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Chapter 708 Arrival

Lin Han has never read the English version of "The Story of Your Life". The content he reads is the translated version, so what he has to do now is to change the protagonist and story background of the story with a Chinese background, and at the same time, he also strives to localize the original translation accent so that the completion of this novel can be as high as possible.

The story is divided into two main lines. The first is the process of the heroine as a linguist trying to learn alien languages.

The aliens in the novel have seven long limbs, which radiate from all sides to the center, and there is a barrel hanging on the axis, which humans call "seven-limb barrel".

They made completely incomprehensible sounds. After various analysis of the heroine Louise, she finally thought that she should communicate with them by writing symbols, not language!

Louise and her colleagues tried to explain the symbols of "Seven Limbs Bucket" through data analysis. They found that each symbol expressed by "Seven Limbs Bucket" is actually a sentence with neither beginning nor ending.

The arcs (seven limbs barrel words) drawn from ink sprayed from places that look like fingers are quite similar to Chinese hieroglyphs!

Unlike Chinese hieroglyphs, the Qilizhuan text does not rely on words with independent meanings to express the meaning, but also unifies all the meanings that need to be expressed in one word.

The more complex the meaning of the word, the more complicated the word is.

Another main line of the novel is the memory of Louise, the heroine who is also a mother, and her life is about her dead daughter.

In the alternate description of the daughter's life, it is the theme that the author wants to express. Such a life is that after the heroine's perception pattern was affected by the "seven-limb bucket", the foreseeable facts have not happened but have long been doomed.

Whether it is the birth of a daughter, the recognition of her daughter from the baby room, or the story is softly told to her, explaining what it means to be a "win-win" or quarrel with her daughter, and then the daughter died for some reason at the age of 25.

Everything is true, just like the moment you come into contact with aliens, you can feel it and cannot escape it!

The reason why the novel presents an alternating narrative structure is that it wants to express the content stated by the heroine influenced by alien writing thinking is like a picture-based scroll. The past, present and future are all called "memory".

The biggest problem this novel throws is: If you see your life from now on, will you change it?

In short, the sense of time in "The Story of Your Life" is very wonderful. At the beginning, readers will think that the heroine starts to contact the Octopus monster after her daughter dies. She is working while recalling her daughter's past.

After seeing it, I realized that the real chronological order is: Louise met her daughter's father during her contact with the Octopus monster, and then her daughter was born and lost, and she had this memory of her lovesickness for her daughter!

Therefore, this novel is actually narrated in the form of memories, but it recalls two different stages of experience at the same time.

In the memory of the two stages, there is an inevitable connection in the dark because of the "seven-limbed barrel-purpose thinking style".

The novel uses the technique of alternately advancing the first-person perspective and the second-person perspective ingeniously, and the lines are filled with the unique sense of sci-fi novels.

While feeling the unique charm of the seven-limb barrel language, readers also feel a kind of sadness due to fate: the sadness blends with the poetic image, and finally condenses into the heroine's sigh, "After a glance, the past and the future arrive at the same time, my consciousness becomes ashes for half a century, and time has not yet arrived. My life is all in it."

In fact, this is somewhat similar to the popular settings of online novels. The protagonist knew the ending of the whole story from the beginning, but there was no rebirth, system or time travel!

Unlike human causal perspectives, aliens first have the consequences and then the cause, that is, they know the result first and then the cause.

The past, present, and future have no boundaries in their eyes. It is like a complete history book, which can be turned to the end or the beginning.

When Lin Han read this novel, he had a huge doubt that since he knew that his daughter would die and that her husband would divorce him, he might as well not marry his boyfriend, and even if he got married, he would not have children. This would change his destiny?

Lin Han once read the sentence "And suddenly, I was already in the morgue. A handyman lifted the cover and exposed your face. What I saw was you when I was twenty-five years old." He was deeply hurt by the author's malice. This unexpected thriller was very scary.

I was always warm and affectionate before. I thought this was a memoir written by my mother to my daughter, but who would have thought that I suddenly realized that my daughter was actually dead!

When I first read this book, Lin Han had not yet experienced the result of the crossing of two lines. He almost thought that this memoir was written for ghosts, which scared him very much.

