The night watchman was assassinated while giving a lecture at Peking University!
This major news swept across the entire city of Peking with overwhelming force, and the whole city was in a sensation.
All the journalists in Beijing love the Night Watchman.
He alone supported countless gossip tabloids and reporters in Beijing.
The aftermath of "The Animal Realm" is still spreading, and news has come out that the Night Watchman has been assassinated!
It's so considerate of a writer to create hot spots from time to time for them to write articles!
At this time, if you opened any newspaper in Peking, the front-page headlines would be about the assassination of the night watchman.
Major newspapers such as Chaoyang Daily and Gongyi Daily were relatively ethical. They reported truthfully the entire process of the killer's failed attempt on the night watchman and his escape, and the injured night watchman being protected by a human wall formed by Peking University students and teachers. The words shouted by President Yang Jusi, "Please kill me, Yang first," were mentioned in many reports.
This incident caused great panic in the literary circle.
Some people are so cruel as to carry out assassinations on campus in broad daylight. This incident itself can cause great insecurity among intellectuals.
If someone can assassinate the Night's Watch openly today, then someone can assassinate them openly tomorrow! The Night's Watch was lucky enough to escape, so can they be so lucky? !
Therefore, many bigwigs chose to speak out at the same time.
The Chaoyang Daily published such an incident:
A professor named Liu Shuomei from Peking University had always disliked Night Watchman. When "The Animal Path" was first published, the old professor wrote articles for a week to criticize Night Watchman and his articles. But when Night Watchman was assassinated and injured, he was one of the first professors to stand up and form a human wall. Afterwards, he even spoke out on many occasions to denounce this despicable and horrible assassination, and his words showed sympathy for Night Watchman.
So the reporter from Chaoyang Daily interviewed Professor Liu Shuomei and asked him why his attitude towards the Night Watch had changed so much.
Professor Liu Shuomei said: "I hate Night Watchman because I disagree with his articles. This is a personal grudge. But I am now working for Night Watchman for justice."
In addition to people like Professor Liu who put aside their personal grudges and worked for justice, there are also some people who are also speaking out for the Night Watchmen. They are fans and friends of the Night Watchmen, and were furious when they learned that the Night Watchmen had been assassinated.
For example, Le Jing's deskmate Ding Hui, his father is the deputy director of the police department. As the son of the deputy director, he abused his power and ordered the police to solve the case as quickly as possible and bring the murderer to justice as soon as possible.
There are also some book lovers who are of humble origins, without any powerful family, and some of them only have a three-inch brush in their hands, so they hold the pen tightly to express their emotions and write about the righteousness of the world.
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of these people, the public opinion in major newspapers on this matter was focused on supporting the Night Watchmen, criticizing the mastermind behind the assassination, and calling on the authorities to bring the murderer to justice as soon as possible.
But some tabloids are not so moral. In many news reports, Le Jing is dead, and the cause of death varies, including being shot in the head, hacked to death, poisoned... The most bizarre one is that Le Jing was strangled to death by a female student because of a romantic debt.
There are also some news reports that Le Jing is not dead, but has become a vegetable/seriously injured and dying/paralyzed in bed...
There are even more diverse speculations about the murderer's identity. Some say it is a senior party official, some say it is a gang member, some say it is a literary giant, and some even say there is no murderer at all, and all of this is just directed and acted by the Night Watchman himself.
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"I'm really fine. I just had some scratches. I wasn't shot and I'm not paralyzed." Le Jing stood up and turned around to show his intact body to Zheng Yiliang who came to visit him.
Zheng Yiliang looked Le Jing up and down, and when he found that he was really alive and kicking, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Do you know what the newspapers are saying about you now? Many newspapers say that you are dead, and many newspapers say that you will die soon."
Le Jing said helplessly: "These are all fabricated stories by some gossip tabloids to increase sales. You can't believe them."
After knowing that Le Jing was fine, Zheng Yiliang mentioned the business: "What did the police say? Has the murderer been found?"
Le Jing shook his head. "With so many people present, the murderer must have taken advantage of the chaos and escaped. It's impossible to catch him now."
Zheng Yiliang frowned, his eyes were angry and worried: "Do you have any doubts about the candidate in your mind?"
Le Jing shook his head again and laughed at himself: "I have offended many people."
Hearing what Le Jing said, Zheng Yiliang's eyes flashed with pride and admiration: "They hate you because you told the truth and you exposed their hypocritical faces, so they can't wait to get rid of you." He raised his head high: "Their hatred for you and this failed assassination are precisely the most successful tribute and admiration for you!"
