Endless Debt

Why blue jay.

Facing Cinderella's question, Irwin was silent for a while. He opened his mouth to say something several times, but the words died when he reached his mouth. It seemed that Irwin could not give a definite answer to this question.

"I like birds, especially the blue jay. Its feather color is very beautiful. It is a rare blue color in nature and has a unique feeling."

Irwin explained to Cinderella that as an author, no matter how mysterious and solitary Irwin is, he still needs to communicate with people. People often ask Irwin this question. For this reason, Irwin has long written a set of rhetoric to deal with it. these situations.

Cinderella said, "You're lying."

"Why?" Irwin didn't understand. "You have read my book. You know, I like birds very much. This is a fact."

Of course Cinderella knew this. In the story of "Night Hunters", Irwin did not describe the real names of the hunters, but the code names of one bird after another.

When communicating with some readers, they suspected that Irwin was actually an ornithologist, while others suspected that Irwin was just too lazy to come up with names. He bought a copy of "The Encyclopedia of Birds" and used the names of birds on whichever page he turned to. Character naming.

Cinderella frowned, and it sounded like Irwin did not lie, but she still shook her head vigorously, "No, I just think you lied, and you also said that authors are masters of lying."

"Oh? Does that count as our role reversal?"

Irwin felt that things were getting interesting, "You lied to me before, but now it's me, so guess which ones are true?"

Cinderella thought for two seconds, and her head froze. She couldn't figure it out, and her voice was a little higher, "Hey! Is this your pen name? Is it that simple?"

"Otherwise? How complicated do you think it is?"

Irwin laughed. He really liked watching Cinderella deflate. It was much more interesting than fighting and killing.

"After getting off the train, I came to a small city. As always, I worked several jobs and lived in a dark and damp basement. Whenever I rested, I started writing. When I finished writing the first manuscript That's when I realized I needed a pen name."

Irwin told the story of his creation, "People say that a name is a very important thing, so I struggled for a while about what kind of pen name I should choose."

"I thought about it for a long time, and then I noticed a corner of the newspaper. It was a popular science section, and it happened to talk about birds like blue jays."

Irwin skillfully recited the words in the newspaper, and even after all these years, he still remembered them clearly.

"The blue jay's feathers are very beautiful. It is a rare blue color in nature and has a unique beauty."

Irwin explained to Cinderella word for word, "I think, why do you have to follow the crowd? It's better to give a bunch of meaningless meanings to your pen name, it's better to be more casual."

Cinderella's voice rose, "So you used Blue Jay as your pen name? Just because of a damn newspaper!"

"Yeah, it's not the pen name that's meaningful. What's really meaningful is that moment. If the newspapers at that time were introducing birds like the kestrel, my pen name might be the kestrel."

Irwin spread his hands and easily shattered all Cinderella's illusions about him.

"Is there anything else you want to ask? For example, the design of some storylines and the arrangement of some characters?"

Irwin was a little addicted. This kind of crushing the girl's innocent fantasy bit by bit, watching her expression gradually collapse, gave him an indescribable pleasure.

"That……"

The way Cinderella looked at Irwin completely changed. There were times when Irwin was more hateful than the demons. The demons just wanted to kill her, but Irwin wanted to completely destroy her dream.

"For example..."

"Shut up, you!"

Cinderella threw the half-eaten apple at Irwin. She already regretted asking Irwin. Instead of letting Irwin destroy all her beautiful fantasies, she should shut his mouth quickly.

Irwin couldn't stop laughing. He had been looking forward to this kind of interaction with readers for a long time. He thought there was no hope, but he actually encountered this situation.

After a while, the room calmed down again. Cinderella sat on a chair nearby and looked out the porthole in confusion. In the end, she still didn't see it as a whale, and like Irwin, she was temporarily under house arrest on the Terror. .

Irwin is unknown, but the Blue Jay has a certain social influence and also has a friendship with Nolen.

It can be said that Irwin's identity and relationship are extremely complicated, which caused the people of Xitao and the special operations team to not know how to deal with him for a while. In addition, there are far more important things than Irwin, so Irwin was temporarily put on hold. , An Xin was recuperating on the Terror, just like being on a forced vacation.

As for Cinderella's identity, Irwin made up a story to fool her around.

Irwin said to the angry Cinderella, "You are my niece now, you better be honest."

When Boluogo and others were questioning him, Irwin made up such a story temporarily. In fact, he himself couldn't understand Cinderella's identity.

This is not a perfect lie. As long as someone simply checks Irwin's identity and relationship, they can see through Irwin's lies, but these Condensers obviously don't care about this.

"What niece!"

Cinderella raised her hand to knock Irwin on the head, but her arms were not as long as Irwin's. He simply raised his hand to hold her head, and she was unable to reach him.

Cinderella continued, "I don't like this ID card."

"Identify card?"

Irwin did not understand the meaning of this word. Cinderella often said words that he did not understand. Irwin could only attribute this to the generation gap between them.

"Have you never played board games?" Cinderella asked, "A role-playing ID card?"

Irwin had never heard of it, "What is that?"

Cinderella was silent for a moment and asked cautiously, "Have you heard of "Journey to the End of the Night"?"

Irwin didn't understand what Cinderella was talking about, "Of course I know this, it's the setting in my book."

In the setting of "Night Hunters", hunters will cruise on armed trains and hunt monsters along the way. This journey is called the Night Journey.

Cinderella was stunned, and she asked again, "Irwin, do you know that your novel has been adapted into a board game?"

"ah?"

Irwin thought for a long time, "I have to look through the contract."

Cinderella screamed, "Are you really a blue jay? You don't even know such a thing!"

Irwin said, "I'm just an author. I can only type on a typewriter. I don't know how to do these things. There are specialties in the field. I leave this kind of thing to my editor."

"Then you've never played this once?"

"No... I live alone and no one plays with me," Irwin tried to remember. "I remember my editor mailed me this thing a while ago. It should be stuffed in a certain cabinet..."

Listening to Irwin's nonsense, Cinderella felt that something in her heart was collapsing little by little, turning into dust on the ground.

"Let me explain, board games are where everyone plays different roles, invests in the game, and completes the interpretation of a story together. The identity card contains all the information about the role you want to play, such as the character's story, ability values, and so on. And it will determine where you are in the story.”

Cinderella described to Irwin, her burgundy eyes staring at Irwin closely.

"For example, if everything we have experienced is a game, then 'Cinderella' is the name of my character. Her background story is that of a girl who wants to see whales for strange reasons. Her abilities are mediocre, but very... Lucky, quirky..."

Cinderella became more and more excited as she talked, and made another analogy with Irwin, "Irwin is a player, and the Blue Jay is your identity card, and the name of the character you are going to play. Do you understand?"

Irwin nodded in understanding. This was his first time coming into contact with a board game. Irwin liked the identity card setting.

“It’s like putting on a mask and going on stage to perform.”

"Yes," Cinderella said, "you can stop being yourself and play another character."

Irwin remembered a quote, he couldn't remember who said it, "Sometimes putting on a mask actually takes it off."

"right!"

Cinderella was extremely excited, "The mask can hide your appearance and allow you to release your true nature without restraint, no matter what your true nature is!"

Irwin felt that Cinderella was hinting at something, but her burgundy eyes were very pure, and she just thought it was interesting.

Just when Irwin wanted to say something, there was a knock on the door, and the door was pushed open again.

Thanks to the leader of Yuan Rong, please give me a few days of grace before updating.