In Yeshan North High School, Dusk met the client, who was also the principal of the high school. But the principal did not seem to be willing to talk much about the matter. He directly pushed Dusk to a librarian, ChenZhi Qian. According to the principal, this librarian was the teacher of Year 3 Class 3 when the incident happened.
But now, he was no longer a teacher. He chose to be a librarian.
ChenZhi Qian was about 40 or 50 years old, but he looked quite haggard with white hair. He looked like an old man in his sixties or seventies.
"Are you here to investigate the curse?"
Chen Zhi Qian Ye didn't conceal the doubts in his heart as he looked at Si. Si didn't mind either and only smiled.
"That's right. I'm the magician who accepted the commission to deal with this matter. Can we skip this step and exchange some more useful information?"
"… … Of course."
ChenZhi Qian nodded in response to Dusk's question, then sat down on a chair and stared at her.
"What do you want to ask?"
"I've learned most of the situation from the information sent to me by the principal, but I still want to ask. When you found out that the target of the curse was the third class of Year 3, did you take any other measures? For example, leaving only two classes of Year 3? Although it's a bit crowded to put four classes of students in two classes, it should be able to stop the curse. "
"We did consider that."
ChenZhi Qian smiled bitterly.
"But it was useless. On the contrary, the curse grew bigger and bigger …. That year, the highest number of people died. All the Year 3 students in the school died accidentally. In the end, we had to compromise and let Year 3 Class 3 return …. At least this way, we could limit the curse to a certain range. "
"I see."
Dusk nodded. She then took out the list.
"Mr. Qian Qian, when I saw this list, I found a problem. Ten years ago, there was a period of time when the rule of one death per month was broken. What happened?"
"Ah …. Someone in the class thought of a solution."
"A solution?"
"That's right. According to the curse, there's an extra student in Class 3-3. Since that's the case, all we need to do is select a student and pretend that he doesn't exist. That way, we can make the extra student disappear again … so that Class 3-3 can maintain its original number. I have to admit that this method is very effective. As you can see, in the first semester, there were no more deaths. "
"But in the second semester, the situation changed?"
"Ahhh …"
Qian Yechen nodded.
"Because the student couldn't stand it anymore. He couldn't stand being ignored, so he shouted, 'I'm right here, look at me!' … Then, misfortune came again."
"… In other words, if the student chosen as a non-existent doesn't cooperate, then it's useless even if everyone ignores him?"
"Perhaps."
Chen Zhi Qian Ye sighed.
"I admit that this is unfair to the child, but it can't be helped. After that, basically every year, Grade 3 Class 3 would choose this method to avoid misfortune. Of course, only a few actually succeeded … "
Qian Zhe Chenzhi stared at Yu curiously, sizing her up.
"By the way, Haruhino-kun, people think this is the work of an evil spirit or a curse. What do you think?"
"I don't think it's either."
Hayashi shook her head.
"I've already felt it. There are no evil spirits in the school. That student from back then … was quite popular in your class, right? Would he curse this class, or perhaps those students? "" That's right. "Sheyan's eyes lit up." That's right.
"… I don't think so."
"That's why …"
At this point, he sighed and raised his head to look gloomily at the gloomy sky outside the window.
"Human willpower … really can't be underestimated. I hope it's not what I think, otherwise things will be really troublesome."
To be honest, after coming to Mount Yechen and witnessing everything here, Hayashi had a bad feeling.
This was not the work of a curse, nor was it the work of a vengeful spirit, but … a bug.
That's right, this was what she was most worried about.
After chatting with Qian Yechen just now, she found that her worry was very likely closer to the truth.
As everyone knew, the operation of the world needed a certain order.
Birth, aging, illness, death, the four seasons, flowers bloom and wilt.
These were all the normal operation of the rules.
However, once this rule was violated, it was easy to cause problems.
Take the previous story for example.
Under normal circumstances, when a popular student died, everyone would feel sad and sad. This was not unusual. However, the biggest problem was that they actually imagined that the student was still alive and completely disguised it. In fact, she suspected that the students at the time might have pretended that they believed it. This phenomenon of group hypnosis was actually not uncommon.
