Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 139

In June, the temperature in Shanghai is already very high.

Cyberpunk Edgewalker has been ranked first in ratings for two weeks in a row, and both Sakura TV and Shanghai TV are completely unable to sit still.

If an S-level drama fails to win the season championship, it is already a big problem.

But Cyberpunk Edgewalker is the work of Su Yan.

No matter how much this drama is broadcast on Zhongxia TV, in essence, it is a work produced by a private film and television company.

In such an outrageous competitive atmosphere this season, helping Edgewalker to reach the top has a completely different meaning.

Especially at Sakura TV, everyone is under a lot of pressure right now.

From the pressure exerted by the TV station's board of directors to the production department, and then to the writing department.

If the drama "Edge Walker" wins the quarterly championship or even the annual championship this season, it would be unimaginable.

By then, the TV station will definitely be very excited.

So in the past few days, all kinds of negative news about Su Yan have appeared on the Internet again.

The internet trolls hired by Sakura TV to discredit Su Yan started to spread negative comments about him online. Since the TV series was at a disadvantage in terms of direct competition, they tried to find some negative points about Su Yan. If they couldn't find any, they just made up rumors.

When Su Yan was broadcasting on Qingkong TV in April, there were a lot of these rhythms.

However, if Sakura TV does these things again this time, the effect will be very poor.

Zhongxia TV is not a fool. How could it allow Sakura TV to mess around when Cyberpunk is doing so well now?
When false scandals about Su Yan, Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan and others were flying all over the internet, some people also started to expose the scandals of the leading actors and directors of the two dramas "Black Gate" and "Nanmeng".

Zhongxia TV will not hire a group of trolls to refute rumors, but instead asks the other party to blast you if you don't follow the rules! Whose people were cleaner just now?

But Su Yan really has no black material.

He has filmed five dramas in the two years since he came into this world. Every day he is either filming or on his way to write scripts. Others can't find any black spots in his private life at all.

But the leading actors of other dramas were different. After a few days, the creative teams of Heimen and Namco found something wrong and quickly stopped themselves.

If they continue to attack each other with Zhongxia TV, Su Yan will be fine, but their own reputation will collapse.

To put it bluntly, if you don’t have enough hard power, it’s useless to resort to tricks.

At this moment, Akasaka Yoshitoki experienced firsthand what it meant to be in a state of disarray. It had only been more than a year since Su Yan left Sakura TV, but he had no way to do anything to Su Yan.

There is nothing you can do if your work is not strong enough, and you can’t use any dirty tricks.

Time, it's the weekend again.

On Friday, the ninth episode of Black Gate was first aired.

When it comes to the final stage, the drama Black Gate is not as bland as the earlier episodes, with all the climaxes.

The ratings for this episode did not continue to grow like the previous ones.

With Edge of Tomorrow ranking first in ratings and being the most well-known show in the market, it is difficult for the Black Gate show to attract new viewers.

All the new audiences are at Edgewalker!

This week's episode nine of Black Gate closed with a viewership rating of 5.42%.

Compared to the eighth episode, the ratings dropped instead of increased.

Sakura TV has not made any official response to this.

But the media would not let them go, and all day long on Saturday, the entire Internet was filled with mocking articles.

Su Yan's fans went to the official website of Sakura TV in a group to make sarcastic remarks.

Yoshitoki Akasaka can only act like a coward and endure this wave of online violence!
On Saturday, the ninth episode of Namco premiered.

Like Black Gate, a large number of audiences in the market and public opinion are focused on Cyberpunk Edgewalker.

Its ninth episode closed with a 5.23% viewership rating.

Obviously, it is not on the same level as the previous two.

After the ratings for the ninth episodes of these two dramas came out, people in the industry probably saw the problem.

I'm starting to get tired of watching these two dramas.

It’s not that their plots are bad.

He is really a fringe walker, a little too good.

Could it be that Su Yan's action of opening the champagne in advance was really successful?

