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Chapter 226 The man who changed the world and the new king

midnight.

On the square of Yufeng Fiction Academy, a black train came out of the tunnel and stopped.

An old man in white got off the train. This man was over ninety years old with silver hair and a faint smile on his face. He was the prisoner who was previously detained in the restricted area—Lin Shi.

Lin Shishi was imprisoned in the forbidden book area decades ago. Due to his good performance and contributions to the forbidden book area over the years, he was released today after serving his sentence.

"Lin Shi, from today onwards, you are free." A policeman got off the black train. Read the forbidden book, so as not to be imprisoned in the forbidden book area again."

Lin Shishi said with a smile: "In the past, there was a book shortage, and there were no stories to read, so I only read forbidden books. Now it is different. There will be great events in China, and good stories will be staged soon, so I don't need to read any more. The book is banned."

The police chief leaned forward and asked for confirmation in a low voice: "Lin Shi, did Feng Manlou really escape from the restricted-book area?"

"If you don't believe me, why ask me again?"
"However, the forbidden book area is heavily guarded. I really don't understand how Feng Manlou can escape?" the police chief was puzzled.

"If you can figure it out, you're not you, but you are full of wind."

The two chatted while walking, and under the escort of the police chief, Lin Shishi left Yufeng Fiction Academy.Afterwards, the two parted ways, and Lin Shishi walked alone on the nearby student street.

The student street at midnight was very quiet. Lin Shiju looked around as he walked, as if he was looking for something.

"Old man Lin." A voice came from above his head.

Lin Shiju looked up and saw a man in black clothes sitting on a big tree, his old face suddenly showed joy: "Brother Heiying, I thought you would not come."

The black figure jumped down from the branch and landed on the ground, Liu Xing said: "If I don't come, why don't I let you run away?"

"Brother Heiying really knows how to joke." Lin Shishi said with a smile, "You have supernatural powers, how can I, a bad old man, escape from your palm. Don't you want to hear the story of "Book Without Words", find a place, I Let me chat with you..."

Before he finished speaking, Liu Xing had already stunned him, picked up Lin Shishi, and Liu Xing left in a hurry.

A few minutes later, we arrived at Novel Street.

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Bohai Book City, underground secret room.

Lin Shishi had come to his senses. He and Liu Xing were sitting at a wooden table, drinking tea and chatting together.

"Tell me, what's the matter with "Book of Heaven without Words"?" Liu Xing asked. When he was in the forbidden-book area, he once heard Shishi Lin talk about "Book of Heaven without Words".

"Don't worry, I'll tell you everything." Lin Shishi took a sip of tea and said slowly, "If you want to talk about "Book without Words", you have to mention the 'pre-reading technique'."

"Pre-reading technique?" Liu Xing was startled, "What?"

"Pre-reading is a special reading technique. Its purpose is to read out the unknown plot in the novel in advance." Lin Shi asked, "Did you have such an experience when reading novels? When you read the novel Chapter 1 , you can guess the plot of Chapter 2. When you read the novel Chapter 2, you can guess the plot of the novel Chapter 3. When some old bookworms are reading novels, they only need to look at the first dozen chapters to guess To make up the general plot of the whole novel, this kind of brain-filling skill of the novel's plot belongs to the category of 'pre-reading'."

Liu Xing concluded: "The 'pre-reading technique' you mentioned is to predict the plot of the novel?"

"That's right." Lin Shishi said, "Don't underestimate the 'pre-reading technique'. Guessing the plot of a novel is equivalent to predicting the future. Knowing the pre-reading technique, you can guess the fate of the characters in the novel. In reality, this ability is Fortune teller."

Liu Xing roughly understood.

The so-called "pre-reading technique" is to predict the plot behind the novel in the process of reading the novel.

Pre-reading is not new. Almost every reader will predict the plot of the novel consciously or unconsciously when reading a novel.

For example, when reading the novel "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", some readers could predict that Qiao Feng would die at the end of the book, some readers could predict that Duan Yu was not Duan Zhengchun's biological son, and some readers could predict that Qiao Feng would die at the end of the novel. Readers can predict that Xu Zhu is the son of the abbot of Shaolin.

These techniques for predicting the plot are "pre-reading techniques".
In Huaxia Kingdom, besides being used to guess the plot of novels, the pre-reading technique also has a very important purpose - fortune-telling.

Everyone's personal experience is equivalent to a biographical novel.Everyone's future fate is the future plot of biographical novels.If you can predict the plot of a biographical novel, it is equivalent to predicting the fate of the parties involved in the biographical novel.

