[The open day of the Watch City was finally held as normal. Mr. Zhong was concentrating on repairing broken watches in the store. The security captain would come to his store from time to time to chat. Mr. Zhong was not enthusiastic, nor did he chase him away. The security captain thought they were friends.
Many species of creatures come to buy clocks. Precise timekeeping makes work more efficient.
Today, a noisy customer came. They always argued until their faces turned red, talking about key words like "eight o'clock" and "clock curse". Once someone approached them, they suddenly fell silent and stared at the outsider with terrified and alert eyes, as if they were looking at a top wanted criminal. Of course, they didn't know that top wanted criminals always do things quietly.
At night, the group of customers checked into a hotel inside the Clock City. They booked an area at the end of the corridor on the fourth floor of the hotel. Each person had a room, and the doors of the rooms were facing each other. There were eight rooms in total.
They specifically requested a service that prohibited waiters from approaching them, and they seemed to really not want others to pry into their private lives. The security captain felt strange and looked at them a few more times, and they ran back to their room like frightened birds.
The next day, a scream broke the silence.
“Someone’s dead!!”
The security captain was riding a small spaceship to deliver breakfast to Mr. Zhong. At this moment, he turned the car around and rushed to the hotel. He locked the source of the sound and ran to the room at the end of the corridor on the fourth floor. The door of the room was wide open, and the strange tourists shouted in horror:
"Curse! It must be the curse of the clock! It follows us everywhere, and we can't escape it!"
The body's spine was broken, and the body was bent at a strange angle. There were 12 points evenly distributed around the body, with both hands pointing to 8 o'clock and both feet pointing to 12 o'clock. The head was twisted 360 degrees and pointed between 3 and 4 o'clock. The face of the body was slightly blue, and there was a strange smile on it, which was creepy.
The alien reader felt a chill down his back when he read this, glanced at his fellows on the same ship, and twisted his neck, which was a little stiff.
[The captain of the security team asked sternly: "What on earth happened! What curse? Explain it to me clearly!"
Seven tourists told their story with sad expressions. It turned out that they went to the edge of the universe to explore stars together, but they ran into a strange planet. The planet was like a huge clock, making a ticking sound. They felt something was wrong, so they got off the boat to explore a few steps and then returned to the boat. Soon, one of the companions went crazy that night and drove the rescue capsule away, leaving strange runes on the ground.
"Look, we also took photos." A tourist handed over a photo with tears in his eyes. The red mark in the photo looked like a clock, and the technique was exactly the same as the marks at the scene.
At this time, Mr. Zhong went up to the fourth floor of the hotel. No one noticed him, and he stared at the crime scene carefully.
Tourists are still telling their stories.
"There were originally 10 of us. Not long after, another companion went mad and left the ship. None of us are creatures that can walk directly in space, so he must have met with an accident... and before he left, he left similar symbols on the glass."
"We are very scared. This must be the curse of that strange planet! We came to the Clock City to break this curse, but, but we didn't expect it! The curse is still there! It wants to kill all of us!"】
An alien creature in the ship suddenly sneezed.
The alien reader screamed immediately.
"What are you doing? Why are you so startled?" said the sneezing creature dissatisfiedly.
"It scared me... Fortunately it's fake." The alien reader looked around the inner wall of the spaceship. Fortunately, they didn't buy a clock. They shouldn't be affected by the curse, right? In the future, they must stay away from planets that look like clocks!
"What are you reading? I haven't seen you so obsessed with novels before. Are you stopping yourself and reading Feiya Novel Network?" asked the creature on the same boat casually.
"It's from the Materialistic Library. I'll tell you later. I'm busy." The alien reader was immersed in reading the novel, which aroused the curiosity of his fellow aliens. They all put down their laptops and leaned over to take a look.
[The security captain said in embarrassment: "Ah, then we really need to find a psychiatrist to identify the traces of mental power this time..."
When he saw Mr. Zhong, his eyes lit up and he said, "My dear friend! Do you have any suggestions? I will definitely listen to you this time!"
Mr. Zhong glanced at him and said coldly: "This is not a curse, it is a man-made homicide."
"Although the murderer wanted to package it as a curse, there are too many loopholes. The clock is divided into 12 moments, but this decimal system is a unique Luo Bo number of your race. Do you want to say that the cursed planet learned your language in an instant? Although there is a knife edge, it is very smooth, which means that the deceased was killed by a sharp weapon after death. The bloodstains on the wall are missing, which means that there is a creature standing in this direction, blocking the bloodstains. This crime scene was not completed in an instant, but took a certain amount of time to set up afterwards. Everything is a trace of human intervention.
