Midnight.

In the square of the Yufeng Fiction Academy, a black train came out of the tunnel and stopped.

An old man dressed in white got off the train, this person was full of silver hair, over ninety years old, and had a faint smile on his face.

Lin was imprisoned in the forbidden area decades ago, and because of his good performance over the years and his contributions to the forbidden area, he was released from prison today.

"Lin Story, from today onwards, you are free. A policeman came down from the black train, he was a sergeant of the Yufeng Story City Book Police Team, "After you are released from prison this time, you should do your duty, don't read forbidden books anymore, lest you be imprisoned in the forbidden book area again." ”

Lin Shushu said with a smile: "In the past, there was a shortage of books, and there were no stories to read, so the old man had to read forbidden books. Now it's different, there will be big things happening in Huaxia, and a good story is about to be staged, so I don't need to read any more forbidden books. ”

The sheriff stepped forward and whispered for verification: "Lin story, Feng Manlou really escaped from the forbidden book area?"

"If you don't believe me, why do you ask me again?"

"However, the forbidden book area is heavily guarded, and I really can't understand how Feng Manlou can escape?" the sheriff wondered.

"If you can figure it out, you're not you, but the wind is all over the building. ”

The two chatted as they walked, and under the escort of the sheriff, Lin Shushu left the Yufeng Novel Academy. After that, the two parted ways, and Lin Story walked alone on the nearby student street.

The student street was very quiet at midnight, and Lin Shushu walked and looked around. Seems to be looking for something.

"Old man Lin. A voice came from overhead.

Lin Shishu looked up and saw a man dressed in black sitting on a big tree. The old man's face suddenly showed joy: "Brother Black Shadow, I thought you weren't coming." ”

A black figure leaps down from a branch. Falling to the ground, Liu Xing said: "If I don't come, won't I let you run away?"

"The Black Shadow Brother is really good at laughing. Lin Shushu smiled, "You have great powers, where can I escape from the palm of your hand as a bad old man." Don't you want to hear the story of "The Book of Heaven", find a place, and I'll give you a nag......"

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Xing had already dizzy him and picked up Lin Story. Liu Xing left in the dust.

A few minutes later, we arrived at Novel Street.

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Bohai Book City, underground secret room.

Lin Shishu had already woken up, and he and Liu Xing were sitting at a wooden table, drinking tea and chatting together.

"Tell me, what's going on with the Wordless Book of Heaven?" asked Liu Xing, when he was in the forbidden book area, he had heard Lin Story talk about the Wordless Book of Heaven.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you everything. Lin Shushu took a sip of tea. said slowly, "If you want to talk about "Wordless Heavenly Book", you have to mention the 'pre-reading technique'. ”

"Pre-reading?" Liu Xing was stunned, "What is it?"

"Pre-reading is a special kind of reading. Its purpose is to pre-read unknown plots in the novel. Lin asked, "Did you have such an experience when you were there? When you read the first chapter." You can guess the plot of the second chapter. When you read the second chapter, you can guess the plot of the third chapter of the novel. There are some old bookworms reading it. They only need to read the first dozen chapters to make up the general plot of the entire novel. This kind of brain-filled technique of making up the plot of the novel belongs to the category of 'pre-reading'. ”

Liu Xingxiao concluded: "What you said about 'pre-reading' is to predict the plot of the novel?"

"Not bad. Lin said, "Don't underestimate the 'pre-reading technique', guessing the plot of the novel is equivalent to predicting the future." With pre-reading, you can guess the fate of the characters in the novel. In reality, this ability is fortune telling. ”

Liu Xing roughly understood.

The so-called "pre-reading" is to predict the plot later in the novel in the process of reading.

Pre-reading is not a novelty, and almost every reader will predict the direction of the novel's plot, consciously or unconsciously.

For example, when reading the novel "Dragon Babu", some readers can predict that Qiao Feng will die at the end of the reading only halfway through, some readers can predict that Duan Yu is not Duan Zhengchun's biological son, and some readers can predict that Xuzhu is the son of the Shaolin abbot.

These techniques for predicting the plot are called "pre-reading".

In Huaxia, in addition to being used to guess the plot of a novel, pre-reading has a very important use - fortune telling.

Everyone's personal experience is equivalent to a biographical novel. The future fate of each person is the future plot of biographical fiction. If you can predict the plot of a biographical novel, you are tantamount to predicting the fate of the parties involved in the biographical novel.

As a result, in Huaxia, there are some readers who are proficient in pre-reading and will become fortune tellers and help people tell fortunes.