Therefore, in Huaxia Kingdom, some scholars who are proficient in pre-reading skills will act as fortune tellers and help people tell fortunes.

When fortune-telling, they will learn about each other's past experiences through biographical novels, and then use these experiences to make up the fate that the other party may encounter in the future.

The higher the level of pre-reading skills, the stronger the fortune-telling ability.

Therefore, many fortune-telling masters in Huaxia Kingdom are first-class pre-reading masters, and these masters all have one characteristic in common-the amount of reading is very large.

Only by reading enough novels, mastering the laws of novels, and cultivating a strong reading intuition can we more accurately predict the unknown plot of the novel.

Theoretically speaking, if the pre-reading technique is developed to the extreme, it is a prophecy technique, which can predict the future.Of course, this is only a theoretical possibility, and pre-reading techniques in real life can only vaguely predict a small number of events.

For example, when reading "Dragon Babu", some readers can predict Qiao Feng's death, but when, where, and how Qiao Feng will die, these details are difficult to predict accurately.

Despite this, there are still many scholars in Huaxia Kingdom who are keen on the research of pre-reading techniques.They study the pre-reading technique not only to guess the plot of the novel, but also to control their own destiny.
"If you want to use the pre-reading technique to help someone's fortune-telling, you must first know the other person's life experience. Therefore, some fortune-tellers like to collect other people's biographical novels, and I am one of them." Lin Shishi said, "The reason why I like to collect various One of the most important purposes of celebrity stories is to help others fortune-telling with pre-reading.”

Liu Xing was surprised: "Why do you want to tell people's fortunes?"

Lin Shishi said with a smile: "If you can know a person's future destiny, you will know whether this person is worth your friendship. Every era has some unique people. They are the favored ones of heaven and can change the course of the world. If you can find the leaders of these eras and take advantage of the general trend, then you will surely turn bad times into good fortune and rise to the top.”

Liu Xing could tell something. Simply put, the purpose of helping people to tell their fortunes is to hug their thighs.

"Over the years, I have seen many so-called 'pre-reading masters', but most of these masters are notorious charlatans who pretend to be fortune tellers to defraud people of money. There is only one exception, and this person is Jin Santong .”

Lin Shishi recalled, "Jin Santong is proficient in pre-reading. In order to help people tell fortunes, he collected a lot of personal information. "Secret Files of Important People in Huaxia Kingdom" is one of his achievements. When Jin Santong was young, he liked He is good at helping people predict fortune, for example, predicting the trend of the stock market.”

"Jin Santong is a financial genius. He was known as the 'God of Stocks' when he was young. His accuracy in predicting stocks is astonishingly high. Many big bosses like to consult Jin Santong about stocks and understand the future trend of the market. .”

"When I was young, I once learned to trade stocks from Jin Santong. At that time, Jin Santong made a fortune for me, and he said that I would have great fortune in the next year. Sure enough, in the following year, my stock rose by more than 100 times, I am so impressed by the gold three-link forecast for stocks."

"However, Jin Santong is not satisfied with helping people predict the rise of stocks. He has greater ambitions and wants to predict the trend of the entire Huaxia Kingdom. In order to achieve this ambitious goal, Jin Santong is even more crazily collecting biographical information of celebrities , and then combine these data to use the pre-reading technique to predict future events in China."

"In the last few years of Jin Santong's life, he accurately predicted more than a dozen events. 47 years ago, Jin Santong predicted that the Chinese Congress would build a novel street, and the location of the novel street would appear in eastern China, among which Tianhai The possibility is the highest in Tianhai City. Sure enough, a novel street was really built in Tianhai City a few years later."

"When the construction of Fiction Street started, Jin Santong predicted again that he believed that the chairman of Fiction Street would be Wang Tairan. Sure enough, Shu Wang Xiaoyao Ke really appointed Wang Tairan to manage Fiction Street."

"Similar events, Jin Santong predicted more than a dozen that year, and each event eventually became a reality. It can be said that Jin Santong is not only a stock god who predicts stocks, but also a magician. Regarding the general trend of China, Jin Santong He knows the fate of many important people like the palm of his hand, Jin Santong can see clearly."

"It's a pity that Jin Santong has calculated the fate of others, but not his own. When he was most proud, he was plotted against by me, imprisoned wrongly, and finally died in depression."

