At the same time, he was secretly glad that he had chosen to be in this cafe. If they were in a darker place, all of them would have been frightened by the scream of the girl just now and wet their pants.
They were not the only customers in the coffee shop. When the girl called her just now, other customers also looked over curiously. Seeing them forming a circle, they probably thought they were playing some kind of game.
When Parker opened his mouth to read again, someone pricked up their ears and listened carefully.
Oh, I seem to be reading. It turns out I came here to have a reading salon.
It was very quiet inside the coffee shop, and Parker's voice was not loud, but if you listened carefully you could still hear what he was saying.
Slowly, a few customers who were concentrating on drinking coffee were also attracted by the stories told by Parker.
Parker read for more than two hours, not much, but today's salon is coming to an end.
A young man saw Parker closing the book and ran over, "Sir, what is the name of the book in your hand? I just listened to it for a while and found it very interesting."
Parker smiled and showed the cover and said, "This book is called The Shining, and it's pz's new book."
"pz?" The young man scratched his head, "I'm sorry, I haven't paid attention to it recently. Is it a new author?"
Parker smiled. Although pz's reputation in North America is already very high, it will never reach the point where everyone knows him. It is normal for some people not to know him. He gave the young man a simple introduction, "pz is
A writer who only came out last year, but he already has more than a dozen works, and each one is a masterpiece..."
Although it is a brief introduction, Parker spent a lot of time just talking about Zhang Zhong's works.
When he heard about pz's work, the young man raised his eyebrows and said, "It turns out that "Dune" was written by him. A friend of mine was reading this book a few days ago, but I don't know the author's name."
""Dune" is also very good, but we have already seen it. I am currently reading "The Shining". I will be here tomorrow at this time. If you are interested, you can come and listen to it together tomorrow."
"Is this okay?"
"Of course, as long as you are willing. But although we are studying together, the sales of pz's new book must be supported."
"No problem, I'll buy a copy."
…
Parker, who was far away across the ocean, was working hard to sell Zhang Zhong's book, while Zhang Zhong was sitting with his family on the beach watching the sunrise.
In order to watch the sunrise, he even changed hotels specially.
The hotel they stayed in before was facing Luzhou Bay to the west, which is also the best place to watch the sunset in Luzhou. But now they are staying in Haitang Bay to the east, and Haitang Bay is also the best place to watch the sunrise.
There are still some weak lights next to the villa, but it does not affect people's ability to watch the sunrise.
When they took Pengpeng and the others to the hut where they watched the sunrise, the sky in the east was still dark, like a black curtain blocking the front, but they could still hear the sound of the waves.
Gradually, the east side began to get brighter, at first it was a light blue, and then a red glow appeared in the blink of an eye. The scope of the red glow slowly expanded and became brighter and brighter.
Pengpeng clapped her hands and said, "The sun is coming out again."
Zhang Zhong smiled and nodded, this girl has made some progress, at least she doesn't say the sun is an egg yolk like last time.
The sun did not rise very fast, but rather as if it was carrying a heavy burden. It slowly, step by step, worked hard to rise, and finally broke through the clouds and jumped out of the sea completely.
Just like that, a red and big sun rested steadily on the sea.
At this moment, a mechanical sound sounded in Zhang Zhong's mind, and his points increased by 10,000.
However, he did not rush to pay attention, but watched the sunrise with his family for a while. After leaving the beach, he took Pengpeng and the others to have breakfast. The breakfast in the hotel was pretty good, and there was no need to find another place.
After finishing breakfast, Zhang Zhong sorted out his points in his mind.
The points have increased slowly recently, but I have accumulated 40,000 points.
He spent 10,000 points to win the lottery.
[Congratulations on winning the work "Ring Dance".]
Circle dance?
For the first time, Zhang Zhong drew a book that he couldn’t remember which book it was after looking at the title.
He received the work, there were two copies in total, one was the Chinese version, which is "Runaround". The other was the English version, called "Runaround".
When he saw Run Around, Zhang Zhong somewhat remembered what book it was, but he wasn't sure.
After he briefly reviewed the contents of the book in his mind, he finally realized that it turned out to be such a famous book.
Zhang Zhong had also read the Chinese version of this novel before, but it was in a collection, and run around was also translated as "turn around".
If you just mention "Dance in the Ring" or "Twirl in a Circle", I'm afraid not many people will remember what novel it is, but if you mention the name of the collection that contains this novel, many people will be impressed by it.
"I, Robot" is one of Asimov's most famous works. This short story collection contains a total of nine short stories. The stories of these nine short stories are independent, but they share a common theme - exploring human beings and
Ethical issues among robots.
The most well-known thing about this collection of novels is the "Three Laws of Robotics" proposed in it. Once these three laws were proposed, they became unshakable iron laws in the science fiction world.
Three laws of robotics:
First, robots must not harm humans or stand by and watch humans being harmed.
Second, unless the first law is violated, robots must obey human orders.
Third, without violating the first and second laws, robots must protect themselves.
Of course, these three laws cannot be perfect, so many problems will arise.
"Ring Dance" is the first story in which the three laws of robotics appear completely, but it is not the first in the chronological order of the story.
In fact, when these short stories first came out, the individual stories did not have a very strong logical order. It was only when the collection was released that Asimov adjusted the order in order to make the causes and consequences more reasonable.
This "Ring Dance" is not only not the first in terms of publication time, but also not the first in terms of the story's causes and consequences.
The first story in the collection is "Robbie", and before the story there is a short story by the narrator Susan.
Although shuffling the order does not greatly affect reading, Zhang Zhong still wanted to get all the stories, so he called the system and drew again.
[Congratulations, you have obtained "Reason"]
[Congratulations, you won "Catch Rabbit"]
He drew prizes twice. Fortunately, he drew short stories from the collection, but unfortunately, he did not draw the beginning, only the back.