The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 931 A Golden Crow (Part 5)
After receiving the package, Liu Sheng found a quiet corner to sit down and carefully opened it.

Inside was a cheap, small video camera.

The lens was only the size of a pinky finger, which was already considered compact, but it was still too conspicuous in her eyes.

She originally wanted an even smaller one, but discovered that miniature pinhole cameras are federally controlled items and cannot be purchased directly online.

Fortunately, she can modify it herself.

The hair-thin tentacles burrowed into the shell through the gaps and rebuilt the circuit on the motherboard chip. First, they modified it to be driven by three energy sources: electricity, eerie energy, and spiritual energy. Then, they added a protective film of a loving "mother" to the entire circuit to prevent the device from malfunctioning in the eerie energy environment.

The internal camera was also removed and replaced with a small, extended eyeball. The motherboard was also adapted to receive image data transmitted by the small tentacle.

In this way, Liu Sheng could hide the camera at her waist, with a tentacle connected to the eyeball emerging from her collar and hidden among the jade pieces on her neck. It was impossible to notice anything unusual unless you looked closely.

After tidying up, Liu Sheng tore off the label on the express package, shredded it into pieces, threw it into the trash can, and then walked back to the dormitory as if nothing had happened.

Before I even opened the door, I could hear the two of them whispering loudly.

As soon as Liu Sheng entered the room, the two men looked over and immediately began to yell at her indignantly.

"Tao Tao, they're all saying we bullied Zheng Qiran!" Lin Yue pouted. "But that's clearly not true!"

"Anyway, everyone has to attend a lecture today, supposedly about friendship and mental health!" Long Yingxue sighed. "Holding a lecture like this at this time seems like it's aimed at us."

"Is that so?" Liu Sheng raised an eyebrow.

"Of course! Check your email?"

Lin Yue's words reminded Liu Sheng.

She took out her phone and checked it. She had indeed received an email about attending a lecture on "Mental Health and Campus Relationships" at 7 p.m. that evening, and it specifically reminded her that this would be recorded as attendance.

No wonder the two were complaining bitterly.

The school's group chat must be in an uproar. This means that as long as students are still enrolled, they have to come back to attend classes, regardless of whether they are currently on campus or not.

But this is simply impossible. Many senior students are already doing internships outside, and some are not even in Qingyang City, so it is basically impossible for them to come back.

It can only be said that this was another idea that some leaders came up with on a whim.

Therefore, when it comes to implementation, there will definitely be room for leniency.

With that thought in mind, Liu Sheng casually sent a message to her counselor.

He then turned around and opened his laptop.

Start working on another thing.

"Do you know Zheng Qiran's email address?" she asked, turning around.

The two were slightly taken aback. They were just complaining about the school, so how did they suddenly start talking about "Zheng Qiran" again?

“Who would remember…” Lin Yue shook her head.

However, Liu Sheng was just asking casually and didn't really intend to rely on them.

She quickly found Zheng Qiran's email address in the CC list of the mass email she had just sent.

After all, people who died today are not specifically excluded by teachers who send mass messages with a single click.

Liu Sheng then opened the email login page and entered Zheng Qiran's email address.

"What are you going to do?" Lin Yue asked suspiciously as she leaned closer.

“I was just thinking,” Liu Sheng stared at the screen, “that Zheng Qiran must have encountered something to suddenly choose to commit suicide, right? Now it seems that she was a bright and promising young woman, and there was no way she would do such a thing at this critical moment.”

"Maybe... she's heartbroken?" Long Yingxue guessed.

Lin Yue was quite certain of this:
"No, no, no, absolutely not! She said that academics are more important and dating is too much of a waste of time."

"She told you all this?" Long Yingxue asked suspiciously.

"Of course! She and I still exchange a few words..."

After a pause, Lin Yue's smug expression turned somewhat somber.

After that initial shock subsided, I suddenly realized that Zheng Qiran was no longer there.

Long Yingxue sighed and silently patted her shoulder.

Liu Sheng tried to reach out and comfort her, but Lin Yue flinched in fright.

"I...I'm fine..."

It seems they're still wary of you.

The world is somewhat gloating.

Liu Sheng silently withdrew her hand, pretending to be sad to shift her gaze, and then turned back to the screen.

"Ahem, I just..."

Lin Yue stammered as she tried to explain, but Liu Sheng interrupted her directly:
"In short, given Zheng Qiran's personality, he doesn't use social media much... so it's definitely not about this."

"What could that be?"

"Academics".

“That makes sense!” Lin Yue nodded vigorously.

“Oh, right, if it’s about that… they would definitely be communicating via email.” Long Yingxue followed suit, but then thought, “Wait a minute, shouldn’t this be handled by the federal police?”

“…That’s true.” Lin Yue thought for a moment, then added, “No! We’re clearly being suspected of bullying Zheng Qiran right now. We need to figure things out ourselves before we can clear our name! The police won’t care about that!”

