Chapter 292 Gu Lu, You Are Too Cruel

Chapter 292 Gu Lu, You Are Too Cruel

Chapter 292 Gu Lu, You Are Too Cruel
The book is a "close-up report" written by the deer, and the perspective is subjective.

But his intelligence is limited, and he doesn't understand many things, such as the Rorschach inkblot test, where the deer has no idea what it represents.

Why is this happening? According to Xiaolu's report, President Jian got the whole picture. Doctor He Cheng seemed to be conducting an experiment to make people smarter.

The little deer didn't know why, but he wanted to become smart so much that he even went through great pains to find a special school.

[I want to speak up if they let me. They said they must get my family's permission. But Uncle Gu, who used to take care of me, is dead, and I don't remember my family. I haven't seen my mother and sister Jiajia for a long, long time...]
Don't kill with the knife of affection. President Jian, who has a general understanding of Gu Lu's situation, feels a little upset when he sees this. Uncle Gu, Xiaolu - so it's Gu Lu.

"Have you experienced this yourself?" President Jian took off his glasses. He always wears them when reviewing manuscripts and attending meetings, otherwise his presbyopia makes it difficult to see clearly. But at this moment, he seemed to have a premonition, worried that his tears would wash the lenses.

It turns out that Algernon in the title of the book is the name of a mouse, and President Jane continued reading.

Although it is a little bit of a hindrance to take off the glasses, it seems to be no problem at all so far.

Dr. He Cheng conducted many tests on the deer, including a maze test. There was also a mouse named Algernon who underwent a smartening surgery.

The little deer was very curious as to why the name was so difficult (it didn't use tongue twisters), and the doctor replied that Algernon meant long beard.

"From what we can see now, the fawn should only have an IQ of around four or five years old. Algernon in the English context means a man with a beard, but he can't understand that at the moment." President Jian looked at the content and saw that the fawn lost to the mouse Algernon.

This indirectly proves that Dr. He Cheng's experiment is very useful.

Xiaolu's IQ test score was only 68 points, which is a very unsatisfactory number no matter what the criteria are used to judge.

But in the end, because the deer was very kind, he got the opportunity to participate in the experiment.

[Doctor He Cheng then said that even if Xiaolu failed this time, you still have a great deal of influence on the science of trees. This swallowing method is useful for many animals, but it has never been used on humans. You will be the first...]
What a black humorous scene, President Jian thought, this is Gu Lu's specialty. The protagonist's IQ is so low that he can't even write the word science wrong, let alone the concept of science. Is there any point in talking about this?
"I won't fail." President Jian has already put himself in Xiaolu's shoes.

Maybe he thinks the little deer is the incarnation of Gu Lu, or maybe the little deer is too pitiful. There is no doubt that the characterization in the first few chapters is very good.

The test was not closed, so Xiaolu still had to maintain a normal life. Xiaolu worked in a bakery, the kind that also sold birthday cakes. President Jian knew that there were many such stores in China.

Xiaolu agreed to the doctor's request and kept it a secret from his friends. Xiaolu wrote in the report many times that he had many friends.

President Jian always felt something was wrong when he saw this.

As the plot continues, the deer undergoes an experiment.

"Science is indeed Xiao Gu's weakness, and his previous math knowledge from Flatland was also very basic."

When President Jian saw that the experiment in the book was completed by just closing and opening the eyes, he couldn't help but smile knowingly.

After two experiments, Xiaolu himself did not notice the change in his IQ, but President Jian did.

"The title is correct, it's a progress report, and there are fewer and fewer typos in the report." President Jian said, "Using typos as foreshadowing the changes in the character's IQ is a stroke of genius."

[I had a different kind of slog with Algernon. I hate that rat. It always beats me.]
As IQ increases, emotions become more diverse. President Jian didn't expect that the first emotion Xiaolu felt was jealousy.

As time goes by, he will start to blame himself. The deer used to think that Algernon was so smart. But now he thinks, "I never thought I was dumber than a mouse."

