Chapter 3 Candidate Builder Privileges
Xu Fu was shocked, and immediately opened his eyes to look left and right. The lights have been lit up in the entire screening hall, the movie has finished, and there are subtitles on the screen, just him and Qu Jingmo are still sitting here.
Qu Jingmo also looked at Xu Fu and said, "You need a salary during this time, you should be very tired, right?" All asleep. ”
"Did you hear anything just now?" Xu Fu asked. The voice was cold and emotionless, not like a human being.
"What sound?" Qu Jingmo asked strangely.
At this moment, the voice sounded in Xu Fu's ears again: "You have the qualification of a candidate builder, and you can get a privilege at random. ”
As he spoke, a fast-spinning roulette wheel appeared in front of Xu Fu's eyes. Soon, the speed of the roulette wheel decreased. Gradually, I can read the words on it clearly, such as "double my memory", "increase my thinking speed by 50%", "double my emotional intelligence", and so on.
Xu Fu was stunned inexplicably, can these things also be added with numbers?
Eventually, the roulette wheel stopped. The pointer stopped at the item "50% reduction in sleep time".
The voice said, "After a random selection, your candidate builder privilege has been chosen. Starting today, your sleep hours are reduced to half of the average person's. ”
The roulette wheel in front of Xu Fu's eyes then disappeared strangely.
The voice continued, "Please leave the candidacy within a month and become the 'Official Builder of the Infinite World in the Zhongzhou Region'. To complete, the work created by you must have a horror level of higher than 1.5, be well-known in the Midstate region at 1 in 10,000, or have an influence that covers five potential elite reincarnations. ”
"If you succeed, your reward will be the privilege of the Official Builder, and you will be able to start the next stage of your mission. Fail, you will be stripped of your candidate privileges and your memories will be erased. ”
With that, the voice was gone.
Xu Fu looked at Qu Jingmo, her expression was still normal. It seems that the strange voice just now can only be heard by Xu Fu.
Xu Fu pressed down in a panic mood, reminiscing about what he had just heard. What "reincarnation" and "infinite world" made him easily think of some infinite stream novels he had read before.
"Infinite Streaming" seems to be a genre of web novels born in '07. At that time, Xu Fu was still in junior high school, and he was very obsessed with chasing for a while. But time has passed, and many details are not very clear. He decided to quickly find an infinite stream novel to prove it. After all, it was so unbelievable to hear that voice suddenly!
"Quzi, wait for me a while. I'll look something up. Xu Fu said.
Qu Jingmo nodded and didn't speak.
Xu Fu checked it with his mobile phone. As a result, he was even more surprised, and he couldn't find any infinite stream works at all! Even the two popular books of "Infinite Terror" and "Ace Evolution" have no trace on the Internet.
Xu Fu was stunned, and changed the search engine to search again, but he still couldn't find it.
This is even more bizarre. Xu Fu had obviously read those books, but he had disappeared. As if it had never been there! What does this mean?
There is more than one problem. "Xu Fu's work was seen by an elite reincarnation", is the reason for the voice. Who is the so-called "elite reincarnation"?
Xu Fu subconsciously turned his gaze to the side, could it be Qu Jingmo who was sitting quietly next to him?
He didn't dare to think deeply, and felt a little wishful thinking that since the movie was released, anyone could watch it. Maybe another stranger saw it?
As for "Xu Fu's works", it should refer to this extremely bad "Killing Machine". Although according to the rules of reality, Xu Fu's name did not even appear in the staff list. But the film's structure does derive from Xu Fu. It was surreal that the voice could be distinguished.
And the "builder of infinite worlds", what does this do?
Xu Fu referred to his memory, but he could deduce a rough idea. The infinite stream of works he has seen all describe a virtual space based on realistic horror movies. The protagonists have to take risks in it, get rewards, and become stronger.
According to the setting of infinite streams, the basis of the existence of the "infinite world" is not actually "people", but all kinds of horror movies.
Could it be that the number of horror movies in reality is no longer enough? Xu Fu thought about it and felt that the explanation made sense. In recent years, except for a few high-quality horror films such as "The Conjuring" and "Latent", the quality of new horror movies has become more and more watery. The settings are becoming more and more cookie-cutter, and the grandeur of the classics that emerged ten years ago is gone.
So "that voice" appeared as a result of this, personally promoting the development of horror-themed works?
And those infinite stream novels in Xu Fu's memory are actually settings made in advance by "that voice"? Just for today, let Xu Fu quickly accept and understand the request of "that voice"?
Xu Fu can only make these speculations out of thin air. As for the other mysteries, they are not something that Xu Fu can solve.
"That voice" requires Xu Fu to create works, and the popularity of "Zhongzhou District" has reached 1/10,000...... "Zhongzhou District" is probably China. How difficult is it to make 1 in 10,000 Chinese see your work? Xu Fu did the math and gasped! 130,000 people have to see it!
