Shueisha's editor-in-chief, Shinji Nishino, had just walked into the office when his daughter, Mariko Nishino of the editorial department, grabbed a stack of manuscripts, her eyes were red, and she pushed open the office door with an excited face.

"Mariko-kun, please pay attention to your due courtesy, how can you trespass into the office of the editor-in-chief!"

"Hi babb~ I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, Xinsi-kun!" Mariko Nishino was taken aback by Shinji Nishino, hurriedly grabbed the manuscript, bowed ninety degrees, and exited the door! Then there was a knock on the door!

"Please come in!"

As soon as she entered the door, Mariko Nishino stepped forward in a hurry, "Shinji-kun, I have found a promising novel!" ”

Mariko Nishino respectfully handed over the stack of manuscripts!

Shinji Nishino reached out and took the manuscript handed over by Mariko, and then he stared at Mariko for a long time, "Mariko-kun, where did you go last night, why didn't you go home to sleep!" Did you know that your mother is very worried about you? Look at the way you look with messy hair and red eyes, where do you still look like a girl! If your mother found out, she would be pissed off by you! Now, pack your things now and go home to your mom daoqian! Got it? ”

Mariko Nishino had never seen her father get so angry, and she was stunned all of a sudden!

"Why don't you go back quickly, are you going to make your mother worry to death?" Shinji Nishino snapped and smashed the manuscript in his hand on the table!

Mariko Nishino was taken aback at once, "Haode! Xinsijun, then, this novel will trouble you! ”

With that, Mariko bowed and left the office!

Shinji Nishino never thought that his good girl would not return at night, is it because of this novel? In addition to manga, what wonderful novels will there be in Japan now, and the shijie of the future will be the shijie of manga! Shinji Nishino has always thought so! The Shogakukan was originally based on comics, and this time, the Million Novel Awards, the ultimate goal, is also to serve comics!

With a hint of doubt, Shinji Nishino glanced at the stack of manuscripts in his hand!

Midnight Bell!

Is this still a writer, and his writing is crooked like a dog's crawl.

Shinji Nishino thought so in his heart, but when he turned the first page of the novel, the depressing and tense plot immediately attracted his attention.

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Tomoko Oishi, a third-year student at a private girls' high school, sat at a desk in her room on the second floor, wearing a white T-shirt and shorts, with her feet in front of a vertical fan, looking at the collection of pre-exam exercises with her body slightly sideways.

The electric fan was blowing directly on her skin, and she still muttered: "It's hot, it's hot......" The hem of the T-shirt kept fluttering in the wind.

Due to the excessive play during the summer vacation, the homework that should be done is still piled up, but Tomoko Oishi blames the hot weather for the reason for the lack of mood.

In fact, this summer is not very hot, there are not many sunny days, and there are fewer tourists at the beach than in previous years.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the summer vacation ended, there was a high temperature for 5 consecutive days.

This scorching heat made Tomoko's mood restless, and she couldn't help but curse God in her heart.

(The weather is so hot, how can people read books!) )

She ruffled her hair and turned up the volume on the radio.

At this time, Tomoko stared at the little moth parked on the screen window, and the little moth was no match for the wind of the electric fan, and suddenly he didn't know where it was blowing. When the little moth disappeared into the darkness, the screen shook slightly.

From just now to now, Tomoko's homework has not made any progress at all.

(The exam is going to be tomorrow, and even if you stay up late tonight, you won't be able to read the scope of the exam......)

Tomoko looked anxiously at the clock.

(It's almost 11 o'clock.) )

She would love to turn on the TV and watch professional baseball news, maybe she can see her parents on the TV, but she can't put down tomorrow's exams.

Going to university is Tomoko's greatest wish, and as long as she can put the word "university" on it, it doesn't matter which school she attends.

But the sticky humidity in the room made her feel so depressed that she couldn't get up to study.

(Alas!) It's a summer vacation in high school, so it should be a little easier.