Then the plot shows why Xiaolu said he had many friends. It was because his colleagues at work made fun of him, and Xiaolu's silly reaction made his colleagues laugh. Xiaolu thought his colleagues were happy because they liked him. Because in his logic, he would only laugh if he was happy.

"What a tense plot design!" President Jian had a heart attack when he saw this. If Xiaolu knew that these friends were just laughing at him, not happy, and didn't treat him as a friend...

The deer had a low IQ and a poor memory. But as the experiment progressed, the deer's IQ steadily improved and it began to recall its past memories.

Two colleagues took him out to eat, and Xiaolu was tricked into drinking. He was also fooled into performing mopping and dancing in front of the store.

[People passing by started laughing. Li Lan Ke said that Miss Li must be really mad to be so into you. Qiao Hong also said hey Xiaolu, did you have sex with her? I said I didn’t know what that meant. … I think they were into me. We had a lot of fun. But I couldn’t wait to be like my best friends Qiao Hong and Li Lan Ke.]
Now the deer's IQ is better than the mouse's, but he is not happy because he regards Algernon as a friend. He is not happy to have defeated his friend, especially when he knows that Algernon has to complete a test before he can eat. The deer is even more sad.

"I think it's wrong to require others to pass the test before they can eat. Even if it becomes smarter, the deer is still kind, but..." President Jian is getting more and more worried. When the deer really understands that what he encounters in life is actually bullying, will he still be so kind?
And President Jian also saw the foreshadowing. Every time after the deer experiment, his head would hurt a lot.

The little deer is getting smarter and smarter. He has already mastered kneading dough and how to use punctuation marks.

but……

The book once again shows a core setting. After the IQ of the experimental mouse Algernon reaches its peak, it begins to decline and becomes irritable.

"Xiao Gu! This little deer is also based on you, right? Is it necessary to be so cruel?" When President Jian saw this setting, he really wanted to have a good chat with Gu Lu. He now understood the meaning of the preface to Plato's Republic.

Let the protagonist, the little deer, become smart, understand the ugliness around him, and then be deprived of it, becoming worse than before.

half an hour,
One hour,
Two hours!

The assistant of the publishing house had been waiting outside for too long, and it was her responsibility to remind them.

If we don't leave now, we will be late for the meeting in the evening.

"Bang bang!" Assistant Cai Mian knocked on the door.

There was silence for a few seconds before President Jian's voice was heard, "Come in."

The sound is too deep.

"President Jian, we should set off..." Assistant Cai Mian asked hurriedly, "President Jian, what's wrong with you?"

Her eyes were red and tears were clearly welling up around them.

I have to say that President Jian is also a tough guy. I watched Flowers for Algernon in one sitting without shedding a tear.

"Hey - it's okay, I saw a good work." President Jian said, "This is the best and most shocking work I have seen this year. Xiao Gu is such a good writer!"

"Teacher Gu Lu has published a new work?" The assistant looked at President Jian, who has been working in the publishing industry for more than ten or twenty years. How many wonderful works has he seen?
Even so, I still cried, and Cai Mian was itching to try it. What good work has Gu Lu written again?

"I've never thought of this angle before," said President Jian. "I heard that part of the creativity of this work came from a visit to a major laboratory."

"Gu Lu is really good at playing to his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses. Even when writing a science fiction novel, he can always focus on human nature," President Jian praised.

The description of the experiment in it is probably enough to make graduate students who have done experiments, or practitioners who can conduct experiments, speechless.

But the story is so good, how the little deer becomes smarter step by step, and how it understands the truth about why its mother left... It's so heartbreaking to watch.

A good sadistic novel is like this: even if you know there will be a knife at the end after reading the beginning, you will still keep reading.

President Jian read the last part of the book——

[Anyway I feel like I was the first idiot in the world to come up with something important for science. I did something but I can't remember what it was. So I guess I did something for the special schools and all the idiots like me around the world.]

