After returning home with the voice recorder, Zhou Yu only belatedly remembered that she didn't bring her mobile phone.
This communication tool has been used for at least a year. Although there was no obvious fault after it fell into a hole and was soaked in water, the battery life seemed to be greatly shortened. Even in standby mode, it can only support five or six hours, which is really unusable. Before buying a new mobile phone, Zhou Yu still put it on the bedside table to charge and used it as a wired alarm clock.
After turning on the phone, the first message that popped up was naturally Zhang Mumu's message. The content is nothing more than thoughts on recent horror movies and snacks, as well as a large number of animal emoticons that Zhou Yu has never seen before. I don’t know what she has been exposed to recently. The theme of the emoticons has completely abandoned pet cats and dogs, but rhinos, hippos, Honey badgers and other animals full of African style.
Zhou Yu gave her a few perfunctory words with an expressionless face, and then deleted the chat record and all the African animals. After ensuring that Zhou Yu had no chance to save the other party's emoticons, he turned to Chen Wei's chat interface. .
Compared with Zhang Mumu's behavior of using the chat box as a private diary, Chen Wei was quite concise, with only a few routine greetings such as "How is your leg injury?"
Zhou Yu first replied, "I can walk." After hesitating for a while, he continued to enter information: Do you know how to verify the authenticity of a recording?
Because it was already past one in the morning, he didn't think he would get a reply right away. Unexpectedly, just after the message was sent, the words "The other party is typing" were displayed at the top of the chat interface.
Zhou Yu was a little surprised, but considering the club the other party belonged to, he was probably a night owl to begin with.
——What kind of identification needs to be done specifically?
A line of text like this popped up on the chat interface. Probably feeling that it was not enough to explain the situation, another voice message followed.
"There are many types of recording fraud, including sound synthesis, editing, and pure forgery. If you just synthesize and edit the original recording, you only need to compare the file generation and modification time, or compare the waveforms on the audio spectrum, it is very easy It can be judged. But if the recording is completely forged by someone, it may be more troublesome, which involves the identification of the voice of the person involved. This kind of voiceprint identification probably requires a professional organization to do it."
After listening to this voice, Zhou Yu thought quietly. Probably because he couldn't get a reply for a long time, Chen Wei sent the next voice message.
"Why are you asking this suddenly? Are you being threatened by someone recording a phone call? If it's the first two simple identifications, I can find someone to take a look at it for you."
——No need, just asking.
Zhou Yu immediately typed a reply rejecting his help. It's not that I can't trust this guy who is like a humanities encyclopedia, but the content of the recording he holds should not be known to unrelated people under any circumstances.
After putting down his phone, he turned off the lights in the room and pressed the play button in the darkness.
"...All entrances and exits have been closed, so let's continue the previous topic now, okay? As in the previous situation, in order to avoid future accidents, I will record our entire conversation."
A low and calm female voice flowed from the cold device. She spoke Mandarin with a clear accent, because the cadence was too standard, almost like a professional broadcasting tone, and it didn't even look like a real person speaking. This voice is completely unfamiliar to Zhou Yu, and no matter how he thinks about it, he can't make any impression on it. However, he would never mistake the other person who was talking to the recorder.
"Understood. Please continue."
The soft and delicate sound is reminiscent of the slightly vibrating butterfly wings. Although it looks slightly different from usual because it is a recording, after testing it using the recording function of his mobile phone, Zhou Yu is almost 100% sure that the owner of this voice is none other than Zhou Yu.
"Well, Ms. Zhou, I think we can reach a consensus on our attitude towards this city for the time being. Based on this premise, please forgive me for questioning your approach - is it necessary to attack the Earth Eater?"
"Well, that man must die."
Without any hesitation, Zhou Yu's voice declared calmly.
"Reason? At this stage, I don't see the necessity."
"What that thing eats now is just a little conceptual body, such as the veins of the land, the acupoints of Feng Shui, and other essences. When that thing grows up, there will be no way to deal with it." Zhou Yu answered softly.
"What would happen if he did get to the point you're talking about?"
"I can't say for sure, but it will definitely become a very complicated situation. If I have to describe it... the snake will become two-headed from then on."
"Will hibernation be interrupted?"
"Well, this is inevitable. If the city lord is swallowed too seriously, he will definitely wake up. For example, if you are bitten by a mosquito while sleeping, you will probably not notice it, but if you are bitten by a beast, If you bite off a hand, you will wake up in pain no matter how deep you sleep, right? However, when you wake up by that time, it will be too late, and it may be too late to kill the beast. The final result may be that we will continue to fight each other. Devour it and maintain yourself by plundering the other party.”
