Chapter 188 The Owl Man
Wu Feitu walked away and calmed down to read a book. Time always flies by.
At 11:30 that night, Gu Lucai received an email from Oe Katsuhiko. According to the new translator's own statement, because he is used to activities at night, his working hours are relatively hellish.
This is also true. Katsuhiko Oe didn't get up until eleven o'clock Tokyo time. He took a sip of water from the faucet, then washed his face with cold water to clear his mind.
The brain was activated before the body. Katsuhiko Oe dragged his body forward slowly like a zombie and opened the thick curtains.
The dark window outside the window gave him enough sense of security. Oe Katsuhiko tried getting up at dusk and felt unusually lonely when he saw the sun setting, but he didn't feel it at all when he woke up at night.
Seeing his friend’s phone call, Oe Katsuhiko called Yasuda Kazuma back and learned what happened.
Oe Katsuhiko would definitely be happy to make money. Only by making money can he support his writing career.
"Although Yasuda is old-fashioned and cowardly, he is indeed a good friend. He will introduce him to me when there is a job." Oe Katsuhiko said to himself.
He knew Yasuda's current situation, and had advised Yasuda more than once to work hard to get out of the small mountain village and come to Osaka to join him.
After getting Party A's email and contacting him, Oe Katsuhiko quickly obtained the documents from Party A.
Open the file. There are three articles in total, "Singing the Moon Song in the White House", "Flower Flower Rice" and "Owl Man", which are about 50,000 words.
"Gu Sang is a very talented writer, a 16-year-old genius writer! A writer loved by 30 million people, his style is from hell, dark and direct to the human heart..." Katsuhiko Oe thought of his friend Can't help but praise.
First of all, he didn't order "Floor Book". The price of 1,800 yen (nearly one hundred yuan) was enough for him to buy three boxes of bento at a convenience store. The price was too expensive and not cost-effective.
Secondly, Oe Katsuhiko himself did not realize that a popular writer who debuted at the age of sixteen would be much more successful than a 28-year-old loser with an uncertain future, so in his heart Some resistance.
"Yasuda's words are exaggerated, as if he broke up with his girlfriend not long ago, and he talks as if it's the end of the world. What kind of dark works can a sixteen-year-old writer write?" Comparing his feelings, what was Katsuhiko Oe doing at the age of sixteen?
Let's start watching "Owl Man" first, because this title is the strangest. Katsuhiko Oe downloaded the file from his mailbox first.
Yahoo Mail has this shortcoming. If you stay on one page for a long time, the web page will refresh itself, and I don’t know why.
Read carefully, "It's actually the beginning of an urban legend?"
Are you kidding? A smile appeared on Oe Katsuhiko's lips. Why do foreigners write urban legends and talk about their neon people? compared to?
Besides, he likes to collect these stories, so Oe Katsuhiko continues reading with the intention of "guiding".
The urban legend of the owl man is that if you meet a man in sunglasses wearing a brown windbreaker in the evening and he barks at you, you should respond with a coo immediately. It is best not to imitate the mouse call. Because man is the incarnation of an owl, and owls love to eat mice, you will be eaten as a mouse.
"What a boring urban legend, what kind of competitiveness does this owl man have?" Katsuhiko Oe commented, think of the slit girl, think of Tek Tek, one grinning from the corner of his mouth to the back of the ear, and the other only Crawling with upper body.
Not only the appearance, but also the combat effectiveness are not on the same level.
As the story progressed, Oe Katsuhiko did not complain, because what follows is about how the "Owl Man" came into existence from scratch and was deliberately fabricated by the protagonist.
At first, the protagonist just posted on the forum, pretending to be a high school girl and saying that she had met a weirdo. But gradually the Internet could no longer satisfy her, so she started to act offline. With deliberate incitement, even the news was discussing Owl Man.
Experts on TV analyzed this incident through psychology. The protagonist was happy because of Owl Man's popularity.
The plot cannot be called ups and downs, but it attracted Katsuhiko Oe to watch.
Until the climax of the plot - the protagonist kills a strange little girl in a small mountain village in Kanagawa!
The reason is that the girl bumped into him and heard about the urban legend of the Owl Man, but the little girl was timid and didn't believe it at all, so she started to imitate the mouse.
Oe Katsuhiko’s eyes became sharper because he looked more seriously.
[There is something violently stirring in my body. It was an overwhelming force that wanted to penetrate my chest.
Then, I finally saw it. The owl's claws suddenly emerged from my chest, tore my slender waist apart, and took advantage of the situation to grab the girl's neck. ]
"He actually killed someone, really killed someone."
The protagonist became a real Owl Man. Katsuhiko Oe felt his brain numb, as if every cell in his body had drank Ice Cream. It was actually quite enjoyable!
He can understand the protagonist very well and puts all his hopes for life on the "fictional owl man", just like Oe Katsuhiko has conflicts with his parents at home and bets everything on writing.
As mentioned earlier, the neon people are prone to sexual harassment due to the lack of supplies in the island country and the solidification of the social upward class for decades, such as men who live frugally while cruising on floats, and skipping meals to collect bottle caps. , etc. There are too many examples.
Try your best to see the light in only one thing!
Chinese people read this article and most think it is exciting and curious. Neon people’s reading is Oe Katsuhiko’s reaction, which is in line with the deepest human nature of a nation!
The article Earth in the Past Life won an award, and the short drama filmed by Cheng Shiqi also became the most popular unit of Shiqi that year, with a record of success.
Oe Katsuhiko continues reading, the police investigation, based on the confession of a nearby peasant woman, identified the murderer as a stranger in a brown trench coat, but the neon police are useless in film and television works.
The Owl Man who killed people has turned from an urban legend into a perverted killer. Parents are on guard and will even scare their children: Go home early at night, otherwise they will be captured by the Owl Man.
The protagonist gets what he wants, and the discussion on the Internet, which is not a little bit of recognition, makes him fall into the abyss step by step.
"This was written by a sixteen-year-old Chinese student?" The expression of disbelief on Oe Katsuhiko's face was as if he saw Mount Fuji erupting.
Can a college student write about such complex human nature? Paranoid, life is controlled by imaginary and fictitious personalities.
“Killing the same kind and becoming an owl man, it will be difficult to become a human again... Is there more to come?”
Oe Katsuhiko thought that the article should end at this point, I didn’t expect there would be a sequel.
I want to remain anonymous, but I kill someone again. The most important thing is——
"Is this a mystery novel?! It's actually a man disguised as a woman. It's amazing..." Katsuhiko Oe repeated. The author of Si Guoyi.
The protagonist changed his identity and disguised himself as a woman. No one would have thought that the perverted killer Owl Man would disguise himself as a woman, but inadvertently fell in love with a man.
Sixty percent is Owl Man and 30% is me, but I will be led by the other 10% and 10% Ritsuko.
Ritsuko is another virtual female identity created by the protagonist.
Some mystery novel puzzles are about the murderer, some are about the method of the crime, some are about the time of the crime, and some are about uncovering narrative tricks.
The mystery of "Owl Man" is: "Why does the protagonist commit the crime without anyone suspecting him?" The answer is the narrative trick of a man disguising himself as a woman. Just looking at the front, it is impossible to tell that the protagonist has done this.
(End of this chapter)