Le Jing looked at Zheng Yilian who was looking up proudly, and once again recalled the assassination attempt against him two years later.
He was still thinking about whether he could prevent Zheng Yiliang from being assassinated, but he didn't expect that he would be assassinated earlier than Zheng Yiliang.
He managed to dodge this assassination attempt, but could he dodge it again next time? And could he really prevent the assassination attempt that led to Zheng Yiliang's death in the future?
Zheng Yiliang didn't know what Le Jing was thinking. He was still sighing, "You were lucky to dodge the bullet this time, but you won't be so lucky next time. I have a few guards at home who are good at guarding the house. I will lend them to you to protect your safety during this time."
Lok Kei nodded and thanked Cheng Yi-liang for his kindness. This "luck" is indeed hard to replicate.
After he escaped from danger, he carefully analyzed the whole process and came to a conclusion: someone was saving him.
First, the timing of his tripping was too coincidental, and then someone shouted after he hid, creating a chaotic situation for his escape. These two things combined made it seem like someone was saving him.
So who is it?
Was there an internal conflict among the masterminds behind the scenes?
Or is he some "Robin Hood" who stands up for justice?
Just at this time, Ryota Nakamura suddenly came to visit.
The first thing he said when he saw Le Jing was: "Sir, please leave China."
Le Jing was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly thought of something. He pondered for a few seconds and asked calmly, "I will die, right?"
Ryota Nakamura's eyes immediately turned red. He closed his eyes in pain and nodded slightly.
"Who is the murderer?"
Nakamura Ryota lowered his head, bit his lips hard, and sobbed, squeezing out a weak voice from his throat: "I... don't know."
Le Jing nodded in understanding.
Just as he didn't know who assassinated Zheng Yiliang, Ryota Nakamura from another world line would not know who killed him.
A hundred years is too long, so long that his body and the murderer's body have turned into bones, so long that all the grudges and joys and sorrows have lost their meaning. Only time can create the greatest desolation.
Nakamura Ryota raised his head and met the boy's eyes, which were as calm as the surface of a lake. He didn't know what Li Jingran was thinking at this moment, just like he never knew that there was someone who could be so calm after knowing that he would be killed.
"But there are suspects. I've seen the mystery shows on TV - you can think of them as small movie projections - and they say there are two groups that are the most suspicious."
Ryota Nakamura whispered the two names word by word. One was the secret service within the main party that currently ruled the country, and the other was the huge shadowy Green Gang that was entrenched underground in the country.
What these two forces have in common is that they both possess tremendous power.
Le Jing was silent for a few seconds and suddenly laughed.
"I never thought that a few small articles written by me, Li, would become a thorn in the eyes of those two organizations. I am really flattered."
"Sir! I'm not kidding!" Nakamura Ryota growled anxiously, "It won't be long before those people kill you! You have such extraordinary talent, you shouldn't die so young!"
Le Jing looked gently at the angry boy in front of him. In the boy's eyes lived an angry but desperate lion.
He patted his shoulder soothingly, smiled at him, and said softly: "No one should not die. As long as their death is valuable, then there is nothing to be afraid of."
"But that could have been avoided! If I had only told you the date..."
"Is it really avoidable?" Le Jing shook his head and calmly and cruelly told the boy, who had not changed his innocence despite two lives, the truth: "As long as they want to kill me, they can send someone to kill me at any time. Even if I can avoid it once, I can't avoid it a second time."
Nakamura Ryota was stunned on the spot, and the desperate lion in his eyes growled in pain: "So... is there really no way out? Can we just wait for them to come and kill you?"
Le Jing shook his head again, and spread his hands in a bachelor's way: "There must be a way, but I don't have any idea for the time being, I need to think about it again."
"By the way, how long will it take before I'm killed?"
Nakamura Ryota accurately gave a series of clear numbers: "There are still 185 days."
Half a year.
That means he probably only had half a year to write.
There is only half a year left to turn the situation around.
Le Jing thought that he needed to think carefully about what to do.
First he needed to figure out their motives.
Was it the content of The Animal Realm that violated taboos? Or was it his previous works that sowed the seeds of disaster?
Or maybe...
"Rise of Dynasties".
Le Jing raised his eyes and watched the rolling clouds in the sky. The sharp light that suddenly burst out of his eyes made the anxious Nakamura Ryota suddenly feel relieved.
The young man's eyes were slightly closed, with flashes of light in them.
If it is really "Rise of Dynasties", then what do you see from this unfinished book?
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