Chapter 208: The Coat of Science
After the preface was written, Zhang Chu did not continue to write, but stopped writing and thought about it seriously.
He is actually not short of this time, after all, you can see the full text of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" from the savior system, accurate to various punctuation marks.
Although I have read it several times before, it is from the perspective of readers, and I never thought that I would be able to write this work one day!
Now his idea is how to make this saga more exciting, less flawed, and better to combine the advantages of "Tomb Raider Notes" in terms of character development.
Obviously, this is not only a challenge that requires time and patience, but also a challenge that requires the ability to do so!
If Zhang Chu's ability is not enough, then he will be extremely difficult, and even ruin "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".
But he had to do it again, like a carp jumping over the dragon gate, and after jumping over, it transformed into a real dragon.
Zhang Chu's plagiarism of the works on the earth in his previous life is never a copy, but has his own understanding, his own revision, and even "Youth School" abandons the influence of the translation most of the time when it is written!
This time "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is the time to test his ability, absorbing the strengths of the world's Ba Sing and the third uncle of the southern school to make up for his shortcomings.
The most important thing is that he doesn't have to be as urgent as when he wrote "Life of Pi", so urgent that he enters the space of ten times the speed of time!
There is plenty of time, and it is located in Yan University, if you don't understand something, you can ask those teachers at any time, after all, many courses in their Chinese department will be studied with people from other colleges.
In fact, Zhang Chu is not self-made now, he has also written suspense and reasoning works before, even if "Psychological Crime" and "Sherlock" seem to be not the same as "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" on the surface, but the application of those suspense elements, how to set up the fog, and how to answer them later are all used freely.
It is important that the reader will sigh after seeing the content: Damn, that's what happened!
Of course, in addition to the way it is written, the content of the article is also flawed, and this part requires professional knowledge.
Although Zhang Chu doesn't know how to rob tombs, he can learn archaeology, and some of the plots criticized by netizens are avoidable in his opinion.
For example, in the early stage of "Ghost Blowing Lantern: The Essence of the Ancient City", because of a family heirloom jade pendant of the fat man, Hu Bayi and the cultural relics dealer Big Gold Tooth did not know each other.
In order to show favor to Hu Bayi, the big gold tooth took the initiative to offer his newly received blue and white porcelain bowl and asked the other party to play with it, but in the description of the article, Hu Bayi actually lifted the porcelain bowl directly from the hands of the big gold tooth.
This is a taboo whether it is in the archaeological circle or in the industry when trading or connoisseurship!
Experienced parties will not touch antiques at the same time, so as not to make mistakes in the process of handover, which is actually the usual trick used by small vendors to find consumers to touch porcelain in the past.
But that's a bit nitpicky, and it's weird to have millions of words without the slightest flaw.
Similarly, among the many tomb robberies, there are many ancient tombs that have a large number of defensive traps and traps, but the actual archaeology does not have the plots described in the book.
This is what is both real and illusory in creation, after all, it is fictional, if it is all true, it should be renamed Hu Bayi Archaeological Record, and those traps are the only magic weapon to set off the atmosphere and attract readers!
Even if Zhang Chu used to read books, he would always guess what kind of ingenious mechanism there was in the tomb, would the protagonists be in danger, and how did they save the day?
If you get the treasure without danger, then the story is completely unreadable.
Just imagine, if Hu Bayi and their coffins and tomb robberies were as easy as walking on the ground, would they still attract readers?
In addition, the so-called "people light candles, ghosts blow out lamps" is full of mystery, but in reality there are some drawbacks.
Hu Bayi took Wang Kaixuan to touch the gold for the first time and chose the cemetery of the nobles of the Dajin Kingdom in the moon ditch, they were frightened from the side hole to the tomb, and a magnificent sarcophagus appeared in front of them.
Wang Fatzi wanted to go up and open the museum directly, Hu Bayi hurriedly stopped, and took out the compass to find the southeast, lit a candle in its corner, saying that it was a rule left by the ancestors, if the candle was extinguished when the coffin was opened, he had to withdraw immediately, and he couldn't take anything away.
This is the secret of the legendary Captain of the Four Great Tomb Robbery Sects, and when the flickering candle turns from yellow to green, the reader knows that something supernatural is about to happen!
Most readers know that this should not be true, and they put a scientific coat on this action, and the extinguishing of the candle should mean that the oxygen concentration in the tomb is not enough, and people will be suffocated in it without oxygen.
However, in real archaeological excavations, this practice is not only wrong, but even more life-threatening, and there is no scientific justification for it!
First of all, the burial chamber has been in a relatively closed environment for a long time, and it is easy to have flammable gases in it, and lighting candles may cause explosions.
Even if it doesn't cause an explosion, once a candle is lit in the tomb, the temperature inside will rise, causing the artifacts inside the tomb to oxidize faster.
Zhang Chu plans to explain these things clearly in the preface, so as to save trouble or being picked on in the future, after all, the essence of ghost blowing the lamp lies here!
, don't take out the spirit of thesis research to find faults, this is his view all along.
In order for this work to meet the general public, and for the subsequent film and television, animation, and game adaptations to be approved, Zhang Chu is paying attention to avoiding minefields when he conceives at this time.
Fortunately, the things promoted in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" are also relatively positive, although the tomb was originally robbed for the purpose of making a fortune, but nothing was taken out of the tomb, isn't it that the crime of stealing is blatantly written as a great cause.
It is more inclined to go on expeditions for a reason, such as lifting the curse or something, and at the same time promoting the idea that tomb robbing cannot make a fortune.
It is indeed a thunder point for treasures to be handed over to the country, Zhang Chu plans to let Hu Bayi and others not be able to sell any treasures, in fact, this is also the practice of the world's tyrants, and the wonderful thing is the process of exploring and robbing tombs, not taking national treasures to sell.
Just like the high-IQ murderer he wrote in "Psychological Crime", if the murder scene is described so specifically, and the suspect gets away with it, it is estimated that the whole book will not see the sun at all!
The correct value orientation is very important, especially in China, where some people may maliciously report if you are not careful.
Instead of going crazy to revise it at that time, it is better to avoid it from the beginning, and give readers a good science about what tomb robbery is and what archaeology is, so as not to be dragged out as a target by people in the archaeological field.
There are a total of eight parts of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", in addition to the exquisite ancient city, there are Longling Grottoes, Yunnan Worm Valley, Kunlun Shrine and the Huangpizi Tomb behind, Nanhai Guiru, Nuqing Xiangxi, and Wuxia Coffin Mountain.
Zhang Chu didn't plan to write it all in one go at this time, the soup should be stewed slowly, and the good books should be published one by one!