Death Progress Bar

Everything is just guesswork, and there is no point in worrying about it now.

Shi Jin quickly threw the messy thoughts out of his mind, adjusted his emotions, and went to the bathroom in a panic, planning to help Lian Jun "warm up" before the massage in the bathroom.

Shi Jin finally had a good night's sleep that night, but when he woke up, his mentality immediately collapsed again.

"Why did it rise to 600, can it still work?" He hugged the poached egg and buried his head in the pillow, feeling hopeless.

Xiaosi said weakly: "The progress bar went up in the early hours of last night. I saw that you and the baby were sleeping soundly, and the progress bar didn't go up too much, so I didn't call you..."

"A one-time increase of 80, which is not much." Shi Jin couldn't even sigh. Thinking of something, he took out his mobile phone with shaking hands, and found out Shi Weichong's phone number, wanting to make a call and ask him Did he quarrel with Xu Jie, but he was afraid that the question would be too obvious and cause Shi Weichong to worry, so he stuffed the phone under the pillow in frustration.

The door of the bathroom was opened from the inside, Lian Jun slid the wheelchair out, saw Shi Jin changed his sleeping position and lay on the bed with his pillow in his arms, guessing that he had woken up, leaned over and patted his back, and said, "Get up, I have a gift for you."

Ok?Gift?

Shi Jin turned to look at Lian Jun.

"Actually, it's something that should have been given to you a long time ago." Lian Jun leaned over, stroked his sleepy hair, and explained, "When you were on the island, you promised that you would check the time and luck for you. During this period of time, Mie has been busy with other things internally, and the progress of the investigation below has been a bit delayed. I only sent the materials a few days ago. I thought you were going to take the college entrance examination, so I withheld the materials for a few days. Now the college entrance examination It's over, do you want to see the information?"

Letter records?

Shi Jin was stunned for a moment, and finally remembered that he had asked Lian Jun back then, and remembered the mysterious Bai Yueguang, he regained his energy, turned around and rushed to hold Lian Jun's hand, and said excitedly: " Check it out! I want to see it!"

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After washing up as quickly as possible, Shi Jin finished his breakfast in two or three bites, and took the tablet computer with the information from Lian Jun.

The file was very large, and it was locked with a code. Shi Jin took a deep breath, opened it, and entered the code Lianjun told him.

After the file was opened, a copy of an excellent essay written in the style of a primary school student jumped out first. Shi Jin was taken aback for a moment, then flipped through it, and found that the next few pages were full of such manuscript information, which made him a little confused.

Isn't it the letter records of the investigation? Why are they all manuscripts?

"Shi Xingrui erased the letter records too cleanly, and the investigation team couldn't find any clues, so they changed the starting point for investigation." Lian Jun explained in a timely manner, and added, "This information did not find out too many clear Information, you have to be mentally prepared, I will let people continue to dig deeper, and I will send the information when there is news.”

Hearing this, Shi Jin frowned, and quickly let go. He turned back to the first page of the information and looked, and sure enough, he saw Shi Xingrui's name on the author's signature of the elementary school student's composition.

So the investigation team took the article published by Shi Xingrui as the starting point for the investigation?

This direction is also correct. If Shi Xingrui wants to publish an article, he must first submit a manuscript, and a letter must be used for submission.

Shi Jin thought about it, restrained his thoughts, drew his attention back, carefully read the content of the composition and the date of publication, roughly calculated, and found that this composition was written by Shi Xingrui when he was ten years old. Xingrui should be in the fourth grade of primary school.

It was stated in the materials that this composition was Shi Xingrui's first published work, and it was submitted by the teacher on his behalf, and was finally included and published by a small campus newspaper in the city.The person who investigated the information was very careful. At the back of this manuscript, the name and current situation of the teacher who contributed the manuscript were also marked, and a photo was attached.

Shi Jin looked at the photo, and found that he had seen the photo of this teacher before when he was looking at Shi Xingrui's biography, and it didn't have any resemblance to himself, so he quickly looked away.

He clicked on the next page of information, and found that another composition popped up. According to the time calculation, this should be the second article published by Shi Xingrui. It was only half a month after the publication of the first article. It was still submitted by the teacher, and it was still published in the same campus newspaper.

Shi Jin speeded up the reading of the materials, and found that throughout the fourth grade, all the compositions published by Shi Xingrui were contributed by the same teacher. That is to say, during this period, Shi Xingrui had no correspondence with the outside world. The external contact is all arranged by that teacher.

In the fifth grade, Shi Xingrui changed teachers, and the teacher who taught him before was transferred away, so there was a small break in the way of publishing his compositions. It was not until the fifth grade that he published new articles.

It was still an essay, but the place where it was published had changed. It was no longer on the small campus newspaper, but on the education section of a mainstream newspaper in the city, and it appeared in a corner in the form of an excellent essay example. in the study column.

