Chapter 336 A New Storm Has Emerged

October 1st is a day of national celebration.

On this day of celebrating the birthday of the motherland, the long holiday is happy for seven days, and the traffic jam is also happy.

Because there is no need to go to work for the next seven days, the number of night owls has skyrocketed.

And these night owls on vacation, in addition to calling friends to hang out in bars, nightclubs and other places, are more likely to stay at home and surf the Internet.

The Internet can bring too much happiness.

Especially for most ordinary people, they don’t need to spend money, or only need to spend a little money, to enrich their spiritual world on the Internet.

And watching online videos is one of the most mainstream forms of entertainment.

At 12:05 in the morning, Jiang Tong, who lives alone, just finished washing up, lay on the bed, and opened the heavy laptop on the bedside.

Today’s laptops are not as light as those in the future, and they are all ultra-thin, but they are still much more convenient than desktop computers.

At least Jiang Tong likes to lie on the bed with a laptop and watch videos from various video websites.

In particular, some spoof videos uploaded by individual users of Tudou.com are very funny even though they are crudely shot.

For example, the Backstreet Boys who were very popular on the BBS forum a few years ago.

With a camera of only 300,000 pixels, accompanied by the song "As Long As You Love ME" by Backstreet Boys, they lip-synced to the video and made exaggerated expressions with winking eyes to the rhythm, which successfully made Jiang Tong laugh.

Ten years later, this kind of "low-brow" comedy show is certainly nothing.

But now, they are the originators of comedy shows, and there is absolutely no performance like them on the Internet.

This video is not only popular in China, but also abroad. It was uploaded to the YouTube beta version and became one of the 20 oldest videos on YouTube.

Netizens in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and other countries have become their fans and find it very funny. In the following ten years, programs or animations in various countries have paid tribute to or imitated them.

They are also the earliest Internet celebrities in the world who became popular through online videos. Later, they were quickly signed by Taihe Maitian Entertainment Company and wanted to enter the entertainment industry, but they soon fell silent.

Jiang Tong is a netizen who saw the "Back She Boys" become popular with his own eyes. He watched a lot of videos of Back She Boys and contributed a lot to the number of views.

However, when he turned on his computer today, he did not choose to go to Tudou.com to see if the individual video hosts had done anything new. Instead, he opened a software that he had only used once since downloading it.

"Light and Shadow Quick Play."

"I remember watching the trailer at that time, it said that it would be online on October 1st." Jiang Tong muttered softly.

In addition to loving to watch these funny videos, Jiang Tong is also a horror movie lover.

It's a pity that there have been very few horror-themed movies in the mainland, let alone TV series.

The setting of "ghosts" only appears in some mythological dramas, and they are not scary.

Mainland horror movie lovers have suffered from the mainland film industry for a long time.

So when he saw the trailer of Soul Ferry and was sure that it was really a horror TV series, at least it looked scary from the trailer, he immediately downloaded the app.

Even if he was not interested in the poor library of the app, it was worth downloading just for this one show.

"Hey, it's really online!" Jiang Tong opened the app and immediately saw Soul Ferry recommended on the homepage. When he clicked on it, he found that the page that only had trailers before now had 1-4 episodes on demand.

After clicking on the first episode, Jiang Tong didn't forget to click on the next few episodes, wanting to download the content first to avoid lag when watching online.

This is also the common practice for netizens to watch videos online now.

Compared to watching every episode online, people choose to watch and download the subsequent episodes at the same time.

However, Jiang Tong's tried-and-tested method failed this time.

He searched for a long time but couldn't find the download option on the page.

"Can't download?" Jiang Tong grumbled with some dissatisfaction, frowning. If you don't download and watch it online all the time, it will buffer from time to time, which is very annoying!

Forget it, his love for horror movies overcame the little dissatisfaction in his mind. After complaining a few words, he didn't care and clicked on the first episode to watch it.

However, what he worried about did not happen. The loading speed of the first episode was very fast. The buffering circle icon only appeared for three or five seconds, and the video was loaded.

There was only a 15-second opening advertisement, which was let go in the blink of an eye.

The main film officially began.

A wonderful story began to unfold in this place called Convenience Store No. 444.

An episode is only more than 40 minutes, and time passed in the blink of an eye.

When the end credits began to play, Jiang Tong, who had been concentrating and enjoying it, came back to his senses.

"Is it over?"

The first episode is just the beginning.

Xia Dongqing, Zhao Li, and Wang Xiaoya appear one after another, and Doudou, a little kid who died in a car accident and is on the seventh day of death, visits convenience store No. 444.

Although the story of the first episode only takes place in a small convenience store, the horror atmosphere is still well rendered through several plot twists.

