heart poison

As the largest network communication platform in China, the "Beacon" forum has witnessed the rise and disappearance of countless "great gods" since its establishment.It does not belong to any literary website, and is not controlled by any capital. The server is located abroad, and everyone can "speak freely" in it.It is said that every author has a vest in "Beacon", some just dive silently, and some like to argue when they see themselves being scolded badly.

Netizens have great powers and a strong heart for gossip. In line with the principle of eating melons, they picked up many authors' vests.A little-known low-level author is full of insults and rumors, and the popular author is full of sour tastes that make people laugh and laugh.There are also high-ranking "big gods" authors who pretend to be fans, slander newcomers who are soaring in popularity, and belittle the other party to nothing. According to the entertainment circle, this is called "explosion-proof".

All in all, "Beacon" is a place to let yourself go.There are too many dark sides in human nature, people's hearts are half-light, and there are always so many grievances that cannot be relieved in reality that need to be released. The "beacon" where everyone wears a mask has become the best place to vent.

Recently, posts related to E Zhihaolang are always floating on the homepage of "Beacon". "Xuantian Mountain and River" is about to end, and the ratings remain high. , For a while, "Beacon" was full of fan and black battles, and the number of online users continued to break through new highs.

Among the countless brainless and brainless boasting posts, if the title is not shocking or shocking, it will soon be squeezed out of the homepage.But if it is too scary, people passing by will think it is too fake and lose interest in clicking on it.

"Five years ago, Haolang of E spread rumors and plagiarized Fengfei 78; five years later, five lackeys had their throats cut and their hearts dug out." Because the title was too fake, it was quickly squeezed out of the homepage.

First of all, no one remembers who Fengfei 78 is. Why did E Zhihaolang spread rumors about an author who has no such person?The current "spots" are too careless, and they are not willing to make black material more realistic.

Secondly, what the hell is cutting one's throat and digging one's heart?In a society ruled by law, a society ruled by law, you thought you were filming a TV series?It must be a boring parody post, maybe there are some dark pictures with bloody eyes in it.

However, there are also curious passers-by who click in to find out. Xiao Zhao, a 21-year-old Luo university student, is one of them.

This exploration is incredible.

With the sliding of the mouse, pictures of horrific murder scenes appeared on the computer screen one after another, including a man chopped into pieces, a heart held in his hand, and a solitary head—a pair of eyes almost Falling out of the eye sockets, there are empty chests and terrified faces when they are dying.

Xiao Zhao likes to read online articles, and his favorite categories in online articles are suspense and supernatural.He stared at the display screen, swallowing saliva non-stop, his hands and shoulders gradually began to tremble, his face was pale, and his heart was beating violently.

He originally thought that the photos in the post were all from P, or they were screenshots from some screaming drama.But he has read countless films, and he has never seen the scene in the photos.

A chill rose from the soles of his feet, stirring up strange excitement.Trembling, he clicked on the video under the last photo. The noise came from the speaker. He quickly put on his headphones—the dormitory is a four-person bedroom. College students in the new era never affect others when they do things, whether it’s playing games or watching movies. Also, headphones are a must.

In the earphones, Xixi Suo Suo's voice came, his heart beat half a beat faster, and cold sweat oozes from his palms.

The camera slowly turned to focus on a man who was tied up and his mouth was gagged. The man was already covered in blood and his face could not be seen clearly.But the man's eyes were very clear, full of despair and helplessness.

Xiao Zhao even clenched his toes tightly.

There seemed to be a sound heard somewhere in the room, and the camera turned again, facing the laptop computer that was playing a TV series, and Xiao Zhao remembered that it was a dialogue in "Xuantian Mountain and River".

Thinking of the title of this post, he shuddered.

Suddenly, the angle of view is fixed, and the person holding the camera before appears in the video.It was a tall, strong man with a sharp knife in his right hand.

The bound man began to struggle frantically, but to no avail, he was doomed.

After 1 minute, the display screen was almost occupied by the light of blood, and the blood burst out from the man's divided throat like a fountain, and sprinkled on the snow-white wall beside him.

The camera began to shake again, and the murderer pointed it at the man, recording every ferocious and distorted expression on the man's face before he died.

Xiao Zhao froze on the seat, his mouth was open, and his scalp felt numb.

He was so engrossed in the video, with headphones on, that he couldn't hear his roommate at all.

At this time, the murderer had already moved the tragically dead man to another room, and with an ax in hand, he smashed the corpse one by one.He inexplicably felt that he seemed to have seen the dead somewhere.

The roommate called him several times, and saw that he was motionless as if he had hit a ghost, so he had to walk behind him, intending to see what he was so fascinated by.

The roommate is a very timid handsome guy. After seeing what was playing in the video, the screams resounded throughout the dormitory in an instant.

