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These nine rules of Raymond Chandler, after all, come from a different time in another world, who knows if it will work.

All in all, today's level is finally over!

In this case, we should talk about the ins and outs of this small test.

After all, until now, he was still at a loss.

On the other side, Miyagawa Yosuke also took a sip of tea, and then he took the conversation.

"Mr. Akihara, since you have passed the test, we can say our intention to invite you. That is to hope that you will join the Association of Reasoning Writers and become one of its members."

Hearing this proposal, Hiroto Akihara was surprised.

As far as he knows, aren't the members of the association all writers who have asked to debut for more than 3 years?But he only debuted for half a year?

In this case, even if he joins the association, he should be an alternate member of the association.

But he was surprised, and quickly realized that this was the reward of this "little test"—let him skip the three-year waiting period and join the association directly.

After thinking for less than two seconds, he planned to agree directly. After all, for a writer, connections are indispensable.

The Reasoning Writers Association just happened to be able to give him this platform to gain connections.

But just when Akihara Hiroto was about to speak, Miyagawa Yosuke continued.

"Teacher Akihara, I would like to declare first that the matter of joining the association may not be completely beneficial to you..."

[Chapter 162.161 Confrontation between Benedict and Socialism]

Joining the Reasoning Writers Association is not entirely beneficial to oneself?

Hearing these words, Akihara Yuto was a little puzzled for a moment.

In his own opinion, if he wants to continue to climb up in the literary world, the three most important points are works, contacts and reputation, and these are what he has learned through the encounters in the past six months.

For a writer, works are the foundation of everything. If there are no excellent works, everything else is just a flower in a well.

After all, writers who don't have any good works are often unable to eat because of poor sales, let alone think about the future.

When Keigo Higashino first debuted, he first won the Edogawa Ranpo Award through "After School", and then his works sold well and earned a lot of money.

But since then, his works have not been in line with the market positioning and have not been sold.

Because of his poor life, the conflict between him and his wife became more and more serious, so that he divorced his wife who had been married for 14 years before he won the Naoki Award for a comeback.

In fact, there are only a few writers like Keigo Higashino who can make a comeback.The vast majority of ordinary writers, once they fall behind, often choose to quit the literary world directly.

In addition to works, connections and reputation should also be valued.

Although these two are accessories brought by the work, in Akihara Yuto's view, if he can join the Writers Association, then he can reduce the time it takes to obtain these two accessories.

After all, if he had a certain social influence or connections like Seto Tamae or Miyagawa Yosuke in the beginning.

How dare Takei Kohei and Kihara Daigo block themselves?

Hiroto Akihara pondered for a while, but still couldn't figure out what kind of adverse effect joining the association would have on him, so he raised his head and asked, "Mr. Miyagawa, what do you mean?"

Yosuke Miyagawa took a sip from his teacup, "Teacher Akihara, don't be in a hurry, I want to ask you a question first, what is your definition of reasoning?"

"What's the definition?"

Hiroto Akihara frowned and thought about it.

He was a little speechless. Dealing with writers was really hard. Things that could be explained clearly in a few words had to be detoured.

Forget it, I'm still a junior after all, so let's answer honestly first.

After a long while, he said slowly: "In my humble opinion, the essence of reasoning is to solve the mystery of the story by reasoning. The most critical part is the design of the puzzle and the way of reasoning and solving the mystery." Way."

Miyagawa Yosuke nodded, and asked again: "So, what do you think is the most important point of reasoning?"

"The most important point?" Hiroto Akihara was a little puzzled.

After weighing it over and over for a while, he replied in an uncertain tone: "I think it's about the story, or the fun."

In Akihara Hiroto's view, no matter what it is, storytelling is the first premise. As for human nature and the way of reasoning and deciphering, it is just a way to increase the storytelling.

Readers often can't even read works that lack storytelling, let alone other aspects.

However, there is obviously no standard answer to this question. It can only be said that everyone has their own ideas.

That's why he answered in an uncertain tone when he answered.

But something unexpected by Hiroshi Akihara, Yosuke Miyagawa laughed, obviously satisfied with this answer.

At the same time, Shinta Kawai also accepted the words with a smile: "Mr. Akihara, what do you think of the current school divisions, such as Benge School, Social School and other schools?"

Hiroto Akihara frowned and replied: "I don't have any special opinion. I think the works of these factions are just a type of reasoning. As long as the readers are satisfied, that's all."

In the previous life, Neon was influenced by European and American detective culture. The first one was undoubtedly the Benge school, and the representative figures were Edogawa Ranpo, who is known as the "father of detective reasoning" in Japan, and the author of Kindaichi Yokomizo Masashi .

In the 20s, the 50-year-old Seicho Matsumoto made his debut and led to the popularity of socialist works. After that, many writers of the same period were also deeply influenced by him. Socialists.

In the 80s, Shoji Shimada, known as the "God of Reasoning", released "The Astrological Murder Incident", announcing the birth of the "New Benge School".

Under his influence, many writers held high the banner of "Rejuvenating Benge" and began to counterattack the socialists.

As for other court factions, suspense factions, and ruthless factions, because of their influence, they are just embellishments between the confrontation between Benge and the Socialist faction.

However, although the socialist faction in this world also sprouted early, it has always been in an "embarrassing position" because of the lack of leading figures like Seicho Matsumoto.

The new Benge, on the contrary, is more reflected in the self-innovation within the Benge faction, rather than a counterattack against the Socialist faction.

Kawai Shinta nodded after listening to Akihara Hiroto, "Mr. Akihara, I'm glad to hear your point of view. But within the Mystery Writers Association, there are many different voices."

"A different voice?" Hiroto Akihara asked suspiciously.

"That's right. Over the past ten years, there have been more and more groups of writers from the Benge School and New Benge School, and many of them have become senior executives of various judging committees and associations. Many of them believe that the so-called reasoning works are It should contain only the so-called Benge style, which focuses on the design of tricks."

"Thanks to the efforts of these writers, more and more awards have been awarded to the works of the Benge School, and even the circle of book critics has been greatly affected." Kawai Shinta finished speaking and took a sip Tea, "If things go on like this, the works of other reasoning genres are bound to decline."

Akihara Hiroto didn't expect to hear these words, he lowered his head and thought about it.

If it is true as the president of Kawai said, then Benge and Xinbenge are bound to grow further in the future. As for the Socialists and other schools, the living space can only be further squeezed.

After all, for the public, it doesn't matter what genre you are in, they only care about whether this work has won any awards and whether it is recommended by book critics.

If you can't get awards and book review recommendations, ordinary writers of many other genres may not even be able to eat.

But these have nothing to do with you, right?