virus

Chapter 7 January [-]th

I'm going to find Ye Xiao.

I haven't seen Ye Xiao for several years. He and I are distant relatives. I haven't figured out the names of the various relatives in our big family, so I still get used to calling him by his first name.He is a child of an educated youth, he lived in my house when he was a child, and played with him when he was a child. Later, he went to Beijing Public Security University, and we never saw each other again, only occasionally talking on the phone. It is said that this was because he received some special treatment. Technical training, so during the study period is isolated from the outside world.I met my mother yesterday, and she told me that Ye Xiao had returned to Shanghai a few months ago and was working in the Information Center of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

Like me, he lives alone now. The house he rents is not big, but it is very comfortable. The most prominent thing in the room is a computer.He was slender, with thick eyebrows and aggressive eyes.But now he was a little embarrassed and poured me some tea, I was very surprised, he knew that I never drink tea water.

Yes, Ye Xiao has indeed changed a lot. He has become taciturn, not at all like when he was a child. At that time, he was very active, always doing unexpected things, and often pretending to be a ghost in the middle of the night to scare others.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked him softly.

"Nothing, I know why you came to me."

So I told him all the strange things that had happened to me lately.He frowned tightly, and then said lightly: "It's okay, don't worry about it, forget about these things."

"No, I can't forget, my spirit is almost overwhelmed."

"Really want to know more?" Ye Xiao asked me.

"Please. We grew up playing together, and I never begged you."

He hesitated for a while, finally sighed softly, took out a floppy disk from the drawer, and stuffed it into his computer: "I violated the discipline." He opened the file in the A drive, and a row of text appeared and pictures -

Zhou Ziwen, male, 20 years old, college student, committed suicide by cutting his throat with broken glass in his dormitory on December 12.

Yang Hao, male, 28 years old, freelance writer, committed suicide by jumping off a building at home on December 12th.

You Xinxin, female, 24 years old, website editor, committed suicide by taking poison in the company toilet on December 12.

Zhang Keran, male, 17 years old, high school student, committed suicide by cutting his wrist at home on December 12.

Lin Shu, male, 22 years old, unemployed, committed suicide by jumping from a building at home on December 12.

Lu Bai, male, 28 years old, a company employee, committed suicide by jumping into the Huangpu River on Binjiang Avenue in Pudong on December 12.

Qian Xiaoqing, female, 21 years old, a college student, hanged herself in the school classroom on December 12. She was found in time and rescued, but her mind has been deranged and her mind is not clear. She is currently being treated in a mental hospital.

Ding Hu, male, 40 years old, director of a foreign company, jumped off the subway platform on January 1 and was run over to death by an incoming subway train.

Wang Yanghai, male, 30 years old, employee of a state-owned enterprise, deliberately turned on the gas switch at home alone on January 1, and died of gas poisoning.

Next to each person is a post-mortem photo, some of which are horrific, while others are very peaceful.When I saw the photos of Lin Shu and Lu Bai, I felt an indescribable feeling in my heart.

"I just edited these materials this afternoon and have uploaded them to the Ministry of Public Security. These are all suicides with unknown motives in the city in the last quarter." Ye Xiao's tone was quite calm.

"Suicide with unknown motive?"

"Yes, all these people have no reason to commit suicide at all. Suicides are usually due to broken love, unemployment, family conflicts, study pressure, work pressure, or major economic losses, such as losing all their property in the stock market Wait, another extreme is committing suicide in fear of guilt. In short, they think they can't live anymore, and death is the best relief. However, a series of strange suicides recently happened just the opposite, and their lives are normal , some people are still alive and well, and the relatives and friends of the deceased can't explain why they committed suicide. And the time is very concentrated. In just one month, 9 people committed suicide, and this does not include those who actually committed suicide for a reason , or those so-called 'reasons' are just other people's guesses. Before the past year, this kind of thing had almost never happened in this city. If this trend develops, more people will probably commit suicide. "

"Do you think these suicides are intrinsically linked?"

"It is very possible, but there is no evidence to confirm it. According to reliable sources, such incidents have also occurred in other provinces and cities in recent weeks."

"My God, nationwide? What about foreign countries?" I immediately thought of it.

"There is no report yet."

"So the police don't have any specific clues? By the way, isn't there a female college student who is not dead? What can she ask?"

"There is no clue. After the female college student was rescued, she went completely insane. She didn't know anyone. She was seriously insane. The doctors in the mental hospital tried all kinds of methods and were still helpless."

"It's just incredible."

"Although the deceased did not know each other, including your classmates and colleagues, according to our investigation, they all had one characteristic during their lifetime—they were all netizens."

"Really?" I was a little shocked.

"You can notice that their suicides are like having an infectious disease. They are so similar one after another, but no reason can be found. In the biological world, this infectious disease comes from bacteria and viruses. My personal guess is, Maybe there is a virus, a virus that makes people commit suicide." Ye Xiao emphasized the word "virus".

I was a little confused, is it really so terrible.I was staring at the computer screen, and the faces of the dead were facing me, and I was really scared, and I was scared to see myself in it.I looked at Ye Xiao again, and then muttered "virus" to myself.

virus?

(End of this chapter)