"???"

The person who was most shocked after hearing the conversation between the two was Cao Manwen who was standing nearby.

What is this?

The old man that Professor Hu met with his father forty years ago is still alive?

Is this a bit too far-fetched?

If Cao Manwen hadn't known that Lu Ban and Professor Hu didn't know each other before, he would have thought that these two people were playing a prank on him.

"Wait, you two, this old gentleman..."

Cao Manwen's speech is incoherent.

But Lu Ban had obviously seen many storms.

"Mr. Zhang, are you feeling well?"

“Not that bad.”

Blind Zhang said leisurely.

"How many years have passed since then?"

"Almost ninety years."

Lu Ban replied.

“It’s been so long.”

Blind Zhang seemed to be reminiscing.

"We all thought you had stayed there forever. Later, the war spread and everyone went their separate ways. We gradually lost contact. I stayed here to set up a stall to see if I could meet someone destined for me. I even met Master Qi last time."

“That was forty years ago.”

Lu Ban replied.

"Oh, my memory is so poor. Ever since the Xuanjun dispute ended, my impression of time has become fuzzy."

Blind Zhang sighed.

He seemed to be frozen in time, living in that period of time for a long time, and even time could not leave a deep mark on him.

Watching people I know pass away one by one, and things and people no longer changing, is this happiness or misfortune?

Lu Ban wasn’t sure.

"Mr. Zhang, are you the only paper cutter?"

Lu Ban suddenly asked.

Blind Zhang was silent for a moment.

"Not really. Before me, our lineage was considered a normal inheritance. Birth, aging, sickness and death are the two most common cycles of reincarnation."

"But I later participated in two Xuanjun battles, gained some knowledge, discovered some things, and became what I am now."

"We are able to give life to paper cutting. The more realistic the paper cutting is, the more alive it becomes."

“Then I cut out my own look.”

“When the paper cutting is exactly like me, what is the difference between me and the paper cutting?”

"My real body may have long ceased to exist. It only exists today through continuous paper cutting. What you see in front of you is just a paper figure."

Blind Zhang said calmly.

"Besides, my relatives in the Northeast have long since passed away in the war, leaving me alone in this lineage. If the dispute between Xuanjun re-starts one day, the Paper Cutting Official lineage must be left without someone."

"My colleagues who fought side by side at that time have passed away one by one. Someone has to remember these things."

After hearing what Blind Zhang said, Lu Ban quickly understood.

"Mr. Zhang, I'm going to make a film about Jiuliu's story so that everyone will remember you."

He said.

Blind Zhang was stunned.

"If you tell others about these things, they will just treat them as a joke and won't believe them. Besides, we, the Nine-class, don't do these things for fame."

"Mr. Zhang, this world is not just Jiangcheng Mountain. There are many more monsters like the one suppressed at the bottom of the mountain. What I want to do is to make everyone aware of this."

Lu Ban said seriously.

"……besides?"

It seemed like this was the first time Blind Zhang heard such words.

"Yes, you saw the heavy snow at the beginning of this year. That was the result of those guys' **. Times have changed. We need to pay more attention."

Lu Ban replied.

"……I see."

Blind Zhang replied.

"Whatever you want, I can cooperate with you."

The two continued chatting, leaving Cao Manwen alone, feeling that his three views had been overturned.

What what what?

The heavy snow at the beginning of this year?

The monster suppressed under the mountain?

Are there really monsters in this world?

When Lu Ban said he wanted to make everything public, he wasn't referring to any movie promotion, but did he really want to say this in front of everyone?

Is there something wrong with me listening to this here?

After Lu Ban communicated with Blind Zhang, Cao Manwen sent Lu Ban back to the hotel.

Along the way, Cao Manwen felt incredible.

"Is what you guys talking about true?"

Traffic jams were common on Yan Nan's roads at night, so when he stopped at a traffic jam, he asked tentatively.

"Of course it's true."

Lu Ban answered as a matter of course.

"Are you filming some prank show where a few cameras are going to pop out and shoot me in the face, telling me I've been fooled?"

Cao Manwen looked around and asked guiltily.

"No."

Lu Ban answered honestly.

"So, there really are special abilities in this world? Not the kind of qigong, but the kind of..."

Cao Manwen didn't know how to describe it.

Lu Ban saw the lighter in the car, and his right hand materialized a silver pen [Last Words] and wrote a word on it.

【cat】.

The next moment, Cao Manwen's lighter suddenly jumped out of Lu Ban's hand, jumped in front of the steering wheel, and rubbed Cao Manwen's hand like a cat.

The young doctoral student was horrified.

Then, the lighter quickly lost its agility and turned back into an ordinary lighter, falling into Lu Ban's palm.

"Is this the kind you're talking about?"

Lu Ban asked.

“…”

Cao Manwen felt that his materialistic values ​​were about to collapse.

After sending Lu Ban back to the hotel, Cao Manwen returned to the dormitory, turned on the computer, and immediately began to search for keywords such as Jiangchengshan and Jiuliu.

Then, Cao Manwen only found an online article called "I Created the Myth of the Old Ones". He glanced at it and thought it was well written. He read it until twelve o'clock before he suddenly realized what was going on.

"Fuck, what am I doing?"

He cast two monthly votes for this book and went to look up news about superpowers.

However, the Internet basically only has book recommendations that are obviously fraudulent, such as "Qigong Quick-Start Method", "The Superpower to Make the Opposite Sex Fall for You in Three Sentences", "That's How Magic Works", and some folk science research on supernatural powers that combines relativity, quantum mechanics, and string theory.

There was no trace of the things Lu Ban and the others mentioned.

But what Cao Manwen saw tonight was the real deal. He looked at the lighter he brought upstairs.

"Change for me!"

He spoke to the lighter, but the lighter did not move, as if mocking his stupidity.

The other side.

Lu Ban quickly contacted Du Danping's family through Song Yunyan, and found the Bailixingzuo family who ran a multinational trading company through Tang Que's letter, and obtained precious interview video materials.

As for Dai Yuanyang, Lu Ban checked and found out that it seemed that the remaining members of the Dai family were invited by Dai Yuanyang to go abroad during the war, and there was no news of them after that.

Lu Ban didn't know what the final outcome of these people would be, but if they were introduced by Dai Yuanyang, they would probably be connected with foreign institutions that research supernatural pollution, and the outcome would probably not be very good.

After collecting all the materials, Lu Ban can finally start making the movie.

A month later, in June, before the summer solstice, Lu Ban posted a message on the account of Silent Media, announcing the basic information of his next film, "Jiuliu".