Chapter 20 "Book of Life and Death" is on sale (4K 2-in-1)
Shanghai National Bookstore.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Zhou Guomin opened the door of the bookstore leisurely.
He went to the warehouse first, used a knife to open the box of the new books that he had received yesterday, and took out the books one by one.
Smelling the familiar aroma of brand-new books, Zhou Guomin patted off the crumbs on the book cover, shook it a few times, and stuffed it into the bookshelf in the popular novel section.
Remembering that the publishing house also provided a poster as a gift, Zhou Guoming shook his head and posted it on the promotional space on the outer wall.
After all, I accepted someone's greeting, but I just cursed a lot,
"To clear up the nonsense, I read in the newspaper that it was a book written by a little kid, and a young man can write it. No matter how loudly you publish a good-looking work, what’s the use?”
“I hope all these books will be sold out.”
There will be no one here in the morning, Zhou Guomin pressed. As a habit, I picked up a book from the stack of books next to me and read it. It happened to be the new novel.
"Forget it, let's take a look at what's written. The new concept has been so popular recently. Maybe someone will come and ask. You have to know what it says."
However, less than half an hour later, Zhou Guomin buttoned up the Book, he gave himself a slap in the face gently,
“You really can’t make any money, this book has been sold out.”
He hurriedly found the purchase order, and only bought in a total of Twenty copies.
Zhou Guomin first pulled out a few new books and placed them on the first shelf at the entrance, alongside this year's bestsellers such as "It Looks Beautiful" and "Frost Cold River".
Then dial the phone.
"Hello, this is the National Bookstore. I would like to buy another three hundred copies of "The Book of Life and Death".
No joke, it's Chen Linfeng's new book. Yes, please send it to me as soon as possible. "
Zhang Yuan has been short of books recently, so he went to a nearby bookstore and looked at the prominent poster outside the bookstore.
There is only a black book on the poster. The three characters "Book of Life and Death" are written in weird fonts on the book. There is also a line of words written below the book:
"Recommended by Yu Hua and other famous experts"
Zhang Yuan looked at it curiously and walked into the store. The most conspicuous position on the bookshelf happened to be this book,
"Book of Life and Death" , the name is quite gimmicky," Zhang Yuan thought.
This position is usually recommended by the boss, and most of the content is good. He is an old customer of this store, and he still has some trust in the owner's vision.
So Zhang Yuan took down the book and opened it to read.
Li Zhi is the section chief of the National Special Incident Handling Bureau. Although he is not young, he has already handled many difficult special incidents.
On this day, the director gave him new instructions.
There have been many unexplained deaths of criminals across the country. Some people in the police department suspect that this is caused by special forces.
The application was submitted to the Special Affairs Bureau, and the director hoped that Li Zhi would go to investigate and handle the matter.
Li Zhi looked at the introduction of the death of each criminal in the case file and felt quite interested.
Some people in society have noticed the abnormal death of criminals, and some people regard the person behind the crime as a messenger of justice.
Li Zhi didn’t know whether the person behind the scenes was a true messenger of justice, or if he just wanted to vent his emotions.
Judging from the description of the case files, not all of these criminals deserved to die. Some of them committed misdemeanors, but they also died inexplicably.
He wanted to catch it and verify it with his own hands.
Next, Li Zhi made his final appearance in an emergency meeting jointly held by Interpol and domestic police.
He took over the initiative resolutely and announced at the meeting that the people behind the scenes would be quickly arrested and brought to justice.
When Zhang Yuan saw this, he felt that it was a decent beginning and a good idea of the future world and people’s living and working scenes, so he continued to turn the page.
At this time, the perspective of the novel turns to another character.
In the eyes of the public, Ye Shen is a good student with both good conduct and academics. He has been extremely intelligent since he was a child. Even in the relaxed environment of the university, he still maintains a high degree of self-discipline in learning.
However, he has a slightly withdrawn personality and always feels that the people around him are stupid without realizing it.
The endless online violence and the stupid netizens living in information cocoons and drifting with the crowd gradually made him tired of this boring and decadent world.
Until one day, he discovered a black notebook that suddenly appeared.
The notebook is called the Book of Life and Death.
It is slightly different from the magic weapon that records life and death in myths and legends. This notebook has no life, only death. As long as a person's name is written in the notebook, he will die.
Ye Shen didn't take it seriously at first, he just thought that in what age did he still do such pranks. However, in the end he couldn't suppress his curiosity and took the book home.
After returning home, he carefully studied the rules of use attached to the notebook.
1. When writing the name, you must remember the other person’s appearance in your mind. Avoid the possibility of accidental injury due to the same name and surname.
2. If the cause of death is not marked, the target will die of cardiac paralysis 40 seconds after it is written.
3. If the cause of death is marked. You can continue to add content within 6 minutes after writing.
There was actually a detailed setting, and Ye Shen became interested in it.