But this was troublesome.
This was like the system doing a self-examination and then scanning the area. When it scanned the folder of Grade 3 Class 3, the system was surprised to find — "Huh? Shouldn't the number in this file be N-1? Why is it still N? "
Then it checked again … Huh? Didn't I delete this MISAKI.DLL? Why is it still in the form of a hidden file?
That's not right!
So when the next round of self-examination began, the system began to automatically search and delete files. If the value of Grade 3 Class 3 was N and remained unchanged, then it would be a normal value. But if there was one more person in Grade 3 Class 3, and the value became "N + 1", then the system would definitely automatically think that the MISAKI.DLL was not completely deleted, so it would actively start to search the folder to find the DLL file with the virus and delete it.
What if it couldn't find it?
The file name was wrong, but the folder value was also wrong. Then … delete them one by one.
That MISAKI.DLL was definitely disguised as some other file. It would find out if it was deleted one by one!
This was the truth of the death of Grade 3 Class 3 students every month.
This was because the Heavenly Axiom was unable to determine what kind of file the MISAKI.DLL was disguised as. It could still be a DLL, a LAG, a TXT, or even an EXE or an INI. Therefore, it would randomly delete files, including the 'files' of students, teachers, and parents, to find the non-existent MISAKI.DLL.
The reason why Yu speculated that there was a problem with the Heavenly Axiom system was because Chenzhi Qian told her that when the non-existent dead person disappeared in the second year, her memory would also disappear from the minds of other students. They would not remember her at all, and all records about her, including written records and photos, would be tampered with.
This involved the law of causality at the root of the world. Ordinary evil spirits and monsters definitely did not have this kind of ability.
After chatting with Chenzhi Qian and investigating, Yu had more or less guessed the whole process of the incident.
First of all, the system deleted the MISAKI.DLL in the folder of Grade 3 Class 3 according to the "Book of Life and Death" program. This was the normal operation of the system's self-examination.
But unexpectedly, the people of Grade 3 Class 3 were not willing to accept this fact, so they forcibly created a MISAKI.DLL.
Of course, they were only mortals, so naturally, they could not pull out the DLL file that the Heavenly Axiom put in the recycle bin. Therefore, they only pretended that there was such a file, which caused the folder value of Grade 3 Class 3 to be abnormal, from the original "N-1" to "N".
But in the next year, a problem appeared. Due to the influence of this obsession, a non-existent person appeared in the folder of Grade 3 Class 3, and it changed from N to N + 1.
This immediately attracted the attention of the Heavenly Axiom program. Because the folder value of Grade 3 Class 3 had an error, it needed to be cleaned, and the culprit was naturally the MISAKI.DLL that it should have deleted long ago. Therefore, in order to correct the error, the Heavenly Axiom system began to go on a killing spree. This was not surprising, when the Kaspersky virus caused the system to crash, it did not care whether the system crashed or not.
This formed an endless loop. The folder value of Grade 3 Class 3 was wrong, and the Heavenly Axiom wanted to kill the root cause, but in fact, the root cause had already been deleted …
If this was really the system, it would be better to reformat it and reinstall it.
But unfortunately, this was not the case.
This is the most head-scratching part.
If the Heavenly Axiom of this world had its own consciousness like the Moon World, she could still call Alaya and Gaia out and tell them that there was an error in the program and that they needed to reconfigure it. But the problem was that the Heavenly Axiom of most worlds did not have its own consciousness. It was like an automatic system program. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to find anyone.
It would be even more difficult to fix it. You couldn't possibly reinstall the entire system just because of a small error notification that didn't affect your usage.
Leaving it here would be equivalent to destroying the world and recreating it.
Just for the sake of a person dying every month in Grade 3 Class 3?
This was a really thorny task.
That was what she thought, but when she walked into the hospital, she became even more depressed.
