28th floor of Nanbin Hotel.
When Ling Yi arrived, he saw a girl wearing a mask, sunglasses, a hood, and Black Wind knocking on the door.
The door they knocked on was 2808!
The girl knocked three times, then took two steps back and waited quietly.
Just then, Ling Yi walked up to the girl in the trench coat.
The girl was short, less than 1.6 meters tall, and looked like a child next to Ling Yi, who was 1.8 meters tall.
Upon spotting Ling Yi, the girl instinctively took half a step to the side, turned her body slightly, glanced at him from head to toe, and then turned back to look at the door.
It's clear that although the girl is young, she is very wary.
Having read the original storyline, Ling Yi had some guesses about the girl's identity.
Feng Ziming is the Battle Power in the Protagonist group, especially skilled in his family's Bajiquan, which is incredibly powerful.
It's one thing for a girl to practice Bajiquan, but to have mastered Bajiquan to Perfection level that her Xiaoxiao body contains the power of a Heart-Striking Elbow capable of killing a bull.
After being amplified by Literary Qi, its Combat becomes even more outrageous.
However, the girl is actually not very old; she is only 17 years old.
Despite being only 17 years old, Feng Ziming has already become a top online novelist. He has only written one online novel so far, but it made him a God Investiture overnight.
He is extremely famous in the online literature community.
"Click!" At that moment, the door opened.
A young man with a head full of hair poked his head out from inside the room.
Upon seeing the two, Huang Mao spoke up, "Invitation!"
Feng Ziming took the invitation out of his trench coat pocket and handed it directly to Huang Mao, but Huang Mao shook his head.
"Each person will only receive one invitation, so please keep it safe. I'll explain the details later." After saying this, Huang Mao looked at Ling Yi again.
Where is your invitation?
Ling Yi reached out and grabbed at the Void, and the invitation appeared out of thin air. After showing it to Huang Mao, the invitation disappeared again.
This move, though very cool, didn't elicit much reaction from either Feng Ziming or the man with the springy hair.
Huang Mao even curled his lip and said disdainfully, "Fancy and frivolous."
"Come in, you're the only ones we've been waiting for."
He then opened the door and let the two of them in.
After Feng Ziming and Ling Yi entered the room one after the other, Huang Mao finally closed the door.
The room was very large, about 150 square meters.
At this moment, including Ling Yi, there were exactly ten people in the room.
Most of them are quite young, or rather, the oldest person in the room is probably Ling Yi.
The youngest is Feng Ziming, but she is currently covered up completely, so no one can tell her exact age.
There are three sofas in the living room. On the sofa with its back to the window, two men and one woman are sitting, all of whom look to be around twenty-five or twenty-six years old.
Two men, one fat and one thin, sat on the left, while a slightly overweight woman sat on the right, with about two people's distance between them.
On the sofa to the left sat a middle-aged couple, sitting very close together. They were both wearing white tracksuits. The man had long hair and was slightly overweight, while the woman had a good figure, but her looks were only considered above average.
On the sofa to the right, sit a pair of twin sisters.
Both women were dressed in green dresses and wore gold-rimmed glasses; they were almost identical in both figure and appearance.
Only the hairstyle is slightly different.
Ling Yi glanced around and was pretty much able to guess the identities of these people.
Among the three people sitting on the sofa facing due north, the fat man's name was Guan Hu, pen name Fat-Brained Tiger, an online novelist who wrote urban fiction and earned more than 30,000 yuan a month.
The skinny guy in the middle is named Jiang Wenshan, pen name A Bag of Rivers and Mountains. He's an online novelist who writes suspense stories and also earns around 30,000 yuan a month.
The slightly plump woman on the far right is named Jiang Yue, pen name " Cat-Loving Fox." She is a top-tier female-oriented online novelist who writes ancient-era transmigration stories and earns over 100,000 yuan a month.
The two people on the sofa on the left are indeed a married couple. The man is named Song Haohan, and the woman is named Qin Lanlan. They share a pen name, "The Fish That Cannot Swim," and write fantasy web novels, earning around 100,000 yuan a month.
He is also a top-tier online novel author.
The twin sisters on the right are Yu Lan and Yu Hong, who share the same pen name. Gemini Is Not a Constellation. Despite their young age, they are the highest earners among the ten.
They excel at writing mystery and fantasy web novels and are extremely famous in the online novel circle of this world. Two of their web novels have already been published in print, earning them tens of millions of yuan a year.
Second only to them is Feng Ziming, who excels at writing pure Jianghu arts novels. Although he has only written one online novel, it has been noticed by a famous director and has now been adapted into a screenplay, which is being prepared for filming as a TV series.
The remaining hair is Zheng Feng, the Protagonist of this world.
Compared to others, Zheng Feng is currently a complete Little White, and his pen name is not fixed because he frequently changes his online persona.
My monthly income is less than 2,000 yuan, and that includes full attendance bonuses.
Other online novel authors all have their own established writing styles.
But Zheng Feng is different; he writes whatever type of content becomes popular.
To put it bluntly, this guy is just a cash cow in the online literature industry.
This guy's online novels are so unpredictable; he can abandon them at will, or finish them just as easily.
