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Chapter 8 Creation One
Excluding some themes that don't fit your own character settings, there are not many options left.

Peyton didn't understand many popular themes now, such as religious themes and exposure medicine.

Even if you understand it, the content written is not amazing enough, and it is difficult to compete with those famous writers.

Don't think about challenging others in other people's fields!
Be careful and choose the most familiar field for creation is the best.

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Suspense reasoning, detective novels-this is Peyton's last choice.

Payton is familiar with this type.

In his previous life, he was also a fan of detective reasoning, perhaps starting with "Sherlock Holmes".

Later, he gradually became interested in this aspect. He has collected and studied many suspenseful and reasoning novels, movies, and TV works.

From Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, to the three giants of the golden age: Agatha Christie, queen of reasoning, Ellery Quinn, king of logic, and John Dixon Carr, "King of the Chamber of Secrets" The work of et al.

Of course, he has also read the works of Seicho Matsumoto, Keigo Higashino...Zijin Chen, Ning Hangyi, Remy and others.

The 40s in the United States was the golden age of reasoning and detective novels, and the three giants almost reached their peak during this period.

During the Golden Age, this subject basically occupied half of American popular fiction.

Up to now, in the 50s, popular novels flourished.

Although I dare not say that mystery novels still occupy half of the country, they are still one of the largest categories in the field of popular literature. Only romance and science fiction can compete with it.

At the same time, detective reasoning involves crimes. Payton, who has a police chief father, can collect materials perfectly and satisfy the logical derivation of human beings that he can write novels at this age.

Family history!

Four simple words can summarize it and explain why he can write such works at this age.

This theme is very logical!

Payton thought in his heart and felt that his creative ideas were clear enough, so he began to conceive his first novel.

Peyton does not intend to write traditional detective novels. With Zhu Yu from the Sherlock Holmes series ahead, this road is not easy.

Even Grandma's Detective Poirot series is overshadowed by Sherlock Holmes.

At the same time, this road is not friendly to the author, and the legendary detective will obscure the brilliance of the author.

For example, when mentioning the queen of reasoning, Agatha Christie, many people think of "Murder on the Orient Express" and "None Survived"...

When it comes to the author of Sherlock Holmes, some people only know the name Arthur Conan Doyle after searching the encyclopedia.

Sherlock Holmes is too glorious!
Moreover, the writers of this style have been rampant these years, and the three giants have not yet closed their pens. If they want to compete with them, they must innovate.

Write a new book - write suspense novels in the guise of reasoning!

After thinking about it, Payton began to write.

Suspense novels must be amazing, the murderer will make readers unable to guess, let them feel enough reversal, enough brain-burning, until the last moment, decrypt it, and give the greatest shock.

Absolutely not leaving the slightest flaw in the front, to achieve a perfect criminal form, can make people's eyes bright and amazing enough.

Soon, Peyton began to set several premises for the novel.

The background of the premise of the story is set to murder in a secret room with the mode of Blizzard Villa.

The setting of the chamber of secrets is very old, and was once badly written, but it is full of ritual, and the scene of a crime is often more suitable for reasoning crimes!
Condoms match bedside, detectives match secret rooms, this is the law of nature.

Making a Blizzard Mountain Villa: Ten people were trapped in a hotel on the way in a continuous rainstorm.

After thinking for a moment, Peyton began to set up his first character - the professor old man.

The professor, the finishing touch, increases the connotation of the novel, a symbol of wisdom.

Wisdom, mystery, few words, but amazing words, these labels are temporarily attached to the professor.

Sometimes, one sentence of his can make people have more associations with the story.

As we all know, what writers of novels like most is all kinds of readers' brain supplements.

History has proved that Naobu sent the author to the altar.

The role of the professor can give readers more brain supplements through action guidance and language.

Moreover, the subject matter of fantasy novels has been very popular in recent years, and the prophets and even sages in them are all popular characters.

In the mouths of these sages, the famous quotes of Socrates, Plato and other sages are repeatedly quoted, and Peyton intends to learn from them to improve the style of the work.

