Yang Xiao waited for several days and finally received Yu Dong's manuscript.
She was waiting impatiently because the November issue was almost ready. If Yu Dong's manuscript arrived a few days later, she might have to wait until the December issue.
It will start publishing in November, and it is possible to publish a full-length novel in two issues, but with only one December issue left, it is basically impossible to finish it.
This means that if Yu Dong's manuscript arrives a few days late, he will not be able to participate in the selection of the Galaxy Awards next year.
After getting the manuscript, Yang Xiao read it immediately.
The name "Moon" reminds Yang Xiao of Yu Dong's previous book "The Martian", and it seems that what he wrote is getting closer and closer.
After reading the first section of "Moon", Yang Xiao frowned.
To be honest, the content of this first section is a bit similar to "The Martian", in that a person is trapped on a planet.
But the difference is that the protagonist in "Moon" takes the initiative to go to work, and has a three-year contract. In addition, except for the damage to the communication equipment, other equipment is intact, which means that in addition to his life,
Apart from being boring, there's nothing dangerous about it.
But Yang Xiao always felt that there was a depressing feeling between the lines in "Moon", which was completely different from the cheerful atmosphere of "The Martian".
Something big will definitely happen next.
Sure enough, an accident happened later. The protagonist encountered an accident and his car overturned.
When the protagonist woke up, he heard the artificial intelligence "Li Ming" talking to company executives on Earth.
When he saw this, Yang Xiao was a little confused.
Isn't the communication equipment in the base damaged? Why can the artificial intelligence still communicate with the earth?
Could it be that the communication equipment has been repaired?
But the key issue is that the protagonist didn't show any surprise when he saw this scene, and didn't even ask why the communication equipment was so good.
Could it be that Yu Dong wrote the latter part and forgot the previous settings.
Is this possible?
Of course it's impossible.
With doubts, Yang Xiao continued to look down, but the more he looked, the more doubts he had.
After the protagonist inspected the base, he found that a rover was damaged outside. He wanted to repair the car, but his boss refused to let him go.
But he finally went and found a person in the stroller, a person who looked exactly like him.
When reading this part of the story, Yang Xiao discovered that something was connected.
There are two protagonists. In the previous section, the protagonist of the story was always rescued in the stroller, but the protagonist who woke up later was another one.
A word came to Yang Xiao's mind - cloning.
Seeing this, she finally understood what kind of story Yu Dong's novel wanted to tell.
Looking further down, things gradually become clearer.
They were indeed clones, and it wasn't just the two of them. There were at least four clones before them, and each clone had the same memory, which was that they signed an agreement with an energy company to work on the moon for three years.
, you can go home after three years.
But this is not the case. The protagonist's original body has actually completed the three-year contract and flew back to Earth, leaving the clone body to continue working for the company. And every three years, the clone body of the previous generation that completed the task will be burned, and then the clone body will be burned.
Enable the next generation of clones, and the cycle repeats.
Moreover, the ontology knows and agrees with this matter.
When he saw that the main body knew about this, Yang Xiao suddenly broke into a cold sweat.
Since the main body knows this, he doesn't regard those clones as himself at all, or even regard those clones as human beings, so he agrees to the energy company's plan and lets them kill those clones regularly.
Yang Xiao couldn't help but put herself into the original body. If someone gave her a large sum of money, the condition was to clone countless copies of her and let these clones work.
Will she agree?
After thinking for a long time, she didn't find the answer. She always felt that this was wrong, but she couldn't guarantee that she could resist this temptation.
"This is probably Yu Dong's purpose."
Yang Xiao sighed. Yu Dong's novels maintained a high standard as always. Now was not the time for her to think too much. She collected the manuscript and ran to find Tan Kai, asking their editorial department to proofread the manuscript as soon as possible. Next
Issue schedule.
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On the streets of New York, a couple had just come out of a bookstore and were planning their evening activities.
The girl saw the cinema sign in the distance and asked, "Honey, are there any good movies this week?"
The boy shook his head, "How can there be any good movies released at this time... Maybe not necessarily. I saw a movie recommended by YU and Quentin before."
The girl became interested, "What's your name?"
"I don't remember, I just glanced at it and the name seemed quite long."
"Since it was recommended by YU, why didn't you write down the name carefully?" The girl complained, "The movie he recommended must be a good movie, and Quentin also recommended it."
