Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

"Nothing happened on the first day."

The next day, nothing happened.

On the third day, it's Chinese New Year, and you choose to spend it alone. You don't feel lonely; on the contrary, you're satisfied because you don't have to go back and listen to your parents' nagging.

On the fourth day, nothing happened.

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On the seventh day, since there were still a few days left in the Lunar New Year holiday, you decided to go out for a walk, since you couldn't stay at home all day long.

In a major city, the streets are deserted on New Year's Day, and you decide to go shopping at the largest mall nearby.

As you were walking, before you even left the residential area, something suddenly fell from the sky, hit you, and you died.

Linlang was speechless. She really didn't expect that on the New Year, someone would throw things from a high-rise building and even kill someone.

To find and deal with the person who threw the object from a high-rise building, you have to take action yourself. Otherwise, if you don't take action yourself, the situation will change, and it will be difficult to find the person involved. After all, you are not the person who was there at the time. What if an object was thrown from a high-rise building but didn't kill anyone? How can you deal with the culprit then?

As for issuing a warning to the authorities... Issuing a warning to the authorities for the death of one person seems like making a mountain out of a molehill.

Moreover, if the object thrown from a high-rise building hits the person who did it, it might not hit someone else. And if it doesn't hit anyone, then the prophecy would be false.

But Linlang was reluctant to go herself, because she didn't want to attract attention, which would cause some trouble.

How can she catch the person who threw the object from the high-rise building without having to go out herself?
Unable to think of a good idea right away, Linlang decided to first search the neighborhood to see if she could find any people she was looking for.

Fortunately, it hasn't happened yet, so she still has time to investigate.

However, this is just a rough survey. We're just doing a general survey of the residents in this community. The real survey will have to wait until after the Lunar New Year, because there will be many people from other places in the community before then, which will affect the survey results.

After the Lunar New Year, many people from other places went back home, and most of the residents in this community were renters. Even more people left. Since many people went back, there were fewer people left. And since she had the AI, it wasn't too difficult for her to investigate.

Linlang quickly gathered information on all residents of the entire community by combining the use of honeybees and network intrusion.

Then, the honeybees were stationed at the entrances of several residential areas to count the people who came and went, ensuring that population data was updated in real time.

By the day before the incident, Linlang had basically determined how many people were left in the community, meaning the murderer was among them.

Linlang focused her investigation on the buildings she usually passed when walking towards the entrance.

And it's impossible for everyone in these buildings to hit someone; only the units on the edges of the buildings closest to the road have a chance.

Linlang quickly listed the key people to investigate. Sure enough, the number of people left in the neighborhood had decreased significantly since the New Year. There were only about 30% of the original population, and after investigating the units on the edge of the buildings she usually passed on her way to the main gate, the number of people to be investigated was even smaller, probably only about a hundred.

Soon, Linlang found out who the target murderer might be—a family living on the top floor of the building near the entrance of the residential area.

This family, like her, were also from out of town, but because the whole family was here, they didn't go back to their hometown and still spent the Spring Festival here.

Of course, one reason is that the whole family is here, so they don't need to go back for the New Year. But the main reason is that they don't have the money to go home for the New Year, so they don't go back.

Otherwise, if they had money, even if their whole family was here, many people would still go home to see their relatives and friends because they are attached to their hometown.

Linlang was fairly certain that this family might be the murderers because they had an eleven or twelve-year-old boy who had previously thrown things down from a height.

She saw it by checking the community's surveillance footage. Things had fallen from that spot before, and the property management had warned them not to throw things from high places, lest they hit someone and cause serious trouble.

However, this family only agreed on the surface, but in reality they still did what they wanted. They felt that their son was only eleven or twelve years old, so what if he hit someone? Even if he killed someone, it wouldn't be illegal. Why should they pay compensation? They had no money, so what could they do?

So I just said a few words to the child casually, without emphasizing anything.

Their children see that their parents don't care, so they care even less. They even think that throwing things down from such a height is impressive if they can hit someone. After all, from such a height, the person below looks like a tiny dot. If they can hit someone, they'll be incredibly awesome. Not only do they keep throwing things, but they also often deliberately throw things at people who are passing by below.

Seeing this, Linlang was basically certain that the person who killed her in the simulation was this child, and that it wasn't unintentional but deliberate—the child intentionally wanted to kill someone for fun.

This left Linlang speechless, wondering what kind of antisocial personality this was. You see, this child wasn't seven or eight years old, but eleven or twelve, a grown-up who could understand things. He knew that smashing things like this could kill someone, yet he still did it. What else could it be but antisocial personality disorder?

Seeing this, Linlang already knew that even if she personally took action, it would be useless, because she couldn't really let the child hit her, after all, she didn't want to die.

But if the child wasn't hit, that family will probably continue as they are now, not disciplining them much; even if the child was hit, they will control the extent of the damage and only cause injury. If you ask them to pay compensation, they won't have the money, because this family is idle and lazy. As far as she knows, they have borrowed hundreds of thousands of yuan from online loans. Where would they get the money to compensate her? So they are a family of scoundrels, and no matter what you do, it will be useless against them.

To resolve this, it seems the only solution is to deploy the holographic dream-weaving props once again and instill fear in them.

Seeing no other option, Linlang had to use holographic dream-weaving tools to create a frightening dream for them.

These shameless people wouldn't be satisfied with a dream where their son kills someone and they have to pay compensation, because they're not afraid at all. So Linlang made their whole family dream that they were killed by falling objects and were in excruciating pain, and warned them in the dream that this suffering would only end when their son stopped throwing things from high places.

In the first simulation, although the family was in excruciating pain, they didn't take it seriously at first, thinking it was because their son often threw things from high places, causing them to have the same dream. They were only frightened when everyone said they had the same dream. After all, if everyone had the same dream, it couldn't be an ordinary dream. Who could have the whole family having the same dream? They were terrified, thinking that there were forces beyond nature in this world.

He immediately told his son not to throw things from high-rise buildings anymore, lest he be punished by some supernatural force.

They were scoundrels, but they didn't want to die, so naturally they gave their son these instructions. (End of Chapter)