Chapter 70: Jenny's Shock

  "What about "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"? How was this book created, the background is set in England, and when Holmes solves cases, he's so calm, it seems like nothing can shake his composure, it's really amazing!"

  It seems that Wang Shan is also a fan of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". When talking about this book, her small face becomes red with excitement, and the fervor in her eyes reveals that she is not only a bookworm but also a passionate one.

  As for why Wang Shan loves "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" so much, there's a story behind it.

  Wang Shan returned to Hua Xia one day "It's really no fun returning to Hua Xia, I don't have a single friend I know, sigh"

  Wang Shan's small face was scrunched up, filled with boredom. Her mom, Wang Ni, was busy every day with company affairs, leaving her alone at home.

  King Xuan, who was bored, opened his computer and casually browsed the Tieba forum. Suddenly, he saw an interesting message - 【"The Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection" is expected to win the Huaxia Reasoning Award】

  The reasoning of the Chinese is originally not as good as that of foreign countries, and it's not even comparable to that of the UK or the US. Even compared to island nations, China's reasoning abilities are still inferior. In the past, one of the world's three greatest masters of reasoning was from an island nation, so the reasoning abilities of island nations are actually very strong.

  Although Huaxia's reasoning is weak, there are still awards for reasoning. The Huaxia Reasoning Award, also known as the Huali Award, can be said to be the highest award in the Huaxia reasoning circle. One session per year, now it's already the seventh session.

  "I remember that 'The Stories of Sherlock Holmes' was written by the extraordinary genius Su Yuechen, as my mother said. I'd like to take a look and see what's so special about it, being a masterpiece that surpasses even Scurry's works."

  Wang Shan searched online and found that although "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" was serialized in the Yangcheng Evening News, there were also e-book versions available on the internet.

  All of this is still thanks to a netizen named Anyang Jun, who is undoubtedly a big spender. Why do I say that? Because he claims to be a super fan of Sherlock Holmes and spent a lot of money buying a forum. You know, the daily traffic of this forum isn't bad, so the selling price shouldn't be low either.

  But was directly bought by An Yang Jun and renamed as "Folmo Forum", this is not the end, then he also bought Folmo Tieba, Su Rixian Tieba and Wukong Zhuan Tieba three Tieba, then the forum and three Tieba joined forces to build the Folmo Union.

  The Holmes Alliance has nearly 100,000 people now, which is a pretty good number. To know that "Holmes Detective Collection" has not yet been released in physical form, only serialized on Yangcheng Evening News, and Yangcheng Evening News is limited after all, so the Holmes Alliance can have such a scale thanks to this local tyrant Anyang Jun's generous spending. Money can make ghosts grind, so the effect is significant.

  "The Sherlock Holmes Collection" is now somewhat famous on the internet, as soon as it's serialized in Yangcheng Evening News, it will appear online, almost simultaneously updated.

  So Wang Shan didn't have to spend much effort to find the content of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes".

  "Wow, it's still quite popular, and someone has even set up a special online forum for it. Hmm? There are short stories and medium-length ones, of course I'll read the medium-length one, what's good about the short story?" Wang Shan was reading "Blood Letter Research".

  "Hmm, this writing style is similar to American reasoning, and the plot development is also similar." Wang Shan, who grew up in the United States since childhood, has a special affinity for this narrative method.

  But the more I read, the more fascinated I became, and finally, in one breath, I finished reading the first part of "Blood Letter Research", and a feeling of unfulfilled desire arose in my heart.

  "This is truly brilliant, more brilliant than most of the reasoning I've seen in the US. Is this really written by a middle school student who's about my age?" Wang Shan couldn't even imagine it, that such a high level of logical reasoning was actually written by a middle school student.

  Wang Shan, who hadn't read anything for a long time, also took out another novella "The Sign of Four" to read. Although "The Sign of Four" is a novella, it actually doesn't have many words, so it wasn't long before Wang Shan finished reading it.

  This feeling is just like being addicted to opium, completely and utterly insufficient.

  "How come there's no more? It's so infuriating! How can there only be two medium-length chapters? Su Rui Chen is too evil, serializing for so long and yet only releasing two medium-length chapters. It's really too infuriating!" Wang pouted in dissatisfaction.

  Then, Wang Shan had no choice but to find the short story and read it. The first short story he read was "The Dancing Little People". "It's actually this kind of password, using English frequency as a decryption key, is this author really Chinese? Even American and British detectives didn't think of it, it's really too awesome."

  Wang Shan has been studying in the United States since childhood, so she naturally speaks English. Therefore, she felt that "The Little Dancer" was particularly wonderful. After finishing it, Wang Shan found that the short story was also very good-looking, and its goodness was not inferior to that of a medium-length novel. So, she searched for all the short stories in "Sherlock Holmes" on the internet and read them again, spending an entire morning in front of the computer.