Namco has basically no qualifications to top the ratings.

The drama Black Gate is confirmed to be completed in eleven episodes. If there is no dramatic plot twist to increase the ratings in the next three weeks, then Edge of Tomorrow's 5.52% ratings last week will definitely be the best of the season.

The media also changed their tone at this time.

[Cyberpunk Edgewalker is only one step away from first place in viewership ratings! ]

[Will the ratings of the ninth episode of Edgewalker rise again this week? It will completely surpass the record of Dawnbreak five years ago. ]

[The only true god this season! In the battle of three S-level dramas, the three dramas have reached the top of the ratings at different stages, but Namco has weakened in advance, and Black Gate has also lost its momentum. Only Cyberpunk Edgewalker has the possibility of rising ratings! Its miracle is still continuing! ]

[Genius screenwriter Su Yan brings cyberpunk works to a level that does not belong to it! After Edgewalker, perhaps cyberpunk themes will become popular in Xia Country! ]

[The Cyberpunk Edgewalker made Su Yan, Shen Liqian, and Gu Qingyuan rise in status. On the Xia Country TV drama star popularity list, Su Yan ranked first, and Gu Qingyuan and Shen Liqian ranked first and second! ]

[Su Yan's masterpiece! If Edge Walker finally tops the ratings this quarter, it will completely redeem him. Su Yan has become one of the top screenwriters in Xia Country! ]

[Letting Su Yan go is the biggest mistake Sakura TV has made in the past ten years! ]

[Two years after debuting, five dramas later, Su Yan has turned the Xia country's TV drama industry upside down. ]

The media's crazy hype and the fans' excitement.

On this Sunday, the topic of cyberpunk edge walker was fully raised.

In schools, companies, on the road, and in coffee shops, people can often be seen gathering together to discuss related topics and watching catch-up dramas on Xingxia.com for a fee.

At six o'clock in the evening, the average paid playback volume of Cyberpunk Edgewalker officially exceeded 15 million per episode.

Compared with Nanmeng's 11 million and Heimen's 12.8 million, Edgewalker is far ahead in the online broadcast market.

As eight o'clock in the evening approached, the ratings of Zhongxia TV soared.

Jiang Jiayi turned off her laptop and stopped chatting in Su Yan's fan group.

She looked towards the TV in the living room.

The TV station was playing boring commercials, but she only paid attention to the time in the upper right corner. Soon, it was eight o'clock.

The ninth episode of Cyberpunk Edgewalker has begun airing. The plot continues from the ninth episode.

David, Rebecca, Qiwei and other team members were all tempted by the middleman's huge sum of money and agreed to the middleman's commission.

Choose to go out of the city and snipe and steal Arasaka's prosthetic weapons halfway.

On the other side, Lucy was caught.

In the cyberpunk world, people have no privacy.

Hackers can dive right into your memory and pull out your deepest secrets.

So Lucy used to be a hacker of Arasaka Corporation, and David had a gifted cyborg with resistance to sex, and the real inside story of Tanaka's death was also known by the middleman Faraday.

In this drama, the conspiracy chain against the heroine Lucy and the hero David is completely formed.

When Jiang Jiayi saw this, her heart sank.

Don’t think that this drama is fun to watch. David performs real difficult killing moves for everyone in the drama.

But in fact, from the perspective of the plot setting, the gap between David and his cyberpunk team and the Arasaka Corporation is as huge as the gap between a mercenary team and a regular army.

If they are targeted by Arasaka Corporation, how will David and Lucy fight?
As the plot progresses.

Qi Wei, a female hacker in David's team, also has problems and behaves abnormally.
As the plot was revealed, Jiang Jiayi's eyes widened.

"Damn, a traitor? Qi Wei is the traitor. This mission is a bait, a bait to lure David out!"

The real purpose of the middleman Faraday is to capture David and Lucy, hand them over to Arasaka Corporation, and then rely on this credit to become a superior in Arasaka Corporation.

