After the filming was completed, I awakened my superpowers.

Chapter 158 The Powerful Divine Flow
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More than 200 meters south of the J City contaminated area.

This was originally a commercial district with a population of over tens of thousands in the surrounding blocks, making it very lively. But now the people had all been evacuated to the rear, the surrounding streets were empty, and all kinds of garbage were scattered all over the place.

Fortunately, when the population here was evacuated, they were still relatively far away from the polluted area, so the streets were not blocked by abandoned vehicles.

On a tall building, the illusionist and puppeteer Sheng Yixia were standing side by side, looking at the polluted area not far away.

The gray-black fog was several hundred meters high and covered an area with a diameter of more than ten kilometers. Looking from a distance, all one could see was chaos, and all the buildings seemed to be submerged in the depths of the sea and could not be seen clearly.

Sheng Yixia certainly wouldn't rely on the fact that he was God's biological son to act recklessly and linger on the brink of death.

You know, in the confrontation with the astral realm in the future timeline, even the way of heaven was shattered into pieces, so what’s the use of having a biological son?
Besides, we have the Way of Heaven on Earth, and naturally the star realm also has it, and it is definitely even stronger than our Way of Heaven.

Compared with the way of heaven, his current strength is like an ant trying to shake a tree, and it is far from enough to reverse the situation.

Therefore, faced with such a situation.

Sheng Yixia decided to plan carefully.

His eyes fell on a location about seventy meters away from the contaminated area, where there was a beautiful green area with an open environment and lush vegetation, which was very suitable for pouring fire and covering and burning with white phosphorus bombs.

When confronting the star realm, especially in the early stages of the confrontation, most of the local extraordinary people are practicing from scratch, and their strength is generally weak. It is naturally impossible to rely entirely on the extraordinary people's fists and feet to conquer the world. While there is still order, we must of course give full play to the firepower advantage.

If necessary, nuclear bombing is also feasible.

After all, Sheng Yixia had seen the tragic future with her own eyes. Only a small area of ​​H City remained, floating like a small sampan in the chaotic sea of ​​stars.

After seeing that kind of tragedy, he is now quite accepting.

According to the spreading speed of the contaminated area, in about three or four hours, the contaminated area will spread to the edge of the green area. This is the best window period for counter-ambush and turning danger into fortune.

If launched in advance, it would be difficult to lure the enemy's ambush troops too far away from the contaminated area. After all, without the protection of the gray-black fog in the contaminated area, those astral monsters would not be that difficult to fight.

But if we miss the window of opportunity, when the polluted area engulfs the green area, we will lose a very good ambush location and opportunity.

Just imagine, if bombing or dropping white phosphorus bombs in areas with dense buildings, it will certainly be difficult to achieve the best killing effect. They can even use the buildings as shelters to avoid the large-scale burning of white phosphorus bombs, and then take the opportunity to withdraw to the contaminated area.

After Sheng Yixia finished the combat communication with Sister Fei, she determined that the one and a half hours in the next three and a half hours to five hours would be the best window period to implement the anti-ambush plan.

Once the enemy's effective forces are successfully eliminated, our special forces will take advantage of the situation to advance into the contaminated area, occupy an area, and rescue and evacuate the trapped people.

What Sheng Yixia needs to do is to conserve his energy and wait for the opportunity.

After settling down.

Sheng Yixia finally had time to open his phone and check the situation.

I first responded to the pinned message from my mother: "Mom, I have arrived in H City. I have been summoned by my supervisor to research a project. It involves government secrets, so I won't go into details. It may not be convenient to reply to messages from now on. Don't worry if you can't contact me."

After replying to the most important message, he also concentrated on replying to a wave of messages from various people congratulating them on the huge sales of "The Taoist Conquering the Demons".

Only then did he open the WeChat group of the creators of "The Taoist Conquering Demons", which was already filled with messages. He roughly scanned the messages and found that they were all battle reports with a certain number of views, as well as everyone's excited discussions.

