Ganuo watched Xi Yujin fill in the word "Jung". He observed Xi Yujin's expression and found nothing unusual. He changed the common sense in his mind "Blue Star's split personality will cause a drastic change in character" to "Yujinnuo can freely control the personality switching."
They returned to the Chaoping, and Xi Yujin suddenly asked, "Are you curious about my personality? Which personality do you think is better?"
Gano was puzzled, but he still followed his heart and said, "The one I get along with." He thought about it, but still couldn't figure out how Lan Xing's personality switched. His abstract thinking ability was limited. Seeing that Yu Jinnuo was always looking at him, he was inexplicably a little anxious, and could only describe it in simple language: "I think Yu Jinnuo's other personalities are like netizens to me. I can understand the meaning of the conversation, but it is only one side after all. Yu Jinnuo is different. He is the one I really get along with, and he will make different choices because of the change of environment... a real person. Yu Jinnuo?"
He saw Xi Yujin smiled. He couldn't subjectively distinguish other people's emotions, but he could accurately capture the changes in the body language of each creature and find matching data from the Zerg database to confirm whether the other party might be lying. He knew that Yujinnuo sometimes showed a kind and hypocritical smile, and a smile was a good tool for disguising emotions. And the current data showed... Yujinnuo seemed to be really happy.
His heart beat faster because of this.
"Jung is a serious lady." Xi Yujin introduced his new personality, "She passed a large-scale examination and was successfully selected as a civil servant. She is now working in our Blue Star Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
He chose this name because it sounds like "Jung's 16-type test" and "personality test form". This vest deals with data sorting and table mapping all day long.
"I've had many split personalities before, and I only let them out when I'm alone, otherwise I might go crazy for no reason and hurt passers-by."
Xi Yujin blinked, feeling that his image was becoming more and more terrifying day by day. But this was not important, what was important was——
"It's always me who's been with you."
Ganuo expressed his understanding thoughtfully.
From time to time, the sound of alien creatures passing by could be heard outside the window. Inside the Tide Flat, two creatures sat side by side. Xi Yujin shared his new work, "Walking with Cturt," with his companions.
This is a collection of short stories set in the period of civilization contact, with a total of only 200,000 words. Xi Yujin has four asteroid coders, and the output is completed quickly. Ganuo is responsible for bilingual translation and proofreading. His armor is loaded with millions of years of Zerg database, which is more than enough to find translations.
In "Walking with Cturt", the technology of the earth's human beings is increasingly developed, but there are still many phenomena that contradict the classical physics theory. Some people from various fields accidentally investigate some incredible phenomena or strange stories. They find that there are traces of "gods" hidden behind them. "Gods" come from the universe and have existed longer than the earth. They are unpredictable and incomprehensible. "Gods" do not have the joys, anger, sorrows and happiness of humans like in myths. They have just experienced a tiny amount of human time.
Some ignorant humans tried to spy on "God", and they wrote many books, performed sacrificial rituals, and talked about it all day long, but "God" did not pity the believers, and even regarded the believers as insects, crushing them at will. Some rational people tried to study "God", and the more they found the huge gap between humans and "God", the more they found that the fear that comes with biological instincts was aroused, and they were driven crazy by the knowledge that humans could not understand. And those who were completely crazy were locked up in mental hospitals, and they kept saying: "Don't look at Him! Don't look at Him! Cthulhu is coming!"
From beginning to end, Cturt's true form never appeared completely.
All people see is a group of colorful eyeballs, hairless wings made of mud, and slimy, thick, and sleepy tentacles.
Xi Yujin emphasized the concept of "investigator" in the book to facilitate subsequent creation.
After writing and proofreading the manuscript several times, Xi Yujin started to make the physical book. Of course, for books used in diplomacy, it is not enough to just send an electronic version, but also to make it into a physical book.
"Can you get some diamonds out of me?"
Xi Yujin looked at the ore cutting machine and started to daydream again.
"If I cut off a bit of myself, theoretically the star will fill in the gap with other elements. Then I'll become, the Impure Diamond Man!"
Xi Yujin's imagination grew bigger and bigger, and he looked at the ore cutting machine in deep thought.
Ganuo, who happened to pass by, heard Xi Yujin talking to himself and completely believed the rumor that Xi Yujin would go crazy when alone.
A little...worried...
Ganuo automatically helped Xi Yujin bring the high-quality dust sand ore donated by the Shining Empire. It was only the size of a suitcase, which finally dispelled Xi Yujin's idea.
