Lin Yuan hasn't been to Shadow Studio for a long time.
There are not many people here now. Luo Wei and several other cartoonist apprentices are now working in their own independent studios. After all, everyone is now a well-known figure and even has their own assistants and apprentices.
Lin Yuan still likes to come here occasionally.
It's quiet here.
In addition to him, Kaneki would occasionally come here, and the two often met here.
Kaneki is here today too.
Whenever there is something, they meet here. This is the tacit understanding between Jinmu and Lin Yuan.
Looking at Lin Yuan who was sitting on the sofa holding his phone in a daze, Jin Mu smiled:
"The boss is very worried today."
Lin Yuan didn't say anything, his eyes fixed on his phone.
The news title on the mobile phone was "A volley of bullets, who is Chu Kuang?"
The comment section of this news was filled with curses.
There are many related news stories later, and the titles are like a TV series.
"Because the general manager of Geek Tribe maliciously slandered Chu Kuang, his company's stock price plummeted!"
《Blog user traffic surges, ranking first among global social platforms! 》
《Breaking news! The general manager of Geek Tribe resigned last night! 》
"Geek Tribe held a press conference this morning: Lingkong's behavior was personal and had nothing to do with the company. We apologize to Mr. Chu Kuang for the misunderstanding."
《…》
Jin Mu poured Lin Yuan a cup of coffee and glanced at his phone screen:
"Coffee."
"No tea?"
"It's nice to change your taste occasionally. Maybe coffee isn't as bad as you think."
"… "
Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, and seemed to understand Jin Mu's hint:
"Are you saying that Chu Kuang should step to the forefront?"
"It's almost time. Ling Kong is almost threatening to die, so why not fulfill his wish? But this truth may not be what he wants."
"Um."
Lin Yuan seemed to be thinking about something.
Jin Mu smiled and added: "In fact, the outside world does not believe you as much as it seems. It's just that people will subconsciously choose to believe in beauty. What's more, this is related to Xianyu and Yingzi. Some people believe in Xianyu, some believe in Yingzi. Not everyone believes in Chu Kuang."
"Maybe in a few days."
"Then I'll arrange a press conference."
"How about making Shadow's identity known to the public as well?"
"The impact is too great and the public needs to digest it slowly."
Kaneki spoke.
Chu Kuang’s identity should be exposed, but Shadow’s identity cannot be exposed at the same time. We have to wait until the public digests the identity of the first pseudonym.
"Um."
Lin Yuan agreed and then called the chairman.
"The company will cooperate with any decision you make."
The chairman, who also knew Lin Yuan's aliases, smiled and said, "It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it?"
“That’s what my family said.”
Lin Yuan talked about this with his sisters and mother in the morning. Everyone expressed their support for any decision he made, which made him feel particularly relieved.
…
In fact, Lingkong did not discover the truth.
The so-called firing is just a conclusion that Lingkong drew based on his intuition and observation of certain unreasonable things, which seems outrageous but has its own internal logical relationship.
If Chu Kuang is not willing to explain, no one can get any evidence to prove anything.
However, in Lin Yuan's eyes, this matter was more like a reminder that he had been hiding for long enough.
"After all, I'm hiding my identity."
For Lin Yuan, the existence of several aliases, whether out of goodwill or bad intentions, is bound to make him feel guilty.
Today is volley.
Who will question my own aliases tomorrow
Or it's just like what Kaneki said, even if some people don't say it, don't they have doubts in their hearts
In short, this matter needs a response.
Otherwise, there will always be such a question mark about Chu Kuang.
From the perspective of forcing the emperor to abdicate, Ling Kong was successful, but from a personal perspective, he was doomed to fail.
Having said that.
The power of this shot in the air was actually greater than he had imagined, almost deafening.
“Have I gone too far and exploited the work of a master?”
Lin Yuan was questioning his conscience.
The system answered Lin Yuan:
“If you knew how many people these works actually helped, perhaps you would change your one-sided idea.”
"One-sided?"
"The existence of the system is not to help the host reach the pinnacle of life, or that is a natural process. The truth of the system is ultimately for the sharing and exchange of culture in different time and space."
The sound of the system's electricity was actually somewhat sacred at this moment:
"You are an ambassador of time and space."
"If you bring light to Blue Star, then no one here has the right to question you where the light comes from?"
"Even if you shine brightly on Blue Star, the light of another time and space will not be diminished in the slightest because of your actions on Blue Star."
The sound of the system current in my mind is loud and clear:
"What's wrong with benefiting yourself if you don't harm others?"
"Besides, you not only do not harm others, nor do you only benefit yourself, but you also help the world. Maybe the host himself does not realize that he has not bargained with me for a long time. Those who get help will thank you."
“I was short of money at the beginning!”
Lin Yuan still remembers the feeling of being afraid of poverty. It was like carrying the despair of an entire family on his shoulders.
