Chapter 167: Gluttony and Howl

The next morning.

The old book is finished, and the new book is not opened,

However, Ji Zhuo's work and rest habits are still the same, and he still sleeps until the sun is empty.

It's not a natural awakening,

Instead, someone sent a penguin message, and several of them woke up Ji Zhuo, who was sleeping hazyly.

tossed and turned on the bed and rolled back and forth a few times,

Ji Zhuo still got up and touched his phone and looked at it.

It is the news sent by the editor-in-chief Qian of Huating Publishing House and the editor-in-chief Tao of Modu Publishing House.

The content of the news is not as good as that, about "Night Tour of the Capital City".

Before, Ji Zhuo let the two of them discuss it by themselves,

I don't know how it was discussed,

In the end, the two editors-in-chief decided that the two publishing houses would jointly publish the physical book of "Night Tour in the Capital City".

Ji Zhuo looked at this news and seemed to be able to make up some conversations between the two.

“…… Can you, Huating Publishing House, publish this kind of myth? ”

"What's the matter, your Demon Capital Publishing House is powerful, our Huating cooperates well with Mr. Bugong, you have to ......"

"What do you mean by cooperating well, let's cooperate with Mr. Ji first, if Mr. Ji hadn't taken pity on your publishing house, he would have agreed to ...... in your publishing house."

"Okay, our publishing house can't do it, right, then it's ...... Bibi"

"Compare is better than ......"

Ji Zhuo felt that the content of his brain supplement was estimated to be similar to reality.

In this regard, Ji Zhuo naturally has no opinion, anyway, whether one publishing house publishes his book or two publishing houses does not affect the royalties given to him, maybe there will be more.

This time, the royalty sharing ratio is still set, which is the same as 15% when Huating Publishing House published "Caged Bird" before, which is already outrageously high.

Ji Zhuo touched his phone,

sent a message back to Editor-in-Chief Tao and Editor-in-Chief Qian,

agreed to hand over "Night Tour to the Capital City" to be published by their two publishing houses at the same time.

As for the contract, I don't go to the publishing house to sign it in person, just let them send it as before.

"Ah~"

Ji Zhuo finished replying to the message, and put down the hand holding the mobile phone,

He yawned, looked back at the bed, and fell into deep thought,

I'm awake, do you want to go back to sleep?

Never mind......

"Whoa......

Ji Zhuo got up,

On a whim, I opened the bedroom curtains that I hadn't opened for a long time.

In an instant, the noon sunlight outside the window penetrated into the bedroom,

It's rare to see it so bright in the room.

basking in the sun, Ji Zhuo felt comfortable,

Leaning against the bay window, I feel a little bit reluctant to move, what's going on?

No,

Ji Zhuo, you have to cheer up!

I have to write a new book!

Let's take 10 minutes...... The sun is weirdly comfortable.

…… Five minutes later, Ji Zhuo went to wash.

It's already hot, and it's really unbearable to bask in the sun.

……

“…… Congratulations to the host for achieving the goal of the main professional task in this issue, creating an online book with an average order of no less than 1.8w, and a complete book with a word count of no less than 200,000. ”

"Congratulations to the host for getting: Story +1, Inspiration +1, Freedom Attribute +8"

"Congratulations to the host for creating a work, and the main class experience is +1"

After washing, Ji Zhuo sat at the desk in the study.

The sunlight outside the window was reflected in the window a little further to his left,

While opening the laptop, I moved the position of the mechanical keyboard.

By the way, Ji Zhuo glanced at the system's reminder after the completion of "Night Tour to the Capital City".

There are no surprises, and the current target of 1.8w has been achieved.

Looking at the reward of attribute points, Ji Zhuo had an urge to add all the eight free attributes to the speed,

Let's see if I can fight some tentacle monsters like that.

But after struggling, Ji Zhuo compromised,

I still chose the balanced point method, so that although there is no shortcoming, the growth of the longboard is also the slowest.

I'm afraid that one day all his attributes will give him a growth board and become a hexagonal warrior.

Ay......

I was forced to become a great writer when I couldn't get the wool of the system?

The eight free attributes were added more balanced, and he also added two points to the script attributes.

So the system interface becomes like this,

"Host: Ji Zhuo.

Main occupation: Writer.

Primary Class Level: Level 3 (3/5)

Subclass: Screenwriter (Level 2) (0/2)

Subclass: Not yet available.

Class Attributes:

Writing: 15

Plot: 15

Speed: 17

Inspiration: 15

Script: 11

The current task goal of the main profession: According to the level of the main profession and previous works, the requirements are: to create a physical sales volume of not less than (10W-20W) or online orders of not less than (2.4W-5W), and the number of words in the completed book is not less than 200,000.

(The specific requirements are determined according to the theme and type of the new book in the current issue)

Rewards: Plot +1, Inspiration +1, Free Attribute +8.

