Falsifying history is good business

Chapter 273 The Illegitimate Sons and Descendants of the Holmes Family

According to the theory that "a blank sheet of paper is easier to paint on", rewriting James Moriarty in the second film is much more difficult than Blackwood in the first film. However, this did not happen in Lin You's writing.

Now that the political scandal created by Blackwood has been covered up, we should just continue to deal with the diplomatic scandal created by Moriarty in the same way.

As the world hegemon in the late 19th century, the British Empire needed to maintain the existing world order and the superficial peace with its allies and opponents. Naturally, it needed the help of a man like Mr. Mycroft Holmes who was sensible, had a sense of the overall situation, was highly skilled and good at maneuvering.

When it comes to covering up the truth, isn't it true that McCovey is pretty good at it?
For Lin You, there is one obvious advantage: Sir Conan Doyle did not actually spend much time on the characterization of Moriarty; reading the text of the original novel itself has a sense of "leaving something to be said but not yet said" or "stopping at the right point".

It makes perfect sense to interpret this writing style as "being pressured by those in power to conceal most of the facts and having to tell the story in a cover-up."

So, when he saw Holmes and Moriarty falling down the waterfall with their limbs entangled, Lin You picked up the quill pen and wrote it down according to his previous ideas.

When all the text was finalized and I stopped writing, I indeed eliminated the main logical contradiction in one fell swoop, allowing this story, which had undergone two adaptations, to be smoothly integrated into the big world.

Compared with the rewriting of the stories of gods, the rewriting of human stories is different in difficulty. The difficulty of integrating the stories of gods lies in the gods themselves; the difficulty of integrating the stories of humans lies in the logic of the stories.

Many gods in the virtual dimension have the ability to see through the truth of the world. When the world merges, if the rewritten content is not to their liking, they are fully capable of refusing to accept it. At this time, they can either suppress it by force or compromise with each other. This is why different versions of the same god can only be merged through concepts such as the divine clone and divine thoughts.

Humans are different; no matter how smart a person is - such as the Sherlock Holmes brothers - it is impossible for them to see through the truth of the world; when rewriting, as long as the logic of the story is straightened out, it is entirely possible to merge two different versions of a person into one person.

In fact, if you encounter a human story that you can't make logical sense of, you can just choose to discard the less well-known and influential story world; humans who can't see through the truth of the world are unlikely to protest. This is what writers did in the past; think about it, there are many adaptations and remakes of "The Count of Monte Cristo", and they all merged into the big world smoothly, right?

However, this time it was a deliberate test by the gods, so Lin You could not take the approach of "discarding" and had to bite the bullet and integrate all the stories with serious conflicts in worldview logic. If it was the same as in the past, integrating the story of Sherlock Holmes would not be a big problem.

After confirming that the fusion of this movie world was complete, a new portal opened beside Lin You; the other side of the portal was no longer the rough and dirty industrial city of the 19th century, but the financial center of Europe in the 21st century, and also the last ray of light of the British Empire.

One step forward, and it feels like a lifetime ago.

It was still the city of London, but the haze in the sky was gone; the dark, rough, and gloomy impression was quickly replaced by colorful, neon photos. Looking at the smartphones all over the street, Lin You had the illusion of returning to his previous life, but he soon woke up.

This is not the real dimension, but the story world of Sherlock Holmes. This BBC mini-TV series moved the story of Sherlock Holmes from the 19th century to the 21st century. This series has a great influence all over the world, including in China. When the British Prime Minister visited China, some Chinese netizens petitioned the Prime Minister to help urge the production team of the series. As a result, the TV series was not expedited, and the Prime Minister himself stepped down because of the Brexit referendum...

To get back to the point, when Lin You watched this drama, he always had a thought in his mind: the rapid development of science and technology has provided more and more efficient ways to investigate criminal cases; in this case, how much room does Sherlock Holmes' method of solving cases, which relies on intelligence and observation to deduce and solve puzzles, have to survive?
Thinking of the relaxing experience of watching the play in the past, and thinking about the challenges he is facing now, Lin You couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. Although he already had a draft of the rewriting plan, the plan was just a plan, and it was still unclear whether it would be accepted by the world.

"The first thing to solve is the origin of Sherlock Holmes." Lin You murmured to himself.

Since they are to be integrated into the same world, the Sherlock Holmes of the 21st century will definitely not be the same person as the Sherlock Holmes of the 19th century. After all, this is a detective drama, not a science fiction time-travel drama, nor a fantasy drama or myth drama about reincarnation.

This time when the quill pen put pen to paper, it was heavier than the rewriting process of the previous two worlds.

"Even though many of the stories were edited for political reasons, the Sherlock Holmes stories left by Dr. Watson still have a profound influence; the most obvious manifestation is that every generation of the Holmes family has a family member named "Sherlock". Even more interesting is that one or two of these "Sherlocks" have indeed demonstrated extraordinary detective skills.

For example, the Sherlock Holmes who lives in twenty-first century London is the fourth or fifth generation descendant of the nineteenth century Mycroft Holmes.

It is clear that this 221st century Sherlock prefers to follow his great-uncle or great-great-uncle as a role model rather than his direct ancestors. He moved into Baker Street, a flat that had been in the family for more than a century, and opened a private detective agency.

Having written this, Lin You stopped; looking around, he could vaguely see some cracks in time and space caused by some logical contradictions in his worldview.

The golden words gradually faded and merged into the world; but the cracks in time and space did not decrease, and they still stubbornly appeared in front of the writer. This shows that the world accepted the rewriting of the quill pen. The Sherlock Holmes of the 21st century could be the descendant of the Mycroft Holmes of the 19th century, but such rewriting did not completely solve the logical contradiction.

Looking up at the sky, the "Earth" of the big world is in sight, and the fusion program has been started.

Picking up the pen again, Lin You felt increasingly nervous; the next rewrite would not only involve minor changes, but would also require major adaptations to the story and character settings of the TV series.

Such a large rewrite has never occurred in previous missions - it is like trying to actively create the "unknown", which is an unprecedented attempt.

Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Success or failure will be revealed in a moment.

(End of this chapter)