The "Black Shadow Man Cup" essay contest on Novel Street was successfully launched, and all work was launched.

Although the essay contest raised 120 million yuan in prize money, nearly half of the booksellers on Novel Street were not optimistic about the essay contest, believing that it would be difficult to make a profit.

It's just that the essay contest was organized by the Novel Street Committee, which is the highest governing body of the Novel Street, and these booksellers naturally did not dare to openly oppose this activity.

Unless they don't want to mess around in Fiction Street.

However, nearly half of the booksellers support the "Black Shadow Man Cup" essay contest, and many of these booksellers have received favors from Liu Xing.

Among them, in the car accident of the Huangjiang Bridge in Tianjing City, 15 booksellers were rescued by Liu Xing, such as Guo Meiyu, the proprietress of Meijiayang, and Huang Heping, the owner of the Peace Bookstore.

Out of the mentality of repaying their gratitude, they gave support to the essay contest proposed by Liu Xing to the best of their ability.

The success of the essay contest depends largely on the lineup of the jury. Only with a first-class review team can we dig out high-quality novels from the entries.

The judging team mainly comes from two professions, one is a book connoisseur and the other is a reader.

In order to form a strong jury, these booksellers, who had received Liu Xing's favor, used their connections to introduce Liu Xing to the book connoisseurs and readers they knew, and invited them to join the jury of the essay competition.

At the same time, Wu Guokun, director of the Tianhai Book Testing Center, has a certain friendship with Liu Xing, and he expressed his willingness to serve as the general counsel of the jury.

As a result, the jury headed by Director Wu Guokun was formally established, and the entire jury was composed of 10 connoisseurs and 40 readers, a total of 50 people.

In order to make the judges of the jury better engaged in their work, Liu Xing vacated a large reading room in the Meteor Book Bar as the working place of the jury. Meantime. The Meteor Book Bar provides free room and board for all judges.

In this way, the Meteor Book Bar became the working place of this essay contest.

……

Dawn Book City, Chairman's Office.

A middle-aged man sat on the couch in the office. He is in his fifties and is not tall. It was Li Ming, the chairman of Dawn Book City.

Li Ming is one of the nine members of the Novel Street Congress, and at the same time, he is also the oldest bookseller in the Novel Street.

At this time, there was another man sitting opposite Li Ming, about fifty years old, his appearance was seven or eight points similar to Li Ming, it was Li Ming's younger brother Li Xingchen.

Li Xingchen is a book connoisseur.

"Brother, are you really going to let me join the jury of the essay contest?" asked Li Xingchen puzzled. "It's a thankless tournament and I don't think there's much to come. ”

Li Ming smiled faintly and said, "Brother, it is precisely because I have no future that I let you join the jury. I asked you to be a judge of the essay contest just to mess up this essay contest. ”

Li Xingchen frowned: "What do you mean?"

Li Ming said: "Liu Xing, this kid is so happy, and suddenly launched such a large-scale essay contest, he just wanted to show off and put gold on his face." Unfortunately, Liu Xing didn't understand how difficult it was to hold an essay contest to make a profit. This call for essays is destined to be a loss. ”

The more Li Xingchen listened, the more confused he became: "Brother, since you are not optimistic about the essay contest, why did you invest 5 million yuan to sponsor it?"

Li Ming smiled. said: "It is precisely because the essay contest will inevitably end dismally that we should support it even more. The essay contest was proposed by Liu Xing, if this essay contest is messed up and the prize money of 120 million is lost, Liu Xing will not be able to escape the blame, he will have to bear most of the responsibility, maybe he will be forced to resign as a committee member, and he will not be able to participate in the election of the new president of Novel Street. Then we will be able to reap the benefits of the fishermen. ”

Li Xingchen suddenly realized. It is indeed very cost-effective to get rid of Liu Xing, the strongest competitor, for only a few million. asked, "Brother, you let me into the jury." You just want me to do the sabotage?"

"Not bad!" Li Ming said, "After joining the jury, if you find any good manuscripts, find a way to dispose of them, and try not to let the excellent works be shortlisted." In this way, the entire essay contest can only select a bunch of garbage novels, and I want to see how this kid Liu Xing ends. ”

Li Xingchen nodded: "I understand." ”

……

The next day, Li Xingchen successfully joined the essay jury as a book connoisseur and participated in the review of the entries.

Chinese readers are enthusiastic about the "Black Shadow Man Cup" essay contest, and half a month after the essay contest was launched, the jury has received more than 2,800 novel manuscripts from all over the country.

Most of these manuscripts were not written on the fly, but were written in the first place.

It turned out that after the news of the Black Shadow Man was exposed, some writers had already started writing novels about the Black Shadow Man a few months ago, but it was too late to publish it.

It just so happened that Novel Street was holding the "Black Shadow Man Cup" essay contest, and these writers sent their written works directly to the jury of Novel Street.

