A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 302: "No One Survives" is published! The culmination of depressing mystery literature! Everyone who kills in a nursery rhyme must die!
So what is a social school?
The social genre of detective literature creation mainly emphasizes the study of the murderer's motives and society itself.

The same example:
[A died tragically in a closed secret room, with a knife stuck in his chest. The door of the secret room was locked, and the key was with A. There was a small window on the wall of the secret room, but it was absolutely impossible for people to pass through it.]

If the writers of the [social genre] were to construct this story, the murderer's modus operandi they came up with would be fundamentally different from the classical murders of the orthodox writers' genre and the bizarre murders of the aberrant writers' genre.

The detective first went to check the crime scene.

The detective went to A's elementary school to learn about his family situation.

The detective went to A's junior high school to learn about his relationship with his lover B.

The detective went to A's high school to learn about how she and her lover B fell in love.

The detective went to A's workplace and learned about the disagreement between him and his lover B.

After understanding the social relationships of the deceased A, through a series of rigorous and careful analysis, the reasoning writers of the social genre will eventually give the answer:

"In the beginning, B actually wanted to kill A, but he left without killing her. A woke up from a coma and lost the courage to live because he was murdered by the person he loved deeply. But he didn't want to put the blame on you, so he locked the door and committed suicide, eliminating the possibility that you committed the crime. So B, A still loves you!"

"What? You said A still loves me?"

B could not accept this fact, so he also committed suicide for love.

It can be seen that no matter whether it is the orthodox, unusual, or social genres, these genres of detective literature have been constantly changing from generation to generation. It cannot be said that any one literary genre is superior to the other. It can only be said that each literary genre has its own classic representative works.

Jiang Hai looked at the [New Classics] on the round table and fell into deep thought:
"As for this new orthodox school."

Just as Jiang Hai was thinking.

From all corners of the dark corners of the palace, top mystery writers from all over the world began to emerge one after another.

There is Abraham, a master of detective literature from the UK, who is known as the "successor of Sherlock Holmes."

There is Keigo Higashino from Japan, who is known as Japan's hall of fame mystery writer.

There is Adolfo Adrian from Italy, who is known as the master of orthodox reasoning.

There is also Albert Alexander, a mystery writer from Sweden who is even praised by Nobel Prize-winning writers.

Even so, Jiang Hai doesn't know much about detective literature.

However, he had heard of the names of the people standing in front of him.

Higashino Keigo smiled and walked over to Jiang Hai and sat down:

"Mr. Jiang Hai, this time, I'm afraid it's our turn to fight."

The eyes of mystery literature lovers from all over the world are focused on Howard Castle.

Under the gaze of the camera.

A classical, old-fashioned, dimly lit religious church suddenly appeared before the audience.

Whether it is the writers watching the game on site or the audience watching the opening ceremony.

Or maybe they were reporters at the scene or domestic media that were broadcasting this literary competition.

At this moment, the eyes of detective enthusiasts all over the world are focused here.

The castle that the ten writers are visiting is a sealed church, and the entire process will be broadcast live.

Inside the castle.

A beam of light suddenly shone on the cross of the statue of Jesus.

Under the light of the Jesus sculpture, the elderly and wealthy Queen Elizabeth, wearing a gorgeous robe, a crown on her head and holding a scepter, slowly rose up on the lift platform. Her old and kind face suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

"Welcome everyone to Castle Howard."

To be honest, the opening ceremony of this World Mystery Literature Competition was quite cool.

Even though Jiang Hai felt that he had seen a lot, he couldn't help but be attracted by the scene before him.
The old queen.

Dusty old castle.

Gathered at the round table, ten famous reasoning experts from all over the world.
Each of these elements is full of mystery and freshness, both for writers and readers.

At this moment, Jiang Hai, standing in the center of the round table, felt as if he had traveled back to England in the mid-19th century. The quaint buildings, the murals full of the flavor of the times, and the statue of Jesus crucified on the cross, all of which made people look so fascinated.
“This is so cool.”

Unlike literary competitions in other countries, the works produced must emphasize the literary quality and timeliness of a work.

For example, famous works such as "The Old Man and the Sea" and "The Sun Also Rises".
You must be moved by the story in the book and be able to comprehend some profound and meaningful philosophy of life from it.

For most countries, such works——

Only then can it be called a masterpiece!
However, for the UK, the criteria for judging whether a literary work can become a masterpiece are not only based on literary quality and timeliness, but also on another most important criterion:

That’s sales!
Take a look at the literary works that have been canonized in the UK.

From Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter, and from The Lord of the Rings to The Lord of the Rings.
If you study it carefully, you will find that for the British literary world, the literary quality of a work is actually secondary. Compared with the literary significance contained in the work itself, they pay more attention to two factors:

First, is the story itself interesting?

The second is the sales volume of the work itself!
On the castle platform.

