Mitate Shinyu has been a little troubled recently because Zhang Zhong got a magazine called "Zero Zero One" a few days ago.
This magazine is entirely in Chinese and is only available in China.
It’s not like Zhang Zhong didn’t publish his works in magazines before, but when they were serialized in magazines, they would also be serialized online. He could definitely read the books online.
But this time, "Zero Zero One" does not have a website, so if you want to read the articles in the magazine, you can only go to the bookstore and buy a copy.
The problem is, he's in Neon now.
As soon as the magazine came out, he asked Luo Sang to buy him a few copies and send them to him, but God knows what courier Luo Sang was looking for. A week passed, and the first issue of "Zero Zero One" had not been sent to him.
On hand.
Neon Kingdom and Huaxia Kingdom are not far apart.
In order to see "Harry Potter" that everyone in the book club was talking about, he even begged Luo Sang to take a photo of him.
He really didn't want to endure the feeling of reading a book with photos.
But Zhang Zhong’s magazine only has a Chinese version, not even an English version, let alone a neon version.
If there really is a foreign language version, I'm afraid there won't be a neon language version either, Mitate Shinsame thought pessimistically.
There is no way, the sales of Zhang Zhong’s books have not been good in Neon Country.
"Oh, it's another boring day." After a day's work, Mitate Shinyu walked out of the company with her handbag.
He works in a media company, and there is a small bookstore under their company's office building. After get off work, as long as there is nothing urgent waiting for him to do, he will definitely spend some time in the bookstore.
As a single man in his twenties, it is boring to go home too early.
Today was no exception. He went straight to the bookstore as soon as he got downstairs.
"Hey, Sakamoto, are there any new books today?" After entering the bookstore, Mitate Ariname smiled and asked the boss standing behind the cashier.
Because he comes here almost every day, the boss, Shinichi Sakamoto, has become friends with him.
Sakamoto raised the book in his hand and said, "Mr. Noma Ichiro's new book may interest you."
Mitate Shinsame shook his head, "I read the introduction during the previous promotion. It's a suspense novel? Noma's suspense novels really don't interest me. I haven't since he wrote "The Scarlet Letter in Kyoto"
I’ve read his novels.”
"Haha, strict Mitate-kun, then I think among the new books here today, apart from this book, there should be no books that you are interested in. You have never liked Hatano Hanada's love novels, and Mizukawa's urban novels.
You don't like it either." Sakamoto said with a smile. After knowing him for such a long time, he also understood Mitate Shinsame's reading habits.
Sure enough, Mitate Shinyu shook his head in distress, "Why are there always so many urban novels now? Have the imaginations of the authors of Neon Kingdom been lost?"
"Ha, because the sales of urban emotional novels have been very high recently."
"That's because there haven't been any good novels in other categories recently." Mitate Shinsame said, and at the same time he added in his mind that there are actually good novels, but because they are written by foreigners, the neon people don't buy them.
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Sakamoto hummed, "Recently, there are very few domestic novels in other categories. I remember three or four years ago, the bookstores were all thrillers, suspense, and mysteries, but now... Oh, by the way, there is a mystery novel today.
It was written by a new author, I almost forgot, the author’s name is Chiba Fuji.”
Mitate Shinyu raised his eyebrows and said, "A new author? Where is the book? Let me take a look."
Sakamoto Shinichi pursed his lips towards the corner of the bookshelf, "Over there, I bought five books. They should all be there. It seems that not many of them have been sold."
Mitate Xinyu walked over and said, "There are two copies left."
"Oh, we actually sold three copies. What an amazing sales volume." Sakamoto joked.
Mitate Shinsame nodded and picked up the trial book.
Being able to sell three books is considered a good result. After all, Sakamoto Shinichi's bookstore is very small and cannot sell many books every day.
Of course, the sample data is too small to explain much of the problem.
"The Devotion of Suspect X? Somewhat strange title."
Mitate Shinsame opened the book and began to read.
I just watched a section, and the first character that appeared, Shi Shen, was a strange high school teacher, but judging from the description, he was more like a private detective, with keen observation skills and superhuman logical abilities.
Maybe he will be the detective in this mystery novel.
Well, Stone God, that’s right.
The story that follows makes people feel bored. A middle school teacher secretly has a crush on a restaurant clerk - the single mother Yasuko Hanaoka who used to be a bartender.
"It's another cliche love story, hurry up and get into the main story, bastard, how can the detective have love? It's really a fool's errand." Mitate Shinsame didn't even realize that he, who usually doesn't make much noise when reading, could be so irritable.
of complaints.
The bad mood that "Zero Zero One" magazine brought him was still there.
But looking further back, the story suddenly exceeded his imagination. Hanaoka Yasuko accidentally killed her ex-husband Togashi Shinji.
"Oh, here comes the case. Shi Shen lives next door to Jingzi. He will definitely be involved. What will he do? Such a case should not be a problem for him. However, he will put his beloved woman
Send it to the police station? Probably, because detectives don't need love."
Sure enough, Shi Shen quickly discovered the truth behind Jingzi's murder.
But what Mitate Shinsame didn't expect was that the story began to develop in a direction he had never expected. Not only did Ishigami fail to expose Jingzi, he even helped them cover up the truth.
"You need an alibi."
"Alibi? But we don't have one at all."
"That's why it needs to be manufactured."
When he saw this paragraph, Mitate Shinyu was horrified. He had always thought that this stone god was a detective, but he did not expect that the other party turned out to be a criminal, and he was a careful and clear-minded criminal.
It was very difficult for Ishigami to create an alibi for the mother and daughter. Mitate Shinsame was also thinking about how to do it while watching.
The next story was not revealed immediately, but the camera turned and the police began to investigate the case.
The body was found on the bank of the river. It was completely naked and disfigured, and even its fingerprints were destroyed.
"If you want to completely cover up the deceased's information, will this method work? It should be found out soon. This stone god's method is nothing more than that. Oh, but why do you need to create an alibi..."
Sure enough, the police quickly found clues through the bicycle on the shore, followed the clues to find the hotel where the deceased had stayed, and then discovered the identity of the deceased, who was Shinji Togashi.
"I knew it would be discovered, ridiculous cover-up technique."
After the identity of the deceased was confirmed, the police began to find out the social relations of the deceased, and soon found out the mother and daughter Jingzi. However, what surprised Mitate Xinyu was that Jingzi and the others actually had alibi, and their alibi were very good.
It was enough, I even kept the ticket stubs from the movie I watched that night.
How is this done?
You can't buy movie tickets after the movie is over. They won't sell them. Could it be that they were bought from others? But the question is, how did Shi Shen know who went to the movie at that time and kept the movie ticket stubs?
With it? Or picked it up from the trash can in the movie theater?
Could this be a flaw?
Obviously, the police did not completely believe this alibi, so they continued to investigate.