The old man actually fainted!?

There was an eerie silence at first,

subsequently

"I'll you!"

Verne ran forward in three steps and two steps,

"Faint! He fainted! ”

Gu Hongming also squatted down to check,

He first tested Lin Shu's breathing and heartbeat, and found that it was relatively stable, and then carefully observed his eyelids, and then opened them to observe the eyeballs.

It stands to reason that a comatose person cannot control his eyelids and not move.

The eyes under the eyelids usually appear in a fixed, unfocused state.

But Lin Shu is obviously not.

At this point, how could Gu Hongming not understand?

This old boy is pretending to be dizzy!

"Tsk......"

Gu Hongming was speechless, but he was not incomprehensible in his heart,

In general, the reason for pretending to be unconscious is nothing more than to evade responsibility, or to win sympathy.

This is not uncommon in the officialdom of all dynasties.

Lin Shu was scolded like that just now, and it was true that he had no tricks, so he made this decision.

Gu Hongming shook his head at Verne in a very small way,

"So be it."

Jules verne:!!!

"What do you mean by 'so be it'?! Could it be ...... He's dead!? ”

"Poof! cough cough ......"

Gu Hongming immediately sprayed, and quickly explained: "How easy is it to die? He didn't have anything to do, he was just a little anxious. In our Chinese words, it is called 'rushing fire to attack the heart'. ”

Verne was puzzled,

"Nothing? But everyone else was unconscious. ”

The French obviously didn't understand those twists and turns, and they thought that Lin Shu was really unconscious.

Gu Hongming waved his hand,

"It's fine."

Verne was still very confused, but he didn't ask any more questions, and instead summoned two crew members not far away and asked them to carry Lin Shu back to rest.

The crew asked Gu Hongming about the cabin number, so one person moved his armpits, one person moved his ankles, and lifted Lin Shu.

As a result, as soon as they got started, they sensed that something was wrong.

whisper

"Why are this man's muscles stiff?"

"Dead?"

"No way. I felt like he was pretending to be dizzy. ”

"Hah! Pretend to be dizzy~"

……

There's a good saying:

"As long as you're not embarrassed, it's someone else who is embarrassed."

Because the crew spoke English, Lin Shu naturally didn't understand, and still acted with his eyes closed.

Others heard it clearly.

Verne looked at Gu Hongming with inquiring eyes,

Gu Hongming hummed, "It's a good day today", his eyes drooped, and he seemed to suddenly become interested in the texture of the restaurant floor.

The crowd immediately fell silent,

“……”

“……”

“……”

It's all in plain sight.

Finally, Lin Shu was carried out of the gate by two crew members,

The atmosphere at the scene was light.

Verne muttered, "The old man, it's finally gone." ”

Poincaré cleared his throat and asked Gu Hongming: "Mr. Gu, are all the translators in your country like this?" ”

Gu Hongming couldn't help blushing and didn't answer.

In fact, he is also a translator, although not as outrageous as Lin Shu, but when translating works such as the Analects into other languages, there is inevitably some room for "discretion".

This is also the reason why many people say that he is not good at learning.

Poincaré read Gu Hongming's silence and couldn't help but be curious,

"Professor Lu is also a translator? And so did he? ”

Gu Hongming hurriedly waved his hand,

"No, no! Of course not! ”

Take "Wanli Fifteen Years" and "1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline" as examples,

The two are not like "The Remains of the Lady of the Camellias in Paris" and "The Lady of the Camellias",

Although one is in Chinese and the other is in English, there are almost no differences in the content.

Of course, it doesn't seem right to say who is whose translation they are, after all, they were all written by Lu Shi.

Verne asked, "In that case, why don't you follow Professor Lu's example?" ”

Gu Hongming smiled bitterly when he heard it,

That's an easy way to say. Then I ask you, can you emulate him? ”

"Ah......h

Verne embarrassment,

"Like...... Seem...... Probably not. ”

Poincaré next to him complained: "There's no need to add so many prefixes. Can't, just can't. It's like math, 'No, it's not.'" ”

Everyone present knew that this stalk burst into laughter in an instant,

It attracted the curious glances of the rest of the restaurant's guests.

Finally suppressed the laughter, Verne asked Gu Hongming: "Mr. Gu, what do you think after watching "Call of Cthulhu"? ”

Gu Hongming spread his hands,

"I've only read a tenth of it."

Verne waved his hand,

"It's okay, you read it first. We'll wait here. ”

As he spoke, he poured a glass of wine for the other party.

Gu Hongming calmed down and read,

Although he knows French, "The Call of Cthulhu" has a large number of compound sentences, long and difficult sentences, and the wording is extremely obscure, which makes it very difficult to read.

I read it for an hour and a half to get to the end,

That's it, he hasn't finished reading it yet, and skips part of it in between.

"Whew~"

He let out a sigh.

