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Secret room is a word closely related to reasoning.

"The Case of the Spotted Belt" is considered by many to be the most classic secret room murder case designed by Conan Doyle. It has a wider audience than the previous "The Red-Headed Club". This story has also been adapted into film and television dramas many times. It can be seen that its popularity.

What's even more interesting is that "Spotted Belt" has also been selected as a text.

Luoyang remembers that it was probably English Elective 10 in the senior high school textbook in his previous life. Also, when Luoyang was doing English cloze, he also encountered excerpts from "The Spotted Belt" and "The Man with Crooked Lips". They are all from "Sherlock Holmes".

In fact, as a short mystery novel, "The Speckled Belt" does not have a complicated story——

One morning, Holmes was approached by a female client named Helen Stoner.

She panicked and recounted some of the horrific experiences she had experienced, and invited Holmes to help her solve the case.

It turned out that the client had a sister before. After their biological father passed away, their mother married their current stepfather. The stepfather had a very bad temper. Later, their mother also passed away, so the two sisters moved to the previous house with their stepfather.

It was late one night a few years ago...

My sister unfortunately died in her room before she got married, and her last words were an inexplicable sentence: a spotted belt.

On the day before my sister died, while chatting with her, I once asked my sister slightly strangely if she had ever heard a whistle.

The younger sister claimed that she had not heard it, and now, her younger sister was about to get married, but just the night before yesterday, when she was sleeping in her older sister's room, she heard the strange whistling sound that her older sister had mentioned, and she couldn't help but feel particularly scared -

So the next day she immediately went to town to find Holmes.

What follows is the story of Holmes and Watson coming to the client's house to investigate and later uncovering the truth.

As the favorite short story of Conan Doyle himself and the majority of readers, "The Spotted Belt" has its own uniqueness. Luoyang clearly remembers the first time he read "The Spotted Belt" when he was still a high school student.

I watched it during class.

After reading it, he felt that "The Speckled Belt" was very ordinary and a bit over-the-top.

The content of the work is average, but it is very famous. This kind of example is actually relatively common. Luoyang thought "Spotted Belt" is also such a work.

But in the next Chinese language class, Luoyang found that he could not help but recall the plot of "The Spotted Belt", and when the time came at night, he couldn't get rid of the poisonous snake entering the secret room in his mind before going to bed. Picture...

A little panicked, a little scared.

This feeling is similar to the feeling that "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" gave Luoyang.

As a famous ancient work, "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" is known as the culmination of Chinese classical Chinese novels and the king of short stories. Its characteristic is that it seems ordinary at first glance, and even after reading it, you will feel like this, but in retrospect it is extremely interesting. profound.

Then Luoyang gradually fell in love with the famous "Spotted Belt".

What's even more interesting is that Luoyang's deskmate also watched "Spotted Belt" at the time. After watching it, he specifically asked Luoyang:

"It's really strange. I obviously feel that there is something special about "The Spotted Belt" that is particularly attractive. I don't particularly like the suspenseful atmosphere and thriller style of reading content, and some other chapters are not as suspenseful and thrilling as this one. This article seems to be particularly attractive, what’s going on?”

Luoyang, who was already interested in all kinds of literature at that time, expressed his feelings.

He explained it this way: "Because this story grasps the core points of the secret room, with various foreshadowings and hints emerging one after another, and the atmosphere is very sophisticated, and in the final ending, the snake releaser dies in the mouth of his own poisonous snake, which is very consistent. The reader’s sense of anticipation.”

Of course, the ending of this story also highlights the tough side of Holmes' character.

At the end of this story, Lao Fu calmly said to Watson: "My few blows of the vine whip aroused the snake's nature, so it bit the first person it saw. In this way, I There is no doubt that I am indirectly responsible for Dr. Grimsby Roylott's death, and I cannot in good conscience feel guilty about it."

I am indirectly responsible for his death, but in good conscience I don't feel guilty about it!

It must be admitted that many people felt secretly happy when they saw Lao Fu say this. This is the strong side of Holmes's character. As an excellent detective, Holmes's personality charm is endless. .

And when recalling the plot of "Spotted Belt".

Luoyang also typed out these plots word for word.

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[For eight years, I studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes in solving crimes, documenting more than seventy cases.

A cursory review of the records of these cases revealed that many were tragic, some were comic, a large number were merely bizarre, but none was ordinary.

This is because he does his work not so much for the reward as for the love of his craft. Except for cases that appear unique or even almost absurd, he has always been dismissive of other cases and refused to participate in any investigation. ]

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Same as the previous stories.

It is still unfolded from Watson's perspective.

Now with the vigorous development of the World Reasoning Competition, the impact is getting bigger and bigger.

Naturally, Luoyang's Sherlock Holmes has easily become famous all over the world. After all, participating in the World Mystery Competition with a series of works is already an extremely popular thing, and now that he has defeated his opponents one after another, Sherlock Holmes has become even more popular. An aura of invincibility.

Under such circumstances, Holmes's good gay friend Watson naturally became very popular.

After all, "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of the Four", and "The Club with Red Hair" are all unfolded from Watson's perspective, and it is obvious that Holmes and Watson have a very good relationship, which has caused many readers to start discussing The relationship between Watson and Holmes——

Of course, this is because there were only three Sherlock Holmes stories published.

This kind of discussion is only carried out on a small scale and is not as vigorous as in the previous life. In other words, it has not yet arrived.

Time passed bit by bit, and Luoyang had been writing "Spotted Belt". He had become accustomed to this kind of high-intensity coding, but when he was halfway through writing, suddenly...