The ore was cut into thin slices using a cutting machine, and then polished, rubbed, and colored with other tools to forge various official documents of Blue Star. Xi Yujin stamped it with a spiritual stamp, and finally brought the most luxurious packaging box on the Chaoping. The hardcover edition of "Walking with Cturt" was completed!
The cover of the physical book feels like jade, the paper has a special roughness, and the title page reads "This book is dedicated to the friendly civilization Ketuerte, authorized work by Jung, the official novelist of Blue Star". The first half of the text is modern Chinese characters, and the second half is a translation.
Xi Yujin admired it for a while and then moved on to the next project.
"Walking with Cturt" is just an introduction. What he really wants to do is to create collectively with alien creatures.
This book is based on the Cthulhu Mythos series on Earth. However, the well-known Cthulhu Mythos is not created by just one person, but by many fans who have added many widely circulated secondary settings.
It seems to be a unique phenomenon in foreign literature that many fans follow a certain agreement and create collectively because of their love for a certain worldview. The fantasies of people complement each other and build a full and detailed worldview. This feeling is fascinating. Literary exchanges with alien creatures involve diplomacy. Yu Jin is in a "stop writing" state. Xi Yu Jin does not want to miss this, so the second diplomat Jung appears.
Xi Yujin spent most of the day creating a simplified prototype of a board game based on "Along with Cturt" and named it "Investigator's Files".
He put the board game "Investigator Files" and the physical book in the same package and gave it to Cturt.
…
"The writing speed of Blue Star's official novelists is amazing! Their talent pool must be very strong. We should be more careful in our future foreign policy."
In a disc-shaped spaceship, several Ketuerts carefully took the package. Xi Yujin and his friends went somewhere else after a while, and Ketuert regretted not entertaining them better.
These Cturts are all diplomatic cadres of their race. They have been traveling for a long time and are responsible for transmitting the information they have seen and heard in other places back to their hometown to improve the race's database.
They were all a little unhappy when the topic of official novelists was mentioned. It was well known that novelists hated writing with rigid propositions the most. The strength of official novelists of various races was somewhat average. However, official novelists were very important. They were not only responsible for cultural contact, screening out novels that were harmful to their own race, and sorting out excellent literature within their race, but they could also provide some spiritual support to their weaker racemates. If a race wanted to survive in this magical universe, it must have its own novel foundation.
"Our official novelists have done their best," said Cturt, the leader. "Let's take a look at the literature of our friends from Blue Star."
So he carefully used his tentacles to lift the cover, scanned it with an instrument and transferred it to the database.
Their many eyes processed the information above at the same time, and there was a moment of extreme silence.
The first story, "Superstitious Village", tells the story of a telecommunications engineer who resigned and returned to the countryside. Her house needed to be renovated, so she stayed at the village chief's house for a few days. The village chief was very enthusiastic and told her magical things every day and showed her strange story briefs from different newspapers. However, as the days passed, many strange things happened in the village. The protagonist saw with her own eyes a rooster that suddenly swelled up and gradually became as big as a table. Its feathers became sparse, revealing pink skin with clearly visible pores. The rooster's head was squeezed between its bloated body, and then it exploded with a bang, and she fainted on the side of the road.
The protagonist wakes up and finds no rooster or anything unusual, but feels uneasy. He investigates everywhere and listens carefully to the words of the village chief. The village chief says that there are wisdoms in the world that are older and more advanced than humans, and they will always wake up.
The protagonist explored the village and found a group of chickens and ducks that had died of bleeding placed on a round plate in a strange posture, like some kind of sacrificial activity. She also heard that a villager couldn't sleep well at night and always heard the sound of electricity, so she used her professional knowledge to check the circuit and collect the unknown sounds that appeared at night. She succeeded in collecting and heard a large group of men, women, young and old calling out, and there was a name "Keturt". This is when she discovered that the village chief's family served her tea every day with sleeping pills.
So she hurriedly ran out of the village chief's house and came to her own house, ready to pack up and leave. However, the village chief noticed that she had escaped, and called several villagers to block her house with stone slabs - it turned out that the village chief had brainwashed all the villagers, and they wanted to perform an evil ritual to awaken the god, and the protagonist was their sacrifice.
The protagonist cried out in the house but to no avail. At night, she was hungry and thirsty. She saw a fire outside, and a cold feeling crawled over her body. She felt like she was suddenly suspended in the air and then suddenly fell. The villagers in her eyes had changed beyond recognition. Everyone's skin turned pink, their pores became larger and rougher, and a little bit of black and brown hair came out of them.
