My name is Gu Xiaoyue, and I am an ordinary clerk.
At noon that day, like many people, I unconsciously took out my mobile phone while eating lunch, trying to watch something casually to kill time.
However, when the phone was turned on, I found that there was an app I didn't recognize on the screen. This app was written in red on a black background with four blood characters of "Hell Frontline". It looked like a horror game app. An ominous feeling.
"...a new strain of virus?"
I'm timid and never play horror games. So, my first reaction is that those boring hackers are starting to drop new viruses to scam people again.
Recently, all kinds of App viruses have emerged one after another, and the publicity in the media has also been overwhelming, appealing to citizens not to open unfamiliar Apps in order to protect their own property safety.
There are a lot of old men who scrapped several mobile phones, and finally learned to be good, no longer compete with these virus apps, and I am a person who does not like to die, so it is even more impossible for me to click on this unknown source app.
Be careful to avoid the icon of this app with your fingertips. I don't even plan to delete it, so as not to accidentally trigger the virus.
After lunch, I went online and opened a report page, describing this new virus app in detail.
Hackers have been rampant recently, but the state is not without efforts to curb them.
For example, this reporting website, whenever you find a suspected virus app, you can report it on this website. After verification, there will be a certain bonus.
Of course, as a civil servant, even if there is no bonus, you must report when you encounter an unknown app, which is also one of your obligations.
Recently, the leaders above have attached great importance to the virus app. It seems that these apps have caused a lot of losses to the country, and the hackers have really committed a lot of crimes.
After submitting, I put this matter behind me, because with the review speed of the staff, it is estimated that it will be night at the earliest when the results come out.
But I never expected that the review speed this time would be so fast. In less than an hour, my report was passed.
What I didn't even expect was that before the reward came down, a little brother in uniform broke into the office and told me with a serious face that my mobile phone was confiscated.
It is said that this mobile phone virus is very complicated, so it needs to be researched together with the mobile phone, and it is the kind that will not be returned after the research.
I don't know much about this, but I'm a member of the system. Of course I have to cooperate when encountering such a thing. Although I don't want to part with my mobile phone, under the scorching gaze of the director, I obediently gave the mobile phone to the uniform boy. elder brother…
I'm sad that my phone is gone.
But the good news is that the confiscated mobile phones can be reimbursed.
With the reimbursement fee plus the bonus, I can buy a new, more expensive mobile phone. Once I get the new mobile phone, I forget the happiness that the old mobile phone once brought me.
…
Originally, I could enjoy the smooth experience of the new phone, but within two days of owning the new phone, I saw the familiar APP again.
Thought it was the one that caused the last phone to leave me, so I wasn't too impressed with it.
However, as a person with little curiosity, I still don't intend to click on it.
I silently opened the reporting website and reported this App casually.
Faster than last time, I saw the uniform boy again.
This time, the uniform boy not only confiscated my mobile phone, but also confiscated me casually.
Sitting in the heavily guarded research institute, looking at a group of white coats staring at each other, I was a little panicked.
I seem to have a big deal.
…
The white coats studied for a few days and determined that there was nothing special about me. It was just that I was very unlucky, so I encountered the hell app again in just a few days.
And coincidentally, in the meantime, they tried to slip me a new phone, and it turned out
The third mobile phone was also doomed. On the afternoon I got it, there was another rogue app, which surprised the white coats.
Well, they stuffed me again
The fourth mobile phone, the fourth mobile phone has always been good, there is nothing more than it should not be.
At least so far...
It may be because I am particularly attracted to rogue apps, and I am a business ape (guinea pig) with good roots and good views. The director thought that I was a promising talent, so he transferred me to the organization relationship and transferred me to the research institute.
After working in the institute for a period of time, my world view was severely hit. Before that, I always believed in science, and I never thought that there would be such a thing in the world——
Because they are all people who study App, I also know the truth of some things.
It all started with the death of a team leader in the network security department.
The team leader who first spread the virus app on the Internet died suddenly soon after he surrendered. He even mentioned "one minute" before his death. He seemed to have foreseen his own death and predicted his death accurately. time.
And, what's even more weird is that on a mobile phone confiscated from her, the young man on the other side of the screen kept staring at the mobile phone, and the screen quickly went black, making the task force think it was her accomplice.
However, when the police broke in, they found that the young man had already lost his breath and was still holding his mobile phone before his death. After an autopsy, it was found that the cause of death was also sudden death, and the time of death was the same as that of the team leader.
