9: Chapter 9: What's it like to have your autobiography made into a movie?

Director Zhang hurriedly rushed to Ye Xiao's side and asked with a mournful face, "What is going on with this Black Viper Fish?"

Ye Xiao shrugged, indicating that he did not know.

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Director Zhang squeezed out two tears and said with a sobbing tone, "The plots of these few movies, they aren't all your past experiences, are they, Big Shot?"

"You've really screwed me over, Big Shot! How am I supposed to explain this when the time comes? I'm innocent..."

"Alright, it's all just a coincidence!"

Ye Xiao shook off Director Zhang's hand and interrupted him.

Upon hearing this, Director Zhang was slightly stunned, then muttered to himself, "Coincidence?"

But then, Director Zhang spoke up again with a sobbing tone, "Even a dog wouldn't believe that! You actually lied to me too!"

Ye Xiao: "..."

Ye Xiao really wanted to plant his foot on Director Zhang's face.

But he ignored Director Zhang and turned to leave.

At that moment, the experts exchanged glances.

As if commanded by a single signal, everyone's gaze turned simultaneously toward Ye Xiao and Director Zhang.

The Live Stream Room happened to witness this scene, and the entire Live Stream Room erupted instantly!

"Is Ye Xiao trying to... run away??? Escaping after the truth came out?"

"My god, he's already preparing to run. It seems the evidence is undeniable! Ye Xiao has definitely been down to the Dragon Locking Well!"

"Ye Xiao: Ah, so awkward!"

"Pfft! Getting caught red-handed like this is indeed quite awkward. I guess someone will be coming to 'check the water meter' soon."

"Tch! At least Ye Xiao is willing to own up to it. He even wrote—no, filmed—his confession early on!"

The audience in the Live Stream Room was cheering wildly, but suddenly, some viewers began to lament.

A different sentiment began to arise in the Live Stream Room.

"Sigh! If only those experts had listened to Ye Xiao back then, this tragedy wouldn't have happened!"

"Exactly, those experts were stubborn and self-opinionated! They clearly looked down on Ye Xiao! But what was the result? Ugh!"

"It's obvious they hadn't watched Screenwriter Ye's movies; they weren't rigorous at all!"

"They probably thought everything was foolproof, but in the end... sigh!"

The audience in the Live Stream Room also remembered the Archaeological Team that had lost their lives to the fish.

Thinking about it, if these so-called "expert" bricks had listened to Ye Xiao's words back then and hadn't insisted on entering the water, they wouldn't have died in the fish's belly.

But the dead cannot return to life, and time cannot flow backward, so they could only express their regret.

Meanwhile, inside the command hall, several experts had just hung up the phone, clearly having been severely scolded for the unsuccessful operation.

Among them were the several "righteous" archaeologists from earlier.

At this moment, their expressions were as ugly as if they had eaten a dead fly.

Seeing these people staring at him, Ye Xiao unconsciously stopped moving, feeling a bit unnerved.

"What, what are you doing?"

Ye Xiao asked cautiously, then added, "You guys just keep chatting, go ahead!"

As he spoke, Ye Xiao prepared to slip away.

But just then...

"May I ask if you are Mr. Ye?"

Suddenly, several men wearing uniforms walked in from outside the command hall.

Looking at the several uniformed men before him, Ye Xiao sighed inwardly:

"What's meant to come will come; you can't hide from it!"

Saying this, Ye Xiao politely greeted the men and smiled, "That's right, I am Ye Xiao. May I ask what this is about?"

Upon hearing this, the men in front of him were momentarily choked up.

Good grief, we're here in uniform, and you're asking what we're here for?

However, one of them still politely said to Ye Xiao, "Please come with us to assist in an investigation!"

Seeing this scene, the experts in the back were slightly stunned, and one by one, they exchanged silent glances.

Soon, it was unclear who started it, but a chorus of sighs and laments suddenly filled the command hall.

"It was our foolishness that led to these young talents losing their lives! Sigh, foolishness!"

"If we had listened to Ye Xiao back then and not let them enter the water! Maybe everything would still be okay! Unfortunately..."

"Sigh... we were too impulsive and too reckless! Ye Xiao... he was right!"

"You don't need to blame yourselves too much; no one could have predicted this would happen. This isn't your fault!"

"Right! The main thing is that we didn't know Ye Xiao had been down to the Dragon Locking Well before, otherwise how could we not have listened to him!"

Meanwhile, this scene was clearly seen by the audience in the Live Stream Room.

In an instant, the comments in the entire Live Stream Room surged like a bursting dam.

"Pfft! You guys called it! The uniformed officers really did come to 'check the water meter'!"

"It's over, Screenwriter Ye is really going in now! You guys are too much! At least wait for him to finish filling the plot holes of the first season before sending him in!"

"Pfft, hahahaha! You guys are absolutely ruthless!"

"The movie [Dragon Locking Well] is really going to become a confession!"

"Actually, I'm looking forward to the upcoming interrogation record. Any brave souls want to team up to steal the interrogation record?"

Almost at the same time, [Black Viper Fish from the Dragon Locking Well movie appears in reality!], [Screenwriter Ye 'checked' during live stream!], [The setting for the Dragon Locking Well movie is actually underground in a tomb!], [On what kind of experience it is to turn an autobiography into a movie?], and so on—a series of keywords related to Ye Xiao exploded in popularity.

The heat rose rapidly, and within just a few minutes, they climbed to the top of major trending lists.

For a moment, no one could have imagined that just after a little rumor started, the authorities would directly move to "check the water meter." They even took Ye Xiao away directly during a discussion meeting, right in front of the national live-stream cameras.

Originally, Ye Xiao's Weibo account only had twenty or thirty thousand followers online, and he hadn't even activated a premium membership.

After these events involving Ye Xiao consecutively hit the trending lists, the number of followers on his Weibo account skyrocketed. In half an hour, he successfully gained over two hundred thousand followers!

And this growth trend hadn't stopped; it was still rising at an incredible speed.

Countless people came to the Weibo post Ye Xiao made about the release of Dragon Locking Well and began leaving comments.

"There once was a person who intentionally left a huge plot hole at the end of a movie, and later... he went in!"

"Say a little less; the plot hole isn't filled yet. Once it's filled, you can say whatever you want!"

"Do you think that when Screenwriter Ye enters the interrogation room, he'll light a candle in the southeast corner?"

"I never expected that the 'Ghost Blowing Fire' series and 'Tomb Raiding Diary' series, as well as [Dragon Locking Well], were actually Screenwriter Ye's autobiography!"

"Seriously, it was clearly an autobiography, yet everyone insisted on watching it as a movie!"

"Who in their right mind films an autobiography? Would you? Ye Xiao: I... do!"

"Pfft, hahahaha! You guys are all a bunch of devils!"