Fantasy has sold 5 million copies in Southeast Asia, and it reached 8 million at its peak, which is not counting the circulation in other parts of the Earth Federation, so it is not undeniable to say that Fantasy has one of the best influences in the industry.

Many people, students, working-class white-collar workers, and even workers from all walks of life have the habit of buying fantasy magazines every week, which has become a leisure way for them to work and study.

Du Wei is one of the fans of Fantasy magazine, he has been buying weekly Shonen fantasy magazines since elementary school, and now that he has graduated from college and found a job, this magazine is still his favorite. Unlike those young fans who are attracted by a certain story or an author, Du Wei has a soft spot for Fantasy, even when the popular authors have finished and the magazine's sales have plummeted, he has never given up this magazine, and he reads a lot of miscellaneous comics, almost all the comics on Fantasy, Du Wei will read them seriously, including those "dung" that end in a few words on Fantasy magazine.

He often feels sorry for the newcomers who get serialized but don't take the opportunity, and many of his works are not lacking in eye-catching ideas at the beginning of reading, but because of their youth, they can't control the story, and there are many examples of them being cut in half.

"It's time for the new Red Dragon Award again." Du Wei said with emotion.

Every year, Fantasy Magazine's two big bonuses for newcomer authors, the Apple Cup and the Red Dragon Award, are competitions for the magazine's hard work, but it is in response to the paragraph just now, the Golden Apple aside, the first place of the Red Dragon Award has always been jokingly called a curse by fans.

But all the works that have won the championship in the previous Red Dragon Awards are either serialized in a few words and disappeared into the history of Fantasy, or they don't even have official serialized works, and the reason for the bottom line is that their works are too literary and artistic, and they don't meet the fierce competition of business magazines. On the contrary, the author of the second, third, and even the best work finally became the mainstay of Fantasy magazine after some experience, and created their own world.

"Hey, Ah Wei, what are you doing here...... Read the comics, I'll go! "It was my colleague Xiao Wu who came out, and he and Du Wei joined the same class.

"Shhhh Du Wei took advantage of the absence of the director of the office to go to the conference room where no one was there to peek at the magazine.

"Forget it, I'm out for a cigarette anyway, ah, Fantasy, do you have any interesting works lately?" Xiao Wu asked.

"I haven't seen it yet."

"Let's go together." Xiao Wu turned over, sat down next to Du Wei, took out a cigarette case and gave it to Du Wei, and lit a cigarette: "Ouch, this painting style is good, I haven't watched Fantasy for a long time, who is the author of this comic?" ”

Xiao Wu is a waver who will buy a magazine for a certain favorite comic, and after the end of the "Dragon Pig" he likes, he has no motivation to buy a magazine, after all, for this type of reader, the works that he doesn't like or don't read account for most of the magazine, and if there are only one or two articles, he can stand in front of the newsstand and flip through it.

"Newcomer."

"Newcomer? Gu Chengfeng? ”

"Hey, didn't you say that you won't buy magazines when Dragon Pig is over, how do you know Gu Chengfeng?"

"Please, if I don't buy it, it doesn't mean that I went to Mars, and occasionally when someone looks at it, I will still borrow it and flip it over." Xiao Wu had an unbearable expression.

"It's a pity that I guessed wrong, this author is a pure newcomer who won the Red Dragon Award."

"Ah, the Red Dragon Award, it's already this time, let me see, the champions are two people?"

"One is responsible for writing the original story, and the other is responsible for drawing." Du Wei has read magazines for more than ten years, and he has long been familiar with this thing.

"Oh, but there are very few authors who can become famous after winning the Red Dragon Award."

"Hardly." Du Wei replied expressionlessly, casually turning the page.

"Wait, don't scroll so fast, I haven't finished reading the content just now."

"It's so slow, I'll lend it to you when I'm done."

"Don't be so unkind, let's go a little more—ah, okay."

The two of them watched the comics together, at first Xiao Wu was just bored to pass the time, and Du Wei himself didn't pay too much attention to it, but as the plot deepened, their expressions gradually changed, until when they saw the last page, their faces had been completely surprised and rewritten.

"Look at it again, it's too fast just now." Xiao Wu proposed.

"Okay."

So the two turned the story back to the beginning and read it again.

After reading this, the two were silent for a long time, and Du Wei did not continue to turn the comics, and the picture was frozen on the last page of the end of "Pursuit", just like the bullet that failed to land in the story, roaring in his mind, and the aftermath was endless.

"Hey, Ah Wei, is this really a newcomer's work, how do I feel more sophisticated than some serializers about this plot and this courage."

"Don't ask me, it's the first time I've seen the names of these two people in a magazine," Du Wei said, and by the time he was already looking for the page in the magazine about the Red Dragon Award, which contained the author's pen name and age, as well as the ratings and comments of the judges.

"Ah, it was recommended by Toriyama-sensei." As a fanatical fan of Dragon Pig, Xiao Wu said excitedly.

"16 and 15 years old, are you still a middle school student?" At this time, Du Wei couldn't help but be surprised, he didn't think that the author who won the Red Dragon Award was actually two middle school students in school, especially after reading the story just now, "Hmm, this original author is so powerful, is it not only the Red Dragon Award winner, but even the script champion of StoryDiary has also won, and the new serialization is on the 15th...... What's next? ”

"I'm moved, Liangyu and Chen Nan, for the sake of Teacher Toriyama, I will buy magazines to support them next time!" Xiao Wu suddenly burned.

Du Wei doesn't have this worry, he has been buying magazines to support Fantasy, and the Fantasy magazines alone at home have already filled a whole bookshelf.

"But the work they are going to serialize doesn't seem to be the work that won the Red Dragon Award this time.,It's "Chess Soul"...... Go? After noticing the content of the trailer, Xiao Wu said differently, "Is the Go comic interesting?" ”

"Don't ask me......" Du Feng said.

To be honest, Du Feng's heart was also vaguely uneasy, there was no doubt that the two newcomers of the Red Dragon Award this time were amazingly talented, which reminded him of Gu Chengfeng, who won the Golden Apple Cup in one fell swoop and is now very popular, but can the serialization of these two authors be smooth sailing?

The curse of the Red Dragon Award is terrifying.