Under the dim light, Xiao Youyou slept very soundly. At the same time, Gu Cheng was half leaning on the bedside table, with the notebook spread flat on his lap. At the same time, his other hand was holding the one he just received.

Among the precious twelve zodiac signs, the pen is the one with the sign of rat.

Now that I have decided on my next work, I have chosen Sherlock Holmes. Then the preliminary preparations definitely need to be improved. Inspiration is fleeting. If you don’t record it immediately, you will be able to read it from the vast world later.

It is very difficult to peel these details out of memory.

The reason why the character of Sherlock Holmes can leave his unique figure and unshakable position in the entire history of mystery novels is inseparable from the fact that all the cases are connected in series to present a collection of works with a complete life experience.

Gu Cheng has previously conducted an in-depth study of the process of all Sherlock Holmes cases and the content of each story. Currently, there are a total of 60 cases that can be collected on the market. These 60 cases began with Holmes's fledgling research on The Letter in Scarlet when he was 4 years old.

, and continues until the final showdown with his old enemy James Moriarty.

Through one story after another, the entire character is clearly presented from the perspective of Dr. Watson, making people believe that there really is such a character in the world. He hates evil very much, possesses vast knowledge, and is always

Able to use any clues to solve mysteries one after another, and finally catch the real culprit of the murder case.

After excluding these 60 stories, there are naturally various unpublished cases, which have only been mentioned in other detective stories. However, the specific process of solving the case and the methods of committing the crime have not been written out by the writer, perhaps because of his energy.

Unfortunately, or due to other reasons, all that is left to future generations is one mystery after another. There are also many writers who want to use their own knowledge to re-present these cases, but until Gu Cheng was reborn, they could not

I have never heard of anyone truly restoring the process of these cases.

Since there were so many talented mystery novel writers in the previous life who had not completed this huge difficulty, Gu Cheng had no interest in challenging this century's problem.

In his opinion, 60 stories are enough for his own use. Sometimes, not being perfect is the most shocking, but being slightly incomplete can make people more obsessed and shocked by him.

These 60 stories will be compiled into three volumes: the upper, middle and lower volumes. The first volume tells the story of Mr. Holmes from the time when he was a fledgling at the age of 4 to the time when Dr. Watson got married. This is also the most exciting of the three, following Dr. Watson.

From his perspective, he watched one puzzle after another being solved by Mr. Holmes.

The middle volume, the main content is about Mr. Holmes's memoirs, all the cases he experienced from the age of 9 to his retirement, as well as the fights with his old enemies.

The main content of the second volume is about Mr. Holmes becoming a collector of old books and telling his best friend Watson about his case-solving process one after another through letters.

Through these three times, the character of Mr. Holmes has been created very well and has a distinctive personality. I believe that the unique basic deduction method of solving crimes will shock the entire mystery novel world. At the same time, this is also a reflection of the entire mystery novel world.

kind of innovation.

"A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed Society, Identity Case, The Mystery of Boscombe Dale."

Gu Cheng lined up the case names one after another from beginning to end. When he finished writing all 60 cases, he rubbed his sore wrists and let out a breath.

"I'm really rusty. In the past, even if I wrote three to five thousand words from beginning to end, I wouldn't feel any discomfort. I didn't expect that after putting down my pen for so many years, now I can just write a few hundred words."

, I feel so uncomfortable."

Gu Cheng sighed while massaging his wrists.

If we talk about the changes that technology has brought to people, they are rapid changes, some good and some bad. They have largely solved people's laziness problem and made life a lot more convenient.

Take the matter of writing as an example. How could there be such convenient conditions five years ago? When Gu Cheng was a reporter, no matter what kind of writing work he had to do, he did all the writing work himself. It was precisely this kind of difficult condition.

Let him develop good calligraphy skills.

But now, it seems that most of the work involving text writing is done using computers. Just when he was writing the key names, Gu Cheng was surprised to find that he had forgotten how to write many words, and he still needed to

Take out your mobile phone and type the pinyin of the word on the keyboard, and then copy it down.

If this trend develops in the future, maybe one day writing will really disappear in the long river of history. People may only be able to recognize most of a word and know how to pinyin it. When they actually pick up a pen to write,

Instead, it was blank.

If that time comes, it will be such a bad situation. However, when thinking of this, Gu Cheng shook his head with some unfounded worries. Naturally, sociologists will study this kind of thing. He is just an insignificant person in the society. It seems that it is not appropriate to consider these things.

There is no solution.

And we cannot stop the advancement of science and technology because of this or that kind of restriction, or clamor to restore social development to its previous state. This is simply a hunger strike due to choking.

Turning his thoughts back to his notebook, the most important thing for Gu Cheng right now is to sort out the order of his writing as soon as possible, so that the next writing work will go very smoothly.

It is a very arduous task to Chineseize the classic masterpiece Sherlock Holmes. Many things in it need to be changed to make it fit the social tradition of China.

At the very least, the name of Sherlock Holmes needs to be changed. The original Sherlock Holmes simply did not meet the standards of Chinese naming. Gu Cheng racked his brains and finally came up with a name that was more in line with the local Chinese character, called Xia Fu.

As for Dr. Watson's name, there is still no need to change. At the same time, the original British background needs to be changed to the background of China's war period. Like Britain, this time of change between the old and the new will arouse the desire to do evil in people's hearts.

As for the original aristocratic roles and titles, all were changed by Gu Cheng into corresponding official positions in the Republic of China.

Working until around 0:00 in the morning, Gu Cheng finally recorded the entire book in handwriting. He covered the notebook again, capped the pen, put it under his pillow, and pulled it on his sleeping daughter.
Chapter completed!