In the Fantasy editorial office of the White Bird Building, the working day is also coming to an end, and tomorrow will be the official holiday, and some editors who are far away from Qiu Nan at home have already taken leave for the car two days earlier.

Because the magazine is a two-issue issue, the work that should be done has been done before, and the editorial department is all leisurely, easily spending this last bit of time.

As for the topic of conversation, it's all over the world, but it's more about comics.

In any case, the Golden Apple Cup and Luo Shaocong, the winner of the Golden Apple Cup, are a topic that cannot be avoided.

"It's a high school student again, and I feel like the newcomer who has emerged recently is really young." Most of the editors who are still here are local editors, and Wang Xie is one of them.

"No, I've heard a few old authors complain recently, and the newcomers are too fierce recently." Dong Chen also echoed the voice, he was in charge of Fei Yuan's work was recently cut in half, it was a work that has been ranked around 16th, and occasionally it can reach 11 or 2, but even this is a stable work, and it can't escape the end of being cut in half.

This kind of thing is a blow to the author, after all, the meal ticket that has been maintained is gone, and it is also not a pleasant thing for the editor-in-charge, but there is no way, if the magazine wants to survive, competition is inevitable.

It seems that I feel that this topic is a little heavy, and it is almost the New Year's holiday, so we have some fun chatting, so everyone changed the topic.

"But I watched the story of the Golden Apple Cup before, and it is reasonable for Luo Shaocong to win the award."

"That's right, if Gu Chengfeng of last year's Golden Apple Cup is a rare genius in ten years, this should belong to a ghost talent, Lao Ye, you really dug a good seedling."

"Coincidentally." Ye Chuan had already prepared a reply, but the smile on his face was still a little proud.

The name of Luo Shaocong's story is "Pandora's Game".

As I said before, he was inspired after seeing Liang Yu and Chen Nan's award-winning works at the Red Dragon Award, so he drew a work called "Shadow" and submitted it to Ye Chuan, which also made Ye Chuan see the huge potential of this newcomer, and this "Pandora's Game" can be said to have departed from the imitation at the beginning, and it is a work that can really give full play to Luo Shaocong's own characteristics.

It is the same as "Pursuit", with strong contrasts, and the contrasting positive and negative protagonists are opposed to each other in such a story structure, but in the direction of the plot, Luo Shaocong and Liang Yu, the author of "Chess Soul", have an obvious difference, Liang Yu is good at portraying characters, and is used to using the plot to set off the hearts and atmosphere of the characters, so that readers can feel resonance, and Luo Shaocong is just the opposite, all his roles are his chess pieces, the exquisite layout is like a spider laying a web, he uses his ingenious perspective and narrative to weave tension, The air of suspense, if you've seen Saw Horror, is the same type as him. Of course, this is just a metaphor here, and plasma tablets don't appear in shonen manga.

The story stems from a gamble between demons, who seek out "agents" in the human world in order to have some fun with the long void and to harvest delicious souls, and then give them an ability to fight with the demons themselves.

It's not very innovative, and there are similar stories in Fantasy, but the point is that, unlike those mainstream battle comics, this is a battle that incorporates thought. The demon's ability is not absolute, he just gives you a different ability, such as the protagonist by signing a contract with the demon and obtaining a pocket watch engraved with thirteen characters. When carrying this contract item, you can use the ability to rewind time by 5 seconds, and the number of times you can use it is limited to 3 times a day.

The short story that won the Golden Apple Cup is to intercept such a battle of wits and courage, which not only has the passionate side of juvenile comics, but also the suspense that cannot be seen in ordinary works, and it is worth mentioning that Luo Shaocong's sketching skills accumulated since he was a child, so that he has an obvious sketch style of painting, which complements each other with this type of story, so that it is not difficult to understand to impress the judges.

And most importantly, "Pandora's Game" is not like the short story that ends in one sentence in "Pursuit", its setting is very exciting, even if it is directly redrawn into serialization, there is no problem.

"Next, it's time for the author of "Pandora's Game" to draw a storyboard and submit it to the serialization meeting, right?" Guo Pinyuan came in at this time and said a word, he had just come in from outside, and he shrank coldly.

"It's already done." Ye Chuan said.

"What?" On the contrary, Guo Pinyuan, who asked just now, and the other editors present were taken aback, strictly speaking, the results of this Golden Apple Cup will not be published in the magazine until the next issue, but Ye Chuan actually said that he had already drawn the serial storyboard, hey, hey, he really believed that this newcomer would definitely win the championship?

However, this question, for Ye Chuan, is obviously certain, just kidding, he dug out this newcomer, and it took half a year to win the Golden Apple Cup today, if he didn't even have this grasp, he could only prove that his vision was too poor, but Ye Chuan was very confident in his vision.

I saw him glance at Guo Pinyuan, who was sitting not far from his group, and Liu Xiang, who was not far away: "I'm serious this time, are you ready to take it?" ”

"Uh......" Guo Pinyuan was obviously stunned, he and Ye Chuan are in the same group, and their relationship is usually a teacher and friend, I didn't expect him to say this, and Liu Xiang glanced up at Ye Chuan and replied flatly: "Although I also think Luo Shaocong is very good, Gu Chengfeng will not lose." ”

As Gu Chengfeng's editor-in-charge, he knows very well that the changes made by Gu Chengfeng during this period will definitely cause a qualitative reaction in the near future.

For a while, the current of mystery was rushing in the sky above the editorial office, and the smell of Mars could be smelled from afar.

As for Chen Nan, Liang Yu and Luo Shaocong on the other side, the three authors chatted peacefully, they may not have thought that the author had not said anything yet, and the editors over there had already started to fight.

But at this moment, there are already some signs, and in about a week, the name Luo Shaocong will be widely known with the new issue of Fantasy magazine.