Chapter 808 Computer
Tu Lanxun sat bored at the cash register computer, playing Minesweeper. She couldn't leave, and she didn't dare check her phone, but no one was going to kill her. She was simply too bored.
After passing the level again, she looked at N, who fell silent after speaking, and a strange feeling lingered in her heart.
No, she would never ask about the relationship between N and the victim. The more she knew, the harder it would be to get away.
Tu Lanxun was extremely bored. Since her bankruptcy, she had rarely been bored and felt numb every day, but today she actually regained this luxurious emotion.
It was as if the thrilling night and day spent with N had broken her frozen state. No wonder so many people like extreme sports.
"What are you looking at?" N threw out a statement, and he seemed to catch her gaze out of thin air without even moving his eyelids.
Tu Lanxun then realized that he had been looking at it for too long and looked away, "I didn't see anything."
Her eyes dropped back to the computer screen as she started another round of Spider Solitaire. N should be able to see what she was doing at any time, without moving his eyes. Perhaps his cold, damp gaze was always on the computer, watching her finish game after game.
Fortunately, she had this computer with built-in games, otherwise she really didn't know what to do.
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computer?
Tu Lanxun took a deep breath and re-appraised his surroundings. Everything worth money in the convenience store, even the self-heating hot pots costing over thirty yuan, had been removed. So why was this cash register computer still there?
She finally grasped the underlying sense of dissonance. A chill ran down her spine again. Recent events had her conjuring up the possibility of a supernatural event.
"You finally found out. You're not too slow." N's voice came coldly and hatefully, but he didn't continue.
Tu Lanxun quickly let go of the mouse and took a few steps back. Seeing that N had no intention of explaining, she couldn't help but muster up the courage to pick up her phone and search for the entries of Penglai Building and 24h Sunshine Convenience Store.
Anyway, it was N who brought up the topic of computers, so it wouldn't be considered overstepping her bounds if she just searched for it.
Ever since the Lucheng Development Zone was mysteriously invaded, strange stories related to the Penglai Building have been making the rounds. Most of them are made up to attract attention. I wrote a long passage under Tu Lanxun, but I couldn't find any with this convenience store as the protagonist.
After exiting another pop-up ad webpage, Tu Lanxun added the word "computer" at the beginning of the keyword and made a new discovery this time.
It's a little-known forum in the province, with an old page. One of the posts reads: [You probably don't know, but the computers at the Sunshine Hours convenience store in Penglai Building were terrifying!!!]
The poster misspelled the name of the convenience store, but when you click on it, you can see a photo of the 24h Sunshine Convenience Store, which is a street view automatically captured by the map software before the incident.
He wrote in the post: I heard that the computer at the cash register is haunted. Since it mysteriously invaded the development zone, it can't be turned on at all. Whenever someone tries to turn it on, a particularly scary female ghost face appears on the screen and it moves! !
1L replied: OP, stop joking. What you are talking about is a scary Trojan horse program that existed in the early days of the Internet. It was sent to friends specifically to play pranks. Some of them even came with screaming background music. Your generation still knows too little about it.
2L: Yes, yes, don’t be alarmist here. There are too many false news about the development zone.
3L: Haha, share the story you just made up.
4L [Original Poster]: If I tell a lie, I'll be haunted, okay?! Let me be clear, that ghost face is definitely not a virus! Because its eyes move back and forth according to the movements of the person in front of the screen!
5L: This is getting more and more outrageous. What's the point of swearing? How can you prove it?
6L: Exactly. What if it's a computer camera sensor? With AI technology being so advanced now, human form capture has already been used in video doorbells. Hilarious!
7L [Original Poster]: [Picture][Picture][Picture] My cousin was working at this convenience store at the time. He was the store manager and the person operating the computer has been boxed up and burned to ashes. My brother just glanced at it from the side and is still in the hospital! I was the one who stayed with him in the bed!
Tu Lanxun clicked on the large picture and saw blue and white sheets, a thin cushioned recliner beside the bed, and red words printed on the headboard: this is the city's Mental Health Center.
The poster who loved to post exclamation marks chatted with netizens several times, revealing his own family scandals. Most people who followed him wished his cousin a speedy recovery, or advised him to protect his privacy and delete the post. Although no one refuted him again, no one said they really believed him.
After exiting the forum, Tu Lanxun saw that N hadn't responded yet, so he bravely entered the original keyword + "store manager died" and clicked search. He actually found a news item at the bottom of the page.
A 32-year-old man in Lucheng died suddenly of cardiac arrest while working. He was found to be a convenience store employee. When will the 996 work schedule end?
The news was released just half a month before the development zone was confirmed to have been mysteriously invaded. Before it had time to ferment, this kind of news was mixed in with the overwhelming ghost stories and no one paid any attention to it.
It seems the original poster has some credibility. The cash register computers weren't removed, which could be related to the so-called ghost face on the screen. The people who came to search the store were scared and gave up.
But Tu Lanxun has opened the computer twice last night and today, so how come nothing seems to happen?
She walked away timidly and stood not far from N's shelf. "Is there really a ghost in the computer?"
N flipped a page of white paper, propped his elbow on the armrest at a very beautiful angle, raised his eyes over her shoulder, and said something unpleasant, "Yes, it's behind you."
Tu Lanxun almost immediately felt that there was someone behind her. The hairs on her body stood on end, and her neck was stiff and she didn't dare to look back. N was not the kind of person who liked to joke. Even after the incident at the funeral home, she tended to believe that what he said was true.
