Time has been turned back again.

The reading area of Hell Story City is back at 0:00 a.m. on March 15th, and all the residents are in the dark about it all because their memories have been erased.

However, there is one group of women who are the female writers of Hell Story City.

Time has been turned back, which means that women writers have to redesign the plot of the reading area for the third time.

Reading Street, in cafes.

The female writer Lilac and Plum Blossom sit together and are conceiving a non-fiction novel in the reading area.

"Alas, how did you conceive today's plot?" Lilac frowned, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai can't be together, they must be separated." But if they are forcibly separated, the plot is too old-fashioned, and the editor-in-chief will definitely not be satisfied. ”

Plum blossom sighed: "Yes, it's so difficult to conceive the plot of the novel!"

Lilac said: "It's not difficult to come up with a plot, I can come up with 1,000 different plots in an hour, and it's stress-free. The problem is that these 1,000 episodes are all plots that have been written by others, and it is too difficult to write a new plot that no one else has written!"

Meihua agreed: "According to incomplete statistics, the average number of episodes in a novel is 1,978, and the total number of books in the library of Hell Story City has reached more than 200 million, and the total number of plots is about 400 billion. Almost every plot we can think of has already been written, so how easy is it to innovate?"

"But it's not okay if you don't innovate!" Lilac looked sad, "This non-fiction novel is written for His Majesty the Book Emperor, he is an old bookworm, and he has read all the plots of the routine." It's already aesthetically tired, and there's no sense of substitution. We had to write new plots. in order to meet the standard. ”

Lilac continued to analyze: "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai must be separated, which belongs to the plot of lovers breaking up. I looked it up. There are a total of 598 types of writing plots for lovers breaking up, of which 48,944 changes can be deduced, and someone has written about each change of plot. We've got to come up with the 48,945th variation!

Lilac clutched her head tightly and looked at the computer in front of her, a pair of eyebrows huddled together, trying to find a new plot idea in her mind.

Two female writers are meditating.

Unbeknownst to them, three invisible people walked into the café, it was Liu Xing, Yuxin and Wang Lanlan.

Liu Xing and the three of them had just taken a turn in the reading area of Hell Story City, preparing to find the location of the death row in Hell Story City.

According to the clues provided by Liang Shanbo. Mrs. Jin may now be imprisoned on death row, and Liu Xing naturally wants to find Mrs. Jin.

It's a pity that Liu Xing has searched all the reading areas of Hell Story City and found that there is no death row here at all, and death row should be in other areas of Hell Story City.

The entire reading area is closed, and Liu Xing still can't find a way to enter other areas of Hell Story City, and naturally he can't find death row.

In desperation, Liu Xing had no choice but to return to the reading street, ready to start with the female writer. Hope to find some clues

"Dad, what are the plum blossoms and lilacs doing?" Wang Lanlan quietly stepped forward and looked at the lilacs and plum blossoms.

Liu Xing said: "They should be Kavin." ”

"Kavin?"

The so-called Kavin refers to the fact that the writer cannot find an idea when conceiving a novel. Stuck and couldn't think of a follow-up novel plot.

Carvin is something that every writer encounters, at the time of Carvin. Writers often keep spinning around at one plot point, racking their brains to come up with one follow-up plot after another. But these episodes were not satisfactory, so they had to be deleted completely. Keep thinking about it, and keep repeating the process.

Lilac and Plum are now in a state of Carvin, and if the plot they conceive is not up to standard, the editor-in-chief will start a time-lapse process to reimagine it.

Every time you turn back, Lilac and other writers have to rethink it, and if they can't come up with a satisfactory plot, they can only be stuck forever on March 15, an infinite single-day cycle.

Never reach March 16th.

It's a nightmare for any writer.

"Ah!!!h

Suddenly, Lilac, who had been thinking for a long time, let out a scream, and after thinking about it for a long time, she still didn't think of the plot idea, she was almost driven crazy, and complained with a bitter face, "Many writers say that Carvin is as uncomfortable as constipation, and it's really not wrong at all!"

"Is it better for Kavin to be 10,000 times more uncomfortable than constipation?" Plum Blossom also frowned, "As long as you work hard, constipation can still have some effect." But once you're gone, it's useless for you to hit your head against the wall!"

Lilac casually pulled her hair, but a few strands of hair fell on the table, she picked up her hair and looked at it, and said worriedly: "Meihua, I've been staying up late lately to think about the plot, and I've lost a lot of hair! If I continue like this, I won't become bald, right?"

"It's not that serious, is it?" Meihua comforted, "Don't worry, as long as we stay up until April 1st, we will complete our mission and can return to the central area of Hell Story City to rest." Today is March 15th, as long as you hold on for another 15 days, it will be April 1st. ”

"It's easy to say!" Lilac reminded, "It's good that it's March 15th, but if we can't come up with a plot that meets the criteria, we'll be stuck on March 15th, and we won't stop on a single day, and April 1st is out of reach!"

Hearing this, Liu Xing, who was hiding on the side, heard an important clue.

