Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 1515: Boss Pei Turning Stone Into Gold!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

One had to know that at the meeting, Zhu Xiaoce and Ye Zhizhou had been inspired by Boss Pei and thought of these two new ideas.

They might have been celebrating their own ideas and had not thought of such details at all.

However, Boss Pei instantly realized the problem with their respective ideas after listening to their simple ideas. He cleverly used a swap of ideas to reach the upper limit of each other’s stories.

‘What was this?

This was the finishing touch, this was tuning something rotten into something magical!

A true master could make an outstanding work into a masterpiece through a seemingly simple and even ridiculous operation.

Yu Fei even felt that it was right for him to stay and continue working on this game.

It was a killing to be able to experience this personally!

‘What was the use of building a cart behind closed doors? He would just write more words. However, he could learn the most advanced game design skills and experience so many outstanding stories with Boss Pei.

Yu Fei could not help but think that if he was eliminated by the first-place-elimination system one day and left Tengda Games, wouldn’t he be invincible when he wrote online literature?

Therefore, he gave up on the idea of quitting and decided to develop the game ‘The Future You Choose’.

It would be great if he could create such a masterpiece in his own hands!

Yu Fei began writing the plot after smoothing out his thoughts briefly.

This time, ‘The Future You Choose’ was to create games and film movies at the same time. Tengda Games, Shang Yang Games, and Fei Huang Workspace were in charge of it together. They had their own jobs.

Amongst them, Yu Fei was mainly in charge of the plot structure to provide support for the game and movie. Ye Zhizhou was in charge of the gameplay design, and Zhu Xiaoce was in charge of filming movies.

Yu Fei had to straighten out the two stories and perfect all sorts of details. During this period, he had to maintain communication with Ye Zhizhou and Zhu Xiaoce.

The three of them worked together to ensure that the game and movie would develop in the direction that Boss Pei requested.

In addition, Yu Fei would also write these two different stories in a book, the official novel of “The Future You Choose”.

His book was a Cyberpunk theme to begin with. At the moment, it was only the beginning. It had not been written in depth, so it was very convenient to modify it.

Yu Fei planned to completely integrate these two stories into his existing story structure. Then, he would combine it with the ‘resisting Tengda’ worldview that Boss Pei had suggested. That way, the topics to choose would be very rich.

Of course, once combined, the entire story structure would be different from traditional online literature.

However, that did not matter. Yu Fei felt that there was no need to make such things too rigid and rigid. So what if it was online literature? At the end of the day, online literature readers did not want a certain routine, but a good story.

The creative rules of online literature were not constant. They could be broken as long as they could provide good enough content.

Yu Fei was very confident about this. He quickly typed on the keyboard and felt that his work efficiency improved rapidly again.

At the same time, Zhu Xiaoce was also at Fei Huang Workspace, researching Ye Zhizhou’s idea with Huang Sibo.

Huang Sibo might not be as good as Zhu Xiaoce in terms of filming but he was a game designer after all and had a deep understanding of games.

Of course, Huang Sibo understood the reasons that Yu Fei could understand faster.

Zhu Xiaoce studied Ye Zhizhou’s idea carefully and discovered its essence.

‘They understood Boss Pei’s intentions immediately.

Zhu Xiaoce sighed. “My idea might look good, but on further thought, you will feel that there is a certain problem.”

“At that time, my mind was only filled with big scenes and battlefields. I thought about the process where the protagonist walked towards’ inhumane ‘step by step in order to fight Tengda. I was a little deceived by my own thinking mode.”

“On further thought, isn’t this more suitable for the game to be displayed?”

“We have to bum a lot of special effects and funds to make the war scene. What’s more, how can watching these war scenes in movies be as satisfying as watching the protagonist personally fight in the game?”

“The protagonist modifies himself bit by bit. He appears very pale in the movie, but he can show it very deeply in the game. That’s because after the protagonist modifies himself, players can directly feel the increase in the protagonist’s combat power. It can also affect the game’s combat gameplay.”

“Players would unknowingly be obsessed with such an improvement in strength. That’s why players would empathize with the protagonist when he fell into confusion on the rooftop. That’s why they would be tortured.”

“This is in line with Boss Pei’s preferred method of ‘breaking the fourth wall’.

“On the other hand, the protagonist would explode into fireworks in the air… It would be very difficult for players to empathize with him. Instead, it would be more appropriate to put him in the movie and let the audience watch from the perspective of an outsider.”

“Ye Zhizhou’s idea is more suitable to be turned into a movie.”

“That’s because the focus of this idea is not on martial arts, but on literature. A hooligan who grew up on the streets until his final combat effectiveness is not very strong. The end point of this story is not to upgrade or fight, but to focus on various characters.”

