Chapter 211: Cyber Killer

As the phone screen slowly lit up, the screensaver was a swordsman holding a long sword, with handsome features and an extraordinary bearing.

From the time of death until now, there hadn't been a single new WeChat message or phone call on his phone. Instead, QQ messages kept popping up.

"This person's social style is quite unique." Qi Fei flipped through the phone and said. He looked at the messages popping up on QQ and found they were all groups related to web novels.

"Looks like a shut-in who loves reading web novels?" Qi Fei browsed the group messages, not really understanding what these netizens were talking about.

At the top of the phone, the button reminding him of the novel update was still hovering there, making Qi Fei unable to resist pulling down the menu and clicking on this book called "God of War: Restarting Life." However, after opening the book, his eyes widened suddenly.

Wu Shanqiu saw Qi Fei standing at the crime scene, scrolling through Hao Weiwei's phone screen with his thumb, looking incredibly engrossed. She walked up curiously, and upon seeing it was actually a web novel interface, she was greatly surprised: "No way, Fei-ge, slacking off openly today? This doesn't look like you!"

Qi Fei didn't look like he was joking at all. His expression was incredibly solemn. He shoved the phone toward Wu Shanqiu without saying a word.

Wu Shanqiu saw that his state was wrong and read the content on the phone with confusion, unable to help but be shocked: "Ah! This is...!"

It turned out that the latest chapter released by this novel called "God of War: Restarting Life" described at the very beginning how a man named Hao Weisuo was cyber-tortured and killed by a genius killer in a remote city suburb. It detailed every position where the killer stabbed Hao Weisuo, and the positions of the wounds on Hao Weiwei, who was lying in the rental room, were exactly the same.

And when reading about the aftermath, Wu Shanqiu couldn't help but gasp, because the article also wrote about the detail of the killer cutting off Hao Weisuo's finger, throwing it out the window, and having it eaten by wild dogs.

"Fei-ge..." Wu Shanqiu looked at these shocking details, "This shouldn't be a coincidence, right? Only people at the scene could know these details, right?"

"No, to be precise, only the murderer would know." Qi Fei said calmly, "Look at the process and perspective described."

Wu Shanqiu re-examined the content of the article following Qi Fei's hint. The object of the description was always this person Hao Weisuo, including his insolence at the beginning, his reaction after every stab, and even many details like how the blood gushed from the wounds, which made one's hair stand on end.

"Uh, I have phantom pain after reading it for a long time." Wu Shanqiu muttered.

"If it were written by an eyewitness, I think it would describe both the murderer and the victim simultaneously. Moreover, the situation after the deceased was stabbed in the back is clearly from an overhead perspective, unless this eyewitness was always stuck to the murderer. But we clearly didn't see any evidence at the scene that matches this speculation." Qi Fei said.

Wu Shanqiu nodded thoughtfully: "The person who wrote this clearly has strong personal emotions toward Hao. Fei-ge, have we found the murderer? The author of this novel?"

And Qi Fei looked at Wu Shanqiu meaningfully and said: "You should look at the end of this chapter."

Wu Shanqiu read on with trepidation, and like Qi Fei, her eyes grew wider and wider, because at the end of the chapter, the other party wrote about the day after Hao Weisuo's death, when the police arrived at the scene, found Hao Weisuo's phone, and discovered a novel written by Hao Weisuo, with the latest released chapter detailing the entire process of his own death.

"This..." Wu Shanqiu looked around, doubting life, "Did we travel into the novel?"

Qi Fei certainly didn't have as big an imagination as Wu Shanqiu and remained calm: "Traveling through time is impossible. I think the murderer planned to release this chapter only after we arrived at the scene.

There are two things here that we don't grasp. One, the matter of the finger being thrown out the window—although I guessed it right, we didn't know it was eaten by dogs. Second, did you notice? The article says these murder processes were released through Hao Weisuo's novel."

Wu Shanqiu heard this and immediately flipped to the author of "God of War: Restarting Life," whose screen name was "Supreme Himself": "Whoa, this name is arrogant enough!"

However, she quickly noticed that the username of this reading account was exactly the same as the name of this novel. Flipping further back, many interactions with readers were also issued from this account.

It seems this Hao Weiwei really is the author of this web novel.

This novel is about a loser who travels to a parallel universe and makes a comeback all the way. The protagonist in the novel is powerful and reaches the pinnacle of life. No one would have thought that the author in reality was huddled in a broken house of a few square meters in this village, dying on a night when no one cared.

"Needless to say, the Hao Weisuo in this latest chapter is Hao Weiwei, right? It seems this wasn't written by himself in advance. After all, no one would call themselves 'Weisuo' (sleazy/slimy)." Wu Shanqiu studied the text inside seriously, "And this writing style doesn't look like his previous style, it even... looks a bit like..."

Qi Fei knew that Wu Shanqiu was more familiar with internet content than he was. Today, he didn't know what this surfing girl had discovered, so he hurriedly asked: "It wouldn't be that in the web novels you read, someone's style is very similar to this, right?"

"Ha, how could there be such a coincidence? I mean, this style is not quite the same as the web novels I usually read. It seems too..."

"Too what?" Qi Fei hurriedly asked.

Wu Shanqiu frowned, seemingly unable to find the right language to describe it for a moment. After thinking for a while, she said: "It's just too serious, you know? It seems like the kind of more serious literature we read when we were young, back in the old days."

Qi Fei didn't care about web literature; he only cared about the person who released this article: "From your perspective as a reader, this chapter was definitely written by someone else, right?"

"Of course. And this plot has nothing to do with his previous content. This murderer is arrogant enough, openly provoking us like this?" Wu Shanqiu said excitedly, her ponytail swinging behind her head.

Qi Fei's gaze fell on the empty old desk again: "It seems he took Hao Weiwei's laptop not for money, but to use his account to release this murder process."

"Hao Weiwei, Hao Weisuo..." Wu Shanqiu muttered the two names, "The murderer used such an insulting name to refer to Hao Weiwei. Judging from this name, the possibility of a vendetta is very high. However, it's also strange that he used 'Cyber' to refer to himself..." ===== CHAPTER 212 =====