Chapter 024. Li Ruoxuan's Melancholy
At the end of June, Ningjiang is in a hot summer.
The noisy cicadas made people's ears hurt. In Ningjiang Hi-Tech Development Zone, a dark blue car with a new frontline media sign was parked at the entrance of a slightly dilapidated four-story building.
Li Ruoxuan, carrying a black schoolbag, opened the door and got out of the car. She was wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt with printed print, slim jeans, sneakers, and the thigh of hair on her head simply tied into a single-sided braid. At first glance, she looked like a college student who had just walked out of school, but in fact she had just graduated for a year.
In an instant, he walked from the low temperature of the air conditioner in the car into the heat of Ningjiang outside. The noisy cicadas suddenly enveloped the new editor. Li Ruoxuan confirmed the address on her phone and looked up at the building.
"Is this the company?"
Li Ruoxuan walked into the shadow of the lobby on the first floor and saw the simple sign printed on A4 paper and the four big words "fantasy electric animation". She was a little worried. If it weren't for the introduction person being her familiar business partner, Li Ruoxuan would have felt that she might have been cheated and abducted.
Following the guidance, Li Ruoxuan finally heard a little noise.
It was the keyboard typing and some special sliding sound from time to time.
She poked her head out of the stairwell and saw several tables in the center of the huge studio. In front of the table, a girl was focusing on the screen.
The girl was wearing a burgundy dress, with her left hand on the keyboard and her right hand holding a pen and painting on the tablet. She was wearing headphones, with a serious expression, exuding a breath of being away from others.
“Is this a professional animation guy?”
This is the first time Li Ruoxuan has visited an animation company. Although the other facilities here are a bit shabby, Li Ruoxuan is still a little impressed when she looks at the girl's paintings.
She couldn't help but approach, wanting to see what the girl was painting, but after a closer look, Li Ruoxuan was stunned.
Because the girl's screen is not a world-famous painting, but a first-level view of a hand-held gun. The girl flexibly controls the movement of the game characters, detours, and then shoots her head and falls to the opposite side, like a professional player.
This is the scene of the battlefield summoning. Li Ruoxuan has heard of it. She has never played it before, but she has seen others play it. If the girl's operation is a well-trained soldier, then the boys in the Internet cafe that Li Ruoxuan looked at before were simply toddlers.
Li Ruoxuan glanced at the girl's killings, and the number of people killed was actually more than fifty, and more importantly, the number of deaths was zero!!!
"No, why are there people playing games in animation companies?"
Li Ruoxuan couldn't help but scream, attracting the attention of others.
"It's lunch break now, and as long as it doesn't affect others, you can do whatever you want."
A man with glasses next to him said that he also had a digital tablet and keyboard configuration in front of him, but the latest episode of "Ningjiang Zombies 2" played on the computer. Li Ruoxuan watched this last night and was deeply impressed.
"Who are you looking for?"
A slightly hunched middle-aged man suddenly appeared behind Li Ruoxuan. He was wearing a khaki shirt, just like a cleaning uncle in the editorial department who was responsible for cleaning.
"Uncle, I, I'll find your person in charge. I'm here to talk about cooperation?"
Li Ruoxuan was startled and said in a panic.
"Is it the editor of Xue Luo from the monthly magazine Youth Frontline?"
A voice came from the other side of the desk. Li Ruoxuan looked over and said that he was a very young boy, and he was very sunny. He walked over with a document in his hand and stretched out his hand to Li Ruoxuan.
"I am Xu Rui, the head of Fantasy Electronics, and I'm very happy to see you."
Li Ruoxuan hesitated and shook hands with the other party. Xu Rui's fingers were slender, but a little rough. The friction of calluses impressed Li Ruoxuan. She remembered that Teacher A Chuang's hand was the same.
Perhaps the same is true for people who paint.
"Please do this."
Xu Rui pointed to the conference room beside him and called Cheng Kewei again. The three of them walked in. After a simple greeting and introduction, Li Ruoxuan took out a thick stack of documents from her schoolbag.
"These are the previous plans of "Soul-Devouring", some sorted information, and..."
She said fluently, being proficient is a bit distressing. Li Ruoxuan had said these things to many animation companies before, but those companies had no plans to take over the "Soul-Devouring" animation.
Originally, these tasks should be the responsibility of colleagues responsible for copyright contact, but "Monthly Boys Frontline" is of special nature and as the editor who knows the most about comic content, it will also participate. At the same time, because "Soul Devouring" has been sentenced to death in the copyright department, only Li Ruoxuan is running around here.
"Please wait a moment, Xueluo Editor. Before we talk about animation, I want to ask you how much you know about "Soul-Devouring".
Xu Rui reached out and pressed the file that Li Ruoxuan was about to open and said.
"Well, "Soul Devouring" is the debut work of Mr. A Chuang, and it is a story about eliminating demons..."
Li Ruoxuan roughly talked about the plot.
The story of "Soul Devouring" is very royal and very simple. High school student Bai Jianshi has been able to see ghosts since he was a child, and sometimes he will use this ability to help some souls who have suffered wronged. One day, he met Li Leshen, a high school student girl who can control the huge white spirit beast "Bai Ze", and learned the truth about the world from her. He joined the Supernatural Disaster Office of the Natural Environment Bureau, and went to school while expelling spirits after school.
"Who is the character you impressed most in this story?"
After hearing Li Ruoxuan's narration, Xu Rui nodded slightly, as if she was evaluating her basic abilities as the editor-in-chief.
"Uh, it should be the heroine Li Leshen. She is strong and confident, but she feels like a little girl in front of the male lead, especially when she appears, she looks very handsome with her Bacchi stick in her mouth and stepping on Bai Ze's body!"
Although Li Ruoxuan is a new editor, she has carefully read every work in "Monthly Boys Frontline". She is not at all panic when facing Xu Rui's questions.
"When it comes to this, do you know why the heroine Li Leshen often holds a Baiqi stick in her mouth?"
Xu Rui paused and continued to ask.
"In the current plot, Li Leshen has almost never drawn his sword, but according to others' descriptions, she is also a master of swords. Why is this? What is the relationship between Huangfu Xun who appeared in Chapter 18?"
Xu Rui's series of questions made Li Ruoxuan look full of questions. Although she had watched "Soul Devouring" seriously, she had never thought about such problems carefully, nor had she digged into these settings in depth. After Xu Rui's inquiry, she realized it later.
"Hey, it seems..."
She took out the notebook, and the cover of the notebook was decorated with beautiful tape. Li Ruoxuan turned to one of the pages, which were the notes she took when she read "Soul-Devouring".
"Teacher A Chuang said that Huangfu Xun had known Li Leshen before and had a good relationship, but he didn't think about it specifically. The reason why he designed this character was just to show Li Leshen's past. This kind of plot that cuts off the past is very common in King's comics."
"So, are you curious about how this character interacted with Li Leshen in the past, and how did Li Leshen become like this now?"
Xu Rui said earnestly and temptedly, and then took out a plan from his side.
There are three words written on it.
"Soul Devouring: Zero".
Chapter completed!