"However, I heard that there is a wave of continuation novels in China. Just one day after the novel came out, there are many continuation versions coming out." The assistant continued.
"Continuing?" Affleck became interested, but then said a little lonely, "What do these things have to do with me? I still don't know what this book is about."
"How about asking again? Didn't you ask last time and pz also gave a reply?"
After hearing what the assistant said, Affleck was also a little confused. He was already a little embarrassed to ask this kind of thing once. If he asked it again and again, he didn't know if pz would have any objections.
Probably knowing that Affleck on the other end of the phone was hesitant, the assistant said, "Actually, this kind of thing is normal, and it is good for each other's popularity. I don't think pz has any ideas. After all, readers are urging me.
A common thing."
Affleck thought for a while, and finally the idea of reading a book took over, "Okay, I'll ask again."
Because of what happened last time, he has more than two million fans on Weiyu. However, because he has not posted any updates during this period, the number of fans has grown very slowly.
After logging into his account, Affleck began to urge the update again under Zhang Zhong’s whisper.
"Mr. PZ, when will the English version of the new book be released?"
Because the followers of Weiyu are related to the message, many fans saw it immediately after Affleck posted the comment.
[Xiao A is here again to urge me to update.]
[It’s quite fast, it’s still early morning for them there. 】
[Learn Chinese, I come here and ask this question every time, are you tired?]
[Yes, if Xiao A wants to learn Chinese, I am willing to provide free teaching. 】
【Does the person upstairs know English? Do they need to teach Chinese?】
【Who said you need to know English to teach people Chinese? 】
[That’s right, that’s right, our school’s diplomats say hello, aren’t they also teaching us English? 】
[Well, it’s good for Xiao A to learn Chinese, and he can come to China to film movies in the future. 】
[Yes, this book only has more than 20,000 words, and most of them are commonly used words, so you can understand them if you just study them. 】
[It’s so bad upstairs. Why can’t my fellow international students understand it after watching it for a long time? 】
【Will Zhang Zhong reply this time? 】
[I think so. I responded last time, so I should come back this time too.]
[It’s night now, has Zhang Zhong fallen asleep? Alas, you’re so far away across the ocean, little man, you don’t understand the darkness of night during the day.]
[According to my long-term observations, Zhang Zhong’s rest time should be between 11pm and 1am, and he definitely doesn’t sleep at this time.]
[The real detective upstairs can observe all this?]
[Hey, you can tell by just analyzing the data. And judging from Zhang Zhong’s limited online activities, he is usually busy between seven and nine o’clock. He doesn’t come out to speak or publish chapters during this time.
The frequency is relatively small.]
[I know, Zhang Zhong must be married, and he will probably have children. Bao’s father has this routine. 】
[Why isn’t mine? My husband is still playing games.]
【Oh, maybe Zhang Zhong is also playing games.】
…
"The prince and the princess lived happily together until they grew old..."
After Zhang Zhong finished telling the story of "Sleeping Beauty", he tucked Pengpeng into a quilt. This girl was fond of coolness and would always put the quilt on her legs while sleeping, so Zhang Zhong usually did not dare to turn on the air conditioner.
It's too low and she's afraid of getting cold.
In fact, before the story of "Sleeping Beauty" was finished, Pengpeng had already fallen asleep. During the day, Minya came over to play. The two little girls were probably tired after playing in the game room all day.
When Liu Feng came to pick up Minya, the girl also fell asleep in her fat father's arms.
Turning off the light, Zhang Zhong tiptoed out of Pengpeng's room.
When he got to the study, he checked the information for a while to prepare for the translation of "The Wandering Sea Ball". At about eleven o'clock, he opened Weiyu.
The main reason for posting on Weibo is to see what other weird ideas netizens have. He also likes to see netizens continue writing "Wandering Sea Ball".
Although some netizens are lacking in story-telling abilities, their imagination is still quite powerful, and some of the continued stories look really similar.
Zhang Zhong is even thinking that in a few days, he will hold an essay collection activity to collect the sequel stories of "The Wandering Sea Ball", not for anything else but just because it is fun.
As soon as I opened Weiyu, I saw Affleck’s comment.
This guy is here to update again.
This time Zhang Zhong did not reply in the comment area, but added Affleck as a friend and sent him a private message: Hello Mr. Affleck, thank you for your support, about the English version of "The Wandering Sea Ball"
Things have not been determined yet, and it may take some time.
Affleck was happy at first when he saw Zhang Zhong's private message, but after reading the content, he was filled with disappointment.
It's not confirmed yet, which means that the English version is not available at all.
What to do?
Urgent again?
Affleck can't do this, and besides, it's useless to urge him like this.
Why don't you find someone to translate it privately and read it yourself first?
But then he gave up the idea, not because of the infringement issue. After all, he didn't know how to use it commercially. He just wanted to see it for himself.
However, the key problem is that if you find someone to translate, you may not be able to translate it authentically. If the translator is not good enough, or your science fiction thinking is weak, then the translated thing may be completely different from the original work.
If you do this, you may ruin the image of this book in your mind.
Although he hasn't read the book yet and doesn't know the content, he doesn't want this to happen.
Let’s wait for the original version of pz.
However, there was no reminder, Affleck still took the opportunity to chat with Zhang Zhong.
"Mr. PZ, I just read your "Dune" not long ago. This book is really good, but there are some questions that I don't quite understand. Can I ask you for advice?"
"Okay, please."
Although pz's reply was short, Affleck was still very happy, and then asked some questions he had when reading "Dune".
After all, this novel is very long, and the world in it is also a brand new one. It is normal for some questions to be unclear after reading it once or twice. After all, people tend to ignore some information that they think is not important when reading.
However, sometimes this information is not really unimportant, but it is not yet useful.
Regarding these questions from Affleck, Zhang Zhong did not explain them thoroughly. He basically just hit a few sentences and stopped. The main purpose was to leave some space for Affleck to think for himself.