The mobile phone in his pocket suddenly vibrate, and Li Er took out the phone to see that it was Teacher Gao Qiao calling.

"Hey, I'm Lear. Teacher Gao Qiao?"

"I just read the message, sorry, I was drawing with music on just now, and I lost my phone in the bedroom. ”

"It's okay, by the way, it's inconvenient to use a mobile phone like this, can you meet and talk?"

"Well, come to my studio. The address is 1405, Building 8, China Resources Community, Nanyang Road. ”

"That Nanyang Road in the Seventh Ring Road, right?"

"Yes. ”

"Okay, I'll be right there. Li Er hung up the phone, put his laptop, materials and everything in his briefcase, and hurriedly walked out of the door of the magazine.

The magazine is located in the 3rd Ring Road of Beijing, and the studio is in the 7th Ring Road of Beijing. It took more than an hour for Li Er to take the subway to reach the location of Gao Qiao's studio.

The studio is a small room of about 50 square meters, and most of the space is filled with monster figures and comic books. Gao Qiao is a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a pair of short-sighted glasses as thick as the bottom of a bottle, a beard drums on his chin, and socks of different colors under his feet.

"Humble house, forgive me. Do you want something to drink, but I only have water and tea here. ”

"Don't bother. Teacher Gao Qiao still calls me Li Er, Li blames the editor. ”

"Oh...... All right. ”

"Then I'll get straight to the point, your work has been at the bottom for two weeks in a row. Did the previous editor Zou tell you about this news?"

"What?" Gao Qiao looked surprised, "No, he never told me. When I called to ask for a quick report of results, I basically didn't get through to him. ”

"How can this be, as your editor-in-charge, how can he not answer your call?"

"I thought other editors were like that, but am I the only one?"

"Of course not. You can fully reflect his attitude to our editor-in-chief. This is no small problem. ”

"Also, forget it. After all, Zou Gu has also helped me a lot. In the beginning, he was also a very enthusiastic editor. It was only later, maybe my grades were too poor, and he was disappointed in me. ”

"If an editor only likes authors with good grades, then he is too unprofessional. Teacher Gao Qiao, you are too good, anyway, I can't allow such behavior, I am not worthy of being an editor!" Li Er was angry and slammed the table hard.

"Forget it, don't be so angry. I've seen it a long time ago, maybe I'm really not suitable for drawing comics. ”

Gao Qiao smiled self-deprecatingly, lowered his head and played with his nails: "Anyway, it's not a recent thing that the bad results of "Wanyou King" are. I've been the penultimate for more than half a year.,I've been reflecting on whether I've made a mistake.,Maybe I shouldn't have serialized such a dark comic on Jing Shao in the first place.,This style is still too niche.。 ”

Gao Qiao kept flicking the nails of his thumb back and forth with each other: "It's been a long time since readers have sent a letter, I guess no one has read "Wanyou Wang" anymore." It's torture to keep drawing, so it's over. ”

"No reader sent a letter? Who said that, Zou Gu?" Li Er raised an eyebrow.

"He didn't tell me, he didn't bring the letter. I guess not. Gao Qiao rubbed his messy hair anxiously, "Isn't that so?"

Maybe this was his chance to cheer him up, Lear thought.

He pulled the letter from his briefcase and said, "That's weird. After not dialing your number, I found this in the file box that Zou Gu gave me, mixed with the protest letter to the editorial office. I'm sorry I took it apart. ”

"This is my letter from a reader?" Gao Qiao took it with an incredulous expression. "It's okay, anyway, if you don't read it, I don't think I know that there is a deposit of this letter. ”

He carefully unfolded the envelope like a dead house that had received Valentine's Day chocolates for the first time. Read it word for word. In a few moments, tears ran from his thin cheeks to the bearded Laza's chin and landed on the letter.

"I'm sorry, big man, I'm still crying when I'm so big. Gao Qiao wiped his face with the back of his hand, and said to himself: "Many comic book authors draw characters that are very similar to their personalities, and I am similar. I didn't expect my thoughts to be passed on to readers, and this feeling ...... It's really, really ......."

"I understand. Li Er took out a pack of tissues and handed it to Gao Qiao. Gao Qiao wiped his tears and snot again, and it took more than ten minutes to recover.

"It turns out that there are still people who like my comics. To be honest, I was almost out of confidence before this. When Zou was in office, he didn't discuss the plot with me at all. I thought about everything by myself, and I didn't know if it would work, so I just kept drawing it. I am afraid every day, for fear of being cut in half. Gao Qiao said.

"You should be motivated by now. ”

"Well, I'm going to draw it! I can't let my readers down!"

"But let's face the problem in front of us first. The results of "Wanyou King" are at the bottom, what do you think is the reason for the poor results. ”

"Hmm......" Gao Qiao was stunned, pondered for a while and replied, "Is it too dark?"

"I don't think so. Lear shook his head, "On the contrary, the protagonist who uses the power of darkness is a bright spot. Because the other protagonists are all bright and righteous, the sudden appearance of a dark hero makes people feel different. ”

"If that's not the question, what is it?" Gao Qiao asked.

Li Er replied: "It's because of the unit drama." ”

"Unit drama?"

"From the first episode, "Wanyou King" has always been in the form of a unit drama. That is, each episode is an independent story, so that people can understand his composition without watching the previous plot. ”

Gao Qiao asked, "That's true, isn't it good?"

"Well, there's no sense of expectation. ”

"Anticipation?"

