Chapter 231 Describable Heroes that Suit My Style

“I observed and speculated that the director should have said something like ‘It’s okay, go ahead’ to Oscar in his earpiece at the time.” Feng Bujue said to Little Tan and Master Bao.

“So… The title of this section is “I’m the writer——Please roasting as you want?” Asked Master Bao, as he put a chopstick of food into his mouth.

“Yes.” Feng Bujue said.

“I’m more and more curious what will happen next…” Wang Tanzhi said.

In the TV, Oscar made a few bland remarks about the subliminal title Feng Bujue gave and said: “Ok, now let’s go to the first round of this show “Quick Writing”.

The rules of first round appeared on the TV, accompanied by a high-speed reading of Oscar’s speech, which should be recorded a long time before the show, and then it will repeat each time for the audience to watch.

“In this round, a keyword will appear randomly on the big screen.” Oscar said as the camera moved, and the screen rolled to the screen, Events, People, Animals, Landscapes and dozens of words were rolling on it. A few seconds later, with a tinkle of sound, the word “People” ended up on the screen.

“Then each of our participants will get two keywords, but they will be kept secret until they are finished.” As Oscar spoke, two random words appeared on the screen in front of Feng Bujue.

“Seven writers, you’ve got seven minutes. Please use the two keywords you got on your screen to create a paragraph about characters. You can write any amount of words in the time limit.” With these words, Oscar quickly said, “Well, the first round…… Now start!” Because the keywords had already been released, he quickly started this round.

“Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to stress again that all the creative parts of this show are never duplicated. Our contestants have only seven minutes and only one chance.” Oscar couldn’t keep the audience idle for the seven minutes certainly, he had to work with the sound of the scene and speak for two or three minutes to create a tense atmosphere. And the rest of the minutes will be cut off on TV because viewers can’t wait that long, so it’s a good choice to put in some advertisements.

“I know that in many people’s minds, writing is a job with a very low standard to become. If you have a computer with Internet access, anyone can write.” Oscar continued: “Also, there are a lot of codeword tools, writing assistants and there’s a huge library of words with various poems and quotations, even software that can generate a long and logical plot.

But the writers behind me have no assistants and no access to anything network. Every word, every sentence, they had to search and construct from their heads, and they only have seven minutes. This is undoubtedly the most intuitive embodiment of knowledge reserve, creative ability and writing skills. Let’s see what’s different between us and real writers.”

Oscar said, leading a close-up cameraman to the stands and the look of the writers as they worked.” There are only two types of inputting ways used in this show, one by touch and the other by the original Pin-Yin input. [1] If our contestant has the condition of wrongly written characters, the input method will not correct its error. Therefore, on the stage of ‘I am the writer’, it is clear how good a writer is in Chinese.”

Oscar then said, “The last twenty seconds……”

A series of close-ups followed. With the countdown of the host, the camera was moved to seven contestants and the audience. BGM was also very compact and intense.

“Three, two, one…… Time’s up!” Oscar took a handkerchief from his suit pocket and wiped the sweat that doesn’t really exist from his forehead. “Let’s see the work of each writer create.”

Oscar arrived at Skywalker’s desk.” Skywalker always gives us a special feeling of light and calm, and it’s the same today.” He turned his head to the contestant and said, “Is the keyword you drawn this time simple?”

Skywalker approached the microphone at the edge of the platform: “Actually… It doesn’t matter what the keyword is, I always think the hardest part of the first round is the time limit.”

Oscar asked,” Can I say that no matter the keywords are, this part is easy for you?”

“No, no……” Skywalker shook his hands and laughed. The question made him very difficult to answer. If he said “Yes”, it would be too arrogant.

“Let’s see what keywords Skywalker got.” Instead of asking, Oscar continued to push the show forward.

The screen then showed two keywords that Skywalker drew, “Alone” and “Domineering”.

Oscar commented: “For Skywalker, such a title should be a small case.”

“All right……” Skywalker was always modest.

“Well, let’s look at what Skywalker wrote in seven minutes,” Oscar said, and his paragraphs were seen on the big screen [ At the edge of a cloud, a figure suddenly appeared, his indigo hair hangs down to the waist. He has herculean build with robes showily, while his handsome face has a feeling of cold. His figure is filled with spokenless sorrow and his eyes reveal endless deep.”

Oscar finished reading the passage, and when the applause from the audience was over, he let out a histrionic sigh…… “Although this paragraph of text is not long, we could already feel an elite of martial arts stand in front of us.” He said and walked back two steps, slanting his neck to look at Feng Bujue: “Eh? Let’s ask Bu Jue, how do you feel when you see the words of Skywalker in your first round? Are you stressed?”

The camera was moved to the face of Feng Bujue, and he replied with deadly eyes, “My stressed is like a mountain.”

“Let’s assume then, that if you use the keywords of the Skywalker, do you have the confidence to write something better than this?” Oscar added. He is clearly a good host, and that the point of this show is to create a comparison between the writers intentionally. As long as it doesn’t escalate into a conflict.

