I Really Didn’t Want to be a Savior

After Liu Card, a mixed-race Chinese boy, recognized Chen Feng, his face that was originally white behind his glasses suddenly became bloodshot and red.

"You...are you Teacher Chen Feng Chen?"

Chen Feng nodded expressionlessly, "Yes. What's wrong? Do you know me?"

"Oh my God! How could I not know you!"

Liu Card suddenly covered his mouth, covered his face with excitement and began to cry. He choked and said with a vibrato: "I...I...I'm sorry I'm too excited. Last month, my teacher and I participated in a collection of guesses about you. Part of the verification work. I really... really admire you so much! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I can't control my mood. I didn't expect to meet you here. I... I..."

Master Chen looked up at the sky.

He silently thought about this sentence in his heart.

What an honest and lovely young man.

How come...

I am guilty!

Being treated with such adoration by a contestant who is actually the best science fiction writer in at least a century and who is also the target of his plagiarism makes Master Chen have mixed feelings in his heart.

etc?

It seems like this isn't the first time either.

Why am I still blushing?

Alas, this man, if he wants to lose face, he cannot do anything without any taboos.

It took Chen Feng a few seconds to adjust his mood.

He patted the shoulder of the person opposite him boldly and said, "Don't get excited, calm down, I'm not much older than you."

James Diaz coughed twice, signaling Liu Card to pay attention to the impact.

Huh...huh...

Liu Card took about ten seconds to take a deep breath before slowly calming down. He forced an awkward smile and said, "I'm sorry."

Compared with the confident and arrogant Ryan, although Liu Card is also a top student at Berkeley University, his personality is much more humble and reserved, and he even seems to have a bit of inferiority complex, and he likes to apologize.

Chen Feng knew the reason.

Liukad is very smart, but his identity as a Chinese-Russian mixed race makes him very embarrassed, and his personal characteristics are very obvious, and others can easily recognize him at a glance.

Some experiences of being ostracized as a child have always been hidden in his heart, leaving an indelible shadow and making him not good at words. Instead, he only likes to record his thoughts in words.

"It's okay." Chen Feng waved his hand, "You don't need to be so excited, let alone belittle yourself. You can become a great person in the future. I am nothing great, I have one nose and two eyes."

Chen Feng's encouragement was very polite.

He was thinking about whether he could do something to appease Liu Card, as compensation.

You can't just give him money for nothing, then Chen Feng will be suspected of his sexual orientation.

It's just that inspiration is really hard to talk about. Chen Feng didn't know how to provide the other party with a complete inspiration for a while.

Literary works are no better than music.

Musical inspiration often comes from short-term ideas that inspire long-term life experiences, and then boil out like a volcanic eruption, so Zhong Lei's talent becomes stronger the more she is copied.

Of course, it is also possible that Zhong Lei is too talented.

What Liu Card was robbed by Chen Feng was a complete "huge world" that he spent nearly twenty years slowly building.

Therefore, it would be difficult for Chen Feng to give him another huge world.

Master Chen himself is not a player who is good at creating stories, so he is a bit pushy.

"Teacher Chen, you are so humble."

"It should."

By this time, James had already seen that Chen Feng valued this young man's attitude, so he simply asked Liu Card, who was also familiar with the studio environment, to be Chen Feng's guide.

He himself just got away and turned to think about the scenery being built.

James' arrangement was in line with Chen Feng's intentions.

"Kard, let's leave a contact information."

The two of them had not gone two places before Chen Feng took the initiative to exchange numbers.

Liucard was flattered.

This guy is indeed an outstanding student at Berkeley. He has a wide range of knowledge and is very serious and meticulous in his work. Basically, when faced with important scenes, he can tell the original intention of James' arrangement.

Chen Feng listened with interest at first.

After all, he is about to invest in a movie. Knowing more about the ideas of big-name directors will help him become a good consultant.

But before long, Chen Feng gradually lost interest because Liu Card's explanation was too detailed, and he happened to know the box office and reputation status of James' film. It can only be said to be relatively good, but it is far from a classic.

About an hour later, on the beach outside the studio, under a sun umbrella, Chen Feng sat on a chair with his legs crossed, while Liu Card stayed beside him very reservedly.

"Card, do you like science fiction?"

"Of course I do."

"What's your favorite?"

Liu Card pondered for a moment, ""The King of Light", "Ring World", "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", and the "Foundation" series."

Chen Feng gave a thumbs up, "Good vision. But have you found a problem?"

"What?"

"Many recognized classic science fiction novels were mostly produced decades or even nearly a century ago. Although there are good science fiction in recent years, the number of classic science fiction novels is completely incomparable with that in the past. Why do you think this is? Is it because Do today’s readers favor the past over the present?”

Liu Card looked slightly embarrassed, "Sorry, I don't quite understand the meaning of focusing on the past but not on the present. My Chinese level is average."

"Contemporary people will always particularly admire the stories of the past, and express prejudicial contempt for the works of their own contemporaries. Even if the quality of these works itself is actually the same."

When talking like this, Chen Feng thought of Liu Card's own "Galaxy Is Destroyed" series in the early timeline.

This book became a classic and was adapted into a famous movie, which happened decades after his death.

When Liu Card was still alive, "Galaxy" was criticized a lot.