Chief Director Zheng Baokun: "Brothers and sisters, I will treat you all to a meal after I return from quarantine."

Chief screenwriter Ning Tianyi: "Add me as well."

It is very obvious that Zheng Baokun and Ning Tianyi have made a comeback this time. It has not even been three hours since the video was put on the shelves, and the combined effective playback volume on the three platforms has exceeded 800,000, and the estimated revenue share is at least six or seven million.

The most important thing is that this was a work that was temporarily put on the shelves in the morning. There was no preheating at all, and there was no time for any publicity. If there was sufficient publicity, and it was put on the shelves at 8 pm, the number of views would have easily exceeded one million.

Continue with this data.

The total revenue share of "The Taoist Conquering Demons" is very likely to surpass "My Apprentice is a Big Star", "My Bionic Girlfriend", and even "The Republic of China Thieves", becoming the most popular online movie among Sheng Yixia's labeled works.

Zheng Baokun's requirements are "not high". He hopes that Taoist's share of the revenue can exceed 100 million as soon as possible and break the historical record of online movies. Then he will be satisfied. This means that millions of people will watch their online movie.

What makes Zheng Baokun most satisfied is that "The Taoist Conquers Demons" has a very good reputation. The comprehensive score on several major platforms has reached 8.3 points, which is a very high score for a purely commercial film.

Just when Zheng Baokun was feeling very proud.

Sheng Yixia said in the group: "Do you have any ideas to make the total number of views of this film exceed 2 million in the next three hours? Of course, the higher the better, and it would be best if it could reach 3 million views."

In Sheng Yixia's estimation, with the quality of Taoist Demon Record and if the effective playback volume exceeds two million, the two cards [Divination] and [Innate Taoist Embryo] may reach the gold legendary level.

Having two more golden affixes would definitely help with the actions more than three hours later.

But after he said this, the group fell into silence.

After a while, Zheng Baokun said weakly: "Boss, if you have any opinions about me, just say it directly...Now the three major platforms have given enough publicity, and everything must be based on basic logic."

But Ning Tianyi said: "It's not that there is no way."

"?"

Everyone asked question marks.

"Old Ning, don't talk nonsense." Zheng Baokun said hurriedly, "At this point in time, the platform is already in a period of low traffic. Even if we increase our marketing efforts and spend a lot of money on matrix promotion, it is impossible to double or triple our sales in a short period of time."

"Besides, the total number of people who watch online movies is limited. As long as our works are excellent, people will watch them sooner or later. If we insist on spending a lot of money to promote them now, it will only increase costs and preempt the future."

Many people responded positively to this statement and felt that Zheng Baokun's words made sense. Moreover, self-media matrix promotion is a double-edged sword. Too intensive publicity will make some viewers disgusted, and the rebellious psychology will reduce the overall benefits.

This is a bit like spending a lot of money to get an adrenaline shot.

If it was a film of poor quality, it might have the effect of resurrection, but "The Taoist Conquering the Demons" is of very good quality and has been well publicized in all aspects. As long as it grows and develops step by step, it is undoubtedly a wise move to inject adrenaline into it.

"Everyone, don't forget." Ning Tianyi said, "Last night, a movie was released in theaters - "A Taoist Priest Enters the World", which is the work of the famous director Cheng Yige. It is still very popular at the moment."

"You mean to try to get into the world by pretending to be a Taoist priest?" Zheng Baokun hesitated and said, "Isn't that a bad idea?"

"We suddenly put it on the shelves this morning, wasn't it just to take advantage of the popularity of Taoist priests entering the secular world?" Ning Tianyi glanced at him in confusion.

"???"

Sheng Yixia frowned when he heard this.

What does it mean to ride on the popularity of others? He was so busy killing monsters recently that he didn't even know that there was a big movie in theaters.

