Recently, this newspaper brought the China Biennial List of Online Literature (2022-2023) to review the topic. After observing and summarizing the online literature of male frequency and female frequency, today it pushed a collection of short reviews of ten works of male frequency. About these ten online literature works, "good-looking" is their common feature, including both new shows and new works by established online writers, including Cthulhu, science fiction and fantasy.
Male frequency 10 works on the list:
Strange Fairy (Fox’s Tail Pen)
"We live in Nanjing" (Tian Rui Shuo Fu)
Red-hearted survey of the sky (what’s the feeling)
Guide to Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty (Wang Zijun)
I didn’t mean to be immortal (golden jasmine)
"Ten Days End" (member of the Pest Control Team)
A Record of Working in Stormwind (Another Torpedo)
Star spy family (under the ice)
My healing game (I can repair air conditioning)
Deep sea embers (far pupil)
Strange Immortals: There are different ways in the world, and the truth is cultivated on earth.
Text/wangxin
Fox-tail pen (hereinafter referred to as "Fox-tail"), whose real name is Hu Wei, is a new great god writer of Reading Group. He has worked as a substitute for games, a network administrator in Internet cafes, and an optometrist. At first, most of his creations were fans of games, and later he went to the theme of Cthulhu. He successively created Mysterious Earth (2020-2021) with classic Cthulhu temperament, and Strange Immortals (December 2021-May 2023) which combined the elements of cultivating immortals and folk customs. During the serialization of the latter, it ranked in the top five of the best-selling list, the top of the reading list and the top ten of the subscription list for a long time. With extensive discussion and secondary creation, it is a phenomenal online literary work.
Label: Quesulu’s folk tales of cultivating immortals
"mom! I can’t tell, I really can’t tell! "
Strange Immortals is a genre-integrated novel of "cultivating immortals+Cthulhu", while Li Huowang, who has not yet passed the college entrance examination, is a mental illness. He is suspended between the reality and the paradox, and his actions, words and deeds interact with both sides at the same time: the chocolate fed by his girlfriend will become a nail in the mouth of the enemy; A small warm fire can lead to a terrible disaster; The sentry tower that boarded one second will become a deck on the boundless sea in the next second … Time and space, events and situations are all separated, and they are all chaotic. In desperation, Li Huowang roared out this sentence. A word "mom" reveals his helplessness and panic to the fullest.
If it’s just high school student Li Huowang who is crazy, it’s just that. Brother Huozi, who lives in a mysterious world, is also a "mental illness". He has a special identity-mind element. Mind elements are a group of people who don’t distinguish between true and false. They are full of confusion in their hearts, but they have the ability to "think what is true and what is true". At this point, the authenticity of the so-called "real world" has also become suspicious: what if reality is just the brain supplement of the mind, and the paradoxical world is true? Or are both sides fake? Or are both sides true?
Li Huowang is really puzzled.
If only Li Huowang can’t tell-no matter which Li Huowang will do-that’s all. The strength of this novel is that readers can’t tell it apart. Because the fox’s tail will "face up" to the reader’s cognition. Use the simplest words to express the most thrilling confusion: "Li Huowang put his head on his neck and ran out"; "Long Mai" is the "Long Mai" in the physical sense, which is formed by successive emperors’ heads and feet; In a downtown scene that seems to be painted by AI, Li Huowang swallowed some chaotic color blocks and "felt warm" … Fowei may really be a genius. He got into all kinds of words, pictures, and even the materiality of rituals and customs, and shook the established meaning and ideographic way through concrete and sensible images, digging a physical channel. And in all kinds of sensory experiences that can’t be unified, it has completed a paradoxical task: accurately conveying chaos.
As a result, readers also deeply empathized with Li Huowang, and were forced to see and hear what he saw, understand his mental illness in succession, and sympathize with his pain. Li Huowang, who realized that he was struggling to squeeze out from the cracks between the two worlds and declared his existence in blood, may be the one who never existed among all sentient beings, but he was closer to "paradox". But it is this "paradox" that left an indelible mark in the story. There are different ways, people and ghosts are real, true and false, and what’s the harm-the heart is still here, and the story is still here.