"If you always solve the problem in one sentence, there will naturally be no suspense, which makes people feel like they are desperate to see a sequel. And as a unit drama, the plot of "Wanyou King" is indeed a bit old-fashioned. From the third episode, the routine has been fixed. Even if you don't look at it, you know that in the end, the bad guys will be defeated, the good guys will be saved, and the bad guys will be punished with a dark game to make him suffer the consequences, right?"

Lear continued: "And every word is a game, although it feels very interesting. But what if the reader only likes the previous game and doesn't like the next game? As long as the game you don't like appears several times in a row, the number of readers who like it will gradually decrease. After all, we are a serial, not a single book. If the story is not sticky enough, it is natural for the order to fall. ”

"It seems like that's the case. Gao Qiao pondered for a while and said.

Li Er nodded on the table, and finally said in a summary manner: "First of all, give up the unit drama and try the long story." Use a more engaging game as the main selling point, and then use a long story to entice readers to follow. What do you think?"

Gao Qiao said distressedly: "But what game can be used in a long story, I can't think of anything!"

"Well, I have an idea for that, too. That's a trading game!" Lear finally threw out his secret weapon.

He had this idea when he discovered that "Wanyou King" was very similar to "Yu-Gi-Oh" played in Illusion in various aspects.

"Card trading game?" Gao Qiao said in surprise.

"Yes. Card games are the easiest to perimeterize, and there are many classic games as well. Moreover, ** and trough are also easy to structure, and it will not be boring for children when using mind warfare. Even if the story is flat, if one or two rare cards appear, you can create a selling point!"

"Oh, it feels good!" Gao Qiao was also excited, and his career as a cartoonist and in the game industry felt that the idea was feasible!

"Actually, I've thought about the rules of a trading card game. I wonder if Mr. Gao Qiao would like to hear it?" Li Er said a little embarrassed.

"Okay, anyway, I'm in the head of a mess right now, and I can't think of any good card game rules. ”

"Let me first introduce the basic rules of this game. Li Er happily pulled out a piece of waste manuscript paper and said while drawing on the back. The first is the type of card: "Normal Monster Card, Effect Monster Card, Fusion Monster Card, Ritual Monster Card, Magic Card, Trap Card, Field Card." The different cards are distinguished by color. Among them, magic cards are divided into ordinary magic, quick attack magic, perpetual magic, equipment magic, ......"

"Here's how the card template......" Lear quickly drew a few lines, drawing the approximate position of the frame. As a comic editor, he can still draw basic straight lines.

"Here's the name of the monster.,Attributes.,Here's an illustration of the monster.,I'll just draw it......"

"Uh, you're drawing a cow with a snake's tail?" asked Gao Qiao, pointing to the scratch paper.

"It's a blue-eyed white dragon, a handsome dragon-type creature, okay...... You might imagine it's a super invincible and handsome monster. Li Er blushed, he just can't draw! Who said that comic editors must be able to draw!

"Oh oh!" Gao Qiao nodded, this is really a "soul painting"!

Lear went on to explain, "You can summon once in a turn, and there is no limit to special summons. You can't attack the summoned turn.,You can choose which monster to attack when attacking.,When the attack power is greater than the value of the defense power.,Defend the monster destruction.。 When two monsters that are both attacking monsters attack each other, the low damage is reduced, and the LP of the destroyed side is subtracted by the difference value. ”

……

When the basic rules were almost explained, Li Er said: "Probably there are so many rules, or it is easier to actually play a game." Why don't we make some samples and try them out? This way, you can also intuitively feel whether the game is fun or not. ”

"Okay. But to be honest, how did you come up with a game with such perfect rules? Even though I came from a game company, I probably couldn't think of a card game with such perfect rules. ”

"Actually...... It's a dream. And then it took me a long time to perfect it myself. Li Er said, but it is not a lie, dreams and hallucinations are actually about the same.

"I see!" Gao Qiao believed. All of them have the experience of drawing inspiration from dreams, and there have been examples of classical music masters writing classic pieces based on dreams. So it is not impossible for Lear to say that it was a dream.

Gao Qiao used a computer to create a card template based on Li Er's "soul painting". Because it's just a demo, you don't need to draw card art. After entering the effect description, it is printed out by the computer, and it is cut into a deck of cards.

Li Er formed a deck of cards by himself, and Gao Qiao also used his favorite cards to set a deck. The two of them immediately started playing on the rough field.

"No, no, you have to shout out loud before you draw: 'My turn, draw cards!'. Don't forget that we're imitating the flow of the game in the comics, so it's a bit exaggerated!"

Gao Qiao nodded again and again, and put back the card he had just drawn: "Understood, my turn, draw cards!"

In the first round, Li Er finished Gao Qiao with OTK (ONETUNEKILL). Gao Qiao learns from the experience of failure and challenges again. As a result, it lasted three or four rounds, and it was still lost.

"Ah, lost again. But it's really fun, and when I started listening to the rules, I thought it was complicated. But it's actually very easy to play, and you know how to play it after a few games. ”

"I don't think I think it when I listen to the rules, but it's really fun to play, and even adults like me want to keep playing. And that chain mechanism is also very interesting!" Gao Qiao said with a sigh.

"That's not good, if you play a game, then who will draw the storyboard!"

"When I play these games, my inspiration comes to me. I think I can design cards based on a certain theme, like angels, dragons, etc. Then design the characters according to the exclusive card deck. ”

Li Er said: "Yes, children should like such mythical and fantasy creatures very much. However, it is better to start with a weaker opponent, and it is also good to have some bugs and dinosaurs as the theme. ”

Gao Qiao said: "You can also design some cute pet cards, mascots that ordinary shonen comics will have." ”

Li Er suddenly opened a very big brain hole: "Speaking of mascots......