  "Huh? What's going on? How could it be gone?" Wang Xuan suddenly let out a loud, unladylike cry "How can it just disappear like that!!"

  After reading all the chapters serialized in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", Wang Shan, who was attracted by "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", was so addicted to it, but now there is no more. Who can understand this feeling?

  "Ah, indeed just like mom said, Su Rixian is truly a peerless genius. I've read Skuvaro's book, but it seems...it really can't compare to what Su Rixian has written."

  Although Wang Shan did not want to admit that his idol was worse than others, the most important thing is that he still had to admit that the brilliance of "The Sherlock Holmes Collection" could not be matched by the three best-selling books written by Skurow.

  Wang Shan logged onto America Online, the instant messaging tool of the United States. Wang Shan used this when she was in the US and it had been a long time since she last chatted with her American classmates after returning to China.

  Log in to America Online.

  Open a friend in classmate group [Jeane] and send message "Jenny, long time no see, what have you been up to lately"

  I organized a Skuawa fan club outside of school and have been busy with fan club stuff recently.

  Jenny is Wang Shan's best friend in the United States, and Jenny is a mixed-blood child whose mother is Chinese and father is American, so she also understands Chinese. It's also because of this reason that Wang Shan and Jenny have common topics to talk about, which makes them close friends.

  Jenny and her hobbies are almost all about reading books, and the idols she admires are all American genius writers like Scurvawo.

  "Let me tell you, Xan Xan, I heard that Squawaro has already started writing his new book, and it's estimated to be released this Christmas."

  If it were before, Wang Shan would have been so happy that she would jump up, but since knowing Su Xingchen, after reading "The Sherlock Holmes Collection", the feeling is not strong anymore.

  Wang Shan simply responded with an "oh".

  "Xanxan, what's wrong with you? This is Scurry's new book!!"

  Wang Shan stared blankly at the message from Jenny on her computer screen, she didn't know what was wrong with her, and somehow typed out a sentence "Jenny, I recently found a very interesting detective novel, recommend it to you."

  "What reasoning? Who wrote it?"

  "It was written by a genius writer of Huaxia" Unbeknownst to him, Wang Xuan had elevated Su Ruo Chen's title, originally the genius writer of Yangcheng, but now directly promoted to the genius writer of Huaxia.

  "Genius writers of China, can Chinese writers write good detective stories?" Jenny and Wang Shan have some differences. Although Wang Shan grew up in the United States since childhood, she is a Chinese national, while Jenny, whose mother is Chinese, is an American national.

  "It's really not bad, Jenny, you have to trust my taste."

  "I'm not even going to look at those huge bugs in Huaxia's reasoning." Jenny didn't even want to look.

  "Jenny, the author of this novel is a genius from China, and after reading it, I think it's even better than Sukuaro's three works." Wang Shan heard Jenny say that Su Xianchen was not good, and suddenly felt a surge of resentment in her heart, just like when someone in the US said Sukuaro was not good before.

  "My god, Shanshan, how could you say something like that? Have you forgotten that Squall is our common idol?"

  "Really, this was my first reaction after I finished reading it."

  "Hmph, send it over and let me see, I don't believe that Skuaro is the greatest genius in the world, and there's no way a book written by a genius can surpass Skuaro." Wang Xuan sent over "Sherlock Holmes", fortunately, Jenny's mother was from China, so she could understand Chinese, otherwise it would have been impossible. The other side's avatar went black, Jenny should be offline reading now.

  It's almost noon, Wang Ni has gone out, and there is only Wang Shan at home, so Wang Shan can only cook and eat by herself.

  After messing around in the kitchen for a while, Wang Shan couldn't make anything delicious, so she went downstairs to order takeout. After eating her fill and feeling satisfied, she lay down on the couch to rest.

  Watch TV, but there's nothing good on any of the channels either, might as well go online.

  Jenny's message arrived as soon as she went online in the US.

  "Oh my god, Shanshan, how is it possible for a Chinese person to write such a great detective story? You're not deceiving me, are you?" Jennie's tone clearly showed that she was shocked by the brilliance of "The Sherlock Holmes Collection".

  "Of course it's a Huaxia author, the genius writer Su Ruo Chen from Huaxia." "Genius writer? How old is he?" "Fourteen or fifteen years old, definitely not over sixteen."

  "Oh God, Shan Shan isn't joking, are you sure you said fifteen and not twenty-five?"

  "Definitely, otherwise how can you be called a genius writer."

  "Oh my god, at the age of 15, he can write such a brilliant reasoning, three years younger than Scurry, that author named Su Xichen is possessed by God, it's too crazy, it's really too crazy" Jenny kept repeating "too crazy, too crazy".

  Also don't know how long Jenny sent a message "Xan Xan does this book have an English translation?"

  "It's not currently being serialized in a newspaper"