Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1095 Behind the Text
No one had any objection to Gustav's killing of Jason, but many people still supported it.

After all, once a devil worshiper ran away, it was hard to imagine what he could do.Even if you are not a magician, you can feel that it is not good just by hearing this word.The only person in the crowd who could notice the problem was Orlando, who played the role of Kuzumi Hirao, but he is also suffering now.

And Lu Ning also took this opportunity to take a look at how many people were still in the main hall.

First of all, Dimitri is no longer here, and Felicia and Subbia have also left.The two groups of Cynthia and Huo Yinglong are still here. In addition, Lian Qingyi, Yu Guiting and Justinna are no longer in the main hall, and Xingong Qianxia did not come to the hall.

As for the others, they all gathered together because of this.Lu Ning didn't explain anything at all, but just told Huo Yinglong about asking Orlando after the interrogation of Jason, and then the people who saw the scene basically made up the whole process.

"It's better to get rid of it." Cynthia glanced at Jason's body with some disgust, "It's always a disaster to keep it."

"But since Mr. Orlando is dead, the supervision that father said—" Huo Yinglong was about to speak, but was interrupted by Gustav.

"Wait."

The tall man closed the back door and stepped into the hall.

"Although it seems unnecessary to ask about this matter, it is still very strange that Orlando can be attacked by the bound Jason."

"How?" Kuzumi asked.

"When we caught Jason, we also searched him. He certainly didn't have anything that could untie him, and the magic book was confiscated, so he can't use magic." Gustav sneered. , "Under such circumstances, I think this guy probably has other accomplices."

"I think it's possible. We are well aware of Mr. Orlando's force. Without those magic, I don't believe that the gardener can beat him one-on-one." Han Xizhe said hurriedly, "Look at the way Mr. Orlando died, cut his throat , This is not as simple as a stab in the back!"

Lu Ning glanced at Han Xizhe in surprise.

In the two rounds, the lawyer basically did not make too surprising speeches, and kept silent most of the time, and he was hardly seen so flustered.

Did it touch something that he cares more about?Or is it that more and more dead people are making the island go in a more crazy direction...

"So I still hope that everyone can explain where they were and what they were doing during that period of time. It is best to have some witnesses." Gustav said.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Gustav, although you are my father's friend, you are not qualified to question us." Cynthia retorted, "You killed Jason, and we have no objection to that. But why did Jason I don’t want to pursue this obvious fact when I killed Orlando. If someone is secretly helping Jason, then he has less allies now, and he must be more cautious if he wants to take action. We can take precautions.”

"After what happened last night, do you still think you can take precautions?" Gustav chuckled, "Very well, I don't hate arrogant young people. That's fine, everyone... just pay more attention For your own safety."

After finishing speaking, Gustav left just like that.

Han Xizhe, on the other hand, was a little anxious. He pinched his folder and looked around, and finally found Huo Yinglong and said something to him in a low voice.Huo Yinglong gave him a surprised look, and led him into an empty room next to him.

Lu Ning closed the door of Orlando's room, nodded slightly to everyone, and left the scene.The matter in Orlando seems to have been revealed in this way, and no one asked for more details.

But judging from the situation just now, I'm afraid there are some secrets in it.Lu Ning knew that Orlando's death would never be such a simple matter, and some people who were really involved would probably continue to follow up.

Gustav is really quick to start...

She returned to her room and continued her reading—before the accident, she had already read about half of "The Rise and Fall of the Jungle".This is a record of a group of primitive tribes living in the rainforest, and it is also a pretty good travelogue for popular science on rainforest exploration. In this book, Yuangu Temple set off with several professional explorers. There are many Always listen to those few pointers and act.Similar to the previous "Running in the Desert", this book also has interview records provided by those adventurers.

However, from this point of view, there is still some discrepancy between Tsuburaya Tera Sora's performance in the book and the reality.

A person who can undertake adventures similar to those in a few travel books must have good physical fitness no matter what. Even if he is not as capable as Orlando and Huo Yinglong, who can be seen at a glance, he must have had a lot of wind and sun. Traces, the type with a stronger body, just like Jack Swan.

However, Tsuburaya Terakura looks like a writer sitting at home and writing. His skin is fairer, and there are no obvious sun marks on his hands and neck. These can be explained by his lack of travel adventures recently.However, his figure is not very strong, even a little skinny. It was nothing more than wandering around small towns and other places before. Sea travel and desert rally can be picked up by means of transportation, but this is a real walk through the rainforest. People with physical strength may not be able to survive at all.

Lu Ning was a little skeptical that the content was not "personal experience".

In the presence of magic, she could reasonably suspect that this or Tsuburaya Terakuro had actually experienced it, just not personally.The rainforest adventure described in this book may be very new to ordinary people, but Lu Ning seems rather boring, so she read the book at a glance and fast forwarded to the next novel.

"Remains Dedicated to the Beloved".

The novel begins with a young man digging a grave in the wilderness in the dark.A tattered straw mat was spread around him, and a highly decomposed corpse was placed on it.

This is the story of a gravedigger.

From here, the overall tone fell into a cold and weird atmosphere.A town that exudes decay from the inside to the outside, a psychopath who digs people's graves.A gravedigger is in love with a corpse, and until it decays, he will dig a grave and bury it.

And all of this, no one found out.From this aspect, as well as his daily actions, readers can gradually feel the death of a small town.Everything here feels absurd, rotten and dilapidated, and one can only feel the approaching madness in the text, and every outsider who comes to the town is also infected with the smell of this town, and never leaves again .