This is the truth that Li Huowang repaired.
"We Live in Nanjing": Seal Youth with Doomsday
Text/Tan Tian
Tianrui Shuofu is a great writer of Reading Group. In 2014, he began to create online literature, tried a variety of themes, and finally became famous as science fiction. He is good at putting people in desperate situations, showing one or two sparks of life flashing in the grand and cold darkness, and forming a tragic and romantic writing style.
"We Live in Nanjing" was published on June 1, 2021 and ended on March 31, 2022. The full text is about 400,000 words. Guided by radio waves across time and space, the novel tells the story of two teenagers saving the world in doomsday and contemporary Nanjing. The author uses the lightness of light novels to touch the end of life, so that pure youth runs through the thick years, so that two people and two cities are full of life, bringing a lively atmosphere different from similar online works.
Label: science fiction eschatological youth
Radio waves travel through distant time and space, connecting the high-grade poplar in 2019 with the last survivor Pinellia ternata. With this fetter, the two launched an action to save the world.
Pinellia ternata lives in the last days, but this last days is not barren. Weeds grow from cracks in roads, deer play outside high-rise buildings, and nature has occupied the ruins of reinforced concrete vigorously. Pinellia ternata wandering in the meantime, vigorous and straight, dripping with vitality. After the demise of civilized society, the "last human" bloomed with youthful vitality.
Poplar was born in crowded Nanjing, with a weak body, familiar with the fireworks of civilization and lacking wild vitality. After knowing Pinellia ternata, Populus began to fear, fearing whether the crisis of extinction had already come quietly and ruined its cherished ordinary life. So he told the whole story to his father and his two close friends. Three middle-aged people were reported to the state after verification, and were allowed to set up a rescue headquarters to mobilize state forces to rescue the future.
The narrative center of gravity deflects, and the characters of Populus alba gradually fade away. There are more and more scenes of the three fathers, and the author often depicts their physical characteristics such as "baldness" and "beer belly" while making them make all kinds of passionate feats. The three fathers became the image of "old boys" and rekindled their youthful blood with middle-aged bodies.
However, their efforts backfired, and Pinellia ternata’s situation deteriorated and even died again and again, which just corresponded to the fading of poplar, and they were two sides of an organic whole. According to the novel, the end of the world took place in 2024, which was the time when senior three graduated from Baiyang University in 2019. At this point, metaphors are connected in series. The disaster from the sky is the end of youth. The shift in focus between Poplar and its parents coincides with the process of a student entering the society. Poplar is yesterday, but parents are now. Pinellia ternata, which is far away from time and at the end of civilization, is a frozen and crystallized youth, a sincere and pure juvenile heart, and a clear echo of poplars. She can’t be accommodated by adult society, and she can only survive in the end of a society without society. Once the "old boys" tried to absorb the passion of the past, it also destroyed the beauty of the seal.
Growth should be a combination of name and reality, with both physical and mental maturity. Looking back at the story, "old boys" is a middle-aged man with a mature body and a "second grade" in his heart, pointing to a state of idling in form and lacking in substance, so "growing up" naturally becomes a disaster. Maybe it’s time to imagine new growth, so that poplar and Pinellia can live and inhabit as they are …
A survey of the sky with pure heart: the dilemma between literary youth and refreshing feeling
Text/Li Zhongyang
From entity publishing to network serialization, the author always pursues "perfectionism in words", and his works are set to be precise and in-depth, with a sense of coolness, heaviness and literary youth. "Looking at the Sky with Red Heart" has been serialized since October 2019. Although it was not optimistic at first because of its "non-net writing", it finally stood out with its exquisite writing style, fierce and steep plot and sincere and simple persistence. The work begins with the counterattack and revenge of the protagonist Jiang Wang, and never forgets the chivalrous spirit of "red heart" and depicts a magnificent and magnificent picture of Xian Xia.
