Chapter 25: Outline

"Wait, other first not to mention …… you say reward, how much reward ah?" Wang Tiezhu at this time is most concerned about, obviously is the "honorarium" problem. This is exactly the same as his image in the novel. Frankly speaking, for Dong Xie, who had been chasing Black Ghosts for such a long time, both Uncle Chen and Wang Tiezhu were incredibly familiar characters to him, so even though it was the first time he had met them, Dong Xie did not have that unfamiliar feeling at all. "Well," Dong Xie knew that according to the novel's setting, although Wang Tiezhu was said to be a very greedy person, he also had a bottom line. He took out a bunch of RMB from his body and said, "Alright, anyway, I just want to ask a few more questions, as long as I finish asking and you tell me everything truthfully, these honorariums will be yours." "OK, OK, OK, that's a good sentiment! You go ahead and ask! I told you that Yuan Ming doll has made a fortune, his friends are all so generous!" Dong Xie then glanced at the doorway again to make sure that there wasn't anything extra at the doorway before clearing his throat and saying, "Well ……" "Right, you wanted to ask Silver Snow first?" "Right." Dong Qi is now more concerned about this person, "I noticed Silver Snow's tombstone, there is no time of death, so is he still alive?" "Actually, I'm not too sure. Well …… this village, in fact, has always been a bit closed, insisting on earth burial customs. So, some young people will also leave tombstones for themselves in advance." "Customs?" Dong Qi froze. "Well …… but nowadays young people don't do that anymore, many of them run away to work outside and rarely come back, basically not many people still adhere to this earth burial custom." Dong Xie pondered for a while before continuing to ask, "Then Yin Xue?" "He's not in the village now either, and has gone outside the village to make a name for himself. But he's one of the rare people who follows the village's customs." "So that means that when you pass away you must be buried in this village?" "Yeah, it's always been that way. In fact, if you go further towards the back of the village, the tombstones are denser over there, with more people who died in the Republican years." This village that lived next to a cemetery was really too good for a horror novel. "That ……" Dong Xie suddenly felt creeped out, and couldn't help but glance at the doorway again, and after making sure that there was nothing outside the door, he continued, "Well . . that, that, about Yuan Ming, there are still some things I want to ask." "Go ahead!" It seemed that because of the honorarium, Wang Tiezhu was very generous, as if he hated to ask Dong Xie more questions. Dong Xie pursed his lips, the Black Dog Blood Dagger hidden within his sleeve, ready to be taken out at any time. "What's wrong with you? Look like you're nervous?" Wang Tiezhu touched his big bald head that looked like an egg and said, "Moreover, what are you doing staring at the door all the time?" "Nothing …… nothing ……" Dong Xie hardened his head and continued to ask his question, "Tell me about the things related to Yuan Ming, I want to hear more about it." "Yuan Ming ah, his mom and dad were both orchard contractors before, they made some money and built a townhouse, but then they both got sick and died, now it's just Yuan Ming and his daughter-in-law living in that house." Dong Xie pondered for a while and deliberately said, "Are you sure? But Yuan Ming told me that his father, Yuan Hua, and his mother, Wang Sizhen, were both killed." "Huh?" Wang Tiezhu's eyes widened when he heard this, "This …… he really said that to you? Can't be!" Wang Tiezhu didn't look like a disguise at all. Could it be that this section was really purely a fictionalized plot of the deep sea? "Honestly, your village is full of cemeteries, which, has it hit …… anything indescribable?" It took Wang Tiezhu about twenty seconds before he could figure out that the indescribable thing Dong Xie was referring to was an evil spirit. He was initially stunned, then laughed out loud, "I thought you were talking about something! It's nothing like that! We're just a hundred things that can't be described!" Dong Xie frowned slightly. Neither Uncle Chen Si nor Wang Tiezhu's words were too discrepant. In other words, although this story of the Deep Sea had borrowed names from reality and even had similar character relationships, the plot of the psychic phenomenon was all fictionalized. However, the black shadow, the evil spirit, was bound to be real, and there was no doubt about that. There must be some kind of opportunity, or rather a