Shanglu subconsciously wanted to agree.
Shen Jiang was not always so arrogant and generous, but when facing the man in front of her who was several years younger than herself, she would occasionally have a sudden thought in her heart: Why does this guy's features look familiar? Have you seen it somewhere? She obviously couldn't recognize other people's faces, and wouldn't remember them even if she had seen them, but this indescribable familiarity was like a thin red thread coming out of the darkness in the dead of night, circling around in her heart. .
This makes Shen Jiang quite distressed. It's like accidentally recalling the animation clips you watched when you were a child, or the lyrics of the songs you listened to. It's vague and vague, and you can't even tell whether it really exists or is just a dream. However, it made people scratch their heads. Shen Jiang turned off the light and lay on the bed, thinking over and over again. The more elusive it became, the more he wanted to peel off the cocoon, which made him unable to sleep at night.
So Shen Jiang invited Phytolacca to dinner every day and secretly observed during the meal.
Shanglu: Leader, why are you staring at me?
Shen Jiang: Supervisor, do you think we have met before?
Phytolacca lowered its head to eat rice: I’ve seen it before.
Shen Jiang was surprised: When have you seen him?
Phytolacca: Yesterday.
Shen Jiang's face fell: I mean a long time ago.
Shanglu: Yesterday was also a long, long time ago. Not seeing you for one day is like three autumns. Speaking of which, I haven’t seen you for three years. I miss you very much.
Shen Jiang has nothing to do with nonsense like Phytophaga.
Maybe it's because their horoscopes are incompatible and they are naturally incompatible. When these two people get together, they are bound to quarrel. Shen Jiang is a few years older than Shang Lu, but her age advantage is not shown at all. Sometimes she also wants to act like an elder sister and a leader. Suppress the opponent's head, but within three words the attack will be defeated.
The status of the stationed support engineer of Shangyu is really disgusting. In terms of human relations, he still belongs to the Science City. In terms of business, he is under the dual leadership of Cheng Zizhi and the chief engineer of the base. There are a lot of people who can give orders to Shanglu, but it does not include Shen Jiang, the latter has the job of a master pilot of a giant weapon, but in fact he can't even command a dog.
"Forget it, I won't argue with you. Sister, what kind of big scene have I never seen?" Shen Jiang turned around and held out three fingers, waving them in front of Shang Lu's eyes, "Even if they are angels, I have killed three of them. , I killed three in and three out of the gate of hell, and the king of hell was frightened when he saw me. Strictly speaking, everyone in the world owes me three lives, including you——"
"I will repay you for your great kindness and virtue in the next life." Shanglu said.
"Then you have to be reincarnated three times to repay me." Shen Jiang's eyebrows were full of joy, as if he had finally gained the upper hand, "The next life, and the next life, and the next life."
After dinner, the two of them walked back slowly.
"Go forward along this road. In front of you is the office building of the old Machinery Materials Institute. It was moved last year and moved to the back." Shen Jiang walked under the street lamp and pointed forward with his chin, "Now the building is It’s empty, almost abandoned, and can only be used as a warehouse.”
"Can I sleep there at night?" Shanglun asked.
Shen Jiang turned to look at him and said, "Yes, yes, but the temperature is low at night, so you have to make a fire."
"Will the pickets arrest me?" Shanglun asked.
Shen Jiang took the white helmet from his hand and put it on Shanglue's head, "You can try to muddle through."
"Pretending to be a picket?"
"No, pretend to be Tang Di." Shen Jiang said, "Supervisor, if you are fast enough, when the picket wants to arrest you, you can run away while shouting back that you are the director of the 110 workshop planning and labor office 1047, After shouting, get rid of them. The terrain in the base is complicated anyway, and pickets often fail to arrest people."
"I am weak and sickly. I am not good at running. I will definitely not be able to run away from the picket. The result of my attempt to escape will be criticism from the entire base tomorrow morning and punishment." Shanglu shook his head, "Unless you can stay and make a fire with me, you are Leader, the pickets don’t dare do anything to you.”
He just said it casually. Unexpectedly, Shen Jiang put his hands behind his back and thought for a while, then turned his face and said, "Okay."
