Chapter 1512 Am I the Villain?

As an author, the desire for copyright adaptation is naturally the strongest.

Moreover, Yu Fei had already tasted the sweetness. The success of *Eternal Reincarnation* had elevated his reputation by several notches.

Before, he was only relatively well-known within the small circle of Qidian Chinese Network, but now, many domestic players knew Yu Fei's name and knew that he was the original author of *Eternal Reincarnation*.

To use a specific term, this is called "breaking the circle."

If it weren't for the opportunity given by Tenda Games, and he had buried himself in writing, how long would it take to have such an opportunity to break the circle?

What is the ultimate goal of writing a book?

To have more people read it, for the book to be adapted for copyright, and to gain greater influence.

No matter how hard you work or how much effort you put in, it's all for this goal.

And now, President Pei's suggestion could allow Yu Fei's new book to directly reach the top and achieve his ultimate goal of writing books. How could he not be moved?

Yu Fei fell into entanglement.

Pei Qian knew he was on the right track when he saw Yu Fei's expression. It was very promising!

"How about this, let's have a meeting first to finalize the game's outline and concept art. You can consider it depending on the situation. If you're satisfied, we'll develop it; if you're not satisfied... then we'll talk about it later."

Pei Qian felt that after this meeting, Yu Fei would stay nine times out of ten.

The remaining 0.1% could be resolved by dragging it out.

Yu Fei nodded, "Okay, then I'll send a notice to the core employees."

"By the way, send a notice to the core members of Shang Yang Games and Fei Huang Workshop as well, and have Ye Zhizhou, Wang Xiaobin, Huang Sibo, and Zhu Xiaoce come over too, to discuss it together," Pei Qian added.

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More than half an hour later, everyone arrived.

Inside the meeting room, the responsible personnel chatted happily.

It had to be said that this was the most complete gathering of everyone recently.

Because before, these people had gone on suffering trips in batches, and there were always people missing. Now that they had all returned from their suffering trips and reunited, it felt like a lifetime.

However... among the core employees of Tenda Games and Shang Yang Games, there were also those who went on this suffering trip.

It could only be said that employees come and go, but the suffering trip remains.

No one is suffering forever, but there is always someone suffering.

Seeing so many people gathered together, Ye Zhizhou and Huang Sibo had a hunch.

Obviously, President Pei was going to concentrate his efforts to do something big again!

Previously, when developing *Mission and Choice*, Huang Sibo had developed it with the collective efforts of everyone under President Pei's suggestion. Tenda Games and Fei Huang Workshop had jointly overcome this problem.

And this time, the two core game departments and Fei Huang Workshop were all used?

It could be seen that this must be an even bigger project than *Mission and Choice*!

At the same time, Pei Qian was rushing to read the novel written by Yu Fei on the Qidian Chinese Network App before the meeting.

The novel had only been updated to less than 100,000 words so far. The plot had not yet fully unfolded, and the world view also contained a lot of mysteries. The content that had appeared was only limited to the large city where the protagonist was located.

In the comments of the chapters, you could often see readers and players urging for updates.

Some were urging for the book, some were urging for the game, double the happiness.

Pei Qian asked in a low voice, "How complete is the overall world view of the novel, and the story behind it?"

Yu Fei said with some shame, "Not very complete... Actually, my plan only goes up to about 200,000 words. I haven't thought about the rest in detail, and the overall structure and framework of the world view haven't been finalized."

"Mainly because I don't have much time to consider it carefully, and I'm not a writer who is good at planning. Sometimes I rely too much on sudden inspiration..."

Pei Qian nodded, "I understand!"

It was good that the latter part hadn't been decided yet.

In fact, there were quite a few authors like Yu Fei who "write as they think," after all, slowly finalizing the subsequent plot during a serialization process that lasts for a year or two, or finalizing all the plots within a short preparation time of two or three months, are not the same level of difficulty at all.

Although all authors know that there should be an outline, and it is best to finalize all the subsequent plots in advance, theory is theory, and practice is practice.

Just like everyone knows that maintaining exercise every day is good for your health, but there are very few people who can really stick to it.

On Qidian Chinese Network, Yu Fei was not the most top-notch talented author, nor was he a very mature technical author. He was in a transitional stage from a general talented author to a technical author.

Otherwise, Pei Qian would not have picked him.

But Yu Fei's current state was exactly what Pei Qian needed!

If Yu Fei's later world view was particularly complete and created a huge conflict with the game Pei Qian wanted to make, it would be really difficult to handle.

At that time, Pei Qian would only have two choices: either compromise on the gameplay and be forced to make some gameplay and plots that were not so easy to lose money; or compromise on the plot's fidelity and create a work that was all show and no substance.

