February 3, the 29th day of the Lunar New Year.

Today is the last day of work for most companies, and of course it is also the last day of work before the Spring Festival.

At the same time, the final VTR editing of the twelfth episode of "Soul Eater: Zero" was completed, and at this point, the work of the animation production team was basically completed.

It happened to be Chinese New Year's Eve, so Xu Rui decided to invite people who were still at their posts and did not go home early to have a good meal.

At four o'clock on this day, Phantom Electric finished his work, Xu Rui locked the door, called a few cars, drove to a nearby restaurant with good reviews, and booked a large box with four large round tables.

Full of wine and food, Xu Rui didn't get too late, and let everyone go home before ten o'clock.

He and Yi Qianqian took a taxi back to their home community, and most of the houses here were still lit, only the university became quiet, without a sound.

"Come with me around the school."

When he walked to the door of the community, Yi Qianqian suddenly spoke.

"Now?"

Xu Rui looked at the school where only the guard room was lit, a little puzzled, but still nodded.

The two sneaked into the school while the doorman was not paying attention, and found that there were even a few rooms in the laboratory building with lights on.

"It's hard."

Xu Rui sighed with emotion, and saw Yi Qianqian walking to the side of Wutong Avenue.

The trees beside the road had long since lost their leaves, and the bare branches were empty, except for the moonlight that fell a patch of hoarfrost, which was hidden from the snow left over from the day.

The moonlight is so bright that you can see the road clearly even without street lights.

Yi Qianqian walked in front, Xu Rui walked behind, the two were speechless, and just walked.

"It's finally done."

Walking to the end of Wutong Avenue, Xu Rui glanced at the quiet stadium on the side and said with emotion.

"yes."

Yi Qianqian nodded slightly.

"I thought it would be a little harder."

She refers to the entire production process, due to the high degree of completion of Xu Rui's storyboards and performance drafts, so the problem of getting stuck in most animation productions does not appear on Phantom Electric, although a large amount of outsourcing slightly reduces the quality, but it also saves the company's original painting time, and can achieve the best effect in a few episodes of frequent combat performances.

"yes, I just finished the production of an animation, and I feel like I've been squeezed dry."

Xu Rui smiled, the Spring Festival is his most relaxed day, because this week of the Spring Festival, most of the animation will be off the air for a week, so he can wait until after the festival to complete the last finishing work, this holiday is very leisurely.

"But after the Spring Festival, I have to get busy again."

"Do you have an idea for a new work?"

Yi Qianqian heard what Xu Rui meant, and the average animation company will not wait until all the work is broadcast before starting the planning of the new work, but before the end, they have to find the next job.

"It's not confirmed yet, Brother Cheng seems to have an official project for a single episode being discussed, and I have an idea of my own, but it's also a bit troublesome for the original animation to pull sponsorship."

Xu Rui scratched the back of his head, after the animation of "Soul Eater: Zero" was launched, Phantom Electric received a lot of large and small orders, but they could only complete one in the short term, so the screening became very cautious.

Phantom Electric now has only one debut animation that is extremely popular.,But it's also high and high.,If the second animation suffers Waterloo.,Or even just mediocre.,Then people's evaluation of Phantom Electric will plummet.。

Xu Rui is preparing to start a large-scale expansion after the year, at least the next animation will be completed by Phantom Electric as much as possible, after all, in Xu Rui's view, outsourcing is not always a long-term solution.

"Ah, the fifth episode is coming soon."

Looking at the watch, it's close to eleven o'clock, and the fifth episode of "Soul Eater: Zero" is about to air, this episode is a daily episode, the basic focus is on portraying the characters, and it is also an outsourced episode.

The pre-order list of discs for January animation has been announced, and "Soul Eater: Zero" beats the works of other major companies to win the top spot, and according to experience, the sales of the first volume should be around 7,000, compared to the average sales of 15,000 discs that have been released now in "Iron Magician", the gap is very large.

This did not surprise Xu Rui, on the one hand, in terms of hard production strength, "Iron Magician" is indeed two or three notches stronger than "Soul Eater: Zero".

Due to funding, schedule, and outsourcing, Soul Eater: Zero often has a slight collapse except for a few important scenes, and the vista often saves materials.

In contrast, "Iron Magician" has almost no collapse in the whole process, even the masses in the big scenes, there are detailed depictions, which amaze the audience and impress the producers.

Xu Rui knows that if it weren't for the publicity fraud and explosive start, "Soul Eater: Zero" would be completely unable to match "Iron Magician's" in terms of production, and now that it can have such popularity, the attention of passers-by is indispensable, but these people are at most a member of Chengkong Video Network to watch it in advance, and it is not expected to buy a CD.

Relying on the copyright fee of the website, Xu Rui can earn about 3 million, of course, most of this money has to be used to offset the funds advanced by the previous production committee, and it is estimated that only a little bit will be left after deduction.

Xu Rui still hopes that the disc can sell more.

According to the pricing of 500 for a Blu-ray disc, if the four volumes of "Soul Eater: Zero" have an average of 5,000 volumes, it is tens of millions of income, after deducting the cost, and then sharing it with the production committee, there is also a net income of nearly 2 million, which is enough for the phantom power to cope with the window period of several months and the pre-investment of the next animation, if it can successfully pull the investment, it will not be overstretched in terms of funds as it is now.

It can be said that after the production of the animation "Soul Eater: Zero", Phantom Electric is completely functioning normally.

Instead of watching the fifth episode, the two continue to walk in the quiet campus.

At this moment, a little light appeared in front of me.

Xu Rui looked and found that it was a few students who had not gone home, wearing heavy down jackets and playing with fireworks on the side of the road.

Ningjiang City Inner Ring Spring Festival completely banned fireworks, but the campus of Ningjiang University is in the outer ring, but these college students did not dare to be presumptuous, set off the kind of hand-held fireworks, they have men and women, presumably when they are tired of scientific research, they run out to relax, between laughter and laughter, adding a bit of life to the campus.

Yi Qianqian didn't speak, just looked at the fireworks that burned quietly in their hands.

"Want to play?"

Xu Rui asked, and without waiting for Yi Qianqian to answer, he trotted over.

These college students thought that the security guards came to catch the fireworks, and they almost dispersed, but after seeing that Xu Rui was not a security guard, they also relaxed a little.

Xu Rui wanted to spend money to buy a few, but the students didn't ask for his money, so they gave some directly and a lighter.

Coming back with fireworks in his hand, Xu Rui saw Yi Qianqian biting his lower lip lightly, looking forward to it a little, but he was embarrassed to speak.

"Give."

Xu Rui stuffed two into Yi Qianqian's hand, and lit one in his hand himself.

Brilliant fireworks burst into the darkness, illuminating the side faces of the two.

Yi Qianqian hesitated for a moment, and also lit his own fireworks.

The two of them were on the quiet campus, on the side of the road where the snow had not yet melted, looking at the small but sure, trying to burn their own fireworks, the atmosphere was silent but harmonious, like the bright moonlight.

Xu Rui looked at the fireworks and gradually decided the next direction.

It was a story of wonder and magic.