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Chapter 230 - 215: Supreme Proclamation^
Chapter 230 - 215: Supreme Proclamation^
Chapter 230: Chapter 215: Supreme Proclamation^
After dropping off 01? Zhang, YangFeng, considering his own safety, dared not listen to “Ghost Blows Out the Light” on his way back.
Fortunately, the previous voice reading was in intelligent mode.
If it were a professional anchor, coupled with a bit of emotionally charged music and a slightly gloomy cadence, wouldn’t this story scare the hell out of people?
That night, when YangFeng returned home, he had a dream.
He dreamed that he and 01? Zhang were tomb robbing. They put a candle in the corner of the wall, but before the coffin was opened, the candle suddenly went out…
Man lights the candle, ghost blows it out!
YangFeng didn’t know what happened next because he was awakened by the fear in his heart.
The next day.
YangFeng arrived at the office looking lethargic, as if he hadn’t slept well the night before.
“What’s wrong?” A colleague asked with concern.
YangFeng replied, “I don’t know how to review Chu Kuang’s new book…”
“Chu Kuang has finished his new book?”
All the editors simultaneously looked at YangFeng.
The editing team at Silver Blue Books are half fans of Chu Kuang. “Zhu Xian” is reputed to be an epic that half the industry is eagerly following!
Someone prompted, “What genre is it?”
By then, 01? Zhang had also arrived at the office. Hearing everyone discussing, he laughed and said, “If everyone is that curious, why doesn’t YangFeng send the book for everyone to see what they think?”
“That works.”
YangFeng straightforwardly, just like last time, sent “Ghost Blows Out the Light” to everyone’s emails.
The novel needed to be kept confidential before publication, but naturally, there was no problem with the company’s editors.
After everyone received “Ghost Blows Out the Light”, they immediately started reading.
Just a few minutes in, someone said in astonishment, “First person perspective?”
“Is this a horror novel?”
“Strictly speaking, it’s a paranormal novel…”
“Does tomb robbing count as paranormal? From an industry perspective, this is clearly a realistic novel.”
“I thought it was a martial arts fantasy from the title…
“Can this work?”
II II
Everyone’s comments were relatively tactful.
In fact, just from reading the opening and the first-person perspective of the novel, everyone had absolutely no expectations for the content of the story.
If this wasn’t Chu Kuang’s book, they would have already rejected this manuscript!
First person perspective?
Who still writes in first-person these days?
Don’t they know that readers today will abandon a book as soon as they see it’s written in first-person?
And the long-winded introduction, which was all about the protagonist s grandfather’s affairs?
And it mentioned tomb robbing…
What’s there to tell about tomb robbing?
No such genre has ever existed before.
01? Zhang, chuckling, said, “Just keep reading.”
Yesterday, when he and YangFeng were listening to the opening of “Ghost
Blows Out the Light”, they were both puzzled, even thinking that Chu Kuang was writing nonsense.
But after listening further, their opinion had completely changed.
At this point, the editors in the editorial department were going through the same change of mind.
When they read that a paper man burnt for the deceased suddenly came alive and spoke the truth to marry Hu Guohua, they all shivered.
The atmosphere in the room instantly chilled!
And when they read that the paper man told Hu Guohua to go to the graveyard in the middle of the night to dig up buried gold and silver, with Hu Guohua doing so out of greed, only to have his heart and liver eaten by the paper man, everyone’s breath hitched…
01? Zhang and YangFeng exchanged a glance.
The reactions of the crowd didn’t surprise them too much.
This novel is full of horrifying scenes. The opening just feels creepy, but the further parts are downright chilling.
Like when Hu Bayi and Fatty went to a local job site, and 01? Wang’s daughter-in-law in the village saw a group of people kneeling before a Locust Tree. When she walked over for a closer look, she discovered these people had no heads…
Just thinking about this scene gives one the creeps…
Not to mention what comes next with the red orangutan rice dumplings, and
the two dead children…
The dead children were a boy and a girl…
The novel explains that when the children were alive, they were injected with mercury from the top of their head, and then coated with mercury powder on the outside of their body, just like making a specimen. After thousands of years, their bodies would not decay, but they would appear greenish and vaguely black.
Chu Kuang’s text aptly describes the details of the blood vessels, the hole through which mercury is injected, and so on.
It was when they heard this part that YangFeng nearly crashed the car.
“Bang!”
Suddenly, the door opened.
Maybe everyone was so engrossed in the novel.
Caught off guard by the sudden noise, someone even panicked and knocked over their goji berry tea…
Water spilled all over the floor.
Only then did everyone realize that it was 01? Xiong, the chief editor who had arrived.
“What are you all doing, looking so surprised?” 01? Xiong frowned.
YangFeng explained, “Chu Kuang has produced a new book.”
01? Xiong was stunned, then his eyes lit up: “What genre?
“Paranormal!”
“Horror!”
“Mystery!”
“Adventure!”
Several editors blurted out simultaneously.
01’ Xiong frowned again: “What exactly is it?”
YangFeng pondered for a moment and said: “I suppose it’s a new genre. I think it should be called tomb-robbing novels…”
“Tomb-robbing?”
01’ Xiong looked somewhat puzzled.
The literal meaning was of course understood. Everyone knows what tomb-robbing is. But 01? Xiong couldn’t figure out how this could make a good novel.
Chu Kuang’s new book, is it another unconventional path?
YangFeng quickly said, “You’ll understand when you see it, I’ve sent the novel to your email.”
The novel couldn’t be easily explained in just a few words because at Blue Star, there has never been a novel of the “Ghost Blows Out the Light” type before!
Simply defining it as horror or mystery seemed insufficient.
Apart from Chu Kuang, probably no one else would think of writing such a fantasy novel…
“Alright.”
01? Xiong nodded and went into his office.
The editors looked at each other and then started discussing in low whispers: “Chu Kuang really has a different style for each book; this one is too scary!”
“I think it’s very thrilling.”
-It’s like watching a scary movie – I’m frightened but can’t resist continuing…” “Could this be popular? After all, it’s in first-person perspective…” ?Hard to say, even though it’s in first-person, but as I kept reading, I seemed to have adapted?”
“On second thought, don’t you think ‘Ghost Blows Out the Light’ can better engage readers by using first-person perspective?”
“Mystery novels often use first-person perspective…”
“The problem is, we’re in fantasy fiction, where readers like protagonists being impressive and charming, ‘Ghost Blows Out the Light’ seems… like it’s in the wrong category?”
“It’s also a fantasy novel, 1 think the imagination in this book is terrifying…” “No matter what, Chu Kuang’s novel is terrific!”
“Three books, three different genres, even the writing style is different each time, this is frightening!”
After discussing for a while, everyone returned to their seats and continued to read “Ghost Blows Out the Light”.
Half an hour later, the door to the chief editor’s office suddenly opened.
01? Xiong ran out-
paced with this scene, the editors of Silver Blue Books felt a strange sense of familiarity.
It was also on this day.
The chief editorial director personally instructed that “Ghost Blows Out the Light” would be officially released in June, and the publicity level was set at…
The highest level!