Although the latter could also lose money, Yu Fei might not even participate in this project!

It was easier to handle in the current situation. Anyway, the content behind Yu Fei had not yet been truly finalized. Pei Qian believed that with his great persuasive skills, he would definitely be able to comprehensively interfere with his creative intentions and closely combine the subsequent plot of the novel, the game, and losing money.

Pei Qian cleared his throat slightly, "Okay, everyone's here, let's officially start the meeting."

"The reason for calling everyone here this time is to do a new project, both a game and a movie, just like *Mission and Choice*."

"However, this time Shang Yang Games will also participate. The three departments will jointly develop a game that is larger in scale than *Mission and Choice*, and the development progress will be shortened."

"This is a real AAA masterpiece. The completion time for both the game and the movie is October. We will strive to release the game and the movie in mid-October to early November."

Everyone's faces showed nervous and excited expressions.

More than half a year can be said to be a tight schedule and a heavy task, but since this project has gathered the strength of three departments, it must also be an unprecedentedly large project!

Being able to participate in such a large project is very exciting and exciting for everyone, which has a huge promotion effect on their professional growth.

Pei Qian continued, "This time, we are going to make a cyberpunk-themed game, using Yu Fei's original novel as the prototype of the story."

"However, since this novel has not yet shown a very complete world view and plot structure, we also have plenty of room to develop it."

Yu Fei lowered his head in shame.

Although the logic was correct, something sounded a little off!

What did "plenty of room to develop it" mean?

Logically speaking, buying the copyright to adapt a novel should be because the novel is very popular, the plot is very complete, and the world view structure is very good!

It must be a mature work to have the need to be adapted.

The fact that the plot is not complete and the world view structure is incomplete was originally a huge flaw, but it could actually be described by President Pei as "plenty of room to develop it," which was quite outrageous.

Pei Qian continued, "The cyberpunk theme we are going to make is definitely not the kind of cyberpunk like the foreign ones, but a theme similar to *A Beautiful Tomorrow*."

"But... don't have any plot connections with *A Beautiful Tomorrow*, don't make it *A Beautiful Tomorrow 2*."

Pei Qian's consideration was that the classic cyberpunk themes abroad have a fixed audience, and this ready-made background is also very likely to succeed overseas, which is not stable enough.

It still had to be original, and the acceptance of original cyberpunk themes was relatively low.

But it can't be related to *A Beautiful Tomorrow*, because *A Beautiful Tomorrow* had inexplicably succeeded. If it was related, there would definitely be a lot of die-hard fans running to support it, giving passers-by a misleading impression.

Hearing this, Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce were obviously a little disappointed.

President Pei rarely made sequels, but he had still made some, such as *Ghost General 2* and *Bullet Marks 2*.

Works such as *A Beautiful Tomorrow* and *Mission and Choice* had all left sequel plot interfaces. They originally thought that this work could be related to *A Beautiful Tomorrow* to form an *A Beautiful Tomorrow* universe, and by the way, link up with the Cyberpunk Snack Street to take some scenes and promote it...

But unfortunately, all these expectations had fallen through.

But no matter what, since President Pei had clearly said that he would not be related to *A Beautiful Tomorrow*, he must have his own considerations.

Let's listen on.

Pei Qian continued, "This time, the story background is very simple: in the future universe of a parallel time and space, in a virtual city in a fictional world, the entire city has been kidnapped by large corporations, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened sharply, and it has entered a social state similar to cyberpunk."

"Large corporations in different fields have formed an extremely monopolistic position and have penetrated into all aspects of people's lives, deeply binding the entire city and everyone in the city."

Everyone listened, feeling impressed but confused.

How come it's a parallel time and space, a future universe, a fictional world, and a virtual city again...

These things seem to be talking about almost the same thing...

As for the overall background, it seemed to be ordinary, just standard cyberpunk.

Large corporations are highly monopolistic, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening sharply, and people's lives are bound and monitored by high technology... these are all quite common settings.

Pei Qian continued, "And these large corporations are all Tenda's industries."

"For example, Upwind Logistics, Touch-Fish Takeout, Touch-Fish Internet Cafe, Tenda Games, Fei Huang Workshop... and so on."

"All industries related to Tenda will be put into the game and become the large corporations in the game!"

"These large corporations can fight each other internally, but in most cases, they will unite to exploit the ordinary people at the bottom."

"From material to spiritual, and to every detail of life, it must be reflected."

This was the method Pei Qian had come up with.

His reputation was too good?

It didn't matter, he would spend a lot of money to blacken himself!

It just so happened that other companies were joining forces to oppose Tenda, so he would help them promote it!