TRTN Chapter 15

Real life

Posted by April Fox, ? Views, Released on August 10, 2021

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Chapter 15 … Real Life

He was falling endlessly.

Finally, he fell heavily onto a soft bed.

The darkness in front of him was fading. Shen Yu got up, only to find that he had fallen onto his own bed and was surrounded by a familiar room.

As if the past few days were just a nightmare, af if nothing had happened.

It’s just…

He looked solemn and picked up the black book in his hand.

It was true.

He turned the pages of the book and saw that his first horror story, “The Bloody Apartment”, had been written in it.

At the end of the story, another sentence had been added.

[The novelist Mint acquired the skill “Female Ghost’s Appreciation” and the prop “Luminol Reagent”].

He turned another page and saw a bunch of blood-red hair drawn with rough brushstrokes on the originally blank page.

[Zhang Lili is very grateful for everything you have done for her, so she cut off a section of her hair as a gift. 】【Activation of the skill, you can restrain the target for three seconds. After the blood threads sucked the blood, the restraint time can be relatively extended.] [Ps: Please don’t fall in love and cheat on your wife during the period of use.Otherwise, Zhang Lili’s blood will not let you go!]

Turning to the next page, a jar of luminol reagent was recognizable.

[I am the strongest in chasing murderers for thousands of miles. With this pot of reagents, I am the most beautiful cub in the detective world! 】【The use of props can make the wiped blood stains visible in a dark environment. It can be used for unlimited times, but it is useless for the blood stains wiped with bleach.] [Ps: I don’t know if this item is useful, but I still have to say that this item is not edible! Some nasty hosts are requested not to try to put chemical reagents into their mouths.]

Looking at the newly acquired skills and props, Shen Yu felt a little bit strange in his heart and he turned another page again with a complicated mood.

Only one sentence was written on this page.

[Congratulations to the novelist “Mint” for finishing a horror story. You have been qualified to enter the “White Tower of Words”.] White Tower of Words?

Shen Yu brushed the bloody palm prints on the writing and couldn’t help thinking.

However, the sound of his cell phone ringing interrupted his thoughts.

He accepted the call and answered casually, but the voice from his phone shocked him all over.

“Surnamed Shen, I will go to your house with a gas tank tonight and die with you!” On the phone, the editor’s voice broke down: “Ancestor, what is today’s date!? Tomorrow the magazine will ask me for the drafts, have you finished writing it!”

Drafts! Deadline!!

Even when facing monsters, Shen Yu was not afraid of danger but now his heart trembled after hearing these two words.

What was the worst thing in the world? It was not getting involved in a world of fiction where people will die at any time.

What’s worse, then? It was, after you escaped from the novel, the first thing you did after returning to reality was to be reminded by the editor.

“The script, I haven’t…I…. soon…give me some more time…” he explained haltingly.

The editor’s voice was even more desperate: “You haven’t written a word? What have you been doing these past few days? Were you gone to heaven? Why couldn’t I reach your cell phone?”

I went to write a novel, by living through the story!

Shen Yu pinched his eyebrows and felt a headache looming. He didn’t know how to explain it.

Just when he was struggling to apologize to the editor who was also struggling, the door of the room was suddenly knocked on.

He turned off the phone and leaned close to the cat’s eye to look out.

Standing outside the door were two police officers with visible guns on their bodies.They politely informed him to pack up and leave the house.

…

Shen Yu was sitting at the gate of the community in a daze with his belongings, surrounded by a crowd.

Just now, the officers had announced the unfortunate news that for unknown reasons, the foundation of this old community had collapsed and the entire complex was threatening to fall down to rubble at any time, so all residents were urgently asked to leave to avoid danger.

Afterwards, the relevant government departments will strengthen and repair the site. If the repairs are unsuccessful, the residents will need to move out of the area and the government will come forward to compensate the residents of the community for all losses.

The police went door-to-door to inform them that someone was saving their lives and was afraid that the whole community would really collapse, so the tenants must be moved out as soon as possible. There were also some stubborn people who were unwilling to leave in a hurry and were waging a fight with the police.

