On the weekend, at 4:00 p.m., Tang Xiaoxiao got up from the bed, rumpled her messy hair, washed her face, put on a T-shirt and big pants, sat in front of the computer, grabbed a bag of potato chips, and started the day's work .
Tang Xiaoxiao is an online writer who writes horror and supernatural novels for men. He signed a five-year contract with Heiding Chinese.com and completed several long novels. Although he is not a top master, he is still well-known. The first is that the income is rich, but the life is upside down day and night. Every day, I code until the middle of the night, and then I lie down and wake up in the afternoon of the next day.
However, today's code wording was not so smooth, and the outline that had been planned for a long time encountered a small problem and needed to be overturned and restarted. Tang Xiaoxiao was very upset, and the keyboard was crackling.
While he was getting restless, there was a knock on the door.
"Who? I paid the utility bill!" Tang Xiaoxiao yelled loudly.
A calm male voice sounded outside the door: "It's from the Public Security Bureau."
From the Public Security Bureau! Tang Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she almost threw the keyboard out, and began to reflect carefully on what she had written recently.
Could it be that the supporting actresses in recent chapters are too hot? Could it be that I accidentally bumped into a high-voltage line that is not allowed to write? He didn't write about the conscience of heaven and earth, what kind of underworld, what kind of senior cadres, what kind of red and black, and what kind of police and robbers!
"Looking for... What do you want me to do?" Tang Xiaoxiao responded boldly.
"...check the water meter." The male voice outside the door was still so calm.
Rely on me, I don't even bother to make up excuses, where is this bullish policeman!
Tang Xiaoxiao pulled on her slippers and went to open the door. There were two men standing outside the hollowed-out anti-theft door. They didn't look like police officers. They were dressed in casual clothes.
But if you take a closer look, you can see that the aura is different from that of ordinary people. The one with slightly long hair looks fierce and powerful at first glance, and the other is too calm and cold, not down-to-earth.
Ye Qing showed his police officer's ID through the hollow security door, and politely asked if he could enter.
Tang Xiaoxiao scratched her head and let them in.
"It's like this, we read your published novel—" Li Yuebai cut to the chase and went straight to the point.
"Wow..." Tang Xiaoxiao burst into despair, covered her face in pain, and howled dryly: "Why! What did I write wrong again? Why don't you catch the top-ranked "Jerking to the Sky" Ju Ju? He writes all kinds of dirty jokes, why arrest me! I don't agree, I want to appeal! "
"I didn't want to arrest you." Li Yuebai didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and hurriedly comforted him: "I need to consult you about the content of the novel."
Gu Xisha's face looks a bit fierce, Li Yuebai made himself look fierce a few days ago in order to pretend to be like that, but now he still can't hold back.
"Isn't that still a euphemism for asking me out for tea?"
"Don't talk nonsense." Ye Qing passed a piece of printing paper expressionlessly.
It's full of keywords.
Vampires, Countess Karnstein, Maid Ampsa, Stretchable Silver Necklace, Possession, Mind Control...
Tang Xiaoxiao took the paper over and looked at it, and scratched his head half-understood, "I've written all of these?"
"I don't even remember?"
"How can I remember so many novels after finishing so many novels at a hand speed of 10,000 a day?" Tang Xiaoxiao cried out.
"Then let me help you recall." Li Yuebai stood up and paced back and forth on the floor that had been cleaned for more than ten days: "Over the years, there have been many works about vampires, such as novels, movies, TV dramas, anime... in these In the works, the reproduction method of vampires is generally set as [First Embrace].
The so-called First Embrace is a classic setting—the vampire uses some complicated method to exchange blood for a certain human being he chooses. After the ceremony is completed, the human will become a vampire and join the vampire.
But in Tang Xiaoxiao's novels, there is no such thing as a first hug.
In other works, vampires are immortal and live in the world from beginning to end.
In Tang Xiaoxiao's novel, in the 16th century, vampires were defeated by hunters, and all of them were hidden in the form of dormant bodies, hidden in various utensils and bricks, and fell into a long dormancy period, and have never been heard from the world since then. Only when the time is right, it will break out of its shell, possess itself on human beings, and live together with human beings.
It's exactly the same as what happened recently.
Not only this, but all other aspects can match Tang Xiaoxiao's novels.
"So, why on earth do you know so much?" Li Yuebai looked at the otaku writer in front of him suspiciously. No matter how he looked at it, he felt that this person was simple-minded, and he didn't seem like someone with a scheming heart, let alone know any big secrets. people.
"Comrade policeman, you can't reveal the secrets of creation at will, right?" Tang Xiaoxiao scratched her head and rolled her eyes: "I rely on this for a living. Telling you, doesn't it mean that I have ruined my job?"
"Tang Xiaoxiao, don't make a playful smile." Li Yuebai put on a serious tone: "Do you know why we asked you to ask this?"
"Why?"
"Recently there was a murder case in the south of the city, and the murderer left a diary at the murder scene." Li Yue fabricated a lie without blinking: "The content in the diary coincides with the content of your novel, so you have suspected."
"Hey!" Tang Xiaoxiao was startled, and jumped three feet high: "You can't just wrong a good person, I have an alibi! I have the right to remain silent! I, I still need a lawyer to defend me!"
"These words written in the diary are the exclusive nouns in your novel." Ye Qing shook the paper.
"Then it might be my readers who committed the crime?" Tang Xiaoxiao argued, feeling that he had no idea. His readers only watched thrilling scenes, and they didn't even remember the name of the protagonist's father after watching it.
"Why don't you simply disclose your source of inspiration and set the source." Li Yuebai said, "It saves time and effort compared to hiring a lawyer, right?"