As for famous quotes, you can quote some oriental sages, what you want is a half-understood style!
At the same time, the role of the professor is also the embodiment of the author, and the rhythm is controlled by this character.

The first positive character is set.

Peyton sets out to create the first and most definite murderer—a murderer.

The robbery and murderer was escorted to the prison by a policeman, but because of the heavy rain along the way, he had to be trapped in the hotel.

The beginning of the story - the murderer broke free, and then everyone found the first dead in the first secret room.

After thinking about it, Peyton planned to make the deceased a rich second generation.

Kill for money.

According to everyone's deduction, the murderer in the secret room broke free and was about to escape. Before that, he wanted to get some travel expenses, so he killed the rich second generation, so that he could escape easily after the robbery.

The story continued—the crowd began to look for the murderer under the leadership of the police. Under the reminder of the professor, everyone did not disperse. Three or five people gathered together to maintain full vigilance against the murderer.

The identity of the policeman, after thinking about it, Payton plans to reverse it later.

Justice is most likely to be dark.

This perfectly matches the perception of the audience.

Black policemen and scolding the government in a free federation are even equal to political correctness.

In this free air, as long as you don't offend the big capitalists, you are free, whether in body or soul.

It can also be regarded as fixing a loophole-why enhance the role of the professor.

The fake cop, knowing that he doesn't have the qualities of a real cop, keeps silent, giving the professor the dominant position.

Here we can deliberately downplay the role of the police, use professors to guide people's actions, replace the role of this "fake police" and make up for loopholes.

This makes sense.

Immediately afterwards, the first reversal began-a black shop, the owner opened a black shop, and he was a hidden murderer.

Of course, characters need contrast to add charm.

On the surface, the boss is gentle, wears a clean and tidy suit, loves to read the Bible, and likes to pray. He looks like a devout saint.

It looks modest and polite, in stark contrast to the dark image.

Peyton intends to set the boss as a highly educated, but psychopath, with anti-social psychology, just like a rainy night butcher, a psychopath who is a natural killer.

This kind of killer is very quiet and unassuming. As long as he doesn't kill you, he is actually quite likable. The prototype is based on Liang Jiahui's "Rainy Night Butcher".

The boss accidentally discovered the original owner of the hotel—an elderly couple who had no other relatives, and he had the idea of ​​killing people.

In the end, he succeeded in inheriting this hotel with nowhere to go, opened a black shop, and repeatedly kidnapped, raped, killed, murdered and murdered travelers who were alone...

Hotel - his hunting ground!

This is his crime paradise!

Demons on earth, angel faces.

Peyton even felt that more ink could be used to set this boss as a metaphor for capitalists.

Since capital appeared in the world, every pore has been filled with cream and honey.

Black shopkeepers and capitalists have a lot in common, both are beasts in clothes.

Moreover, the fortunes of both are bloody and violent, and they are constantly oppressing and enslaving others.

It's just that the capitalist is very subtle, while the boss is even more naked, even full of blood and death.

"Increase the tension!"

"Adding more content to insinuate can change the boss's love of reading the Bible into his love of reading Das Kapital."

"Pray with Das Kapital, bring a pistol to make peace, a saint who loves to read Das Kapital? A devil with wings. Thinking about it, I think this role is very good!" Payton couldn't help but smile.

At the same time, the setting is biased towards the religious level, and some murders are bloody scenes with a little color of Cthulhu, satisfying the strong demands of novelty hunters.

Under the interpretation of Liang Jiahui, the butcher on a rainy night is also a charming character.

This kind of crazy setting is more in line with some people with a novelty-seeking psychology. Nowadays, popular novels have a lot of novel-seeking readers.

In the free air, suicide rituals happen every year, not to mention curious readers.

After thinking about it, Peyton felt that it would be more reasonable to go to Mr. Chris to collect some case files, and use some real examples of bloody crimes on the boss to visualize them.

Violent elements are also an indispensable part of mystery novels.

This kind of psychopathy requires more case integration and specific descriptions. After all, Peyton is a normal person and cannot understand psychopathic thinking.