After this summer vacation, I will say goodbye to the identity of a 'high school girl'......)

Because she was too irritable, Tomoko suddenly turned her anger on her parents.

(Really!) I don't want to think that my daughter is sweating and studying hard, and the couple is still leisurely running to watch the night ball game...... Think about my feelings as a daughter! )

Due to work, Tomoko's parents got a ticket to the Giants, so the two went to Tokyo Dome to watch the game together.

If they hadn't wandered elsewhere after the game, they would have been home long ago.

But now, this brand new 4-bedroom house (1 living room, 1 dining room, 1 kitchen, 4 bedrooms) is the only one in the house.

It hadn't rained for the past few days, but Tomoko felt a heavy dampness in the air, and in addition to the sweat oozing from her body, she was sure that there were some small invisible droplets in this room.

Tomoko unconsciously slapped her thighs, vaguely feeling an itch on her knees, but when she let go of her hand, there was no trace of mosquitoes.

(Am I being too neurotic?) )

Then she heard a popping sound of flapping her wings, and immediately raised her hands above her head and waved them a few times.

(Flies!) )

Immediately after that, the fly avoided the blow of the electric fan and flew low in front of the door, temporarily disappearing from Tomoko's field of vision.

Tomoko examines the seam between the screen and the wall, but can't find a gap big enough for flies to get in and out.

(The door is clearly closed...... Where did this fly come from? )

Suddenly, she felt a rush of urine and thirst, and an inexplicable pressure welled up in her heart.

The pressure, though not so hard to breathe, pressed against her chest without relenting......

Tomoko had been whining incessantly, but now she was silent as if she had changed.

As she walked down the stairs, she suddenly felt her heart pounding.

A car passed the road in front of the house, and its headlights quickly swept over the wall under the stairs before disappearing again. The sound of the engine faded away, and the surroundings seemed darker than before.

Tomoko deliberately made a heavy footstep and walked downstairs, casually turning on the light in the hallway. ,

She solved the urge to urinate first, and then sat on the toilet for a while, but the throbbing in her heart still did not subside.

Before today, Tomoko had never felt such a strange feeling.

(What's going on here?) )

Tomoko took a few deep breaths, then stood up and pulled her panties and shorts up together.

"Dad, Mom, you can do it, come back quickly!"

She said in a trembling voice.

After washing her hands at the marble sink in the kitchen, Tomoko opened the refrigerator with her wet hands, threw the ice cubes from the freezer into a glass, and poured in Coke.

She drank the entire glass of Coke in one gulp, then placed the glass on the bar, and the ice in the glass rattled for a moment before standing still.

Tomoko suddenly felt a palpitating chill rush up to her, and she couldn't help but shiver.

She took another 1.5 liters of Coke from the fridge and poured it into her glass with trembling hands.

Suddenly, she felt a strange aura coming from behind her, it was not human, as if the smell of carrion melted into the air and surrounded her......

"Please...... Don't ......"

Tomoko pleaded weakly.

At this moment, the 15-watt fluorescent light above the marble table suddenly flickered incessantly.

This lamp has only been newly installed for a short time, and it has broken down so quickly.

Tomoko regrets that she didn't turn on all the lights in the house first, and now she doesn't even have the strength to go and turn on the lights, and she can't even turn her head to look at the "thing" behind her.

Behind her is a 16-square-meter Japanese-style room with her grandfather's altar in a niche, and the curtains in the room are not closed, so that you can see the turf floor outside the glass windows, and the apartment lights in a grid.

Halfway through the second cup of Coke, Tomoko couldn't move.

If the strange aura surrounding Tomoko is because of her psychology, it is inevitably ridiculously thick. Gradually, it was as if something touched her neck......

(What if it's "that"?) )

Tomoko didn't dare to think about it anymore, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to bear the growing fear, so she tried to forget what had happened a week ago.

(Shuichi said...... Since "that" says so, there is no way back......