The community was full of hustle and bustle, but Shen Yu was increasingly troubled with his luggage.

What’s worse than the worst things?

It was your return to reality after nine deaths. Not only do you have to be urged by the editor, but you are suddenly homeless.

The government’s compensation and resettlement housing wouldn’t arrive tonight. He must drag his luggage and go to a hotel for the night.

Shen Yu stood up helplessly, but suddenly a hello came from behind him: “We meet again!”

He turned around in disbelief and saw Cuihua, whom he had just been separated from, standing behind and smiling at him.

In the novel, Cuihua was wearing a wide, black and white sportswear, her face as tender as that of a middle school student, and always with a lollipop in her mouth.

But now, Cuihua had changed out of the sports clothes and wore a smart military uniform with a gun on her waist. Her hair was shorter, and she looked more like a soldier.

Hmm… her height was still a bit short!

Cuihua didn’t know what Shen Yu was thinking about. She skilfully took out a cigarette from her pocket, but then didn’t light it and just let it dangle from the corner of her mouth: “I’d already planned to find you, but I didn’t expect to run into you so soon.”

“You live here?” She asked, pointing to the community.

Shen Yu frowned and instantly grasped the key point: “You cleared out this community…not because of the collapse of the foundation, but because of the novel?”

He still remembered the last sentence from Anonymous.

Can’t let her invade our world…

Cuihua looked at his expression, then simply led him to a police car: “I’ll take you to a place.”

…

In the city centre, in an inconspicuous courtyard.

A sign “Zeshui City Academy of Sciences” stood at the entrance of the courtyard and a soldier was standing guard.

The yard was a bit old, the verdant creeper crawling all over the back of the building, and the civil servants in the building were coming and going in an endless stream.

If Shen Yu had passed by this yard before, he would definitely not had been interested in taking a look, because this place was too unremarkable, just as ordinary as countless other basic office buildings.

But after he actually entered here, everything that happened subverted his cognition.

“Don’t look right and left here, at least three snipers are watching you from the road you have just walked.” Cuihua walked in front to lead him.

“Don’t run around after entering the building. The civil servants who just passed you by, at least half of them are plainclothes. You are a newcomer. They don’t know you. If you get caught, I’ll have to go to the top to deal with the upper-ones.”

Turning left and right, she had led him to a young man: “Head, I’ve brought him here.”

This man was not wearing a military uniform like Cuihua, but was wearing a long, black windbreaker. The dressing was a bit casual, which was incompatible with this place.

Shen Yu was very tall, but this man was even taller than him. His eyes were jet-black, his face was stern, his eyebrows were very handsome and his body was slim and long.

The man looked at Shen Yu and asked him to sit down with a faint expression: “Shen Yu, 24 years old this year, born and raised in Zeshui City. Parents drowned accidentally when you were three years old.”

Shen Yu paused, then smiled “Sir, you checked my household registration?” The man continued: “After your parents passed away, a distant relative took care of you and became your guardian. But when you were five years old, this family member died of gas poisoning.”

“After that, several distant relatives lived with you, but they encountered accidents one after another. In the end, you lived alone in the house left to you by your parents until today.”

The smile on Shen Yu’s face disappeared completely: “What do you want to ask?” The man talked again, but this time he did not mention those distant relatives who’d died accidentally: “According to the information, when you were three years old, a family of three went for a trip in the suburbs. Your parents drowned in the river, but why did you survive and persisted until someone rescued you?”

Seeing him turn the topic back to his parents, Shen Yu frowned, then said: “I can answer your questions, but can you answer my doubts?” The man’s dark eyes stared at him in silence, then he asked “What is the problem?”

“You know everything about the novel. This was clearly not the first time you have encountered this kind of thing.” Shen Yu asked brusquely, seemingly out of nowhere, then leaned back.

The person on the opposite side paused for a while, then took out a bottle of water and a few small plastic balls: “Yes.”

