Chapter 305 The Peak of Horror Article
Even though he felt this way in his heart, Yi Zhanghuang could swear that he took it seriously when it came to gambling and drug addiction.
The way I looked at Wan Yian before was with disdain, she was a very close person. Soon, Yi Zhanghuang noticed the details of the article, "Martin had already stuffed his trouser pockets with stones. Soon, other boys followed suit and picked up the roundest and smoothest stones from the ground."
< br>It seems that a grand event is being held, and there is a giant stone bucket in the corner of the square.
The men were talking and laughing, the women were exchanging gossip, and the children on summer vacation were chasing each other and playing.
Harmonious foreign towns.
The person who hosted the activities was Samos. He was a coal boss and had no children. He had money and leisure, so most of the activities in the township were hosted by him.
["Guys, sorry for being a bit late today."
"Does anyone want to lend a hand."
"Totally forgot what day it is today."< br>
"I thought my man had gone out to chop wood."
"Later I looked out the window and found that the children were gone. Then I remembered that today was the 27th, so I ran over quickly."
……]
It seems to be a sparse and ordinary activity, and people are too accustomed to it.
Yi Zhanghuang recalled that when he was a child at his grandparents’ house, there were few entertainment activities at that time. Their home was the only one in the whole village that had a large color TV, and many people came over to watch TV after dinner.
Anyway, the scenes described in the book gave Yi Zhanghuang such feelings.
"What exactly is a lottery?" As a writer, Yi Zhang Huang reads and writes a lot, and most of the time he can think of the subsequent plot.
The story also describes the small black box for the lottery - it is broken and has other stains. It shows that rural lottery has been popular in rural areas for a long time.
“It’s quite formal, because of tradition, so the black box is not replaced if it is broken. Before the lottery, the executive officer also reads a meaningless eulogy.”
Clear feelings After seeing Gu Lu's ability as an author, Yizhang Huang realized that he had been caught by a hook.
Each family has to send a leader to draw paper coupons.
One ticket per person.
After all the draws have been drawn, the lottery will begin. There is one lottery ticket (a black dot drawn with a pencil) and the rest are white tickets, and as the name suggests, the lottery of the book's title comes from this.
It seems that winning the lottery is not a good thing.
Because people are very resistant and will sigh when they see others draw blank papers. Because there is a dispute over whether a married daughter should stay with her husband's family or her natal family.
The last three hundred words can't be said to be a complete turnaround, they are simply a topsy-turvy story.
The car drifted wildly, and the tire skin was worn through by the friction of the ground. Such a wild change of direction!
Raffle winner Tessie Hutchinson, standing in the center of the square.
[Mr. Warner chanted: "Come on, everyone, come on." Steve Adams stood in the front row of the crowd, with Mrs. Graves beside him.
"It's not fair, it's not right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed as people moved toward her. ]
Those who win the lottery will be stoned by people!
Old people, middle-aged people, and children work together to make friends.
Family members, relatives, and good friendly neighbors also picked the biggest stones without mercy.
This turn was too big, and Yi Zhanghuang was stunned for a few seconds. Then I felt a chill rising from my tailbone.
It was like being in an ordinary environment, and suddenly a basin of cold water was poured on me, making all the hairs on my body stand up.
It's not an exaggeration, the key is that Yi Zhang Huang was unprepared.
Yizhanghuang went back and read the ending, a little unbelievable.
“What the hell?”
“What the hell!”
“What the hell!!”
The three exclamations are a good indication of Yi Zhanghuang's psychological activities.
What a ridiculous activity, Yi Zhang Huang also thought of the description in the book that the lottery lasted for many years.
Many of the previous details corresponded to each other, and Yi Zhanghuang remembered that there were other stains on the black box described in the story... couldn't they be blood and brains, right?
Also read before: "In the village in the north, they proposed to abandon the lottery." "Listen to these young people, the young people only know how to complain. Soon, they want to retreat to the cave If you live here, no one will want to work anymore, just live like that.”
Two old people in the village talked, and Yi Zhanghuang thought that the lottery activity was just an activity similar to worshiping the gods. Now it looks like Nima!
"How can a horror novel be written like this?"
