I Fix the Last Cell Phone for a Dead Person

The dead man cannot speak, but the phone he leaves behind has a chance. On a rainy night, mobile phone repairman Zhou Qi received a mobile phone that fell from the 26th floor and was almost scrapped. The wife of the deceased just wanted to retrieve the video of her husband holding their daughter, but Zhou Qi recovered a twelve-second recording from the tampered memory chip: "If something happens to me tomorrow, don't trust the company." The company claimed that Gu Cheng's investment failed and he committed suicide by jumping off a building after owing a debt of 860,000 yuan. But there was no transfer in the bank, and there was no liability in the account. The so-called investment contract was actually made after his death. Some people even offered a price of one million, just asking Zhou Qi to destroy the data. After rejection, negative reviews, reports, and threats followed. Zhou Qi traced the records and found abandoned warehouses, abnormal access control, old servers, and illegally sold user data: some people were framed as drug-stealing riders, some were asked to track down their whereabouts, and even 480,000 yuan was transferred from their accounts twenty hours after someone died. An old program called CloudTrace eventually led the clues back five years. That year, Zhou Qi's brother Zhou Zheng died in a "rainy day bicycle accident" after preparing to report the company. Today, my brother's last mobile phone contains thirty-four file fingerprints and an unfinished report. Someone can delete files, change the time, create contracts, fake logs, and pass the responsibility to dead people. But they forget that if the phone is broken, it can be repaired, and even if the data is deleted, traces may still be left. Zhou Qi is not a policeman or a detective. He is just a man who has been repairing mobile phones for ten years. This time, what he wants to recover is the innocence of the two dead people that was taken away, and the truth that was buried by the living.