Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 787 Cosmic Tidying 42
Liu Shuang rubbed his hands, looking forward to the upcoming sci-fi journey.

The beginning of the novel did not disappoint him.

"In that unmarked, silent void at the end of the western spiral arm of the Milky Way hangs a small, unnoticed yellow star. Orbiting about 14710 kilometers from it, orbits an utterly insignificant blue star Asteroid..."

This is exactly the words on the book that a reader got in the Hope Exhibition Hall before, and it is also the first sentence of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

This sentence feels magnificent as soon as it is read, making the starfish look like an invisible mote.

This book should be as grand as the Three-Body Problem, no, it should be a science fiction novel even more grand than the Three-Body Problem.

But as the reading started, Liu Shuang felt something was wrong.

Why is this book so funny to read?

The story begins with a house.

The owner of the house got up early in the morning and found a demolition team outside the door. He was told that the house would be forcibly demolished, but he had not received any notice related to the demolition before yesterday.

When he learned of such a thing yesterday, he went to the relevant department to read the announcement, but it took him a lot of effort to find it in the cellar.

And this announcement has been in this cellar for nine months.

Liu Shuang was amused by this black humor, and then he thought, this paragraph seems to be mocking the dereliction of duty of the functional department?

The previous paragraph has nothing to do with science fiction, but then a character appears, a good friend of the protagonist, an unemployed actor.

The book clearly introduces him as a mobile investigator who tours the universe and contributes materials to a work called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Then the story began to go on the right track, and the forced demolition of the protagonist's house became insignificant with the development of the story, because now even the entire starfish will face the fate of being demolished.

Ironically, the experience of the starfish being demolished is very similar to that of the protagonist’s house. A person who claims to be from the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Committee tells mankind with a voice that can be heard all over the world: the Milky Way is going to build a fast track, and the starfish needs to be destroyed.

The time left for the starfish is only 2 minutes.

Seeing the panicked humans, the administrator even laughed and said: It is meaningless to pretend to be so surprised. All the planning plans and demolition orders have been publicized in the planning department on Alpha Centauri for fifty starfish years. You have enough! time to file a complaint.

Liu Shuang felt funny when he saw this paragraph, but he couldn't laugh because the one being ridiculed was Haixing's "low-level human beings", and he was one of them.

There was no unrivaled hero to turn the tide, and the starfish was destroyed.

The protagonist followed his alien friend into the spaceship and left.

Although "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has been introduced more than once before, it was only when Liu Shuang saw this that he really understood what a hitchhiker means.

Starfish, the last human, became a hitchhiker, and started a galaxy roaming journey with another friend from the planet Betelgeuse.

The Milky Way slowly unfolds before Liu Shuang's eyes like a scroll.

But this picture looks very funny.

Black humor is everywhere, and jokes that are similar to logic games are everywhere.

Especially the ending part, whether it is the meaning of life 42 or the order of starfish, makes people feel absurd and funny.

There is a race that makes planets for rich people, and they built starfish to an order from a pan-dimensional race.

And this pan-dimensional race turned out to be the rats on the starfish, and the human experiments on the rats were actually carefully arranged by the rats, in fact, the rats were studying the human beings.

The mouse paid for the customization of the starfish, and is also the manager, which humans know nothing about.

After reading the whole book, Liu Shuang felt that this was Zhang Zhong's least memorable science fiction novel.

To say that it has no memory points is not to say that the book is not good, but that compared with other novels, this book is weak in the story line.

Zhang Zhong seems to put more attention on black humor and a kind of logic game. There are still many things that can be recalled, such as those strange aliens, the thoughtful supercomputer, the meaning of life 42, the president of the galaxy the plan of.

But these are not plot memory points.

The story of the whole novel has been carried out in a relaxed and happy atmosphere, and every short paragraph can see a quotation that makes people smile.

Of course, if you think about it, these black humors also have some deep meanings, such as the demolition of starfish, such as the Vogon Guard, they all seem to be ridiculing functional departments and civil servants.

It is quite appropriate to see a book like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on April [-]st.

……

After reading the new book, many readers expressed their surprise, because this book is completely different from Zhang Zhong's other science fiction novels.

[Is this a book specially written by Zhang Da for April Fool's Day? If nothing else, it's really funny. 】

[Why didn't I find it funny, it was quite boring, completely different from what I thought. 】

[This kind of black humor also depends on the person. 】

[I think it's quite funny, and it's not a complete collection of jokes. This kind of black humor is mainly for irony. 】

[I think there are a lot of thought-provoking places, isn't there also a lot of discussions about life? 】

[Yeah, the meaning of life is 42 is too beautiful. 】

[I don't understand here, why is the meaning of life 42? 】

【It’s fine if you don’t understand, but it’s okay if I let you understand the meaning of life? 】

[This is not a random number made up by Zhang Zhong. 】

[I guess it has something to do with the "Tao Te Ching". Don't you know what chapter 42 of the "Tao Te Ching" is about? 】

[Fuck, I went to check, the content of chapter 42 is that one life is two, two is three, and three is all things. Is this the truth of the universe? 】

[Maybe that's the case. 】

[You can pull it off, I guess it is related to binary and Zhouyi, 42 converted into binary is 101010, and 101010 in Zhouyi symbolizes 64 hexagrams Weiji hexagram.The yin and yang are born together, going round and round, endlessly. 】

[I'm going, this is a big brother, but why is 101010 Zhouyi No.60 Sigua, what's the reason? 】

[Do you know Yang Yao and Yin Yao?If 1 represents Yang Yao and 0 represents Yin Yao, it happens to be Yang Yao, Yin Yao, Yang Yao, Yin Yao, Yang Yao, Yin Yao, and this is Weiji Gua. The 64 hexagrams are the six-digit combination of yin and yang. For example, the first hexagram, Qian, has six yang lines, and the second hexagram, Kun, has six yin lines. 】

[I'm going, why does it sound so reasonable. 】

(End of this chapter)