In the end, the gravedigger's lovers have all been buried by him, and those who remain in the town are all the ones the gravedigger hates.At the same time, the behavior of the gravedigger was finally discovered. It was a new outsider who lived in his home.Outsiders reported the incident to the town's leaders, and the townspeople flocked to find the unburied bodies hidden by the gravediggers in their homes.

However... the townspeople chose to catch the outsider who reported and concealed the incident.The gravedigger knew full well that the townspeople would do it, because more rotten things happened in town every day.

At the end of the story, the outsider also came to the gravedigger and became his lover.The gravedigger did not dig the grave this time, but wrapped the corpse with a newly woven straw felt and carried it on his back, and then set fire to all the buildings in the town that had been in the town since he became a gravedigger. Hidden fuel.

After reading it, Lu Ning felt that this depressing story was completely incompatible with the previous rainforest adventure.

The previous stories can more or less find a little connection, but these two are really completely gone.What happened to Yuangu Temple Sora?Why can you write a novel in this style?
She even wanted to go to Tsuburani Temple Sora now to discuss what kind of mental state he was in when he was writing.You must know that a writer of popular novels should not normally write such novelty-seeking and depressing works. This kind of subject matter is not easy to sell at all.

In fact, after reading so many books, Lu Ning can already be sure that Yuangu Sikong's writing also has a special purpose, just like people like Xingong Qianxia and Schlitter.Reynix's deployment is probably not just the buildings of Yamujima and the seven children. He definitely prepared a lot of things to ensure that what he wants to do can be realized-for example, the last time Watanabe Yuan The ending experienced by Koko and Mayuri Daida.

It's just that Lu Ning is not sure that is what Renix is ​​after.

When this thought arose in her heart, she suddenly stood up, ready to take action now.It has been three nights after the family banquet, and no one knows who will die tonight, so she'd better ask all these while Tsuburani Temple is still alive, and it's best not to leave this kind of thing until the next day. wheel.

Lu Ning left the room and glanced at the clock as she walked through the hall. It was now 04:30 in the afternoon, and the rain outside was still falling, as if it had become the norm on this island.Days of heavy rain made Lu Ning even a little worried about whether the drainage measures on the island were enough to handle so much rainwater.

She found Yuangu Temple's empty room and knocked on his door.

After a few seconds, the door was opened a little bit, Yuangu Sikong looked out through the crack of the door with some vigilance, saw that it was Lu Ning, and asked cautiously: "What's the matter? Doctor?"

"I want to talk to you about your work."

"Works? This is not a waste of time for readers, doctor, I don't have the energy now..."

"If this matter had nothing to do with what happened on the island, I wouldn't come to you now. You don't want to die here, do you? And I don't want to either. I hope we can have a good talk based on this consensus. "

Yuangu Sikong looked at Lu Ning with tired eyes, and finally opened the door a little wider.

"Come in, I...can explain."

The writer's mental state is not very good, as can be seen from the slight dark circles under his eyes.There are a lot of manuscript paper in the room, some of which are scattered on the floor.The headlights were not turned on, only the dim desk lamp was on, and the pens and ink bottles on the table were neatly arranged.

Yuangu Sikong pointed to the stool in front of the desk for Lu Ning to sit down, while he sat down on the bed.

"Doctor, I don't know why you came here. I hope you can provide some useful advice... I don't want to die on this island, so if I can exchange some information about my life with what I know, I will be happy .” Yuangu Sikong said.

"How are you mentally?"

"It's not very good, as you can see." Tsuburaya Terakura smiled bitterly, "Actually I didn't sleep very hard yesterday, but nothing happened in our room last night."

"I know, if this involves painful memories, I won't force you to tell them." Lu Ning was very understanding.

"Okay—okay, thank you. I've actually known something was wrong since Raynix died, because Raynix showed me, yes..."

Tsuburaya Temple Sora scratched his hair and organized his words.

"The rune dagger, have you observed it carefully? They have different shapes."

"Yeah, I remember the one on Renix had a distinct blade, and the one on Mayuri Shirota had a pointed cone."

"Renix proudly told me at the time that the bladed ones were the original and the rest were imitations."

"Uh...the counterfeit was made differently than the original?"

"Yes, I also asked this question, and Renix told me that what is imitated is not the appearance, but the function."

"What effect?"

"He didn't say it, he just said it was one of his works that he was very proud of."

Lu Ning immediately caught the key word: "work?"

"Yes, Renix said, except for the original one, all the others are imitations made by him. He said that I will naturally understand what they are for when the time comes, and I don't dare to ask."

"It sounds like you are quite familiar with Mr. Renix. According to my reading of your works, the two probably knew each other a long time ago?" Lu Ning asked.

"After my first book was published... I attended a banquet that the publisher invited me to. At that time, Mr. Renix found me." Tsuburani Temple Sora sighed, "But that time it was just He got to know me for a while, and he also encouraged me a few words, telling me not to gossip in the accident world... Later, after I published two more books, my editor-in-chief began to help me find a travel plan that could continue to accumulate materials .I later found out it was Mr. Raynix who helped me."

"So...you can't refuse his invitation."

"Yeah, have you read my book? Then you should be able to notice that some parts of the travel notes are a bit weird, and it doesn't look like a first-person description."

Lu Ning nodded.

Tsuburani Temple smiled helplessly: "That's actually because there was already a team recording some videos for me to use as writing materials afterwards. I don't know why Mr. Renix gave me so much help, even After that, I found some people to testify for me, proving the authenticity of my travel notes. Ah, I assure you, most of the content in it is indeed what I experienced.”

"Including the adventure part of the rainforest?" Lu Ning asked.

"Yes, it's just that the team lineup is four times the content in my book." Yuangu Temple said in a low voice, "There are even two people in it who are responsible for carrying me forward when I can't walk. I am really not that good physical strength."

(End of this chapter)