Chapter Ninety-Six: Just Sarcasm
"Whatββ, this place was copied?! Let's talk about it, let's talk about it, which rambling did it plagiarize and where?! β
Affected by the plagiarism incident that just ended a few days ago, Song Guixu now blew up when he heard the word plagiarism, but after blowing up the hair, he turned his head to see who the speaker was Song Guixu, and found that the woman standing behind him was a woman he didn't know at all.
This woman looks like she has just been fished out of the water...... Where did it come from?
With this doubt, Song Guixu looked at the editor who showed him the manuscript, and the editor quickly shook his head and said that he didn't know at all.
Fortunately, at this time, the lady who was in charge of the front desk of the editorial department and brought Du Yiwei to the front desk of the editorial department opened her mouth to introduce Song Guixu: "Team Leader Song, this is Miss Du Yiwei Du!"
So Song Guixu remembered it all of a sudden, and he hurriedly stood up and said to Du Yiwei: "Oh, Xiao Du is you?!" The road went well, right? Didn't you just come here in the rain? Who- what are you doing standing here in a daze?! Go get a dry towel! Go, go, go! β
The editor, who was assigned a task by the team leader, hurriedly turned his head and ran away after agreeing, looking for dry towels all over the world.
It's a pity that Du Yiwei turned a blind eye to Song Guixu's hush and warmth, or the editor who went away, she only lowered her head and pondered for a moment before opening her mouth and saying: "If I'm not mistaken, he copied the picture in the lower left corner of the ninth page of the seventh issue of "Anime Boy" and the Chess Soul serial. βοΌ
So high-end?
Can you accurately tell which issue, which page, which picture?!
To be honest, Song Guixu was shocked by Du Yiwei's high-end answer, in order to verify whether Du Yiwei was really so bullish, Song Guixu searched on his desk full of things, and then found the seventh issue of "Anime Boy" and flipped it up.
Then, when he turned to the seventh page of the current serialized "Chess Soul", Song Guixu was stunned!
It's the same at the touch of the same!
In addition to "Chess Soul", which uses dot paper, and "Slayer", which uses hand-drawn; In addition to the different lines, these two differences are ...... The two pictures are the same! If none of this is plagiarism, then what else is plagiarism?!
"The story is really interesting." When Song Guixu confirmed the fact of plagiarism, Du Yiwei was full of interest in reading the other original manuscripts of "The Slaughterer", and after reading it, she added in a seemingly disappointed tone: "Huh? Except for that picture, there is no other plagiarized content. β
Song Guixu, who listened to the last sentence, was speechless, and he really wanted to relay a sentence that Meng Zhe once said to him to Du Yiwei: Heyββ, is this a complaint?
Of course, Song Guixu didn't have a chance to speak, because Meng Zhe, who came after hearing the news, had already opened his mouth before him, Meng Zhe smiled and said: "Hello Miss Du, I am Meng Zhe, the editor-in-chief of "Anime Boy", and I welcome you to join on behalf of Tianjiao Club and "Anime Boy"!" But before that, I think it's necessary for you to take a hot shower first, and as the editor-in-chief, I don't want to see a new first-ranking editor who is so important to us at "Anime Shonen" and has just spent the first page of the magazine in a hospital room! β
"You're Meng Jiji?" After hearing Meng Zhe's words, Du Yiwei immediately diverted her original interest in "The Slayer", and instead stared at Meng Zhe up and down without blinking.
"It's like a fake." When he said this, Meng Zhe suddenly had a sense of immediacy that this conversation seemed to have been carried out, and he even felt that if it was right, what Du Yiwei would say next should be: "Meng Jiji, in fact, I ...... Really curious about you! Are you really the ones who did the different styles of comics alone? β
As soon as Meng Zhe finished thinking about it, Du Yiwei, who was looking at him, opened his mouth, Du Yiwei said, "Meng Jiji, in fact, I ...... Really curious about you! Are you really the ones who did the different styles of comics alone? β
Instant Vision!