The two died at the same time, and the cause of death was abnormal. In addition, the team leader carried a newspaper clipping about "sudden death while playing with a mobile phone" with him when he died.
At the home of the deceased comrade leader, the task force searched the tools used by the leader to make virus apps, and at the same time obtained a lot of information from the leader's belongings. The incident was of great concern, and the frequency of browsing horror novels, supernatural games, and horror videos on the Internet was abnormally high, and before that, she obviously had no hobbies in this area.
At the same time, the personnel of the task force also investigated the young people who were monitored by the team leader.
At the home of the dead young man, they investigated his notebook and mobile phone. Through browsing records, they found that the young man had suddenly started to pay attention to a lot of supernatural and horror information in the past two months. news.
In addition, the youth did not participate in the incident of distributing virus apps. According to the collected evidence, making virus apps should only be the personal behavior of Team Leader Ye.
At this time, the task force had already realized that this was a shocking case.
They followed the clues and found that the dead young man followed a female anchor named Chu, and this female anchor also died abnormally.
The female anchor had a strange appetite, and the cause of death was also sudden death, and she was also strangely interested in supernatural information before her death.
The similarities, the deliberate messaging of deaths, coupled with the fairly frequent news of sudden deaths not so long ago...
The personnel of the task force are keenly aware of the common ground among them, and also realize that there may be more than these few victims.
After sifting through big data, the task force found that after the emergence of the two virus apps, the number of people in Huaguo who were related to sudden death while playing with mobile phones dropped sharply.
After investigation and analysis, they came to a dire conclusion that still eludes me today—
There is an App related to ghosts and ghosts that is trying to invade our world. This App game is suspected to have 12 levels. If you click on the App, you will be forced to join the game. Failure of the game will lead to sudden death of the player, and the success of the game seems to be threatening. to the safety of our world.
For some reason, Team Leader Ye couldn't tell the truth clearly, so he had to make a virus to hint at it in the hope that others would find out.
This conclusion is quite absurd, but after eliminating all impossibilities, the remaining explanation, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth of the matter.
Anyway, after reading the analysis of those experts, I was deceived.
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After staying in the research institute for a long time, it is inevitable to come into contact with some cruel things.
It was the first time I knew that the director would use executed prisoners for experiments.
Of the three mobile phones confiscated from me, none of them were wasted, and they were all used by those on death row.
A researcher who likes SCP calls these subjects D-class personnel. I searched the Internet for what SCP is, and I think it is very similar to our situation, so I also secretly called it this way.
Because of the sacrifice of these D-class personnel, the weirdness of that app has been verified.
The first time you click on the App, the D-class personnel will disappear in reality, some will disappear forever, and some will return after a minute.
After returning to reality again, the D-class personnel are under the control of the App, and cannot speak or write information related to the App in any way. And at this time, the app will suddenly 'disappear' on the phone when someone witnesses it. Only when the witnesses look away can the D-class personnel see the app again. Moreover, videos involving APPs will disappear, and all electronic products will be unreliable.
In addition, from the first time they touch the app, they have to click on the app again every seven days to enter that weird world. If they don't touch the app for seven days, they will die...
…
With the unremitting efforts of many staff members, the research has made some progress.
Researchers discovered that as the game progressed, the bodies of some D-class personnel would mutate. Compared to other D-class personnel, they will eat less and sleep much less, while maintaining energy and becoming less and less human.
Reminiscent of those mutated creatures in horror games, I feel a little scared and disgusted by these D-class personnel.
I always feel that if they don't care about anything and just let it go like this, they will become quite terrifying creatures.
However, including the director, we still don't know what the App is.
App is something that today's technology cannot understand. The only thing we can be sure of is that absolutely no one can pass the level.
Unfortunately, this is beyond human control.
In any corner of the world, as long as there is a mobile phone, it is possible to become a player of this game. We cannot ensure that everyone can control their own hands, and we cannot find everyone who becomes a player. We can only Delay the clearance time.
And... do apps really only exist on phones? No one knew that either.
What we can do now is to race against time and try our best to find the means to fight against the terror before it comes.
My name is Gu Xiaoyue, and I am an ordinary researcher.
After researching for so long, I still haven't found a way to fight against App. I'm a little pessimistic.
But... I want to live, and I don't want Team Leader Ye and the others to sacrifice in vain.
Today, I am also doing my best.