Chapter 142

My name is Gu Xiaoyue, and I am an ordinary clerk.

That noon, like many people, I took out my phone unconsciously during lunch, wanting to watch something and kill time.

However, when the phone lit up, I found an unfamiliar app on the screen. This app had red letters on a black background, and the four bloody words "Hell Frontline" were written on it. It looked like an app for a horror game, giving people an ominous feeling.

"... A new type of virus?"

I am timid and never play horror games. Therefore, my first reaction was that those bored hackers started to release new viruses to cheat people again.

Recently, various types of App viruses have emerged in an endless stream, and the media has also been full of propaganda, calling on citizens not to click on unfamiliar apps at will in order to protect their own property safety.

Many stubborn brothers have scrapped several mobile phones, and finally learned their lesson and stopped fighting with these virus apps. I am a person who doesn't like to die, so it is naturally impossible for me to click on this app from an unknown source.

My fingertips carefully avoided the icon of this app, and I didn't even plan to delete it, so as not to accidentally trigger the virus.

After lunch, I went online and opened a reporting webpage, which described this new virus app in detail.

Recently, hackers have been rampant, but the country has not stopped 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 unknown apps when you encounter them. This is also one of your obligations.

Recently, the leaders above have attached great importance to virus apps. It seems that these apps have caused a lot of losses to the country. Hackers are really sinful.

After submitting, I put this matter behind me, because with the review speed of the staff, it is estimated that it will take until the evening to get the results at the earliest.

But I never expected that the review speed this time was so fast. In less than an hour, my report was approved.

What I didn't expect was that before the reward came, a uniformed brother broke into the office and told me seriously that my mobile phone was confiscated.

It is said that this mobile phone virus is very complicated, so it needs to be studied together with the mobile phone, and it is the kind that will not be returned after the study.

I don’t know much about this, but we are all people in the system, so we must cooperate when encountering such things. Although I was reluctant to give up my phone, under the director’s burning gaze, I still obediently gave my phone to the uniformed brother...

I was very sad that my phone was gone.

But the good news is that the confiscated phone can be reimbursed.

With the reimbursement and bonus, I can buy a more expensive new phone. As soon as I got the new phone, I forgot the happiness that the old phone once brought me.

…

Originally, I could enjoy the smooth experience of the new phone, but I saw the familiar APP again within two days of owning the new phone.

I thought it was the culprit that caused the previous phone to leave me, so I still had a deep impression of it.

However, as a person with little curiosity, I still didn’t plan to click it.

I silently opened the reporting website and reported this app casually.

Faster than last time, I saw the uniformed brother again.

This time, the uniformed brother not only confiscated my phone, but also "confiscated" me casually.

Sitting in the heavily guarded research institute, looking at a group of white coats staring at me, I was a little panicked.

I seemed to be in big trouble.

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, during this period, they tried to give me a new phone, but

the third phone also couldn't escape the bad luck. On the afternoon of the day I got it, the rogue app was added again, which surprised the white coats.

Fortunately, they gave me

the fourth phone, and the fourth phone has been fine, without any extra things that shouldn't be added.

At least so far...

It may be that seeing that I am particularly popular with rogue apps, and that I am a public servant (guinea pig) with a good family background and a correct outlook on life. The director thought I was a promising talent, so he transferred my organizational relationship and transferred me to the research institute.

After working in the institute for a while, my worldview was severely hit. Before that, I always believed in science and never thought that there would be such a thing in the world.

Because we are all people who study apps, I also know part of the truth.

The beginning of the matter started with the death of a team leader in the network security department.

This team leader who first spread the virus app on the Internet died suddenly soon after turning himself in. Before his death, he specifically mentioned "one minute", as if he had a premonition of his own death and accurately predicted his own death time.

What's more strange is that on a mobile phone confiscated from her, the young man on the other side of the screen kept staring at the phone, and the screen quickly went black, making the task force members think that this was her accomplice.

However, when the police broke into the room, they found that the young man had already stopped breathing and was still holding the phone before his death. After the 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 from playing with mobile phones" when he died, which was surprisingly consistent with the symptoms of the two deaths. Even elementary school students can find that there must be something hidden.

