Han Zhou rushed to Shanghai from the crew and flew to Los Angeles without stopping. What he didn't expect was that he was stuck again.
It has been three weeks since the last game.
The semi-finals of "Singing" have officially started recording. Han Zhou rushed from the set to Los Angeles and has just landed at the airport.
Then he was blocked by American book fans.
VIP channel, fast track, none of them work.
Han Zhou then remembered that he had promised his fans that he would write a new story, but he was too busy to remember it.
“We want new books!”
“We want new books!”
“We want new books!”
The crowd was surging and the shouts were deafening.
Han Zhou had no choice.
Darf was also there, and there was nothing he could do.
In fact, he has persuaded his fans several times that "there are bottlenecks in creation", "creation requires inspiration", "it is normal to have writer's block in creation, which writer does not delay the manuscript? It is useless even if the editor urges".
However, after waiting time and time again, book fans really couldn't bear it this time.
The new album has been released and a new movie is being filmed. It doesn't look like there is a "creative bottleneck"!
You have a lot of inspiration, but they have all been turned into audio-visual products.
Aren’t the US dollars of us book fans US dollars? ! ! !
I am a book lover, and the US dollar is not at all disadvantageous!
This time, Darf really couldn't be stopped.
Han Zhou was blocked and could only laugh awkwardly.
These are people who spend money. Although I am not pretending to be arrogant, in fact, compared with other stars and writers, my money is already outrageous.
After all, even if other people are popular superstars, the most they can do is wear sunglasses to show off. They won’t face a large number of fans and then just slip away without saying anything, right?
This time I was blocked and there was no way to escape.
Han Zhou had no choice but to turn on the computer on the spot, open the hidden folders and look through them.
When Dalph saw the manuscripts in Han Zhou's computer, he leaned forward, his eyes widened, and he didn't know what to say.
My goodness, you have so many manuscripts stored in your computer, but you just can’t bear to publish any of them?
Han Zhou was also helpless.
My own inventory is all Chinese works, where are the English works?
After a long time of selection, Han Zhou selected three articles and sent them to Darf via email directly on the spot. Then he took over the megaphone and said, "Everyone, be quiet, be quiet!"
The excited book fans at the scene finally calmed down.
Han Zhou: "Of course I have already written the work I promised to write, and I have sent it to Darf now."
Darf laughed awkwardly and said, "That's right. You have all the stock in your computer. You can just take out some of them. They have all been written long ago."
Han Zhou continued: "But when I wrote these works, I wrote them in Chinese!"
“So, when exactly Dalph can translate it into English depends on the strength of the publishing house.”
"Alright, alright, make way for me. I still have to go to the semi-finals of the Singing Contest!"
When book fans saw it, they thought, there’s a manuscript, right?
Well then, make way.
After all, everyone comes here to read the book, not to see Han Zhou.
As soon as Han Zhou left, everyone surrounded Darf.
Darf was squeezed to the point of no return, and he also took over the megaphone: "Everyone, stop pushing! Stop pushing! My shoes are getting squeezed off!!"
"I am a billionaire after all. What if people see the holes in my socks? Do I still have any dignity left?"
The people around laughed and fell silent.
Darf: "God Han sent me three works!!!"
"Wow!! OHHHHHHHH!"
Amid the cheers of the crowd, Darf said: “But! But! This is a Chinese work, it needs to be translated before it can be sent to everyone!!!”
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Fuck, you're the only one who speaks Chinese? Just post the original version, I can understand it!"
"Hurry up and send out the original version, and then send out the translated version later, or I'll beat you to death!!!"
Darf wiped his sweat and thought: Who did you learn spoken Chinese from? Your accent is so heavy.
He said: "Okay, I'll typeset the Chinese version when I get back and sell it first! If you don't understand, wait for the English version!!!"
Some people in the crowd thought: This is the first time that a Chinese version of Han Shen's work has been released in the United States? It might be worth a fortune in the future! I don't care if he can understand it or not, I will buy a copy first.