Even if he had to do it again, Lin Yuan would definitely think of having enough food to eat and letting his family live a good life. He didn't care whose hard work these works were. Anyway, this was not Earth. This was his long-standing philosophy:
If you are poor, you should just take care of yourself.
If you are successful, you should help the world.
If he was really great enough, he would have copied the four lines of Hengqu long ago: "Establish a mind for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, inherit the lost knowledge of the past sages, and create peace for all generations."
It's because I don't have the courage to take action because I don't have the broad mind to do so.
After a few years, I have really achieved some things and feel that I have a clear conscience. Let's try the power of the "Hengqu Four Sentences" again.
But the system did comfort itself today.
Just think of yourself as an ambassador for the spread of Earth culture.
Thinking so.
Kaneki next to him suddenly received a phone call and frowned.
"What's wrong?"
"It should be Lingkong who attacked again. This time, it was a dog-skin plaster. It seems that this guy will never give up on us."
"Dog skin plaster?"
Lin Yuan was stunned, then he looked at his phone, and immediately a piece of news popped up:
"After Lingkong, Song Fang attacks: I heard that Lingkong was dismissed from the Geek Tribe because he offended Chu Kuang. I, a neutral person who has no grudges against Chu Kuang, would like to say a few words. I have no ties and am not afraid of offending anyone."
"Song Fang?"
"He calls himself a counterfeit fighter, but he is actually paid for his work. He is very good at writing and leading the trend. There are some believers on the Internet. Lingkong must have given him money, otherwise he would not do it without profit. Of course, it is also possible that he just wanted to take advantage of the situation, but Lingkong ended up so miserably. I don't believe he can't tell the situation. There must be enough profit behind him, otherwise he would not dare to touch Chu Kuang."
Kaneki said with a frown.
Apparently, Song Fang is someone who is not easy to mess with:
"This person is very good at bickering. When the person concerned is annoyed and doesn't want to pay attention to him anymore, he will proudly announce that he has won again, or just unilaterally announce his victory."
"Just take a look first."
Lin Yuan clicked on Song Fang’s short essay.
Yes.
Same as volley.
Song Fang also wrote a short composition.
However, the difference from Lingkong is that:
The former are just all kinds of “I think, I guess”; the latter are better at presenting “facts” and explaining “reason”.
“Ten years ago, a small story happened in Hanzhou, Tianxia Publishing House.
People from other continents may not know much about it, but I heard about it from my Korean friends and I found it very interesting, so I want to share it with you today.
At that time, Tianxia Publishing House was on the verge of bankruptcy.
When the boss saw this, he thought, what should we do? We have to think of a solution.
Finally, they really thought of a solution, which was to find a so-called beautiful writer. This beautiful writer had an amazing record. She wrote eight books in one year. She was truly a model worker among model workers. As a result, her name as a talented woman spread throughout Korea!
The truth was later revealed during an internal conflict within their company.
It turns out that this goddess with amazing talent is an assembly line product created by Tianxia Publishing House. Behind this talented woman are several writers with very good levels, five of whom are rough men. At that time, my friend cursed and said why these people, who have the ability to write good works, would be ghostwriters for others
I didn't understand it at the time either.
It wasn’t until a global merger several years later that Chu Kuang became famous around the world. He sounded amazing. He was a mysterious writer who never showed his face, as prolific as a sow. His writing style could be masculine or feminine, offensive or defensive, defensive or cute. He directly spanned all major genres in the book market. It seemed that there was no subject in the world that he couldn’t write about…
I seem to understand a little bit.
Perhaps this will allow them to reach heights that they could never achieve individually
Now I deeply suspect that the team behind Chu Kuang is the same group of people in Han Zhou back then. Team operation and creating assembly line products are their forte.
Chu Kuang is a new IP.
Now this IP has achieved unprecedented success.
Even the real Chu Kuang is neither male nor female, neither yin nor yang, neither human nor ghost.
The more Ling Kong is scolded, the more it proves how despicable the so-called Chu Kuang and the team behind him are.
It is said that Chu Kuang can defeat capital with his talent.
Many people don’t know that Chu Kuang himself is the capital!
Perhaps this is another reason why the team was able to attract other writers to jointly operate the pen name Chu Kuang
Maybe what I said offended Chu Kuang’s fans, but it doesn’t matter. Just keep reading. There are even more outrageous things to come. If you want to know the truth, just keep reading.
… ”
Song Fang did conduct an investigation, and someone even helped him do the investigation. In the following article, Song Fang also made a detailed analysis of Chu Kuang's works, trying to tell readers through such comparison that the differences in the literary styles of these works could not have been written by the same person.
Lin Yuan almost thought he had really met a great god.
If you look closely, you can see that this person just speaks without thinking.
"The so-called Shooting Star Trilogy, the third part of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber must have a different actor. Compared with the first two parts, this work has obvious differences in tone, connotation, and creative ideas of the plot..."
This kind of stuff is very subjective.
However, Song Fang's argument gave people the feeling that his reasons were quite sufficient.
