howling breath

Shun Er listed many types of bars for Lin Lang to choose from: those where you can mainly drink and have skewers, bartending with desserts, bars with live band performances, bars with dance floors... Besides, there are various themes Various features.

Lin Lang was confused when he heard it, and finally gave Shun'er the right to choose: "You decide—just don't make too much noise."

It can be seen that Lin Lang's mood has been weird recently, and there is no Tang Yushu by his side, Shun'er suddenly had an idea, and asked him mysteriously: "You don't want to steal something, do you? Then I will take you to a special place." s Bar!"

Lin Lang shook his head: "I want to write a martial arts story with the background of a tavern, and I want to draw materials."

"Oh..." Shun'er blushed at her behavior of "judging a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart".

On the way to the bar by taxi, Shun'er asked Lin Lang about the topic of "martial arts": "I saw that this month's "Legend" actually published an old novel that you posted online?"

"Legend" is a famous martial arts literature magazine, and it is something that many new writers are proud of to be published on it.

"Oh...an author put a pigeon, and the editor asked me to ask for it before she went to the printing house-she said she liked that story."

Shun'er nodded, as if his taste was recognized: "I really like that story too - how did you conceive it? You are so talented!" Then he touched Lin Lang's hand: "Look at this beautiful Fingers, wrote so many beautiful characters... Hey, why isn't it popular?"

"It's a pity that this article... only gave me 200 yuan in exchange for the manuscript."

Shun Er also sighed together: "Nowadays, online literature has a great impact on print media...I see that many magazines have closed down."

"Yes." Lin Lang smiled wryly.

"Why don't you consider writing online?"

Can the work be published online? ——This question is probably a common confusion of all writers who debuted in the paper media era.

Going back to the era of paper media, the greatest value of books is the "content value", and the "collection value" mentioned by Shen Ye is only second.So if a novel is "overexposed", that is, if you can read the full text through other channels without buying a book, readers will usually choose the most cost-effective way of reading.So for the booksellers of that period: if a novel is published in its entirety online, it almost loses the meaning of "selling it as a physical book".

Of course, there are exceptions: a series of novels "In the Shadow of the City" (edited...) that Lin Lang liked very much in high school was written by the writer himself. Booksellers discovered and successfully published. There are two factors for the success of "In the Shadow of the City": First, the popularity of the work is high, so even if it has been "overexposed", among the huge readership group, there are still countless "core readers" who are willing to buy physical books for collection .The second is that the popularity of the Internet was not high at that time, and paper media were still within reach of people; some novels may have been well-known on the Internet, but no one has heard of them in real life—so the bookseller made a message and sold them. The most important thing is still the "content value" of the book.

The novel by Lin Lang that Wen Wen wanted to buy out was actually finished a year ago.But because there is no opportunity to publish, "the writer Lin Lang who debuted in the era of paper media" has never dared to expose his works easily.After all, if it can't be published, it means that the blood and sweat can't be exchanged for the food...

But these were also Lin Lang's previous concerns.

Lin Lang's habit of thinking has been reversed a lot since he rejected [Hua Rongyuexia]'s offer, broke up with Tang Yushu, and established the "New Movie" electronic magazine.In fact, I figured it out: many things are useless to rely on fear alone. Because of fear, I will stop moving forward, and I will never get rid of the dilemma of "I am a pawn in the end".

Leading the restructuring of the editorial department, accepting the old professor's investment frankly, biting the bullet and achieving one's own goals in the face of roaring - these are the me who would fall down in fright when faced with a gentle god stretching out his arms... Never Dare to think.Everything is like a punishment to my timid self, and even after experiencing it, I need to hide in a corner where there is no one and breathe heavily.

But as a willing sinner, Lin Lang today is content with these things similar to "self-torture", and even feels... It's not enough.

A little more, and a little more violently, it's enough to crush the bone and turn the ashes into ashes.

I looked up to you before.

From now on I want to be you.

Shun'er is obviously a playboy, he is familiar with finding bars, and even the bartender shaking the shaker greets him as soon as he enters the door.

Although Lin Lang set out a budget of 200, Shun'er knew Lin Lang's financial situation, so he ordered the 12 bottles of beer that he had saved when he came to play.As soon as he was seated, he winked at Lin Lang: "The man in the booth on the right by the wall is a bit handsome!"

Lin Lang was busy reading the news on the phone, dealing with Shun'er's nympho, and turned his head back pretendingly, "Oh."

"You didn't watch it at all!" Shun'er discovered her perfunctory.

Lin Lang smiled wryly: "Wait for me!"—and hastily replied to the person whose note was [Charge d'Affaires] with a mailing message of his own.Then put down the phone.

After clinking glasses with Shun'er, Lin Lang recalled—turning his head, there was no one on the seat near the wall at the booth on the right back.

"What about people?"

"You missed it!"

laugh.