“Compared to the big battlefield, it would be more appropriate to display the details of life in the Cyberpunk world with a movie. That’s because we can use exquisite scenery to replace special effects. This is the advantage of a movie over a game.”

“The movie will give the audience a sense of detachment. It will not completely substitute into the characters. Instead, it will be studied from the perspective of a bystander.”

“The audience watched as the protagonist climbed up step by step from a gangster in the market. He would do anything to achieve his goal. In the end, it was all for nothing.”

“Players might not accept it if it was in the game because they were brought into the protagonist and felt that they had worked hard but did not gain anything. However, in the movie, the audience would easily accept it from the perspective of a bystander and feel a sense of pity from above.”

“Therefore, this change by Boss Pei is simply a stroke of genius!”

“If we are completely constrained to our own ideas, the game and movie might only be ordinary masterpiece.”

“However, now that both ideas are reversed, there is a possibility of becoming a masterpiece!”

‘The more Zhu Xiaoce and Huang Sibo analyzed, the more they felt that Boss Pei was amazing.

What was turning stones into gold?

The feeling of working on a project with Boss Pei was like climbing a mountain covered in layers of clouds.

Every time he passed through a cloud, he thought that he was closer to the mountaintop. However, he continued climbing up and passed through a few more clouds. However, he realized that he could not see the mountaintop. He naturally felt that he was small.

Zhu Xiaoce immediately got busy and began preparations for the movie.

What the protagonist of the game should do depended on the gaming department. However, Lu Zhiyao had to act as the protagonist of the movie!

This time, he had several identities in the movie.

From the initial gangsters, to the mid-stage liaison, the ferocious gang leader, and finally to rich businessmen, every identity was very challenging.

Moreover, there were many details in it.

‘Take the part of becoming a rich businessman for example. Lu Zhiyao had to act out at least three images: the original rich businessman, the protagonist who became a rich businessman, and the protagonist who became a real rich businessman.

According to the settings of the plot, the original rich businessman had a similar body shape and appearance as the protagonist. That was why he could achieve the effect of being an impostor.

‘Thus, Lu Zhiyao’s appearance had to be changed through makeup and special effects technology to make the audience clearly realize that rich businessmen and the protagonist were two completely different people, but they looked similar.

There was a clear difference between the three images that he had mentioned before.

Arich businessman should be very natural. He was born rich and had good education. His every move had a unique temperament.

Learning to become the protagonist of a rich businessman, he had to work hard to change his habits as a street gangster, correct his behavior patterns and way of speaking.

The protagonist who ultimately became a rich businessman was a combination of the two. He had to look like the original rich businessman, but he could not look exactly the same. He had to retain some details of the protagonist’s actions. After all, no one could completely become another person

through imitation.

‘Whether the subtle differences between these three images could be perfectly displayed in front of the audience depended on Lu Zhiyao’s acting skills.

However, Zhu Xiaoce believed that Lu Zhiyao would definitely be very willing to accept this challenge.

Fei Huang Workspace quickly entered a tense and busy state, ready to start a huge project.

He worked until noon and knocked off on time.

Both of them put down their work and prepared to have lunch first.

Tengda’s employees had a special ability. They could stop their work immediately after work. They could pick up very quickly after work the next time.

In other words, work could be cut off anywhere at any time without affecting efficiency.

He had no choice. He had been forced out.

It was because of Boss Pei’s strict requirements that they could pick up perfectly after work. It was to ensure that they completed their work and improved efficiency.

At first, everyone was not used to it. However, they gradually realized that their working ability had improved greatly!

The reason was very simple: In order to achieve this’ random take over ‘working state, one had to plan their work content very clearly. They had to know what to do and know what to do with a single look.

Everyone’s work ability naturally improved during the process of nurturing this planning ability.

This principle was actually similar to writing novels: Some authors were extremely reliant on inspiration and stroke of genius. They had to write non-stop when their inspiration came. That was because if they did something else, they might not have any inspiration. However, mature authors would often

know how to produce steadily and continuously. The content that they had planned could be cut off and connected at any time.

The difference between the two was actually the difference in creative ability.

Huang Sibo opened the chat group that he had not paid attention to for a long time as he ate his Fish-Catching Take-Out.

He, like Yu Fei, Zhu Xiaoce, and the others, had been seriously thinking about the gameplay and movie script recently. He did not pay much attention to the outside world.

However, looking at the discussion in the group chat, Huang Sibo realized that many things had happened recently.

The first thing was that news of GOG and IOI’s merging was spreading, causing a huge uproar.

The second thing was that many departments of Tengda were under fierce attack.. The situation was not optimistic!