The Death Knell

"The Dark Tower" is a book that the famous writer Stephen King spent thirty years writing. Although he claimed to be inspired by Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" to write this epic novel, the two are actually very different.

"The Lord of the Rings" is a magical epic, with a very simple magical background and no particularly complicated story. Everyone can understand it and yearn for that fantasy continent.

"The Dark Tower" is more complicated, even difficult to understand, at least in the era when it was published.

Around 1950, a quantum physicist first proposed the concept of parallel universes. At that time, he gave an example of a fox eating grapes, and talked about the consequences caused by the two possibilities of "eating" and "not eating". difference.

In the beginning, this was just a discussion in the scientific community. At that time, ordinary citizens often did not care about these things, and there was no convenient way to learn like the Internet. For a long time, it was just a scientific hypothesis, a A talking point for high-end talents in small circles.

By 1961, the concept of parallel worlds appeared in the 123rd issue of "The Flash V1", which told the story of the meeting between Barry on Earth 1 and the Flash on Earth 2, and this led to the setting of the DC parallel universe.

It can be said that The Flash is a pioneer in the comics industry. In every sense, he is a pioneer.

Since then, the concept of parallel universe has entered many families with comics, and has gradually become fashionable. At that time, American teenagers who had not watched The Flash and did not know about parallel universe would be ashamed to go to school. people.

But it’s only for young people.

In 1982, Stephen King introduced the concept of parallel worlds into his novels and wrote the first part of the "Dark Tower" series, constructing a multiverse and truly making it a household concept. Let adults or the elderly accept this concept.

Because in 1980, when Stephen was 32 years old, he had a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars from writing novels. What was the concept of hundreds of millions of dollars in that era? Everyone knows that billionaires are absolute superstars in a capitalist society.

In short, "The Dark Tower" exploded in popularity at that time, and even created a meme that everyone is still playing today.

A reader was so excited that he couldn't sleep at night after reading "The Dark Tower" and wrote a letter to Stephen. He said in the letter that he had cancer and would die soon. He hoped that the author could tell him the next plot development, otherwise he would I will never die with my eyes in peace.

This is also a pioneer, creating a new genre of reminders, the self-curse genre.

It is said that King wrote back, saying in the letter: "I am a horror novelist, and the greatest compliment to me is when readers are scared to death while reading my novels."

All in all, the multi-dimensional world constructed by the "Dark Tower" series of novels can be viewed as a horror film universe. There are a lot of thoughts about "karma" and "life and death", and the groundbreaking invention of "being hit by the subway" to the time travel' setting.

Su Ming knew that the general environment here was like this, so it would not be surprising at all to say that the whole town was eaten up by zombies or a massacre was carried out. There would definitely be more bizarre scenes when entering the house.

"Hey."

Strangulation reminds those lurking things approaching from underground. They are probably good at tunnel warfare and can dig very fast.

"Huh, the quantity seems to be quite large, but I don't know the quality."

Deathstroke changed the cigarette in his mouth, squinted his eyes and cocked the hammers of both guns.

A few seconds later, dirt suddenly rose up from the calm street, and pits appeared densely in sight. Many green-skinned monsters surged out of the ground, holding various broken cold weapons in their hands. weapon.

These green-skinned monsters were dressed in human clothes, both male and female, but their bodies were covered with pustules and malignant sores, and yellow-green liquid swayed in these bulb-like pustules as they moved.

Su Ming immediately opened fire, and the bullets from both guns accurately hit the monster's eyes one by one, just like the art of gun fighting. The powerful computing power made these monsters seem to catch the bullets with their faces.

The revolver is very easy to use and will never jam. Just empty the bullets and then take new ones from the belt bag and let Strangler help reload the empty gun.

"It turns out they are super mutants, interesting." While happily beating monsters, Su Ming also laughed and chatted with Strangled: "He was originally a human, but later suffered excessive radiation and turned into a humanoid monster with green skin and pus. Similar settings can be seen in the later "Wasteland" and "Fallout"."

Either super green monsters, or a group of madmen affected by radiation. They are not particularly strong, but they all look quite violent.

They eat almost anything they can see in this wasteland, including humans, but at the same time, they also imitate humans with their broken memories of when they were humans.

These twisted and deformed monsters wear human clothes, use human farm tools, and even repair houses and some vehicles.

That's why this town looks like it's occupied, because it's a trap. Super mutants use the town to attract people who want to stay or dine here.

"Hey." Strangler said that they were very weak and not challenging at all, almost like hunting wild ducks.

Although the ax thrown by the super mutant holding an ax can penetrate tens of centimeters into the wood, it is undoubtedly too weak compared to the enemies that Strangler has seen.

"Normally, super mutants are just soldiers in this kind of world. The single world we are in is set in a Western world that has experienced nuclear war, and is closer to the technological side. The most dangerous creatures here are actually humans. There will always be many more people killed by their own kind than by monsters.”

Su Ming fired a few rounds with his twin revolvers, but he felt that it was a little slow, so when he saw that no one was paying attention, he took out a ten-barreled revolver cannon from his pocket, and twisted it as if spraying water on the street. He shook his waist a few times from side to side.

In the midst of the flying flesh and blood, there was silence, leaving only the sound of the cannon's electric motor idling.

The strangled bean sprouts nodded, went over to pick up some brains and tasted them, then Yue Ya narrowed his eyes:

"Pooh!"

It spat it out, and the corners of its mouth curved down, showing a Batman-like expression. Obviously, these monsters have bad brains.

Of course they don't taste good. They have almost no intelligence, and their brains are about to degenerate into a bag of radioactive green water. Whether they have memories is another matter. Even if they do, they are probably no more than earthworms.

"Are there any survivors in the town?" Su Ming put away the cannon and looked around on the street. After spotting the sign of the tavern, he walked there.

"Hey."

Strangulation means that there is indeed one. Although I don’t know why, there is still a living person in this town. In the well, although his breathing is very weak, he is still alive. Judging from the body temperature, he should be a human being.

Deathstroke, who originally asked this just to make up for the damage, stopped and walked towards the wellhead: "Human? Then a 'gunslinger' like me should save people."