23. Opponents

In the Runda Garden high-rise residential apartment near the center of Qiunan City, the home and studio of the new cartoonist Gu Chengfeng are arranged here, and the expenses are deducted from the annuities and subsidies of the contracted authors, in addition to these, Gu Chengfeng's prize money for the Golden Apple Cup championship is enough to pay for these living needs - and there is a large surplus.

However, the young man was not satisfied, on the contrary, he greedily asked for opportunities and continued to climb towards the peak of comics.

Liu Xiang is Gu Chengfeng's editor-in-charge, unlike other editors in charge of newcomers, he is also an old senior, one of the leaders of the other three groups except Ye Chuan, and he still remembers the arrogance on the young man's face when he brought his work to the editorial department.

Yes, compared to talent, Liu Xiang first felt pride from Gu Chengfeng, at that time, he couldn't say that the authors serialized on Fantasy are all mediocre, and his opponent is only Mr. Toriyama.

Such words are surprising, and if they are spread, I am afraid that they will offend many people, and if another editor is present, it is estimated that they will have been impatient with this newcomer who speaks wildly. But Liu Xiang didn't, he knew that the current Fantasy was lacking this kind of young people who dared to take risks and were full of hard work, and he felt the talent in the other party, so he gave him a chance.

"But I didn't expect him to be able to do this, although Toriyama-sensei gave him a chance to finish the dragon pig, but ...... Is it really talent? ”

Liu Xiang came this time to receive the first serialized manuscript, and by the way, he informed the other party that the second serialization had been approved, and relayed the editorial department's request for the next issue.

He came to Gu Chengfeng's door and rang the doorbell: "Chengfeng, it's me." ”

The person who came to open the door was Gu Chengfeng's assistant after he started serialization, and the assistant was led by the editor, looking for those newcomers who were good at drawing or aspiring to publish in the magazine to help, but because the fee was paid by the cartoonist, the number of assistants was completely determined by the needs of the cartoonist.

Gu Chengfeng's assistants are 3 people, but with the start of his second serialization, the number of assistants will also increase.

"Ah, Editor Liu, you're here," although he said that, there was no hospitality, and he didn't even turn his head back, but Liu Xiang was also prepared for this, the cartoonist's studio is like this, it would be good to have a refreshing place to put his feet, this suite has a kitchen, but Gu Chengfeng and his assistants usually order takeout, and ask him to make tea or coffee, don't joke.

Liu Xiang looked at the back of the man sitting on the chair and kept drawing, it was hard to imagine that such a tall man was an indoor school, if he recommended to play basketball, there was no sense of disobedience at all, but such a guy has now logged into the ranks of popular fantasy writers.

But if you are not satisfied, you have to step on others and try your best to get to the top, it is such an ambitious person who can better adapt to this era.

Liu Xiangxin thought about it and opened his mouth: "Chengfeng, the serial short story you submitted to me before has been reviewed by the editorial department, and now I have to start creating formal content." ”

"Oh." Gu Chengfeng replied flatly.

"Hey, why aren't you happy, I thought you would be more excited to hear the news."

"No, I'm very happy, one author serializes two works at the same time, this is the first example in Fantasy." Although he said that, Gu Chengfeng's expression still did not change.

"In the past, there were still many authors who used different pen names to serialize in many magazines at the same time, but after the author's exclusive contract system was introduced, this situation ended. But you're right, it's impossible to serialize two articles in a weekly magazine, which shows how much the editor-in-chief and the editorial department have in you. Liu Xiang said.

"Don't worry, Editor Liu, I will definitely do a good job, with these two works, I will reach the peak of Fantasy popularity."

This kid...... It's really unstoppable.

Should I say it's self-confidence.,Or arrogance.,It's not at all the other serialized authors who don't take it into account.。

Liu Xiang felt that it was better to beat it here, if he was too pampered, he would be annoyed in the future: "I said Chengfeng." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Recently, the editorial department has accelerated the completion of old works, and even those works that were not in the ranks have been completed or moved to other books."

"So?"

"There will be more new people taking advantage of this opportunity to pop up, if you don't have a sense of crisis, you can't do it."

"Hahahahaha......" At first, Gu Chengfeng still tried to hold back, but soon not only his shoulders, but even the chair shook: "Hahahahahaha, interesting, Editor Liu, do you mean that there will be super newcomers like me coming out?" ”

Hey, say you're a super newcomer.

Even the assistants who were sitting on the side and were silent began to sweat on their foreheads, but Liu Xiang's reaction did not change, he just stared at Gu Chengfeng's back.

"Don't you think so?"

"No, if comics want to progress, they must be injected with fresh blood, this is the only truth that comics have developed so far," Gu Chengfeng said, his eyes seemed to burn: "That's right, that's interesting, hahaha, that's interesting." But first, let's go—"

"What?"

"Whether it's the outstanding old-timers of the past or the newcomers who are eyeing them down there, I don't plan to lose to them, I want to climb to the top and become the pillar of Fantasy, to the point where they can't reach the dust!"

After Gu Chengfeng dipped the ink with a dipping pen, he quickly pulled out the lines on the original paper, his technique was clean and concise, and the ink at the pen changed in thickness with the strength of his fine control, and after a while, a young man wearing windproof goggles and a hunter's costume jumped on the paper, staring at the future with the same happy and confident smile as Gu Chengfeng.

However, Gu Chengfeng probably didn't expect that his next opponent was still a guy who couldn't even use a dipping pen.

Although I can't wait to challenge the G pen of a professional cartoonist, it is clear that Liang Yu has failed.

The crooked painting is not to mention it, there are traces of being wiped by ink everywhere, and in a word, it is a long way to go.

"Hmm, it's really bad enough......" Even Zhu Ying, who was instigated at the beginning, couldn't stand it anymore.

After two weeks of hard review, the fierce high school entrance examination finally ended yesterday, and now they are gathering at Liang Yu's house for a celebration party, because they saw Liang Yu practicing sketching again, Zhu Ying and Fang Qing, who were curious, happened to Liang Yu also wanted to try to see how well he had practiced sketching for more than half a month.

But the result was terrible.