Wu Ziyun wanted to give Pengpeng a gift, but it was not delivered for almost a month. In the meantime, Zhang Zhong took Pengpeng to Wu Ziyun's place twice, and Pengpeng's class officially started.
However, the classes were not held at Wu Ziyun’s home, but at CAFA—Wu Ziyun’s personal studio.
In addition to Pengpeng waiting for the gift given to her by the teacher, Zhang Zhong's fans are also waiting for the arrival of new works.
Zero Zero One Literature Network previously announced that the new book "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" will be officially released in early November, so November has just entered, and book fans have begun to count the days.
However, the official website has not notified the specific release time. It was not until October 9th that the release date was set on October 11th, with only two days in between.
It was said to be early November, but now it is almost mid-November, and book fans are also itching to wait.
November 11 is a good day. Although it has not evolved into a shopping festival in this world, many singles still feel very close to this day.
It just so happened that the new book was released on this day, and many bachelors expressed their gratitude to Zhang Zhong online, thanking him for sending them some comfort in such a desolate and lonely day, so that they would not have to be alone at home and secretly sad.
On the day when a new book is released, a space is cleared at the entrance of major bookstores specifically to display Zhang Zhong's posters. Many bookstores not only display the posters for "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", but also the previous Zhang Zhong's posters.
It's all shown, and it seems that today is Zhang Zhong's special performance.
Many readers who don't go to bookstores for the publicity have no way to avoid the bombardment of these posters.
Even if you don't look at the posters when you walk through the door, the first thing you see when you enter the bookstore are Zhang Zhong's books.
This is the reality of bookstores. Whose books sell well will naturally be placed in the most conspicuous position.
Some larger bookstores will even organize a special reading activity about Zhang Zhong on this day.
As the largest bookstore in Jiangyang now, Nanfang Bookstore mainly focuses on Zhang Zhong’s characteristics. Since the store is close to the water, first come first, they can’t not take advantage of this advantage. After all, Zhang Zhong has held a book signing here before.
On the fifth floor of Nanfang Bookstore, the entire floor is dedicated to the theme of Zhang Zhong. There are posters of Zhang Zhong, showcases of Zhang Zhong's signed books, previews of Zhang Zhong's life, and large introductions to all Zhang Zhong's books.
We even had an LED TV placed in the middle to repeatedly play videos about Zhang Zhong.
These videos include Zhang Zhong’s several award speeches, excerpts from Zhang Zhong’s public lectures, and even scenes taken by him in the United States when he was playing with the column.
Although there is only one author's books on the fifth floor of Nanfang Bookstore, the sales volume in the past few months has still been leading among several floors.
Not to mention other things, just talking about commercial value, Zhang Zhong can now attract a large number of writers by himself.
For this reason, local readers who often come to Nanfang Bookstore will walk past the new book express bookshelf on the first floor and go straight to the fifth floor when they arrive at the store today, because they know that there will definitely be new books on the fifth floor, and there is no need for them to go here on the first floor.
Crowded with people.
The most important thing is that reading Zhang Zhong's books on the fifth floor has an atmosphere.
Liu Shuang came to Nanfang Bookstore after breakfast. I don’t know when, but it has become his regular routine to go to the fifth floor of Nanfang Bookstore to read on the day when Zhang Zhong’s book is released.
During this time, he has been preparing for this day.
He felt that he had fallen in love with this feeling, and even when he came to the bookstore, he would not come to the fifth floor. He would only come here on the day when new books are released.
When Liu Shuang went to Nanfang Bookstore, he could see many people gathered around the new bookshelf as soon as he entered the door, rushing to buy Zhang Zhong's new books.
But he didn't need to fight with these people. He went directly to the fifth floor, where there would be plenty of new books waiting for him.
There are also many people on the fifth floor, but compared to the first floor, they are completely insignificant. People here silently walk to a suitable location with a new book, and then read quietly without disturbing each other.
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The fifth floor of Nanfang Bookstore, after several months of development and operation, has achieved a certain scale and rules.
A few days before the new book is released, no one will discuss the new book here. This is because no one wants to be spoiled by considering the feelings of readers later.
Of course, Liu Shuang would not break the rules. He took a new book and went to check out first, and then opened the plastic wrapper after checking out.
His favorite seat by the window was already taken, so he had to settle for a corner seat.
From the moment he opened the book, his world was filled with only the stories Zhang Zhong brought him...
1866... The tone of this book is a past-future tense...
That year something strange happened at sea, an unexplained and unexplained phenomenon.
"It may still be fresh in people's minds."
When he saw this sentence in the book, Liu Shuang even thought he was reading some kind of biography. Because of this sentence, the story became particularly real.
The beginning of the story is very suspenseful. Something extraordinary happened on the sea. A huge thing appeared in the sea. Everyone had some guesses about this giant thing.
More people thought it should be an extremely huge marine creature that had never been discovered before.
Even Liu Shuang, as a reader, is guessing what kind of unknown creature this behemoth is through the author's description.
The beginning of the story reveals suspense and fantasy. As a reader, Liu Shuang also followed the author's narrative.
Description of the behemoth: a long spindle-shaped object that sometimes flashes with phosphorescence. It is unknown how much larger it is than a whale, and its movement speed is much faster than that of a whale.
More than a whale?
This doesn't seem like a great thing.
As an old science fiction reader, Liu Shuang knew that the speed of whales is only 40 to 50 kilometers per hour, but the speed of submarines can reach 100 to 200 kilometers per hour, which is not surprising.
However, Liu Shuang still did not think about the submarine, because the previous description was so amazing that he forgot the time and background of the book.
It wasn't until he later saw the part about the submarine that he suddenly realized that the time setting of the book he was reading now was 1880.
While Liu Shuang was annoyed that he should not have made the mistake of empiricism, he was also wondering why Zhang Zhong would write a science fiction novel with such a distant background.
Among Zhang Zhong's science fiction novels, even the issues discussed in "I, Robot" with relatively old themes are very advanced. It is the first time that the time setting is directly set in the seventeenth century like this.