Chapter 668 Honorary Chairman

Suddenly, Luoyang's phone rang again.

It seems that he is quite busy today, with calls coming one after another.

This time, the call was from Hua Qi. After the call was connected, she and Luoyang talked about two things, both of which Luoyang had mentioned once before when he was in Japan.

The first thing was that Lin Yifeng proposed that Luoyang become the honorary vice chairman of the Longguo Writers Association. The Longguo Writers Association is a big and deep-rooted organization. The only chairman is Lin Yifeng, and there are several vice chairmen. The most famous one is the writer Han Ming.

The title of honorary vice chairman seems to be similar to that of vice chairman, but in fact it is very different.

Because the word honor, as the name suggests, is really just an honor, just like the so-called honorary doctors in universities and companies.

They are not real legal persons or persons in charge, but they have a high reputation, status, and influence. In order to improve the reputation of the organization, make it look more serious to outsiders, and make it easier to carry out work, they specially invite a well-known person to serve as honorary chairman.

Honorary chairman also means: it is our honor to be the chairman.

Generally speaking, this position is reserved for those who have made contributions to the organization. Luoyang broke the martial arts pattern twice, and with the contribution of "The Three-Body Problem" to Longguo Science Fiction, as well as the bonus of the Nobel Prize in Literature, it is reasonable for him to be awarded the title of Honorary Chairman.

After listening to Hua Qi's words, Luoyang said: "There is no problem with being the Honorary Vice Chairman."

The title of Honorary Vice Chairman is a win-win for Luoyang and Longguo Writers Association, so he would not refuse it.

The second thing is that after Lin Yifeng served as the president of Longguo Science Fiction Association, he invited Luoyang to serve as the vice president. Luoyang shook his head and refused: "Please help me push it off. I have my own company to manage and I don't have time to be the vice president."

"I know."

Hua Qi was just asking for routine.

She certainly knew that the boss was not interested in the vice president of the Science Fiction Association.

Who can expect someone who is too lazy to manage his own company to manage such a large science fiction association?

Lin Yifeng, who invited Luoyang to be the vice president of the Science Fiction Association, still didn't understand the lazy side of Luoyang.

After hanging up the phone, Luoyang continued to write "The Spotted Belt". As a short story, the length of this novel is not much different from "The Red Hair Society". He plans to finish it in a few days, but of course it is not possible to copy the original text.

In this "The Spotted Belt", although it was a classic in the previous life...

But it is also believed by many reasoning readers that there are some unexplained loopholes.

For example, after Miss Julia Stoner died, why did the autopsy personnel fail to find out that she was actually bitten to death by a snake?

As a modern person, it is normal to raise such doubts. After all, many people don't know a fact, that is, in the early 19th century, few people in Britain knew about snakes, because there were no snakes in Britain at that time.

Not to mention poisonous snakes such as swamp vipers.

Isn't it normal for an autopsy personnel who has never seen a snake in his life to fail to find snake venom?

In this way, it should not be difficult for us to understand why Miss Julia Stoner called the swamp viper that bit her "spotted belt", because she had no idea what the thing that was slowly crawling in the dark was.

So this loophole is not really a loophole.

Compared with this point, another loophole has caused more controversy.

That is, many people say that snakes have no hearing, so why would they attack people in the room under the control of the owner's whistle?

Because Indians have the tradition of training snakes with flutes, many people think that snakes have hearing, but in fact, Indian flutes are attached to the mouths of bamboo baskets and jars, and the vibration of the flute will make the snake stand up. If there is no contact between the flute and the jar, the snake cannot hear the sound.

So snakes have no hearing, and in this case, the murderer's whistle to control the snake seems ridiculous.

This is a real loophole. Luoyang certainly would not copy it stupidly. He would definitely make some changes. It just so happened that the former Soviet Union added the plot of Roylott knocking on the wall to direct the snake in the "The Case of the Spotted Band" filmed in 1979.

This plot makes the story much smoother.

Moreover, the ending of the film also brought the theory of "it has been verified that snakes cannot hear sounds" through Watson's mouth, which made up for Sir Doyle's shortcomings. In this way, the biggest loophole of this article was killed by Luoyang in advance.

As for the remaining loopholes, such as the plot of snakes drinking milk, they were also diluted by Luoyang.

Although he read the Indian novels before, there is indeed a method of using milk to guide the snake's crawling route, because snakes are greedy for the taste of milk and will crawl towards the milk by themselves, but in the eyes of most people, snakes will not drink milk, so Luoyang avoided this bug.

There are inevitably various bugs in mystery novels.

In fact, if you really want to find loopholes, whether it is "White Night Walk", "The Devotion of Suspect X", or "Summer of the Bird", there are loopholes. All those who love reasoning should know this.

Because detective novels are an idealized display of crime.

Many times, you may feel that there are no loopholes just by looking at the text, but in reality, it is not very feasible. For example, the most classic closed room murder plot, using a line to lock the closed room door, the probability of success in reality is very small.

So does "impossible crime" really exist in reality? The answer is no.

The so-called impossible crime only exists in non-realistic romantic novels, and many tricks do not conform to people's basic thinking style.

Mr. Tang Nuo, a famous Taiwanese writer, once said: Detective novels are a paradox. The murderer needs to be smart enough to design a trick that no one can break, and stupid enough to solve the problem by killing people, which is unlikely in itself.

The fun of watching reasoning lies in the initial shock of thinking and the initial pleasure of deciphering.

It's like watching a magic show. Some people come with the mentality of watching a show. They will cheer for the wonderful magic, while some people come to decipher the magic scam, which will make him lose a lot of fun brought by the magic itself.

Luoyang solved the biggest loophole of "The Spotted Belt" and did not continue to make major changes to the plot.

When it was eleven o'clock in the evening, the plot was only halfway through. Luoyang already felt sleepy. After getting up and yawning, he went into the bathroom to take a shower and then climbed into bed to sleep.