Chapter 34 Negative Reviews
Chapter 34 Negative Reviews
In mid-May, the latest issue of Harvest magazine arrived as scheduled.
Readers eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the next installment of "The Truman Show" rushed to buy the current issue of the magazine and then eagerly began reading.
What actions will Truman take as an adult to successfully escape the prison of the live-streaming island?
Before this, readers had already imagined countless possible endings.
The unanimous expectation of everyone is that Truman, after reaching adulthood, will have a happy ending, returning to normal human society, and then using his extraordinary intelligence and creative abilities to strive and build a brilliant new life in normal human society.
Even if Truman is just a clone created by scientists in a laboratory using test tubes.
However, in the minds of most readers, their most basic emotional attachment has long been overlooked, and they have long forgotten the origin of Truman's clone identity.
"What we admire is Truman, this incredibly talented young man!~~"
"Yes, yes, so what if Truman is a clone without parents? He is the product of the collective wisdom of all humanity, the child of all of us..."
"If in the future human technology can truly achieve the cloning of entirely new human children and ensure their normal growth process, this would undoubtedly be the most wonderful technological blessing for all of humanity, especially for those who are unable to raise offspring for various reasons!"
"That's right. If we successfully master the technology to clone human children, many children with congenital diseases and genetic defects will completely disappear. This will truly be a super technological boon for all mankind!"
"It must be said that writer Yu's imagination is truly extraordinary. Not only can he create ordinary story collections, but he can also create such a wonderful science fiction novel in a unique way. He is the only one of his kind in the country, and there is no other like him!"
"You bet, in the past two months, it seems that some writers have published so-called science fiction stories in other journals, but the quality of those stories... well, let's just say it's hard to describe. Writer Yu created a live-streaming island, and then others copied it with a live-streaming glacier, and even came up with something about frozen people born from an alien base abandoned under a glacier..."
"Ha, I've read that piece too. It's like trying to imitate something but ending up with a poor imitation. Not just anyone can write science fiction!"
Readers eagerly anticipate the start of the story.
When we saw the adult Truman unexpectedly and quickly create an armed warship with his bare hands, everyone felt a sense of satisfaction, but also a feeling that the pacing of the story seemed a little off.
Why does it feel like technology has suddenly gone out of control?!
Indeed, what everyone desires most is that the adult Truman will grow into a wise and brave super soldier who can defeat any opponent with his strength and finally break free from the oppressive and insane prison of the live broadcast island.
However, unexpectedly, Truman conjured up an armed warship capable of easily crushing all opponents, and it was even a fully automated armed warship with super-intelligent AI assistance...
Oh my god!
This is clearly an imbalance of power!
One person can defeat a million enemies?!
The powerful capitalists who had always dominated the island with their advanced technology were suddenly crushed by Truman, who, after growing up, built an armed warship and crushed all their enemies!
So cheesy!
A terrible mistake!
The story collapsed.
Writer Yu, this plot development is too abrupt!
Readers were discussing it heatedly, feeling as if a mountain was blocking their chests, feeling depressed, really depressed!
I was full of anticipation, looking forward to a feast for the mind.
That's it?
Some impatient readers were so angry that they tore up the book on the spot and refused to read it anymore, cursing and swearing.
The plot development was truly unexpected, completely deviating from the expected pace.
"What we want to see is a battle of wits and courage between evenly matched opponents!"
"Yeah, yeah, this kind of sci-fi law, isn't it just pure bragging without paying taxes?"
"Damn it, I take back what I said earlier about the plagiarist. Compared to that, giving Truman a setting of an abandoned alien base under a glacier, where he directly acquires the weaponry of an alien warship, is still better than writing it as if Truman single-handedly built the warship!"
"Disgusting, absolutely disgusting!"
"This shouldn't be happening! Writer Yu's writing skills shouldn't have led to such childish mistakes and errors!"
Some readers still patiently read on.
After Truman successfully captured the live-streaming island and killed countless enemies, he was very "taunting" and wreaked havoc in the sea with his armed warship. However, the world's television broadcasts remained the same. The only difference was that the seemingly out-of-control clone Truman was no longer simply imprisoned and watched by the live-streaming island, but was instead in a much larger maritime prison on the vast ocean, still being watched by the entire world.
As an adult, Truman seems to have broken free from his fate of being imprisoned and studied.
In reality, they simply used their so-called individual strength to create a completely new cage for themselves.
Hiss!
This is just too ironic!
So, does Truman's world still exist?
The only difference is that the people in control behind the scenes have changed to a different group?
However, despite the unexpected pacing of the story, the latest types of future technology presented are so exaggerated that they can no longer be considered science fiction!
Anyway, no matter how sci-fi the story is, the idea of one person manually building an armed warship, especially one with super-intelligent assistance and fully automatic control, could never become a reality.
A cloned human life form also belongs to the category of carbon-based life.
Science fiction is technological fantasy, not just random imagination.
"What a blunder!"
"Author Yu, the design of the second half of your story—breaking free from the confines of the live-streaming island and falling into a completely new and larger cage—is absolutely brilliant. However, the progression of the plot you wrote is, in fact, utterly lacking in consideration!"
"That's right, the plot could have easily become a sci-fi classic, but instead, they were so eager for quick success. Why not polish the second half of the story properly?"
"I've heard the inside story: writer Yu only took a week to complete this science fiction novel."
And let's not forget that among the 25 stories in the special issue of "Story Club," there is a short story with the same title, "The Truman Show."
That short story of ten thousand words was not a science fiction novel at all, and the little Truman in it was not a cloned human child.
Think about it carefully, what exactly is going on here...?
"Really?"
"What?! Is there really such a convoluted and bizarre inside story?"
"Among the 25 stories in the special issue of 'Story Collection,' there is indeed a short story with the same title, 'The Truman Show.' While that short story isn't science fiction, the basic story framework is similar. What exactly happened in this one?"
"What exactly caused writer Yu to rush into writing and adapting the work, with only seven days to complete the task? What difficulties did writer Yu encounter, and what insurmountable obstacles did she face?"
"Ha, is that even a question? Didn't you know that Writer Yu has been carrying a bombshell of unknown origin all along...?"
"Don't you all think that in Yu's novel *The Truman Show*, the clone Truman, the protagonist who has no parents, is actually Yu himself mocking his own current life and situation?"
"Holy crap!!~~"
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