Goodbye Miss Li, Dr. He Cheng and everyone else...

besides:……

Also: If you get a chance, please place some flowers on Algernon's grave in the grove.]
This is what Xiaolu wrote when his IQ dropped rapidly, and the title of the book is mentioned at the end.

"Although Flowers for Algernon is only related to science fiction, it will not be skipped when future generations review science fiction because the story is so wonderful," said President Jian. Doesn't this directly indicate that Gu Lu's new work can go down in the history of science fiction?

Is it really that good? Assistant Cai Mian thought about it and thought that The Little Prince was destined to be remembered in the history of fairy tales. So it seemed normal to add another field... What the hell!

"Notify everyone to hold an emergency meeting immediately." President Jian said to his assistant.

"But we have to attend an event in the evening." Cai Mian said that the key point is that this event is officially organized and it is not easy to miss it.

President Jian also understood that he couldn't postpone it, so he said, "Then let's call a meeting tomorrow morning. It doesn't matter what direction the publishing house will expand in. What's more important now is to arrange this book well. If it works well, it will become a work that supports our publishing house's sales this year."

He couldn't even imagine how incredible the sales of this book would be.

The purpose of the meeting was, firstly, to give a publishing house the highest royalty share, and secondly, to discuss how to promote the work.

How many copies of Algernon on Earth have been sold? There is no accurate figure, but we only know that more than six million copies were sold in Europe and America at the time. After the millennium, there was no more statistics. It has been translated into more than 30 languages, and with various stage plays and film and television adaptations, it is indeed a sales bomb in the field of science fiction.

After turning off the computer, President Jian got in the car. Assistant Cai Mian was very curious, because the president's words were too mysterious, and the key point was that Gu Lu also had the ability.

"President, I received a message." Assistant Cai Mian looked like he didn't know whether he should speak or not.

"What's the matter? Tell me." President Jian waved his hand. He was in a good mood after just watching a wonderful work!

"I heard that Vice President Jin seemed to be reporting to the head office..." said assistant Cai Mian.

Hmm? Vice President Jin is the top executive of the publishing house that he is most at odds with. In the previous dispute over the direction of expansion, Vice President Jin supported the historical genre.

By the way, President Jin does know a few historical fiction writers who are good at writing books. If the expansion is successful, Vice President Jin will be a huge threat to him. Therefore, President Jian insisted on simplifying the famous works in the public pool, partly for the sake of the publishing house, and partly for his own consideration.

Having been the president for so long, he certainly doesn't want to step down. President Jian is not a saint and cannot let it go.

"I have been the president for so many years. What's the use of whatever tricks he wants to play?" President Jian said that he could not lose.

Not too confident, the parent company Shanghai Century Publishing Co., Ltd., although it has dozens of subsidiaries including Shanghai Cultural Publishing House, Shanghai People's Publishing House, Zhongxi Bookstore, Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House, etc. But in fact, Century Publishing is more like an alliance and will not strongly intervene in its subsidiaries.

Besides, among the dozens of publishing houses under the head office, there are very few presidents who are more qualified than him. With the right time, right place, and right people, how could President Jian lose?
Assistant Cai Mian saw this and continued, "But Vice President Jin seems to be very serious this time. I heard he is making some plans."

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing." President Jian nodded.

While the vehicle was driving, President Jian sent a message to Gu Lu.

[Uncle Jian: Congratulations, Xiao Gu, for writing another wonderful work. Very, very good.]
Use two "very" to express your love for the work.

Gu Lu, who was keeping accounts, received the message and waited for a while to see if there was any follow-up message, because President Jian’s way of speaking was to hide criticism in praise.

No, just pure praise.

Gu Lu's heart showed an expression of "as expected". This is the expected effect.

Now that he no longer has to worry about life, Gu Lu still retains the habits he has developed.

"Holiday expenses are 1,500 yuan more per month than school expenses." Gu Lu looked at the monthly bill.

