The literary era since 1979

Chapter 285 The Midnight Bell
Fangyan bought two-bedroom, one-living-room houses in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, and Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, ranging from 60 to 70 square meters.

The house has considerable room for appreciation and is easier to sell than a "thousand-square-foot mansion". The down payment is 10%, all of which comes from the royalties from novels such as "The Grandmaster Huang Feihong".

As for the 20-year mortgage, you can use the royalties from "Once Upon a Time in China" and "Saving Private Ryan" to pay it back slowly.

What’s more, Xu Ke has also set his sights on the film adaptation rights of his own work “The Grandmaster Huang Feihong”!
This trip to the United States can be said to be a fruitful one.

Fang Yan got on the train and happily returned to Yanjing with Bai Ruoxue, Mike and others.

But as soon as they got off the train, they encountered a strange thing. The railway police stopped them because Bai Ruoxue had long hair.

"Why can't I just leave with my hair down?"

Bai Ruoxue widened her eyes in disbelief.

"Comrade, please cooperate with our work."

The railway police were also helpless, saying that a notice had been issued from above that women with shawl hair were petty bourgeois, and if they let her leave the station, they would be criticized.

Bai Ruoxue didn't want to embarrass the police, so she had no choice but to take out a silk scarf from her bag and tie up her hair, and only then was she let go.

"I didn't expect the situation in reality to be even more exaggerated and serious than what grandpa wrote in the letter."

"Luckily I was wearing a Zhongshan suit, otherwise I would have to change clothes before I could leave the station."

Fangyan said half-jokingly.

Along the way, you can see middle-aged women wearing red headbands everywhere, holding scissors and cutting bell-bottom pants or skinny pants as soon as they see them.

In addition to wearing strange clothes, they will also strictly check if women have shoulder-length hair and men have long hair, and even dating in broad daylight is not allowed.

Looking through the bus window at the slogans and pictures on the street walls, the words "anti-spiritual pollution" appear frequently.

The same goes for Nanluoguxiang.

Fangyan carried a lot of bags and strode into the courtyard, shouting, "I'm back!"

"elder brother!"

Fang Yan ran out when she heard the sound, her ponytail swinging behind her head.

Looking at the little sister's attire, Fang Yan couldn't help but tease, "This is more like a student."

"Brother, why are you laughing at me right after you got back?"

Fang Yan grumbled, "School is very strict now. If you wear jeans to school, the teacher will call your parents."

"Stop complaining, this is good!"

Yang Xia came out of the kitchen and wiped her hands on her apron.

Fang Yan stuck out her tongue in grievance, but when she saw the gift Fang Yan brought back, her worries were instantly forgotten.

"These tapes are for you."

"Wow! Teresa Teresa's new album! And Rong Chang!"

"Lin Qingxia's autograph?!"

Fang Yan was dazzled by a pile of music tapes, including not only "The Wind Continues to Blow" by Zhang Guorong and "The Long Road of Life" by Teresa Teresa, but also those of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers such as Alan Tam and Zhang Mingrui, as well as American superstars such as Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.

“This one is for someone else.”

Fangyan kept Danny Chan's "I Just Like You" and said, "You can't just listen to it casually now, understand!"

Fang Yan nodded repeatedly, "I know, I promise!"

"These clothes and souvenirs are yours, Mom."

Fangyan showed them to Yang Xia one by one, and then said, "The other ones are from my sister and brother-in-law."

"This is too much."

Yang Xia scolded him for spending money recklessly, but her face was full of smiles. "Yanzi, don't just stare at me. Go call your sister and ask them to come to our house for lunch." Then she added, "Ask them to buy some good wine and food on the way back."

"Eh!"

Fang Yan put down her overalls and ran out quickly.

Seeing this, Fangyan suddenly thought: "It's not a good idea to always go to the alley to make phone calls."

"That's right. If it were you, we should just install a telephone at home." Yang Xia said, "Yuemin and Yaya installed a telephone at home."

"Really!"

The dialect was a big surprise.

In those days, private telephones were not yet popular. If you wanted to install a landline at home, you had to apply for one at the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. From registration to installation, it was common to take several months to half a year. In some cases, it might take three to five years to get one installed.

Moreover, the initial installation fee is very expensive, more than a thousand yuan for one phone, and you have to pay extra for long-distance calls, and the long-distance call charges are also shockingly high.

800公里内每分钟8块，800公里到1500公里每分钟40块，1500公里以上则要65块。

"But your sister said that although installing this phone makes it more convenient to make calls, it also has disadvantages."