After everyone dispersed, they were on their way back.
Darf hugged the three blonde girls, feeling very melancholy.
The blonde girl next to him: "Hey Darling, why are you unhappy?"
Darf was melancholy: "There are so many manuscripts in Han Shen's computer. I really want to read them."
The blonde girl on the right smiled and joked: "Then just steal the computer."
The blonde on my lap laughed like a bell: "Then why not steal that brain that can write books?"
The blonde girl on the left: "Do you want me to help you steal? I can't steal brains, but I'm good at stealing hearts."
Darf said disdainfully: " Only people like me would like a vulgar woman like you. God Han would never like someone like you."
Then he continued to hug the three blonde girls: "Oh, life is really so melancholy."
The blonde girl on the left suggested: "Instead of coveting the books on the computer that you can't get, why not read the ones you can get first? You can see them before most book fans, so you can satisfy your craving first!"
Darf's eyes lit up: "Good idea!"
Darf has been learning Chinese for a long time and can read without translation.
So, Dalf opened the first of the three chapters, "The Cretaceous Past".
It’s not long and I finished reading it quickly.
After reading it, there was a huge exclamation mark on Dalfe's forehead.
Wow, he is worthy of being the God of Han!
The science fiction novels written by Han Shen have a more grand background than any other science fiction novels he has ever read.
It’s also more bizarre.
After reading "Once Upon a Cretaceous Period", Dulph saw a short story "Destiny" appended to the book.
The plot of Destiny's story is simple.
A couple was traveling in the universe when they suddenly discovered that an asteroid was about to destroy the Earth.
They called Earth but received no response.
So they used one of the spacecraft's engines to hit the asteroid, and the asteroid became a satellite of the Earth, and the Earth was saved.
However, when they got closer to Earth, they found that Earth's continental plates were different from what they remembered, but instead were the same as the continental plates inferred by scientists during the Cretaceous period.
The couple suddenly realized something.
They entered the time-travel door by mistake.
Those gates were left around the Earth by a large number of aircraft using space-time springboard technology.
The location coordinates will not change after entering by mistake, but the time will change.
They had just stopped the meteorite that was going to wipe out the dinosaurs.
The husband comforted his wife, "Don't be afraid, humans are the natural choice of the universe, and our actions will not change history."
They returned along the same route, passed through the time gate, and returned to the original timeline.
Because it lost one engine, the spacecraft fell into the sea.
A captain rescued them and asked them why they dared to drift alone on the sea.
The couple didn't know where the danger came from, but they saw rough waves in the sea and a giant beast emerging from the waves.
The captain told them, "Luckily this is a zoo, so they won't eat you."
When the husband was sighing that humans were indeed the natural choice, he learned some horrible news.
It turns out that the dinosaurs are the visitors of the zoo, and humans are the animals to be watched.
There are two kinds of people, those who are amateurs and those who are spectators.
The couple completely changed history.
However, this article "Destiny" also leaves enough hope for mankind. The book says that the dinosaurs have been saying for generations that the second moon in the sky should have destroyed the dinosaur civilization, but a savior saved the dinosaur civilization.
So within the dinosaurs, they absolutely respect and worship the savior.
On the spacecraft of the protagonist couple, there is evidence that they changed the orbit of the asteroid.
After reading it, Dulfe was amazed and continued to read the following text.
The next "Devourer" is different from fate.
It tells another story. In the era of dinosaur destruction, a group of dinosaurs that already had civilization entered and wandered in the starry sky.
Sixty-five million years later they came back, having transformed into a terrifying interstellar plundering race, determined to drain away all of Earth's resources.
They want to turn humans into livestock.
After reading this story, Dalfe was horrified.
The third story is a continuation of "The Devourer", but this article made Dalph, who had been learning Chinese for a long time and was just impressed by the brilliant Chinese culture, curse: "Shit!!!"
Blonde girl: “What’s wrong?”
Darf: "God Han is such a demon."
The blonde girl didn't understand. In Darf's eyes, wasn't God Han the supreme god? How did he become a devil?