Coming here from the edge of the universe means that you have been in a closed space for a long time.
So, the murderer is among you.”
After hearing this, the seven tourists had different expressions. 】
Mr. Zhong is so handsome!
That’s right, there is no curse at all. Let it guess the murderer this time, it will definitely guess it right!
The alien reader scrolled down with great interest, but a prompt popped up: "There is no more below. If you like this novel, you can give some encouragement."
There is no follow-up!
The alien reader repeated it several times in disbelief, but the result was the same. His heart was instantly filled with ants crawling around. He really wanted to know what happened to the seven passengers! Mr. Zhong will definitely bring the murderer to justice! Author! Why only write half of a case!
The alien reader let out a strange cry of unbearable pain, and suddenly noticed the encouragement button at the bottom of the page.
Encouragement is actually the reward button, which has never been used.
There are many reading benefits in Wuwu Library. The rewards are divided into many levels. The lowest level is to give the author 0.3 dust of encouragement just by watching an advertisement.
It’s not costing you any money anyway, so just watch the ad.
After watching the ad, a page pops up saying “Thank you for your 0.3 dust and sand encouragement, the author will continue to work hard”!
0.3 dust and sand...isn't it too little?
Alien readers look at the gold coins they have saved. They have saved more than 30,000 gold coins, which can be withdrawn as 3 dust sands. It doesn't matter if they spend more money for the author. Anyway, this is free.
So the alien reader used all the 30,000 gold coins as rewards and gave them to Yongye.
It read the article from the beginning, and flipped through other novels in the library, but found them boring. "Mr. Zhong's Detective Cases" is a unique type of novel, and there is no substitute on the entire Internet! It suddenly felt dissatisfied, turned to the encouragement page, and voted 99 dust sands in one go, and left a message:
"Please, author! Please update more! Don't get stuck in the process of solving the case next time, okay!"
It also happily wrote a review:
"This is a treasured novel. I dare say it is the most valuable novel in the Materialistic Library. This method of solving a case is so rare and novel that it is very enjoyable to read. The author must be a very intelligent creature! Five-star praise!"
"What are you looking at?" Its fellow tribesmen couldn't help but ask with concern when they saw it sometimes looked scared and sometimes smiled.
"It's a really good novel." The alien reader swore, "It's in the Wuwu Library. I'm serious. If you don't read it, you'll regret your entire trip! It's called 'Mr. Zhong's Detective Cases'!"
"Materialistic Library? Are you stupid? Isn't that notoriously ugly?" Its fellow tribesmen were even more concerned about its mental health.
"No! Trust me, it's free anyway, why don't you try it?" The alien reader strongly recommended it. The other friends opened the Material Library reluctantly.
The free gimmick exploded with super charm at this moment, becoming a reason for the public to spread it spontaneously. Now all the readers on the ship were watching, and the ship was silent for a while.
Soon, the breathing became heavier. The creatures showed different expressions, some in deep thought, some in amazement, and then gradually froze. Finally, there was an exclamation of admiration from the spacecraft:
“It’s so beautiful!”
"I want to urge for more updates too! Why hasn't the author released the next episode yet?"
The reward ranking list of "Mr. Zhong's Detective Cases" was refreshed every minute, and the total amount quickly increased from 100 to 1,000, with the top number getting bigger and bigger. The number of comments also increased. Every comment was amazed:
“It’s so interesting!”
"I have always thought that free means bad reading after listening to other bios, but I didn't expect this book to surprise me. It completely overturned my impression! Is it really good to read this book for free?"
"I am an old reader of Material Library. The other novels are quite rigorous, but unfortunately they are too niche. This novel is really amazing. Material Library finally has a novel that is worth showing off. I am touched..."
Many readers spontaneously added "Mr. Zhong's Detective Cases" to their book lists and shared them with their close friends. On Starnet, a wave of excitement was quietly set off.
Materialistic reading club.
The members were also moved. They saw that the total amount of rewards on the reward list had exceeded 50,000 dust sands. This has broken the highest reward record of the Material Library. And from the background, most of the traffic came from this novel. The newly registered readers and advertising traffic of the Material Library have reached a new height!
"We still have funds for publicity, so we will focus on this book and make our library famous!"
The members were excited.
"I'm also looking forward to the next chapter. Who is the real murderer?"
Some creatures couldn't help but speak.
