Chapter 430 A shocking scene

Chapter 430 A shocking scene

Chapter 430 A shocking scene

"Who do you think I am?" Yu Xinyao said bluntly, "You probably mean don't have too high expectations, but I think saying that would damage the momentum of Xiao Gu's new work."

Having known each other for many years, Yu Xinyao knew President Jian's character very well.

"Not really, just..." President Jian felt a little regretful, mainly because he praised too much. Yu Xinyao, because of his own big name, developed a bad habit of delayed gratification. No matter how popular a work is, he will not read it while it is hot. Instead, he will deliberately let it hang for a while.

It just so happens that Yu Xinyao's favorable comments can at least bring in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of sales. Just look at the invisible improvement in Gu Lu's current status in the literary world.

“A popular version of 1984, Brave New World.”

"A work that gives you goosebumps."

"Watch it first and enjoy it first, watch it later and you will regret it!"

After repeating it three times, Yu Xinyao said, "Old Jian, I remember everything you said. Now that you've aroused my reading addiction, you want me to be rational, but I won't do that."

"Okay, I won't see you off." Yu Xinyao's order to leave was too blunt. But this was also related to the good relationship between the two.

It has to be said that his interest in reading was indeed aroused by his old friend, so he couldn't wait.

President Jian also said goodbye. He didn't have much time to spare, as he had to fly to Shanghai to take charge of the overall situation. Even though the vice president was in charge of most of the daily affairs, he had to personally take charge of the release of the works of the leading writers.

"What a pity! The next work will be published by the New Youth Culture Publishing House." President Jian has obtained the suspect and the current New World by virtue of his unique connections.

We agreed to share one copy with the head office, but now you snatch the next book away. I’m afraid New Youth will make a fuss.

"In an age when physical books have become decorative books, writers with such strong appeal are very rare," President Jian sighed.

We are all from the same family, and I want to share a little habit of President Jian. If you search the Douban discussion group "Buying books is like a mountain falling, reading is like pulling a thread", you can often buy very cheap books, even cheaper than the second-hand books of Confucius.

The reason why President Jian came to the conclusion that books have become decorations is because he saw these readers selling books - many people buy books for the sake of displaying them on the bookshelf, for presentation, and to satisfy some kind of personal need.

As the president of a publishing house, he is very grateful to this group of people. As a book lover, President Jian prefers to buy second-hand books.

President Jian went to the garage and drove away before Yu Xinyao started reading.

Because he wants to have a comfortable environment when reading, he will make some preparations, including but not limited to adjusting the lighting, making a cup of hot tea...

As usual, I'll skip the book jacket and preface and go straight to the main text.

At the beginning of reading, Yu Xinyao, like President Jian, or more precisely, the vast majority of readers, had the first reaction that this was a novel with a fantasy background.

As a person who is particularly good at reading, Yu Xinyao quickly summarized the content of the previous article: in the future world, humans will evolve the superpower "curse power", and this world is also dominated by superpowers.

"The suspense in the early stage is whether the superpower can be awakened. At present, it seems that if it cannot be awakened, it seems that the unclean cat will take it away."

He keenly discovered this setting, which should be one of the core of this book. It is a simple rhetorical question, "In what kind of world, if you don't have superpowers, you will be executed?"

Just to fill this hole properly requires a huge setting. It is easy to fill the hole without saying good or bad.

The school for people with super powers has erased its history, and the children’s lives and studies are strictly arranged, and it can even be said that they are controlled.

The protagonist is told from a child’s perspective, which adds a sense of suspense and oppression to the novel.

It's not the typical "little people involved in a big conspiracy" model, but a cold hard reasoning model. The key characters know the truth of the incident. Chandler's "The Long Confession" is a very typical example.

Yu Xinyao is sure that there is nothing wrong with the novel format, which is that the protagonists gradually come into contact with the truth and explore the cruel reality.

"Evil spirits, karma demons, especially karma demons. It turns out that the attack suppression and shame death mechanism are all for this moment. The setting is self-consistent, which is quite good."

At the end of the third volume, when the guilt-death mechanism was revealed, Yu Xinyao enjoyed reading. The guilt-death mechanism was driven by curse power, and without curse power, it meant that it was not controlled by the mechanism, which meant that people with curse power could be killed.

The cursed user is unable to fight back due to the attack suppression and guilt death mechanism.