From the unknown campus newspaper to the study column of the city newspaper, the publication platform of Shi Xingrui's articles has made a qualitative leap, but it is a pity that there is no submission information attached to the manuscript.

Without the teacher's help, Shi Jin can say with certainty that the publication of Shi Xingrui's composition must be operated by himself.But in desperation, Shi Xingrui wiped out the correspondence information too cleanly, and the submission information could not be found at all.

Shi Jin didn't give up, and looked through the following manuscripts with a faint hope, hoping that there would be no fish that slipped through the net, or that the newspaper office would keep some archives of the included articles, but it's a pity Yes, the investigation team obviously thought of what he could think of, especially Shi Xingrui, so this part of the information is still blank, and the investigation team found nothing.

On the whole, the manuscripts published by Shi Xingrui seemed to have all jumped onto the desk of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper out of thin air, and there was no trace of them.

Shi Jin had no choice but to accept his fate, and began to pay attention to other information of the manuscript, and gradually discovered that it was from here that Shi Xingrui's article publication path became smoother and wider.

Since Shi Xingrui's first composition was published in the study column of the newspaper when he was in the fifth grade, the name Shi Xingrui has become a resident scenery in the column of the city newspaper.By the time Shi Xingrui graduated from elementary school and successfully passed the entrance examination to the city's junior high school, Shi Xingrui was already a well-known little child prodigy in the eyes of the citizens.

After Shi Xingrui was admitted to junior high school, in order to pay for Shi Xingrui's tuition, Shi Xingrui's parents sold their property and came to the city, and took Shi Xingrui through a difficult time.It was also during this period that Shi Xingrui's articles were finally no longer limited to newspapers, and were gradually favored by some publishing houses and institutions. Father Shi went through the most difficult period after coming to the city.

When Shi Jin saw this, he stopped flipping through the materials, and his eyes fell on one of the tutorial textbooks compiled into Shi Xingrui's articles.

The teaching material is an electronic version specially converted, and the cover and content are all reproduced exactly like the book. On the introduction page at the back of this tutorial teaching material, there is a line of words that attracted Shi Jin's attention—planning editor: Jian Chenghua.

Jian Chenghua, the name looks familiar.

Shi Jin's heart was moved, and he hurriedly turned the information back to the part where Shi Xingrui published articles in the city newspaper when he was in sixth grade.

The information sent by Lian Jun's subordinates is very detailed. When Shi Xingrui publishes each article in detail, the investigators will carefully sort out the entire page of the newspaper in the issue when Shi Xingrui's article was published. The general information of all the reporters and editors who have passed, and the name information of the behind-the-scenes staff in charge of this section of the newspaper at that time will also be prepared, and the information of the person responsible for reviewing the manuscript will be specially marked in red.

Shi Jin searched carefully in the part of the list marked in red, and soon saw what he wanted to see——Jian Chenghua, editor-in-chief of the education section of the city newspaper.

One is the city newspaper that has been publishing Shi Xingrui's articles, and the other is the tutoring materials that have been compiled with Shi Xingrui's articles. These two seemingly unrelated things have the same person in charge and have included the same person's articles. coincidence?Or is there a deeper connection.

Shi Jin sat up straight unconsciously, and when he flipped through the materials behind, he unconsciously paid more attention to the name Jian Chenghua.

After entering junior high school, Shi Xingrui's articles still appeared in the city newspaper from time to time, and Jian Chenghua was still the editor-in-chief of the city newspaper's education section. The two had no personal relationship on the surface. It is no longer included in textbooks.

Shi Jin frowned, feeling unsure.Looking at it this way, it seems that the coincidence of the person in charge in front is really just a coincidence.

He shook his head and continued to flip through the information.

After entering the second year of junior high school, Shi Xingrui no longer only wrote essays, but gradually began to get in touch with the creation of short stories and prose. The scope of contributions gradually expanded, and gradually accumulated some reputation and popularity in domestic educational publications.But even though he already had a place in a national publication, Shi Xingrui still did not give up the small place of the city newspaper, and regularly published something in the study column of the city newspaper, sometimes it was an article, sometimes it was a Poetry, sometimes it is some small learning skills, which are well established by geniuses and masters.

This situation continued until the year when Shi Xingrui was admitted to a high school in the province and successfully entered the second year of high school.In the last semester of the second year of high school, Shi Xingrui's articles suddenly stopped appearing in the newspapers in the city. At the same time, Shi Jin noticed that Jian Chenghua also suddenly resigned from the newspaper office in the city during this period and joined a big newspaper office in City B. .

Shi Jin regained his energy immediately, and lamented that Jian Chenghua really had a problem.