This fellow also likes to make jokes, laugh, and scold, imitating unruly literati, but in fact he just makes a few vulgar remarks from time to time to mock Chu Kuang in order to show his true and noble side.
"How can I bow my head and serve the rich and powerful, and make myself unhappy?"
At the end of the argument, Song Fang directly put himself in the shoes of the disadvantaged group, as if Chu madness is capital. Although I, Song, have no regrets in uncovering the truth today, I just don't know whether it was a coincidence or intentional. The sentence this guy quoted at the end was written by Xianyu in Lushan that year.
Lin Yuan laughed in the end.
This person can guess the truth even if he makes a random guess.
For example, he could have said that the Harry Potter series and the Shooting Star trilogy were definitely not written by the same person...
There are too many truths like this.
But this guy just wants to play tricks.
It is said that there is more than one author behind the Shooting and Withering trilogy.
It's really a multiple-choice question with four answers, three of which are correct, but you just happen to choose the only wrong one.
What kind of standard can we expect from such a person
He is just good at talking nonsense on the Internet and is extremely good at making unreasonable demands.
However, what Lin Yuan did not expect was that such a short essay that made him laugh would ferment in a very short time and be reposted by countless people on different channels.
It is such a clumsy little essay that has played an unprecedented role!
“There’s nothing wrong with that.”
"Could this be true?"
"I didn't quite believe it at first, but now I suddenly feel it's a bit hard to say. Chu Kuang never shows his face, and Shadow never shows up. It's fine if there's only one big guy like him, but how come two of them appeared at once?"
"Is it really like what Lingkong said?"
"Is Chu Kuang imitating Shadow's character?"
"If there really is a team behind Chu Kuang, does this team include Xianyu and Yingzi?"
“It’s a bit scary when you think about it.”
"Chu Kuang, don't you consider showing your face at this time? Give the public an explanation."
"Old thief, I've been your fan for so many years, I hope you can come out and explain. A grown man should not be afraid of showing his face. Those who hide their heads and show their tails are cowards!"
Some people were really convinced.
certainly.
It’s just that some netizens turned their guns around.
The majority of people are still resolute: "Don't you see what kind of character Song Fang has? I won't believe even a single punctuation mark in the words of a person like him."
"Force the old thief to show his face?"
“Isn’t this moral kidnapping?”
"Excuse me, how is the old thief going to prove that he wrote these books?"
"This is just a matter of mud falling into the crotch. There is no way to prove it. That's why Ling Kong and Song Fang dare to provoke us recklessly."
“Are there any manuscripts?”
"I think it was all written on the computer. I wonder if the old thief left any manuscripts."
"What's the use of a manuscript? The old thief must have typed it on a computer. You can't tell the handwriting on this thing."
"You can lock the old thief in a small dark room and make him write something. If he succeeds, he can disprove all doubts. If he fails, then don't blame everyone for saying he has a problem."
"Pooh!"
"I'm standing behind you now. I'm afraid it's hard for you to write an essay, right?"
"If you really write it, will you still say that Chu Kuang memorized the manuscript in advance?"
…
Some people have doubts.
Some people defended it.
Lingkong is gambling!
If he wins this time, he will have a chance to try again, but if he loses, there is no recovery!
But to be honest, Ling Kong was not being mean this time, he really thought there was something wrong with Chu Kuang!
Not just Chu Kuang.
Both Xianyu and Yingzi have problems.
After having a feud with his three best friends and being taught a lesson by them over the years, Ling Kong has been studying these opponents.
The more Ling Kong studied it, the more he felt that some of the things involved were suspicious.
There must be some secret between these three people!
"team"
"operations"
"Chess Game"
Various conspiracy theories appeared in Lingkong's mind. He felt that this must be the work of a team or even capital!
“The three best friends are the key to the operation.”
"Among three people, if one becomes popular, it can inspire the other two."
“Perhaps there are forces behind these three people, helping them to establish their status as gods!”
"Anyone who can think of this is a genius. This kind of operation requires precise vision and strong control. By combining the strength of many people and putting it on one person, this person will burst out with light greater than that of many people!"
"Great God, Great God, Great God..."
"This kind of superposition will eventually create a true God!"
"Why didn't I think of that before?"
"There is definitely room for maneuver in this kind of thing!"
Ling Kong himself is such a person, so he feels that there must be such a person behind Chu Kuang.
"Take off your masks and let me see who is behind this!"
Lingkong's eyes turned red and his whole body was shaking!
He wants the whole world to see how he will personally destroy the so-called three best friends!
In the movie "Kung Fu" by Xianyu, there is a famous line before the ultimate villain Huoyun Evil God and Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu fight:
"I just want to kill you two or be killed by you two."
Ling Kong now only wants to kill his three friends, or be beaten to death by them. There is no third way.
Thinking of this.
Ling Kong made several phone calls in succession. It didn't matter if he, a desperate man like him, was desperate today. He wanted to hunt down Chu Kuang and uncover the secrets of those three evildoers!