Fang Zhao also knew about the film Natiwuzi was talking about. It was called "A Guitar Romance." He even knew the male lead in the film. It was Ji Polun.
Back when Fang Zhao had first taken over the virtual projects department and created the virtual idol Polar Light, Ji Polun had been hired to be an eye model. In the end, he had become a spectator and had been doing odd jobs in the department. Ji Polun had been on the production staff for Polar Light's first song.
Back then, Ji Polun had only been a C-grade contract employee. He had probably found a knack for his acting skills and improved quite a bit. His looks were indeed good. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been signed by Silver Wing. His acting skills had improved, and his way of dealing with people had improved. His contract had already been upgraded to B-grade.
Now that the entire virtual projects department was highly confidential, Ji Polun couldn't go to the department to chat even if he wanted to. However, he still kept in touch with Zu Wen and the others. A while back, Fang Zhao had overheard Zu Wen and the others discussing company gossip. Ji Polun had accepted yet another film and was the male lead. Apparently, in order to secure the role, Ji Polun had worked hard on the guitar and hired professional tutors. To be better than other actors of the same caliber, learning a few chords was not enough.
Before accepting this film, Ji Polun had only known that many antique guitars were made of wood. He had no idea how many strings there were, and he had no idea how many types there were. He knew that he could use a stunt double and synthesize it in post-production, but if he had a bit of foundation, his chances of snagging the role would be higher. He had started practicing three months in advance.
Actually, the company did not pay much attention to this kind of low-budget film. Every month, every genre had a shooting target, and the script was basically a new bottle of old wine, tricking other investors to invest in it. This "Guitar Love" was a co-production between the company and other investors.
When Fang Zhao first heard the title, he had thought it was a youthful inspirational film about music and instruments, but in fact, it was a youthful school idol film. Now, after hearing Natiwuzi's explanation, Fang Zhao learned that besides Silver Wing itself, the other investor was Natiwuzi's "NaZ."
Ji Polun's guitar tutor was from "NaZ." There were many traces of the "NaZ" brand in the film, and the guitar the male lead used was also a "NaZ" brand.
"I was the one who came up with the title." Natiwuzi was a little pleased, but then he frowned. "It's just that the filming progress is too slow."
Fang Zhao nodded. "Slow work yields fine work. As long as you are satisfied with the product, I will do my best. I know the male lead. He's a very hardworking fellow. I heard that he trained hard for three months just for one of the scenes. "
Natiwuzi had originally wanted to urge the other side to increase the pressure, but when he heard Fang Zhao's words, he chuckled. "That tone of yours. You aren't big either!"
However, Natiwuzi did not rush him any further. Because this was part of his plan to expand his brand, he had spent a lot of effort in selecting the actors for this film. If it weren't for the calluses on Ji Polun's hands from practicing the guitar, he wouldn't have chosen the actor. Natiwuzi's request was to minimize post-production and not use computer technology to create footage of the performance. Now that he heard Fang Zhao say that the other party was indeed hardworking, he felt a lot more at ease. Indeed, as long as he was satisfied with the result, he didn't care too much about other things. Anyway, the filming was almost done, and it should be done in the next two days. He could urge them during the post-production.
Now that technology was advanced, the production cycle for a film wasn't long. This kind of low-budget film was even shorter.
Natiwuzi had invited Fang Zhao to give lessons online. Fang Zhao didn't have much time, but he could spare an hour or two a day.
Natiwuzi was very happy to receive Fang Zhao's approval. When he heard that Fang Zhao had come to Space to seek creative inspiration, Natiwuzi waved his hand and gave Fang Zhao a special privileges card that gave him even more privileges than those VIP cards.
Natiwuzi had also given Fang Zhao quite a number of recordings of performances in the performance hall. From time to time, Natiwuzi would invite some rather famous bands or musicians to perform. The recordings of the performances were all stored in the store. Not all of them played ancient instruments, but their styles were trendy and could easily lift the mood. Electronic music dominated. This was exactly what Fang Zhao wanted.
Natiwuzi wouldn't feel good if he spoke too much. Fang Zhao didn't continue staying. After discussing the first step of their collaboration with Natiwuzi, he left with Zuo Yu.
On the way back, Fang Zhao received a call from Wang Tie.
"I have news." Wang Tie had a pleased look on his face. "I said that I wouldn't let you waste your money. As long as you are willing to fork out the money, I will definitely help you dig out the truth."
After the fight at Space, Fang Zhao had asked Wang Tie to dig out the mastermind. Given Wang Tie's familiarity with the gaming circles and his keen sense of smell as a veteran paparazzi, even if he couldn't dig out the whole truth, it would be good to dig out some information. However, Fang Zhao hadn't expected that Wang Tie would have news in just one day.
"Speak," Fang Zhao said.
