Chapter 53: The Technical Suspense Route
It turned out to be Peng Jinkang. Suddenly, Kaka understood what the situation was. However, Peng Jinkang's generosity is still jaw-dropping.
In the past few months, Peng Jinkang has also followed them to read books and conduct character observation, character biography and other training. As a result, this handsome guy, school grass, and well-known people who studied architecture...... Now I'm hooked on writing.
Ka Ka himself is in dire straits, and he has no experience of it, but Mo Ersheng, who usually focuses on supervising Peng Jinkang's reading and writing progress, always feels that he can't hold back and complain. Peng Jinkang really deserves to be a star who can look good at whatever he learns and does, and the progress of learning to write is so fast that Mo Ersheng doubts his life.
Peng Jinkang asked Yue Qingyan to recommend a list of books at first, and then gnawed on it himself. When Guanxi went out to observe the crowd, he often followed, and also wrote biographies and the like. At first, he thought it was a catch-up lesson. Observation and speculation of others, as well as in-depth reading, are necessary preparations for training speech skills. But reading and reading was wrong, he thought it was so fun to read, and it was also fun to write. Outside of architecture classes, basketball, and various student activities at school, he has no time to rest and relax, and almost all of them are devoted to reading and writing.
More than 100 books were swept away in half a year, and there were a lot of in-depth readings, and many of them were trained in fast reading according to Yue Qingyan's proposal. Peng Jinkang's talent is really powerful, and the quality of fast reading is comparable to the average speed of many people. Yue Qingyan also joked that this is because Peng Jinkang is also used to reading the opponent's formation and defense on the basketball court, and his dynamic vision and detail capture are very good.
Probably, otherwise there would be no way to explain the problem. Otherwise, it will rise to the question of IQ and talent.
Moreover, Peng Jinkang's planning and execution are so strong that everyone is shocked. He said what time he read a book and took notes, and he was able to do it without even touching his phone for a few hours. At the beginning of the book, I still bought one and read one, and then the next order and slowly digested it. In half a year, two bookcases were added to the house, and they were basically finished.
About three months ago, he said that he wanted to try writing a suspenseful mystery type novel. I finished the first draft in a month. Every night from 8 to 11 o'clock, I worked for 3 hours to write a manuscript.
But after reading it, Yue Qingyan pointed out many omissions in the novel. For example, the character setting is relatively boring, the offensive and defensive sides are not equal in the puzzle design, and there are problems in the design of the character's activity route and the scope of knowledge at each plot node, which is awkward to read......
Peng Jinkang accepted it humbly after careful study, and then he began to make even more crazy preparations.
Peng Jinkang originally studied architecture, and has an innate advantage for the type of secret room reasoning that is limited to a certain range. In order to fully grasp the overall situation of the plot, he used sketchup to do a comprehensive modeling of the scenes involved, and did realistic rendering under various lighting conditions. Then, according to the timeline, the character's activities were filled into the model and rendered dynamically. In this way, he can follow any character and find out what they saw or might know.
In the entire Chinese writing circle, there are only a handful of people who can do this.
However, SketchUp modeling is still too sloppy, mainly because it is impossible to understand the texture of the building itself and the psychological impact of the environment on the characters. So, Peng Jinkang asked his father to apply for funds, bought a 3D printer at home, typed out the modeling piece by piece, and then carried out detailed painting to restore the entire scene. Even the gardening part is carefully carved. Where I couldn't figure it out, I also invited students who are good at scenario modeling to participate.
And today, he moved the entire model to Yue Qingyan's studio, and then combined with the clue analysis he wrote before, the timeline of the character's activities to demonstrate the animation and Yue Qingyan's explanation of the plot, and let him review his second draft.
Mo Ersheng has completely lost his temper with Peng Jinkang now. In fact, if Peng Jinkang was like this at the beginning, then maybe he would have been tempted to chase her at the beginning. But now, she just thinks it's full of absurdity.
However, what Peng Jinkang writes is really a perfect fit like a project, and he is really worthy of being a talented student in the Department of Architecture. It would be to say that talented students from the Department of Architecture are genius architects, but the basic skills are always solid. Looking at the whole set of deductions he came up with, it is really awesome.
In fact, the subject matter is still that kind of theme: an advanced derivative version of the secret room reasoning. Peng Jinkang designed an annual meeting for a multinational company and placed it in an island resort. There are several groups of unclean relationships in the company, and everyone also thinks that when they get to the island, the emperor is far away, and they can be presumptuous. Unexpectedly, a sea cyclone formed on the island, and the island suddenly became isolated from the rest of the world. Diesel generator sets have limited fuel and need to be calculated. There is no shortage of food and water on the island, but some people are sick, so the island's antibiotics and other medicines must be used sparingly.
