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Chapter 43: The Returned Novel
On August 31, 1961, there was only one day left before school started.
Catherine came to school early.
As soon as she returned to the dormitory, she saw several friends gathered around the table. Jenny was holding a book and calculating something.
"Lily, you caused 17 points of damage to the troll, and now the troll still has 33 points of life."
Are they actually playing their own game?
"Look, our magical girl Miss Catherine has arrived~"
Lily laughed and threw herself on Catherine.
"Forget it, Lily."
Catherine seemed tired.
"Kate, will you come and play too?" Lily invited.
"No."
War chess has not yet been released on the market, and what they are playing is the complete version that he gave them - of course, this is the public version.
The rules of the public version are relatively simple, not rigorous but definitely interesting. The professional version is more suitable for game enthusiasts and tabletop role-playing game enthusiasts.
"Ada, how is your father...uh...how is it?"
"It's okay. Jenny hired a psychiatrist for my dad. It's much better than that quack doctor... Oh, Jenny, thank you so much... Without you, I really don't know what I would do..."
Ada said, looking at Jenny with affectionate eyes.
"My mother is also a doctor. The so-called lobotomy surgery is actually just for the benefit of the doctors. They have never thought about their own problems from the perspective of patients. They only think about their own reputation or to make their work more convenient.
.Besides, I didn’t actually do anything.”
"It'll be fine if it's okay."
Catherine said and threw herself on her bed.
"What's wrong, Kate?"
Lily asked with concern.
Although her chess game was taken seriously, Catherine could not laugh.
The reason is also very simple.
——Because her manuscript was rejected!
"I was rejected."
"What?"
Lily thought she didn't know clearly.
"I was rejected!"
Catherine was rolling on the bed, she was depressed. She originally thought that she was already a "successful person", but she didn't expect that she would encounter such a thing!
"what happened?"
Catherine took out the bound manuscript from her backpack and handed it to Lily.
The name of this book is - "Fallout".
This novel is Catherine's "vest", in other words, she wrote it under a pseudonym.
His pen name is "Black Island Man".
The story tells that in 2077, a nuclear war broke out in the world. Before that, the war between China and the United States was the cause of this event. Due to the needs of the times, Catherine had changed China to the Soviet Union. The protagonist is located in Southern California.
A resident of the No. 13 underground shelter in the state was in danger in 2161 because an important computer chip in the water purification system was damaged, so the leader decided to send the protagonist out to find a new chip to save the village.
.At the end of the story, when the protagonist went through great pains to find chips from other villages and saved his shelter, the residents lost trust in the protagonist and expelled him from the shelter forever.
The protagonist of the story is Bruce Edson, his cheap dad.
In its original history, "Fallout" was originally supposed to be a computer game, but the story is very classic.
Catherine still remembers the first time she played this game, it was the third part of Fallout.
In the Tepeni Building inside, there is a task that asks her to choose whether to persuade the residents to allow a group of zombies to move in - in this game, zombies are mutated humans who still retain their intelligence and live with people, but they are...
to discrimination.
Most of the residents had no objection to zombies. Finally, after Catherine got everyone to agree, zombies came in.
Catherine thought the task was successfully completed.
But when Catherine returned here again, she found that all the residents had been slaughtered by these zombies, and the bodies were placed in the basement.
Playing this game was the first time Catherine experienced the feeling of doing bad things with good intentions.
Of course, since the original version of "Fallout" was only a game, Catherine underwent a major surgery on "Fallout."
One feature of this story is that it is rich in side plots, and Catherine connects all the plots of these stories to form a complete story.
After all, after writing "Harry Potter", Catherine is already familiar with it, so this is not difficult to solve.
"Fallout", whether it is the plot or the layout of the world, is slightly better than "Harry Potter", and Catherine is very confident.
but……
But her manuscript was rejected!
Others don't know it, but Catherine knows that next year will be the peak of the Cold War.
Especially after the Cuban crisis broke out, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union reached a peak.
If my deduction is correct, "Fallout", which describes the world after the nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, will definitely be popular!
Not only that, Catherine even considered the Vietnam War. In at most two years, an anti-war trend will break out in the United States, and the book "Fallout" is just right for this subject.
Of course, another reason why the "Fallout" series is successful is that it is set in the 1990s, while Radiation is the style of the 1950s.
However, Catherine has now gone in the opposite direction, changing the original tone of Fallout into a postmodern feel - exactly the opposite of the original work.
Nowadays, what people are most keen to talk about is the future, technology, etc.
This will be especially true after Gagarin enters outer space.
Some surveys show that the United States' technology developed most rapidly during that period.
At that time, Americans who advocated freedom and democracy erupted into a nationwide craze after discovering that they were overtaken by the Soviet Union in science and technology. Ironically, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than half of the Americans had no idea about democracy.
I am no longer passionate about freedom and freedom.
In any case, Catherine has high hopes for her book.
But...not everyone has Catherine's vision.
"Your novel is excellent, but we regret to tell you that your novel is inconsistent with the purpose of our paper book publishing house..."
Your purpose is profit!
Or...don't want to step on the red line of the Cold War?
Hey! Who is this person!!
Isn't it popular these days to talk about things in terms of the Cold War? Why are there still people like this?
The more Catherine thought about it, the angrier she became.
"In fact, I think this novel is well written, or at least looks good."
Lily shrugged.
"But it's not suitable for girls to watch."
Jenny added.
"well."
Catherine sighed, but she didn't want to throw away her novel like this. After all, it was her hard work.
Moreover, no one knows the future better than her.
Change publisher?
Will other publishers publish it?
Do you need to publish it yourself?
…
It seems that the majority of people like small breasts...
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