Vivien Leigh stood on the balcony, looking at the car approaching from a distance, and said very unhappily: "Why is he here again?"
"Haha, maybe I'm just bored." Zhou Hexuan couldn't help laughing.
Since they had a great conversation that day, Churchill would come to see Zhou Hexuan almost every day, and they would chat for most of the day, which made Vivien Leigh even jealous.
The content of the chat between the two was not limited to future wars, but also included literature, art and historical topics.
Churchill was an avid science fiction fan. He admired the British science fiction writer H.G. Wells very much and "plagiarized" famous lines from Wells' novels in his speeches many times. He wrote to Wells last year jokingly, saying that he had finished reading Wells.
All of Charles's works, if these were used as examination content, he would definitely get a top grade.
Not only did Churchill love to read science fiction novels, he also wrote an article himself some time ago, titled "Fifty Years Later", predicting that humans will have no worries about food and clothing in 50 years. He believes that artificially synthesized foods will achieve unprecedented success. For example, people want to
If you want to eat chicken breast or chicken wings, you can just cultivate the chicken breast or chicken wing parts directly in the test tube. There is no need to raise the whole chicken in an absurd way.
Churchill was very interested in the science fiction content in "Titanic". In the past two days, he did not mention anything about the German Nazis at all, and only invited Zhou Hexuan to discuss the future society of mankind.
"Hi, Zhou, I'm here again," Churchill entered the living room familiarly, and took off his hat to greet Vivien Leigh, "Mary, good morning!"
Although Vivien Leigh was extremely dissatisfied with Churchill, she still smiled and said: "Good morning, Mr. Churchill."
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Please sit down."
Churchill's habitual action when meeting friends was to take out a cigar and throw it over, then take out a match and light it. He exhaled a puff of smoke happily and complained about the bad weather: "It may rain again today.
I really hope it’s sunny every day in London.”
Zhou Hexuan said: "You can ask scientists to build a machine that can control the weather according to human wishes."
"It's a good idea," Churchill nodded in agreement, "but I'm more interested in the idea of robots you proposed. If technology develops to that level, humans won't be needed to fight wars, and robots will just be sent to fight."
Zhou Hexuan said: "Perhaps in a few decades, there will no longer be major wars on the earth. Human beings have invented an ultimate bomb. One bomb can blow up the entire London. So the countries that have this bomb can only fight each other.
Be careful to exercise restraint, because once a war breaks out, we will both end up dead."
"Haha, Zhou, you always have countless fantastic ideas," Churchill said happily. "If you change your career to become a science fiction novelist, I will definitely support every one of your works."
"As you wish, I changed my career." Zhou Hexuan handed over a stack of novel manuscripts.
Churchill was surprised: "What did you create?"
Zhou Hexuan said: "I wrote it for two nights yesterday and the day before yesterday. This is just the beginning of the novel."
"I'll read it first," Churchill said.
Completely ignoring Zhou Hexuan's reaction, Churchill started reading on the spot.
"In 2801 AD, the center of human political unity moved from the third planet in the solar system, Earth, to Deoria, the second planet in the Taurus A system. Humanity issued a declaration of founding of the Galactic Federation there, and in the same year changed the year to the first year of the cosmic calendar, and
It began to expand endlessly to the depths and borders of the Milky Way. After 3700 AD, the most notable features were the repeated wars and the loss of order, which led to a complete halt in human external development, like energy about to explode.
A profound crisis is brewing..."
As a senior science fiction fan, Churchill quickly became immersed in this unprecedented science fiction story. At first, he was fascinated by the various future technologies proposed in the novel, such as the "Three Beauties of Interstellar Travel" subspace jump navigation method,
Gravity control technology and inertia control technology allow humans to swim in the vast universe.
While reading, Churchill suddenly laughed because a controversial tyrant "Rudolf von Goldenbaum" appeared in the novel.
This character clearly bears the shadow of Hitler. For example, he promulgated the "Inferior Genetic Element Elimination Method", trying to kill all "inferior humans" and select so-called "excellent talents." These "excellent talents" are all white, and
Adding an ancient Germanic surname is obviously alluding to and satirizing Hitler's extreme racism.
And the black humor sentence circulated in the novel: "If you don't want to be sentenced to death, let the police arrest you. Those caught by the Social Order Maintenance Bureau will only die!" The word "Social Order Maintenance Bureau" is used to implicitly
Refers to Hitler's "Nazi Stormtroopers".
The above are just appetizers, and the main course of the text is interstellar war. Although Zhou Hexuan "coined" many "science fiction terms", such as space jump, genes, computers, etc., Churchill still relied on annotations to read it with gusto.
Especially the grand interstellar war and the interstellar battleships used by humans made Churchill spontaneously join the British Royal Navy.
Churchill thought to himself: It is a genius idea to place the battle in the universe, with warships traveling through the vast stars, and using laser beams instead of cannonballs.
Churchill couldn't wait to read on, but when he flipped through the manuscript, there was no more...
Zhou Hexuan only wrote three chapters, a prologue and two chapters. The unprecedented interstellar war made Churchill, a senior science fiction fan, unable to stop. He felt like a cat scratching his head and couldn't help asking: "Is it gone?"
"Yes, no more." Zhou Hexuan nodded.
Churchill asked again: "Who is the protagonist, Reinhardt or Yang Wen-li?"
"Guess." Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile.
Churchill shrugged helplessly: "Forget it if you don't say anything. I just hope you finish writing the novel quickly."
Zhou Hexuan said: "I'm afraid it's very slow, because this is a long story."
"How long is it? 200,000 words?" Churchill asked.
Zhou Hexuan said: "Maybe we can multiply it by 10."
Churchill raised his forehead and said: "Oh, 2 million words, do you plan to write a masterpiece that will be handed down for generations?"
"Hahaha." Zhou Hexuan laughed.
Novels these days have a few hundred thousand words, and novels with a million words are very rare, and novels with 2 million words are even rarer.
Of course, Chinese novels are an exception. For example, Li Shoumin's "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" was written for nearly 20 years and more than 5 million words were not finished. In the end, he found a perfect excuse to stop updating. New China does not allow the promotion of feudal superstition.
Churchill smoked a cigar and said: "Write quickly, I will read the new chapters tomorrow."
"Maybe you need to wait patiently, I will return to China in two days." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.
"Shet!" Churchill finally cursed.
The future British Prime Minister Mr. Churchill embarked on a long road to catch up. He later even left a famous saying to describe the time: "As long as the serialization of "Heroes of the Galaxy"!"