“This is our world.” He put the water bottle on the table.

“These are ordinary people in our world.” He threw the small globes into the water.

“And this is a novel.” He took out a sharp blade and then lightly poked the bottle a few times.

Several small holes appeared in the water bottle, causing the water to flow out suddenly, and some of the plastic balls in the water were also drawn in, flowing out of the bottle and spilling out on the table.

He pointed to the plastic globes that had flowed out and said: “These are the ones that have been extracted from our world by the novel, it is us…whether as a novelist or an audience.”

“Of those who entered the novels world, some died, some luckily survived and returned to our world.” He picked up a few small plastic balls from the table and stuffed them back into the water bottle.

“The people who survived have either the identity of a spectator or that of a novelists. Obviously, novelists are fonder of novels, so those novelists who survived will be drawn out of our world over and over again and write more horror stories.”

“The main responsibility of the government department I belong to is…” He wiped on the holes in the water bottle with his fingertips, and the water flow stopped immediately, and the holes that had been pierced before were now as smooth as new.

“Our duty is to repair.” He said, “A horror novel might be over, but the hole it left in our world has not disappeared. We can only seal up that place completely, not allowing ordinary residents to enter, so as not to cause a mass disappearance incident.”

Shen Yu was staring at the repaired places on the water bottle: “This is also one of the abilities you got in the world of fiction?”

The man understood what he meant and nodded: “The skills in the book can be used even in the real world.” The real world…Thinking of the new skills and props on the pages of his book, Shen Yu frowned.

He didn’t know if this was good news or bad news.

“I have another question.” He continued to ask, “What is the White Tower of Writing?” The man glanced at him: “You have obtained the qualification to enter the White Tower?”

“Put your hand on the cover of the black book. Line it with the scarlet palm print, and those who are qualified can enter…but I advise you to wait until your skills are proficient enough before entering the White Tower.”

“Now, you should answer my question.”

Shen Yu was pierced by his gaze. Feeling uncomfortable, he rubbed his on eyebrows and replied a little irritably: “Actually, there is nothing to say. It is indeed a miracle and an accident that I survived.”

“I don’t know why I didn’t drown in the first place, and I don’t know why the guardians who took care of me died bizarrely one by one, but will you believe me?”

No one will believe it, but it has been so since his childhood.

A family of three fell into the water, two adults drowned, but a three-year-old child floated on the water for several hours, waiting until the rescue came.

Relatives from a distant place had coveted the inheritance left by his parents to their child and rushed to be his guardians. The family had moved into the big house grandiosely, then drove the child to live in the utility room and abused him every day.

The family died of gas poisoning not long after, and the child happened to be out on the day of the gas leak.

Then the second guardians had checked in and repeated the abuse of that first-set guardians. It didn’t take long for the whole family to go out and encounter a car accident… The third-set, the fourth-set…so many accidental deaths had eliminated those who went there. Later, the relatives who continued to covet the family property made Shen Yu to become a lone star in the eyes of others.

Inevitably, some people will think… what if all of this is not an accident, but a man-made one?

A child who can make such an “accident” is scary enough even at a young age.

Suspicious, condemning and fearful eyes, from school to neighbours, followed him as Shen Yu grew up.

He tried to explain once, but no one had believed him.

So be it! It’s fine to live alone.

And now, many years later, he heard this kind of suspicion again. At this time, Shen Yu didn’t even feel angry. He just shook his fingers indifferently: “I’m telling the truth. It is up to you, to believe it or not!” Even when on the inside, he felt that the opposite was true. People would once again show that familiar and suspicious look.

But to his surprise, the man in front of him actually nodded, then said in a clear voice: “These events really have nothing to do with you.”

Shen Yu widened his eyes in surprise.

The man took out a document from the drawer: “Now, it seems that the most suspicious point of the original deaths is related to your parents.”

His parents?

There was a momentary blank in Shen Yu’s mind, and then he mechanically accepted the document and flipped through it.