"It's just like this..."

For Yu Xinyao, this was not enough. It did not live up to President Jian's evaluation.

Indeed, the self-consistency of the setting is just the appetizer.

The plot of the fourth and fifth volumes began to go out of control.

It started as a campus adventure and escalated into a racial war.

The white rats of the enslaved rat race rebelled...

The solution must be that the protagonists defeat the rebellious rats, and the white rat one from the rebellious white rat tribe stands in the judgment seat.

[“Then White Rat One, now is your chance to defend yourself.”

"My name is Algernon!"

"How dare you, a wild beast, deny the precious name bestowed upon you by the district?"

"Even if we are beasts, we are not your slaves!"

"If you are not a beast, what are you?"

"We are human!"]
The judges laughed. They laughed because something that looked like a mole thought it was a human being just because it could speak human language?

This shrill laughter seemed to reach Yu Xinyao's ears through the text.

Without even watching the rest of the story, he had already guessed what was going to happen.

Therefore, the technological kingdoms outside the kingdom of the awakened superpowers were distorted into a tribe of transformed rats after being conquered.

"The setting is interesting, very interesting. Why do we have to twist ordinary people without superpowers into a species like rats? Why not just enslave them? Just like slave owners and slaves."

"Because of the shame-death mechanism! If ordinary people are transformed into moles, they are no longer of the same species, and the shame-death mechanism will not be triggered. Then you can use your superpowers to enslave and punish the moles at will."

Why is there a mechanism for guilt-killing? Because the power of the curse is too strong. If it is not contained, humans will soon become extinct under this destructive power!

"Cursed power is like a nuclear weapon. The overflow of cursed power will cause the surrounding animals to mutate, so they can only live in the Divine Area, which is a description of nuclear radiation." Yu Xinyao also agreed.

If a person possessed the destructive and polluting power of a nuclear weapon, then he could indeed be called a god.

"The unclean cat turns into a mouse, a classic of the setting school." Yu Xinyao sighed, feeling very satisfied after reading it. I even got goose bumps and pain spread down my spine.

In particular, there is a plot in which White Mouse One picks up a human baby. This is a child with cursed power. After raising him, he will not trigger any guilt mechanism when killing people.

White Mouse One, oh no, Algernon almost relied on this trump card to overthrow the rule of the "Gods".

Unfortunately, she was discovered in the end. The cursed person who was raised by the rat thought that she and the rat were of the same kind, so she was designed to attack the rat, but it triggered the guilt death mechanism instead.

"It's not just the setting. This novel focuses on sociology and psychology, and has a hardcore development. It's fine to call it a popular version of Brave New World." Yu Xinyao was so happy that he even overshadowed his back pain. At his age, he is no longer young. It would be strange if he didn't feel pain if he kept reading at his desk for an entire afternoon.

The work conquered Yu Xinyao, even though he thought there was still a lot of room for improvement in his writing style and writing skills.

But judging from the mood of reading a bestseller, this book was beyond his expectations.

“It must be Old Jian. He has been urging Xiao Gu to publish a new book. Otherwise, with the writing style that is overflowing in ‘The Four’, the readability of ‘From the New World’ could be further improved!” Yu Xinyao likes to put the blame on the publishing house whenever something goes wrong.

When Yu Xinyao called President Jian, no one answered. He temporarily put aside his criticism, thinking that his old friend might be busy.

Soon, his positive reviews were posted on Weibo.

Yu Xinyao can be said to be a representative of readers.

"From the New World" conquered 90 percent of readers.

The remaining 10% was because I gave up after watching the beginning because I found the early fantasy setup too difficult to endure.

This group of readers will not express their opinions on the Internet, so what is presented on the Internet are just rave reviews!
"Seeing the ending gave me goosebumps all over the floor. Holy shit, the rats turned out to be those who haven't awakened their magical powers."

"No wonder the martial arts novels stopped updating. It turns out that he started writing science fiction. To be fair, Gu Lu is really a saint of science fiction. Compared with Flowers for Algernon, it is on another level of excellence."

“I bought this as a spiritual sequel to Algernon. Although Algernon is just the name of White Mouse One and only appears in the last few pictures, I didn’t feel cheated at all. It’s really well written.”

"I bought this book this morning. I originally wanted to read it slowly, but I ended up reading three volumes in one go. When the setting came out, I was so excited that I finished it in one go. What a great book!"