In the frenzy of the ceremony, the protagonist suddenly thought of a way to escape. She created a dust explosion in a small space, attracted the attention of the villagers, and ran into the woods from the other side. Just when she thought she was saved, there was suddenly no sound in the village. She looked back and saw a clay bag arched high, emitting a disgusting smell. The monster grew taller and taller, as if it was a shadow from outer space, and the rustling sound became more and more frequent. Finally, the protagonist fell down the hillside and fainted again.
[When I woke up, the village was washed away by a mudslide, and I was sent to the hospital by a kind person passing by. Someone came to ask me how I survived. I remembered the shadow of that night and shuddered. What was that? Is it really good for humans to know His existence? I lied that I had forgotten it, and pretended to be crazy for a while.
Later, I could not wait to return to the city to work. The work was repetitive, monotonous and meaningless as always. But I felt a sense of peace from this meaningless process. Life is meaningless. Those who clamor for a rest break have a vision as pitiful as blank paper. They don't understand that the world needs some bad habits to cover up some unknowable truths.
I looked at the numb faces of the workers on the assembly line and suddenly felt extremely unfamiliar.
Could it be that they have the same idea as me? 】
“What a magical combination!”
This is what Ketuart commented.
"The story is set in the period of contact between civilizations, and the huge generation gap between the two civilizations is used to exaggerate the horror of the other civilization. It's really unexpected!"
"Now we can really understand how we look to outsiders..." Another Cturt kept rubbing his tentacles, "and we are not described in detail. Instead, we are highlighted through strange rituals, counterintuitive phenomena and weird psychological activities. This half-hidden description makes readers nervous and curious at the same time, and they can't wait to see the whole picture. But this inability to know the whole picture is the essence of the whole article. Living things always have a desire to know the unknown, and creations based on the unknown can best stimulate the imagination of living things."
"Can Blue Star even find archaeological finds from the isolated planet period? Their strength is too terrifying..."
"It's great! I like to see the humans there derive all kinds of weird reasoning based on a little bit of phenomenon. Humans have great imagination, but it's a pity that the other civilization doesn't care. The universe is chaotic and terrifying, and their peace is just based on chance... This reminds me of our difficult past. Is this official novelist called Jung? I hope to have a miraculous encounter with her!"
Diplomats commented.
One Cturt discovered that Blue Star had sent another thing and opened it out of curiosity.
This time, all its eyes were fixed on it.
It let out a complex low roar, and said, "Stars, Blue Star has given us another big gift!! They gave us a high-level text derivative!!"
What it was holding in its hand was the board game "Investigator Files" made by Xi Yujin.
In this universe, there are of course games, movies, and comics, but they can’t provide as much spiritual power as pure text novels. Because of the enhanced intuitiveness, lowered understanding threshold, and greatly increased interactivity, they are classified as advanced text derivatives. The production method is usually that novelists provide pure texts, and atypical text workers make them into derivatives. The Edge of the Universe Radio is also a kind of derivative.
Xi Yujin lacked common sense and gave the Investigator's File as a gift, but in Ketuert's opinion, this simple board game was the highlight. There were few novelists in an advanced civilization, and even fewer qualified atypical text workers, and the two were rarely matched.
Everyone looked through it curiously. The instruction manual said that this was a role-playing board game based on "Superstitious Village". If Cturt liked it, he could communicate with Blue Star in detail later.
"Of course we are interested."
Ketuart said, reading the rules carefully. The Investigator's File has a dice, a story map, a plot manual, and a rule manual.
This game requires a secret keeper and several investigators.
The keeper knows the entire plot, while the investigator only knows the background.
Before the game starts, the investigator sets his or her character points, such as physical strength, beauty, intelligence, etc., and also sets his or her profession.
"Then I must make my beauty perfect." Cturt vowed.
After the game starts, the investigator can carry out activities according to his own ideas. After each activity, the keeper will tell the investigator the consequences of this activity based on his understanding of the entire plot and his own imagination. If the investigator carries out special activities, such as seeing mysterious knowledge, fighting, and escaping, a dice judgment will be made. If the dice thrown is greater than a certain amount, it is a success, otherwise it fails, and something bad will happen to the investigator's character.
Ultimately, if the investigator uncovers the truth and survives, they win.
"This is a multiplayer real-time creative game!" Cturt saw its essence. "You see, the investigator players create activities based on the background, and the keeper uses his imagination to perfect the consequences of these activities. Both parties are in a state of knowing only half of the story. Their imaginations construct a complete exploration story, and random elements such as dice are introduced. Each story can be completely different."
