Chapter 28 hidden despair

gloomy world (This article involves plots and answers, please enter carefully before reading the text) Readers of mystery novels are familiar with this scenario: a crucial new clue revealed later that completely changes your perspective on all preceding events.This can be used to explain each story in the book, and it can also explain my process of understanding Michio Hidesuke's works. Originally, Michio Hidesuke was an 80% reasoning writer in my mind.The tricks and tricks are beautifully designed, the plot runs smoothly, and the characters feel real enough that it's "already good," and if something is missing, I can only blame myself for being picky.So when I just finished reading "The Dog of Solomon", I happily said, "This work combines the bitterness of growing up with the sweetness of youth very well."

But... Later, I received a crucial new clue, which changed my opinion.After reading "The Rat Man", my opinion of "The Dog of Solomon" changed. "The Rat Man" has a tragic tone. At first glance, it seems that it is going all the way to the shattered ending, but in the end, as the mysteries are solved one by one, there is a glimmer of light. I would like to apologize to everyone, but I can’t see it from the synopsis. Nowhere is it better than the previous works, but Hidesuke Michio's talent seems to be the best in the form and content of this novel, creating a 100% balanced effect.In contrast, "Solomon's Dog", which was serialized at about the same time, although deliberately added comedy, also had a bright ending, but the heavy part was stronger after all, and there was a little bit of incongruity.

Perhaps for Michio Hidesuke, it is best to start from the gloomy imagination and play it most handily. Most of the stories included in this article were published in the same time zone, and the others were published between May 2007 and May 2008.With such a large output, did he eat and sleep in those two or three years? ), and almost all of them scored full marks in my opinion. They all have a very plump and infectious gloom.Just like Munch's "The Scream", I know that the picture is very unhealthy and even frightening, but I can't resist its great attraction, and I can't help but stare at it.In my opinion, the emotional impact contained in this small book is enough to rival the much thicker "Summer without Sunflowers".

In the minds of Taiwanese readers, Michio Hidesuke is a mystery writer who occasionally writes mystery novels with horror elements; but in this book, the master-slave status of the two is just the opposite: this is a collection of horror short stories with reasoning/suspense interests.The horror in this collection of short stories does not come from ghosts or bloody limbs, but from the despair deep in people's hearts-things are not what you originally imagined, and everything is irreparable.This kind of horror is actually colder and more innovative than "The Eye of the Back", which won the Special Award for Horror and Suspense Fiction.In these stories, "leading to an unexpected ending with key new information" is a necessary device to allow horror and despair to penetrate deeper.

Taking "Suzuki" as an example, at first it looked like a common murder triangle: "I" killed Kyoko's boyfriend s in order to be let down by Kyoko, only Suzuki saw it, so "I" always felt that Suzuki was in the hallucination. Talking about something.When the Dongchuang incident happened, "I" was grateful—it turned out that the real culprit was Xingzi, and "I" deliberately planted the blame on myself, but I didn't expect to be able to hide it for eleven years before it was discovered; "I" decided to take the blame alone to the end.But does "I" really have no regrets?What did Suzuki say?If in a more ordinary work, Suzuki's words are nothing more than representing the death of a wronged soul.However, at the end of "Bell Bug", what "I" recalled in the noisy insects was "childhood", such trivial and ordinary daily life-never, never again. (A sneak quote or two from Edgar Allan Poe here is actually quite appropriate. After all, in every story in the novel, the ominous crow appears.)

In "The Beast", the young man who felt despised by his family was driven by wishful thinking to investigate the truth of the murder case 43 years ago. In the end, it succeeded, and on the train home, I got a very bright conclusion at first glance, "I should start over... I should face my family, because maybe there is still salvation.No, there is always salvation..., how small my own problems are.If the story ends here, it will be too sweet and unbearable. How can life be so simple?But at the end of the road, a crucial new clue was added: when he returned home, the boy knew well that the "correct" conclusion he had found was worthless. "There is no place for me to start over, no family for me to face."

The pursuit of this day is just a self-deceiving escape after making a big mistake. The ending was so cruel it almost made me regret my impatience. The form of the middle two is more traditional. "Night Fox" has a fantasy color, but what it outlines is a nightmare that comes true: the young man returns to his hometown town after 20 years away with the sinful memory of raping and murdering a strange woman, but at the same time and place, unexpectedly Get punished——The desperate sentence that puts the finishing touch on this article is as follows: "In any case, the fact that I killed me has not changed." It's funny, but at the end there is a ghost talk ending that seems very false at first glance: "I" killed four people with my own hands, and the only sequelae is that I dare not look in the mirror?Thinking about it like this makes me feel cold all over again.This "I" is terribly cold-blooded.

Both "The Ghost of Winter" and the finale "Malicious Face" deliberately did not tell the complete story; compared with the clear reversal endings of the first four stories, these two stories have a wider room for interpretation and hide despair. "Winter Ghost" slowly reveals the reason why "I" and S became the current happy couple through diaries arranged in reverse chronological order. Only S never left, and was even willing to sacrifice his eyesight so that the two could stay together forever.But the story doesn't end on the last page—read chronologically, the "beginning" is the end: "There are ghostly footsteps in the distance. Whispering something I don't want to hear. No, it's not. That's Impossible." What people don't want to hear is usually the truth that people don't want to believe.So what are the facts? "My" wish didn't come true?The "white mist" between them has not disappeared? "I" can't live with s forever?Or is everything just an illusion of "I"?We don't have enough clues to find an exact single answer, but every possible answer is unsettling.

The two protagonists of "Malicious Face" are pitiful and terrible children like the one in it. In order to end S's endless physical attacks, "I" finally decided to resort to violence and kill S with the help of the mysterious neighbor—but at the last critical moment, what happened?Is this a fantasy story, or a "realistic" mystery novel?With different interpretations, the ending has different meanings.As a fantasy novel, readers may be able to sleep better at night, but I always feel that the truth is not so happy.What do you see when you take the floor apart?There may have been a life-and-death struggle in that house, and the child was not necessarily the loser.Although s is "like the evil in my heart has completely disappeared", is it just a superficial disguise? "At this time, S's face reflected on the window of the school building suddenly changed, and the terrible face that should have been sealed on the canvas seemed to flash in an instant." Maybe S was trying to conceal some bloodier and more sinful facts. Pretending that the magic canvas is really effective, pretending that all his malice is taken away by the canvas, not even forgetting to leave the necessary false clues on the canvas...?

No, this kind of scheming is too scary, it shouldn't be the case. "There are ghostly footsteps in the distance. Whispering something I don't want to hear. No, it's not. That's impossible." At the height of my fear, I wanted to close my eyes. But I couldn't even look away from this gloomy scene that looked like a setting sun and blood.

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