Chapter 374: Dream Stealing Frenzy
At four o'clock in the morning of Yanjing time, everything in the community was quiet, and the lights were turned off in the entire building. People were immersed in their dreams. No one had ever thought that a shocking science fiction novel would be placed on Weibo and read for free.
When overseas jet lag parties and local night owls who were not sleeping still accidentally refreshed Lin Han’s Weibo, readers were excited to open the long Weibo and then completely fell into a carnival!
After graduating from university, Jay Chou went to UCLa (University of California, Los Angeles) to study for graduate school. His hobbies are usually watching movies, reading novels and going to bars. In the afternoon, he happened to be idle, so he logged on to his Weibo to refresh it, wanting to see what the latest domestic trends have been.
Every overseas student is often paying attention to domestic trends. Considering the time difference, most of the Weibo posts that Jay Chou saw were updated several hours ago. After all, the entire Weibo user almost stopped after the early morning in China.
"Hey? Lin Han has released a new book!"
He couldn't help but sigh, and then sat upright on the sofa, "Inception, this name is interesting. Could it be that he stole a person's dream and prevented him from dreaming?"
No matter what, with many curiosity in mind, Zhou Jie directly clicked to read it. After all, the novels published by Lin Han have never been ugly. This is a writer who never writes junk novels and is well-known. Although the new book has just one chapter, it has already appeared in its prime!
He was a little confused when he saw the beginning of "Inception". Fortunately, Lin Han explained the time relationship between the lines and could figure it out after a little thought.
But Jay Chou was confused. Why did the protagonist Cobb, who had never changed many years ago and Cobb, who had many years later, but Saito had changed from middle age to old age?
Since this is a novel, the movie can set off the passage of time through changes in the actor's makeup, and the text can only be achieved through detailed appearance descriptions. Fortunately, Lin Han is no longer the original one at this time. After so many novels, his writing style has risen by several levels, so he portrayed his own characters in just a few strokes, which made Zhou Jie feel very convinced.
The conversation between the protagonist Cobb and the target character Saito made Jay Chou slightly curious. There must be some story between the two, so he continued to read with a happy mood.
At this time, the hero's assistant Arthur also appeared. The two discussed the inception with Saito. Through their conversation, Jay Chou finally understood what inception is!
It is not to pull out other people's dreams, but to sneak into other people's dreams and steal relevant ideas and information!
Jay Chou took a deep breath and had seen many novels and movies about stealing genres, such as the Eleven Arhats and Twelve Arhats or the Days of the Sky, but stealing things in the dream is really fresh.
He vaguely felt that things would not be that simple, and his fingers slowly slid down. If they really went so smoothly, it would not be Lin Han's novel!
Sure enough, the entire Japanese banquet scene was shaking, as if an earthquake occurred, and Cobb and Arthur understood that their actions might have been seen through.
The novel's content changed with Arthur's sentence "What's wrong with it?", and it moved from the Japanese banquet hall to the dirty bathroom, from the romantic night to the day.
Cobb sat on the chair with his eyes closed, and his whole body fell into sleep. The end of the chair was flush with the edge of the bathtub. Another sweaty man, Nash, appeared. The roar caused by the huge explosion penetrated the entire room, the city became chaotic, and the streets were filled with rioters.
Jay Chou thought this was the reality, because Cobb and Arthur each closed their eyes and connected a box, and Saito was also lying on the bed and asleep. The tube connected the three of them together, as if this was the tool to realize dream inception!
However, as he continued to read, the scene changed from the bathroom to the high-speed rail carriage. Another Japanese man looked at the thin tube on Nash's wrist and connected to three other people: Cobb, Arthur and Saito. The four of them closed their eyes and seemed to be asleep.
"I'll go, are you all dreaming in front of you? How many layers are there in the inception in the dream?" Zhou Jie wanted to see what was behind, but one thing was not completed, which made him extremely upset.
It was clearly just a few thousand words of content, but he couldn't stop watching it. It was clearly the protagonist Cobb and his group stole Saito's dream. The dreams were linked layer by layer, comparable to the most brain-burning movie in Hollywood!
Zhou Jie rubbed his temples. He felt that he had seen it a little sloppy for the first time, so he decided to look at it from the beginning and check if there were any missing places. Perhaps some clues were hidden in the text.
The novel "Inception" only took a few thousand words to attract his eyes. This creativity is amazing, and he can buy this book!