Judging by the dialogue between Lilac and Plum Blossom, they will be heading to the heart of Hell Story City on April 1st.

Liu Xing has not been able to find a path to other areas of Hell Story City, if Lilac and other female writers can go to the central area of Hell Story City on April 1, it is equivalent to helping Liu Xing find a path, and death row may be in the central area.

At that time, Liu Xing may find Mrs. Jin and solve some mysteries.

However, the premise is that the time of the reading area can be reached on April 1.

Lilacs and plum blossoms are now in the cycle of March 15th, and if you can't solve the problem of Carvin, the time will not be able to go to April 1st.

"Ah!!!! how did you come up with today's plot?"

Lilac screamed again, and she scavenged all the ideas she could think of in her brain. I came up with dozens of plot plans one after another, but I just searched for them in the novel library. found that these plots were all routines written by others, and there was nothing new at all.

"Carvin is really worse than dead. I might as well hit my head and die!"

Lilac lay down on the table in a depressed state, and she really felt how difficult it was to create a new plot in an age when there were so many writers.

What writer doesn't want to innovate? Which writer doesn't want to get rid of routines? But the plot you can think of has been written by countless people, and you want to write a plot that has never been written by tens of millions of people, which ...... Not kidding?

"Meihua, we may die of old age on March 15th. Lilac lay on the table like a dog, looking deflated.

Plum Blossom touched the lilac's head and comforted, "Baby." Don't be so pessimistic, there is no endless road, you should be able to think of a creative plot!"

"I think there is extremely little hope, even less than a conjoined baby who is pregnant with twins!" Lilac began to analyze the plot, "Liang Shanbo can't let Zhu Yingtai get pregnant, the two of them will definitely be separated." Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai are ready to be martyred, so it can be seen that it is impossible to separate them by themselves, and the only way is to forcibly separate them. There are a total of 89 types of forcible separation, including isolation, imprisonment, intimidation, beating, deception, kidnapping, legal sanctions, blame, drugged, brainwashing, and so on. Each type is classified into dozens to hundreds. ”

"Take beating as an example, there are 1,287 types of beatings, including punching, kicking, slashing, stabbing with a sword, shooting with a gun, electric shock with an electric baton, stabbing with a dagger, blowing up with a bomb, smashing with bricks, and so on. But for every type of beating, someone has written a corresponding plot, and there is nothing new at all!"

Plum Blossom Reminder: "Lilacs." We can beat different parts of the human body! For example, if someone else's plot is written as a slap in the face, we will write a slap in the foot! Other people's plot is written as a slap in the chest. Isn't that something new?"

Lilac shook her head: "It's useless, the body is composed of nine circulatory systems." There are more than 200 bones in the body, and the plot of each part has been written. Plots like needles piercing the large intestine, knife barrel duodenum, gunfire prostate and so on are not new, as for the routine plots such as cutting the kidney, stabbing the stomach, shaking the liver, digging out the heart, piercing the lungs, etc., it has long been a bad street in dark novels, and there is nothing new. ”

Meihua thought for a while, and then said: "We can change to a different person to beat, right? If someone else writes about gangsters beating people, we are police officers and prosecutors beating people; if others write about men beating people, we will write about women beating people." Also, you can set it into different professions. Our Huaxia country's occupations are divided into 28 categories, a total of 4,987 majors, different occupations should have new ideas, right? Also, you can apply different ages, ethnicities, personalities, blood types, constellations, hairstyles, clothing, education, nationality, etc., there is still a lot of room for choice. ”

Lilac said: "Plum blossom, your idea is too naïve. Do you think that if you change your vest, the reader will not be able to see it? If someone writes about a policeman in a white police uniform and a nurse in black high heels beating someone, do you think that readers will think that these are two different plots? In the reader's opinion, this is a type of plot, that is, beating people! If you change your identity to beat people, readers still feel that your plot is not innovative and does not go beyond the routine of beating people! It is useless to just change the skin!

Meihua frowned, thought about it, and said, "We can change our thinking a little more." It doesn't have to be a human to perform the action of hitting a person, but an animal can do it. For example, letting a dog beat Liang Shanbo and forcing Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai to separate, this should be something new, right?"

Lilac pulled up a document from the computer and said, "See for yourself." The plot of letting a dog hurt people is already a rotten street routine in animal novels. Even if you put on what you said before, it's still the same old thing. For example, there are 768 kinds of parts that hurt people, dogs can bite people's legs, dogs can bite people's hands, dogs can bite people's buttocks, dogs can bite people's cocks...... These plots have long been written by animal fiction writers, and the old bookworm has read them and almost vomited, crying and shouting that the plot is not new! Alas! Where is there so much novelty?"

Meihua looked at the information on the computer, and her face suddenly became a little more solemn: "Why is it so perverted? Even this kind of plot has been written all over again!"

"It's very simple, this is a world where there are as many writers as dogs! How many people eat for a mess, and the output of tens of thousands of words and tens of thousands of words a day. All the plots that can be thought of have been thought of, and the plots that you can't think of have been thought of by others. Lilac let out a long sigh. "His Majesty the Book Emperor is an old bookworm, and his reading volume is estimated to be several million. I want to write a plot that makes him feel new. Do you think it's possible?"