Label: classical Xianxia group like blood
In the context of online literature, "Wen Qing" is a mixed word, which can be used not only to criticize the melodramatic narrative posture, but also to refer to some unconventional excellent novels. Different from people’s expectation, the mature "Wen Qing Wen" will also be cool, and it will be more exquisite, resolute and natural. It is such a "literary" and refreshing road that "Red Heart Survey" takes, even more decisive than its predecessors’ works: why did you call a spade a spade to embrace the cool feeling from the beginning, thus jumping out of the fence of self-pity? The novel begins with Jiang Wang’s killing Fang Pengju, openly telling readers that this will be a cool article about counterattack and revenge.
However, there are too many similar plots in the male frequency network, and the essence of rejuvenating this old plot is to seek a fulcrum for the erection of the basic sense of coolness, so that it can be alive and well, and it can also stand scrutiny-this is the literary exploration of "Wen Qing" authors. Specific to the "Red Heart Survey", its fulcrum is the "red heart" in the fourth chapter. What is red heart? For Jiang Wang, being sincere is a behavior mode of being resolute and brave, being clear-minded and seeing nature: I know what I want, so I let my heart go and go on an impulse. Of course, this kind of freedom should be based on morality and compassion, and red heart must start from righteousness itself. In addition to the intensive plot, the most wonderful rhetoric of how to be true to the heart lies in intertwining it with the main line of revenge in the novel. The sense of urgency spread from the fall of Maple City always urges a heart to be more concise and pure.
But since it is rhetoric, it is by no means unbreakable. Jiang Wang’s red heart and revenge are in common, and when this main line ends, the protagonist is destined to turn from personal hatred to the national righteousness. When the sun cruises around Sunday, the red heart as an individual will is no longer so complete and flawless. After the volume of "All Become Today Me", the reader’s debate on the concept of pure heart became more and more intense. This contradiction is actually due to the dilemma of "Wen Qing" temperament and refreshing feeling. If Wen Qingwen, who is not refreshing enough, wants to convey his thoughts to readers, it must rely on some rhetoric, so that readers’ refreshing feeling is closely related to it. However, when this sense of coolness is derived to the extreme, it can no longer hide its self-interest, and readers will eventually find that the fulcrum on which the sense of coolness depends may be false, so the most fascinating part of the novel may become the biggest "poison" point that hinders reading.
However, isn’t this inherent defect the charm of "Wen Qing Wen"? A good article is fascinating and thought-provoking. The author’s task is to be fascinating, and he can leave the space for argument to readers. Moreover, absolute justice has no substance, and we need to compare and understand it with our own personal experience. In this sense, "Red Heart Survey" is still a sincere and pertinent masterpiece of Xianxia.
Guide to Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty: Father and son are United, not only breaking the "gold"
Text/Li Qiang
Wang Zijun, born in Zigong, Sichuan in 1987, is a great god writer of Reading Group. He was famous for writing urban "entertainment articles" and then turned to historical novels. The Guide to Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty was published on February 2, 2023, and the number of first subscriptions set a record for qidian’s historical novels. The setting of "double wear" in the Guide to Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty is quite innovative, and the rhythm control is also excellent. The author shows the social life, politics, culture and agriculture in the late Northern Song Dynasty in detail.
Label: Historical Song Dynasty wears double-wear farming.
The "novel guide" of "crossing to the Northern Song Dynasty" has a lot of fine works, and it is difficult to create new ones. The biggest innovation of the Guide to Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty is the setting of "double wearing" between father and son. Zhu Ming and Zhu Guoxiang’s father and son traveled to Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province 15 years before the Jingkang Revolution, accumulated their strength and finally reversed the historical trend. It is rare for online historical novels to adopt the protagonist’s "double wear" setting. When his wife died, Zhu Guoxiang raised his son hard, and his mission was to protect his son and live in peace. When he first crossed the Northern Song Dynasty, he and his son had an argument about the future road. The son wants to change the historical trend, while Zhu Guoxiang wants to be independent. In the end, Zhu Guoxiang listened to his son’s advice and "rebelled" with him.
