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Chapter 98 The Shadow Man

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underground library.

Taking the 79th volume of "Secret Files of Important People in China" from the bookshelf, Liu Xing flipped through it.In this book, many well-known figures of the Chinese plot genre are included.

After a quick scan of the information files of these characters, Liu Xing found that most of the plot genre masters lived in provinces and cities in western China, accounting for about 80%.

Tianhai City is located in the eastern part of China, and there are not many masters of the plot genre.

After searching for a long time in the book, Liu Xing finally found one.

【Secret file number 16258】

Name: Howard

Status: star writer, good at mystery novels
个人荣誉：1、24岁创作出《死里逃生》，成为华夏第一本三星级推理小说。2、36岁参加第三届“眼镜蛇”杯情节大赛连胜18场，进入全国十强。3、故事城设计者之一。

Personal privacy: 1. Long-term abstinence from sex in order to maintain efficient and rational thinking. 2. Collect a set of "Complete Works of Plot Rhythm"...

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"The Complete Works of Plot Rhythm?"

Liu Xing's eyes lit up, this is exactly the book he was looking for.

The information in "Secret Files of Important People in China" was collected 40 years ago. At that time, Huo Fu was a 38-year-old middle-aged man, and he should be 78 years old now.

Afterwards, Liu Xing hurried back to the first floor of the book bar to check information about Huo Fu on the Internet.

After the investigation, Liu Xing was delighted to find that Huo Fu was indeed still alive, and he was already the president of the Star Writers Association of Tianhai City, almost everyone in the writer circle knew him.

The information on the Internet shows that President Huo Fu's current address is Yufeng Community near Yufeng Fiction Academy.

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The night is dark.

The Yufeng community is surrounded by high walls, outside the wall in a patch of grass, a black figure is lying in ambush.

Sweeping around, there was no abnormality, and with a bang, Liu Xing jumped up, using his toes against the wall, bounced high into the air, jumped over the four-meter-high wall, and jumped into the community.

Whoosh!
The black shadow flickered, passed through the square of the community, and quickly swept to the residential building A of the community, like a black meteor, it disappeared into the dark corner in the blink of an eye.

"Hoffer lives in unit 501."

Liu Xing raised his head, looked towards the top of the residential building, silently counting the number of floors.

The lights in the room on the 5th floor are still on, and Hoffer hasn't rested yet?
"Explore first."

The body soared into the air, and along the wall of the building, Liu Xing performed the power of the gecko swimming the wall, and ran upward at high speed, 1 meter, 5 meters, 10 meters...

Not long after, he had already reached the height of the fifth floor, his feet hit the wall, his body suddenly changed direction, and he turned into a black shadow and jumped into a small balcony on the fifth floor.

This balcony faces a bedroom with white lights coming from the bedroom window.

Sticking against the wall, Liu Xing approached the window and looked into the bedroom. This is a spacious study room with an area of ​​nearly 40 square meters. There are many white bookshelves in the room, which are full of books.

"Could this be Huo Fu's study?"

After checking for a while, there is still no abnormality in the study room. The window of the study room is [-] centimeters wide, which is not too narrow.

Exercising the bone shrinking skill, Liu Xing passed through the window and entered the study with a sound of "chucking". Liu Xing's body fell to the floor lightly like a feather without making any sound.

There was no one in the study, so Liu Xing stood up and walked to the first row of bookshelves.

With a glance, a bunch of titles related to novel chess came into view: "Duan's Chess Manual", "Classic Dead Game of Novel Chess", "Advanced Layout of Novel Chess", "Plot Design of Novel Chess"...

Seeing this, Liu Xing basically confirmed that this is Huo Fu's study.Novel chess is a kind of chess used to practice the layout of the plot. Most readers of the plot genre have a game record of novel chess at home, and Huo Fu is no exception.

Skipping hundreds of chess books, Liu Xing wandered around among several bookshelves in the study, and finally saw a familiar word on the third shelf—Complete Works of Plot and Rhythm.

"So many books?"

Liu Xing frowned slightly, and saw a total of 1200 books on the bookshelves, all of which had black and white covers and the same name: "Complete Works of Emotion and Rhythm".

