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"narrative"

As the name suggests.

It is a narrative trick, which means that the author uses the structure of the article or writing skills to deliberately conceal or mislead certain facts from the readers, until the truth of the case is revealed at the end, which makes the readers feel indescribable astonishment.

Granny is the pioneer of the narrative!

How else can I say that Grandma is an old monster in the reasoning world.

Narration is just one of the creative methods she developed, and the trend driven by the other modes she developed is even more terrifying.

In fact, as far as the narrative is concerned, there are later tributes and imitations of works such as "The Fall of the Dongdong Suspension Bridge".

"The opportunity is here!"

After feeling the great shock, Cao Dezhi felt that his whole body was a little wandering: "This novel will definitely become popular!"

Can't Yinlan library reasoning novels work?

That was before!

Now we have Chu Kuang!

At this time, Cao Dezhi recalled the depression and reluctance on Old Xiong's face when he handed the novel to him, and he almost couldn't help laughing out loud!

Hey.

Chu Kuang is a treasure!

If Cao Dezhi were to send Chu Kuang back to the fantasy department now, I'm afraid Cao Dezhi's complexion would not be better than that of Old Xiong.

you do not say.

With such thick thighs, who is willing to let them go?

It's also our luck, this thigh, actually came to our reasoning department!

can only say……

Chu Kuang's thighs are everywhere!

……

Undoubtedly, "Roger's Mysterious Case" must be published, and it must be well publicized. For this reason, Cao Dezhi held a meeting.

"Let's all read this novel!"

The editors of the reasoning department looked at each other, and finally looked at Cao Dezhi: "Boss, is there a happy event?"

The editors have never seen Cao Dezhi so happy.

Cao Dezhi usually has a sad face, because the company holds meetings every once in a while. As the editor-in-chief of the reasoning department, Cao Dezhi will be scolded every time he holds a meeting. How can he be happy after a long time?

"You will know after reading it!"

Cao Dezhi said triumphantly, "There are still three hours before get off work, which is almost enough for you to finish reading."

"That's daring."

Everyone is happy, the editor-in-chief speaks, and the work at hand can be put aside. How comfortable is it to read novels here?

Ok.

It's really comfortable...

Some people are leaning on chairs, some are crossing their legs, drinking a sip of tea from time to time, and reading mystery novels comfortably, editors' ideals in the world!

Cao Dezhi didn't criticize either.

Anyway, there was nothing serious in the department. Since it was decided to focus on "Roger's Mystery", it was natural to let the people under him know about it.

He himself took advantage of this opportunity to re-read "Roger's Mystery".

Because he knew the ending and searched consciously, this time Cao Dezhi saw many details that he had overlooked when he read it for the first time.

For example, when he saw Chapter 3...

"It turned out that the ending had been foreshadowed as early as the first encounter. Poirot accidentally dropped the pumpkin in his first appearance and hit Shepard accurately."

Cao Dezhi laughed.

This reminded him of some metaphors in movies, but people who read it for the first time would never have such rich associations.

After seeing the description of Poirot in the book, Cao Dezhi felt that he liked this character more and more.

Also.

Cao Dezhi felt a little emotional again when Shepard was re-examined.

Poirot said in the book: [Everyone has some latent evil thoughts in his heart. If he is not stimulated by a specific environment, he may live a decent life; but if he encounters some kind of temptation, the evil thoughts overcome the will in his heart. power, then he will be beyond redemption. 】

Dr. Shepard is exactly the latter.

He's not bad by nature.

Just imagine, if he truthfully tells the cause of Fra's death and doesn't ask for the windfall from his life, as an ordinary country doctor, he can still live his perhaps poor but decent life; The desire for wealth ruined everything. He told a lie and had to try his best to fill it up. What's more terrible, he went further and further on the road of extorting money, gradually becoming crazy and losing self-control.

He was lost in the world of desire, eager to get, afraid of losing, and finally lost.

But did he have latent remorse?

Perhaps this manuscript is the best proof.

He still cherishes his reputation, so when the truth is about to be revealed, he does not hesitate to kill Roger.

An adventurous and decisive approach.

His confession is not only a futile self-justification after committing a murder, but also an alternative confession of constantly looking for other people's guilt in order to find relief, otherwise he would not choose to commit suicide to end his own life——

He didn't want his sister to know the truth.

