The person sitting next to him was asking the ticket inspector about the train delay, and asked the male protagonist if he could get back the ten minutes of delay.
The woman looked at the male protagonist and said, "Curtis, is it because of something I did?"
Her face was full of doubts, and she didn't understand why the male protagonist behaved like this.
The male protagonist stared into her eyes, "Listen, I know you think you know me, but I don't know you. I am Xu Chen, an air force captain..."
At this time, the train announced the station: Glenbrook Station ahead.
When the woman heard what the male protagonist said, she laughed, "Curtis, this..."
"Curtis?"
The woman called him Curtis more than once, and Xu Chen was sure that the other party was calling him that.
"Sorry, I'm a little uncomfortable."
The male protagonist stood up in a hurry and stumbled all the way to the door. He stood at the door for a while. After the train closed and slowly started to move, he returned to his original seat.
Along the way just now, he saw a lot of things and observed a lot of people. He didn't know why he wanted to observe them, but he wrote them all down.
After returning to his seat, the male protagonist was still uneasy. He stared at the scenery outside the window, and the train announcement was still ringing: Arrival ahead, Chicago Union Station.
At this time, the train happened to pass by a bridge. When the iron frame of the bridge flashed by, a strange figure appeared in the mirror. Looking at the figures that kept flashing by, the male protagonist's eyes widened. He looked at the woman opposite, "You
Did you see it?"
The woman said with a solemn expression, "Curtis, you are very scary like this."
The male protagonist seemed to realize something, and suddenly stood up and ran towards the toilet, opened the door, entered, closed the door, and then slowly looked in the mirror.
He didn't recognize the man inside.
…
Seeing this, Little Will was still confused. He had no idea what the protagonist had encountered. A lot of information was also shared during this period. In addition to the conversation between the male protagonist and the woman, there was also a lot about the passengers in the carriage and the
Description of the item.
But why does the male protagonist appear here? Why doesn't he recognize the man in the mirror? Who is in the mirror? Is it the Curtis that the woman said? Then who is the male protagonist?
Is there something wrong with his memory?
Has his face been changed?
Will continued to look down.
In the novel, the male protagonist took out his wallet from his pocket. There was an ID in it. The picture on it was the man in the mirror. The ID showed that his name was Curtis.
The male protagonist came out of the bathroom and met the woman who came to care about him. Before the two of them could say a few words, the train they were riding suddenly exploded.
In a burst of fire, the male protagonist woke up again. This time he appeared in a confined space. In front of him was a large video conversation screen, with a woman in military uniform inside.
In a daze, the female officer asked the male protagonist to report what he saw inside the train.
The male protagonist recounted the situation he encountered to the female officer in a trance, and asked the female officer what the situation was. The female officer only told him that the test flight mission had been completed long ago, and now they were on another mission, mission
He needs to find the murderer who planted the bomb on the train.
Then, before the male protagonist could react, he appeared on the train again.
There was still the same woman in front of him, and people passing by spilled coffee on his shoes... everything was the same as the last time he woke up in the train.
When he saw this, Little Will probably understood something... This seemed to be a kind of time loop. The person in the video just said that the mission only lasted eight minutes, so it is very likely that the male protagonist looped from eight minutes before the explosion.
But how is this cycle completed? What is the situation of this Curtis, and what is the situation of the woman opposite? Will the cycle end in eight minutes, or does it have to wait until the bomb explodes?
There are still many questions, but here, the story starts to become more and more interesting. Little Will rubbed his neck and looked around. Then he found that there were quite a few people sitting around him reading new books.
There are not many places nearby where you can sit and read a book, so all the fans who signed the book came here.
Seeing that so many people were reading the new book, Will quickly buried his head and continued reading the new book. He was originally the first reader to see this book and could not lag behind.
As the storyline progresses, the truth slowly emerges. The explosion happened this morning, and it was only the first of a series of explosions. So they hope that Xu Chen can find the murderer within eight minutes so that they can catch him.
The murderer and prevent the murderer from causing other bombings.
The male protagonist has also discovered that the bomb was installed in the bathroom and was detonated by a mobile phone. The female officer told him that when the explosion occurred, a total of fifty-three people in the train made calls, and then the male protagonist will return to the train again.
Go inside the train and find the murderer among the fifty-three people.
By this time, Will also discovered that the story seemed to basically cycle within these eight minutes, but even so, each cycle gave people a very different feeling, and there was no boredom.
And as the number of cycles increases, the male protagonist also becomes familiar with the female protagonist... In fact, the female protagonist is more familiar with the male protagonist, but because of the increasing number of cycles, the male protagonist becomes more and more familiar with the female protagonist.
familiar.
However, during the execution of the mission, Xu Chen discovered that there seemed to be something wrong with the female officer and the others, and they had always responded to his request to have a phone call with his father with a perfunctory attitude.
Later, the male protagonist found out through the female protagonist that he had died two months ago.
In fact, the male protagonist did not die, but something went wrong during the test flight and he was on the verge of brain death. The military claimed that he was already dead.
However, although he is not dead, it is no different from death. He only has one brain left to survive under the maintenance of the instrument, and he has accessed the source code to find the murderer. The source code is a program, and in it is Curtis, one of the deceased.
The base uses technical means to connect the male protagonist’s consciousness to this program. It can also be said that this world is the male protagonist’s imagination based on Curtis’ memory fragments.
But Will thinks it's not that simple.
If the source code is just Curtis' memory, then in this world the male protagonist got off the bus and got into a fight with someone at the station. What's the explanation? Logically speaking, there are no such fragments in Curtis' memory.
Also, the male protagonist’s mission is to find the murderer who planted the bomb, but if Curtis has never even seen the murderer who planted the bomb, how can the male protagonist find the murderer in Curtis’ memory?