According to the documentary records, his parents’ household registration was originally made in a remote, mountainous area and the two had a primary school and a junior high school education. Their families, as well as those of their many relatives, had been poor.

But just thirty years ago, before Shen Yu was born, his parents had suddenly moved from the mountainous area to the present-day Zeshui City and spent a lot of money on real estate, vehicles and jewellery.

Although they didn’t have formal jobs, they spent a lot of money. Every month someone would regularly put large sums of money into their cards.

According to police investigation information, the one who sponsored his parents was an organization called the “Black Dragon Society”.

“Black Dragon Society” sounded like a third-rate sect in a third-rate novel, but it did have a strongly religious air about it.

His father and mother had also been members of the Black Dragon Society…More precisely, they were all devout believers of the Black Dragon Society.

Some time later, Shen Yu was born. When his third birthday was approaching, Black Dragon Society had deposited the largest sum of money into his parents’ card at one time.

His parents kept on spending time with him and, on his birthday, the family was dressed up and they drove to the countryside.

On that day, their family of three had fallen into the river and in the end only he had survived.

Unconsciously, Shen Yu was gritting his teeth tightly, his fingers were holding the papers so hard that they had turned white.

Because that’s when he saw the autopsy report on the file.

“…The bodies of the two deceased were swollen, with their hands held together, smiling, and there was no sign of struggle before death… There was still some remaining fabric in the hands of the deceased, which was consistent with the clothing worn by the deceased’s son. Preliminary speculation is that the deceased died while holding on to their son tightly, pulling him with them into the water, but the child escaped accidentally in the end…”

“The police speculated that this was a mass suicide incident, perhaps related to religious sacrifices…”

Reading till here, Shen Yu almost took the documents and clenched them into a ball.

But immediately, he weakly fell back into his chair like a sack, and the crumpled papers slipped down.

“For so many years, I have always thought that my parents died unexpectedly…” He said, his voice extremely weak, “But you tell me now that they committed suicide and wanted to sacrifice me?” The man whispered, “I am very sorry.”

“No, why should you apologize? You obviously didn’t do anything. I just, I… It’s okay.” Shen Yu rubbed his face, probably trying to cheer up, but in the end, he just forced out a tiny smile that was more embarrassing than crying.

“Then the subsequent gas poisoning and car accident… were they all related to the Black Dragon Society?” He asked again.

The man nodded slowly: “According to the clues, you are the sacrifice chosen by the Black Dragon Society, but when you were young, you accidentally got out of trouble, causing them to miss the best sacrifice time.”

“We can’t predict when the next best sacrifice time will be, but obviously the Black Dragon Society did not forget about you. Your later growth process has been under their watch. Those guardians who abused their sacrifice, they would’ve naturally found the opportunities to deal with them.”

“The country has secretly wiped out the Black Dragon Society many times, but every time it was wiped out, it didn’t take long for the Black Dragon Society to resurrect.”

“Later on, more and more survivors of the ‘horror novel’ incidents appeared in the eyes of relevant departments. Only then did the country discover that many people in the Black Dragon Club are also novelists. They have always relied on the existence and developments of horror stories outside the world.”

“And in the five days after you accidentally entered the novel world, it was precisely of this that the Black Dragon Society could not watch you for five days.”

Shen Yu leaned back in his chair and smiled freely: “No wonder Cuihua protects the newcomers in the novel world.”

She is a soldier and a civil servant in a special department of the country. Within the limits of their own ability, they will naturally do their best to protect civilians.

He seemed to suddenly understand the purpose of this “Zeshui City Scientific Research Institute”.

Study “fiction”, track down the Black Dragon Society, and try to protect ordinary people who are accidentally involved.

“That’s why you were looking for me.” He looked straight at the person in front of him, “I’ll join.” The man didn’t look surprised and just took out a new document: “Enjoy the national talents treatment, five social insurance and one housing fund. This includes board and lodging, and allocates dormitories.” “You are welcome to join the Camellia Department, member 002.”

“I am the head of the Camellia Department.”

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