Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Beginning of a World Shock! (below)
According to the usual practice, the world's three major mystery literature awards, the Gartha Award, the Ellen Award and the Ranbu Award, will randomly choose the draw date from December 1st to December 5th, but the strange thing is that this year's three major awards miraculously chose to draw at the same time, all on December 5th!
Of course, the time is still a little staggered, the Ellen Award in the United States is announced at 9 o'clock in the morning, the Gaza Award in England is announced at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and the Ranbu Award in the Japanese Kingdom is announced at 5 o'clock in the evening.
As soon as it entered December, Huaxia was swept by the news of the three major awards, and netizens were discussing popular novels, but few people said that domestic reasoning works could win awards.
On the day of December 5th, Leng Xuan rushed to the office early in the morning and waited restlessly for the news from afar, although Chu Mingyu's face was calm and calm, but he was indeed a little apprehensive in his heart, don't take the money and don't do anything.
He has asked people to wait at the venue, as long as he gets the news, someone will notify him as soon as possible, and the domestic preparations are also ready, just wait for the exact news to come and you can hype it up, it can be said that everything is only owed to the east wind!
Jinshan City, the United States, the gate of the National Reasoning Association.
As soon as the morning dawned, the media from all sides carrying long guns and short cannons also rushed over, and each found a place to place the machine, and waited for the people inside to come out, and the branch of Huaxia CCTV in the United States also came.
Reporter Cheng Yi is a beautiful girl, while cameraman Shi Yong is a tall and thin man. Although the annual reasoning award has nothing to do with the Chinese people, they also have to report the news and send it back to the headquarters and China as soon as possible.
Time passed little by little, and reporters from all over the world seemed to be a little impatient, and finally waited until nine o'clock, and the door of the National Reasoning Association of the United States finally opened, and three men walked out, led by one holding a thin piece of paper, it was Anthony.
As soon as Anthony stood on the prepared platform, all the media gathered around, waiting for him to speak.
"Ladies and gentlemen, all the deliberations of the 32nd Ellen Award have been completed, and what I have in my hand is the list of winners of this year's Ellen Prize, and I will read them out one by one!"
Clearing his throat, Anthony said loudly:
"The winner of the 32nd Ellen Award for Best Mystery Novel is a writer from Bashi, Dominique Willis! The award-winning work "The Dancing Singer"! ”
“GOOD!”
A journalist from South America applauded, and the rest of the audience applauded.
"The winner of the 32nd Ellen Award for Best Novella Mystery Novel is a writer from China, Bruce Ren! The award-winning work "Seeing is Nothing"! ”
As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar on the field, and Cheng Yi and Shi Yong couldn't believe their ears, the Chinese people actually won the recognition of the Ellen Award for the first time? ! But who is this Bruce Ren? I've never heard of it!
When the applause around them rang out, the two woke up and hurriedly sent the news back to the headquarters! No matter who the winner is, as long as he is a Chinese, he is a big hero!
Far away from the Pacific, Chu Mingyu put down the phone in his hand and smiled: "Congratulations, Mr. Bruce Ren, you won the Ellen Award for Best Novella!" ”
Leng Xuan was suddenly surrounded by great happiness, and Chu Mingyu called Lu Jiaojiao in and ordered: "Contact all the media immediately, Leng Xuan has won the award!" ”
Eyes turned back to the scene of the United States.
The best novel in the third category was given to Guba an unknown writer, and the best newcomer in the fourth category was given to Jack of the United States, whether these people were well-known or not, the recognition of the Ellen Award will definitely make him famous!
It's finally the turn of the final highlight, the best mystery novel of the year, and both the media and the audience have some expectations.
Anthony's hand holding the paper seemed to shake:
"The winner of the 32nd Ellen Award for Best Mystery Novel of the Year is Mr. Stephen Su, a writer from China! The award-winning work "The Mystery of the Greek Coffin"! ”
Quack, quack, quack.
