Chapter 203: A New Way Out for Cartoonists
In the afternoon, Meng Huo looked at the serialization of "Dream Eater" and "The Male Public Relations Department of Yinglan College" at the company. He discussed the subsequent plot development with several assistants to ensure that the two comics will not go wrong, Meng Huo has nothing to do.
Phoenix Company does not need too much interference from him now, and will not have to go to work every day in the future and be responsible for everything. He is preparing to move some things from the office home and return to his job as a cartoonist.
However, when he moved, he found something amazing...
"Whose is this?"
Red, pink... A bunch of women's underwear and toiletries were placed in the cabinet, Meng Huo's head was dizzy. How could there be women's things in the office? And he felt a strange fragrance before, not like a room that had been empty for a long time. What happened during this period?
When Alice came back, she blushed when she saw what was being turned out.
"This, these are my things..." She hurriedly packed up: "I have lived here for a while and it seems that I haven't cleaned up."
Meng Huo then realized that after she left, Alice was using his office.
"You keep using it, it doesn't matter if you are..."
He smiled and said that Alice's current identity is a bit embarrassing, neither high nor low. She is nominally the editor of Meng Huo, but she is doing more than the editorial scope and is similar to an assistant. She may be able to better help Meng Huo with his office.
The entire office is more than 60 square meters, and even if two people work, they will be more than tidy. Meng Huo will not go to work as frequently as before. He does not need to prepare another room for Alice.
"Don't you mind working here?"
Alice stopped and turned around and asked.
"I don't mind. But..." Meng Huo looked at the things, thinking that the two of them could not share the same table, so he said, "You have someone prepare an office desk opposite, so it's more convenient."
"Did you separate? Well... I understand." Alice breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and smiled, "I just notified Zhongxia Company that you are back. They will release the sequel to "Detective Sherlock" in the past few weeks. You are ready to deal with it, and the company will fully support you."
Alice hasn't thought about the meeting and sales signing party yet, so she needs to plan it carefully.
"Yeah, I get it."
Meng Huo nodded, and he walked out of the company with a box of packed things in his arms: "I'll take these things home, don't move the rest, I'll still use it in the future."
Alice sent him out of the company gate and watched him leave with a smile.
When Meng Huo took a bus back to Jiayuan Community, it was five o'clock in the afternoon. At the entrance of the community, he saw Li Qin holding a big bag chatting with several other women.
He opened the car window a little and shouted, "Mom!"
"Xiao Huo?" Li Qin turned around and saw the familiar car, and walked over with surprise: "Why did you get off work so early today?"
"Let's talk about it when you get home..." Meng Huo smiled. He opened the car door and asked Li Qin to sit up with something: "Are these dishes?"
Li Qin's hands all mentioned dishes. Meng Huo looked at the portion and wondered if it was too much.
"Teacher Hua Meng and the others will come tonight, and there are not enough food at home."
Li Qin smiled and said. The car drove into Jiayuan Community. Several women who were chatting with Li Qin just now also walked in. One of the women suddenly frowned as they looked at the car leaving.
"The person in the car just now was Li Qin's son? I felt it looked familiar. After taking a look, I felt that he looked very much like the popular cartoonist He Xi recently."
Her words made the women around her laugh and expressed their disbelief.
"Impossible, how could He Xi live here? That car is not a luxury car, you must have read it wrong."
"Yes, if He Xi lives here, my daughter will be crazy about her!"
"Now rich people look down on this community. The newly built villa areas are so good. Each of them has swimming pools and parking lots. Why can't you come here?"
But to say that, they are also very strange recently. Jiayuan Community is a wealthy community of a long time. Now the rich have moved out. The rest are basically families that have not developed much for decades. The management of the community has become slackened many years ago.
However, recently, the property and security guard in the community have changed a group of people, and the review of entry and exit has become stricter. It seems that some big shot has come, and who is that person?
Meng Huo returned home and the driver drove away. He put the things he brought back from the company. In less than half an hour, the doorbell rang. He opened the door and found that there were Tomatoes standing outside the door, Hua Meng several familiar people...
"Teacher He Xi, have you gotten off work so early?"
Teacher Tomato was surprised, while Hua Meng and Xi Wenlin greeted Meng Huo in a warm voice: "Long time no see, Teacher He Xi!"
"Long time no see." Meng Huo smiled and opened the door and let them come in. As soon as Hua Meng entered the door, she ran into the kitchen to help Li Qin cook, while Xi Wenlin and Fantasy sat on the sofa, chatting with Meng Huo excitedly.
"Teacher He Xi, your "Fate/staynight" is great. I didn't expect that the comic can be made into anime, but it can also be turned into a game."
"Yes, there are several game companies recruiting painters online today. I heard that they are also going to develop text adventure games."
Tomato seemed particularly excited. The "Fate/staynight" made by Meng Huo not only had an impact on game manufacturers, but also allowed many cartoonists to find new ways out so that they would not waste this skill.
Galgame is different from other games, and its image style is not much different from that of comics, so some game companies have begun to recruit unsuccessful comic artists.
Although they are recruiting few people now, if this kind of game can develop smoothly, it will definitely require a large number of comic talents and more people will develop here, which is also a great benefit to the comic industry.
Tomato admired Meng Huo in admiration.
"Teacher He Xi, after "Fate/staynight" came out, we owe you another favor." He sighed: "The few cartoonists I know originally planned to change careers, but now they all think that the future of painting is better. Not only them, but many people outside Ninghai think so..."
There are not many cartoonists in China now. If galgame rises, comics, animations, and games, the number of cartoonists in demand in these three industries will be very large, and the status and income of many cartoonists will change.
It is no exaggeration to say that Meng Huo's game has given some frustrated cartoonists a new way of life.
This incident surprised Meng Huo a little. His original intention was to readers, and he did not expect it to change the ideas of cartoonists. However, "Fate/staynight" was released for only two days, would there be such a big reaction?
"Are you too optimistic?" Meng Huo laughed: "And how do you know these things?"
"This is not optimistic!" Teacher Tomato shook his head and said, "Teacher He Xi, you have relatively little contact with other cartoonists. In fact, the circle of cartoonists is not big. Anything that happens is spread to one person and a hundred times, and you can know any information quickly."
As soon as Meng Huo's "Fate/staynight" came out, the first person to discover that it had an impact was not others, but some down-and-out cartoonists, who received invitations from several game companies.
When the game company takes action, even the cartoonists are not fools, so they can naturally find a new way out. This incident caused a great sensation. Even the cartoonists of Zhongxia Company, who are rivals, are still pleasing to cheer for the new game at this time.
"So that's it..." Meng Huo roughly understood, but he had little communication with other cartoonists and didn't care much about this: "Teacher Tomato, have you all played games?"
"I played a line." Teacher Tomato smiled and said, "Teacher Hua Meng and I were discussing on the road just now. I heard that the line behind was bloody, so she didn't dare to play, but I wanted to finish it in a week."
The saber line is the simplest route in "Fate/staynight". There are many love scenes in it, and the two lines behind it are different styles, so Meng Huo did not find it strange.
At this time, Xi Wenlin found the opportunity to interrupt.
“I purchased the collector’s version of “Fate/staynight” on the forum, and I haven’t opened the package yet.”
The assistant's voice was admiring and said, "Teacher He Xi, the collector's version has been hyped up by game dealers to the price of 2,000 Chinese coins, and it is still rising."
Chapter completed!