Chapter 888 "SUCCESSOR" / "Successor"

Chapter 888 "SUCCESSOR" "Successor"

Afternoon, 5:55.

Inspiration class for the author of the terminal Chinese website.

"get off work!"

"Do you want to go to the nearby Moyu Internet Cafe together on weekends?"

"Okay, I want to go too!"

"Boss Cui is going?"

Cui Geng shook his head: "I won't go, you go."

The author who invited him didn't insist. He got up to pack his things, prepared to leave the inspiration class, went out to eat and then went back to rest.

The inspiration class is the same as the study class, and it also strictly implements the eight-hour work system. The working hours are from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, and there is a one-hour lunch break from 12:00 am to 1:00 pm.

In fact, with the work intensity of the inspiration class, it is basically not much different from watching an eight-hour movie.

This Thursday, the inspiration class officially began to operate. It is impossible for most authors to find suitable inspiration in two days, so there are only two or three authors who actually start writing.

Most of the other authors still plan to have a good weekend and continue to collect inspiration next Monday. The matter of the new book is a long-term plan.

After all, the current manuscript remuneration has been bought out by the website, and the number of updated words required every day has dropped significantly, so I can naturally rest normally on Saturdays and Sundays.

Most of these authors are also very young, and most of them are between 22 and 28 years old. It is not surprising that they meet at Moyu Internet Cafe on weekends to play black games.

But Cui Geng, uncharacteristically, did not go to the black with these authors.

Because after two days of searching for information intensively, he suddenly felt a flash of inspiration in his brain. It seemed that the inspiration that had been exhausted for the past few months was showing signs of recovery!

In the past two days, he intensively revisited several movies, TV series and novels, and checked a lot of information on the Internet. The big frame of the whole story appeared in his mind, and the background was also built in a mess.

Cui Geng suddenly had a strong desire to create, and wanted to write the beginning of this story.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. But that doesn't necessarily hold true when the novel is being written.

Most of the novels are full of inspiration at the beginning, the writing is like flying, and the writing is hearty; but the writing becomes slower and slower, the inspiration is exhausted, the Calvin, and the foreshadowing buried in the front are forgotten... The structure of the whole novel becomes It was a mess, and it ended hastily in the end, and was scolded as a dog.

At this time, Cui Geng was in such a state of bursting with inspiration, and he was very eager to write the beginning of the story.

Therefore, the creation of novels is often simple at the beginning, and the more difficult it is to write later.

Writing is a matter of state. There is a huge difference between what you write when you are in a good state and what you write when you are not in a good state. Inspiration is fleeting, so once authors have inspiration, they must immediately grasp and record it, otherwise some details will be lost forever.

Cui Geng came to the work area of ​​the inspiration class.

The configuration here is similar to that of a study class. The large screen, mechanical keyboard and ergonomic chair ensure the most comfortable coding experience.

Cui Geng actually didn't intend to write for too long, he just wanted to write a simple beginning, at most one or two hours.

Boot up and create a new document.

"Hmm... Where should I start writing this scene at the beginning..."

While Cui Geng was pondering over the details, the time on the computer passed 6 o'clock in the evening unknowingly.

"Well... I think it's better to use an interlude at the beginning, and start writing from the moment when the protagonist changes his life goal."

Cui Geng made up his mind, reached out to hold the mouse next to him, and prepared to adjust the font size and line spacing settings of the document to the most comfortable format for him.

With the default font and size, he'd be sick.

However, Cui Geng's hand was empty.

Cui Geng: "?"

At that moment, he almost thought that he had some disease in his cerebellum, and he missed the mouse even though it was so close at hand? Parkinson's patients can't be so outrageous, can they?

Cui Geng didn't pay too much attention to this episode, but continued to hold the mouse.

But still caught an empty!

This time he saw it clearly, when his hand moved over the mouse, the mouse moved strangely to the upper right and irregularly!

Cui Geng was shocked. He grabbed it a few times quickly, but the reaction of this mouse was much more sensitive than he imagined, and it kept moving erratically, so he couldn't grab it!

At the same time, a prompt popped up on the computer screen.

"It's time to get off work, please go back and rest immediately. Continuing to work will set off an alarm, leave a record, and you will be responsible for the consequences."

Cui Geng: "???"

He was completely stunned, what kind of deceptive behavior in the world is this?

Even if you want to work overtime for a while?

And this mouse is even more outrageous, there is such a method of physically refusing to work overtime?

Cui Geng got off work yesterday and didn't stop at all, so he has never encountered such a situation, and today is the first time.

"Forget it, I'll go to the nearby Moyu Internet Cafe to write!"

Cui Geng never expected that one day he would take the initiative to code during the break.

There is no way, it is really uncomfortable not to write when the inspiration comes, Cui Geng is afraid that if he does not write today, he will have forgotten all the details by Monday.

So, he immediately set off to the nearby Moyu Internet Cafe, where he was going to write the beginning of this story.

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First up is the title of this story.

After much deliberation, Cui Geng finalized the English title first, and then translated the title into Chinese.

"SUCCESSOR", "Successor".

The reason why it is translated as "successor" rather than "successor" is because it mainly "succeeds" the superhero ability and identity of the captain of the world, rather than inheriting inheritance or the like.

Cui Geng also thought about the shape of the title by the way. Based on the capitalized calligraphy of the word SUCCESSOR, he painted the "SUCCESS" in bright red.

