Wen Shen wanted to say that he didn't understand.

But he'd just skinned it a few times, and it didn't seem appropriate to continue shaking his wit.

Jokes are jokes, and what has been promised still has to be done.

And he didn't really contradict Cthulhu's purpose.

Choose a cultural core that can be called shocking, and then explore a path that can be understood by the public from the perspective of modern people.

- It was not the first time for him that this had happened.

The challenge was to adapt Cthulhu to the modern age while differentiating it from the new weirdness......

Wen pondered for a while, and really pulled a thread from Cthulhu's mixed worldview.

Cthulhu is the unknown, the universe, everything beyond the cone of light.

Humanity moves through a vast and dim mist, and the investigators are awake beings disguised as part of it.

Or, a sober "madman"?

Rather than pursuing the so-called "truth", it is more about capturing the eternal theme of human beings: the search, understanding, resistance, and integration of self and the world.

The greatest sorrow at this time is to be in a dark universe that is mechanically cold, a world that does not give any feedback.

It has the consequences of history and the cause of the future, and all the "present" runs in between.

The blind self-confidence that was born in the nineteenth century led mankind to think that they had grasped the mystery of all things.

In this frenzy, a scientist named Laplace confined all cause and effect to a hypothesis.

The "Laplace Creed" believes that all history and future are predestined.

From the Big Bang to the destruction of the universe, fate is sealed.

This is "determinism".

Everyone's desperate struggles or fortuitous choices are only part of the plan for the world to run.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow, day after day, until the last second, all our tomorrows are but to light the way to the soil of death for fools. ”

It is not a theory that is applicable to modern times, just as the fundamentalist Cthulhu, which stems from scientific fear, is not so relevant to modern times.

But the difference between humanity today and that time is not very great, but something has gradually surfaced in the progress of society and thought.

Be seen by more people.

What is the fear of the world in modern times?

"It's nothingness. Wen Shen wrote down his thoughts with notes, "Modern people understand better than people of any era that we are in an indifferent nature, and all our thoughts are facing the abyssal universe, worrying about our own contingency and meaninglessness. ”

This is the ultimate loneliness and the ultimate despair of our time.

An era when you are controlled by something that can be called fate, and you can see the end of your life at a glance.

The road to be taken does not actually lead to the ideal platform, and if you understand all this too early, does the process in the middle still have the slightest meaning?

"Of course it doesn't make sense, but it's worth it. Camus had already told the world the answer.

The answer is called "existentialism".

In Albert Camus's philosophy of the absurd, the relationship between man and the world is clear at a glance.

The outside world is dim, opaque, irrational, unchanging, and absurd.

When people face such a world, they feel bitter, troubled, painful, bored, disgusted, and this is absurdity.

Humanity seeks an infallible true cognition, and the universe returns with an incomprehensible mystical silence, uneasiness, and fear born in opposition to the two.

That is the shadow of Cthulhu, from the stars and gods.

The story to be written is in their eyes.

It's ...... Will it continue?

Of course!

No hope is not the same as despair, and no meaning is not the same as destruction.

As he said in the article: "Resistance runs through the whole process of existence, and restores the greatness of existence." ”

The only real wealth that human beings possess is life, and this thing is bound to disappear from the day it is born.

So – resistance, freedom, passion, let the absurd live, and then go to transcendence.

Existence precedes essence, and the void is distorted.

If something good is going to die, then we have to let it exist before that.

Wen Shen knew what he could write.

It is not the continuation of existence, nor the end of destruction, but the process of human contact with the truth and towards madness and despair.

A process of slowly alienating people from the absurdity of reality.

In the eyes of many readers, it should be a pure horror story, but for the characters in the book, it may be their existence and resistance.

He wants to give meaning to his existence, no matter how small.

It is necessary to find the motivation to live, to desire something from the heart, not to become a nihilist.

Thus, those who "die" have a reason to do so.

Explorer, investigator, and inquisitive, the eternal protagonist of Cthulhu literature.

"A quarter of an hour before he died, he was still alive. ”

Wen Shen wrote down a bunch of jumbled imagery and landscapes, and then got stuck.

It's not a card setting or a story, it's something that comes naturally.

In these years, I don't have more than a dozen or twenty brain holes, and I don't dare to call myself a professional author.

He's stuck the title of the book.

Or that Mythology: Anomalies and Miracles?

...... It feels like you're going to be beaten.

Think of another one.

Nothingness vs. Being...... Cosmic Story...... Self-Meaning...... Shell?...... The Universe in the Shell?...... No, no, it shouldn't be the universe outside the shell...... Add a sense of science fiction and mythology......

Extra-Shell Law 101

The "101" here refers to the "overview type introductory course" in the meaning of the course number, which is perfect as an introductory work for a world view.

And according to this way of writing, there will be titles such as "Extra-Shell Law 102" and "Extra-Shell Law 404" later.

With that, the whole set name is done!

Wen Shen felt that he could use it, and immediately sent the name of the freshly baked series to Guan Li.

Divine Will: "emmmm......"

Wen Weifu: "Still not satisfied? Why don't you pick it up?"

Guan Li replied very reluctantly: "It feels okay......"

It's a pity that he is also famous, and his level is half a pound and eight taels with Wen Shen.

It's just that one or two of them still pick all kinds of names, it's not good if it's too vulgar, it's not good if it's too literary, every time you get a name, it's like a war.

In the end, I can only make do.

Anyway, I can't think of a better one for a while, and Guan Li is too lazy to continue to entangle, "Just use this, you write the content first, the number of words is not too much, be refined, there is no need to rush to millions of words like an online article, and when the time comes, we will directly publish the whole book on the website." ”

"Oh, yes. Saying that, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly took this opportunity to ask, "You have no problem with the contract signed by Xinyue, right? Is it to sign a book or a pseudonym? Can you publish your work on other platforms?"

"No problem, the copyright of the work is in my hands, and the contract only requires how many words must be published on the new reading every year, and I can waste anything else. Wen revealed deeply without much care.

When writing to the level of "Wen Weifu", it is no longer that the author needs the website, but that the website needs the author.

Xinyue can't use the same method as other authors to forcibly bind the supreme god of the online text.

The contract that Wenshen got was specially customized, and this is the only one.

He is also much less constrained than other authors.

Not to mention writing an article for a non-profit cultural and creative platform, even if the "article is not restored" and goes to the Chinese serialization next door, Xinyue can only pinch his nose and admit it.

Of course, Wen Shen will not be "ungrateful" to this extent.