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Chapter 1665: Next Steps (Meow continues to roll in the new year)

"Um…………………"

When Duanmu Huai opened his eyes again, he only felt...

It's so hot.

Turning his head, Yanajian was sleeping soundly while hugging him tightly, while Chitanda was curled up with her eyes closed. Duanmu Huai broke free from Yanajian, took out his phone and glanced at it.

[September 6, Saturday, 31: a.m.]

At the same time, a sharp scream was heard outside.

"ah-----!!!"

When the police arrived, it was an hour later.

"The deceased is Professor Ueno. Two of his students, Sakura Yoshie and Miyamoto Takashi, and Professor Sato Ryoichi, who was a colleague of Professor Ueno, are missing..."

The police investigated and recorded while looking at everyone in confusion.

"Are you the guests invited by Professor Ueno to attend the banquet?"

"That's right."

Duanmuhuai nodded.

"I wanted to discuss some folklore and ghost stories with Professor Ueno, so I asked Director Shimizu. Professor Ueno was going to hold a banquet, so he invited me to attend. So I brought two friends from the club to the banquet."

"Oh, I see... Did you find anything unusual?"

“Uh…I’m not sure…”

Yanaimin frowned and tapped his head.

"I remember that I seemed to have a very terrible dream, but I can't remember it clearly."

"Me too………"

Chitanda shook her head.

"Maybe it's because Professor Ueno asked everyone to gather together to talk about Hyakumonogatari last night, I also had a nightmare..."

"I see... you all ate the same food, right?"

"Yes………"

"Um……………"

Duanmu Huai certainly knew why the police asked this question. He had heard from Inspector Oyama that Professor Ueno's body was distorted and looked like he died in extreme pain. According to the preliminary forensic examination, the cause was a sudden illness. It was just a coincidence that several people fell ill at the same time, so the police suspected that this was a murder case. The body was currently being taken back for further autopsy.

Duanmu Huai certainly understood why Professor Ueno died in such a miserable way. After all, Duanmu Huai was an inquisitor, and as an inquisitor, Duanmu Huai naturally knew some means of torturing heretics. It was obvious that Professor Ueno was just a simple old scholar, and he obviously couldn't stand the punishments such as the tiger bench and pepper water, so Duanmu Huai inflicted pain on his body and used the fear aura to squeeze out all the information Professor Ueno knew, and then let him die in endless pain.

Well, Professor Ueno's calculations were good. No one would notice anything that happened in a dream. And the people who were killed by the ghost story in the dream seemed to disappear completely from the real world. Obviously, he planned to let the ghost story kill Duanmu Huai and others. In this way, even if the police came to search, they would not find any clues and would only find that they were missing.

Coincidentally, Duanmu Huai thought the same way.

At least for now, even if the police cut Professor Ueno into slices, they would not be able to tell that he had been tortured.

In fact it is.

Afterwards, the police took everyone to the police station to record their statements. Although the police did not say it explicitly, their search direction was clearly towards the suspicion that Professor Ueno's students had teamed up with Professor Sato to kill Professor Ueno and then fled for fear of crime. However, Duanmu Huai knew that these policemen would never expect to catch anyone in their lifetime.

After that, Duanmu Huai sent Yanai and Chitanda back home. They both seemed to regard everything that happened before as a nightmare... Although Yanai looked at the date on his phone in confusion, he finally confirmed that he was dreaming.

As for the club research, the two discussed it and decided to continue. After all, they received a lot of suggestions and help yesterday. They should treat it as a commemoration and finish the research report.

Duanmu Huai had no objection and just let them go.

But he himself was not so free.

After leaving the police station, Duanmu Huai immediately called his assistant.

"President, are you okay? I heard that something seems to have happened with Professor Ueno."

"It's just an accident, nothing serious."

Duanmu Huai was too lazy to talk about these trivial things.

"I called you because I want you to do something."

"what's up?"

"Find me a script. Send me the movie script for review."

"Ah, yes..."

"Give them all to me... No, send all the action-oriented scripts to me, and I'll screen them later."

"Hey? President, what's wrong with you?"

It has to be said that the assistant seemed quite surprised to hear Duanmu Huai's answer. After all, based on his understanding of Duanmu Huai, he basically only filmed one drama every year, and this year's drama had been filmed long ago. Logically, Duanmu Huai should not come to discuss work matters with him until next year.

But I didn't expect that he would be so proactive this time?

"I'm free anyway, so I'll kill some time."

"Okay, I'll prepare it and send it to your email address, President."

A movie is roughly divided into three parts, namely production, distribution and screening. However, in fact, production is actually completed last, and the first thing to be determined is distribution. The producer takes the project plan to the distribution company, and after confirming that it can be distributed, he starts to set up a filming crew. If it cannot be distributed and screened, then making a movie is simply a loss of money. But now at least there is an online platform, and the distribution part is relatively relaxed. In the past, the distribution company held the lifeblood of a movie. Duanmu Huai is involved in all three parts, and his bulk is placed on production and distribution. After all, as long as it can pass the review of the distribution company, he can turn around and start filming. Therefore, every year many freelance producers will submit their scripts to Duanmu Huai's company to seek cooperation.

Duanmu Huai had his own reasons for taking action contrary to his usual practice.

Through the information obtained from interrogating Professor Ueno, Duanmu Huai has already gained a certain understanding of the subspace of this world.

Similar to Duanmu Huai's speculation, the subspace of this world is not close to the soul, but seems to be more close to mental influence, just like puberty syndrome.

So one of the important questions is...how to enter that world?

According to Professor Ueno, most of the ghost story locations with clear signs can be used as entrances and exits to the subspace.