This title has three different meanings:

First of all, in the background of the whole story, all superheroes regard themselves as the successors of the original superhero "Captain World". Captain World spread his superpowers all over the United States, so that everyone has the possibility to become a superhero. At the same time, he is deeply loved by the people of the United States and is regarded as a model of superheroes.

Therefore, all subsequent superheroes regarded themselves as successors, meaning that they would act like the captain of the world and would not disappoint those who supported them.

Secondly, there will be a very critical plot in the book, which is a TV program called "Successor". This show is an important part of the protagonist's plan.

Finally, the successor, the word SUCCESSOR, happens to have the word SUCCESS in it.

Paint SUCCESS bright red, implying that this is a story of a "successor" on the surface, but actually a story of a "successor", and the so-called "success" here is on the surface an ordinary person who becomes a superhero The "success" of "success", but in fact it is the "success" of an ambitious man who achieved his evil purpose through dirty means.

Before starting to write the beginning, Cui Geng also carefully considered the specific writing method.

There are many entry points at the beginning of the whole story. If you follow the usual habit of writing online articles, you will probably use a positive sequence of narrative methods.

But Cui Geng considers that the content he is writing now should not be written in the way of online texts in a strict sense, but should be written in the way of movie scripts or short stories with strong literary quality. The story is more compact, he decided to use the way of interludes.

...

United States, City of Hope, 2010s, a rainy night.

Hope City is one of the most prosperous cities on the east coast of the United States. The weather here is complex and changeable, sometimes cloudy and sometimes clear.

This bustling metropolis is like a huge melting pot. Buildings of different styles can be seen everywhere in every corner of the city. Under the superficial extravagance and glitz, there are filth and evil hidden in the dark alleys.

It is one of the most prosperous and wealthy cities in the United States, and it is also one of the cities with the highest crime rate in the United States.

However, with the full cooperation of superheroes and the police, just like the name of the city, the crime rate here is decreasing year by year, and the whole city and its citizens are bathed in hope.

Although the statistics show that the crime rate in Hope City remains high, here, people often see all kinds of superheroes patrolling the sky, and hear news that criminal organizations are destroyed by superheroes every day. The sense of security and happiness of citizens is at the forefront of the country.

Phil Simmons, the only son of real estate tycoon Ryan Simmons, is a well-known playboy in Hope City.

Sports cars, yachts, private jets, supermodels, parties at sea... Phil is very good at spending a lot of money and enjoying instant pleasure.

Phil is by no means the richest rich second generation, but he is definitely the most high-profile rich second generation. At the age of 31 this year, he has a strong sense of self-promotion. Through accumulation day after day, he has accumulated a lot of money for his personal social accounts. million followers.

Compared with superheroes, entertainers, sports stars, and political figures whose fans are counted in tens of millions, millions of fans seem nothing, but Phil is not a superhero, star, or political figure after all. The second generation, being able to get these fans, really showed his "talent" in some aspects.

Of course, his Simmons Media Company has also contributed a lot in this regard.

At this time, the CEO of Simmons Media, who has been proud of himself for most of his life, is 1.92 meters tall, has a handsome face and a perfect body, has a doctorate in law and an MBA degree, is in a skyscraper under construction. On the roof of the building, tears flowed.

Uncontrolled piss out of fear stained the well-fitted trousers, leaving an embarrassing dark, slowly enlarging wet spot.

The high-profile bright red tie that he loved so much was caught on an extremely thick arm with exposed veins and hairy hair, and his whole body had already come to the outside of the roof of the top floor. If it weren't for the arm holding the tie, he would have fallen from a height of more than a thousand feet at this time, and had an intimate contact with the ground.

Phil Simmons' handsome face was completely distorted by fear. Tears, snot, and rainwater mixed together, and a small part flowed into his mouth, which was begging for mercy hoarsely, and was sprayed out along with a small part of saliva.

"Please, don't kill me!"

"My dad has a lot of money, no matter how much money you want, he will give it to you!"

At this time, the person holding Phil Simmons' bright red tie was a super strong man who was close to 2.5 meters tall and weighed close to 200 kilograms by visual inspection.

This evening, when Phil Simmons was driving his sports car in the rainy night as usual, this strong man suddenly appeared in front of his sports car, smashed his beloved sports car to pieces, and then escaped from the deformed cab. He dragged out Phil Simmons, who fell into a brief coma due to the impact, and came to the roof of the skyscraper that was still under construction like he was carrying a little chicken.

When Phil Simmons woke up in the icy rain, his entire body was already hanging from the skyscraper, and all his wealth and life were placed in the hands of this strong man.

Phil Simmons has no intention of resisting at all, because this seemingly vicious strong man has the same strength as the weakest superhero.

There are not many "supervillains" with such great destructive power in Hope City, but each of them has caused headaches for the police who maintain the city's law and order.

However, although the crime rate in Hope City remains high, it basically occurs frequently in the neighborhoods where some poor and homeless live together. Phil Simmons lives in a rich area. During his thirty-one years of life, This situation has never been encountered before.

The extreme fear made his hands and feet cold and his body uncontrollable. He had no choice but to cry and beg for mercy.

And this villain, who was like a mountain of meat, looked at Phil Simmons' distorted expression with great interest, and showed a mocking smile.

Life experience, appearance, wealth, intelligence... etc., villains can't compare with Phil Simmons.

But the villain has one thing Phil Simmons doesn't, and that's power.