Now all the members were in a delicate awkward situation.
Mr. Yongye's writing is indeed very attractive...
But can you please not use the city of watches as the background next time?
The clock on the wall ticked away, an inexplicably eerie atmosphere filled the room, and everyone smiled at each other awkwardly.
Even if the story is set in the city of watches, please don't make it sound so realistic!
…
Inside the Chaoping, Gano finished translating a new chapter.
Yu Jinnuo was chatting alone with his best friend Canghai in an empty room this time, and they had been chatting for a long time.
This time, Ganuo was translating "Mr. Zhong's Detective Cases". When he saw the conversation between the security captain and Mr. Zhong, he paused in his writing.
There are close friends here, too.
…
The atmosphere in Feiya's editorial department once again reached a low point, this time not because of the performance of a particular duck, but because of the massive publicity of the reading club.
"The traffic of the Wuwu Library is increasing rapidly. The name of "free" is really useful. They attracted twice as many readers overnight."
"Our paid model is already nailed down. There is no way to fight against the free model except to run ads and make profits."
The steward said seriously:
“You have all got the essence wrong. The reason why Wuwu Library can gain traffic is not because of their free model. It has been free for so long, doesn’t everyone know that? The key is that their essay competition got good books, which made them reap the benefits.
The quality of the work is the key to success! ”
"Then we..." The duck editors looked heavy-hearted.
"We must trust the quality of our own essay contest. Everyone should bring out the works that you are most optimistic about and make a special issue to recommend them. We have so many good novels, and they only have one. Can they beat us? We must select and recommend both the emotional and plot tracks to let readers see that our Feiya Novel Network has high quality and large quantity!"
"Attention everyone, starting today, everyone will work overtime!"
Feiya's editorial department was instantly full of enthusiasm. Everyone worked overtime to come up with a special issue recommendation. In the category of romantic novels, "Fairy Tale of Life and Death" has already reached the top 100.
The atmosphere at the Feiya Chamber of Commerce headquarters was not so tense.
"The guys from the reading club are coming at us aggressively. Is this detective collection really that good?"
"Shh, why are you bringing this up? Do you want to provide reading volume?"
"Of course not, Boss! Should we ask those five outside helpers to help?"
The meeting room fell silent, and everyone looked towards the big yellow duck in the first seat.
The Big Yellow Duck is the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Little Yellow Duck usually calls it BOSS.
The boss said slowly: "Those five foreign aids are not used to deal with those poor guys, but to deal with the Flash Empire."
The Glittering Empire?
Aren't their essays all meant for jokes? What's there to pay attention to?
The writing contest of the Flash Tribe takes a long time, and most of the creatures present don't know about the last writing contest of the Flash Empire. Only the boss remembers it. At that time, it was still a little duck, running a small stall. Later, it applied to the Flying Duck Chamber of Commerce, and moved up all the way, leading its tribe to expand the scale of the chamber of commerce. Its deeds are well known to all ducks. Now it owns millions of dust and sand, and its every move is like a big boss.
The little yellow ducks all guessed that the BOSS must have been bullied by those arrogant Flash Tribes when he was down and out in the past, and now he is gathering all his strength to fight back.
"I know you have many speculations about my past."
The boss spoke suddenly.
"The truth is not as you think. Although the Glitter Empire is arrogant, they have always kept their promise and have long protected the safety of the ground of the Pangshi Galaxy. They said that they have always abided by the contract and have never regretted selling the ground to other creatures. From this point of view, they are naive businessmen. I was even protected by them before."
"I am not holding the essay contest out of personal grudges... Rather, from my perspective as the 33rd president of the Feiya Chamber of Commerce, the interests of the entire Feiya Chamber of Commerce come first. The conflict between the Feiya Chamber of Commerce and the Flash Empire is no longer reconcilable."
The little yellow ducks dared not make a sound and listened with bated breath to the boss's speech.
"We expand our scale step by step in order to make the most money. Among our products, the best-selling product is energy, and the way to make more money is to monopolize. If we want to monopolize energy, we must subvert the culture of the Flash Empire..."
In the conference room, the boss's words were loud and clear.
"I swear, our Feiya Chamber of Commerce will make money our slave!"
There was warm applause in the conference room.
In the distant Star Court, the giant Flash Clan knew nothing about this conspiracy. They were boredly flipping through the essay submissions, occasionally picking out some to read aloud and then laughing.
Unlike Feiya Novel Network and Wuwu Library, Shining Empire adopts the approach of physical publishing.
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