051：

The equipment of "Nine Heavens" is divided into five major levels: mortal weapons, treasure weapons, spiritual weapons, immortal weapons, and artifacts. The growth equipment only exists in the three stages of zài and treasure, spirit and immortal. Mortal weapons cannot be upgraded, and artifacts have no level to upgrade.

The aura that Lingyun sent to Lin Shu is a spirit bow, which can currently be used at level 12 and can be upgraded to level 50 at a maximum of level, which is irreversible.

Lin Shu's master is Ji Zhen of the Qingxiao Sect's Hundred Refining Peak, and his specialty is refining weapons, theoretically their biggest specialty is to be able to create all kinds of divine weapons, and they can also control all kinds of divine weapons. So unlike other branches that have limited weapon types, Lin Shu's character can use any weapon freely.

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

The name of this spirit bow is "Falling Nine Heavens", 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 unloaded, and the classic weapon skill was also automatically removed and replaced with a longbow weapon skill, and it also came with a spirit bow "Falling Nine Skies" exclusive skill, Feng Ling Chasing the Moon, which is a tracking skill.

As mentioned earlier, the skill attack in "Nine Heavens" is not locked, but this skill can lock and track the target, always hitting the object that the player selected when the skill was activated before.

After changing into a bow, Lin Shu suddenly became much easier to do the task, and the attack power when fighting monsters was completely worth the original three or five times, so he sent back a message to thank Lingyun with a sword.

As soon as the sword Lingyun replied, he replied with a cute smiling expression. Just looking at this cute and tidy expression, Lin Shu couldn't connect this information with the stubborn and awkward otaku hidden behind the information.

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

Lin Shu spent more time planning the new engine and paying attention to the operation status of the platform.

At 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 online literature websites.

Because of the characteristics of the current engine, the main contact objects of the two are still several large women's literature websites. Novels from male mainstream sites are more suitable for role-playing or strategic game structures, so they are not prioritized.

Of course, it's not entirely the case.,The two still paid a little attention to some male writers' works that are more suitable for adaptation into cultivation、Management、Simulation works.,It's just that the number is really not too much.,And it's mainly based on the genre of modern cities.。

Among these works, Future Games, as a regular game company, also excludes some harems, pedophilia, *, and politics...... And so on, and so on, and so on, and the range of choices is very small.

It's not as good as a female-oriented work.,Ten of them are in love.,Or it's farming.,It's suitable for dismantling the module of making zuò into cultivation or management.。

Therefore, Du Sitong's first target is the four major women's reading websites - Original, Imperial Girl Academy, Green Novel, and Still Water Academy. In addition to them, the other three novel networks are all under the name of Kuaishu Group, which is a large-scale online literature joint group controlled by Feixin. However, although it is a website under the name of the same group, it is a separate internal policy, and the person in charge needs to negotiate with each other.

Du Sitong contacted her one by one, and the fastest response was to quickly reply and ask her about the specific situation. The other three sites were slightly delayed and apparently had limited interest in Mr. Du's proposal.

This is also a behind-the-scenes shape that Du Sitong doesn't know. The emperor, the green clothes, and the three women's literature websites in Jingshui, have always taken mobile phone reading as the main development direction, unlike, because the development of mobile phone reading has been relatively limited, the current development direction tends to develop film and television, movies, comics, and authorized adaptations of online games.

This is the first time that someone has proposed a stand-alone license, although the official website has a skeptical attitude towards the authorization of the stand-alone machine, but there are quite a few people on the website who are full of good feelings about the future game.

The engine system of the future game has also caused some discussion in the internal forums because of the uniqueness and originality of its game genre. Because there are basically no similar systems of the same quality as the comparison, monopolistic websites have recently risen in popularity, and word of mouth has become a hot topic before you know it.

Zheng Fang also wanted to hire a water army to carry out diffusion propaganda, but before he could hire it, he found that the world was already a spontaneous support water army for future games, and it was much more real than ordinary mercenaries...... So I put aside this plan for the time being, which seemed to be a bit of a consumption.

