Shang Lu subconsciously wanted to agree.

Shen Jiang is not always so sassy and generous, but in the face of the man in front of her who is a few years younger than herself, she occasionally has a whim in her heart: Why does this kid's eyebrows and eyes seem to be a little familiar? Have you seen it somewhere? She obviously couldn't recognize other people's looks, and even if she did, she wouldn't remember them, but this inexplicable familiarity was like a thin red thread that came out of the darkness in the dead of night and circled around her heart.

This makes Shen Jiang quite distressed, just like accidentally recalling the animation clips he watched when he was a child, or the words and phrases of the songs he listened to, vague, vague, and vague, you can't even tell if it's real or just seen in a dream, so people scratch their heads, Shen Jiang turned off the light and lay on the bed and thought over and over again, the more unpredictable he is, the more he wants to peel off the cocoon, resulting in a can't sleep at night.

So every day Shen Jiang invited Shang Lu to dinner, and secretly observed during the meal.

Shang Lu: Leader, what are you staring at me?

Shen Jiang: Supervisor, did you say we've met before?

Shang Lu lowered his head and grilled rice: I've seen it.

Shen Jiang was surprised: When have you seen it?

Shang Lu: Yesterday.

Shen Jiang slammed his face: I mean a long, long time ago.

Shang Lu: Yesterday was a long, long time ago, I didn't see you for a day, like every three autumns, I haven't seen you for three years, and I miss you very much.

Shen Jiang has no way to take Shang Lu's.

It may be that the eight characters are incompatible, these two people will inevitably fight together, and Shen Jiang is a few years older than Shang Lu, but the advantage in age is not shown at all, and she sometimes wants to put on the posture of the eldest sister and the leader to suppress the other party, but she will break the success in less than three sentences.

Shang Lu's identity as a stationed support engineer is really hateful, he still belongs to Science City in terms of personnel relations, and he is under the dual leadership of Cheng Zi and the chief engineer of the base in business, and he has a stack of people who can give orders to Shang Lu, but he does not include Shen Jiang, who has the position of a giant machine pilot, and in fact, he can't even command a dog.

"Forget it, I don't care about you, sister, I haven't seen any big scenes?" Shen Jiang turned around and stretched out three fingers, shaking them in front of Shang Lu's eyes, "Even if it's an angel, I'll kill three, the ghost gate has killed three people in and three out, the king of Hades was stunned when he saw me, strictly speaking, people all over the world owe me three lives, including you-"

"Great kindness and great virtue will be reported in the next life." Shang Lu said.

"Then you have to reincarnate three times to repay me." Shen Jiang's eyebrows fluttered, as if he had finally gained the upper hand, "The next life, the next life, the next life, and the next life." ”

After dinner, the two slowly walked back.

"Walking along this road, in front of you is the office building of the old Machinery and Materials Institute, which moved out last year and moved to the rear." Shen Jiang walked under the street lamp and pointed ahead with his chin, "Now the building is empty, almost abandoned, and can only be used as a warehouse." ”

"Can I sleep there at night?" Shang Lu asked.

Shen Jiang turned his head and glanced at him, "Yes, but the temperature is low at night, so you have to build a fire." ”

"Will the pickets arrest me?" Shang Lu asked.

Shen Jiang took the white hard hat from his hand and buckled it to Shang Lu's head, "You can try to fool around." ”

"Pretending to be a picket?"

"No, pretend to be Dondy." Shen Jiang said, "Supervisor, if your speed is fast enough, when the picket wants to arrest you, you can run away and shout back and shout that you are the director of the 110 workshop planning office 1047, and get rid of them after shouting, anyway, the terrain in the base is complicated, and the pickets often can't catch people." ”

"The contemptible body is weak and sickly, not good at running, ironclad can not run picket, and the result of trying to escape in vain is that the whole base will be criticized tomorrow morning, and he will be punished." Shang Lu shook his head, "Unless you can stay and make a fire with me, you are the leader, and the pickets don't dare to do anything to you." ”

He just said it casually, but he didn't expect Shen Jiang to think about it with his hands behind his back, and actually turned his face sideways and said, "Okay."