However, if there really is such a movie in theaters, it is no wonder that Ning Tian thought so for a moment. After all, the release time is too close, and he suddenly asked to release it online in advance. It is hard to say that he did not have a special purpose.

He immediately exited the interface and checked the message.

Sure enough, "A Taoist Priest Enters the World" directed by Cheng Yige was released yesterday. Although the word of mouth is not very high and the overall score is only around 6.something points, it is very popular.

It is estimated that the box office on the first day may reach around 150 million yuan.

If you want to try to stir up some heat by competing with the other party, it will indeed increase the number of views of "The Taoist Conquering Demons" in a short period of time.

However, since everyone has no grudges against each other, this is not a good thing and will also ruin Sheng Yixia's reputation.

Subsequently.

Sheng Yixia said in the group: "I just mentioned it casually, everyone just follow the procedures and don't mess with other people's cinema movies."

"The boss is wise." Zheng Baokun said quickly.

He also felt that he should focus on the content instead of doing those petty things.

Sheng Yixia put down her phone.

After a little thought, I switched the character card.

Just for a moment.

Sheng Yixia turned into a magician, and then he called Zheng Baokun directly: "How much do you think we can achieve in the next three and a half hours?"

"Boss, because it's daytime, the traffic on the video website is relatively low, and the traffic brought by your promotion is beginning to wane."

"I think in the next three and a half hours, maybe 400,000 new views would be good, but at night..."

But before Zheng Baokun finished speaking, Sheng Yixia's tone suddenly became serious and overbearing: "Zheng Baokun, I don't want your opinion, I want my opinion. I think in the next three and a half hours, our broadcast volume will have a rapid growth."

The [Hegemonic Words] item in the mental power is activated.

"Ah, Boss..."

When Zheng Baokun wanted to say something, Sheng Yixia replied, "That's it," and hung up the phone.

While the effect of Tyrant Words was activated, Sheng Yixia quickly grabbed the copper coins, counted with his fingers after collecting the six Yao, and then said with a straight-talking and iron-mouthed prediction: "In the next few hours, the number of views of Taoist Conquering Demons will definitely increase dramatically."

The words fell.

Sheng Yixia vaguely felt that something seemed to have changed.

Two streams of blood slowly flowed out of his nasal cavity, but after just a few seconds, the bleeding stopped!
Ok.

This time he failed to deceive Heaven, and suffered backlash from Heaven's rules. However, because of Heaven's favor and affinity with him, the punishment from Heaven's rules was only light.

It was the first time for Sheng Yixia to use this combo, and she didn’t even know what would happen.

But he knew that the number of views of The Taoist Conquering Demons would definitely increase dramatically, otherwise wouldn't his nosebleed have been in vain? ***
City B, on the 68th floor of a building in the CBD.

The famous director Cheng Yige walked into the office area leisurely, holding a thermos cup.

He stayed up too late looking at data and comments last night, which forced him to get up very late today, and he didn't come to the office until almost noon.

but.

His whole mentality was relaxed and his steps were joyful.

The first-day box office is expected to reach 150 million yuan, and the final box office should exceed 1 billion yuan without any problem, easily.

This kind of result.

For a famous director who has had his share of success and failures, his comeback is already a good report card. Moreover, the total investment in this film is not high.

This kind of achievement is enough to shut up those trolls who have been criticizing him and scolding him online for years.

Of course, the rating of "A Taoist Enters the World" is not very high, and there are also many trolls who posted negative reviews. He also read the comments very late last night and felt that these trolls were just trolling for the sake of trolling, and they did not understand the artistic level he wanted to express at all.

Even though he had already made a big sacrifice in commercializing the film for the sake of performance, they still couldn't understand the core of what he wanted to express.

oh~~
The problem is that one's artistic vision is too ahead of the times, because there are always too many backward people who cannot understand him.

I hope that ten years from now, you will be able to understand the movies I make today.

Director Cheng Yige sighed in his heart as he walked.

"Hello, Director Cheng."