Exactly the same, word-for-word visual sense! This conversation really happened!
This completely consistent sense of sight made Meng Zhe feel his body tremble slightly, could it be that this Du Yiwei is not an ordinary person, but also a reborn person who has traveled through time and space?!
But soon, Meng Zhe overturned his guess: No, it's impossible! If this Du Yiwei were a reborn person who traveled through time and space, she shouldn't be so obscure.
It's just a visual sense...... According to the so-called scientific explanation, that is, visual perception is simply the feeling that human beings suddenly feel that they have "experienced a certain picture or something somewhere" in a real environment (as opposed to a dream...... It's just an illusion that scenes and events that I haven't seen before, but I seem to have seen them.
Well, it's an illusion.
It is said that about two-thirds of adults will have the experience of immediacy and vision, and we have not experienced this kind of thing before being reborn.
Meng Zhe comforted himself like this, but when he answered Du Yiwei's question, he replied like this: "Theoretically speaking, in this time and space, these comics are indeed drawn by me alone, of course, in another time and space, the owner of these comics will probably become someone else." β
This answer made Du Yiwei look at Meng Zhe in surprise for about half a minute, and then Du Yiwei smiled: "This joke is very cold, but it's not funny at all......
"Hehe, anyway, it's still a long time to say in the future." Meng Zhe grinned and spread his hands, and said in his heart: It's not that I don't say it, it's that you don't believe it...... In these years, no one believes the truth.
"Well, it's still a long time to come!" Du Yiwei narrowed her eyes, then nodded and replied.
In this way, Du Yiwei stayed in the Anime Boy, because "Anime Boy" stipulates that every editor must give himself an editor nickname for external use, and "Anime Boy" has since had a preliminary editor with his own nickname "Huailiu...... Of course, this is all a later story, because Du Yiwei has been arranged to live in advance, with the help of a strong male editor, Du Yiwei, who is wet and wet, was taken to her residence, as for taking a hot shower or something, there is no need to say more.
Before leaving, Du Yiwei recommended "The Slayer" to Meng Zhe who was suspected of plagiarizing his "Chess Soul", on the grounds that the comic was interesting.
In fact, even if Du Yiwei didn't say it, Meng Zhe would have gone to see it, but now Du Yiwei said that it just made Meng Zhe's curiosity a little heavier. So, Meng Zhe picked up the original manuscript of "The Slayer", and then read it page by page.
When he saw almost half of it, Meng Zhe returned to the title page of the comic, and after looking at the author's name, he showed a weird smile: "Zhang Heng...... It's really interesting. β
What kind of story does this "Slaughterer" tell that even Meng Zhe said was interesting?
To put it simply, the story of "The Slayer" is actually not complicated - several people who were in a long-distance bus but should have died in a car accident find themselves inexplicably appearing in an unknown world, and then the radio on the bus transmits strange mission instructions, and those who refuse to obey will suddenly bleed to death, and those who obey the instructions will receive various rewards...... Under the guidance of the car radio, people who should have died in car accidents step by step towards killing each other, and finally only one person remains. Then the last remaining person discovers that this event is actually a trap, and all the killings are just a live game to attract the rich to bet on.
This picture is full of severed limbs and blood "The Slayer", which is very much like a combination of the movie "Battle Royale" and the comic "Killing City", and the author's name Zhang Heng has aroused many associations with Meng Zhe.
Before his rebirth, on Meng Zhe's starting point Chinese Internet, there was a novel called "Infinite Horror", which created a genre of novels called Infinite Stream that shuttled through various movies, comics, and games.
And the author of this "Infinite Terror", zhttty, whose real name is Zhang Heng.