Obviously, the girl is a fan of Yu Dong's books and trusts YU's recommendations.
"Maybe it's just a promotional tool by the film crew. Maybe YU and the others haven't seen this movie at all, and I just saw it on the news." The boy explained, then looked in the direction of the cinema: "How about we go see it?
Look, if YU and the others really recommended it, it would definitely be written on the movie theater poster."
"All right."
The two of them walked hand in hand towards the cinema. After some searching in the cinema, they finally found the movie with a long title, and it was indeed recommended by YU and Quentin.
There are not many movies scheduled, but there are a lot of people coming to see it, but it can be seen that most of the audience are going there for YU and Quentin.
Many people didn't think about what movie they wanted to watch before coming. When they arrived at the cinema, they found that this movie was recommended by YU and Quentin, so they chose it.
And after they watched the movie, they had only one thought in their minds: YU and Quentin are indeed trustworthy.
"This movie is so good, I dare say it is the best movie I have seen this year."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Although the atmosphere has been tense, it seems to be very humorous, and everyone's laughter can prove this."
"Indeed, the comedy effect produced by black humor is very impressive."
"I didn't pay attention to the screenwriter, was it YU?"
"No, the writer and director are both a guy named Guy Ritchie."
"Have not heard."
"It may be a young director. Although this movie is very good-looking, it can be seen that the cost is not high."
"That's why it shows that YU and the others are very powerful. Such an unknown director and such a low-cost movie can be discovered by them."
"There are some plots in the movie that I didn't understand."
"It doesn't matter. Let's watch it tomorrow, and take George and the others with us. I think George will definitely like this movie."
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Jimmy didn't think much of Two Smoking Barrels' plans.
He also likes this movie, but he doesn't think that the box office of this movie will be very high. Even after their publicity, it may only be worth 10 to 20 million US dollars, and that's global.
But after the first week's box office came out, Jimmy was a little dumbfounded. The North American box office of "Two Smoking Barrels" in its first week reached US$6 million, and the box office in the three days was getting higher day by day, and the audience reviews were extremely good.
According to data analysis, the film's final box office in North America should be at least 20 million US dollars, which is higher than Jimmy's previous estimate of global box office.
And as long as this movie can get a good box office in the United States, it will definitely get off to a good start when it is released in the UK in the near future.
By then, with a box office of 10 to 20 million pounds in the UK, these two ticket sales alone will exceed 30 to 40 million US dollars.
A box office of tens of millions of dollars does not seem high. After all, the previous "Groundhog Day" had a box office of 100 million in North America alone.
But the difference is that the cost of "Two Smoking Barrels" is ridiculously low.
Based on the first week's box office alone, Deep Space has already made back its money.
After the Stings and several other investors came to the United States, Deep Space quickly reached an agreement with them and bought 80% of the copyright for US$3 million.
Of course those investors are willing to do such a deal.
They invested a total of less than two million US dollars in this movie. Now according to Deep Space's proposal, the movie is worth US$3.75 million, and the profit has doubled.
And they still have 20% of the copyright left, so there are endless possibilities in the future.
You know, before Deep Space contacted them, this movie couldn't be sold at all, and it almost ended up in their own hands.
Therefore, although the conditions given by Deep Space were not very high, they still felt like pie in the sky.
When Jimmy settled on 3 million to buy the movie, he calculated it based on the final box office of the movie being between 10 million and 20 million, so that Deep Space could also make some money.
But he didn't expect the film's potential to be so great.
If the final global box office of this movie reaches 50 million U.S. dollars, then Deep Space will earn at least 10 million U.S. dollars in profit from this deal, at least, not including other income besides box office.
If the follow-up works well, this movie can bring tens of millions of dollars in revenue to Deep Space, pure revenue without any impurities.
Seeing the results of "Two Smoking Barrels", Jimmy was also very emotional. Fortunately, he stopped working as a screenwriter long ago, otherwise Yu Dong would be angry to death.
Although Yu Dong is not good at business, he is very accurate in the cultural industry.
The operation of "Two Smoking Barrels" this time even gave him the feeling of picking up money.
No, you have to bend down to pick up the money, but this time it feels like the money is falling directly from the sky, just catch it with your hands.
And all of this was just triggered by Yu Dong's trip to England and watching a movie.
Chapter completed!