"Gu Lu returned this year and seems to have written two long novels. The Suspect has more than 100,000 words, and this New World has more than 300,000 words. Don't be too tired. Have a good rest. Also, Brother Gu, two days of rest is enough, right? Can you publish another book before the New Year?"

……

The feedback was very good, mainly because it was a long novel with more than 300,000 words. It was different from online novels, where many great writers read millions of words a day.

If you can finish reading a physical book on the first day and share your thoughts online, you are definitely a book lover or a die-hard fan of Gu Lu.

The discussion board is also very friendly.

Some readers are also discussing whether From the New World can break the sales record of Suspect...

Why do readers care about sales records... After reading it, Yu Xinyao had a strong desire to discuss it, so he also read the comment section.

He saw an interesting inquiry and continued to respond to some messages from netizens.

"The core of this book is actually very obvious. It's this sentence: 'Humans with magical powers have always belonged to the absolute privileged class, like the so-called super elite, who enslaved humans without magical powers and enjoyed all the wealth and glory...' You can just replace magical power with money. Then you can directly get the main idea of ​​the book."

Yu Xinyao's reply reignited the discussion among friends.

Maybe it's because I had some thoughts after watching it, and after they were pointed out to me, I felt a sense of shock that "so that's how it is".

Tianqu Yuyi: "What the hell? I was drawn into the protagonist group when I was reading the book, but I ended up being a poor rat? (Sad)

Adoudou V: "I was curious at first, why did they give the name Algernon to a villain? It turns out he is the good guy."

Little Demon Kiss 03: "Master Yu Xinyao has pointed it out, but it's better to know it but not to say it. I'll give Algernon a bouquet of flowers."

Gong Shang Zhengyu: "It's very true. Rich people (curse power users) will definitely do everything they can to protect their privileges. For this privilege, what's wrong with turning people into rats? Now they are turning us into cattle and horses."

and many more.

The descriptions of the Curse Power users in the book are undoubtedly a privileged class, just like the rich and powerful classes often exposed on the Internet. So I was shocked to find that I had brought the wrong character into my life...

It was thanks to the rave reviews on the Internet that "From the New World" became a huge hit.

It's not just in China, it's also being sold in five countries at the same time: South Korea, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, and China.

The situation in the other four countries...

Let's wait for them to ferment for a while, because countries like Japan may have greater feedback.

Let’s talk about what writer Gu Lu is doing now.

"Okay, put it here."

"The cabinet is right here, please excuse me."

"It's okay, just put the coffee table down wherever you want, I'll sort out the placement myself in private."

Gu Lu directed the courier from Deppon to drop off all the second-hand furniture he had purchased. Because he paid more for the courier fee, the door-to-door service was very good.

In the three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, Gu Lu cleared out the guest room specifically to place second-hand furniture.

What about the newer furniture in the guest bedroom? Gu Lu rented a warehouse to store it for the time being.

The leading Debang courier was also confused. The decoration style of the living room and the furniture didn't match. Could it be that he had some special hobby?
Don't pry into the privacy of customers! With this industry rule in mind, the young man refrained from asking questions and instead gave instructions in an orderly manner.

"The furniture has been sorted out. There's no problem, so we'll leave first." said the leading young man.

Gu Lu said that he was in trouble and sent them away.

"Bang——" The moment the door closed, Gu Lu ran back to the guest bedroom.

At this time, the guest bedroom has become a few years old. Houses are like people. Not only the exterior becomes old after years, but also the things inside become old.

A thicker TV, a vermilion coffee table, a carved cabinet, and other home appliances cost a total of several thousand yuan.

Gu Lu touched them one by one. According to his idea, the label was a culture of mourning, which could be triggered to a great extent.

He touched here and there. These things had already been bought and belonged to him, so just touching them would trigger them. When he touched the coffee table——

That familiar synthesized ringtone.

[A classic of sad literature] [A work that is hard to read a second time] [An EMO masterpiece that does not make you cry] Combined into one work "The Life of the Disliked Matsuko"

Details: This is a novel written by Japanese writer Soki Yamada. Through dramatic plots, the novel describes the life of the heroine Matsuko Kawajiri, who is often teased by fate and has a tortuous life.

"what?"

“There’s actually a novel for this movie?”

(End of this chapter)