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

Chapter 303: The pinnacle of Blizzard Villa mode! The beginning of the depressing flow of reasoning! Reappearing the glory of classical reasoning literature!

When talking about And Then There Were None, a world-famous detective novel for its suspense and mystery, we have to mention a classic genre of world-famous mystery literature:

The Blizzard Villa school is also known as the Lonely Island school.

What is the Blizzard Villa genre?

You can roughly understand it as:

[A group of people gather in a relatively sealed environment, such as a mountain villa isolated from the world by a snowstorm, or a secret room, an isolated island, etc. Due to various special circumstances, they cannot get in touch with the outside world. Everyone is trapped in this environment and cannot find out. At the same time, some strange things happen among the group, and several members die strangely one after another. Then the murderer is among these people. The protagonist conducts a series of evidence collection and reasoning under such limited evidence.]

Inside the room decorated in medieval style.

In front of the desk.

Jiang Hai lit a cigarette and silently browsed the messages on the computer.

According to the existing information, the detective style Blizzard Villa model has already appeared in this world, but there is no particularly famous writer among them.

Keigo Higashino, a Japanese writer, is a representative writer of the orthodox mystery genre in the mystery literature world. Even though his writing style is similar to that of the female writer Agatha, they can both be classified as classical orthodox mystery literature.
but!

Most of Keigo Higashino's mystery novels are based on murder stories in closed rooms. He focuses more on combining "reasoning elements" with "social elements" and has basically never set foot in detective mystery novels similar to "Blizzard Hill".
As for other masters of mystery literature from Europe and the United States, the creative styles they are good at are basically the orthodox reasoning school and the social reasoning school based on classical reasoning. The core of them is to give readers a psychological hint of suspenseful atmosphere by depicting the suspenseful atmosphere.

Rarely, hard-core reasoning appears!

To be precise, there are very few detective novels that use "hard-core reasoning" as the core plot line.

After seeing these, Jiang Hai already had a rough idea in his mind:
“And Then There Were None is the perfect detective fiction novel for this competition, bar none.”

Even though he cannot be called the founder of the Blizzard Villa School,
Through the novel "And Then There Were None", this genre of reasoning can be promoted and more people can know that there is such a type of detective reasoning literature.
This seems good too?

Moreover, the detective mystery novel "And Then There Were None" is very consistent with Jiang Hai's creative concept, which is -

Depressing mystery literature!
Why is a mystery novel also associated with the word "depressing"?
This has to do with the plot of the entire book "And Then There Were None".

You know, for traditional mystery writers, the main plot of a detective novel must be that the protagonists conduct a series of complex and brain-burning investigations and reasoning around a murder case. In the end, under the powerful aura of the protagonists,
The murderer's hypocritical mask was finally torn off.

The bad guys were brought to justice.

The protagonists saw the light through the clouds and achieved the final victory.

This is the creative concept of first-class mystery writers.

The top mystery writers will use an anti-routine based on the first-class mystery writers -

Even though the protagonists found out the murderer.

However, the bad guys have already escaped or achieved their criminal purpose before the protagonists find out the truth, which gives readers a feeling that justice is defeated by evil.
Even so, the creative concepts of top mystery writers are already advanced enough.

But at the top of the list of top mystery writers, there is also a detective queen, Agatha, who excels in her writing style.
Not only the villains have to die, but everyone including the protagonists -

All must die!

What is justice?

What is evil?
To me, there is no distinction between good and evil. In order to carry out a truly perfect crime, a strategist will give up everything he has once he has committed the crime.

As the name of the mystery novel "And Then There Were None" suggests, the ten protagonists who received a strange letter and went to an isolated island, at the end.
No one survived!

All die!

Whether it is the justice camp or the villain camp.

Whether it is the protagonists or the supporting characters who are unaware of the truth.

No one can survive this hunting feast!

If the author had not taken the initiative to reveal the key information about the murderer to the readers through the [letters] throughout the novel, I am afraid that quite a number of readers would be shocked by the ending of this story.

"There is clearly no murderer, so why did ten people die one after another for no apparent reason? Do ghosts and gods really exist in this world? Are there really ghosts and gods that can kill people through 'nursery rhymes'?"

"No buddy, are they all dead? If the murderer is really among these ten people, why would he kill himself as well? This is too fucking perverted."

"From the beginning to the end of the book, people keep dying, and people keep jumping back and forth between being killed and being murdered. The key is that no one can find any clues. They can only witness these tragedies happening one after another, and then watch the tragedies befall them, but they are powerless to do anything about it."

"This novel is so damn depressing and depressing."

If there is a detective novelist who can convey the emotions of "depression" and "suffocation" from the beginning of the novel to the end.

Then this detective novelist who is good at creating an atmosphere of despair -

It must be Agatha Christie!

