Otaku Zhou Yu also had a competitive spirit. And the person he was comparing with was Xia Huan, the young executive producer of Beidou Company, and what he wanted to compete was not money or power, but the works they both made.
‘You have talented people, I have a good base, everyone is just standing on the starting line, but why my works are worse than yours?’
“Fruit Pirates” was a joint production. Despite that, it was still better than his animation. So Zhou Yu decided that if his work couldn’t reach 7 or 8 points, then he would not release it to the outside world.
This was the determination of a hardcore Otaku.
The copyright battle in the conference room continued. Because Zhou Yu refused to let any more people in. Therefore, those two, who were not negotiation experts but in charge of Zhou Yu, could only make phone calls to seek help from their companies while conducting the business negotiation.
Because the level of both people’s negotiation skills was not high, it was very often to see two people slamming the table and glaring at each other in the eyes. Zhou Fu was extremely concerned that they might really hit each other. But Zhou Yu only said unconcernedly that they were friends and that was how they enhance their friendship.
The Otaku gaming portal and the penguin company quickly formed a team of remote negotiation experts. After several days of constantly discussing and re-adjusting the agreement, finally, they came up with a plan that both sides could barely accept.
According to this plan, the two companies would co-distribute this animated movie. But in terms of how the profit would be split, it was mentioned in great detail in the plan. After all, there were two professional teams behind them.
Since both parties agreed to the plan. It became very easy afterward. Then Zhou Yu put forward his own requirements. When Liu Gongcai and Gao Shu took a look at it, both people’s faces’ instantly darkened. This clearly was the enhanced version of the previous confidentiality agreement. Because not only did they need to conceal Zhou Yu’s identity now, but they also had to conceal the identities of everyone who worked in the movie.
‘God Dammnit this Otaku! It is not enough to hide his identity? He even wants to hide the identities of everyone that participate in this movie!’
To tell you the truth, the movie and television department of the penguin company had great hopes for Liu Gongcai. Because they all wanted to see the team that could produce such perfect CG animation. Of course, not ruling out the idea that they wanted to recruit them.
Gao Shu was also the same. But he did not have a big expectation, to begin with. So he was less disappointed than Liu Gongcai. After all, he had learned his lessons from the past, when he was working with Zhou Yu.
Before, he had attempted to find out the game development team behind Zhou Yu. However, he failed miserably. Based on the previous experience, he could imagine that none of the names that were on the closing credit was real. Zhou Yu and his friends were clearly just messing with people.
When signing the agreement, Zhou Yu didn’t even ask them to increase the price of giving them the distribution right. Gao Shu and Liu Gongcai were not even sure that if Zhou Yu had read that section of the agreement clearly. But they were sure that this Otaku covered the confidentiality section extremely thoroughly.
At this moment, Liu Gongcai and Gao Shu were sure that Zhou Yu and they were not the same types of people. Some people like to be in the limelight in the front stage, while others like to enjoy freedom in the backstage. But they did not expect that someone would like to hide behind the stage and cover themselves up with a black cloth.
Weirdo…
Both Liu Gongcai and Gao Shu felt very helpless. They had stayed in the amusement park for a week. But during this week, they were still working and didn’t have time to have fun in the park at all. On the contrary, the person, who caused all this trouble, lived happily in the park every day. Going fishing and herding sheeps every day, he was so relaxed as if he was living in a paradise.
However, if these complaints were heard by those who were waiting outside the fence, they would probably scold them non-stop. ‘You two bastards still have the audacity to complain!? We couldn’t even get through the gate. Not only do we have to stay in those villagers’ houses, but also the living conditions are like those 20 Chinese Yuan hotel(Like 5 dollars hotel.) You two are living in a Leisure Villa for a week and you still have the audacity to complain!? More importantly, you two already got the contract, didn’t you? So stop complaining!’
The number of people waiting outside was increasing day by day, and many journalists were also following them here one after another.
With only one trailer, an animated movie had attracted all the big companies to a small village. This was already big news, not to mention that there were all kinds of anticipations for this movie online.
Unfortunately, they were also blocked out of the gate. The security guards and gatekeepers were the retired soldiers, whom Zhou Fu hired from Luhua village. Although they politely refused every journalist who revealed their press cards, they became more and more nervous as time passed.
‘What the hell is this. What did the little boss do? First came a batch of big companies, then a batch of journalists, as if there were treasures buried in the amusement park. I mean… The next batch won’t be police officers, right?’
However, the little boss’s instruction was very clear: “No strangers are allowed to enter the amusement park!” So although they felt nervous, they had to follow the instructions.
Unable to find the main person they needed to interview, many people began to ask around in the village. The peace of Luhua Village was completely destroyed by this. Originally it was just groups of people in suits, now it was many reporters with all kinds of cameras. All of sudden, Luhua village was bustling with people and noises.
The questions, that were asked by those journalists, had been asked before by the people from big companies. However, it was not easy to get information from those villagers at all. With the deep military background, even the kids in the village also knew how to stay away from strangers. Whenever they were approached by those people in suits, kids would often shout, “SPY!” And then all the kids would scatter away.
But of course, some journalists knew how to get around. Therefore, soon, some of Zhou Yu’s information was spread out.
Carpenter maniac, movie screening days, making money by making games, investing millions in rural amusement parks… There were all kinds of information, but no one was able to tell them specific information about Zhou Yu. Because the people who were closer to Zhou Yu were all children, and what children said were often fragmented. So naturally, they needed to piece all the information together like a puzzle.
The hot topic was “Fruit Pirates”, so the focus was naturally on the movie screening day. It was said that Master Zhou Yu would play movies for children every Saturday, and all the movies were very interesting. An animated movie every week? There should be some replays. Otherwise, with that kind of speed, he could not be described as a human being anymore.
Children would also casually say some of the movies that they liked. And surprisingly there were also “Black Cat Detective”, “The Mice Shook and Beta”, “The Magic Paintbrush” and other old movies. It seemed that Master Zhou Yu did not just play his own movie. But they didn’t know that these movies were all remade versions.
When Luhua Village was bustling with noises, the ACG communities also exploded online. Zhou Shuyu once again released a video “The Test Screening of Fruit Pirates” which proved that “Fruit Pirates” really existed. It was not produced by Beidou Studio to tease with netizens.
In the video, the children, who had participated in the shooting, gathered together, dressing formally and elegantly. But the weirdo Zhou Yu still wore a set of seaside clothes, which completely destroyed the overall atmosphere of the scene.
The children in Luhua Village was truly a group of funny kids.
But this time, instead of enjoying the video, everyone was cheering for the fact that the movie was real.
It was the time for the domestic animation industry to rise like a never-ending bright moon!