He wanted to test the authenticity of the notebook, but he was worried that if it was true, it would lead to the death of others and he would be held criminally responsible.
Ye Shen gave up for the time being and scrolled through his phone in boredom, when he happened to see a piece of news about the underworld beating up others.
The news is a live broadcast in the store. Several gangsters first teased them, and then grabbed several girls by their hair and beat them.
This news has initially caused public outrage on the Internet.
Looking at the information about several underworld members revealed on the Internet, Yagami wrote their names in his notebook with hesitation.
After finishing writing, he couldn't help laughing at himself, how old he was, still playing such a child's game.
But the next day, when he turned on his mobile phone to browse the news, he was shocked. Several gangsters were really dead. Ye Shen rushed back to the room to confirm that it was indeed these names.
But Ye Shen, who has superior intelligence, quickly calmed down. This is most likely just a coincidence, and more experiments are necessary.
He first ruled out looking for criminals or big shots as targets, because information may be blocked for a period of time after the incident.
His eyes fell on the gangsters who often appeared in bars and nightclubs. Even if something happened to these guys, they could just be doing harm to the people, and it would be a shame to die.
Soon Ye Shen witnessed the gangster die under his own pen, and he finally believed that this was a real death note.
The King of Hell orders people to die at the third watch, but who dares to keep them alive until the fifth watch?
The Book of Life and Death is well-deserved.
Killing people did not scare Ye Shen. For the first time, he felt the meaning of life. He also doubted whether he had the right to judge others.
But this decaying world is waiting for people to judge and save it, just like God destroys mankind and creates a new world.
So Ye Shen kept writing down names to let the criminals know that there is a messenger of justice in the world who is punishing them until no one does evil anymore.
A new world with only good people left is about to be born.
And he is the God of the new world, the new God!
Although the method of punishing scum through the Book of Life and Death is extremely hidden, people still noticed this messenger of justice, and public opinion on the Internet became polarized.
At the same time, a large number of criminals died inexplicably. It also attracted the attention of the police. An emergency meeting was held for this purpose. In view of the difficulty of investigation and the inexplicable way of death of the criminal, the police applied to the Special Affairs Bureau to assist in the investigation.
Then we come to the scene at the beginning of the novel, where Li Zhi accepts the assignment to investigate the case.
Zhang Yuan was a little excited when he saw this. As long as the opponent has a book of life and death that can make people die by writing their names on it, he really doesn't know how Li Zhi should fight against Ye Shen.
Li Zhi is an extremely mysterious person to the outside world. He uses "L" as his code name.
Except for a few leaders of the Special Bureau, no one knows his true identity.
Under the command of L, the police identified the person hiding behind as a criminal, codenamed "Murderer", and police across the country launched a joint operation.
The first step is to conduct a global live broadcast.
L appeared for the first time in the news. He said that he could mobilize the global police force to arrest the murderer, declaring that the murderer was not the savior.
As his code name suggests, he is just a murderer, and the police must arrest him personally.
This success angered Night God, who was watching the live broadcast. He considered himself a god who judged sin and created a new world.
L's words were undoubtedly a great insult to him.
Ye Shen immediately wrote L on the book of life and death. 40 seconds later, L died of cardiac paralysis in the live broadcast.
But before he could be happy for long, the L symbol filled the entire screen in the live broadcast.
On the TV came L's voice using a voice changer, "Murder, I didn't expect that you can really kill people from a distance. The person who just died was just a death row prisoner."
The voice of the voice changer was calm and indifferent, "You killed the person we announced as L, but I am still alive in this world. If you can, kill me now."
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After a while, L's voice came again, "It seems that if you want to kill someone, you need to meet certain conditions."
Zhang Yuan couldn't help but marvel, this is Risk your life on your own conjecture.
But the worst thing is yet to come.
This special live broadcast is claimed to be globally synchronized, but in fact it is broadcast in different regions at different times, and now it is only broadcast in the central region of China.
In addition, when several gangsters were killed for the first time, news was also spreading in the country, so it was determined that the murderer's hiding place was in central China.
At the end of the live broadcast, Li Zhi issued a declaration of challenge to the murderer, "I will personally send you to the court for trial soon. Justice will eventually defeat evil."
Ye Shen Completely irritated, "Justice? I am justice. I will kill you first before you catch me!"
Wonderful, the beginning is so good, how did the author come up with such a plot? Zhang Yuan's face flushed with excitement, the hand holding the book trembled slightly, and he almost jumped up.
In the age of slow reading, it is hard to imagine how much impact he received when he suddenly came across a fast-paced wit novel.
Zhang Yuan quickly closed the book and put it away, and walked to the cashier at the front desk. "Boss, I will buy this book. Please pay me quickly."
He couldn't wait to go home and watch the follow-up plot.
The power of the Book of Life and Death to kill people from across the air, the monster Luke named the God of Death, who is actually a slave of the Book of Life and Death, and his father, who is a policeman on the task force, can obtain information. The villain Ye Shen has great advantages.
