Reborn to create a virtual world

The equipment in "Nine Heavens" is divided into five major levels: mortal weapons, treasure weapons, spiritual weapons, immortal weapons, and divine weapons.Growth-type equipment only exists in three stages: Yubao, Ling, and Xian.Ordinary weapons cannot be upgraded, and artifacts have no level to upgrade.

The aura sent to Lin Shu by Yijian Lingyun is a spiritual bow, which can be used at level 12 at present, and can be upgraded to level 50 at most, which is irreversible.

Lin Shu's master is Master Ji Hen from Bailian Peak of the Qingxiao Sect. His specialty is weapon refining. In theory, their greatest specialty is that they can make all kinds of magic weapons and control all kinds of magic weapons.So unlike other branches that have limited types of weapons, Lin Shu's character can use any weapon freely.

Yijian Lingyun obviously knew this too, so he sent this bow to Lin Shu.

The name of this spirit bow is "Luo Jiuxiao", and its basic attack power is very outstanding, which can just make up for Lin Shu's shortage in this regard.After equipping this bow, Lin Shu's original classic weapon Wanfa Book was automatically removed, and the classic weapon skills were also automatically removed, replaced by longbow weapon skills, and a spirit bow was also attached The exclusive skill of "Luo Jiuxiao", Feng Ling Chasing the Moon, is a tracking skill.

As I said before, the skill attack of "Nine Heavens" is not locked, but this skill can lock and track the target, and always hit the target that the player selected when the skill was activated.

After changing to the bow, Lin Shu felt a lot easier when he started the task. The attack power of one hit when fighting monsters was completely equal to the original three or five hits, so he sent back a message to thank Yijian Lingyun.

Yijian Lingyun returned with a cute smiley expression.Just looking at this cute expression, Lin Shu couldn't connect this message with the stubborn and awkward otaku hidden behind the message.

But games are just entertainment after all, especially other people's games.

Most of Lin Shu's time is still spent on planning new engines and paying attention to the operating status of the platform.

In the previous meeting, he arranged the company's next trends and development status, so in the following time, Du Sitong and Zheng Fangcheng began to contact several large-scale Internet sites.

Because of the characteristics of the current engine, the main contacts of the two are still a few large female stations.The novels of male mainstream websites are more suitable for role-playing or strategy game structures, so they are not given priority.

Of course, that's not the case. The two paid a little attention to some male writers' works that are more suitable for adaptation into cultivation, management, and simulation works, but the number is really not too many, and they are mainly modern urban types.

Among these works, Future Games, as a regular game company, has to exclude some themes such as harem, pedophilia, incest, politics, etc. that may cause adverse effects, and the range of choices is very small.

Not as good as female-oriented works, most of them are in love, or they are farming, and they are suitable for dismantling and making into cultivation or management modules.

So Du Sitong first aimed at the four major women's reading websites-Jinjiang Original, Emperor Girl Academy, Green Clothes Novels, and Jingshui Academy.Among them, except for Jinjiang, the other three novel websites are all under the name of Kuaishu Group, which is a large-scale online literature joint group controlled by Fetion Holdings.However, even though it is a website under the same group name, internally they are doing their own thing, and those in charge also need to negotiate with each other.

Du Sitong contacted her one by one, and the one who responded the fastest was Jin Jiang, who replied quickly and asked her about her specific situation.The other three websites were slightly delayed, and obviously had limited interest in Du Sitong's proposal.

This was also the behind-the-scenes situation that Du Sitong didn't know about.The three women's stations of Emperor Girl, Lvyi, and Jingshui have always focused on mobile reading as their main development direction. Unlike Jinjiang, because the development of mobile reading has always been relatively limited, the current development direction tends to develop film and television, movies, and comics. , Authorized adaptation of online games.

This is the first time someone has raised the issue of stand-alone authorization. Although the official website has a skeptical attitude towards the authorization of single-player games, it may be that some people on the website are full of good feelings for future games.

Due to the uniqueness and originality of the game type, the engine system of the future game has also caused some topics in Jinjiang's internal forum.Because there is basically no similar system of the same quality as a comparison, the popularity of monopoly websites has risen rapidly recently, and word of mouth has become a hot topic without knowing it.

Zheng Fang originally wanted to hire a sailor to spread propaganda, but before he hired it, he found that the whole world is already a spontaneous support navy for the future game, and it is much more realistic than ordinary mercenaries... Therefore, this seemingly superfluous plan was temporarily abandoned.

