King of Hollywood

"Virtual... virtual world?" Catherine was obviously even more confused.

"If you've read William Gibson's Neuromancer, you know how close the virtual world is to us, the novel that pioneered the cyberpunk genre of science fiction," Adrian continued.

The corners of Catherine's mouth twitched, looking like she was laughing: "It sounds... like... very deep."

"It doesn't matter, it's really confusing when you first encounter these concepts, as long as you read more of these novels, it won't be strange." Adrian waved his hand, "You don't need to care about those, just tell me how you feel about the story. "

"Only from the point of view of the story..." Catherine tilted her head to think, pouting her lips, looking very cute, "Because they are all fragments, the two stories have not yet fully unfolded, so I can't comment on the whole. If it's just a fragment, I think the story about zombies is more attractive in terms of description, such as..."

She reached out and took the manuscript and flipped through it, then read: "Jill rolled on the spot, dodging the drooling teeth, and countless training sessions made her conditioned reflex kicked hard. On the opponent's mandible. Although the zombie dog with rotten flesh made a few whines, it immediately bounced back after it fell to the ground, and snarled and snarled again.

Bah! Jill's gun went off, and at the last minute she picked up her pistol, aimed and pulled the trigger instantly. After the continuous gunfire, the disgusting zombie dog finally fell to the ground and stopped moving, but before she could breathe a sigh of relief, a few more zombie dogs broke through the glass and jumped into the corridor. The startled Jill quickly turned around and ran to and fro. She ran all the way to the corridor door, and after closing the door heavily, she leaned on the door and gasped. Only then did she realize that her palms and vest were soaked through. "

Catherine finished reading this, then looked up at Adrian: "Your description is very graphic, so the zombie story segment with a large action description is more attractive than the... virtual world story segment. I think this feature probably has something to do with your directorial work."

"I have to say, you are very smart, Miss Bechenza," Adrian clapped his hands in approval, "and you have your own opinions on the novel, I am surprised."

"While I was a student at 'Goldenfern and Wrightmeier' girls' school, I won the W.H. Smith writing competition twice, first for three short essays and second for three poems." Katherine's tone sounded as if She didn't care, but the slightly raised chest still betrayed her inner world, and Adrian shook his head slightly with a dumb smile.

Catherine probably also realized that she had gone too far, and could not help but coughed awkwardly: "Of course, it is incomparable to someone who writes stories casually like you - frankly, aren't you afraid of causing confusion? Write at the same time. Two books."

"How do you say this..." Adrian thought for a while, "What you said is indeed possible, but it's not serious, I just wrote some fragments, and these fragments have been conceived before I started writing. More important Yes, after such several different concepts come back and collide in my mind, maybe many new and valuable ideas will pop up in a flash, such as..."

He suddenly stopped talking and stared straight at Catherine. Catherine, who had been waiting for him to speak for a while, then responded, and rolled her eyes angrily, "Like what?"

"Wait!" Adrian shook his finger, still staring at Catherine.

Catherine shrank her neck, frowned and looked at Adrian with an inexplicable look.

"Stand up," Adrian gestured. "Stand up and turn around."

Catherine's brows furrowed even deeper, but she was surprisingly lifeless, and Yiyan stood up and turned around in front of him. Adrian rubbed his chin and suddenly stood up, and also turned around in the room, sometimes seeing Catherine, holding her chin and frowning while mumbling to herself, and finally made a gesture to Catherine: "Is that okay? ?"

Catherine sighed, brushing her hair back, pinching her hair into a nondescript ponytail with one hand.

"I can tell, what exactly do you want to do..." She looked at him and asked helplessly, but Adrian interrupted before she could finish her sentence: "Laura!"

"Laura? Sorry, I thought you should remember my..."

"Laura Crawford!"

"Mr. Cowell, if you do this again, then please allow me..."

"Let me think about it, let me think about it, she should be a little masculine and a little wild, she should be an orphan and adopted by an archaeology professor who nurtured her right... no no no, if that's the case , those adventurous behaviors are passive, and they are too similar to Indiana Jones... By the way, noble, she should be a noble, so that she can get a good education and have more time for exploration, preferably a A noble family with an archaeological tradition..." Adrian said hurriedly while turning around, as if he had fallen into his own world.

