No one had any objections to Gustav's killing of Jason, but many people supported it.
After all, it's hard to imagine what a devil worshiper can do once he escapes. Even if you are not a magician, you can still feel something bad just hearing this word. The only one in the crowd who could sense the problem was Orlando, who played Kuzumi Hirama, but he was also in trouble now.
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 Superbia have also left. Cynthia and Huo Yinglong are still here. In addition, Lian Qingyi, Yu Guiting and Justina are no longer in the main hall. Xingong Qianxia came to the hall without hearing anything.
As for the others, they all gathered together. Lu Ning didn't explain anything at all. He just told Huo Yinglong what he had asked Orlando to do after interrogating Jason, and then everyone who saw the scene basically figured out 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 mentioned-" Huo Yinglong was about to speak when he was interrupted by Gustave.
"Wait."
The tall man closed the back door and walked into the hall.
"Although asking this may seem redundant, it is still strange that Orlando could be attacked by a bound Jason."
"What do you say?" Kuzumi Pingzhen asked.
"When we caught Jason, we also searched him. He definitely didn't bring anything with him that could break the bonds, and the magic book was also taken away, so he couldn'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 strength. Without those magics, I don't believe that the gardener can defeat him one on one." Han Xizhe said hurriedly, "Look at the way Mr. Orlando died, slit his throat." , this is not as simple as a stab in the back!"
Lu Ning glanced at Han Xizhe in surprise.
The lawyer basically did not make any shocking speeches during the two rounds, and remained silent most of the time. I rarely saw him look so panicked.
Did you touch on an issue that he was more concerned about? Or is it that more and more dead people are driving the island in an even crazier direction...
"So I still hope that you can roughly explain where you were and what you were doing during that time. It would be best to have some witnesses." Gustave said.
"Sorry, Mr. Gustave, although you are my father's friend, you are not qualified to question us." Cynthia refused, "You killed Jason, and we have no objection to that. But what about Jason?" I, the one who killed Orlando, don’t want to pursue this obvious fact. If someone is secretly helping Jason, then he has fewer allies now, and he must be more cautious if he wants to take action again. We can take precautions."
"After what happened last night, do you still think you can be on guard?" Gustave chuckled, "Very good, I don't hate arrogant young people. Then forget it, please... please pay more attention. It’s best for your own personal safety.”
After saying that, Gustave left directly.
Han Xizhe, on the other hand, was a little anxious. He pinched his folder and looked around, and finally found Huo Yinglong who whispered something to him. Huo Yinglong glanced at him in surprise 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 seemed to have been revealed, and no one asked for more details.
But judging from the situation just now, I'm afraid there may be some hidden secrets. Lu Ning knew that Orlando's death would never be such a simple matter, and some people who were really related might continue to track it.
Gustave is so quick to start...
She returned to her room and continued her reading - she had read about half of "The Rise and Fall of the Jungle" before the accident. This is a record of a group of primitive tribes living in the rainforest. It is also a very good popular science travel book on rainforest exploration. In this book, Sora Tsuburaya set out with several professional explorers. There are many details in the book. I always act based on the guidance of those few people. Similar to the previous "Desert Run", this book also contains interviews provided by those adventurers.
However, it seems that there is still some discrepancy between Sora Tsuburaya's performance in the book and the reality.
A person who can take on adventures like those in several travel books must have a very good physical condition. 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 exposure to wind and sun. Traces, the type with a stronger body, like Jack Swan.
However, Tsuburaya Temple Sora looks like a writer sitting at home writing. His skin is fairer, and there are no obvious sunburn marks on his hands and neck. This can be explained by the fact that he has not traveled out for adventure recently. However, his body is not very strong, and he is even a little skinny. Before, he just wandered around in small towns and other places. Sea trips and desert rallies can be picked up by transportation, but this is a real trek through the rainforest, which is useless. People with strong physical strength may not be able to survive it.
Lu Ning had some doubts that this content was not "personal experience".
With magic, she could reasonably suspect that Tsuburaya Temple Sora had indeed experienced this, but not personally. The rainforest adventure described in this book may be new to ordinary people, but Lu Ning seemed bored, so she read the book at a glance and fast-forwarded to the next one.
"Dedicated to the Remains of a Loved One."
It begins with a young man digging a grave in the wilderness at night. Beside him was a tattered straw mat, with a highly decomposed corpse placed on it.
This is the story of a gravedigger.
From here on, the overall tone falls into a cold and weird atmosphere. A town that exudes decay from the inside out, and a psychopath who digs people's graves. The gravedigger fell in love with the corpse until it decayed, and he would dig a grave and bury the body in it.
And no one discovered all this. From this aspect and his daily actions, readers can gradually feel the death of a small town. Everything here feels absurd, rotten and dilapidated. In the article, you can only feel the approaching madness, and every outsider who comes to the town is infected with the smell of this town and never leaves again. .
In the end, all the Gravedigger's lovers were buried by him, and those left in the town were all the people whom the Gravedigger hated. At the same time, the actions of the gravedigger were finally discovered. It was a new outsider who was staying in his home. Outsiders reported the incident to town leaders, and townsfolk swarmed to discover the unburied bodies the gravediggers had hidden in their homes.
