Chapter 442 Crazy Era!

[Readers all over the world are looking forward to the "Three-Body Problem" series! 】

This is the headline of a famous news website in Mizhou!

Ever since "The Martian" landed in the world in a special way, the sci-fi craze in the entire novel circle has been on the eve of boiling over.

More and more readers are paying attention to this category, and even Xiazhou, where science fiction has never been so popular, is a sign of the state-wide publicity.

In normal thinking, the higher the praise, the higher the expectations. Generally speaking, works with such high expectations will not end well, but the old thief is an exception!

The old thief has brought too many miracles to readers across Kyushu, but what about this time?

Any doubts about the quality of Lao Zei's novels have disappeared.

On the eve of its release, what readers are most curious about, besides what kind of science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem" is, is...

Which state will the background be?

You know, the previous "The Martian" was set in Mizhou, and the popular "Harry Potter" and "Sherlock Holmes" were all set in England. Only genre works with Xiazhou characteristics will be set in Xiazhou. state.

But in the science fiction genre, it has to be said that the Mizhou setting has greater creative space.

Although readers in Kyushu can now understand each other's language, thousands of readers in Xiazhou still hope that the old thief can write a novel set in Xiazhou and become popular all over Kyushu.

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In the blink of an eye.

November has arrived.

"The Three-Body Problem" release date!

On this day, it can be said that the world's attention is all on Lao Thief's new book "Three-Body 1 - Past Events on Earth"!

Across Xiazhou, many loyal readers of the old thief are already looking forward to it before the bookstores open.

From among the crowd, you can even see students who skipped classes.

All the readers were eager to read and communicated in groups.

As soon as they saw the door of the bookstore open, they rushed over in a rush.

"Get in line! Get in line!"

"Everyone should line up quickly!"

After years of selling old thieves books, the bookstore owner is quite experienced.

Every time when the old thief's new book is released, there is always a scene like this.

"Boss, how many words are there in "The Three-Body Problem"?"

"Yes, boss!"

"About 200,000 words, not too much."

"Why--"

"Ah~"

There were sounds of regret among the crowd. They wished they could read the old thief's book with a million words. They would enjoy reading it!

However, there are not many science fiction novels that can be successfully written as long-form novels. They are basically the type of novels that reshape the world system.

For example, the "Dune" series in the previous life, the science fiction masterpiece "Foundation" series, etc.

The first part of "Three-Body": Once Upon a Time on Earth, if we talk about the plot, it can be summarized into four aspects: the real world, the Three-Body Game, Once Upon a Time on Red Bank, and the Three-Body World.

The main plot is about the "acquaintance and encounter" between human beings and the Trisolaran civilization.

There are too many amazing words in it, and you can only slowly understand them by wandering through them.

With the global release of "The Three-Body Problem"!

The "Three-Body" craze is gradually spreading!

…

"cough--"

Mizhou, bookstore.

Mike wrapped himself tightly, including a mask and sunglasses, and bought the old thief's new book "The Three-Body Problem" from the bookstore.

Unfortunately, when I was using the restroom in the bookstore, I was recognized by a book fan in Mizhou, and I went back to the car in a panic and returned home.

"Huh, it's so dangerous..."

There are definitely not as many sales channels for Xiazhou books in Mizhou as there are in Xiazhou itself. Coupled with the previous controversy of "The Martian", it can be said that it is also difficult to find books in Mizhou.

Every bookstore that sells "The Three-Body Problem" is overcrowded, and the old thief's name is famous all over the world.

Just as thousands of readers are looking forward to this book "The Three-Body Problem", Mike is also looking forward to it.

In Mike's world, few things are more engaging than reading a great science fiction novel!

So as soon as he got home in the evening, Mike couldn't wait to open the package, poured a cup of coffee, and opened the first page of the book with excitement.

But the content on this first page can be said to have stunned readers all over Kyushu.

Because they have thought about ten thousand beginnings and ten thousand types.

