Flipping through the cover of the novel, I unexpectedly didn't see the so-called famous author recommendation that is common in ordinary novels, and the length of the 'introduction', etc., the first page of this "Resident Evil" novel only has the title of the book and a simple list of some creators, and in addition to this, it is something similar to the introduction of the introduction and the article.

However, it was this brief introduction that made Xu Fei's curiosity rise even higher, "Hitler and his Third Reich?" ”

As a country that provoked the first and second world wars, although Germany was completely weakened by the NATO countries led by the United States after World War II, after a short period of struggle, Germany once again relied on hardships and tenacious struggle, and once again stood tall among the world's great powers.

At this time, World War II had just ended half a century, and some legends and stories about the Second World War were still widely circulated in the world, among which the most influential in the world were the Third Reich's "The Mystery of the Nazi Disappearance of Gold", "The Mystery of Hitler's Death", "The Mystery of Rommel's Treasure", "The Mystery of the Third Reich's Mysterious Technology and Flying Saucer", and so on. When Xu Fei was in school, he was also very obsessed with some mysterious legends about the Third Reich, and even bought a few books such as "The Unsolved Mysteries of World War II" and "The Unsolved Mysteries of the Third Reich" published by the Tongde Book and Newspaper Company. said that the suspense that was thrown out at the beginning of the novel can be said to have captured his heart at once.

I put it down and flipped through it, and soon I was on the table of contents page.

"Chapter 1: Danger Strikes, Chapter 2: Amnesiac Man, Chapter 3: Mercenary Squad, Chapter 4: Infiltrating the Hive, Chapter 5: The Flame Empress, Chapter 6: Death Trap, Chapter 7: Hell Descends, Chapter 8: The Beast Strikes, Chapter 9: The Culprit, Chapter 10: Life and Death Battle, Chapter 11: Escape, Chapter 12: The Shocking ......"

was aroused, Xu Fei didn't care about hurting his eyes when reading in the car, until the bus driver reminded him to arrive at the station, he had already read the first three chapters in one go, and at the same time had a deeper understanding of the novel.

Reading a book in a bumpy car is obviously not a pleasant thing, after getting out of the car, rubbing his sour eyes, his head is also a little dizzy, but Xu Fei just rubbed his temples, and then anxiously trotted all the way to the company.

"It's a great book, it's a great idea. Located nearly 100 meters underground, the base of the step-by-step killing machine - 'Hive,A kind of Black Death virus,A research and development based on the 'Black Death virus' called Taut (tyrant), a dangerous virus with magical powers, amnesiac heroes and heroines, and powerful mercenaries who regard life as a mustard,And behind all this, hidden behind the powerful mysterious group that reveals a connection with the Third Reich that has long since fallen - the umbrella...... The person who came up with the idea and idea was a genius...... No, he's a genius......"

It's so exciting that I get carried away with excitement, Xu Fei even has a feeling that he can't control his body, he likes the setting and creativity in "Resident Evil" too much, the kind of novel creativity that is different from traditional Hong Kong martial arts novels and science fiction novels, it only took more than 30,000 words to completely capture his heart. As a result, after getting off the bus, he was completely preoccupied with the plot of the next novel, and he forgot that he hadn't even eaten lunch yet, and walked straight to the company, eager to finish the novel quickly.

There are no qualified science fiction novels in Hong Kong, in fact, not only in Hong Kong, but also in the whole of China, including the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, which are bound by the popularity of education, the system and the imagination of the authors themselves, it is difficult for the Chinese to write science fiction novels that are truly rigorous and scientific. For example, in Hong Kong, Ni Mad is a well-deserved science fiction giant in the Chinese world, and countless people praise him for writing the classic science fiction novel "Wesley Series".

However, a few people know that when Ni Mad's "The Furnace in the Center of the Earth" was serialized in "Ming Pao", there was such a description: "Wesley fell from the plane to Antarctica, hungry and cold, and when he saw a white bear coming, he killed it, skinned it for warmth, and ate meat to satisfy his hunger. Readers write to the problem: "There are white bears in the North Pole, there are no white bears in the Antarctic, and there are only penguins in the Antarctic!"

Ni Maan, who never paid attention to the letters from readers, ignored the problems pointed out by readers, and still did not correct them until the publication of "The Furnace in the Center of the Earth". His arrogant literati attitude annoyed his readers, and as a result, the man sent him a letter every day, writing longer and longer, analyzing his imrigorous attitude, the book full of errors, and the serious lack of common sense, which was irresponsible and misleading to the reader, and asked him to explain, otherwise it would be shameless to write it again.

In the end, Ni Mad was annoyed, and asked "Ming Pao" for a column that could write two or three hundred words, but he deliberately used a large font and only replied three sentences: "Mr. XX: First, there is no white bear in Antarctica; 2. There is no Wesley in the world. If you don't want to see it, please take it easy, don't deliberately find faults" The editor of "Ming Pao" thought that the tone of provocation was too heavy, and directly notified the boss Jin Yong, who was deleted by him, and only the first two sentences were finally published in the newspaper, which still caused a period of turmoil in Hong Kong, making Ni crazy and embarrassed.