Especially at the end of the story, Wang Xiaoya, a lively and youthful girl, is actually a ghost whose soul has left her body. This twist surprised Jiang Tong.

After watching the first episode, although it was not as scary as Jiang Tong expected, the story was still attractive. He couldn't wait to open the second episode and planned to continue watching.

At this moment, Jiang Tong realized it later and said in surprise: "It has been more than 40 minutes, and it has not been stuck once from beginning to end!"

"Fuck, this video software is something!"

"Love it!"

In the morning, it was a little after 10 o'clock.

Although today is the National Day holiday, Wu Yuan still came to the company and went straight to the light and shadow fast broadcast on the 18th floor.

"How is it, are the data out?"

"The results are gratifying, Director Wu!"

Wang Xin, who had been staring at the backstage and hadn't slept all night, came up excitedly with a piece of file paper: "In 10 hours, the total click rate of the four episodes of "Soul Ferry" exceeded three million!"

"And the audience stickiness is very high. 60% of the audience watched all four episodes in one go."

"Although the remaining 40% didn't finish watching it in one go, most of them stopped watching at four or five in the morning. I guess they went to sleep and will continue watching after waking up today!"

"And in our user community, users who watched "Soul Ferry" praised it countless times."

"Everyone said that this kind of unit story horror TV series is very good, and it feels like watching "The Pawnshop No. 18"!

"Many viewers are self-taught and are calling for more episodes in the user community!"

"The Pawnshop No. 8" is a Taiwanese drama.

Even if it is put in 2020, this TV series is the most successful suspense and magic drama in the history of Chinese TV series.

Now that "Soul Ferry" can be compared with this TV series, it is obvious that the audience is very satisfied with this drama.

Wu Yuan's worries, which were not many in his heart, were completely put aside. He smiled and patted Wang Xin on the shoulder: "It's good if it goes well, but this tough battle has just begun."

"Thank you for your hard work. I'm afraid no one can take a holiday during this National Day holiday. Maybe you have to work overtime."

"Tell everyone that the holiday salary will definitely be paid at three times. After I finish the online launch of this drama, I will give everyone a red envelope. Everyone will get a share!"

Wu Yuan has never been the kind of black-hearted boss who drives employees by shouting slogans and painting big cakes.

He knows very well that if you want employees to work hard for you, talking about feelings and painting big cakes are empty. It is still the most practical to spend money and it can best stimulate the potential of employees.

"Then I will thank Director Wu on behalf of everyone." Wang Xin's face was also full of joy. His video website business has started smoothly, and holidays are not important at all!

"Okay, then you go ahead and do your work, don't worry about me." Wu Yuan waved his hand and asked Wang Xin to continue watching. It's not easy today!

After the first wave of viewers watched it in the middle of the night, the popularity of "Soul Ferry" has spread rapidly on the Internet in the morning.

Well-made, the plot is meaningful and profound, and the actors are good. This drama has all the potential to be a hit. Now we just need to wait for time to ferment.

"This is the first time I've seen such a conscientious domestic ghost movie. Although it's a bit second-year, it's thrilling and sensational. Halfway through, you will find it so funny. It's simply a masterpiece of snake spirits! Don't miss it if you love horror movies!"

"Ghost Detective, Lust, Ghost on the Bed, each episode is a story, and each story has a certain meaning. I thought it was a simple horror movie, but after watching it, I realized that it was clearly a story about human affairs through ghosts!"

"Very conscientious, did not change ghosts and gods into people, I like Wang Xiaoya very much!"

"Zhao Li is a bit pretentious, but the plot is The plot is good. "

"I opened it with an entertaining mentality, but I couldn't help but watch it. Although there are some flaws in the show, such as the part where you can see ghosts in the mirror is too exaggerated, fortunately the flaws do not outweigh the merits. The narration at the beginning of each episode is very feel and it is easy to be brought into the play. It is not a supernatural drama for suspense. The reversal at the end of each episode is very warm and can also make people think. Maybe the most terrifying thing in the world is not ghosts but human hearts. "

Wu Yuan sat in his boss chair, turned on the computer and casually read the comments in the user community.

Sure enough, most of the reviews are good, and the scores are at least four stars or more.

For the audience in mainland China, it is really not easy to have an excellent horror TV series.

The most important thing is that the story of this drama is really well written. Each episode uses ghosts to illustrate people. It is not a pure supernatural horror film, but more of an exploration of human nature.

Just like the subtitle of the trailer promotion "People know that ghosts are scary, ghosts know that people's hearts are poisonous", this drama is actually very positive. Sometimes what is more terrifying than ghosts is the human heart.

With his hands crossed on the table, Wu Yuan smiled and hummed happily.

"A new storm has emerged, how can we stand still~"