Tan Kai read "Closed Loop" twice in one afternoon. The first time he read it very quickly and went through the story. The second time he deliberately slowed down the speed just to prevent himself from missing those details.
For example, after Lu Tao returned to the past for the second time, he saw a sneaky man on the road. Before, scientists said that someone did not come back from the first mission.
Before Lu Tao entered this plan, an old man had contacted him and vaguely mentioned to him his plan to go back to the past.
It's just that Lu Tao didn't quite understand it at first, and later he connected the two things together.
These few details have already hinted at the ending. The closed time loop has long been formed and cannot be changed.
"If Lu Tao hadn't told Yuan Di about the annihilation of mankind when he went back, would the next thing have happened?"
Tan Kai murmured to himself.
Logically speaking, if the virus had not destroyed the world, Lu Tao would not have participated in the plan to return to the past, so Yuan Di would not have been affected, and there would have been no virus. This logic holds true...
But in a closed loop, nothing can change.
And the closed loop of time is not difficult to understand. Suppose that there are higher-dimensional beings who created their world and arranged everything that happened. Then nothing can be changed, and time naturally has no before or after.
Just like Yu Dong created "Closed Loop", the protagonist Lu Tao cannot change history, because the fact that he changed history was originally created by Yu Dong.
Life individuals in this dimension have no way to interfere with the running process of this dimension.
It sounds a bit fatalistic.
After reading the novel, Tan Kai thought of the American Jimmy James who came to visit the magazine two days ago, and wondered how his conversation with Yu Dong went.
As the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Tan Kai naturally hopes that Yu Dong's work can be adapted successfully for film and television. Although they did not win the film and television adaptation rights of "One Day" at that time, they were unable to obtain direct benefits.
But if "One Day" can be made into a movie and let more people see it, it will definitely enhance the reputation of "Science Fiction World". After all, "One Day" is set in "Science Fiction World".
But he doesn't have much thought to care about this now, after all, the pressure of receiving manuscripts is already great.
Although Yu Dong sent "Closed Loop", there was no way to solve the problem with this short story. There was no reply from Han Song, and Tan Kai was already thinking about adding some other columns, such as adding another column.
Writer interview.
Just recently, many readers have written to ask about Yu Dong. Most of them ask if Yu Dong is the lover of a well-known writer. Some people who are interested in pure literature have read "Zhongshan" and ask about this Yu Dong and that Yu Dong.
Is it a person?
So Tan Kai thought of doing a written interview with Yu Dong, which could be considered as a page.
In addition, their editorial department has some other things to do.
The magazine has changed from a bimonthly to a monthly magazine. They definitely cannot do it quietly. They need to let readers know about it as much as possible. Otherwise, readers will not know about it when the new issue of "Science Fiction World" comes out next month.
Now the editors are working overtime to reply to readers, telling them the news, and imploring readers to help them do some publicity and inform more people.
…
On December 27, the day after Christmas in the West, news of the official disintegration of the Soviet Union spread in China.
Yu Dong could clearly feel that there was a depressing atmosphere everywhere. Because the topic was sensitive, people in the office did not have much discussion. Even He Yu remained silent this time.
Most people still believe that the disintegration of the Soviet Union had a great impact on the country, and they hold a relatively pessimistic attitude.
Principal Wu Changxin specially called all the counselors together for a meeting. He asked the counselors in each department to stabilize the students' emotions at this critical moment and try to be as gentle as possible.
Regarding Wu Changxin's reminder, Yu Dong felt that it was necessary. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the West began to turn its attention to China, and the ideological battlefield also shifted accordingly.
Students can easily be inflamed, so they must be calmed down at this time.
Yu Dong saw some counselors holding loudspeakers and loudly telling students not to worry. The disintegration of the Soviet Union would not have any impact on China.
This obviously did not take into account what Wu Changxin said later.
When Yu Dong arrived in the classroom, the Gongmei students were having a lively discussion.
Seeing his arrival, some people were still curious, why didn't our teacher Yu use a loudspeaker?
Yu Dong knocked on the table, and after the place calmed down, he said: "The leader sent me here to do some soothing work for you, but I see that you are like this, and you don't seem to need to be comforted. In fact, such a big event is happening in the world.
, everyone wants to talk about it, and that’s understandable. You can also make any guesses about the future, but what I want to tell you is, no matter whether your guesses are optimistic or pessimistic, all you can do now is study hard.
Eat well and drink well.”
"Teacher Yu, are you being pessimistic? If we are not optimistic about the future, then can we do more things that we think are right and shed our lives and blood for the country?"
As expected, it was Wang Kuo who spoke first.
Many students laughed when they heard Wang Kuo's words, probably thinking that his tone was too childish.
Yu Dong did not laugh, but said to Wang Kuo seriously: "If the country really needs us to do this, I will go ahead of you. But now, we have to believe in the country. If we can't even unite, we will
It is doomed to fail."
Wang Kuo didn't speak this time. He understood what Yu Dong meant. What they could do was exactly what Teacher Yu said, study hard, eat and drink well.
Seeing that no one was talking, the leader Qu Aiguo appeared again. "Unity is strength. Well said, everyone applauds."
But Yu Dong pressed his hands to stop them from applauding, "Just do whatever you have to do. You will have to take the theoretical course exam in a while. If anyone fails, he will be punished with severe punishment."
…
As time passed slowly, people's discussions about the disintegration of the Soviet Union gradually faded away.
After New Year's Day, the first snowfall of 1992 fell in Jinling. The snow came and went as quickly as it came. The snow had stopped before people even started building snowmen.
Jimmy James came to Jinyi with a contract and the snow on the road.
The price he negotiated with Harold was 90,000 US dollars. After calculation, Yu Dong took 70%, which is more than 60,000 US dollars, which is 340,000 RMB at the current exchange rate.
Jimmy James's work was not in vain. He earned nearly 30,000 US dollars, which was equivalent to his salary for writing two or three episodes of a TV series.
Yu Dong still has to pay taxes of 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, leaving less than 300,000 yuan.
"I have put a lot of effort into selling your film and television adaptation rights at a higher price." Jimmy said to Yu Dong with a little credit.
"I'm quite curious, how did you get Harold to spend 90,000 yuan to buy the five-year film and television adaptation rights?"
Jimmy kept it secret, "Don't say it, don't say it."
In fact, Jimmy didn't use any clever tricks. He just boasted about Yu Dong, saying that Yu Dong was very popular in China, and maybe Harold's movie could open up the Chinese market.
The Chinese don’t know much about the United States, and Americans certainly don’t know much about China. Harold was deceived by Jimmy and readily agreed. Ninety thousand U.S. dollars was not much to him anyway.
Chapter completed!