But I didn't expect that the story would start from such an angle.

…

"It turns out to be from Xiazhou background!"

“And it’s the seventies!”

"1967!"

"What's the meaning?"

"I'm stupid, brothers..."

Many Xiazhou readers were also stunned when they saw the content of the first chapter.

The reason why this is so is because science fiction novels often require the so-called "sense of technology".

This kind of sense of technology is either outer space, the future, or a reshaped world view, but it is really rare to see the background of science fiction novels pushed forward.

But anyway, this science fiction series by Lao Zei is actually set in Xiazhou!

The protagonist is most likely from Xiazhou.

A lot of Xiazhou readers clenched their fists. When novel characters like Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter became popular all over the world, they naturally hoped that an iconic novel character from Xiazhou would appear.

Will there be such a protagonist in "The Three-Body Problem"?

…

The story of "The Three-Body Problem" begins and develops in the era of 1967.

The protagonist at the beginning of the story is a girl named Ye Wenjie.

That year, Ye Wenjie entered the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University and later studied astrophysics as a graduate student.

Later, in 1967, when Ye Wenjie was 20 years old, her father and sister both died for special reasons, and the cause of death was even related to her mother.

…

"Is Ye Wenjie the protagonist of "The Three-Body Problem"?"

"A female protagonist?"

"Hiss... Is this really a science fiction novel?"

"Don't question the old thief!"

"But let's be honest, does Ye Wenjie fit the tragic life experience of the protagonist of the novel?"

"I feel sorry for Ye Wenjie!"

This is the reaction of thousands of readers.

If the old thief didn't tell them that this is a science fiction novel, no reader would think it is a science fiction novel just from the description of Ye Wenjie in the first few chapters.

If there was no foreshadowing of "The Martian", I am afraid that this "The Three-Body Problem" would be attacked by thousands of readers for not being science fiction enough, after all, the expectations are so high.

But now, readers can calm down and appreciate it, because they know that the old thief knows science fiction too well!

Even if it is soft science fiction, they can still accept it.

The era and background, mixed with calm narration and text, make many readers gradually calm down.

Ye Wenjie's story is tragic.

Even with such a tragic life experience, the old thief seems to have no intention of letting her go.

At the foot of Radar Peak, Ye Wenjie met Bai Mulin and read "Silent Spring", and began to gradually think about human beings.

However, after this controversial "Silent Spring" was discovered, Ye Wenjie was framed by Bai Mulin and interrogated.

Before the verdict, Ye Wenjie was transferred to the Red Bank Base by Yang Weining.

"Wow!"

"Ye Wenjie is so miserable!"

"It's really like the style of the old thief. When writing about a person's tragic life, he writes about death without leaving any room for leeway. If I were Ye Wenjie, I would have lost hope in humanity!"

"What is this Red Bank Base?"

"It seems to be getting to the point."

"But did we have technology in Xiazhou in that era..."

"Yes, but it seems to have developed relatively late?"

The young people in Xiazhou who read this book are unfamiliar with that era, but not unfamiliar with it.

The unfamiliarity lies in the fact that they have not experienced it.

But through the previous books "To Live" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", these readers have more or less a certain understanding of the past era.

What is the Red Bank Base? It is not fully stated in the first three chapters.

The information we know from the narration in the text is that it is a top-secret project, code-named "Red Bank".

Just when all readers thought that the story would develop along the story line of Ye Wenjie.

In the fourth chapter, the writing style suddenly changed, and the background of the times also returned from the 1970s to the modern era!

This is thirty-eight years later!

[Wang Miao feels that the four people who came to see him are a strange combination. ]

[Two policemen and two soldiers. ]

…

"What's going on?"

"Why did the time background suddenly jump?"

"Is Wang Miao the protagonist? What did Ye Wenjie mean before that?"

"Don't worry! It's all over if you read on. It should be a foreshadowing."

"But this style of science fiction is really the first time I've seen it."

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[PS: There will be another chapter later. ] (End of this chapter)