Yunyang Novelist Luanbu

The smooth floor does not cover the sound of footsteps like a carpet, but there is still no particularly loud sound in the corridor.It wasn't until after the door was knocked that it was absolutely certain that someone was moving in the hallway.

Ayanokōji had just returned from the Yokohama train station, and ended his inexplicable exploration and investigation with a person whom he had only met three or four times.

Generally speaking, it is impossible for people who have no connection to come together suddenly to cooperate for a wild speculation and decision.At least from Ayanokoji's point of view, how to cooperate even if the interests are not unified.But if the initiator is Edogawa Ranpo, and those who follow him, like Ayanokoji and Oda Sakunosuke, do not raise objections, everything becomes reasonable again.

When the door knocked, Ayanokōji said in a flat tone, "I'm here."

The middle-aged man named Matsuo pushed open the door of the room.

This middle-aged man is the deacon entrusted by Ayanokouji's father to manage Ayanokouji in the legal sense. He is now nearly 60 years old.When you smile, the muscles around the cheeks will change accordingly, so you can see that it is a real smile.

"I bought the pine smoke, Japanese brush, Duan inkstone and rice paper you wanted." He said as he put the bag directly on the table, "Do you want to start practicing calligraphy? I'm not sure what you want to practice is Chinese calligraphy , or pseudonym Shudao, so I bought a copy of both guides.”

Calligraphy is a basic skill that Ayanokōji has learned before. Now it is no longer the learning stage of studying the shape of characters and strokes. He has already started to learn how to express artistry and thought through characters.But Ayanokōji still prefers to imitate, because he doesn't want to be guessed about his inner thoughts.

Ayanokōji didn't respond to Matsuo's almost concerned words, but said, "You've been away longer than I thought."

Matsuo was noncommittal: "It's hard to find a bookstore that sells the pens, inks, papers and inkstones you want. It took some time." Matsuo seemed to be thinking, but also seemed to be phrasing. After a pause, he said: "Mr. After arriving here, I seldom have a good time around Yokohama. Do you want to find another day to go out for a walk? This is not WhiteRoom. You don’t need to listen to anyone. It’s okay to say no. If you want to go out for a stroll, I will also I can cover for you."

WhiteRoom is actually an educational institution established by Ayanokōji's political father in order to return to politics and make a comeback.This kind of educational institution aims at fully mechanized, systematic, data-based, and mass-produced artificial talents.All children admitted to institutions cannot be older than six years old.

This is based on the research of Professor Richard of Harvard Behavior.

Because there are only three opportunities for children to peak brain development, and the two golden periods are concentrated between the ages of 0 and 6, but babies will face more survival problems and require researchers to spend more energy, so as long as they are between the ages of 3 and 6 Children in between can also be discovered, and the completion rate of brain development of children at this time has exceeded 70.00%.

Ayanokōji belongs to the former group. He was sent to WhiteRoom for training at birth. The range of education he received was wide and deep, and his professional skills far exceeded the requirements of ordinary elite education. The ability achieved before the age of 12 can far exceed his age. It is a basic requirement to be twice as social elite as yourself.And with this kind of return, there must naturally be corresponding sacrifices - a real and cruel elimination rate, absolute obedience at the expense of the child's nature and autonomy, and the necessary emotional education for the child's growth.

Matsuo does not agree with this dehumanizing education, so he hopes to see Ayanokouji express more of his ideas.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ling Xiaolu responded without thinking: "No, this will be fine."

Ayanokouji is indeed curious about the outside world in essence, but he doesn't have much enthusiasm for it.After all, he is used to doing certain things with a purpose. If he does not have any reason and goal to do something, he will not have any enthusiasm.If it wasn't for being entangled by Edogawa Ranpo when he went to let the wind happen by accident, he wouldn't go out frequently without telling the administrator.

"..."

This is not the kind of refusal Mr. Matsuo wanted.

"If there is nothing else, I want to stay alone in the room." Ayanokōji flipped open an original German book.

Deacon Mr. Matsuo is not good to stay in the room.