"Hello, Director Cheng."

Along the way, we heard greetings from employees one after another. Because the film performed well on the first day, everyone's morale was still quite high.

It’s just that some people’s expressions seemed a little strange, as if they wanted to say something but hesitated.

But Cheng Yige doesn't care about these. With such results, he can explain everything.

Entered the office.

Turning on the computer, he prepared to check the box office data.

As an old artist director, he is still accustomed to using computers rather than mobile phones to view data.

"what?"

After seeing the real-time data, Cheng Yige's originally relaxed expression froze slightly and he couldn't help but frown.

This data is not right.

The real-time box office was a full 20 million less than the estimated data at this point.

At this stage of development, big data has already penetrated into box office predictions. Unless there are unexpected events, box office estimates are usually very accurate.

Precisely because it was 20 million lower than predicted, big data has adjusted the total box office estimate of "A Taoist Priest" from the original estimate of over 1 billion to an estimate of over 800 million. The total increase was nearly 200 million!

"Xiao Liu, what's going on with the real-time box office?" Cheng Yige said to the assistant who had just walked in with a serious face, "What went wrong?"

Assistant Xiao Liu gently placed the freshly brewed tea on the table and said angrily, "Director Cheng, our box office performance was good, but this morning the three major platforms inexplicably dropped a movie called "The Taoist Conquering the Demons". Although it is an online movie, the subject matter overlaps with ours, causing many viewers to choose to stay at home and watch the online movie instead of going to the cinema."

Upon hearing this, Director Cheng Yige's temper immediately flared up. He slammed the table and cursed with a sullen face, "This online movie was not released earlier or later, but suddenly appeared this morning. Isn't this clearly an attempt to take advantage of our popularity?"

Assistant Xiao Liu was also very angry: "I see, too. This movie is still starring Sheng Yixia. I used to like him quite a lot, but now I have decided to lower my favorability towards him by 50 points."

Although he spoke harshly, he actually thought that the maximum reduction would be ten points, no more.

"Who?" Cheng Yige looked confused.

"Sheng Yixia is the one who played Dr. Wu in My Bionic Girlfriend," explained assistant Xiao Liu.

It was him!

Cheng Yige's face turned even worse. Wasn't this the guy who had been competing against Zhao San a while ago? Although he also despised Zhao San's artistic elements, he had long wanted to post a message to scold him.

But that doesn't mean he will have any good feelings towards Sheng Yixia.

"Director Cheng, what should we do? We can't let them take advantage of our popularity and suck our blood, right?" Assistant Xiao Liu asked cautiously, "How about we issue a notice to denounce this despicable behavior?"

When it comes to this.

Director Cheng Yige's expression suddenly became serious. He shook his head and said, "No, I've suffered a lot from this. The angrier you are at those guys who are just trying to get attention, the happier they will be, and they'll try to get close to you."

"We need to stay calm, ignore them, and don't fall for their tricks. Next, we will gather the leading actors and actresses and increase publicity for the parade in various cities."

Cheng Yige used to have a bad temper, and of course he still does now.

He thought that he had suffered a great loss because of his bad temper, and that he had learned and improved. He was wearing shoes, and he absolutely could not fight with those barefoot people, otherwise, no matter whether he succeeded or failed, he would lose miserably.

But having said that, he was still holding back some anger.

I opened the Weibo account and took a look at the comments.

He believed that there would definitely be someone who would support him against this kind of fraud.

Just as he opened the comment section, he saw a hot post.

"Hello everyone, I'm the guy whose girlfriend broke up with him before the movie was over last time. That's right, I'm here again~"

"This morning I watched the two films "The Taoist Enters the World" and "The Taoist Conquers Demons" in one go. I will make a review and a horizontal comparison of the two films."

"First of all, let's talk about The Taoist Priest. To be honest, Director Cheng's film is commercially acceptable. It has some laughs and excitement, and also portrays the various aspects of human nature. To be honest, it is much better than the Chinese film The Super Shield. At least I didn't feel cheated after watching it."

