Faced with such an outstanding mystery work as "Murder on the Orient Express", all mystery writers can only sigh at this crazy monster!
It is actually hard to imagine that such a classic work that could be given a super high score by the Mystery Association was written by a writer with little experience in reasoning.
Chu Kuang is indeed very productive.
He can write fantasy novels and is also extremely good at short stories. He is a talented writer recognized by the novel world, spanning both fields.
But if we talk about Chu Kuang's real mystery creation, the only one he has done is "The Mystery of Roger". As a result, when he entered the mystery circle for the first time, Chu Kuang brought a gorgeous narrative storm!
As for the short story he released last month titled "Booming Suspension Bridge Falling", no one paid too much attention to it.
To put it nicely, it is Chu Kuang's supplement and enrichment of narrative weirdness;
To put it bluntly, this guy was just bored so he teased the readers, and by the way he took a lot of blog royalties and earned enough publicity.
Up to this point, the impression Chu Kuang left on the mystery circle is that of a genius who relies on his talent to fool readers, tease readers, and play with narrative tricks.
It was not until Chu Kuang released "Murder on the Orient Express" that all the controversies in the mystery circle were shattered by this work.
No one will say anymore that Chu Kuang is a frivolous narrator.
No one says that Chu Kuang is just relying on his talent to fool his readers.
He seems more like a master of reasoning who occasionally jokes but actually has a lot on his mind!
He completed a reasoning show that started and ended with Poirot almost with a pious sense of ritual!
From Narrative to Traditional...
From a game to a classic...
As a character that appears throughout the whole story, Poirot is already on the path to becoming a god!
As the creator of Poirot, Chu Kuang has become a demon-level "newcomer" in the eyes of mystery writers!
Well, judging from the number of mystery works, Chu Kuang is still a newcomer.
But this newcomer is so terrifying that no mystery writer is willing to use the word “newcomer” to describe Chu Kuang.
So the name "monster" is appropriate.
This is a name that belongs to Chu Kuang. It is difficult for everyone to regard Chu Kuang as a newcomer. How can a newcomer have such a high starting point when debuting
"Chu Kuang has become a fuzzy zone in the mystery circle. If you say he is a first-class mystery writer, his works are all in the top ten of mystery ratings. In the literary duel, he crushed Leng Guang, who is also a first-class mystery writer. But if you say he is a top mystery master like Carter, he has only written two mystery works! Well, I don't think "Dong Dong Suspension Bridge Fall" can be considered a mystery."
The industry has a habit of rating different writers.
But everyone discovered that Chu Kuang could not be classified.
His qualifications are too shallow and his ceiling is too high. The current Chu Kuang just has too few works, and no one knows what level Chu Kuang will reach in the future.
Anyway, Leng Guang, who was defeated miserably in this literary battle, is a first-class mystery writer. This can be regarded as one of the references for evaluating Chu Kuang.
Someone shook his head: "Leng Guang was hit hard this time."
Someone disagreed: "If it was to lose to Murder on the Orient Express, it wouldn't be shameful, because it would be the same no matter who it was."
The former sighed: "But I lost in the end, and became Chu Kuang's background."
The latter said seriously: "Didn't you notice that no one was laughing at Leng Guang? He did lose, but he played at his best level. It's just that his opponent was too inhuman."
Just when the two sides were about to argue, a senior spoke up:
"No one has the right to laugh at Leng Guang. Any mystery writer here will get the same result if they compete with Murder on the Orient Express."
"What?"
"They all have to die."
The reasoning circle fell silent.
Chu Kuang's "Murder on the Orient Express" is an almost invincible work, just like what the predecessor said? It's not Leng Guang's problem, whoever touches this novel will die.
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The ripples continued to spread, starting from the reasoning forum and eventually sweeping across major related platforms.
Is it in the top ten of the Mystery Association’s official website ratings? Murder on the Orient Express is already included.
The comment section of the novel is just like other high-scoring mystery novels, full of compliments.
"Chu Kuang's Murder on the Orient Express adopts the purest traditional flavor and presents readers with a feast of reasoning!"
"As more and more mystery novels on the book market begin to use similar routines, we often see a tragedy happen. The detective goes to the scene to do some investigation that no one can understand. Then he does some mysterious investigation work. Or he simply disappears for a few days to find clues. Then the truth comes out. An astonishing secret is uncovered, and as a reader, you can only sigh that you don't understand it. But what Chu Kuang brings to readers is a fair duel between everyone and the detective. Moreover, he also brings us humanistic thinking beyond the case, which is very rare."
"Yes? In order to make the ending unexpected enough, the authors made both the case and the detective's investigation as bizarre as possible, so the ending was indeed surprising, but it always made me feel that everything I read before was useless. I just needed to see the case happen and watch the detective solve the mystery at the end. I felt like a complete idiot when reading the previous investigation part. I didn't understand anything, but I often saw the detective's mysterious smile, and everything was clear in my mind. And when the detective solved the mystery in the end, I finally understood what was going on with the case."
"Where's the promised showdown between the reader and the detective?"
"Chu Kuang's work this time is completely different. You don't have to spend time guessing what kind of investigation the detective has done. The author will put every step of the detective's investigation and the evidence he has obtained in front of the readers, allowing the readers and the detective to solve the case together. I will unconsciously participate in it. The author does not embarrass the readers in terms of professional knowledge, investigation status or evidence, and tries to make up for the readers' disadvantages in reading, providing readers with a platform for thinking. Then, he does not make a fuss about issues such as investigation, but truly makes the plot twists and turns bizarre, but reasonable. Let the readers guess and think according to the development of the plot and the gradual increase of evidence, draw conclusions and overturn their own conclusions, and then continue to guess and think... until the answer is given in the end. The reader's thinking has been developing with the development of the plot, and the answer given is both reasonable and certainly unexpected. So I can't help but admire the author's meticulous thinking and ingenious conception."
“I think those detective stories that dare not tell readers about the investigation, methods and evidence of the case are simply because they are afraid that readers will guess the results too early and lose interest in the story. However, this should be developed in the story structure and plot, rather than being clever and hiding the truth to deceive readers in disguise. They always like to deify the detective, but in fact they do not put the readers on an equal footing with the characters in the story. In this way, readers will not only not get fun, but also not get respect.”
"After saying so much, in fact, in one sentence, Chu Kuang's wave is divine."
The tone is a bit like that of a self-media, and there is a suspicion of praising one and demoting another, but it also indirectly reveals a fact:
Chu Kuang conquered the picky traditional reasoning enthusiasts.
Not long ago, Chu Kuang’s reputation in the mystery world was in jeopardy because of "The Fall of the Suspension Bridge".
As a result, when Murder on the Orient Express was released, the world seemed to have changed.
And in this world, there is one person who will never change.
This person is the famous Chu fan, Shen Jiarui. He said on the tribe: "It is said that there is a saying in Go that there is a god's move, and Murder on the Orient Express is a god's move by Chu Kuang!"
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ps: This chapter was written in the hospital, so its status has been affected. I will revise it later. Please bear with me.