Zhang Zhong's guess was correct. After Feng He returned from Chicago, he was stopped directly at the Yanjing airport by a group of domestic reporters.
Moreover, within a week after the Nebula Awards, his global sales of "Backside of the Earth" doubled.
"Look at how efficient this award is."
Seeing the news about Fenghe being reported on TV, her mother Hu Huifang said with a smile.
"If I want to double my sales, it will probably be a bit difficult." Zhang Zhongye said with a smile.
The sales volume of Feng He's new book has doubled because the sales volume of "Backside of the Center of the Earth" was not particularly high to begin with. And Zhang Zhong's book, even "The Clockwork Girl", which did not sell well, has sold thousands
Ten thousand.
If it were to double, it would be hundreds of millions.
After Zhang Zhong received the award in Chicago, he flew directly to Yundian.
As of now, their family has been playing in Yundian for more than a week.
There are not many cities to visit this year, so they will stay in Yundian for a while, and will not return to Jiangyang until early August.
It was also in Yundian that Zhang Zhong completed the first draft of "Blind Spot 2".
"Blind Spot 2" takes place two years after "Blind Spot 1" on the timeline, which is Qin Lang's fifth year as a criminal police officer.
The story begins with a disappearance case.
At first, someone reported missing in the jurisdiction, and the missing child was a child. Because the time was relatively short, it was not handed over to the criminal police team. However, within just forty-eight hours, another similar disappearance case occurred.
Because the missing boys were all around seven years old, and the missing locations were only less than two kilometers apart, these two pieces of information attracted great attention from the police department.
Qin Lang officially took over the case, and within twenty-four hours there was new progress in the case, but it was not good news. They finally found two bodies, which were the two missing little boys.
After extensive inspection and surveillance, they saw a suspect wearing a mask, sunglasses and a peaked cap.
He is 1.75 meters tall, weighs 60 to 65 kilograms, and is about thirty-five years old.
But apart from this information, because the place where the body was dumped was 20 kilometers away from the place where the child disappeared, the police judged that the suspect should have owned a vehicle such as a car.
The police have no idea what kind of means of transportation it was.
In desperation, the criminal police team could only conduct a large-scale investigation based on this only information.
The result was nothing.
The suspects revealed very few clues, which indicates that the two murders were likely premeditated. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the suspects to avoid key surveillance and find a suitable place to dump the bodies.
Locals are more likely to commit crimes.
However, after checking the social relationship, there was no connection between the two boys. Although they lived relatively close to each other, the two children went to different schools and the parents of the children had no contact.
In this case, the motive for the crime is difficult to determine.
Qin Lang and the others were very worried, especially because they were afraid of a perverted serial murder case.
If it is a perverted serial murder case, it means that there are likely to be other victims later, and the motive of the perverted murder case is "simple" and difficult to investigate.
Unlike ordinary homicide cases, where you kill for money, check the debts and interests, check the relationship between men and women for love murder, and check who the victim has grievances with. In any case, check the social relations of the victim.
, the suspect can basically be identified.
But whatever you are afraid of comes, and soon a third murder occurred, but it was not local.
The third murder occurred in Xin'an, and the victim was also a seven-year-old boy.
The forensic doctor told Qin Lang that the corpses of the three children had a distinctive feature, that is, the hearts were cut open.
Because there were many cuts on the body, this feature did not attract the attention of the forensic doctor in the first two cases. It was not until the third case that the forensic doctor speculated that the other cuts may have been made deliberately by the suspect to cover up the knife on the chest, in order to confuse police.
At the same time, Qin Lang learned from the forensic doctor that the murderer's dominant hand was his left hand, and the wounds were smooth, so it was likely that they were done by people working in related industries.
Even if he is not a doctor, he is still a person who often uses a knife.
Suddenly they got a lot of clues, but Qin Lang was not happy at all, because the murder happened in Xin'an, and the scope of their investigation suddenly expanded.
Before, they generally believed that the other party was most likely a local from Jiangyang, because it seemed that the suspect was very familiar with the local area of Jiangyang.
But judging from the third murder case, the other party seemed to be very familiar with the local area of Xin'an.
Someone even talked to the suspect. According to witnesses, the suspect's accent was a bit like that of a northerner and his voice was a bit hoarse.
Like northerners...
The case seems to be getting more and more complicated.
Even if the witness heard correctly and the other person was really from the north, it would be difficult to investigate because there are so many tourists visiting Xin'an every day, including many from the north.
Just when the case was at a loss, Qin Lang met Yu Chuan in Xin'an.
Yu Chuanxue is a well-known detective and is very famous in the criminal investigation field. Knowing that he was in Xin'an, Qin Lang went to find him, hoping to get some information from this well-known detective.
Manabu Yukawa was also very interested in this case, so he intervened in this case as a special expert.
In fact, Yukawa is very afraid of children and is not even willing to talk to children. However, although the victims in this case are children, it has no impact on Yukawa.
Originally, Qin Lang wanted Yu Chuan to analyze the murderer's psychology and why he targeted a seven-year-old boy.
But it is a pity that Yukawa is proficient in physics. Although he is very insightful, he has not studied much about criminal psychology.
The help he can give Qin Lang is to help discover some clues that no one has noticed, and to connect those clues that are unclear.
The first clue that Yu Chuanxue provided to Qin Lang was that he found something different on the other knife edges on the corpse. The other knife edges that were originally thought to be for the purpose of setting up a mystery were likely to be a special symbol.
In order to find out what these symbols were, Yukawa even called his friend Langdon in the United States.
After seeing the pictures, semiotics expert Langdon told Yukawa that he speculated that the blades may contain two symbols, namely the Lucifer coat of arms and the trident.
The Lucifer Crest is a special symbol that is said to be used by some Satanists, but does not appear often. It is said that the original purpose of its use was to help visualize the fallen angel Lucifer.
The trident is more common and represents Poseidon, the god of the sea. However, starting from the Middle Ages, this symbol began to symbolize the evil devil and the torture in hell.