As for why Duanmu Huai failed to find Ruyue Station, the reason is very simple. According to Professor Ueno, the clearer the goal, the more focused the public's thoughts will be. For example, in the disappearance incident at Baixue Pavilion, everyone knew that those people disappeared at Baixue Pavilion. When their thoughts were focused on Baixue Pavilion, they would open up the passage to the subspace here.

However, Ruyue Station is different. Although it is stated that it is the last train in a certain area, it does not say which station it is, which blurs everyone's focus. Therefore, no matter how Duanmu Huai took the last train before, he could not enter the subspace through there.

The reason why Professor Ueno invited these guests was that he hoped to further consolidate the connection between Shirayuki House and the subspace by sacrificing them, and it would be best if he could create a passage for traveling back and forth.

But this is not the point. The point is what Professor Ueno said about the creatures living in the subspace.

According to Professor Ueno, there are some kind of life forms in that world, but it seems that they are not in the same dimension as himself. When Professor Ueno tries to communicate with them, he only feels an indescribable fear, similar to that of an ordinary person seeing an evil god.

According to Professor Ueno, the strange creatures that attacked him and others actually had no intelligence or soul, but simply acted according to the way humans thought. However, there were also some strange creatures that merged with those subspace organisms. In simple terms, it was as if those subspace creatures put on the skin of strange creatures and appeared in front of humans who broke into that world.

Professor Ueno said that he once accidentally entered that world and saw a "Hachisha-sama". The moment he saw the "Hachisha-sama", he felt that his brain was filled with incomprehensible information and knowledge that seemed like garbled code. At that time, Professor Ueno felt that his head was about to explode. Fortunately, he looked away in time and escaped.

After that, Professor Ueno fled like crazy, and when he came to his senses, he had returned to the Snow House. Then Professor Ueno spent several days to sort out the seemingly incomplete knowledge in his brain, and then he came to a conclusion.

These creatures rely on fear to communicate with humans, because fear is the highest emotion and the easiest to trigger. After all, friendship and love are a little difficult to understand, but if you push someone to the edge of a cliff, the emotion of fear will immediately appear.

Well, when you think about it, fear is pretty convenient.

Duanmu Huai didn't pay much attention to this. Sub-space creatures are all kinds of strange and varied. He has seen similar monsters before. Some sub-space creatures feed on fear. The more fear you have, the stronger it becomes. It will also give you a fear DEBUFF when fighting. If you don't purify it in time, you will die.

So...Duanmu Huai also needs the same response method.

His choice was to fight poison with poison.

Through previous experiments, Duanmu Huai has determined that as long as he plays his role in that world, he can gain a power bonus. Night Girl is an example. After all, it is the childhood shadow of most people, and the power bonus it brings cannot be underestimated.

But relying on Ye Nu alone is not enough, and to Duanmu Huai, Ye Nu's fighting style is too low.

Therefore, Duanmu Huai intended to create an image more powerful than Ye Nu.

That's why he came to the company to choose scripts.

Judging from experience, if you want to create an image that is powerful in the subspace, the number and strength must not be low.

Quantity refers to the number of people who have seen it, while intensity refers to how impressed they were with the character.

The reason why Ye Nu has such powerful strength is because she is everyone's childhood shadow. Otherwise, it would not be so easy to defeat the Seven Imperial Guards.

It is not easy to play a horror character that is memorable and has to be widely spread.

For Duanmu Huai, the simplest way is to screen it globally.

That’s right, as long as it’s shown around the world, even if not many people watch it, the total number is still a significant number. And many horror movie protagonists are also well-known to the global public, such as Jigsaw, Jason, Freddy, Sadako, Kayako, all of whom are famous and well-known “horror stars”.

Duanmu Huai also hopes to create a similar image.

But unfortunately, this is not an easy task.

"Ah... each one is more boring than the other."

Flipping through the script, Duanmu Huai was too tired to complain. One of the reasons why Japanese movies are difficult to go abroad is that they are not popcorn-filled enough. Speaking of horror movies, the atmosphere in Japan is actually very good, but the problem is that it is not exciting enough. Whether it is Jason wielding a chainsaw to chase or Freddy being pulled into a nightmare hunt, it is enough to make the atmosphere in the cinema tense and exciting.

However, most Japanese horror films are depressing from beginning to end, without any particularly exciting and intense chasing and fighting scenes. Moreover, because they tend to be narrative-oriented, they are not very popular and recognized by the public.

In comparison, the United States is much better in this regard. For example, in Friday the 13th, if you don't watch Jason, you can watch beautiful women, or you can watch a man and a woman hugging and kissing on the grass.

Although most of the time, Jason would shoot him in the head while he was chewing.

Why………………

Although there are many good scripts, Duanmu Huai thinks that they are not international enough. However, it is difficult for horror films to satisfy the tastes of the general public, so Duanmu Huai had to settle for the next best thing and look at action movies... Well, there is nothing to do. Japan is really not good in this regard.

After reading all the scripts to be reviewed, Duanmu Huai didn't find anything he wanted to read, so he started to read the rejected projects out of boredom. This can be regarded as a little entertainment for Duanmu Huai. In fact, from many perspectives, the rejected projects are more interesting than the approved scripts, and they can better reflect the diversity of human beings.

There's always that "Is this something a human would come up with?"

However, some projects were rejected simply because they were not in line with the company's direction, or had a bad social impact and were not suitable for production and distribution.

Unfortunately, it is not easy to find a script that meets your needs.

If that doesn't work, let the assistant talk to the company's screenwriters to see if they can come up with such a script. As for the theme, let's focus on shooting international movies. I hope these screenwriters can open their minds and come up with some good ideas.

So as a boss, Duanmu Huai finally decided to leave the troublesome tasks to his subordinates.

Otherwise, why should we pay you?

(End of this chapter)