"Normally, I eat at least one meal in the school cafeteria during the school day. But during the holidays, I have to pay for all three meals."

After finishing the accounting, Gu Lu replied: [When will it be published?]
[Uncle Jian: That requires discussion and a more complete publicity plan. But one thing is certain, I will give you an unprecedented royalty share.

Gu Lu: Then I am looking forward to it very much.]
If he remembered correctly, the author with the highest royalty rate for Earth China was Hu Shi, and only later was Han Han and Guo Jingming, who were at their peak, tied with a 20% royalty rate.

If there were no Guo or Han in this world, the highest royalties in the current domestic writer market should be only 19%, and that belongs to the one who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Of course, there are masters in the world, just like JK Rowling in this world, who has not yet been expelled from the Harry Potter group chat. Although the specific number has not been announced, it should be more than 20%. Stephen King, who does not exist in this world, has clearly stated that he exceeds 20%.

“Although I am now a top-tier best-selling author, you won’t pay me such a high price, right?” Gu Lu thought for a while before moving on to the next thing.

Daydreaming more often will make you happier. Gu Lu learned this from his deskmate, now his deskmate Qi Caiwei.

"How would you spend it if you had 100,000 yuan?" Gu Lu once asked Qi Caiwei this question.

Then Qi Caiwei happily answered a lot of questions, as if she really had 100,000 yuan.

"It's just a thought, but I'm sure I'd be happy if I suddenly had $100,000 to spend. I'm happy just thinking about it."

It was an interesting theory, but Gu Lu's thoughts at the time were exactly the opposite. He would not think seriously about it, because even if he thought seriously, he still would not have it.

Here is a question, is it better to do the job you least want to do when you are happy, or when you are unhappy?

When you are happy, you will become unhappy.

When you are unhappy, won’t your already irritable self become even more irritable?

“The best way is to avoid doing it.”

What Gu Lu didn't want to do was copying classical Chinese. Yes, he was still learning from Mr. Zhou Shuren and was still settling down. He knew copying would definitely help, but he was resisting it in his heart.

Resist even if you can!
After copying, Gu Lu stretched and muttered, "I hope the little white mouse named Xiaolu in the major laboratory is still alive."

I originally wanted to write "A Bouquet for the Deer" because Gu Lu left a foreshadowing in the major animal experiment center. But later, as I wrote, I found that the original author was really similar to Charlie in the book. Charlie always thought that he was not smart enough, so his parents abandoned him. The original author thought that his parents had this attitude because his grades were too poor.

Therefore, when Gu Lu sent it to President Jian, he made a change, turning the little deer into the protagonist.

Gu Lu also steadily advanced his plagiarism career during the summer vacation.

At the same time, Li Guyuan was also working hard. After returning from Gu Lu's house three days ago, he wrote seven or eight manuscripts a day to finish Gu Lu's sci-fi thriller idea.

Li Guyuan didn’t know how many times he had written the drafts.

“I don’t know anything about the music industry. Even if I search for a lot of information on the Internet, I can’t write something that looks realistic.”

"In that case, let your imagination run wild!"

"As long as the singer has personal charm, even a very rubbish song can become a big hit! It's even more useless than "The Most Dazzling Ethnic Style"."

Li Guyuan continued to write, he wanted to let himself go completely.

After two days, he was quite satisfied. Li Guyuan sent it to Gu Lu, and got a reply: [Wow, you wrote it really well. Did you really write it? It's first-rate. I'll definitely accept it if I submit it to Science Fiction World. Go for it!]
It looks like a compliment, right? But every time Li Guyuan sent an article to Gu Lu for appreciation, he would receive similar flattery.

"What a joke!" Li Guyuan couldn't help but say. But after getting a reply, he still sent his work to the email address of Science Fiction World.

The results are out, and Gu Lu has also sent the second episode of the interview program to Bilibili.

That’s right, the missing people have returned.

(End of this chapter)