Chapter 91 Reversion Plots and Bodhisattva (1/2)
”Right, dream.” Qili saw that Zhou Yuan was supporting him, although he did not wholly understand Zhou Yuan's explanation, he felt quite at ease and justified as long as Zhou Yuan was on his side.
”But…” Zhou Yuan changed his tone and tilted his head as he looked at Qili, ”Could you describe in detail what happened before you were dreaming?”
”Before I dreamed?” Qili's initially excited face froze. It was clear that Zhou Yuan had reached a critical point.
At the same time, Hao Ning was eighty percent sure that there had been some changes on Zhou Yuan since he had first met Zhang Chihang. As for what this change was, Hao Ning was unable to summarize it. He only felt that Zhou Yuan's gaze was even ”sharp” now, and in this period, Zhou Yuan had noticed many things that even Hao Ning could not.
”How do you know …” Qili muttered softly. He raised his head and saw the others looking at him, so he hurriedly continued, ”Speaking of that, it's quite embarrassing, I was reading a novel at that time. There was an extremely intense fighting scene. It almost made my blood boil. I couldn't help but feel that I would like to die if I could be such awesome.”
”You were reading a fighting scene in a novel?” Hao Ning immediately asked, ”What exactly is that?”
”Huh?” Qili was recalling, and upon hearing Hao Ning's question, he seemed to feel strange. ”It's just an ordinary online novel plot. The main character pretended to be modest. He went to a restaurant, and the supervisor there judged him lowly because he thought the main character had no money or status, then the main character kicked him up.”
”What?” Zhou Yuan rubbed his forehead and interrupted, ”Why would there be such a boring plot? If the supervisor judged the main character for having no money or status, he could have complained to the manager. Does that supervisor have lots of contacts in the catering industry that no one can replace him?” When Zhou Yuan said that, he felt that he was too wordy and had digressed from the topic, hence he smiled embarrassedly, ”About that — what novel is it? I'm going to look as well.”
”Hehe, did you transcend over from the Republic of China period …?” Hao Ning and Liu Shuai looked at Zhou Yuan as if they were looking at a freak.
”Why?” Zhou Yuan looked at himself. He did not see anything strange, so he asked, ”Did I say anything wrong?”
”Pal, don't you read online novels?” Hao Ning looked at Zhou Yuan with a sad face. It seemed that this moment god seemed to have some mana, but his knowledge level had not improved at all. ”You should not ask which novel it is.”
”Why?” Zhou Yuan did not know what the problem was.
”You should ask which tens of thousands of novels they are...” Liu Shuai was overjoyed and glanced at Qili who also laughed embarrassedly and nodded.
”This kind of plot has become a standard part of novels today, okay?” Hao Ning laughed and said, ”As long as it's a reversion story, there will be someone pretending to be modest, some idiots coming to provoke him, and the main character fixing him under an 'extremely reasonable' circumstance then showing off his glorious image.”
”That's right,” Qili happily said,” There are many uncanny reversion plots. Such reversions may occur anywhere, like a restaurant, a shopping mall, a public square, an office, a hospital, in Japan, in the States, the hell, the heaven, Tianwaitian, Doushuai Palace, or anywhere else in the universe.”
”Enough, you are vulgar,” Liu Shuai said. Upon hearing these words, he became turned up while feeling uncomfortable. ”Those who know it understands that you are talking about reversion scenes, but those who don't may think you just came back from a Japanese porn factory.”
When Zhou Yuan heard their conversation, he could roughly understand, but he kept waving his hand to express his disbelief, ”Such unrealistic plots should not have readers. Though it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years, a man who keeps showing off his kung fu is not a gentleman.”
”Your life is incomplete …” Hao Ning laughed as he looked at Zhou Yuan. He thought that he and Zhou Yuan were like living in two space-time. However, after he thought for a while, he realized that Zhou Yuan, even when he lost his soul, read Journey to the West for entertainment. It was likely that he had never read a novel like this before.
When they mentioned novels, Qili became extremely excited, and answered Zhou Yuan's questions for the others, while flaunting his ”knowledge”. ”You don't know about this. It's not that they have some readers. They have lots of readers. The main characters may know martial arts, or can see through stones in jade-gambling, or are capable urban doctors who treat illnesses.”
”Eh? You also read novels about jade-gambling. Which one did you read? ” Hao Ning had read similar stories, so he hurriedly communicated with Qili in excitement. ”Have you read the Super Gold Finger?”
”Of course, I have!” Qili said excitedly, ”How many versions of this book have you read? I've read sixteen, and they all have different names but very similar plots.”
”Uh, could you two zealous readers stop for a moment?” Liu Shuai laughed and waved at the two of them. To be honest, Hao Ning was unbelievable since he chatted with Qili about novels at that moment. Qili always made mistakes in his work, but he could read sixteen similar versions of one story. What would it be if he put such a spirit in his work?
However, Liu Shuai was not willing to blame Qili anymore. He also read these novels in free time, so he knew that these kinds of topics could not be stopped, and they might not be able to talk about anything else today. Hence, he immediately interrupted them,” We can talk about the jade-gambling issues later. Now we should let Qili continue to talk about what happened last night.”