The plot law is the law of the plot evolution of the novel, which is like the law of the universe, profound and endless.Therefore, this set of "Complete Works of Plot and Rhythm" has 1200 volumes, which can be regarded as an encyclopedia of plot.

"With so many books, which one do I really need?"

It is estimated that it will take at least ten or eight years to learn all the 1200 plot rhythm books.

Fortunately, Liu Xing only needs to use plot rhythms to solve some problems in "The Method of Reading in the Same Situation and Different Situations", and does not need to learn the full set of plot rhythms.

Liu Xing began to look for plot rhythm books that suit him on the bookshelf.

Not long after, I heard a conversation. After careful identification, the sound seemed to come from the living room.

"Is anyone in the living room?"

Liu Xing came to the door of the study lightly, poked his head slightly, and looked towards the living room, only to see two people sitting on the sofa in the living room.

Sitting on the left is a 80-[-]-year-old man with white hair and kind eyes. He is the chairman of the Star Writers Association of Tianhai City, Huo Fu.

Sitting on the right is a familiar face, in his 50s, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses. It is Wu Guokun, the director of Jianshu Building.

At this time, there was a stack of documents on the desktop in front of Huo Fu and Wu Guokun, and the document was named "Application Form for Chinese Star Writers".

Seeing this, Liu Xing basically understood the situation.

As the chairman of the Star Writers Association, Huo Fu will be in charge of assessing star writers, and Huo Fu will naturally have to read these "China Star Writer Application Forms".

"President Huo, these five are the recent application forms for star-rated writers." Director Wu Guokun introduced, "The five applicants have all created a star-rated novel, which has passed the appraisal of the book testing center. Their average The age is only 27 years old, the youngest of them is only 17 years old."

"17 years old?" President Huo Fu frowned slightly, "Is that the little girl who created "Detective Conan: The Shadow Man?"

"Yes." Director Wu Guokun was curious, "President Huo, do you know Wang Lanlan?"

President Huo Fu smiled, shook his head and said: "I don't know this little girl, but I read her book "Detective Wang Nan: The Shadow Man" yesterday. The plot of this novel is good, especially the black shadow. The relationship between Ren and Jin Yuxin is very delicately written, and the subtle emotions of the hero and the beautiful woman are presented in the plot of a mystery novel, which is quite remarkable. I have never been able to write such emotional stories."

"You're right, this plot is really brilliantly written, it's the finishing touch." Wu Guokun agreed.

"Unfortunately, this "Detective Wang Nan: The Shadow Man" has an obvious shortcoming, that is, the characterization is too exaggerated and unreasonable."

President Huo Fu analyzed, "The hero of the novel, the shadow man, is so powerful that he is almost omnipotent. According to the description in the novel, the shadow man is not only highly skilled in martial arts, can instantly stun opponents, but also can fly over walls and run faster than The motorcycle is even faster. The shadow man is not only a righteous chivalrous man who fights for justice at night, but also a master thief. There is almost nothing he cannot steal. How can there be such an all-powerful person in reality? The descriptions of the shadow people are too exaggerated, which is a major failure of this novel."

Wu Guokun explained: "According to Wang Lanlan's statement, the description of the shadow man in the novel is all she saw with her own eyes, and she said that she really saw the shadow man."

President Huo Fu smiled knowingly, and said: "Wang Lanlan is just a little girl after all. She is still at the age of fantasy. She always likes some surreal ideas. This is also understandable. However, first-class mystery novels need rigorous logic. Characters like human beings who obviously violate common sense should obviously not appear in mystery novels, as it is the biggest logical loophole in itself.”

"I think the description of the shadow man is too exaggerated. How can a man fly..."

click!
The two were chatting, at this moment, there was a soft sound in the study.

"what sound?"

President Huo Fu found it strange that there was no one else in the house, and there should be no noise in the study. To find out, he got up and walked towards the study, followed by Director Wu Guokun.

When the two walked into the study, they found that there was no one there, and there seemed to be nothing unusual...

"President Huo, look!"

At this time, Wu Guokun pointed to the third bookshelf in the study and said, "Some books on the bookshelf are missing!"

President Huo Fu took a closer look, and his expression suddenly changed. The third row of bookshelves was originally filled with books of "Complete Works of Love and Rhythm", but at this time, there was a large blank space on the bookshelves, and dozens of books disappeared. up.

