Time soon came to Friday in a blink of an eye, and this day was the day when the duel between Xu Wangqiu and Lin Kuang began.

That morning, Zhang Youjun came out of his house and walked to a newspaper kiosk on the street to buy Ming Pao and Ta Kung Pao. The four young men in front of him were also walking towards the newsstand, chatting as they went. The content of their chat was the duel between Xu Wangqiu and Lin Kuang. For this duel between Lin Kuang and Xu Wangqiu, none of them are optimistic about Xu Wangqiu, and they all think that Lin Kuang will definitely win.

Zhang Youjun thought to himself, the eyes of the masses are bright, and everyone is not optimistic about Xu Wangqiu; in fact, as long as there is no problem with the brain, no normal person will be optimistic about Xu Wangqiu, after all, Lin Kuang has been writing for so many years, and the sales are there.

The newsstand was soon there. At this time, several young people stood in front of the newsstand, waving banknotes and asking the boss to bring them Ta Kung Pao and Ming Pao. The four young people who came with Lin Kuang also took out their banknotes.

"Boss, I want a copy of "Ming Pao" and a copy of "Ta Kung Pao"!"

"Boss, I also want a copy of "Ming Pao" and a copy of "Ta Kung Pao"!"

Seeing this, Zhang Youjun also hurriedly took out the banknotes: "I also want a copy of "Ming Pao" and a copy of "Ta Kung Pao"!"

After receiving the newspaper from the boss, Zhang Youjun came to the platform to wait for the bus. He picked up the newspaper and was about to flip through it, when he suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong, the platform was not as lively as usual, and it seemed surprisingly quiet. He looked up and saw a dozen men and women on the platform, all holding a newspaper and staring intently.

Zhang Youjun shook his head, opened "Ming Pao", and soon saw Lin Kuang's latest serial. See the name. He couldn't help but wonder, what is capital punishment, is it torture? His curiosity was aroused, and he began to read it seriously.

"The first time I saw that person, I thought this person was a little weird. Usually, if a person gives people a strange impression, it is not the person's appearance, what is peculiar, or how unconventional his actions are. However, this man made me feel strange not because of the above two things, but for other reasons.

What is the reason? It's better to start with the time and place when you first met this person. It was dusk and the place was in a wax museum. I don't know who first invented this thing in the wax museum, and the life-size portrait made of wax is displayed with real clothing for people to visit. A well-done wax figure can give people the feeling of a real person, so a place like a wax statue courtyard naturally reminds people of many weird and terrifying things......"

Lin Kuang's opening has always been wonderful, and so is this "Capital Punishment". At the beginning of the story, Wesley is stunned by the horrific sight of a wax museum of heroes who have been tortured and unjustly killed, but it is brought to life. This story can't help but remind people of the American horror film "Horror Wax Museum", which makes people suspect that the wax museum is made with real people, and makes people look forward to the subsequent development of the story.

After Zhang Youjun finished reading the opening content of "Capital Punishment", he was deeply shocked by Lin Kuang's description. He sighed sincerely: "It's worthy of Lin Kuang!

When the young man next to him heard this, he couldn't help but say, "Yes, I also see my scalp tingling." I think the most powerful thing about Lin Kuang is the creation of the atmosphere of the story, which gives people an immersive feeling. ”

Zhang Youjun nodded slightly: "Yes, the atmosphere is very good, and it always attracts readers to read it endlessly." ”

Just then, the bus came by. Zhang Youjun nodded at the young man and boarded the bus with a newspaper. He found an empty seat and sat down, and found that the person next to him was reading the newspaper, and he stretched out his head to see that the other party was reading a serialized article in Ta Kung Pao.

Zhang Youjun shook his head and opened the "Ta Kung Pao". As soon as he saw Xu Wangqiu's name "Mother", he couldn't help but start to mock: "Mother? What kind of broken name is this? Does the mother have anything to do with science fiction? It sounds a bit like pornographic literature. ”

After complaining fiercely, Zhang Youjun read it intently. Although he doesn't like Xu Wangqiu, he has to admit that Xu Wangqiu still has two brushes. Xu Wangqiu's "Mother" is not like others, with a slow opening, a slow layout, and a slow unveiling of the suspense, just like Xu Wangqiu's movie, the opening scene is a hot scene.

"Mother" begins with the Flying Tigers raiding the room of the Kowloon Walled City. The Flying Tigers are Heungjiang's anti-terrorism SWAT team and are well-known among SWAT teams around the world. But when they were capturing a female prisoner, Sophie, they were killed by Sophie. Sophie seems to have superpowers, jumping from the top of a building to another building. The man in black who led the Flying Tigers to capture also has the same ability. And the ability they showed made the Flying Tigers players stunned.

Zhang Youjun felt that Xu Wangqiu's writing was okay, but in terms of attractiveness, it was obviously inferior to Lin Kuang's "Capital Punishment". After watching "Capital Punishment", people can't wait to know whether those terrifying wax figures are made of real people and who made the wax museum, while Xu Wangqiu's does not have such a strong sense of expectation, and the sense of substitution is much worse.

Zhang Youjun felt that Xu Wangqiu really lost this contest: "If you are serialized alone, the response may be good, but it's a pity that you just humiliate yourself and compare sales with Lin Kuang, you will lose very badly!"

The bus stopped quickly, and Zhang Youjun got off the bus with a newspaper and walked to the building where the company was located. But as he walked past a newsstand on the side of the road, he was drawn to the conversation between several young men and the boss.

