MTL - Conan’s World Stand-in-Chapter 11 narrative trick

Some dazzling sunlight filtered through the window that had forgotten to draw the curtains, and shone on Guan Dounan's face.

But the unfamiliar smell coming from his nose made him wake up quickly. He opened his eyes and looked at the small bedroom that was basically the same as when he fell asleep last night. Guan Dounan sighed, not knowing whether "confirming this is the second day of crossing" is a good thing or a bad thing.

Sitting up from the bed, he habitually reached out to the pillow to touch the phone, but it was empty. He smoothed out his messy hair, and Guan Dounan glanced out. The time is now around 7:30 in the morning. There are already twos and threes of office workers passing by, and there are also high school girls in short skirts joking and passing by.

"I haven't woken up so early in years..."

Get dressed, pull open the screen and walk out. My sister Guan Shanyue seemed to have left, and there was half a bag of bread slices and a carton of milk on the table, which should be breakfast for him.

"I haven't had breakfast like this for many years..." After sighing a little, Guan Dounan quickly washed and washed his hair. He didn't know what to do with his hair, so he had to drape it behind his head, unpacking the bread, and recalled yesterday while eating. experience.

After crossing over, it was the unfortunate crossing of "people were just killed in rice flowers", and there was no memory of the original body left, but accidentally awakened the power of the substitute, is this a good thing? do not know…

Looking at Xiao Hei who appeared in front of him with a "passionate" smile, Guan Dounan confirmed that his ability was still there, and let him go back and stay.

What happened yesterday and the information obtained through the avatar ability remember very clearly, how strong is it? Just like those embarrassing little things that I did when I was in elementary school that I can't forget even if I deliberately tried to remember them.

Thinking like this, Guan Dounan also recalled the embarrassing incident of taking a mouthful of ballpoint pen oil, and more... He was so frightened that he quickly took a mouthful of milk to suppress his shock.

"The memory before the time-travel is also there, and it has become clearer. It is a bonus? As long as no one with the ability has modified my memory, then there should be no problem with this information."

"Today's goal is probably to continue to collect information on Guan Dounan's death. I hope that Kudo Shinichi's side... Ah, since I have confirmed that Sancheng Masato does have superpowers, and it is his hand. Kudo Shinichi's reasoning is wrong. Now, there is nothing wrong with Guan Dounan's brain, and it is not for revenge for suicide."

"As for whether to find Sancheng Zhengren for a showdown or cheat him... At present, 'Xiao Hei' has no fighting ability at all. Before the accurate ability of Sancheng Zhengren is clear, it is best not to have a conflict with him."

"His ability is very good at assassination, or at least combat effectiveness, and I'm just a ruthless question-searching machine."

"I have no fighting power, whether it's me or a stand-in. I'm not like Jotaro who can be an adult at the age of seven. This is the difference between TOTO and genuine JOJO? What, power and speed double E? No, I can't even move, I don't even have an E."

"In short, the goal is to find out the surrogate ability of 30% Zhengren."

Thinking wildly in his mind, Guan Dounan put on his student uniform, picked up his satchel, opened the door and walked out.

"Even when I'm alone, I'm used to acting... Even my self-talk now is acting."

"In the words of youth pain literature, this is the mask that has been worn for too long and can no longer be taken off."

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"Why are so many people looking at me along the way? I shouldn't have done anything that is not in line with the public order and good customs of the neon society? Is it really just because of my face?"

"However, even though I have mastered Japanese, I still maintain my original thinking when it comes to dealing with people and things. Maybe something will go wrong."

"If you want to perform 'in line with the normal performance in the public's cognition', if you say that it was a difficulty B before, it will now become a difficulty S. I have heard that the unspoken rules of neon sign society are extremely perverted, can you really act? "

"Or, with the current appearance, it is 'normal' to occasionally behave in a maverick. So to what extent?"

Guan Dounan checked the buttons, zippers, shoelaces and socks on his body, and there were no problems. He didn't call out "Xiao Hei". Everything seemed normal, and there should be nothing to attract others' attention.

Is it really because the face is too good-looking?

"Yo, Senior Guan, good morning."

A familiar voice sounded, and Guan Dounan turned his head to see that Kudo Shinichi, who he had seen yesterday, was walking down the road with a girl. Kudo Shinichi had two big dark circles on his face, which was really scary.

"Lan, this is... yawn... I told you about Senior Guan."

"Hello, my name is Mao Lilan, and I'm Xinyi's classmate."

Oh, this is the famous Mao Lilan... Guan Dounan nodded. The three-dimensional Mao Lilan is enough to be called a young and beautiful girl. With this gentle and quiet appearance, she also exudes a unique vitality that belongs to young people. The strands of hair on his head were a little distracting.

Guan Dounan's height is estimated to be about 1.8 meters, which is a bit taller than Mao Lilan, so he is more concerned about this strand of hair.