Du Sitong chatted with the person in charge of the copyright department on the software for several hours, explaining in detail what kind of authorization method she proposed.

"...Our main preference here is the authorization of the character design and the authorization of the whole book. The authorization of the character design means that we only buy the character design of a certain character and the related plot dialogues, and at the same time we will arrange for the artist to match the corresponding character design drawings. , and then put it on the shelves as a detachable module. The authorized price of such a character design will be slightly lower, but if the design price is based on a single person, if several characters are selected in a book, the overall price will not be too low. There is also the whole book authorization. If the whole book is authorized, we will pay the price of the whole book, but the characters, events and backgrounds in the story will be split and put on the shelves, but we will pay according to the whole book authorization."

Luo Ying, who was in charge, asked: "But this copyright fee is not very appropriate. Some of our popular works offer more than this amount. It is very difficult for us to limit the upper limit."

Du Sitong replied: "I know that some authors may not like this price. But Luo Ying, we are contacting you this time because we are planning to buy in large quantities, and the stand-alone copyright... Let's be honest, there are no game manufacturers at all right now. We will buy a stand-alone adaptation authorization, which is the only one on our side. After purchasing the copyright, we still have to spend time to adapt it into a model. In fact, the profit may be the profit of a popular novel on your website. The reason why we do this is to expand the influence of the platform as quickly as possible and enrich the content of the game library. As an initial investment, this is a way of making money at a loss. If your quotation is too high, we will not be worth the loss. Definitely impossible to buy."

Luo Ying paused for a long time before saying, "Miss Du, we sold a game adaptation of one of our popular novels before, and the copyright price is in the six to seven figures."

Du Sitong said, "Is it a mobile game?"

Luo Ying said: "Whether it's a stand-alone game or a mobile game, it's a game adaptation right, and the price can't vary too much. If we sell the author's copyright cheaply, the author himself will have opinions."

But Du Sitong said: "I know that novel. The six-figure price is actually based on the popularity of the TV series, but most of your copyrights can't be sold for this amount at all. I'm honest To be honest, I know that your website is not short of contracted works, nor is it short of authors. As for us... It is not necessary to take your most popular article or author's game adaptation rights."

"What we need are novel copyrights in batches, middle-level ones are enough. I believe that there will definitely be authors who are willing to authorize, and there are also works whose prices are within the range acceptable to both of us after comprehensive consideration. Luo Ying, you are completely You can ask the author if he can accept such an offer, or I will make a batch of book lists and character designs, Luo Ying, you can quote according to this batch of books, and we will choose the part that we can accept to purchase the copyright."

Luo Ying was silent for a long time before she said: "We need to discuss this matter internally... Do you have a book list now?"

Du Sitong sent the other party a list of forms that was so long that the end could not be seen at a glance.

Luo Ying looked at it, and immediately gasped.This book list is really too long, at least there are hundreds of books, most of which Luo Ying has never read, and most of the remaining half have only heard the names and know the general content.With such a huge amount of novels, it is a laborious task just to estimate the price of each book, not to mention that each book has to be quoted separately according to the situation.

But if the price is unified, Du Sitong will definitely not accept it.There are hundreds of books with different quality, style and content, and even the subject matter may be very different. Who can believe that all of them are priced at the same price?But even if the price is quoted separately and mixed with hundreds of books, Luo Ying will not be able to tell which part of the copyright Du Sitong really wants to buy.

She looked at the form with a solemn expression for a long while, and then asked: "Miss Du, there are too many forms for such a form. Tell the truth, how many novel copyrights do you plan to buy? No, we won't list them." Hundreds of copies, in the end you only choose one or two to buy, right?"

Du Sitong replied: "...Among the novels on the list, we either want to buy the right to adapt stand-alone games or buy the right to use human settings in each of the novels, but considering the budget, we also have to consider various cost-effectiveness The question. How much to buy depends on your quotation. There are some quotations for people, if the price is below [-], we will definitely buy it. Between [-] and [-] depends on the specific person. [-] We will basically not consider the above, unless the character setting and related plot are particularly outstanding. The same is true for the adaptation rights of the novel, the critical line is [-] and [-]. So I hope you will list the quotations in these two aspects one time."

Based on this amount, the transaction amount is really not small.