There was overlap between the previous supplementary teaching materials and the behind-the-scenes staff of the newspaper office. He could explain it by using such a small area in the education sector, where everyone's work inevitably overlaps.But what about this, as soon as Jian Chenghua resigned, Shi Xingrui stopped contributing articles to the market newspaper, is this also a coincidence?

Moreover, with Shi Xingrui's utilitarian personality, he still insisted on submitting articles to the city newspaper even though he was able to distribute the article to a larger platform and get more benefits. There is no other reason in it, and no one would believe it!

Shi Jin couldn't help but click on Jian Chenghua's profile, and found his photo.

A photo of a middle-aged fat man with thick-soled eyes and a simple and honest appearance jumped out.

Shi Jin's excited expression froze, he looked at the photo carefully, and was disappointed to find that this fat man had no resemblance to himself, and at this fat man's age, it was impossible for him to be Shi Xingrui's Bai Yueguang.

Is he really wrong?

Shi Jin frowned deeply, and looked carefully at Jian Chenghua's photo, finally he couldn't deceive himself that this person was Shi Xingrui's Bai Yueguang, sighed regretfully, and turned back the information.

As a result, when he flipped back, he immediately became even more discouraged.

Because from the first semester of the second year of high school, Shi Xingrui not only stopped contributing to the city, but also stopped contributing to other publications in all aspects, and began to concentrate on studying.At the same time, Shi Jin recalled that it was in this year that Shi Xingrui's father began to feel unwell and frequently went in and out of the hospital.

This is probably one of the reasons why Shi Xingrui stopped writing articles, in order to take care of his father.

At this point, more than half of the information has been turned over.

Shi Jin was a little desperate.

Shi Xingrui wiped out the letter records too cleanly. From the time when Shi Xingrui contributed his own manuscripts in the fifth grade, and when Shi Xingrui temporarily stopped writing in the second year of high school, in such a long time span, with so many manuscripts and publications, Shi Xingrui unexpectedly wrote a single message. Not missing it, it's just insane.

Without detailed correspondence records, it is really too difficult to find useful information only through Shi Xingrui's article publication history.

Shi Jin was very frustrated. After digging through such a large amount of information, he gained nothing. He only confirmed one thing that he had guessed before—the secret of Shi Xingrui must be hidden in the letter records, otherwise Shi Xingrui would not Fei put so much effort into erasing the records of the letters, but they were so clean that they couldn't even be found out.

Should he be happy that his previous guess was correct?Shi Jin comforted himself, cheered himself up a little, and opened the rest of the materials.

From his second year of high school to the first half of his freshman year, Shi Xingrui’s publication records were always blank. He didn’t publish any articles until the second half of his freshman year. However, since then, the content of his published articles has become very single—no Beautiful prose, no interesting stories, just one highly technical paper after another.

Shi Xingrui suddenly changed, from a literary genius who loves writing articles to an academic master.And he never had any contact with Jian Chenghua again. Although both of them were in City B, one developed in the newspaper office with peace of mind, and the other wrote a brilliant life in the university.

Four years of university have passed like this. After Shi Jin read the last thesis published by Shi Xingrui in college, he finally found out this thick material. After graduating from university, Shi Xingrui concentrated on managing The company never touched a pen again.

At the end of the data, the investigators also specifically noted that since they couldn’t find any written information about Shi Xingrui’s letters, the investigators went to visit Shi Xingrui’s high school and junior high school classmates and asked about Shi Xingrui’s schooling. Period correspondence.

Based on the vague memories of these students, the investigators concluded that Shi Xingrui always had letters when he was in school, but they were all letters from newspapers and magazines, and he had never seen any personal letters from him.

Shi Jin put down the tablet and collapsed on the sofa.

Still nothing.

Mie's investigation team has worked very hard. When they couldn't find any correspondence records, they insisted on collecting records of Shi Xingrui's published manuscripts to restore Shi Xingrui's external correspondence.But still not enough, he needs more detailed information to find clues.

Do you want to continue to wait for follow-up digging information?

He raised the tablet again, staring at the last page of the information in a daze.

But if we wait any longer, it is estimated that there will be only these contents.Shi Xingrui was too careful in doing things, he didn't dare to bet that Shi Xingrui would miss any clues to let him know.

Let's try again to extract useful information from these existing materials.

He moved his eyes and raised his hand to turn back the information page by page.

Bai Yueguang is a living person, if he really existed, and he had a correspondence with Shi Xingrui, there would be some traces left anyway.Shi Xingrui's conditions were not good when he was a child, and his circle of friends was so large. There was no other way to meet pen pals except these newspapers and magazines.

There must be something related to Bai Yueguang hidden in these materials.

Could Bai Yueguang be Shi Xingrui's little fan?Fall in love with him through Shi Xingrui's article, and then send him a letter or something?

