Because Zhang Chong broke his personal single-day book sales and Zhang Chongri's incident caused a lot of heat, everyone was discussing these two things during this period, or this is one thing in itself.
But people will not forget that Zhang Zhong's new book "Speaker for the Dead" has just been released to everyone.
Wang Yu has been reading this book for the past two days. The previous work of this book, "Ender's Game", is very popular with Wang Yu.
Some people on the Internet previously suggested that Zhang Zhong release a sequel to "Ender's Game" as soon as possible, and Wang Yu was one of them.
But what Wang Yu didn't expect was that the second volume was published three thousand years later.
Moreover, the background narration at the beginning also made Wang Yu feel a little unhappy. Ender was originally a hero who defeated alien invaders, but he did not expect that as time went by, he turned into a devil who slaughtered intelligent alien creatures.
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To put it simply, Ender became the scapegoat for people to cover up their inner sins.
In Wang Yu's heart, Ander was neither a hero nor a sinner. At that time, he was just an innocent child who was kept in the dark.
Those sinister adults pushed him to the front of the stage and made him endure everything.
While Wang Yu felt aggrieved for Ander, he also felt that Ender had changed a lot in this book.
As people grow up, of course they have to change.
But this is not what Wang Yu wants to say. Wang Yu wants to say that the second volume of "Speaker for the Dead" seems to be less focused on the description of the personal emotional world and more on building a more complex world.
The first volume of "Ender's Game" is very simple. Humans discovered the Zerg and were afraid of being invaded, so they found a group of children to train and wanted to use the children to deal with the Zerg.
The lines of the whole story are simple and clear, and the relationship between the characters and the distribution of strength are also very easy to figure out.
But the second volume, "Speaker for the Dead," is much more complicated. It's not just as simple as adding another piglet family, but there are also many other lines of stories interspersed in it.
For example, why Ender wanted to go to the planet where the Piglets are located is because he had received a message about what happened on the planet before.
In order to protect the piglets, humans have prohibited ordinary humans from contacting this planet, and only sent specific biologists to contact them.
In fact, these contacts between humans are somewhat hidden, and their protection is more like a kind of surveillance. This kind of surveillance is used to ensure that there is a technological gap between the pigs and humans, so that humans will not be threatened.
In other words, their race is safe only if the power of the piglets is not strong enough to threaten humans.
Relatively speaking, the pig clan's understanding of human beings is not as good as theirs. After all, the level of science and technology is different, so there were some misunderstandings when they came into contact, and some misunderstandings were quite fatal.
The biological scientist responsible for studying them was cut into pieces by the Piggy Clan just because he made some special progress while studying them.
The reason why the piggies cut Pipo into pieces was not because they wanted to kill him, but because they thought that Pipo had developed abnormally like them.
Let’s talk about the characteristics of the piglets here. They develop through metamorphosis. When they are young, they are insects in the trunk of the mother tree. When they are young, they are piglets - they look like pigs. When some of them have obtained enough
After the glory, trees will be planted.
Planting trees is a common life process for piglets, and can even be said to be a kind of honor. For them, only by being planted can they reach their final form and usher in the light.
The process of planting trees is very cruel - for humans, other piglets will make the piglets who are qualified to plant trees eat a plant similar to anesthetics.
You won't feel pain after eating this plant.
Then they would disembowel the piglet and plant a sapling in its heart.
This small sapling will absorb nutrients from the piglet and soon grow into a towering tree, and the piglet's consciousness will also be transferred to this tree.
Such a tree is called a father tree.
As the name suggests, the father tree is used to prepare for fertility.
The piglets will bring the females conceived from the mother tree to the father tree and let them crawl into the sap.
The powder in the sap will enter the magnetic body, and then the piglets will be conceived.
But their birth process is not conventional. Instead, they first climb to the mother tree, give birth to piglets, and then nourish the piglets with their bodies.
As mentioned earlier, piglets initially exist in a worm-like form in the abdominal cavity of their mother tree, and the nutrients they mainly absorb come from their mother's body.
In this process, females seem to be just a medium. They may become mothers as soon as they are born and take on the task of reproduction, and then devote their bodies to nourish the next generation.
So Pipo's death was very unjust. He died because of the misunderstanding between the two races.
The piggies believe that Pipo has contributed a lot to their race, so he is qualified to become a father tree to welcome the light. But what they don't know is that humans are completely different from them. After humans are disemboweled, they will only die.
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Moreover, Pipo and the others were very painful when they died, because the anesthetic plants used by Piggy and the others had no effect on humans at all, so they felt completely when they were disemboweled.
The beginning of this book introduces the story of a biologist being killed by a piglet.
Because they didn't know much about the Piggy clan, humans were shocked by these two "murders".
They began to discuss whether the piggies were alien species.
In fact, "Speaker for the Dead" is discussing such an issue.
In one of them, a young biologist was very sad after learning what happened to the mothers in the piglet tribe. He believed that these mothers were born, mated, gave birth, and died in their infancy, and even they did not know that they had ever lived.
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The exobiologist hopes to invent a way for these little mothers to be pregnant without being eaten by their babies.
To this end, she thought of some methods, such as [Red Flag Novel www.hongqibook.com] caesarean section, and then invented a protein-rich substance to replace their corpses as the baby's food.
But Ender stopped her fantasy. Ender said, if Piggy invented a way to conceive human baby girls with children, and these children could eat the bodies of their little mothers, would humans be able to accept it?
In fact, when he first read this paragraph, Wang Yu wanted to argue with Ander. He wanted to say that human reproduction methods should be more advanced. It is natural to develop low-level ones into high-level ones, but the reverse is completely different.
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But when he thought about it carefully later, he found that he still fell into the arrogance of a so-called advanced civilization.