When telling fortunes, they will learn about the other person's past experiences through biographical novels, and then make up for the fate that the other person may encounter in the future through these experiences.

The higher the level of pre-reading, the stronger the ability to tell fortunes.

Therefore, many fortune tellers in Huaxia are first-class pre-reading masters, and these masters have a common characteristic - they read a lot of money.

Only by reading enough novels, mastering the rules of novels, and cultivating strong reading instincts can we more accurately predict the unknown plot of novels.

Theoretically, if pre-reading is developed to the extreme, it is prophecy, which can predict the future. Of course, this is only a theoretical possibility, and real-life pre-reading can only vaguely predict a small subset of events.

For example, when reading "Dragon Babu", some readers can predict Qiao Fengfeng's death, but it is difficult to accurately predict when Qiao Feng will die, where he will die, and how he will die.

Despite this, there are still many readers in Huaxia who are keen on the study of pre-reading. They study pre-reading not only to guess the plot of the novel, but also to control their own destiny.

"If you want to use pre-reading to help someone tell their fortunes, you must first know the other person's life experience. As a result, some fortune tellers like to collect other people's biographical novels, and I am one of them. "The reason why I like to collect stories from all kinds of celebrities. One of the most important purposes is to help others tell fortunes with pre-reading. ”

Liu Xing wondered: "Why do you want to help people tell fortunes?"

Lin Shushu smiled: "If you can know the fate of a person in the future, you will know whether this person is worth befriending." In every era, there are some people who are independent. They are the pride of heaven and can change the course of the world. If you can find the leaders of these times. If you borrow the general trend, then you will definitely turn evil into good fortune and make steady progress. ”

Liu Xing raised eyebrows when he heard it, to put it simply, helping people tell fortunes is to hug their thighs.

"Over the years, I have met many so-called 'pre-reading masters', but most of these masters are charlatans who have lost their reputation, pretending to be fortune tellers to cheat people out of money. There is only one exception, and that person is the Golden Three Links. ”

Lin recalled. Jin Santong is proficient in pre-reading, and he has collected a large number of character information in order to help people tell fortunes, and "The Secret Archives of Important Figures in Huaxia" is one of his achievements. When he was young, he liked to tell fortunes, and he was best at helping people predict their fortunes, for example, the trend of the stock market. ”

"Jin Santong is a financial wizard who won the reputation of 'stock god' when he was young. His accuracy in predicting stocks is surprisingly high. Many big bosses like to consult with the gold three links to understand the future trend of the market. ”

"When I was young, I once learned to trade stocks with Jin Santong. At that time, Jin Santong gave me a hexagram. He said I had great fortune in the coming year. Sure enough, in the following year, my stock went up more than a hundredfold. I am impressed by the stock prediction of the Golden Three Links. ”

However, the Golden Three Links are not satisfied with helping people predict the rise of stocks. He had greater ambitions and wanted to predict the trend of the entire Huaxia Kingdom. In order to achieve this ambitious goal. Jin Santong went even more frantically to collect biographical information of celebrities, and then combined these materials to predict future events in Huaxia Kingdom with pre-reading. ”

In the last few years of his life, he accurately predicted more than a dozen events. Forty-seven years ago, Jin Santong predicted that the Chinese Congress would build a novel street, and the location of the novel street would appear in the eastern part of China, with Tianhai City having the highest likelihood. Sure enough, a few years later, Tianhai City really built a novel street. ”

When the construction of the novel street began, Jin Santong once again predicted that he believed that Wang Tairan would be the president of the novel street. Sure enough, the Book King Xiaoyaoke really appointed Wang Tairan to manage the novel street. ”

"There were more than a dozen similar incidents predicted by Kim Santong that year, and each event eventually became a reality. It can be said that the golden three links are not only the god of stock prediction, but also the operator of God. For the general trend of China, Jin Santong knows everything about it, and the fate of many big people can be seen clearly. ”

"It's a pity that the Golden Three Links have calculated the fate of others, but not their own. When he was most proud, he was plotted by me, wrongfully imprisoned, and finally died of depression. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Shishu let out a long sigh and said with emotion, "When I was preparing to frame Jin Santong, I was very hesitant in my heart, it was a pity that a genius like Jin Santong died. After all, the first pot of gold I made in the stock market when I was young was inseparable from the help of the golden three links. It's just that Jin Santong always thinks that I am unreliable and imprisons me. I had no choice but to be ruthless in the end and set up a scam to kill the three links. A generation of talents has fallen like this, and now I still think about it and feel a pity, alas!"