At the home of the deceased team leader, the task force searched for the tools used by the team leader to make the virus app. At the same time, a lot of information was obtained from the team leader's personal belongings. It was found that the team leader suddenly paid great attention to supernatural events in the more than two months before her death. The frequency of browsing horror novels, supernatural games, and horror videos on the Internet was abnormal. Before that, she obviously had no hobbies in this area.

At the same time, the task force also investigated the young man who was monitored by the team leader.

At the home of the deceased young man, they investigated his notebook and mobile phone. Through browsing records, they found that the young man suddenly began to pay a lot of attention to supernatural and horror information in more than two months, and had also browsed news related to "sudden death from mobile phones".

In addition, the young man did not participate in the incident of spreading the virus app. According to the evidence collected, making the virus app should be just 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.

This female anchor had a strange appetite and died of sudden death. Before her death, she also had a strange interest in supernatural information.

Similar commonalities, death that deliberately conveyed information, plus the frequent sudden death news not long ago...

The members of the task force keenly discovered the commonalities and realized that there might be more than just these victims.

After big data screening, the members of the task force found that after the emergence of the two virus apps, the number of people in China who died suddenly from playing with mobile phones suddenly dropped, and it seemed that the cause of death of the sudden death was deeply related to the app.

There is an app related to the supernatural and ghosts that is trying to invade our world. This app game is suspected to have 12 levels. Clicking on the app will force you to join the game. Failure in the game will cause the player to die suddenly, and success in the game seems to threaten the safety of our world.

For some reason, Team Leader Ye could not tell the truth clearly, so he had to create a virus to hint at it in the hope that others would find it.

This conclusion is quite absurd, but after excluding all impossibilities, the remaining explanation, no matter how incredible, is the truth of the matter.

Anyway, after reading the analysis of those experts, I was fooled into believing it.

…

After staying in the institute for a long time, it is inevitable to come into contact with some cruel things.

This is the first time I know that the director and his team will use death row prisoners for experiments.

None of the three mobile phones I was confiscated was wasted, and they were all provided to those death row prisoners.

Some researchers who like SCP call these experimental subjects D-class personnel. I searched the Internet for what SCP is, and I felt that it was very similar to our situation, so I secretly called it that behind my back.

Because of the sacrifice of these D-class personnel, the weirdness of the 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 one minute.

After returning to reality again, the D-class personnel are controlled by the App and cannot say or write any information related to the App in any way. Moreover, the App will suddenly "disappear" on the phone when someone witnesses it. Only when the witness looks away can the D-class personnel see the App again. Moreover, the video involving the App will disappear, and all electronic products are unreliable.

In addition, from the first contact with the App, they must click on the App again every seven days to enter the weird world. If they do not touch the App for seven days, they will die...

...

With the unremitting efforts of many staff members, the research has made some progress.

The researchers found that as the game progresses, some D-class personnel will mutate. Compared with other D-class personnel, they will eat very little, sleep much less, and maintain their energy, becoming less and less human.

Thinking of the mutant creatures in horror games, I feel a little scared and disgusted with these D-class personnel.

I always feel that if nothing is done and they are left alone, they will become quite terrifying creatures.

However, including the director, we still don’t know what the App is.

The App is something that today’s technology cannot understand. The only thing we can be sure of is that no one can pass it.

Unfortunately, this is not something that can be controlled by human power.

Anyone with a mobile phone in any corner of the world may become a player of this game. We cannot ensure that everyone can control their hands, nor can we find everyone who becomes a player. We can only delay the time to pass the game.

And... will the App really only appear on mobile phones? No one knows this.

What we can do now is to race against time and find ways to fight it as much as possible before the terror comes.

My name is Gu Xiaoyue, and I am an ordinary researcher.

After studying for so long, I still haven't found a way to fight the App. I am a little pessimistic.

But... I want to survive and don't want Team Leader Ye and others to sacrifice in vain.

Today, I am also doing my best.