Compared with other historical travel novels, the process of Zhu Ming and his son’s "rebellion" is not surprising, but more like playing a parent-child game called "Crossing to the Northern Song Dynasty". The highlight of this work lies in its slow rhythm and bright style. "Relaxation" is the secret of the success of "farming literature". Bright and lively, on the surface, it is a narrative style, and on the inside, it is a new way to imagine history. To be exact, this is a way of historical imagination with "juvenile spirit". There is little writing in the Guide to Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty, and the protagonist just fulfills the mission of crossing and creates a new world.
Many people believe that the reality of this big sauce jar will dye all high-spirited teenagers as "greasy middle-aged"-this is desperate, but literature that is good at making miracles was born in despair. What if the "young spirit" is guarded by the "middle-aged wisdom" to jointly create a refreshing and neat "historical fairy tale"? In this sense, the game clearance guide for "crossing to the Northern Song Dynasty" is not a "golden finger" like modern knowledge, but the simplest but most difficult "father and son are United".
Father and son are United, and their profits are broken. In the general "Song Chuanwen", "gold" is the culprit of "Jingkang shame". However, in the Guide to Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty, the great cause of going straight to Huanglong is only a "side task". The meaning of "breaking gold" is more complicated. It points to the guardian through time and space and the company in the deepest part of time. An inch of time is an inch of gold, and the end of gold is death. In this sense, the Guide to Crossing the Northern Song Dynasty reveals the potential of historical crossing novels-to eliminate people’s fear of inevitable death with probable historical narration. In a game called history, people use love, imagination and knowledge to resist the erosion of time inch by inch.
"I didn’t intend to become an immortal": "Let’s borrow a touch of Xiaguang to eliminate the long cold night."
Text/Ji Yunfei
Golden jasmine, the representative writer of "Daily Stream" novels. The works don’t win by the adventure of the plot, and rarely have the intense rhythm of ups and downs. Most of them tell one touching story after another in the course of narration, and they are connected into a patchwork of abundance. "I didn’t intend to become an immortal" was released in January 2023 and ended in January 2024. In this "classic fairy tale in the form of travel notes", the protagonist has no intention of becoming immortal and does not seek immortality. The reader is also like walking on a shady road, with mountains and rivers reflecting each other, which makes people dizzying and unforgettable.
Label: Daily Stream Classical Xianxia
The story is about twenty years of one person and one cat. Man is a Taoist priest who goes down the mountain, and the cat is a three-flowered goddess. For twenty years, he roamed, sang and drifted in the world, and he also watched the scenery, listened to books, experienced the world, made friends, reduced demons and punished gods all the way.
This classic "Road Story" with "Liaozhai Style" and "Fireworks Atmosphere" was put on qidian’s "Light Fiction" channel by the author. Indeed, "I didn’t intend to become an immortal" doesn’t meet the reading expectations of readers of mainstream immortal novels. Taoist Song You not only has no intention to become an immortal, but also has a lingering alienation from the whole world, and his body is as cold as the plot and text of the novel. However, although the temperament of the works is cold, the texture is not light, but it seems light and heavy, and it is classified into this category because of its uniqueness and difficulty in being accepted by the existing classification system. There are many labels that can be attached to "light novels", "strange stories" and "fireworks", but the core should be "highway prose", more accurately, "travel notes".
As a "post-1995" golden jasmine, it is more concerned about the transition from success to growth. The starting point of growth is a life that is relatively self-sufficient and seemingly needs no external help. In the Song Dynasty, it is a secluded life of mountain residence and house residence. For Song You, a traveler, he is far more alienated from this world than the aborigines. He didn’t have the will and motivation to explore and change the world. Because of the customs in Guan Zhong and the orders of Master, he went down the mountain at the age of 20 and had a 20-year journey. This shows the youthful image and growth process of I didn’t intend to become an immortal: how can self-sufficient and self-reliant young people establish real ties with others and the world, find and complete their mission, and thus get rid of the cold air and nothingness of life. In modern China, this is a brand-new classical "road text" of Xian Xia, but it secretly breaks through the tradition of heroic travel between ancient China rangers and immortals.