Current encouragement: 6 million/month.

Sub-occupation: screenwriter's current goal: ......"

Looking at this well-balanced various attributes, I inexplicably feel a lot more comfortable.

I don't know what level I am at in terms of the degree of my own attribute?

Maybe it can be ranked in a good position in the network, and now it can also play a dozen in the physical popularity.

But if you compare it with the writers, writers, and writers of the past and present.

Ji Zhuo felt that he could be ranked in front of him, but he didn't know how many pages he could write just by writing his name.

It's not presumptuous...... Let's just say that many Chinese writers want to be the one surnamed Lu and Zhou,

Can Ji Zhuo compare now? Ji Zhuo felt that he was choking enough.

And Lu has a bunch of names in front of him, and it is estimated that he can write many pages.

There's a long way to go.

But on the other hand, it's not so difficult to hit the street.

At least it's still a long way from being able to hit the streets.

Ji Zhuo nodded,

I'm very happy with this kind of reverse thinking.

Glancing at the main career experience again,

There are still two books to complete, and the experience is enough to level up.

Eh...... I'm going to write two books at the same time this time,

Although I only use one book to deal with system tasks, I really want to write two books.

System do you give experience?

That's a problem.

Further down,

Seeing the requirements of the current goal of the system,

Ji Zhuo's eyes lit up, this time the system goal requirements have been improved a lot.

However, the uncertainty range is also large, and I don't know how much this goal will be determined when my new book is determined.

But the system goal is high.

The higher the requirements, the more "win-win" they are.

The higher you are, the more you don't earn a high manuscript fee, or you don't want to get the wool of the system!

It's best to be able to reach the ceiling!

……

Again looking at the eye system,

Ji Zhuo turned off the system interface with satisfaction.

The computer screen in front of him also lit up.

At this moment, the sun is just right in the study, and the air conditioning is on.

Everything is ready, Ji Zhuo is ready to start writing a new book with a clue, a serious subject.

Open the codeword software.

Ji Zhuo first knocked out the name of the new book that had been determined - "Seven Door Sins"

But after the title of the book is knocked out,

Ji Zhuo paused again,

He was considering whether the book should be written directly in English or in Chinese first.

Written directly in English, it means that this book is ready to be 'dark Chen Cang',

With the identity of a completely new to the foreign literary world, it is released abroad.

Written in Chinese, it is naturally 'Ming Xiu Plank Road', issued in China.

But books with serious themes are easier to pounce on?

Take it to deal with the mission objectives of the dog system, and the wool of the system seems to be better.

For the identity of a completely newcomer in the foreign literary world, writing a book with a serious theme, no matter how you look at it, it looks like you have to pounce.

It's not about settling on top of steady.

hesitated,

Ji Zhuo deleted the title of the book again,

The English name has been changed.

Translated to the same effect,

It's probably the 'Seven Sins.'"

And then there's the introduction.

Since it is a foreign publication, it is natural to get a brief introduction to foreign style.

"The Lord said, 'Believe in me, and do not go to hell, but to heaven.'"

Whoever believes in me will receive bread and milk, beautiful sex and money, and eternal bliss, Satan. ”

After this profile is typed out,

Ji Zhuo looked at this English introduction and paused,

As for this profile, if it is seen by some religious fanatics abroad, I am not allowed to spray it off the shelves.

Fast forward to the small publishing house, which could not bear the protest, and was forced to remove the "Seven Sins" from the shelves.

Isn't that more stable?

Ji Zhuo nodded with satisfaction,

I've started a new chapter and I'm ready to start writing the main text.

The text is naturally written directly in English, so as not to be translated later.

When I watched the English version of "Caged Bird" before, Ji Zhuo found that

Their own writing attributes obviously play a role in other languages as well,

However, the writing attribute of the system is also to allow Ji Zhuo to better apply the vocabulary and sentences he has mastered.

Like other languages, Ji Zhuo can't be no, if Ji Zhuo is illiterate, he is the attribute point to the sky, and he can be a storyteller.

And this is written in English, and Ji Zhuo is also stumbling to write...... Although sometimes I know that I can use a better and more appropriate word,

But Ji Zhuo either can't remember clearly, or he simply doesn't know...... Not knowing is not knowing...... The system can't be hard-piped.

So Ji Zhuo wrote, and he had to use a search engine to search for relevant English words.

The sentences written are quite good, but the speed of writing is worrying...... The speed attribute also didn't improve his speed with the search engine much either.

"Gluttony"

This is the title of this serious first chapter, or rather the first chapter,

Ji Zhuo's 'seven sins' are going to write seven chapters,

Corresponding to the seven original sins in a religion as the title of the chapter,

Each chapter will write a story about the main character,

These seven protagonists have different identities, which can be regarded as somewhat corresponding to the title of the chapter.

However, this is a work with a serious theme, so the stories are more realistic or serious and depressing.

