After changing Zhang Zhong's pen name to "Fifth Grade Vegetative Person", Lin Ping rested her chin and stared at the computer screen quietly.
Her hands were not idle either, she kept pressing the F5 key, waiting to see if any new messages would appear.
About half an hour later, a new book review message suddenly popped up.
The new book has arrived.
Wandering sea ball?
Regardless of the title of the book, I clicked on the first chapter and took a look. I didn’t read the content carefully to make sure it was not garbled, so I just clicked on it to pass the review.
Lin Ping then ran directly to the editor's office.
"Editor-in-Chief, a new book is out."
Fang Qing also raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "It's out? They didn't give a cover. You notify the art team and ask them to come out with a cover as quickly as possible. Read the book as soon as possible and write a recommendation. Half a dozen
After a few hours, put the book on the front page."
"Okay, then I'll go to work first."
After saying that, Lin Ping turned around and left. She walked not slowly, but Fang Qing was still clapping her hands behind her: "Hurry up, hurry up, time is money."
Lin Ping was so urged that she almost started running.
I first ran to the art team and explained the matter in person, then quickly ran back to my work and started reading the novel.
When she returned, "The Wandering Sea Ball", which originally had only one chapter, had become twelve chapters.
And there is one more completed application.
Passed, Lin Ping simply clicked on the application, and then went back to read the novel.
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Although Lin Ping was the first to see "The Wandering Sea Ball" on Harvest Literature, she was not the first to actually start reading it.
Fan Bin had just ushered in a vacation. He originally wanted to go out for fun during the vacation, but on such a hot day, he could only lie at home, bored, so he started looking for novels to read.
His reading tastes are mixed, and he has accounts on several well-known large websites.
I was wandering around Harvest Literature when I suddenly saw a new book with a rather strange name, called "The Wandering Sea Ball".
Although the title of the book was strange, it did not attract his attention. What really made him click on it was that the author's name turned out to be "Fifth Grade Vegetative Person."
Readers who know about Fifth Grade Vegetative Man basically know that his works are published on the Provoking Literature website.
What is going on now? Is it a copycat?
Fan Bin stared at the pen name for a long time and found that there was no trap. The words "Fifth Grade Vegetative Person" were the same.
Is it true that the fifth-grade vegetative person has moved to Harvest Literature Network, or is Harvest Literature Network so bold that he dares to take advantage of this kind of popularity?
Out of curiosity, Fan Bin clicked on the work. This book had just published a few chapters. It didn't even have a cover, and there wasn't even a person in the comment area. It seemed like he was the first to discover this book.
Let’s take a look first and then talk.
Click to enter Chapter 1: Braking Era 1
"I have never seen the night, I have never seen the stars, I have never seen spring, autumn and winter. I was born at the end of the braking era, when the starfish had just stopped turning."
Oh, there is something about the first person. I have to say that this first sentence attracted him. With these two sentences, he began to think about two questions. What is the braking era? And what does it mean for a starfish to stop turning?
Looking further down, his question was quickly answered.
It turns out that the so-called braking era refers to stopping the starfish from turning.
But why does it stop rotating?
There is no immediate answer to this question in the book, but it describes some rather strange things.
Sea ball engine.
It seems like this thing is used to stop starfish from spinning.
Looking back, Helium Flash explained Fan Bin's questions, and at the same time he also saw a crazy escape plan.
Escape is divided into five steps: the first step is to use the sea ball engine to stop the rotation of the sea ball. The second step is to start the sea ball engine at full power to accelerate the sea ball to escape velocity and fly out of the solar system. The third step is to continue in outer space.
Accelerate and fly towards Proxima Centauri. The fourth step is to let the sea ball spin again, and then use the engine to start decelerating. The fifth step is to park the sea ball into the orbit of Proxima Centauri and become a satellite of this star.
These five steps are called the Braking Era, the Escape Era, the Wandering Era 1, the Wandering Era 2, and the New Sun Era respectively.
And this entire process will last for more than 2,500 years.
I read the book very quickly, and the stories in the book may seem ordinary, but they are also thrilling.
After the previous dullness, at the end, the story began to reach its climax, and the rebellion occurred.
Regarding the rebellion, there is very little space to describe it, and it is skipped over in just a few paragraphs. In the end, the protagonist switches sides and judges the last 5,000 government troops.
After reading the whole book, Fan Bin felt a little uncomfortable. How could this be?
Why was the just side defeated like this? The stupid rebels won, but this victory was only temporary, because in the end the helium flash broke out and the earth still needed to wander.
In addition to the final ending, the description of human nature in the book also made Fan Bin feel cold all over.
When facing survival, it seems that human emotions have been lost and turned into indifferent machines.
There were two passages that impressed Fan Bin deeply. The protagonist's father fell in love with another woman, who was also the protagonist's primary school teacher.
My father announced to his family as if it was a trivial matter: I have fallen in love with someone else and am ready to leave you and be with her.
But the family didn't feel anything at all.
It's so ridiculous.
Has the relationship between people turned into this in the face of disaster?
This is something Fan Bin cannot imagine, but he cannot question the authenticity of the book. This is a fantasy in itself. If Hai Qiu will really face that day, who can say what will happen?
There is still a section later, when magma leaks and the government urgently evacuates people, it seems that there is no need to worry about the choice. Young people go first, adults and old people follow behind. To survive, of course, you must retain your strength.
On that occasion, the protagonist's mother was evaporated by the magma because she did not evacuate in time.
Is this the right choice?
Reason told Fan Bin that it was certainly right to let the young man go, but emotionally, he really couldn't accept such a grading of the value of life.
The value of life cannot be compared. This is Fan Bin's belief, but at this moment, his belief was severely impacted.
Finished reading.
As for whether this book was written by a fifth-grade vegetative person, it doesn't seem that important.
He closed the page. The comment section was not as blank as when he first discovered the book. There were already many people commenting on it, and the book had an extra cover.
On the cover, a sea ball is flying in the opposite direction of the sun with a tail.
Wandering sea ball.
Fan Bin looked outside through the window. The sun was so dazzling that it was impossible to look directly.