The night is falling.

Anna Eleanor, the president's wife, brought the turkey, which she had roasted with her own hands, and set up the plates and forks with the servants, and shouted to the drawing-room: "Gentlemen, ready for dinner!" ”

Roosevelt carefully rolled up the oil painting and said to Zhou Hexuan, "Zhou, try Anna's craftsmanship." ”

Zhou Hexuan pushed Roosevelt into the dining room, saw four pairs of knives and forks on the table, and asked casually, "Are there any guests tonight?" ”

Eleanor explained with a smile: "Jimmy heard that you were coming, he came back from Hollywood, he was in Washington yesterday, and he is your big admirer." ”

"Really? That's an honor. Zhou Hexuan smiled.

Jimmy was Roosevelt's eldest son, James Franklin, a young man who was a tragedy in his career. He was undoubtedly a man of great intellect, having attended Harvard University and Boston University, and was the head of his father's campaign in Massachusetts during Roosevelt's presidential campaign.

When his father Roosevelt became president, James was smeared in various ways.

James was Roosevelt's campaign team, and naturally made suggestions for the appointment of members of the new administration, but it was reported that Roosevelt wanted to practice family rule in the United States. In desperation, James had no choice but to leave the United States and go to Europe, he did not want his father, who had just become president, to lose his reputation.

When James returned to the United States again, it was rumored that he was going to serve as secretary to the president. Before the appointment was announced, the overwhelming public opinion came again, and Roosevelt had to immediately abandon the idea.

Since the politicians were scolded, let's go into business, so James became the president of the National Grain Fermentation Company. It turned out to be a problem again, and the newspapers went viral that the company had ties to the mafia, and James was the president's son to become president, forcing the hapless young man to resign quickly.

Later, James attended the Conference of the Americas as an assistant to the president with his father, a move that was again criticized, and Time magazine called him the second president. James had no choice but to continue to resign, but privately he still helped Roosevelt with government affairs.

James is now playing in the insurance industry again, with a net worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars. When the news of his becoming a young rich man was revealed, the American people were furious, and the newspapers condemned him for using his father's position for personal gain. James finally couldn't help it, defended himself on the radio show, and then ...... Obediently resigned and left the insurance industry.

Now James has developed an interest in films, is studying in Hollywood, and will become the president of Gdwayne Film Company next year.

As Roosevelt's eldest son, James's career was so bumpy that it can only show one thing: Roosevelt's New Deal violated the interests of many big capitalists, and he himself was invulnerable, and those consortiums that damaged their interests aimed their fire on his eldest son.

It didn't take a few minutes for James to finally arrive at the White House.

Eleanor went over to give her son a warm hug and said, "Jimmy, my darling, you're finally back!" It's a harsh climate in Hollywood, and your face is tanned. ”

"Mom, it's just your delusion." James was a little speechless.

James came over to greet his father, and then said to Zhou Hexuan: "Mr. Zhou, it's a pleasure to meet again, do you have any new works?" ”

"In the process of creating," Zhou Hexuan stood up and shook his hand, "Thank you for your help to the Chinese." ”

James modestly said: "That's what I'm supposed to do, I'm just supporting justice." ”

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, although Roosevelt did not favor China, his eldest son James was working hard.

In the summer of this year, James was forced to leave the insurance industry by the American media, and was approached by Albert Einstein in his free time, and the two jointly launched the "China Aid Committee" to call for donations in more than 2,000 cities and towns in the United States.

Everyone sat down around the table to eat, drink and chat, and James suddenly asked: "Now there is a radio drama in the United States that is very popular, called "War of the Worlds", does Mr. Zhou think there are really Martians?" ”

"Martians may not have one, but aliens certainly have." Zhou Hexuan said.

Eleanor suddenly interjected, "Why must there be aliens?" ”

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "There are countless billions of stars like the sun in the Milky Way. And galaxies like the Milky Way have countless billions of them in the entire universe. Our earth, in its own universe, is like a grain of sand in the Sahara Desert. It is difficult to guarantee that in this desert of the universe, there is another or countless sands, which are as suitable for the birth and reproduction of living things as the earth. So, I think there must be aliens, maybe they're tens of thousands of light-years away from us. ”

"Maybe one day aliens will attack Earth." James burst out laughing.

Roosevelt and his wife laughed along, a reference to the sci-fi radio drama War of the Worlds.

Just 10 days ago, Americans were listening to a radio program when they were suddenly interrupted by urgent news. The radio then cut to a reporter on the spot, who vividly reported the Martian attack on New Jersey. The reporter's live connection was soon interrupted as the radio studio was attacked by Martians, and the announcer exclaimed: "God! Something was crawling out of the shadows, it was shining, like a wet leather, but its face was ...... It's indescribable. ”

At that time, nearly a million Americans were frightened and thought that the earth was really invaded by Martians. They panicked, some poured into the streets, some hid in basements, and some went out with guns to resist. In New Jersey, the "place of the Martian invasion", more than 20 residents in one neighborhood covered their faces with wet towels and rushed out of the house to run for their lives, because the radio said that the Martians were releasing poison gas in New Jersey.

At the time of the oolong incident, Zhou Hexuan was still in a hotel in New York. I only heard a noise inside and outside the hotel, and people kept shouting "The Martians are coming", and Zhou Hexuan, who was writing a book, was confused.

In fact, when CBS aired the show, it had already emphasized that it was a science fiction radio drama, but many people did not hear the explanation. Because the NBC invited two stars to record the program at that time, people changed channels one after another to listen, but the two stars only performed for ten minutes and left.

So listeners switched channels one after another, just in time to tune in to the first half of the "War of the Worlds" radio drama. In order to create an authentic atmosphere, the radio play is playing music, and it is said that it is a live performance by a well-known band, which is played at the Park Plaza Hotel in New York, but the music is actually played in the broadcast studio.

The music performance came to an abrupt halt, and the radio immediately inserted "urgent news" - the Martians had invaded the earth!

The radio drama also invited an "astronomer", who talked serious nonsense, and confirmed from a scientific point of view that Mars had several hot gas explosions, and the Martians could not stay on Mars any longer, so they came to compete with the earthlings for the earth.

As a result, nearly a million American listeners believed that the police stations in New Jersey were flooded with phone numbers, and major cities were experiencing serious traffic jams.

As soon as the news market was stolen by the American newspaper industry by the broadcast industry, the print media frantically attacked the broadcast media and deliberately exaggerated the bad influence to prove how unreliable broadcast news is.

Mixed up by major newspapers, the "Martian invasion" suddenly became a national event, causing strong concern in the entire American society. No, even the family of the President of the United States joked about it, and even Roosevelt's wife insisted on listening to the Martian radio drama every night.

This incident made science fiction quickly popular in the United States, cultivating countless new science fiction fans.

Zhou Hexuan's partner Mike took the opportunity to reprint "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes". This science fiction was first published in the United States two years ago, and the first three volumes were released one after another, and the sales can only be said to be barely good, after all, the science fiction market in the United States is not as good as in the United Kingdom.

Now provoked by the "Martian invasion" incident, the reprint of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" has sold an astonishingly high price, selling more than 60,000 copies in three days. Seeing this favorable situation, Mike is already preparing to publish the fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes, and anyway, Zhou Hexuan's name once again shook the American book industry.

This is a good phenomenon, Zhou Hexuan's "Nanjing Massacre" will probably be published in February next year, and it will definitely attract more attention with its explosive science fiction popularity.