Chapter 147: The Invincible
"Guys, have you all read the answer chapter of Astrology Killing Magic?!"
"I've seen it! The moment I saw the Upper Wash Reduction, I got goosebumps on my back."
"It turns out that the real murderer is among the dead...... Even we saw her body."
"You can still do this...... It's the most incredible trick I've ever seen, but it makes sense."
"I always thought that Sima Gui Tai Jiang Lang was exhausted, but now I admit that my previous words were a little irresponsible. After reading the answer chapter, I only have one thing to say now: Sima Gui is too invincible."
"Of all the corpse dismemberment schemes, this one is the strongest. There are no clues and settings that suddenly appear, there are no vague and vague alleys, and the final truth is unexpected and reasonable, and after reading it, sweat is on my forehead, so happy."
"I was completely misled by the author, and I kept trying to find the murderer among the suspects given by the author, but I didn't expect the real murderer to be in my blind spot all along."
This issue of "Spring and Autumn Awards" sold out at a frightening rate, and only one was sold out in major bookstores and newsstands. So the Spring and Autumn Society hurriedly reprinted and sent the hot magazine to the readers who were looking forward to it.
The day after the publication of the magazine, the editorial department began to count the letters from readers, selecting the first 100 reader questionnaires to be sent to the editorial office for statistics. According to the flash report, 69 out of 100 authors chose "Genius Detective Mitarai" in the column of their favorite works.
Fault first.
Each issue of the magazine has more than nine works serialized at the same time, and the other works together are not as high as his grades.
"Astrology Murder Magic" caused a sensation in the world of mystery literature, and many book reviewers immediately commented that the mystery of Asood portrayed in the book was the greatest trick of the declension. Sima Guitai lives up to his reputation as a genius.
Shinichi Chiba, a well-known book reviewer, was also quick to publish his own review article.
Shinichi Chiba had been following the progress of "Astrology Killing Magic", and the grandiose and eerie murder described in the book really excited even a longtime reader. But there is also the fear that the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
Anticlimactic is a common problem for some mystery writers, the beginning is wonderful, but the ending is extremely disappointing.
For example, a year ago there was a mystery that described a murder in a closed room, in which the deceased was inexplicably hanged in a room, and no one but the deceased had ever been in or out of the house.
And when the reader reads all the way, hoping to know the murderer's method of killing, in the end, the author tells everyone that the murderer will hypnotize the deceased and make him commit suicide.
Reader: "......"
There is also a reasoning about a woman who slashes at the air with a knife under surveillance, and the result is that blood really grows out of thin air in the air. And a few kilometers away, a man also died suddenly.
Just as the reader is excited about the opening and makes it all the way to the end, the author tells everyone that the man's death was done by the woman's helper, and that the woman's ability to cut blood out of thin air was due to magic.
Readers are stunned when they see this, magic tricks? What kind of magic trick is it, you say.
The author did not say. It is estimated that I can't think of any magic tricks that can deceive the police monitoring and post-investigation after the investigation, so I simply went straight to the lake.
The readers were half angry, and then the writer's works directly became unsalable, the kind that could not be sold at a discount.
Your story can be not pretty, but you can't keep doing this kind of fraud, right?
When Chiba Shinichi first saw the mystery of Assord, he did have a bad premonition, this setting is so exciting, so exciting that it makes people uneasy, shouldn't there be any sassy operation in the end?
Not to mention that in the fourth chapter, the author also released a high-profile challenge to readers, claiming that as long as readers can successfully solve the puzzle, they can visit the filming site of "Furuhata Renzaburo".
This ignited the reader's enthusiasm for participation, and Shinichi Chiba was also interested at the time and tried to solve the mystery of Assord, but unfortunately, his reasoning skills were not strong and he did not succeed.
However, in this way, readers' expectations for the "Astrology Killing Magic" chapter have become even higher, and once the ending is unsatisfactory, Sima Keita may become a writer of unsold books in the future.
