Chapter 293: The Fifth Novel
Wu Zhuoxi is an ordinary office worker, with a more introverted personality, not very good at communicating with people, and only becomes more talkative when talking about novels with others.
Therefore, he basically has no social activities, and his life is very simple, every day is to go from home to the company to work, and then return home from the company after work at night, and the life of two o'clock and one line seems dull and boring.
In this dull and slightly boring life, novels are the only kind of entertainment that can attract Wu Zhuoxi, and the rest of the time except for work is reading all kinds of novels every day.
Before the first half of 1980, Wu Zhuoxi, like everyone else, basically only read martial arts novels, fantasizing that he could have martial arts like Zhang Wuji, Ling Huchong or Yang Guo.
It's just that all this changed after a novel called "Zhu Xian" came out.
The novel "Zhu Xian" allowed Wu Zhuoxi to enter a world of Xianxia that he had never imagined.
The very distinctive sect of cultivating immortals, the powerful magic weapon immortal weapon, the powerful elixir, and the dazzling immortal fighting method, coupled with the ups and downs of the plot development, the increasingly grand world of Xianxia, and the dusty rhyme revealed by the immortal cultivator, all made Wu Zhuoxi fall into the world of "Zhu Xian" and couldn't extricate himself.
Since then, Wu Zhuoxi has become a loyal fan of Chen Lang, a young talent in Xiangjiang, and every day when he goes to work, he will get up early and run to the newsstand some distance from the bus station to buy "Oriental Daily".
Whether it is windy or rainy, rain or shine, this seems to have become a habit of life, and Chen Lang's novels have also become a necessity in Wu Zhuoxi's life.
Even if Wu Zhuoxi still had to bear the burden for the family that was not well-off, he still bought the physical book of "Zhu Xian", and even spent a lot of money to buy the collector's version of "Zhu Xian", which also made Wu Zhuoxi criticized by his family and neighbors, but Wu Zhuoxi turned a deaf ear and spent a month's salary for this.
Wu Zhuoxi did not regret it, but felt that it was worth the money, Chen Lang's four novels in a row are rare classics, and the last three are even the pioneering works of a new genre, which makes Wu Zhuoxi admire, thinking that his approach is wise, and even proud to be Chen Lang's hardcore and be able to have a limited edition "Zhu Xian" novel.
Wu Zhuoxi has been a die-hard fan of Chen Lang for two years, and he has the physical book of Chen Lang's four books, isn't it only "Zhu Xian" published? Could it be pirated books?
No, but Wu Zhuoxi edited and bound the newspapers he bought every time into a book, made four physical books by himself, put them on his desk, and read them often.
On the evening of 30 June, Wu Zhuoxi edited all the newspapers "Buddha is the Way" serialized in the "Oriental Daily" that he had bought and bound them into a book.
Looking at the four novels on the table, Wu Zhuoxi was happy that he could be the only person who could own the physical books of Chen Lang's four novels, and he was also full of expectations for tomorrow's "Oriental Daily".
In the early morning of July 1, countless novel fans were waiting in front of the major newsstands in Hong Kong to buy "Oriental Daily", and Wu Zhuoxi naturally got up early, picked something into his mouth indiscriminately, ran out of the house, and came to the newsstand far away from the bus station and lined up.
Wu Zhuoxi thought that he had gotten up very early, but when he saw that there were five people lined up in front of him, he felt a burst of chagrin in his heart, as if he felt that he was not the first person in line, and he was a little sorry for his status as a die-hard fan of Chen Lang.
At this time, the newsstand had just opened the door, and the boss saw the long queue in front of the door, and the newsstand boss was very happy but no longer surprised, because he had seen such a scene many times, and he also knew that the reason for such a grand occasion was that Chen Lang's new book was officially released today.
For this reason, the boss specially called the "Oriental Daily" to ask for an increase of fifty percent of the pick-up volume today, of course, many bosses in Hong Kong are like this, and the "Oriental Daily" also specially asked LL Publishing House to increase the printing volume of the newspaper in order to cope with today's situation, and everyone seems to have experience in this.
Soon the newsstand began to sell newspapers, and the people in line also paid with excitement and anticipation, and directly picked up the "Oriental Daily" and left while reading.
Wu Zhuoxi quickly got the newspaper that still exuded the fragrance of ink, and immediately walked towards the bus stop, and at the same time couldn't wait to open the novel section of "Oriental Daily", and what caught his eye was three words---ghost blowing the lamp."
That's right, Chen Lang's fifth novel is "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", the originator of tomb robbery novels.
Chen Lang had been thinking about which book to write in the fifth novel, and there were many classic novels in his previous life, and he couldn't decide which one to write for a while.
Later, when I was still in school, I remembered this novel when I took a textbook from my desk.
In his previous life, Chen Lang was also in the third year of high school when he was about to take the college entrance examination, because he was really tired from reviewing, his head was full of texts, so he sat on the table and prepared to empty his brain, and then turned to the book in his classmate's desk.
After seeing the three words "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Chen Lang, who just wanted to empty his head, flipped through it, and then fell into it all of a sudden, unable to extricate himself.