"The person who attacked you was hired by a manager from Zebra E-Sports Club. You should have heard of this e-sports club. In recent years, they have been ranked among the top 10 e-sports clubs in Yanzhou, but they are in the bottom 10. In the whole of Yanzhou, they should be ranked in the top 30. They have some reputation, but it isn't big, just average. However, they are quite ambitious this year. Right now, they are ranked 10th on the Yanzhou leaderboards for 'Battle of the Century.' "
E-Sports club?
Fang Zhao had an idea when he heard this.
"For Fiery Bird's annual gala?"
Fang Zhao had heard from Wayne and Jinro that every year, Fiery Bird's annual gala would invite capable teams and individuals from every continent to participate. It was a place where the global media would focus their attention. And the so-called strength criteria this year were the top 10 individuals and teams in each continent's leaderboards for "Battle of the Century."
If someone in the top 10 of the individual leaderboards was already in the top 10 of the team leaderboards, the candidates would continue to move back.
Currently, the top 50 of the Yanzhou leaderboards were mostly team members in the top 10, so even if someone was ranked 20 or 30 on the individual leaderboards, there was a high chance that they would be invited. This was why many small e-sports clubs and studios used all their resources to push for someone.
Zebra E-Sports Club's ambitions this year had been huge. It was rumored that they had already spent a lot of money. It was rare for them to squeeze into the top 10 of Yanzhou's "Battle of the Century" leaderboards, but they were still ranked 10th.
Among the eight people, including Jinro and Dorrian, six of them had been approached by Zebra E-Sports Club, especially Dorrian, whose contract with HWR had expired. They had been approached more than 10 times, but in the end, they had all been poached by Silver Wing. How could he not be angry?
Poaching people was secondary. What was important was that this time, the SilverLight team formed by Silver Wing had a lot of momentum.
Although SilverLight had only charged to 12th place on the team leaderboards, who knew when they would be able to charge up. In the eyes of the outside world, with this kind of team composition, as long as the SilverLight team's score-sweeping machine, AliveAfter500Years, was still around, it would not be a problem for them to charge up.
"Actually, Zebra E-Sports Club did not only target you. They probably also targeted a few other e-sports clubs. Not counting the Big Five, sixth to ninth, 11th to 15th, they might have their eyes on all of them. As for why Silver Wing targeted you, it is probably because you are easier to target. Directly targeting e-sports athletes is something that the industry rejects. You can use underhanded means to poach people, but you cannot use underhanded means to threaten the safety of an e-sports athlete. They are probably planning to target the management of your young team and do not know your in-game identity. "
A change in the team's management would also have an impact on the team and might even shake morale. Fang Zhao was the boss of the SilverWing50PolarLight project team. This had been announced at the press conference, so it was no wonder he had been targeted.
Wang Tie shared his conjecture with a hint of schadenfreude. "They had been watching you for a few days, but they could not find an opportunity to make a move. Later, after the video of you teaching your juniors how to play the guitar was released, they went to Space. You should know what happened after that. They probably wanted to draw the issue to a feud within the music industry, but they did not expect to be caught by you and sent to the hospital. Now, those six people are still lying in the hospital, under police guard. "
If those six people had not been beaten to the ground by Fang Zhao and Natiwuzi's internal investigation had been swift, Wang Tie might not have been able to get the information so smoothly.
"Oh," Wang Tie said solemnly. "Besides me, there is another group of people investigating your matter. They are quite diligent. They are not Natiwuzi's people. Previously, Natiwuzi's people were mainly investigating their internal affairs and did not have the time to look elsewhere. But this group of people is different. Although they took a little longer to find out what I could, they should have more or less finished by now. "
Fang Zhao thought for a bit and said, "You don't have to continue on your end."
"Are those people from Silver Wing?"
"Probably."
"I was wondering." Wang Tie's mouth twitched. "Zebra's people definitely did not expect Silver Wing to mobilize so many people to investigate you."
Only a few people at Silver Wing knew how important Fang Zhao was to the virtual projects department and gaming department. Big Boss Duan Qianji was afraid that Fang Zhao would be poached away, so she had specially hired Zuo Yu, a former special forces member, to be his bodyguard. Zebra had ambitions, but did Silver Wing not? Wayne's ambitions had just begun. When he had received the news that Fang Zhao had almost gotten into trouble at Space, he had been scared out of his wits.
"So I'm really going to stop? I have organized all the information I found into an electronic file and sent it to you. "Wang Tie asked again," You really don't want to continue investigating? There must be someone behind this. Otherwise, Zebra's people would not be so impulsive. "
"It's just those few people. You won't find much evidence," Fang Zhao said.
"That's true. We are all smart people. Let's let this stupid horse test the landmine first and see if it will be injured, "Wang Tie said indifferently. He had seen this sort of thing many times and didn't find it strange anymore. Competition existed all the time, but genuine fair competition was rare, especially in the entertainment industry.