Queen Elizabeth, wearing a crown and holding a scepter, slowly announced the winning rules of this mystery literature competition to the ten writers sitting at the round table:

"One month is the deadline. Within one month——"

"The writer who produces the most popular mystery works will be the winner of this competition."

To be honest, Jiang Hai felt a little...

On pins and needles!

Like a thorn back!

Like a lump in the throat!

Queen Elizabeth stood on the stage and explained the rules of this mystery literature competition.

In the audience, except for Jiang Hai, the other nine mystery novel writers from all over the world were all looking at Jiang Hai with extremely strange eyes.

The reason is nothing but——

Jiang Hai is the only one here who came in through the back door!
To be honest, traditional literature and detective literature are two completely different tracks.

Although, all the written works we wear can be called literature, but.
Just because you can write novels doesn’t mean you can write a good detective novel!

"A despicable layman."

Sitting opposite Jiang Hai, Abraham, a mystery writer from the UK, did not hide the contempt in his tone at all, staring at Jiang Hai with extremely disgusted eyes:

"You are a complete thief and robber!"

"I really don't understand why such a clown would be invited to participate in this reasoning master competition? Such trash is not worthy of being my opponent."

Jiang Hai also couldn't understand why he started to do this from the moment he sat down at the round table.
The red-haired boy in front of him kept staring at him with an extremely disgusted look and kept rolling his eyes at him.

Even from time to time, a few curse words popped out of his mouth, such as:
“Fuck”

"rubbish"

“trash”

To be honest, Jiang Hai’s English is not very good. The only English word he is good at and can understand is the first word on the first page of the English Level 4 vocabulary book, “abandon”.
but!

Even if his English is not good, he can understand that trash actually means [waste, garbage], because he often uses this word to curse people in Summoner's Rift.
With Jiang Hai's temper, when has he ever suffered any loss?

It's bad enough to be constantly rolled eyes and provoked, but a foreigner is sitting in front of me and keeps calling me a waste and trash?

How could Jiang Hai tolerate this?

"Fuck you!" Jiang Hai rolled up his sleeves and wanted to convince the foreigner with reason. "I beat you for fun, I row you like a boat, and if I want to deal with you, I can only spend some money."

"Trash? Do you know what trash means? I have to go to work."

Just when Jiang Hai couldn't stand the rolling stares anymore and was about to explode, Keigo Higashino, who was sitting next to Jiang Hai, held him down.

From the perspective of his appearance, Keigo Higashino is actually very elegant, and his smile is like a spring breeze:

"Abraham is Liam's brother, and Liam is the British mystery writer that you temporarily replaced." "The Howard Castle Round Table Conference is the world's top detective literature gathering. For a suspense writer, being recognized by the organizing committee and invited to participate in this mystery literature competition represents the highest honor for the writer himself. In order to wait for this opportunity today-"

"Liam has been working in the mystery literature world for ten years. Ten whole years!"

At this point, Higashino Keigo looked at Jiang Hai with a half-smile in his eyes:

"To be fair, you have been preparing for this opportunity for ten years, and finally became a star, and now it is the critical moment of going on stage."

"But he was suddenly replaced."

"No matter who it is, it would be unpleasant."

After Keigo Higashino's explanation, Jiang Hai understood why the person in front of him was so excited.

original
Do you want to stand up for your brother?
What you said makes sense, but...
I didn't ask for this position on my own initiative. It was your people who offered it to me. Why the hell are you looking at me like that?
I thought that after hearing the whole story, Jiang Hai would be more restrained and swallow his anger quietly.

After all, I was the one who was in the wrong first.

Who would have thought that Jiang Hai was not justified but also strong:

"I robbed it, so what?"

"Are you not convinced? Why don't you come over and bite me?"

To be honest, Jiang Hai's ridicule did not affect Abraham who was attending the meeting, but rather the foreign writers and readers who witnessed the scene outside the castle.
Are they really pissed off?
"Why can this Chinese be so shameless? He is a person with connections who got in through the backdoor, why did he take up other people's quota and have no regrets? How shameless."

"A lowly person! He has accomplished nothing and only knows how to talk? Is such a person worthy of being called a writer?"

"This person has absolutely no knowledge of mystery literature! How can such a person be called a master of mystery? How can such a person be worthy of sitting at the round table?"

"Pray that the organizing committee is protecting you, Jiang Hai! As long as you walk out of the castle, I will make sure you experience what real European Muay Thai is."

In full view of the public, Jiang Hai showed no remorse.

He saw the red-haired boy opposite him, staring at him with a greedy look.

There was no hesitation.

Jiang Hai directly made a [Come here.jpg] gesture and said sarcastically in public:

"I won't apologize!"

"What can you do?"

To be honest, Jiang Hai's verbal sarcasm did not cause any harm to him. Instead, it was the hook gesture that Jiang Hai made, [Come here.jpg], that gave Abraham a feeling of real harm?

Why is this person in front of me so arrogant?
So annoying???