Of course, this is something that Shinichi Chiba does not want to see. When Sima Keita was still a nobody, Chiba Shinichi began to pay attention to him, and he did his part in the big sales of "White Night Walking", which can be called Sima Keita's "original stock". Sima Guitai is also happy if he really becomes a great writer, proving that his vision is not wrong.
So although Shinichi Chiba wrote an article accusing Sima Keita of not paying attention to his writing now, whether he is correct or not, it actually contains an idea similar to "the depth of love, the depth of responsibility".
As a result, as soon as the answer chapter of "Astrology Killing Magic" came out yesterday, Chiba Shinichi was silent for a long time after reading it, silently spread out the paper, and wrote a new book review.
"I had previously published a critical article about 'Genius Detective Mitarai', and just yesterday after the latest chapter of 'Genius Detective Mitarai' was published, I realized that my previous comments were biased."
"'Genius Detective Mitarai' is not a mediocre work, but a clarion call for Sima Keita, a genius writer, to blow the horn of attack on declension reasoning after becoming famous for his social reasoning!"
"Asood's murder is also destined to be one of the most amazing tricks in the history of mystery literature! It is enough to overshadow countless pioneers of the declension school, and those who come after him worship and learn from it."
Chiba Shinichi praised Fujiwara Kei in a more aggressive posture in the book review, probably because he published a critical article against Fujiwara Kei before, compensated for his psychological trouble, and praised Fujiwara Kei as a genius in heaven and earth, and even made Fujiwara Kei, the person who was praised, blush.
Shinichi Chiba published a long essay in which one-third of the article was praising "Genius Detective Mitarai-san", and the other two-thirds was commenting on other mystery works currently on the market.
And one of them is the work of Yukie on the water.
In his article, Shinichi Chiba unabashedly ridiculed: "This mystery writer works part-time as a book reviewer, and while he is making a lot of nonsense about the excellent works of other authors, he tirelessly exports cultural garbage......
"He often claimed that trickery was the essence of mystery literature, and that 'White Night Walking' without puzzles was a shame in mystery literature."
"Although I don't agree with this point of view, but everyone's definition of literary works is different, and there are also aesthetic deviations, of course he can have his own ideas, so I don't agree with this point of view, but I don't refute it."
"I'm a critic, but I'm a critic of the reasoning, not the critic of the critic."
"So when I found out that Mr. Minakami is also an author, I was very surprised and read his new work for the first time."
"Well, I just feel like I've wasted two precious hours of my life."
"There's nothing new in the storyline, there's nothing new about the trickery, and his low standards as a writer are in stark contrast to his high demands as a critic, and it's the greatest performance art and satire of the twentieth century."
"It's also a part-time writer, and Keita Sima, who has been ridiculed by Mr. Koie Mizumi, seems to be much more talented."
"Keita Sima is the famous screenwriter Kei Fujiwara, who can not only create excellent TV dramas like "Long Vacation", but also write excellent works like "Genius Detective Mitarai" one after another."
"On the other hand, Mr. Koe Minakami not only creates the same taste as chewing wax, but also makes many common-sense mistakes in the comments he writes."
"For example, Mr. Mizumi Yukie used the example of the second episode of "Renzaburo Furuhata" where the ratings of the second episode of "Renzaburo Furuhata" dropped by 5 percentage points compared to the first episode in an attempt to show that Keita Sima is also being abandoned by the audience as a screenwriter."
"But in fact, even if it drops by 5 percentage points, "Renzaburo Furuhata" is still a high-rated TV series, so why abandon it? more
What's more, the show's episode ratings are slowly picking up."
"It is his freedom to dislike Sima Guitai's works, and even hate Sima Guitai himself, but I hope that this crappy book reviewer can respect the basic facts and not lose the objectivity and face of the critic."
After the publication of this book review, it succeeded in bringing the writer and critic Yukie Mizumi to the center of the conversation, and the criticism of Yukie Minakami's new work was simply deafening.