Plum blossom was silent for a while, and then suddenly asked, "Lilac, do you say that the number of types of plots is limited?

Lilac held her chin with both hands and said with a depressed face: "How do I know? However, it will be more and more difficult for future writers to write a new plot. I guess when I'm bald, I won't be able to survive until April 1st, right?"

Meihua's heart tightened: "Hearing you say this, I'm really a little worried." The innovation of the plot is no longer a cabbage. It's almost at the end of the day. If all the plots have really been written, what is the point of our writers' existence? Isn't it enough for readers to read novels that already exist? Alas!"

The two female writers lay on the table together like two puppies, sighing and continuing to ponder the plot of the novel.

"Lilacs and plum blossoms are pitiful!"

Seeing this, Wang Lanlan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, she is also a writer herself, and she is naturally familiar with Kavin's pain.

In the past, when writing mystery novels, Wang Lanlan often wrote letters, and when some mysteries could not be reasoned or could not find the logical chain, it was often difficult to sleep for a few days and nights. It is difficult for people who have not experienced this pain to understand. And for writers, this experience is the norm, and there will always be a few days of the month that make people uncomfortable.

However, Wang Lanlan's situation is a little better. She is a freelance writer, she can write if she wants to, and she can hang out if she doesn't want to write. No one cares anyway.

Lilacs and plum blossoms are much more difficult, and they have to be updated every day. Plot is to be conceived every day. If you can think of it, you will update it, and if you can't think of it, you must update it. How many mentally ill people have been trained in this way.

"Dad, Lilac Caven is so bad, should we help her?" Wang Lanlan asked, "If Caven doesn't solve it, they will be trapped on March 15 and repeat the same day over and over again." ”

Liu Xing naturally understands this: "The path to the central area will open on April 1, and we must make time go to April 1 as soon as possible. So, we're going to help Lilac and the others solve Carvin's problem. ”

Wang Lanlan's eyes flashed widely: "This time Kawen seems to be very serious, Lilac and they don't know how to conceive the plot of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, how to solve it?"

Liu Xing smiled: "Of course not. The plot evolution is endless, but human imagination is limited, there are a large number of blind spots in thinking, and many plot patterns cannot be conceived, and can only be repeated in limited routines. ”

Wang Lanlan suddenly became interested: "Then how do you conceive the plot of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?"

Liu Xing squatted on the ground, drew a split and merge pattern similar to OOXX, and explained: "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai want to be together, this is [Convergence], and the people of Hell Story City want to separate them, this is [Separation]. So, this is a plot wave that moves from a convergence to a division. To analyze this plot, we must start with the structure of the division. The subordinate properties of the dividing potential can be heterogeneous and homogeneous, and can be divided into internal and external potential from the structure, and can be divided into a heavy potential and N-heavy potential from the level, and each classification can refine hundreds of sub-potentials. As long as we start from these three perspectives, we can deduce a large number of plot waves. ”

"For example, we use the idea of heterogeneous potential + internal potential + double potential, heterogeneous potential has 3600 seed potentials, internal potential has 8180 seed potentials, and one heavy potential has 249 structures, so we can deduce 3600×8180×249=7332552000 plot waves, but it is only the tip of the iceberg of plot waves. If a plot is conceived using multiple components, the number of plot waves can increase exponentially and expand indefinitely. ”

"The above is a case where only the plot waves of the split potential are considered, and if the plot waves of other potential are added, the plot evolution will be richer. For example, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai want to be martyred naturally, which is the 'life trend' and 'death trend', and the time in the reading area can be reversed, which is 'homeopathic' and 'contrarian'...... These can provide a lot of ideas for plot evolution. It's a pity that lilacs and plum blossoms are limited by their imagination and keep spinning in place without finding a breakthrough......"

Wang Lanlan listened attentively, nodding from time to time, she had studied the twenty-four potentials of "Plot Wave", and immediately understood Liu Xing's analysis, thought about it, and asked: "Why are lilacs limited in their imagination and can't conceive of them?"

Liu Xingdao: "If writers want to have the imagination of unbridled people, they must be given free creative space. If writers are kept in captivity like animals, the writer's thinking will be shackled, gradually ossified, and eventually the imagination will naturally be lost. Lilac and plum blossom are all bred in captivity, they are trapped in Hell Story City, forced to write non-fiction, with heavy ideological shackles on their bodies, how can an oppressed writer like them still have creativity and imagination?"

Wang Lanlan asked, "Then what now?"

Liu Xingdao: "At this point, I can only help them conceive a plot, solve Kavin's problem, and get out of the single-day cycle on March 15." ”

Wang Lanlan's eyes lit up: "Dad, what plot are you going to conceive?"

"Of course, it's the plot that Huang Lingtian wants to see. Liu Xing said, "Let's go, Xiao Gu, let's go and prepare first." ”

…… (To be continued.) )