"Roar!"

As soon as Scholes entered Little Bear Bookstore, he heard a loud cheer coming from upstairs.

He turned to ask Jenny, the saleswoman next to the counter, "Are there any activities going on upstairs? Why is it so lively?"

Jenny said with a smile, "You haven't been here for several days. I don't know what day it is today."

Scholes raised his eyebrows and said, "I know, today is the day when YU's new book "District 9" is released, so I came here."

Although it is a happy thing for YU to release a new book, in the past, everyone read books seriously and quietly, and it has never been so noisy as it is today.

"You are wrong. Today is not only the day when YU's new book is released, but also the day when the International Olympic Committee holds a general meeting."

Scholes suddenly realized, "Oh, yes, I heard about this before. It seems that Yanjing's bid for the Olympics was successful?"

"It should be, I didn't look at it either."

Jenny has been staying downstairs and has no chance to go upstairs to watch TV with everyone. Even the content of YU’s speech was told to her by her colleagues, but she has already had someone record the part of YU’s speech and plans to follow it after she returns.

Watch it with your boyfriend.

Although Jenny did not see the live TV broadcast, the result is easy to guess, because the customers watching the live TV broadcast at this moment basically support Yanjing.

Originally, to most Americans, it didn't matter who applied to host the Olympics. However, since Yu Dong became Yanjing's Olympic bid ambassador, the situation has changed somewhat.

Many Americans began to support Yanjing because of Yu Dong.

Maybe Yanjing’s bid for the Olympics was successful, and YU was in a good mood and wrote a few more books?

Maybe Yanjing’s bid for the Olympics is successful and YU is in a good mood and holds more autograph sessions?

Isn’t it us readers who benefit?

Besides, since Yanjing is hosting the Olympics, Yu Dong will definitely go to Yanjing. If he goes to see the Olympics, he might even be able to see him.

There are many reasons for these American readers who like Yu Dong to support Yanjing's bid to host the Olympic Games.

At this moment, cheers came from upstairs, indicating that the result was in line with their expectations.

Scholes smiled and said, "This is good news. I support Yanjing in my heart."

Jenny smiled and asked, "Will you go to Yanjing to watch the Olympic Games then?"

Scholes shrugged his shoulders, "Who can guarantee what will happen in seven years, but I have always wanted to visit Jinling. I have heard people talk about the Deep Space Park many times on the Internet, but I have never had the opportunity to go there in person.

have a look."

Jenny said with envy, "It's great, at least you can go if you want to. I really want to go, but I probably won't be able to go."

"Haha, your bookstore is a special partner of Deep Space Company. Maybe Deep Space Company will give you all the places to go to Yanjing. This is Deep Space Company's consistent style."

Jenny pouted, "Even if there is a quota, it won't be our turn. Our store manager went to the last Deep Space Company annual meeting."

"Then I wish you good luck."

Scholes smiled and then walked upstairs. He was going to go to the YU area to find new books to read.

After arriving on the second floor, he saw a group of people gathered in front of a TV and having a lively discussion.

"Seven years later, we will go to Yanjing together."

"Why do we have to wait until seven years later? We can go to the annual meeting this year."

"Haha, I wonder if YU will write a sports-related novel after Yanjing's successful bid for the Olympics."

"That shouldn't happen. He hasn't had much contact with sports."

"Who said that? I heard that he plays football every day and is very good at it."

"Why did I hear that he is very good at basketball?"

"Isn't his body better suited to playing football?"

"Haha, do you think he can combine science fiction and sports?"

"I can't tell, I wouldn't be surprised if he combines science fiction with any other subject."

"Indeed, this time's "District 9" can illustrate the problem. When I read the book this morning, it was really..."

"No spoilers, there are still people here who haven't read the book."

"Who hasn't read the book yet?"

"Nemo hasn't watched it yet. He just arrived and watched the live broadcast with us."

"Nemo, why don't you go and see it? It's so beautiful."