The Old Machinery Materials Institute is a small white building with a mottled exterior wall. It has only three floors and is located at the foot of a mountain. The building has been abandoned for more than a year and no one has taken care of it. The lawn soon grew overgrown with weeds. By the time an adult It was as high as a person's waist, and when the two of them passed by on the road and looked inside through a row of glass windows, it was pitch black.
The weeds and shrubs in late autumn were all dry and haggard. Phytophaga picked up a lot of them and piled them on the concrete floor of the porch of the small building. Shen Jiang took out a lighter and lit it - she didn't smoke, so she actually took it with her. Light a lighter.
The bright flames burst out, and Shen Jiang added wood to the fire in surprise. Making a fire outside was a new thing for her. If it hadn't been for Shanglu's sudden idea, she would not have thought of it. Phytolacca coughed to avoid the thick smoke, swept the floor with hay, used his backpack to prop his buttocks, and found a place to sit down.
"When we were in Science City, we often made a fire to roast sweet potatoes and eat them." Phytolacca looked at the crackling bonfire, the warm firelight swaying on his face, "It was always three o'clock in the morning when we got off work, and everyone was asleep. , we were hungry after working all day, so we asked the kitchen for a big bag of sweet potatoes and roasted them downstairs in the dead of night."
"What do you use to make a fire?" Shen Jiang asked.
"Burn whatever you have," Phytolacca said. "Discarded materials, logs, dismantled wooden tables and chairs, as long as they can be burned."
"Does Science City not care?"
"Manage, if you catch them, report them for criticism. We have been reported for criticism several times." Shanglue said, "The director told us sadly that you are the reincarnation of a starving ghost? Do you need that stutter? You have eaten all the sweet potatoes. What do pigs eat? They criticized us by name at the production safety conference in Science City, saying that our RCBI team secretly roasted sweet potatoes in violation of fire safety regulations in the park."
"Then what?"
“Then other groups learned to bake sweet potatoes secretly.”
Shen Jiang burst into laughter.
The fire burned more and more fiercely, and the dry grass and shrubs burned quickly. Every few minutes, pokeweed had to pull out dry firewood, and soon all the burnable things around the porch were gone. Shen Jiang crossed his knees to support himself. He was holding his head, and the old god was watching him add firewood.
"Life in Science City is not as interesting as you think." Shanglu said, "I have said that the suicide rate there is more than 7 out of 10,000 people. For a long time, I could hear people jumping off buildings and hanging themselves every day. News, if there is a place with the greatest pressure in human society today, it must be Science City. Many people have become psychologically distorted and neurotic under the heavy pressure... That is to say, Science City does not research nuclear weapons, otherwise someone will definitely detonate it. Let’s finish playing together.”
"So the future of mankind actually rests on the hands of a group of lunatics." Shen Jiang said.
Shang Lu glanced at Shen Jiang across the fire, nodded, and said, "Yes."
Shen Jiang straightened his legs, then leaned against the pillar, resting his head on his hands, and sighed: "This world is so small."
"The Sichuan Basin covers an area of 250,000 square kilometers."
"But that's just a bathtub." Shen Jiang shook his head, "I'm hungry, is there anything to eat?"
"Is there anything to eat, but there is something to drink." Phytolacca took out two cans of soda from his backpack, "Do you want any leftovers from dinner tonight?"
"Yes." Shen Jiang took it, unscrewed the cap and took a sip, then stretched out his hand holding the soda, "Here, cheers."
Phytolacca clinked glasses with her.
"I wish humanity will perish soon." Shen Jiang smiled.
Shangluca was stunned for a moment.
"When all mankind is destroyed and I am the only one left in the world, I will drive Red Lotus to the Antarctic alone." Shen Jiang said, "Then I will stand on the Antarctic point, facing the boundless white ice field, and continue to the distance. Look, just keep looking."
"What are you looking at?" Shanglun asked.
"Look into the distance." Shen Jiang said.
Phytolacca took a sip of soda, nodded, and raised the can in his hand: "Okay, I wish mankind an early demise."
"cheers!"
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(Important gossip from the author:
First of all, I wish you all a happy New Year and a happy New Year to my classmates.
Secondly, let’s talk to you about this year’s World Science Fiction Convention and the Hugo Awards.