"Huh? Psychopath? Prove that you are a normal person and fly over the lunatic asylum?"

I have to say that the human mind is really a magical thing, as long as it spreads out, there is nothing unimaginable.

With just a few words, Peyton thought of a classic movie again.

In the future, maybe I can write it out and use it in my own works.

About how to prove that you are not crazy?

This point of view is also very novel in later generations, let alone now?
It is very good to use it in literary works!
The story continues. During the inspection, under the torrential rain, the underground remnants were exposed, and everyone discovered the boss's secret.

Everyone found several corpses that had not been properly disposed of in the soil of the backyard. At this time, several corpses had turned into bones, which was especially terrifying.

The professor also found some clues left by the previous guests, and knew that the owner of the hotel was a murderer.

Everyone couldn't care about the murderer who escaped before, and with the help of the police, they quickly brought the boss under control.

At the same time, in the process of interrogating the boss, the police suddenly found the wallet of the former rich second generation on the boss, and the stolen money was stolen, and the boss couldn't argue with it.

At the professor's suggestion, the crowd left a few people to control the boss, while the police led a few people to continue to search for the escaped murderer.

Then began the second reversal - on the way to search, the police and others found the murderer's body!
After everyone's investigation, perhaps in the process of fleeing, the murderer didn't see the way clearly, and fell into a trap, and the murderer died!

The story seems to end here.

The murderer is dead, the boss who killed the rich second generation was caught, perfect!
Then the third reversal - the boss is dead.

Seeing that the murderer was dead, the police and others could only go back.

This time they went back, but they found that the tied boss was also dead.

The boss was still tied up, his mouth was gagged with a towel, a dagger was stuck in his chest, and the wooden stake behind him was nailed to death, blood was everywhere, and it had dried up.

He had been bleeding for an unknown amount of time, his eyes were wide open, and he could not rest in peace.

It's like a religious suicide scene, so terrifying!
After some questioning, the people who were in charge of guarding the boss before began to explain.

There was a strong wind blowing outside before, the windows were broken, and the rain kept coming in. The sound matched the gloomy, and the atmosphere was weird.

In order to be safe, everyone went to the firewood house together to find suitable tools and repair the windows.

They tied the boss's five-flowered rope again, and after making sure that the boss would not escape, they left with peace of mind.

Unexpectedly, when he came back, the boss died.

There were two groups of people at this time, one group followed the police to arrest the murderer, and the other group went to the firewood house.

These people are acting collectively, proving each other's innocence.

But the boss couldn't have committed suicide, and the real murderer must still be hiding among them.

At this time, the rich second generation, the murderer, and the boss died, and there was an unknown murderer among them.

There were only policemen left in the hotel, a young couple, a pastor, a couple of doctors, and an elderly professor.

There are seven people left in total.

In terms of occupation or label, Peyton set these people as kind and lawful characters to increase the difficulty of the game.

For the setting of the roles of the young couple, after thinking about it, Peyton added a dark line of emotion-the two young people disregarded the opposition of the two families, broke through the shackles of class, and the gap in social status, eloped because of love, and now The girl is still pregnant.

From the perspective of later generations, some bloody romance lines are still very popular and in line with the trend in this era.

"Gone with the Wind" is still a classic in the minds of a generation.

To be honest, "Thunderstorm" is also bloody from the perspective of today's people.

Of course, experts all study the deeper historical changes and social contradictions in the novel.

However, with this skill, why not study history books?
Even if we are allowed to write a few novels of the Republic of China, it can give us a little more understanding of that somewhat confused era.

Payton is not superstitious about the so-called golden age where masters are everywhere, and the times are always moving forward, but he is also yearning for the extraordinary years of that period, including the history of great men.

Peyton shook his head and continued to conceive of the novel.

For the setting of pregnant women, this is also considered for the following stories.

In the perception of the federal universal view, how could pregnant women and children be murderers?

This is the blind spot perception of the public.

Both are harmless!
In this blind spot, children and pregnant women will appear in many reasoning cases.

