This speculation was not groundless.
Gu Zhisang has a pair of eyes that can see through the evil spirits.
Under this premise, although He Zhaosheng’s ghost can travel through the Internet and use the communication channels of the virtual world to control life, it will still leave traces.
The first time she saw the prophecy of “Death Note” circulating on the Internet, Gu Zhisang discovered the evil spirit hidden behind the prophecy.
It was precisely because the energy transmitted by the Internet was invisible and intangible that people who are in the discussion and carnival cannot find or think that their emotions, world outlook, thinking, and even mental state are actually affected by reading those “Death Note” repeatedly.
After going to Fengcheng Academy of Fine Arts and seeing “Vortex” painted by He Zhaosheng, Gu Zhisang confirmed her guess.
She asked: “What are the identities of the two people who died outside?”
The spiritual team member said: “The identity of the older one is clear, he is Hai Ming’s father. The police are investigating the younger one…”
As he was talking, the police officer in charge of trace inspection outside the house said loudly: “The identities of the deceased have been found out.”
The young man stabbed to death by Hai Ming was a distant relative of the Hai Family. He liked to speculate in stocks and lost all his family assets.
It was estimated that he heard about Hai Ming’s winning the award and became rich. He contacted Father Hai a week ago and mentioned that he wanted to visit him, but in fact, he wanted to borrow money.
Who would have thought that within ten minutes of arriving at Hai Ming’s house, he would be stabbed to death by Hai Ming?
The police officer muttered: “It shouldn’t be… Hai Ming has no motive to kill his father and this relative whom he has only met twice!”
“By the way, Master Gu, colleagues from xx Garden Community have also sent news, saying that the identities of the other two deceased have been found out, they are the old dean and his wife of Fengcheng Academy of Fine Arts.”
“According to the investigation results, the two should have been imprisoned in this room by unknown origins and identities since the day after the old dean took leave.”
This time coincides with the beginning of the appearance of “Death Note” on the Internet.
After a pause, the police officer sighed and said: “The old lady was seriously ill and passed away on the third day. Her body had been lying in the wheelchair without being moved. She had not been tortured before she died.”
“As for the old dean, he died in the house on the fifth day of his imprisonment, which was 9 days ago. From the examination of his body, it can be seen that he was tortured during his lifetime. His eyeballs were dug out and his tongue was cut. Two long network cables were deeply tied into his wrists, penetrating his flesh and cutting off his nerves. He was placed on the keyboard, just like…”
Like a puppet.
The two elderly people died not long ago, and their bodies were highly decomposed.
But before the police pried open the door, the neighbors around didn’t smell any corpse odor and didn’t find any clues.
This itself was one of the doubts.
When they entered the room, the computer in the room was still on.
After the police technicians investigated the computer, they found that the “prophet” IP that had been hiding and difficult to track was this computer.
This was also the most bizarre point for everyone:
The respected old dean was pressed to the chair in front of the computer desk fourteen days ago, his hands were twisted he was controlled by the network cable, and he issued a “death prophecy” every day.
Even his death prophecy was issued by his hands.
Within nine days after his death, his body gradually rotted.
But the predictions on the Internet didn’t stop.
The festering fingertips rubbed on the keyboard, leaving a trail of dried and mottled bloodstains.
There was no third person in the room except for the personal traces of an old couple, and the doors and windows of the house had not been opened for half a month…
Everything confirmed that the third person in the old dean’s room was not a human.
The police officer scratched his head: “All of them died in strange ways.”
Gu Zhisang played with the broken screen of her mobile phone, grasped a wisp of yin energy in her palm, looked up, and said:
“It’s easy to understand, He Zhaosheng is a natural artist, his thinking and revenge methods are naturally extraordinary.”
Even if there was a medium for transmission – the Internet, without a carrier of energy, it was difficult to spread the evil spirit widely.
He Zhaosheng was different, he had the best carrier for transmission:
“Vortex”
The painting stolen by Hai Ming and won a world-class award has attracted the attention of all the people in Fengcheng. It can be said that almost everyone in Fengcheng has seen this work that adds glory to the city.
The imprint of “Vortex” was engraved in their minds, which was a mark of He Zhaosheng.