As we all know, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention will be held in Chengdu in October, and this year’s Hugo Awards will also be awarded at the convention. Since the convention is held in China, Chinese works can directly participate in the competition without translation.
Although the Hugo Award has been questioned and controversial in recent years due to excessive political correctness and other reasons, it is still a very heavyweight science fiction/fantasy award and plays a decisive role in this field. It is very important for Chinese works to directly participate in the award. Good opportunity, Yuewen also hopes that the works on this site can stand out in the Hugo Awards.
Some students may have heard about this, and readers with big eyes may have read the single chapter he published recently, but most people may not have a clear and comprehensive understanding of this matter - after all, the works under China Literature After expressing their intention to participate in the Hugo Awards, many people on social media showed obvious dissatisfaction and pessimism - as a representative of evil capital, Qidian will tarnish and destroy the Science Fiction Awards with the inferior commercial garbage it produces.
"The starting point must be to buy tickets and spend money to win a Hugo Award."
"The value of the Hugo Award has been further reduced."
——It’s normal to have this kind of thinking. After all, the Hugo Award is for foreign wives, and Qidian.com is an old-fashioned article. The fact that Internet articles have been at the bottom of the contempt chain for a long time makes the public subconsciously think that they cannot be put on the table, let alone win awards. .
As an online article author, I can only express my helplessness when faced with this situation. After all, the public’s inherent impression is not formed in a day or two, and it cannot be changed in a day or two. However, regarding "Internet works participating in the Hugo Award" "I can talk to you about this matter and tell you how it happened.
First of all, the rules of the Hugo Award are different from other science fiction awards such as the Nebula Award and the Locus Award. It is not an award selected by an expert committee, but a readers' choice award. From nomination to final selection, readers vote.
However, please note that not everyone is eligible to nominate and vote. If you want to nominate and vote in the Hugo Award selection, you need to register on the official website of the World Science Fiction Convention and pay to become a member of the convention.
The price is not cheap. If you only want to purchase the rights to nominate and vote, it will cost 320 yuan. If you want to purchase the rights to nominate, vote, and participate in the science fiction conference offline, it will cost 640 yuan. Please note that on February 1 Only those who register and pay as members before February 1 (that is, five days later) have the right to nominate. Those who register after February 1 only have the right to vote but not the right to nominate.
The nomination stage runs from the end of January to the end of April. During this stage, the works with the largest number of nominations are shortlisted. The shortlist will be announced at the end of May and voting will begin until the final results are announced in August.
This is the process.
Secondly, the Hugo Awards have multiple awards, including Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Short Story, etc. These projects have very strict requirements - for example, it must be a work published for the first time in 2022. , for example, it must be a completed work. I saw someone asking why "Abnormal Creatures" was not included in the review, or why "We Live in Nanjing" was not included in the review - the answer is simple, their publication time did not meet the requirements.
So which award are works such as "Embers of the Deep" competing for? All unfinished works are not eligible to participate in the selection of the best novel, so online articles cannot compete for the best novel (many people don’t know about this and start scolding them). The contest is for the relatively unpopular "Best Series". This is The only project that does not require completion.
Finally, let’s talk about the situation of this book. You have the final say whether “Defending Nanshan Park” should participate in the Hugo Award selection.
Although the "Best Series" project does not require a completed work, it does have a word count requirement. Chinese works must reach 450,000 words before the nomination deadline - that is, the end of April. If this book decides to participate in the selection, then I will have to do it next In the past two months, at least 5,000 words have been updated every day.
(Forget it, I might as well not participate)
The above is all the information I have learned so far. It should be accurate. Of course, it does not rule out that it may change in the future.
If everyone is willing to nominate (again, I emphasize that nomination costs money! At least 320 yuan!), I will try my best to update and try to write 450,000 words before the deadline. If everyone is not willing, then I will follow the normal rules. I will finish the story at the right pace. You can rest assured that the book will end normally no matter what.
So I'm doing a little research here:
If you are willing to nominate, please deduct 1 here. (You need to pay to register as a member on the official website before February 1st, at least 320 yuan)
If you are unwilling to nominate, you will be deducted 1 here. (I will still finish the story at a normal pace)
I will adjust the subsequent coding speed according to everyone's choice.