Xiao Zhao, who didn't make a sound the whole time, was so frightened that he jumped up from his seat. The suppressed terror suddenly broke out, and he screamed loudly...

The video of Zheng Qi, the former president of the student union of the School of Architecture being killed and dismembered, was quickly spread to every corner of Luo University, a prestigious school.Lu Qing just watched it for a few seconds before he nearly fainted, staggered and ran to the toilet and vomited violently. Zhou Ming and several other roommates were by his side, all of whom were terrified and did not know how to comfort them; Liu Gan and Henry Zhang looked at each other speechlessly , although I have never liked Zheng Qi's personality, but I slept together for a few years, and suddenly witnessed the former roommate being dismembered, and the impact has defeated the dissatisfaction in the past; Chang Shan did not watch the video, but heard about Zheng Qi's death The last person walked around the campus a few times. Zheng Qi was his first love. He knew Zheng Qi's despicableness, and knew that Zheng Qi liked to spread rumors on the Internet, but he didn't expect that Zheng Qi would lose his life because of this. A persuasion to Zheng Qi...

After a while, the post with a particularly fake title was finally pushed to the homepage by a passer-by who entered by mistake.

Netizens are not blind, if you take a closer look, you can understand that this is not a spoof post, but a fake murder record!Half an hour after the post was posted, the server of "Beacon" began to be overwhelmed because it could not bear the huge amount of visits.However, the page, which is often down due to the fan-black war, has survived, satisfying the prying desires of netizens flocking to it.

Soon, photos and videos were widely reposted from other social networking sites.Soon, the identities of the five deceased in the photo were picked up, and the most "beautiful" one among them turned out to be the proprietress of an online celebrity flower shop who had been popular for a while.

There has never been such a strong earthquake in the Internet literature circle, and even the "Fengsui" netizens who have witnessed all kinds of strange and cursing battles were stunned for a while.

E Zhihaolang's rumors that an unknown author plagiarized is not a big news, enough for fans to fight for three days and three nights, but after three days and three nights, there will be new hot spots.

However, as a result of spreading rumors, five people had their throats cut and their hearts dug out. This was too shocking, far beyond the tolerance of ordinary people.

The dusty past five years ago was mentioned again, and Fengfei 78 even became a hot search on Weibo. Bloody videos on various social networking sites in China were constantly deleted, but new videos were uploaded.On this early summer morning, thousands of people witnessed a brutal massacre.

At the same time, E Zhihaolang's Weibo was blown up, and "Beacon" began to dig into the "plagiarism" incident five years ago.

A new video was suddenly uploaded in the post that caused a storm of "E Zhihaolang spreading rumors and Fengfei 78 plagiarized".Unlike the previous horrifying video, this one doesn't have any bloody smell at all, it's just a group of people staying in a room, discussing the next work.

They are stylishly dressed, talking and laughing, just like a group of young successful people.But what came out of their mouths was like a bloodbath falling from the sky for an unknown author who was struggling with cancer.

They are also killing people.

The video is not clear, it was taken from a hidden mobile phone.There are six people in the picture, and the one farthest from the camera is E Zhihaolang—thanks to his frequent photos, his face is unmistakable.

"What should we do next? Brother Lang obviously didn't copy that Fengfei 78, but he got scolded for nothing. Fortunately, that 'palette' doesn't make any sense." A tall and thin man said: "What is the vastness of the void? Who gave him the guts to spread rumors? Let's sue him and punish him for defamation."

The chubby man shook his head, "It's just an internet mob, and suing him won't do us much practical good. How about this, isn't he spreading rumors that we copied Fengfei 78? Let's just use this incident to make a splash."

"Hype? How is this hype?"

"An army against the general, saying that Fengfei 78 copied Linlang."

The man wearing glasses said: "It's a good idea. "The Return of the Dark Star" and "Where the Night Shines" are both soft sci-fi. It's too easy to find some similar words. Let's summarize the similarities in character design and plot to avoid Open the difference, cut and splice, and the 'palette' becomes."

The thin and tall man said: "Summary? This is not good, it's a bit fake, and 'Heizi' and passers-by say, what should I do if Brother Lang touches porcelain? Isn't the 'color palette' made by Void Expanse so ridiculous that my mother doesn't even recognize it?" Yet?"

"We are a professional team, can we be like him, an ignorant kid who is an Internet mob?" The slightly fat man twisted in his seat, "Make the 'disc' more professional, search for the most similar words and sentences together, and summarize the plot of the character It is the same. Do you think that the people who eat melons are very strict deathists? No, they are just keen to eat melons. If you put the "palette" in front of them, they will cooperate with us 100%, most of them Most people won't even look at the 'dishes' we make."

