of the information wonderingly, expecting to see at least one unfamiliar number, but unexpectedly the number was a string of "0".

I got goosebumps instantly, and I said, "Ugh, come and see, I just got it."

Everyone gathered around without knowing why, and at this moment, a message came in: "I saw you searching for my name, I am Shen Jing." 』

"Damn it?" Tie Zhu yelled, "I was scared to death, how did he know that?"

"Uh... just now we searched his encyclopedia, and when I searched Xu Sizhe just now, I clicked into his related papers to read. But... you are right, how did he see it?"

Jack snatched my mobile phone and quickly typed: "Help you?"Where are you now? 』

Shen Jing: "Help me, I've been kidnapped." 』

Shen Jing: "I don't know, I'm locked up, I can't locate myself. 』

Jack: "Kidnapped by someone." 』

Shen Jing quickly replied: "Xu Sizhe, he also took the book away. 』

Shen Jing: "Help me, the book must be taken back, it's very dangerous." 』

Jack wanted to send him a message again, but it failed to be delivered anyway. He tried for a long time and said, "The signal is broken."

"Should contact us in the future," Zhao Yingjun said, "but it's suspicious. He can locate his mobile phone number through an ordinary search on the Internet, but he can't locate his own location?"

"And this mobile phone number, all of which are 0, is too supernatural." Tie Zhu felt concerned, "Could it be true what you said, they are the accomplices of mad scientists, and they are trying to trick us into saving He actually took a fancy to our brains."

"Ah! I remembered," I took my phone back and flipped through the photo album, "Look, when I was walking around the Apple store, a computer suddenly broke down. I checked and found that someone was using that computer. An encrypted email was sent. No wonder I feel familiar, look who the recipient is."

"[email protected], XSZ, Xu Sizhe!" Zhao Yingjun said in surprise, "That Apple store really has something to do with him. Wait, that Apple store is only an Apple store on the surface, isn't the chip supplier behind it a different name? What."

"High Energy Intelligent Management Company..." Before I could finish my sentence, I was forcefully interrupted. The familiar stone room reappeared, and the man in the top hat in the center of the room remained expressionless.

This time, he didn't close the connection quickly, instead he paced in front of each of us, and finally stopped in front of me.

He looked at the precarious san value on my head and said, "It's very dangerous."

I sneered and said, "My head is tight."

The corners of his mouth under the brim of his hat hooked up, and instead of persuading me, he said, "Okay."

good what good?What are you going to do?I looked at him in horror.

He looked back at the other participating players and said: "After-school homework is not a rigid rule, it's just a choice. You can choose to complete the homework to recover your San value and physical strength, or you can choose to ignore it. After all, the fewer players, the more rewards you can get. more."

"It's okay," I interrupted his old-fashioned splitting speech, and said loudly: "We have gone through three chapters now, got three treasure chests, and an average green pill can be used for a week, and our progress is greatly ahead. Right?" I raised my eyebrows at the others.

No one except Jack expresses obvious approval.

"After all, the more people alive, the greater the possibility of clearing the level, and the rewards shared by many people are better than no rewards." I said, "Seven chapter treasure chests, six of us, on average, there is still a surplus of one for each person." , 100 million yuan per person, this trip is worthwhile. We are not troublemakers, we just want to play games honestly."

"Hmph, ha ha ha ha ha ha!" The man in the top hat laughed loudly, and then said vaguely: "I hope you can think the same way in the future."

After that, he cut off the connection.

I had no choice but to take off the VR glasses, rubbed my sore shoulders, and the phone rang at the right moment—it was another week of homework, my san value was missing a lot, and the recovery task had been upgraded to "kill a wild dog" " and "rob a convenience store/gas station".I closed it after only one glance, but when I turned around, I saw Bian Yao's frowning face.

"what happened?"

"Why did your San value drop so much?" He asked angrily.

"Uh...it's just that when I was looking at the brain, it dropped a little bit." I immediately changed my mind, "I didn't want you to worry, so I didn't say it. Actually, it's nothing, really."

Bian Yao was not very happy, he stood up and grabbed Zhai Qi who wanted to leave, and said, "Wait a minute."

Zhai Qi: "Huh?"

Bian Yao pursed his lips and didn't speak for a long time, Zhai Qi yawned: "Can't we talk about it tomorrow? I'm a diurnal creature, I'm so sleepy."

Bian Yao finally opened his mouth, and said bluntly and dryly: "Enter the spiritual realm, show him."

Zhai Qi was stunned for a moment before he understood what he meant. A subtle smile appeared on his face and he said, "Oh?"

His eyeballs moved, and he asked happily, "If you heard me right, are you begging me?"

Bian Yao's eyes widened in an instant, and I have no doubt that he will tell Zhai Qi to fuck off in the next moment.

But his Adam's apple rolled twice, his masseter muscles tightened and relaxed, and the words he finally spoke surprised us.

"Yes," Bian Yao said, "I ask you to take a look for him."