In order to do the live broadcast as soon as possible, Parker came to China in advance.
On the morning of the release of "The Three-Body Problem", Parker brought his roommate to the bookstore. The reason why he brought his roommate was because his Chinese was not good enough.
Parker is learning Chinese, but Chinese is not that simple. Now he has only taught himself some daily expressions.
If he is just here to travel, it should be enough to use the vocabulary he has learned, speak and gesture, and make the listeners guess.
But he didn't come here to travel, but to live-stream his reading reactions for netizens.
After snatching "The Three-Body Problem" out of the crowd, Parker said hello to Chinese netizens in Chinese, and then began to say in English, "We are now at the largest bookstore in Jiangyang, Nanfang Bookstore.
At 8:30 in the morning China time, you can see that there are already many people in the bookstore, and most of them have a common purpose, which is to come and buy pz's new book "The Three-Body Problem". I will show you this book first.
cover."
Parker pointed the camera at the cover of "The Three-Body Problem", "This cover is a bit strange. The figure from the back should be a woman, with a golden planet above her head. The title of the book is right here, The Three-Body Problem - these two words I think
My roommate has already taught me, but these few little words are..."
His roommate Li looked at the small characters under "Three Body" and said: "This seems to be 'Starfish Past'?"
"What do you mean?" Parker asked.
Li was unsure, "It seems to be part of the title of the book. The full name of this book should be called Three-Body Starfish Past."
Parker was stunned, "So, does it mean there is more than one three-body system?"
"Looking at it this way, there should be more than one, but I'm not sure."
The barrage also exploded at this time.
[Is there a sequel? Starfish Past, does this mean that this one is all about things on a starfish? 】
【I thought I was going to the stars.】
[Oh, I can only watch, I feel so anxious.]
[Brother Parker, are you at Nanfang Bookstore? I’ll go there now.]
[Welcome Parker to Jiangyang, did I miss anything?]
[Stop talking nonsense and read a book quickly.]
[By the way, watch it and don’t spoil it.]
[What the hell is this live broadcast room, watching people reading?]
[Will Parker meet pz this time? If so, can he bring us to meet him too? 】
【Yes, I want to ask why there is no English version this time.】
【Am I the only one who pays attention to the back of the woman on the cover? 】
【Is the protagonist of this book a female?】
[This woman’s hairstyle... There is a photo of my mother when she was young, and her hairstyle is exactly the same as this one.]
…
Parker watched the barrage for a while, then decided to go back to the hotel and broadcast live again.
After returning to the hotel, Parker put on his posture and started reading.
In fact, it’s not reading at all. Parker doesn’t know many words, and he may not even be able to read sentences. However, he brought his roommate, so basically his roommate was doing the explaining.
When Li was explaining, he also spoke deliberately and his voice was not too loud, otherwise it would be like a live reading.
At first, Li explained it to Parker, but as he read, Li couldn't go on.
On the one hand, he was too engrossed in the reading and had no intention of explaining it to Parker. On the other hand, writing involved a lot of things. Although Li could understand it, he could not explain it clearly to Parker in English.
In the end, Parker put his hand on his chin and watched Li concentrate on reading.
For a long time, Li's expression was solemn.
Because this book is a bit difficult to read carefully, there are many difficult-to-understand words in it, and the previous story is also quite dull. At least for a science fiction novel, the first part of it is not exciting, and it even looks boring.
There is no hint of science fiction.
It wasn't until the Three-Body Game came out that Li discovered a bit of science fiction.
Moreover, the narration method of this book seems quite laborious, with several lines mixed together, which can lead to confusion if you are not careful.
However, Li still explained the story carefully.
The protagonist of the story, Wang Miao, was knocked on the door one day by the police and soldiers and asked to attend a meeting organized by the military. The issue discussed at the meeting was about the recent suicides of many scientists. Among the people who committed suicide was a man named Yang Dong.
He left his last words: Physics has never existed and will never exist in the future.
These last words deeply touched Wang Miao, and he decided to find out what was going on.
Later, he came into contact with a three-body game. The world in the game has three suns, which makes the world extremely unstable. People in this world can dehydrate and work as humans to avoid extreme environments. When the environment is suitable, they can soak in water.
Come alive.
Later, an underground organization called the Starfish Trisolaris Organization was also exposed. The military took advantage of the organization's internal strife and used Wang Miao as a bait to defeat the organization. The leader of this organization turned out to be Ye Wenjie, who usually seemed gentle and kind.
Ye Wenjie was also the first person to discover the Trisolaran civilization.
Ye Wenjie experienced ten years of catastrophe, witnessed her father's tragic death, and was framed many times. These experiences made her completely disappointed in mankind. In despair, she sent a signal to expose starfish to the outside world.
When he saw where the transmission signal was, Li felt shaken.
Especially when I saw that after the peace-loving Trisolaran monitor No. 1379 received Ye Wenjie's signal, in order to save Haixing from the clutches of the Trisolarans, he replied to Ye Wenjie: Don't answer! Don't answer! Don't answer!
When he saw the same three short sentences, Li felt his heart lifted up in his throat, because he knew that if the location of the starfish was exposed, mankind might perish.
But Ye Wenjie still replied. Because of her great resentment towards mankind, Ye Wenjie decided to let the Trisolarans take over civilization.
When he saw this, Li kept slapping the table, because just when he saw these two paragraphs, he really felt a sense of fear deep in his heart.
Even after finishing the book, he still felt very depressed.
"Don't answer, don't answer, don't answer!"
Parker was stunned, wondering why Li was so excited.
"What happened? What did you see?" Parker asked.
Li sighed and turned to look at Parker, "What would you do if you received a message from aliens?"
"What should we do?" Parker thought for a while and said, "Of course we should try our best to understand each other. Aren't we always looking for traces of aliens?"
"Alas!" Li sighed again, "Haixing will be destroyed in the hands of people like you."
Parker scratched his head, how could this guy Li read a book that burned his brain, and convicted him of such a big crime, destroying starfish?