At night, in the office, the director of the editorial office has not yet gotten off work, sitting on the sofa with a stack of A4 printouts in his hand, lighting a small desk lamp and looking at it intently.

When he saw more than half of the thick manuscript, he rubbed his eyebrows, put down the manuscript, picked up the special large tea jar, and took a sip of hot tea.

On the surface, he looks calm, but his heart is magnificent, and he knows very well the textual value of this heavy manuscript in his hand, and if it can really be successfully published, it will cause an uproar in the society and among readers.

The cover of the manuscript on A4 paper is written in two large characters in printed Song script: Hades.

This manuscript was obtained by Bai Shuang from Liu Yang, and although the content is completely out of line with the first half of the third part of "Hades", it is indeed an outstanding suspense and horror work. The manuscript is composed of five separate stories, each of which is filled with nightmarish horror imagery, and the plot is not complicated, but it is extremely bizarre, the logic is incredible, and there are traces to follow. It's like a crazy swordsman, dancing around, seemingly disorganized, but in fact, every move and style reveals the most alternative and unique interpretation of kendo, which is definitely a big deal.

Lao Chang lit a cigarette and thought about it, he now has a preliminary plan, completely withdrawing the original unfinished third part of Liu Yang's "Hades" from the publishing plan, and then replacing it with a new series composed of these five stories. He has a name, the palace-level theatrical version of "Hades"! Find a well-known illustrator with a few more pictures, oops, it's not good, now it's so strict with horror novels, don't match horror illustrations......

Lao Chang thought as he stood up and changed into his coat, he put the manuscript in his briefcase and walked out of the office.

The publishing house had already left work, and it was quiet all around, and there was no one around. When I walked out of the office building and into the parking lot, there was no one on all sides, only the sound of his leather shoes, which made a "pop" sound. Walking and walking, Lao Chang suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he felt an inexplicable chill, he looked around, and it was indeed empty.

He laughed self-deprecatingly, and he became a little neurotic after reading these horror and suspense novels all day long.

He sat in the car, lit the fire, and suddenly became dizzy. He was sitting in the office for many years, his blood pressure was a little high, he endured nausea, and his whole body was extremely uncomfortable, and at this moment, in a daze, he suddenly saw something squirming on the car glass.

It took him a long time before he recovered, cold sweat soaked from his head, and when he looked at it again, there was nothing.

His heart was beating so hard that he barely drove home. The daughter-in-law hadn't slept yet, and was watching TV in the living room, when she heard the door lock ringing, and hurriedly greeted her. This is the second marriage of the old man, and the current little daughter-in-law is more than ten years younger than him, gentle and sensible, and there is no lack of beauty and cuteness. I don't know why, I don't have enough relatives in the past, but today I often feel very irritable, and I can't see how this little daughter-in-law can't see it.

He changed into pajamas, put on slippers and went into the study, took out the printout and continued to read at night. Now see the third story, "Prison Break", which tells the story of how a schizophrenic escapes from prison in a prison for felons. The plot is full of ups and downs, and the ending is unexpected and incredible, and you can't stop watching it.

The little daughter-in-law came in with water and said softly that she was tired for a day, so let's soak my feet.

Lao Chang was interrupted from reading deeply, very irritable, and kicked the hot water basin over for no reason: "Get out." ”

The little daughter-in-law was stunned, threw the footcloth on the ground, and cried out.

Lao Chang also ignored the puddle of water on the ground and continued to read the novel. Looking at it, I don't know when the lights in the other rooms except the study are turned off, quietly, maybe the daughter-in-law ran away from home in a bad mood.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of "buttoning" on the wall of the study, as if something was rhythmically banging on the wall.

Late at night, alone, and reading horror novels, Chang's heart suddenly lifted, and he was hairy. He turned his head to look, and the study room, which was usually extremely familiar, had become a little cold and strange. After a long time he stood up, walked slowly to the wall, and listened intently, and the sound came from this wall.

He took a deep breath and slowly pressed his ear against the wall. The sound is very empty, and it is very rhythmic, ringing every two seconds, "buckle ~ ~ buckle". As I was listening, my ears suddenly hurt, as if something had gotten into it. He screamed, put his hand in his ear and picked at it. After picking for a long time, I finally pinched the little tail and pulled it out to see that it was actually a silver-white earthworm.