Luo Ying looked cautious, and said: "I need to discuss this matter with my superiors, and I will contact you later."

Du Sitong smiled in front of the computer and said, "Okay."

After the second day of discussion with Jin Jiang, several other websites finally replied to Du Sitong's emails one after another.

After the website asked about the specific cooperation intention of the future game, Du Sitong was asked to report the novel that he wanted to buy the copyright of.

Compared with the large number of quotations for Jinjiang, it is much more difficult to choose the bibliography for Emperor Nu, Lvyi, and Jingshui.

Lin Shu asked Du Sitong to collect some excellent works from various websites for him to read, and then he tried to pick out unique works suitable for adaptation.Du Sitong and Bai Miao collected some highly rated novels on the list as much as possible, and then made a list for Lin Shu.

But in fact, this process has not been carried out smoothly.

When Lin Shu read Jinjiang's online articles, she was still complaining in her heart, thinking that these stories are too nonsense, whether there is any basic logic, and then she recovered a little after seeing a few good books.

To be honest, maybe it’s because at this time, when the Internet literature was just emerging in the early ten years, many books on the list were just following the line of cool literature, and they didn’t pursue any cultural ideas. mood.But after reading a few more books, Lin Shu found that this was not the case.

Even now, 20 years ago, among the many cool articles, there are actually a few books with clear logic, sincere feelings, connotations, and works that can touch people's hearts and make people think.Some people break through the house fighting in the house, looking for self-worth, some people reflect the society, people's hearts, truth, goodness and beauty in the basic text, and some people write a magnificent history with their pen and ink, and some lightly describe the prosperity of the past...

Some articles with similar data may have a huge gap in their standards.Purchasing books from among them is actually quite like a big wave washing sand.

But even so, compared with the works of the other three large-scale stations that I saw later, Lin Shu felt that he really shouldn't be picky about the former.

Why do you say that?

Because of the latter three websites, the homogeneity of the works is almost astonishingly serious.Lin Shu opened a book at random, and found that the routines were very similar.

Let’s just talk about the character design. Almost all the character designs are template designs. A character represents a characteristic. For example, in the works of the Emperor’s Academy, there may be many male characters in a story, and each character must have a common attribute: Wenwen , Tsundere, domineering... Zhengtai, uncle, senior brother, teacher... These characters, because there are too many roles, so everyone has a small role in the scene.In order to distinguish the characteristics of the characters, there are few additional descriptions or humanized characteristics added to the characters. After reading several books, Lin Shu can compare the characters in each book with each other.

But it doesn't work, these characters don't have the sparkle or memorable quality that Lin Shu hopes for.

The same is true for the green clothes. Leaving aside the topic that makes people full of desire to complain, Lin Shu thinks that because he is a man, he can't appreciate the style that women like. Anyway, the "overlord's concubine" ah, "Beautiful princess", "Bring the domineering president home"... Just looking at it made him feel full of Play, wondering whether the ultimate wish of the girls watching these is to marry tall, handsome and rich.

...I always feel that the people watching these and the women around him are from two dimensions.

With such doubts in mind, Lin Shu asked his teacher Du and the other two female employees suspiciously: "You guys like to watch these?"

Teacher Du scanned the general content of the article, and said: "I don't like it. It's written too plainly and has no content. It's just that the hero and heroine are tossing each other and tossing others. I don't like this kind of thing. I still prefer sincere feelings and logic. self-contained work."

Bai Miao's answer was completely different from Du Sitong's.She replied very strangely: "These books are all very well written, why can't I like them?" After hearing Lin Shu's question, she smiled and said, "It's fine to read online articles, what do you want?" IQ connotation? I won’t read famous books to see IQ connotation?”

The relationship between these two people is so good, but their preferences are far apart.

Putting it on Cindy, it was another answer.

"How should I put it? There is a lot of pressure in reality, and now I feel better. I feel that life has hope. But when I was the most uncomfortable, I especially liked to read such novels. Especially my mother treats me with big eyes, and I work in a factory. Sometimes the boss finds excuses to work overtime and deduct wages from time to time... I feel very hard, so I inevitably have some daydreams, hoping that someone will fall from the sky to save me. Ah, of course I actually know that such a thing is impossible, no one will do it for no reason It’s a stranger’s selfless dedication, but… it’s a spiritual sustenance after all.”

After Lin Shu heard this, he fell into deep thought.

