Chapter 31: Price Increases

The care of colleagues in the company also made Zhang Hanting's heart warm.

As the editor-in-chief who personally discovered "The Three-Body Problem", the honor of "The Three-Body Problem" is absolutely inextricably linked to him.

But when he thought that Writer Zheng was facing poverty and hunger, Zhang Hanting felt heartbroken.

The oppression of this genius by society is simply too bad!

Faced with this situation, Zhang Hanting naturally felt anxious, he did not see the contact number of Writer Zheng in the manuscript, but he saw Writer Zheng's address.

After the latest issue of "Science Fiction World" came out two days ago, he personally mailed a sample and a reminder letter to Mr. Zheng, but he did not reply for a long time, which made Zhang Hanting feel bad in his heart.

Early this morning, he went to look for the writer's residence according to the address of the manuscript, but found that the writer Zheng had been out for many days and there was no one at home.

The two registered letters lay quietly in the mailbox, waiting for their owners to open them.

What happened?

Zhang Hanting's face was full of confusion, and he inquired about the information of Writer Zheng in many ways, but still found nothing, disappointed, he drank three glasses of liquor in a roadside restaurant, regretting the fate of the down-and-out writer, and also felt helpless for the fate of the imminent manuscript.

He was sleepy when he got drunk, so he went home and slept for three hours.

When I woke up and returned to the magazine, I heard my editor-in-charge shouting: "Boss, new email, Mr. Zheng Qianzheng, the author of "The Three-Body Problem", has come to the manuscript!"

"What?"

Zhang Hanting thought he had heard it wrong: "You say it again?"

Looking at Zhang Hanting, whose eyes were full of bloodshots, the editor in charge shrunk his neck and said timidly: "It's Mr. Zheng Qianzheng's email, he just submitted it by email!"

Zhang Hanting's eyes widened, and he hurriedly went to the computer to check.

He quickly opened the mailbox and saw an email called "Zheng Qian - "Three-Body Problem" - 60,000 words" lying quietly in the mailbox.

The editor-in-charge hadn't opened it yet, and she knew that this was the key manuscript that the society was concerned about, so she didn't dare to act rashly.

But Zhang Hanting went without any scruples, after all, he was a reviewer, so he quickly clicked to open it, downloaded the attachment, and soon, a full 60,000-word "Three-Body Problem" appeared in front of him.

Zhang Hanting took a deep breath, pressed his heartbeat, and continued to stare at his eyes.

The minutes ticked by.

Half an hour later, Zhang Hanting took a deep breath, slapped the case, and shouted: "Wonderful!

The movement here made the editors of the entire magazine raise their heads and look at them curiously.

But Zhang Hanting didn't care, after he divided this manuscript, he hurried to the editor-in-chief's office, along the way, he was agitated and excited.

......

The 60,000 words of "The Three-Body Problem" mainly tell about the "Three-Body Civilization" four light years away, which received a message from the earth.

Ye Wenjie, who was desperate for human nature, exposed the coordinates of the earth to the three-body people, and since then has completely changed the fate of mankind.

First of all, there was an abnormal disturbance in the basic science of the earth, and science could not continue to advance, and nanoscientist Wang Miao accidentally entered the mysterious online game "Three-Body Problem" and began to gradually approach the truth of this world.

Later, when Wang Miao attended a player gathering, he came into contact with a secret organization formed on Earth in response to the arrival of the Trisolarans-ETO......

There are two clips in this, which made Zhang Hanting tearful and enthusiastic.

The first part is the reaction of the No. 1379 listener of the Three-Body World when he saw the message sent by Ye Wenjie......

Listening to is a humble profession.

They were in the listening room, with the eternal darkness of the night outside the window and the desert and desolate universe behind them.

The living conditions of the Trisolarans are too cruel, the three suns, there is no law, they can only survive in a short eternal era.

If they want to live, they can only abandon all feelings, because feelings can make the spirit fragile.

Nor do they have personal interests, because the survival of the race is the only meaning of their lives.

Such beings themselves do not have a sense of morality, they just need to be calm and numb.

Here, only vulnerability is evil.

And at this moment, the information from the earth gave the 1379 listener a huge shock.

In his lonely and numb life, he never experienced warmth.

But now, he knows the Earth!

There is only one sun, a blue ocean that never freezes! and a huge, immensely green forest!

He knew what this information meant—the powerful Trisolarans would destroy the weak humans and take over the planet.

However, after determining the location of the earth, he will also be unemployed, and when he is old, he will not be able to find a new job, and the final outcome can only be the same as other older three-body people, who can only be dehydrated and burned, because the three-body society does not support idlers.

Maybe it's the dying of people, and the feeling of the better world is even more.

The listener felt that he could save the planet, so in a pinch, he issued a warning to humanity, "Don't answer! Don't answer!

This description brought tears to Zhang Hanting's eyes, and he felt a great shock from the perspective of the supervisor.

Monitor No. 1379 betrayed his civilization like Ye Wenjie, but he did not do it for hatred, but for the good, even if it did not belong to him.

In addition, another fragment in the manuscript also gave Zhang Hanting goosebumps all over his body.

"From today onwards, we are comrades!"

Perhaps only those who are in a socially minded country will understand the meaning of this sentence

......

In the editor-in-chief's office, after reading Zheng Qian's latest submission of "The Three-Body Problem", the editor-in-chief rubbed his eyes, calmed down, and then sighed: "The narrative is grand, logical, the plot is exciting, all the settings are very reasonable, and the most rare thing is that this is a science fiction world that belongs to our Chinese......"

Zhang Hanting nodded and said: "Yes, the opening is already so grand, I can't imagine what kind of picture the follow-up articles and settings will be when they are rolled out!"

"Okay, I agree with your price increase, seven hundred words per thousand, it can't be higher, this price is already comparable to some well-known writers, and now the sales have not come out, considering the difficulties of Writer Zheng, another suggestion of yours, I also promise, regardless of profit or loss, the manuscript of "The Three-Body Problem" will not be less than seven hundred words in the future. ”

The editor-in-chief sighed: "It's the first time I've seen an editor-in-chief who doesn't stand on the magazine's side and speaks for the author instead......"

Zhang Hanting wanted to speak and stopped.

The editor-in-chief waved his hand: "However, the creation of our "Science Fiction World" was originally to support Chinese science fiction literature, if "The Three-Body Problem" can really win the Galaxy Award in the end, or even go out of China, win the Nebula Award or even the Hugo Award, and go to the world, then our current efforts are worth it, everything is for Chinese science fiction literature." ”

"For Chinese science fiction literature. Zhang Hanting nodded heavily.