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Chapter 1546 - 743 Celebrity Writer: Experience in Poaching Talent
Chapter 1546: Chapter 743 Celebrity Writer: Experience in Poaching Talent
Gong Shuhao tried his best to suppress his excitement as he dashed out of the restaurant and straight to his uncle’s Volkswagen, opening the door and skillfully reaching for a book that was neither too thick nor too thin.
The cover of the book featured an aircraft carrier on the vast ocean, with Pterosaurs soaring in the sky and various sea monsters in the sea, and in the distance near the shore, a Tyrannosaurus was roaring skywards.
This was the book he had read several times recently, "When Aircraft Carriers Meet Dinosaurs." Initially, when he saw the advertisement for this book, he was somewhat dismissive — just by the title, he felt it lacked depth; what was the point of such a sensational book?
However, it was the dinosaurs on the cover, which were quite different from those in movies, that attracted him.
What real dinosaurs looked like was all speculation based on existing images and texts. But after seeing these dinosaurs in the skies and oceans, he always had the feeling that this was how dinosaurs were supposed to look.
The name Gong Shuhao was selected by himself after he started living with his uncle; he didn’t even want to mention his original name. Xiao Liu—his uncle had no children, but his father was quite something, having given him three sisters and two brothers; he was the youngest, ranked sixth.
He had long wanted to change this randomly assigned name, and finally got his wish when his uncle took him in to help with the business, immediately choosing a name he particularly liked — a name that he found a bit childish years later.
The character "Shu" in his name means "book," and indeed, he loved reading with a particular interest in novels.
Loving books wasn’t really related to being good at studies. Although his family was not well-off, with his uncle’s support, they could afford higher education; his uncle was even willing to spend money on a master’s or PhD degree, should they continue their studies.
But clearly, his siblings didn’t do as well as him; at the very least, he made it to high school, which was why his uncle kept him close.
Although he no longer attended school, his habit of reading books, or more precisely novels, hadn’t changed. He used to rent books from a small bookstore in town, but after being with his uncle, he could afford to buy books to his heart’s content.
During a recent popular essay competition, many winners were directly admitted to universities. Gong Shuhao felt incredibly regretful at that time; if he had delayed dropping out, perhaps he could have snagged an award—deep down, he still harbored a bit of a literary romantic.
While others idolized singers and actors, Gong Shuhao only quietly idolized authors.
Upon his first reading of "When Aircraft Carriers Meet Dinosaurs," he was deeply captivated by the content. An aircraft carrier that strayed into a bizarre primordial sea, its crew initially panicking then growing determined, evolved to hunting sea monsters for food amid a shortage...
All of these deeply intrigued him, and he thought at that time, this author is incredibly talented! Only a powerful imagination could conceive such things!
Especially regarding the detailed narration about hunting massive sea dinosaurs on the carrier for food, explaining the taste of different body parts, he felt it was so unbelievable yet somehow conceivable after deeper thought.
It felt very strange that although he knew it was just a novel purely from the author’s imagination, when reading it, it seemed as if everything was happening in some unknown space to mankind, as if it truly existed.
As for the promotions stating the author was admitted to Cambridge University and was a renowned entrepreneur, Gong Shuhao didn’t care about those. What he cared about was just this— he wanted to meet the author and talk about how he came up with these ideas—explaining Hainosaurus’s tail was the toughest part, but inedible if not properly cooked; why Pliosaurus’s fin is best steamed; Kronosaurus’s fat is thick enough to be used as fuel but not tasty; Pterosaur barely having enough meat to make a wing dish...
How did he come up with all this?
Whenever he read this book, it didn’t feel like reading, but like conversing with someone who had disembarked from that aircraft carrier. Everything that happened seemed so real...
Yes, that real.
After contemplating for a long time, Gong Shuhao finally realized why this book drew him to read it over and over again—it was because of these two words: realism.
If he had any criticism after reading it many times, it was that: it was too damn short!
He always felt the story was so compelling and left one wanting more. As the people left the safety of the aircraft carrier and set foot on land, facing more bizarre ancient creatures, how they survived, whether they established a base to spread human civilization, and if it was related to the eventual mass extinction of dinosaurs...
In those days, there were no web novels, Gong Shuhao hadn’t experienced the frustration of ’abrupt stops’, ’poor endings’, or even the shameless ’unfinished updates’, so he kept wondering if there was a sequel to this book?
Unfortunately, now he was busy assisting his uncle, knowing how much his uncle valued him, and with business matters piling up, he simply had no time to pursue his hobby and ask the author about it!
Unexpectedly, today he actually met the
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