Chapter 35: The True Ending of the Novel

There were still about 25 minutes to go before midnight zero. Zhao Qishan yawned and said to Tang Yun, who was still playing the game in high spirits next to him, "You're really extraordinarily spirited, aren't you?" "Haha, okay, okay." Zhao Qishan picked up his cell phone at this moment and looked at it again to make sure that Black Ghost Shadow hadn't been updated yet, so he clicked on Devil's Apartment, which was authored by Dong Qi. After reading for a while, Zhao Qishan quickly raised his head and said to Tang Yun, "Tang Yun! I ……" "Qishan!" "Hm? What's wrong? Tang Yun?" "Actually, there's something I don't know if I should tell you or not." "Go ahead!" At this time, Tang Yun looked to the side at Zhao Qishan, who was holding his cell phone on the sofa, opened and closed his lips, and said, "Actually, just now, a friend of mine sent me a message." "What message? Could it be your girlfriend?" "He is someone who is very specialized in computers. In fact, that day, I took that photo of Dong Xie's friend circle and took a screenshot of it. Then, sent that photo to him to look at." Zhao Qishan put down his cell phone, his expression becoming solemn, "What …… situation?" Tang Yun scratched his cheeks, then continued, "He said he'd be free to help me analyze whether the photo was PS or not. Subsequently, he just said to me …… that he and one of his people who was also very proficient in retouching had analyzed it, and that it was …… almost impossible for this photo to be photoshopped!" Zhao Qishan's face was turning white. "I now understand why Dong Xie didn't continue to attend the wedding while in Hawaii." Tang Yun's face turned grim, "When he was in college, Dong Xie set up some sort of alien phenomenon investigation club in order to gather material for his novels, and after graduation, he kept writing horror novels, did he, indeed, invoke some sort of evil spirit?" "How, how!" It was the dead of night now, Zhao Qishan was only feeling his scalp numb by Tang Yun's words. This couldn't be possible, could it? However, Tang Yun's face was gradually becoming grim, "I always feel that Dong Xie is hiding something from us." "Well ……," Zhao Qishan nodded, "Then Tang Yun, what are you going to do?" "What to do …… I think that if we go directly to ask, Dong Xie may not tell the truth. When he was in college, he was a person who was particularly capable of hiding things in his heart." "Also ah, this is exactly the same as Xie Ruoni. The two of them belong to the idol drama kind of protagonists who will never tell anyone no matter if they have a terminal illness and are being cuckolded or are being bullied to death." "You're spitting this trough sharply ah ……" Zhao Qishan looked at the cell phone in front of him at this time, beads of sweat constantly seeping out of his palms. At this time, Black Ghost Shadow was updated once more. Zhao Qishan subconsciously clicked on the latest update- Dong Xie suddenly heard a shout, "Brother!" Dong Xie looked towards the side, then he saw a man and a woman running towards him. "Ah Ning!" Dong Xie immediately ran over and looked at his sister, Dong Ning. Just then, he suddenly stumbled and looked towards the back! The next thing he saw was that in front of Yin Xue's tombstone, Yuan Ming was, however, already gone! This caused Dong Xie's face to change drastically. "Brother! Listen to me!" Dong Ning grabbed Dong Xie's hand and said, "Yuan Ming, he's not a person! He, is the Black Shadow!" Dong Xie didn't show the slightest hint of surprise, "I've roughly deduced that as well ……" Afterward, Dong Xie looked at the tombstone behind him. "This tombstone …… this person called Silver Snow should be the Deep Sea." "Are you sure? Brother?" "Silver Snow and Silver Cod are homophonic, and Silver Cod is a type of deep sea fish. I was thinking at the time that this is most likely the origin of Deep Sea's pen name." "It's also …… brother that you like eating seafood the most." "Deep Sea, if he died, he might be underneath this tombstone! Assuming that after he dies, it is also highly likely that his departed soul will …… enter underneath the tombstone that he prepared before he was born." "Is …… that so ……?" "I paid close attention just now, the soil in front of Silver Snow's headstone obviously has quite a bit of new soil! Hurry up and find a shovel, we don't have much time!" …… Zhao Qishan's eyes widened when he saw this. "This really looks just like the real Dong Xie ah Silver Cod …… That's right, I remember that he loved eating seafood sashimi the most in