stories that happened on a specific occasion

In mid-May, pomegranates bloom.

Zuo Zhenzhen refurbished the floor of the balcony, and the rain stopped on my ceiling.

But the sun, which has not appeared for a few days, has gone on strike again. This year, it has been raining abundantly since the beginning of spring.Recently, it has entered the low temperature and rainy weather.

I suddenly remembered the previous agreement with Zuo Zhenzhen, the story I told her that day seemed to be satisfactory.Today, perhaps, is the day she will fulfill her promise.

We exchanged text messages and made an appointment to meet at the previous coffee shop tonight.

After get off work, seeing that it was still early for the appointed time, I strolled in the park.In my spare time, I suddenly remembered a story about this season, "tasting new wheat".

The protagonist of this story is Jin Jinggong, a monarch of the state of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period.

One day, Jin Jinggong had a nightmare about ghosts, so he summoned Sangtian witch to interpret the dream.This Sangtian witch is also a real person. After listening to Jin Jinggong's narration, he told him that this dream predicted that he would "not eat new things."It means that life is not long, and it will die before Xiaoman's new wheat.Jin Jinggong refused to accept it. When Bingwu day, he sent someone to harvest the new wheat and wanted to cook it.Not only that, but he also called back the Sangtian witch who had predicted before, and killed him on the grounds that his prediction was inaccurate.But just after killing the Sangtian witch, when Jin Jinggong was about to eat wheat and food, he suddenly felt abdominal pain like twisting, and as a result, "eating, stretching; going to the toilet, sinking and dying".

I thought this seemed to be a seasonal story, so I told Zuo Zhenzhen after I met her.

Zuo Zhenzhen couldn't help laughing after listening.

After meeting her several times like this, I gradually became acquainted with her a lot.

"Okay, I've told two stories," I said, "It's your turn."

Zuo Zhenzhen took a sip of coffee and cleared her throat.

I collected my thoughts and began to listen to Zuo Zhenzhen tell me about the case she was following.Inadvertently, it turned out to be a complete supplement to the time when she disappeared.

In my opinion, Zuo Zhenzhen and Z are the same person.

Therefore, I also roughly know what Z has experienced during the time when she lost contact with me.

But this is not a story about a reporter's promotion, but a story full of treachery.The protagonist of the story is not Zuo Zhenzhen who was told for me, but a high school sophomore named A.

The story begins at the end of last year, when Zuo Zhenzhen was invited to City B.

As soon as she came here, she received a follow-up and reporting task for a big case, and she cooperated with senior seniors of the newspaper.Such a rare opportunity is like a turning point in life for Zuo Zhenzhen, whether she can grasp it is up to herself.So, she kept running between the school, the families of the students, and the police station.Although you can also borrow the resources of your predecessors to inquire about some news.But most of the time, it's all because of my three-inch tongue and thick skin.For this reason, she even squatted alone at the door of a student's house in the cold night, and the parents even called the police.

Zuo Zhenzhen was imprisoned overnight, but she did not give up. Instead, she became more and more courageous, revealing the truth of the case layer by layer.

According to the news that Zuo Zhenzhen had collected, she carefully sorted it out and published it, and it quickly became a trending topic.For a time, it became an exclusive report of major news.As a result, Zuo Zhenzhen kept her regular status. Although she couldn't hide her joy, privately, she still felt that there were still omissions in the case.

As D once introduced to me, the four students who committed suicide together seemed to have nothing in common, but Zuo Zhenzhen didn't think so.With her persistence, a clue of this case hidden under the surface was drawn out.

It was also out of a woman's intuition, which was terrifyingly accurate.

Sure enough, a few months later, another student committed suicide at the hotel.And this person, Zuo Zhenzhen is very familiar with, that is student A.

Zuo Zhenzhen had previously interviewed A in order to learn about the suicide cases of the four previous students.

Although A kept his mouth shut, there were no valuable clues to offer.However, her dodging attitude still made Zuo Zhenzhen suspicious.

Zuo Zhenzhen can be regarded as an old Jianghu, she started to investigate and track A alone, and gradually got in touch with A.

A is a typical middle school student, with mediocre academic performance, mediocre family background, and even an ordinary appearance.