"Young master, you are really a loyal dog - I want to grow your face, I climb up the wall every day to show off! When you see a handsome guy, throw the veil down to confuse his eyes!"

Lin Lang liked to listen to Shun'er's crazy words, so he also teased him: "Your face is pretty enough—you don't need to lie on the wall, there will be rumors of your 'prosperous beauty'!"

"Ohh..." Shun'er turned into a goblin again, acting out a burst of shyness.

But just a few times shy, a voice sounded from behind Shun'er: "Lin Lang... Junior?"

Shun'er sat upright for a moment.Lin Lang looked up at the sound and saw two people, one of whom was being supported by the other to walk——in his subjective consciousness, he reduced the saturation of the red on the other's face, and finally recognized the drunk man.

"Lu Li?"

In fact, I'm not familiar with Lu Li, but there was a dinner that didn't lead to a job discussion.But Lu Li seemed to regard himself as an old acquaintance, and stumbled to sit next to Lin Lang - Lin Lang knew that he might be drunk.

"What... what have you been up to lately?"

"Busy..." Lin Lang couldn't answer this "strange senior" for a moment - the lives of the two had no intersection at all, and there was nothing to talk about with each other.But Lin Lang still managed to squeeze out a smile: "Oh... that... I recently received manuscripts for magazines and edited my long story."

"Long article? Good long article! Long article... Where will it be published?"

Lin Lang embarrassedly kept a little distance from Lu Li who was almost stuck to him, first he gave Shun'er a look of "I don't quite understand the situation", and then glanced at the man who was supporting Lu Li just now. That person finally looked at Lu Li: "Oh... I plan to put it on "New Movies" first—electronic magazines and online publications."

""New Movie" still has an electronic magazine?" Lu Li laughed, and he picked up Lin Lang's cup and drank Lin Lang's wine very familiarly.

"It's the official account—the print version of "New Movie" has been discontinued." Lu Li also graduated from the Film University, so it's not surprising that he knows "New Movie".

""New Movie" has been discontinued?"

"Yes... Now I am in charge of editing the electronic magazine."

"I was also involved in the editorial work of "New Movie" back then!"——Although the term of office was completely wrong, but after all, it matched the status of "colleague", so Lu Li raised his glass and toasted Lin Lang: " Cheers to "New Movie"!"

Lin Lang didn't have a cup in his hand, so he could only face the drunk man with a dry smile: "Cheers... Cheers..."

Lu Liwu finished the cup by himself, and slowly glanced at his friend standing by the booth waiting for him.He didn't mean to leave, and he didn't invite that friend to sit down, but continued to entangle with Lin Lang: "Is there anything I need to help? Just tell the senior! Don't be polite to the senior!"

"You're welcome...you're welcome..." Lin Lang felt like he was fooling a child at the moment.But since Lu Li said this, Lin Lang suddenly remembered something, and with an attitude of giving it a try, he asked Lu Li: "Senior, I see that you are updating a comic series on Weibo from time to time— —That is... is there any employer or company behind you to support you?"

"No way!" Even though he was drunk, Lu Li still couldn't help but smile wryly when he mentioned this: "How can I have any support? I was painting for fun! It's not like you don't know about me—you offended that one 'First Sister', that 'Big Daughter'... who in the industry dares to pay me now? That's why I don't want to be in the industry anymore!"

The "first sister" and "big daughter" in his mouth are the writer who won the first prize in last year's Novel Newcomer Award by plagiarizing his comics. She let go of a magazine's pigeon, and Lin Lang was lucky enough My family's broom is self-cherishing, and I earned 1500 manuscript fees.

So that’s the case——Lin Lang then asked again: “Then… would you like to serialize your work on the official account of “New Movie”? Because it’s a student publication that just started… Actually, there’s not much budget for manuscript fees, but you can Let’s talk about the requirements for the manuscript fee—if we can meet it, we will definitely meet it!”

"Pfft!" After hearing Lin Lang's question, Lu Li lowered his head inexplicably and laughed - Lin Lang didn't know what he was laughing at, but he just let him laugh for a long time before he raised his head again , glanced slowly at the side of the booth—Lin Lang looked over together, and Lu Li's friend had long since disappeared.

Then Lu Li put down his glass—still drunk, but his attitude changed significantly—he sat a little away from Lin Lang, and the smile on his expression completely disappeared.He glanced at Lin Lang and said, "Actually, in my current situation, I don't expect to be able to draw comics as a career. It's okay to put more people on "New Movie"-I can also give you 70 yuan The manuscript fee for one episode of Qian. But... hey..."

70 yuan per episode—this was the price Lin Lang offered Lu Li for his screenwriting project at the time.

Lin Lang didn't know what Lu Li's words meant now.

"Senior, do you have any difficulties? You can tell me, and I will try my best to help you."

Lu Li stood up with the back of the sofa, a little smile on his face - completely different from the exaggerated smile just now.