After confirming that the person had left, Ayanokōji stood up and put the "Reference Records" given by Oda Sakunosuke in the depths of the bookshelf.Because the book is very thin, there is nothing unnatural about being pressed down by several books.

After the end, he got in touch with Sajiro Yamamoto.

Ayanokouji didn't like people to probe him.But now Ranpo has completely stepped on Ayanokoji's bottom line.When Ayanokōji returned to his room, he found that someone had entered his room.Regardless of whether Ayanokōji is in the house or not, he will draw heavy curtains during the day and night, so that even the light will not penetrate into the house, so it is necessary to turn on the lights in the house to see the environment clearly.

Matsuo wouldn't enter Ayanokouji's house casually.Because he is not like the researchers of WhiteRoom, even the privacy of the students is monitored.But if other people who don't know want to enter the house, they must turn on the light.Therefore, Ayanokoji has tampered with the light switch, and there is a thin layer of dust on it. Ayanokoji never directly switches the switch with his hands. If there are other fingerprints on the dust, you can know that someone has entered you. s room.

But that's pretty basic.

If someone came in from the window, Ayanokōji also manipulated the distance between the curtain hanging loops.If the other party came in, they would definitely move the curtains.In other words, even if the other party doesn't want to turn on the light after coming in, he still needs to pull the curtains to get the light.

When Ayanokōji came back, he found that there was a problem with the distance between the curtain hanging loops.

This is enough to show that someone has visited his room.

In addition to what Fu Heisher said to himself, Luanbu was probably stimulating himself to take action, and he could take advantage of it.

After getting along these days, Ayanokoji found that Edogawa Ranpo's ability to perceive things and people has surpassed the level of ordinary people.If Ranpo's character is mature, Ayanokōji can still study his purpose, but Ranpo is like a child, with no trace of the purpose of doing things, but he keeps pestering him to do things that are confusing .

Ayanokouji is troubled by such unpredictable troubles.

At present, Ayanokōji doesn't have much yearning for the outside world, but these getting along with Ranpo and the others made him start to have some thoughts on various issues such as "worldliness" and "equality" and "strength" that his father thought were unnecessary. .

It's just that he doesn't hate life in White Room either.

For him, life in the White Room was neither difficult nor painful, and it even felt like it was tailor-made for him.The only annoying thing is that the person with the label of "father" will occasionally give him some meaningless orders and instructions on a whim.Other than that, everything came according to his will.

Therefore, after encountering Ranpo and the others, they have not thought of wanting to get rid of their current life for a year, let alone using Ranpo's ability to completely escape.Encountering Ranpo and them may be a midsummer night's dream, chaotic, absurd, and funny. After one night, everyone and everything return to their original places, nothing more.

But this doesn't mean that Ayanokouji will just sit back and let him do what he wants when he tries to pry into his bottom line indiscriminately.When Ranpo used Fuheshier's words to stimulate himself today, Ayanokoji was determined to make Edogawa Ranpo suffer and learn a lesson.

It's not that everyone's secrets are read by Luanbu at will.

Originally, when Ayanokouji first met Ranpo, he felt that Ranpo was testing him, and at that time Ayanokouji didn't like Ranpo's approach.He knew that Ranpo was concerned about writing, so when he saw Ranpo on the first day, Ayanokōji had already had contact with Sajiro Yamamoto, and let the other party suffer for Ranpo.

Of course, he wouldn't say directly, "I want to suffer for Ranpo."

How to let two strangers immediately establish a trust relationship, the simplest model is not "finding a common enemy", but "buying and selling relationship".

Sajiro Yamamoto will appear in the tourist area, which shows that he is still on vacation mentality, so after finding out Sajiro Yamamoto's course of action, Ayanokōji did a trial job in a restaurant for an hour, and officially met Sajiro Yamamoto.At this time, Sajiro Yamamoto will know that Ayanokouji, who has a "good relationship" with Ranpo, is actually short of money.So Zuojiro Yamamoto, who was still angry about Ranpo, found Ayanokoji and asked Ayanokoji to sell him some news about Ranpo.

For example, Edogawa Ranpo will appear at the Tokyo Author Conference, and Sajiro Yamamoto can arrange for reporters to write texts and arrange Ranpo in advance, catching Mori and Yumori by surprise.

