"He must be surprised now......"

At the same time, Alice attends a meeting at the animation company in Yokohama, where the representatives of the animation company are speaking, but she secretly deserts. Alice knew that it was almost time for Meng Shu to arrive at that apartment, and suddenly saw that there was an additional place to live, Meng Shu must have been surprised to think of this...... The corners of Alice's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile.

In fact, this trip to Tokyo was premeditated, and the animation company that I wanted to cooperate with for a long time was called Matsumon, a small company that had not been established for half a year, and had even just started the animation business.

Alice just wants to use this reason to get closer to Meng Huo, she realizes that it will be hopeless if she doesn't take the initiative, and she must strengthen the opportunities to contact Meng Huo in the future, especially outside of the comic island. Even in the usual way of getting along, Alice knows that it is easier to bond in unfamiliar places.

But she can't just tell Meng Huo, 'I'm going to Tokyo with you,' and she will definitely be rejected."

So she chose this Matsumon company as a springboard to come to the Far East first, her original idea was to go through the motions in Yokohama, and then go back to Tokyo to buy an apartment, find a reason to meet friends or visit the Phoenix company for a few days, and find a way to live in it with Meng Huo.

This is not difficult to do, Alice had already investigated the apartment before, and the apartment was large enough for her, Meng Shu and his bodyguards. Although there is a bodyguard who is very in the way, that bodyguard is also very convenient, and if it were not for him, Meng Huo might not agree in order to avoid suspicion.

But there were bodyguards present. The apartment was enough for the room. Meng Shu had no reason to refuse Alice. Chenggong and Meng Huo stayed under the same roof. Alice has more opportunities, she is not in a hurry, this is just her first step, she will unravel Meng Shu's guard step by step, close the distance between him, and then ......

"Miss Alice? Miss Alice!? A voice suddenly interrupted Alice's thoughts, and Alice looked up and found that the people of Matsumon Animation were looking at her expectantly: "What is your opinion?" ”

Alice's mind immediately came to mind, because Matsumon Animation was still a new company that had not yet released a formal work. Alice came over to take a look at them and turned down their invitation to go to Tokyo, then bought the apartment. But just as she was about to wait for Meng Shu to arrive, Songmen Animation suddenly sent someone to find her and provide a draft of a new animation.

The quality of the manuscript surprised Alice, who had spent a few years in the manga industry and honed her vision - Matsumon's new anime was called "The Land of Ice and Fire", which tells the story of a war between the land of extreme cold and the country of flames in a completely alternate world, and the subject matter does not look very good, but the draft is excellent.

The excellent positioning here is the positioning of the story. In fact, there are a lot of cartoons that depict alternate worlds, but none of them are very well written. This "Land of Ice and Fire" can be regarded as a masterpiece in Alice's eyes. She felt like she had picked up a treasure at the first glance when she saw the manuscript, although the story and various settings of "The Land of Ice and Fire" were not completely perfect, they already had the level of Li Xin and Qin Ya.

If the manga is launched, it will be popular, and the animation will not be bad.

So Alice is back and she wants to see what Matsumon Animation is going to do, and that's why this meeting came about. Matsumon Animation presented their ideas in the conference room and aired an anime, a company that was actually formed after getting the manuscript of "Land of Ice and Fire", and the members were very optimistic about the potential of the anime and wanted to make a name for themselves.

However, they underestimated the difficulty of making Zuò in animation, and ran into trouble in the process of making Zuò "Land of Ice and Fire": they wanted to invite excellent voice actors to voice them, but they didn't have enough money. For this reason, they pinned their hopes on Phoenix Company, trying to solve the voice actor problem cheaply.

"Our company takes the development route of small but fine, and "Land of Ice and Fire" is our first animation work, and every one of them will be a masterpiece in the future." The president of Matsumon Animation said confidently: "The original author of "The Land of Ice and Fire" has signed an exclusive agreement with us, and will provide one work every year in the future, if Miss Alice cooperates with us, you will definitely not regret it!" ”

Alice listened a little excitedly, "Land of Ice and Fire" does have a lot of potential, and it is a win-win good thing for the voice actors of Phoenix to dub it. If the quality of Matsumon Animation's work is comparable to that of "Land of Ice and Fire" in the future, it doesn't matter if it's almost there, this cooperation will be very cost-effective.

"If you change to other investors and Zhongxia Company, you will definitely agree......"