…

After hearing the conversation between these people, Scholes smiled and walked to the bookshelf with anticipation, picked up a copy of "District 9" and walked to the cashier on the second floor to pay.

After settling the bill, he took the book and headed to the higher level.

Usually he likes to read on the second floor, but today the second floor is too busy and he needs to find a quieter place.

After walking to the fourth floor and sitting down in a deserted corner, Scholes first looked at the cover. Among the piles of rubble, there was a strange-looking creature that looked a bit like a cockroach, half-kneeling on the ground.

His eyes were fixed on the person outside the book.

Without doing much research on the cover, Scholes opened "District 9" with a pious heart.

The beginning of the story looks very much like a modern urban novel, describing a thirty-year-old ordinary man who has just been engaged to his fiancée. He used to work in other companies and finally became a regular employee of a large multinational company through his own efforts.

After becoming a formal employee of a multinational company, he was dispatched to District 9 to participate in on-site management work.

Up to this point in the novel, no place has anything to do with science fiction. There is only District 9, which looks more like science fiction. The author has not explained what kind of place this is.

This way of writing is very common. The writer tries to minimize the description of the background to create a sense of reality... At least when Scholes read this paragraph, he felt that District 9 was a very common phenomenon in the world.

things, because only uncommon things need to be introduced.

Although the author did not make any special introduction, Scholes soon learned what District 9 is through the development of the plot.

Decades ago, a group of aliens escaped to the earth. The aliens who came to the earth were not to invade, but to seek refuge. After discussion, various countries on the earth decided to set up an area in South Africa as a place for these aliens

temporary shelter.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is said to be a shelter, but it is actually to imprison these aliens together to facilitate centralized management.

At first, the governments of various countries discussed taking turns to manage District 9. Later, everyone found it troublesome and simply outsourced the management of aliens to a well-known multinational company, which is the company where the male protagonist joined.

These aliens are ugly and look like a kind of insect called a prawn, so humans hate these aliens very much, so in District 9, humans often bully aliens.

The male protagonist's attitude towards aliens has been changing. When he first joined the company, he was more curious and afraid of these aliens. However, as time went by and he spent a lot of time with other colleagues, he began to hate them.

He thought of aliens, but his disgust was mixed with some sympathy, and in the end, he became as numb as everyone else.

Halfway through the novel, Scholes narrowed his eyes.

He felt that the book was becoming cold.

The weather was very hot, and the air-conditioning in the Little Bear Bookstore was turned on very well, but Scholes knew that this cold feeling was definitely not brought to him by the air-conditioning, but by YU's cold brushstrokes.

A writer's pen has temperature, and temperature is a neutral word. It can be warm or naturally cold.

When reading the first half of the novel, Scholes did not feel cold. He could even feel the warmth from the protagonist's interaction with his family and self-encouragement. The protagonist has a happy family, a great improvement in his career, and everything is heading towards

Going in a good direction, the protagonist even walks on tiptoes.

But in the second half of the novel, it suddenly became cold.

This was not over yet. When Scholes felt cold, blood and violence also followed.

Later, the story reaches its climax when the protagonist is infected with a mysterious virus and slowly turns into a "prawn".

When he saw this, Scholes suddenly remembered the interview with YU he had seen before. YU had mentioned Metamorphosis and Expressionism before. Now it seems that it is true, this is an expressionist science fiction novel.

After reading the entire book, Scholes looked at the cover again. Now he knew that the ugly creature on the cover was an alien, or in other words, the one on the cover should be the alienated protagonist.

Maybe he was staring at the people surrounding him at this time, or maybe he was staring at the retreating spaceship.

Closing the book, Scholes stared at the crowd outside the window, lost in recollection.

The chatter and laughter downstairs had stopped at this time, but Scholes seemed to hear some noisy sounds coming from far away, and some chaotic pictures were wrapped in these noisy sounds and sent to his mind.

, slowly occupying the space in his brain.

