Chapter 206 Others pay tribute to me?
Opening the poster - Gu Lu stared at it in amazement. This is the second time the poster has exploded, "Isn't it me?"
Look carefully, Gu Lu can I can see that the character in the poster is a bit handsome and similar to him, so it seems like he is!
The second time it hit the mark, he put it aside. After a while, Gu Lu couldn't help but take it back and look at it. It seemed quite interesting and he posted it on the bedroom wall.
As for the printed forms, they are all in neon text.
Gu Lu still took pictures and asked professionals for help, and then he found out what was printed on a few pieces of paper.
It turned out to be praise from neon celebrities invited by the editorial department, as well as excerpted comments from readers.
Let’s take a look at the praises of neon celebrities:
The more ordinary, the weirder, and the more ordinary, the more terrifying. The protagonist of the story is often substituted for himself, which makes him sweat in the middle of the night. ——Mariko Hayashi (Judge of Naoki Award)
The meaningful breath rising from the words is worth cherishing by every reader today. Gu Lu is a geek that people should cherish even more. ——Seiko Tanabe (winner of Eiji Yoshikawa Literature Prize)
The focus of the work is not on pointing out or hunting down criminals, but on "how people develop dark murderous intentions." Good and evil have both sides, and negative things are inevitable, so writers like Gu Lu are needed to describe the darkness of human nature. ——Inoue Monshamata (Naoki Award winner)
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“It’s good if the magazine has a card. Look, it’s the Naoki Award winner and the Naoki Award judge. "Gu Lu didn't take each other's compliments seriously either.
Feedback from Neon readers is more important, [I like this kind of novel] [It is rare to see a writer who can write about perversion and neurosis so naturally. Other writers will only write about two groups very easily. Deliberately, but what Gu Lu writes is really perverted and really crazy. I feel that the author should be very experienced] [Why did the story of Akechi Kogoro stop? I like this detective who came to Neon from China to study abroad] and so on.
“It’s all good reviews, and “Mystery Magazine” also reports good news but not bad news.”
After stuffing "People's Literature" and MM magazines into the bookshelf, the small bookshelf at home was full. Gu Lu looked around the living room and bought another bookshelf. There was no room to put it, so he decided to make do with it.
There was still plenty of time, so Gu Lu turned on the computer.
He has developed a habit of logging into his email instead of QQ.
Excluding spam, the remaining two emails are serious emails.
One is a copyright purchase email from Kazuma Yasuda, asking to purchase the adaptation rights of "Inhuman Love".
The last two million yen for the human chair was paid by Yasuda a few days ago.
This directly led to Gu Lu's bank card deposits increasing by 100,000 yuan, making the already relaxed family even richer.
This time Yasuda also consciously increased the copyright fee to 2.55 million yen. Gu Lu likes such sensible people.
Besides, a big part of the credit for being able to become famous in Neon is Yasuda’s help.
Another letter comes from new translator Katsuhiko Oe.
[Gu Lusang, becoming a writer has always been my goal. For this reason, I joined a literary club while I was in school, hoping to make my official debut as a writer one day. However, my talent is limited, so my submission has never been successful. This time I watched Gu Lusang's masterpieces "Owl Man" and "Flower and Grass Bento" and saw a new way of writing urban legends, so I boldly borrowed Gu Lu's ideas and adapted his previous works. Modify and combine urban legends with reasoning.
If Mr. Gu Lu has time to give you some pointers on this humble work, "Hundred Stories of Alley Stories", I would be very grateful. If not, I'm really sorry to bother you. ] [Attachment]
"The first translator has a dream of being a cartoonist, and the second translator has a dream of being a writer. Why am I the legendary Wang Feng Holy Body? Anyone with a dream comes to me. "Come here?"
Gu Lu couldn't help but complain. The most important thing is that Yasuda Kazuma's pen name is actually Junji Ito. He is also famous on Earth for the Tomie series!
"Is Katsuhiko Oe also a celebrity?" Gu Lu pondered, ""Hundred Stories of Alleys"? I've never heard of it."
Neon's more traditional way of writing "urban legends" is Shen Shen Nao Nao.
There is a comparison on the Internet about the difference between neon horror movies and domestic ones.
Chinese ghosts pay attention to cause and effect, and most of them are revenge types, or they are resurrected from past lives; while Neon ghosts kill people just because you meet them, similar to Sadako and Kayako. Urban legends are always written like this, without giving a reasonable explanation.
"Owl Man" popularizes urban legends, "Flower and Grass Bento" rationalizes urban legends, and the "Alley Story" that Gu Lu saw is the neon version of approaching science,
The background of the story is at the end of the Edo period when villages were constantly fighting. The protagonist Momosuke traveled to various feudal kingdoms in order to collect legends about monsters.
Special note, this novel is a mystery and will be explained using more scientific methods. Gu Lu felt a little uncomfortable reading it.
The story is quite interesting and can support Gu Lu to read the whole book. What attracted Gu Lu's attention is that the protagonist in the story encounters three strange people. Pirates are good at disguise.
The text inside has this description:
["Binakaya? There is no such store at all. This old man's actual name is Zipei, and his true identity is a scoundrel. He often faces people at night. He blackmails drunkards on the street, just like an owl that eats mice at night, hence the infamous nickname Owl Man."
"Hey, don't call me a scoundrel, okay?" The middle-aged man who called himself Tokuemon protested last night, his tone completely different from last night. "Actually, you're not much better. Even though he is now dressed in monk's robes and looks like he is devoted to worshiping Buddha, before he was the leading liar in Edo, known as the Trickster."
It can be seen from this that Mataichi is a person who specializes in cheating with sweet words, but Zhiping does not resist being called the Owl Man.
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Gu Lu read a lot of online articles before traveling through time. There were all kinds of monster themes, but he didn’t look at them from the perspective of future generations and gave them praise.
However, he also raised questions. This owl man really made Gu Lu unable to hold his nerve.
It wasn't until about ten o'clock in the evening that Oe Katsuhiko responded to the message. At that time, Gu Lu was after school in the afternoon and had finished washing and eating at home.
Oe Katsuhiko came up first and apologized at length, saying that his work and rest were different from ordinary people, so his reply was very late.
The most critical information is only the two or three hundred words at the end of the email.
The summary is that Zhiping’s character’s nickname Owl Man and his ability to disguise are all a tribute to the work "Owl Man" that Gu Lu asked him to translate.
"If Gu Lusang doesn't like it, I will revise it immediately. It also includes the tribute to "Flower Bento" in the (Shio no Choji) chapter. Because these two works have inspired me so much. If I am willing to apologize for any offense," Katsuhiko Oe said in the email.
(End of this chapter)