Chapter Seventy-Two: It's Better Than Closing the Publication
Meng Zhe had been recuperating in the hospital until mid-May, when he was finally discharged from the hospital.
Jiang Weirui would drag her sister Jiang Xiyao to the hospital every day on the grounds of visiting the patient, and then went home after ten o'clock in the evening.
Occasionally, taking advantage of opportunities such as Jiang Xiyao going to the toilet, Meng Zhe will try to find an opportunity to hug and kiss his future Xun'er wife.
At the beginning, Jiang Weirui was always like a frightened rabbit, struggling to run away when Meng Zhe was just hugged and kissed, but with Meng Zhe's 'dead skin' hugging and kissing again and again, although Jiang Weirui would still run away, the resistance was obviously getting weaker and weaker.
The textbook "Ideology and Politics" says that quantitative changes cause qualitative changes, so Meng Zhe is very satisfied, and he is not in a hurry at all...... But Meng Zhe, who had just been discharged from the hospital, was arrested by the Shueisha press Yoshida who was already waiting.
Although it is said that because "Chess Soul" has been returned to its original owner and is being drawn by Ken Obata and "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms" has been suspended, Meng Zhe is now actually only left with the work of drawing the four-panel comic "Light Sound Girl...... But the problem is that during Meng Zhe's hospitalization, he didn't draw a single manuscript of "The Light Girl", and all the paintings were short serials called "Dragon's Death".
This so-called "Dragon's Death" is naturally a cartoon about food safety that Meng Zhe intends to create based on the Sanlu incident for his conscience.
Meng Zhe has completed the creation of the first episode alone, and the background era used at the beginning of the story is more than ten years after China, which is far more advanced in technology and material than now.
However, as the protagonist of the doctor, he continues to receive patients with 'big-headed babies', and gradually becomes suspicious of the 'Four Dragons' brand milk powder used by the babies, and the background color of the story quietly changes from warm colors to gray and depressing...... Then, the doctor who conducted the investigation was subjected to unknown attacks and threats of anonymity. The doctor who went to the morgue in the middle of the night unexpectedly found the nurse lying in a pool of blood, and the body of the dead big-headed baby was all missing...... The dying nurse told the babies in a terrified tone, and all of them had mutated into monsters...... Basically, the "Dragon's Fall" drawn by Meng Zhe is actually not a juvenile comic but a horror comic.
Although it is about food safety and alludes to Sanlu milk powder, the structure of the story is similar to the more famous movie "Han River Monster" in Bangziguo, and Meng Zhe also used the gimmick of mutating into a man-eating monster due to toxin infection.
However, Meng Zhe clearly used the name 'melamine', and also clearly stated the harmful surname of melamine in the comics, and the thriller storyline is so that people can instinctively be wary of melamine when they see melamine as a chemical raw material in the future...... According to Meng Zhe's setting, this short serialization will end in six words, in this case-hum, Mr. Benjiji will have a complete serialization!
In the future, whoever says that we are the king of the closed magazine pit who cares about killing and burying it, we will fight with whom!
Meng Zhe has such a plan, but his plan Shueisha is based in Wufeng County, and the editor Yoshida who is responsible for urging Mr. Yoshiyoshi to deliver the manuscript does not know.
Meng Zhe's "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms" began to be serialized in Shueisha's monthly comic magazine at the end of last month, and then it became unexpectedly popular, and it was unexpectedly popular!
In this "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms", Meng Zhe is influenced by CCTV's old version of the Three Kingdoms, as well as the glorious "Three Kingdoms" and "Three Kingdoms" series of games, and the characters of the Three Kingdoms drawn are all handsome and cool...... The club that has been authorized to sell merchandise has already sold more than a million sets of genuine "Three Kingdoms" cards!
Yesterday, there was a call from Shueisha, saying that the famous Nintendo is also very interested in the "Three Kingdoms" card game in "Dumb Three Kingdoms Guardian", and plans to develop a handheld version of the "Stupid Three Kingdoms Guardian" game...... Therefore, the most important job of the Yoshida clan now is to let Meng Zhe republish "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms"! If Meng Zhe can't be allowed to republish "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms", Yoshida feels that he will definitely be expelled again!
"Meng Sang, please draw the fool incomparably, the sales of more than a million sets of cards, Nintendo's game adaptation and readers' enthusiasm, all have proven the great potential of this comic! Conservative estimates, if Meng Sang can transfer this comic to a weekly without stopping, and the serialization will take more than a year, there is no doubt that the income of more than 100 million yuan will be undoubted! β
In order to work, in order to return to China to marry a girlfriend, Yoshida tried to impress Meng Zhe from huge monetary gains...... "Yoshida, how much money can I earn if I suspend the publication permanently?" Meng Zhe looked unmoved.