"Where's my book?"

President Huo Fu walked quickly to the bookshelf and searched back and forth, but he never found any trace of the lost books.The books on the bookshelf were still there a few hours ago, why did they suddenly disappear?

"Huh? What is this?" At this time, Wu Guokun pointed to the bookshelf, "President Huo, there is a message note!"

President Huo Fu also found out that there was a white note on the glass cover of the bookshelf, and a sentence was written on the note - "Use the borrowed book and return it in two days. The shadow man keeps it."

"Black... shadow man?"

Seeing these words, President Huo Fu's heart skipped a beat, and he looked around, "Is this note left by a shadow man? Is there really... a shadow man?"

Director Wu Guokun was also a little confused: "Could it be that the lost "Complete Works of Plot Rhythm" was stolen by the Shadow Man?"

"This...how is this possible?" President Huo Fu couldn't believe it at all, "We just kept guarding in the living room, and we didn't see anyone enter the study room at all. How could the shadow man steal the books?"

Director Wu Guokun thought for a while, and reminded: "According to the description in "Detective Wang Nan: The Shadowman", the shadowman can fly in the air, and it is easy for him to fly over the walls. He may have sneaked into the study."

"But... this is obviously unreasonable." President Huo Fu said, "How can human beings fly? Besides, there is no other entrance to my study, so how could the shadow man fly in? This is too weird!"

Director Wu Guokun asked: "What should we do now?"

President Huo Fu frowned, and his eyes fell on the note on the glass cover of the bookshelf. After thinking for a moment, he said: "The shadow man in "Detective Wang Nan: The Shadow Man" is very trustworthy. If my book is really If it was stolen by the Shadowman, then he should return the book in two days."

"Are you going to wait two days?"

"Although I still don't believe that there are any shadow people, this is very interesting, isn't it?" President Huo Fu himself came from writing mystery novels, and his curiosity is several times stronger than that of ordinary people.Encountered such an abnormal situation tonight, he naturally wanted to find out.

"We'll just wait two days and see."

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Holding dozens of copies of "Complete Works of Plot Rhythm", Liu Xing returned to Meteor Books.

In the next two days, he skimmed through these books, looking for the knowledge points of plot and rhythm he needed.

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Late at night, in the suite of Yufeng Community.

"Two days have passed, and tonight is the day for the shadow man to return the book." President Huo Fu sat on the sofa in the study, ready to wait for the shadow man to appear.

"It's already one o'clock in the morning, won't the shadow people stop coming?" Wu Guokun on the opposite side also looked puzzled, "President Huo, are we too naive to really believe that there are shadow people?"

President Huo Fu smiled and said: "This matter sounds really ridiculous, how could someone be able to fly over the wall..."

Snapped!
Just as he was talking, there was a sudden noise in the living room.

President Huo Fu was stunned: "Could it be that the shadow man appeared? Go, go out and have a look!"

After speaking, he and Wu Guokun hurried to the living room.

Looking around, there was no one in the living room.

It's just that there are a lot of books on the table in the living room!

President Huo Fu took a closer look and was immediately dumbfounded.

"This...these are the books I lost two days ago!"

President Huo Fu could hardly believe his eyes, these books actually came back.

How on earth did they come back?
This is the fifth floor, and the door of the suite is locked. Could it be that these books flew in with wings?

Snapped!
Before Chairman Huo Fu and Director Wu Guokun came back to their senses, there was another strange noise in the study.

The two hurried back to the study, but unfortunately, they still didn't see any figure.

However, another batch of books disappeared from the third row of bookshelves in the study!
On the glass cover of the bookshelf, there was a new note.The note reads - "Last time I borrowed the book, I benefited a lot, and I will offer the book loan fee as a token of my gratitude. The shadow man stays."

Next to the note, there were five hundred-yuan bills.

"500 yuan?"

Chairman Huo Fu picked up the 500 yuan, looked at it carefully, and was sure it was genuine.

"This black shadow man is really stingy. He took away dozens of books worth tens of thousands of yuan, but only gave him 500 yuan as a borrowing fee."

"The borrowing fee is not the point!" President Huo Fu looked at the 500 yuan in his hand, with a complicated expression on his face, "The point is...the shadow man really exists?"

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(End of this chapter)