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Chapter 428 One-Day Cycle and Novel Carvin

Time went back again.

The reading area of ​​Hell Story City returned to 3:15 am on March 0th again, and all the residents knew nothing about it, because their memories were all erased.

However, there is a group of female exceptions, who are the female writers of Story City from Hell.

Time has turned back, which means that the women writers have to redesign the plot of the reading area for the third time today.

Reading Street, in a coffee shop.

The female writers Ding Xianghua and Meihua are sitting together, conceiving a documentary novel in the reading area.

"Hey, what is the idea of ​​today's plot?" Ding Xianghua frowned, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai cannot be together, they must be separated. But if they are separated forcibly, the plot is too old-fashioned, and the editor-in-chief definitely won't." will be satisfied."

Plum Blossom sighed, "Yes, it's really difficult to conceive the plot of a novel!"

Ding Xianghua said: "It's not difficult to conceive a plot. I can conceive 1000 different plots within an hour. There is no pressure. The problem is that these 1000 plots are all plots written by others. If I want to write a plot that others have not written The new plot that I have just passed is really too difficult!"

Mei Hua strongly agrees: "According to incomplete statistics, a novel has an average of 1978 small plots, and the total collection of books in the library of Hell Story City has reached more than 2 million volumes, and the total number of plots is about 4000 billion. Almost all the plots we can think of have already been written, innovation is easier said than done.”

"But it's impossible without innovation!" Ding Xianghua looked sad, "This documentary novel is written for His Majesty the Book Emperor. He is an old bookworm. He has read all the routine plots. He is already tired of aesthetics and has no sense of substitution. .We had to write something new to make it up to the mark."

Ding Xianghua continued to analyze and said: "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai must be separated. This is a plot of lovers breaking up. I checked, and there are a total of 598 ways to write the plot of lovers breaking up, and 48944 changes can be deduced from each of them. The plot of the change has been written. We have to come up with the 48945th change! Haha! How is this conceived?"

Ding Xianghua clutched her head tightly, looking at the computer in front of her, with a pair of beautiful eyebrows huddled together, trying to find a new plot idea in her mind.

Two female writers are thinking hard.

They didn't realize that three invisible people walked into the cafe, they were Liu Xing, Yuxin and Wang Lanlan.

The three of Liu Xing just walked around the reading area of ​​Hell Story City, ready to find the location of the death cell in Hell Story City.

According to the clues provided by Liang Shanbo, Mrs. Jin may be imprisoned in death row now. Liu Xing naturally wants to find Mrs. Jin.

It's a pity that Liu Xing has searched all over the reading area of ​​Hell Story City, and found that there is no death row here, and the death row should be in other areas of Hell Story City.

The entire reading area is closed, and Liu Xing has not been able to find a way to enter other areas of Hell Story City so far, and naturally he cannot find the death row.

In desperation, Liu Xing had no choice but to go back to Reading Street, planning to start with female writers, hoping to find some clues

"Dad, what are plum blossoms and lilac flowers doing?" Wang Lanlan quietly approached and looked at lilac and plum blossoms.

Liu Xing said: "They should be Calvin."

"Karvin?"

The so-called calvin refers to the fact that the writer can't find his way of thinking when conceiving a novel, gets stuck, and can't think of a follow-up novel plot.

Cavin is something that every writer will encounter. When in Cavan, the writer often keeps spinning around a plot point, racking his brains to come up with one follow-up plot after another, but none of these plots are satisfactory. , I had no choice but to delete all of them, and then continue to think, and keep looping this process.

Lilac and Plum Blossom are in the state of Calvin right now. If the plot they conceived does not meet the standard, the editor-in-chief will start the time-rewinding program and let them re-conceive.

Every time time goes back, Lilac and other writers have to re-conceive. If they can't come up with a satisfactory plot, they can only be stuck on March 3 forever, an infinite single-day cycle.

