Indescribable cyberpunk

"Zhu Jue, the studio is in trouble."

On the return flight, Li Qinglian first looked at several chat rooms on TALK for a while, then opened the notebook she carried with her, clicked on several web pages in succession, and said with a frown.

"Um?"

Zhu Jue, who was staring at the clouds outside the window in a daze, turned his head and saw a line of titles on the computer screen at a glance: "Federal Hero - Monster Hunter!" 》

"This is the most popular parody video on the Internet in recent times. I have watched the content. It is similar to several of our videos. I went to Guangyuan City to hunt several mental pollution monsters alone. Most of them are mutants of human-faced rats. Deep One Mutant"

"Isn't this what we have expected, trouble?"

Zhu Jue looked at the content in the video and asked with some confusion.

The fact that Weird Studio makes a lot of money from filming monster videos is not a secret that no one knows. On the contrary, because of the publicity needs of sponsors, there is almost no discussion on the Internet about Weird Studio’s ability to make money. Never stopped.

But no matter how we discuss it, one thing is generally accepted, that is, the people in Weird Studio have become millionaires because of these videos! No, they should be multi-millionaires!

This is not correct, because so far, only Zhu Jue and Wu Tong’s bosses have truly become multi-millionaires. Although Li Qinglian’s salary is very high, it is not enough to become a millionaire. After all, she is just weird. Studio staff.

This is not to say that Zhu Jue and Wu Tong treated her badly. Don't forget, she is still a college student. She has worked in Weird Studio for less than a year and has gone from an ordinary female college student with a savings of less than 50,000 to a wealthy woman. For workers with resident certificates in the central area of ​​Yecheng and deposits of more than 800,000 yuan, there are probably not many employees in the entire federation who receive this level of treatment.

Of course, this does not include the ruby ​​that Zhu Jue gave to Li Qinglian. Recently, their valuation has come out. According to the federal authoritative jewelry institution, a ruby ​​of this level costs 800,000 federal coins!

As for Olivia, she's a part-time worker, and Weird Studio doesn't need to pay her a salary.

It would be nonsense to say that no one would be jealous of such wealth. Although Zhu Jue didn't care about this aspect, he also knew from Wu Tong how many people outside were eyeing their weird studio. Li Qinglian could sort out the studio's business cooperation mailbox every day. It was found that the acquisition requests from various large groups had higher and higher conditions, and there were also many threatening letters mixed in.

It's similar to saying that they have discovered the location of their studio, and if they don't pay hush money, they will come to expose it.

Naturally, he ignored these dangerous studios. When Zhu Jue was here, as many people as he came here died. Even if he went out to shoot videos, there was an Olivia in the studio who broke into a house and was killed in the central area of ​​Yecheng. It's self-defense, let alone such a high-end residential area.

But this does not mean that external forces will so easily allow a studio that appears out of nowhere to make so much money. Since it is impossible to do it from within the studio, then use other methods. , no matter what era it is, there will be no shortage of people chasing fame and fortune!

Video imitation is undoubtedly the easiest way to gain popularity. While Weird Studio's videos became popular all over the Internet, a large number of follow-up works appeared on the Internet almost overnight.

At first, most of these videos were crudely produced. Not only were the contents false, but they could not even perform basic holographic viewing. Naturally, they were not competitive. However, as the popularity of Weird Studio continued to grow, some famous studios gradually began to try to produce such videos. Regarding the content, not surprisingly, they also failed.

Because at that time, they thought that Weird Studio relied on special effects to produce videos, and no one thought that the actors in the videos were actually fighting real monsters that were the source of mental pollution. The difference between the two made the final result unsurprisingly. There is a clear quality gap in the videos.

Although there are still some videos that have absorbed some of the popularity of the weird studio, Zhu Jue and Wu Tong have discussed this matter a long time ago. They will not prevent others from imitating their videos because they want true imitation. This means that the video shooter must kill those monsters that are the source of mental pollution, and this is undoubtedly a good thing.

Moreover, Zhu Jue doesn’t think these videos can take away much of Weird Studio’s profits, because their videos have a core competitiveness that cannot be imitated by others.

