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Skyrider

Rating 4.7
Word count
775.3K words
Chapters
12

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Summary

The Heaven-Driver is an urban supernatural-abilities novel by Yuewen Group master author Fengyue (early pen name "Roaring Fengyue"), serialized on Qidian from October 15, 2012 to its completion in February 2015. It runs 246 chapters and roughly 775,300 characters and is categorized under "Urban · Supernatural Abilities." Set in a modern metropolis, the story builds a world where superpowered individuals secretly coexist with human society, their powers derived from each person's unique "life-mark." Protagonist Zhou Li, still in college, loses his uncle and aunt without warning, takes sole responsibility for his younger cousin Lu Ruoshui, and amid a series of upheavals awakens an ability called "Blue Pupil," which grants enhanced vision, accelerated thought, and "event deduction." At the same time he is drawn into a feud and revenge between an ability-user organization represented by an international security firm and the former top-ranked ability user "Odin," with clues unfolding layer by layer through the secret connections his uncle left behind. The work jokingly describes itself as "an clueless young man's road to becoming Magneto," weaving the revenge plot, the power system, and everyday domestic life together; its fight scenes are brisk and vividly cinematic, marking Fengyue's attempt to move from infinite-flow to urban supernatural fiction. The book is divided into four volumes: "Blue Pupil," "Wind Rising," "Clouds Surge," and "Crumbling Wall."

Editor's review

风月的作品向来以画面感强、战斗描写凌厉著称,本刊编辑也习惯把他的文字称作「自带分镜和背景音」的那种写法。《天驱》是他成名作《钢铁王座》之后的转型之作,把镜头从无限世界搬回现代都市,用「命纹」「能力者」搭起一套层次清楚的异能体系,又以伯父之死和「奥丁」的旧案把复仇线埋进日常生活的缝隙里。主角周离不是一上来就所向披靡的天选之子:他要处理亲戚争产、要照顾十五岁的堂妹、要在警局和医院之间奔波,能力觉醒后首先要面对的也是「怎么活下去、怎么保护身边的人」。这种「市井烟火+超能力」的混搭,是本书最有辨识度的地方。当然也要坦白说,作者自己也承认这是首次涉足该分类、掌控略有失手,中期节奏偏慢,结尾收束仓促,属于「有遗憾但值得一读」的那一类。如果你喜欢《寂静王冠》《天启预报》,想回头看看作者早期如何练笔,这部书是很好的对照样本。

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • 喜欢都市异能、能力者设定,且能接受类型小说套路的读者
  • 读过《寂静王冠》《天启预报》,想回溯风月早期作品的读者
  • 偏爱画面感强、战斗描写利落,对文笔有一定要求的网文读者
  • 对「扮猪吃老虎」式低调主角和日常救场桥段买账的读者

Not a good fit for

  • 要求结局完整、节奏紧凑且排斥烂尾的读者
  • 偏好纯正奇幻、无限流或硬科幻设定,对现代都市题材无感的读者

Reading tips

  1. 建议先读「人物卡·周离」和第一卷前十章,快速建立人物关系与能力体系
  2. 阅读时留意「命纹」的规则设定,它决定了后续所有战斗的胜负逻辑
  3. 如不习惯长篇铺垫,可把本书当成快节奏能力战斗爽文来读,不必深究主线收束
  4. 读完后可与《钢铁王座》《寂静王冠》对照,看作者在战斗描写和世界观构建上的演进

Contents

  1. Volume One: Blue Pupil — Chapter 1: The Funeral
  2. Chapter 2: Warmth and Crisis
  3. Chapter 3: One Step Short
  4. Chapter 4: Do You Think I'm Already Dead?
  5. Chapter 5: "Family" and Family
  6. Chapter 6: Mutation
  7. Chapter 7: Life-Mark
  8. Chapter 8: You Must Have Been Born in the Year of the Dog...
  9. Chapter 19: "Event Reenactment"
  10. Chapter 25: The Pyre
  11. Chapter 30: A Thread of Lightning
  12. Chapter 43: Zhou Li's Decision

FAQ

《天驱》有没有出版实体书?
据百度百科词条记载,《天驱》为起点中文网连载的网络小说,是否出版一栏标注为「否」,目前未见公开的实体书版本与 ISBN 信息。市面上流传的多为读者自行整理的电子文本排版版。
作者「咆哮的风月」和「风月」是同一个人吗?
是同一个人。「咆哮的风月」是作者早期使用的笔名,《钢铁王座》《天驱》均以该笔名发表;2015 年后他将笔名简化为「风月」,并继续创作了《寂静王冠》《天启预报》《天命之上》等作品。
这本书有多少字、多少章?
起点中文网作品页与百度百科均显示:《天驱》共 246 章、约 77.53 万字,2012 年 10 月 15 日开更,2015 年 2 月 11 日发布完本感言,全书分「青瞳」「风起」「云涌」「危墙」四卷。
《天驱》结局是否完整?
作者在 2015 年 2 月发表完本感言收尾,属于正式完本;但读者普遍反馈后期节奏加快、多条线索收束仓促,带有一定「腰斩」感,介意这一点的读者可先试读再决定。

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