"You," Abraham was about to get angry, but a young female writer from Italy beside him persuaded him and smiled kindly at him, "Don't have these useless arguments with him. A writer should let his works speak for themselves."

"Use your strength to hit him in the face."

Although Jiang Hai had prepared himself mentally before coming.

However, when I heard from Queen Elizabeth of England that the ten writers at the round table would be isolated in ten rooms, except for the necessary food and lodging requirements,
During this period, you are not allowed to communicate with others!
Until the work is completed
"You can't talk to anyone for a month?" Jiang Hai was a little upset when he heard the news. "Are you kidding me?"

“What’s the difference between this and going to jail?”

Although Jiang Hai was reluctant, this was a hard rule set by the organizing committee and he was powerless to change it.

Wait until Queen Elizabeth, on behalf of the organizing committee, explains the rules of this mystery literature competition.

As they were about to part, Keigo Higashino, a famous Japanese mystery writer, looked at Jiang Hai. He was no longer as warm as usual, but his eyes were filled with endless seriousness:
"Mr. Jiang Hai, this time, I will go all out"

Obviously, Jiang Hai won the final victory in the traditional literary competition held in France a few days ago with his book "The Old Man and the Sea".

But it is obvious that Keigo Higashino is not too convinced.

In the traditional literary world, you may indeed have your own strengths.

But in the world of mystery literature, I won’t lose to you.

After all, here——

It's my home court!
Although Jiang Hai does not like ordinary players, he also respects the Japanese Keigo Higashino.

Without thinking too much, Jiang Hai reached out and bumped fists with him:

“Leave no regrets, go all out!”

There is no doubt that this roundtable conference held by the UK is a well-deserved literary festival for mystery writers!

Every mystery writer who is qualified to participate in this roundtable meeting has his or her own pride!

Turning around, Higashino Keigo walked towards the other end of the castle. As he turned around,

“This time, I will definitely win.”

"I must keep the glory of mystery literature within the borders of Japan."

There is no doubt that the most important thing for a detective novel is sales.

On the way to the lounge.

Jiang Hai was also thinking, if it is a suspense detective literature.
What other work can match the sales of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"?
After much thought, Jiang Hai finally came up with the name of a female detective novelist -

Agatha Christie!
"When it comes to detective literature, this person is definitely not inferior to Arthur Conan Doyle"

Before coming here, Jiang Hai had searched online. He found out that there was a writer named Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote Sherlock Holmes in this world, but——

There is absolutely no Agatha Christie who is called the queen of detective literature in the world!
Who is Agatha Christie, you ask?

This mystery writer, who is world-famous for his suspenseful mysteries, has made contributions to mystery literature that are no less than Arthur Conan Doyle. He is even better than Arthur Conan Doyle in terms of story reversals and close plot connections.

She's even better!
It can definitely be said to be better than ever!

In the past, there were two detective writers in Britain who were enshrined in the royal hall:

One of them is Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"!

The other is Agatha Christie, who is known as the queen of detective literature in the world!

The total sales of suspense and mystery works written by Agatha Christie have reached a terrifying 10 billion copies!

You know, even the Harry Potter series, which is now known as the world's number one film and television IP, the sales of JK Rowling's works in the global region -

It’s only 500 million copies!
Agatha Chris, who was born in the 19th century, relied solely on classic hardcore reasoning works in an era when the Internet was not popular and even computers had not yet appeared.

The sales volume could reach perhaps 10 billion copies!

Hundreds of millions!

The sales of her works even exceeded JK Rowling's "Harry Potter"?
This is definitely a miracle that cannot be replicated!

"I admit that everyone who can come here is a rare talent." After arriving at the accommodation room specially prepared by the organizing committee for writers, Jiang Hai looked around and sat down at the desk silently. "Even if you all have some skills, you are no match for Agatha, the founder of classical mystery literature..."

“Maybe it’s still not good enough?”

When talking about Agatha Christie, who is known as the originator of classical detective novels, we have to mention her representative work in the field of detective literature, which she devoted her life and spent several years to create:

And then there were none!
Jiang Hai began to silently recall the information about the book "No One Survives" in his mind. While thinking, he silently said:

"And Then There Were None, also known as The Nursery Rhyme Murder Case, is a classic mystery novel that was a worldwide bestseller in the early 20th century, with sales reaching million copies—"

“The story tells of a serial murder case that happened on a deserted island. Ten strangers who had never met each other were trapped on an isolated island. There was a terrifying murder nursery rhyme circulating on the island. Whenever the nursery rhyme sounded, someone would die.”

"In a strange atmosphere, 10 people began to die one after another in strange ways, just as described in the nursery rhyme. In the end, no one survived."

“This is a mystery work that is both depressing and suspenseful.”

Thinking of this, Jiang Hai no longer hesitated.

He grinned and silently turned on the computer:

"It's time for you to experience the fear of being dominated by the death of all."

(End of this chapter)