Zuo Zhenzhen really came into contact with A in a supermarket.

Zuo Zhenzhen, who was shopping in the supermarket, suddenly heard a scream from behind, and a panicked girl broke away from the crowd and ran out in a panic.Zuo Zhenzhen followed, and the girl relaxed her vigilance after careful reassurance, and she was A.

Finally, Zuo Zhenzhen had a chance to have a quiet conversation with A, and also learned from A that the so-called mass suicide was actually more like a chasing game of retribution.

A's story

A is indeed a survivor of that mass suicide, or in other words, today it seems that her time has not come.

After Zuo Zhenzhen had her first real conversation with A, she discovered the common ground hidden among these five people.

"That's an off-campus club." A said to Zuo Zhenzhen.

This club was established by one of the students who committed suicide collectively. There are currently 16 members. The club is called "CHALLENGE" (challenge).This community has its own website, but it is only open to members, and everyone has a unique and unique password for login, which is the automatically obtained MAC address.The so-called MAC URL is a string of 16-bit characters consisting of hexadecimal numbers, unique and fixed.Not only that, to enter the website, you must be invited by a current member to enter. Once you do not log in from the designated MAC address or an outsider enters, the administrator will immediately find out, and the website will be automatically blocked for 48 hours.

This kind of operation is very similar to the "dark web", and ordinary people cannot query and find the URL at all.

All of the above content was uploaded and completed by the existing sixteen members.

A was invited by the study committee member of their class. At first, A thought it was just a place like "study forum".But after entering, I realized that this place is simply a playground for school violence.

Judging from the videos posted on the website, most of the content here was filmed by a few students instructing others to complete the so-called "challenge".

Point A opened one of the videos named "NO.14 Challenge 009". She saw that the picture was not stable, and there were several girls laughing continuously. The camera was facing a female student sitting on the ground. Her Books are scattered all over the place.

A immediately recognized the person in this shot as the study committee member.

Immediately afterwards, one of the photographers said: "Challenger NO.14 is the ninth challenge, running naked around the river."After the girl finished speaking, several people behind the camera burst out laughing.In the shaking camera, only the terrified study committee member was left, and she sat on the ground and began to sob.

But what happened next made A unbelievable. The study committee member actually began to take off his clothes obediently, one by one until only one pair of underwear was left, and A closed the computer.

A was shocked. The female student in the video turned out to be a lively and well-behaved study committee member.

Why would she join such a society?Why do you listen to these people again?

Why, did she let herself join in?

After A landed on this website, everything was answered.

This website was established by a boy with poor academic performance but a prominent family background (also known as a powerful man), the president of the swimming club (sports man) and the film club member (literary woman).They are not only the founders of clubs and websites, but also the top managers.

At the same time, it was also the three students who died in the previous mass suicide.

The rules of this society are formulated by these three people. Once all members join, they can only quit after completing 100 challenges.If you quit, all videos of the quitter will be made public.

Of the current sixteen members, seven are administrators, and the rest are so-called "challengers."After becoming a "Challenger" and completing 9 challenges, there will be an opportunity to invite a new member to join.There is also a rule in the selection of new members, that is, they must be people who have hardly spoken to the inviter on weekdays.New members can only be invited to log in to the website after the process of selecting personnel, reviewing the list, passing the nomination, and accepting to join.The inviter also completed his tenth challenge.

All members of this club have the opportunity to be promoted to "junior administrator", "intermediate administrator", and then "senior administrator" at a specific time.

"Administrators" have an advantage, that is, they can be challengers and proposers of challenge tasks.High-level administrators can propose challenge tasks to low-level people. After the challenge is completed, the "challenger" and "administrator" will get the cumulative number of challenges together.

At this point in the introduction, A said that he immediately told the study committee that he did not want to join.But after school, she was taken to her home by the study committee on the grounds of "helping to quit the group", and was forced by several other members of the group to take indecent photos.They used this to coerce A to join the club, and not to tell anyone about the club. Once the contract was broken, all photos would be published on the Internet and sent to her home and parents' workplace.

A is like the study committee member in the video, he has no choice but to get caught.

The story said here can only be regarded as a background explanation.The beginning of this mass suicide incident started with a challenge from the club manager's powerful man.