In the end, Jin Yong stood up and spoke for him, "It turns out that there are white bears in Antarctica, but now there are none, because Wesley killed and ate them." ”

The attitude of partiality is clearly displayed, and the reader is so angry that he scolds the "scoundrel".

A generation of martial arts masters, a scientific giant, all fell under the skin, and it is no wonder that Hong Kong people have not been able to write real science fiction novels before.

The novel version of "Resident Evil", which was born several years in advance by Lin Xiaozhi, may not be rigorous, but it is undoubtedly more qualified to be called science fiction than the "Wesley series", which lacks common sense and is full of errors.

"Resident Evil" was originally a game released by the well-known Japanese game developer Ca in early 1996 on Sony PP and Sega Saturn consoles, and the game quickly became a global sensation and was sought after by tens of millions of avid game lovers. Lin Xiaozhi rarely plays games and doesn't know much about the games of Resident Evil, but Resident Evil is not just a game. After gaining an amazing reputation, Ca North America first invited the famous American novelist · D. Perry wrote the novel adaptation, and then co-invested in the first film of the Resident Evil series, which gradually replaced the Tomb Raider series as the highest-grossing game adaptation of all time.

· D. Perry's version of "The Resident Evil Umbrella Conspiracy" takes place in 1998 in the fictional "Raccoon City" in the United States. Because the citizens suffered a series of murders, it was rumored that there were "ghouls" in the city, causing a huge panic among the citizens. Raccoon City's police commissioner, Elons, announced that an elite police team will be dispatched to investigate the truth, track down the murderer, and protect the safety of citizens.

The full name of this police force is TR Force, and among the team members is the main character of the story, Jill. Valentine, Chris. Redfield, Barry. Domber, Rebecca. Chambers and Albert. Wesker is a battle-hardened character with superhuman combat effectiveness. This team was a sacrificial pawn from the beginning - because, the serial death of citizens was caused by the Umbrella Corporation's bioweapons experiments.

The Commissioner of Police has actually been bought off by the Umbrella Company, and the captain of TR, Albert. Wesker is simply a spy sent in by the Umbrella Company - in order to lead this team into a dangerous situation, fight zombies, and test the power of the company's biological weapons. The entire TR force was originally outnumbered, but at the beginning, the vanguard fell into the trap of the umbrella company and suffered heavy casualties, and only Rebecca survived. And the follow-up troops, Jill, Chris, Barry, and Brad in front of the teammate died, and were sent to continue the investigation.

After layers of death traps, everyone learned more and more truths, and later, everyone also knew that Wesker was a spy sent by the Umbrella Company. When the group was about to make an end with Wesker, they alarmed the tyrant zombies in the castle.

Everyone fled, and Wesker was killed by the Tyrant Zombie (suspended animation) Then, the Tyrant Zombie continued to chase and kill everyone

At the end of the first episode, Jill, Chris, Barry, Rebecca, and the others face the ultimate pursuit of the Tyrant Zombie when the TR rescuers' plane arrives. Everyone used bazookas to attack the tyrant zombies, but they detonated the self-detonation device of the ancient castle, causing the entire huge ancient castle to be reduced to ruins in an explosion. Much of the evidence of the Umbrella Company's crimes was thus destroyed in the explosion.

Lin Xiaozhi has seen · D. Perry's version of the "Resident Evil" novel, by heart· D. Perry is indeed a very good novelist, and she is very good at adapting already excellent movies, games, and TV series into even better novels. The Resident Evil fiction version that was born through her was undoubtedly a success, but it was also a failure.

Why do you say that, because the official novel of "Resident Evil" that she wrote can be said to have exhausted the essence of this game, and it is obviously a success. But it is precisely because of this that Constantine Pictures found that when it intended to shoot the film version of "Resident Evil" in UU, if the film version was adapted based on her novel, the grand scenes and the ultra-high special effects support required would cost the filming close to or even more than 200 million US dollars, and it would not be possible to get it out in a year or two.

This price is obviously not something Constantine is willing to bear, so the end result is that Constantine Film abandoned the official novel and asked someone to readapt the script, and in the end, it was not completely deviated from the game line, but it was about the same, and the filming budget was reduced from 100 million US dollars, probably second only to "Titanic", to 16 million pounds.

What Konstantin didn't do back then, Lin Xiaozhi obviously wouldn't be stupid and drain all of his family funds, just to fight for a movie. Rather than gambling on an uncertain future, he would rather stand on the shoulders of giants and take a step forward.

At the beginning of the 21st century, 16 million pounds, taking into account the purchasing power of money and inflation, is now almost more than 11 million pounds in 9l years, which is almost 145 million when converted into Hong Kong dollars. Considering that the shooting cost in Europe and the United States is higher than that in Hong Kong, if Media Asia has a better grasp, it will actually be able to shoot within 100 million Hong Kong dollars with the effect of the original work. After all, the cost of special effects in "Resident Evil" was not high, and the special effects company hired was not first-class, so the first effect was not very good. With the strength of the new visual studio that he fully supports, he can still do it with all his might.