Who, exactly, is playing a prank? )

Tomoko tries to make herself think about something happier.

(But if it's really "that" doing the trick...... If that's true...... By the way, didn't someone call in at that time?

Yes! What are moms and dads doing......)

"Come back quickly!"

Tomoko couldn't help but scream.

However, the strange aura that surrounded her still spied tightly behind her, waiting for the opportunity to come.

Seventeen-year-old Tomoko doesn't quite know what "fear" is, but at this time she deeply feels the growing fear in her chest.

(If I look back, I won't see anything, I won't see anything......)

Suddenly, a desire arose in her heart to look back, to be sure that there was nothing behind her at all, in order to escape from this state of almost collapse.

Tomoko felt a chill on her back, goosebumps all over her body, and at the same time, a chill rose from her shoulders and traveled down her back, causing the entire T-shirt to be soaked in cold sweat.

At that moment, there was a sudden sound behind her.

(There shouldn't be anything in the back!)

If I don't finish my Coke and go back to my room, tomorrow's exam will be over......)

In an instant, the ice cubes in the glass rattled, and then collided into pieces, and Tomoko also turned around at this time......"

It wasn't until Shinji Nishino turned over the entire novel that he realized that his back was already wet!

What makes him nervous is not only the text, but also the paintings with hyperrealist techniques in this novel, and after almost every painting will have a key plot, those weird paintings make the scalp of Shinji Nishino, who was already a little nervous, numb again and again.

"Bang~Bang~Bang~"

There was a knock on the door, and Shinji Nishino jumped up from his chair in fright, extremely nervous, "Please...... Come in! ”

Shinji Nishino, who has become the editor-in-chief of Shueisha, never thought that he would be so nervous, the door slowly opened, but fortunately, it was not the Sadako Yamamura who was wearing a white dress, with straight hair covering his face, rolling his horrified eyes, losing ten nails, and slowly crawling towards him!

"Xin Sijun, this is the TV you ordered yesterday, where should you put it!"

"What? TV, don't, don't, return it quickly! ”

Shinji Nishino felt a chill coming from the back of his head, and from time to time he secretly glanced at the TV that had been opened, thinking that the TV would not appear at once, and then, the woman creaked and crawled out of it!

And at this moment, the phone rang suddenly.

"Ah~"

Shinji Nishino screamed, shrunk into the corner with his head in his arms, and trembled all over!

This is the first gaffe since Shinji Nishino entered Shueisha!

Toshihiko Gaten was taken aback by Shinji Nishino's actions, and he quickly ran out holding the TV, thinking that he must be unlucky this time!

It took a long time for Shinji Nishino to stop trembling! There was a cold sweat, and now, the pores all over his body are bubbling with a sense of comfort! A masterpiece, what a rare masterpiece! He finally understands that Mariko Nishino weishenme is not returning home overnight! She really found a very promising masterpiece! What's even more rare is the artist's drawing technique, maybe all of Shueisha's manga work can't compare to him! However, weishenme his words will be so ugly?

Shinji Nishino began to laugh uncontrollably!

"Hey, is it Toshihiko-kun? Please come to the editor-in-chief's office, yes, now! ”

With a bitter face, as if rushing to the execution ground, Garten Toshihiko knocked on the door of the editor-in-chief's office with trepidation!

"Xinsi-kun, what are your orders?"

Shinji Nishino handed over the manuscript, "Revise the grammar in this manuscript and give it to me by this time tomorrow!" ”

"Huh?"

"Didn't you bring your brains to work today? Jun Hiko-kun! What are you doing? Also, write a review after reading, well, remember to bring me the TV! ”

Gaten Toshihiko took the manuscript in a daze.

"Well, please!"

Toshihiko Gaten felt that the editor-in-chief was a little abnormal, and he timidly walked to the door.

"By the way, Jun Yanjun, if you can, please don't turn on the TV to check the manuscript! Well, that's just a little piece of advice from me! ”