"I don't know what other people's mood was when they read this novel." Jiang Hai exhaled a thick white mist from his mouth, his eyes full of contemplation, "I only know that when I was thinking about the mystery novel "And Then There Were None."

“From beginning to end, I felt extremely depressed.”

Put out the cigarette.

Jiang Hai opened a word document and slowly typed out the song that runs through the entire novel "And Then There Were None", which is also known as the "Murderous Nursery Rhyme".

As he tapped, he silently said:

"Ten little Indian boys were running for food, and one choked to death. There was no way to save him, and only nine of the ten were left."

"Nine little Indian boys, tired from staying up late at night, fell asleep and died. Only eight were left."

"Eight little Indian boys went hunting in Devonshire, and one was left there, so there were only seven left."

"Seven Indian boys, chopping down a tree with an axe, were not good at it, so they chopped it in half, and only six were left."

According to legend, on the isolated island, whenever this murderous nursery rhyme is sung, a traveler who has come to the island will be taken away.

While Jiang Hai silently recited the murder nursery rhyme, he typed the contents of the entire book "No One Survives" in the document:
"Eight guests were invited to the deserted island. Their professions were: teacher, captain, nun, judge, general, doctor, detective, and dandy."

"In addition to these eight guests, there are two butlers on the deserted island who are responsible for receiving these eight people. They are Mr. and Mrs. Rogers."

I don’t know why, but when I write to this point, it seems like I am recalling something.

Jiang Hai stood up from his desk, played the phonograph, and began to sway to the music:

“La, la la la, la la la la.”

To be honest, Jiang Hai had no idea that there were surveillance cameras in the villa he was in.

That's why he can live such a leisurely and relaxed life.

In order to facilitate the ten writers to write full-time, the British government has prepared ten 800-square-meter single-family villas for the ten writers. The writers can rest, relax and write in the villas. Daily necessities such as breakfast, lunch, dinner and midnight snacks will be delivered by special personnel.

The first thing that the other nine writers, including Keigo Higashino, did after entering the villa was:

Just writing!

Writing day and night!
Writing without sleep and food!
In order to write, within the stipulated time of one month, they had to write the story that they had polished in their minds thousands of times. From the first day they entered the villa, quite a few writers did not want to waste any time at all.

The race against time to create has already begun!
But look at the river and the sea.

From the first day entering the villa.
It was as if he had already entered a vacation mode that was unique to him?
Undecided?

I'll have a cigarette first to relax.
Too boring?

I'll have another cigarette and turn on the TV to watch some drama.
hungry?

I also smoked a cigarette and asked the chef invited by the organizing committee to make me a takeaway meal.
"Who said these beans are old? These beans are really great."

"Don't count caviar by grams. If the foreigners next door find out, they'll think I can't afford it. I want to open a can individually!"

"The essence of braised beans and noodles is to add more oil and simmer for a longer time to avoid food poisoning. Next time, I will ask the chef to pay more attention to this."

"No, buddy, I have a Chinese stomach. Who told you to prepare French food for me?" I stayed in a detached villa for three days.

Jiang Hai played for three whole days.

In addition to eating, smoking, drinking, and watching anime
Jiang Hai didn't take any other action?

This extremely leisurely personal style made the foreigners in front of the screen stunned:

"This guy is here to write a book after all."

"Are you here for vacation?"

On the fourth day of staying in the villa, Jiang Hai finally walked into the study.

I thought Jiang Hai had finally adapted to the new environment and finally settled down to create.
Who would have thought that he had just sat down at his desk and started writing for less than twenty minutes when he started playing music and having a party?

"Other novelists, once they enter the room, quickly get into the state and start writing day and night." Italian detective novelist Foligno expressed his dissatisfaction when he saw this scene, "Look at Abraham, or Keigo Higashino, they have entered the writing state since entering the villa."

"Abraham, he only sleeps five hours a day, and spends the rest of the time summarizing the outline."

"Higashino Keigo started writing at 8 a.m. and continued until late at night without fail."

Having said this, as if he was quite disgusted, the novelist Foligno did not hide his disgust at all.

He glanced directly in the direction of the Chinese writers' delegation:

"Only Jiang Hai. It's been almost four days. All he does is eat and sleep."

"I didn't even fart."

Around me, there were writers who were equally dissatisfied with Jiang Hai and began to echo the words of novelist Foligno:
"In my opinion, it's not that Jiang Hai doesn't want to write. He is most likely-"

“I can’t write it.”

You have to know that detective novels are different from traditional literature. If you really can't write traditional literature, you can write some whining words to cheat money, but for detective novels,
If you can’t write it, then you really can’t write it!
The most important thing about detective novels is the logic and reversal of the work. For writers who have not delved deeply into this field.
Do you want to write detective fiction from the perspective of an ordinary writer?
This is absolutely impossible.
Jiang Hai was not a novelist famous in the literary world for his mystery stories.