Shi Jin guessed, remembered the last sentence of the document, shook his head and dismissed the guess.Probably not, if it was a letter from a fan, then Xingrui's classmates should have heard about it, and Shi Xingrui did not disclose his mailing address on the public platform, so fans couldn't send him a letter at all.

Could it be an alumnus of Shi Xingrui who has never met before?Because he admired Shi Xingrui's talent, he wrote an anonymous love letter to Shi Xingrui, and then moved Shi Xingrui?

It doesn't seem right. If it is an alumni, although the letter does not need to go through the postal system, it only needs to be secretly stuffed in the desk pocket, but there are so many people coming and going at the school. If there is such a thing, there are probably messages flying all over the sky.

I have no idea how to think about it.

Shi Jin frowned, finger unconsciously pawing at the documents, pawing and pawing, Jian Chenghua's photo popped up again, he instinctively fixed the photo on the screen, and his attention fell back to this person.

Jian Chenghua, the only person in this document that seems to have a special relationship with Shi Xingrui, the fat man, was old enough for Xingrui's father at that time, and he didn't look like him at all, but he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper and had access to all If he uses the newspaper system to write a letter to Shi Weichong, it will not attract attention.

During Jian Chenghua's tenure as the editor-in-chief of the city newspaper, Shi Xingrui kept providing excellent articles for the city newspaper. When it was no longer suitable to write some manuscripts for elementary school students and junior high school students, it still didn't stop.

This is really a bit strange. Shi Xingrui is not a nostalgic person. After he has a better development platform, he has no reason not to give up such a small pond as the city newspaper and go to better rivers, lakes and seas.

Thinking about it this way, this person really seemed to have a problem.

Shi Jin sat up, thought for a while, got up and walked towards Mr. Lian——before he finds other more useful information, any information that makes people feel inconsistent is worth digging deeply.

……

Lian Jun was approving documents. After listening to Shi Jin's words, he took the tablet and looked at Jian Chenghua's photo, and said, "You can ask Gua Jiu to check this. Gua Jiu can apply to log into the official system to check some basic information. , this Jian Chenghua is just an ordinary person, the information is very transparent, it is easy to check him."

Shi Jin was pleasantly surprised, kissed him gratefully, picked up the tablet and went to Gua Jiu.

It was really easy to check Jian Chenghua. Gua Jiu only took one morning to find out Jian Chenghua's biographical information.He brought his computer to Lian Jun's study to look for Shi Jin, with a weird expression on his face.

When Shi Jin saw this, his heart tightened, he was expecting and worried, and asked, "Have you found anything?"

"I found out..." Gua Jiu replied, with an expression of not knowing what to say, he took a step forward, put the computer on the desk, turned it on and turned on the screen, and said, "Look for yourself."

The screen lights up, and a photo that looks old pops out. The person in the photo is a young man, fat and pale, but with a smile on his face. He looks very cute and kind. When the photo was taken, he was sitting on the hospital bed. Looking towards the camera than the hands of scissors.

Xiaosi yelled "Ah".

Lian Jun frowned, and instinctively looked towards Shi Jin.

Shi Jin was immediately dumbfounded, looking at this picture speechless.

When he was reborn, the original owner's body was very fat. Although he only gained weight for a short period of time, he still remembered the appearance of this body when it became fat.Now that this photo popped up, he almost suspected that it was taken when the original owner was still fat.

"Who is he?" He asked dryly, his heart was beating fast, and he felt that he had vaguely touched the truth.

"Jian Chenghua's son, Jian Jinwen, has passed away from cancer." Gua Jiu replied, clicked on another photo, and said, "This is a photo he took a month before his death."

Another photo popped up, the person in the photo turned into a young man, his face was pale and his lips were purple, his complexion was very bad, but he still had a smile on his face, his expression was very gentle, he was wearing a hat on his head, holding a Holding a magazine and smiling happily towards the camera.

Leaving aside the complexion, age and body, the person in the photo is just a copy of Shi Jin in terms of facial features, except that this person does not have a mole on his nose.

Lian Jun looked at the facial features and dejected complexion of the person in the photo that resembled Shi Jin very much, and suddenly seemed to be looking at Shi Jin who was running out of time. He couldn't help reaching out and covering the computer screen, sliding Went out and held Shi Jin's hand.

Shocked by his movements, Shi Jin quickly held his hand, suppressed the shock in his heart, and comforted him: "It's okay, that's not me, I'm healthy, that's not me."

"I know." Lian Jun felt his body temperature, and the palpitations at the moment when he saw the photo gradually faded away. He tightened his hand and said, "Sorry, I lost my temper...Gua Jiu, take the computer come on."

Gua Jiu glanced at Lian Jun worriedly, and moved the computer over.

When the screen was turned back on, Shi Jin reached out and jumped over Jian Jinwen's photo, and quickly flipped through other materials.