If it doesn't make money, it's something you can just throw away without hesitation.
Most of the online novels this guy writes are less than 200,000 words.
He has a big imagination, but his writing is terrible. He's been writing for three years, and most of his works have flopped. He can't even make a decent living.
"Who sent the invitation?" Feng Ziming asked first after looking everyone over.
Upon hearing Feng Ziming's words, everyone couldn't help but look at Zheng Feng.
Feng Ziming also looked at Zheng Feng, his gaze slightly narrowed, and asked, "Was it you who sent the invitation?"
Zheng Feng did not answer Feng Ziming's question, but instead asked in return, "You must have all heard about the nearly two hundred online novel authors who have died mysteriously recently, right?"
Everyone frowned. Why would this kid suddenly bring this up?
"You're not suggesting that the deaths of those online novel authors are all suspicious, are you?" Guan Hu asked.
Zheng Feng didn't even look at him, but said to himself, "We're on the next death list."
"The fact that you received an invitation and came here proves that something has happened to you that you cannot understand."
"What do you mean by the death list?" Jiang Wenshan asked. "Who are you? Are you a member of some kind of criminal organization, like those on the Dark Web?"
"Are there cameras in the room? Are we being live-streamed right now? And are we being asked to choose our escape route, or even our fate, based on the viewers' opinions?"
Zheng Feng shook his head and chuckled, "As expected of a master of suspense, you've already started brainstorming. However, there's no need for this kind of probing. Our goal is to find the truth."
Before Jiang Wenshan could say anything more, Zheng Feng asked, "Brother Jiang, could you tell me about the strange events that have happened to you recently?"
After a moment's thought, Jiang Wenshan said, "If I said I saw the horned cesium from my novel appear in the real world, would you think I'm crazy?"
"Did you also see the horned cesium in your novel?" Jiang Yue asked.
"You mean it too?" Jiang Wenshan asked, his voice trembling with shock.
Then he looked at the crowd, and sure enough, he saw similar expressions on everyone's faces.
Only Ling Yi and Feng Ziming, who entered last, showed no discernible expression.
Ling Yi had no expression, while Feng Ziming was wearing sunglasses, a mask, and a hood, making it impossible to discern his expression.
Jiang Wenshan's gaze lingered on Ling Yi for a moment before he asked, "Could it be that you saw the horned cesium from your own novel?"
Jiang Yue began, "About three months ago, I saw Qingchuan and the Fourth Young Master. Qingchuan is the female lead in my novel, and the Fourth Young Master is the ambitious male Number One in the novel."
"I was eating at a hot pot restaurant when Qingchuan and the Fourth Young Master appeared at the same time. As soon as Qingchuan saw me, she grabbed me and ran away."
"Although Qingchuan is the Protagonist of my novel, I didn't know Qingchuan and the Fourth Young Master at the time. I just thought they were some kind of cosplaying internet celebrities."
"I certainly couldn't go with a stranger, so I chose to break free."
"But the Fourth Young Master drew his longsword and thrust it directly at me. I was completely terrified and didn't know how to dodge. Just then, Qingchuan stepped in front of me."
"I took that sword blow head-on. My mind went completely blank. There was only one thought in my mind: someone's dead."
But just then, the Fourth Young Master and Qingchuan actually...
"Has it disappeared?" Jiang Wenshan asked.
"Yes, they disappeared, as if they had never existed. Afterwards, I even checked the security footage from the hot pot restaurant, and there was no Shadow of Qingchuan or the Fourth Young Master in the footage."
"This makes me wonder if I've become obsessed with writing online novels, and have developed delusions."
"But at that time, I still didn't know they were the characters in my novel. I just thought there was something wrong with me, and I even went to see a Doctor."
"Until a month later, on the same day and at the same time, but this time it was Qingtian who appeared first. She told me that she was Qingtian, the Protagonist of my novel."
Then the Fourth Young Master appeared and chased after Qingchuan and me again. Qingchuan and I fled in a sorry state. Fortunately, they seemed to have a limited time to exist and disappeared again soon.
"Three minutes," Feng Ziming suddenly said.
"Yes, it's three minutes. The horn in the novel only appears for three minutes. As long as you can hold out for three minutes, you'll be Wuyang," Jiang Wenshan added.
"The characters in your novels are all easy to deal with, but the one chasing me is a Third Rate master from a Demonic Sect Jianghu. If I didn't have Kung Fu Hustle, I would probably be dead by now," Feng Ziming added.
"You wouldn't happen to be that Feng Ziming, would you?" At this moment, Song Haohan, one of the husband-and-wife writers, asked.
Feng Ziming took off his sunglasses and mask, nodded, and said, "It's me."
Feng Ziming, whose pen name is Feng Ziming, is the only online novel author among them who uses his real name as his pen name.
He is also a recently popular, God Grade author.
Feng Ziming became very popular because her novel was chosen by a famous director to be adapted into a TV series.
In addition, Feng Ziming also regularly films Kung Fu Hustle -related videos, which have garnered him a considerable number of fans online.
"You really know Kung Fu Hustle!" Song Haohan's wife, Qin Lanlan, exclaimed in surprise.