Chapter 233: D-Slope Murder Case

"Executive Director Zhida, this is the manuscript I prepared for serialization, please take a look."

Tokyo, the newspaper building where "Chishi Shimbun" is located.

Akiwara Yuto sat on the sofa in the reception room and handed the manuscript in his hand to Zhida Daxi, and after the latter took the manuscript, he lowered his head and read it.

After all, Akiwara Yuto is a writer he specially invited, so he still has to look at the content of the manuscript carefully.

On the other side, Akiwara Yuto drank tea, watching Zhida Daxi gradually become addicted to the content of the story, and he also had 70% certainty in his heart.

"D-Slope Murder Case," as a work of Edogawa Rampo, is slightly older, but the trick design is still quite interesting.

But its advantage is that the story rhythm is extremely compact, and it makes people very eager to read.

The story tells that "I" and a detective named Akechi Goro discovered a corpse, and the owner of this corpse was the proprietress of an old bookstore.

This proprietress was very beautiful during her lifetime, but her body was covered with scars.

Out of a special thought, "I" and Akechi Goro began to investigate.

In this process, the focus of our investigation was a door called "Windowless." This door has leaves and can be opened and closed, and it separated the inside and outside of the door into a locked room.

When the incident happened, "we" saw the light leaking from inside the door, a figure flashed, and then "Windowless" closed.

At that time, there were two middle school students nearby, one saw the figure in white clothes, and the other saw it in black clothes.

After the investigation, "I" thought the murderer was Akechi Goro.

Because of the design of the leaves on the windowless door, the angle of one student happened to block the black stripes, and the angle of the other student happened to block all the white stripes. Of course, what they saw respectively was one black and one white.

And Akechi Goro happened to like wearing black and white striped clothes the most.

Besides this, he also had a certain interpersonal relationship with the deceased, perhaps having some unknown murder motive.

But in the end, the matter ushered in a reversal.

Akechi Goro said he just happened to pass by "Windowless," and in his investigation, the deceased had an affair with the owner of the shop next door, and the cause of death was because "SM" was played too much.

After he finished talking about all this, the owner of the shop next door also happened to confess to the police.

This story is still quite good in the design of honkaku. After all, it introduced the special design of "Windowless" and used visual difference to guide readers.

But because the story is too "dog-blooded," it caused many readers to complain in later generations, so it was complained about by some readers as a metaphysical mystery work.

When it was adapted into a movie in 1988, in order to attract attention, the director directly filmed it into a "sensual blockbuster" and significantly adapted the plot.

The deceased became the owner of the soba shop next door and the bookstore owner, and the bookstore proprietress was the murderer.

The reason for the murder was that she could not accept the bookstore owner, that is, her father's violation of her, so she killed him in anger.

It is conceivable that such a large-scale adaptation of the work naturally caused extreme dissatisfaction among the original fans, and the score on Douban in the country was only 4.9, which can be called the worst of the worst.

Although logic and plot have problems, Akiwara Yuto relied on some appropriate methods to make a more "reasonable" adaptation—on the basis of the original trick and character relationship, he increased Akechi Goro's subjective initiative and the detection of clues.

However, whether this adaptation can be recognized, he is not very sure in his heart.

The only thing he is sure of is that if the original work is put up, even if it can pass the manuscript, it will be accused by many people of being full of problems.

Time passed bit by bit, and after about 30 minutes, Zhida Daxi put down the manuscript and nodded in recognition, "As expected of Teacher Akiwara, this manuscript has no problems."

Akiwara Yuto breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then also expressed his gratitude with a smile.

After confirming the manuscript, the two signed the corresponding contract accompanied by other staff members.

"Chishi Shimbun" and Kejiaoguan are different in nature after all. The goal is just to add more content to the newspaper, and there are no requirements for copyright and stand-alone books.

Therefore, in the contract signed by the two, only the specific manuscript fee remuneration was stipulated, that is, about 50,000 yen per manuscript paper.

As for other specific work docking, Asano Aiko will be responsible for it with the newspaper office.

Besides serialization, Akiwara Yuto can also open a sidebar to express some of his points of view. But the content in this sidebar needs to be reviewed by the newspaper office.