Speaking of this, Lin Shishi sighed for a long time, and said with emotion, "When I was planning to frame Jin Santong, I was very hesitant in my heart. It is a pity that a genius like Jin Santong died. After all, I The first pot of gold I made in the stock market when I was young was inseparable from the help of Jin Santong. However, Jin Santong always thought that I was unreliable and imprisoned me. I had no choice but to be ruthless in the end. He set up a scam and killed Jin Santong. A generation of talents has fallen like this, and now I think it’s a pity, alas!”

With a look of helplessness on the old face, Lin Shishu sighed lightly, picked up the teacup, and took another sip.

After listening to his words, Liu Xing was quite surprised. He didn't expect Jin Santong to be proficient in pre-reading, let alone the purpose of the book "Secret Files of Important People in China" was to help people tell fortunes.

"Having said so much, you still haven't explained what's going on with "The Book Without Words"?" Liu Xing said.

"Don't worry, we'll get to the point soon." Putting down his teacup, Lin Shi continued, "After Jin Santong was imprisoned, he was held in the restricted-book area of ​​Story City. At that time, he lived in the same cell as me. Of course, he didn't know that it was me who framed him."

"In the dungeon in the forbidden-book area, Jin Santong counted his own fate, knowing that his situation is over, and believes that in the next 40 years, Huaxia Kingdom will be the world of the four kings of books. The reading alliance formed by the four kings, Can sustain prosperity for 40 years."

"However, Jin Santong predicted that after 40 years, the structure of Huaxia Kingdom will undergo drastic changes. At that time, a man will appear in the Chinese Congress that will change the world structure. This man will not only break the authority of the Four Great Book Kings, but also It will lead Huaxia into a new era and become a new leader in the novel world."

"Jin Santong also predicted that this man who is about to change the world pattern will appear in the forbidden-book area in 40 years' time!"

"Forbidden book area?" Liu Xing frowned.

"Yes!" Lin Shishi said, "It is precisely because of this that I stayed in the forbidden book area and waited for the appearance of this man who could change the world. I waited for 40 years. In the past 40 years, I have been skeptical Feng Manlou is the man who can change the world. So, I knew that Feng Manlou would explode this year, and he would definitely escape from prison and fight against the Reading League."

After a pause, Lin Shishi looked at Liu Xing and said, "It's just that after I met you in the forbidden book area, I was suddenly a little shaken. Because you may also be the man who is about to change the world. Your martial arts are not in the wind. Under Manlou, your identity is even more mysterious than Fengmanlou. So, I began to wonder whether the man that Jin Santong predicted could change the world, is Fengmanlou or the shadowy man?"

"Until now, I still have no answer in my heart. However, there is a way to determine the final answer. Jin Santong once told me that 40 years later, who will be able to open the book tomb in Heimuya and win the book coffin And "Book of Heaven without Words", this person is the new king of Huaxia's novel world."

Liu Xing was puzzled: "Why?"

Lin Shishi explained: "Jin Santong already knew that there was a tomb of books in Heimuya before he was alive, and there was a copy of "Book of Heaven without Words" in the tomb. He wanted to get this "Book of Heaven without Words", even the map of Heimuya It was drawn. Unfortunately, before finding the "Book without Words", Jin Santong was arrested, and this plan fell through. Jin Santong then thought, who can get "Book of Heaven without Words" in 40 years and complete his Whoever has unfinished business can become the new king of the era.”

"In the past 40 years, I have been trying to find a way to enter Heimuya, hoping to get the "Book without Words". Unfortunately, after all, I am not the man who can change the world. After 40 years of tossing, I still failed. Heimuya The tomb of the book is full of traps, and the only ones who have the ability to enter the tomb and win the "Book of Words Without Words" are probably only Feng Manlou and Brother Heiying."

Liu Xing asked: "What exactly is "Book of Heaven without Words"?"

Lin Shishi shook his head: "I also heard about "The Book Without Words" from Jin Santong. I have never seen it before, and I don't know what it is useful for. The biggest plan. According to my guess, this "Book without Words" may be related to the pre-reading technique."

After a pause, Lin Shi suddenly asked, "Brother Heiying, is the "Book of Words Without Words" already in your hands?"

Liu Xing was surprised: "Why do you say that?"

"The "Book Without Words" is in your hands, or it is in Fengmanlou's hands." Lin Shishi said with a smile, "brother Heiying, although I was very optimistic about Fengmanlou at first, but now I have decided to stand On your side. If you become the new king of Chinese novels, I think the dream of immortality may not be impossible to realize."

