When Yu Dong returned to the courtyard of the staff dormitory, there were few rooms in the whole building with lights on. In this era, there were no social networks and short video apps, and everyone generally went to bed early.
In the yard, insects chirped and frogs chirped one after another, and the night wind felt like autumn, bringing a coolness. Yu Dong tightened the collar of his shirt and quickly returned to his single room.
After returning, Yu Dong carefully took some water from the well and took a shower for fear of disturbing other people.
The cool well water washed away all the sleepiness he had accumulated, and he became energetic.
Since I wasn't feeling sleepy, I wasn't in a hurry to sleep, so I simply took out a stack of crumpled newspapers from my bag.
This was a copy of "Yangzi Evening News" he bought casually after leaving the train station during the day. Things happened one after another during the day and he didn't take time to read it.
Under the dim light, Yu Dong read the newspaper in his hand. The smell of ink mixed with the smell of paper came to his face. The type printed on it seemed to have grown hair. Although it was rough, it became more vivid.
It seems as if these small words will jump out of the page at the next moment.
Just after reading a few paragraphs, Yu Dong's brows wrinkled.
This was very different from the "Yangtze Evening News" he had in mind. As Jinling's official newspaper, it usually reported current affairs news and policy hot spots. The titles were always serious, and the articles were usually very regular.
But the newspaper in my hand is full of market news and interesting gossip.
A certain family in a certain village in a certain city in a certain province raised a certain pig and gave birth to an elephant.
Someone in a certain village in a certain forest in a certain mountain married a daughter-in-law who was a man.
A certain household on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year...
The whole article is full of strange news.
Turn to the last page, and the large page turns into tofu blocks, with a lot of personal information written on them. Some are asking for a spouse, some are asking for a pen pal, and some are advertising, just like a social section.
Full of doubts, Yu Dong turned the newspaper to the front page, looked at the title of the newspaper carefully, and then burst into laughter.
It turns out that what he bought was not "Yangzi Evening News" but "Yangzi Evening News". The difference between the two is a thousand miles away.
It seems that some "smart" businessman got twins in order to take advantage of the popularity of "Yangtze Evening News".
However, although the merchant's intentions are not pure, Yu Dong feels that the sales of this newspaper should be good. Because the news written in it is like a fantasy novel, but it can arouse people's curiosity.
He flipped through it again, and when he reached the middle, Yu Dong suddenly narrowed his eyes and stopped on a certain page in the middle.
“The 1991 Annual Conference of the World Science Fiction Association concluded successfully in Chengdu!”
Yu Dong felt a little strange. He had just heard about the science fiction annual meeting from Qu Aiguo before, but he didn't expect to see it again now.
The annual meeting of the World Science Fiction Association was held in Chengdu. It was hosted by the Chinese Science Fiction Association and hosted by the magazine "Science Literature and Art".
"Science and Literature" won the World Science Fiction Association's Best Journal.
At the same time, "Science and Literature" also awarded this year's Galaxy Award. The winning work is "Space Monastery", written by Tan Li and Qin Bai.
Tan Li was unknown to Yu Dong, but Tan Bai was an acquaintance.
Tan Bai is the pen name of Tan Kai, the editor-in-chief of "Science Fiction World". Yu Dong had a relationship with him in his previous life. Thinking of this, Yu Dong searched for it in the news, and finally he found it.
"At this conference, Science Fiction Literature and Art also officially revealed their new title - Science Fiction World."
Science fiction world, these four words, are the White Moonlight in the hearts of countless Chinese science fiction fans, and are also the palace publications in the hearts of Chinese science fiction writers.
When it comes to Chinese science fiction, you can’t avoid this magazine, and you can’t avoid the Galaxy Awards.
Despite the fact that Chinese science fiction is very popular in the news, the past few years have actually been the low point of Chinese science fiction.
In the 1980s, a wave of ideological criticism emerged in the country, targeting science fiction literature, which directly caused the Chinese science fiction tower to collapse. The science fiction magazines that had sprung up before were destroyed one after another. Until now,
That leaves "Science Fiction World" as the "lone seedling".
"Science Fiction World" is having a hard time. Because of the "spiritual pollution" incident, the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology asked the magazine to be responsible for its own profits and losses. It is said that in order to keep the magazine running smoothly, Tan Kai even secretly created a pornographic publication to make money to subsidize "Science Fiction World"
world".
This situation did not improve until the mid-1990s.
"It's not easy."
Yu Dong sighed, folded the newspaper and placed it on the table. He ran his palms over the folds of the newspaper again and again, as if he wanted to smooth out the ups and downs that Chinese science fiction had experienced.
But he knew that even if he smoothed out the newspaper, the status quo of Chinese science fiction would not change in any way.
So he gently closed the newspaper and took out his writing notebook and pen from his bag.
He has a head full of science fiction materials, and he has seen and heard things beyond this era. He heard about the science fiction conference twice on the same day. He always felt that it was destined that he should pick up paper and pen and do it.
Issues.
Students in the Chinese Department do not learn how to write novels, but students in the Chinese Department have unique advantages in writing novels. When Yu Dong has something in his mind, he can quickly embody it on paper and ink.
between.
It only took one hour for Yu Dong to outline the story.
This is a very old-fashioned story in later generations. The story roughly tells the story of an ordinary Chinese student who accidentally met a group of people with special abilities. He spent his whole life looking for and studying these people with special abilities, and finally failed.
Discovered that the world is just a game, and most of them are just a bunch of data.
It turns out that the real world has experienced a war and is already on the verge of destruction. It is lacking in materials and is full of radiation. The space for human beings to survive is shrinking rapidly.
In order to reduce human activities, the government designed a game, hoping that people can live a "normal" life in the game.
The protagonist is actually a human being born in the end of the world. He was forced into the game as an infant. In reality, he is a piece of meat that cannot walk. He lives on the nutrient solution distributed by the government every day.
And those people with special abilities are just bugs in the system.
The protagonist has been pursuing the truth his whole life, but when he discovers the truth, his world collapses.
It is a bit like the later movies "The Matrix" and "The Truman Show", and seems to be born out of the novel "Neuromancer", but Yu Dong carefully interspersed the "imagination" of the future world in it, making the story full
stand up.
Chapter completed!