Ke Xue: The Physique Of The Succubus At The Beginning Was Reversed By Xiao Ran

179. Unusual Place

Mouri Kogoro asked: "Based on your observation, do you think there is anything unusual about his condition?"

The editor didn't understand: "Unusual place?"

Mouri Kogoro explained: "Yeah, I think you guys should meet regularly about the work, right?"

The editor replied: "Before the serialization started, we did have a brief discussion on issues related to the work, but I don't think there is anything wrong?"

Mouri Kogoro asked reluctantly: "Even if it's a trivial thing? Can you think of anything?"

The editor held his chin, pondered for a moment and said: "If there is something wrong, it should be the re-serialization of the Detective Zuojimo series."

Wu Fan said: "Actually, when I heard about the re-serialization, I was a little skeptical. It is very abnormal for a completed work to be suddenly updated.

The editor continued: "Actually, we asked the teacher to write the story of this series four years ago, but the teacher's answer has always been the same. Zuo Wenzi has been dead for a long time, and it is impossible for him to come back to life. , since he said so, we almost gave up hope, but two months ago, Teacher Xinming suddenly called and said that he could write Zuo Wenwen's story again and hoped to publish it in a magazine."

Wu Fan murmured in his heart: "How is this the same as when Conan Doyle wanted to write down Sherlock Holmes?"

The character of Sherlock Holmes was so popular that readers became so enthusiastic that Conan Doyle, the author, was so exhausted that he collapsed.

Conan Doyle finally got tired of writing. He didn't want to write about Sherlock Holmes anymore, so he asked the magazine for three times the manuscript fee, and the magazine readily agreed.

As he wrote year after year, Holmes became Doyle's nightmare, and he decided to write the character to death.

In 1891, Doyle wrote to his mother: "I am considering killing Sherlock Holmes... I would kill him. He takes up too much of my time.

Despite his mother's firm objections, Doyle wrote Holmes to death in "The Final Case" in December 1893.

In this story, Holmes and his mortal enemy Moriarty started a desperate struggle at the Reichenbach Falls, and the two fell into the abyss together.

The world is at peace, and Conan Doyle can finally write the historical novel he has longed for.

Book fans were angry. They all wore black armbands to commemorate Detective Sherlock Holmes. The scene was probably similar to the ordinary people commemorating Iron Man on the streets in "Spider-Man: Far From Home"

Some book fans directly turned against Conan Doyle fans and called him a beast. This should be the earliest anti-fans.

Although Conan Doyle realized his dream of writing a historical novel, the historical novel also encountered strong resistance from Sherlock Holmes fans, resulting in no one paying attention.

In 1901, Conan Doyle tried to release the Sherlock Holmes prequel story "The Hound of the Baskervilles", which was sold out immediately.

Fans are forgetful, but this character has successfully transcended the limitations of time, and it can still grab the hot searches after not seeing him for eight years.

Faced with high royalties, fans' enthusiasm, and mother's protests, Conan Doyle finally published "The Empty House" in 1903, resurrecting Holmes and reuniting with Watson.

Then, Conan Doyle honestly updated the Sherlock Holmes series.

"Is it possible that Zuo Wenzi's resurrection has something to do with fans?" Wu Fan thought to himself.

The editor replied: "This is something we want, so we naturally have no reason to refuse, so we quickly stopped the new serialization work and Zhuang Shi published the story of Zuo Wenwen series."

Mouri Kogoro said: "I see, is there anything else?"

The editor thought for a while and said: "I remembered it, but actually it has nothing to do with the teacher himself. He wrote such a paragraph at the beginning of the story. All famous detectives in the country, big and small, should pay attention. , if you want to be above my head, just go ahead and reveal the mystery of this incident."

Mouri Kogoro said: "This passage is indeed full of provocation."

The editor said: "Because of this, in the first issue of our serialization, we received a lot of phone calls and letters from a certain guy who was suspicious and the murderer's methods. From the publisher's point of view, we were very happy. Well, I still think it’s very unusual for a gentle person like Shinmei-sensei to behave like this. But this time it’s the latest series of works that fans of mystery novels have been waiting for ten years to finally publish. It will have such a huge impact. The response is not surprising.”

Mouri Kogoro didn't understand: "You're so excited? Are you really looking forward to it?"

The editor replied: "Well, about half a year ago, a relatively radical detective fan once threatened to burn down our publishing house if we didn't re-serialize it.

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Wu Fan complained inwardly: “It’s really radical.

The editor continued: "We have also received such troublesome calls before. By the way, to talk about something unusual, I remembered another thing, that is, the teacher himself also appeared in the novel."

Mouri Kogoro was a little surprised: "What?"

The editor said: "In the story, Mr. Shinmei appears as an old friend of Zuo Moji, but the story describes him as a novelist living abroad who is not very popular. There will be a total of forty stories in this series. Multiple copies, this is the teacher’s first initiative.”

"I think that at the end of the story, it should end with the sentence that the teacher heard from detective Zuo Wenzi in the previous cases. If you look at it from Sherlock Holmes, he is quite good."

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Conan asked: "Uncle, can you let us see this scene?"

The editor readily agreed: "Of course."

After saying that, he stood up and handed the manuscript to Conan [and Govinda Fengli, Kogoro and others also came over.

Ran Mouri said with some surprise: "Really, he really exists."

The editor said: "It was mentioned in the story that Zuo Wenzi must refer to the reasoning and opinions of the novelist living abroad, so he called the foreign country. It was in this scene that the new teacher appeared for the first time. In it, the teacher It's quite interesting to describe it as a dull old man."

Conan said: "Isn't this too strange? See for yourselves. Twelve here at twelve o'clock is a Chinese character, but at one o'clock it becomes a number. I think this old uncle is really a bit confused.

Mouri Kogoro took it and said seriously: "It is indeed very wrong. Could it be that I made a typo? Mr. Editor, I don't think this kind of thing will happen, right?"

The editor immediately replied: "This is impossible. In my opinion, I think the teacher changed it to make it easier for us to read. The teacher said that the expression of words is the life of a novelist and must not be changed without authorization. Yes, he even called us before serializing the novel and warned us that if we didn’t do what he wanted, he would immediately stop serializing the novel.

Wu Fan said: "No, if this is the case, it should be completely changed. According to my speculation, this should be an important message left by the author to the audience. If this message can be deciphered, perhaps the location of the new teacher's body can be found. .”