In this roaming, the most popular person/monster with the most cultural symptoms is the cat god, Sanhua Niangniang, who met with the golden wind and jade dew just after going down the mountain and traveled around the world with Song You from then on. There are many brilliant figures in the book, ranging from Jianghu chivalrous men and border generals to scholars and doctors, Buddhist emperors, and even monsters in the world and gods in the Heavenly Palace. Song You also has a touching story with many of them. Although Song You, who is bored in Benjue Mountain and the world is boring, was inspired by these dirty or beautiful people and things during his travels, and found something worth doing or even having to do, he met them in the Jianghu and forgot about them. Only the Three Flowers Empress broke his coldness and alienation, increased the warmth and joy of the journey, and made the daily life of the novel not repetitive and boring.
The End of Ten Days: A Free Platform’s "Old White" Work
Text/He Jian
He is a member of the Pest Control Team, a golden fan writer of tomato novels, and is good at suspense fantasy subjects. Due TOP1 the compact and lively story rhythm, interlocking plot progress, novel and rich background setting and shocking overall layout, Ten Million readers have read it in a year, and the number of people who catch up with it has exceeded 3 million. It has been a rare "broken circle" work in recent years.
Tags: suspense reasoning infinite flow
For Tomato Novel Network, the appearance of "Ten Days End" is reasonable, which proves that this barbaric free online literature platform has developed to this point, which is enough to incubate works with different content and temperament from the past. Many readers’ first reaction when they see this novel is to marvel at "this is not like what can be seen on a free website"-Although the reading threshold of The End of Ten Days is not high, it is really aimed at the "old white" rather than the "little white" group, more precisely, the readers who are transitioning from "little white" to "old white".
Although "Ten Days Ending" can’t be said to be a master of suspense decryption, it can be regarded as an example of by going up one flight of stairs standing on the shoulders of giants. The novel absorbs the advantages of this kind of literary works, especially the resources of Japanese animation and comics such as Alice in the Dying Country, Gambling Silent Record, and The Game of One Thousand Won a Thousand Dollars. The author uses other mountains as a stone to attack the jade of the national style, and combines the "exquisite puzzle" that Japanese works are good at with the "long structure" that China’s net works are good at. In the article, the grass snake is gray, the pulse is thousands of miles long, and the story is self-explanatory. Although the work is not finished yet, the author himself has shown such a strong plot control ability in millions of words, which is quite remarkable achievement.
The End of Ten Days begins with a series of puzzles, and the rhythm is tense and bright, followed by reversals. It creates a protagonist who is intelligent and close to demons, and always stays calm in the face of life and death crisis. "No matter which floor you are on, I will always be in the atmosphere", so that readers can get reading satisfaction when their IQ is crushed. Compared with many "small essays" that simply and rudely revolve around "upgrading", "power" and "opposite sex", this kind of works with "puzzle" and "suspense" as the core are more advanced in technique. Although the author has consciously reduced the unnecessary reading threshold in the novel to a minimum, such as adopting completely localized "Heaven, Earth and Man" and "Zodiac", and thus establishing the label of "national style", it is still more mature, more difficult to create and more demanding for readers.
The End of Ten Days is above the standard in setting, plot and language, and it is a wonderful suspense and decryption novel. However, I’m afraid the greatest value of this novel lies not in the work itself, but in the new changes in the production mechanism and industry ecology of online novels it embodies. In other words, it is the most worthy of attention and discussion that this work appears in the largest free reading platform of tomato novels and has topped the recommendation list and word-of-mouth list for a long time. It can be born from the tomato platform, but it may not be born from the seven cats platform. Therefore, the success of Ten Days End is not only the success of the work, but also the success of the author and the platform.
A Record of Working in Stormwind: The Adventure of Middle-aged Players
Text/Cai Xiangyu
Another torpedo, a popular author with a single reading platform, has been deeply involved in the fan fiction field of World of Warcraft, and became famous with the book A Record of Working in Storm City. This book began to be serialized in solo reading on July 14th, 2022. Up to now, it has more than 1,300 chapters. It is the undisputed masterpiece of this platform, and it is favored by readers because of its delicate description and nostalgic theme. The novel is set in the mainland of Azeroth, and the protagonist measures the continent step by step in the form of a road film, "lighting up" the towns that the game has set foot on, and calling on the old players to recall the lush time.
