Chapter 10: News

"The sales of "Weekly Boy" broke through again, and 100,000 copies were printed?"

"This is the fifth week of reprinting!"

Zhou Qing is the editor-in-chief of the comics of the largest news website in China, and when he went to work that day, he frowned and looked at the information in his hand.

Phoenix hasn't made any big moves lately, but Weekly Boy's sales have been growing for five weeks in a row, and he can't ignore the news subject. I had also heard an original detective comic launched by "Weekly Boys" before, and the feedback was very good, but Zhou Qing didn't pay attention at the time.

The author of that comic is a newcomer, and Zhou Qing thought it was just a flash in the pan, but now it seems that he was wrong.

"Do any of you remember what that detective comic from Weekly Shonen was called?"

Zhou Qing looked up and asked the editors who were writing.

"Detective Conan!"

All the editors looked up and answered almost in unison.

Zhou Qing was stunned: "Do you all know the way? ”

"Of course, I know that this original comic has been very popular recently."

"My girlfriend and I love it, but it's hard to buy Weekly Shonen and it sells out early in the morning of every issue."

It's so hot! Zhou Qing was shocked, the information he was holding in his hand showed that Phoenix Company had been printing, and if even this would be sold out in the morning, then the charm of this original comic would be beyond imagination.

"Why didn't you tell me the news earlier!"

Zhou Qing was a little displeased, such a good news topic was left behind by himself for several weeks.

"Editor-in-chief, didn't you say that the news of original comics is worthless?"

The other editors were a bit innocent, and the editor-in-chief had never disdained original comics, and had previously been suggested that they would not take it seriously.

Zhou Qing's old face turned red, and he patted the table angrily: "This doesn't count, how could there be such a powerful original comic before!" Okay, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and write a draft for me, before noon today, everyone will hand in a press release of "Detective Conan", the content is eye-catching, I want to choose one to publish! ”

"Ah, all of them!"

"Editor-in-chief, don't ......"

"If you don't write, your salary will be deducted, and 600 will be added if you choose!"

Zhou Qing snorted coldly, and immediately no one objected, a news plus 600 salary is quite attractive.

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Liu De, a senior executive of a company, drove home that evening.

"Tiantian, Daddy is back!" He took off his coat, took out a thick magazine from his bag and shouted, "Dad bought you "Weekly Boy", and you can see who the prisoner is in this issue! ”

He had a smile on his face, as if he had seen his daughter running out of the room.

Liu De is usually too busy to communicate with his daughter, but this situation has changed a lot in the past few weeks.

Daughter likes comics, his wife recommended him "Detective Conan", this comic is light-hearted and interesting, although it is a detective comic, but there are no bloody scenes, Liu De and his daughter like it very much, he will discuss the plot with his daughter every week, and the relationship has become a lot closer.

However, today is very strange, the daughter has not come out.

"What's wrong with Tiantian?"

Liu De asked his wife who was cooking.

"She's playing with the computer in the study, you can go and see it." The wife smiled.

Liu De picked up "Weekly Boy" and walked into the study, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw his pink baby daughter wearing a headset, shouting at the computer: "Bad guys, bad guys, you are all bad guys!" ”

He was nervous, could it be that someone was bullying his daughter?

Hurriedly ran to his daughter's side, Liu De picked her up, pulled the headset cord, and suddenly, a fierce quarrel came out.

"Did you hear that, you boys have annoyed other people's children!"

"You are unreasonable, facts are facts, how can the author of "Detective Conan" be a person!"

"Who the hell is unreasonable, you boys who talk about it are obviously jealous of what a pity for your talent!"

"Hey, don't put all the boys in it, I still believe the author."

The voices of a group of people were noisy and chaotic, and Liu De hurriedly pressed the mute button.

He took the headset off for his daughter: "What's going on?" ”

"Daddy!" The little girl pursed her lips and was indignant: "They say that my brother is a liar, and "Detective Conan" is a comic drawn by three people!" ”

Liu De almost laughed, their family has their own love for "Detective Conan", he and his wife both like the hero and heroine, but the young daughter is as obsessed with the author as if chasing stars: "Tiantian, why do they say that there are three authors?" ”

The girl raised her eyebrows and pointed to the computer: "Look. ”

Liu De looked at the computer, and in addition to a YY voice chat room on the screen, there was also an open web page. Above is Huaxia News Network, and a red headline is unusually eye-catching.

The Savior of Original Comics – or a Hypocritical Hoax? 》

Liu De turned on the news and looked at it curiously.

"Do you believe that a teenager who hasn't won an award, hasn't published a short comic, and has come out of nowhere to launch a new serial, and has achieved a sales miracle for five weeks in a row?"

"The social content of this manga is so rich that even seasoned scholars find it difficult to find loopholes......

"After expert review, the author of the first picture of the boy must be a Chinese painter......"

“…… Is there anyone in the Huaxia Detectives Association who can draw comics? As far as I know, this is not the ......"

"In the end, the editor thinks that the authors of "Detective Conan" should be three people, and this comic is actually a huge scam carefully prepared by Phoenix Corporation......"

This is a news article that looks rigorous, but is actually full of all kinds of malicious speculation. The editor of the news deliberately misled readers, wrote his guess to the top, and came to a conclusion that is easy to believe - the authors of "Detective Conan" are three people, a Chinese painter, a professional cartoonist, and an author of detective novels!

Liu De shook his head, he didn't believe that Phoenix Company would do such a thing.

But he was also surprised that there were 100,000 replies to the news and more than 5,000 reposts — it's unimaginable, you want to say that this news is good? The other news content is not bad at all, why does it have so many replies?

To explore the reason, we can only think about it from the comic itself.

"Detective Conan" is very popular, it is more popular than everyone else imagined. The comic has cultivated a huge readership in just a few weeks, and only then will one such news story become a sensation.

Liu De seems to smell the breath of a storm, and this news is like an introduction, when the media people notice its staggering number of replies, more news will spring up like mushrooms after a rain - and then let the teenage author ......

"The world knows that he became famous in one fell swoop!"

Liu De sighed, as the saying goes, you have to become famous as soon as possible, and you become famous as a teenager, what an enviable thing!