specific connection in this right …… Right at this moment, Dong Xie suddenly noticed that at the head of the bed within the house, there was a bookcase, and on the bookcase, there were clearly several volumes of books! "The Black Ghost Shadow?" Dong Xie quickly walked to the bookshelf, impatiently pulled out a book, turned back to Wang Tiezhu and said, "Is this book …… given to you by Yuan Ming?" "Yes." Wang Tiezhu nodded: "Yuan Ming said that he wrote the book, so he gave it to the neighbors in the village." "Did you …… you read it?" "No ah. I don't like reading books, and it's still so thick." So Wang Tiezhu also didn't know that the people in the village were written in it? At the same time, Dong Xie also discovered that there was the latest volume of physical books in it, which he had also just purchased online not too long ago. He pulled out that latest volume and flipped it open to look at it, and surprisingly, it had Fukai's signature. However, this signature is his pen name Deep Sea, not his real name Yuan Ming, under the signature is written "for Uncle Wang". Dong Xie walked to Wang Tiezhu's side and said, "This book was recently given to you by Yuan Ming?" "Well …… yeah. Oh, this is his signature, right, the pen name is Deep Sea, haha, this child may not even have seen the sea." "He called you Uncle Wang, looks like you guys have a good relationship." Dong Qi remembers that inside the novel, Wang Tiezhu can almost be said to be the funny bearer, because of the love of money and greed for small character, contributing a lot of golden sentences that are made up by the readers as terriers, and the relationship with the main male character, Yuan Ming, has also been good. It seems that in reality …… is the same? "Is it?" Wang Tiezhu froze and said, "Well, it's actually okay." "When he sent you the book, was there anything …… not so unusual about it?" "Put it this way, at that time, it seemed like he was not in a very good state of mind, and the dark circles under his eyes were very strong. People in our village have a very regular routine, and very few people stay up all night. It's only him who works that hard right ……" Dong Xie's heart stirred when he heard this. When this physical book officially went on sale, it was almost the same time that Deep Sea released the notice that it was about to finish. Frankly speaking, after chasing this book for so long, Dong Xie was actually surprised to see that notice. After all, there were still a ton of pits inside the book, and it was hard to imagine that they could all be filled in within that short of a time. "Did Yuan Ming say anything to you?" "No," Wang Tiezhu looked at the book and said, "Well, I just remember him saying to me that he would just send me this latest book he published." Only that simple? "Alright." Dong Xie was still a bit undeterred and flipped the book open to look at it. "Hmm?" It was at this moment that Dong Xie realized something! "This is ……" He looked up and said to Wang Tiezhu, "Do you have a pencil here?" "There …… are, right? I'll help you look for it." Dong Qi relied on the light of the room, close to the book to see, it does seem that there are words through the top. Obviously, someone pre-padded a piece of paper on this catalog to write something, and the words were printed on it. Not a moment later, Wang Tiezhu handed over a pencil, "There, there!" Dong Xie immediately took the pencil and just kept drawing slashes on the first blank page after the book was turned over. "What are you …… you doing? I haven't read this book yet!" "Look …… isn't there writing on it?" It didn't take long for him to see the words printed down on it after the entire page had been redrawn with countless slashes by Dong Qi. "Redrafting the outline of the ending of Black Ghost." Seeing the line at the top, Dong Xie just changed his face. Redraft? The ending outline? "Sure enough, the ending was an outline that Deepakai he reconstructed!" Dong Xie had discussed the ending of Black Ghosts and Shadows in the past after meeting Kitayama Jinglong online, yet there were so many contradictions between the recent plot and Deepsea's past conceptualization that if it weren't for the fact that the writing was still the same, everyone was afraid that they would have to wonder if they were looking for someone to ghostwrite for them. Dong Xie continued to read on: "The proposed ending must end with the death of the Black Shadow, and it must be that evil cannot defeat good." Dong Xie froze? Evil can't defeat good? This doesn't match Deepsea's style at all! The evil spirits under Deepsea's pen had always been evil and chaotic, an immortal existence!