Du Sitong chatted with the head of the copyright department for hours on the software, explaining exactly what kind of licensing method she proposed.

“…… Our main tendency is to authorize the character and the whole book, which means that we only buy the character of a certain character and the related plot dialogue, and at the same time, we will arrange the artist to match the corresponding character map, and then put it on the shelves as a detachable module. The price of such a character license will be slightly lower, but if you design a single person, if there are several characters in a book, the price will not be too low overall. There is also a full-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 suitable. There are definitely more than this number of popular works on our side, and it is very difficult for us to limit the upper limit of your limit. ”

Du Sitong replied: "I know that some authors may not be able to value this price. But Luo Ying, we contacted you this time, we are preparing to buy in large quantities, and the copyright of the single machine is ...... Let's be honest, there are no game manufacturers who will buy such a thing as a stand-alone adaptation license now, and we are the only one on our side. After buying the rights, we have to spend time adapting them into models, and the actual profit may be the profit of a popular novel on your website. The reason why we do this is to expand the reach of the platform as quickly as possible and enrich the content in the game library. As an upfront investment, this is a way to lose money and make money. If your offer is too high, our side will not be able to buy it. ”

Luo Ying paused for a long time before saying, "Miss Du, we also sold a game adaptation of a popular novel before, and the copyright price is six figures and nearly seven figures. ”

Du Sitong said: "It's a mobile game, right? ”

Luo Ying said: "Whether it is a stand-alone game or a mobile game, it is a game adaptation right, and the price must not be too far apart. If we sell the copyright of the author cheaply, the author himself will also have an opinion. ”

Du Sitong said: "I know that novel. The six-figure price is actually based on the hit TV series, but most of the copyrights on your side can't be sold at all. I'll be honest, I know that your site has no shortage of signed entries, and there is no shortage of authors. What about our side...... It doesn't have to be the right to adapt the game of your most popular article or author. ”

"What we need is a batch of novel copyrights, and the middle level is fine. I'm sure there will be authors who are willing to license it, and there will be works whose prices are within a mutually acceptable range for both of us. Luo Ying, you can ask the author himself if he can accept such an offer, or I list a batch of book lists and character designs, Luo Ying, you quote according to this batch of book lists, and we choose the part that we can accept to buy 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 right now? ”

Du Sitong sent the other party a list of forms that were so long that you couldn't see the end at a glance.

Luo Ying saw it and immediately gasped. This list of books is too long, not to mention hundreds of books, most of which Luo Ying has not read herself, and most of the remaining small ones, most of them have only heard the name and know the general content. With such a huge amount of novels, it is laborious to evaluate each one, 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 eat this set. Hundreds of books have different quality, style, and content, and even the subject matter may be very different, all of them are the same price, who can believe it? But even if it is quoted separately and mixed in hundreds of books, Luo Ying can't tell which parts of the copyright Du Sitong really wants to buy.

She looked at the form with a solemn expression for a long time, and then asked, "Miss Du, there are too many of such a form. Let's be honest, how many novels do you expect to buy? Wouldn't we have hundreds of them listed, and in the end you would only choose one or two to buy? ”

Du Sitong replied: "...... In each of the novels on the list, we either want to buy the adaptation rights of the stand-alone game or want to buy the right to use the characters, but considering the budget, we also have to consider various cost-effective issues. How much to buy depends on your offer. There are some quotations for character designs.,If the price is below 1,000, we will definitely buy it.,Between 1,000 and 2,000, it depends on the specific character design.,More than 2,000 we basically won't consider it.,Unless the character design and related plots are particularly good.。 The same goes for the adaptation rights of the novel, where the critical line is 10,000 and 20,000. Therefore, I hope you will list the quotations in both aspects. ”

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

Luo Ying's expression was cautious, and she said, "I need to discuss this matter with the above, and I will contact you later." ”

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

052：

The day after the negotiation, several other websites finally replied to Du Sitong's email.

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

Compared with the large number of quotations for the emperor, it is much more difficult to choose the bibliography of the emperor, the green clothes, and the still water.