Label: World of Warcraft fan
Some readers say that The Record of Working in Storm City is a special attack on middle-aged social animals and Warcraft players, which can be said to accurately summarize its target audience. At the beginning of the novel, the protagonist Jess Sesso made it clear that his goal was to make money and buy a house in Stormwind to take over his parents. At this time, he was only seventeen years old-in a general novel, the protagonist of this age is either still learning to have fun in youth, or he wants to compete for the world because he is ambitious.
However, Jess is a typical middle-aged "social animal": he has lived in this world for seventeen years, and he has lost his ambition. He even doesn’t complain about his work. He just wants to take a job and make money. His biggest dream is to have a stable home-he passed the age of yearning for freedom early and put his eyes back to his family again.
The book was opened in 2022, which is the seventeenth year that World of Warcraft entered Chinese mainland. Jess is not so much a 17-year-old boy as a projection of thousands of players who first entered the mainland of Azeroth in Qian Qian in 2005. He is the window through which readers can substitute.
But Jess, after all, has the body of a teenager, or in a popular saying, "A man is a teenager until he dies." Another torpedo sometimes opens a chapter to explain his creative ideas and talk to readers. Once he said, "This book is an adventure story. When Jess becomes a character who can’t take risks, it will end." Therefore, while talking about making money, selling houses, and providing for the elderly safely, Jess actually enriched an adventure story: his "working" was not selling coolies, but risking his life again and again in the face of ferocious enemies, only to complete temporary tasks, get a generous reward, and even seek strength from the shadow for survival, groping his way on the warlock. This is the motivation for readers to continue reading, and it is also the return of their player status.
The most enjoyable thing about this book is its exquisite and vivid local customs, which often describe different local features in a few paragraphs, from geographical environment to characteristic food, and even vivid aliens and monsters, showing a very realistic world. This adventure story is a long journey. After more than ten years in a hurry, most of the old players have forgotten the details of the game, but Jess will start from Storm City and go to Flash Town, redridge mountains and Lordaeron … On his way to work, these readers and players will also salvage some of the past from their already vague memories and relive the fun of exploring Azeroth in rich details.
Spy Family: An Unpredictable Collision of Beliefs
Text/Chen Xiaotong
"Star Spy Family" is a transformation work of the starting point, which entered the sci-fi theme under the ice. It was serialized in qidian from February 21, 2021 to January 23, 2022, with a total of 2.07 million words, and it has an excellent reputation among readers. In addition to the constant description of Machiavellian and human nature under the ice, the book has bold and reasonable imagination of artificial intelligence, man-machine integration, metauniverse and other technologies that will reshape human life, surpassing the writing program of ordinary science fiction websites. The whole novel reveals deep thinking about the future in a cold and profound texture.
Label: Science Fiction Machiavellian
Although it is a sci-fi theme, The Star Trek Family begins with a typical "Machiavellian" narrative: after the eighth planet’s heir was killed, Lu Linbei, a fledgling spy, accepted an inexplicable task and was asked to play games in the rented house opposite the crime scene. No matter his partner, colleague or boss, it was hard to trust in the spy shadow.
As an old hand in writing tactics, Bing Lingshen skillfully uses restrictive perspective and objective description, so readers can’t know the psychological activities of characters outside Lu Linbei, and the role has been in speculation, calculation and game. The creation of this kind of extreme insecurity is rooted in the core presupposition of Machiavellian: people are selfish and profit-seeking, the essence of interpersonal communication is just the exchange of interests, others can’t trust, and friends in one second will be enemies in the next-in short, "others are hell".
However, the ice does not stop there, and the addition of "science fiction" elements has pushed his meditation to a deeper dimension. The villain of the novel, artificial intelligence "Gui Hai", attempts to set off star wars, integrate the thinking of all mankind, and let mankind "embark on a more grand road of evolution". The idea of "Guihai" points to a utopia where there is no "Machiavellian": the root of human struggle lies in the conflict inevitably caused by the differences between subjects. If individuals are integrated into the same whole, suspicion and game will disappear, and "Machiavellian" will end.
