After the mixed-race Chinese guy Liu Kade recognized Chen Feng, his originally white face behind the glasses suddenly became bloodshot and red.

"You...... Are you Mr. Chen Feng Chen? ”

Chen Feng nodded expressionlessly, "Yes." What's wrong? Do you know me? ”

"OMG! How could I not know you! ”

Liu Kade suddenly covered his mouth, hid his face and cried with excitement, choked up and said in a trill: "I...... I...... I'm sorry I'm so excited. Last month I worked with my teacher on part of the validation of your conjecture set. I'm really ...... I adore you so much! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I can't control my feelings. I didn't expect to meet you here. I...... I ......"

Master Chen looked up at the sky.

He silently thought of such a sentence in his heart.

What a simple and lovely young man.

How......

I'm guilty!

Being treated with such a worshipful attitude by a contestant who is actually the best science fiction writer in at least a hundred years and who is also the object of his plagiarism, Master Chen really has mixed feelings in his heart.

Wait a minute?

It doesn't seem like it's the first time.

Why am I still red?

Alas, this person, if you want face, you can't be a man and do things without taboos after all.

Chen Feng, who eats people with a soft mouth and short hands, took about a few more seconds to adjust his mood.

He patted the shoulder of the peer opposite him heroically, "Don't get excited, calm down, I'm not much older than you." ”

James Diaz coughed twice and motioned for Lyukard to pay attention to the impact.

Call...... Whew......

It took Liu Kade about ten seconds to take a deep breath before he slowly calmed down, and smiled awkwardly, "I'm sorry." ”

Compared with the confident and arrogant Ryan, although Liu Kade is also a top student at Berkeley, his personality is much more humble and introverted, and he even seems a little inferior, and he likes to apologize.

Chen Feng knew the reason.

Liu Kade is very smart, but his identity as a Chinese-Russian mixture makes him very embarrassed, and his personal characteristics are very obvious, and others can easily recognize him at a glance.

Some childhood experiences of exclusion have always been hidden in his heart, causing an indelible shadow, making him not good at words, but only likes to record his thoughts in words.

"It's fine." Chen Feng waved his hand, "You don't need to be so excited, let alone be presumptuous. You can be an amazing person in the future. I'm not remarkable, the same one nose and two eyes. ”

Chen Feng: This can be regarded as a very polite encouragement.

He would be thinking about whether he could do something to make a difference to Liu Card, and the right should be used as compensation.

You can't just send him money if you have nothing to do, then Chen Feng will be suspected of sexual orientation.

It's just that inspiration is really hard to talk about, and Chen Feng doesn't know how to supply the other party with a complete inspiration for a while.

Literature is no better than music.

The inspiration of music bursts out, often short-term ideas inspire long-term life experience, and then boil out like a volcanic eruption, so Zhong Lei can be copied stronger and stronger.

Of course, it may also be that Zhong Lei is too talented and talented.

What Liu Kade was snatched away by Chen Feng was a complete "huge world" that he slowly built in nearly 20 years.

Therefore, it is very difficult for Chen Feng to give him back another huge world.

Master Chen himself is not a player who is good at creating stories, which is a bit difficult for strong people.

"Teacher Chen, you are so humble."

"It should."

At this time, James had already seen that Chen Feng attached great importance to this young man's attitude, so he simply asked Liu Card, who was also familiar with the set environment, to be Chen Feng's guide.

He himself just got out of his way and turned to figure out the set he was building.

James's arrangement was exactly what Chen Feng intended.

"Card, let's leave a contact information."

The two didn't go two places, so Chen Feng took the initiative to exchange numbers.

Liu Kade was flattered.

This guy is worthy of being an excellent student at Berkeley, with a wide range of knowledge, and his work is also very serious and meticulous, and basically when facing important sets, he can tell the intention of James's arrangement.

Chen Feng listened to it with relish at first.

After all, he himself is about to invest in films, and learning more about the ideas of big-name directors will help him to become a good consultant in return.

But it didn't take long for Chen Feng to gradually lose interest, because Liu Card's explanation was too detailed, and he just knew the box office and word-of-mouth situation of James's film, which can only be said to be relatively good, but far from being a classic.

About an hour later, in the beach outside the studio, under the sun umbrella, Chen Feng sat on a chair with Erlang's legs crossed, while Liu Kade stayed very reservedly.

"Card, do you like sci-fi?"

"Of course I do."

"What's your favorite?"

Liu Kade pondered for a moment, ""King of Light", "Ring World", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", "Base" series. ”

Chen Feng gave a thumbs up, "Good vision." But have you ever found a problem. ”

"What?"

"Many of the recognized classic long-form science fiction were produced decades or even nearly 100 years ago. Although there have been good science fiction in recent years, the number of classic novels is completely incomparable with the past. Why do you think this is? Is it because today's readers are thick with the past and the present? ”

Liu Kade was slightly embarrassed, "I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what it means. My Chinese level is average. ”

"It's that the current generation will always have a special admiration for the stories of the past, and express disdain for the preconceived works of their contemporaries. Even if the quality of the works themselves is not different. ”

When saying this, Chen Feng remembered Liu Card's own "Galaxy Immortal" series in the early timeline.

The book became a classic and was adapted into a famous movie, which also happened decades after his death.

When Liu Kade was still alive, "Galaxy Immortal" was sprayed a lot.