The old machine building is a small white building with a mottled and peeling exterior wall, only three floors, located at the foot of the mountain, the building that has been abandoned for more than a year is not taken care of, and the lawn soon overgrows with vigorous weeds, to the waist height of an adult, the two of them pass by the road, looking through a row of glass windows, all dark.

The weeds and shrubs in late autumn were all haggard, Shang Lu took a large handful, folded and piled them on the concrete floor of the porch of the small building, Shen Jiang took out a lighter and lit it—she didn't smoke, she actually carried a lighter with her.

The bright flames flickered up, and Shen Jiang added firewood to the fire in surprise, lighting a fire outside was a novelty for her, if it wasn't for Shang Lu's whim, she wouldn't have thought of it. Shang Lu coughed to avoid the smoke, swept the floor with hay, padd his butt with his backpack, and found a place to sit.

"When we were in Science City, we used to make our own fire and roast sweet potatoes to eat." Shang Lu stared at the crackling bonfire, the warm light of the fire swaying on his face, "It's always three o'clock in the morning when we get off work, everyone is asleep, and we're hungry after a long day's work, so we asked for a big bag of sweet potatoes from the kitchen, and roasted and ate them downstairs in the dead of night." ”

"What do you use to make a fire?" Shen Jiang asked.

"What's burning what's going on." Shang Lu said, "Waste materials, logs, and dismantled wooden tables and chairs can be burned." ”

"Science City doesn't care?"

"Tube, if we catch it, we will be notified for criticism, and we have been notified for criticism several times." Shang Lu said, "The director told us bitterly, are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost?" Is there a lack of that stuttering? Sweet potatoes are all eaten by you, what do pigs eat? At the safety production conference in Science City, he criticized us by name, saying that the RCBI team of his institute violated fire safety regulations and secretly roasted sweet potatoes in the park. ”

"And then?"

"Then the other groups also learned to secretly roast sweet potatoes."

Shen Jiang sneered and laughed.

The fire burned more and more, the hay and shrubs burned fast, and every few minutes Shang Lu had to pull out the dry wood, and soon the whole circle around the porch was bald, Shen Jiang crossed his knees and supported his head, and the old god was watching him add firewood.

"Life in Akademgorodite isn't as much fun as you think." Shang Lu said, "I said, it is a place with a suicide rate of more than 7 per 10,000, and for a long time I can hear the news of someone jumping off a building and hanging themselves every day...... That is, Science City does not study nuclear weapons, otherwise someone will definitely detonate it and pull everyone to play together. ”

"In this way, the future of mankind is actually pinned on the hands of a group of neurotics." Shen Jiang said.

Shang Lu glanced at Shen Jiang across the fire, nodded, and said, "Yes."

Shen Jiang straightened his legs, then leaned against the pillar, rested his head with his two hands, and sighed: "This world is so small."

"The Sichuan Basin has an area of 250,000 square kilometers."

"But it's just a bathtub." Shen Jiang shook his head, "I'm hungry, do I have anything to eat?" ”

"There is nothing to eat, there is something to drink." Shang Lu took out two cans of soda from his backpack, "Do you want the rest of the dinner at night?" ”

"Yes." Shen Jiang took it, unscrewed the lid and took a sip, and then reached over with the hand holding the soda, "Come, cheers." ”

Shang Lu clinked glasses with her.

"May humanity perish soon." Shen Jiang smiled.

Shang Lu was stunned for a moment.

"When all mankind is destroyed and the whole world is left with me, I will drive the Red Lotus to the South Pole alone." "Then I stood on the South Pole, facing the boundless white ice field, and kept looking into the distance, and just like that." ”

"See what?" Shang Lu asked.

"Look into the distance." Shen Jiang said.

Shang Lu took a sip of soda, nodded, and then raised the jar in his hand: "Okay, I wish mankind an early demise."

"Cheers!"

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(Important gossip of the author:

First of all, I wish you all a happy New Year and a New Year's greeting to your classmates.