In the resort, everyone was divided into groups according to their relationship. At this time, people kept being killed......
In fact, the main line of this story can be divided into two branches, one is to collect resources and control distribution, so that everyone on the island can hold on long enough. The other is homicide and detective. There are nearly 40 characters on the island, including the company's annual meeting attendees, performers, and service staff on the island. And the advancement of both lines is interesting. Gathering resources also includes finding out from people who are hiding hidden resources, distributing them appropriately, and getting more resources for your group. Murder and detective are divided into several lines, a total of three murderers hide people in the crowd, and each other also uses the murder of others to hide their motives and action routes.
These complex settings led to the first draft written by Peng Jinkang with more than 500,000 words. With the addition of some explanatory documents, notes, settings, etc., it is estimated that it will be more than 600,000 words.
It's also thanks to Yue Qingyan's photo-based memory now, so that he can memorize the whole book after reading it once, and then go with Peng Jinkang little by little to combine the various reasoning details of the whole story. It's really a lot of old nose effort.
But Yue Qingyan really admires Peng Jinkang sincerely, because this version is well prepared, there is almost no conflict in the entire logical line and event sequence, the balance of attack and defense of the two lines, and the diffusion of intelligence are well designed. Except for one thing: it's too tiring and complicated to read.
"What do you say about this story...... You've made it a brain game. Yue Qingyan could only complain.
"But it's a lot of fun. Peng Jinkang said happily. Yue Qingyan affirmed his story design and didn't find anything wrong. As for the wording of this story, he was going to change it drastically. Mystery novels are more than half a million words, and I don't even think about publishing them. And the complexity is too high, and after writing it, there is no need to be so detailed. Whether some characters know or not, just use narrative language directly, and there is no need to explain the process in such detail.
"Interesting is indeed interesting," Yue Qingyan said with a wry smile, "Your way of writing things is really a bit amazing." As long as you can get involved in the most preliminary puzzles and can pass your deductions, you can basically write them. Although the trouble is a little troublesome, it is not a bad way to deduce the reasoning of the Bengeist school in this way. But ......"
"But what?" Peng Jinkang asked.
"In the domestic publishing market, there is not much room for ontological reasoning, and it is more inclined to social reasoning. ”
Mo Ersheng followed Yue Qingyan and Peng Jinkang to match the logic of the story for a day, and was already exhausted, and said: "Moreover, the length of this book can't be pressed into 300,000 words, right? Dealing with so many clues at the same time, not everyone has the same way of thinking as you. ”
Peng Jinkang nodded. He realized the problem when he wrote it himself. But he was originally a son-in-law who was not short of money, and he just wanted to complete the story, without considering the market factors at all. Yue Qingyan said that he wrote it as an intellectual game, and he really felt a little bit of this.
Peng Jinkang said: "Then you say, how about changing this thing into a game?"
Yue Qingyan thought for a while and said, "I don't know this very well. Intuitively, it should work. But then, you're going to have to change it all over again. ”
"I have written. Before, I thought that I might not be able to reason, and then I took many plot nodes out of two or three directions. Then I used the software to arrange the calculations that appeared in this result. And then it was written out. Peng Jinkang thought about it and truthfully explained his working methods.
"In other words, you actually have a very complete topology map of all the plot nodes, right?" Yue Qingyan's eyes lit up and asked.
"Yes. Peng Jinkang was a little embarrassed: "This is a crooked way, so I was embarrassed to say it at first." ”
At this time, the eyeballs of the coffee coffee were about to bulge out. She believed that Yue Qingyan had already thought of this question when she asked the question just now. Peng Jinkang didn't actually write a novel, but could deduce many multi-structured texts with different endings as needed...... This has been considered before, but this kind of thing is really not something that people who are engaged in liberal arts can do.
"That means that you can write a paragraph of text for each plot node, and you can use it when you deduce it here, as long as you connect these fragments, it's the whole complete plot?"
"Yes. Some routes can be reasoned, and some routes cannot be reasoned. Some routes will be killed. Peng Jinkang said after thinking about it.
"Yes, you've probably developed a game-fiction hybrid that doesn't require a graphical interface. Yue Qingyan was speechless and said, "Although I think you probably didn't mean it, there is something wrong with this matter." ”
Peng Jinkang was still in a daze, he always felt that all the work he did was preparing a wonderful novel, and he didn't realize what the results of these questions asked by Yue Qingyan were pointing to.
"You can draw yourself, you can program, you can find an interface designer...... Get this thing online in a month. Yue Qingyan was surprised that Peng Jinkang had grown to this point. Of course, he himself was completely unaware of this, and only used a clumsy and skillful method to construct an unbreakable logical chain and write a coherent but not brilliant novel.
But Yue Qingyan discovered the most interesting way to experience this story that is not easy to read at all.