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Chapter 664 Carnival of Science Fiction Fans
"Roar!"

In the Green Field Bookstore, a group of big men surrounded a small computer screen and roared like beasts.

The Hugo Awards are different from the Nebula Awards in that there is no live broadcast.

Therefore, readers from Huaxia cannot see the scene of the ceremony, but there are also many Chinese people at the award ceremony, and some will broadcast the current situation of the ceremony on their social networking sites.

The person Zhang Junwei and the others paid attention to was a well-known commentator named Xu Zehai. He also participated in this awards ceremony and was lucky enough to sneak into the theater.

They roared precisely because they saw Xu Zehai update the latest situation, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" won the Best Novel Award.

"President, come to the comment area to spread flowers." Luo Wei said excitedly after taking a sip of the cold drink that had already cooled down.

Zhang Junwei nodded, and manipulated the mouse to open the comment section, but to his surprise, Xu Zehai's post had been deleted.

Looking at the words "This post has been deleted" on the screen, a bunch of people were stunned.

"What's the situation? There won't be any moths!" Luo Wei said anxiously.

"Yeah, why was it deleted suddenly? Did Xu Zehai deliberately tease us, or did he hear it wrong?"

Zhang Junwei pressed his hands and signaled everyone to calm down, "Don't worry, Xu Zehai is also a well-known figure, and he definitely wouldn't trick us on purpose. As for what he heard wrong, he probably wouldn't either. Let's wait for a while, maybe he will come out later explained."

Hearing what the president said, the others could only nod.Jiangyang is thousands of miles away from Wellington, and they have no way of knowing what's going on there.

Some people from the book club went to Wellington, but the people from the awards ceremony couldn't get in, so now they can only learn about the situation through Xu Zehai.

"President, he has updated again."

Zhang Junwei raised his eyebrows, quickly manipulated the mouse to click on the new news, and then they saw a line of text that they would never forget in their lifetime.

"Best novel winning works: "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Three-Body Problem 2 Dark Forest"."

Seeing this line of words, they didn't cheer immediately, but they all started beating drums in their hearts.

Why does this look so unreal?

There are two Best Novel winners?

Or the same person?
Has anything like this ever happened in the Hugo Awards?

"President, this is not fake."

Zhang Junwei didn't dare to say anything, he just said, "Let me ask."

In fact, why should he ask, when he clicked on the comment area, there were already dozens of comments, all of which were asking about this matter.

[Boss, this is true or false. 】

[It's not like playing with us. 】

[Hurry up and retweet it more than [-] times, if it is a rumor, he will be convicted. 】

【I hope it's true. 】

[Has there ever been a tie for the Hugo Awards? 】

[Yes, but that was decades ago. 】

……

Xu Zehai didn't reply to the netizens' questions, but just posted another post after a while.

"Zhang Zhong started to deliver his acceptance speech, so I won't translate it for everyone here, just wait until the official video comes out and everyone can watch it for themselves."

Although Xu Zehai did not answer the question, this news gave netizens a reassurance.

Nine times out of ten it is true, Xu Zehai dare to joke about this kind of thing?

After a while, the news was confirmed, because other people who were also at the scene posted the same news.

"It's true, Liu Wanda also posted a post, confirming that the best novel of this year's Hugo Awards is indeed these two books!"

Zhang Junwei announced the news to the members excitedly.

This time, everyone didn't roar, but just clenched their fists and didn't know what to say. It seemed that their strength had been exhausted just now.

"I really want to hear our boss' acceptance speech."

"Just be content with it, it's good to get news. It is estimated that the official will release the video soon."

"This Hugo Award is really real. It would be great to have a live broadcast."

"It's probably because I'm afraid of something unexpected. After all, it's the World Science Fiction Convention, so maybe something will happen."

Because they couldn't see the live video and couldn't hear Zhang Zhong's acceptance speech, everyone was a little bored, so they started talking about other things. Only Zhang Junwei kept refreshing the webpage, wanting to see if Xu Zehai had any updates.

About seven or eight minutes later, Xu Zehai posted another post.

Everyone else was chatting, only Zhang Junwei saw this post first.

The first thing you see in the dynamics is a bunch of big exclamation marks, and then you see the text.

"Jiangyang Shenhuan succeeded!!!!!!!!!!!!"

boom!
Zhang Junwei slapped the table violently, startling the other members who were chatting.

"President, what's the matter?"

"Look for yourselves!" Zhang Junwei put the computer screen in front of them, and the members stretched their heads to look at the screen.

"Jiang-yang-shen-bang!" Luo Wei, who was still squinting to read the news, slammed the table before he finished reading, and then shouted wildly: "Jiang Yang's Shenhuan succeeded!"

At this time, it was ten o'clock in the evening in Wellington, and it was five o'clock in the afternoon in Jiangyang, which was when the shopping malls began to fill up.

Some people who walked by the Green Field Bookstore suddenly heard the commotion coming from inside, and couldn't help but look inside.

"What are they calling?"

"It seems to be talking about Jiang Yang's success, but I don't understand."

"Looking at how excited they are, something must have happened, and it has something to do with our Jiangyang?"

"Would you like to go in and ask?"

The man looked at the crazy scene inside, then shook his head, "Forget it, if something really big, there must be news on the Internet."

……

Such scenes are happening all over the country, especially in Jiangyang.

The freshmen of Jiangyang University have been in the school for two days of military training. Not long after the military training ended, a group of boys screamed wildly on the road, and then spread the word, and the students kept carnival and howling.

The other students who didn't know why, thought something happened.

There are also some people whose ears are not so good, they heard "Jiangyang successfully applied for fantasy" as "Jiangyang successfully applied for the Olympic Games", and howled accordingly, but they didn't even know what the World Science Fiction Convention was.

The official website of the World Science Fiction Convention is very fast. Just after Zhang Zhong announced the results of the fantasy application, a notice was quickly posted on the official website, and a video of Zhang Zhong finally announcing that the host city was Jiangyang was posted.

Many people have already learned the results through some people's text live broadcasts, but they still went to the official website of the World Science Fiction Convention to find the video and watch it again.

"I announce that the host city of the 2023 World Science Fiction Convention is - Jiangyang."

On this day, Zhang Zhong's voice floated all over the country, ushering in the carnival of countless Chinese science fiction fans.

(End of this chapter)