I found a cell phone from ten years ago.

Chapter 34 First Order 21000 Quasi-God

After chatting with Li Yajie, Li Xu did not return to the dormitory. Instead, he left the school from the north gate and took a taxi to Dacheng Famous Store.

Go upstairs to the third floor and enter the century-old impression.

Li Xu randomly found a machine, turned it on, and sat down.

When he is typing (copying books), he always goes to a private room, but he usually surfs the Internet in the lobby.

It’s not that I’m reluctant to spend the extra money on internet, but it’s a bit depressing to stay in a private room alone for a long time. It’s far less lively and atmospheric than the hall.

Computers are now commonplace, so why do people still go to internet cafes to play games? It's because the atmosphere is different.

Li Xu opened the browser, logged into the writer's backend, and took a look at the subscription for "Mysterious".

VIP first chapter, 14528 subscriptions.

The first order exceeded 10 so quickly? It’s only a little after o’clock.

Of course, subscriptions grow fastest in the first 12 hours, and the number of subscriptions will decrease afterwards. It is estimated that it should not be a problem to get more than 24 subscriptions in the first hours.

Li Xu then clicked on the page of "Mystery" and looked at the monthly tickets.

The number of monthly tickets increased rapidly, reaching more than 750, but it only ranked second in the new book monthly ticket list. The first place was the new book of that great writer.

There are more than 800 monthly tickets, which is less than 50 more than "Mysterious".

MD, there is no need to guess, the other party must have rigged the votes.

A great artist competing with a newcomer like him for the rankings, and even cheating on votes? He really has no shame at all.

At that time, there were not so many monthly tickets on Qidian.com. Ten or twenty thousand monthly tickets were enough to compete for the top three in the total monthly ticket list.

It’s not as exaggerated as it will be more than ten years later. Without tens or hundreds of thousands of monthly tickets, don’t even think about making it into the top three of the monthly ticket list.

Li Xu plugged in the USB drive, clicked on the writer's area, and updated 8 more chapters, 6 of which were added for the leader, 1 was added in advance because the monthly votes reached 1000, and 1 was added because the rewards reached .

So far, he has updated 25 chapters, totaling more than words.

After the update, Li Xu created a new document and wrote a declaration to compete for the list.

The current monthly vote count is 762, temporarily ranking second on the (new book) monthly vote list, less than 50 votes away from the first place. From now on, for every 300 monthly votes added, one chapter will be added, and for every first orders, one chapter will be added, and there is no upper limit.

The current first order is 14,000.

If I succeed in competing for the rankings, I will guarantee at least four updates this month and three updates next month.

After uploading the declaration to compete for the list, Li Xu exited the writer's background, opened QQ, and logged into the QQ account.

As soon as I got on, a lot of information came pouring in.

Several fan groups are extremely lively.

"Mysterious" fan group 1.

"I've finished reading all 17 chapters, but I still feel like I haven't read enough. How many more chapters can Lao Li update today?"

"Where has Lao Li been? He hasn't even made a single move, and his monthly ticket sales have been surpassed by others."

"That great guy must have bought tickets. The monthly tickets increased by 200 at once."

"Updated. Lao Li has added 8 new chapters and announced that he will compete for the rankings. Now, if you get 300 monthly votes, he will add another chapter."

Death Tyrant @ everyone, "I've discussed with the administrators of several other groups that it's more cost-effective for everyone to pool their money to reward the leader. We'll try to help Lao Li get on the monthly list and drain all his saved manuscripts."

……

Drain his saved manuscripts?

Li Xu couldn't help but smile. He still had 296 chapters in reserve. Even if he updated 10 chapters a day, he could update for a month. Not to mention that he could still code at least to words a day, and if he put them together, he could also code to words.

How is it possible to drain all his saved manuscripts?

However, just as he was about to send a message and join the group underwater, the editor Qingzhou's avatar started to flicker. Qingzhou said, "Xinchang's offer is 15,000. Would you like to consider it?"

