Although the World Science Fiction Convention is still more than three months away, the special team established by the Jiangyang government for the World Science Fiction Convention has begun active preparations.
This special team is directly transferred from the previous Shenfan team, and the members inside have all experienced last year's Shenfan.
They produced a thick stack of planning documents, which covered every detail of Jiangyang's hosting of the World Science Fiction Convention.
The planning document was too thick, and Zhang Zhong did not read it carefully. He left the matter entirely to Chen Qing, asking him to actively cooperate with the special team's actions.
In order to prepare for the upcoming World Science Fiction Convention, it is not just the special team and the Wangwang Exhibition Hall that are mobilizing, but all walks of life in Jiangyang City are mobilizing.
Originally, Jiangyang had to be elected as a civilized city every year, and all aspects were strictly controlled. However, in order to prepare for the World Science Fiction Convention, this year's management was much stricter than in previous years.
Compared with the year when Zhang Zhonggang came back, Jiangyang now has two more subway lines, and the traffic situation is much better.
Moreover, the roads are much cleaner than before, and various entertainment venues are also vigorously controlled.
There are more flowers in the Iris Garden, the animal species in the Iris Mountain Zoo are richer, and the tourism development of Jiao Lake is more complete. Everything is developing in a good direction.
And according to statistics, in just two years, the volume of Jiangyang's cultural industry has increased by 230%, more than doubling.
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On May 5th, the new book "Crime Under the Sun", originally scheduled to be released at the end of April, was finally released to readers.
On the day the new book was released, Xu Zizai quickly got the new book and read it once.
This book is not long, and Xu Zizai did not deliberately speed up the process, but he still finished the book in more than three hours.
After reading "Crime Under the Sun", Xu Zizai's first feeling was that this book was very similar to the previous "Tragedy on the Nile".
Both books describe a woman who is extremely confident in her appearance, and their fates are very similar. In the end, her self-confidence backfires and she loses her life.
And there are similarities in the cases. They are all in a semi-closed island mode, using time differences to form clever and simple alibi.
However, such similarities will not make Xu Zizai feel bored, because despite such similarities, the two books still have their own wonderful features, which can make him read with gusto.
The murderers in both books are a couple, but Jacqueline in "Tragedy on the Nile" still has a love factor, but Christie in this book makes people feel that she is all about money.
If Xu Zizai felt a little pity for Jacqueline because of her infatuation when he read "Tragedy on the Nile", then when he read "Crime Under the Sun", he only felt disgust for Christie.
Moreover, the character of Christie seems to be in contrast to the heroine Alena. One is extremely confident because of her beauty and wealth, and is actually very stupid for her romantic nature. The other looks very low-key and knows how to hide, making people feel inconspicuous, but yet
The heart is like a snake and a scorpion.
The clues released in the Poirot series of novels are often very confusing during the reasoning process. It seems that Zhang Zhong not only wants to confuse the people in the book, but also wants to confuse the readers.
Almost no one can find the answer from the clues revealed at the beginning, and they may be led to a wrong path. Only Poirot's final explanation can make readers suddenly realize.
After reading "Tragedy in the Sun", many readers feel similar to Xu Zizai. They feel that this book is a companion volume to the previous "Tragedy on the Nile".
Some people also joked that Poirot was really a loser. Wherever he went on vacation, people would die.
And those who died were all rich and beautiful women.
From now on, rich beauties like this should stay away from Poirot, otherwise they may be killed if they are not careful.
Everyone is joking, but I still feel that the Poirot series likes to explore people's hearts as always.
Rather than saying that this is a suspenseful mystery novel, it is better to say that it is a novel that exposes the sinister nature of the human heart.
There is a sentence in the book that makes a deep impression: Under the sun, there is sin everywhere.
As a sequel, "Crime Under the Sun" maintains its previous standards, but at the same time it does not give readers too many surprises.
But for Poirot fans, seeing the new work is already a surprise, and they won't expect anything else.
Poirot is still the same Poirot, and it is a blessing for them to see Poirot continue to solve crimes.
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"It feels good to do academic research in such an environment." Sitting on the shore of Jiaohu Island, Fang Ya looked at ease.
Zhang Zhong added a little more tea to Fang Ya's empty cup. Behind them was Qingluo Xiaozhu Manor No. 8, which was also where Zhang Zhong and his family lived on the island for the first time.
During this May Day holiday, they didn't go far and just relaxed on Jiaohu Island.
As for Fang Ya, because he was too busy during the last multi-school exchange meeting, he did not talk to Zhang Zhong more. His goal of studying Zhang Zhong was not achieved, so he took advantage of this opportunity and came to Jiangyang to chat with Zhang Zhong alone.
chat.
Fang Ya just arrived today, so Zhang Zhong asked him to come directly to Jiaohu Island.
"Academic research is out of the question, let's just chat." Zhang Zhong picked up the tea cup and took a sip, then said with a smile.
"You are just chatting, I am doing academic research." Fang Ya also laughed, "I saw Llorente mentioned on the Internet before that your "Lord of the Flies" was based on what you guys did on the island.
conversation?"
"Absolutely." Zhang nodded and said, "We did talk about this when they came. I remember that Llorente suddenly mentioned one of his dreams while eating. Later we went to the island to play.
I suddenly mentioned the issue of isolated islands, and we all chatted for a while."
"Well, Llorente mentioned this, and he also said that he and Linde had different opinions at the time. He believed that in that case, people would immediately eliminate internally, leaving a small number of people. But Linde felt that people would
Coming from a civilized society, it takes a long time for internal elimination to occur.”
"Yes, I was very impressed by this. They also had a heated debate. Feng He and Affleck were also there. Affleck agreed with Linde's point of view, and Feng He synthesized their two views.
." Zhang Zhong said.
"Now it seems that you agree more with Feng He's point of view?"
"Not really, there are still some differences. The complexity of human nature cannot be summarized by one or two models. Various situations need to be discussed. It's just that the conditions I gave at the time were relatively simple, so everyone debated fiercely."