college." Tang Yun also nodded and said, "It seems that Dong Xie really told a lot of things to the deep sea." "No, no, no,……" Zhao Qishan asked himself, back then, inside the university dormitory, he was the person who knew Dong Xie the most, "I don't think so, the tone of this speech is indeed very much like Dong Xie himself. " "So?" "I don't know, could this have anything to do with the previous photos from Hawaii?" The more Zhao Qishan thought about it, the more wrong he felt. "And, what concerns me the most is ……" "Care about what?" Tang Yun was instantly piqued, "Speak up, don't stutter in your speech!" Zhao Qishan pondered for a while before continuing to read on. In the next episode, Dong Xie and Dong Ning found shovels and then started digging in front of the tombstone. Zhao Qishan looked nervous, "Will this …… dig up something? So nervous!" For Zhao Qishan, he had been chasing this book for a long time, and would open the APP every day from time to time to check if there were any updates. With such a big explosion of updates tonight, it's likely that it's going to end tonight. "The origin of the Black Shadow is about to be revealed tonight, right?" As the digging progressed, Dong Xie and Dong Ning finally found something. "This is!" Inside a pit beneath the soil of the excavated tombstone, a coffin appeared! Dong Xie looked at the coffin and swallowed a mouthful of water. "Inside that, what exactly is it?" And as the coffin was nailed shut, Dong Ning clenched her teeth and pulled out the gun that Dong Evil had given her, aiming it at the spot on the coffin where the nails were nailed. "It has to be opened!" Dong Ning then pulled the trigger! Seeing this part, Zhao Qishan froze, "What kind of plot is this ……? How come the guns are out?" Tang Yun looked at Zhao Qishan looking so enthralled, and for a while he didn't know what to say. And in the Blue Moon Village …… Dong Xie and Dong Ning, finally opened the coffin in front of them. And then, they saw that inside the coffin, there was a black shadow like a charcoal attached to it! At the same time, there was an opened laptop! Dong Xie immediately took out that laptop, which actually still had electricity, and on the screen was none other than the author backstage of Singularity.com! "This is ……" Then, Dong Xie saw the five chapters of saved drafts that still remained in the draft box inside! "Surviving drafts! It's all here!" Dong Xie immediately clicked those saved drafts open, while Fang Wenxuan hurriedly asked, "Wait, can this laptop …… access the internet?" Dong Xie and Dong Ning looked at it and both concluded that this laptop, could access the internet! "Send the saved manuscript to …… Ming Chenyan and Yi Yu! As soon as possible!" Situ Wenxuan's first thought was actually Gao Yiye, even in this life-and-death critical moment. Dong Xie also noticed that he purposely placed Ming Chenyan's name in front of him so as not to not cause offense to the other residents. Human nature is really complicated, to the general public Fang Wenxuan is undoubtedly a scum, but Dong Xie really also quite admired this man. Dong Xie opened the last five chapters of his saved manuscript and skimmed through them as fast as he could. "This is?" Inside the last five surviving chapters, Dong Xie, Dong Ning, Ming Chenyan, Gao Yiye, and Fang Wenxuan were all dead, not a single one left behind. "What …… what?" Especially when he saw the last chapter, Dong Xie's face turned white. "Black …… black shadow ……" Dong Xie had been speculating on who the true face of the Black Shadow was, but, upon closer examination, he seemed to have fallen into a huge misunderstanding. At the end of the day, Black Ghosts is a horror novel, not a Bengali speculative fiction novel. It doesn't need to adhere to any Van Dine Twenty guidelines. That means …… Why does the black shadow have to be a "specific person"? In the last chapter, there is a flashback from God's point of view. First of all, one thing has been established: the main character of this book, Yuan Ming, is not the real Yuan Ming from the beginning to the end, but the dead Yuan Hua! Yuan Hua killed his entire family back then because his wife cuckolded him, and ended up dying with her. The real Yuan Ming escaped and was trafficked to a faraway place. And when the dead Yuan Hua woke up in this mansion again, his memory was erased by the Black Shadow. "The black shadow is not a fixed person …… " Dong Xie looked at Dong Ning on the side and said, "Ah Ning, the deep sea wife you met, the fourth uncle Chen I met, Wang Tiezhu, all of them are black shadows! "