"I'm really sorry, I didn't know that today's "Ming Pao" and "Ta Kung Pao" were so easy to sell, and they were sold out so quickly. The newsstand owner said apologetically.

"Make no mistake, why don't you go into the newspaper a little more? Don't you know that Lin Kuang and Xu Wangqiu are at war today! You don't even know this, what kind of business are you doing? A young man complained.

"yes, we've already run several newsstands, and they're all sold out. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't worry, don't worry. I have already sent an additional hundred copies to Ming Pao and Ta Kung Pao, and they will definitely be delivered at noon. Come back at noon if you want, and there will be one. Today is a special situation, so I can only trouble you to make two more trips. The newsstand owner said apologetically.

"That's all there is to it, we'll come back at noon. The young man in the lead shook his head helplessly.

Such a scene is a microcosm of Xiangjiang, and the same thing is happening in every corner of Xiangjiang.

Under normal circumstances, if a reader buys Ta Kung Pao, he will not buy Ming Pao, and if he buys Ming Pao, he will not buy Ta Kung Pao. But today, because the contest between Lin Kuang and Xu Wangqiu officially began, many readers bought two newspapers at the same time, watched Lin Kuang's serialization, and also watched Xu Wangqiu's serialization, and then made comparative comments.

Just after 8 o'clock, Ta Kung Pao and Ming Pao, which had been on the market, were swept away by Hong Kong readers.

The phone calls of both newspapers were about to be flooded, and they were all asking for additional orders. Listening to the constant ringing of telephones, the editors-in-chief of Ta Kung Pao and Ming Pao burst out laughing. I haven't seen a scene like today's skyrocketing sales and demand outstripping supply.

At night, Ta Kung Pao sold more than 70,000 copies today, and Ming Pao also sold more than 50,000 copies. Ming Pao's sales were originally lower than Oriental Daily and Cheng Pao, and it ranked third in Heung Kong Media. On this day, they surpassed Sing Pao and became the runner-up in sales.

In the next few days, Lin Kuang continued to play his own style and wrote the story of "Capital Punishment" wonderfully and excitingly. In Lin Kuang's pen, after Wesley returned home from a shock, he learned that Bai Su, his brother Bai Qiwei and a master sculptor had gone out to explore the wax museum at night. It turned out that after visiting the wax museum, the master sculptor did not believe that there was such a realistic wax sculpture, and used a knife to scrape off the wax figure to see what material it was to study, but found that it was actually a real human body.

The story of "Mother" is equally gripping, with the male protagonist Xu Zhengdao being caught in the whirlpool from the beginning, first the mysterious woman Sophie finds him, and then the man in black finds him and stuffs a mechanical bug into his stomach. But when Xu Zhengdao woke up, he found that it was a dream. It's just that the heroine Sophie soon came to the door again, and on a rainy night he went to meet the mysterious Jiang Tiansheng, who could answer all the questions of Xu Zhengdao. On the way to meet Jiang Tiansheng, Sophie uses a strange tool to suck a mechanical worm out of Xu Zhengdao's stomach. Only then did the reader know that everything that the man in black did to Xu Zhengdao was real, not a dream.

The story of "Mother" is full of suspense and gripping, but the fluency is obviously not as smooth as "Capital Punishment", because Xu Wangqiu always spends pen and ink explaining some technical things. For example, what is the Internet. There's no way around it, because the internet is only in its infancy, and if you don't explain it, the reader won't know what's going on.

On the seventh day of the series, the story of "Mother" entered a key plot. The actor finally met Jiang Tiansheng. He gave Xu Zhengdao two pills, and after swallowing the blue pill, he would forget all about it, and swallowing the red pill would reveal the real world. Xu Zhengdao chose the red pill, and then the door to the real world officially opened.

Almost all readers of "The Mother" know that the story has entered the most critical moment. "Mother" seems to be wrapped in a fog from the beginning, making it difficult to see the true face. There seems to be a lot of irrational things in the whole world that don't feel quite right. For the reader, this is the biggest suspense. Xu Wangqiu's "Mother" is not as attractive as Lin Kuang's "Capital Punishment". If after the suspense is revealed, the answers thrown out are not amazing or shocking enough, then Xu Wangqiu will lose completely.

The next morning, almost everyone, whether they supported Xu Wangqiu or Lin Kuang, after getting the newspaper, first opened the "Ta Kung Pao" and read Xu Wangqiu's "Mother".

The same is true for Zhang Youjun, he did not read "Ming Pao" as before, and opened "Ta Kung Pao" for the first time. He stood on the platform, reading Xu Wangqiu's article and complaining: "Xu Wangqiu doesn't know writing skills at all. Why is Lin Kuang's attraction because his suspense will be left until the end and revealed at the end. Although many people say that his ending always depends on aliens, at least his can attract everyone to read it all the time. It's like Xu Wangqiu, who has only been serialized for so many days, and he can't wait to reveal the mystery......"

It's just that Zhang Youjun's complaining voice quickly stopped, and the whole person fell into a sluggish state.

At this moment, not only him, but all the readers of "Mother" in the entire Xiangjiang have fallen into a state of sluggishness.

They were all stunned by Xu Wangqiu's brain hole, and they were all shocked by the truth of "Mother".

Xiangjiang is fake, the whole world is fake, it is a virtual world created by computers! Human beings are just living in the virtual world, the "battery" of being captive by robots!