Because of this, when designing the novel version of "Resident Evil", Lin Xiaozhi directly adapted his first novel roughly according to the movie version, and of course added some ideas from the original official novel that did not affect the difficulty of filming too much, such as increasing the number of members of the mercenary team, not letting the mercenary captain and most of the mercenaries die in the laser channel, but preparing to make them die either when fleeing or in the hands of canine zombies and lickers. As for the mercenary captain, he survived to the extreme, but was eventually captured by the Umbrella Company because of the virus, and transformed into a 'tracker', etc......

Admittedly, · Although D. Perry's version of the "Resident Evil" novel has increased the difficulty of filming, if it can really be filmed, just that kind of effect and scene will definitely become an insurmountable classic in the history of human science fiction movies...... Now that he doesn't have that strength to shoot, it doesn't mean that Lin Xiaozhi will completely deny it, if Huanya can develop stronger in the future, I can't say that he will really try to shoot.

Hong Kong's publishing industry flourished in the 50s, flourished in the late 70s, and entered the early 80s. There are many reasons for the decline of an industry, from politics and society, and other factors, of course, one of the main reasons for the decline of the Dow refers to the decline of the Hong Kong publishing industry, precisely because of the decline of Hong Kong martial arts novels, which once accounted for most of the Hong Kong publishing industry.

The release of the novel version of the movie in advance was originally just a propaganda method for Lin Xiaozhi, and the Hong Kong publishing industry began to decline in the early 80s, and he still knew about it, and he had no other luxuries. Therefore, although he let the throat newspaper "Cheng Pao" a few days ago, he released the news to the outside world, saying that the first batch of "Resident Evil" novels will be released, and the first batch of only 50,000 copies will be printed. In fact, the real situation is that the world publishing company under his name has only printed a total of 50,000 copies of the "Resident Evil" novel, but he is worried that the novel will not sell at all.

At the beginning, this was indeed the case, after the World Publishing Company took the lead in delivering goods to major sales outlets in Hong Kong through Meiya's channels, more than 70 bookstores, supermarkets and department stores only joined forces to take away more than 14,000 novels. This is still after getting Ma Rongcheng's promise, once the book is not sold, the original price of the world will be recovered.

However, when the "Cheng Pao" newspaper mentioned that the official release date of the "Resident Evil" novel had arrived, in just one morning, not only the more than 70 bookstores, supermarkets and department stores were taken aback, but also the world's publishing companies, when most of the sales outlets opened at 9 o'clock in the morning, in just over an hour, more than 70 sales outlets that had appeared on the "Cheng Pao" sold more than 4,000 copies of the "Resident Evil" novel. It has almost sold out all the purchases. In the face of the flock of dissatisfied buyers, the sales points were kind words and polite apologies at the same time, but also did not forget to tacitly dial the phone of the World Publishing House, with the first morning of the hot sale in front, you 700 and I 1,000, soon the World Publishing Company printed in advance of the 50,000 copies of the inventory of all sold out.

Then, on the second day, 29,000 copies were sold, and on the third day, they were almost sold out again. In the face of more and more complaints and curses from customers, the major sales outlets can only keep calling the world publishing company to urge them to provide new goods as soon as possible.

“…… Sold out 50,000 copies in three days, and the "Resident Evil" novel sold well" - "Cheng Pao"

"Oriental Daily": "Media Asia tested the waters and was successfully published, and Lin Xiaozhi's new movie "Resident Evil" was exposed. The resurrection of the dead by the super virus detonates readers' enthusiasm ......"

"A very interesting science fiction novel, very imaginative and very rigorous, I heard that the novel is completely adapted from the movie script written by Mr. Lin Xiaozhi, and I admire that even people like me, who don't often watch movies, can't help but look forward to the movie version of "Resident Evil", hoping to see the movie released as soon as possible - Jin Yong in April"

“…… The movie became popular before it was released, and "Resident Evil" became the most anticipated film in Hong Kong in the first half of this year. Originally, I heard that Media Asia invested 100 million Hong Kong dollars just to shoot a movie, and a friend of mine told me that it was probably a gimmick. But yesterday I finally finished reading the novel version of "Resident Evil", and I began to worry about it, can 100 million Hong Kong dollars really shoot the kind of effect in the novel? I'm looking forward to it" - "Film Fortnightly

Around the listing of the novel version of "Resident Evil", at the beginning of the month, just because of a temporary press conference, Lin Xiaozhi broke the news that the new movie would spend 80 million or even additional funds to shoot, which caused heated discussions from all walks of life in Hong Kong. However, with the release of the novel version, the exposure of a large number of plots made the audience, who were looking forward to it, feel excited and excited, and finally understood why the investment in the film was so high.

Yes, it's really hard to shoot with the plot in the novel. Whether it is the intelligent computer that is quite intelligent and even does not hesitate to kill people in order to protect the overall situation-Flame Empress, or the dog zombies, lickers, etc., which have appeared one after another, they are not easy to shoot, and if you don't spend money on special effects, you really can't get that kind of effect.