Scholes didn't know much about Expressionism. In fact, when reading a book, ordinary readers don't even care about what kind of expressionism the work is about or what techniques it uses. They only have the most direct subjective feelings.

But before reading "District 9", Scholes knew that the novel was related to Expressionism. Now that he has read the entire novel, his impression of Expressionism is that it has great staying power.

Yes, it has great stamina. Now that I have finished reading the book, the pictures are still in my mind.

The most important thing is that during the reading process, because of the fast pace, there were only some scattered fragments. Now that I have finished reading the book, these scattered fragments are put together in my mind to form pictures. Some pictures

If they are not even, the brain will automatically fill them in.

In fact, Scholes didn't know that his feeling had little to do with expressionism. It was mainly due to zero-degree writing. When writing at zero-degree, the author lowered his own emotions, which would also affect the readers' emotions.

, so that readers do not have strong feelings immediately, but when they think about it, the emotions that have been "frozen" before will be released.

…

After "District 9" came out, it attracted a lot of attention. Many people thought that Yu Dong's placement of District 9 in South Africa had a meaning.

As we all know, South Africa has been implementing an apartheid system for half a century after 1948.

According to the laws at that time, various ethnic groups were forcibly separated geographically.

No wonder everyone thinks so, because no matter how you look at it, District 9 in the novel looks like a replica of South Africa's apartheid system.

It is not a good thing to be involved in politics, but this matter has no impact on Dong.

First of all, Yu Dong is a great writer, and people are very tolerant of writers, especially when it comes to insinuations and accusations.

Secondly, the apartheid system in South Africa has been in the past for many years, so it is not a big deal to criticize it.

If I have to talk about the impact, it would be that in subsequent interviews, Yu Dong was asked more and more political questions.

After the conference, the delegation returned to China, while Yu Dong stayed in Moscow for a book signing.

At the press conference of the first book signing, a reporter directly asked Yu Dongshu if District 9 was inspired by South Africa’s apartheid system.

Regarding this issue, Yu Dong admitted nothing, but also denied nothing. He only talked about "The Metamorphosis" and Kafka.

But because he talked about "Metamorphosis", a reporter asked him right after: "YU, some people say that your "District 9" is a complete imitation of "Metamorphosis", what do you think about this?"

Yu Dong smiled and said, "Someone said that? Who said that?"

The reporter hesitated and said: "I saw what some netizens said on the Internet."

"Oh, I thought it was you. Actually, I don't mind if someone says "District 9" imitates "Metamorphosis", as long as everyone likes it."

"Then are you..."

The reporter still wanted to ask, but a knowledgeable reporter next to him quickly rushed to ask, "YU, the Galaxy Awards ceremony will be held in a few days. Will you go back to attend?"

Yu Dong smiled and nodded, "Of course I will. I will return to China after today's autograph session."

"What are your personal expectations for this year's Galaxy Awards?"

"Haha, I personally hope that the program of this year's awards ceremony will be more interesting. In addition, there will still be science fiction themed activities in the deep space park this year. If you are interested, you can go and see it. For everyone here, if anyone wants to go, I will personally give it to you

I’ll give you a Starry Sky Card worth 100,000 points.”

When they heard that one person would be given a Star Card worth 100,000 points, the reporters couldn't help but sigh. YU really likes to give out Star Points.

Regarding the fact that YU likes to give away starry sky points, everyone knows that situations like today where points are given away later often happen, and the amount YU makes is not a small amount.

There are a total of forty or fifty media workers on site today. Each person’s 100,000 points equals four to five million points. The current exchange ratio of Star Points to RMB is basically between 8:1 and 11:1.

Four to five million points, equivalent to about 400,000 RMB, is no longer a small amount, but Yu Dong immediately threw it away.

Of course, not many of the people at the scene would go to Jinling because of these points. After all, travel costs money, and one hundred thousand points can't fill the hole.

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Chapter completed!