Therefore, this source code must be more than just memorizing it.
…
After many cycles, the male protagonist finally found the murderer, who was a fanatic who wanted to rebuild the world.
Once the murderer is found, the hero's mission is completed.
The mission is completed and the source code is about to be closed, but the male protagonist wants to continue to live in the source code, but the female officer tells him that the source code is just a program and will not change the real world. If the male protagonist wants to stay
In the source code, it will only disappear along with this program.
However, the male protagonist insisted on doing this. After all, the real world no longer meant anything to him, and the female officer also relented and agreed to him.
At the end of the novel, the male and female protagonists kiss each other, the female officer turns off the male protagonist's life support, and the world of Source Code freezes at the last second of eight minutes.
Here, the story ends.
Seeing this ending, Little Will was stunned for a moment, because this ending was not perfect.
Is the male protagonist alive? Or, in other words, does the world of source code continue to operate? The novel does not explain it at all. This is an open ending.
Although he knew that an open ending was normal, Little Will still felt disappointed. He very much hoped that the male and female protagonists could continue to live in the world of Source Code, but reason told him that this possibility was not very high. Source Code
It's just a memory, and it's incredible to be able to find out the murderer.
Among Yu Dong's many science fiction novels, the infinite flow of "Source Code" is considered a relatively soft science fiction. Although there are many scientific explanations of source code in the book, it is still not rigorous enough, and many questions cannot be answered in the book.
The theory is clearly explained.
Of course, the attraction of this novel is not the science fiction part. It looks more like a suspense novel. Although most of the story is in those eight minutes, there are many repeated scenes, but every time it is repeated,
Everyone's feelings are different, and each cycle gives readers new expectations.
When reading the novel, Will also followed the description in the book to find the murderer. He would also be misled by the novel and think that a certain person was the murderer, but later found out that it was a misunderstanding.
He looks forward to the protagonist finding the murderer, and also looks forward to more progress being made by the male and female protagonists.
Little Will was reminiscing about the novel when suddenly someone nearby patted his thigh and said, "I knew it must be like this, this murderer..."
Another person next to him quickly stopped him, "No spoilers."
The man then realized that he was in a public place and quickly apologized to the people around him.
Steven Keys walked up to his son and asked with a smile, "Have you finished reading?"
Will nodded and said, "Well, I've finished reading."
"How is the novel? How would you rate it?" asked Steven Keys.
"The novel is very good, but I won't rate YU's novel. I don't deserve it... Anyway, it's just good."
"Having read the novel, do you still want to watch the movie?" Steven Keys asked again.
Will shrugged his shoulders, "Why not? Although I already know the general outline of the story, there are some things that can be made in movies but not in novels. I think the movie must have a special flavor, and the female characters in this movie
The protagonist is Aniston, and I am particularly looking forward to her performance."
Steven Keys smiled and said, "So, your money is really getting better. YU can make money by publishing a novel. You can make money by making the novel into a movie. Maybe it can be made into a TV series in the future."
Make your money."
"If it could be made into a variety show, I would still watch it." Will laughed.
Steven Case sighed and said helplessly, "Let's find a place to eat. It's almost eleven o'clock. After dinner, go back to the hotel to rest for a while, and then come back to send money to the Deep Space Company in the evening."
In the evening, Little Will will also come to watch the premiere. This is not free and requires tickets.
Tickets are not expensive. The cheapest ticket only costs fifteen dollars. The VIP area near the stage is not big and only costs one hundred and eighty dollars a ticket.
The price-performance ratio of this ticket price is already very high. You must know that many of the singers who came to the scene this time have large seats. Compared with many concerts, the quality of this concert today is much higher.
The reason why the ticket price is so cheap is that on the one hand, the main purpose of this event is to promote the movie, not to sell tickets to make money. There is no need to use the ticket price to exclude ordinary people. On the other hand, compared with other concerts or
Music festivals, today’s performances are relatively short. For some music festivals, you can listen to them for several days after buying a ticket.
Except for a small number of VIP tickets for today's performance, the rest are ordinary fifteen-dollar tickets. There are no fixed seats. Basically, whoever comes early stands in the front, so some people are now queuing up to wait for the follow-up.
Entered.
However, Steven Case and his son bought VIP tickets. They have their own fixed area, so there is no need to queue. The VIP area is very small. Even if you go very late, it is not a big deal to queue behind the VIP area.
…
That night, tens of thousands of enthusiastic fans gathered at the Centennial Olympic Park, and the singers worked very hard. Together they sang for three or four hours, but the premiere of "Source Code" only lasted for more than forty hours.
minute.
In today's performance, apart from Jay Chou and Shakira, the most surprising thing is the new singer Avril Lavigne who is being promoted by Deep Space Company recently.
Avril Lavigne was born in the talent show. In 1999, she participated in a TV singing competition and got the opportunity to share the stage with country singer Shania, and signed a contract with a small record company.
In the next two years, Avril's singing career hardly developed, and the record company did not think about developing her properly. In the end, it sold her to Deep Space Company and made a lot of money.
After Deep Space signed Avril Lavigne, they discovered that she had written a lot of songs, so they selected some of them and made a solo album for her.
After the album came out, the single "plicated" has been at the top of the singles chart for two consecutive weeks.
As a rock singer, Avril Lavigne, who is less than 18 years old, is very stylish and can especially attract young fans. Today's performance is also meant to praise her.
…
The next morning, Yu Dong met Steven Case at a restaurant in Atlanta.
While eating the Italian beef fried noodles in front of him, Yu Dong smiled and said to Steven Case, "Here in the United States, very few people ask me to have breakfast."
Chapter completed!