If you become a monster, you will succeed

In July 2012, Backlund's situation was still far from peaceful. Although the "antichrist", "cultist" and "ripper" were arrested one after another, the story of the demon chef still reverberated in the city.

Almost every day, housewives get visits from demon chefs, and some of them have made great progress in cooking, and even started to become gourmet hosts on the Internet platform, and the label "disciple of demon chef" became a wealth code for a time.

However, as this element becomes popular, it is inevitable that there will be many people who pretend to be fake chefs. In order to attract people's attention, they also pretend that they have encountered demon chefs, and each of them can tell their experiences vividly. , but it is difficult to tell the truth from the false, and only those lucky ones who occasionally eat "youth food" and successfully rejuvenate can be able to stone their identity.

However, as the up owners of the beauty area later discovered the wealth code and joined this round of competition, it became more and more difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. The community forum that originally published the legend of the devil chef was acquired and upgraded by capital. In this way, it is often overwhelmed by a large number of visitors, and there are even a lot of news that self-proclaimed devil chefs appear here every day, and the photos of the accompanying dishes are even more exaggerated.

In the information age, traffic is wealth, and if you grasp the wealth code, you can eat a lot. And a second-rate newspaper that originally published all kinds of lace news seemed to want to catch the heat, and suddenly began to serialize a "devil coin" A novel as an introduction.

From the perspective of an interviewer, the novel tells a story heard from a friend. This story begins with the past and present life of the coin, and tells the story of an assassin organization from its birth, to its prosperity, to its decline, and finally to sprout again from the ruins. Throughout the whole process, the author's words and writing style completely imitated the structure of the "interview style", and even gave people the feeling that this is not a novel, but a real interview with a legendary assassin.

It has to be said that the reason why the idea of ​​"getting popularity" can appear is that it proves that "hotness" can be shaved. The demon coin, which is a hot topic in Backlund, coupled with the already good writing and a story that fits the aesthetics of the Victorians, once Even newspaper subscriptions have soared a lot (including online subscriptions).

What's more, the novel started selling on Amazon and various well-known physical bookstores immediately after it was finished. At the same time, the news of this book called "Libra Covenant" began to appear on the Internet, on TV, and even in mainstream magazines. All kinds of praises and curses filled the various platforms, as if he had never read this book in his life and lacked the confidence to talk to others.

And under this terrifying traffic promotion, some things are happening quietly:

Murders began to appear frequently across Victoria. Most of the dead were criminals who had committed crimes but were lightly sentenced for ridiculous reasons such as "giving a chance to reform". Many of them are still serving their sentences in high-security prisons , and at the scene of the crime, there is often a card left behind. The front of the card has a picture of a scale with a heart on one side and a gold bar on the other, and the famous quote of Sherlock Holmes is written on the back——

"When the law fails to bring justice to the parties concerned, private revenge is justified and even noble from this moment on."

And this happened to be the method used by Libra to organize the killing in that topical novel.

If it was just one or two cases, it could still be said to be a copycat crime, but in less than two months, hundreds of such cases have occurred, which makes people wonder whether this Libra organization is really exist……

...

"Hello? Old man, are you stupid? I just published the submission, right! Anonymous submission, I don't know the author.

"Huh? Why did I bother blowing that book? Isn't it your fault?

"Nonsense! You asked me to turn a tabloid newspaper into a top-notch newspaper. What else can I do except go astray?

"This novel is hot, topical, and well-written. If I spend some pocket money and ask someone to blow it up, won't the sales of my newspaper increase? Do you know how much the sales of my newspaper have increased?

"Compared to the recent advertising profits and the book's royalties, the money spent on promoting the book is nothing worth mentioning! Okay, okay, I understand, the pressure from above, right, no problem, just ban it, but It's okay for me to hit the edge, right?