Catherine finally became impatient. She took a deep breath and said loudly, "Mr. Cowell, can I leave?"

"Ah, Miss Bechenza, I'm so sorry," Adrian finally came to his senses, "I apologize for my rudeness, I just had a very interesting idea."

"A very interesting idea?" Catherine looked at him amusingly.

"Yes, the female version of Indiana Jones." Adrian made a gesture, took a piece of white paper and a pen, and explained as he drew: "Laura Crawford, the Laugh family The Eleventh Countess of the Middle Ages. In 1547, Edward VI granted the property and residence rights to the Crawford family in Abington, Surrey. Laura received an aristocratic education from an early age and is recognized as a Genius, if it stayed like this, she might have become a British lady, but an encounter at the age of 9 changed all that. She was flying home with her mother when the plane crashed in the Himalayas, her mother died instantly, and the 9-year-old Laura, however, took 10 days to walk from the ice and snow to Kathmandu with her own efforts... It seems a bit exaggerated, after all, she is only a 9-year-old girl... But this is also suitable for her genius title, and there is also a protagonist halo..."

"Wait, wait!" Catherine interrupted Adrian, who had heard all this, and she looked at him in disbelief: "You came up with all this in so many minutes?!"

"Well... well, there are still many places to set." Adrian shrugged, and then placed the paper in his hand on Catherine's. This is a set drawing. Although there are no facial features, and hands and feet are also very simple, but a few strokes still outline the big image of this woman wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, hot pants, and military boots, carrying a backpack, a gun, and a big braid. Out, an attractive quality emerges on the paper.

Catherine stared blankly at the female figure in the painting, wondering what she was thinking.

"Your facial features are too soft and delicate, and Laura needs a little wildness and uninhibitedness, which has to be said to be a pity." Adrian said with a sigh at this time.

"Have you seen those arrangements? If you have no opinion, I will give it to Mr. Haggis." Catherine suddenly asked, and put the drawing on the table, as if it was not worth mentioning.

"Of course, I don't have any other opinions." Adrian didn't say much, and handed over the thin stack of itineraries.

"Thank you." Catherine said briefly, and hurriedly left the room.

Adrian silently looked at the door with his hands crossed for a long time.

"Nice job, Haggis," he whispered at last.

It's all in his plan, let Haggis find an excuse for Katherine to come into the room and have a good talk about rapport - except for the last Tomb Raider idea. This is indeed because of Catherine.

At first, I wanted to write "Resident Evil" and "The Matrix" into novels, out of a mentality of playing with the Japanese. Although "Nervous Wanderer" has long proposed the concept of a virtual world, and "Blade Runner" has also proposed a real definition from another aspect, most people still talk about that "Ghost in the Shell", After all, the two drivers admitted that the animation, which is still a few years away, gave them a lot of inspiration.

For the epoch-making movie "The Matrix", Adrian will definitely not let it go - to go the way of others, let others have no way to go, is his established strategy now - so he simply wrote the novel version first Come out, so as not to be contacted by "Ghost in the Shell". Anyway, the previous life did not analyze the script of "The Matrix", and it is absolutely no problem to slightly modify the novel written into the trilogy. As for "Resident Evil", that is a bonus.

While writing novel fragments, he was also perfecting his plan. After constantly revising and thinking, he suddenly found that writing "Resident Evil" and "The Matrix" into novels would be of great help to his plan, so he came from Los Angeles. In London, he always found time to write some, and complained about the lamp in the hotel.

Now, because of Catherine, Adrian has thought of another subject that can be written into a novel. The game "Tomb Raider" will appear in 6 years. I have to say that he is lucky. And this sudden electronic sound not only has the same effect on his plan as "Resident Evil" and "The Matrix", but also completely eases the relationship with Catherine, which really kills two birds with one stone.

"This is just the beginning." Adrian sat down again at the typewriter.

Catherine is very attractive, but she can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so take it slow. As for your own plans, unless a major premise is addressed, it will only be on paper.

"Crow, don't let me down," murmured Adrian, who tapped the letters.