It's just that it's only 1994, even if this Zhang Heng is the Zhang Heng who wrote "Infinite Terror", where did he get this creative inspiration? If I'm not mistaken, the idea of "Infinite Terror" should have originated from "Killing City", and the eighteen-banned comic "Killing City" has definitely not been created yet, right?
And what to say about this "Slaughterer", although it is not up to what the discerning editor said, the painting is only a little worse than Meng Zhe, but if you compare horizontally with the level of all the comic authors published on the current anime boy, this Zhang Heng's painting is also slightly above the middle level.
Of course, the problem is not that there is no - plagiarism counts the same, and drawing too much killing content counts the same. Also, this manuscript, which is only five pages in total, is obviously still hasty.
No matter which of these two problems are the same, taking them out alone has already made it impossible for this manga itself to be published in "Anime Shonen"!
However, after careful consideration, Meng Zhe decided to write a letter to contact this Zhang Heng, talk about both issues, and then observe his words and deeds - there are actually not many Chinese cartoonists and people who are good at painting, but there are few who can tell stories! In this era, Zhang Heng can come up with this dark but interesting story, and the painting is not too bad...... It would be a waste of talent to abandon it.
This Zhang Heng just copied a small picture, and the other pictures are all original, aren't they? This situation gave Meng Zhe reason to believe that this Zhang Heng belonged to the type that could be rescued, of course, whether he could be rescued or not, he had to ride a donkey and look at the account book slowly.
β¦β¦ Three days later, at noon, Meng Zhe appeared outside the long-distance bus station with a strong cry, and after waiting patiently for more than an hour, he finally waited for his sister-in-law Jiang Xiyao, who ran out of the station with Huan.
"Ahh After discovering Meng Zhe who was waiting, Jiang Xiyao immediately stopped calling Meng Zhe as an outsider at all.
Behind Jiang Xiyao, Jiang Weirui dragged a suitcase with a little difficulty in one hand and a large brown paper bag with a drum in the other. The situation of the others is similar to Jiang Weirui, even Guan Yingyang's guy is very helpless to carry a big travel bag, and he is carrying two big bags in both hands - the Meng family and the Jiang family are going to go to the decaying capitalist Tokyo [***], the three well-informed aunts and seven aunts of the two families, where would they not come to ask for help to buy things?
I bought them for my friends and family, electronic products from companies like Panasonic and Sony, various cosmetics from companies like Toyobana, and a mess of clothes, hats, shoes and socks...... I packed two big bags, and I almost got overweight when I got on the plane back home!
In the call of the sister-in-law, Meng Zhe quickly stepped forward and reached out to find a bag in Jiang Xiyao's hand, and then walked in front of Jiang Weirui seemingly naturally, and reached out to grab the suitcase dragged by his future wife.
When grabbing the suitcase, Meng Zhe deliberately pinched his future wife's little hand - ha, yes, yes, the wood of the hot spring has white bubbles, and it seems to be much smoother!
Jiang Weirui, who was taken the opportunity by Meng Zhe to pinch her little hand, was shy and her face was flushed, she wanted to get rid of Meng Zhe's hand, but she was afraid that her parents, Uncle Meng, and Aunt Li would find out about Yingluo and her brother, so she could only pretend that nothing had happened...... Seeing that his future wife did not take away his little hand, Meng Zhe was also cheeky and thought that this was an 'unintentional event', he held his future wife's soft little hand while greeting his parents and future parents-in-law with a smile.
At this time, Guan Yingluo, who was also dragging a suitcase, walked a few steps quickly to Meng Zhe and said, "Meng Zhe, how is my novel?" β
Guan Yingluo's novel is naturally her "Cangsheng-Qin Huang", which was taken by Meng Zhe and serialized in the "Light Novel" magazine.
Since Guan Yingluo asked like this, Meng Zhe couldn't help but answer, so he replied: "Judging from the reader survey, it is the second place." β
"What, it's only second place? Who is number one in the reader survey? β
As soon as she heard that she had only won the runner-up, Guan Yingluo suddenly felt a little upside down.
