It's just that, although he thought it was normal when he saw the rejection for the first time, he was completely confused by the repeated rejection. He thinks that his writing is not much worse than the others, which is a modest statement, and objectively speaking, his story is better than thirty percent of the articles in the semi-monthly magazine. However, the magazine always rejected him.

Could it be because of your own background? Slum people are supposed to do nothing? In the author's profile in the magazine, he did not write about his origin, but the mailing address and account number are special enough for the editor to know at a glance. Compared to the same level, the editor will definitely choose the author of the sailor clan and the author of mixed race, and even the ordinary middle-class author, which is the same in any dynasty and generation.

Sure enough, when he continued to buy the magazine, he found that the magazine was very tolerant of sailors and half-breed authors, even if the novels they wrote were actually flirting in the context of space, without any scientific core, they were still published in large lengths and promoted.

But he was not reconciled. He is not entirely for his dreams, but also for the not too high manuscript fee, if he can earn an extra yuan, his life can be greatly improved.

But just three years ago, there was a big event in sci-fi submissions. One author immediately published the entire content of the manuscript, and he set up that this universe is a universe dominated by magic, science is nothing more than freaks, and in the eyes of most intelligent life in the magical universe, the world of science is witchcraft. Intelligent beings in the magical universe can transform air into power, regulate the temperature of objects at will, manipulate metals and electromagnetism, control the brains of other creatures, and even control the brainwaves of dead creatures.

This is just a deviation from the imagination of science fiction, it is said that even if the editor doesn't like it, the rejection is, and the author submits the manuscript and sends the content out in advance, and it is completely possible to directly reject the manuscript for reasons that are not first-hand. However, within 10 hours of submission, the armed police surrounded the family and immediately entered the violent arrest, and killed one person in the chaos, and all the relatives who had lived with the author for many years, including the author, were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, which will never be commuted.

This caused an unprecedented super earthquake in the literary world (to be precise, science fiction is almost all of the literary world): the original content of the submission was inappropriate, and it would lead to prison or even death!

Since then, grassroots writers have been silent for a long time, but fortunately, this is the only science fiction magazine, and it is not out of stock, at most it adds space love spicy tang and harem crossing to the space love of sailors and half-breed authors. When this terrible wind has completely passed, only human authors will submit articles one after another, but no one dares to write these things anymore.

However, there is a very strange saying among the people that the leaders of the "Lightning Flower" are all legendary "magic people", and the author who was sentenced to life happens to write the magic they can use! Some people even say that the author who was sentenced to life does not exist in itself, in fact, this is a novel written by the "Lightning Flower" collective, and the submission is a provocation to the official sailor civilization, and at the same time, the publication of the novel on the public website is also to let the people know about the "Lightning Flower" in the form of a story. However, as network management has become more stringent, these rumors have also disappeared.

Tong Xing didn't dare to touch these forbidden areas again, but he didn't have the money to buy new popular science magazines and professional scientific papers, and he didn't know anything about the current frontiers of science. But recently, when I was learning to fly an airship, I suddenly came up with a really good idea.

You must know that airship piloting is the same as speeding car driving, and artificial automatic navigation mode is also set, but this can only be limited to very rare and absolutely safe areas, you must know that the road conditions in space are much more complex than the sky on the planet, full of all kinds of difficulties, and even increasing, resulting in high-frequency modification of driving school textbooks at any time.

Therefore, it is difficult to want complete artificial intelligence, after all, it is necessary to consider the preservation of the airship, and the health and safety of the passengers on the airship, but also to consider whether there are bad people among the passengers, whose side should be on when the behavior of grabbing the wood occurs, whether the passengers' instructions must be unconditionally obeyed, and how to deal with external aggressive forces, and often various difficulties are overlapped at the moment of emergency, the computer is inferior to the human brain, and the computer must analyze various parameters before it can choose a wavering intermediate answer, And you can't make decisions on the spot like humans.

So, Tong Xing came up with a story: when the computer develops to the stage of quantum computer, it can be seamlessly connected with the human brain, completely integrated, and manipulate the entire airship and even the entire spaceship as flexibly as the human brain controls the limbs, wouldn't it greatly improve efficiency? Maybe future interstellar wars will develop in this direction! Generally speaking, most of the bad aliens in the interstellar war theme are the sworn enemies of the sailors - the rain praying civilization nicknamed "Thorn Man", as long as they are beaten to the end of the novel, it is considered to carry forward the main score, and the chance of the manuscript passing is greatly increased.

But just then, he heard a slight noise on the other side of the refrigerator.

Dislike! It's rats again! However, he was not completely unhappy, fortunately, he learned airship, and the physical examination requirements were very strict, so he was given the expensive anti-plague vaccine for free, and he is not afraid of rats now. If he could catch one, he could bake it and eat it, he ate it once, and it tasted good.