"Like two ouroboroses eating each other's tails?"
"It's even worse than that. If you just keep devouring each other, there will inevitably be some loss in the end. In order to prevent the total amount from reducing, you have to double the amount of replenishment from the outside when you wake up... The consumption during sleep cannot be compared with the active state. Comparatively. In that case, it will undoubtedly be a catastrophe for the rest of this world."
"Does the outside world you speak of include our hometown?"
"Of course. According to the current location of the prison, it would be better to say that it is the first place to bear the brunt. Otherwise, I wouldn't want to kill him so much."
"I can see that." A calm female voice replied.
"Now that you can see it, don't sit around in a place like this all day. How about trying to help? It's hard for me to deal with that kind of thing alone."
Surprisingly, Zhou Yu's voice spoke to the other party in an impolite tone. If heard from a stranger, her words might have been biting and sarcastic, but to Zhou Yu's ears, this was undoubtedly a sign of Zhou Yu's trust in the other party. Regardless of the identity of the woman she was talking to, the relationship between the two was quite close. If compared with the people around Zhou Yu, it would probably be similar to the status of Hongye and Zhang Mumu.
After being teased like this by Zhou Yu, the owner of the recording just laughed twice in a low voice.
"I'm afraid I can't help. You see, unlike most of our colleagues, I am not very good at solving...environmental problems. Now let's continue to complete the work of sorting out information. I noticed that the agent in Hongsen District People are looking for you recently..."
"You mean the fat slug?"
"To be precise, it is the agent who is about 130 centimeters tall and weighs about 80 to 100 kilograms. But I think your metaphor will not create ambiguity, so you can continue to keep it. I will The recording files will be annotated later.”
"eventful."
"That's the point of recording, my dear lady. When we do it, we're assuming that at some time, in some place, one of you or I will somehow lose all the information we originally held. . I didn’t say that this will definitely happen, but since we have this assumption, we must either be fully prepared - or do nothing at all. Now let’s continue with the topic, about the origin of the Earth Eaters, the Red Forest District The agent obviously has a different opinion than us. Do you think his words are credible?"
After a brief silence, Zhou Yu's voice let out a slight and unpleasant hum.
"I'm afraid that guy's information is correct. Only if his words are true can everything be explained."
"Can I understand that as..."
"That's what you understand."
"I'm not doubting our tacit understanding, but on this matter, I insist that it should be confirmed with a clear description. Let us be clear: the Earth Eater we are tracking, the former lord of District D2, has an appearance of sixteen to ten An eight-year-old boy comes from an area currently known to us as 'Wuyuanzhi' - all self-introductions of this person so far, including his name, origin, and life story, are all forged information. Is this true?"
"yes."
"The identity he claims to be 'Sanglian' does exist in the historical line where he lives, and was used by this earth-eater. His appearance, behavior, and ability are all the same as 'Sanglian'" There is a high degree of similarity. Is that so?”
"Yes. It's really hard for you to make these obvious things so complicated."
"Obviously we haven't talked about the most critical question yet. Why is this so? I guess these supernatural phenomena are a norm to you, but I hope you understand that this explanation is difficult for me to understand."
"The fat slug has already made it very clear. This is because there is a relationship between earth eaters and 'mulberry lotus'."
"I guess you don't mean genetic relatedness."
"Well, it's not true. What I'm referring to is something broader than blood relationship. In common parlance, it's the so-called 'karma'. People with close relationships will be infected under special circumstances. Those who prefer 'convention' He will infect ordinary people with his characteristics through interpersonal contracts. Therefore, please keep your distance from me when it is not necessary."
"I will adopt your suggestions appropriately, but as you can see, it is difficult for us to achieve interpersonal isolation under the current situation, so we might as well discuss more practical content first. Specifically, what is the relationship between Earth Eaters and Sanglian?"
At this point in the recording, there was a long silence. No one spoke anymore, and only the buzzing background sound made people realize that the recording was not over yet.
Zhou Yu sat on the edge of the bed in the dark, looking at the display screen motionlessly as the beating time gradually came to an end.
Ten seconds. Five seconds. Three seconds.
At the last moment before the recording ended, Zhou Yu's reply came from the diaphragm inside the machine.
"Those who eat soil are the remains of Sanglian."