That is Zhu Jue, a being who can fight those truly terrifying monsters that are the source of mental pollution. To put it simply, when others were facing the submersible mutants, what Zhu Jue was filming was the battle with the original deep submers. Waiting for someone to start To challenge the original body of the Deep Diver, Zhu Jue had already begun to fight against terrifying existences such as the Star Essence.

This is a huge gap that cannot be bridged by media promotion or special effects technology.

However, what Li Qinglian discovered this time was something the Weird Studio had never encountered before.

"Someone is using our name to build momentum for themselves. It doesn't matter if the content of the video is plagiarized. They also specifically used the name of the first-level inspector of the Monster Countermeasures Bureau, a hero who fights against monsters that cause mental pollution. In the introduction of the video , they also mentioned that the person who shot the video had a meeting with you, the monster hunter from Weird Studio, and they had a great conversation. They also said that they were inspired by you and decided to devote themselves wholeheartedly to spiritual relationships. Go into battle with the pollution source monster.”

With her index finger lightly swiping on the screen, the web page switched, and Li Qinglian continued,

"The problem is that these people just shot a video and then promoted it on various platforms. They also said that they would take over the banner of fighting against monsters that cause mental pollution from your hands, and my team found that a large number of promoters have appeared online recently. , they compare us with him on major websites and forums, trying to instill in people that they are already on the same level as our team.”

Zhu Jue didn't feel much after listening to the first half of Li Qinglian's words. He was not stingy enough not to let others take advantage of him. As he said before, he didn't mind if the other party was really fighting against the monster that was the source of mental pollution. Cooperate with them.

However, the second half of this sentence made him frown subconsciously. Because Weird Studio rarely interacts with the outside world and has never cooperated with any media, the outside world has always had great interest in exploring this mysterious studio. Curiosity.

Weird Studio is like a little girl holding a pipa with her face half-covered. The better you cover her face, the more people outside want to pull off her veil.

At this time, if someone comes out who has seen her in person and is willing to reveal information about her, it will naturally attract a lot of attention.

This is probably the idea of ​​this so-called "hero team" that suddenly appeared. They took advantage of Weird Studio's behavior of never showing up in public to divert public attention from Weird Studio to them, and build momentum for themselves in the shortest possible time. , and then obtain a very high starting point.

So far, their actions have almost all been carried out on the premise of infringing on the rights and interests of Weird Studio, but they have not communicated with Weird Studio about these matters, and they have not even given basic notices. Li Qinglian's team even discovered that they had no He didn't want to give up as soon as it was good, but he actually wanted to improve his status through bundled sales.

Despicable behavior, no doubt about it.

"He Ye, pull the page up. If I read it correctly, the person in the video seems to be a first-level inspection officer of the Yecheng Monster Countermeasures Bureau?"

Chu Yun, who poked her head out from the back seat, obviously had different concerns than Li Qinglian and Zhu Jue.

"OK."

Li Qinglian nodded and adjusted the page.

"It's indeed him!"

Punching the armrest of the seat, Chu Yun looked at the people on the interview show, her expression not much better than that of Li Qinglian.

"Oh, familiar person."

Zhu Jue narrowed his eyes. When Chu Yun mentioned the Yecheng Monster Countermeasure Bureau, a person appeared in his mind.

as expected.

The former head of the security team of Yecheng Yuanfan Machinery Group, Xue Lu!

"First-level inspector of Yecheng Countermeasures Bureau, background of Yuanfan Machinery Group. No wonder he dared to do such a thing without consulting us. It turns out there is a backer behind him,"

This guy did meet Zhu Jue, but it was just a meeting. Now he is being used as a gimmick for publicity. Zhu Jue is certainly not happy. The other party is obviously relying on his special identity and the power behind him to suppress Weirdness. Studio, let them suffer this embarrassing loss!

"Yecheng MCB will launch the Guangyuan siege plan soon, right?"

Olivia suddenly asked from the side.

It seemed to have no connection, but it made the expressions of several people next to him change.

"Asshole. They figured out the time. This is a conspiracy!"

Chu Yun gritted her teeth and said with annoyance on her face.