Zhang Zhong had never heard of himself in Shanzhai.
He is very busy now, his fingers are drawing shadows on the keyboard and he is typing non-stop.
Just two hours ago, he used 20,000 points to draw a prize, and the work he drew was a short story - "The Wandering Earth".
In terms of length, the 20,000 points were a bit of a waste, as the number of words was very small, but Zhang Zhong didn't feel it was a loss because he liked Liu Cixin's novels.
"The Wandering Earth" is very short and not Liu Cixin's masterpiece.
Before the movie of the same name came out, when most people mentioned Liu Cixin, the first thing they thought of was "The Three-Body Problem".
Liu Cixin won China's first Hugo Award for "The Three-Body Problem", which also brought Chinese science fiction novels to the world.
Before Zhang Zhong came back from Earth, the movie of the same name "The Wandering Earth" was officially released and took second place at the domestic box office, becoming a real hit.
This novel of more than 20,000 words tells a story of survival and escape. The story is set hundreds of years later. The background is that the sun has changed and a helium flash has erupted. This drastic change will change the environment of the solar system.
Once it breaks out, the earth on which humans live will be wiped out in an instant. In order to survive, humans will be forced to flee.
When it comes to escape, most people will definitely think of spaceships and battleships, but this book shows a unique escape process, running with a broken ball.
The previous content in the novel is similar to that in the movie, but there are still many things in the novel that were not filmed in the movie.
For example, in the original book, when the earth wandered to the edge of the solar system, the protagonist's wife was surprised to find that the sun was almost exactly the same as it was four hundred years ago, and there was no helium flash as the coalition government said, so she angrily removed it.
The announcement of the incident to all mankind immediately aroused people's distrust of the government.
Soon, some people organized a resistance army to confront the government forces.
The rebels insisted on canceling the Wandering Earth plan and returning the Earth to the solar system, and a war broke out between the two sides.
Because of the glory of his father's generation, the male protagonist sided with the coalition government, and the couple were in hostile camps.
Later, the male protagonist learned that his wife died in the rebellion. He was so disheartened that he joined the rebel army. Together with other rebels, he sent thousands of people driving engines to the ice sheet on the ground, and pulled out the core of their protective suits.
Batteries allowed them to freeze to death in freezing temperatures ranging from subzero to hundreds of degrees Celsius.
After executing these "heinous" people, the rebels sang hymns to the distant sun.
Then, there was a burst of light and a helium flash occurred.
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Compared to the movie, the novel is much darker.
Especially when the five thousand people were executed at the end, the protagonist acted very happily, and even felt that "it was very forgiving to let them die once."
They should die ten thousand times, otherwise their sins would not be cancelled.
However, the slap in the face came too quickly, and the earth still needs to wander.
After Zhang Zhong typed the last line, he sighed in his heart. In the face of disaster, human nature is so complicated.
When faced with the choice of survival, reality is so cruel.
Survival is above all else, but when facing a survival crisis, how to choose has become a difficult problem to solve.
In "The Wandering Earth", although a helium flash finally occurred, the problem still remained.
What if there was no helium flash?
Who is right and who is wrong?
Survival is above all else, but how to grasp the degree of survival crisis?
How credible are the theoretical models predicting helium flash?
If the possibility is only one-tenth, one-hundredth, under this possibility, should human beings cling to other possibilities and continue their previous lives, or should they flee the crisis at all costs?
Zhang Zhong cannot answer this question. Survival is above all else is just one sentence, but it involves too many issues.
Moreover, this is a planet with billions of people, and he alone cannot have the final say.
Withdrawing his thoughts, Zhang Zhong looked at the "Wandering Earth" he had just finished typing.
Now he has no time to think about Liu Cixin's thoughts on survival. What he needs to do now is to change the earth in this book to "sea ball", because the world he is in now is called starfish, also known as sea ball.
ball.
As a person who has lived on the earth for forty years, Zhang Zhong would feel a little strange when he saw a wandering sea ball, but conversely, if a starfish person saw the earth, it would probably be even more strange.
What is the earth?
After spending some time, Zhang Zhong successfully changed "The Wandering Earth" into "The Wandering Sea Ball".
Then he didn't stop working, but started polishing it again. Da Liu's writing was not very good, and Zhang Zhong didn't think about making major changes, but just slightly changed some things.
In addition to the text, he also slightly modified the plot about helium flash, because Zhang Zhong's theory about helium flash was a bit hasty. After all, most scientific prediction studies, like climate change, are often very uncertain.
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Of course, it is impossible for Zhang Zhong to put "helium flash" into practice. He just wants to make this theory more consistent with scientific research.
After finishing everything, half a day has passed.
Zhang Zhong rubbed his neck and walked out of the study, only to see Peng Peng tinkering with needle and thread.
He was startled, ran over quickly, took the needle from Pengpeng's hand, and said with lingering fear, "Where did you get this needle and thread?"
Pengpeng was also startled by her father's actions. She shrank her neck and said, "I got it from grandma's box."
That box? Zhang Zhong guessed it was probably his mother's storage box, which contained needlework and was placed on the grid next to the wardrobe.
The height of the grid is about Zhang Zhong's chin. If Pengpeng can reach it, she must be standing on a chair.
After thinking about it, Zhang Zhong felt that he was making a fuss again. Pengpeng was already five years old, and she didn't know anything. Moreover, she could crawl, jump, and use tools. It seemed like she couldn't find a needle at home.
Not very realistic either.
"What are you doing with needle and thread?" Zhang Zhong asked.
Pengpeng picked up the rabbit doll from his buttocks and said, "The rabbit doll is torn. I want to sew it up."
The rabbit doll she was holding was played by Zhang Zhong when he was a child. He stayed with her for a long time before Zhang Zhong came back. Later, Zhang Zhong bought her many more dolls, but the rabbit was not seen much.
I thought she found it again.
Zhang Zhong couldn't help but laugh. This girl was much better than him. The rabbit had been with him for so many years and it didn't break, but it broke in her hands.
"Come on, let me see where it's broken."
Taking the rabbit, Zhang Zhong looked up and down. The thread at the tail of the rabbit was broken. Only one point was connected, and it could fall off at any time.
He said confidently, "Don't worry, dad will sew it up for you right now."