This point is also another purpose of Akiwara Yuto, that is, to increase his right to speak.

After having the right to speak, he can do more things, such as expressing opinions on some current events in society, or expressing some of his own points of view.

If he is just that kind of quiet creator, this point is not necessary. But if he wants greater social influence, this point is unavoidable.

If he is framed by others again, he also has a window to explain.

After signing the contract, Akiwara Yuto and Zhida Daxi agreed to go to the club again next time, and then said goodbye politely.

After a car ride of about 40 minutes, he and the bodyguard arrived at the library of the University of Tokyo.

The library of the University of Tokyo is a very dilapidated old building and is only 3 floors high. But old as it is, there are many students inside.

After walking to the public exchange area, Akiwara Yuto met his disciple Toyama Miho.

And Toyama Miho saw him, bowed from afar, and said seriously: "Master, you have worked hard."

She was really embarrassed. As a disciple, it should be her who goes to Akiwara Yuto's house and learns knowledge.

But Akiwara Yuto, out of consideration for her, took the initiative to come over every week for 2-3 hours of tutoring, pointing out the design of tricks and the discussion of plots.

Akiwara Yuto waved his hand, signaling her to sit with him in a seat in a corner—this side is in the public exchange area, so it doesn't matter even if you talk in a low voice.

As for the accompanying bodyguard, he was arranged to observe nearby.

Looking at the bodyguard's alert movements, Akiwara Yuto subconsciously pondered. Honestly, by now, he felt that he was making a fuss.

After all, it had been so long since he received the threat letter, and there was no movement.

He even asked "old friends" like Seto Tamae and learned that basically everyone had received some, with the fewest being a dozen and the most being hundreds.

What's more exaggerated is that they even used the number of threat letters received as a topic for chatting and joking with each other.

After learning that Akiwara Yuto only received one "threat letter," they mocked him, thinking that his work influence was not big enough.

However, Akiwara Yuto thought of Da Guan Zhenghe, whose whereabouts were unknown, and subconsciously still felt a bit uneasy.

Toyama Miho didn't know Akiwara Yuto's thoughts, took out a manuscript from her bag, and handed it to Akiwara Yuto.

"Master, this is the short story work I plan to submit next time, please correct it."

Akiwara Yuto nodded with satisfaction after reading it.

Honestly, Toyama's talent was much higher than he imagined. Many things were understood at once, without needing to continue a second time.

Compared to when the two first met, she now has significant improvement in both writing and conception of content.

It is estimated that after another period of time, she will be able to create some good long-form works.

In the past life, many writers were like this, writing very wonderful works at a young age.

In the mystery circle, Otsuichi wrote "Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse" at the age of 17 and won the Jump Non-Grand Prize; Keigo Higashino wrote "After School" at the age of 27 and won the 31st Edogawa Rampo Award;

And in the traditional literary circle with a wider range, Ryunosuke Akutagawa wrote the famous "Rashomon" at the age of 23.

Although he was satisfied in his heart, he still said orally: "There are still some deficiencies in grammar, you can delete some unnecessary dialogues."

Toyama Miho did not doubt, but nodded and agreed very seriously.

After sorting it out from beginning to end, another hour passed. Akiwara Yuto greeted her and stood up to walk to the restroom in the corridor inside the library.

"Hatanaka-san, please wait for me here." Akiwara Yuto greeted the bodyguard.

Now, as long as it is a public occasion, he is basically inseparable from this bodyguard named Hatanaka Shu.

But in some relatively "private" times, it is obviously not suitable to stay together.

After the bodyguard nodded, Akiwara Yuto walked to the restroom, preparing to unzip his pants, but just at this moment, he heard the sound of the partition door behind him being pushed open.

A man's voice rang out abruptly, "Teacher Akiwara, I have finally waited for you."

Akiwara Yuto didn't have time to think too much, stopped the movement on his hand, and turned his head in doubt.

In his field of vision, a man wearing a cleaner's uniform, holding a fruit knife, stabbed at the position below the left side of his chest... ===== CHAPTER 234 =====