A crow swept overhead, everyone was stunned, and Cheng Yi and Shi Yong even grew their mouths in disbelief.
Chinese again?
Although it was the first time for a Chinese person to get a best novella before, it was not a very amazing thing, didn't it make others progress? But the best of the year is different, according to the difficult taste of the selection committee, the works that can win this award must be extremely good to conquer them!
And such an important award was taken away by people in Huaxia, a country where speculative literature is not developed!
"Sir, who is this Stephen Sue?"
"There are two Chinese people in the Ellen Award this year, is there something shady!"
"Please come out and speak!"
"I don't believe that the mystery novel written by the Chinese people won the best of the year!"
"Fack, it is estimated that the shameless Chinese people bought it with money, I heard that their domestic awards are like this!"
After the silence, the crowd erupted into an irrepressible noise, most of which were questioning, which made Cheng Yi and Shi Yong both a little unable to raise their heads, could it be that the award was really bought with money?
In the face of the turbulent noise, Anthony was very calm, pressed his hands, and said loudly: "First of all, the selection of the Ellen Award is absolutely fair and just, please believe in our academic ethics!" Secondly, the announcement of the winning works will definitely be subject to public scrutiny, and it will be clear to everyone whether it is good or bad at that time, how could we do such a stupid thing! ”
I have to say that Anthony's words are very reasonable, yes, whether a work is good or bad, the reader's eyes are not blind when it is published, and the committee does not dare to risk the world's condemnation to make nonsense.
In this way, this Stephen Sue won this award based on his strength!
The interest of the media was immediately attracted by the mysterious Chinese writer and demanded that the committee publish the author's information.
This was supposed to be the procedure, and the committee immediately released the basic information of the award-winning writers to the media.
When Cheng Yi got the information sheet and saw the photo on it, he couldn't help but exclaim, covered his mouth, and Shi Yong next to him stretched his head over curiously, only to see that the photo of Stephen Su was a young and handsome man, who looked a little familiar, but he just couldn't remember who it was, and the other foreign reporters had no impression at all.
"Who is this, it looks like he's only in his twenties," Shi Yong shook his head slightly.
Cheng Yi immediately gave him a blank look, and said unhappily: "It's a shame that you're still engaged in news, although you're abroad, but you have to care about the domestic dynamics at least a little bit, okay, don't know about clubbing all day long, tell you, this Stephen Su is our Chinese writer, his real name is Su Mo, and he is a super best-selling author who has risen within a year!" God, he is not only handsome, but also talented! ”
Looking at the starry appearance of his partner's eyes, Shi Yong pursed his lips and was about to speak, when several foreign reporters next to him had already gathered around.
"You're a reporter from Huaxia Country, so is this Stephen Su famous in your country?"
Cheng Yi puffed up his chest and replied in fluent English: "Of course, this Stephen Sue is a very famous genius writer in China!" ”
"Is he really that powerful?"
"Tell us about him!"
"Can you help me contact him, our TV station wants to ask him to do an interview!"
For a while, Cheng Yi and Shi Yong were surrounded by foreign counterparts, and others wanted to get first-hand materials from them.
Beijing, CCTV Building.
The CCTV news center is still running in an orderly manner, and valuable news from all over the country and even all corners of the world will be delivered here, and then broadcast through several channels, especially CCTV Channel 13, which broadcasts news around the clock.
Suddenly, an urgent piece of news was sent back from North America, and someone from the interview department rushed to the production department.
"Director Wang! What's new, we have won the Ellen Award! Xiao Zhang shouted loudly as soon as he came in.
Everyone "shouted", crying and laughing, Director Wang smiled: "Are you busy and stupid in the interview department, we all know this news, Bruce Lun, that is, the rookie writer Leng Xuan won the Ellen Award for Best Novella, you want to report it a second time?" ”
"No, not this!" Xiao Zhang shook his head and said, "It's Su Mo!" ”