Although with my sister's intelligence, she might have guessed her willingness to commit suicide.

The sentence at the end of the novel is very interesting:

[If only Poirot hadn't retired here to grow pumpkins. 】

This is Shepard's nostalgia for life.

And when Cao Dezhi watched it for the second time, it was getting late, and the editors also saw the ending.

"puff."

The editor on Cao Dezhi's right took half a sip of tea, but sprayed it out, but didn't bother to wipe it off, and blurted out a sentence: "The murderer is Shepard!?"

Swish swish!

The other editors who hadn't finished reading all of a sudden stared at the speaker with murderous eyes, and their mentality collapsed.

"I kill you!"

"Why spoilers!"

"I haven't finished watching it yet!"

"Although I have almost seen this...but I hate you so much!"

"..."

Many editors were angry.

But after venting their anger, everyone's expressions collectively fell into a certain kind of stunned and shocked. Obviously, like Cao Dezhi, they did not guess the truth.

And in shock.

Suddenly another person shouted: "The murderer turned out to be Shepard!"

Everyone looked at this person with strange expressions: "That's right, didn't you just say that?"

"what?"

The man scratched his head: "Sorry, I was so engrossed in watching it, I didn't hear it."

This is so engrossing...

Everyone complained in their hearts, then rolled their eyes wildly, and said it without hearing it, another spoiler dog!

of course.

Next, the editors will inevitably discuss with lingering fear:

"Who wrote this novel, it's a bit perverted!"

"Boss, you probably won't poach Mr. Carter here?"

"The case is not top-notch, but the ending is amazing!"

"It overturned my understanding of mystery novels..."

"If it wasn't for someone's spoiler, I should be so shocked that I can't speak."

"This novel is going to explode!"

"Ah, I guessed Shepard before, but then overturned this guess, I didn't expect..."

"I guessed it when I was counting down to Chapter 4, but I'm not sure... The murderer is not completely unpredictable, but, it's incredible, this is the first time I've seen this kind of reasoning!"

"Who the hell wrote it?"

"..."

Cao Dezhi met everyone's gaze and smiled faintly: "It's Chu Kuang."

The author of this novel is Chu Kuang——

Chu Kuang's fame in the reasoning world started from this small editorial department!

Chapter 3 and One

"The murderer turned out to be him!"

At the same time, in Lin Yuan's studio, Jin Mu, who had just finished reading the novel, suddenly let out a huge exclamation!

At this time, Luo Wei had already left work.

Lin Yuan was about to go home when he heard Jin Mu's exclamation and stopped in his tracks.

He felt that Jin Mu had something to say.

The fact is indeed the case, Kaneki really has something to say, and there are a lot of drafts, but in the end it is simplified to the essence of the problem:

"Boss, this mystery novel is amazing. The murderer is Shepard from the No.1 perspective. It's unbelievable! How did you come up with this creative technique..."

"Say tricky." Lin Yuan said.

"What the hell?" Jin Mu was at a loss.

Lin Yuan explained: "Tricks of tricks—narrative tricks, this is the creative technique adopted in "Roger Mystery"."

Jinki opened his mouth.

After a long time, he murmured: "Narrative tricks... Narrative tricks, because of the narration method of the novel, it is easy for readers to fall into the trap of words at the beginning, but this is not purely playing with words, it is worthy of Chu Kuang ..."

Some narrative reasoning is purely playing with words.

But "Roger's Mystery" is not. As the earliest narration novel, this work only uses readers' misunderstandings in thinking, but the clues are not hidden, so some readers can guess the murderer in advance.

of course.

If someone who has never been exposed to deceptive techniques, relying solely on the clues provided in the novel to deduce, the possibility of guessing the murderer is very slim.

Unless he had received strong hints such as "you will never guess the murderer in this case" at the beginning.

"understood."

After Lin Yuan left, Jin Mu stood up excitedly and contacted Yinlan Shuku to discuss the publication of the new novel.

And with the negotiation between Jinmu and Yinlan Library, they also studied the promotional strategy of "Roger's Mystery" that night.

no doubt.

As one of the pillars of the Yinlan library, the new reasoning works of the great writer Chu Kuang naturally have to arrange the highest publicity level.

This is the platoon!

The next day, the publicity of the Yinlan library kicked off!