"Zeng Yu's "For Our Only Home"."
Meng Zhe replied.
"I'll go back and revise the original manuscript, and I'm absolutely going to win the championship in the second issue!"
Guan Yingluo clenched her fists and said.
"Well, the original manuscript of the second issue, there is no way to revise Guan Yingluo, the layout has been arranged a few days ago, and now it has entered the stage of printing. Therefore, if it is revised now, it will bother the editors of the editorial department of "Light Novel", but the manuscript of the third issue can still be modified...... What's that, Yingluo, how did you guys spend the next few days? β
Meng Zhe is a little embarrassed, the second issue of "Light Novel" serialized in the monthly magazine is about to be printed now, and it is impossible to change it at this time!
Therefore, after stating the facts that could not be modified, Meng Zhe tried to change the topic.
"It's not good, I say I'm a pervert!"
Guan Yingluo glared at Meng Zhe, and then said angrily.
Hey, hey, I'm a pervert or something, what's the matter with me, my Miss Guan?
Although Meng Zhe felt that he had suffered an unwarranted disaster, he would definitely not touch Guan Yingluo's head at such a time, this girl was so crazy that even her brother Guan Yingyang could scold her brother for squirting blood, Meng Zhe didn't want to enjoy this kind of treatment.
"What's wrong?"
Meng Zhe, who didn't plan to touch Guan Yingluo's moldy head, glanced sideways at Guan Yingyang, who came over with a wary face - Guan Yingyang, who was a sister control, would definitely know what was going on, Meng Zhe thought so.
"Meng Zhe, what are you talking to my sister about, what are you talking to her about Akihabara......" Guan Yingyang also showed a dissatisfied expression.
It's just that before Guan Yingyang's words were finished, Guan Yingluo's cheeks flushed slightly red, and she had already turned her head and glared at her sister-in-control elder brother, and gritted her teeth and said: "Brother Soul Light, if you dare to tell that matter, I will never recognize you as a brother again!" β
Okay, okay, if Guan Yingluo said this sentence in a frenzy, Meng Zhe's curiosity would probably end there, but Guan Yingluo would be so crazy before he even said anything...... Guan Yingluo is in Akihabara, and something very interesting is definitely going on!
Meng Zhe's curiosity was aroused, so he glanced sideways at Jiang Weirui, who was still holding his little hand, and passed a 'Do you know?' of eyes. It's a pity that Meng Zhe was heartbroken that his future wife, who was supposed to know everything with him, actually shook her head continuously and firmly stood on the same front as Guan Yingluo.
No way?!
I've only been back for a few days early, Xun'er girl, you have been bought by Guan Yingluo?!
Meng Zhe wanted to cry without tears, he felt that his Xun'er wife was simply a stupid girl now, Guan Yingluo, this girl is your rival, okay? Could it be that you still want to penetrate the enemy's interior and then disintegrate the enemy from the inside?
"Hee-hee, Meng Jiji I know too! As long as you promise to let my sister and I draw a long serial, I'll tell you what happened to Yingluo in Akihabara, okay? Jiang Xiyao came to Meng Zhe's side at this time, and tried to make a deal with Meng Zhe with her hands behind her back.
Although the "Legend of the Twelve Kingdoms" painted by the two big loli of the Jiang family at the beginning, the readers' response was very good when it was published on the anime boys, but Meng Zhe did not agree to let the two big loli draw a long serial, but let them continue to draw short stories. However, what is more tragic is that in the past few months, Jiang Weirui and Jiang Xiyao, although they have made up several short comics, they have all been shot by Meng Zhe with the big killer of 'boring'.
"It's impossible to be long, but you can consider short."
Meng Zhe said with a wink.
