Chapter 9: The Terrifying Truth
Brush Brush Brush!
Wang Chu looked at the redrafted contract again, although he was still unhappy with several of them. But he also knew that he was not qualified to bargain now, so he quickly signed his name on it and no longer argued with Zhang Yunfeng.
Anyway, he just signed a book, and if this book is out, he will be more qualified to bargain in the next book.
I saw that the contract was signed.
Zhang Yunfeng's expression became much kinder, he looked at Wang Chu as if he was looking at his own people, and said with a smile: "Teacher Chu, it's almost time for lunch, let's have a meal together, right?" There's a lot I want to discuss with you about the plot of your comic book The Matrix. ”
Wang Chu looked at the time, shook his head and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Editor-in-Chief Zhang, I still have something to do, forget about the dinner, I'll invite you next time." This is the second manuscript of the Matrix that I brought with me. ”
As he spoke, he took out a comic manuscript from the bag he brought with him and handed it to Zhang Yunfeng.
Seeing this extremely anticipated comic manuscript, Zhang Yunfeng's smile finally looked a little happy, but he still felt that Wang Chu was really a difficult person to get along with, and said helplessly at the moment: "Okay, since Mr. Chu still has something to do, let's go and get busy." Tonight, your Matrix will be featured on our Legendary Pictures comic book site, and if you do well this week, you'll be in our new issue next week. ”
This is the same way all comic magazines now select newcomers, especially essay contests.
After the Internet is becoming more and more developed, the selection process of major comic magazines for publishing comics has also changed, and they will first put the reviewed newcomers' works on their own websites for readers to select, and select the excellent works that readers want to see and look forward to according to the number of votes, and then these selected works will be serialized in paper magazines, and the others will be eliminated by readers.
It's brutal, but it's also very accurate, because it's all the result of the reader's choice.
The elimination rate of large comic magazines is as high as more than 90 percent, and only one out of ten newcomers who appear on the site during the same period have the opportunity to be serialized in the magazine periodical.
However, Wang Chu believes that he will inevitably stand out among this group of newcomers.
Immediately, he said goodbye to Zhang Yunfeng, and under the strange gaze of many people in the office area outside, he left the headquarters of Legendary Pictures and walked towards the municipal service center in the city center.
He left a middle school, then he can only register for the college entrance examination in his personal name, here is a rule that as long as young people under the age of 20 can sign up with their ID cards, the location of the examination room will be notified a month before the college entrance examination, after the age of 20 can not take the college entrance examination, and then want to go to college can only go to participate in the private selection examination of major universities.
Seeing Wang Chu leave, Zhang Yunfeng's calm expression finally gradually became severe, his smile disappeared, and he was also a little unhappy that he had compromised the contract with a newcomer today.
But then, he looked at the Matrix comics in his hand, and a lot of anticipation flashed in his eyes, and he put aside the matter of the contract.
Flipping through the cover, he couldn't wait to see it.
Just looking at the character painting style and plot connection on the first few pages, he was relieved, and it was not in vain that he compromised in the face of Wang Chu, a newcomer, this comic is still that familiar taste, familiar suspense, maintain style, and will definitely appear in magazines and periodicals.
Then.
He heard a knock on the door, buried his head and said casually, "Come in." ”
Then, a slightly bloated middle-aged man walked in, looked at Zhang Yunfeng and said loudly: "Editor-in-Chief Zhang, I heard that you asked the legal department to modify the contract for a newcomer?" Is there such a thing? ”
When Zhang Yunfeng heard this voice, displeasure flashed in his eyes, and he reluctantly put down the cartoon in his hand, looked at the other party, and said solemnly: "Editor-in-Chief He, I don't need your consent to do things, right?" You are not the general manager, nor the editor-in-chief, you are not qualified to ask me about my business, and I have the right to modify the contract. ”
This editor-in-chief He was sent from the headquarters of Donghuang Entertainment Group, so he has always considered himself superior, thinking that he is the first of the three editors-in-chief, and often criticizes the other two editors-in-chief, which makes Zhang Yunfeng and the other editor-in-chief Li very unhappy.
This time, Zhang Yunfeng's revision of the contract for Wang Chu quickly spread throughout the headquarters of Legendary Pictures, so Editor-in-Chief He immediately came to the door to find fault, wanting to show his strength.
"Hmph, Editor-in-Chief Zhang, I want you to figure it out. We are not a charity hall, we are in business, we have our system. You can't handle a newcomer, how can you manage other comic book authors? I will bring this up at the summary meeting at the end of the month, and you can explain it. ”
Editor-in-Chief He snorted coldly, looked at Zhang Yunfeng and threatened, turned around and left.