Seeing your life through it at a glance, this practice is very popular in online novels, especially in rebirth of the genre. Rebirth means coming back to make up for regrets and mistakes. Avoiding these risks and turning dangers into safety is an important pleasure!

Unfortunately, in "The Story of Your Life", the author wants to express a person's attitude towards inevitable results. After the protagonist Louise learned everything in his life from the beginning, he was willing to step into the future every step, rather than being a puppet of fate.

This writing method and the Internet writing method have its own advantages and advantages. There is no distinction between advantages and disadvantages, it is just a different choice for the author.

Even Lin Han is now in this new world and wonders, is it a joke made by aliens, or is he living in an illusory world like a human in the matrix world?

The result of thinking too much is that he becomes a mental illness. Lin Han also plans to live a good life. No matter whether this life is true or false, it is absolutely right to live seriously.

The full text of "The Story of Your Life" is just over 30,000 words, which fits the scope of short stories and is also very suitable for Tan Lin's previous request. This is a unique science fiction novel that will probably be discussed by many readers.

[Your father will ask me that question soon. This will be the most important moment in our couple's life. I want to listen attentively and write down every detail. It's late at night, and your father and I spent a night away, having a meal and watching the performance, and we just came back.

We came to the yard, and there was a full moon in the sky. I told your father that I wanted to dance, and he agreed. We were dancing a slow dance, and a couple in their thirties danced in the melting moonlight, just like two children.

There was a hint of chill in the night, but I didn't feel cold at all. Then, your father said, 'Do you want a child?']

Lin Han's hands began to type on the keyboard, and the beginning of this time was the story of the heroine and her husband having been married for two years and settling in Yanjing.

That's right, this story was simply changed to the name of "Arrival" by Lin Han, and the heroine Louise was also changed to Qiao Yu, who was also a linguist.

When aliens arrived on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, they were summoned by the government to communicate with aliens, hoping to obtain the purpose of these aliens coming to Earth. In this process, Qiao Yu learned alien language, gained the ability to foresee the future, and fell in love with his colleague Gu Yuchen!

Of course, Ian in the original novel was changed by Lin Han to Gu Yuchen, a theoretical mathematician and professor of physics. He worked for the government with Qiao Yu and led their team to decipher the noise from the seven-limbed barrels in the spacecraft.

Of course, the protagonist's name is actually not particularly important. What is important is that Lin Han is finally willing to change the background of the novel. He has not written a novel with such background for a long time!

Aliens may not be all bad. Although these seven-limbed barrels look terrifying, they will feel a sense of intimacy after reading them.

The official organization has organized experts from all walks of life to crack information. Although there are villains in it, there is no doubt that this is a success full of positive energy. I believe that readers who are picking on it cannot say that Lin Han is wrong!

What's more, it makes sense for him to modify this. Although the seven-limb buckets occasionally have strange hissings in the novel, the language system is a written text.

In other words, the communication between them does not depend on speech, but on writing! These words are ejected from their tentacles, especially like cuttlefish juice!

Although it is not explained in detail in the novel, the movie version has improved these words to a considerable extent. It looks like a large circle composed of black ink, but it actually includes a lot of content.

These are similar to ancient Chinese hieroglyphs, so it is more convincing to master this alien text faster after being inspired by hieroglyphs!

Of course, Lin Han actually has no research on linguistics. He can only follow the settings of the novel in the professional core part, so that the professionalism of Qiao Yu, a linguist, will not be questioned by readers.

"To learn an unknown language, it is the only way to communicate with people whose language is native. The communication I mean is asking questions, talking, etc., and there is no other way. So it is far from enough to analyze and record. If you really want an alien language, you must send someone who has language training to communicate with alien languages ​​and let him talk to aliens!"

There was no waste of too much ink at the beginning. Lin Han flicked a shot on time to describe the protagonist's husband's two years of marriage, and then adjusted his time back to the previous first meeting of the two.

If you don’t see the end, readers will not know that the physicist who followed the colonel to find Qiao Yu at the beginning of the novel would be her future husband!

Recently, I am quite decadent, and the author Jun decided to refresh himself and become a new person!
Chapter completed!
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