Yang Xia said: "Even in the middle of the night, there will be people calling, and the ringing is so annoying."

Then she laughed and said, "The funniest thing was my mother-in-law. One day she called me in the middle of the night and I was so scared that I thought it was haunted."

Fangyan smiled without saying anything, when suddenly an inspiration came to him.

Late night? Ringing? Haunted?

All of a sudden, the problem that had been bothering me was solved. Here came the novel of "science fiction + suspense + thriller"!
When I thought of this, I couldn't wait to say:
"Mom, I'm going back to my room first."

"You must be tired from taking the train. Go and have a rest. Let me clean up here." Yang Xia's tone was full of concern as she watched her son hurried into the room.

Fangyan came to the table, took the pen from his chest, and wrote on the first line of the graph paper:

"The Ring".

This Japanese horror film, which is as famous as "The Grudge", has left a childhood trauma for many people.

Especially the photo of Sadako crawling out of the TV, with her eyes rolled down and her face blurred...

But in fact, the "Ring" series is not a horror story, but a science fiction story.

The original novel is called the "Japanese version of The Three-Body Problem".

It tells the story of a joint research by scientists from the United States, Japan and other countries, who used millions of supercomputers to re-simulate the evolution of life on Earth. They used the life in the computers to replicate and reproduce through information such as DNA, and slowly evolved a world that is no different from today's human beings.

This virtual space was named "Ring World".

The space in the "ring world" is as vast as the universe, and the soil, terrain, gas and other conditions are consistent with those on Earth. Simply put, it creates a sandbox world that is exactly the same as the real world. Researchers use this to observe and utilize the life process and world evolution.

But as expected, an accident still happened.

In the "Ring World" space, "cancer" occurred because of the protagonist, and the project plan was stopped and the budget was stopped.

In order to continue the plan, the scientist who created the Ring World brought out the protagonist's base sequence and allowed the protagonist to be reborn in the real world through asexual reproduction. However, what they never expected was that the protagonist's base sequence contained a lethal virus, which is called the "Ring" virus, also known as "Yamamura Sadako".

Because Sadako Yamamura is a hermaphrodite, she can reproduce as an individual, so she can multiply at the same rate as the virus.

Moreover, this virus seeks to mutate, evolve, and spread, and slowly produces the "human metastatic cancer virus" throughout the real world.

Not only can Sadako Yamamura record what she sees with her own eyes on a videotape without using any tools, but anyone who watches the videotape will die after a week. Even women who come into contact with it during their ovulation period will give birth to individuals with the same DNA as Sadako Yamamura.

In other words, become a "virus" like Sadako.

The heroine, Cha Cha, is the only person immune to the "Human Metastatic Cancer Virus", so researchers let her travel between the real world and the ring world to avoid Sadako's pursuit.

In the ring world, develop a vaccine to solve the virus and put an end to the "Yamamura Sadako" virus.

If Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem" is in the macro world, standing from the perspective of the universe to overlook the Three-Body planets, the Earth, the interstellar fleet, and the destiny of mankind, it has created a science fiction world that is so magnificent that it far exceeds the Milky Way.

Then, "The Ring" is about holding a super microscope and gazing at trace elements such as molecules, neutrinos, bases, DNA, viruses, codes, and human nature. This is an equally magnificent microscopic science fiction world created based on viruses.

Even "The Matrix" borrowed the general framework and settings of "The Ring".

For example, Smith and Sadako Yamamura are both viruses, and can replicate infinitely in the later stages.

For example, Neo, the savior, is just like the heroine. In order to save both worlds, he returns to the virtual world to eliminate the virus.

"Dong dong dong."

Fangyan tapped the table, thinking about changing the background.

For example, changing the "ring world" to the "spiritual realm" mentioned by Mr. Qian.

The entire "Spirit Realm" project involves not only joint scientific research by the United States and Japan, but also by China, Europe, the Soviet Union and other countries. However, the researchers in the United States and Japan were unwilling to see the project terminated, and secretly continued the plan.

As a result, a virus was created, which caused a big trouble.

Japan first covered up the facts, but as the death rate kept rising, the lid could no longer be lifted even if the data was falsified.

Finally, with public opinion boiling over, they had to hold a press conference, bow and apologize, and display their craftsman spirit. However, it was too late; the virus began to spread around the world.

The protagonist "Luo Ji", who is immune to the virus, will act as the savior and directly confront Yamamura Sadako!

(End of this chapter)