However, the appearance of Utopia is always accompanied by deconstruction and irony. Guihai spurns human nature, but its existence depends on human nature. It is precisely because it constantly absorbs human emotions and desires that it has an independent consciousness. It hopes to eliminate the power struggle and free mankind from individual selfish desires, but this goal itself is precisely its own selfish desires. Although human nature is profit-seeking, the question is: what do you regard as interest? Why is it regarded as an interest by you?
"Star Spy Family" doesn’t tell pure AI, because pure AI can’t create stories. "Gui Hai" is full of human passion and desire, so it acts and believes. Similarly, the protagonist Lu Linbei has an extremely rational brain, but if there is no fetter with his lover Chen Manchi, he will always be the indifferent teenager who started studying on the farm, and he can’t be the protagonist of a series of stories. Although the characters portrayed in "Star Spy Family" are fighting in secret, they have their own creeds and ideals. Machiavellian is not a meaningless struggle with each other, but a collision of beliefs. They are not cold rational machines, but changeable and unpredictable warm creatures.
It is through the perspective of "science fiction" that "Machiavellian" is once again regarded as human nature itself. In the communication and competition between "artificial intelligence" and "people", the sentence "others are hell, and hell is hot" is finally completed under the ice.
My Healing Game: Displacement Reaction of "Madness" and "Cure"
Text/Lei Ning
I can repair air conditioners. I am a platinum writer in qidian. I graduated from an engineering major and worked in an air conditioning factory. Now I am a representative author of suspense and horror net articles. My Healing Game was serialized from January 25th, 2021 to March 1st, 2023, with a total of 3.27 million words. The novel constructs a huge and stylized bizarre worldview, and introduces the theme of "cure", which is related to suspense types but rarely involved, and tells the story of a comedian who can’t laugh and goes deep into virtual reality games to cure ghosts, save the world and find himself. I will repair the air conditioner to grasp the genre narrative accurately and strictly, so that the new theme can be well integrated into the structure, rhythm and inherent core of the super-long mystery novel, and make great contributions to the maturity of this genre.
Label: suspense game warmth
Under the genre of horror suspense, I can repair air conditioning and achieve two pioneering works in succession. One is to properly handle the natural contradiction between the suspense of suspense theme and the strong feeling of long upgraded articles in I Have an Adventure House, and the other is to successfully explore the new theme of "cure" through My Healing Game.
Compared with Chen Ge, the protagonist in I Have an Adventure House, Han Fei, the protagonist in My Healing Game, still punishes evil and promotes good, but his sense of value is in chaos. Han Fei overcame ghosts and constantly accepted and understood ghosts, which not only challenged the ultra-high difficulty of the game, but also did not hesitate to choose sacrifice to save others. In Han Fei’s body, madness is the power source of violent aesthetics, and it is also the perversion of goodness. The more legitimate and urgent its purpose is, the more madness that follows will be "upgraded"-kindness is not a warm soup of suspense narrative, but an inner pool full of confusion. What is goodness? Given kindness, why are you still confused and miserable?
Madness is a metaphor for the truth. By tracing the two crazy signs of laughter and pain, Han Fei found that his "healing personality" was not a natural product, but originated from the experimental technology of "personality shaping" During the experiment, the personality "laugh wildly" first slaughtered all the personality slices representing self-distractions and evil thoughts, and imprisoned themselves in the subconscious "orphanage", and then the only "qualified product" of the perfect personality experiment was born, which represented pure goodwill and altruism. When goodness is equated with paranoia and deformity, madness becomes the by-product and necessary catalyst of the compound reaction of "doing good" at the same time. The violence of technology dismembered Han Fei and laughter, and the perfection and correctness of rational identification became the most deeply rooted symptoms and reasons of madness.