Li Xu: "No hurry, wait a little longer."

Qing Zhou: "That's fine too. Your book still has a lot of room for improvement."

……

Xinchang is a publishing house on Taiwan Island.

In fact, as soon as "The Mystery" became popular, a publishing house in Taiwan took the initiative to contact Li Xu.

Martial arts novels in Taiwan declined as early as the 90s. In order to survive, publishing houses turned their attention to mainland China and searched for popular novels online to publish.

Therefore, it is relatively easy to publish a traditional Chinese version. As long as it is a fantasy or fairy tale novel that is popular on the Internet, Taiwanese publishers will usually contact you.

Fantasy novels with novel themes like "Mystery" are also more suitable for publication in Taiwan.

However, the remuneration paid by the publishing house is relatively low, 6500 yuan per copy, the standard price for newcomers.

In Taiwan, royalties are paid per volume, with one volume containing about 65,000 words.

Naturally, Li Xu would not agree to this price. He knew better than anyone how valuable "The Mystery" was.

How could the masterpiece of a future platinum god be worth so little money?

He heard that the royalties for the traditional Chinese editions of Tomato and Potato were around 50,000 or 60,000 yuan per copy.

Of course, Tomato and Potato are now supreme gods, listed among the Five Whites of the Central Plains. He definitely cannot compare to them.

But twenty or thirty thousand per copy isn't too much, right?
Calculated at 30,000 yuan per copy, the entire book of "Mystery" has four to five million words, which means that sixty to seventy copies can be published. The traditional Chinese copyright alone is worth more than two million yuan.

After chatting with the editor Qingzhou for a while, Li Xu didn't have the heart to hang out in the group anymore, so he simply paid the bill, got off the computer, and went to the private room to write (copy the book).

It was past 10 o'clock in the evening, almost 11 o'clock, when Li Xu walked out of Centennial Impression.

From afternoon to evening, he added 18 chapters, and gained 5 more alliance leaders, plus additional chapters for monthly tickets and average subscriptions.

On the first day of release, a total of 43 chapters were updated, totaling more than words.

By the time he got off the plane, he had 21371 first-time orders, 10056 average orders, and 1327 monthly tickets.

Not only did he surpass that great writer, he also temporarily ranked first in the new book monthly ticket list, and ranked third in the total monthly ticket list, second only to Tudou's "Fighting Break Sphere" and Fanqie's "Devouring the Stars".

Don’t think that an average subscription of 10,000 is a bit low. It is already shocking.

Tudou's "Fights Break Sphere" only had an average subscription of 4 at that time, second only to Fanqie's "Devouring the Starry Sky". At this moment, there were only three books on Qidian's main site with an average subscription of over 3.

Nowadays, even if a great author publishes a new book, there are only a few that can achieve an average subscription of over 24 in hours.

Just like the great guy who was in the same period as Li Xu, his average subscription was only 4,000 to 5,000, and maybe even a little inflated.

It can be said that as soon as the novel was put on the shelves, Li Xu took one foot into the threshold of becoming a great writer.

After taking a taxi back to school, Li Xu walked into the dormitory and Xu Haoyang, Shen Qiang, Li Guanfu and others all looked at him.

Cao Jianfei even stood up and said, "Brother Xu, I see your first order has exceeded 20,000, and you're ranked third on the (total) monthly ticket list. That's amazing!"

This kid looked extremely excited.

Li Xu was stunned for a moment before he realized that he had revealed the first order in order to compete for the ranking, and Cao Jianfei and others must have seen it.

Never mind, it doesn't matter if they know.

Anyway, the revenue from the electronic version is only a small part of the total revenue of "Mystery". The publishing revenue and the film, television, animation and comics adaptation rights are the big ones.

Even for ordinary people, this book is enough to last a lifetime.

……

　Thanks to Bingyu Congming and book friend 20170625095007451 for their rewards!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)