After the difficult winter, there is no trace of snow in the streets and alleys, and you can feel the obvious warmth in the early spring sun.

The city of El Roy has undergone great changes for most of the year, the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" has been turbulent in the city of El Roy, and after the Norton literary scene shines and is supported by the Count of Henrietta, the largest Bernard publishing house in the city has been discredited in the social world because of the deliberate suppression of "The Count of Monte Cristo", and has to declare the family bankrupt.

Then the apparitions appeared, and now the downtown train station and the central square have preserved the photographic crystals donated by Harvey, and the film will be continuously played, often attracting a large number of children to stop and watch and play on the side, in this era of lack of entertainment, it is also a great satisfaction for illiterate poor children to see novel apparitions.

Harvey also felt a little empathy when he saw this scene, Harvey still remembered that the city where he was a child did not even have a color TV popular, and he often went to his friend's house to watch TV, at that time, the "Little Overlord" game he played was connected to a black and white TV, so most of the Little Overlord games in his impression were black and white.

These upheavals made the city of Elroy known as the "City of Phantoms", because for the first real apparition, the "Count of Monte Cristo" promotional film was released in the city of Elroy, and secondly, Harvey, the father of the Phantoms, also settled in the city, which led to a significant increase in the number of tourists in the city of Elroy.

On the other hand, since Harvey announced the production method of photographic crystals, in just half a month, all kinds of photographic devices in the kingdom have been flooded, the quality is good and bad, the most representative is the photographic crystals made by the Cromwell Chamber of Commerce, positioned as a luxury product, specially sold to aristocratic businessmen or professionals in the field, the price is not low, but because it is the use of Harvey developed technology, it was once sought after and became the most representative brand in the field of high-end photography, always in short supply.

Now, the reviewer Pran is holding a photographic installation with photographic crystals at the core of a bookstore to shoot images for the headlines of tomorrow's newspaper printed by their publishing house. Although there is no photosensitive material, the images captured by the camera can still be printed on newspapers in a special way, but the images captured are only black and white, and the clarity is not high.

There is now a long queue at the bookstore owned by the publishing house run by Puran, and as far as the eye can see, the end of the line is a few hundred meters away, and the queue is roughly estimated to be no less than a thousand. The procession ranged from young and old, to poor and tattered clothes to rich and noble families in modest coats, and most of the people in the queue were eager, sometimes chatting with others and expressing their excitement.

Standing across the street, Puran watched the scene with his back against the wall and asked meaningfully, "Motley, what time is it today?" ”

Motley puffed on a cigarette and replied faintly, "Three." ”

Puran continued to ask in a smug tone: "Why do you say that it is Wednesday, but there are so many people queuing here, maybe they don't have jobs, oh~ Seeing these people in line wearing beautiful clothes, it is obviously not the same thing." ”

Senior reviewer Motley exhaled a puff of white smoke and said with a smile: "What do you want to say?" ”

"Don't you have any special feelings when you see this scene, today is a day that our publishing house finally got through! This camera will record it all! Puran patted the camera held in place with a triangular bracket and smiled wryly.

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Puran was still shouting: "I'll go to the old place for a drink later, celebrate, and celebrate again when I'm done for a while." ”

Motley looked at the excited Pullan and shook his head and smiled, but he understood his current mood.

Since getting the full illustration of "Dark Age" half a month ago, Puran has devoted all his time to this novel, thinking about publicity plans, planning promotional slogans and publicity activities. In Motley's view, most of it is useless, not that the propaganda is ineffective, but the name of Harvey Adrian itself has a huge influence, and the propaganda effect is just icing on the cake.

More than half a month ago, the publishing house newspaper run by Puran began to reveal the news of "Dark Age" to the public.

Puran was originally Harvey's reviewer, and the words he released were still quite convincing to fans of "The Count of Monte Cristo", and then as time went by, on the day Harvey was awarded the Bauhinia Literary Award, Puran officially announced that Harvey's new novel "Dark Age" was about to be published, and for a while, the literary world in Elroy City was boiling again!

How long has The Count of Monte Cristo been published!? How long has the Phantom been in theaters!?

A new novel was written so quickly?

Because of this incident, other publishing houses in the city also felt uneasy, Harvey's name has become the logo of Elroy City, if Harvey's name is used as an article, it will definitely steal a large number of readers, of course, because of the Bernard publishing house incident, they do not dare to have any complaints about Harvey, and they have vaguely questioned the authenticity of this matter.

Puran couldn't be happy about this, isn't this a great opportunity to stir up this topic, and took advantage of the situation to send out an illustration of the novel "Dark Age".

Shirley's illustrations are unparalleled in recognition, and Shirley is the actor of the phantom Melcetes in "The Count of Monte Cristo", Harvey's maid, Harvey did not deny it, and the publication of the new work was finalized. At this moment, even Norton's newspapers were alarmed, and "Norton Night" published the news the next day, causing a shock in Norton's literary world.

Norton's literary circles have mixed reviews.

Harvey was the first novelist to win the Bauhinia Award for a single novel, and many well-known novelists questioned Harvey's writing ability, believing that Harvey had won the Bauhinia Award by making a so-called phantom. This suspicion is justified, this world is not only Harvey novelist, the development of the times has promoted the birth of countless novelists, novelists who have struggled in the field of literature for decades abound, and the works from their hands are the middle force of kingdom literature, but the Bauhinia Award, which represents the highest contribution in the field of literature, was won by a novelist who was less than twenty years old and had only written one work, how to make them accept.

On the one hand, "The Count of Monte Cristo" was highly praised, and on the other hand, because Harvey won the Bauhinia Award, Norton appeared a lot of criticism of Harvey and Count Henrietta, criticizing the two of them for being opportunistic in the field of literature and suppressing the development of literature with new things.

In the eyes of others, the second novel will be the work that established Harvey's status in the kingdom's literary world, but perhaps even the Count of Henrietta himself did not expect that Harvey wrote "The Dark Age" with a playful mentality.