He Zhaosheng can attach his power to the painting and continue to spread it to affect the emotions and mental state of the viewer.
If this was the case, why did those dead people go crazy without paying attention to others, there is an explanation.
They were surrounded by electronic products while driving, working, and living, and He Zhaosheng could reach them through the Internet.
When their souls sense the presence of ghosts, the “brand” hidden deep in their memories will be catalyzed.
Hallucinations, fear, anxiety… and other emotions will make them “see” bizarre pictures that do not exist, resulting in car accidents, sudden myocardial infarction, sudden death, or jumping from a high building.
The death of He Zhaosheng’s roommate An Mou was also a carefully designed ‘coincidence’.
The cat, who had keen five senses and was frightened by the yin energy in the painting, was frightened and its fur exploded, so it jumped onto the balcony, knocked off the plaster and potted plants, and killed An Mou.
As for the deaths of the old dean, the same was true.
The former’s ‘prophetic dream’ was nothing more than a trap set by He Zhaosheng for Hai Ming using hallucinations and dreams.
The scenes and magnificent pictures that Hai Ming saw in the dream were all designed by it, deliberately making Hai Ming deeply trapped in them and unable to extricate himself, and watching him being fooled around and then collapse.
Its hatred for the old dean was also easy to understand.
In He Zhaosheng’s view, the old dean was the principal of the school and a leader in the art world. He should have been there to speak up for the injustice, but he became an accomplice in the spread of evil for his selfish desires.
Not only did he conceal Hai Ming, but he also slandered and expelled himself.
So He Zhaosheng wanted to avenge himself.
It dug out the old dean’s eyes that didn’t know right from wrong, cut off the other party’s tongue that reversed black and white, and used his hands to publish “Death Note” to set things right.
It named the account behind its anonymous backend “Titia”. After Gu Zhisang’s search, it was found that in the Western mythology system, the blindfolded goddess who holds justice is named “Justitia”.
From all the details, it can be seen that He Zhaosheng’s ‘death note’ has been set up for a long time.
After committing suicide and turning into a fierce ghost, it took more than two months to carry out a grand series of revenge to find an opportunity to link all enemies together.
This person lived for art and died for art.
Even revenge was like a performance art.
So what was behind the revenge?
Gu Zhisang lowered her eyes and fell into deep thought as she looked at the slightly flickering mobile phone screen.
Among the information that He Zhaosheng posted and fanned the flames online, there was information about the existence of ‘gods’.
Under its exaggeration, many of its admirers on the Internet have also begun to believe in this god with an illegitimate origin.
This distorted power of faith, how much it has spread in secret, and to what extent it has developed.
If all this was the “black fog” to quickly promote the influence of the evil god, as well as the evil spirit and negative emotions.
Then Gu Zhisang can reasonably suspect that all the tragedies that He Zhaosheng encountered are also the conspiracy of the ‘black fog’.
That genius boy was just a pawn.
Looking beyond this incident, when He Zhaosheng placed the bag and the painting in Hai Ming’s office that day, the painting was rolled up and tied with a rubber band;
Hai Ming didn’t know it was a stunning painting.
Why did he get so obsessed that day and pick up the painting and open the ‘Pandora’s Box’?
After the plagiarism incident broke out, why did He Zhaosheng write down the whole story and make a case, among the millions of people in Fengcheng, few people let the bullets fly again, and they all swarmed to insult him.
Are they so angry, and are they sure that He Zhaosheng was lying and slandering his mentor?
And will there be someone with such a strong sense of ‘justice’ that they would go to Father He’s hospital to vent their anger on an uninformed seriously ill old man?
Human nature always has a dark side.
Whether it was Hai Ming’s greed or An Mou’s jealousy… they were infinitely magnified.
Shrouded in a black fog, everyone in the Wind City had their judgment affected to some extent, becoming a link in the gear.
*
Not long after, the police officer who went to look for Hai Ming came back and said that Hai Ming was dead.
There happened to be a sharp wooden thorn where he fell, which pierced his body.
At the same time, the latest news came: “Master Gu, please look online!”
Gu Zhisang took the phone and found that the hot search terms had exploded.
“Vortex plagiarism”
After clicking on the hot search terms, the top hot posts were statements of admission of plagiarism issued by several parties on their own Weibo.
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