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Chapter 198 Milk Drinking Challenge

"Cut! That scene is done." Li Boda stood up and took the megaphone from the assistant director beside him: "I hereby announce that filming for 'Lost in Thailand' has wrapped!"

Upon hearing this, the entire crew cheered and celebrated.

Li Boda also looked relaxed, with a slight smile on his face.

The filming of this movie lasted for more than two months.

Although "Lost in Thailand" is a low-budget film, because it is a road movie, the filming process involved traveling along the story's route.

Filming took place in one location for a period of time, then the location was moved to continue filming. This production even involved multiple location changes, each requiring time for adjustments.

Therefore, the filming speed of this movie is far slower than that of the previous movie, "Night Shop".

However, completing the filming of a movie in two months is already considered a relatively fast pace.

They held a proper wrap party, and this wrap party was even more lively than the last one for filming "Night Shop".

After all, Li Boda is now a director with some fame, and his works will naturally attract a lot of attention.

Even some film and television companies would send people to join in the fun, and local government departments would also send people.

After a lively wrap party, Li Boda sent the remaining footage to the editing room the next day for the editors to continue editing.

Afterwards, Li Boda took advantage of this break to check on the current situation of 'Magic Cube Technology' and went to the laboratory to see how the researchers were progressing with the 'Magic Cube 2nd Generation' phone, especially the self-developed chip used in the Magic Cube 2nd Generation phone, which he paid more attention to.

After all, the chip is almost the most important part of a mobile phone.

Unfortunately, although Li Boda and his team were able to develop chips, build chip architectures, and design chips, they could not manufacture them themselves because they did not have a lithography machine. Otherwise, the whole process would have been simpler and easier.

For Li Boda, company affairs were relatively simple: he would simply check the data and documents, and sign the documents as required.

On the contrary, the situation in the laboratory is not so optimistic, and the progress of chip design is not ideal.

This is quite normal, after all, chip design is not a simple thing, not to mention that the chips designed by Li Boda and his team were very different from most chips on the market, deliberately avoiding certain architectures.

Letting them do the research on their own now won't speed up the process.

So after Li Boda returned to the lab, he helped them catch up on the progress and taught them how to design chips and how to build chip architectures.

After leading them to catch up on some progress, Li Boda let go again, giving them time to thoroughly understand what he had taught them and improve their skills.

After all, Li Boda can't design all the chips himself in the future. Although Li Boda has the ability, he can't carry everything himself. Otherwise, why would he need to hire people?

After spending nearly a month in the lab, the editing of "Lost in Thailand" was completed. After reviewing the final cut and offering some suggestions for improvement, Li Boda then began to pay attention to the development of "Magic Cube Literature" during this period.

'Magic Cube Literature' has been developing quite well recently.

From the very beginning, 'Magic Cube Literature' poached talent from Shanda Literature. While it's not accurate to say that it recruited all the top authors from Shanda Literature, it did recruit about 60%. In addition, some mid-level authors also voluntarily switched over due to differences in copyright and other benefits.

Meanwhile, because of the extra 200 yuan per month in attendance bonus compared to Shanda Literature, some lower-level authors have also switched over.

Meanwhile, due to the rise and reputation of 'Magic Cube Literature', some new authors have listed 'Magic Cube Literature' as one of their top three options when choosing a website to write their books.

Well, the newer the author, the more they think they are, the more amazing their novels will be, and the more expensive the copyrights of their novels will be.

Their level of commitment to their novel copyrights rivals that of top-tier authors. Therefore, after Shanda Literature revised its contract to take all copyrights, the number of new authors appearing on Shanda Literature plummeted.

Although 'Magic Cube Literature' is a relatively new website with a limited number of works, it has already gained popularity, even surpassing many online novel websites that have been established for several years.

This even made Shanda Literature feel threatened.

Then, at this very moment, just three months after 'Magic Cube Literature' was established, Shanda Literature's contract was changed!

The main issue is copyright.

Previously, Shanda Literature harbored greed and wanted to seize all the authors' copyrights. As a result, some top authors and many others jumped ship to 'Magic Cube Technology'. Shanda Literature remained the leader, but it inevitably showed signs of decline, and a significant one at that.

