Guns, Punk, and a Master of Necromancy

Maybe I am used to writing Western fantasy in capital letters, which makes the current situation of this book become very magical. It is completely a set of Western fantasy novels with a new skin. The feeling of the first chapter is really good, the company has a strong sense of class and disregard for human life, and the setting of the shadow is interesting enough, but it changes after the protagonist leaves the prison. The world view of cyberpunk in this book is undeniable, and comparisons are unavoidable. Ge Gongdao compares with Jack, Lucy compares with Rogge, etc. But the relationships between people in this steam world are too beautiful, right? The supporting characters are all extremely tolerant of the protagonist, and are afraid that the protagonist will suffer losses in every transaction they make. It is hard to imagine that this is a society where individuals cannibalize people. No one wants to squeeze an extra drop of oil from the protagonist, the first brother, not even the villain. Oh, the villains here (gunsmiths, black policemen, middlemen, etc.) Are all as innocent as White Lotus. The protagonist's family has a magical start. The old couple who farm the land can be self-sufficient and eat steamed buns all year round, and they can also raise three children without any worries. The eldest son is an intellectual (now he is thinking about how to open the fifth largest company in the city), the third son is a talented designer girl with a beautiful heart, and the second son is the protagonist: a worker who is thoughtful, has a photographic memory and has a strong sense of smell... Are you sure that what you wrote is not the down-and-out aristocratic family from which the protagonist Fa Ye is born in Fantasy West? The protagonist is completely the master of the cyber world. Every day he is either learning this or that, or conceiving new spells or thinking about the interests of all parties. It would be better to just say that he is a practitioner of cyber necromancy with an intelligence of 18. Come on, this is a cyber theme! We don't want to see a master weighing the pros and cons and forbearingly planning for more than ten chapters and then solving the root causes of a series of conflicts with precision like a scalpel. The battles we want to see are gangs transformed by prosthetics in gunfights in the streets, Gatling mounted on armored vehicles to sweep, and the protagonist using a laser knife to chop bullets in an exploding company building, okay? The protagonist's plug-in is even more impressive. It can be called a low-end version of the Lord of Gray Mist. Several supporting characters brought into that world have no sense of existence compared to Akkarin. The Lich, the source of the plug-in, is a system that can interact with the protagonist (the difference is that it is too lazy to deal with the protagonist). It makes people want to skip it. Even if you skip the chapter where the protagonist enters the world of the Necromancer, it will not affect the plot development at all. In short, from my personal perspective, the reason why I am following this book is not how well written it is, but that there are not many cyberpunk genres that can be played at present. Only the Mountain Ghost chapter of "Cyber ​​Sword Fairy" can grasp the essence of this genre. It is embarrassing to say that if the story of the protagonist group of "Edge Walker" is an out-of-control car that keeps accelerating towards the cliff, then most of the cyberpunk novels from Qidian are war-damaged children's rocking cars filled with neon lights, with only the outer skin resembling that.

Time: 2022.11.02 Reading progress: 35 chapters Evaluation: The plot is not stiff, the setting has no logical conflicts, and the character creation is okay. Score: Grain and grass. Poisonous Point: You have to see what is under the factory. Although you rely on quick wits to escape the danger, there is still a feeling of conflict with the character.

Use this necromancy and smile in front of the Cybermen, the company is shit

Let's talk about the progress first, Chapter 94. Attack from both sides. Then my evaluation is: The world view of this book is very un-cyberpunk. Petroleum fuel has not been developed. The industrial age only developed to the steam power stage and stopped, but it was replaced by a more powerful means of production - shadow. A kind of "master key" that can possess people and grant transcendent heaven and earth, and can control electricity to open the incarnation chip of the electrical age to generate intelligence. I believe this is one of the main poisonous points of many friends who have abandoned the book: the unnecessary fusion of gunpowder and fossil fuels into a specious extraordinary resource, but it still maintains the shape of cyberpunk, and even has a long history in the setting. Simply a heresy in cyberpunk works! But I personally feel that this is the most punk-flavored setting of the work. The main contradiction in cyberpunk comes from the contradiction between the protagonist's personal liberal spirit and the cybernetic thinking represented by the company. We can see that many early cyberpunk works explore how people's "free will" deals with, resists and is eliminated in the "cybernetic system", and the concept of free will has also been reinterpreted and sublimated in such deconstruction (the story endings of "Blade Runner", "Neuromancer" and "Ghost in the Shell" The structure is nothing more than this at the ideological level) In this type of works, one aspect that is often difficult for the author to deal with is how to place the ubiquitous atmosphere of despair and depression when individuals fight against the system. After all, technology is about whoever is stronger is justified, unless true love is invincible. The unique characteristics of human beings are used to mechanically deceive the gods and help the protagonist solve the crisis. From this perspective, cyberpunk is a kind of work that cannot avoid ending badly - because in the end it either loses or wins with true love. Do you think this can be considered a good ending? But the author deliberately arranged a new world view, transforming the underlying story frame of cyberpunk from "technology controls humans, and the protagonist as a human being has no way to resist" to "shadows control humans with technology, and the protagonist uses super-ancient technology to resist". This bad trap was cleverly avoided! (Although it can also be said to have eliminated the most essential contradiction of cyberpunk) Without commenting on whether it is right or wrong, I think it is very cool and punk to have this idea and realize it. And in terms of expression techniques, I think the author's rigorous description of cyberpunk and the perfection of his worldview are already among the best in Dian. Com. Regarding the contradictions between various classes in a city (Ordinary people, company people, and government people, the contradictions and ways of getting along between them are constantly shown to us from the beginning of the protagonist's interrogation), the behavioral logic of different groups (Through mercenary missions, we can peek into the business competition between different companies from the perspective of new mercenaries, the vassal relationship between companies and gangs, every confrontation and pull between pcpd and mercenaries, and between middlemen and mercenaries ), and a grasp of the complexity of the power conspiracy (The author explains the disturbance caused by each major event to the city of Peicheng very carefully and uses it to promote the direction of the plot) If you like If you like {"TopicId":"574945110148710400","TopicName":"Cyberpunk 2077"} those messy side missions, then you must not miss this book!

In this kind of world, if you stay kind, you will die quickly. Keeping the basic principles and trying to survive is the best choice. You know emergency measures.

She is also a sister, a native, and a family hero. These buffs are already disgusting.

Chinese names, cyberpunk, western fantasy occupations, department names and occupation names in English, and then the dialogue is full of young masters. In this context, poor parents have three children, but their family life is worry-free and they live quite happily. In short, this book is neither cyberspace nor punk nor science fiction. It can be regarded as a combination of fantasy skin and cyber skin. The inside and outside are not the same thing.

Suo Pang's best film, surpassing all previous works

I would like to give you some advice. The beginning is too long-winded, and secondly, there is no sense of immersion. After reading three chapters, I didn't feel attracted at all. Pig's Feet needs an identity to resonate with, and secondly, the fun needs to come quickly. After reading three chapters, I didn't feel anything interesting, so I had no interest in reading anymore. Also, I wanted to be a lawyer, but I ended up rambling a lot, but I didn't see anything I wanted to see.

Remind the author: If the King of Humans does not change the final status, he will not have perfect attendance.