The house is cramped, and as soon as I enter* into the narrow corridor, I feel that something is wrong. His parents were asleep, and he didn't want to make a noise, but he had a bad feeling: Why was it pitch black? How can the lights in the refrigerator not come on at all?

When he probed his brain and wanted to go to the kitchenware table next to the refrigerator to get a kitchen knife, he suddenly felt a strong wind hitting his face, and he couldn't help shouting immediately, but his voice was dumb and he couldn't move.

Then, Tong Xing saw a tall figure standing up, a mobile phone that didn't come out of his cuffs, and as soon as the mobile phone reached this person's hand, it was all darkened. The man simply disassembled the phone into smaller parts, and although it looked like it was the first time he had made it, it was still a little clumsy, but it was still fast, and Tong Xing asked himself if he was not so good at playing with this ultra-thin machine when he first came into contact with it. But a strange thing happened, after dismantling, this person put the phone back on, so what else did he dismantle?

Then, the man took Tong Xing's collar and dragged him into the house, closed the door, locked it, and did it in one go.

"You can't talk now, I'll do it." The man's voice was as polite as possible, and it could be heard that he was not a kind character in his bones, "I have no intention of harming you and your family, because I have principles, but principles will change, if you want to harm me, then why am I so polite to you?" You family of three are really nothing in my opinion, it's too easy for me to kill you, you should be able to see it, right? "

Tong Xing wanted to speak but couldn't, couldn't move if he wanted to nod, sweated profusely in a hurry, and then blinked in time.

"Now, tell me, are there any devices inside and outside your house that can monitor me? From now on, yes or yes, you blink, no, no, or no, you close your eyes. "

The child wakes up and closes his eyes.

"Is there any device that can listen to you and me?"

Tong woke up and still didn't open his eyes.

"Very good, I don't know anything about your society, it doesn't matter, I can learn, and I learn quickly. I think your area is a slum, and the richest guy is the one in the east who runs a scrap yard. I cut off the electric gate in your building, this decision is bold, but it's nothing, a long time ago, I did even the most bold decision, but you haven't been born yet. Sure enough, you people here cherish the electricity bill, and you rest early at night, or work in a smear, and there is no entertainment at night, at most, you watch the news that the state requires the people to know, and you don't charge for electricity. So when the power goes out, no one knows, and if they do, no one cares. It's ten o'clock at night, and I'll be back tomorrow morning by four o'clock. Now, I'll unlock your acupuncture hole, and if you want to shout or run around, you can try, and although you can't see your own death, I can unscrew your head and show you in the mirror. "

Tong Xing was shocked and frightened, so he had to continue to blink.

With a flick of the man's fingers, the boy woke up and felt that the feeling in his throat that had been like a dead knot in the air was gone, and he could clearly feel that the dead knot had been cleverly untied at once.

"You...... What are you...... Is this magic? Although he knew that he was going to kill himself, because of his love for fantasy literature, he actually blurted it out, and he didn't regret it after saying it, anyway, life and death are in the hands of others, since people dare to show it to themselves, they are not afraid that they will know, and it is useless for them to refuse to know.

"What magic?" The man asked rhetorically, but apparently cautious by nature, and stopped asking. Then, the man picked up a piece of frozen tofu in the refrigerator: "It seems that there are poor people in all eras, and I always feel that since human beings have come to space, at least they can fill their stomachs, right?" You don't even have a piece of meat in your fridge, it. "

Tong Xing wanted to speak again and again, and only said after a while: "I'll tell you, you better stop talking nonsense, run, although my parents' house is also closed, two doors away from our house, but their mobile phones can also listen to the two of us, but it may not be very clear......

The man sneered and said, "You underestimate me too much. I also controlled the phone in your parents' house. "

Tong Xing was shocked: "You...... You! How are you doing to my parents? "It's like standing up.

"They're fine. I gave you the opportunity to make a mistake this time, who allowed you to stand up? "

Tong Xing saw that he spoke very gloomy, very frightened, when he heard that his parents were fine, he knew that this person was so terrible, there was no need to lie to his little person, so he was relieved, and then his strength poured out, and he lost his energy, and sat down.

"I went in* into your parents' house first, clicked on their sleeping holes, and then disassembled their phones. Your phones are still working, but you can't hear what you want to hear anymore, because I'm breathed into it. "

The man stared at Tong Xing: "I am also from a poor background, but I am very insecure now, and it is understandable to kill your family." God let me go in* into your parents' room and found this thing, so I plan to spare your life, at least I can be a little patient with you, so you didn't stand up without my permission, and I didn't do anything to you, you have to know each other. Tell me, where did this thing come from? He shook an old watch in his hand, which had stopped running at all.