Chapter 515: Chapter 491 Basic Deductive Reasoning (Part 1)_1
“One each for you.”
Chu Kuang’s new work finally arrived.
Cao Dezhi had wanted to go back to his office alone to read it –
But under the gaze of his sub-editors, he had no choice but to let his assistant print a copy for everyone.
Everyone read it together.
He himself went back to his office.
It was also a print version of the script.
Kneading the freshly brewed tea from his assistant, Cao Dezhi turned to Chu Kuang’s new book.
Despite all kinds of worries in his heart, the more specific situation still had to be addressed in the main text.
Could Sherlock Hols be Hercule Poirot under a different na?
Maybe the first case could give us so clues.
[The 78-year-long power struggle began, I earned a PhD in dicine from the University of Han Continent and undertook a compulsory course in military dicine. Upon graduation, I was assigned to serve as an assistant military doctor in the Blue Star 5th Army 3rd Unit stationed at the Maiwand battlefield in Qi Continent…]
The story began in the first person.
The Hercule Poirot series by Chu Kuang also had many cases presented from a first-person perspective.
For instance, the acclaid “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” used a first-person perspective and the murderer also pioneered the literary device of narrative trickery.
Most of the cases in the Poirot series narrated from a first-person perspective were from the perspective of Poirot’s assistant Hastings, including Poirot’s death at the end.
Chu Kuang’s earlier creations using the first person could be traced back to “Ghost Blows the Lamp”.
Chu Kuang seems to have a fondness for storytelling in the first person and is quite adept at it, and this is a common literary technique in detective novels.
In the current story…
The character presenting the story in first person is called “Watson”.
This person is definitely not the protagonist, as Chu Kuang has personally explained in his book title and elsewhere.
The protagonist is called “Sherlock Hols”.
Let’s talk about Watson first.
Watson is an experienced individual.
He has lived through the shift of power in Blue Star, was injured in the battlefield of Maiwand in Qi Continent, and retired to London due to the physical incapability to et the demands of the battlefield –
Cao Dezhi knew about London.
London is one of the largest cities in Han Continent.
Chu Kuang’s novel settings were never limited to a specific continent. He had sound geographical knowledge and seed to have so understanding of each continent.
Moreover, the character background settings were very realistic, as if those people really existed in that era.
These are similar to the Hercule Poirot series.
Let’s continue reading.
After retiring, Watson was looking for work in London, assuming that he could afford a place to stay and preferably a room partner. Accidentally, he ran into an old dical friend on the street.
The friend told Watson that a man nad Sherlock Hols was also looking for a roommate recently.
So, Watson and this old dical friend went together to a dical lab in London –
The place where Sherlock Hols was currently working.
This inevitably reminded Cao Dezhi of when Hastings first t Poirot.
Maybe Watson served as an assistant to Sherlock Hols in the sa way Hastings served Poirot?
There were indeed similarities.
A sense of unease appeared in Cao Dezhi’s mind. He believed that the readers would probably notice this as well. This point seed to indirectly show that Sherlock Hols and Hercules Poirot were similar.
However, when Watson arrived at the lab and t Sherlock Hols for the first ti, Cao Dezhi suddenly got a sense of the difference between Sherlock Hols and Hercule Poirot.
Sherlock Hols was certainly not Poirot!
“Thud, thud, thud!”
Under the stunned gaze of Watson, Sherlock Hols was fervently whipping a corpse. Anyone who saw this scene would think Sherlock Hols was out of his mind –
like a pervert!
Hercule Poirot would never act so rudely. That germaphobe old man always rembered to maintain his elegance.
What’s going on?
Cao Dezhi felt that Chu Kuang seed to be trying a bit too hard to highlight the difference between Sherlock Hols and Hercule Poirot.
[“Does he often do this?” Watson asked.
The friend awkwardly responded, “Maybe he’s not in a good mood today.”.
Just then, Hols turned to the arriving doctors, “You arrived exactly on ti. I need to know his bruise condition in twenty minutes. This is related to one person’s alibi…”]
Cao Dezhi took a deep breath.
Oh, so it’s for the purpose of solving a case.
This approach can easily lead to misunderstandings though.
But in that era, it was absolutely a scientific manner of investigation.
[Hols suddenly looked at Watson: “Maiwand?”.
“Sorry, how did you know?” Watson was slightly confused.]
It must have been ntioned by the doctor in advance, right?
Almost subconsciously, this was what Cao Dezhi thought.
[Hols continued: “What do you think about the violin?”
Watson: “Uh…”
Without lifting his head, Hols continued: “I play the violin when I think. Sotis I won’t speak for days. Do you mind? It’s better to let the roommate know about one’s shortcomings in advance.”
“Did you tell him about ?”
Watson looked at the doctor who shook his head hastily: “I didn’t ntion a word.”]
Huh?
Cao Dezhi was stunned.
It wasn’t the doctor?
Then how did Hols know?
Watson asked the question that was on Cao Dezhi’s mind:
[“Who told you all this?”
“I did it myself.”
As Hols sketched circles on his notebook, it seed like he was talking to himself: “It’s difficult for soone like to find a roommate. I talked to Mike about this matter this morning and he brought you here this afternoon. He introduces an old friend, obviously just being commissioned from a certain unit on the Maiwand battlefield. This isn’t hard to guess.”]
Cao Dezhi was dumfounded.
Brother, this was not hard to guess?
Watson asked the second question on behalf of the reader, Cao Dezhi:
[“How did you know about the Maiwand battlefield?”
Hols didn’t answer, but got up and said, “Baker Street 221, that will be our place.”
“Just like that?”
With so many questions in his mind, Watson asked, “We just t and we’re going to find a house together. We don’t know anything about each other, I don’t even know your na…”
Hols stopped in his tracks.
He turned back and said, “I know you’re a military doctor who has just been sent back from the Maiwand battlefield. I also know you might be suffering from Psychogenic Mobility Disorder. Maybe I can drop the ‘might’. As a roommate, isn’t this enough?”
Hols got up and left, quickly introducing himself a few seconds later, “Sherlock Hols.” As he said this, Hols put on his bowler hat, bidding goodbye with a good afternoon.
Watson looked at his friend beside him.
The friend shrugged helplessly, “Yes, he’s always like this.”]
In the story, Watson was stunned!
Outside of the story, Cao Dezhi was stunned too!
Cao Dezhi was reading the story through Watson’s first-person perspective. Of course, he knew Watson had been to the Maiwand battlefield, knew about Watson’s injuries, and knew that Watson was a retiring military doctor. But how did Sherlock Hols know?
Are you a detective?
You are a fortune teller, aren’t you!
Even though they just t, he figured out everything about the person. How on earth did Sherlock Hols do that!?
Cao Dezhi had a million questions!
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