Chapter 109 I-am-legend

In 1978, China began to reform and open up. On August 12, 1981, IBM officially released the first PC in history. Since then, human beings have entered the era of personal computers.

Just two years later, Liu Chuanzhi and 10 computer-doers, with 200,000 start-up capital invested by the Computer Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, rented a communication room in Yanjing to register a company called "New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences".

Another year later, this new technology development company launched the first Hanka product with Lenovo functions, Lenovo Hanka, so the brand name of Lenovo finally appeared.

In 1990, Lenovo finally began to assemble and produce Lenovo personal computers with its own brand, but the English trademark displayed after these computers were turned on was not Lenovo, but legend.

legend is a very common word. For example, in 2007, the famous black movie star Will Smith starred in I-am-legend, a one-man show called by film critics to be able to win an Oscar, and the Chinese name of this apocalyptic science fiction film is It has been translated into I Am a Legend.

What if the name of this movie is translated into "I'm Lenovo"?

Hmm... Lenovo, everything is possible.

Well, this joke is a little cold, because Uncle Li Ning will go to the court to sue Liu Chuanzhi for infringement.

So to get back to the point, Meng Zhe remembers correctly that in 1995 or 1996, he also used Lenovo with the legend trademark, and he had successfully achieved the first place in the market share of the mainland. Then, Lenovo is listed overseas or something, and the acquisition of IBM's personal computer business has turned the old thinkpad brand that Meng Zhe is still using into a sub-brand of Lenovo... The most important thing is to find that the brand of legend in almost all countries has been registered. After that, Lenovo had to make great efforts to recreate lenovo, a new trademark derived from the Latin root, and then spent a lot of money and energy on the promotion of the new brand.

In the original time and space, it was obviously impossible for Liu Chuanzhi to have an intersection with Meng Zhe, so when Liu Chuanzhi introduced himself, Meng Zhe was domped and then reacted.

Speaking of which, Liu Chuanzhi is still the first world-renowned entrepreneur that Meng Zhe met after his rebirth.

While shaking hands with Liu Chuanzhi, Meng Zhe began to think about Liu Chuanzhi's intention. He didn't think that Liu Chuanzhi was full of breakfast, so he took a plane and a bus for thousands of miles, and came to Tianjiao Club to eat and see the strange things.

Fortunately, Meng Zhe's doubts were quickly solved. Liu Chuanzhi said the purpose of his trip after visiting the magazine and Jiji Animation Studio.

"We, Lenovo, hope that Xiao Meng can write a cartoon that can promote our Lenovo. If the effect is good after launch, our company will invest additional investment to shoot the comics into a series of cartoons for broadcast."

Liu Chuanzhi, if he said to Meng Zhe, after thinking about it, he smiled and added: "I heard that the price of comics is calculated according to one piece. I also know that Xiao Meng, your remuneration for comics is very high in Japan, so we calculate it at the price of 100 yuan per comic... How about it?"

Uh?

Is this the purpose of Liu Chuanzhi's trip? It doesn't make sense... Where did Liu Chuanzhi learn from this? Didn't Haier Brothers, which was invested and shot by Haier Group, be produced and broadcast in 1996?

So, after pondering for a moment, Meng Zhe looked up at Liu Chuanzhi and replied, "Mr. Liu, your proposal is a little too sudden. Can you allow me to think about it before making a decision?"

It's just that what Meng Zhe said was regarded by Liu Chuanzhi as a hypothet of low price, so Liu Chuanzhi's expression changed from a smile to earnestness: "Xiao Meng, I said something rude - even if it's your turn, it's your turn to take care of us local enterprises!"

This words made Meng Zhe inexplicable. He asked in surprise, "Mr. Liu, where do you start?"

So, Liu Chuanzhi said the reason why he said sadly: "Xiao Meng's "Ches Soul" you drew set off a wave of learning Go all over China and even Japan. Then it was said that the chess court took the opportunity to invest in the animation production of the chess soul. I heard that the cartoon was played the day after This chess academy is overcrowded. And your "Light Voice Girl", after Yamaha invested in the animation, their musical instrument sales soared by 30% in the month!"

After saying this, Liu Chuanzhi didn't wait for Meng Zhe to speak, but added, "Xiao Meng, if you think the remuneration of the manuscript is low, just raise the price. This can be talked about slowly - business is all negotiated!"

