Zhang Zhong has been here once in Baiyue and is not unfamiliar with it. However, this time he contacted a local tour guide. This tour guide was recommended by Chen Qing and should be quite reliable.
According to Chen Qing, he has been to Baiyue several times and has always been led by this tour guide.
The tour guide's name is Yang Kai. He is a young man under thirty years old, not tall and a little lean. He speaks Mandarin fluently, and you can't tell that he is a local just by listening to his accent.
He first took Zhang Zhong and his family to the hotel. The hotel had been booked before. Yang Kai recommended several hotels to Zhang Zhong, with prices ranging from high to low. Zhang Zhong chose the most expensive one.
Sometimes when you don’t know much about the product, price is often the easiest information to tell whether the product is good or bad. And since Chen Qing recommended this tour guide, there should be no problem with the hotel he recommended.
Because it was already late when they arrived, after settling in the hotel, Yang Kai made arrangements with Zhang Zhong about the next few days' itinerary and left first.
Along the way, the family had no intention of going out to play right away. They got some food at the hotel and then rested.
After his parents and Pengpeng went to bed, Zhang Zhong turned on the computer. Because he had done enough preparations before, he started writing "I, Robot" as soon as the computer was turned on.
The wedge and the first story were written very quickly, taking only more than three hours. After writing, Zhang Zhong checked it carefully again and sent it directly to Chen Qing.
Not long after the document was sent, Chen Qing called.
"Boss, is this a new book you sent me?"
"Well, it's a new book. This is the first chapter. You can send it directly to the cooperative websites in China first." Zhang Zhong said.
Chen Qing was a little surprised, "Boss, didn't you go on a trip? Why, are you back?"
"No, I just arrived in Baiyue. I took the time to write this book. I just published the first chapter, and the rest should come out one after another."
I took the time to write...
The corner of Chen Qing's mouth on the other end of the phone twitched. His boss had previously told him not to work too hard and to relax, but the boss himself acted like a workaholic and didn't even put down his pen when he took his family on a trip. How long did it take?
Another book came out.
"Uh, boss, what is the approximate length of this book?" Chen Qing asked. Knowing the length will facilitate subsequent work. If it is a long story, it will definitely be published as a single volume. If it is still a short story, he is also considering whether
Put it together with "Wandering Sea Ball" to make a collection.
Zhang Zhong knew what he wanted to ask, so he said, "Contact Lin Lin and get ready to publish a single volume. The serialization will not take too long."
"Well, I understand. Then I will arrange for someone to proofread the manuscript later. After proofreading, I will send it out directly, or should I do some publicity first?"
"Let's publish it directly. Since it is a serial, it has enough time to ferment. You can also promote it while serializing it."
"Okay, I understand."
After talking to Zhang Zhong on the phone, Chen Qing hurriedly contacted Huang Wen, the company's editorial director. Huang Wen used to work for a large literary website and held the position of deputy editor, and Chen Qing specially recruited her.
The company's current editorial department does not have many people, and the tasks are not heavy. There are only two authors in the company, one is Zhang Zhong and the other is Zhao Re.
The main focus of the editorial department is also on Zhang Zhong.
It's time to get off work now, and Huang Wen is getting ready to go to bed. He is nearly forty years old, and his children are already in junior high school. He has already passed the stage of staying up late every day, and now goes to bed at ninety o'clock every day.
After receiving the call from Chen Qing, he did not dare to delay, and quickly contacted two editors in the editorial department, and the three of them proofread the manuscript together.
The efficiency was very fast, and the manuscript was ready in just over an hour.
After Chen Qing received the manuscript, she was still uneasy. She read it a few times to make sure there were no problems, then logged in to Zhang Zhong's account on those websites and posted the books one by one.
After all the websites were posted, Chen Qing sat on the sofa and let out a long sigh of relief.
He looked back at the manuscript on the computer. He had read it a few times without actually thinking about the story carefully, just to check the words.
Looking back now, I can only remember that it seemed to be a story about a robot, but I'm not sure about the details. He pulled the computer in front of him, lay on the sofa and continued reading.
There was no mission this time, and there was no need to rush, so I started reading slowly.
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"The Three Laws of Robotics
The first law is that robots must not harm people, nor must they stand idly by while people are being harmed.
The second law: robots should obey all orders from humans..."
When Mitate Shinsame saw the "Three Laws of Robotics" at the beginning, he was a little stunned.
He is not engaged in scientific research, nor does he know much about robots. Are these three laws given by the scientific community? It seems to be the case.
Especially the sentence at the bottom, "Quoted from the 56th Edition of "Guide to Robotics", makes people feel even more serious.
Out of curiosity, Mitate Shinyu first searched for "Robotics Guide" on the Internet, but found that there was no such thing at all, and all that came out were some open source robotics study guides.
Not giving up, I searched for the three laws of robotics again, but found nothing at all.
Could it be that Zhang Zhong made up all these things himself?
This is not impossible. After all, he can create a majestic world like that in "Dune". This small law should be no problem for him.
There are many settings about robots in various science fiction novels, and Yu Tatexinyu has seen many of them. These three items written by Zhang Chong made people's eyes shine, but at the moment, he could not experience this from such simple sentences.
The charm of laws.
Continuing to read, this book is written in the first person. In the preface, the narrator "I" went to interview a doctor of robot psychology named Su Ya.
In just a few lines, a lot of new things appeared.
Three Laws, Guide to Robotics, China Robot Company, Robot Psychology.
When Mitate Shinyu saw this, he knew that Zhang Zhong was trying to create a world again. Generally speaking, robot novels like to copy the settings or backgrounds of other novels, or they directly expand the fantasy based on the technological development of the real world.
But this novel is not. Just a few paragraphs can confirm that it must have a relatively rigorous and thoughtful world view. This is necessary for an excellent novel, especially a science fiction novel.
Su Ya, a doctor of robotics psychology, is also legendary. After she saw a robot that could talk and walk for the first time at the age of sixteen, she devoted her life to the robotics industry.