"It won't be more than five million dollars!" Yoshida replied quickly: "Meng Sang, who do you want between 100 million yuan and 5 million yuan, I guess you will have a very wise choice." β
"Only five million?" Meng Zhe touched his chin, and then made his choice: "Yoshida, go and recruit a few assistants for me who can imitate "Stupid". β
"Ha-Meng San, you are really wise! No problem! It's no problem to help or something! As long as you're willing to turn "Stupid" into a weekly serial, you can recruit as many helpers as you want! Yoshida was overjoyed, and he was about to take Big Brother from the leather bag he carried with him to report to Shueisha.
It's a pity that before Yoshida could take out the phone, Meng Zhe poured 'a scoop of cold water' on his head: "Yoshida, you seem to have misunderstood something, I just mean that the semi-monthly serialization of "Stupid" will be resumed, but there is no idea of turning him into a weekly serial. β
After thinking about it, Meng Zhe even vetoed the matter of recruiting assistants: "Yoshida, the assistants don't need to trouble you to recruit from the book, it's about to be June, and our college students in China who study art are almost the time to graduate and find a job." β
"Huh? Resuming it into a semi-monthly serial?! How can this be ......" Yoshida's eyes widened and he wanted to continue to encourage Meng Zhe, but looking at Meng Zhe, who was obviously absent-minded, Yoshida immediately deflated, and he muttered in a fluent Chinese: "Okay, okay, Meng Sang, you won." Semi-monthly is semi-monthly, at least better than closed, isn't it? β
The two big loli of the Jiang family, who listened to the conversation between the two, smiled together because of Meng Zhe's victory - in the "Degradation" serialized in the anime last year, it is said that this devil is so bad and hateful! Although this Yoshida clan is not as bad and hateful as in the manga, he is also his own...... So Meng Jiji's victory over him is also a very happy thing.
"By the way, Yoshida, since the readers of "Stupid" have reported it, how did the readers over there react to "EVA"?"
Walking out of the hospital gate, Meng Zhe suddenly remembered this matter again - although EVA was banned from being published in China, Meng Zhe, who was a little unwilling after all, reduced EVA to a short story, and then threw it to Yoshida to take it to the book for publication.
"I don't understand." Yoshida spat out these three words, and then she explained these three words: "Most of the readers said that they couldn't understand it, and they couldn't understand what Meng Sang was trying to express, but it was interesting that many readers were guessing whether Meng Sang was a Christian or not......
"Don't you understand?" Meng Zhe felt a little strange, but then he smiled indifferently: "If you can't understand it, you can't understand it." β
Meng Zhe, who has made his wife fall in love with him again, and feels that he has enough money to live a good life in the future, really doesn't care much about whether EVA will catch fire.
"Meng Sang, please don't be discouraged! Although most of the ordinary readers can't understand it, they surprisingly like the characters in the story, especially Ling Boli, who has few lines and almost no lines...... That issue of the magazine happened to open a selection of the most popular female surname characters, and as a result, Ling Boli won the first place with an overwhelming advantage over the surname! Ah-and-also, Hayao Miyazaki and Masamune Shirou both have high praise for EVA! β
The truth is actually different from Meng Zhe's imagination, so after Yoshida finished talking about this paragraph, he became accustomed to his surname and began to bewitch Meng Zhe: "Meng Sang, there is an animation production company named GASAX that seems to be interested in making EVA into a TV animation...... Meng Sang, go ahead and draw EVA! It will definitely make you a lot of money, Meng Sang! β
βgainaxοΌ Hehe, interesting...... Yoshida, help me contact GAINAX and say that I am willing to hand over EVA to them to make a TV anime, and it is good to negotiate the licensing fee or something. β
The familiar name of GAINAX made Meng Zhe laugh out loud, because this animation production company was the producer and distributor of the original history of "Neon Genesis Evangelion".
Meng Zhe preemptively published EVA in an attempt to promote EVA in China in the name of science fiction, but was banned from publication. Then, after earning a circle, the work is back in the arms of its original 'parents'...... This is also the power of butterfly wings, right?
"Meng Sang, you need to think carefully - it is said that GAINAX is a company that only likes to engage in TV animation of original animation, if Meng Sang hands over Eva to them, I'm afraid the follow-up storyline will not be able to control it yourself."
Yoshida suggested that although he didn't really know much about Gainax as an animation company, what he knew was only hearsay.
"It's okay."
Meng Zhe replied very indifferently, because he actually knew more about what Yoshida said by hearsay.
(To be continued)