Verne asked, "How?" ”

Gu Hongming muttered: "To be honest, I don't think so." ”

Verne couldn't help laughing,

"Because of drinking? Dizziness can really limit comprehension. ”

Gu Hongming said: "You say I'm not good at drinking foreign wine? That's not going to be. I don't see the quality of this article, mainly because of the language. ”

Verne scratched his head, still puzzled.

Poincaré, who was next to him, understood, and said, for example: "Jules, learning a language is actually the same as a middle school student doing math problems. When you spend two hours solving a problem, you will feel a sense of accomplishment; But if it takes 500 hours, even if you conquer it, you will feel extremely painful. ”

Verne asked, "Are you the same?" ”

Poincaré shook his head,

"I'm not a middle school student. As a researcher, if my project is completed in 500 hours, I worry about whether there is a problem in the proof process. ”

Gu Hongming said: "That's the truth. "The Call of Cthulhu" to me reads not like it, but a French grammar problem. ”

What's so interesting about that?

Verne sighed,

"That's why your country needs real translators."

Gu Hongming also felt the same way,

And, more and more, he became convinced in his mind that the vernacular was not wrong.

For example, "The Call of Cthulhu", if you want to translate it into Chinese, can you really not lose the horror atmosphere?

At this time, it is getting late,

The sea outside the cruise ship is immersed in a deep night.

The moonlight, soft as fine sand, casts on the sparkling water, creating a glossy path that seems to be the entrance to L'Alleye.

Gu Hongming handed the manuscript back,

"Guys, do you want to go back to the cabin to rest?"

Verne spreads his hands,

"We don't have a cabin. However, you do have to go back to pack your luggage and get some clothes, otherwise the temperature will drop at night, and you may not be able to stay up in the corridor in front of Professor Lu. ”

The gang was really going to block the landing door for the night.

Gu Hongming said: "Then let's be together." ”

They left the restaurant.

When they reached the cabin where Lin and Gu were, the French began to rummage through their luggage and pull out their clothes from it.

Gu Hongming entered Lin Shu's room.

I saw the old Lin Tou lying on the bed, motionless, like a corpse.

Gu Hongming approached,

"Still pretending?"

Lin Shu: "......"

No response.

Gu Hongming raised his eyebrows unhappily, approached and patted the other party's cheek, and threatened: "Don't pretend!" Load it again, I'm going to slap you! ”

"You dare!"

Lin Shu sat up.

Gu Hongming sat down on the edge of the bed and said, "Did you encounter hard stubble today?" Hunting geese all day long, so that the geese pecked their eyes. ”

Lin Shu was helpless,

Who would have thought that they would inexplicably meet Verne, one of the leaders of French literature, on a ship?

What's even more outrageous is that he is still a fan of Lu Shi's junior!

Lin Shu said: "But I still stick to my point of view. Entering the text in the vernacular, this is a move to depose the Three Gangs, raze the monarchs and ministers, and level the father and son, which is very harmful. Hongming, that kid in Lu Shi is lawless, how can I be in the same group? ”

Gu Hongming pouted,

"You say people are 'doing great harm.'" Then I have to ask, is it not harmful to translate without knowing a foreign language? ”

"Uh-huh......"

Lin Shu's eyes darkened again, and he fell back.

But after all, he still pressed the urge to be unconscious, and said, "How can these two talk the same thing? I am already old, and all I can do is to be a chicken called Dan, hoping that my compatriots will wake up. What's wrong with some additions and deletions in those foreign languages during translation? ”

Gu Hongming spread his hands,

"Don't ask me. I don't think there's anything wrong with it, is it useful? The point is that the French people think it's inappropriate. ”

Lin Shu was silent,

“……”

It's really speechless.

It is true that Dumas has returned to the world, and it is impossible to jump out and say that he has translated it incorrectly,

But people in the French literary world did not approve of those translations, and the blow was great.

What's more, it was Verne who was opposed.

Gu Hongming sighed,

"Come on~ Come on~ I'm too lazy to worry about you more, it's better to go to Lu Xiaoyou as soon as possible and have a good chat with him."

Lin Shu looked like he hated iron but not steel,

"What are you looking for him?"

Gu Hongming replied: "I would like to ask him to help review the current teaching materials of the University Hall, which are desirable and which are not." It would be better if he could ask him to make a textbook again. Or, ask him to help run a journal, I heard that there is a new thing called impact factor, I don't know ......"

Before the words fell, he was interrupted by Lin Shu,

"Don't talk about it. Don't talk about it. ”

Gu Hongming glanced at the other party,

"You don't want to hear it, I'm too lazy to say it~"

After saying that, he went straight out.

The French were gone, and the suitcases at the door were neatly piled up in the corner.

Gu Hongming went straight to the top.

Unexpectedly, Lu Shi seemed to have come up with something amazing, which attracted the French to discuss it one after another.

"Set? What kind of strange creative idea is this? ”

"I've never heard of it before......"

"Ha, don't you all play The Lord of the Rings board games? There's the set of settings in there. ”

"I've really played it. Isn't that an art book? ”

……

The whole hallway was noisy.

Lu Shi clasped his hands weakly and pressed down,

"Everyone."