Long Yingxue nodded hesitantly.

Although this is tantamount to invading Zheng Qiran's privacy.

But the three of them had their own plans—

One wanted to clear himself of suspicion, one was a sycophant, and the other clearly felt that Zheng Qiran was the key to "A Golden Crow".

Moreover, the strange condition on his body was clearly related to Zheng Qiran.

Therefore, it's never too much to know more.

“But… how do we log in?” Lin Yue asked. “We don’t know her password.” “How about we try her birthday?” Long Yingxue suggested.

Liu Sheng raised an eyebrow: "You know Zheng Qiran's birthday?"

"do not know."

"It seems to be Aries, but I don't know the exact date..." Lin Yue pondered.

"Didn't you say you two had a good relationship? Don't you know this?"

"I'm not going to celebrate her birthday with her, wouldn't that just be making a fool of myself?"

Liu Sheng ignored the two blabbermouths behind him and focused on operating the computer. Following "World's" instructions, he pretended to have stumbled upon a webpage with a tutorial on brute-force password cracking.

After some more stumbling and trial-and-error, they finally managed to type out the code and create a simple program to upload.

By this time, the two had already lost interest in it and were each back in bed scrolling through their phones, so they were unaware that Liu Sheng had actually succeeded.

However, although Liu Sheng's program can continuously try passwords to achieve the goal of brute-force cracking, the performance of this laptop is really limited. It is just an everyday laptop used by students, so it is impossible to achieve efficient cracking.

If her true form were present, she could break the spell in less than a second using only ten Heavenly Evolution Stones.

But now she still needs to wait...

Or she could make some changes.

As Liu Sheng thought about it, the tentacles extended into the computer, and the tiny tentacles formed an array of circuit patterns, slightly improving the chip's reaction speed.

However, the hardware is still insufficient to support such high-intensity computing, so this improvement is only temporary, and it is estimated that the laptop will be scrapped soon.

Liu Sheng didn't care.

Anyway, I don't need to stay here for too long; I can leave once I've acquired the skills.

There's no need to complete He Tao's graduation thesis.

[…Be careful not to get slapped in the face.] "World" subtly reminded.

Liu Sheng ignored him, completely absorbed in his art.

Not long after, the email password was unlocked.

It is a complex string of numbers, federal language, and symbols, and at first glance, there is no discernible pattern.

This perfectly matches Zheng Qiran's personality: cautious and meticulous.

The first email in my inbox was a lecture announcement that the school had just sent.

The second letter was exactly what Liu Sheng wanted.

The title boldly proclaims:

We're sorry, your submission did not pass the review.

The sender was the top federal academic journal, Frontiers in Science.

And I received it last night.

Without hesitation, Liu Sheng opened the attachment—Zheng Qiran's submitted paper manuscript.

The title is quite "shocking":
A Preliminary Exploration of the Ancient Energy Field Control Mechanism Using the Human Body as a Medium

[This topic is truly shocking.] Even the "world" couldn't help but gasp in astonishment.

Liu Sheng quickly glanced at the summary and had a vague idea of ​​what had happened to "He Tao".

Since the paper was only a few dozen pages long, Liu Sheng read it all in ten seconds at a normal browsing speed.

It is clear that Zheng Qiran seems to have discovered a special remnant device in the ancient ruins of "R Village".

According to archaeological discoveries, in ancient times, this was used to refine and suppress people using human bodies. Although it has become largely ineffective now, it still has high energy activity and may trigger unknown spacetime effects.

However, the key is that a living medium must be involved in order to observe and drive it.

The paper even contains a passage that mentions:

The consciousness of the controlled individuals may experience periodic breaks, exhibiting dietary deviations and supernatural ability activation responses. The related spatiotemporal effects are difficult to record completely; continued tracking and expansion of the sample size are recommended.

This is not an archaeological discovery at all, but an experimental record.

No wonder they would submit to an interdisciplinary journal like "Frontiers in Science".

Liu Sheng understood.

It is highly likely that Zheng Qiran initially used himself as a test subject.

Later, it was changed to He Tao.

And it happened just last week.

As for why not continue using it on yourself...

Liu Sheng stared coldly at the paper.

This reveals that Zheng Qiran possesses the arrogance of a scholar, valuing academics above all else, which is why he recklessly publishes such shocking papers.

So perhaps she felt her life was very important and needed to be preserved for further research.

Thus, "He Tao" became the new victim.

Perhaps it's because He Tao had the lowest score on the college entrance exam.

Perhaps it's because He Tao's major seems academically hopeless.

Or perhaps it's because the other two roommates are in the same major and might be useful in the future, making "He Tao" seem the least useful.

In conclusion, Zheng Qiran chose "He Tao".

A chill ran through Liu Sheng's heart.

The problem is that, to this day, He Tao still doesn't know what happened to her.

Also, Zheng Qiran is dead.

Will she sleepwalk into the toilet again tonight?
(End of this chapter)