Liu Card chewed on Chen Feng's meaning and said, "I understand. But I think it may be that these great authors used their vision decades in advance, started from the perspective of pure fantasy, and found enough reasonable scientific basis to include it in their masterpieces. The future theories described have gradually been recognized over the years. Scientific and technological progress has proved that some of the originally purely theoretical theories actually have a certain basis in fact, so that their fantasies decades ago have gradually become today's science, so Only then was it declared a classic.”

Chen Feng smiled and nodded, "Yes, even if a large part of a book is wrong, as long as a few points are correct and the story itself is logical, then the book can be regarded as a good science fiction. But this is not the case. It cannot explain why there are fewer and fewer contemporary classic science fiction. You have to know that the books you just mentioned have achieved huge influence not long after they were born."

Liu Card thought for a long time and shook his head helplessly, "This is too profound. Teacher Chen, do you know the reason?"

Chen Feng nodded, "I do know."

Master Chen has a conclusion in his mind, but this is not his own original creation, but a summary from many historians and literary and art workers in multiple timelines.

When human civilization entered the 21st century AD, as time continued to pass, humans seemed to have really lost their imagination, and the science fiction works created since then were no longer the same from generation to generation.

Science fiction is becoming more and more fantastical and unscientific.

For example, in the eighth timeline, there are still works such as "The Three-Body Problem", "The Galaxy", "Clockwork Girl", and "Mr. Shadow" in the 21st century, but they have irreversibly declined since then.

By the twenty-fifth century, there were only one or two works left, one of which was Chen Feng's own biographical novel "Feng Lei".

Master Chen said it was eye-catching.

The situation became even worse in the 30th century.

Not to mention the huge novel, even the movie is gone, which makes Chen Feng very painful.

First, he could only watch "old movies" during his leisure time in the thirty-first century. Second, this made him anxious about whether human beings had really lost the ability to imagine the future.

Therefore, he devoted his energy to studying historical materials, and only then did he understand the generally accepted views of scholars.

Now he is going to give Liu Card a little thought, and he will start with science fiction in the 21st century.

"First of all, we can analyze a phenomenon. Do you feel that the fantasy component in science fiction novels, movies and TV series in recent years has become more and more important, while the scientific component has become less and less?"

Liucard: "Yes. But why?"

"Because the more humans know and understand the nature of the universe, the balance between our pursuit of truth and fantasy will inevitably gradually tilt toward truth. Our imagination will gradually decline as the level of science and technology advances. In addition, , do you know what the definition of a good science fiction novel is?”

Liu Card: "Based on the present and focusing on the future, the future scientific background outlined must conform to theoretical expectations, and the discussion and portrayal of human nature must have a realistic sociological quality."

Chen Feng nodded, "That's good. Then let me ask you another question. If an ordinary person wants to join Newton's laboratory and become an experimental assistant, how many years of study will be required at the minimum, and what level of knowledge will he need? And then change to Now, taking yourself as an example, how many years of study does it take for an ordinary person to become a scientific research assistant in a key laboratory at Berkeley University? How many years of study does it take to master a certain amount of knowledge? "

Liu Card gradually understood, "I understand. First of all, a classic science fiction novel cannot only revolve around a few characters and a single future technology. It must have a complete and grand enough world view. Then it They must be involved in all aspects of technology in the future world. A few decades or even a hundred years ago, a good science fiction writer also needed to read a lot of books and keep up with the technological hot spots of the times. They were both proficient and knowledgeable. But in our In this era, with the rapid innovation of science and technology, the amount of knowledge accumulated by mankind is increasing, and the amount of basic knowledge included in each subject is too large."

"More and more scientific and technological hot spots are being generated every moment every day, and some classic theories of the past are being overturned. To become a perfect science fiction writer, the knowledge required to master is so amazing that it is difficult to learn with human energy. If it is finished, then fallacies will inevitably appear in the creation and cause controversy. Therefore, it is increasingly difficult for people to write classic science fiction novels, and this difficulty will further sublimate with the refined division of labor in society. , and continues to increase.”

Chen Feng nodded, "Yes, your view is basically correct. Maybe in a few hundred years, humans will have no science fiction novels and movies to watch. After a thousand years, there will be only one theme left in science fiction works."

"What subject matter?"

"Time travel."

"Uh...I understand."

When the topic reached this point, Chen Feng chose to stop.

There were only so many tips he could give Liu Card.

As for what Liu Card can achieve, it depends on everyone's destiny.

Next, Liu Kader was slightly curious and asked about the questionnaire survey Chen Feng had done in China with the Oxford professor some time ago.

He wanted to know if the findings of the investigation were true.

Chen Feng told him that of course it was true.

"So people who speak Chinese really fare better in the face of the apocalypse than people who only speak English?"

Chen Feng smiled and said, "Maybe, who knows. Until it happens, everything is just speculation."

"Teacher Chen, I came up with an idea for a science fiction story."

Liu Card said suddenly.

"What?"

"I was thinking, if there is a Chinese who can travel through a time and space tunnel thousands of years later, and really see the doomsday. Then this tunnel is very strange. Whenever he is about to die in the doomsday, it will pull him back to the present. . Then he can pass after a while. Do you think he will really try to do something to change the future and save the doomsday? What will he do? "

"Ouch, I..."

Chen Feng almost jumped up from his chair.

I'm just giving you some hints. Do you think you can figure it out?

You are a monster!

Something happened to the pointer.

It seems that "Feng Lei" will be hatched in advance.

Chinese? Think I don’t understand the hint?

I'm still alive, and you want to erect a monument for me?

What kind of trouble are you going to make?