The existence of madness is a profound criticism of modern civilization, and the cure is not only crossing people, but also crossing ourselves. From this, the novel moves from symptoms to artistic sublimation. In the end, faced with the ultimate incarnation of all kinds of frightening oppressive order, Han Fei chooses to commit suicide to free himself from the bondage of laughter, and laugh wildly and choose self-sacrifice to recall Han Fei who has always been kind to him. Madness makes people forget the pain, the fear of the unknown and death, the fear itself and the nothingness. Han Fei’s liberated and repressed self climbed the rope ladder called madness, and finally ran to freedom and unity in a grand tragic ceremony.
Salvation is old-fashioned, but "return" is very healing. At the end of the story, Han Fei, a comedian who never learned to laugh, finally showed a heartfelt smile, which was a gift from the world.
Embers in the Deep Sea: Crazy World and Hymn of Mankind
Text/Wang Yuxi
From 2010, when sci-fi was still a niche theme of online texts, to 2024, when the craze of online sci-fi was flourishing, Yuantong always insisted on deeply cultivating the field of sci-fi. His works have distinct secondary characteristics, and the relaxed atmosphere between characters and the tragic sense of doomsday epic interweave to form a unique narrative style. "Deep Sea Embers" has been serialized since July 2022, which has excellent readers’ reputation and commercial achievements. The work tells a series of adventures experienced by Zhou Ming, a contemporary youth, after he was forced to enter another world and became ghost captain Duncan. While uncovering the mystery of his life experience and the truth of the doomsday crisis, Zhou Ming/Duncan and his friends along the way jointly sought the hope of the survival of civilization. Compared with the previous works, the writing and narrative of Deep Sea Embers are more sophisticated, which reflects the calm tolerance of the author of the mature online text.
Label: science fiction Cthulhu steampunk
"Our world is just a pile of dying embers."
Leaving the single apartment blocked by dense fog, Zhou Ming arrived in such an excessively bad world. The island of civilization floats in the vast and dangerous deep sea, and knowledge, like the deep sea, is always waiting for an opportunity to devour human reason and life, and the journey of pursuing truth is always accompanied by death.
Far Eye uses the popular Cthulhu setting in Deep Sea Embers in recent years, and the meaning of this setting is always the fragile rationality of small human beings, and the irreversible collapse and defeat in the face of the huge, secretive and crazy external world. The embers of the deep sea depicts such a world. Several worlds collided, incompatible cosmic laws destroyed each other, and all the old civilizations vanished in an instant. The chaos and conflict caused by the impact of the world have always been deeply rooted in everything, so the new civilization has been destroyed again and again. Today’s deep-sea era is also moving towards a long night, and all efforts made for the survival of civilization are too insignificant.
However, based on the irrational world setting, the narrative of Deep Sea Embers is highly rational, with interlocking plots and layers of foreshadowing. In line with this writing style, the theme of the whole work is not the defeat of human beings, but the hymn of human beings. Those who live in the deep-sea era, even though they are risking mental breakdown, still refuse to give up exploring the unknown with reason, still have the courage to raise their swords in the face of the most horrible enemy, and still trudge with hope when they see the gloomy road ahead-or refuse to stop knowing that they are desperate, no matter whether they finally arrive at dawn or long night, they deserve to win eternal glory with a moment’s attention.
In the stormy deep-sea era, Zhou Ming, who came through, was too strong, and the green flame that was lit at will could burn all threats. Although the work is not finished yet, Zhou Ming, who is invincible and unfavorable, will eventually bring new life to civilization. Zhou Ming is not so much the hero of the story, as he promised the readers the beginning, end and development direction of the story. Because of Zhou Ming’s existence, readers can concentrate on feeling the passion and sharpness of the real heroes who are still unyielding in the face of doomsday or trying to live hard. Thus, the glory of mankind will have nothing to do with whether it can win in the end, but only come from every moment’s thinking and action-even if it is defeated and fought repeatedly, it will be unyielding if it dies. It was on them that Zhou Ming saw "the resilience of civilization".
New Media Editor: Zheng Zhouming
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Original title: "A quick review of 10 male-frequency online texts: after classicism, the theme of science fiction grows | New Criticism China Biennial List of Online Literature (2022-2023)"
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