“Well… “After only three seconds, Feng Bujue said: “Outstanding figure, resolute face, only seeing this person striding like a meteor and arrived suddenly, said……….. ‘My military power is brilliant.’” [2]

“Hey… I just ask you if you have the confidence to write better, you could casually say ‘no’ humbly! Who asked you to dictate another version to me? Why the word sounds familiar! Is this Ye Shi Bing Quan? It must be!!? Oscar immediately glanced back at the director, who was watching in the front row, but he only heard in his earphone, “Go on.”

“Ha… Haha… Bu… Bu Jue consistence’s reaction is really fast.” Oscar said. But he’s actually thinking: I will never ask you that kind of question again!

“Well, what do you think? What about the version of Bu Jue?” Oscar threw the hot plot to Skywalker.

“Er… Not bad, haha… “Skywalker’s reaction was still calm.

“Ok, next, let’s look at the keywords of Parcloses-Ge.” Oscar arrived at contestant two’s practice table.

The key words of him were: “Tragedy” and “Wisely”.

Oscar said, “Well, I’m going to ask the question again, Parcloses-Ge. Is today’s question difficult?”

“Yes… ”

There was laughter from the audience, and Oscar said with a laugh, “All the contestants on our show are very humble and they never say it’s not difficult.”

Then, Parcloses’s writing content appeared on the screen: [Sleeping dragon leaped from chasm to the world, divided the world to three in Long Zhong. All the dreams end after his death, and all the heroes cried for him]

After Oscar finished reading the poem, the audience immediately applauded. “Cao Zhi could compose poems in seven steps, and our Parcloses is not bad, he could create a paragraph in sever minutes according to our keywords.”[3]

Parkcloses said, “No, no……In fact, the two sentences are changed from Du Fu’s “Shu Xiang”, the original text is’ Didn’t achieve his goal until his death, making all hero’s tears dropped to the lapel.” Parcloses said to the microphone: ” I’m just following the topic.” [4]

“Parcloses-Ge, if you keep modest like that, another contestant will be unable to sit still,” Oscar said with the audience’s laughter.

“In this kind of place, it is estimated that some funny sound effects will be inserted in the post-production to heighten the atmosphere.” Added Feng Bujue with an explanatory tone.

“Is this ok that the first round is this difficult?” Little Tan asked, “If you give me seven minutes to write according to two keywords, I’ll write a sentence or two at most.

“Well… I thought about it later. Generally, even those who know the rules and are used to creating on the spot have to conceive for at least one or two minutes. In the last five minutes, 2 or 3 hundred character is the maximum we could do.” Feng Bujue said, “So you can see everyone’s content were actually not long. The Skywalker used less than 80 words, Eight Parcloses only wrote two sentences. This means they are familiar with the rules and know how to win high score in this round. The audience will be impressed by the reduction to less than a hundred words and the use of poetry.”

“Oh, I see. How many words did you write then?” Asked Little Tan.

“More than three hundred.”

“Poof… “Little Tan and Master Bao spit out the thing in their mouth.

“What-what-what? Where’s your morality? It’s not your house so you spit up thing?” Feng Bujue said with an unhappy tone.

By this time, Oscar had finished the words of number three and four, and he’s coming to the fifth contestant.

The two key words of Vegetables before were relatively difficult, namely “Beast” and “Change”. He wrote more than 100 words, and the text also suited for the topic. However, compared with the first two contestants, his feeling was slightly worse.

The keywords that Ink drew were “Perseverance” and “Power”, her style was changeling and any keywords should not be difficult to her. But her writing skills in the short term were clearly inferior to those of the other professional network writers, and she ended up writing more than 50 words. Though her work was well-written, it didn’t fully convey the meaning of those two keywords.

Five, Let Me Up, got the keywords “Terror” and “Beauty”. He did quite well by using handwriting mode: [Bewildered eyes shone with a polished sheen, pale fingers originally were converting into a dead body. Her veins standing out with extremely subtle emotional change and got up and down… She is still beautiful but just lost the breath of creatures and change into a cold corpse.]

“Excellent description.” Oscar said, turning to Soda, “What kind of style would it be to have the master of terror write about it?”

“Certainly, it’s Brother Up writes better.” Laughed Soda.

Let Me Up said, “Soda is saving face for me. He must despise me in heart hardly.”

There was a laugh from audience and Oscar came in front of Soda. “OK, let’s see what’s Soda’s word,” he said.

The keywords on the screen were “Religion” and “Spirits”.

As soon as these two words appeared, there was a stir in the audience. There’s no doubt that for Soda, drawing on these two words is very beneficial because it’s his style.

But what he wrote was unexpected: [Wé invite thou for a ferocious feast, the Lord of deeply evil, abyss and demon; enjoying thee spirits of thy and sacrifice thou power to……][5]

As Oscar finished reading the script, he said with half-jokingly tone, “Soda, why there’s an ellipsis?”