After listening to Liu Chuanzhi's words, Meng Zhe was a little embarrassed. Although he had heard about the influence of the chess soul and the light tone girl on the Japanese side, he was not even as detailed as Liu Chuanzhi knew!

But since Liu Chuanzhi is so moved to 'profit', Meng Zhe didn't say anything more, so he could only say with a wry smile, "Mr. Liu, chess soul and light tone girl two comics. Originally, I really didn't think that I would be sponsored by this chess court and Yamaha company and then made a commercial surname. ...And what, what, I just said to consider, not to say that I don't think how low the price you offer, Mr. Liu, but that this matter is really not easy to do - you see, this chess court invests in the chess soul because the chess soul tells the story of Go, and Yamaha invests in light tone girls because the light tone just plays musical instruments..."

Meng Zhe's answer made Liu Chuanzhi show a puzzled expression, so he said, "Is this problem easy to solve? Xiao Meng, why don't you just conceive a cartoon related to PC and computer?

Uh?

Concepting a cartoon with a PC computer?

The fate of the online game version we conceived is on the night of fate. It seems that something happens to have something to do with the PC computer.

So, Meng Zhe muttered strangely on his face: "This, it's really..."

"What? Really?! Xiao Meng, have you conceived a computer-related cartoon?!" Liu Chuanzhi's ears were sharp and terrible, and Meng Zhe's whispering was clearly heard by him.

Hearing Liu Chuanzhi's surprised voice, Meng Zhe was embarrassed to deny it, so he could only pinch his nose and say, "Please come with me."

After saying that, Meng Zhe took Liu Chuanzhi and others to the door of his office and studio. Looking back at the four attendants who followed Liu Chuanzhi's buttocks, thanks to the lesson that Zhu Jianqiang stole creativity, Meng Zhe decided to be careful, so he ordered: "Little Zhao, please take everyone to visit the editorial department again..."

"Let's follow this editor Xiao Zhao and visit around again!" Liu Chuanzhi is a smart man. Of course, he can hear the voice of Meng Zhe's words.

After Xiao Zhao, who was in charge of the reception, left with Liu Chuanzhi's four attendants, Meng Zhe pushed away his office and studio and invited Liu Chuanzhi and Kong Lan into the room.

"Sorry, the house is a little messy." Meng Zhe threw a large pile of drawings on the coffee table in the room. When he took it away, he understood the surname and said to Liu Chuanzhi.

Since it is an office and studio, and it is a room where idle people are not allowed to enter, so the environment is obviously not much better. Meng Zhe is not the kind of master who sweeps the world without sweeping the house, is he?

Naturally, Liu Chuanzhi would not care too much about this. He even helped Meng Zhe clean up the scattered manuscripts on the sofa. When he cleaned up the manuscript, Liu Chuanzhi did not forget to take time to take a look.

After seeing the character settings at various angles on the manuscript and the large text settings marked blank everywhere, Liu Chuanzhi felt that he had made a decision to go on this trip himself... There is no doubt that it was right!

Before coming to Tianjiao Club, Liu Chuanzhi also visited the Hongye Computer Animation Company in Yanjing. If you haven't seen the TV animated version of Chess Soul and Qingyin Girl produced by Japan, Liu Chuanzhi will probably think that the sample of Haier Brothers produced by Hongye is very well made, but the problem is Liu Chuan. Zhi has seen the TV animations of "Ches Soul" and "Light Voice Girl" produced by Japan, and even seen Meng Zhe's version of the two comics!

Yes, although "Haier Brothers" has not been produced, how could the well-informed Liu Chuanzhi not have heard of this? Haier invested 60 million yuan to make cartoons, such a big thing... I don't know if there is a problem, right?

However, after the inspection of Hongye, Liu Chuanzhi gave up the work of animation production and gave it to the original plan of Hongye Animation Company, which should have accumulated a lot of production experience.

Then, Liu Chuanzhi heard that the well-made TV animations of Chess Soul and Light Voice Girl, a large part of the middle paintings and original paintings were completed by the Jiji Animation Studio established by Meng Zhe.

So Liu Chuanzhi suddenly visited Tianjiao Club and caught Meng Zhe off guard.