However, the tone of the novel is very obvious, justice must prevail. He really can't imagine how Li Zhi can catch Ye Shen.
Three days later, Chen Xiaopang was also thinking about this problem.
Ever since Zhang Yuan promoted "The Book of Life and Death" in the office, he only borrowed it to read the beginning, and the book was taken away by his boss.
Hearing Zhang Yuan say that the later part will be even more exciting, he resisted not letting any spoilers, and his heart was about to fly away as he was hooked by the follow-up plot.
No, he quickly went to a nearby bookstore to buy books, but the bookstore was sold out. Is this what humans do?
"Boss, do you know how to do business? Why would you only buy a little of such a beautiful book?"
Lao Wang felt so sad that the day after the new book went on sale, he I was alert and called the publisher.
Unexpectedly, the big agents in other provinces also had a keen sense of smell. They had already caught wind of it and contacted the publishing house to increase orders on the first day of sale.
The remaining excess share of the publishing house is reserved for the big agents. Small shops like him can only wait for the second printing.
However, I am afraid of comparison in everything, so I called the National Bookstore, which is also a small store not far away, in advance and ordered the book. Watching my neighbor make money was even more uncomfortable than losing money.
Chen Xiaopang saw that the boss's face turned red and said nothing. He had to search for other bookstores and found the National Bookstore.
There were people queuing up in front of the store. Chen Xiaopang quickly stepped forward and asked, "Boss, do you have a book of life and death here?"
Chen Xiaopang felt awkward as soon as he finished speaking. Fortunately, the people who bought the book, including the boss, knew that this person was buying the recently popular novel, otherwise they would not treat him as a lunatic.
Zhou Guomin was in a good mood these past two days. He said with a smile, "Yes, but it won't be certain by tomorrow. Fortunately, I called the publishing house early and got more in."
Chen Xiaopang suddenly felt relieved and said, "It's up to you, boss, to make the money. I asked several stores near my house, but they all ran out of stock."
The Sprout Magazine was full of joy. scene.
Editor-in-chief Zhao is not here, and the deputy editor-in-chief presides over the daily meeting.
Zheng Yuling was full of praise for her leader, "How can I say that the leader has a sharp eye for pearls? You insisted on signing the contract with the most sincere conditions. The sales of the new book are booming now. It is all the credit of you and Editor Zhao. "
Zhu Guiming leaned on the chair with a smile on her face. She suppressed the joy in her heart and asked Lao Wang, who was in charge of publishing matters, "Xiao Zheng has already communicated with Chen Linfeng, and there is The publishing house needs you to follow up and the reprint should be implemented as soon as possible. "
"We have already communicated. We just called the publishing house and the factory. There is no problem in reprinting 300,000 copies. Work will start today."
Zhu Guiming sighed, "We are still a little conservative. We only printed 100,000 copies of the first edition, so we are a little nervous at the moment."
Zheng Yuling has not been there recently. Don't talk about this topic with your colleagues, and said, "Who would have imagined this? We already value Chen Linfeng's first novel enough."
"Yes," Lao Wang took over, "He is just a newcomer, not a famous person, and has no foundation. He thought that even if the sales exploded, he would have to take his time. Who would have thought that the start would be so hot."
< br>Zhu Guiming said with some distress, "Editor Zhao hasn't been home for a few days, and he is still talking with bookstores and agents in various places about channels.
The sales of books are increasing now. If the supply cannot keep up, He's going to curse."
Zheng Yuming said comfortingly, "Don't worry, the total of these two printings is 400,000, which will be enough to sell for a while."
"Xiao Feng, there you are. You should keep in touch, and if he has a new book, you should report it to me as soon as possible. We have a good relationship now, and we can't let others intercept it later," Zhu Guiming warned.
"Oh, yes, and," Zhu Guiming slapped his head and added to Editor Li, who was in charge of publicity, "Don't worry about whether our inventory is tight or not, we still have to follow up on the follow-up publicity.
Contact the newspaper, "Life and Death" "Book" novel became a hit, selling 100,000 copies in the first week. Just use this statement, publish it in newspapers, and distribute it to a few more times. I don't believe that bookstores and agents everywhere will not be interested. "
Actually, Shen Hai. The newspaper has been the first to notice the popularity of "Book of Life and Death".
As the first place to be put on sale and the area with the most publicity in newspapers, the news of "The Book of Life and Death" with its exciting plot and booming sales has spread among local book lovers.
Even in some small bookstores, some book lovers had disputes because of the small number of books.
Journalists will naturally not miss such news.
This time, Xu Huilin from Wen Wei Po acted the fastest. Ever since the newspaper published the news that Chen Linfeng's new novel was about to be released, she has been paying attention to the relevant news.
When other newspapers wanted to publish news about the booming sales of novels, she had already set off for Wuxi. Go get first-hand news.
This chapter is a bit confusing, so I will post more. There will be another update in the evening.
(End of this chapter)