In an instant, the scene was silent.

He continued: "After reading 'The Call of Cthulhu', do you think it will be as successful as horror literature in the traditional sense? ”

The French listened and looked at each other.

Roland said, "Professor Lu, don't you have confidence in yourself? ”

The corners of Lu Shi's mouth are hooked,

He has full confidence in the entire Cthulhu Mythos system,

But there was little faith in the single, published "Call of Cthulhu".

After all, the original author, H· P. Lovecraft doesn't mix well,

On the contrary, it is Auguste William Dress, who makes Cthulhu a mythologically perfected and systematic, and is known as the "scourge of eternity".

If something wants to be widely disseminated, it must be popular after all.

Lu Shi smiled: "Actually, I just said the wrong word, there is no 'horror literature in the traditional sense' in this world." ”

The rest laughed,

Literature at the beginning of the 20th century had unclear branches.

If there is no "Country Teacher", science fiction has not yet been refined from fantasy.

In the same way, without the Lord of the Rings trilogy, there would be no fantasy branch.

Verne was curious: "So, Professor Lu, what exactly is the set of settings you just mentioned?" ”

Lu Shi groaned, took out a notebook,

"Look."

There's a new work again!?

Everyone was stunned.

Poincaré grabbed the book first and turned the first page,

I saw two lines written on it:

——

It is not the dead who sleep forever,

In the mysterious eternity, even death itself will pass away.

——

Everyone instantly thought of Cthulhu and couldn't help but be terrified.

Verne urged: "Turn back." ”

Poincaré raised his eyebrows,

"Don't rush!"

He flipped back to the second page and found that it was titled "Cthulhu".

It is well documented in it,

Occasionally, they will use psychic induction to make contact with unspecified humans at a distance.

The underwater city of Lallaier, which sleeps in the South Pacific,

Since the seal has not been fully opened, it is impossible to stay away from Lalleye,

……

These are all messages that are made public in Call of Cthulhu.

Poincaré: "Huh? "With a bang,

"What is this?"

Roland muttered, "It's a bit like the monster introduction of the Lord of the Rings board game." Not...... Is this the canonset? ”

The crowd urged Poincaré to move on.

Unexpectedly, there is only one title below -

"Nyara Totip".

The rest of the page is blank.

The next page is also, "Yog Sotos", still no content.

The French were a little confused.

Lu Shi said: "Everyone, you should know that I have limited time and energy, and I have recently been working on seven major novels such as "Harry Potter", ......

The voice did not fall,

"Wait!"

Verne interrupted: "You just said, seven? ”

The corners of Lu Shi's mouth hooked and said, "You heard it right, it's seven." Moreover, the further it goes, the longer it will be, and the last one is estimated to be four or five times the word count of "The Philosopher's Stone". ”

When the French listened, they were all messy in the wind,

This special meow is something that people can do!?

Lu Shi continued the topic just now,

"In short, I can't create my own system of horror literature and mythology in its entirety. Therefore, I sincerely invite all of you, and authors from all over the world, to join in and complete my notebook. ”

Originally, he even wanted to name the set "Necronomicon".

It first appeared in Ai Gongyi's "Hound Dog" in September 1922, and its nominal author was an Arab madman.

Abdullah Al-Hasad.

Using his knowledge of astrology and astronomy, he gave detailed explanations of the gods of the Old In, Nyaratotip, Azatothus, Cthulhu, Yog Sothoth, Sabu Nikolas, and Satogua, as well as the history of the earth before the advent of man.

But in the end, Lu Shi still didn't do such a bad thing.

Proust asked, "What does Professor Lu mean that the rest of the story was created by us?" ”

Lu Shi nodded,

"yes, that's it."

Hearing this affirmative answer, everyone at the scene was excited.

That's Lu Shi's work!

It is a great honor to be able to create a second creation based on it.

Verne's eyes flashed, and he came up,

"Professor Lu, I see, you just want to lie flat."

Lu Shi laughed when he heard it,

"That's right, I just want to lie flat."

If you follow the language style of "Call of Cthulhu", it is a very laborious thing.

So, just leave it to someone else.

What's more, the history of the Cthulhu Mythos is inherently like this,

When Ai Craft is creating, there is no clear system, and there may not even be a general framework.

The modern Cthulhu was collated and created by multiple authors.

To use the style of the gram system as an analogy,

Just like a person, each organ in the body comes from a different person.

Verne said: "Professor Lu, it's not impossible if you want to lie flat, but it's better to write a few more articles to set the tone for the whole system." ”

There is a good reason for that.

Lu Shi couldn't help but groan, and then nodded,

"I could write three or four more."

Verne said: "That's it. Starting with you, I'm sure there will be many writers who are interested in horror literature who will write their notebooks...... Forehead...... Set set filled. ”

As he spoke, he sighed with emotion,

"Professor Lu, I have to admire the richness of your imagination and imagination."

Lu Shi is puzzled,

"How?"

Verne said: "Set ...... How did you come up with this strange idea? ”

(End of chapter)

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