This is a joint challenge, which needs to be done by inviting the study committee member and A together.

This is also the sixth task that A has received.

Compared with the previous ones, the task level this time can be said to be relatively simple: go to a shop and steal.

On the day of the mission, A and the study committee member arrived at the designated place on time. They were equipped with invisible earphones and video cameras. After preparations, the two listened to the instructions and found the shop.

At that time, it suddenly rained cats and dogs, and the two of them entered the store as a reason to avoid the rain.

The decoration of this store is very simple, but the strange totem sculpture at the entrance is the first attraction.After walking in, I found that there are countless tall and short bookshelves in the store, filled with books, some of which seem to be very old.Along the upper wall of the bookshelves, there are some paintings of indeterminate age, including figures, animals, and landscapes, but for some reason, they all reveal a strange color and atmosphere.At the end of the bookshelf is a row of bead curtains, from which everything inside can be seen vaguely.The back of the bead curtain seems to be integrated with the front hall, but instead of the bookshelves, there are rows of neat drawers that look like European colonial apothecary cabinets, with labels on each small drawer. A looked at the nearest drawers, which were marked "Keli", "Yueer", and "Hehua".On one side of the wall, hung a red tengu mask.

After A walked around the store, he didn't see the owner.There is only one gray-blue cat sleeping on the table.There is a cup of hot tea next to it, and the heat has not yet dissipated.It means someone is in the store and has just left.It looks like the hot tea in the cup has not been drunk yet, maybe people will come back soon.

Thinking of this, A's heart beat faster again.She felt as if someone was beating on her neck with a drumstick, once and for all, fast and heavy.

At this time, a command came from the earphone.

In the low cabinet in the corner of the room, open the first drawer and find a contract.

A cautiously walked to this group of low cabinets, and the study committee was in charge of watching.

A thought that he opened the drawer in front of him and took away the contract, and the matter was over.But when she opened the drawer, A was dumbfounded. This small drawer was full of identical contracts.The only difference is the signature on the bottom of these contracts.

"Find it quickly." The powerful man urged.

A immediately rummaged through the store. There was always this peculiar scent in this store. In this scent, there seemed to be a kind of power that would unknowingly make people feel relieved and vigilant.

After an unknown amount of time, A finally found a contract signed with the name of a powerful man. Before the owner came back, she and the study committee member left smoothly.

A recalled that the content of the contract was simple but unbelievable. It did not seem to be a sale of any item, and A could not remember the specific terms.However, the vaguely visible shading on the contract is still fresh in my memory.

It was a tiger with a ferocious face and fierce eyes.

When A handed the contract to the powerful man, his mission was successfully completed.

As a reward, the powerful man treats everyone to dinner.During the dinner, A remembered that the powerful man told others about the contract.

"Today is the fourth day, and I still got it back." The powerful man said. "I also took out the money in the morning. I didn't expect it to be [-]."

While talking braggingly, he threw a bundle of cash on the table.

The sportsman and the literary girl on the side looked at the money with bright eyes, and they immediately discussed how to get more money from that store.But who would have thought that just before they cheated again, everyone died.

"I will not be an exception." A said to Zuo Zhenzhen like this.

These four people, powerful men, sports men, literary and artistic women, and study committee members all mentioned one thing before they died.

A said that since the night they stole the contract, she always had a feeling that someone was following her.Even if it's in your own home.

After taking a shower that night, when A was wiping off the moisture from the mirror, she seemed to see something long and thin. A was not sure what it was, but the moment the thing stared at her with slightly green eyes , she has never forgotten.

That was the first time she saw that thing, and thought it was vertigo.But when I went to school the next day, the study committee member also became strange, and suddenly rushed out of the classroom during class, yelling "don't come over" incessantly.

This matter was spread, and when the literary girl learned about it, she also found A in a panic.

She asks if A sees anything, or smells anything. A hesitated and chose to conceal it.

On the second night, this feeling of being followed intensified.It was so strong that A could clearly know that it was not that he was paranoid, but that his sense of touch had actually felt that someone was standing behind him.

But looking back, there was nothing.

On the third day, although the study committee members came to class, they were in a trance.The literary girl came to look for A again. On the surface, she looked like she hadn't had a good rest, but if you look closely, you will find that it is not that simple.