"So "Random Thoughts" and "The Possibility of Evil" are just small experiments, and "Lottery" is the masterpiece?!"
What's the deal? What fight? Take the head to attack the tower? Yi Zhang Huang personally experienced the meaning of "dimensionality reduction attack".
Even Yi Zhanghuang felt that every word that seemed to be chatting in the front was paving the way for a turning point in the atmosphere later.
The whole article is almost 8,000 words, and there is not a single wasted pen.
For example, the previous description of Mrs. Delacroix as a reckless ordinary peasant woman, and the subsequent understatement of "Mrs. Delacroix chose a big stone that was so heavy that she needed two hands to lift it."
< br>What is the purpose of the stone? The slightest contact will make people feel strong discomfort. This is human life. Why can you treat it so lightly?
So this is the quality of a talented writer? Yi Zhang Huang fell into silence.
He does not want to read the subsequent articles of "New Reading" for the time being.
Looking at the cigarette box on the table, I felt that there were only a few cigarettes left.
Smoking a cigarette and opening the door. Yi Zhang Huang wants to go downstairs to buy cigarettes.
“No, Gu Lu’s writing style is too imitative.” Yizhang Huang thought to himself, “It is impossible for ordinary authors to imitate.”
Tiezhu It is very similar to "Lottery", both of which tell the story of some kind of anti-human setting in a remote town.
The former is a very common suicide, and the latter is a very common homicide.
For Gu Lu to write this kind of work, Yi Zhanghuang thought it was normal in his heart. It’s just that what he personally thinks the lottery contains and what he wants to express is much more!
When Yizhang Huang was buying cigarettes at a newsstand, he saw their local newspaper. The sub-headline was about a local high school where a student with good writing skills appeared. Also known as a talented writer.
"The value of the word genius is still rising. Compared with Gu Lu, all geniuses are not geniuses." Yi Zhanghuang is quite looking forward to Gu Lu continuing to write. He had no intention of comparing and felt that he was not an opponent of the same level. Can only look up.
The sales volume of the magazine "New Reading" is very good.
Wan Yinan, a writer in his forties, is very happy at this moment. Because his work is juxtaposed with Gu Lu's "Lottery".
He can brag about this for the rest of his life.
What "Lottery, you know, that very classic horror novel, my dog and he fought fiercely to compete for the title of the article. In the end, he narrowly won."
By the way, if An picks it up Phone call, thank you to Editor-in-Chief Dong of Xinrui Reading Editorial Department. Yes, he actually went through the back door.
"Old Dong, I'll treat you to dinner tomorrow."
"What, no more dinner, just skip to the point."
"No problem, let's go directly Wash your feet.”
...
Gu Lu, who brought out his trump card "Lottery", suddenly triggered the synthesis sequence.
The incident happened suddenly. Let’s take a look at where Gu Lu is currently.
There is a Yonghui supermarket opened near home. Gu Lu learned a dish on the Internet today.
“Pickled pepper bullfrog!” It seemed that he had the skills, so Gu Lu ran to the supermarket to buy ingredients.
When he took the white plastic bag, there was a ding in his head.
[Kenneth Graham’s Fairy Tales] [National Books of a Certain Country] [Popular Science Books]
“Good guy, what is this?” Gu Lu looked at the bag bullfrog inside.
"Is there any problem?" The staff in the seafood area couldn't help but ask when they saw the customer standing there blankly. The staff reminded: "The bullfrog has been slaughtered, and this cannot be returned."
"Oh, I know," Gu Lu said, "I just found out that there is no skin. I like to eat it, so..."
"I'll get it for you," the staff member said immediately, and then took it When the bullfrog skin came out, he explained, "Many customers who love to eat bullfrog don't like the skin, so if there is no direct explanation, the skin is cut off by default."
Different eating habits, like In many areas, fish bubbles are not eaten, and fish bubbles are simply thrown away when killing fish. Until people from Sichuan province who went out to work found out about this... Yupao never asked for money, but only after eating.
"Thank you." Gu Lu thanked him and left with his things.
It shouldn't be a plastic bag. Gu Lu has taken plastic bags from the supermarket many times. So the only trigger could be the frog in the bag. He couldn't figure out what content in the book the frog was the key to?
