QQ Phantom

Author: He Jiu
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The new campus of Lianjiang University was built on a piece of land that had just been developed. On a misty, moonless night in the new millennium, an online chatting part-time graduate student, Shen Daxing, died suddenly in Room 407 of Building D on campus. When he was discovered several days later, he had already become a decomposing corpse on the ground. Shen's bizarre death sparked a strong curiosity in his arrogant roommate, Xu Haibing. While the police were investigating the case, he resolutely moved into Room 407, which he had never stayed in before, and intruded into Shen's QQ world to uncover the truth and apprehend the culprit, aiming to prove his capability. Unbeknownst to him, a series of shocking events came one after another: the mysterious (harassment calls) that rang in the middle of the night, the fleeting black figures, the eerie footsteps echoing through the corridor at fixed times each night, and the faint flickering lights of ghostly flames in the nearby jungle. Xu Haibing gradually became entangled in a (manslaughter case) that occurred in the present day and was triggered by a Cultural Revolution (injustice case). As he peeled away the layers of the truth, he wondered whether there was really a culprit, who it was, and why and how Shen Daxing had died. The secrets he had originally been eager to uncover seemed to become less important. What mattered more was that his heart, which had been cold and numb, gradually warmed and softened.