Dan Brown, author of 200 million best-selling books worldwide, visits Taiwan. His father is a high school math teacher, and decoding is a childhood memory.

Dan Brown, the best-selling author of "The Da Vinci Code", never put his family's Christmas gifts properly under the Christmas tree when he was a child. The children had to find them based on a treasure hunt map full of passwords and clues. Search the whole house, or even the whole town, to find the gift. ?Dan Brown came to Taiwan to attend the press conference for his new book "Origins".

Harvard University semiotics expert Robb Langdon was invited to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to attend a major presentation. The organizer was his student and a futurist. , computer expert Kosch will reveal a new discovery that overturns scientific views since Darwin - answering where do humans come from? Where will it go? However, Kosh was assassinated on the eve of publication, and Langdon must go to the underground chamber of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to rescue the student's new discovery...

This is the synopsis of the new book "Origin". It is also the masterpiece of Dan Brown, the best-selling author who once set off a global cryptography craze with "The Da Vinci Code" and even rewrote the Guinness World Records. At his first media meeting in Taiwan held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Taipei on May 25, he interacted with Taiwanese reporters cordially and humorously, demonstrating the charm of the "King of Global Thrillers."

Dan Brown is good at combining real-world science, religion, art, history, symbols, mysterious organizations, etc. to write thrilling, suspenseful, and highly entertaining stories. Without exception, "Origin" also adopts the famous "Dan Brown model": it starts with a murder case that occurred in a famous European and American art museum, church or scientific institution. The male protagonist Robb, a Harvard professor and semiotics expert, ? Langdon and the beautiful and intelligent heroine must crack the code within 24 hours and save mankind from catastrophe.

The seven novels he has published have sold 200 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than 40 languages. He has been listed among the 100 most influential people of the year by Time magazine and among the 100 most influential people in Forbes magazine. In 2004, Times Culture published the traditional Chinese version of "The Da Vinci Code", which has 2 million Taiwanese readers and is the best-selling book since the Times was founded. In addition, three of the novels have been adapted into movies, making Paris, London and other book scenes become popular tourist attractions around the world.