The people here will not indulge Jiang Hai just because of his false reputation.

What is the Goncourt Prize?

What is the recipient of the French Arts Knight Medal?
That's all bullshit!

If you want people to respect you, you have to produce results that match their respect!

Even though you, Jiang Hai, have some accomplishments in traditional literature, you are still far behind in the field of mystery literature.
Then he is totally a rookie!
Anyone present is qualified to be his teacher!

It is known that Jiang Hai has not produced any works related to detective literature.

Moreover, this person also impersonated the British detective genius writer Liam's attendance quota.
Originally, I didn't like Jiang Hai.

What's more, this person is a relative who came in through the back door.

This instantly made Jiang Hai the target of public criticism:
"How can a person with connections be so arrogant?"

To be honest, the Chinese writers' delegation headed by Liu Zhenyun really wanted to try to argue with Jiang Hai:
"Jiang Hai is not what you think."

"Jiang Hai is actually a very hard-working person"

However, through the surveillance camera of the competition judges, Jiang Hai was seen sitting at the dining table eating and drinking:

"Let me show you, three people and a pig."

This look immediately made everyone lose their temper and unable to argue.

If you don’t have enough talent, you have to work hard to make it happen.

If Jiang Hai tried harder, maybe the resentment among everyone wouldn't be so great?

But not only did you forcibly replace the competition spot that someone else had worked hard to prepare for ten years, but you also occupied the toilet and went to the villa to eat and drink to your heart's content?
At this moment, Liam, a talented mystery writer from the UK, is the writer who was forcibly replaced by Jiang Hai.

He was sitting in front of the surveillance screen, staring at Jiang Hai with extremely angry eyes:

"Rubbish!"

"robber!"

"He is a villain to the core. I get angry just by looking at him."

It can be seen that he is full of resentment.

Inside the magnificent hall of the villa.

At this moment, Jiang Hai was lying on the sofa, listening to some leisurely music, and enjoying the latest epic novel serialized by Fatty Yang Wei on the novel website:

"In my previous life, I was framed by thieves and died tragically at the hands of my enemy, the Nalan family."

"In this life, I want to be reborn as an umbrella, so that the goddess can hold the handle."

Perhaps influenced by Jiang Hai, Fatty Yang Wei also gradually began to embark on the path of literature.

only.
What the hell is this about the goddess holding the hook?

"Reborn as an umbrella, so that the goddess can hold your hand and hook up with you." The moment Jiang Hai saw this title, he couldn't help but be deeply impressed by the fat man's imagination. "Although I have tried my best to be abstract, in front of a truly talented player..."

"My abstraction is still not worth mentioning."

Jiang Hai skillfully clicked on the comment section of the work and took the initiative to write a message to Fatty:

[I can't sleep during the day, Su Geng! ]

It seems like there is something left unsatisfied.

Just when Jiang Hai wanted to have an in-depth discussion with the fat author:
“How on earth can you be so abstract without even realizing it?”

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, a pop-up message from Chen Hanying suddenly popped up on his phone:

"Jiang Hai, do you know there is a surveillance camera in your room?"

“It’s time to write a book.”

The entire book of And Then There Were None is only 170,000 words. For other writers, writing these 170,000 words may require their entire life's work.

But for Jiang Hai.
Just don't take it too easy?
"Give me a month. I can finish 4 words in ten days at most." Jiang Hai looked at Chen Hanying's reminder and didn't take it seriously. "Only four days have passed. There are still more than twenty days left. Why are you in such a hurry?"

However, Chen Hanying's words did remind Jiang Hai.

There is monitoring.
Under surveillance, you really can't be too presumptuous. Whether you like it or not, you still need to pretend to be working hard to give people the impression that you are working very hard.
This way, it will be easier to avoid suspicion from others.

Sit back at the desk.

This time, Jiang Hai calmed his mind, closed his eyes, and began to adjust his breathing.

The moment he closed his eyes, the plot of the book "And Then There Were None" flashed before his eyes like a TV series.
Through the imagined pictures in my mind.

He saw a deserted island with no one living on it.

He saw an ancient villa that was about to be abandoned.

He saw ten mysterious visitors who were invited to the villa.
Jiang Hai's brain was filled with a huge amount of plot, which stimulated him to the point that his consciousness was a little fuzzy and he couldn't tell whether it was reality or virtuality.

Eyes snapped open.

Then sort out your emotions.

Wait until the stinging sensation gradually disappears
As if he was composing the most magnificent piece of music in the world, Jiang Hai's eyes revealed a strange look, and his hands began to jump in front of the screen:
“It’s time to revive the glory of classical mystery literature.”

(End of this chapter)