"No, it's Liren. Yes, that's right. Sure enough, Jiang is still old and hot. I just thought about it. After all, it's too abrupt for lace news to be directly converted into a newspaper reporting on war. I will report some domestic disputes first. That’s right, it’s just a matter of popularity. If the cases I published really encounter the Libra organization’s actions, wouldn’t I be able to become popular again?

"Don't be so serious, this kind of thing is even done by Tussoke and Sunshine. It's a bit late for me to start now, but with the name of the serial publication of the novel "Libra Covenant", I should be able to grab some Yili, um, can you help me resist the pressure? You don’t want your daughter’s first business plan to collapse like this? Well, I love you so much! Goodbye!”

...

Jessica hung up the phone with a click, and then said to Feng Xue who was standing not far away:

"My old man called. The higher-ups put pressure on me to ban the book. I can't bear it, but I have no reason to. After all, I can't say that I wrote the book, can I?"

Hearing Jessica's words, Feng Xue grinned and said:

"It doesn't matter. In fact, it is a good thing to be banned. Think about it, among the books that have been banned in history, which one has not been popular? In other words, the more banned the book, the more popular it will be! You just wait and see, later It won’t be long before there will be a lot of private printing and pirated editions. Didn’t you sell overseas copyrights before? Maybe there will be exports to domestic sales after a while! It’s just a loss of royalties, do you care?”

"It seems to be the same reason." Jessica thought about it carefully, and found that there was nothing wrong with it. Anyway, as long as the story spreads and ordinary people know that there is a righteous partner called Libra, their goal will be achieved. As for royalties , not enough for her pocket money for a week.

"Okay, your progress is already much behind your juniors, let's start training." Feng Xue interrupted Jessica's deep thinking, and clapped her hands to signal her to return to the center of the practice room——

This was originally the gym of Jessica's family, but after starting training, those fitness machines went to the utility room in the attic, leaving only an empty room with yoga mats for exercise.

"What does it mean to be backward? I still need to manage the newspaper office and manipulate public opinion, but I don't just need to train like them..."

Jessica muttered dissatisfiedly, and walked to the center of the room, but before she finished speaking, a strong sense of danger came over her.

"Shua!" Jessica, who received the protection of "Strong Physique", immediately twisted into a posture that was difficult for a gymnast, and let the invisible blow go, but immediately after, two sharp strikes The feeling is lasing from different angles!

"Hey, I'm not ready yet!" Jessica protested loudly while dodging invisible attacks with gymnastic movements, but Feng Xue didn't stop her "sword of killing intent" at all, just serious typical:

"I don't have time to prepare for you in actual combat. If you don't want to die from bullets coming from nowhere, just focus on me! Also, call me an instructor during training!"

Regarding the relationship between the "Libra" organization and the devil...

The answer is that it doesn't matter, the protagonist is just casting a wide net.

After all, he is a newcomer. Although he knew from Lao Li that he wanted to condense the so-called "weird talk entries", he didn't know how to condense these things. elements] to expand.

Demon Chef is the first strange story he created, and it has achieved good results by relying on the power of housewives. It belongs to the traditional strange story and is based on [Chef].

The devil coin is the second strange story he made to test manufacturing professions, which violates his conclusion of "don't leave the real thing", because he wants to use it to test the power of manufacturing items. The basis of this strange story is [Money Printing Machine 】.

And after obtaining the mass production capability of the phantom coin, the protagonist planned the third strange story, which is the so-called "Libra Organization".

To put it simply, it’s a bit like a new up master making videos. He doesn’t know what kind of videos will be popular, so he plans to do everything he is good at. First, he will make the lowest-cost mixed editing, and after earning some money, he will make a handwriting that takes a little time. After it becomes popular, we will update the first two, and by the way, we will start a big project such as an unboxing evaluation.

If you insist on asking what is the connection between these videos, apart from being an author, there is really no connection, and there is no need for a direct connection, because they are not of the same species.

Of course, it's another matter for those bad guys to see Libra people as evil.