Liu Chuanzhi doesn't know much about the production of cartoons. Since a large part of the middle paintings and original paintings were completed by Meng Zhe's Jiji Animation Studio, it should be easy and natural to make cartoons, right?

Well, in theory, Liu Chuanzhi's idea is not wrong. It is indeed a cartoon to make these original paintings and the middle paintings into film, and then play them continuously. But the problem is that the cartoon played in this way has no OP: (opening) is the opening song; there is no ED: (ending) is the ending song; there is no BGM: (BACK-GROUND-MUSIC) background music... There is no silent movement without character dubbing. A picture!

Although in Chaplin's era, silent movies and so on were considered to be unsurpassable. After the appearance of audio films, public opinion even thought that dubbing and music were meaningless and cumbersome, but now in this era, silent cartoons are played... Do you burn money to play retro?

But Liu Chuanzhi, who doesn't know anything about cartoon production, just didn't notice that in Meng Zhe's Jiji Animation Studio, although there are several middle painters who are quite good, there are no music producers, and there are no voice actors or voice actors!

I can't help it. Who is called a specialty in the art industry?

At this time, Liu Chuanzhi only saw Meng Zhe's detailed and serious character setting map, and gave birth to Meng Zhe, a legendary genius comic teenager. He did not get a false reputation, but his success came from his sense of trust.

Then, Liu Chuanzhi saw the setting maps of Meng Zhe's version of "Fate's Night" and the background of the story.

Speaking of which, although Meng Zhe intends to emptyate into a virtual online game world of future time and space, he also put a huge computer enterprise in order to make the story more realistic, and the fictional computer company Meng Zhe originally planned to use the name - Altria.

There is no doubt that Altria is the name of saber Altolia. Because the name of the computer company is Altria, the male protagonist who has lost his memory named his saber demon Altolia. Isn't it logical?

Of course, Meng Zhe will not say this to Liu Chuanzhi, lest Liu Chuanzhi naturally propose to change the name of the knight king to legend, right?

How to read legend? Well...Lei Joan of Arc?

Oh, isn't this the Orleans girl and Joan of Arc, who was ruthlessly abandoned by the French nobles and burned to death by the Burgundians after being captured?

Yes, Joan of Arc seems to be a good saber. In order to save her motherland, she fought with the Burgundians and the English, but after being captured, there was no one who even paid to save her... In the era of the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, as long as the captured 'family' can pay the ransom, it can redeem people. Back. Back.

When briefly telling Liu Chuanzhi what fate is, Meng Zhe couldn't help but use it in his heart and spread to Joan of Arc. Of course, Meng Zhe also understands that Joan of Arc can think about it. I'm afraid that the painting he really wants to draw will cause trouble, because Joan of Arc has long been canonised as a saint by Christianity, and it seems to be one of the most popular saints in Christianity.

So, Meng Zhe regained his mind and told the story of the online game version of fate: "... In this cartoon, the virtual game helmet developed by this super computer company not only allows people who use the game helmet to play to enter deep sleep, but also release all kinds of Bioelectricity makes the body of people who practice martial arts in the game as if they have really been practiced! Therefore, they have developed this fate stop night game, so that people, especially Chinese people, can improve their general quality in it... As for the protagonist..."

While listening carefully to Meng Zhe's story, Liu Chuanzhi was also looking at the character setting pictures that Meng Zhe kept handing him. This graphic pattern made him quickly understand what the story of "Fate Stops at the Night" was about.

"Xiao Meng, do you mean to change this computer enterprise that you originally named Altria to our Lenovo?" Obviously, Liu Chuanzhi also understood that Meng Zhe planned to arrange a position for Lenovo.

"Yes!" Meng Zhe's answer is also simple and clear.

So Liu Chuanzhi hesitated. Although Meng Zhe, the world's first supercomputer company in the setting of "Fate Stop Night", he also wants his Lenovo to have it like that, but the problem is that the exposure rate is not very high?

"Xiao Meng, can you associate with us and design a virtual role? Or this simply..." Liu Chuanzhi rummaged through the character setting picture he put on the coffee table, and then picked up the original hero of "Fate Stop Night" Weigong Coyote... Cough, it's the setting picture of Emiya Shirou.

Turning the setting picture of the coyote 180 degrees to Meng Zhe, Liu Chuanzhi continued to say, "How about calling the name of the hero Xiao Meng you haven't named Lenovo?"