It turns out that this hairstyle is like this in three dimensions...

"Hello."

"Kudou-san, are you... alright now?" Kudo Xinyi looked like he was about to die soon, and Guan Dounan was a little worried about not letting this guy die suddenly because he thought about his own stand-in ability.

"It's okay, I just stayed up all night. It's not like I haven't stayed up late and read detective novels before." Kudo Shinichi yawned again, "How about you, Senior Guan?"

"Not bad, at least have a good night's sleep." The suspicion of 30% of the people has been confirmed, Guan Dounan didn't care about Kudo Shinichi's suspicion, just smiled. But after thinking about it, maybe I can use this guy's brain to help me reason.

A detective's inductive and deductive reasoning is somewhat similar to the ability of [Mapping], in that it seeks the unknown from the known.

Possibly revealing your abilities? really. However, the ability he showed him yesterday could not be compared with "information gathering", and he did not believe that Kudo Shinichi could guess his ability under such a big difference.

Kudo Shinichi doesn't even believe in the existence of superpowers.

Moreover, he felt that Kudo Shin repeatedly said that he was the protagonist of Wei Guangzheng. Even if it was not orderly good, at least he was a neutral good. If the old man did change his **** and believed that he had superpowers, would he still harm himself?

There used to be such a joke: If you cross and meet this death god, run first. If you can't run away, it's best to have a good relationship with him. If you are lucky, you will be given a CP, otherwise you are likely to become a prisoner or victim.

His ex-girlfriend back then was Jing Jizhen. I heard that this macho who acted like One Punch Man in the movie was just because he was Sonoko's boyfriend and only indirectly related to Conan. , so the combat power is getting more and more outrageous, gradually moving closer to the Super Saiyan.

The heart of defending others is indeed indispensable, but there is no need to think about everyone to harm yourself. Moreover, this may be in line with the "personal design" and be less suspicious.

Sometimes it's normal to behave abnormally, and as paradoxical as it may sound, it's true in certain situations.

"Kudou, do you still remember the assumption I told you yesterday? Suppose there are superpowers in the world." Guan Dounan thought about his words, not for fear of revealing anything, but how to make Kudo Shinichi believe his words, " Now suppose there is an ability whose performance is...the cue is..."

After finishing his question in words similar to the setting of a reasoning game in an overhead setting, Guan Dounan looked at Kudo Shinichi with a helpless expression.

"Senior Guan, come up with another one..."

"Anyway, it's for fun, and don't you think this ability is very interesting? Maybe I can go to Juvenile Jump to submit a manuscript, draw a comic about vampires and superpower families fighting for generations."

"Okay, let's help you think of the script for the comics..." Kudo Shinichi seemed to have regarded Guan Dounan as an older middle school 2 reading the comics, and barely found a reason to convince himself, "If it was me, I would This ability is called 'Reverse Narrative Trick'."

"Reverse Narrative Trick?"

"Well, this is a commonly used term in the mystery novel world. If you are not familiar with it, then I will give a similar example. Have you heard of 'montage'?"

"Montage?"

"The so-called 'montage' is a French word Montage, originally an architectural term, which means composition, assembly, etc. But now it is generally used in the field of film and television, which means that when different shots are spliced ​​together, often It will produce meanings that cannot be expressed by a single shot." Kudo Shinichi explained, "For example, first shoot a shot where a person A raises a knife, and then another person B falls down. If you look at the scene of the ground, most people would understand that A killed B. But is this the case? I’m afraid it’s hard to say, maybe it wasn’t A who shot.”

"There is a similar usage in speculative novels, generally called 'narrative tricks', which means that the author uses some writing skills to narrate subjectively and deliberately hide certain facts from the reader. To put it bluntly, it is to use people's preconceptions. linear thinking, creating a sense of surprise for the reader by convincing the reader of a certain event or situation when the opposite is true.”

"From my personal experience, the author of mystery novels likes to use arbitrary transformation of person, perspective, time, and space. To say that the representative work of this narrative method is Agatha Christie's "Roger Mystery". , it's a pioneering work and a representative work, and also... ah, sorry, it's too far away."

Kudo Shinichi's enthusiasm for mystery novels, or the reasoning itself, has reached the level of fanaticism, and he can marry the reasoning, so when he talks about it, he talks endlessly, and Guan Dounan and Mao Lilan even have the opportunity to interject. No.

"'Suspect A entered the crime scene, and the victim B died there. No one else has entered the crime scene today', hearing such a description, people will subconsciously think that A killed B, very Unfortunately, A actually has a temporal alibi, which is a narrative trick."

"However, in your hypothesis, there are superpowers. Then A can use this counter trick to make the impossible possible."

"If he really has superpowers, his superpower is the ability to do the impossible in the sense of time, to delay the actions he makes to produce results."