He slowly raised his head and saw that the entire wall, at some point, was covered with this kind of silvery-white earthworms, wriggling densely.

A ghostly shadow was reflected on the wall, and it was vaguely discernible that it was a long-haired woman hanging from the ceiling. He jerked his head back, and the room was empty, except for himself. But the shadow became clearer and clearer. The woman's neck is wrapped around a rope that resembles strips of cloth, her head is bowed, and her feet are dangling. Long black hair hung straight down.

The shadow of the hanged woman is not someone else, it is her little daughter-in-law.

The shadow of the little daughter-in-law swaying back and forth in the air like a pendulum, and when it hits the wall, the toes of her feet and the wall make a "buckle" sound.

The old man screamed "ah", and the silver-white earthworms came overwhelmingly and engulfed him.

…………

Bai Shuang held a bouquet of flowers and walked in the corridor of the hospital, how many times has he been to a mental hospital? I can't remember it myself. The first few times were for Liu Yang, but today is for Xu Dazhi.

Hearing that Xu Dazhi was found in a sanatorium suspected of pyramid schemes, the whole person was delirious, calling his son and son all day long, and he couldn't take care of himself at all. I had no choice but to be sent to a psychiatric hospital by my family.

Bai Shuang sighed and saw a person coming out of Xu Dazhi's ward. This is a middle-aged man with a beard, a strong physique, and a solemn expression on his face. Bai Shuang recognized that she had a relationship with this person. He only knew that Lu Dao's surname was Wei and he was a criminal policeman, but he didn't know anything else. The policeman surnamed Wei was obviously preoccupied and didn't recognize Bai Shuang, and the two went in and out one by one, passing by.

Bai Shuang walked into the ward, Xu Dazhi was wearing a white hospital gown, his expression was sluggish, shrunk on the bed, looking at the scenery outside the window.

Bai Shuang looked at his old friend like this, and was quite embarrassed. He was led by the nurse to Xu Dazhi's bed and put the flowers in the vase. The nurse said, "Old Xu, another friend is here to see you." ”

Xu Dazhi's eyes were very empty, just staring out the window, and he didn't focus at all.

Bai Shuang said to the nurse, "Okay, I'll see what he wants, and I should go." He patted Xu Dazhi on the shoulder: "Old Xu, take care of yourself, I will come to see you." ”

At this moment, Xu Dazhi suddenly grabbed him by the collar and pulled him close to him. Bai Shuang saw Xu Dazhi's hideous face very close to him, as if he was going to bite him.

Bai Shuang was originally a timid otaku, but this cold accident scared him to pee. He sat on the ground screaming.

The nurse hurriedly came over and broke Xu Dazhi's hand, Xu Dazhi was extremely hideous, almost hysterical, and kept screaming.

Bai Shuang crawled out of the ward, and what the nurses and doctors said to him, his brain was buzzing, and he didn't listen to it at all. Just when Xu Dazhi grabbed him just now, he shoehorned a USB flash drive in his palm.

He had no way of judging Xu Dazhi's intentions, and he didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but looking at Xu Dazhi's performance, it should be an unconscious act of his psychotic episode. For what would choose me, instead of Lao Wei just now, Bai Shuang couldn't say clearly.

He walked out of the hospital with a USB flash drive, and today he has a tight schedule, and he has to visit a studio for post-production. The publishing house created a small micro-film for a young adult novel, and now it has reached the post-editing stage. Bai Shuang looked at the progress of the work on behalf of the company.

What he is most worried about is that the novel "Hades" was aborted with the inexplicable disappearance of the editorial director. He now regrets that he didn't look at the content of the manuscript when he handed it to Lao Chang, and now the whereabouts of the manuscript are unknown.

When he came to the studio, several technicians were very familiar with him and said hello. Bai Shuang watched the progress of the film, and then had nothing to do, and casually opened a computer to browse the Internet. Looking at it, I suddenly remembered the USB flash drive that Xu Dazhi gave him, what was inside?