Speaking of which, Liu Chuanzhi is too satisfied with Meng Zhe's "set" of the coyote surname - hero fans, idealists, simple surnames, conscientiously implement things, never refuse the demands of others, and vows to become a "partner of justice" to save all suffering people.

Ah--!

What a lovely teenager this is!

So using the name Lenovo will definitely make people have a sense of trust when they see Lenovo's computer again!

"Do you call his name Lenovo?" After listening to Liu Chuanzhi's words, Meng Zhe wanted to complain in his heart: Boss... You are cheating!

However, after thinking about it carefully, Meng Zhe suddenly felt that it was not a big deal to change the name of the coyote to association. After all, after localization, Meng Zhe couldn't continue to let the coyote hold the name of Emiya Shirou and be spread by the teenagers, right?

Besides, I can't forget it by the teenagers. It's clearly just the sad saber Altolia. Who will remember who the children's shoes of the palace are?

What's more, Nasu Mushroom and Takeuchi Takashi seem to be the setting of the first version of fate. As a master, the coyote has a female surname, and the summoned Saber King Arthur has a male surname.

So, since even the surnames of the master and the demon can be reconciled, what does it matter if the name is modified?

In fact, the name Lenovo is quite good, isn't it?

Of course, the most important thing for Meng Zhe is that after using the name Lenovo, he can think of a new Chinese name for the coy wolf without killing or injuring hundreds of thousands of brain cells. Thinking of Meng Zhe here, he finally nodded to show that he could accept the new name of this coyote... Such a pleasant thing, why are you so nervous?

Seeing Meng Zhe nodded, Liu Chuanzhi smiled again, so he said, "Then it's settled. The name of the male protagonist with amnesia is Lenovo. The Chinese name of the world-class computer enterprise is also Lenovo, and the English name is legend..."

It's just that before Liu Chuanzhi finished his words this time, Meng Zhe expressed his opposition. Meng Zhe seemed to say this unintentionally, "Mr. Liu, the word legend should be legendary, right? Is there some words that don't make sense to use this word as the English trademark of your association? And the meaning of this word is very good, so it should be easy to register in other countries, especially Western countries, right?

Lenovo and so on, although the headquarters has been transferred to the United States in later generations, it is an enterprise that has gone out of China after all, isn't it? Therefore, Meng Zhe felt that reminding Liu Chuanzhi at this time was also a support for domestic products.

Obviously, it is not the first time that Liu Chuanzhi has encountered this problem, so he casually explained: "Yes, legend has the meaning of legend and legend. It really can't accurately express the original intention of association, but everyone says that Lenovo can be so big now is a legend, and this legend It will continue in the future! On the other hand, because the personal computer bought by Lenovo has used this name and registered a subsidiary in Hong Kong, there is no way to change it..."

After a pause, Liu Chuanzhi added a sentence with a wry smile: "Now, our Lenovo has not even made the largest in the domestic market. How can we have time to go abroad to do it?"

In this case, Meng Zhe couldn't say anything more. He could only add with a smile: "Ha ha, I'm worried too much."

The next time is to discuss various details, such as copyright and so on - because Meng Zhe insists on not selling the copyright of the character, the two sides finally signed an exclusive authorization contract. The copyright and the copyright of the character of the story of "Fate at the Night" belong to Meng Zhe, but the investor is the joint. I want to have the right to use comic characters and comic stories for corporate promotion activities.

As long as Lenovo does not announce that it will give up or stop paying the renewal of the licensing fee, Meng Zhe can't take "Fate Stops Night" to cooperate with other computer manufacturers or something... In addition to insisting on not selling the copyright of the story and the copyright of the character, the others are talking with Kong Lan and Liu Chuanzhi and the staff he brought. It turns out that Kong Lan is a good business negotiator.

Lenovo will pay 200RMB per painting for Meng Zhe's "Night of Destiny", which is twice the price Liu Chuanzhi originally planned to pay.

Moreover, Liu Chuanzhi also promised that as long as the cartoons are popular, Lenovo will immediately pay another 500,000 yuan, and the money will be used as a start-up capital for TV animation.