A still didn't say anything.

On the fourth day, the powerful man called together the five people from that day.The five people who got together again seemed to have changed significantly.The powerful man first threatened everyone not to tell anyone what happened that day, he looked very irritable, his eyes were bloodshot; the sports man also looked thinner as he listened, pretending to be nonchalant , but her eyes are always flickering, staring at an uncertain place vigilantly from time to time; the literary girl speaks very excitedly, her eye circles are black and blue, her cheeks are obviously sunken, and her lips are dry and pale; the study committee is like It's a walking dead, even if it doesn't speak, it doesn't have the uneasiness of the previous few days. Occasionally, it opens its mouth and let out a few silly laughs.

As for A herself, she doesn't know what she has become.These days, she hasn't looked in the mirror.

Just when A was in a daze, the powerful man suddenly slapped the literary woman hard.The literary girl was beaten to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

"No one is allowed to mention these things again!" The powerful man shouted loudly: "I think you are fucking crazy!"

This meeting was also the last time A met with them.

On the day of the mass suicide, A had been to the teaching building once, and it was here that she was confirmed again.

At first, A took the stairs, but as long as she walked up a step, she could feel that someone was close to her and went up a step.Not only felt, she heard it too.

The sound of bare feet stepping on concrete steps is different from the sound of rubber-soled sneakers.

"Snapped".

When A stepped up a step, he could hear such a voice, following closely behind him.

A ran up in a panic, opened the safety door on the second floor, and ran to the elevator.When the elevator doors opened, there was no one there. A hurriedly hid in the elevator, looked at the red numbers that were slowly jumping up, and took a step back involuntarily.

What did you step on.

But what did you step on?

A lowers his head and looks at the heel of his left foot.

Under the heel is a foot.

No shoes, gray skin, black toenails.

A raised his heel slightly, not daring to put it down.She maintained this posture, and it took some time for the elevator to finally arrive.

The moment the elevator door opened, she suddenly felt someone slamming towards her, and her heels were lifted.At this moment, A was stepping on those bare feet, staggering and almost being pushed out of the elevator by the force behind him.

A hurriedly got up from the ground and turned around, only to see the elevator door slowly closing, still nothing.

That night, A's cell phone kept vibrating by his side, and text messages popped up frequently.They were all passed on to her by powerful men and literary women, so let her come to school immediately.However, A curled up in his room and dared not go out.

Until the next day, she learned that the other four people died that night.

Even so, things are not over.In the months after those people died, A still had no peace.

"I can still see it." A said to Zuo Zhenzhen.

Zuo Zhenzhen comforted her, don't think about it, maybe it's just a coincidence.But I also know that the words I said are untenable.

Just when Zuo Zhenzhen saw A for the first time, she saw it.

A skinny figure, almost sticking to A's back, with green eyes, Zuo Zhenzhen once met its eyes.

It is precisely because of this that Zuo Zhenzhen judged that the suicide incident this time was not as simple as the academic pressure reported in the news.

After Zuo Zhenzhen finished speaking, what surprised me was not only what happened to student A, but also the existence of that club.

Today, A also chooses to commit suicide alone in the hotel and leaves this world.I don't know if this is one of her challenges, or if it's really because of the stolen contract, it all sounds so sad.

Unexpectedly, the innocent boys and girls on weekdays would do such a thing.The bottom line of human nature can't stand the challenge, because you don't know when you will wake up the devil in the dark.

"I always feel that there is something strange about the contract mentioned earlier. I deliberately found a folklore historian who is out of town. According to the contract, I have found something."

Zuo Zhenzhen unhurriedly stirred the coffee in front of her while continuing to tell me about her discovery.

"Do you know what a ghost is?" She asked me suddenly.

I shook my head.

She told me that ghosts are undead formed from resentment after being eaten by a tiger.But they are not ordinary grievances, but ghosts with responsibility.Their task is to find other people and send them to the tiger to eat.

"Do you still remember the shading of that contract?" Zuo Zhenzhen said, "It's a white tiger."

"But, that's not a real tiger, is it?" I said, "Is anyone else being eaten by a paper tiger?"

"Yes." Zuo Zhenzhen said with affirmative eyes: "That white tiger is the patron saint of the contract. Anyone who breaks the contract will be entangled by ghosts until they die, just like being eaten by a tiger."