Lin Shu asked Du Sitong to collect some excellent works from major websites to show him, and then he tried to pick out the distinctive works that are suitable for adaptation. Du Sitong and Bai Miao collected as many high-rated novels on the list as possible, and then made a table for Lin Shu.

But in fact, the process went quite unsmoothly.

When Lin Shu read the online article, he kept complaining in his heart, thinking that these stories are too nonsense, is there any basic logic, and then he saw a few good books before he recovered a little.

To be honest, maybe it's because this time is still the beginning of the early decade of online literature, and many of the books on the list are completely just taking the cool text route, and they don't pursue any cultural ideas. But after reading a few more books, Lin Shu found that this was not the case.

Even twenty years ago now, there are actually so many works with clear logic, sincere feelings, connotations and can touch people's hearts and cause them to think. Some people break through the house fight in the house fight, looking for self-values, some people reflect the society, people's hearts and truth, goodness and beauty in the stirring base text, and some people write a magnificent history, and some people understate it, describing the prosperity of the world......

The difference in the level of some articles that are similar to jù may be very large. Picking up books from this is actually a bit of a big wave of sand.

But even so, compared to the works of the other three large literary websites he saw later, Lin Shu felt that he really shouldn't find fault with the former.

Why?

Because of the three websites in the back, the homogenization of the works is simply strict to the point of shock. Lin Shu opened a book casually and found that their routines were very similar.

Just talk about the character design, almost all the character design is a template design, a character represents a trait, such as the work of the Imperial Daughter's Academy, there may be many male characters in a story, and each character must have a common attribute: gentle, arrogant, domineering...... Zhengtai, uncle, senior brother, teacher...... This kind of role, because the number of appearances is too large, so everyone occupies a small number of scenes. In order to distinguish the characteristics of the characters, there are few additional descriptions or humanized qualities added to the characters, and after reading several books, Lin Shu can compare the characters of each book with each other.

However, it didn't work, and these characters didn't have the sparkle or memorable qualities that Lin Shu was looking for.

The same is true for green clothes, leaving aside the topic that is full of complaints*, Lin Shu feels that it is probably because he is a man, so he can't appreciate the style that women love, anyway, the "overlord's concubine", "stunning princess", "domineering president take home"...... Just looking at it made him feel a full sense of play, and he wondered if the final wish of these girls in life was to marry a handsome and rich man.

…… I always feel that the people who look at these and the women around him are from two dimensions.

With such a question in mind, Lin Shu asked his teacher Du and two other female employees with some suspicion: "You just like to watch these?" ”

Mr. Du scanned the general content of the article and said, "I don't like it." It's too white.,There's no content.,It's just that the male and female protagonists toss and toss each other.,I don't like this.。 I still prefer works that are sincere and logically self-consistent. ”

Bai Miao's answer was completely different from Du Sitong's. She replied curiously, "These books are all very well written, why can't I like them?" After listening to Lin Shu's question, he smiled and said, "Just read the online article well, what kind of IQ connotation do you want?" I won't read famous books if I look at the connotation of IQ? ”

These two people have such a good relationship, but their preferences are really far apart.

On Yusinti, it was a different answer.

"How so? In reality, there is a lot of pressure, but now I am a little better, and I feel that there is hope in life. But when I was most uncomfortable earlier, I especially liked to read novels like this. Especially when my mother was very blind to me, and when my boss worked in the factory, I sometimes found excuses to work overtime and deduct my salary...... I felt very hard, so I had to daydream that someone would come down from the sky to save me. Ah, of course I know that such a thing is impossible, and no one would give selflessly to a stranger for no reason, but ...... It's a spiritual sustenance after all. ”

When Lin Shu heard this, he suddenly fell into deep thought.

He tried to read the above novel again according to the book list, but he couldn't read it many times. Later, after Zheng Fangcheng found out what several people were discussing, he said helplessly to Lin Shu: "Boss, what kind of obscene novels do you read these girls?" These novels are not written at all to be read at your age, and it is strange that you can read them. ”

Lin Shu replied, "...... I don't think I'm going to be able to look at it at any age. ”

That's what he really said.