After receiving the manuscript, the review of the jury officially began.

……

Meteor Book Bar, Essay Contest Judging Office.

At a desk about 20 meters long, 50 judges sit together. In front of them, there was a thick pile of novel manuscripts, all of which were entries for the competition.

At this point, each judge reads the manuscript intently and scores it.

The maximum score for the manuscript is 5 points, and the minimum score is 0 points.

Manuscripts with a score of less than 1 will be eliminated directly. Manuscripts with a score higher than 1 can enter the second round of screening.

Since the contest has just begun, most of these works sent are from novel lovers, and the quality of the works is relatively poor, and many of the works are rated below 1 point.

"Huh, this book seems to be well written?"

At this time, Li Xingchen frowned slightly, and looked at a novel called "Variety Black Shadow Man" in his hand with a strange gaze.

This "Variety of Black Shadow Man" tells the story of a black shadow man who is good at the art of disguise and has the ability to change. The plot of the overall novel is cleverly conceived and the layout is exquisite, and it is a high-level plot flow work.

"This "Variety of Black Shadow Man" may have reached the level of a star-rated novel!

Thinking of this, Li Xingchen gave "Variety Black Shadow Man" a very low score - 0.2 points!

After grading, dispose of the manuscript in a box where the scrap manuscript is stored.

All scrapped manuscripts will be eliminated from the competition.

……

After a busy day. A total of 520 manuscripts were reviewed by the jury, and 40 manuscripts scored more than 1 point, with the highest score being only 1.6 points.

As for the remaining 480 scrapped manuscripts. It was all packed in boxes like garbage and stored in the corner of the underground library of the Meteor Book Bar.

At night. Meteor Book Bar, underground book vault.

Liu Xing squatted next to a box, inspecting the waste manuscripts in the box with his book.

Although the manuscripts had already been eliminated by the jury, out of an abundance of caution, he decided to test them again.

Anyway, for Liu Xing, it is easy to test hundreds of manuscripts!

I picked up the first scrap manuscript and looked at the cover, the book was called "My Husband is a Dark Shadow Man". Judging by the title of the book. This novel is supposed to be written by a girl who imagines the Shadow Man as her husband.

Take a quick look at the manuscript.

Title: My Husband is a Shadow Man

Genre: Romance novel

【Grade】None

【Match】0.28%

Even a 1% match can't be reached, and the quality should be extremely poor!

Liu Xing flipped through a few pages casually and found that the content of the novel tells the story of the heroine and the black shadow man after they get married. In the novel, the dark shadow man accompanies the heroine to go shopping, buy clothes, watch movies, and also use light skills to take her to fly with wings...... Later, the heroine and the dark shadow man go on a round-the-world trip, each city to which they go. and gave birth to a child......

"What a terrible creature is a female writer who likes sex!"

After reading the manuscript, Liu Xing suddenly felt that Wang Lanlan was really a pure female writer.

Putting "My Husband is a Shadow Man" aside, Liu Xing continued to test other novel manuscripts.

"The Days I Lived with the Shadow Man". Romance novel, no grade, match 0.26%"

"The Personal School Flower of the Black Shadow Man", a campus novel, no grade, 0.65% matching"

""Dark Shadow Man Strategy Diary", romance novel, no grade, match 0.41%"

"The Black Shadow Man and the White Rose. Romance novels, grade none. Matching degree 0.14%"

……

More than 100 copies were tested in a row, and the matching degree was almost less than 1%. More than half of these works are by female writers.

These female writers almost write romance novels about the theme of black shadow people, and the match between Liu Xing and romance novels has always been relatively low.

Just when Liu Xing was completely hopeless, at this time, an accident appeared.

"Shadow Man?"

I've finally found a slightly surreal novel.

Without thinking much about it, Liu Xing quickly flipped through the manuscript.

Title: The Shadow Man

Genre: Fantasy Novel

【Grade】1 star

【Match】20.8%

"One star?"

Liu Xing's eyes lit up slightly, and he was surprised, the matching degree of this "Variety Black Shadow Man" reached 20.8%, and it was very close to 30%. If you modify it again, you will probably be up to the mark.

As long as the matching degree exceeds 30%, you can use the "Same Realm Strange Feelings" method to enter the gods.

"Strange, this "Variety of Black Shadow Man" is of good quality, why is it treated as a waste manuscript?"

Liu Xing looked at the score on the manuscript, and it was only "0.2 points".

Why is the score so low?

Generally, unless it is a novel that is rotten to the extreme, the score will not be only 0.2 points. Even if it is written by junior high school students, most of them can reach a score of 0.3 or more.

The quality of the book "Variety of Black Shadow Man" in front of me is obviously higher than that of junior high school students, and it should not only have such a low score.

"The judge who scored is called Li Xingchen?"

Liu Xing frowned slightly: Is there a problem with this judge named Li Xingchen?

…… (To be continued)