Chapter 802 Readers' Riot (IV)

"Not dead, not dead!"

"Great, the old thief Theking finally found his conscience!"

"It's okay, let the professor die alone, Holmes can live forever!"

"It turns out that this is just a foreshadowing by Teacher Theking. Why didn't you say it earlier? Why did you leave such a big suspense and wait until the readers rioted to explain it? Hey, forget it, as long as Holmes is fine, the rest is easy to talk about."

Holmes is confirmed to be resurrected, and readers have become unexpectedly easy to talk to!

The direction of comments on Luoyang Twitter has quietly changed with this announcement. The storm has basically stopped. The demonstrations that lasted for several days in the UK have disappeared. Although there are still people who are out of touch with the news protesting, the movement has become smaller and smaller.

Many people can breathe a sigh of relief.

But this incident is destined to leave an indelible mark in the hearts of many readers.

Theking is probably the only person who can make readers all over the world riot by his own strength. In the end, even the Queen of England stood up from Buckingham Palace to speak up for Holmes. Such a record is really impressive. Theking's reputation in the world literary world has blossomed in a unique way. Of course, there are also readers who are unwilling to reveal this matter. These readers are not so easy to fool. They firmly believe that Theking did have the idea of ​​killing Holmes. He told readers on Twitter that Holmes was not dead, but was only under pressure from rioting readers. After all, God knows what kind of situation will evolve if the march continues. "This is a malicious hype created by Theking!" "Please don't treat our Holmes in a similar way!" These readers made remarks such as the above. They believe that this is a hype that Theking planned to make "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" famous. Unfortunately, such remarks do not have a large market. One of the reasons is that the popularity of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" does not require any hype at all! Moreover, Theking has publicly stated that Holmes will not die, so what everyone is more concerned about now is how Holmes will return. Readers have made all kinds of speculations about this, and the arguments they have given are well-organized and enthusiastic, without the atmosphere of grief brought by Holmes' death before.

Of course, it is not that there are no serious readers. To be exact, there are quite a few:

"Theking has not yet cleared his suspicion. He said that Holmes is not dead, perhaps just because of the pressure of readers' resistance. If his next work does not make up for the pit of "The Final Problem" well, it proves that he really has the idea of ​​killing Holmes!"

These readers are waiting for the birth of Theking's new work.

Fortunately, Luoyang had long anticipated the readers' reaction. Sitting in front of the computer, he began to write "The Empty House".

[In the spring of 1894, the case of the murder of the respectable Ronald Adair under the most unusual and inexplicable circumstances attracted the attention of all London and caused panic in the upper class.

Everyone knows the details of the case published during the police investigation, but many details have been deleted. This is because the reasons for the prosecution are very sufficient and there is no need to disclose all the evidence. Only now, nearly ten years later, I am allowed to fill in some missing links in the process of solving the case. The case itself is intriguing, but compared with the unexpected ending, this interest is nothing in my opinion...]

The first series of the masterpiece "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is an adventure history, the second series is a memoir, and the third series is the return record! This "The Empty House" is the first chapter of the third series of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Conan Doyle decided to stop writing detective novels in 1894. In "The Final Problem", Holmes died in the torrent. Unexpectedly, the majority of readers were very indignant about this and marched in protest. Conan Doyle had to let Holmes survive in "The Empty House".

Logically speaking, this plot of succumbing to readers and forcibly resurrecting the protagonist should be far-fetched.

But Conan Doyle's strength is fully demonstrated in this short story. He perfectly explains the reason why Holmes came back from the dead-

At the beginning of "The Empty House", a murder case made Watson feel the importance of Holmes to the detective world. On the way back to his home from the scene, Watson missed Holmes even more, but accidentally met an elderly gentleman who collected books.

The old gentleman followed Watson back to the villa.

After a dramatic dialogue, Watson discovered that the old gentleman was actually Holmes in makeup.

It turned out that Holmes was not dead at the time. He was worried that the pursuit of Professor Moriarty's followers would implicate innocent people, so he hid and made a false appearance of death to confuse his opponents.

The case that happened at that time was Colonel Sebastian Moran, a subordinate of Moriarty. He shot the victim from outside the room. Holmes used a wax figure that looked exactly like himself as bait and successfully captured him. Thus he ended his exile and returned to 221 Baker Street!

This "Empty House" has become a significant chapter in the Sherlock Holmes series.

At that time, Holmes' dramatic return also moved countless readers who supported Sherlock all over the world!

When Luoyang wrote this plot, he couldn't help but feel filled with emotion. Without the death of Sherlock Holmes in "The Last Case", how could the wonderful "Return of Sherlock Holmes" series be there? He is not an old Theking thief, nor is he a master of poisoning. He just conducted a planned fake death experiment for the sake of the plot...

Okay, there is indeed an element of bad taste.

Luoyang got what he wished for and saw the grand scene where readers were in an uproar over the death of Holmes.

In fact, when Conan Doyle himself talked about the resurrection of Sherlock Holmes in "The Empty House", he expressed his gratitude: "Fortunately, Watson was not allowed to find Holmes' body..."

If Watson had found the body of Holmes in "The Final Case", there would not have been a series of equally stunning Holmes series. However, this sentiment also shows that Conan Doyle himself was reluctant to let Holmes go. The deliberate blank space he left in "The Final Case" may have left him an escape route, and it happened that this escape route was used in "The Empty House".

This kind of arrangement, whether intentional or unintentional, is inevitably tainted with the color of legend.