He straightened his clothes, and said to Lin Lang: "Stop teasing me, elementary school boy—you are a child in an ivory tower, say this to me, an old fritter who has been in the workplace for four or five years—senior Thank you for your kindness! But it's not that the senior doesn't trust you..."

Lin Lang looked at him quietly, waiting for the next sentence.

But Lu Li was really drunk: "Senior can't trust you!"

After Lu Li got up and left, Shun'er was still reviewing the logic of this sentence in his mind - "It's not that the senior doesn't trust you... The senior doesn't trust you..."

Lin Lang smiled wryly: "The first half of the sentence is polite, and the second half is impolite—that's Lu Li, a cartoonist... a bit miserable."

"The handsome guy I showed you just now is him—he turned out to be a cartoonist... no wonder!" Shun'er pulled away Lin Lang's wine glass that was occupied by Lu Li, and called the waiter to replace Lin Lang with a new one. De: "You guys are creative, it's hard to understand what you're talking about!"

"I'm actually not familiar with him—and I feel...the person next to him just now is also very strange..."

"Huh?" Shun'er was at a loss, "I thought you two knew each other very well!"

Lin Lang thought about it, but was still a little worried, so he got up and went out of the bar, and saw Lu Li hailing a taxi on the side of the street.

Seeing that he successfully stopped one and got into the car, Lin Lang returned to the bar.While walking towards his booth, he sent a message to Lu Li: Senior, let me know when you get home.

After sitting down, Shun'er teased Lin Lang: "I won't call you Young Master anymore, I'll call you 'Bodhisattva'!"

Lin Lang smiled: "No... mainly because I felt a little dangerous - I always felt that the person next to Lu Li just now was very strange. When he was there, Lu Li ran over and pretended to be familiar with me and refused to leave. As soon as he left Lu Li immediately changed his face. I can't guess the reason, but I always feel that Lu Li wants to escape, but he is too embarrassed to escape..."

I also experienced that panic.

Lin Lang suddenly couldn't help thinking of Tang Yushu again.

Perhaps it was because after a few cups that he got a little head-scratched, he relaxed his guard—Tang Yushu, who was usually locked in his heart chamber, managed to escape at this time, running around on the mound of his heart—he still couldn’t catch it .

Then it seemed to run out of wine, and it seemed to order some more.We met Shun'er cup after cup, listening to Shun'er can't stop chattering, his words mixed with the noise in the bar, but they couldn't squeeze into Lin Lang's ears.

In a daze, Lin Lang saw that Chen Ni seemed to be sitting beside Shun'er, and Tang Yushu was sitting beside him.The scene is no longer a bar, but an elusive space—a drunken phantom.

Lin Lang was confused, but he knew clearly—these were all drunk phantoms.

Chen Ni looked younger than the real Chen Ni, and was as old as Shun'er; Tang Yushu was a little older than the real Tang Yushu, two or three years older than himself; there were not only wine glasses on the table, but also a pot of boiling water. The pot was steaming hot, making Lin Lang's eyes red...

"Master?" Shun'er called to herself.

"Huh?" Lin Lang answered him.

"Master!" Shun'er called himself again.

"Huh?" Lin Lang also answered him again.

"Your phone is ringing!"

"Eh?"

The illusion was then crushed together with the action of rubbing the eyes, and evaporated into the gap between time and space, disappearing without a trace.

Lin Lang opened his eyes and found the right pocket after digging a few times. He took it out and saw the caller ID: Chen Ni.woke up.

"Hey?"

"Where are you, sister-in-law? We need you!"

In the past, Chen Ni always called himself that in jokes, but Lin Lang actually resisted this title.But this time he called it that, but Lin Lang felt comfortable: "I've been at school recently, what's wrong?"

"Now only you can save us!"

Surprised: "What happened?"

Chen Ni on the other end of the phone hesitated for a long time, and said falteringly: "We are going to collapse!"

"what?"

"The company's capital chain is broken, the salary cannot be paid, and the employees are leaving. A company we worked with before delayed the payment and went through bankruptcy proceedings. Now the company can't stand it...Only you can help us!"

Lin Lang was so frightened that he woke up completely.

Lin Lang couldn't hear the "capital chain" and "bankruptcy procedure" that Chen Nei said, but asked anxiously: "Where is Tang Yushu? Is he okay?"

"It's okay, it's just..." Chen Ni paused: "It's just that the blow was a little big—do you want to come and see him?"

"Okay, I'll go!" Lin Lang asked again before hanging up: "How much money do you need to fill the hole?"

"Uh...it's hard to figure out..." Chen Ni must have been flustered too: "As long as you help us, help us get this project underway, we may be able to regain blood...at least we can not be in debt!"

"How can I help?—Forget it, I'll go there first. Wait for me!"

After hanging up the phone, Lin Lang told Shun'er succinctly: "Let's go! — Something happened to Tang Yushu!"

Then there was no time to explain "What happened to Senior Tang", and I didn't care that it was already early in the morning, so I immediately found [Flower] in the address book