"Kenneth Graham? This is the first time a name appears in the tag." Gu Lu took out his mobile phone and searched. The current 3G network speed is still a bit slow.
Another day to miss the 4G and 5G era.
"Kenneth is a British children's writer. He has many masterpieces of fairy tales, such as "The Golden Age", "Spring and Autumn in Dreams" and "The Wind in the Willows"." Gu Lu had never heard of this author.
But currently, he exists on both earth and parallel worlds. So why does the selected work mention this person?
Second creation? Gu Lu scratched his head and laid out the facts to make sense. If it was a national-level book of a certain country, with his knowledge, he should have heard of it even if he had not read it. But there was no idea at the moment.
Six labels, two books. Currently, both of Gu Lu's synthesis sequences are full, and the one in front is suspected to be Stephen King.
"Forget it if you can't think of it, don't embarrass yourself."
Gu Lu looked at Wawa and thought to himself, "Since you synthesized the work, in order to thank you, I decided to first I’ll fry you again!”
Buy another pack of pickled peppers. Although every Sichuan and Chongqing person has a pickle jar at home, Gu Lu’s jar...
Because I’m in a good mood. , Gu Lu made some extra dishes for himself at short notice, and also bought some sausages.
This is also his first time. He prefers hot pot, but he basically doesn’t know how to make it himself. Because it is very, very difficult to make fat intestines delicious.
Take three steps and then take two steps to go home.
There is a roar, and the oil pan is put down.
The fried bullfrog really made even the kid next door cry.
When [a work with B-movie qualities] [readers faint when they see it] [the most famous cult writer in the 21st century] - "Intestines"
Details: This book contains twenty-two scary, funny, and stomach-churning stories. This is a masterpiece with strong taste, reading is risky, and the weak are not allowed to enter! 73 people fainted while the author was reading "Intestines", and the number of faintings continues to increase.
"Nais, this meal is really awesome. It triggers twice in one meal." Gu Lu figured it out and saw that the name was intestines. That should be the trigger for fried fat sausage.
Just by looking at the triggering item and the name of the work, Gu Lu felt that this work was unique. How many flavors are there?
Chuck Palahniuk's work. Gu Lu has read this writer's novel "Fight Club" and it was adapted into a movie, starring Pete.
“I feel like I don’t have to repeat myself too much in Fight Club!”
Gu Lu still controlled his desire to take a look, because he hadn't eaten dinner yet.
What if Gu Lu is really too heavy-handed and can't eat anymore after watching the movie? Wouldn't the frogs and sausages he bought be wasted?
He is a frugal person.
It is precisely because Gu Lu got into the kitchen as soon as he came back and did not go online that he did not know what "Lottery" caused on the Internet.
The feedback from Yi Zhang Huang and Wan Yi An was just very ordinary feedback, or it was not well presented at all. After all, they are Gu Lu's peers and have an affinity for horror and suspense novels.
But ordinary readers...
"The Lottery" can be evaluated as one of the greatest short stories (100) of the 20th century on earth, and it is the only horror novel on the list. It’s so well written!
Soon! Really fast. The magazine will be released in the morning, the discussion will be a small explosion in the afternoon, and the big explosion in the evening!
“To be honest, is the death of people a problem in horror novels? Not at all. The reason why the lottery is so scary is because of the scene of a bumper harvest at the beginning. Children on summer vacation seem to be picking up shells, picking rounder stones. You are gloating about not being selected. The neighbors who were chatting with you happily one second are taking action the next. The scary thing is that they don’t think this custom is stupid and cruel.”
“I think the scariest thing is that they are accustomed to it. , and the people who were drawn shouted "unfair", and until their death, they did not think that the lottery itself was wrong. "
"What's more important is that the beginning of this township has already used modern agricultural machinery. It proves that it is not a very closed existence. People like you still insist on taking the lottery, which can only be said to be shocking."
