Chapter 188 Owl Man
Chapter 188 Owl Man
Crows fly and rabbits run. When you calm down and read a book, time always passes quickly.
It was half past eleven that evening that Gu Lu received the email from Katsuhiko Oe. According to the new translator himself, he was used to being active at night, so his working hours were rather dark.
This is indeed the case. Katsuhiko Oe did not get up until 11 o'clock Tokyo time. He drank a sip of water from the tap and 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 pulled open the thick curtains.
The pitch-black outside the window gave him enough sense of security. Katsuhiko Oe tried getting up at dusk, and felt extremely lonely when he saw the sun set, but that was not the case at all when he woke up at night.
After seeing his friend’s phone call, Katsuhiko Oe called Kazukuma Yasuda back and learned what had happened.
Katsuhiko Oe would definitely be happy to make money, as making money can support his writing career.
"Although Yasuda is old-fashioned and cowardly, he is indeed a good friend and will introduce me to jobs when there are any." Katsuhiko Oe said to himself.
He knew about Yasuda's current situation and had advised Yasuda more than once to try to get out of the small mountain village and come to Osaka to join him.
After obtaining Party A's email and contacting them, Katsuhiko Oe quickly obtained the documents from Party A.
Opening the file, there are three chapters in total: "Singing to the Moon in the White House", "Flower Rice" and "Owl Man", with a total of about 50,000 words.
"Gu Sang is a very talented writer, a genius writer at the age of sixteen! A writer loved by thirty million people, his style comes from hell, dark and straight to the heart..." Katsuhiko Oe recalled his friend's unremitting flattery.
First of all, he did not order "Ububunshi". The price of 1800 yen (nearly 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, Katsuhiko Oe himself did not realize that a writer who made his debut at the age of sixteen and was popular was much more successful than him, a loser at the age of 28 with an uncertain future, so he felt a little resistant.
"Yasuda always exaggerates. For example, when he broke up with his girlfriend not long ago, he talked as if it was the end of the world. What kind of dark works can a sixteen-year-old writer write?" Put yourself in his shoes, what was Katsuhiko Oe doing when he was sixteen?
Let’s start watching “Owl Man” first, because this name is the strangest. Katsuhiko Oe first downloaded the file from the email.
Yahoo Mail has this shortcoming. If you stay on a page for a long time, the webpage will refresh itself and no one knows why.
Read carefully, "It turns out to be the beginning of an urban legend?"
What a joke, Katsuhiko Oe smiled, how can foreigners writing urban legends compare with their mysterious Japanese people?
Besides, he liked collecting these stories, so Katsuhiko Oe continued reading with the intention of "guiding" them.
The urban legend of the Owl Man: If you meet a man wearing a brown windbreaker and sunglasses in the evening, and he cooes at you, you should respond immediately with a coo. It is best not to imitate the sound of a mouse, because the man is the incarnation of an owl, and owls love to eat mice, so you will be eaten as a mouse.
"What a boring urban legend. What competitiveness does this owl man have?" Katsuhiko Oe commented. Think of the slit-mouthed woman and Tek-Tek. One has his mouth stretched to the back of his ears, and the other is crawling with only the upper body.
Not only their appearance, but also their combat effectiveness are not on the same level.
As the story progresses, Katsuhiko Oe does not complain, because what follows is the story of how the "Owl Man" came into being from nothing and was deliberately fabricated by the protagonist.
At first, the protagonist only posted on the forum, pretending to be a high school girl saying that she met a weirdo, but gradually the Internet could not satisfy her anymore, so she started to act offline, and with deliberate incitement, even the news was about the discussion of the Owl Man.
The experts on TV analyzed the incident through psychology, and the protagonist was happy because of the popularity of the Owl Man.
The plot is not very exciting, but it still attracted Katsuhiko Oe to watch it.
Until the plot climaxes - the protagonist kills a strange little girl in a small mountain village in Kanagawa!
The reason was that the girl ran into him and had heard the urban legend of the Owl Man, but the little girl was too timid and didn't believe it at all, so she started imitating the sound of a mouse.
Katsuhiko Oe's eyes became sharper as he looked more seriously.
[Something was stirring violently in my body. It was an irresistible force that wanted to penetrate my chest.
Then, I finally saw it. The owl's claws suddenly emerged from my chest, tore open my slender waist, and took the opportunity to grab the girl's neck. ]
"He actually killed someone. He really killed someone."
The protagonist became a true owl man. Katsuhiko Oe felt his brain numb, as if every cell in his body had drunk Ice Cola, which was actually quite enjoyable!
He can understand the protagonist very well, who places all his hopes of survival on the matter of the "fictional owl man", just like Katsuhiko Oe who had a conflict with his parents at home and bet everything on writing.
As mentioned earlier, the Japanese are prone to stubbornness because they live on an island country with a shortage of materials and a rigid social class structure for decades. There are many examples like the man who lives frugally during the parade, the man who skips meals to collect bottle caps, and so on.
Try your best and only see light in one thing!
When Chinese people read this article, most of them think it is wonderful and curious, while Japanese people read it as Katsuhiko Oe's reaction, which fits the deepest human nature of a nation!
The article "The Earth in Its Past Life" won an award, and the short drama filmed into Shiqi also became the most popular unit of Shiqi that year, with a good record.
Katsuhiko Oe continues reading. The police investigation, based on the confession of a nearby peasant woman, identified the murderer as a stranger in a brown windbreaker, but the Japanese police are always useless in film and television works.
The Owl Man who killed people has gone from an urban legend to a perverted killer. Parents are on guard against it and even scare their children: go home early at night, otherwise they will be taken away by the Owl Man.
The protagonist got what he wanted, but the discussions on the Internet, that little bit of recognition that was not recognition, made him fall into the abyss step by step.
"This was written by a sixteen-year-old Chinese student?" The expression of disbelief on Katsuhiko Oe's face was as if he had seen Mount Fuji erupting.
Can a college student write about such complex human nature? Paranoia, life being manipulated by an imaginary personality.
"After killing my own kind and becoming an owl man, it will be difficult to become a human again... Is there anything else next?"
Katsuhiko Oe thought that the article should have ended here, but he didn't expect there would be a sequel.
Want to hide your identity, but kill again, the most important thing is——
"Is this a mystery novel?! It's about a man dressed as a woman, so cool..." Katsuhiko Oe repeated to Si Guoyi.
The protagonist moves to another place, hides his identity, and dresses as a woman. No one would have thought that the perverted killer Owl Man would disguise himself as a woman, but accidentally falls in love with a man.
Sixty percent is the Owl Man, thirty percent is me, but I am actually being led by the remaining ten percent, the ten percent Ritsuko.
Ritsuko is another female identity created by the protagonist.
Some mystery novel puzzles are about the murderer, some are about the method of crime, some are about the time of crime, and some are about exposing narrative tricks.
The riddle of "The Owl Man" is: "Why does no one suspect the protagonist when he commits a crime?" The answer is the narrative trick of a man dressing up as a woman. Just looking at the beginning, it is impossible to tell that the protagonist would do this.
(End of this chapter)