It is obviously the time when users are most deserted, but this Weibo post brings together quite a lot of people to discuss the plot. Everyone has questions and wants to know the content behind it.
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A few hours later, the morning sun drove the night away. Chen Jiaxuan took her cell phone into the bathroom. After a few minutes, she heard her roar, "Lin Han, you didn't sleep in the middle of the night and actually ran to Weibo to post a new book!"
As a top best-selling writer, the publication of any book by Lin Han is the top priority, but this time he posted it on Weibo so recklessly, which is not just an early exposure.
Lin Han had just had a nap for a while, but after hearing Chen Jiaxuan's voice, he sat up from the bed, "I plan to serialize this book on Weibo, and I will comment on how it is while writing it."
"Is this really good for you? This is just the first chapter. When you wrote it before, you had to modify it many times before you could confirm it. You wrote it while posting it. If there was a bug or something you didn't like, how would you modify the previous content?"
"Don't worry, just treat what is published online as the first draft. You can just revise it when the book is published. Renmin University Press will ask you to help me deal with it, and let this book accumulate popularity online."
Chen Jiaxuan handed Lin Han the phone, "That's right, after you posted it for a few hours, this Weibo post was topped in the top ten of the popular Weibo list. Others worked hard to spend money to make rankings, but you were on the right track."
Lin Han took it over and looked at it and found that the number of comments under his long Weibo post exceeded 80,000, and the number of reposts was 120,000, and the number of likes was 340,000. It was only a few hours!
Office workers and students who take buses and subways all open their phones to browse the content they didn't read last night during this time in the morning. Lin Han posted a new book on Weibo for the first time, and this naturally attracted their attention. Moreover, this is not just about revealing the name, but just throwing out the first chapter, which can of course cause a sensation.
For Lin Han’s readers, this day was extremely happy. Not only did they know the name of the new book, but they even knew the content of the new book. However, one chapter could not meet their needs at all, and they were all desperately urging them to update!
Lin Han logged into his account and found that the mobile client had been stuck at this time. The number of various message reminders had become 999. The original number of 12 million fans actually increased sharply within a few hours, and it was marching towards 15 million, which might be reached before noon.
The most attractive thing about a science fiction novel is creativity. Science fiction novels without creativity are mediocre. If it is just a novel with a stealing theme, its appeal is limited.
Creativity is the soul of science fiction novels. Creativity occupies 80% of the entire science fiction novel, which is somewhat different from traditional novels that shape characters through plots.
But putting stealing in a dream has become a wonderful idea. Everyone dreams and everyone has a similar experience. It can be said that it is empathy!
In just the first chapter, "Inception" burst out with extraordinary energy, making the entire online world crazy.
"I just read the first chapter and I can't stop at all. Teacher Lin quickly updates the second chapter. It's best to just post the whole book!"
"This first chapter reveals so many clues. The dream in the dream also has another dream. Which one is the reality?"
"I was completely impressed by Teacher Lin's mind. This idea was amazing. I have seen those who steal the rest, but I have never seen Dream Inception. It's awesome!"
"Have you seen Jacky Cheung's version of Journey to the West? I remember there was a dream demon in it, which was invincible in the dream."
"Young man, at this time, you need a weekly dream interpretation, and you only need three dollars to buy it home! If you can't buy it, you will suffer losses, and you will be deceived!"
"In Greek mythology, there is a Morpheus in charge of dreams. In ancient Roman mythology, Knox and Egyptian mythology, Serapis are all dream gods. I just checked the information and found that the name of the protagonist Cobb is pronounced the same as Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. Lin Dawei!"
"I didn't understand it, but I don't know where I didn't understand it. Anyway, I'm confused, so I'll wait to see what's next."
"We have strongly urged for updates. Teacher Lin has never let us down. I don't ask you to burst out 30,000 words a day like the online author, but you don't have a weekly update, a monthly update, a seasonal update or a half-year update. I want to draw a small circle to curse you!"
"Why is the protagonist facing the elderly Saito at some time and the middle-aged Saito at some time? What the hell is Lin Han writing about? I can't understand it in the fog, so I deliberately nonsense?"
"Is this the setting of a parallel world? Sometimes it's in a Japanese palace, sometimes it's in a small room in a riot city, and sometimes it's in a train car."
"Upstairs, don't you know this is a dream inception? There may be one in the real world, and the rest are dreams."
No matter what everyone says, the popularity of "Inception" has completely increased, and a dream inception craze has formed at this time, and everyone is talking about it! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!