On October 1st, Zhang Zhong’s personal author account on 001 Literature Network published a new work.
It's a short story called "Calorie Man".
I have to say that this time, 001 Literature Network was very conscientious and actually provided this novel directly on the website for readers to read for free.
The title of the book seems quite interesting.
Calories are not a unit of energy often used in daily study, but most people know about them. Many people even know about joules, but they know about calories.
So what does Calorie Man mean?
Many people haven't read the book yet, but they have already connected this novel with "Yellow Card Man".
Because the names of these two novels sound strangely connected.
In fact, the two books are indeed very closely related. They are both products of the same worldview.
In this novel, readers saw many nouns seen in "Yellow Card Man", such as Cheshire Cat, such as Pure Card Company... but they also saw many things they had never seen before.
The novel tells the story of a businessman who specializes in "stealing" calories. In order to break the monopoly of the Calorie Company, he finds a Calorie Man to crack the gene.
In this world, people live by "calories".
If you have not read this book, you will think it is nonsense.
Who doesn’t live by calories? Because a calorie is a unit of heat?
Living by calories sounds like the same thing as living by calories.
But if you have read this novel, you will know that the calories here have an unusual meaning.
The background of "Calorie Man" obviously belongs to the same world as "Yellow Card Man" and has the same setting.
At this time, readers can already have a preliminary understanding of the setting context of this world.
The book mentions a period of great expansion.
The unfortunate Cleo once said: "If I were lucky, I would have been born during the great expansion, when we still had gasoline."
Obviously, the period of great expansion he mentioned should be the period that everyone is in now.
Combined with the above, we can probably deduce the development process of this world.
Affected by genetic pollution, the world's energy became exhausted, the petrochemical system collapsed, and the kink spring was born...
It is worth mentioning that in this new novel, the description of the kink spring is more detailed than in "The Yellow Card Man".
Many people discovered that their previous guesses were wrong. It turned out that the twisted spring was a spring, not some kind of genetic product.
When everyone saw this place, their first reaction was that it was crude and ordinary.
This torsion spring bar is just plain ordinary.
But I can't find fault with it. It seems that in such a world, the kink spring is a very reasonable high-tech product.
Although the working principle of the twist spring is not described in detail in the book, readers can probably guess it.
The kink spring is nothing more than an energy storage device that converts biological energy into mechanical energy (potential energy).
There is no essential difference from the springs we see in daily life, except that this kind of kink spring should be more sophisticated and complex.
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When "Calorie Man" was released, Zhang Zhong and his family were on their way to Yanjing.
They will spend this National Day in Yanjing.
Yanjing is the city where Zhang Zhong and the others have spent the longest time besides Jiangyang. Zhang Zhong is even considering whether to buy a property in Yanjing. After all, they come here almost every week and it is not very convenient to always stay in a hotel.
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And considering the cost, the money spent in a hotel can probably buy a small house in a few years.
Of course, if Zhang Zhong really decides to buy a house in Yanjing, he probably won't buy a small house.
After arriving in Yanjing, his parents and Xu Yuhan took Pengpeng to Yangmei to find Wu Ziyun, while Zhang Zhong went directly to Wang Meng's residence.
Wang Kewang had called Zhang Zhong before and asked him if he could take time to visit the old man during the National Day. Zhang Zhong readily agreed and made an appointment with Wang Kewang to go there on the National Day.
When Zhang Zhong arrived, Zhuang Yu and others were already sitting in the courtyard.
This is not a surprising thing. As long as Zhang Zhong comes over, these people will definitely be there too.
Zhuang Yu and the others had just arrived, and they saw Zhang Zhong entering the courtyard before the benches were even warm.
Because they were all acquaintances, they sat on the bench without moving their buttocks and said with a smile, "You came quite early today."
Zhang Zhong first said hello to Wang Meng, and then he was not polite and directly pulled a chair and sat down, "Weren't you earlier than me?"
"We are running on the ground and you are flying in the sky. How can we compare?" Yu Dongyu joked with a smile, "We just arrived and you came before we started talking bad about you. It's so boring."
Zhang Zhong glanced at Yu Dongyu, "Then, do you want me to go out for a while and leave the place to you, and then come in after you finish saying bad things about me?"
Wang Meng smiled and said, "These people have only said good things about you, but I have never heard a bad word about you from them."
After hearing what the old man said, several people laughed.
Zhuang Yu then said, "Where is your little girl? Why didn't you bring her?"
"She went to learn to draw."
"Are you under Wu Ziyun's family?" Wang Meng asked.
Zhang nodded: "Yes."
"Well, let her come over after dinner in the evening, and let Wu Ziyun come over too."
"It's good that Teacher Wu is here. Forget about Pengpeng, she's too noisy."
Wang Meng's health was deteriorating day by day, and he could not withstand the commotion. Zhang Zhong felt that their coming over had affected Wang Meng's rest.
"It's better to be noisy. This yard is as quiet as a pool of stagnant water every day. It's really boring. The little brats in our family are useless. They look like they're seeing a big tiger and they can't even speak. Peng Peng
This girl is great, I like her very much."
Zhang Chong smiled. The children of the Wang family are several generations behind Wang Meng. The youngest one is Wang Meng's grandson, that is, the child of his great-great-grandson.
Last time the children of the Wang family were here, the children who were only two or three years apart in age stood together, but they were already three generations.
It is very normal to live a long life and have a prosperous family.
There is a difference of more than ten years between one generation, and after several generations, there are several generations.
Last time Pengpeng came over to play with those children, addressing them became a big problem.
It doesn't seem appropriate if they call each other "brother, sister, younger brother, younger sister." After all, one of the brothers she talks about may be another brother's nephew or even grandson.
For children with such a big generation gap, Wang Meng may be just a symbol in their lives. Of course, they cannot get close to him, and may even be afraid of him.
"Okay, I'll call them later." Zhang Zhong finally nodded in agreement.