But something unexpected still happened. Liu Chuanzhi, who took out real money, hoped that Meng Zhe would also modify the name of the comic, and the name he proposed was suddenly: "I-am-legend"... Well, Meng Zhe was stunned again, and then he said that he would consider it and answer in a few days. Then, after sending Liu Chuanzhi and his party away, the sad Meng Zhe began to look for candidates for the substitute painting "Light Voice Girl" and "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms".

Meng Zhe is even considering whether to learn from Huang Yulang's comics completed by one person to be completed by everyone's division of labor and cooperation - once, in order to expand the production of comics, Huang Yulang divided the comic production into the starting manuscript (drawing the composition), hook head (the head of the painting character), and the barge (painting the body of the character) , fill in the head (only responsible for the hair of the object) and other steps.

So at that time, many cartoonists in Hong Kong said that "the hook in this set of comics" or "that set of comics is responsible for the barge".

If there is a great story, it is completely feasible to gather people who are good at it and draw comics in a way similar to assembly line operations.

Compared with Huang Yulang, the biggest advantage of Meng Zhe, a reborn person, is that his mind is full of comics, novels and games that are absolutely popular in the future.

There are so many comics, novels and games that are destined to be popular. If Meng Zhe draws alone, even if he is exhausted to death, it is completely impossible to complete it!

The plot of a chapter in the novel, if it is changed to a comic or animation, it may need to draw several episodes to show it all. This is like "Football Player" that the post-80s generation should have seen. Sometimes it is such a simple plot that it takes a ball from his own half to break through the opponent's penalty area. It dares to give you a series. Several episodes have passed, and the ball has not been taken to the midfield yet!

However, even if the plot is dragged like this, will the children who watch cartoons find it boring? On the contrary, most animation fans will feel very enjoyable!

Generally speaking, an episode of animation should be several episodes of comics, so you can imagine how slow the plot of the comics can be.

When you can draw comics, it is another situation. Normally, it takes several hours to finish a more exquisite comic, so Ken Obata, who is extremely stable and submits more than 20 drawings every week, is already a very hard-working cartoonist!

The reason why Meng Zhe draws faster is that he copied many comics many times before his rebirth, so he doesn't have to think about almost anything when writing... But in this way, Meng Zhe also has to use most of the follow-up work of "The Light Voice Girl" and "The Guardian of the Three Kingdoms" I gave it to others to get time to play with the two big loli of the Jiang family.

Some time ago, in order to draw Fairy Sword, Meng Zhe sacrificed all his spare time to continue his spare time and spent all his time with his wife on drawing comics - although part of the reason for doing so, Meng Zhe wanted to cool down the jealousy of his future wife caused by the mistake of kissing his sister-in-law in this way. What. No.

This method is still effective. Seeing Meng Zhe draw cartoons that are almost useless to eat and sleep, Jiang Weiyu's understanding little girl immediately transformed the original slight jealousy into care for Meng Zhe... Every day, the little girl will not forget to tell Meng Zhe that she can't forget it because she is busy talking about comics. Eat.

Meng Zhe, who is familiar with his wife's surname, the anniannitorial plan was so easy to succeed, and he also killed two birds with one stone to kill two birds with one stone.

Speaking of which, the two girls who have been assistants to Meng Zhe's "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms" have been able to imitate the style of Meng Zhe's work very skillfully, probably because these two girls, like Zhang Cheng and Liu Kang, are top students from the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts.

Therefore, Meng Zhe can beckon two more people with confidence, and then hand over the stupid painting work to the two girls.

The problem is "Light-tone Girl". I don't know whether the painting style without a nose is too advanced, or because I haven't received professional training, I have changed several jobs for "Light-tone Girl" as an assistant, but Meng Zhe has never found a suitable person who can be 'worker'.

Fortunately, after thinking carefully for a long time, Meng Zhe really remembered a suitable candidate - at the last annual meeting, Luo Xiaoyue, the left-handed natural dull girl, drew a picture of a light-sounding girl, which is not only full of three-dimensional sense, but also quite good, isn't it?

But that Luo Xiaoyue seems to be a freshman in junior college. Her family will definitely oppose her by recruiting her to draw comics, right?

These days, college students don't have to worry about work when they go out. They give up their college careers that don't have to worry about work, and do "broken cartoons" with an uncertain future... If we were parents, we would also object, okay?

Meng Zhe was a little entangled, and then he tried to find the address left by Luo Xiaoyue and wrote a letter to Luo Xiaoyue.

(to be continued)