Of course, there is another way to achieve the goal, so that the work covers the "five elite reincarnations". But this request is confusing, and I don't know how to do it at all.
Comparatively, it is still a bit feasible to "130,000 people". But what is the concept of "130,000 people"? Xu Fu's university does not have 130,000 people!
Do you want to do it?
To tell the truth, Xu Fu has no funds, no connections, no experience, and is completely stunned. The only way to get started is to use the Internet.
However, whether you are writing a novel or doing something else, you will face the problem of "deep wine alleys". No matter how well it is done, without external promotion, it can only attract a few hundred people at most. Only by getting the promotion of the website can it rise. And the website promotion ...... It's all about luck.
His time was still extremely short, and "that voice" only gave Xu Fu a month.
If Xu Fu can't complete the task, there is actually no harm. "I heard an inexplicable voice", this memory is erased. There is also that candidate privilege, and I don't feel sorry when it disappears, just sleep a few more hours a day.
But Xu Fu somehow, a fire suddenly arose in his heart, and he wanted to take this opportunity to fight!
He can't do comics, and novels can't come out anytime soon. Xu Fu wants to make a horror type of micro-movie!
In this way, he can realize his dream of cinema immediately. And skip the previous planning, don't boil up qualifications, don't learn experience, ignore connections, and directly start with the director!
It just so happened that Xu Fu had just asked for 5,000 yuan! Just use the 5,000 as shooting funds.
Although the hope of success is not high, there are still some of them. Compared with traditional film and television works, micro-films are less restricted by censorship and have a wider creative space.
Due to the nature of the free and the staggering spread of the spread, there tends to be an exponential increase. For example, if you upload a video on Youku and attract tens of thousands of clicks from Youku users, you can easily be redirected to other video sites, seen by those website users, and get tens of thousands of clicks.
And people don't have any requirements for the quality of micro-films, which is suitable for people like Xu Fu who don't have much capital to invest in.
What's more, Xu Fu has watched movies since he was a child, and horror movies are even more so. He believes that there must be many people like him in China. Looking forward to the birth of a real, good-looking horror film.
But now China's horror movies are all self-explanatory, just like the "Killing Machine" I just watched, which is ridiculous!
Xu Fu believes that there is a market here.
If one day, Xu Fu can make a horror movie that is popular all over the world, making the Chinese people and the world tremble first and then be amazed, how proud would it be?
And Xu Fu can take his interest as a job and achieve a career, how happy should he be?
It would be even better if it could be with Qu Jingmo.
"Tune!" He looked at Qu Jingmo, and the light in his eyes sparkled: "Quzi, I want to make a horror micro-movie!" Can you help me? ”
Qu Jingmo looked at Xu Fu with a "you have a problem" look: "I thought you had just thought about something big, sitting here and thinking about it for a long time, just thinking about this?" Let's go, let's eat first! I'm starving to death from you. Just now, Li Faka sent me three text messages, all asking me if I regretted not inviting guests. ”
Li Fakea is Qu Jingmo's roommate. Qu Jingmo has a treat tonight, not only to ask for a charm, but also to invite her roommates.
There was an aunt sweeping melon seeds on the floor in the screening room, who also stared at Xu Fu. Xu Fu was suddenly embarrassed, "Then let's go, let's go eat first." ”
Walking on the road, Qu Jingmo suddenly asked: "Have you thought about what kind of movie to make?" Great director! ”
"Online micro-movies. Not a movie. Xu Fu didn't refute the "big director" Qu Jingmo said, knowing that she was joking.
Xu Fu continued to say his vision: "I have liked to watch horror movies since I was a child, and I want to shoot this theme. ”
Qu Jingmo's eyes widened: "Have you figured out how to shoot?" Isn't it particularly scary, exciting? ”
Xu Fu suddenly smiled bitterly, in his cognition, a good-looking horror movie must of course be terrifying, just like a work like "Curse", which makes people look at it with a heart-pounding heartbeat. If you retreat to the next best thing, you can also pursue thrills, such as "Resident Evil" and "Chainsaw".
If Xu Fu can make such a movie, he will really not live in vain in this life. But in the current situation, how can it be messed up as you like? In China, there is a high-voltage line that runs across the horror theme, and if you touch it, you will die. Xu Fu didn't dare to take risks.
He thought for a while and said: "In China, the scale of horror movies is not easy to grasp, and the things that have been worked hard to get out, maybe how to provoke others, it will be all over." So I plan not to make it so bloody and curious, and I don't think about horror elements myself, but borrow the bridge of classic horror movies and reconstruct them. The finished product is similar to a hodgepodge like "Screaming", but it doesn't seem undisciplined and nonsensical. ”
Xu Fu said again: "Wait until I slowly figure out the various doorways, and then slowly improve the taste." ”