They are either the fog thrown up by the author, or the real murderer, no matter which one they are, as long as they are combined with enough reversals to make the story reasonable, they can make people's eyes shine.

Peyton set up this character as a pregnant woman to reduce the threat of women to the limit, so as to facilitate the possible reversal later.

The role of the priest is to cater to the popular theme of religious novels.

Setting up a rational pastor who wanders between theology and science and insists on explaining theology with scientific thinking can be regarded as a popular character with a distinctive personal style.

The conflict between madness and reason, the conflict between theology and science, is full of stories, which fits this crazy era.

It can even expand the identity of the priest, and even add some tragic colors.

I have been a pastor all my life, but I was told that God does not exist.

"God, what is that? The empty sustenance enshrined in the heart by others, Oklito, as a priest, you should see clearly."

"The people need him to maintain the faith in their hearts, and we need him to maintain the wallet in their pockets. He is illusory, but our pockets are full." A bishop told him after he was drunk.

From that day on, the meaning of his life changed and he wished he could prove the existence of God.

Even if it is illusory, it does not mean that it does not exist.

He tries to understand His way of being in a scientific way.

The pastor worked hard to learn scientific knowledge and spent his entire life time and energy, hoping to use scientific methods to verify the existence of God.

The end of science is theology.

This is the collision of reason and ideal.

At the same time, a story line can be added between him and the previous murderous boss, a line about religion, and it can also be used to talk about Peyton's understanding of Eastern religious philosophy.

In the history of Eastern religions, there has never been a lack of philosophical stories that seem to be inscrutable and even enlightening, such as the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng's debate and Huang Lao's theory of Taoism.

Changing it up a little bit will definitely fool the readers of these federations into a daze.

The setting of the doctor is to facilitate the continuation of reasoning, to obtain clues from the corpse or other aspects, and to promote the subsequent development of the plot.

As we all know, with the occurrence of the case, the coroner becomes especially important, and some detectives are even qualified anatomists.

Doctors can also play such a role here.

Sherlock Holmes also has Watson to discover blind spots, and Peyton designed a doctor character who can also stand up when everyone needs to discover blind spots. It can be regarded as a patch.

This role is very important to reason about the development of the plot later.

After thinking about it, Peyton felt that it could be more fancy and add some modern fancy medical methods, which would make people's eyes shine and prove the value of doctors.

As for the fancy medical detective techniques, such as the luminol reagent for detecting blood stains, dripping blood stains...

The techniques of many American dramas can be used for reference.

These are detective methods that rarely appear in this day and age.

The story continued, under the command of the police, everyone explained their previous whereabouts.

As for, is there anyone who can testify, is there an alibi?
Everyone quickly proved each other, and everyone could produce corresponding alibi.

Of course, this kind of alibi is not difficult, it all depends on the author's setting, as long as Peyton modifies it at will to reveal a little clue, it can be corrected quickly.

The professor who had been silent all this time said: "The truth often needs to peel off layers of fog. Let's communicate with each other. Maybe some of us are lying, but lies can also help us find the ultimate truth."

"The boat heading for truth may lose its way, but only for a while."

This setting is a bit like werewolf killing, through the judgment of human nature, through language communication, to find the murderer.

Hearing this, everyone agreed in their hearts, and then quickly communicated.

The pastor just started talking about his own set of gods and ghosts one second, and the next moment he refuted himself in a scientific way.

Theology and science seemed to be colliding with each other. Coupled with the pastor's rambling, the atmosphere was very strange.

He is like a lunatic full of ideals.

The story structure is here, and Peyton puts down his pen.

He frowned slightly: "No, the conflict is not strong enough, not thrilling enough, and there is no sense of urgency like life and death!"

This sense of urgency and rhythm is what attracts readers the most. Obviously, it is not enough now.

For his first work, Peyton hopes that the degree of completion is not just "qualified", but that he hopes to be good enough, even amazing!

"Add a little setting, enhance the atmosphere, and guide the reader's emotional changes."

After thinking for a long time, Payton suddenly thought of the game of death roulette.

"With the order of death, the atmosphere is enough, and the next crowd began to panic!"