There were many vengeful souls in the hospital, many of whom had died in accidents. Pyrolyte had talked to them, but these vengeful souls basically said that … they had died in an accident. Apart from being unlucky, they did not feel any curse or other strange forces had interfered with their deaths.
Since there was no strange force interfering, then there was only the non-strange force interfering.
And the only thing that could do this was the Heavenly Axiom.
"What should I do …?"
After walking out of the morgue, Hayao thought about it but could not come up with a good idea. If it was a curse, she would just remove it. If it was a vengeful spirit, she would just kill it. But now there was a bug in the Heavenly Axiom. There was a problem with the program and the values had changed. What should she do?
Let alone Hayao, even Fangzheng, who had transmigrated to so many worlds, could not come up with a good idea when faced with this thorny problem.
Forget it, it's getting late.
Hayao raised her head and looked out the window. She had been too busy chatting with the vengeful spirits that she had forgotten the time. It was already the middle of the night. It was better for her to leave the hospital as soon as possible. Otherwise, if she was discovered, she would still be paralyzed … Hm?
Just as Yu was about to leave, she suddenly sensed something and abruptly raised her head to look above her. At that moment, her gaze pierced through the room and towards the sky. At the same time, the strange thing in the sky suddenly shook and stopped as if it was stuck.
At this moment, a clicking sound rang out.
Not good!
At that moment, Hayao's sixth sense as a prophet exploded. She could keenly sense that the Heavenly Axiom had sensed that something was wrong with the number of people and had started deleting the files!
And it was in the hospital!
The third floor!
Thinking of this, Hayao leaped out of the window without hesitation. Then, she stepped on the windowsill and jumped up to the corridor on the third floor. Then, following her instincts, she sprinted along the corridor like a ghost and arrived in front of a hospital room. Without hesitation, she pulled the door open.
"Whoosh —!!"
At the same time, a strong gust of wind blew past and disappeared outside the window.
"F * ck, I was too late!"
Looking at the girl lying on the bed, Hayao gritted her teeth and cursed. Then, she rushed to the girl's side and turned her around. At that moment, the girl's eyes were tightly shut and her face was ashen. One of her hands was hanging by the side of the bed. It was obvious that she had a sudden relapse and wanted to call for a doctor. But before she could do so, the file was' deleted '.
But fortunately, it was not impossible to save her.
Hayao could tell that although the girl in front of her was dead, she was still warm. Her soul was not taken away, so she stretched out her hand and placed it on the girl's forehead. Soon, a holy light appeared and enveloped the girl's body. The girl's originally stopped breathing also quietly returned to normal.
"Whoosh … Done."
Hayao put down her right hand and wiped the cold sweat off her forehead. Then, she took out her personal terminal and scanned the girl.
"Leukemia … No wonder …"
Looking at the sleeping girl in front of her, Bi frowned. This girl was a very good material. Coincidentally, she could see if the Heaven's Will program would delete her again if she were to revive this girl. If Hayao's guess was correct, when the Heavenly Axiom found out that this girl was not MISAKI.DLL, it would not do anything to her again.
But what if it did?
But there were too many things that could go wrong with leukemia. Hmm …
Thinking of this, Hayao raised her personal terminal and fired a shot at the girl, directly curing her leukemia.
Now, this girl was an ordinary healthy girl. She wanted to see what the Heavenly Axiom was going to do next.
"Ugh …"
At this moment, the young girl who had fainted let out a low moan and slowly opened her eyes. She stared blankly at Hayao. After a long while, she finally asked.
"Excuse me … Are you the Grim Reaper?"
"Oh? Why do you say that? "
Hayao put away her personal terminal and looked at her with a smile.
"Because … just now … I …"
The girl stretched out her hand and pressed it against her chest … Then, she felt her own heartbeat.
"I'm not dead?"
"It's not time for you to die yet, so you won't die."
Hayao smiled again and looked at the girl.
"Can you tell me your name?"
"My name is Misaki, Fujiokamisaki."
"…"
Hearing the girl's answer, Hayao's smiling expression suddenly froze.
Did she screw it up?
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