Chapter 192 The Birth of a Myth Kagawa drank up the soup in the bowl, patted his belly contentedly, looked up and found that the people around him were still absent-minded. He thought that young people nowadays really have not seen the world. But there is no way around it. Most modern literature is created by AI, and it is full of soundness, routine and boilerplate, and lacks the classical literature of ancient human history. It is so dry to read. Kagawa recalled that after handing over the books "The Count of Monte Cristo" to the Cultural Bureau, he was bored and found a few modern novels on the shared electronic bookshelf at home and read them casually. After ten minutes, he closed the first book because he couldn't stand it anymore. Simply put, it is a love story about a man and a woman who meet by chance on a shuttle while on an interstellar voyage, and their feelings gradually develop through chance and coincidence. The good news is that there are no love rivals, no female competition as criticized by twenty-first century readers, or even the double purity setting favored by readers seeking spiritual feudalism. The bad news is that the writing is extremely dry and boring. I can't believe there are stories in this world that are more boring than those assembly line domineering CEO novels! I was wrong! I will never dislike domineering CEO novels again! Kagawa wailed in his heart at that time. At the same time, she also understood why the sudden appearance of the three famous novels such as "The Count of Monte Cristo" caused such a great reading craze, and why the Twelfth Fleet regarded the incomplete "Romeo and Juliet" as a treasure. The novels written by modern AI are probably not even as good as the history books in schools. Come to think of it, AI-generated novels also need database support. The only modern database that has it is the secret novel "Romeo and Juliet". What can other creative AIs write?
Compared with these dry stories, the emergence of "The Count of Monte Cristo", "Don Quixote" and "Dream of Red Mansions" can be described as a nuclear bomb shock to culturally impoverished modern people. Putting aside the historical background in the book that could make the keyboards of those in the history research institute smoke, the story alone is very attractive. Whether it was the counter-killing thriller of "The Count of Monte Cristo" or the satirical "Don Quixote", every time during the afternoon break, Kagawa saw students from different clubs gathering together to discuss the plots enthusiastically. The love story in "Dream of Red Mansions" is even more attractive to female students. Although the poetry and writing style are different from the more straightforward "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Don Quixote", the plots such as reincarnation reunion, ancient marriages, and emotional twists and turns have too fatal attraction for young girls who have been devastated by modern novels. Kagawa even saw several female students who had the potential to become "Redologists". This also proves that the reason why masterpieces become masterpieces is that they can attract a large number of followers no matter what era they are in. However, over the past few days, most of the residents of the Third Fleet have finished reading one of the three novels. Some people were attracted by the story and the historical background and started a second round of reading, but more people turned their attention to the new book. A social survey conducted by the Cultural Bureau not long ago showed that nearly 90% of the residents of the Third Fleet hope to read ancient novels regularly. Modern people’s pursuit of culture is very terrifying, especially after tasting some sweetness, they gather in front of the flower garden called ancient literature like hungry bees, hoping to absorb more nectar. Although Xiangxue's live broadcast of drama watching and their newly started drama website have shared some of the demand, Xiangxue only watches one or two episodes a day, which makes some impatient modern people unable to wait. On the contrary, a whole open ancient classic novel can make them more immersed in the story. Lin Minzhi talked with Xiangchuan several times at home, and Xiangchuan also thought that the strategy of the Cultural Bureau to announce the basic novels every month was good, but she still hoped to get some money from the Cultural Bureau before finalizing the detailed procedures. There was no other way. In order to live a life of idleness and waiting for death in the future, if you don't save some money for yourself, you may burn millions of dollars like the club building. Students have the most rest time. When most people in society have just finished reading a book, students may have finished reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "Don Quixote" and start concentrating on conquering "Dream of Red Mansions". After reading three ancient novels, many students thought they had some understanding of the ancient concept of love. However, when Kagawa's two constellation stories came out, they were all silent. Marriage between brothers and sisters, marriage between uncles and nephews...is this the imagination of ancient people? How terrifying! The students sat back in their seats, eating the fried rice in their lunch boxes somewhat absentmindedly. After the baptism of interpersonal relationships that was like a meteorite impact, the taste stimulation brought by the delicious fried rice in their mouths was even a little weaker. Kagawa was too lazy to care about the complicated moods of these young people at this moment. Since she came here through time, it was not the first time that the people around her were silenced by the ancient civilization. She herself was also silenced by the liquid food on the first day. She just regarded it as a cultural shock between two generations. She is now contacting Butler Wu, who is tasting fried rice in the cafeteria, and has obtained permission to use the fruit. She is asking the cafeteria's kitchen AI to cut some fruit and send it over. After all, fried rice contains a lot of oil, and a bowl of soup cannot relieve the greasiness. Fruit is still needed at the critical moment. At this time, Xiangxue, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke from the other side of the screen: [Sister Kagawa, is there something special about the ancient sky that allowed ancient people to make up stories by looking at the stars?]
This sentence resonated with the students around him, and they also looked at Kagawa with curiosity. Kagawa raised his head. At this time, the artificial sun had completely set and the sky returned to its original appearance. From time to time, he could see planets not far away being left behind by the sailing escort ships, and he could even clearly see the Milky Way. She said quietly, "The sky back then was nothing special. Compared to now, it was just average. The stars could be clearly seen less than half of the time. But at that time, people could only use fire to illuminate the night, so they could see the stars more clearly than when our fleet set out from Earth." "It's just that people at that time probably thought that everything in the world had meaning, so they wrote stories about the birth of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky, and the land, rivers, and seas under their feet." “There are so many stars in the sky, and they use their imagination to compare these stars to various creatures and characters, and use stories to enrich their images.” "As human society developed and technology advanced, people gradually understood how nature, the sky, and the stars came into being, and no new myths were created." “Imagination of the unknown is the beginning of all myths and all fictional stories.” It is also a quality that modern civilization lacks the most, Kagawa added in his mind.
