Chapter 322: 318 Suicide

Based on the location information sent by the Pig Group, the Horse Group members parachuted to the vicinity of a residential building in a village-in-the-city in a district of Shunzhou City, and the four dispatched members disguised themselves as diners and sat down at a small eatery nearby.

For the sake of a convenient view, they specifically chose seats set up outdoors.

After placing their orders, the four operatives discussed in low voices while waiting for the local specialty double-skin milk to be served.

"Can you confirm which floor and which room the person is in?" Ma You first asked Zhu Jingzhi, who was connected with him via a wireless Bluetooth headset; he knew that after sending the location information, the Pig Group members were still conducting further investigations.

The Pig Group had indeed extended their investigation and found other clues. Zhu Jingzhi said, "Found it. It should basically be confirmed that it is the culprit himself. I'll send the data to your phones; take a look yourselves."

As he spoke, Zhu Jingzhi sighed, which was rare for him.

Hearing Zhu Jingzhi's complicated tone, the four-man operation team couldn't help but feel curious, and each opened their phones to check the data.

Name: Dong Wen

Gender: Male

Registered Residence: Cuizhu City, Shenzhou Region

Marital Status and Children: Unmarried, no children

Family Background: His parents were once the helmsmen of one of the top investment companies in Cuizhu City. He grew up in a wealthy family and was well-connected, but both his parents died on the Collapse Night. Because the incident happened suddenly and his parents' company was gambling on a new investment at the time, and after the Collapse Night, a city turned into ruins and the target of his parents' investment was among them, after his parents died, not only did he fail to obtain compensation and a huge family fortune, but he also owed the bank a huge debt.

Educational Background: Graduated from Star University, a well-known institution in the Shenzhou Region, majoring in Computer Science and Technology. Due to his outstanding professional knowledge and rich experience in participating in competitions and winning awards during his studies, he is the 177th outstanding graduate to enter the Talent Hall of Fame in the 112 years since the school was founded...

Current Situation: Regarding his emotional life, after the Collapse Night, Dong Wen, who had lost his relatives, was determined to come to Shunzhou City, where his girlfriend was, to redevelop. However, due to the fact that common sense concepts related to Abnormal things had not yet been popularized to the public, his loving girlfriend, with whom he had reached the point of marriage, and her family were unwilling to accept Dong Wen, who had survived the Collapse Night, believing that there were potential Abnormal risks in Dong Wen that could easily endanger lives and bring misfortune. Regarding his workplace life, due to his background, he had a difficult time finding employment in his newly settled city. After the Collapse Night, no employer dared to hire him. Since then, he had been living by doing odd jobs and part-time work, and later, relying on his knowledge of hacker techniques, he began to engage in some black-market dealings...

The Mysterious Investigators fell into an endless silence. From the moment they saw the suspect's household registration information, they had a bad premonition, and the facts were indeed so.

After the Collapse Night, the Xuanmi Group took the lead in making news related to Abnormal things public, bringing the organization that was originally behind the scenes to the front. Although this move was objectively inclined toward a positive side, in the face of increasingly frequent Abnormal events, people's survival chances were greatly increased due to their awareness of the existence of Abnormal things and the popularization of knowledge related to the Abnormal. On the other hand, however, it also created some other unavoidable negative effects.

Those who had been affected or even harmed by Abnormal things, because of people's lack of knowledge about the Abnormal, were generally equated by ordinary people with "patients with infectious and fatal evil diseases," "people cursed by demons and abandoned by gods," or "jinxes who would catch bad luck upon contact" based on simple empiricism. People spoke of them with terror and avoided them as if they were a plague.

In the early days, society called those survivors who had experienced Abnormal events "Calamity." Not only did they not feel that it was a lucky thing for them to survive the Abnormal events, but they also felt that it would have been better if they had died in the Abnormal events. The largest group of "Calamity" belonged to the survivors of the Cuizhu City Collapse Night.

Although the Xuanmi Group had been popularizing correct concepts to the public for a long time since the first moment they discovered the problem, telling them to accept and tolerate those survivors.

However, this had no effect. The conflicts between the survivors and the public who had not experienced Abnormal events were constant, and even under the malicious incitement of some bad media, the conflicts between the two sides were intensified and exacerbated. At the same time, the survivors who had experienced Abnormal events actually had some problems in body and mind. Some of them had relatively obvious performances that were different from ordinary people, which led to the survivors becoming less and less accepted by the public, and some survivors stood completely on the opposite side of the public.

Knowing computers, knowing hacker techniques, a survivor of the Collapse Night, a history of discrimination... These labels stamped on Dong Wen almost completely confirmed that this person was the mastermind behind this Abnormal event.

"You've finished reading, right?" Seeing the long silence on the other side of the communication, Zhu Jingzhi knew that they had basically finished reading and were feeling as complicated as he was when he first finished reading Dong Wen's identity and experience. He then said, "I have already contacted Dong Wen's landlord. He will cooperate with our operation. His accurate address information has been sent to you. You should also be prepared on your side and act at any time."

"Received." Ma You's mood could not be calm for a while, but this did not affect his decision-making for the next action.

After finishing the double-skin milk, the four-man operation team immediately got up and entered the residential building where Dong Wen lived.

Upon entering the residential building, the landlord, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, immediately handed a bunch of keys to Ma You and the others. After telling them Dong Wen's room number, he immediately ran out of the residential building, running away without looking back.

Room 608 on the 6th floor. Ma You took the corresponding room key and arrived in front of the corresponding room door.

He first used an instrument to peek at the situation in Room 608 and found that the room was quiet. Moreover, in the thermal imaging of the peeping, a humanoid object was hanging high, which was extremely unreasonable.

The four-man team, suddenly feeling that something was wrong, immediately opened the door and entered. The scene they saw next left them all stunned on the spot.

A middle-aged man with greasy hair was hanging himself in the center of the room, his whole body swaying and rotating slightly on the noose.

After a brief moment of shock, they came to their senses and took the person down, but found that Dong Wen could no longer be saved, and they could also confirm that the person who hanged himself was indeed Dong Wen himself.

Ma You saw a book with a somewhat dilapidated cover on Dong Wen's desk. The text on the cover was written in Latin. Ma You had seen some Latin, but didn't know much of it; he could only recognize that it was Latin text, so he took a photo of the book cover and sent it to Zhu Jingzhi for deciphering and interpretation.

Afterwards, Ma You checked the computer, which had already entered the screensaver animation, and saw the suicide note Dong Wen had written on the computer.

It could be called a suicide note, but it was actually more like a text of someone venting.

She is dead! Hahaha!

She is dead!

She is dead!

Die die die die die (omitting countless "dies")...

Piecing together Dong Wen's fragmented writing according to logic, Ma You finally understood what Dong Wen had written at the end.

It turned out that the Abnormal Sleep Aid Videos that Dong Wen had released had "luckily" been pushed to his ex-girlfriend, and his ex-girlfriend had gone missing because of it. Just yesterday, his ex-girlfriend's parents called to inform him of this news. After that, Dong Wen, not knowing what kind of mood he was in, finally chose to hang himself.

When further searching through Dong Wen's computer files, Ma You also found some logs Dong Wen had written on the computer, which intermittently recorded things since he started working as a hacker, including the origin of the ancient book on the computer desk.