However... the townspeople chose to catch the outsider who reported the matter and concealed the matter. The Gravedigger also knew that the townspeople would do this, because things even more rotten than this happened in the 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 again this time. Instead, he wrapped the body in a newly woven straw felt, carried it on his back, and then took advantage of the night to light up the various buildings in the town that had been there since he became the gravedigger. Hidden fuel.
After reading it, Lu Ning felt that this depressing story was completely incompatible with her previous rainforest adventure.
The previous stories can be more or less connected, but these two are really completely gone. What happened to Tsuburaya Temple Sora? Why can you write in this style?
She even wanted to go to Tsuburaya Temple now to discuss his mental state when he was writing. You know, normally a popular writer should not write such novelty and depressive works. This kind of subject matter is not easy to sell at all.
In fact, after reading so many books, Lu Ning can already believe that Tsuburaya Temple Sora's writing also has a special purpose, just like people like Shinmiya Asaka and Schlitt. Rennix’s deployment was probably not just about the buildings on Yamejima Island and the seven children. He definitely prepared a lot of things to ensure that what he wanted to do could be realized - for example, the last time Watanabe Abuchi The ending experienced by Zi and Mayuri Daida.
But Lu Ning wasn't sure that was Rennix's pursuit.
When this thought came to her mind, she suddenly stood up, ready to take action now. Three nights have passed since the family banquet, and no one knows who will die tonight, so she'd better ask all these questions while Tsuburaya Sora is still alive. It's best not to leave this kind of thing until next time. wheel.
Lu Ning left the room and glanced at the clock as she walked through the hall. It was now 4:30 in the afternoon, and the rain outside was still falling, as if it had become the norm on this island. The continuous heavy rain made Lu Ning even worried about whether the drainage measures on the island were enough to handle so much rainwater.
She found Tsuburaya Temple's empty room and knocked on his door.
After a few seconds, the door was opened a little. Tsuburaya Temple looked out from the crack of the door warily. When he saw it was Lu Ning, he asked cautiously: "What's the matter? Doctor?"
"I'd like to talk to you about your work."
"Work? This is not a time-consuming task for readers. Doctor, I don't have the energy right now..."
"If this matter had nothing to do with what happened on the island, I wouldn't come here to find you now. You don't want to die here, right? And I don't want to either. I hope we can have a good talk based on this consensus. "
Tsuburaya Temple looked at Lu Ning with somewhat tired eyes, and finally opened the door a little wider.
"Come in, I... can explain."
The writer's mental state is not very good, which can be seen from the faint dark circles under his eyes. There are a lot of manuscript papers in the room, some of which are scattered on the floor. The headlight was not turned on, only the dim desk lamp was turned on, and the pens and ink bottles on the table were placed neatly.
Tsuburaya Temple pointed to the stool in front of the desk for Lu Ning to sit down, and then he sat down on the bed.
"Doctor, I don't know why you came here. I hope you can provide some useful suggestions... I don't want to die on this island, so if I can exchange what I know for some survival information, I will be happy ." Tsuburaya Temple Sora said.
"Is your mental state okay?"
"It's not very good, as you can see." Tsuburaya Temple smiled bitterly, "Actually, I didn't sleep well yesterday, but nothing happened in our room last night."
"I know that if this involves very painful memories, I won't force you to tell them." Lu Ning acted very considerate.
"Okay - okay, thank you. Actually I knew something was wrong since Rennix died, because Rennix showed me, yes..."
Tsuburaya Temple Sora scratched his hair and organized his words.
"Have you ever looked carefully at that rune dagger? Their shapes are different."
"Yes, I remember that the one on Rennix has an obvious blade, while the one on Mayuri Daida is in the shape of a cone."
"Renix proudly told me at the time that the blade-shaped one represents the original, and the rest are imitations."
"Uh... are the replicas made different from the originals?"
"Yes, I also asked this question, and Rennix told me that what is imitated is not the appearance, but the effect."
"What effect?"
"He didn't say, he just said it was one of the pieces he was proud of."
Lu Ning immediately caught the key word: "Work?"
"Yes, Renix said that except for the original one, the others are all imitations made by him. He said that I will naturally understand their function when the time comes, and I don't dare to ask."
"It sounds like you are relatively familiar with Mr. Rennix. According to my reading of your works, the two of you have probably known each other a long time ago?" Lu Ning asked.
"After my first book was published... I attended a banquet invited by the publisher. At that time, Mr. Rennix found me." Tsuburaya Temple Sora sighed, "But that time it was just He got to know me a little bit, and he even encouraged me a few words, telling me not to pay attention to the rumors in the outside world... Later, after I published two more books, my editor-in-chief began to help me find travel plans that would allow me to continue to accumulate material. . I later found out that Mr. Rennix helped me."
"So...you can't refuse his invitation."
"Yes, have you read my book? Then you should be able to notice that some parts of the travel notes are a bit weird, and they don't look like descriptions from a first-person perspective."
Lu Ning nodded.
Tsuburayaji smiled helplessly: "That's actually because a team was already helping me record some videos as writing material afterwards. I don't know why Mr. Rennix gave me so much help, even After that, I found some people to testify for me and prove 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 as big as what's in my book." Tsuburaya Temple said in a low voice, "There are even two people in there who are responsible for carrying me forward when I can't walk. I'm really not that good. physical strength."