Liu Kade chewed on Chen Feng's meaning, "I understand." But I think it may be that these great authors have cut in from the perspective of pure fantasy decades in advance, and found a sufficiently reasonable scientific basis to depict the future theory in their magnum opus, which has gradually been recognized over the years. The progress of science and technology has proved that some of the originally purely empty theories really have a certain factual basis, so that their illusion decades ago has gradually become today's science, so it has been canonized as a classic. ”

Chen Feng smiled and nodded, "Yes, even if a certain book is wrong, as long as a few points in it are correct, and the story itself is logical, then this book can be regarded as a good science fiction." But that doesn't explain why there are fewer and fewer classic sci-fi today. You have to know that the books you just mentioned have had a huge impact shortly after they were born. ”

Liu Kade thought for a long time, and shook his head helplessly, "This is too profound, do you know the reason, Mr. Chen?" ”

Chen Feng nodded, "I do know." ”

Master Chen has a conclusion in his heart, but this is not his own originality, but the induction and summary of many historians and literary and artistic workers in multiple timelines.

When human civilization entered the 21st century AD, as time continued, human beings seemed to have really lost their imagination, and the science fiction works created since then have not entered the generation.

Science fiction is becoming more and more fantastical, and more and more unscientific.

For example, in the eighth timeline, there are works such as "The Three-Body Problem", "The Galaxy Will Not Die", "The Clockwork Girl", and "Mr. Shadow" in the 21st century, but since then they have irreversibly declined.

In the 25th century, there are only one or two left, one of which is Chen Feng's own biography "Fenglei".

Master Chen said spicy eyes.

In the thirtieth century, it was even worse.

Not to mention the huge work, even the movie is gone, which makes Chen Feng very painful.

The first is that he can only watch "antique old movies" in his leisure time in the 31st century, and the second is that it makes him anxious about whether human beings have really lost the ability to imagine the future.

Therefore, he devoted his energy to the study of historical materials, so as to ponder the accepted views of scholars.

Now that he is going to give Liu Kade a little bit, he has to start with science fiction in the 21st century.

"First, we can analyze a phenomenon. Do you think that in recent years, science fiction, movies, and TV series have become more and more important in fantasy, but less and less in science? ”

Liukade: "Yes. But why is that? ”

"Because the more human beings know and understand the nature of the universe, the balance between truth and fantasy in our pursuit will inevitably gradually drift towards truth. Our imagination will gradually decline with the advancement of technology. Also, do you know what the definition of a good long-form sci-fi is? ”

Liu Card: "Based on the present and focusing on the future, the future scientific background should be in line with theoretical expectations, and the discussion and portrayal of human nature should have a real texture in sociology." ”

Chen Feng nodded, "That's a good point." So let me ask you another question, how many years of learning time does it take for an ordinary person to join Newton's laboratory as an experimental assistant, and what is the level of knowledge mastered? Now, for example, how many years does it take for an ordinary person to become a research assistant in a key laboratory at the University of Berkeley? Want to master what you don't know? ”

Liu Kade gradually understood, "I understand." First of all, classic long-form sci-fi can't just revolve around a few characters and a single futuristic technology, it must have a well-developed and sufficiently grand worldview. Then it must be involved in all aspects of technology in the future world. Tens or even hundreds of years ago, a good science fiction writer would have read a lot of books and keep up with the tech hotspots of the times. They are both proficient and knowledgeable. But in our time, with the rapid innovation of science and technology, the amount of knowledge enriched by human beings is getting bigger and bigger, and the amount of basic knowledge contained in each discipline is too large. ”

"There are more and more scientific and technological hotspots emerging every moment of the day, and some of the classic theories of the past have been subverted. To become a perfect science fiction writer, the amount of knowledge you need to master is too amazing, and it is difficult to learn it with human energy, so it is inevitable that fallacies will appear in the creation and cause controversy. Therefore, it is becoming more and more difficult for people nowadays to write classic science fiction novels, and this difficulty will continue to increase with the further sublimation of the refined division of labor in society. ”

Chen Feng nodded, "Yes, your opinion is basically correct. Maybe in a few hundred years, mankind will have no science fiction and movies to watch. After a thousand years, there will only be about one subject left in science fiction. ”

"What subject?"

"Time travel."

"Uh...... I get it. ”

At this point, Chen Feng chose to stop here.

There are only so many hints he can give to Liu Card.

As for how far Liu Kade can go, everyone has their own fate.

Next, Liu Kade asked Chen Feng a little curiously about the questionnaire survey that Chen Feng did with Professor Oxford in China some time ago.

He wondered whether the results of the investigation were genuine.

Chen Feng told him that of course it was true.

"So people who can speak Chinese are really much better in the face of the end than people who can only speak English?"

Chen Feng smiled, "Maybe, who knows." Until it happens, it's all speculation. ”

"Mr. Chen, I came up with an idea for a science fiction story."

Liu Kade said suddenly.

"What?"

"I wonder if there is a Chinese who can travel through a time tunnel after a thousand years and really see the end of the world. Then this tunnel is strange and pulls him back into the present whenever he is about to die in the apocalypse. And then after a while he was able to pass again. Do you think he will really try to do something to change the future and save the apocalypse? What will he do? ”

"Ouch I'm ......"

Chen Feng almost jumped up from his chair.

I'm just giving you a hint if you want to be so brain-filling!

You're a monster!

Something happened to the pointer.

It seems that "Fenglei" is going to be hatched in advance.

Chinese? Think I don't understand the hints?

I'm still alive, and you're going to erect a monument to me?

What kind of fuss are you going to make?