Night’s Nomenclature Chapter 175 Discussion

Meh. An ok read at the beginning but quickly collapses under the weight of nonsensical, poor world-building. It's a slight improvement over the author's other dismal apocalyptic works ("The First Order", "Spare me Great Lord").

SUMMARY

A poor, struggling teenager Qing Chen possesses an exceptional photographic memory, which all of a sudden becomes an omnipotent power that enables him to do just about anything and master any skill almost instantly. Somehow because MC can remember and live with his sh*tty childhood, he has amazing willpower. Which is obviously a poor understanding of how photographic memory works.

MC comes across an opportunity to transmigrate back-and-forth to an apocalyptic Inner World (copying "48 Hours A Day" as mentioned by other reviewers). So he's given a chance to better himself while gaining newfound powers in the Inner World, all while maneuvering around various factions in both worlds.

COMMENTS

(1) Physics / Sci-Fi / World Building is complete nonsense

It's clearly a sci-fi setting, with gene and mechanical limb enhancements. Somehow it becomes nonsensical xuanhuan. Exactly the same problem as "World's Apocalypse Online" (2017).

The trouble with these self-defined sci-fi novels is authors insisting on meshing in nonsensical rules with no basis in physics/science, which completely spoils all chances of plausibility and immersion. Major spoilers.

Spoiler

- There are danger zones/mutants/objects/anomalies where entirely different set of universal laws apply.

In a danger zone, if your surname happens to be Wang, you die. Just because the zone was formed by a mutant human who had a grudge across being cuckolded. Ret*rded.

An anomaly object can be formed naturally or possessed by remnant super mutant powers. No idea why, it just is. Ret*rded.

- Danger zones can be formed by 1 or more super mutants (human or otherwise) that died. It doesn't matter if they were lower class (e.g. B). MC's teacher who is Class S states that even he would have trouble in them if he doesn't adhere to the rules. So author's power-scaling metrics are already completely out of whack.

- There's no investigation or mention of why transmigration even happens. At least till where I've read. Everyone just accepts this as a new trend and fact.

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(2) The Inner World humans reactions to transmigrators makes little sense

So this is LITERALLY the "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978). You got random transmigrators that come over and possess the body of humans in the Inner World. No, the bodies' former owners didn't just happen to die and souls got swapped yada yada like typical CN xianxia. They are actually forcibly replaced.

You would think that would cause mass panic and a big upheaval, but Inner World humans react way too calmly to it, even though they could be possessed at the very next round.

Ridiculous.

(3) Author's constant attempts to inject humor fall flat, just like all his other novels

The author actually has a good grasp of character creations, personalities, and writing style. He JUST CANNOT WRITE HUMOR. Every single instance is pain to read, and it's just as apparent in this novel.

Spoiler

- MC's teacher, a bad-ass wise Class S behaves like a gossipy old man right after Chapter 100, just for author's perceived laughs. It's just awkward and s*upid.

- MC's classmate buddy has an ongoing theme of being an innocent dumb kid who is repeatedly swindled and ends up being a gigolo. There are lengthy chapters of him being a gigolo. Har har har that's so funny. Ugh.

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I'm having way too much trouble getting past the nonsensical world-building. Might drop it soon.