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Chapter 208 - 180. Novel Content (8000 words!)_2

Chapter 208: Chapter 180. Novel Content (8000 words!)_2

"Mr. Temple, how much of the content have you read?" Shen Gu Mirai looked at him tapping on the novel and suddenly spoke.

"I just finished the first volume." Beichuan Si stopped his movements and looked at Shen Gu Mirai, "From your tone, have you already finished reading the entire novel?"

Shen Gu Mirai told him yesterday afternoon that she had personal matters to attend to—could it be that she went back to read "The Lost Yuchuan"?

"I read the novel in one afternoon and spent some time in the evening organizing," Shen Gu Mirai said with a little yawn, then took out her notebook from her small leather bag, "I hope the information I found can be of help to you, Mr. Temple."

"I’ll use my qi later to help you relieve some fatigue," Beichuan Si suddenly said.

After all, Shen Gu Mirai was staying up late and working hard because of him; it was only right for Beichuan Si to help her out.

Hearing this, Shen Gu Mirai couldn’t help but smile.

Then she realized she might have been a bit too pleased with herself, so after clearing her throat twice, she nodded, "Okay, let’s talk about business first."

"First, let’s talk about the book ’The Lost Yuchuan.’ "

As soon as Shen Gu Mirai got down to business, her playful mood dissipated, her eyes shining as she continued, "’The Lost Yuchuan’ consists of four volumes, each volume about one hundred and sixty thousand words. Including the prologue and the separately released final volume, it totals over eight hundred thousand words."

"I believe you have already read the prologue, Mr. Temple. I won’t go into that here and will talk about the content of the remaining four volumes."

Shen Gu Mirai took out a purple-covered novel from her bag.

It was indeed the printed "The Lost Yuchuan."

"The names of the four volumes are ’Entering,’ ’Hide and Seek,’ ’Scratches,’ and ’Transmission.’ "

Under Shen Gu Mirai’s explanation, Beichuan Si also roughly understood the meanings behind the titles of the four volumes.

The first volume "Entering": refers to the male and female protagonists dealing with the attacks of vengeful spirits while investigating, entering Yuchuan Elementary School.

The second volume "Hide and Seek": Following the content of the previous volume, after being drawn into Yuchuan Elementary School, the male and female protagonists desperately deal with the childlike vengeful spirits, finally managing to escape at the last moment, ending the game as the purplish bruises of the child’s scratches slowly fade away...

The third volume "Scratches": From the perspective of the first victim, recounting the strange occurrences in his daily life. He begins to experience hallucinations and auditory illusions, often seeing faceless children with pale-white skin running around at home. He visited many doctors, and the male and female protagonists kept encouraging him. But it was all in vain, one night when he returned home, the vengeful child spirit appeared and killed him with a pair of paper scissors, bloody scissors driven into his eyeball, piercing directly into his brain...

The fourth volume "Transmission": From the perspective of the second victim, another friend of the male main character who also touched the seal. After the first victim’s death, she was always distracted. One night after work, she encountered the killer from the news, who murdered her and dumped her body. At the end of this volume, purple bruises also appear on the killer’s wrist.

Next is the separately released "The Ending."

"The Ending" is somewhat depressing but also expected: After the male and female protagonists escaped from Yuchuan Elementary School, they thought everything was over. However, the female protagonist is killed by the killer, who had been possessed by the vengeful child spirits, and the male protagonist goes alone to confront the killer. After struggling and eventually killing the killer, purple bruises again appear on his wrists...

The story ends here.

From the male protagonist’s perspective near the end, it’s clear he’s no longer rational as he begins talking to himself and often sees the deceased female protagonist calling him.

He too has gone mad and might even become the next serial killer.

Thus, from this, it can also be seen that "The Lost Yuchuan" itself is a tragic novel.

"But from the content of these volumes, many details can also be seen," Shen Gu Mirai took a deep breath, her eyes bright.

Indeed, from the content of these volumes, Beichuan Si found many things that had already happened in reality.

Take, for instance, the volume "Scratches."

When the murderer killed the second victim, purple-blue curse marks also appeared on his wrist. This shows that the curse is transmissible, just like the incident with Ishikawa Kaoru.

"Moreover, I have also discovered something very important." Shen Gu Mirai took out her phone, opened a biographical app, and pointed to the information on the screen: "Seto Cheng, indeed comes from a place called Yuchuan."

Yuchuan really exists.

It is located in an inconspicuous town within Kanagawa Prefecture.

"Is that so?" Beichuan Si leaned in closer.

"Hmm, if it’s true, then perhaps the novel ’Lost Yuchuan’ might indeed have a real-life creative prototype."

Shen Gu Mirai answered, pinching her snow-white chin.

Beichuan Si nodded.

In fact, many horror murder mystery novels have real-life prototypes, so a horror story based on Yuchuan Town as a prototype is not unthinkable.

Beichuan Si took out his laptop, plugged in the power, connected to the internet, then clicked on the blue annotated link for ’Yuchuan’ from the available links on a biographical encyclopedia.

An introduction about Yuchuan Town unfolded before Beichuan Si.

It was a small town known for its local specialty woodcarvings. Some pictures also showed that it boasted pristine mountains and rivers, almost an untouched natural environment.

No wonder, Yuchuan Town was located near the remote Danze Mountain Area in Kanagawa, which had a large river locally named Yuchuan, after which the town was named.

In recent years, transportation developments in Yuchuan Town had sent many young people away, and those young people had settled in big cities, unwilling to stay in the countryside.

Most of those who remained were rooted middle-aged and elderly people.

Looking at the exquisite and quaint wood carvings in the pictures, Shen Gu Mirai’s eyes sparkled, "Such a place, I really want to visit... It even says there are hot springs there, bathing in the springs must be really nice, right?"

"....." said Beichuan Si.

Beichuan Si’s expression twitched.

It’s typical of girls, engrossed in a bloody case investigation one second and in the next, captivated by something else entirely, unable to extricate themselves.

"We can talk about it another time," replied Beichuan Si in an even tone, while he clicked on a search bar.

He wanted to check if any incidents had occurred there.

Some cases from the ’Lost Yuchuan’.

Child disappearance case, Danze Mountain Area, Yuchuan Town.

Beichuan Si keyed in these keywords.

The search results on the computer brought up the terms Beichuan Si had searched, along with some newspaper articles.

Yuchuan Town in the Danze Mountain Area.

It was a region known for its beautiful scenery, but it was also in this area that past painful events unspeakable by locals had occurred.

More than ten years ago, at an XX elementary school in the town, a child disappearance case had occurred.

Next to the newspaper, where there should have been photos and names of the children, most of the handwriting and portraits were already illegible due to poor preservation. It seemed to avoid suspicion; even the words ’Yuchuan Elementary School’ had been replaced with ’XX Elementary School.’

At that time, the local police station mobilized officers, and everyone searched together for the missing children, but to no avail.

People’s attention was locked on XX Elementary School.

But still to no avail.

No one knew where those children had gone, as if everything had been completely hidden in darkness.

Locals referred to it as the ’curse of the River God of Yuchuan.’

"The curse of the River God of Yuchuan...?"

Beichuan Si looked at the report.

The so-called River God of Yuchuan presumably referred to the Yuchuan River God.

In some places in Japan, it was common for people to dedicate a pure maiden to the River God, and even now, one could see monuments comforting the spirits of deceased young girls or small stone caskets made along many riverbanks in Japan.

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