With a look of helplessness on the old face, Lin Shushu sighed softly, picked up the teacup, and took another sip.

After listening to his words, Liu Xing was quite surprised, he couldn't imagine that Jin Santong would be proficient in pre-reading, and he couldn't imagine that the purpose of the book "Secret Archives of Important Chinese People" was actually to help people tell fortunes.

"Having said so much, you still haven't explained what the Wordless Book of Heaven is about?" Liu Xing said.

"Don't worry, we're going to get to the point. Putting down the teacup, Lin Story continued, "After Jin Santong was imprisoned, he was imprisoned in the forbidden book section of Story City, and at that time, he lived in the same cell as me. Of course, he didn't know that the person who framed him was me. ”

In the dungeon of the forbidden book area, Jin Santong calculated his life, knew that his general trend was gone, and thought that in the next 40 years, Huaxia Kingdom would be the world of the four book kings. The reading alliance formed by the four book kings can maintain prosperity for 40 years. ”

However, Jin Santong predicts that in 40 years, the pattern of Huaxia will undergo drastic changes. At that time, there will be a man in the Huaxia Kingdom who will change the pattern of the world, and this man will not only break the authority of the Four Great Book Kings, but also lead Huaxia into a new era. Become a new leading figure in the world of fiction. ”

Kim Santong also predicted that this man is about to change the pattern of the world. It will be in the forbidden book section in 40 years!"

"Forbidden Book Zone?" Liu Xing frowned.

"Yes!" said Lin, "because of that. I just stayed in the forbidden book zone and waited, waiting for this man who could change the pattern of the world for 40 years. For the past 40 years, I've been skeptical that Feng Manlou is the man who can change the pattern of the world. So, I already knew that Feng Manlou would explode this year, and he would definitely succeed in escaping from prison and then fight against the Reading Alliance. ”

After a pause, Lin Shushu looked at Liu Xing and said. "It's just that after meeting you in the forbidden book section, I suddenly wavered a little. Because you could just as well be the man who is about to change the world. Your martial arts are not under Feng Manlou, and your identity is even more mysterious than Feng Manlou. So, I began to ponder, is the man who can change the pattern of the world predicted by Jin Santong back then, the wind full of buildings, or the black shadow man?"

"Until now, I still don't have an answer in my mind. But. There is a way to determine the final answer. At that time, Jin Santong once told me that 40 years later, who would be able to open the book tomb of Heimu Cliff and seize the book coffin and the "Wordless Book of Heaven". This person is the new king of the Chinese novel world. ”

Liu Xing was puzzled: "Why?"

Lin explained: "Jin Santong already knew that there was a book tomb in Heimu Cliff before his death, and there was a "Wordless Book of Heaven" in the book tomb, and he was bent on getting this "Wordless Book of Heaven". Even the map of Blackwood Cliff was drawn. It's a pity that before finding the "Wordless Book of Heaven". Kim Santong was arrested, and this plan fell through. Jin Santong then thinks. Whoever can get the "Wordless Book of Heaven" in 40 years and complete his unfinished business will become the new king of the times. ”

"For the past 40 years, I've been trying to find a way to get into Blackwood Cliff, hoping to get my hands on The Book of Wordsless Heaven. It's a pity that I'm not the man who can change the world after all, and after 40 years of tossing, I still haven't succeeded. The book tomb of Heimu Cliff has a lot of organs, and the people who have the ability to enter the book tomb to win the "Wordless Book of Heaven" are probably only you, Feng Manlou and Brother Black Shadow. ”

Liu Xing asked: "What is "Wordless Book of Heaven"?"

Lin Shushu shook his head: "I also heard Jin Santong say about "Wordless Heavenly Book", I have never seen it, and I don't know what it is for. I only know that Jin Santong very much wants to get the "Wordless Book of Heaven", which is the biggest plan of his life. According to my guess, this "Wordless Heavenly Book" may have something to do with pre-reading. ”

After a pause, Lin Shushu suddenly asked, "Brother Black Shadow, is the Wordless Book of Heaven already in your hands?"

Liu Xing wondered: "Why do you say that?"

