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Chapter 347: Chapter 326: Steady_1

He’s here, he’s here…

He came with a new detective novel.

Lin Yuan did not rush to respond to Leng Guang, he asked Jin Mu to buy Leng Guang’s new work the next day to read.

Leng Guang’s new work is called “The Apartment”.

The cover is blue, not too thick, novella-length, and the cover image is a bloody handprint.

Synopsis:

“Xiao Guang and his girlfriend have moved into a new apartment. Not long after, a death occurs in the apartment. The police investigation ends without results, and the matter is dropped. But who would have thought, not long after, another death occurs. Xiao Guang and his girlfriend decide to leave the apartment, but the day before they leave, Xiao Guang’s girlfriend also dies, so he decides to find the real killer…”

Who is Xiao Guang?

Is Leng Guang ridiculing himself?

No, he should be ridiculing his ex-girlfriend, after all, in the book, it’s Xiao Guang’s ex-girlfriend who dies.

Mustn’t think too much.

It’s just a novel, just a novel.

Lin Yuan respected his opponent Leng Guang very much, as evidenced by his willingness to spend half a day reading “The Apartment”.

In this novel, all the death scenes were inside the apartment.

“Murder in a locked room theme…”

“The killer has an alibi…”

“Who is the least likely suspect…”

As Lin Yuan read, he wracked his brain, trying to guess the murderer along with Xiao Guang.

Leng Guang, a devoted traditional detective lover, was a pure aficionado of police procedural mysteries, so he revealed quite a lot of clues.

Based on the clues, Lin Yuan guessed the murderer and quickly locked on a suspect.

However, Lin Yuan who happened to read the ending of the novel when about to go out for lunch was startled:

“The killer turned out to be the bedridden child?”

Although Lin Yuan had suspected the child during the process, he dismissed the suspicion as more clues appeared.

Looking back, Lin Yuan had fallen into Leng Guang’s trap.

“Surprising, isn’t it?”

Jin Mu seemed to have finished reading “The Apartment” before Lin Yuan, and he exclaimed when he saw Lin Yuan finish the novel:

“Leng Guang always fills his detective novels with an atmosphere of horror and suspense which makes one’s neck feel chilly after reading. Even if he didn’t write detective novels, he would undoubtedly sell well just by writing horror novels.”

“Everyone is hiding something.”

“It’s the same tactic that was used in ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’. And the motive for the murder is a precocious child who can’t bear the harassment and even harm from men towards his single mother. He even murders the man who was to be his father.”

Lin Yuan nodded.

This story had a great concept.

Some things only a child can do. This is a big hint, but he didn’t guess it.

Clearly, neither did Jin Mu.

This meant that even having given out many clues, Leng Guang had still managed to defeat the vast majority of readers.

“We are in a bit of trouble,”

Jin Mu patted the cover of “The Apartment”, saying: “This novel is highly rated online at the moment, and is basically considered Leng Guang’s most representative work to date. It might be thanks to you, boss. To beat you 100 percent, Leng Guang has exploded with potential.”

It’s like two people competing in a test.

One of them usually only gets eighty points, but this time, under the pressure of competition, they scored ninety points, an extraordinary performance!

…

Many internet users were following this literary duel, which also indirectly promoted the sales of Leng Guang’s novel “The Apartment”.

As a work that Leng Guang dared to put forward in a literary duel, the novel didn’t disappoint its readers.

As more and more people finished reading “The Apartment”, there quickly appeared countless praises online.

“Teacher Leng Guang has created another masterpiece, this work is even more exciting than his previous detective stories! The murderer, the child, had some mother-spoiling tendencies. The methods of murder were not complex, merely taking advantage of one’s identity to disguise and each had their own secrets that confused the real clues. As a fan of Leng Guang, I can declare without hesitation, the victory of this literary duel belongs to Leng Guang.”

“Leng Guang’s win is secured, rock solid, helix solid, the story is terrifying, the ending is thrilling, it’s a shame I guessed the killer, even though I didn’t find any credible clues, I just felt that the author designed it this way.”

“Leng Guang is indeed solid, does this duel need to continue? It’s going to be hard for Chu Kuang to turn the tables.”

“It’s meaningless to blindly guess the killer. It’s like this when reading detective novels. Sometimes, you can guess the killer by relying on your intuition. After all, there are only so many suspects. But if it’s Chu Kuang’s narrative trickery style of writing, your blind guess might be useless, so I don’t think Leng Guang has definitely won.”

“Who would have thought that Leng Guang would suddenly explode with talent? Although I feel that Chu Kuang doesn’t have much chance of winning now, there is still a chance.”

“I wonder if Leng Guang will dominate one-sidedly, or if there will be a back-and-forth battle?”

“If it’s at the level of ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, I feel Chu Kuang could definitely put up a fight. The problem now is, the novelty of the narrative trickery has already been used up, if Chu Kuang continues to use narrative trickery, it needs to be more clever.”

“Have you guys forgotten something? The one who goes first is bound to lose, Chu Kuang has the upper hand (sarcastic).”

“The eerie thing about the old rascal Chu Kuang is, the more you think he won’t make it, the more likely he’ll succeed!”

“…”

Although the tide seemed to be turning in favor of Leng Guang, there were still quite a few people who supported Chu Kuang. Everyone agreed, though, that Leng Guang’s performance this time had reached his personal limit.

Horror, suspense, he did it all very well.

Even Lin Yuan admitted, he even reviewed “The Apartment” again, personally feeling the endless charm of police procedural mysteries.

In the apartment, anyone could be the murderer. That thrilling feeling is everywhere. People who like this atmosphere will enjoy this process a lot.

The most ingenious part of this novel is when the detective said:

“Many adults are like children, morally they have not fully developed.”

The underlying message of this is:

“Many children, because of their age, have not fully developed morally.”

So, the killer had already been hinted at here.

Lin Yuan was pleased with this. The biggest reason he was pleased was that “Murder on the Orient Express” had come across a very strong opponent who was bound to lose.

Both are locked-room murder scenarios.

Regardless of the motive or the method of murder, “Murder on the Orient Express” is sure to be more unimaginable!

Now that Leng Guang had taken the initiative.

Lin Yuan finally responded to Leng Guang using Chu Kuang’s account–

He specially checked that he wasn’t logged into the wrong account.

The repayment was also simple, as if it was routine notice: “The new book ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ will be released in one week.”

This was the publishing date set by Jin Mu and Silver Blue Books.

By that time, Jin Mu had finished reading “Murder on the Orient Express”. After reading it, he just said two words that made Lin Yuan flinch for a moment:

“Sure thing.”