Chapter 1033: noir fantasy, wizarding world
In the world before crossing, Penguin Literature was regarded as the leader of the new generation of Chinese literature. Although it did not have the social influence of the old-fashioned forces, it was more than capable of making money.
For a while, they were keen to engage in linkage with major games, and they were very popular, attracting many game fans to read novels. New World is one of them.
There are two joint projects between the two parties, one is the "prehistoric world" of the Eastland server, and the other is the "Wizard World" of the Westland server.
Not to mention the matter of Dongtu, the joint activity of Xilu is quite interesting.
There are generally several genres of fantasy-style stories. The most influential genre is naturally "Sword and Magic", which has a long history and is regarded as the core pillar of fantasy. It takes "heroic adventure" as the center of the story, and generally tells the story of a small group of people taking an adventure together to defeat the evil big devil and save the world.
The most typical example is the famous fantasy writer Mizuno Liang "Rhode Island War".
Opposite to this genre, there is the genre with the theme of war, which is called "fantasy epic". Its representative work is the "King of Murder" Yoshiki Tanaka's "Arslan Wars".
The "Wizard's World" is a relatively small genre. It mainly tells the stories of indifferent and selfish spellcasters "Wizards" and all kinds of eerie monsters that happened in a world with broken civilization and depraved morality.
This genre is considered unpopular in the entire literary world, but it is popular in Penguin Literature. For a while, the fantasy novels of Penguin Literature probably accounted for 30% to 40% or even more of this genre. To exaggerate a little, it would be half of the country.
Among the players of "New World", there are also many fans of fantasy novels. According to them, this linked world is generally a more authentic expression of the style of the wizarding world - gloomy, indifferent, evil.
Panda felt that such a world must be very suitable for Aaron. If he can come to this world soberly, he will definitely feel like a duck in water.
The golden scale is not a thing in the pool, it will turn into a dragon when it meets the wind and cloud.
"Unfortunately, when this golden-scaled carp came to this world, it was sealed - it is even possible that he has not been able to break free of the seal until now." Panda shook his head and smiled, unable to help himself. Aaron's luck sighs.
Obviously I have encountered the most suitable world for me, but I have no chance to enjoy it. It is really a good life, and it is pitiful!
The panda sighed like this, while walking like flying - really like flying. When he came down from the hill, a bird happened to be on the same path, and then he left the bird behind with his legs.
Running fast is good.
The panda quickly came to the vicinity of the city. The city looked very prosperous from a distance, but when he walked in, he found that it was not very good. Large tracts of farmland surround the city, and the busy farmers in the farmland are thin and thin.
Any place where producers can't eat enough has absolutely nothing to do with "prosperity" or "development".
He doesn't find it strange. An important feature of the wizarding world is that no more than 1 in 10,000 people controls more than 9,999 resources per 10,000, and the remaining resources are occupied by nobles. For the most part... in this case, civilians are not starved to death, even if they are lucky.
At the beginning, he had also read some novels of the wizarding world genre, but the characters of common people were basically inseparable from the two words.
poor, humble.
No way, ordinary characters don't have the protagonist's golden finger!
Strange to say, in the novels of the wizarding world, the plug-ins of the protagonists of the novels are almost all smart chips with a series of functions such as analysis, summary, research, etc., with rare exceptions. Panda once asked Lao Bai, who also writes online novels, and the answer was: "Readers who read a certain type of novel often have a general preset impression in their hearts. You can choose to innovate on the basis of this impression, and also You can choose innovations that subvert that impression.”
"Are the two very different?"
"Of course, although the former is generally not a big hit, it is always possible to have a stable income to support the family. From my more than ten years of creative experience, most people who take the latter path will enter the Pacific Ocean, with very few exceptions."
"Why? When Feng Yue talked about online creation last time, didn't he say 'innovation is the life of a writer'?"
"Fengyue is a person who can write well-received serialized novels in high school. Do you use him as a reference? He has enough talent, so in his opinion, the most valuable thing is innovation. The talent is brought into full play. But for most writers with mediocre talent, it is the safest way to follow a routine, because ordinary people don't have that kind of talent."
"...I understand, it's just like what Bruce Lee said back then, the number one master in the world is his apprentice Kareem - in fact, with the physique of Kareem, you can hang ordinary martial artists with one practice. This is a gift. Gap. Right?"
"That's right."
Since that's right, in this genre of novels, the living conditions of civilians are almost fixed.
It's what the panda sees now, hardships and hardships, every day can be used as a material for remembering bitterness and sweetness, enough to make any literary petty bourgeois who yearns for "original ecological life" cry and shout "I want to go home" for three days at most. degree.
Panda sighed deeply as he looked at the skinny farmers who were still working hard.
(After finding Aaron, contact Locke and let him come to this world to work.)
He felt that perhaps Locke could improve or at least partially improve the lives of civilians in this world - at least from the point of view of practice, the stubborn guy did a good job in Dracula's leadership, and there was no reason to change the environment.
Around the city wall, is a large open space. A little further past, is the low ghetto. The poor inhabitants built walls with sun-dried mud and thatched roofs, and built many thatched cottages one by one.
There are also a lot of thatched huts in the West, but if you look closely, you can see that the thatched huts here are lower and shabby. Obviously, the poor here are worse off than the West.
...at least, they are worse than those thatched huts that pandas saw when they first came to Kalipura Village.
As for now, the northern part of Thrace is relatively prosperous. Although most of the farmers in relatively backward areas still live in thatched huts, except for the surrounding areas of Tarakhan or the village of Kalipura, at least their The walls were taller and thicker, and their roofs had more wood support and thicker thatch.
If you go to Dracula, you can see that the peasants live in houses built with fire-fired clay bricks, and the roofs are covered with tiles. Locke has built several large-scale kilns. Provide building materials for residents.
Panda thought about these things, and at the same time, with the help of amazing speed and magical equipment that can change its shape, he turned into an ordinary worker, mixed into a caravan heading to the city, and entered the city smoothly.
When passing by the city gate, he looked up at the engraved text on the city gate.
City of Hope.