Zhang Yunfeng ignored Editor-in-Chief He, watched the other party leave with disdain, and then closed the door himself, and said to the others not to disturb him if they were fine.
Because, he wants to concentrate on reading Wang Chu's comic, and he has a lot of expectations for the Matrix, which is also the work he intends to promote in his plan.
Only when this cartoon has achieved results can he be qualified to refute the editor-in-chief He and improve his status.
And this manuscript of Wang Chu did not disappoint him, and the core of the plot of the Matrix was gradually revealed below-the matrix and program!
It also made him understand the true meaning of the name The Matrix.
When the truth was revealed in the comics, when the protagonist Cheng Fei took the pill and saw the truth of the world, Zhang Yunfeng slapped the table excitedly, and the whole person stood up and trembled slightly to look at the cold and ruthless pictures that made people feel fear in the depths of their hearts!
"Oh my God, that's the truth."
He looked at the comic manuscript with trembling hands, and said in a slightly trembling voice: "This is the case, the whole world is fake, everyone lives in a huge computer host, everyone lives in a program. Everyone's body is not born and grows naturally, but is cultivated by machines, and from birth to death, they will spend their lives in that huge cultivation tank......"
"This ......"
He couldn't imagine how to describe the plot at once.
It can only be said that the brain hole has really broken through the limits of the universe, and the big one is unacceptable to him.
But!
He carefully recalled the previous plot of this comic, and what he said to some characters, but felt that this was not an unacceptable huge brain hole, but logical.
All the foreshadowing seems to be for this one truth.
As the god-like guide Zhang Hao said: We live in a huge scam. Everything we see and feel is a signal that our brain sends to us. We receive the signal, so we have these sensations and visions and so on. But what if the brain deceives us? The brain simply sends us signals, when in fact we don't have this real sense of sight and touch?
The whole world, is a scam!
Our brains have been deceived.
Computers control our brains, sending us the signals they want to give us out of thin air, making us live in illusory program signals!
The truth is so cruel and terrifying.
Zhang Yunfeng's eyes released a light as if he was going to eat people, and he flipped through the comic manuscript of the last night several times, and this page was the picture of the protagonist Cheng Fei standing up from the cultivation tank.
I saw that on the screen, the protagonist's body is very weak, it seems that he can't stand steadily, his body is slippery, he has no hair, and there are a lot of things like wires inserted in his limbs and chest, as well as his spine and head, and at the foot of the protagonist is a cultivation trough containing a lot of liquids, and the cultivation trough is connected to a pillar, and there are many similar cultivation troughs densely packed on the whole pillar, and each cultivation trough is a human being.
Not far away in the background, there are countless pillars where countless cultivation troughs are placed, and there are countless human beings here!
Humans, like plants, are bred and then generate bioelectricity for use by machines!
Looking at this picture, Zhang Yunfeng's expression was the same as that of the protagonist in the comics, which was stunned and incredulous.
Moment.
Zhang Yunfeng was full of excitement, and a wave of fear instantly arose in the depths of his heart, and his eyes looked at his front and back in a daze.
As the comics say, how do we know if we are living in an illusion?
At this moment, because of this comic, Zhang Yunfeng's heart had doubts about the world he lived in.
Who knows if their body is lying in the incubator at the moment, like a plant powering the robot?
Who knows if all the touches and things I see at the moment are signals that the computer has sent to us out of thin air?
Looking carefully up and down, left and right, Zhang Yunfeng had more and more doubts in his heart, and his eyes became more and more surprised. He looked at everything around him, at everyone, and had an illusory feeling, as if he knew the truth better than everyone else, as if everyone else was dreaming, and that he was awake.
This state lasted for more than an hour, and he gradually came to his senses and realized that he was a little fascinated by reading comics.
However, he had to admit that it was all because Chu Gongzi's cartoon was so amazing and too inextricable, and the description in it made him have to believe that there really seemed to be such a thing, and this was almost a plot that made sense both philosophically and scientifically.
He couldn't find any reason to suspect.
However, now he is convinced that it is just a comic book and that his life is still real.
"Huh!"
Zhang Yunfeng, who sat in the office and drank a few cups of tea before calming down, smiled helplessly, and suddenly felt that it didn't matter if he had compromised on the contract before.
Such a comic, he doesn't believe it won't be popular.
As soon as he said and did it, he immediately picked up the phone and asked a professional to come over and scan and upload the first manuscript of Wang Chu's Matrix to the website of Legendary Pictures.
It's time for readers to put it to the test.
It's just that he only uploaded the first manuscript, not the second manuscript.
He believes that the first manuscript will be recognized by readers, and there is no need to upload a second manuscript at all.
In that case, readers will experience the moment of fear later, and they will have to wait for the journal to be serialized.