"Okay, okay!" Tang Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth and agreed.
He took out a thick notebook from the bookshelf and opened it. It was full of flamboyant characters that no one knew, ugly and scribbled, mixed with a lot of pictures and dots.
"Vampire... Vampire... That book seems to have been started four years ago..." Tang Xiaoxiao flipped through the dirty pages of the book.
"What is this notebook?"
Tang Xiaoxiao explained angrily: "It's my handwritten outline, and I write down any messy thoughts before writing."
"It's not easy to recognize characters." Li Yuebai praised sincerely.
"Yes!" Tang Xiaoxiao turned to a page, pointing to a group of black words on it: "I remember it clearly, I found the setting from an ancient book in my family!"
"An ancient book?" Li Yuebai and Ye Qing looked at each other.
"Yes, yes." Tang Xiaoxiao patted his head, and suddenly realized: "It's all taken from that! It's not my fault, it's the fault of the ancient book! The murderer you mentioned must have read the ancient book!"
Writers are more or less obsessed with antiquities. The ancient book Tang Xiaoxiao mentioned is also well preserved. When it was taken out of the safe, it was wrapped with a layer of plastic paper to prevent oxidation.
Open the plastic paper, inside is a blue silk-bound paper book with three large characters "Blood Demon Test" written on it.
Tang Xiaoxiao took out two pairs of disposable plastic gloves, handed them to Li Yuebai and Ye Qing, and said: "Comrade police should protect the lives and property of the masses, right? But the books from the Ming Dynasty are precious."
"From the Ming Dynasty?" Li Yuebai opened it carefully, and sure enough, he saw the title of "Zhengde" written on the page.
Looking at the postscript again, there is actually a sentence at the beginning: Portuguese Jesuit missionaries...
The Society of Jesus was an organization of Christian missionaries at that time.
"Hey! This is amazing, an important evidence of cultural exchanges between the East and the West." Li Yuebai was taken aback. He often told students in class that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Western European missionaries came to China for a large number of cultural exchanges. There is a well-known Matteo Ricci, who co-authored many technical books with officials and scholars of the Ming Dynasty in China.
"That's not it!" Tang Xiaoxiao said proudly, "This book was co-authored by our ancestors and Portuguese missionaries in the Ming Dynasty."
"How did your ancestors know the Portuguese missionaries?" Li Yuebai was curious.
"Ahem, our family's ancestors settled in the area of Guangzhou, Guangdong. It is close to the sea. It has been relatively open since the Ming Dynasty. It is not uncommon to meet foreigners." Tang Xiaoxiao is full of pride: "My ancestor, Mr. Tang, He is a scholar, but he is still a crazy student. He never conforms to the old ways. At that time, he was an avant-garde figure! Once he came and went, he hooked up with foreigners."
The title of the book is "Blood Phantom", and the content is of course a research on vampires.
According to Tang Xiaoxiao, Mr. Tang in his family is really a romantic person. Since childhood, he has been very interested in stories about mysterious monsters and monsters such as Shan Hai Jing, Tang Legend, and Buddhist Past History Books. With idle work and some spare money, he traveled south and north every day to visit mountains and rivers, inquire about all kinds of ghosts and ghosts everywhere, and built a large library at home. He did not hide the books of sages, but only the books of ghosts and ghosts.
One day, I heard that some new missionaries arrived on the ship from the West, and they planned to live in the Ming Dynasty for a few years. They needed to talk to the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, and those pedantic orthodox scholars did not want to see these red-haired, blue-eyed foreign devils. On the contrary, Mr. Tang became interested, and went to meet each other without saying a word. At the beginning, the language barrier was all relying on gestures. After eating, living and traveling together for a while, he was able to talk a little bit.
As time went on and the relationship deepened, Mr. Tang used his brain again, thinking, I have almost collected all the books on ghosts and ghosts from the Ming Dynasty. He kept asking.
The missionary told him sternly that there is a leader of all ghosts called Satan, and that Satan is the root of all evil, and he must be criticized.
After listening to the story of Satan, Mr. Tang still didn't give up, and asked other questions, but the missionary kept his secret and refused to say anything.
A few years later, among the missionaries, the one who had a particularly close relationship with Mr. Tang was bitten by a poisonous insect when he went to the countryside to preach, and couldn't afford it. When Mr. Tang saw that his friend was seriously ill, he felt anxious in his eyes. Hastily sent someone to bring him to the mansion to take care of him, and chatted with him every day in front of the bed.
The missionary knew that time was running out, and was also moved by Mr. Tang's care. After waking up from a drowsiness, the missionary was finally willing to reveal the secret, which was the secret about vampires.
Mr. Tang was shocked when he heard it, and hurriedly copied it by himself. With just one dictation and one transcription, he finished the book "Blood Enchantment Test" before his sick bed. Not long after it was completed, the missionary passed away.
The content of this book is strange and mysterious, and Mr. Tang did not dare to copy more, but only copied ten copies by himself and left them for future generations.
Hundreds of years later, after wars, famines, and many disasters of book destruction, most of the ten copies of "Blood Demon Test" were lost. Only this one miraculously escaped and remained in Tang Xiaoxiao's hands.
"I wanted to write a cool article about vampires, but I always found the information to be the same and boring." Tang Xiaoxiao scratched her head and said, "I just dug out the book left by my ancestors, checked the contents, and drank It’s really exciting, I didn’t look carefully, so I used all the settings in it.”
"We need to bring this book back to the bureau to study it carefully." Li Yuebai said: "We will return the original book afterward."
"This..." Tang Xiaoxiao showed embarrassment.
"You can pay the rent." Ye Qing said.
Tang Xiaoxiao immediately took out the credit card machine with both hands.