Chapter 23: Fiction and Reality

Dong Xie followed behind Uncle Chen Si and began to walk towards the high slope in front of him. Although this was the first time he had met with Uncle Chen Si, Dong Xie had chased after Black Ghosts and Shadows for so long that he knew the image of Uncle Chen Si very well. Uncle Chen's character was old-fashioned and very simple. When Uncle Chen Si led the poop, many readers were in tears. It …… was! Dong Xie suddenly thought that the Fourth Uncle Chen in the novel was already dead! Murdered by the black shadow! He reached into the inner pocket of his clothes and grabbed the open-bladed dagger that had been sprinkled with black dog blood. Perhaps Uncle Chen was just a character Yuan Ming had borrowed as a prototype for the novel, but it was also possible that the Uncle Chen in front of him had already been killed by the Black Shadow and had now turned into an evil spirit! All the spirits transformed by people killed by the Black Shadow were bound to transform into horrifying evil spirits that killed innocents indiscriminately! Dong Xie distanced himself from Uncle Chen as much as possible, he knew very well that he was not the occupant of the Blood Character, the evil spirit could kill him at any time, no amount of vigilance was too much to ask. "Chen, Chen fourth uncle, I want to ask you a few questions ……" "Go ahead." The fourth uncle in front said without looking back. Dong Xie thought for a moment and asked, "Inside the village, have they always insisted on earth burials like this, and the tombstones are all set up around the house?" Uncle Chen Si from the front quickly replied, "Well, our village has always had a tradition of earth burials since before liberation. It's also remote and the village population is small, so there's not much care. And even if you want to be cremated, the crematorium is too far away from here. As you can see, with the mountain roads here, it's hard for cars to drive in." "Yes …… it is. However, the tombstone is right next to the house, won't it feel unlucky?" "It's passed down from our ancestors, don't think it's that unlucky anymore. Besides, the ones buried are our relatives." Is that so? Dong Xie always felt that something wasn't quite right. "Yuan Ming, he, that novel he wrote, was modeled after himself. The protagonist inside the novel, is called Yuan Ming. And then according to the plot of the novel, his family once suffered a very bloody extermination case, I wonder if you understand?" "There was no such thing." Uncle Chen Si, however, directly denied it, "There was a murder case inside the village, how could I not know about it?" There hadn't been a murder case? So this part was also entirely Deepak's own idea? However, Dong Xie still didn't dare to take it lightly. The Fourth Uncle Chen in front of him wasn't necessarily a living person, and if he had already transformed into an evil spirit manipulated by the dark shadow, then lying was also a big possibility. "Fourth Uncle, in the village, roughly how many people are living there now?" "Fifty-seven if you add me. Well, but that's just the permanent residents, not counting the people who go to work." "Did your children go to work too, Fourth Uncle?" "Yes. Black Island County is too poor, and many people have gone to run away to S City to work." The earth burial custom that has been continuing …… Murder in fiction, losing your memory are nonexistent …… "Uncle Chen Si, I want to ask, Liu Ren, Lu Dawei, Wang Sen ……" Dong Xie reported more than a dozen names in one breath, "There are all these people inside the village, right?" Uncle Chen Si paused and looked back, while Dong Xie immediately took a step back and grasped the hilt of the black dog blood dagger. "Yeah …… all told to you by Yuan Ming?" "Right, he wrote it all down inside the novel." Hearing Dong Qi say this, Fourth Uncle Chen froze, then said, "This thing ……" "Fourth Uncle, there are a lot of plots inside the novel that seem to be taken from reality by Yuan Ming. Well, he wrote a horror novel." "A horror novel?" Fourth Uncle Chen's face changed quite a bit, "It's a ghost story?" "Yes, it's a ghost story. Inside the book is written about a malevolent spirit……. Inside the book, the Blue Moon Village, is written as called Yan Shen Village, which is the Yan of Yan King." "Yuan Ming wrote all the people of the village in it?" "Yes!" Dong Xie continued the plot of the novel and began to speak out, "Well, Fourth Uncle, frankly speaking, that book was written in a very real way, and now that it's come to this place again, I doubt that this book of his was written based on things taken from the reality of what had happened. Is …… there anything that really happened in your village that haunts …… that?" What is "that", obviously Uncle Chen Si also understood. "No that thing!" Uncle Chen Si categorically denied, "It never happened!" "Then ……" Dong Xie intended to follow up on the plot of the other fictional characters, "Is there a girl named Chen Lan in the village?" Chen Lan was the heroine of the novel, and one of the few children who stayed in Yan Shen Village. Chen Lan's parents had been going out to work when she was very young, and as a left-behind child, Chen Lan had grown up eating a hundred meals inside the village, and she had dropped out of school after finishing high school. The year Chen Lan dropped out of school, she met Yuan Ming, who had awakened in the Yuan family mansion and lost his memory. Next, Yuan Ming and Chen Lan fell in love. Counting up, Fourth Uncle Chen was also considered Chen Lan's relative according to his generation, and the novel didn't specify exactly how the generation was counted. "Chen Lan?" Fourth Uncle Chen shook his head and said, "There is no such person." There isn't? Then, Chen Lan had become the only character that the novel had completely fictionalized! This was actually quite normal, most fictional characters in novels were fictionalized, but in this Blood Character mission, Dong Xie couldn't help but associate the purely fictional Chen Lan as the key? It was worth mentioning that he had once read an online post analyzing Beishan Jinglong. Beishan Jinglong, as one of the Singularity Spiritual Trio, was even more of a great god, and his analytical posts had a great deal of influence among the Black Shadow readership. Beishan Jinglong had always believed that the true face of the Black Shadow was one of the villagers inside the village, and the object of his greatest suspicion was Chen Lan. Dong Xie had once chatted with Beishan Jinglong on the internet as well, and although the two sides had different viewpoints, he also recognized that some of Beishan Jinglong's viewpoints did make sense. Nowadays, it seemed that could it be that Chen Lan, was really the Black Shadow? "What is your relationship with Yuan Ming?" At this time, it was finally Uncle Chen Si's turn to ask a question. Dong Xie hurriedly replied, "It's like this, he and I are both writers who write books on the same website, and I also write horror novels." "Oh …… is that so? So you're also a writer." Fourth Uncle Chen froze and said, "Then you came to find him to ……" "Fourth Uncle, Yuan Ming told me that he said he's already married. His wife, is she from inside the village?" "Oh," said Fourth Uncle Chen, "He did get married some years ago, but to a villager from the neighboring Jinquan Village. I'm not sure of the specific identity." Jinquan Village? Dong Xie immediately thought, wasn't that the village he had gone to before? This, on the contrary, was completely different from the novel's plot. "Then his wife's name?" "How am I supposed to know that, it's not like we're familiar with it." Extrapolating from the time, he should have gotten married before the release of Black Ghosts and Shadows. So, was it possible that Deepak's wife was called Chen Lan, and then simply wrote his wife into the novel as well? Dong Xie didn't know if he was associating things too much, or if this was indeed an important clue to the path to life. It was just that, at the moment, these fragmented clues integrated together, it was also difficult to deduce a final conclusion. Subsequently, in the process of walking up the high slopes, Dong Xie asked him something else. That is, how much of the plot inside the novel was realistic. In the end, he could ascertain that inside the novel, all the villagers of Yan Shen Village, all of them had realistic archetypes, and the names were all exactly the same, even including the family relationships and general experiences, there was no difference. The difference lies in the fact that the deaths involving paranormal phenomena are all fictionalized. Assuming that these words are adopted, then Fukai is writing the village he lives in, all of it, into the novel, and fictionalizing a lot of paranormal phenomena, and a lot of people who are still alive and well in reality are being written to death under his keyboard. However, due to some kind of curse phenomenon, just like that movie Earthbound Spirit, the fictional evil black ghosts and shadows actually did come to reality! Then, the killing began. So what's the path to life? Letting the author personally write the black shadow to death? Dong Xie felt that it couldn't possibly be that simple. In any case, when he met Deepak, he'd have to talk to him about it. Also, it was likely that Ning was there. Finally, seeing the townhouse in front of him appear before him, Dong Xie suddenly saw that the door to the first floor of the townhouse in front of him was actually open! What's going on here? He took big steps forward, and the inside of the open door was exposed, with a line of writing on it! Dong Xie turned on his flashlight to look, and the line was– "I will not die."