The day I was forced to be a detective pendant

"Hey, the amount of information is a bit large at once... Let's sort out the information we know so far." I pulled out a piece of paper and drew on it: "First of all, we now know one thing, then it is SIP or What is this gang saying 'suicide is painless'."

"On the surface, this is the organizer of an online group running game, but compared to entertainment table games, this organization released high real bonuses to lure participants to join, and then controlled participation through some unknown drug. Players are not allowed to exit halfway, they either win or die. In the end, those who have the financial resources to buy special game items will pay for their lives, while the dead characters without financial resources will leave a public suicide note as required for an unwarranted bonus. The group advertises to attract more curious and curious teenagers."

After I finished speaking, I felt that I had a bit of Bian Yao's reasoning demeanor, and I was looking at him triumphantly to be praised, but I found that he looked out of his mind.

"What's the matter with you?" I asked, "Why are you depressed? Is it because you don't know what a running game is? Would you like me to give you some science?"

"Compared to that..." Bian Yao said weakly, "I would like you to explain to me how I will face my father in the future."

"Ah... You said that... Isn't it a countermeasure in a hurry." I said, "Besides, you have always been hostile to your father and don't want to have more contact with him? Could it be that you have seen these bereaved relatives with your own eyes? Woke up after the case, and decided to reconnect with the family?"

"Believe it or not, I will immediately make your family lose their loved ones?" Bian Yao put his hand on my head and shook it back and forth.

"Hahahaha..." By now, I have long been immune to Bian Yao's innocuous threats, and pulled him with my messy hair: "I'm helping you keep a secret, okay? Don't pretend to be dead, come quickly Discuss the case."

Bian Yao got up, looked at the pen and paper in my hand, and said with distaste, "What are you drawing?" He turned the paper over, drew a few frames and lines, and said, "First of all, we have a total of Of the four clients, three of them committed suicide at very similar times. We can preliminarily judge that they are all players who were eliminated from the previous script. They are..."

"Victim No. 1, male, 14 years old, is the Xiaojie we know the most so far. Xiaojie's family situation is not ideal, a single mother with two sons in middle school, and the possibility of participating in the game for bonuses is extremely high. He Although he is young, his IQ and talent are very good, and according to his brother's explanation - Xiaojie is a regular member of the Olympiad class, with excellent logical thinking and strong psychological quality, so he passed four tests in a row for the first time in the running team , but it is a pity that it did not come to the end."

"Victim No. 2, female, 15 years old, in the third grade of junior high school, her mother is the main client who initiated the commission. This client is also a single mother and is usually busy with work, but fortunately her daughter is very self-conscious about studying and so on. Not particularly worried. According to the client, her daughter doesn’t have many friends at school, and she hardly sees her daughter going out with her classmates, and spends most of her time reading and surfing the Internet by herself. Bullying."

"Victim No. 3, male, 19 years old, third year in high school, his parents saw his daughter's suicide note posted on the Internet by the principal client, and were surprised that the format of the suicide note was very similar to his son's weird suicide note, so they joined the commission. They said that their son is very popular in school, usually stays away from home, and plays outside all day, so his grades are not very good. He failed the college entrance examination and left a grade and is repeating his studies, but the child usually looks very cheerful, and No psychological problems were noticed."

I interjected: "Although according to the description, the personalities of the two children are very different, but the two parents don't know much about the children...especially the living conditions in school."

Bian Yao nodded, and continued: "Victim No. 4, male, just passed his 22nd birthday, a college student, and the oldest victim. His death time was earlier...about a month and a half earlier, and his body had already been cremated. The funeral was also held nearly a month ago. The victim had just experienced the blow of a broken relationship before his death. When he first broke up, he swiped the screen in Moments for a long time, full of sad and drunk remarks. So his Before the parents saw the information posted by the client on the Internet, they didn't have so much doubt about the child's death, thinking that he was overwhelmed by emotional pain. However, because his suicide note was also reduced to the same format, and mentioned SIP is the suffix, so let's judge him as the player eliminated in the previous group."

Bian Yao used a pen to frame victims No. 2 and No. 3 together: "It is also worth noting that although these two children are young, this is not the first time they have run a group."

I suddenly said: "Just now that netizen said: 'Except for him and Xiaojie, there are no newcomers in this group'."

Bian Yao nodded: "That's right."

"Then this is very strange. If this game is really controlled by drugs to force players to participate in the game until the end, how can there be old players? These people have clearly passed the level before, so why did they finally pass the level and then turn back? How about joining the game again?"

"There are two possibilities," Bian Yao said quickly, "Possibility one is that the temporary customs clearance is not a permanent clearance. The organizer probably has some means or tools to force these players to keep returning to the game."

I nodded: "For example, that netizen mentioned that if Xiaojie and others 'do not receive the punishment as required, then the drug will still be a dead end'. Suppose this drug is a chronic poison. But if you pass the level and within a certain period of time If you take the antidote internally, you can survive, but maybe this antidote is also time-sensitive, if you don’t continue to participate in the game and continue to obtain the antidote, the final thing waiting for the player is death.”

"It's possible, maybe even impossible, that this drug is also addictive." Bian Yao said, "The second possibility is that the so-called reward is also real."

"Rewards? What chapter treasure chest are you talking about?" I asked, "But R said that their family did not receive any bonuses or pensions... Ah! Is it possible that Xiaojie designated someone else as the beneficiary, not his brother?" or mom."

