Artifact Report

Chapter 139 Kai Family Video Record (Part )

2026.11.20
12: 09 PM
REC.
"Next, it's Jin Xueli's personal history."

The handheld camera that had just been placed on the ground was picked up again by Han Liuyue and held up flat, revealing a piece of bright white and smooth candle.

Her voice said off-screen, "...The vulture was quite cooperative in transforming into Jin Xueli's appearance. Perhaps it was because of the fake image on my face that it couldn't identify my identity and couldn't transform into me."

As she spoke, she turned the camera lens towards her face.

In the picture, Han Liuyue has a supermarket shopping paper bag on her head; there are three holes hollowed out in the bag, one for the eyes and one for the mouth.

She couldn't help laughing, and her eyes narrowed in the hollow holes of the paper bag. "This look is a bit weird."

The camera then returned to the vulture again - this time it had the appearance of Jin Xueli, but its expression, movements, and even its habits of body movement did not look like Jin Xueli.

"To make things easier, I let it retain a body part. So even though it looks like Jin Xueli, its mind is still that of the vulture itself."

Han Liuyue said off-screen, “But the vulture told me that it is only responsible for deformation and cannot guarantee that the candle can fully present Jin Xueli’s history.

"Because the last time it had close contact with Jin Xueli was at the entrance of the museum, that is to say, there was a gap of seven or eight hours between the time it came into contact with Jin Xueli and the time it transformed into her.

"The vulture said that if too much time has passed, it can't transform. Even though it can transform now, the older the memory and history, the more blurred it becomes. Vultures are more trouble than they are useful."

"If you turn your back before speaking, you're already giving me face. Are you not planning to cooperate anymore?"

Han Liuyue ignored the vulture and continued off-screen: "Precisely because of this, I don't plan to start watching from the day Jin Xueli was born unless necessary.

"I think the most valuable things we need to pay attention to are after she became a hunter. So I plan to start from the end and record all the major events in her hunter career."

"Are you filming a documentary?" Vulture said impatiently, "Finish it quickly and disband quickly. Do you think I want to be led around like this?"

As it spoke, it took the initiative to walk towards the candle; one end of the rope tied around its neck was still in Han Liuyue's hand, swaying in the air as it was stretched straight.

Following Han Liuyue's instructions, Vulture placed his hand on the candle and opened the fire trough.

The candle wax once again slowly flowed in the air, presenting another person's life.

On the 20th and 19th, Jin Xueli spent most of her time with Chai Si and Han Liuyue. When she was alone, she just did some miscellaneous things like resting and eating.

On the 18th, Morando appeared on the screen.

During this day, Jin Xueli contacted a man named Anthony.

When the two met at the bar, he seemed to have a vague feeling and refused to drink the soda first; but his instinctive intuition still did not change the outcome of him turning into a pool of grape-flavored soda.

Jin Xueli went home to get the money and called Morandao. In the "Backlight", she learned that Chai Si was inquiring about the news of Vulture.

"So she found out the time and place for Jin Xueli and Chai Sige's meeting here." Han Liuyue said off-screen, "So it seems that Jin Xueli is not one of them."

Whether Jin Xueli was truly unaware of the attack on the Kai family, or was an insider arranged in advance by Morandao, was also one of the questions that Chai Si needed to determine.

"Next, it seems to be the whole process of her meeting the vulture," Han Liuyue explained as she moved the candle tears forward. "I'll speed it up a little bit to make sure she didn't lie during this process."

In the candle tears, the scenes of Jin Xueli walking on hopscotch, calling a taxi, and fighting a life-and-death battle with the vulture in the underground exhibition hall are all consistent with what she said.

"That guy's temperament isn't suitable for being a hunter."

Watching this, Han Liuyue couldn't help but sigh, "As long as she gets past the initial defense line, it's as if she doesn't know she's going to lie anymore."

She reached out again, moving the candle wax forward. "This section describes her experience entering the lair on the night of the 16th... Ah, so her path was by jumping from a tall building."

When Jin Xueli flipped over the railing and fell straight down from a great height, apart from the sound of the wind that night, not even Han Liuyue's breathing could be heard in the picture - it was not until she fell into the nest and climbed up from the darkness that Han Liuyue breathed a sigh of relief.

"This should be where she's staying," she said briefly. "For some reason, Jin Xueli didn't turn on the lights."

