Chapter 194: Supporting God
Chapter 194: Supporting God
This monthly magazine is a pure literature publication, and the famous Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize are edited by its editorial department.
You can imagine how valuable it is, and Bungeishunju has also evolved from a magazine that simply publishes literary novels to a magazine that also publishes interviews, just like when Kim Jong-un became the leader last year, he conducted an exclusive interview.
This issue is themed on comics, featuring interviews with the son of Ichiro Umezu and Junji Ito, who received a perfect score in the Umezu Award.
The interview report came out, and at the same time, "Halloween Monthly" also followed up on the victory and published the award-winning work "Human Chair" and Junji Ito's new work "Human Head Balloon".
Famous overnight!
Junji Ito's painting style is so unique that it gives people goose bumps all over their body - it feels like pulling out a thorn, it hurts. We all know that using nail clippers can avoid pain, but it is a bit addictive.
Because of Ito Junji's enthusiastic praise, Gu Lu was almost praised to the sky, so much so that he became popular again in the first two issues of "Fuwenzhi".
"Walker on the Ceiling"
D-Sakagawa Murder Case
The Incredible Crime of Dr. Muro
Mirror Hell
"Human Chair"
Man Traveling with Stickers
Love Words on the Abacus
Through seven short stories, the name Gu Lu broke through the niche circle of magazine readers and entered the public eye.
"Seven stories are really too few. Doesn't he have any longer works?"
"Human Chairs is beautiful in both text and comic versions, but I can't imagine that the text version was created by an underage student."
“Any new works?”
The key point is that the reporter from Wen Yi Chun Qiu was honest and also sent out the contact information of Gu Lu’s editor (Editor Han’s email address).
As a result, invitations from Neon magazines came one after another!
Gu Lu returned to the Fog City and went to bed early that day, waiting to give gifts to his friends the next day.
The sun will not be late because of someone's late sleep, and the release of "Science Fiction World" will not be delayed because Gu Lu came to Beijing.
The first issue was released in February, and readers who rushed to buy it did not disappoint.
[Supporting God
○Gu Lu
God has run out of options.
Bring her eyes
○Gu Lu
Please take her eyes and let her see the world for the last time. ]
"The two recommended articles are both by Gu Lu. Gu Lu has dominated the science fiction world." Many science fiction readers thought to themselves.
Is this a series about supporting God? The readers wondered, is there another God in science fiction? With doubts in their minds, the readers read attentively.
There is no doubt that "Maintaining God" is the first article that many readers open.
Compared to the opening of "The Support of Humanity"
[God has made Qiu Sheng's family unhappy again.]
The first sentence of the book arouses people's interest in reading. ["You old man, you are going to kill this family!"]
[As usual, God stood there with his head down, his long, white beard like a broom dragging down to his knees, with a timid smile on his face, like a child who had done something wrong. "I... I took the milk pan down, why is it not closed?"]
Against all odds, God was scolded by Qiu Sheng's wife Yu Lian because he forgot to turn off the stove while boiling milk.
It seems that Qiu Sheng's family is still supporting God.
"President Jian, I've bought Science Fiction World." "Just leave it there. Sorry for the trouble."
President Jian asked his assistant to help buy magazines, and also wanted to see what level of writing Gu Lu could achieve when he tried science fiction for the first time.
“If you know one method, you know all methods. Xiao Gu has really figured out the field of short stories.” President Jian saw that the two articles recommended on the cover were both written by Gu Lu.
At the same time, President Jian’s doubts were also resolved. Why is the new work "Hyouka" also translated? It must be because he has read too many foreign science fiction novels.
"When will we be able to stabilize our style?" President Jian also started reading. After reading the preface with a strong storyline, he entered the explanatory chapter.
It turns out that God is not one, but more than two billion aliens who came on spaceships.
As for why they are God, it is because they created human beings in ancient times, so to the Blue Star civilization, or to be more precise, to human civilization, they are indeed God.
"It's so wonderful. There's no limit to young people's imagination," said President Jian.
So what is God doing on Planet Blue now? Because God's civilization is about to decline, they are highly developed, with artificial intelligence and robots, so they don't need to do anything.
Gradually, the people of God's civilization lost their creativity, until they could not even understand the instruction manual, and could not repair their spacecraft. They were almost unable to survive, so they came for help from the humans who had once created them.
The readers enjoyed it very much!
"Gu Lu's fabrications sound as real as if they were true. He previously proposed the concept of terminal producers, and now he has two markers for the decline of civilization."
"Twenty billion gods is equivalent to having two billion old and unproductive people in the entire society, which the whole world cannot afford to support." Readers had different reactions after reading this.
Human beings still accepted these old people, not out of responsibility or morality, but out of benefits. God's civilization informed humans of all their scientific and technological information.
Every village accepted God, after all there were two billion Gods!
"Can we rely on the technology of God's civilization to enable humans to achieve a leap forward?" President Jian continued reading curiously.
Big leap, no!
The technology of God's civilization is too advanced. Its energy technology is based on the "annihilation of matter and antimatter". It takes a century to understand the basics, let alone manufacture it.
As for controlled nuclear fusion? God's civilization does not have that knowledge.
"What an interesting setting! Modern energy technology does not include drilling wood to make fire. Hahahaha." President Jian laughed.
Soon, President Jian and his readers could no longer laugh.
Because mankind cannot gain even a single benefit from the scientific and technological knowledge of God's civilization, the "honeymoon period" is over, and the family that supports God, oh no, the entire society regards God as a burden!
There are even many cases of abuse of God in society. Qiu Sheng himself respects God, but his wife Yu Lian and his father feel that the God in their family is a burden.
President Jian couldn't laugh anymore, because he seemed to see himself in God, and he would also grow old...
The accumulated conflicts in Qiu Sheng's family finally exploded over half a box of instant noodles, driving God out of the house.
[Qiu Sheng looked back at his father and said, "If you kicked out the people who created our ancestors' ancestors, it wouldn't be a big sin for me not to support you in your old age." After saying that, he walked away, leaving his father and wife standing at the door in amazement.]
"Supplying God" doesn't have the shocking reversal at the end of "Supplying Humanity", but it is just like a blunt knife cutting meat - the more you watch it, the more your heart is touched.
Because everyone gets old.
The ending of Supporting God did not have a twist, nor did it disappoint the readers...
(End of this chapter)