"Having said so much, why don't we give it a try?"
Doctourt took out the non-corrosive chairs, sat in a circle, and decided to experience it for himself.
Without exception, they all chose the investigator character with the highest beauty value, so their physical strength was very low. And at the beginning, they all wanted to walk around, some rushed directly to the grove, and some went directly to the neighbor to change houses. This behavior, which was different from the original, made the keeper embarrassed, but it immediately made up the consequences of these actions based on the results of the dice: those who went to the grove directly found a group of dead chickens, and those who tried to change houses failed and were kicked out.
Until the chase, the game ended early because the investigator was exhausted. The keeper happily made up the result of this exploration:
"Just like that... three investigators were lost forever... Hey! This story is great! It should be included in the investigators' files to warn future investigators. Now I know what these blank notebooks are used for."
"My character was poisoned and disfigured because she was too beautiful, and she escaped from the villagers' pursuit because she was too ugly... Although it's illogical, the lack of logic is also part of the fun of this kind of story!"
"It's fun. I want to create a new character. I hope I can have better luck this time and the dice can all give big successes!"
Several diplomats had so much fun that they forgot the time. But they did not forget the friendship of Blue Star, and wrote letters to their hometowns with great excitement, and mailed them as soon as they arrived at the station.
"I have an idea..."
Said Cturt, who played the role of the secret keeper.
"This game is quite interesting and can also help develop writing skills. So why not add more stories about the period of contact between civilizations? The people of Blue Star are waiting for our response."
Diplomats also realized the possibility of in-depth cooperative contacts and switched to working mode to discuss cooperation on different stories.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. It was a race that had a good personal relationship with Cturt. It was here to stand guard at the pilot ship and came here to visit in its spare time.
"You Yu, nice to meet you!" Ketuart extended his tentacles to greet him. "Blue Star gave us a diplomatic book and a high-level text derivative. You should really take a look."
"Written by an official novelist?" You Yu is also a multi-tentacle species, but not so conspicuous. As long as it keeps its mouth shut, it is still a very normal alien. It is not interested in this: "Don't mention it, aren't diplomatic books all about form over content? No matter how interesting they are, how interesting can they be?"
"This time it's really different, you'll know once you play it..."
…
Inside the tide level.
Xi Yujin created a personal page "EARTH:006" for the new Jung pseudonym, put a small blue official logo on it, and wrote many personal reposts.
"Blue Star Corona District recruits nearly 120 talents! Helping solve the employment problems of college students"
"The 'Explaining Chinese Characters + Saving Ancient Languages' base was established in the Cherqu District to preserve the language of history and move towards future civilization"
"Official novelists' New Year's work summary: We took our dreams as our horses and lived up to our youth. We did it"
He attached a fake link to every repost. If an alien netizen clicked on it, he would only get the message "The current content is not available to the black box service area you are in."
"It's obvious that he's an official novelist." Xi Yujin looked at the page with great satisfaction.
In his personal works, he wrote "diplomatic book "Walking with Cturt" and board game "Investigator Files". If there are any collective creations in the future, Jung will also be required to take the lead.
Jung's personality is more serious and she would not leave any other message.
As for her interpersonal relationships, we’ll think about it later when she releases a new alias.
Xi Yujin thought about it and simply divided his vests into two camps: "official novelists" and "free novelists". Official novelists are selected through a large-scale examination, and the content of their creations is restricted after they are successfully selected. The two camps are somewhat at odds with each other, so Xi Yujin does not need to spend extra time editing their communication content. It just so happens that Yujin also has two identities, one is a diplomat of Blue Star, and the other is the editor-in-chief of "Reader".
Xi Yujin continued to organize the anonymous water army accounts he had used before, and grouped those with similar personalities into categories, so that when he needed to use a new account in the future, he could adopt it directly.
He threw himself into writing, filling in the gaps between the two pseudonyms, and forgot about time for a moment.
It was not until Ganuo came to him because he was worried that he decided to relax and have some fun.
"I heard that we will pass by a beautiful nebula? Is there a suitable sightseeing spaceship?" Xi Yujin asked as he opened the temporary chat room and found that the screen was refreshing rapidly.
"Where is Cturt's spaceship? Our diplomats went to the Peace Hall to look for it, but couldn't find it. We also want to experience the fun of collective instant creation!"
"I tell you, playing next to Cturt really feels like being there, you know..."
"Who can tell me where the Blue Star diplomat is! This is actually a diplomatic gift!"
"Where is Bluestar?"
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