March 3th will never be reached.

This is a nightmare for any writer.

"what!!!!"

Suddenly, Lilac, who had been thinking hard for a long time, let out a scream. After thinking for a long time, she still couldn't think of the plot idea. She was almost driven crazy, and complained with a bitter face, "Many writers say that Calvin is as uncomfortable as constipation. It's not wrong at all!"

"Ka Wen is [-] times more uncomfortable than constipation, okay?" Plum Blossom also had a frowning face. "Constipation only needs to be used hard, and it can still have some effect. But once Ka Wen is gone, it won't help even if you hit your head against the wall!"

Lilac brushed her hair casually, but a few hairs fell on the table. She picked up her hair and looked at it, and said worriedly: "Meihua, I've been staying up all night thinking about plots recently, and I've lost a lot of hair! If this continues , I won’t become bald, will I?”

"It's not so serious, is it?" Plum Blossom comforted, "Don't worry, as long as we stay until April 4st, we will complete the task and return to the central area of ​​Hell Story City to rest. Today is March 1th, as long as we persist for another 3 It's April 15st."

"To put it lightly!" Ding Xianghua reminded, "Today is March 3th, which is good, but if we can't come up with a plot that meets the standards, we will always be stuck on March 15th, with a non-stop single-day cycle. Day 3 is unattainable!"

Hearing this, Liu Xing, who was hiding aside, heard an important clue.

Judging from the dialogue between Lilac and Plum Blossom, they will go to the central area of ​​Hell Story City on April 4st.

Liu Xing has not been able to find a way to go to other areas of Hell Story City so far. If Lilac and other female writers can go to the central area of ​​Hell Story City on April 4, it will help Liu Xing find a way. The death row may be in the central area .

At that time, Liu Xing may find Mrs. Jin and solve some mysteries.

However, the premise is that the time in the reading area can reach April 4st.

Lilac and Plum Blossoms have Calvin today, and they will always cycle on March 3th. If the problem of Calvin cannot be solved, the time will not reach April 15st at all.

"Ah!!!! How did you come up with today's plot?"

Ding Xianghua yelled again. She searched all the ideas in her brain, and came up with dozens of plot plans one after another. She just searched the novel library and found that these plots were written by others. , nothing new at all.

"Karvin is really worse than death, I might as well just hit my head to death!"

Ding Xianghua lay on the table very depressed, she really felt how difficult it is to create an innovative plot in this era when there are so many writers like dogs.

Which writer doesn't want to innovate?What writer doesn't want to get out of a rut?But the plots you can think of have already been written by countless people. If you want to write a plot that has never been written by tens of millions of people, this...is it really a joke?

"Meihua, we may die on March 3th." Lilac lay on the table like a dog, with a discouraged expression on her face.

Plum Blossom touched Ding Xianghua's head, and comforted: "Baby, don't be so pessimistic, there is no unparalleled road, and you should be able to think of a creative plot!"

"I think the hope is extremely slim, even slimmer than conjoined twins!" Ding Xianghua began to analyze the plot, "Liang Shanbo can't make Zhu Yingtai pregnant, the two of them must be separated. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Ying Taiwan is ready to die for love. It can be seen that it is impossible to separate them by themselves. The only way is to separate them by force. There are 89 types of forced separation methods, including isolation, imprisonment, intimidation, beating, deception, kidnapping, and legal sanctions , framing, drugging, brainwashing, etc., each type has dozens to hundreds of classifications."

"Take beating as an example. The methods of beating include punching, kicking, cutting with a knife, stabbing with a sword, shooting with a gun, shocking with an electric baton, stabbing with a dagger, blowing up with a bomb, hitting with a brick, etc. Wait, there are 1287 types in total. But for each of the beating methods, someone has already written the corresponding plot, and there is nothing new at all!"