For another example, Ayanokouji told Yamamoto Zuojiro about the fact that one person in Ranpo had multiple manuscripts and submitted them to Bungeishunqiu under different names, and he took 50 yen from him.Right now, Sajiro Yamamoto didn't launch an attack on Ranpo immediately because he was pressed down by Ayanokouji.

Ayanokoji is watching—what is most important to Edogawa Ranpo?

Is it friends, is it a writing career, is it fame, is it money?

It takes seven inches to hit a snake.

Ayanokōji tended to hit the opponent's vitals quickly, accurately and ruthlessly, making Ranpo succumb to him with the highest efficiency.

Before Ranpo asked him to help deal with the astral body incident, Ayanokōji found that for Ranpo, it didn't matter to him whether his friend had an accident or not.Oda Sakunosuke made a mistake in his actions, and Luanbu didn't say a word, as if nothing happened, and he was still leisurely staying in Fuheisher's room.

As for the others, it was the news that Ling Xiaolu bought from Fu Heisher.

Fu Heisher is a person who is open to money. This kind of person is actually convenient to use. As long as he has money, he can solve the problem, which is actually the easiest thing.From the dialogue between Fu Heisher and Ranpo, we can know that Ranbu doesn't care about the reputation of those who write books. One person has multiple manuscripts because he doesn't know the rules, but because he finds it interesting.

As for money, a person who can easily guess the ranking of a horse race, as long as he is given a little principal, he can take home tens of millions of yen at any time.This is enough to show that Ranpo doesn't care about the so-called money.

Ranpo may only care about "writing".

For the so-called "fantasy city" in his mouth, he finds various famous writers, pays attention to them, and cultivates new writers, and even Sajiro Yamamoto and Ranpo consider them available, which shows that Ranpo has no special standards for employing people.As long as he can realize his dream, he can.

Then, what Ayanokouji has to do is to let Ranpo go on the road of writing, just being bruised.What he thinks is fun, just don't think it's funny anymore.This kind of chaotic step knows that he should not continue to do anything at will.

……

Yamamoto Zuojiro said: "I heard that someone here is going to withdraw the drafts of "Mirror Hell" and "Red Room". There is no way to prove that Edogawa Ranpo has multiple drafts, and the remaining works may be that. Let’s fight him with the article "The Person Who Travels with Stickers", and you can’t just watch that brat win the Naoki Award. How can you prove that brat has done this.”

"Maybe it was arranged from the beginning. Can you find similarities in the writing style and brushwork?"

Ayanokouji thought about what Ranpo wanted to do.Luanbu may have wanted to create confusion in the review team from the very beginning.If the work is not nominated, it is natural that one person will not find multiple manuscripts.But even if you are nominated, there is nothing to worry about, because the nominated works can only be released after contacting the author. Whether it is the Kudou family or Mr. Kagao, they will cover it up, and naturally they will not delay the award.

Ayanokōji felt that he had asked the wrong question, and asked again: "What level do you want to achieve?"

"Let that stinky boy be suppressed everywhere in the literary world, without a bright future."

Ayanokōji said in a deep voice, "I understand."

Sajiro Yamamoto asked doubtfully, "What do you understand?"

"There is no evidence, we just make it."

As soon as these words fell, Yamamoto Sajiro inexplicably felt a chill down his spine.This is not because Yamamoto Sajiro didn't do these methods, but because he was so stimulated by Ayanokōji's voice that his hairs stood on end.It seems that what he is targeting now is not the one called Edogawa Ranpo, but himself.

Ling Xiaolu asked again: "Did you meet anyone today? Tell me about it."

This Yamamoto Zuojiro is timid and fearful, if he advises him himself, he will definitely be bitten back, so it is best to control him first.

"I met a manager who came to introduce a boy group, and asked me to introduce a character to his stars in the crew. I have a video camera installed in front of my door, and I recorded his appearance. Do you want to see it?"

Ling Xiaolu paused for a moment, then said, "It's fine if you have it. You don't need to give it to me. That's pretty good."

"..."

What's good?