"But..." The thin and tall man still hesitated, "But what if the other party has fans to make a 'counter-offer'? When Brother Lang was slandered, it was the logical 'counter-offer' made by the fans in the first place that hit Void Void. Face."

"Do you think Fengfei 78 has fans?" The man with glasses sneered, "He is an old transparent who has been writing for more than ten years, and he has a fan. As long as no one speaks for him, he can only let us trample on him. Anyway, he has neither talent nor luck, and he has been unable to get ahead for many years, so why not use it as a stepping stone for Brother Lang, it can be regarded as somewhat useful."

"By the way, you guys go to contact Void Expanse." The slightly fat man said again: "I think he has a good rhythm. Pull him into our camp and post more posts that incite passers-by."

"Isn't he our Brother Lang's 'Heizi'?" The thin and tall man was puzzled.

"What's 'Heizi' and 'Baizi'. Look at his previous posts, has he liked anyone? No, no one. What he likes is insults and rumors. We will give him a chance to spread rumors, and we will not hold him accountable for slandering Linlang. , give him the money back, do you think he is happy or not?" The slightly fat man laughed, "I will make a plan later, and everyone will do as I say. This is an opportunity. "Dark Star Returns" has just finished, Now we are talking about film and television copyright, we just need to work harder to hype it."

"But if this is the case, isn't Fengfei 78 too miserable?" said the only woman in the conference room, "If an author gets hooked on plagiarism, it will be ruined. Brother Lang has a lot of radical fans now, and they will definitely go Insulting Feng Fei, maybe he will be 'human flesh'."

"This is beyond our control." The man with glasses shrugged his shoulders. "If you want to blame, you can blame Fengfei 78 for being unlucky. He was used by Void Vast as a target to blackmail our Brother Lang. If he is not unlucky, who is unlucky? Speaking of which, he Isn’t it unlucky that he hasn’t been popular for so many years? Don’t worry, he is so unlucky anyway, and this time is not bad. People like him are quite tenacious. Did you change your number and come back and suddenly become popular? Are we doing a good deed?"

"Then what if he asks a lawyer to sue us?" The thin and tall man was worried, "He didn't copy Brother Lang, if he sues us for violating our reputation, he will definitely sue us!"

"I would like him to sue, and it would be better if he wins," said the fat man.

"Why?" The thin and tall man was anxious, "Then Brother Lang will be sprayed to death by 'Heizi'!"

"You, you still don't know much about internet marketing." The slightly fat man snorted, "If Fengfei 78 wins the lawsuit, we will spend tens of thousands of dollars with him at most, and make a public apology. But after the apology, we can immediately release Another statement, the general content is that even if you suffer setbacks, you must do your best to defend the originality."

The thin and tall man opened his mouth wide and was a little taken aback.

"You have to know that no matter what the court decides, fans will always be on Lin Lang's side. Ever since the 'Palette' came out, they have already determined that Fengfei 78 plagiarized. Moreover, there are loopholes in the law now. How many authors who were actually plagiarized Can’t sue plagiarists. Do you understand Chunqiu’s brushwork? As long as we can write and cry, then in the eyes of fans and passers-by, we are victims of unsound laws. If Li loses the lawsuit, they will only think that we have been hit in the process of defending our rights, and they will try their best to tell the truth——Langshen’s loss of the lawsuit is the fault of the law. For passers-by, the statement of defending originality will give us a lot of goodwill. Don’t you Overestimating them, what they care about is not the truth, but the opportunity to express themselves on social networking sites. Once we lose the lawsuit, I will make "defend originality, support Langshen" a slogan, and anyone who shouts it is enough Show his correct three views in the virtual space."

The thin and tall man finally understood, and excitedly said: "So you can still do marketing like this, you've been taught!"

Until the progress bar came to the end, Haolang of E didn't speak.

But it was he who acquiesced in this online massacre against an innocent author.

The poster wrote: People are doing it, the sky is watching, all evil deeds will be recorded, and all slaughters will be backlashed. Haolang of E, your lackey has already paid the price, how about you?

Because it doesn't involve bloody violence, this video went viral faster and got more views than the previous one.Most social networking sites did not delete it. For a while, it swiped the screen on Weibo and Moments.

Even those who have never heard of Haolang of E know that he destroyed a grassroots author five years ago through marketing.

People generally tend to sympathize with the weak and substitute themselves for the weak.Back then, Haolang of E was "plagiarized". He was the weak side and received a lot of support. After five years, the situation was completely reversed. He was not only not a victim, but the perpetrator. is the real underdog.

The past was completely uncovered, like a massive earthquake.People gradually discovered that Lin Xiaofei was a cancer patient, and was undergoing painful chemotherapy when he suffered an unforeseen disaster.Thousands of insulting words five years ago appeared before the eyes of the world again, and his appearance alone selling books at the subway station was no longer synonymous with greasy and stupid. Everyone said that he was chasing dreams.

