Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 18 What are your requirements? (First update)
"Who are you?" Li Song simply opened the door a crack, revealing his face and asked.

"Please tell Mr. Li that I am the editor of the New Evening News. My name is Liu Jiale." The young man took out his work ID and said quickly.

"What is the title of the manuscript you received?" Li Song asked uncertainly.

"Interstellar soldier." Liu Jiale was very surprised. Why was this young man so cautious?

"That's right, come in." Li Song nodded.

"Excuse me, where is Mr. Li?" Liu Jiale asked quickly after entering the room and seeing Li Song close the door.

"Sorry, I'm Li Song." Li Song said with a bow.

Liu Jiale was obviously stunned for a moment. The young man in front of him was Mr. Li, who wrote those science fiction terms that he himself didn't know.

"Ah, Mr. Li, I'm sorry. I didn't expect Mr. Li to be so young and promising." Liu Jiale also hurriedly bowed, feeling weird. Wasn't it a handshake?

"Mr. Liu, please sit down. Would you like tea or Coke?" Li Song asked.

"Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Li. I'll have some tea. Editors like us always have a cup of strong tea before work every day, otherwise we'll feel dazed all day." Liu Jiale said after sitting down.

"Yeah, I like drinking tea too." Li Song nodded.

Liu Jiale saw Li Song go to the kitchen. Just as he was about to sit down, he saw the manuscript paper on the table beside him.

With just one glance, Liu Jiale could tell that the font on the manuscript paper was the same as that on the manuscript of the novel.

Liu Jiale couldn't help but lean in to take a closer look and found that it was the outline of the second volume. The protagonist was hired to participate in a war. This war was a struggle between two states of a certain interstellar federation, that is, the two major forces on a planet.

The protagonist is first treated as an ordinary mercenary, and then his outstanding performance turns the tide of the battle...

"Mr. Liu!" Li Song went into the kitchen to pour tea and came out, only to see Liu Jiale standing there reading his subsequent outline.

"Oh, sorry, I looked at it without permission." Liu Jiale apologized quickly.

"It's nothing. You can read it if you want. This is the outline of the sequel." Li Song put the water cup on the coffee table beside him and said.

"Really? It won't make a mess, will it?"

"It's numbered. I suggest you start from the first page." Li Song didn't care. Since the other party sent an editor, it proved that they still had high hopes for his work.

"Then let's take a look." Liu Jiale felt that the 13,000-word draft of the novel written by Li Song contained too much content.

The key point is that this kind of science fiction is completely different from the current mainstream science fiction. The current science fiction should be said to be suspense.

Li Song's science fiction is full of science fiction terms that I don't understand. I read it yesterday and didn't understand it, so I called a physics classmate and he said that many things only exist in theory, and some are only presented in the laboratory, such as the anti-gravity system. This is actually caused by the magnetic field, but the material and energy requirements are extremely high.

There are also optical computers, quantum communications, and nuclear batteries.

Nuclear batteries are actually not uncommon, and some have been used in aerospace, but the energy output of this type of battery is limited.

As for what genetic evolution is, the other party didn't understand it. I asked my biology classmates and only then did I know that genes are DNA. As for genetic evolution and opening the gene chain, these are all theoretical things.

Not to mention brain development, brain nerve connection, brain virtual imaging, etc. As an editor, I thought it was very impressive after reading it for the first time. As for what it is specifically, even my classmates in the same major can't explain it clearly.

There are also things like space jump, solid energy stones, etc., eh?

The plot is also handled very well. The first chapter briefly explains the background of the protagonist, who is a student who failed the exam of a mecha academy and lost the qualification to serve in the interstellar fleet. Then his childhood sweetheart also broke up with him because he failed the exam, and he embarked on the interstellar fleet with his rival.

The protagonist can only join the mercenaries and then go to the second-hand mecha market to buy a mecha...

Moreover, the first chapter also reveals that the protagonist failed the exam because of his love rival's conspiracy, and the rival wanted someone to kill the protagonist, so someone tricked the protagonist into becoming a mercenary. Because the protagonist failed the exam, he could still choose the mecha army.

Just the first two to three thousand words clearly explain the era, background, and storyline.

Originally, Liu Jiale thought that Li Song was a man in his forties, or at least a professor or practitioner in the science field.

I didn’t expect that he was just a middle school student?

This?
Liu Jiale carefully read the subsequent outline and became more certain that this was a good novel. The outline had a clear main line and a clear hierarchy.

The simplest hand speed of a mecha master is how many times per second for beginners, intermediate, advanced, master, grandmaster, and grandmaster, all with a very clear hierarchy.

Unlike the masters in martial arts novels, who are said to be divided into many levels, but the readers have no idea about it, and I'm afraid even the author is not clear about it.

As for energy weapons, laser weapons, microwave weapons, ray weapons, electromagnetic bombs, electromagnetic missiles and so on, Liu Jiale feels very much looking forward to it. Not to mention the plot, he is very much looking forward to what the world of the protagonist will look like.

"Mr. Li, excuse me for asking, did you write all of this yourself?" Liu Jiale still couldn't believe it after reading it.

"Hmm!" Li Song hummed, then wrote a paragraph.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Li, I don't understand a lot of what you wrote." Liu Jiale said quickly.

"Haha, maybe I'm an alien?" Li Song replied with a shrug.

"Haha, haha!" Liu Jiale was amused by Li Song's words.

"Mr. Li, I personally feel that your novel has created a new genre of science fiction. I read it yesterday at noon, but there were many things in it that I didn't understand at all. I only learned a little bit after asking some science students."

"The editorial department also approved of this novel, so I came here in person today. I originally had a lot of questions to ask, but after seeing the outline at the end of Mr. Li's post, I personally felt that there was no need to ask too much. However, I still want to ask, how many words does Mr. Li plan to write?" Liu Jiale asked.

"It depends. If sales are good, we can write more than three million words. We can also introduce more settings later, such as the levels of interstellar civilizations. A first-level civilization is like our Earth developing on a planet, which is a first-level civilization. A second-level civilization has already left its galaxy, such as leaving the solar system and establishing more alien bases. And so on."

"It can also involve wars between civilizations and so on. Of course, if the sales are not good, we won't write about these." Li Song said.

Liu Jiale just picked up the teacup, and his hands trembled when he heard Li Song's words. Three million words, this?
What’s more important is that Li Song seems like a veteran writer and has made all the preparations.

In fact, this is not uncommon. For example, the TV series "Chu Liuxiang" a few years ago was so popular that a lot of plots were added.

"I wonder what Mr. Li's requirements are for royalties?" Liu Jiale asked.

(End of this chapter)