"That's because it can't be turned on," Vulture said abruptly. "I don't remember the details, I'd better ask the person in question. Anyway, I remember that turning on the light in that room would cause trouble, while keeping it dark was safer. It's counterintuitive, isn't it? It's precisely because people feel safe in the light that things in the room can harm them."

From the dim candlelight, only the rustling sound of Jin Xueli's movements could be heard; after a while, a man's voice was heard in the darkness.

"Welcome to Lair 173," the man said softly. "This is 'The Virtual Guide to Infinite Fantasy Lands,' and I'm your host."

"What is this?" Han Liuyue immediately asked the vulture.

"We, the den dwellers, can't just kill you hunters for fun. We have to do something else." The vulture pointed its beak into the candle tears. "This is the show we listen to most often."

In the candlelight, Jin Xueli took out her cell phone, but didn't even dare to turn on the flashlight.

She held her phone in her mouth and, using the dim light from the screen, spread a map of Blackmore City on the ground, marking and writing notes on it. Because the room was too dark, her screen light was focused only on the map, so even with the candle wax, it was still unclear what Jin Xueli was using to listen to the program.

Despite the darkness, Han Liuyue recorded the entire process.

"For the next period of time, she lived in Blackmore City," Han Liuyue explained, stirring the candle wax. "It seems that the broadcast gave her more than one false image. Even her residence was the price paid by a big client for the false image..."

Overall, for a few years before 2026, Jin Xueli was just an ordinary fake hunter.

If her experiences were told to ordinary people, they might seem like fantasy novels; but in the eyes of other hunters, there wasn't even much worth recording.

Depending on the content, the flow rate of the candle wax was adjusted to sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and in the span of two hours, four years of Jin Xueli's life were completed.

"We haven't seen what she did wrong in the past yet." Han Liuyue said, sighing, "The battery of the handheld camera is running low."

In July 2020, under the pressure of life, Jin Xueli entered the nest five times in a row.

The impact of "nest dissociation disorder" is not just to distance people from real life; the mental trance fluctuations will not stabilize just because they enter the nest.

It was precisely because Jin Xueli gritted her teeth and reluctantly entered the nest again in order to find a false image that could be sold when her mind was unstable that she completely failed in that part of the script.

"The loser must accept the punishment."

A resident whose upper half was a thick lens smiled at Jin Xueli and said, "But you're pretty lucky, little girl. You don't have to die or go crazy. You just need to be cursed by me."

"...Curse?" Jin Xueli's face turned pale, she was afraid, but she couldn't help but have hope. "What curse? As long as you curse me, I can go home?"

"Yes, look."

*Character Curse*
Ms. Jin Xueli, congratulations!
From today on, you are not just an ordinary human being. In addition to your previous identity, you have another identity. You are like a thousand layers of Napoleon, hahahaha.

Your new identity is: Novel character
What do you mean?
Your daily life remains unaffected and you can continue to live your life as before.

But under the curse, you become a character in a novel while being a human being.

Suppose that this world is a novel and you are a character living in it. Whether you know it or not, there are countless pairs of eyes of the audience observing and watching this world - including you.

As a character in a novel, he naturally has a predetermined and unchangeable fate.

After being cursed by me, your fate is:
Regardless of the perspective, when the "audience" learns what you experienced in February 2017, you will die.

Isn't that incredible? Hard to understand? What does it mean?

As the person involved, you know best what you experienced and what you did in February 2017.

This is the biggest secret of your life, and you'd better keep it a secret.

When the "audience" finally sees your secret, you will surely meet your end in death.

So, how will the "audience" see your secrets?
Think about it based on the assumption that “you are living in a novel”!

For example, if you tell others about the past - the "audience" will definitely know.

Others dig up your past—and the “audience” might find out too.

When someone tells you, he/she already knows your secret - the "audience" will naturally notice it at the first time.

In other words, as long as your secret happens as a "plot on the surface", the audience will see it and you will die.

The safest way is to never let anyone else know about it and never mention it yourself.

As long as you keep the audience in the dark, you can survive, Ms. Jin Xueli.

PS: If your comprehension ability is a little poor, you might not even understand the content of the curse and die in front of the audience.

"Brother Chai,"

After a moment of silence, Han Liuyue suddenly shouted outside the screen.

She was silent for a few seconds before finally saying, "...So it seems that the incident that Jin Xueli couldn't let the police know about happened in February 2017."

　As a writer with principles, I can't take back what I've said, right? So as soon as everyone knows Jin Xueli's secret, she will die.

　　(Hey hey hey, I even carved flowers on the fourth wall)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)