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"No death, no death!"

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

"Sure enough, it's okay. Let the professor die alone. Holmes can live forever!"

"It turns out that this is just a foreshadowing by Mr. Theking. Why didn't you tell it earlier? It left such a big suspense and had to wait until the readers rioted before explaining it. Oh, forget it. Anyway, as long as Holmes is fine, the rest can be explained. "

Sherlock Holmes is confirmed to be resurrected, and readers become surprisingly talkative!

The trend of comments on Luoyang's Twitter quietly changed following this announcement. The turmoil has basically stopped. The demonstrations that lasted for several days in the UK have disappeared. Although there are still people with no information protesting, the movement has become smaller and smaller. .

Many people can breathe a sigh of relief.

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

The King is probably the only one who single-handedly caused readers around the world to launch riots. In the end, even the Queen of England stood up from Buckingham Palace to cry out for Sherlock Holmes. This achievement is truly remarkable. The King's reputation in the world of literature has blossomed in a unique way. Got——

Of course, there are also readers who are unwilling to expose this matter.

These readers are not so easy to fool. They firmly believe that the old thief Theking really has the idea of ​​​​killing Holmes. He told readers on Twitter that Holmes was not actually dead, but was only forced by pressure from rioting readers. After all, God knows the parade will continue. What kind of situation will it evolve into?

"This is a malicious hype created by Theking!"

"Please don't treat our Holmes in a similar way!"

This group of readers made comments such as the above. They believed that this was a hype, planned by Theking in order to make "Sherlock Holmes" famous. Unfortunately, there is not much market for similar comments.

One of the reasons is because the popularity 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 right now is how Holmes will return. Readers have made all kinds of speculations about this, and the arguments given by each are impressive and enthusiastic. The sad atmosphere caused by the previous death of Holmes was completely gone.

Of course, it’s not that there are no serious readers, to be exact, there are quite a few:

"The old thief Theking has not been cleared of suspicion yet. He said that Holmes is not dead, perhaps just because of the pressure of readers' resistance. If his next work does not fully circumvent the pitfalls of "The Last Case", it will prove that he is indeed He did have the idea of ​​killing Holmes!"

These readers are all waiting for the release of the new work of Theking.

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

[In the spring of 1894, the murder of the venerable Ronald Adair, under the most unusual and inexplicable circumstances, attracted the attention of all London and alarmed the upper classes.

The details of the case released in the police investigation are known to everyone, but many details have been omitted. This is because the grounds for prosecution are very sufficient and there is no need to disclose all the evidence. Only now, nearly ten years later, have I been allowed to fill in some missing links in the process of solving the case. The case itself is intriguing, but compared to the unexpected ending, this bit of fun is nothing in my opinion... …]

The first series of the masterpiece "Sherlock Holmes" is an adventure history, the second series is a memoir, and the third series is the return!

This "Empty House" is the first article in the third series of "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Conan Doyle decided to stop writing detective novels in 1894. In "The Final Case", Sherlock Holmes died in a torrent. , Unexpectedly, the majority of readers were very indignant about this, and held demonstrations to protest against it. Conan Doyle had no choice but to let Sherlock Holmes escape from death in "The Empty House".

It stands to reason that this plot of giving in to the readers and forcibly resurrecting the protagonist should be far-fetched.

But Conan Doyle's strength is fully demonstrated in this short story. He perfectly explained the reason why Holmes returned from the dead——

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

The old gentleman followed Watson back to the villa.

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

It turned out that Holmes was not dead at that time. Because he was worried that Professor Moriarty's henchmen would implicate innocent people, he hid himself and made the illusion of death to confuse his opponents.

The case that occurred at that time was Colonel Sebastian Moran, Moriarty's subordinate. He shot the deceased outside the room. Holmes used a wax man exactly like himself as bait and successfully succeeded. arrested him. Thus ending his exile and returning to 221 Baker Street!

This "The Empty House" has therefore become a significant piece in the Sherlock Holmes series.

At that time, Holmes' dramatic return also moved countless readers who supported Sherlock around 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 wanted 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 Sherlock 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.