I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 54

"...Is that book serialized today?"

The old man held his blind cane in one hand and the window sill of the balcony with the other.

It was drizzling outside the house today, and the old man didn't go out after dinner.

Standing on the edge of this balcony, listening to the sound of the drizzle hitting the branches and leaves of the trees outside,

The nurse stood beside the old man, raising his head from time to time to look out of the window and at the old man leaning against the window,

The old man who looked out the window and didn't speak for a long time suddenly turned his head and asked.

The nurse knew which book the old man would ask again.

"You mean the "Seven Days of Hell", I haven't updated today's chapter. It should be later."

The nurse lowered her head and refreshed with her phone.

This is the second time the old man asked today, the last time was in the afternoon.

The old man nodded and said nothing more.

He just groped for the window sill, and turned his body a little bit, facing the window with water vapor and fresh wind.

"Uncle Yu, why don't we go back to the house, the wind blows on the balcony and it's easy to catch cold."

The nurse looked at the drizzle that was blown to the edge of the window by the wind from time to time, and said aloud to the old man.

"...Old people are not only blind in their eyes, but also hard of their ears."

"...When it rains, I can't see the rain, but I still want to hear the sound of the rain. If I stay in the house, I can't hear it."

The old man paused for a while while talking like this, but he still groped and turned around to walk back into the house.
The nurse next to him hurried forward to help.

"Jingle bell, jingle bell..."

At this time, the old man's cell phone rang suddenly, and someone called.

The ringtone of the mobile phone made the old man pause,
"Uncle Yu, I'll pick it up for you."

"No, let me try. The answer button should be on the right."

"Uncle Yu, you have a really good memory."

"After using it for so long, you still can't tell the difference between the left and the right?"

The old man picked up the phone, first he heard the nurse's words, and there was a smile on his face,
Then the smile faded away.

When did he need others to praise him for answering a phone call?
The nurse next to him saw that the old man was on the phone, but didn't make any more noise.

The old man put the phone to his ear.

"...I'm Yu Mingzhi, give the phone to my dad."

The person on the other end of the phone said something.

"I'm listening."

The old man paused, and responded to his son's words.

"... Ah, Dad... I've already read the novel "Mortal Cultivation of Immortals" you mentioned earlier."

"...The writing is pretty good, the writing is very solid, the details are in place, the development of the story is unconventional, it is indeed very suitable for adaptation into anime. And the results of the original author's next two books are better than the other. It can be expected that now It is definitely not a loss to start. Dad, you have a good vision."

The old man's son said aloud on the other end of the phone.

"Stop sycophanting. Bought it?"

"Basically, the intention has been determined, and the specifics are still being discussed with Shiyue Novels. It should be no problem."

"I read another book by this author before, and the current book is also very good. I wanted to buy the copyright, but the price for the first novel was too high. Now this new book "Seven Days of Hell" is also very good. When it is obviously still rising rapidly, Shiyue Novels will definitely not be willing to sell it before its potential has fully exploded."

"Well, I see."

The old man responded and did not express any opinion on this.

"...Well, Dad, after the copyright of "Mortal Cultivation of Immortals" is in hand, the company's newly established animation department should be able to officially operate. This animation work should be our first work in animation... I hope it will have a good start .”

"Okay, I see. You go about your business."

One more word,
The old man ended the call.

After a pause, I was about to put away my phone.

At this time, the nurse next to him saw that the old man had ended the call,
Tell the old man a piece of news again.

"Uncle Yu, that "Seven Days of Hell" was updated today."

"is it?"

The old man who paused turned sideways, with a smile on his face, and responded.

the other side,
In the office of Pioneer Media Room,
The old man's son Yu Mingzhi hung up the phone,
Sitting on the seat, he paused again,

"Xiaoqian, when we discuss the copyright transaction with Shiyue.com later, I will ask whether the copyright of "Seven Days of Hell" can be sold, but the price should be raised appropriately."

"Okay, I see, Mr. Yu."

……

"Crackling..."

Today Ji Zhuo chatted with the editor for a while about copyright sales,
As a result, a lot of codeword time was delayed.

Until now, it was completely dark outside before he finished writing today's update.

"call……"

Ji Zhuo stopped typing on the keyboard,

The sound of crackling keyboards also subsided in the study, and the study became quiet again.

Ji Zhuo let out a long breath,
Then look at the computer screen that fills up the content of several chapters written today, and at the same time check whether there are any typos and correct them.

The plot updated today continues on the progress of the original plot.

At this particular meeting,

A somewhat irritable professor revealed the cruelest fact, that is, human beings have no way of judging the cause of blindness for all humans, nor can they conduct deeper research.

There is nothing humans can do about it.

then,

The theme for the second half of the meeting,

Naturally, it shifts to some extended problems that humans will have when all human beings are blind, and how to deal with these problems.

"...we're not doing anything about our vision loss. But we can expect some of the problems we're going to face."

"... folks, since we are not going to be able to solve our loss of vision any time soon, or even for a long time to come.

Then we have to consider, in the case of vision loss, long-term survival, and prepare for the worst.You are experts in various fields, let's all discuss the problems we are about to face and how to solve them. "

"...Social order, social productivity, scientific research capabilities... These, after we lost our vision, were basically directly hacked to the end."

"...We still have a certain reserve of food and resources. In the current situation of the temporary military rationing system, the problem of social production is actually not the most urgent. We still have some time."

"...I think that the first problem we encountered was actually a problem of social order. Now, there is still the inertia of the original normal society, but soon, when everyone realizes that everyone has lost their vision, it will naturally happen. You will realize that we have lost a large part of our ability to maintain order, which leads to some chaos which leads to greater chaos.

For example, our Skynet system naturally loses its original function after loss of vision.

Also, to give an inappropriate example, if I, or one of us is suddenly killed right now.Who is the murderer?

The existence that needs to maintain order requires people to have awe, so... I suggest, I don't want to announce to the public, all of us have lost vision, at least there should be, there are very few 'lucky', they are not blind.

In this case, we must maintain order, so that it is possible for human civilization to continue.

Second, there are social production and other issues in various fields.

Some high-tech fields may be difficult to maintain.

Our electronic communications could be lost, our transportation could be paralyzed, and our medical care could plummet.

Our scientific capabilities could be severely weakened.

Because most of our equipment and instruments are guided by visual information reception as the final result,

If we need to observe, we need our eyes, if we need to detect, we need our eyes... As long as people need to participate in the experiments and experiments in the process, most of them need to use vision. "

(End of this chapter)