Although Yang Muxia is old, he has the heart of a young man.

People of his age have long since retired, and he has made fun of his grandson, but he dares to fight with young people, and it took him ten years to make the supplement of "Culture Daily" sound and impressive from scratch, and it has become a pivotal position in the entire Chinese literary and artistic circles, which is equivalent to a weather vane in the literary and artistic circles.

Not only is he the editor-in-chief of the supplement, Yang Muxia has not let go of his old profession of literary criticism, he especially likes to accept new things, what Internet, mobile phone software, and new concept novels, he is tired of it, and is willing to listen to and study what young people like.

Whenever there are literary and artistic works full of new elements and new concepts, when others are still questioning and ridiculing, Yang Muxia will always be full of enthusiasm to appreciate and comment on it from the perspective of young people.

In the past ten years, many young authors have grown up with the encouragement of Yang Muxia.

For example, Gu Tianfeng, a famous martial arts novelist, although he became famous very early, was boycotted by some readers because of the strong reasoning flavor in the novels he wrote, thinking that he did not write pure martial arts novels.

When Gu Tianfeng was the most difficult and helpless, and he was about to give up martial arts novels, Yang Muxia was the first to stand up to support him and put forward the concept of "new martial arts".

Yang Muxia believes that martial arts should not be trapped in the rivers and lakes, the focus of martial arts is chivalry rather than martial arts, and the real chivalry is not only in the ancient rivers and lakes, but also can be reflected in other elements.

With the support of Yang Muxia, Gu Tianfeng regained his strength and wrote the "Famous Heroes and Ancient Style" series and the "Jianghu Detective Handbook" series, which established his status in the martial arts novel industry in one fell swoop, and was known as "the first person to write mystery novels in the martial arts industry, and the first person to write martial arts novels in the reasoning industry". Within a few years, Gu Tianfeng became one of the four kings of martial arts novels by virtue of his innovation in martial arts novels.

Not only Gu Tianfeng, but also many authors have also been encouraged and supported by Yang Muxia, and even Guo Weisi, who has been in the ascendancy in recent years, was first discovered by Yang Muxia.

Ten years have passed in the supplement of "Culture Daily", and Yang Muxia is also ready to retire, but he hopes to complete a big job before retirement, that is, to publish a series of books. Commemorate and celebrate this decade.

Titled "Whimsical", this series consists of four types of novels, martial arts, mystery, supernatural and romance, with a total of 20 volumes.

The twenty volumes of novels were completed by twenty authors invited by Yang Muxia, and the most peculiar thing is that all the authors chose areas that they were not good at to create.

For example, Gu Tianfeng, he is best at reasoning and martial arts, but this time he writes romance novels.

Another example is Shen Ni, the queen of romance, who actually chose the supernatural theme this time.

There is also "Ghost King Chen", who is the most famous and market-appealing ghost story author in China. This time I wrote a martial arts novel.

And then it's Zhou Lin.

Compared with the other nineteen authors, Zhou Lin is the least famous. Although he has just been nominated for the Chivalry Award with a "Liancheng Jue", he is still just a small character.

Yang Muxia chose Zhou Lin very firmly and invited him to write a mystery novel, and he never even asked Zhou Lin if he was confident.

The agreed delivery date with Zhou Lin was October 20th, and on the evening of the 19th, Yang Muxia was about to send an email to "ridicule" Zhou Lin for a few words, but he saw the manuscript sent by Zhou Lin in the mailbox.

"White Night Walking"?

It is not clear from the title of the book what kind of story this is, and Yang Muxia downloaded the document to the computer with curiosity. Double-click the mouse to open.

The text is simple, this is Yang Muxia's first feeling.

It is different from the clumsy feeling of "Liancheng Jue". The text of "White Night Walking" is similar to a sketch, using simple words to quickly depict the environment, people, time, and place, without using even a single adjective. He didn't show any emotion at all, just like a calm bystander, indifferently recording everything he saw, without the slightest mood swing.

This kind of text can't be said badly, but it makes Yang Muxia a little disappointed. Because he has always felt that Zhou Lin's skills in writing are by no means inferior to the four heavenly kings in the martial arts novel world. Even if the genre is changed from martial arts to reasoning, it shouldn't regress too much.

But judging from the text in the first few paragraphs, the writing ability of this reasoning novel is obviously somewhat restrained, not like Zhou Lin's handwriting.

"Is there really a team behind him?" Yang Muxia thought so and continued to look down.

The story is abruptly inserted, the dead, the mystery, the child, the power hidden under the white words has not yet exploded, but it is already like a time bomb hanging on a person's neck, which makes Yang Muxia a little breathless.

He was attracted by the story to look down, there were no waves on the sea, but everywhere was reminding him of the ups and downs of the waves under the sea, every word, every detail, as if revealing the answer, but unwilling to tell it clearly, making people constantly guess.

After the age of sixty, Yang Muxia's energy is not as good as before, and he rarely stays up late to work.

But this time, no matter how many times his wife urged him, he refused to go to sleep, and there was always a sense of urgency that he couldn't sleep without reading "White Night Walking" in one breath.

A novel of more than 300,000 words, although the white words are simple, they are heavy to read.

There are no terrifying images, no elaborate secret room killings, no complicated character relationships, just a pair of men and women who seem to be secrets but are known to the reader early on, they struggle, they scream, they are cowardly, they are brave, they desperately resist their fate, but finally fall into the boundless darkness.

read until dawn, and Yang Muxia finished reading the last line.

He took a deep breath, looked out the window, and suddenly felt that the morning light of the morning sun was so beautiful, and it was so happy and precious to be able to walk in the sun.

"Awesome." Yang Muxia has no other adjectives in his heart except shock.

Finding Zhou Lin to write a mystery novel was originally just a whim for him, to be honest, he didn't have particularly big expectations, he didn't need to push through the old and bring forth the new, and he didn't need to be shocking and endless, as long as he was decent.

But Yang Muxia still underestimated Zhou Lin.

As the editor-in-chief of the supplement of "Culture Daily" and the most respected critic in the literary circle, he swears that this "White Night Walk" is the most exciting, shocking and thought-provoking mystery novel he has seen in the past ten years.

And this is not just a reasoning, but also a social novel that tortures human nature!

"This guy...... Why don't you want to challenge for this year's Detective Awards? Yang Muxia muttered, a wonderful smile flashing across her face. (To be continued.) )