Some people even used the hypocritical phrase to describe him: You have been away for half your life, and you are still a teenager when you come back.

"Pooh!"

The young man in a foreign country spat, then laughed until he burst into tears.

Look, netizens are like this. Yesterday they insulted you with the most vicious words, and today they praise you with the most sensational words.

The man closed his eyes and remembered that a long time ago, when he was a child, his father committed a crime and went to prison, and his mother disappeared.

He lives with his uncle in the family area of ​​the most backward chemical factory in Zecheng.The uncle's family is not rich, and the aunt and aunt have no children of their own, so they can take care of him temporarily and send him to school.

My uncle couldn't afford such a luxury as a computer.And he has a strong interest in computers, read a lot of programming books in the library, and dreams of becoming the king of the Internet security field in the future.But because there is no computer, the school's computer room can only be used for one hour at a time. He has a solid theory, but not enough practice. He can only do calculations on a draft notebook in many cases.

His first computer was given by his uncle's colleague, a gentle man named Lin Xiaofei.

The computer is not a good computer. It is just a cheap one bought in the second-hand market for a few hundred dollars.But to this day, when he already owns a large number of computers with the highest configuration, this second-hand computer is still his treasure.

Because at that time Lin Xiaofei patted his head and encouraged him with a smile: Do it if you like it, don’t shrink back, brother Xiaofei’s novels don’t make much money now, if they make money in the future, I’ll buy you a good one.

Because of this matter, Lin Xiaofei quarreled with his uncle, but finally made up happily.

He knew that the fight wasn't really noisy, the two were good friends, and his uncle just blamed Lin Xiaofei for wasting money.

With a computer, he taught himself how to program.Probably because of his extremely high talent, he was born to eat this bowl of rice. He is very quick to learn, and he can learn anything.Uncles and aunts are rough people, they can't appreciate it, and they don't agree with him sitting in front of the computer all day, saying it's bad for his eyes.Lin Xiaofei always praised him, and patiently watched him demonstrate the newly written program.

He likes to go to Lin Xiaofei's house for dinner, and after that, he reads novels written by Lin Xiaofei.

Lin Xiaofei writes novels in his spare time. He is an Internet author. His novels are not popular and have few readers, but he loves to read them. When he is tired of studying, he occupies Lin Xiaofei's computer to read them. After reading the published chapters, he searches and saves the manuscripts come and see.Lin Xiaofei likes to make drafts on paper, and he read the saved drafts, so he had to read the plot and characters drawn up on the drafts.

Once, he said: "Brother Xiaofei, can you write a science fiction novel in which the main character is a hacker?"

"Sci-fi?" Lin Xiaofei thought for a while, "I don't know much about sci-fi."

"It doesn't have to be hard sci-fi. Soft sci-fi is fine too. Brother Xiaofei, write a big soft sci-fi novel!"

Lin Xiaofei smiled: "You want me to use you as the prototype for the creation?"

"Hahaha I was discovered by you."

Children are very forgetful, ideas come and go quickly, he forgot about it after mentioning it, but after a while, Lin Xiaofei actually showed him a bunch of drafts, "I drew up a few plot lines , the framework has not been set up yet, and the main characters are all set up, don’t forget to give me some suggestions after reading it.”

He was ecstatic, he watched from the beginning to the end carefully, he stopped learning programming, and pestered Lin Xiaofei to grind the plot and character design.Lin Xiaofei has a good temper, let him change it back and forth until both of them are satisfied.

Lin Xiaofei asked, "What is the title of the book?"

He thought about it for a few days, and said, "How about "The Place where the Eternal Night Shines"? In the long dark night, there is a shining light."

Lin Xiaofei smiled and said, "Okay."

"Brother Xiaofei, when will you start writing?" He asked excitedly.

"Well, not yet." Lin Xiaofei said: "Firstly, I haven't finished the novel at hand, and the 'eunuch' is not good in the middle. Second, soft science fiction is a new field for me, and I want to accumulate more Let’s see, our story is pretty good, and I don’t want to start writing it with insufficient preparation, which will waste a good story.”

He was a little depressed, "Then you must write."

"Of course, this is a story we came up with together. You chose the title and the protagonist is based on you. How can I just talk about it without writing it?" Lin Xiaofei smiled softly, "We hit it off very well, even though you are still young Small, but I always feel that you are my best friend and confidant. Don’t worry, when you become a great hacker in the future, maybe this novel will be completed. We must celebrate at that time. My biggest wish is Publishing a book, maybe this novel can fulfill my wish."

But neither he nor Lin Xiaofei waited for this day.