"Unlikely, if you recall the content of his suicide note - 'Without me, my brother and mother will be better off', it is obvious that what he cares about most is family. And knowing that his death will bring benefits to the family is also It played a certain role in promoting him to choose the extreme method of suicide."

"Besides, the material conditions of these families are not very good. Two single mothers, others... Tsk, I don't know yet. I need to check with the client." I said, "Then you say the reward is real. What means?"

"Suppose you are a player who has been eliminated. Under the pressure of drugs, you choose to die either voluntarily or forcedly. The people who participated in the game with you have no realistic intersection with you. As for the beneficiaries you designate If you don’t receive a bonus, you won’t be exposed at all,” Bian Yao said.

I nodded: "Yes, I think so too."

"However," Bian Yao changed the subject, "Those who pass the customs will actually receive rewards. The amount of this reward must be huge, or it must be very attractive to teenagers, so that these survivors forget that time. The fear of being dominated by drugs, by games, by punishment, comes back again and again."

The pen tip in Bian Yao's hand poked several ink dots on the paper, and said: "I am more inclined to guess the second, because if it is simply coerced by drugs, then there will always be people who cannot bear to report to their family members or the police. But If they have luck or greed in their hearts, the desire to stay in the game will be stronger."

"At the end of the day, the victimized children are still too young, otherwise they wouldn't have been so thoroughly controlled." I sighed.

Bian Yao shook his head, not knowing whether he disagreed with my evaluation of age or something else.He said: "This is the same as gambling. It is an addiction, and it is not easy to get out of it on your own."

After thinking for a while, he added: "Don't forget, these children still have signs of self-mutilation. What Zhai Qi said before must also be taken into consideration. These games must involve some realistic tasks. These realistic tasks It will make the players less communicate with the people around them, feel isolated and helpless, and get used to the feeling of pain, hurt, and even the concept of 'death'. Participants are getting deeper and deeper in the game while also accepting some kind of brainwashing, this kind of brainwashing Continuously deepen the loneliness and emptiness of the participants, make the participants feel that they are worthless in the real world, and make death painless and sacred. That is why when the characters in the game die and players need to sacrifice, they almost I accepted the arrangement without much resistance."

I was silent for a while after hearing the words: "Then let's think about it, what is the purpose of this SIP organization to do such a thing... Can the death of the player bring them any benefits? Could it be that what R said, in order to Famous in a certain niche circle?"

"100 million." Bian Yao said, "A resurrection card is 100 million, and 100 million is a life. I believe many people are willing to spend this money. If there is a resurrection card, what else can you pay for if you don't guarantee it all?" Game props, add 20 blood, increase [-] skill points, and so on."

"On the other hand... Lunatic's self-harm photos, blood-stained relics and suicide notes, as well as the last audio-visual recordings and even information exchanges of the victims in Lunatic must be produced by this SIP organizer." Bian Yao wrote on the paper Outlined the entire chain of interests: "Players in the game will spend money, and players can sell their remains after they are scrapped. There are a large number of perverts lurking in the dark web and paying for it, making SIP organizations profit again outside the game."

He paused, and said in a low voice: "Even... Even if the player dies, there will be a steady stream of new players joining in because of the deviation of the survivors."

I suddenly said: "If the survivors can really get rewards after clearing the level, it is inevitable that they will not brag in school, it is simply a walking propaganda machine - after all, it is very attractive for a middle school student to get rich by playing games .Especially if your grades are not good, or your family background is not good, and you can get rich just by playing games, it’s hard not to be tempted.”

"What's more, as you mentioned before, the public suicide note of the victim will also make some teenagers have a curiosity-seeking psychology similar to visiting a haunted house. It's just that once these people choose to join the game and eat the medicine provided by the SIP organizer, then I was firmly trapped in this cycle of reincarnation."

This makes perfect sense. In the cold winter, a thin layer of sweat floated up on my back and quickly cooled down. I said: "The nature of the entrustment this time seems to be worse than before. This is no longer an individual's evil, but An organized, large-scale evil."

"That's right, and I don't know how long this game has been going on before... Generally speaking, if your child commits suicide by leaving a suicide note and there are no suspects around, even the police will not file a case, let alone cause a large-scale alert .It’s just that one chapter suddenly eliminated too many people this time, so these family members discovered each other and noticed the strangeness.”

"This is very difficult," I said. "We discussed it before and found that communicating with the victim's family may not be able to elicit more clues. Now after this guesswork, we also found that contacting the survivors The chances of success are also very slim...then what should we do?"

Bian Yao stretched his arms and legs, fell down with a bang, and wailed, "That's right, we don't have any substantive evidence. What we have is just a chat record with a strange netizen. What's the use?"

The two of us sat in the room silently for a while, the street lamps on the lawn outside the window were all extinguished, white mist was condensed on the windows, and the voices of other people walking and talking in the room could no longer be heard—the night was dark, and most people After falling asleep, I inevitably feel that my arms are a little cold.

"I feel a little scary," I said.

Bian Yao glanced at me: "Do you need to sancheck for you?"

I "haha" laughed a few times, and then remembered something: "By the way, how is this medicine distributed to the players? How can the organizer be sure that the players have really taken the medicine? Even if it is a video recording as proof." , then I replace the medicine with a vitamin tablet that looks similar, who would know?"

Bian Yao suddenly sat up and stared at me: "Is the medicine delivered face to face?"

I said along the way: "It's possible, at least you have to watch the other person eat it face to face, it's more reassuring, or there is some way to detect it."

Bian Yao said: "Then can I think that if I choose to join the game, someone from the SIP organizer must come out to meet me and hand me the medicine in person?"