Chapter Seventy-Eight: This Is Just America in My Eyes

On a sunny afternoon, the sun outside the window was as warm as the rising sun, falling into the room through the window.

This is the first time Wu Hao has seen Takahashi in a sober state.

Wu Hao, who was not very old, looked curiously at the person in front of him, who was no exaggeration to say that he had changed the fate of his life. He looks so ordinary, but this ordinariness also makes him look so extraordinary.

Takahashi was a little different from what he imagined, originally he thought that Takahashi would be like those leaders, not to mention the appearance of a big belly, at least some of the same temperament.

But Takahashi didn't have that feeling, and his temperament was unusually restrained and low-key.

Wu Hao watched Takahashi put the open magazine on the table, he looked at Takahashi and asked, "Do you know what you wrote?"

Wu Hao picked up the magazine and looked at the story with his own title on it - "New World in the Wasteland". This is his latest serialization.

You know, an excellent serialization is an effective means to increase magazine sales in this era.

However, the opportunity to serialize is not available to ordinary authors.

Because the serialization is very long, it needs to span many issues of the magazine.

This creates a problem, and once the story is not only problematic, but also has an unusually large impact on the magazine.

The reason why Wu Hao was able to get this opportunity to be serialized is, of course, the reason for Takahashi, but there are also factors of his own efforts.

Although the country has been opened, the vast majority of Chinese people, at least the audience of Wu Hao's stories, don't know much about foreign stories.

Because most of these stories are not translated into Chinese.

In the past two years, English has become almost the only official second language, and the use of learning Russian and Japanese in groups at the school and regional level has basically disappeared.

However, for the vast majority of students whose second language is English, it is almost impossible for them to read the original English books.

What's more, even if they can read it, the price of an original English book, they probably can't afford to buy it.

The situation of book publishing in the United States and the United Kingdom is extreme, and it is not at all like China has a cheap book price system.

It's about making people feel like they can't wait to sell a book for a year.

An ordinary, thin and small book can cost tens of dollars, dozens of pounds. Not counting the freight, the exchange rate conversion alone costs hundreds of yuan, and there is no way to compare with one or two yuan or a few cents a book in China.

"I ...... I know ......," Wu Hao said, "I want to write about a world after it was destroyed by a nuclear bomb." ”

"And where did you get this inspiration?" asked Takahashi.

"I ...... I heard it from a friend, and the first time I heard it was from him. He said that the Soviet Union was an evil country, and if the Soviet Union still existed, the whole world would have been destroyed by nuclear bombs, and that the world after the nuclear war is the real world we will face.

I thought his argument was interesting, and I wrote the idea into a story. ”

Takahashi did not speak immediately, he was accustomed to the fact that the Soviet Union was portrayed as evil.

In fact, even the citizens of the former Soviet Union felt that the Soviet Union was simply evil when it was still in existence.

So, when the top brass chose to let the USSR die, they did not oppose it or protest.

But now that they have seen another world, they are nostalgic for the Soviet Union.

Takahashi only felt sorry for the disappearance of the Soviet Union, only regretted it, but felt that it should disappear, at least its disappearance was a good thing for China.

However, in the matter of its disappearance, we must also be wary of the forces that make it disappear.

This force is so powerful that it barely moved a single soldier, and relying on public opinion and propaganda alone, the unbreakable alliance collapsed.

Even, years later, in the Middle East, those great demons who were portrayed as heinous began to miss their time after the people overthrew them.

At least at that time, at the time of the people who were said to be dictators, relying on oil resources, they could go to school for free, medical care for free, and housing allocation.

There is even some mechanism for the distribution of cars.

However, when this dictator fell in the midst of demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of people, the oil deposits became someone else's, and no matter how much oil was produced, it had nothing to do with ordinary people, and ordinary people's lives became more and more difficult.

Behind all this, of course, is the United States.

The United States, as a world power, as a country that has ended history, is naturally able to do whatever it wants.

In fact, their means of doing so are not different from those of Britain, which dominated the world before it.

It's just that Britain is the-stirring stick of Europe most of the time, while the United States is the-stirring stick of the world.

They can only reap their benefits if they muddy the waters of the world.

As for the democracy or freedom they talk about, they don't really care at all.

Full of doctrine, in fact, it is still business.

Even Black Isle Studios' "Fallout" was born in such a big environment.

Although the United States seems to be a place where people can participate in politics, it is actually meritocracy.

The Black Isle Studios can't change reality, but they can mock America's actions through art.

They have hollowed out an America that has been torn apart after a nuclear war, a generation of American barbarism and civilization coexisting.

Even through the Vault Project, one can see the last traces of pre-war American madness.

They expressed their demands in the sixties and seventies under the threat of the Cold War and nuclear war, as well as an alternate world.

Even this is the charm of the "Fallout" series, and later after Bethesda acquired the "Fallout" series, although the sales were more, this kind of thinking and irony became less.

Gao Qiao looked at Wu Hao's innocent appearance and felt that he still had something to say to him.

Takahashi asked, "Do you think the world is beautiful?"

Wu Hao shook his head.

"Do you think the world is black and white? Good people are good people, and bad people are bad people?"

Wu Hao shook his head again.

"Okay, I'll tell you a story......"

Takahashi tells a series of major events that take place in the world of Fallout from a macro perspective.

"What do you think of this story?"

"I ...... United States...... Is the United States really like that?" Wu Hao asked a little nervously.

Although he is still just a child, how can he not like the United States in an environment where adults yearn for the United States, culturally yearn for the United States, and English is the second language?

"I've been to the United States, but that's just the United States in my eyes. Takahashi replied.