Payton thought about that atmosphere, and he felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

Authors are like this, as long as they can substitute into it, they are willing to be sad or happy for the characters they write.

It is also for this reason that many authors of depression and suicide have been born.

For such depression, the best way is not to get into it too deeply. Smart authors can learn from tentacle monsters and flood their brains with a lot of updates.

Once you write it, you pass it, your mind is only thinking about the story behind, your hands are only focused on the code words, you don’t get into the horns, you are definitely not depressed, and you can still earn a lot of money to satisfy your degenerate life in the foot-washing city.

Rarely confused!

Rare depression!

"And in such an atmosphere, I can use the priest's words to induce people to think of ghosts killing people!"

"Ghosts kill people, pen immortals kill people, this kind of restricted-level themes are synonymous with bad movies in later generations, and the result is usually that everything is fantasized because of some kind of drug, but it is still relatively novel among the current suspense detective themes. Incorporating it into it can be considered to be in line with the previously set religious mystic elements."

The story continues. Now that the rich second generation is dead, there is a high probability that he was murdered by the boss who tried to make money, and he has already obtained the stolen goods.

The murderer fell into the surrounding traps, perhaps by accident.

While the boss was tied up, he was killed.

The death of the boss is absolutely impossible to be a suicide, the murderer must be hidden among them.

Following everyone's words and words, everyone seemed to be free of suspicion, and they all had alibi.

The clue seemed to be completely disconnected here, and then, under the prompt of the professor, everyone noticed the change of the number plate.

"The young man seems to be number ten, the murderer is number nine, and the boss is number eight. It's too coherent."

The young man smiled slightly: "There is a cemetery nearby. It can't be a ghost killing people, it must be a coincidence."

The professor shook his head: "But too many coincidences happen at the same time, so it must not be a coincidence!"

Hearing these words, the pastor said firmly, "It's not a coincidence, it's destiny!"

"Tao follows nature, everything is preordained!"

"It is He, it is He who has come!"

As he said that, the pastor seemed to think of his number plate, his face changed suddenly, his eyes were a little confused, and he kept muttering in a low voice, as if he was praying.

Immediately afterwards, the priest shook his head frantically: "No, there is no destiny, God cannot control fate, God does not exist..."

Speaking of this, the pastor's mental state appeared abnormal.

In other words, since decades ago, there have been problems with his mental state, and it broke out completely at this moment.

At this moment, he seemed to see God floating in the air, with this holy radiance blooming all over his body.

He looked a little crazy, a little incoherent.

Soon, he picked up the cross hanging on his chest, fell to the ground, and faced the air, making a prayer appearance.

"Lord, forgive the lost lamb, forgive me for questioning you!"

The next moment, the pastor's face changed again, the original piety completely disappeared, he roared into the air, his whole body was like an angry lion, comparing the front and back, it was like schizophrenia.

"No, you are not God, you are just a fantasy imagined by me!"

"You are a fake, there was never a Jesus, there was never a God!"

"You are illusory and have not been confirmed by me. You should not appear in this dimension."

Roaring and shouting angrily, the pastor at this time has completely fallen into madness, with devout believers on one side and extreme scientific heresy on the other.

The collision of science and theology seems to be a complete lunatic.

Seeing the pastor's appearance, everyone around was startled, and subconsciously left the pastor's surroundings.

Under the guardianship of their lovers, pregnant women should stay away from priests so as not to be injured.

The same is true for the police and the doctor couple. The professor looked at the pastor seriously, as if thinking of the previous topic.

After a long time, the pastor finally calmed down, not waiting for everyone to have any communication with him.

The pastor suddenly pulled out the dagger that stabbed the boss to death, and said with serious eyes and calmly: "After I die, if I don't go to heaven or fall to hell, then there is no God!"

As he spoke, he plunged the dagger into his heart fiercely.

Science and theology have been entangled for a lifetime. At this moment, with life as a bet, the pastor is about to get the answer.

It's just this answer, maybe only he will know forever.

But when I heard it in the morning, I could die in the evening.

Priests should be content!

(End of this chapter)