Meihua reminded: "Lilac, we can beat different parts of the human body! For example, if other people's plot is about beating the face, we will write about beating the feet! When other people's plot is about beating the chest, we will write about beating the butt-butt! Anything new?"

Lilac shook her head: "It's useless. The body is composed of nine major circulatory systems. There are more than 200 bones in the body. The plot of each part has been written by someone, such as needle piercing the large intestine, knife barrel duodenum, Plots such as shooting the prostate and other plots are not new, as for routine plots such as cutting the kidney, stabbing the stomach, shocking the liver, digging out the heart, piercing the lung, etc., they have long been the plots of the dark street in dark novels, and there is nothing new."

Mei Hua thought for a while, and then said: "Can we use different people to beat people? When others write about gangsters beating people, we are policemen beating people; when others write men beating people, we write women beating people. Also, you can Different occupations are included. The occupations in China are divided into 28 categories in total, with a total of 4987 majors. Different occupations hit people, should there be new ideas? Also, you can include different ages, ethnicities, personalities, blood types, Constellation, hairstyle, clothing, education, nationality, etc., there is still a lot of room for choice.”

Ding Xianghua said: "Meihua, your idea is too naive. Do you think that if you change your vest, readers won't be able to see it? Others write about a policeman in a white police uniform beating someone, but you write about a nurse in black high-heeled shoes." Beating people, do you think readers will think that these are two different plots? From the reader’s point of view, this is a type of plot, that is, beating people! Beating people in another identity, readers still feel that your plot is not innovative, no It's beyond the routine of beating people! Just changing the skin is useless!"

Mei Blossom frowned, thought for a while, and said, "We can change our thinking a little more. It doesn't have to be performed by humans, but by animals. For example, let a dog beat Liang Shanbo, forcing The separation of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai should be something new, right?"

Ding Xianghua pulled out a file from the computer and said, "Look for yourself. The plot of letting dogs hurt people is already a bad routine in animal novels. Even if you add what I said before, It’s also an old-fashioned thing. For example, there are 768 kinds of parts where dogs can hurt people. Dogs can bite people’s legs, dogs can bite people’s hands, dogs can bite people’s buttocks, dogs can bite people’s dicks... …These plots have long been written by animal novel writers, and the old bookworm has already read it to the point of throwing up, crying and shouting that the plot is not new! Alas! Where did so many new ideas come from?"

Mei Hua looked at the information in the computer, and her face suddenly became a little more solemn: "Why are you so perverted? Even this kind of plot has been written over and over again!"

"It's very simple, this is a world where there are as many writers as dogs! How many people make a living, output tens of thousands of words a day, all the plots you can think of are thought up, and the plots you can't think of are also thought of by others Already." Ding Xianghua sighed, "His Majesty the Book Emperor is an old bookworm, and his reading volume is estimated to be several million. Do you think it is possible to write a plot that makes him feel new?"

Plum Blossom was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "Ding Xianghua, do you think the number of types of plots is limited? Have all possible plot structures been written by humans?"

Ding Xianghua rested her chin in both hands, and said with a depressed face: "How do I know? However, it will become more and more difficult for future writers to write a novel plot. I lost dozens of plots today." I have a hair, but I still can't figure it out. I guess I won't be able to survive until April 4st when I'm bald, right?"

Mei Hua's heart tightened: "Hearing what you said, I'm really worried. The innovation of the plot is no longer a Chinese cabbage, and it is almost at the end of the mountain. If all the plots have been written, we writers still have a lot of time to write." What is the meaning of existence? Wouldn’t it be enough for readers to just read novels that already exist? Alas!”

The two female writers lay down on the table together like two puppies, moaning and continuing to think hard about the plot of the novel.

"Poor lilacs and plum blossoms!"

Seeing this, Wang Lanlan couldn't help but sigh with emotion. She is also a writer herself, so she is all too familiar with Calvin's pain.