Secondly, let's talk about this year's World Science Fiction Convention and the Hugo Awards.

As we all know, this year's World Science Fiction Convention will be held in Chengdu in October, and this year's Hugo Award will also be awarded at the conference, because the conference is held in China, so Chinese works can also be directly evaluated without translation.

Although the Hugo Award has been questioned and controversial in recent years for many reasons such as excessive political correctness, it is still a fairly heavyweight science fiction/fantasy award, with a pivotal position in this field, and the direct participation of Chinese works is a good opportunity.

Some students may have heard of this, and big-eyed readers should have read his recent single chapter, but most people's understanding of this matter may not be clear and comprehensive enough - after all, after China Literature's works expressed their intention to participate in the Hugo Awards, many people on social media showed obvious dissatisfaction and pessimism - as a representative of evil capital, the starting point is to defile and destroy the science fiction awards with the shoddy commercial garbage it produces.

"The starting point must be swiped tickets, and a Hugo Award must be smashed with money."

"The gold content of the Hugo Award has been further reduced."

- It's normal to have this kind of thought, after all, the Hugo Award is a foreign daughter-in-law, and the starting point of the online article is a local old hat, and the situation that the online article has been at the bottom of the chain of contempt for a long time makes the public subconsciously think that it can't be put on the table, let alone win the award.

As an online writer, I can only express helplessness in the face of this situation, after all, the inherent impression of the public is not formed in a day or two, and it is impossible to change it in a day or two, but about the matter of "online literature works participating in the Hugo Award", I can talk to you about how it was done.

First of all, the rules of the Hugo Awards are different from other science fiction awards such as the Nebula Trajectory Award, which is not an award selected by a committee of experts, but a readers' choice award, and the nomination to the final selection is dominated by the reader's vote.

However, please note that not everyone is eligible to nominate and vote, and in order to be nominated and voted for the Hugo Awards, you need to register on the official website of the World Science Fiction Convention and pay to become a member of the World Science Fiction Convention.

The price is not cheap, if you only want to buy nomination and voting rights, it will cost you 320 yuan, if you want to buy nominations, voting and offline participation in science fiction conventions, you need to spend 640 yuan, and it should be noted that members who register before February 1 (that is, five days later) will have the right to nominate, and members who register after February 1 will only have the right to vote without the right to nominate.

From the end of January to the end of April, the nomination stage is the most successful finalist in this stage, and the shortlist is announced and voting is opened at the end of May, until the final results are announced in August.

Here's the process.

Secondly, the Hugo Award has a number of awards, including Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Short Novel, etc., and these projects have quite strict requirements - for example, it must be the first work published in 2022, for example, it must be a finished work, I saw someone ask why "Abnormal Creature Observations" did not participate, or why "We Live in Nanjing" did not participate in the evaluation - the answer is simple, their publication time does not meet the requirements.

So which award are works such as "Embers of the Deep" participating in? All unfinished works do not have the right to participate in the selection of the best feature, so the online article can't compete for the best feature (many people don't know about this and scold), and the campaign is for the relatively unpopular "best series", which is the only project that does not require completion.

Finally, let's talk about the situation of this book, whether "Defending Nanshan Park" will participate in the selection of the Hugo Award, you have the final say.

The "Best Series" project does not require a finished work, but it does have a word count requirement, and the Chinese work must reach 450,000 words by the end of April, and if the book decides to participate, then I will have to update at least 5,000 words a day for the next two months.

(Forget it or not)

That's all I know so far, it should be accurate, and of course it can't be ruled out that it may change in the future.

If everyone is willing to nominate (again, it costs money!) Spend at least 320 bucks! I'll do my best to update it and try to write 450,000 words before the deadline - if people don't want to do it, then I'll finish the story at a normal pace, so you can rest assured that the book will end normally anyway.

So I'm doing a little research here:

If you wish to nominate, please deduct 1 here. (You need to register a member on the official website before February 1, at least 320 RMB)

Unwilling to nominate is deducted 1 here. (I'll still finish the story at the normal pace)

I'll adjust the speed of the next codeword according to everyone's choice.