High school senior leaves coded note before committing suicide  

男生高考前留神秘数字后自尽

出事之前，小峰曾告诉同桌，用数字对应英文字母，是最基本的密码破译方法，而小峰生前留在课桌上的纸条写着：9 1 13 9 14 23 1 20 5 18，对应英文字母正是“I am in water”，也就是“我在水里”[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- A high school senior in Zhejiang province, who will sit the college entrance exam next month, committed suicide after leaving behind a string of code, a local website reported.

The report named the boy only as Xiaofeng, of Pingyang county in Zhejiang province, whose body was found in the river near a dormitory on Saturday afternoon.

He disappeared on Friday morning and didn't go to class, and his roommate didn't know where he was.

Footage from security cameras at the school dorm showed Xiaofeng walked out of Building No. 2 at 2:38 that morning. Then he appeared on a bridge in front of Building No.1 in the rain, but with no umbrella.

Wandering for two minutes, he walked down the bridge and disappeared from the camera views.

Meanwhile, a classmate surnamed Ma said a note was found on Xiaofeng's desk: "9 1 13 9 14 23 1 20 5 18" and "KEY 26-Z."

Xiaofeng's desk mate recalled that Xiaofeng had told him about replacing numbers with letters as a basic way of decoding. The string of numbers were interpreted as, "I am in water."

Local police didn't confirm the content of the note, but has eliminated foul play as the cause of death, after a preliminary examination of the body and camera footage.

Zhang Zhiyi, head master at the school, said that Xiaofeng was a good student and he didn't suffer much pressure in his studies.

Xiaofeng was a quiet boy, a neighbor said, and he and his 8-year-old sister live with their grandmother, as his parents work in Quanzhou, a city more than 440 kilometers away.

Classmates said he didn't have accounts on Sina Weibo or WeChat, which are popular social media websites among young people. "He didn't share his thoughts with us," Ma said.

The national college entrance exams will be held in early June.