"Actually - None of you have thought about the scariest thing about "The Lottery". In the book, Old Man Werner participated in seventy-seven activities, and now there is only one person left in the entire family. Although it is not stated clearly in the book, it is obvious that Werner. The Na family are all victims of this activity. But Werner still enjoys this activity. I think this is the reason why Gu Lu is really good at writing." Sorry, when I first read the previous content, I thought it was nonsense. I was still wondering why it was so long-winded and never got to the point - but the reverse happened later, my dear, there was not a single long-winded part in the whole article. Besides, you are all wrong, I think. The most terrifying thing is Gu Lu himself!”
There are also many people discussing whether this lottery is possible in reality. Some netizens said that it is similar to Neon's "Narayama Festival". It can be imagined that in an era when agriculture was underdeveloped, the food in the village could not feed so many people. So the lottery was used to wipe out the population openly.
There are really many great people on the Internet, and it makes sense to say this.
"It makes sense. The scariest thing is Gu Lu. He has such insight into human nature at such a young age!" Yi Zhanghuang vigorously refreshed the evaluation of Gu Lu's new short story.
Why can’t it be abolished? Because every villager is a beneficiary and a perpetrator. Including victims from previous years and also former beneficiaries.
“The most terrifying thing is that now I think to myself, if my relatives were smashed to death in previous years, it would be canceled this year, and I wouldn’t want to!”
Yizhang Huangfeeling" It is appropriate for "Lottery" to become the main article.
After reading this article this morning, Yi Zhanghuang will never forget it.
The trend online has changed dramatically.
Netizens who previously said there was something wrong with Gu Lu’s changing writing style have become more aggressive.
"Congratulations to Gu Lu for his successful experiment, using literary writing to write about horror." "When will I publish the second article?" "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I misjudged the situation." The combat power of this guy was five thousand, but it was unexpected. "It's very high-level and bright, but when I saw the child starting to hit people with stones, my heart suddenly sank."...
If. It is said that Gu Lu returned to the first issue of "New Reading" and the magazine's sales surged because of the writer's own fame.
The reason for the increase in magazine sales this time is that many people were attracted by "Lottery". Take a look at the discussions on the Internet to see what the best thriller in Gu Lu's career looks like.
After all, a magazine costs only a few yuan, which is not expensive even for students.
There are many classmates, such as Gu Nuxia’s friend Shu Rou, who are obviously more afraid of this. If I drink too much water during the day, I get up at night to go to the bathroom, and I don’t dare to go to the dark living room when I see it.
But Shu Rou heard that "Lottery" was terrible, so she went to buy it...
"You said it is not possible for Gu Lu to write science fiction short stories?"
"I think it's possible. His last book was science fiction."
"Then it's normal to invite a manuscript, isn't it?"
The above is a conversation between two editors in the editorial department of "Science Fiction World".
With the rise of the Internet, the physical publishing industry is in an overall slump. Except for Gu Lu, there are very few authors. Publishing a short story has caused discussion.
In addition, magazines such as "Youth Digest", "People's Literature", and "Youth Literature" have also sent out invitations.
As if, Gu Lu has entered his era of big updates!
It may be difficult to understand the publishing house’s urging. If you calculate it, it is equivalent to the online writer who said in this chapter that there are hundreds of people urging you.
There is no need to rush. This Saturday and Sunday, Gu Lu, in addition to his ordinary work, is studying "Intestines". His evaluation after reading it was - there is always a writer who will lead you to appreciate the strange xp of human beings.
Be cautious, Gu Lu should be cautious.
It’s Monday again.
"Little Lingdang, you are moving too much. What if you are expelled from school?" Ding Xixi wanted to stop the little sister's crazy behavior.
"Why were you expelled?" Zhou Lin asked, "The school does not prohibit students from coming to school on Saturdays, as long as they tell the teacher."
Is this a problem for you coming to school? It’s a question of whether you want to organize a small school celebration on Saturday!
Nima is simply crazy.
After the negotiation with the principal failed, Zhou Lin thought of this method in her mind.
“If there were no school teachers to help maintain it, there would be too many people and we would not be able to control it.” Ding Xixi said.
"At present, I have convinced the literature club, volleyball club and table tennis club. If I work harder, there will be four or five more clubs to take action." Zhou Lin nodded, "Including the students who came to watch, there should be close to a hundred people. Indeed, there are not The method is perfect."
Ding Xixi took a breath and finally gave up.
(End of this chapter)