Alice thought to herself that the reason why Matsumon Animation cooperated with Phoenix Company was not only because of the voice actors. More importantly, Phoenix's unparalleled influence in the Far East and its relationship with TV Tokyo are also very good, which made Matsumen the first choice of Phoenix.

But Alice believes that if she refuses, the company will immediately look for other replacements.

"I can promise you first, but can I meet the author of The Land of Fire and Ice?"

She made a decision that she could agree to the cooperation, but she was also interested in the original author of "The Land of Ice and Fire". The original author's pen name is very unfamiliar, and the style of painting is also very unfamiliar, Alice has never seen it in a comic magazine - she has an impression of China's powerful cartoonists, but she does not have the person Zài.

This author is most likely a genius cartoonist who has not been discovered!

The other people in the "......" room looked at each other a few times, and they were a little hesitant: "Miss Alice, we don't like to see people......

"But since you agreed, we'll fight for you, please wait."

After saying a word, she left the conference room and started to call, and Alice was even more surprised.

"You respect that author?"

She even has to report, how does she feel that the relationship between Matsumon Animation and the original author of "Land of Ice and Fire" is not like the relationship between the company and the cartoonist?

"He's our majority shareholder." The president of Matsumon Animation gave some awkward explanations, which made Alice even more stunned. However, because she agreed to cooperate, the mysterious author still agreed to meet Alice at his house.

In the evening, Alice and a few subordinates drove to the author's house under the guidance of others, and at this moment it was completely dark, and the streets of Yokohama were lit up on both sides, but the scenery of the streets seemed unfamiliar. Alice closed her eyes in the car and squinted for a while, and before she knew it, she was at her destination.

It was a luxurious villa, with a very eastern-style architecture, and by the open gate, several maids were already standing.

“……”

Alice was silent when she got out of the car, her mind a little confused.

Although Yokohama is not a first-tier city in China, it is also a good city in the extreme east, and this villa occupies a larger area than her home, and it is worth tens of millions of Chinese dollars. And there are also maids to serve, and the masters here are all rich people with a lot of money!

"The author of "The Land of Fire and Ice" lives here?" She asked, skeptically.

"That's right." The president of Matsumon Animation nodded, and said with some embarrassment: "We call him Mr. Matsumon, he was originally a rich man from a certain European country, it seems that he encountered some trouble, he changed his name and surname last year to move here to settle down, he is the owner of this villa, and the original author of "Land of Ice and Fire". ”

"European......" Alice was even more strange in her heart, why would a European change his name and come to Tokyo to buy this villa in order to take refuge? And if you have the money to buy this villa, how can you not even have the money to hire a voice actor? This is not right, Alice's total investment in watching Songmen animation is only a few million Huaxia coins at most, how can it be difficult to defeat the owner of this villa?

"Not enough money?"

This suspicion flashed through Alice's mind, could it be that the rich man came here to buy a villa and spent too much money, and then had no money to invest?

"Mr. Matsumon has a more conservative personality...... "The president of Matsumen Animation seemed to see Alice's doubts, and explained: "His work is very good, but he himself is not very confident, in fact, he only gave the first draft of "The Land of Ice and Fire", and he didn't pay much attention to it after starting the company. ”

"This animation took more than half a year for the members of our company to enrich it bit by bit, and then it came to fruition, Miss Alice, you see. But Mr. Matsumon said that it was a scrap manuscript in the first place, and he promised that as long as we used the animation to make a difference, he would give us more manuscripts and inject more money. ”

"Actually, I read two manuscripts from him." The president of Matsumon Animation whispered, "They are all excellent manuscripts, and they have not been published, which is unbelievable...... Mr. Matsumon, who is in his fifties this year, said that he has been in contact with manga for less than four years and is undoubtedly a genius. ”

Whether it is Chinese or world comics, their history is not long, and the age of cartoonists tends to be younger, and the first generation of cartoonists is between thirty and forty years old. There are almost no manga artists over the age of 50, and Matsumon has been in contact with manga for less than four years - he can still draw "The Land of Ice and Fire" at such a young age, this Matsumon is indeed a genius.

Alice had ever seen the youngest cartoonist, a fourteen-year-old cartoonist, whose genius is now known to the world: "Could it be that I am going to meet the oldest genius cartoonist now?" ”

She suddenly became interested, and was very curious about this Matsumon - a cartoonist in his fifties, if he could work at the Phoenix Company, it would be a good story! However, after entering the villa and seeing this pine gate, Alice's face suddenly became very cold.

She knew him......

Maybe he knew her too...... (To be continued......)