Although she knew that there were no good people in Night City, Jiang Jiayi was also angry at this time.

After all, David and Mann, the two team leaders, have helped you complete so many tasks, and you don’t even show any favors?

Who is it?
But the ninth and tenth episodes are the most expensive and visually stunning episodes of the show.

Before Jiang Jiayi could react, the fight began.

David and his team members drove out and faced with heavy military siege of prosthetic weapons, so they started fighting as soon as they met!
In the wilderness outside Night City, dozens of cars were fighting on the road.

[I don't allow you to use Sian Westin, do you hear me? ]

Rebecca said to David in a proud tone while driving.

[I understand!] David said calmly.

Rebecca likes David.

This is true even though I know David likes Lucy.

After learning that David was showing symptoms of cyberpsychosis, only Rebecca and Lucy persuaded David to remove his prosthetic body and return to normal life.

But prosthetics are power, and it was David who chose this path.

He wanted to get Lucy to the moon and give her a stable life, so he couldn't give up his power.

So, even though he felt there was something wrong with this lucrative mission, he still took it.

Jiang Jiayi was very excited to watch the ten-minute long road gunfight and rocket battle.

The audiences of Xiaguo also enjoyed watching the TV series.

This drama was invested with 70 million RMB, but very little was spent on the actors' salaries. Su Yan received no salary, Shen Liqian's salary was halved, and Gu Qingyuan received dividends from the profits of the work, and she also did not receive any salary before filming began.

The vast majority of the funds were spent on special effects, and a considerable portion of these special effects funds were spent on the ninth and tenth episodes.

The quality of this episode can be said to be on a different level than the previous eight episodes.

David and his crew managed to grab the prosthetic weapons, but discovered that a large group of company members were lying in ambush nearby.

Armored vehicles, artillery shells, and various weapons were showered down...
After fighting for more than ten minutes, David and his team members were in a desperate situation.

Under a cliff, avoiding attacks from surrounding armored vehicles.

From here on, the plot enters the main line of this episode.

David and his crew had no choice but to hide in a car equipped with the prosthetic weapon "Cyborg".

The Cyborg is like a small mecha. With its help, the wearer will gain extremely exaggerated strength.

When Jiang Jiayi saw this, she seemed to realize something.

In such a desperate situation, this kind of weapon appeared.

Given David's personality, what would he do?
There is no doubt that he would choose to wear this weapon which places a great burden on the user and help his companions fight their way out.

But this
This is exactly what Arasaka Corporation wants to see.

No one can use this set of prostheses at all. Anyone who puts them on will turn into a cyberpsychopath, so the relevant usage data has never been complete.

Arasaka Corporation has always wanted to find a being like David, who can wear a cyborg and collect data through actual combat, and finally complete this set of weapons.

The plot will reveal the conspiracy of Arasaka Corporation and the middleman Faraday.

Jiang Jiayi's heart sank.

A feeling of despair spread in my heart.

How to fight this?
From the beginning, Faraday's mission as the middleman, to David and his team seizing the weapon.

Then hundreds of armored vehicles and hundreds of fully armed soldiers were ready for battle.

The reason why they stopped firing after entering the loader of the Cybernetic King Kong was to force David to wear the cybernetic body and then
Fight with the hundreds of armored vehicles outside!
Die at last and complete David's mission!
This is the script that Arasaka gave to David.

"Is this all David's value lies? Night City, Arasaka Corporation, what do they regard human life as?" Jiang Jiayi took a deep breath.

This is what cyberpunk works are like.

In the early stages, the protagonist team seems to be omnipotent, but after a deeper understanding of the world view, you will find that they are nothing more than larger grasshoppers.

In the technological world dominated by true capitalists, individual heroism is too insignificant.

But
David is the protagonist.

He is a protagonist who refuses to accept his fate.

After realizing that something was wrong, he didn't think of accepting his fate, but of resisting!

(End of this chapter)