Even though I've heard many bizarre stories, I couldn't help but chuckle when I heard this.

"How can you take the way of a quack warlock seriously?" I said. "In this world, if such a thing really exists, wouldn't it be too easy to kill people?"

Not to be outdone, Zuo Zhenzhen took out a folder.

She took out a few pages of printed documents and placed them neatly in front of me.

"Originally, after the student died, I cut off the clues. But look," she pointed to one of the documents, and said, "This white tiger used to be the guardian totem of a warlock family. This family was in the Tang Dynasty. They existed, and they moved from Chang'an to Longzhou in 752, and moved to Japan with their family incognito in 755." Then he pointed to another picture and said, "Look at this tiger again."

I carefully compared the tigers in the two pictures, and they were indeed exactly the same.

As for the historical materials that Zuo Zhenzhen found, the warlock family did have records.Although it is not an orthodox history book like the Old and New Tang History, it is mentioned in some books about astrology.The content is roughly as follows.

In the eleventh year of Tianbao, Tai Shiling, who studies astronomical phenomena, told him that Taibai might have visions in the sky.At the same time, after divination, the Taibu Department also confirmed the theory of astronomical phenomena.The faces of the courtiers changed drastically when they heard this, and they all said that they had learned from the Xuanwu Gate, and this celestial phenomenon also showed them.For this reason, the imperial court specially recruited Ji Bei Zhenbei, an envoy to the Tang Dynasty who was proficient in the way of yin and yang, and asked for metaphysics to avoid this disaster.The Jibei Zhenbei Sutra remonstrated after the operation of prophecy that if you want to avoid this disaster, you must sacrifice it with blood, and guard the gods of the five directions in the five elements outside Chang'an City, so as to form an enchantment for protection .The guards will be selected from among the 20 divination masters at that time.After the Taishi Order was played, it was confirmed that the five people and their families selected through divination would move to the five gods respectively, and then the imperial court would bestow their family totems and guardian artifacts.The totems of the five-person family are the green dragon, white tiger, unicorn, phoenix and tortoise.

It was thought that according to this yin and yang calendar, the evil of Taibai star could be solved.But those who solve yin and yang are envied by ghosts.Da Lang, who guarded Baihufang's family incognito, died suddenly.As a last resort, the family risked their lives to leave and crossed east to Japan.The enchantment was destroyed, and the blood food sacrifice was delayed.At the end of the fourteenth year of Tianbao, some people led troops to rebel.Although in the end, the human Yi sacrifice was used to calm down for a while, and the regime was not overthrown to change the dynasty, but because of this, the Tang Dynasty began to decline.

This rebellion is also known as the "Anshi Rebellion".

"Look at this tiger," Zuo Zhenzhen said, "it was captured by the invisible camera on the chest of the student when he was looking for a contract. Look at this tiger totem, it's not bad at all. How can there be such a thing in this world?" coincide?"

I still feel that Zuo Zhenzhen's judgment is a bit hasty.

"I also deliberately went to the store she told me about." Zuo Zhenzhen put away the documents in front of her and said, "There is no such store at all. I also inquired around, but no one knew about it. Do you think it's strange?"

Listening to what she said, I always feel like deja vu.

"It's definitely not simple." Zuo Zhenzhen finally came to a conclusion.

I looked at her in front of me, and involuntarily overlapped with Z again.

"I've already booked a ticket to Japan." Zuo Zhenzhen said suddenly.

"Your newspaper let you go?"

I didn't expect such an ending, I was surprised and wanted to stop her impulse.

"It just so happens that there was an earthquake in Japan last month, and I can speak Japanese again, so I applied to the newspaper for a special report on the post-earthquake reconstruction in Japan. The above approved it."

Zuo Zhenzhen started to pack her things.

I opened my mouth and was speechless for a while, wanting to stay but didn't know what to say.I had to ask: "When is the plane?"

"The day after tomorrow." Zuo Zhenzhen replied lightly.

At the beginning of Meng Xia, when I didn't realize it, an unprecedented change was quietly waiting for my arrival.

Just like a strange beast lurking in the dark, just waiting for an opportunity to have a feast.

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