"Yay! Deal! Before Meng Zhe's words fell, Guan Yingluo stretched out her invincible scissor hand at Meng Zhe, and then this Nizi directly pulled up Meng Zhe's hand holding her sister, and hooked her little finger and Meng Zhe's little finger together: "Meng Jiji, we pulled the hook, so you must not say that it doesn't count!" β
"Ahββ, Yaoyao! You can't do that! β
Guan Yingluo dropped what she was holding in both hands, and rushed towards Jiang Xiyao in a shy and anxious manner, while Jiang Xiyao, who had been prepared, let out a giggle and ran away after sticking out her tongue.
"Beware of people! Watch out for the car! β
Jiang Xiyao's mother, Hu Caiwei, made a worried reminder in the back.
"Hee-hee, it's okay Mom!"
Jiang Xiyao, who didn't look back, replied with a smile, and then found that Guan Yingluo, who was 'chasing' her, was approaching, let out a scream and accelerated away.
"Kaoru'er, these days...... Did you miss me? β
Taking advantage of this chaos, the attention of adults was attracted away by Jiang Xiyao and Guan Yingluo, who were running away, Meng Zhe quickly came to Guan Yingluo's ear to ask questions.
"Cai, I don't want you!"
Meng Zhe's straightforward question made Jiang Weirui's cheeks turn red in an instant, and after she answered in a panic, she dragged the suitcase and walked away quickly.
Cai, Cai don't want to?
Ha, that's not honest at all!
Meng Zhe, who was very happy, wanted to catch up, but unfortunately before he took the first step, he heard the voice of his mother Li Guilan: "Xiao Zhe, why are you still stunned?" Why don't you hurry up and pick up the two bags that Yingluo put on the ground and carry them? β
Misfortune...... Life is unsatisfactory and there are ten **...... Meng Zhe looked sad and angry, obeyed his mother's order, and picked up the two bags that Guan Yingluo 'put on' on the ground from the ground, and then he began to wonder how good it would be to have a car.
In this way, only the first half of this trip to Tokyo was in line with Meng Zhe's original plan, and finally came to an end after the three families returned home.
And Meng Zhe also re-lived a life of wandering back and forth in four places: Wufeng Temple, his own home, the magazine office, and his future parents-in-law's house. Every once in a while, Meng Zhe will also go to the instant noodle factory to have a look, check the accounts, check food safety or something.
The day before school started, Meng Zhe finally received a letter from Zhang Heng, the author of "The Slayer".
Zhang Heng said in the letter that the reason why he plagiarized the picture of Meng Zhe's version of "Chess Soul" on all original works was only because he saw the "Sea of Stars" that plagiarized "Five Star Story", and he could actually get praise from the editor and the short story censor of the month, so he deliberately drew it, just to satirize the editors of "Anime Boy" who couldn't even find such obvious plagiarism.
Because when Zhang Heng replied to the letter, he published the issue of the animation boy who had decided to punish "Sea of Stars", which had already been sold on the market, so Zhang Heng also saw it. In his reply, Zhang Heng expressed a very sincere apology for his behavior.
And because Meng Zhe curiously asked about the source of the idea of "Slayer" in the letter, Zhang Heng replied that the idea of "Slayer" actually came from the multiplayer battle match Battle-Royale in the professional wrestling league WWE in the United States.
In WWE's format, there will be an indefinite number of fighters in the battle until the last fighter who is not knocked out is the winner of the event.
However, although Zhang Heng's idea is battle-royale, because he drew this cartoon to satirize the editors of "Anime Boys", he added such as 'survivors' who obediently complete the task, and they can get various reward items - these rewards are actually alluding to the manuscript fees issued to plagiarists.
As for the blood or something, it was also Zhang Heng's intention, he didn't want his paintings to be published at all.
'I'm sorry, now I know I was wrong!' It turns out that the "Anime Boy" I like is so bright and jealous like hatred! Reading magazines is like looking at people, Mr. Jiji, you are good! Pure gentlemen!! β
At the end of the reply, Zhang Heng wrote
(To be continued)