Dalph didn't say anything, just thinking about a problem.
How do you translate this story into English? How can you translate it?
Isn’t this nonsense!
How can English express the artistic conception of Chinese poetry? !
This Chinese science fiction can’t even be translated by myself!
How to do it?
Darf thought carefully: "Maybe Han Shen wants book fans to appreciate the charm of Chinese culture?"
“No wonder…”
No wonder the words in the three novels combined are not suitable for publishing a book, and cannot even print a book. Now it seems that maybe Han Shen meant to compare the Chinese and English versions? Let the book fans learn and understand by themselves?
Darf looked at the three blonde girls around him and shook his head: Given these girls' intelligence level, they probably can't understand or learn Chinese.
In fact, this is not Han Zhou’s fault.
Han Zhou wants to focus his work on science fiction now, so when he publishes a book, he wants to publish some science fiction for book fans to see.
So I picked out a series from my saved science fiction collection.
The Dinosaur Trilogy plus a short story.
At this time, Han Zhou didn't think of one problem at all, that is, the final novel of the trilogy, "Shi Yun", was difficult for Americans to understand and difficult to translate.
If it was three years ago, Han Zhou would have realized this immediately, because at that time Han Zhou's hyperamnesia was extremely serious.
Now Han Zhou’s hyperthymesia only leaves him with super memory, but he no longer has the ability to continue remembering.
Over time, Han Zhou's hyperamnesia's memory retrieval gradually stopped being passive and turned into active retrieval.
So Han Zhou himself didn't realize that there was a problem with the article he produced.
"Shi Yun" can be said to be the ultimate understanding of romance in science fiction by science and engineering students.
Li Bai and Ming Yue were originally Liu Cixin's favorites.
When Liu Cixin wrote this novel, his conception was simply ingenious to the extreme.
If foreigners could understand Chinese and Chinese culture, the combination of exquisiteness, humanity and science fiction in "Shiyun" should be ranked higher than "The Three-Body Problem".
Indeed, The Three-Body Problem has the most grand narrative, the most grand background, the most grand story structure and humanistic depiction in the entire history of science fiction.
But who says that the most powerful literary work in history is the long novel?
The poem itself is enough to surpass the literary quality of the novel.
Shiyun's novel is really written like a poem.
Especially when the final poem is unfolded and the "God" admits defeat, it makes the reader's soul tremble.
That kind of shock was far greater than the shock given by the Three-Body Problem's "Dark Forest".
But for this world, things may have to change.
Because the Cretaceous Dinosaur Trilogy became the first release of Han Zhou's science fiction series in the United States, they will realize the strength of Han Zhou's science fiction after they have already realized how powerful Han Zhou is, and finally wait for Han Zhou to release The Three-Body Problem.
It is probably inevitable that he would be hailed by fans as the greatest science fiction writer in history.
Liu suffers from the disadvantage that he is a Chinese.
Everyone likes to say, "Liu Cixin has brought Chinese science fiction to world-class levels."
In fact, this statement is wrong. Chinese science fiction is already good, about 1.5th rate in the world. People who read science fiction should know that Liu Cixin is the number one science fiction writer in history.
If he had blue eyes, some people might think he surpassed Shakespeare, let alone if the comparison was only in the field of science fiction.
But Liu is not.
But from another perspective, if Liu Cixin had blue eyes, he would not be able to write science fiction novels such as "Poetry", "The Mountain", "The Wandering Earth" and "The Three-Body Problem".
However, the situation is different because this book was published by Han Zhou.
Han Zhou has fans all over the world, and many of them brag about him.
There is no need for any acknowledgment of this or that, and there is no need for any hype from industry insiders; fans will naturally create a huge wave.
If anyone dares to say that Han Zhou is not good enough.
Then the fans will tell him what it means that the truth lies in numbers.
Celebrities originally treat fame and fortune as their careers, and Han Zhou's identity has also brought him great benefits in publishing books and promoting Chinese culture.