"The Book of Wordless Heaven is either in your hands, or in the hands of Feng Manlou. Lin Shushu said with a smile, "Brother Black Shadow, although I was originally very optimistic about Feng Manlou, I have now decided to stand on your side. If you become the new king of the world, I don't think the dream of immortality will not be impossible to achieve. ”

Liu Xing reminded: "I don't know you very well, I can kill you at any time." ”

Lin Shushu smiled and said, "You won't kill me." When I was imprisoned in a prison cell, Jin Santong once told me my fortune, and he said that my life was very hard and I could live for a long time. I believe that the golden three links will not be miscalculated, and I should not die so soon. ”

Talking about this, Liu Xing is a little more curious about pre-reading, this kind of reading skill can really help people tell fortunes?

Liu Xing said: "Old man Lin, you can also pre-read?"

"Of course, the old man has been studying pre-reading for almost 60 years. Lin Shushu said quite proudly, "After collecting celebrity information for so many years, I am very accurate in my opinion. ”

Liu Xing took out a novel "108 Heroes", handed it to Lin Shushu, and said: "This novel has only been written 50 times, and it has not been finished, can you use pre-reading to predict the ending of the characters in the novel?"

"I'll take a look. Lin took "108 Heroes" and read it attentively. He reads very fast, almost ten lines at a glance, hundreds of thousands of words of novels, and he reads them in ten minutes.

"What a masterpiece of the world!" When he finished reading it, Lin asked curiously, "Who wrote this book "108 Heroes"? The author of this novel is talented, extremely talented, and has the style of a king!"

Liu Xing sighed secretly, the vision of this Lin story is really poisonous, and he can see the level of this novel at once.

"It's a pity that this "108 Heroes" was not finished. Lin said, "However, I can almost guess the fate of some characters in the novel, for example, Xiao Li (Li Kui) is estimated to die at the end, and he died more unjustly, he should have been killed." ”

Liu Xing's heart moved, in the ending of "Water Margin", Li Kui did die, he drank the poisonous wine given by Song Jiang and died.

"How do you know that Xiao Li (Li Kui) will die?" Liu Xing was curious.

"Character determines destiny. In the context of the novel, a person with a character like Xiao Li cannot escape death, and there are many hints in the plot of the previous novel, and it is not difficult to guess that Xiao Li will definitely die unjustly in the end, and it is likely that he was killed by the heroes of Liangshan. After a pause, Lin Shishu continued to speculate, "Xiao Lu (Lu Zhishen) and Xiao Wu (Wu Song) are different, these two people are more assertive, I estimate that Xiao Lu and Xiao Wu will live longer, they may choose to retreat in the end, or they may become monks."

Liu Xing asked: "What about the fate of other Liangshan heroes?"

Lin Shushu confessed: "The pre-reading technique is not omnipotent, as far as my current eyesight is concerned, I can only roughly see the fate of Xiao Li, Xiao Lu and Xiao Wu, as for the other Liangshan heroes, I can't see it for the time being." However, give me a little more time to ponder, and perhaps I can guess the fate of a few more fictional characters. ”

Talking about this, Liu Xing initially believed in the role of pre-reading, and it only took Lin Shishu more than ten minutes to basically guess the approximate fate of Li Kui, Lu Zhishen, and Wu Song in "Water Margin", and he was equivalent to counting the lives of the three of them.

It can be seen that pre-reading can really tell fortunes!

Liu Xing asked: "Pre-reading should belong to a branch of reading, why doesn't there seem to be such a course in the School of Fiction?"

"It's not surprising. Pre-reading is not something that everyone can learn. In fact, not one of the 100,000 people who read books can really learn the art of pre-reading, and many of the so-called pre-reading masters and fortune tellers are liars who have no real talent at all. ”

Lin said, "Most pre-reading masters are not taught, but practiced by themselves. The training method is very simple, which is to read a lot. When you read millions of novels, you will know the rules of the plot of the novel, and if you have a good enough imagination, you will be able to predict the plot of the novel and learn the pre-reading technique. Of course, the art of pre-reading is vast and profound, and it has no end. ”

"Reading millions of novels?" Liu Xing suddenly realized, so the old bookworm is the most likely person to learn pre-reading?

Only by reading millions of novels and being familiar with various novel rules and routines can it be possible to initially master the pre-reading technique, which is simply impossible for ordinary people to achieve.

Liu Xing has read novels for so many years, and the number of novels he has read is estimated to be no more than 3,000. (Unfinished novels don't count.) ）

Reading millions of novels in a lifetime is an almost impossible task unless you have a very fast reading speed.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing suddenly remembered that in the dungeon of Meizhuang, he once picked up a copy of "Feng's Speed Reading Method" left by Feng Manlou, which was a theoretical book that introduced fast reading skills......

…… (To be continued......)