In the Green Field Bookstore, a group of big men surrounded a small computer screen and roared like beasts.
Unlike the Nebula Awards, the Hugo Awards are not broadcast live.
Therefore, readers from China cannot see the scene at the ceremony, but there are also many Chinese people at the award ceremony, and some will broadcast the current status of the ceremony on their own social networking sites.
The person Zhang Junwei and the others were following was a well-known commentator named Xu Zehai. He also attended the awards ceremony and was lucky enough to sneak into the theater.
They roared because they saw Xu Zehai updated the latest situation, and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" won the Best Novel Award.
"President, come to the comment area and spread flowers." Luo Wei said excitedly while taking a sip of the cold drink that had already cooled down.
Zhang Junwei nodded and controlled the mouse to open the comment area, but to his surprise, Xu Zehai's post had been deleted.
Seeing the words "This update has been deleted" on the screen, a lot of people were confused.
"What is going on? Nothing will happen, right?" Luo Wei said anxiously.
"Yeah, why was it suddenly deleted? Did Xu Zehai deliberately tease us, or did he hear wrongly?"
Zhang Junwei pressed his hands and signaled everyone to calm down, "Don't worry, Xu Zehai is also a well-known figure, and he will definitely not trick us on purpose. As for whether he heard it wrong, it probably won't be. Let's wait for a while, maybe he will come out later.
explained."
Hearing what the president said, the others could only nod. Jiangyang is more than a thousand miles away from Wellington, and they have no way of knowing the situation there.
Some people from the book club went to Wellington, but those at the award ceremony couldn't get in, so now they can only learn about the situation at the scene through Xu Zehai.
"President, he has updated the news again."
Zhang Junwei raised his eyebrows, quickly controlled the mouse to click on the new news, and then they saw a line of text that they would never forget in their lifetime.
"Best Novel Winner: "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Three-Body Problem: Dark Forest"."
When they saw this line of writing, they did not cheer immediately, but instead started beating drums in their hearts.
Why does this look so fantasy?
How many works won the best novel?
Or the same person?
Has anything like this ever happened at the Hugo Awards?
"President, this is not fake, is it?"
Zhang Junwei didn't dare to make a conclusion, he just said, "Let me ask."
In fact, why should he ask? When he clicked on the comment area, there were already dozens of comments, all asking about this matter.
【Boss, this is true or false.】
【You can't be just kidding us.】
[Everyone, please repost it quickly, it has been reposted more than 500 times. If it is a rumor, he will be convicted.]
【Hope it is true.】
[Has there ever been a tie for the Hugo Award?]
【Yes, but that was decades ago.】
…
Xu Zehai did not reply to netizens' questions, but just posted another update after a while.
"Zhang Zhong has begun to give his acceptance speech. I won't translate it for you here. You can watch it for yourself when the official video comes out."
Although Xu Zehai did not answer the question, this update gave netizens reassurance.
Nine times out of ten, this is true. Xu Zehai dares to joke about this kind of thing?
After a while, the news was confirmed because other people at the scene posted the same update.
"It's true. Liu Wanda also posted a message confirming that the best novel of this Hugo Award is indeed these two books!"
Zhang Junwei announced the news to the members with some excitement.
This time everyone didn't scream, they just clenched their fists and didn't know what to say. It seemed that the roar just now had exhausted their strength.
"I really want to hear our boss's acceptance speech."
"Just be content, it's good to get the news. I guess the official will release the video soon."
"The Hugo Awards are real. It would be great to have a live broadcast."
"I'm probably afraid of something unexpected happening. After all, it's a world science fiction convention, so something might happen."
Because we couldn't see the live video or hear Zhang Zhong's acceptance speech, everyone was a little bored and started talking about other things. Only Zhang Junwei kept refreshing the web page, wanting to see if Xu Zehai had any new updates.
About seven or eight minutes later, Xu Zehai posted another update.
Everyone else was chatting, and only Zhang Junwei saw this update first.
The first thing you see when you see the animation is a bunch of big exclamation marks, and then you see the text.
"Jiangyang Shenhuan succeeded!!!!!!!!!!"
Bang!
Zhang Junwei slammed the table, startling the other club members who were chatting.
"President, what's wrong?"
"See for yourselves!" Zhang Junwei put the computer screen in front of them, and the members stretched their heads to look at the screen.
"Jiang - Yang - Shen - Bang!" Luo Wei, who was still squinting to read the news, slammed the table before he finished reading the words, and then shouted wildly: "Jiang Yang Shen Huan is successful!"
At this time, it was ten o'clock in the evening in Wellington, and it was five o'clock in the afternoon in Jiangyang, which is when the shopping mall started to fill up.
Some people walking by the Green Field Bookstore suddenly heard the commotion coming from inside and couldn't help but look inside.
"What are they calling?"
"It seemed like they were talking about Jiang Yang's success, but I didn't understand."
"Looking at how excited they are, something big must have happened. Is it related to our Jiangyang?"
"Why don't you go in and ask?"
The man looked at the crazy scene inside, then shook his head, "Forget it, if there is really a big thing, there will definitely be news on the Internet."
…
Scenes like this are happening all over the country, especially here in Jiangyang.
The freshmen of Jiangyang University have been at the school for military training for two days. Not long after the military training ended, a group of boys started shouting wildly on the street. Then they spread the word, and students kept reveling and howling.
Other students who didn't know what was going on thought something had happened.
There were also some people whose ears were not so good that they heard "Jiang Yang's successful bid for the Olympic Games" as "Jiang Yang's successful bid for the Olympic Games" and howled along with them, but they didn't even know what the World Science Fiction Convention was.
The official website of the World Science Fiction Convention is very fast. Zhang Zhong had just announced the results of the science fiction application, and a notice was quickly posted on the official website, and a video of Zhang Zhong finally announcing that the host city was Jiangyang was posted.
Many people have already learned the results through some people's text live broadcasts, but they still went to the official website of the World Science Fiction Convention to find the video and watched it again.
"I announce that the host city of the 2023 World Science Fiction Convention is Jiangyang."
On this day, Zhang Zhong’s voice floated across the country, ushering in the carnival of countless Chinese science fiction fans.