He plugged the USB flash drive into the computer, and inside it was actually a video, double-click to open it.

As the video progressed, Bai Shuang was dumbfounded, and when she came back to her senses, she found that there were actually technicians standing behind her. Someone pointed to the video and asked in surprise if this was true? Or is it a micro-film?

In the video, a burly man with a shaved body is actually wearing a feminine red dress, wearing a Japanese Noh mask, holding a small folding fan, and dancing.

Everyone watched in silence, completely stunned by the video.

"It should go online, and it will definitely trigger a ratings frenzy." A technician said.

"Stop! What is it? "The one who spoke was the boss of the studio, an absolute technical master, who had a prominent experience and had done it in a large media company in Beijing.

The video freezes, and Da Niu points to an area on the screen. Bai Shuang tried his best to look, but couldn't see anything, and the big bull said, "It's a figure." ”

In the room where the man danced, there was a vague figure.

This figure would not have been visible at all if it had not been looked at very, very closely. It's completely faintly transparent, slightly humanoid.

"Could it be a light and shadow effect?" Someone has questions.

Da Niu said: "Bai Shuang, look at it again from the beginning, you carefully observe this transparent shadow." ”

This time everyone saw clearly, the shadow first walked in from outside the door, and stood still, as if observing the dancing man. Then it slowly passed by, circling around the man, and when the man had danced, it stood across from the man again, as if looking face to face.

The most shocking thing is that someone actually saw this transparent shadow saying a word to the dancing man, and what kind of mouth shape he was doing.

To be sure, this is not a natural light and shadow effect, and this shadow has a certain sense of autonomy.

"Is it a ghost?" Someone said in surprise.

Da Niu smiled: "It's a very interesting micro-movie, the people who shoot it are of a very high level, and they are playing tricks." ”

There was a lot of talking.

Only Bai Shuang sat there and didn't speak, I don't know why, he looked at this shadow and gave birth to a familiar feeling. A person came to mind, Liu Yang.

……

"You don't need to say so mysterious, what has changed from nothing, from an abstract concept to a real thing, I don't understand these Taoist and Buddhist theories you said, I know that Taoist physics has already made a conclusion on this point." A young man in his twenties snuffed out his cigarette butt in an ashtray.

This is a friend of Li Yang, who specializes in the field of physics in college, and is usually awesome. Opposite him sat Li Yang and Liu Yang, two of whom visited this physics tyrant and specifically asked about the possibility of the king of the underworld starting from scratch.

Of course, this story is too mysterious and bizarre to tell Xueba, just to ask about this possibility.

Xueba said: "In physics, there is an equal relationship between matter and energy, and energy and matter can be converted into each other. What you are talking about from nothing is not really 'nothing', I guess it is probably a kind of energy. Energy, you can't see or touch this thing, and you take it for granted that it doesn't exist, but in fact it exists. It can be transformed into matter, that is, it is possible to use formless and insubstantial energy to create real matter. This is what you call the phenomenon of coming out of nothing. ”

Li Yang and Liu Yang glanced at each other.

Xueba continued: "Do you know the Big Bang theory? Look at your innocent and ignorant eyes, you will know the way, but you don't know the way. To put it simply, it is the explosion of the primordial atoms that gave rise to our universe. Energy creates matter, and matter is transformed into energy. Destroying matter radiates energy......"

"You mean that this cosmic realm is actually a kind of energy?" Li Yang asked.

Xueba racked his brains, and finally said, "I will recommend a few books to you when I have the opportunity." ”

"There's a bit of an amuse in what he's saying." The two walked in the street market at night, and Li Yang said to Liu Yang with great interest: "Inspire me, what is the underworld." ”

"What is it?" Liu Yang asked.

"The underworld, like the universe, is also a kind of energy. Energy is transformed by the destruction of matter, and this energy in the underworld is transformed by the death of man. After death, people release energy, and these dead energies converge and condense to form the underworld. ”

"If it is energy in the underworld, then it will also be converted into matter under special conditions." Liu Yang smiled.

"yes, come back from the dead. However, the destruction of matter produces energy, and the energy is converted back into matter, and it is difficult to say what kind of monster it will turn into in the end. Li Yang laughed.