Cheng Yige got furious when he saw this.

What kind of rubbish is this? Comparing me to the National Shield? Isn't this just humiliating me? ?

What level is he, what level am I! ?

But Cheng Yige was not yet finished with his anger, as the guy's subsequent comments added fuel to his anger.

"If there is no comparison with The Taoist Priest Conquers Demons, The Taoist Priest Enters the World would at least be a barely qualified commercial film, which can make a lot of money for the investors. But to be honest, although The Taoist Priest Conquers Demons is a web movie, the theme is more closely linked, and the plot is both expected and unexpected."

"Most importantly, The Taoist Master's Record of Subduing Demons is so cool. The Taoists' fighting techniques, the use of talismans, the handsomeness of stepping on the Yu Step, the domineering thunder magic after opening the altar, plus the gorgeous special effects, are simply amazing."

Cheng Yige became increasingly furious.

What are you talking about? Isn't this a magical Taoist priest? Can a real Taoist priest summon thunder? Can you summon one for me to see?

"Also, the same is true of fox charm~~ The fox spirit in the Demon Conqueror Record really gave me the feeling of a fox spirit reincarnated, too enchanting~~ On the contrary, the part where the Taoist priest entered the world was a little lacking in seductiveness and enchantment."

"In summary, The Taoist Conquers Demons is more enjoyable than The Taoist Enters the World, and is more like a qualified commercial popcorn movie. Moreover, the story is compact and the theme is clear, unlike The Taoist Enters the World which is rambling."

What made Cheng Yige even more angry was that this comment was extremely popular, and it was filled with comments of agreement. Only a few spoke up for the Taoist priest to enter the world, saying that the Taoist magic in "The Taoist Conquering Demons" was too fake and that it was suspected of plagiarizing "A Chinese Ghost Story".

"Okay, okay, that's what you're doing, right? You're used to online movies piggybacking on theater chains, right?" Cheng Yige became angrier and angrier the more he watched. He felt that the entire screen was filled with internet trolls who were trying to scam him. He was so angry that he opened his Weibo account and wrote a lengthy critical article.

What kind of fast food with no artistic content, what kind of young people don't care about film art, they just know how to get around all day, deliberately make trouble, etc.

He also didn't even watch "The Taoist Conquers Demons". What kind of artistic elements can a fantasy online movie have?
He knows the online movie circle very well. There are all kinds of monsters and demons there. He doesn't believe that an online movie can be made into something great.

It's nothing more than a low-quality popcorn movie imitating Hollywood, and it doesn't even deserve to be called a work.

He finished writing it in one go, and felt relieved of most of the anger in his heart.

Sure enough, this is the only way. If he keeps enduring, he will be so angry that he will die~
Just when assistant Xiao Liu thought Director Cheng was going to click publish, Cheng Yige suddenly stood up holding a thermos cup and said calmly, "Xiao Liu, help me copy what I wrote and then delete it."

"Ah... Director Cheng, you wrote so much but you won't publish it?"

"Why are you posting? Especially at times like this, we should keep our mouths shut." Cheng Yige sneered, "Let him be as crazy as he wants. The breeze will blow over the hills. When the hype dies down, it will be proven that they are the ones swimming naked."

"Okay, Director Cheng is wise." Assistant Xiao Liu sat down in front of the computer desk and started copying the operations.

See this scene.

Cheng Yige couldn't help but feel secretly proud.

Society tempers people. Now that I am older, I have improved my energy-cultivation skills a lot.

But at this moment.

Assistant Xiao Liu accidentally knocked over the cup of fresh tea that she had brewed herself with her elbow. After a loud bang, she panicked and her hand slipped, and she clicked the post button.

The critical article that Cheng Yige had just written was published instantly.

This scene made Cheng Yige's eyes widen.

Damn~
Something is going to happen again!
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(End of this chapter)