To prevent Shanda Literature from going under, they had no choice but to revert to the original contract, returning the copyright of the online novels to the authors.

This made authors who were wavering and considering changing jobs but hadn't actually taken any action lose their desire to switch.

Unfortunately, Mofang Literature has seized the opportunity and is poised to become the second largest online novel website. Coupled with its unique mobile app, its pace of progress is alarmingly fast.

After 'Magic Cube Technology' gained momentum, mobile apps gradually began to enter the field of vision of some online novel websites.

However, most online novel websites choose to remain indifferent to this.

It's not that they don't know that having another mobile app means having another channel to read books, which means they can earn an extra penny.

However, these days, the number of mobile phones is still not that many, not even as many as the number of computers.

That's right, these days, there are fewer mobile phones than computers.

In the eyes of these online novel websites, the computer version is the right way.

Mobile apps, on the other hand, require designers and developers, and their operation also needs to be carefully managed, since no one knows if the app will suddenly encounter problems.

If we really want to develop a mobile app, we might have to open a new department in the company, which would be another significant expense.

Therefore, although the 'Magic Cube Literature APP' has come into the view of many online novel website managers, very few actually want to develop a mobile APP.

At least for now, only 'Magic Cube Literature' has launched a mobile app.

After carefully monitoring the development of 'Magic Cube Literature,' Li Boda was very satisfied. He immediately gave all employees red envelopes, and after planning the next development path, Li Boda stopped paying attention.

Next, Li Boda began to focus more on the post-production of "Lost in Thailand".

Meanwhile, promotional activities for "Lost in Thailand" have also begun.

The first thing to be affected is the character '囧' in the movie's title.

In reality, there is no such character as '囧'. However, this character perfectly captures the meaning of '囧'.

When someone is feeling embarrassed or awkward, their expression will look something like '囧' (embarrassed/awkward).

As a result, a large number of topics related to the character '囧' began to appear online. Many people made the '囧' expression, which was then recorded into a short video or picture and posted online, attracting the curiosity of many people.

Then some clips from "Lost in Thailand" also started appearing online.

For example, a video of Wang Baoqiang consuming five liters of milk in one go was released in its entirety, attracting many viewers.

Li Boda even deliberately set up a challenge to drink five liters of milk.

It involves filming yourself holding five liters of milk and attempting the challenge of drinking five liters of milk in one go, just like Wang Baoqiang did.

Li Boda even offered a bonus: anyone who could drink five liters of milk in one go, like Wang Baoqiang, would receive a reward of 10,000 yuan.

Wow, after this news was released, milk sales across the country surged dramatically.

Then Li Boda received a call from Wang Baoqiang.

"Director, thank you, thank you so much, Director. I am so grateful to you," Wang Baoqiang said on the phone, his voice filled with gratitude.

"Huh? Bodyguard, what's going on? Why are you suddenly thanking me?"

"That... you know, the milk brands, Mengniu, Yili, Bright Dairy, these kinds of brands. They approached me, wanting me to be their milk spokesperson—this is the first time I've ever received such a big-name advertising endorsement!" Wang Baoqiang said excitedly.

"..." Li Boda never expected that all he did was create a buzz to promote the movie, yet it directly benefited Wang Baoqiang.

"It's also thanks to your own hard work, after all, you were the one who downed five liters of milk in one go while filming," Li Boda said with a smile.

"No, no, no, it's all thanks to you, Director."

Wang Baoqiang secured the milk advertising endorsement, which was indeed beyond Li Boda's expectations. However, he thought it was a good thing.

However, Li Boda then received a call from Mengniu. They said they wanted to sponsor the milk-drinking challenge that Li Boda had organized. Li Boda would take the lead in organizing it, and Mengniu would be responsible for the rest. If someone actually drank five liters of milk in one go like Wang Baoqiang, Mengniu would pay the 10,000 yuan. Mengniu was even willing to pay Li Boda a fee as an event design fee.

Now, they've got the buzz, and Li Boda doesn't even have to pay for it; in fact, they might even give him money.

(End of this chapter)