However, Han Zhou didn't know that Darf was planning to publish these three novels as Chinese teaching materials.
Han Zhou, who learned English by reading the little green book "Oliver Twist" when he was a child, certainly could not have imagined that in the future many people would learn Chinese by reading the little green book "Han Zhou's Novels".
It was an accidental revenge.
Han Zhou had already arrived at the semi-final recording site.
An Lan entered the semi-finals through the play-offs.
But still no one can deal with her.
Wang Chuyang had been eliminated in the play-offs.
When singing Han Zhou's English song, he could guarantee not to be eliminated, but when he sang the Chinese song himself, his singing skills were still a little lacking. Even if his die-hard fans voted for him, passers-by still didn't think his level was good enough, so he was eliminated.
The semi-finals will be a seven-to-four format, and the finals will be a four-to-two, two-to-one format.
Han Zhou wasn't too worried about the semi-finals, so he didn't put much effort into it.
However, An Lan discussed with Han Zhou for a long time before the game.
Because for the sake of ratings, Fokker TV will definitely let Han Zhou and An Lan meet directly in the quarter-finals.
Who will win the championship?
Only those who advance to the second place will have a chance to win the championship.
Han Zhou meant that he had almost done it, so he let An Lan go in the four-to-two match.
An Lan meant that Han Zhou should be awarded the title of King of Singers.
The reason is simply that male singers make more money, so Han Zhou's winning of the title of King of Singers is more significant than An Lan winning it herself.
If the audience knew that during such a tense moment of the semi-finals, Han Zhou, who had just sung a folk song, had already discussed with An Lan how to distribute the championship, they would definitely despise what Han Zhou said in front of the TV.
After singing "Time in a Bottle", Han Zhou said to Filivi backstage: "I don't like to compete. I just sing whatever I want to sing."
“I saw a fan on Soundwave saying that he liked folk songs and that I hadn’t released a folk song since Five Hundred Miles, so I sang this one.”
Felivi: "Folk songs are not suitable for competitions, aren't you afraid of losing?"
Han Zhou: "If I lose, I lose. I'm here to have fun, not to compete for the championship."
After watching the show, fans started boasting: "Look at what a high-quality superstar is!"
"Look at Han Zhou, how humble he is. I heard that Chinese people are very humble, and it really is true."
Many non-Hanzhou netizens laughed. Didn’t you see how crazy Hanzhou was before?
Are you sure that Han Zhou, who sang a folk song and advanced to the semi-finals easily, was being humble, rather than showing off?
Someone laughed: "I bet Han Zhou will definitely come up with two masterpieces in the finals and blow up the stage!"
Someone else discussed: "By the way, Han Zhou suggested to the director in the show that we should have a singing session in the finals. Will the director agree?"
"I guess so. This idea is very interesting!"
"So, will Han Zhou invite other Chinese superstars to perform? Or will he find a singer from the United States?"
Han Zhou really doesn't take the semi-finals seriously.
The semi-finals will still be decided by audience voting.
As long as the director is not a fool, I will not be eliminated even if I go up to sing Two Tigers.
What does it mean to have a global live broadcast of the finals plus SMS voting?
You have to know that in the United States, sending text messages is as cheap as sending WeChat messages, so it is impossible to fake it.
By then, the number of votes may reach hundreds of millions.
Fairness is absolutely guaranteed.
Unless dozens of operators around the world collude to commit fraud.
Therefore, Han Zhou's focus has long been on the two songs in the finals.
Han Zhou was also thinking about whether to invite Chen Feng to the finals, or to invite Ellis, who had been eliminated, to sing with him.
But Han Zhou also thought that he would most likely face An Lan in the first round of the top 20 finals.
It doesn't seem appropriate to ask Ellis to sing.
So, we still have to get Brother Feng?
Just as I was thinking about it, I received a message from Liu Yiling: "An Lan wants me to help sing, who are you looking for?"
Did An Lan find Liu Yiling? Then I'll find Brother Feng.
So, the finals still have to rock!