“Ha ha, because the time is too short so I just typed that.” Soda was honest.

Oscar asked, “Did the idea take too long?”

“No, I wasted three minutes trying to find the word ‘phagocytosis’. I couldn’t find it at the end so I changed it to handwriting… Then the time is up.” Soda said.

Oscar shrugged and gave the camera a weird look, and the audience laughed.

“Soda…… What should I say.” Oscar laughed.

Soda just smiled simply. His personality’s easygoing, and he’s the more relaxed one in all six writers.

“So… Finally, let’s take a look at the newcomers.” Oscar finally arrived at Feng Bujue: “Bu Jue, after looking six predecessors’ performance, you nervous at this moment?”

“Well… How can I say that……? I’m not very good at writing such propositional prompt… “Feng Bujue said.

“Oh? Didn’t you finish it like Soda?” Oscar asked.

“That’s not…… ” Feng Bujue answered, ” It’s just, seem to have a little over-corrected… ”

“When you say that, audiences and I look forward to it more and more.” Oscar said, pointing to the screen:” Here, let’s take a look at the two key words Bu Jue drew. ”

The words “War” and “Hero” popped up on the screen.

From the reactions of other writers and the audience, this is a very simple subject.

“I think everyone feels the same as me at the moment, Yue Fei, Guan Yu, Zhang Zizhong……[6] There are no fewer than ten names flashing through my mind in an instant. “Oscar turned to the camera.” But from past shows, it’s not hard to see that the simpler a subject look, the harder it is to tackle. Because it’s hard to write well. Many runners just don’t get high marks because keywords are so easy.” As he spoke, the camera got Feng Bujue again. “I don’t know what kind of character would Bu Jue describe according to the words war and hero. Please have a look at… ”

As soon as he finished, Jue-Ge’s words appeared on the screen: [In the summer of 1945 and in the border of the forest between Chinese and Korea, a tall and handsome middle-aged man is reviewing his partisans. His country has been destroyed by the invaders for 35 years. The motherland’s body falling into the palms of the enemy, but her soul didn’t die yet and the good sons and daughters of motherland are still in a fight. He was born in a poor but full of nationalism emotion of peasant family, and he got strong patriotism education. Fourteen years old, he vowed never backing to hometown until his country is independent; eighteen years old, he formed the Korean Revolutionary Army, he took up his gun and fought the Japanese invaders’ most elite army, Kando army between the dense forests of the snow mountain and the black water on the border of China and Korea.

The North Korean communists, led by him, were the most resolute, heroic and at the same time, the most tragically for the independence of their country. By this time, they had been fighting a hard guerrilla war for 15 years. And he grew up from a teenager to a general and became the leader of North Korean Communists.

He, is the man that called “Hanbell” (Korean: A star)… respectfully by the Korean People ——Kim ll-sung.】

Halfway through it, Oscar felt the situation was wrong, but he went on and trying to read the passage more than three hundred words smoothly.

There was complete silence. Even the director of the scene was dumbfounded.

“Who invited this boy… Who? Who the hell is that?” The roasting soul of Oscars was completely ignited, but he can only speak from the heart: “War, Heroes, Characters, the first result of this combination is General Kim? This is going against God! You’re being sarcastic? Must be? Would you die if you wrote two sentences randomly like everyone else? No need to mention you wrote the name, even the time and place are written out!!! Do you think this is a short biography?”

Oscar again cast an inquisitive look at the general director, and the subtext of his face was: Let’s stop recording and talk to that boy sensei!!!

To his surprise, the line from his earpiece was, “Little Li (the live director), ask the audience to applaud. Oscar, go ahead.”

[1]Chinese characters have two input ways in PC. One is writing on the writing board, and another is spelling them in Pin Yin (Spell the pronounce of characters by English characters). Both of them need to be learnt during school life, but we normally use Pin Yin when we type something.

[2]The reference came from Pi Li Puppet, character Ye Shi Bing Quan. This is the script came from his appearing narrate. (The author really likes Pi Li Puppet)

[3]Cao Zhi: Prince and writer of Wei Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period in China. His brother wanted to kill him for the position of empire, thus he ordered Cao Zhi to write a poem in seven steps. Cao Zhi did it with even a prompt of “Brother’s love” and moved his brother deeply. Cao Zhi got released and this became a legend in Chinese literature history’s story.

[4]Du Fu: Tang Dynasty poet. The poem Shu Xiang tells the life of Zhuge Liang, Shu Dynasty of three kingdoms, who didn’t achieve his ultimate goal of defeat other two countries and died. The poem was writing when Du visited the temple of Zhuge Liang and wrote his feeling.

[5]Soda wrote something very difficult to understand by ancient Chinese. Although I could understand it, I can’t translate them into English fully. Thus, I replaced some words to make it logically for readers……

[6]All names mentioned here were Chinese military heroes against enemies. I don’t really want to extend the length of reference……