When writing mystery novels in the past, Wang Lanlan often got stuck. When some mysteries could not be reasoned out or the logic chain could not be found, it was often difficult to sleep and eat for days and nights. It is difficult for people who have not experienced this kind of pain to understand.For writers, this experience is the norm, and there are always a few days every month that make people feel uncomfortable.

However, Wang Lanlan's situation is better. She is a freelance writer, she can write whenever she wants, and she can go out to play if she doesn't want to. Anyway, no one cares.

Lilac and Plum Blossom are much more difficult. They must keep updating every day and conceive the plot every day.If you can conceive it, update it, if you can't conceive it, you must update it. How many mental patients have practiced like this.

"Dad, Lilac Kawen is so stuck, should we help her?" Wang Lanlan asked, "If Kawen doesn't solve it, they will be trapped on March 3th, repeating the same day over and over again."

Liu Xing naturally understands this: "The path to the central area will open on April 4st, and we must move the time to April 1st as soon as possible. Therefore, we have to help Lilac and others solve the problem of Calvin."

Wang Lanlan's big eyes flashed suddenly: "Cawen seems to be very serious this time. Ding Xianghua and the others don't know how to conceive the plot of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. How to solve it? Dad, is the number of plots limited?"

Liu Xing said with a smile: "Of course not. The evolution of the plot is endless, but human imagination is limited, there are a lot of blind spots in thinking, so many plot patterns cannot be conceived, and they can only be repeated in limited routines."

Wang Lanlan immediately became interested: "Then how do you conceive the plot of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?"

Liu Xing squatted on the ground, drew a pattern of separation and reunion similar to OOXX, and explained: "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai want to be together. It is [divided potential]. Therefore, this is a plot wave from combined potential to divided potential. To analyze this plot, we must start with the structure of divided potential. The subordination of potential can be different divided potential and same divided potential Potentials can be divided into internal potentials and external potentials from the structure, and can be divided into one-fold potentials and N-fold potentials from the level. Each classification can refine hundreds of sub-potentials. As long as the three From this perspective, a large number of plot waves can be deduced.”

"For example, we adopt the idea of ​​different division potential + inner division potential + first division potential, the division potential has 3600 seed division potentials, the inner division potential has 8180 seed division potentials, and the first division potential has 249 structures. There are 3600×8180×249=7332552000 kinds of plot waves in the show, which is just the tip of the iceberg of the plot waves of the division of potential. If multiple divisions of potential are used to conceive the plot, the number of plot waves can increase exponentially and expand infinitely.”

"The above is the situation where only the plot wave of the situation is considered. If the plot wave of other trends is added, the plot evolution will be more abundant. For example, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai want to die in love naturally, which is the 'life force' and 'death force'; The time in the reading area can be reversed, which is 'following the trend' and 'against the trend'... These can provide a lot of ideas for the evolution of the plot. Unfortunately, the lilac and plum blossoms are limited by personal imagination and keep spinning in place. I didn't find a breakthrough..."

Wang Lanlan listened intently, nodding from time to time. She had studied the 24 forms of "Episode Wave", so she understood Liu Xing's analysis at once. Will be limited, can't conceive it?"

Liu Xingdao: "Writers must be given the freedom to create if they want to have the imagination of a powerful and unconstrained man. If writers are kept in captivity like animals, their thinking will be bound and gradually rigid, and eventually they will naturally lose their imagination. Female writers such as Lilac and Plum Blossom were all raised in captivity. They were trapped in Hell Story City and forced to write non-fiction novels. And creativity and imagination?"

Wang Lanlan asked: "Then what should we do now?"

Liu Xing said: "At this point, I can only help them conceive a plot to solve Kawen's problem and get out of the single-day cycle of March 3."

Wang Lanlan's eyes lit up: "Dad, what plot are you going to conceive?"

"Of course it's the plot that Huang Lingtian wants to see." Liu Xing said, "Let's go, Xiaogu, let's go and prepare first."

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(End of this chapter)