The seven protagonists are seven ordinary people, and seven chapters write the stories of seven ordinary people.

Each chapter is prepared to write tens of thousands of words, and there is no longer a distinction between chapters.

Now

took up the title,

Ji Zhuo began to write the first chapter, the story of gluttony,

The protagonist of the gluttony chapter is a night-stall vendor who lives in the capital of a small country in western Europa.

His name is Howl.

This small country in the Eurobas,

The north is still experiencing war, and most of the people are gathered in the capital of a small country.

At the heart of this small capital is a bustling and wealthy district, where neon-lit lights and riddles at night.

On the outskirts is a refugee area, and residents who have fled from all over the country have no place to live, so they have erected a shed around the original small capital.

These sheds are densely packed around the capital of the small country, and when it comes to night, they are also overwhelmed by the surrounding night.

Hal is different from the outermost refugees who have no job and no income.

He has a job - a stall in the night market,

He lives at the junction of a prosperous area and a refugee area.

Most of the residents here live in rented old houses, doing heavy and long manual labor.

The end of work is often very late, so there is a night market here, some people sell vegetables here, some people sell some utensils in life here,

Hal sells one of the local specialties here, a type of vegetables baked on toast.

Because people who do heavy physical work are prone to hunger, and it is clear that Hal sells enough to be filling and cheap enough,

So the business of his stall is very good.

The border between this prosperous area and the refugee area is very poor.

Those security policemen in the downtown area will not want to come here,

But the hungry refugees in the refugee area do.

But Hal has his own survival skills - like most of the vendors who set up stalls here, he pays a large protection fee to the local gangsters.

That's half of his monthly profits, and he has to pay every month.

But Hal is still very satisfied with this, at least the remaining money,

Enough for him, his wife and children to rent an independent old house in this neighborhood alone,

You don't have to share a house with another family, as you would with other families.

Perhaps when his children are older, he can find some planks to cut the living room in half and leave a room for his own children.

Originally, this kind of life would last for a long time,

But something has changed recently.

His child fell from the stairs,

Damn, there's no windowpane, just a window stretched with some plastic bag,

I don't know when it decayed, so his child fell from the upper floor.

At the time, his wife was doing odd jobs in another place, and he was out at a night stall.

When he got home and went downstairs,

Downstairs without a lamp, it was pitch black, and he only vaguely heard a child in the darkness calling for his father weakly.

Repeating the shout,

Then, he realized, it was his own child's voice...... Somehow my child's voice has changed,

Later, I found out that it probably hurt.

In this chapter,

The story of gluttony begins in this context.

“…… Hal pulled the old, mud-stained cart on two wheels, and stepped into the same steps as before, like an old ox dragging a rake, to the place where he came out. ”

"This position is unique to him, he taught the money, and he is only allowed to set up a stall here alone."

He pulled out the wooden frame from the stall truck, supported it under the handle in front of the stall truck, and connected the two wheels of the original stall truck, and the stall came to a standstill.

He fiddled with things in turn, and he put the broccoli and broccoli together, and ...... He was neatly arranged. ”

Then, he lit the coal stove that the stall was carrying, and fanned the wind with a rag, which was ignited, and the sparks of the black coal in the coal stove gradually ignited.

"The bright stove, the scorching temperature, the vegetables and bread on the grill, and the Hal standing behind the fire."

Hal was dripping with sweat down his cheeks and neck, like vegetables on the grill being grilled over coals......

The story is both depressing and heavy,

Coupled with Ji Zhuo's unfamiliarity with English words and writing, Ji Zhuo writes very slowly.

Although the sun outside the house swayed into the sunlight through the window, it lost its temperature under the action of the air conditioner in the house.

However, Ji Zhuo is substituted in the plot, and he still feels a little hot inexplicably...... Especially when you can't find the right words and still need to search, there is also dryness,

and then gradually immersed in writing,

The crackling keyboard sounded in the study,

Ji Zhuo stared at the computer screen, coding,

The sun outside the window began to set in the west, and gradually only afterglow remained.

In this new chapter, the words and sentences gradually emerged, and the content gradually increased.

The plot begins to unfold gradually.

“…… Soon, when the bread was baked hot, Hal raised his head for the first time to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and he welcomed his first customer of the day. ”

"It's a worker in a nearby factory, a very young man, with strong muscles and sweat all over his body, he always runs the fastest, and his arrival means that the other workers in that factory are about to leave work."

The sturdy young worker asked for a bread with vegetables, and Hal handed the prepared food to the young worker after brushing the bread with the best sauce.

"The young worker, sweating profusely, took it, like a hungry crocodile, opened its mouth, and eagerly devoured the food in its hand, biting, chewing, and swallowing."

"It's like there's only food left in your eyes, it's like being able to stuff all the food in front of you into your stomach."

Hal watched the young worker's movements, slightly squirmed his dry lips, and pursed his lips.