He tried to read the above novel according to the book list again, but he couldn't read it for many times.Later, after Zheng Fangcheng found out what they were discussing, he opened his mouth and said helplessly to Lin Shu: "Boss, why are you reading these girls' pornographic novels? These novels are not written by someone your age. Look at it." It's strange to have to go down."

Lin Shu then replied: "...I don't think I can stand it no matter what age I am."

This is his truth.

Zheng Fangcheng said: "It's true to say that, and the gender is wrong. So leave this matter to Ms. Du and the others. They will know what audiences like them like to watch."

Lin Shu said: "But... I can read quite a few of Jinjiang.com's book lists before. Is that also a story that girls like?"

After hearing this, Zheng Fangcheng was silent for a while, and then said: "...there is a lot of brains over there, and the types are quite diverse, so there will always be some that can be read."

Lin Shu then said: "So I don't understand. There are too many works with similar genres and contents in the list of novels by the Empress and Lvyi, right? I feel that many stories have no essential difference. In this case , Readers finish reading one book and then read another one, and how different is it from reading the same book twice? Or can they remember which plot comes from which story?"

"Is it really necessary for us to buy the right to adapt this kind of thing? I don't understand the preferences of readers now. What's so good about this kind of thing? The situation on Jinjiang.com is the same. The quality and level of works are very different. The data is very close, and the gap has not been widened at all... Is there a problem with my aesthetics? Is this novel really good?"

Zheng Fangcheng's curiosity was aroused by his rather unfriendly tone, so he asked Lin Shu to send him the address for a rough look, after reading it, his face was blackened, and he continued to ask: "Boss, what are you so troubled about? These are freehand pornographic novels, most people forget them after reading them, why think too much about them?"

Lin Shu then replied: "I'm thinking about the plot of the new module. Didn't I say before that I want to expand a group of characters and plots? So I want to find some suitable works from popular works and buy copyrights to adapt them, so that I can quickly learn from them." The ready-made works have gained some popularity. But looking at these works now is really incomprehensible... Will anyone really buy this kind of thing when it is made into a game character?"

Zheng Fangcheng thought for a long time before saying, "Actually, there is a reason why Xiaobaiwen is popular. If you want, boss, I can tell you my opinion."

Lin Shu was surprised for a moment, and said, "Say it."

Zheng Fangcheng then said: "I think boss, you may have misunderstood the main readers of web literature. The biggest feature of web literature is that it has no barriers to entry. Not only are there no writers, but there are no readers. When you distinguish Whether a book is a good book or not depends on your standpoint—including knowledge level, characterization, emotional understanding, reading experience, etc. The reader’s own judgment will also be affected by these factors. Do you think the same plot It is unreasonable because you have seen the unreasonable flaws in it, but sometimes many readers are limited to their personal reading experience and do not think there is anything unreasonable, so they judge whether it is good-looking or not. The factors are not the same as yours. Same."

Lin Shu then asked: "For example, the male protagonist who is the president thinks that the female protagonist stepped on the bottom of her high-heeled shoes and threw a dog to eat mud to attract his attention? What the hell is this?"

This plot reminded Lin Shu of an old joke.

A beautiful woman said to the policeman: "Mr. Policeman, I want to report that man—he insulted me." The policeman said strangely: "Insulting you? Miss, I have been watching you just now, and that gentleman has been watching you from beginning to end." He didn't even look at you." The beauty said: "So he insulted me. I am so beautiful, but he didn't even look at me, what is it not an insult?"

Lin Shu couldn't help but feel that a CEO with such an excess of self-awareness, how can he get along with others so that the employees don't feel uneasy working under a snake maniac?

After Lin Shu became an adult, there were countless people who showed affection to him, but he was not so narcissistic that he thought that a girl who fell down in front of him was seducing him——a person has to love you so much to use self-mutilation as a means to attract your attention?The person who wrote this must have never tasted the feeling of smashing a dog to eat mud.

"Well?" Zheng Fangcheng laughed when he heard him say this, and said, "Boss, who do you think are the mainstream writers and readers of online novels?"

Lin Shu thought for a while and replied, "Young people between the ages of 13 and 30 should be the mainstream, right?"

Zheng Fangcheng thought about it, and felt that this division was not a big mistake, so he said, "How many of them are successful people who have achieved fame and fame, and how many are innocent teenagers who are just daydreaming?"