Zheng Fangcheng said: "That's right, and the gender is not right. So leave this to Miss Du, and they'll know what an audience like them likes to watch. ”

Lin Shu said: "But ...... I can read a lot of the book lists on the Internet before. That's also a girl's favorite story, right? ”

Zheng Fangcheng listened, was silent for a while, and then said, "...... There are big brains over there, and there are more variety, so there will always be something to watch. ”

Lin Shu said, "So I don't understand it. In the list of novels of the emperor and the green clothes, there are too many works of similar genre and content, right? It feels like a lot of stories are not fundamentally different in themselves. In this case, how much difference is there between reading one book and then reading another book and reading the same book twice? Or can they remember which story is from which story? ”

"Is it really necessary for us to buy the rights to adapt this kind of thing? I don't even understand the preferences of readers now, what's so good about this kind of thing? The same is true on the Internet, where the quality and level of the works are very different, but the number is very close, and there is no gap at all...... Is there something wrong with my aesthetics? Is such a novel really good? ”

Zheng Fangcheng was curious by his rather unkind tone, so he asked Lin Shu to send him the address to show him a rough idea, and after reading it, he suddenly had a black line on his face, and continued to ask: "Boss, what are you doing with all this?" These are freehand obscene Xiaobai Shuangwen, ordinary people forget after reading it, why do you think too much? ”

Lin Shu replied: "I'm thinking about the plot of the new mod." Didn't you say before that you would expand a batch of characters and plots? Therefore, I want to find some suitable works from popular works to buy copyright for adaptation, so that I can quickly draw some popularity from ready-made works. But looking at these works now, it's really a bit incomprehensible...... Is it true that anyone will buy this kind of thing when it is made into a game character? ”

Zheng Fangcheng thought for a while before he said: "Actually, there is a reason why Xiaobaiwen is popular. If you'd like to, boss, I'd like to say what I think. ”

Lin Shu was surprised for a moment, and then said, "You say." ”

Zheng Fangcheng opened his mouth and said: "I think boss, you may have misunderstood the main reading group of online articles. The biggest feature of online articles is that they have no entry barriers, not only for those who write them, but also for those who read them. When you distinguish whether a book is good or not, you are standing in your position - including knowledge level, character building, emotional understanding, reading experience, and so on. And the reader's own judgment will also be influenced by these factors. You feel that the same plot is unreasonable because you see the unreasonable flaws in it, but sometimes many readers are limited to their personal reading experience and do not find anything unreasonable, so they judge the factors of whether they are good or not, and they are different from you. ”

Lin Shu asked: "For example, the male protagonist who is the president thinks that the female protagonist is attracting his attention by stepping on the sole of her high-heeled shoe and falling into the mud?" What the hell is this? ”

This plot reminded Lin Shu of an old joke.

A beautiful woman said to the police, "Mr. policeman, I am going to report that man - he insulted me." The policeman said strangely: "Insulted you? Miss, I have been looking at you just now, and that gentleman has not even looked at you from beginning to end. The beauty said, "So he insulted me." I'm so beautiful that he doesn't even look at me, isn't it an insult? ”

Lin Shu couldn't help but feel that the president who had such an excess of self-awareness, how could he get along with people so that his employees would not feel uneasy about working under a snake spirit disease?

Lin Shu has shown him countless people when he becomes an adult, but he is not narcissistic enough to think that a girl falling in front of him is seducing him - how much does a person have to love you to use self-harm as a means to attract your attention? The person who wrote this thing must not have tried to fall into the mud.

"Huh?" When Zheng Fangcheng heard him say this, he laughed and said, "Boss, who do you think the mainstream authors and readers of online novels are?" ”

Lin Shu thought for a while and replied, "Young people around the age of thirteen to thirty should be the mainstream, right?" ”

Zheng Fangcheng thought about it and felt that this division was not wrong, so he said: "How many of them do you think are successful people who have achieved fame, and how many are just naïve teenagers who daydream?" ”