After returning from Space, Fang Zhao took out the video of the performance hall that Natiwuzi had given him and learned quite a bit from it. That night, Natiwuzi had obtained two performance compilations and sent them to Fang Zhao. Not only were there performances from Yanzhou, but there were also performances from other continents. Many of these could not be found online.
Fang Zhao would not disappoint Natiwuzi since he had helped him so much. Besides composing, he also made online teaching plans.
The next day, Fang Zhao went to the company. Wayne wanted to speak to Fang Zhao alone.
"I won't give you such lousy ideas next time! Director Duan called me up and scolded me for an hour yesterday. " Wayne still had lingering fears, not just from being scolded by Duan Qianji in her office, but also because of Fang Zhao. If Fang Zhao really got tangled up in the matter of "composing involving the use of drugs," it would definitely be troublesome in the short term and might even affect Fang Zhao's form.
"Why don't you stop looking for inspiration? Let the company do the accompaniment music for the promotional video," Wayne suggested once again.
"I have some progress on my side. I will let you take a look at it first. When the time comes, if you think it's not good enough, then we can change it." Fang Zhao was not an obstinate person. If his composition was really not suitable, then he could use someone else's. He knew that Wayne had already found someone to compose and prepare for both scenarios, and he had no objections.
"All right then. In any case, this has to be completed before January." At this point, Wayne couldn't help but reveal his true motive.
"You guys can charge into the top 10, right?" Wayne rubbed his hands together. "It's not that I don't believe in your abilities. It's just that, Fang Zhao, you haven't logged in much, and you're gradually letting Jinro lead the team. The others in the team are also improving very quickly. It's just that... it's just that the increase in experience isn't that great."
As the other person in charge of SilverWing50PolarLight, Wayne was anxious. When Fang Zhao wasn't in the company, he had even called Jinro and the others for a meeting to ask, but Jinro and the others said that Fang Zhao had other instructions. He wanted them to lay the foundation and not advance rashly. For example, they had to practice their driving skills, marksmanship, concealment, detection, identifying danger types, and other survival skills. That was why they hadn't let loose and fought monsters. It was already not easy to maintain a top 15 ranking.
Knowing that this bunch of youngsters only listened to Fang Zhao, Wayne wouldn't be able to get much information out of them, so he could only rely on Fang Zhao.
As Wayne spoke, he observed Fang Zhao's reaction. Seeing that Fang Zhao didn't say anything, he thought for a bit and said, "This time, the people who directly made a move against you were people from Zebra e-Sports Club..."
Wayne told Fang Zhao what he had found out. "We can't just eat this loss for nothing. Don't worry, I will get people to handle things in real life. But in the game, we can't let others step on us, right? We are only two places higher. If we charge forward, we will be able to step on them. "
Fang Zhao nodded. "Thinking about it, it's about time."
Seeing this, Wayne thought that Fang Zhao had listened to his advice and finally changed his mind. The smile on his face widened, but he quickly controlled his emotions and said seriously, "Then everyone will be waiting for the good news."
"I almost forgot to ask. What is your relationship with Natiwuzi? Why is everyone online saying that you are Natiwuzi's illegitimate child or a long-lost grandson or something? "Wayne asked curiously.
"He's an ancient instrument enthusiast, so we exchanged some ancient instrument playing techniques. He wants to collaborate with me."
"It won't affect our matters here, right?"
"It won't."
"That's good."
That day, Fang Zhao went to the 50th floor and convened the virtual projects department for a meeting. The Polar Light and SilverLight project teams were present.
Starting that night, the SilverLight gaming team, which had been slowly climbing the ranks, suddenly became lively as if a seal had been lifted.
Fang Zhao had already taught them all the skills that he could. How much they could master was up to them.
Fang Zhao would gradually withdraw from the team's operations and hand over leadership to Jinro. During in-game operations, Jinro would also gradually start to keep his distance from them or watch from the sidelines. After all, Jinro would have to serve in the military next year. He had to let them adapt to the new combat style in advance. Even if they continued to add new members, Jinro would be able to handle it well.
December 9. SilverLight's "Battle of the Century" team was ranked 10th in the Yanzhou region. Zebra e-Sports Club, which had originally been ranked 10th, was pushed down to 11th.
December 10. The system issued a warning. Players left their original battlegrounds. Players fled toward the newly opened new districts closest to them.
The SilverLight team, which had long been prepared, formed a convoy of players from District 79 and headed toward the new district.
December 12. Natural disasters struck again. Berserk beast hordes welcomed a new round of eruptions. The original 100 battlegrounds of Yanzhou had all fallen.
December 15. The SilverLight team was ranked 9th in the Yanzhou region.
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