Because that face has a clear jawline, the broken eyeballs are very conspicuous against the dark cream skin, and the straight lines of his brow bones are very serious. When he is not smiling, he has a sense of arrogant severity, which is completely different from his style when he is smiling.
Although N's gaze was always cold and thorny, he looked at her as if she were a speck of dust.
Tu Lanxun could inexplicably sense that he was not lying, or rather, he did not act like this when he was lying.
"Get out of here." N said towards her, his voice was soft but the edge in it was extremely cold.
These words were obviously not directed at her, and Tu Lanxun indeed felt a loosening on her back, and the feeling of being followed disappeared.
She also realized that the computer ghost didn't come out to scare her, probably because N was always there.
The female ghost who can only lie in front of the computer and scare people is two levels of ferocity from the rumored BOSS-level ghost.
He wouldn't allow other ghosts to covet his prey, although Tu Lanxun guessed he planned to keep her for a while and find another opportunity to eat her alive. Buying clams at home still requires a while to let them spit out the sand, not to mention an accomplice like her who had some use.
Tu Lanxun suddenly felt a little sympathy with the female ghost. They were both oppressed.
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It's dark again.
Tao Si sent a message, and Tu Lanxun's courage, which had been frightened away, grew back. She directly typed a reply to Tao Si, agreeing to her proposal to continue the "brave one" challenge. Anyway, if N didn't allow her to send it, he could just intercept the message.
A red circle appears on the message screen, indicating that the message failed to be sent. Please check the network.
Not allowed.
What's wrong with that? She only sent two words, OK.
Tu Lanxun secretly cast a dissatisfied look, but it only lasted for two seconds before she immediately retracted it. She mechanically stood up and went to find dinner, while secretly wondering how to pay for Ms. Tu Penglai's medical expenses in the future.
She still had a tiny bit of savings, which was only enough to last less than half a month, and that was on the premise that she didn't spend a penny herself.
The phone suddenly vibrated again. She thought Tao Si had sent a message to her, but when she clicked on it, it was a message from the business hall, indicating that the new monthly phone card package had been renewed. Due to insufficient balance, the credit card was automatically charged a total of 18,009 yuan.
18,009 yuan? Tu Lanxun started coughing. When had she subscribed to such an expensive phone package? Was it really legal? The business hall had stolen her credit card!
She opened the details with trembling fingers and closed her eyes in despair. The phone card package itself was only 60 yuan, but when the bank gave her a gift two years ago, it recommended that she apply for the combined consumption service.
The monthly minimum consumption points for various platform memberships and several frequently purchased brands would be deducted along with the communication service charges. She was too lazy to read many text messages and just signed the agreement. At that time, that little money was nothing to her.
She hated herself for being so ignorant at that time!
The five-figure deduction this month was partly due to her spending downgrade. The points previously stored in her brand membership account were used to offset a large portion of the deduction, leaving only the actual cash withdrawal.
What’s annoying is that when she clicked to cancel the contract one by one, the brand manager popped up a message telling her that the small gift for renewing her membership this month was on the way!
Tu Lanxun collapsed. Now she has lost all her savings. The 100,000 yuan start-up capital has been emptied from (1/10) to (0/10).
Would she be able to shake milk tea? She would have to flatter her boss and beg him for an advance on her salary. Tu Lanxun had lost hope in life, and suddenly felt less afraid of ghosts.
The scariest ghost in the world is obviously the poor ghost.
By the way, N seems to have conjured up money out of thin air today.
Judging from his appearance, he doesn't seem to care about money, let alone legality.
Tu Lanxun had a sinister thought for a moment, but N, as if seeing through her, closed the book, stood up, and walked towards her. His eyes were solemn, as if he was about to make some drastic decision.
Was he going to give her money? He had already roped her into the gang, and the gang would probably share the spoils. But could she really take that kind of money?
Tu Lanxun's confusion didn't last for two seconds before N passed by her. His real destination was the store entrance.
A wisp of green smoke rose from N's body. He glanced outside the shop, then turned sideways to Tu Lanxun and noticed that N had a burning incense stick in his hand. He lowered his brows, his eyes not merciful but cold and sharp, his eyebrows sharp as a knife.
"Here it comes." said N.
When the smoke from the burning incense filled the entire doorway, the night wind rustled, bringing an eerie chill that penetrated the clothes. Although it was a sunny day, it was very dark at night.
A figure suddenly walked out of the darkness and came to the door of the store, with blood constantly spilling on the ground.
He seemed to be wearing a crimson cardigan with a strange cut, with the hems fluttering on both sides. But when the man walked to the edge of the light, Tu Lanxun almost vomited.
That was not a cardigan. His upper body was naked, with a vertical cut from the neck to the trousers, deep into the inner cavity. The flesh and ribs were folded to the sides, like front wings, covering his arms. In the center, there was a bunch of red fruits. From a distance, it looked like he was wearing a red cardigan.
The disemboweler squinted his eyes and looked at the light, as if he was longing for the breath of a living person. The smell of decay suddenly arose. He was an evil ghost that suddenly appeared in the night.
There were many equally eerie black shadows behind the Eviscerator.
Some had only half of their face left, some had empty eyes, and some had skin covered with red marks. They gathered around one by one, bringing up a thick white mist.
Their eyes were fixed on one common point, N, and the blue-scented Tu Xun behind him.
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