Liu Xing reminded: "I don't know you very well, I can kill you at any time."

Lin Shishi smiled and said: "You will not kill me. When I was imprisoned in the cell, Jin Santong once told my fortune. He said that my life is very hard and I can live for a long time. I believe Jin Santong I can't make a mistake, I shouldn't die so soon."

After talking here, Liu Xing became more curious about the pre-reading technique. Can this kind of reading technique really help people tell fortunes?

Liu Xing said: "Old man Lin, do you know how to read in advance?"

"Of course, the old man has been studying pre-reading for nearly 60 years." Lin Shishi said quite proudly, "I have collected celebrity information for so many years, and I can see people very accurately."

Liu Xing took out a novel "108 Heroes", handed it to Lin Shishi, and said: "This novel has only been written 50 chapters, and it is not finished. Can you use the pre-reading technique to predict the ending of the characters in the novel?"

"Let me take a look first." Lin Shishi took "108 Heroes" and read it intently.He reads very fast, almost ten lines at a glance, and a novel with hundreds of thousands of words, he can finish it in ten minutes.

"It's really a masterpiece!" After reading it, Lin Shi asked curiously, "Who wrote this "108 Heroes"? The author of this novel is full of talent and talent, and he has the air of a king!"

Liu Xing sighed secretly, Lin Shishi's vision is really poisonous, and he immediately saw the level of this novel.

"Unfortunately, this "108 Heroes" is not finished." Lin Shishi said, "However, I can almost guess the fate of some characters in the novel. For example, Xiao Li (Li Kui) is probably going to die at the end. , and died more unjustly, he should have been killed."

Liu Xing's heart moved. In the ending of "Water Margin", Li Kui was indeed dead. He died after drinking the poisoned wine given by Song Jiang.

"How did you know Xiao Li (Li Kui) would die?" Liu Xing was curious.

"Character determines destiny. Under the background of the novel, a person with a personality like Xiao Li cannot escape death. There are many places in the previous plot of the novel that have already hinted at it. It is not difficult to guess that Xiao Li will definitely die in the end. It is more unjust, and it is likely that he was killed by a hero from Liangshan." After a pause, Lin Shishi continued to speculate, "Xiao Lu (Lu Zhishen) and Xiao Wu (Wu Song) are different, these two people are more assertive, I guess Xiaolu and Xiaowu will live longer, and they may choose to live in seclusion or become monks in the end."

Liu Xing asked: "What about the fate of other Liangshan heroes?"

Lin Shishi said frankly: "The pre-reading technique is not omnipotent. With my current eyesight, I can roughly see the fate of Xiao Li, Xiao Lu and Xiao Wu. As for the other Liangshan heroes, I can't see it for the time being. But , give me more time to ponder, maybe I can guess the fate of a few more characters in the novel."

Talking to this point, Liu Xing initially believed in the role of pre-reading. It took only ten minutes for Lin Shishi to basically guess the approximate fate of Li Kui, Lu Zhishen, and Wu Song in "Water Margin". One life.

It can be seen that pre-reading can really tell fortunes!

Liu Xing asked: "Pre-reading should be a branch of reading. Why doesn't there seem to be such a course in the School of Fiction?"

"It's not surprising. Pre-reading is not something everyone can learn. In fact, out of [-] readers, not one person can really learn pre-reading. Many so-called pre-reading masters and fortune-tellers are liars. No real talent at all."

Lin Shishi said, "Most masters of pre-reading skills are not taught, but practiced by themselves. The training method is very simple, that is, to read a lot of novels. When you have read millions of novels, you will be more interested in novels. The rules of the plot will be well understood, and if you have a good enough imagination, you will be able to predict the plot of the novel and learn the pre-reading technique. Of course, the pre-reading technique is extensive and profound, and it has no end.”

"Read several million novels?" Liu Xing suddenly realized, so the old bookworm is the person most likely to learn the pre-reading technique?

Only by reading millions of novels and being familiar with the rules and routines of various novels can it be possible to initially master the pre-reading technique. This amount of reading is simply impossible for ordinary people to achieve.

Liu Xing has read novels for so many years, and it is estimated that the number of novels he has read has not exceeded 3000. (Unfinished novels don’t count.)
To read millions of novels in one lifetime is an almost impossible task unless you have a very fast reading speed.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing suddenly remembered that in the dungeon of Meizhuang, he once picked up a copy of "Feng's Speed ​​Reading Method" left by Feng Manlou, which is a theoretical book introducing speed reading skills...

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(End of this chapter)