"Ghost Blowing the Lamp" series of novels, a total of two. The author Tianxia Ba Sing pioneered the four major tomb robbery sects in history - touching gold, unloading mountains, hair hills, and moving mountains, among which touching gold is the sect with the highest technical content and the most rules.
The reason why it is called "Ghost Blowing Lamp" is because "people light candles, ghosts blow out lamps" is the secret of the legendary gold touching faction, which means that entering the ancient tomb first light a candle in the southeast corner to open the coffin, if the candle is extinguished, you must quickly exit, and you can not take a thing.
According to legend, this is a contract between the living and the dead made by the ancestors, which has been passed down for thousands of years and cannot be broken.
There is a proverb as evidence: hair hill seal, touch the golden talisman, move the mountains and unload the mountains to find the dragon's trick; People light wax, ghosts blow out lamps, and survey the public to look for the stars; Mercury, nourishing vessels, and the Dragon Tower Treasure Hall go to countless places; The coffin, the bronze coffin, the eight characters are not hard, and they are not close to the front.
The book is based on a family heirloom fragment of a secretary. In order to solve the eternal mystery of the disappearance of the tribe, the three contemporary school captains use the secret art of feng shui to interpret the pulse of the mountains and rivers in the world, and find those dragon towers and treasure halls that have been lost on the earth.
Deserts, snow-capped mountains, forests, canyons, rapids, grasslands, little-known mysterious animals and plants, dangerous traps, every step of the way, the links are closely linked, beyond the limits and the challenge of imagination, in the bizarre and strange underground world, uncover layers of ancient mysteries.
Speaking of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", I have to mention another tomb robbery novel "Tomb Robbery Notes", which of the two is better-looking, and it has also caused a lot of controversy on the Internet.
After reading "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Chen Lang became interested in this kind of book, and then after looking up novels of the same type on the Internet, he saw that many people recommended "Notes on Tomb Robbery", so Chen Lang read this highly rated tomb robbery novel.
After reading the two books, Chen Lang also saw the debate on the Internet about which of the two books was better.
As far as Chen Lang is concerned, the writing of the ghost blowing the lamp is much stronger than the tomb robbery notes. In the ghost blowing the lamp, there are countless proverbs, sayings, afterwords, and idioms, which are very appropriate, and the language is very lively and funny.
Another deep impression is that in Ghost Blowing Lantern 1, the dialogue and language of the characters in the Wen\/Revolution era are very interesting, and the writing of the tomb robbery notes is relatively ordinary and featureless.
Ghost blowing lantern has a wealth of folk knowledge, a wealth of folk literature and folk tales quoted and interspersed, a complete self-justifying tomb robbery system, a wealth of professional knowledge of the tomb robbery industry, a real sense of space, reasonable geographical knowledge, and more professional black jargon, giving people a very real feeling.
The tomb robbery notes are relatively poor in these aspects, especially after just reading two books, this feeling is very obvious.
At the same time, the ghost blowing lamp is the originator of the mountain, and the tomb robbery notes are undeniably with the help of the ghost blowing lamp in the creation.
There is also a complete plot of the ghost blowing the lamp, the suspense can be justified, echoing before and after, the suspense and mystery set in the front can all be solved in the back, and the tomb robbery notes are a lot of places that cannot be justified! Set up suspense and mysteries without cracking! There are also some holes in the plot!
Tomb robbery notes are also stronger than ghost blowing out the lamp, that is, the character descriptions are more flavorful, and some characters can leave a deeper impression.
There is also a good job in horror, Chen Lang still remembers a video that describes the protagonist going to an ancient house to see a woman with long hair crawling to the door, that description is a little scary for a timid person like Chen Lang, especially when I watched it overnight, it was already more than one o'clock at night, and I was really scared and shrunk into the bed.
In addition, the storylines of "Tomb Robbery Notes" are relatively independent, which is very suitable for making a series of movies, and Chen Lang, who is now reborn in Hong Kong, has some thoughts about this, and if he is involved in film production in the future, he can make an Oriental Indiana Jones series of adventure movies.
In general, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Tomb Robbery Notes" are the two best tomb robbery novels so far, but in terms of personal preference, Chen Lang thinks that the ghost blowing the lamp is slightly better than the tomb robbery notes.
Wu Zhuoxi was directly stunned after seeing the three words "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", could it be that Chen Lang's fifth novel is a ghost story or a ghost novel?
Wu Zhuoxi felt that this was unlikely, he believed that Chen Lang's novel would not disappoint him, so he pressed the doubts in his heart and read it.
In the first chapter of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "White Paper Man", Wu Zhuoxi was a little trembling, the paper man was actually resurrected to speak human words, and the text accurately said that the resurrection of the paper man was ghostly.
The rat friend in the second chapter is Wu Zhuoxi who watched it a little laughing, this rat brother and Hu Guohua are really a nest of snakes and rats, and they smell the same, but although Hu Guohua eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and smokes all five poisons, but for a rat so affectionate, it can be seen that its nature is still good.
But after reading today's two chapters, Wu Zhuoxi still can't understand what this book is going to write and what type of book it is?
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