Chapter 201 Cute Animal Short Film and Linkage
Thursday, February 23rd.
The morning rush hour is such a nuisance.
Zhou Yuxing squeezed into the subway yawning. After five stops, he finally grabbed a seat. After sitting down, he showed an expression as if he was finally saved.
Amid the beeping sound of the subway door closing, Zhou Yuxing suddenly heard his cell phone vibrating a few times.
She thought it was a message from the work group, so she turned on her phone with a bitter face, but then she exclaimed.
The work group was empty, and the one who just sent the message reminder was actually the official Weibo of Fantasy Park!
Zhou Yuxing can be considered half a fan of the theme park. The reason why I say half is because she has always only cheered for the park on the Internet and has never been to the park offline. Why? Is it because she doesn't want to?
Alas, the life of a corporate slave is so hard!
As Zhou Yuxing was thinking this, his finger had already honestly clicked on the message interface.
[vFantasy Paradise: Happy Thursday! Today, we're sharing a special healing short video on our internal channel. Hopefully, it'll bring a good mood to those who wake up early!]
Following this post is a video of about 40 minutes.
The video did not play automatically, but stopped at the title card. The background was a deep dark night, with stars dotted in the distant sky and the wind blowing nearby. The little Thorn King, wrapped in a red cloak, sat on a small green sofa with an arrogant look on his face. Behind him was the Red-Eyed Army, who raised their thorn forks and shouted. Next to him was a black ball of fur. Opposite them, the beautiful tree spirit had a frown on his face, with a look of panic on his face.
The screen was divided into two halves. On the left was the faction led by King Little Thorn, while on the right was a single tree spirit. Although the tree spirit took up most of the cover, it looked unimpressive. King Little Thorn, despite being so small, possessed a formidable presence. Behind him, the Red-Eyed Army, each one puffed out their chests with immense arrogance, appearing overbearing and domineering, effectively overshadowing the tree spirit's faction.
One is big and the other is small, one is more and the other is less, one is red and the other is green. The contrast is sharp and the sense of conflict is vividly displayed on the paper, making people wonder what story happened.
Zhou Yuxing immediately put on his headphones and clicked on the video.
The scene starts in daytime. As a soft piece of pure music and the sound of birds singing in the early morning come in, a pair of tall and big legs come into view. There is a clear Fantasy Park logo on the trouser legs of these legs, and they are walking back and forth busily.
While Zhou Yuxing was wondering what the legs were doing, they walked to the edge of a pond. The clear water reflected a female figure. She was using a spoon to put food into empty plates back and forth.
Canteen auntie?
When Zhou Yuxing was thinking about this, the scene in front of him suddenly shrank slowly, and finally a pair of extremely clear black eyes appeared in the picture. Then, the owner of the eye revealed his full appearance, and it turned out to be a black ball of fur!
Zhou Yuxing couldn't help but cover her mouth, thinking this was too cute!
It is round, with shiny black fur, and its big eyes are dull because its pupils are too dark and too big, and the whites of its eyes are almost a circle of white lines. It has a pair of small, duck-webbed claws under its body, and its ears and nose are invisible under the fur. When its mouth is closed, it also seems to be hidden under the fur. It looks like a ball of fur with big eyes that only appears in cartoons!
Then, the picture widened, and countless furry balls behind this furry ball came into the frame. They huddled together, looking warily at the aunt who was serving them food not far away, like silly and cute owls who had strayed into the human world.
Zhou Yuxing watched them secretly hide leftovers, make a feint to the east while stealing plates, and hide the food in various places. She was almost dizzy with cuteness.
Oh my god, so cute! Is this a new species coming to the park? Can I steal one?
The subway was crowded during the morning rush hour, and almost everyone looked tired from being forced to get up early. Only Zhou Yuxing had a silly smile on his face, and his cheeks were flushed with excitement.
But the good times didn't last long, the food hidden by the furry balls was discovered, and seeing the staff ruthlessly cleaning out the food, Zhou Yuxing almost slapped his thigh, thinking evilly: Hahaha, take it all out and let them know the dangers of society!
Then the plot goes through ups and downs. The furry kids find that the food they secretly hid underground has been eaten into empty shells. The situation in the paradise is turbulent, and all the accusations are directed at the King of Thorns.
King Little Thorn could not stand this slander, so he sent a large army to sneak into the Rolling Sheep Park that night. The background music suddenly became extremely passionate, and the scene of the Red Eye Army waving thorn forks and patrolling was really spectacular. Zhou Yuxing was excited when he saw it, but when the camera zoomed away and found that their huge and long team was not even as big as a row of lounge chairs in the park, Zhou Yuxing couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The passengers next to her saw her laughing foolishly and trembling all over, and thought something had happened. When they found out that she was watching a video, they were involuntarily attracted by the content of her video and started watching it unconsciously.
In the video, King Little Thorn's army finally found the thief, but was misunderstood by the rolling sheep. A big battle broke out between two trees in the park in an instant.
"Fight, fight, fight harder."
Zhou Yuxing thought she had spoken out her true feelings, but after two seconds she realized that a strange girl next to her was also watching. The two looked at each other awkwardly, and Zhou Yuxing gave her an earphone.
After a while, the war between the two races ended and the headmaster came out to mediate.
Zhou Yuxing couldn't help but laugh and said, "Haha, the headmaster is not willing to be lonely and comes out to make a guest appearance again."
The strange girl asked, "Who is the headmaster?"
Zhou Yuxing was a little surprised to find that she didn't know about the Fantasy Park, so he explained it to her while watching.
The plot progresses quickly, with the two cute animal races joining hands to catch thieves. The duel between the kings makes the two look happy, but when they see the usually arrogant King Little Thorn being bitten on the butt by the baby tree spirit, they can't help but burst into laughter.
In the end, the tree spirit clan compensated the rolling sheep for their losses twice as much, held the tree spirit baby down, apologized to the red-eyed elf and the rolling sheep, and left. Only the red-eyed elf and the rolling sheep clan were left at the scene.
After tossing and turning for most of the night, both tribes seemed to be in a bad mood. The leader of the rolling sheep let out a low bleat, and soon, the furry balls that had been tripped by interesting things on the way came jumping over.
Then the leader of the rolling sheep bleated a few times, and then all the fur balls started dancing on the spot. They squatted three times to the left, three times to the right, and then shouted in unison in the direction of the red-eyed army, "Baaa~ Suction!"
Just like that, it absorbed all the damage suffered by the Red Eyes Army in the previous battle.
The Little Thorn King was obviously surprised. He stared blankly at the rolling sheep on the opposite side whose fur had obviously become a little darker after absorbing the damage. Finally, he realized what the innate skills of these furry sheep were.
Oh my goodness! Such a weak yet devout race existed in the world! The Little Thorn King raised his thorn scepter and declared, "From today on, you are my friends, the Red-Eyed Evil Thori. From now on, in Paradise, I, the Little Thorn King, will protect you!"
Although the red-eyed elves have a bad reputation, they are not a heartless race. Seeing the rolling sheep expressing their apologies for the previous battle in this way, they flew over, spread their wings and rubbed against the furry balls in a friendly manner.
Under the night sky, the red-eyed elves and the furry balls happily went away, and the moonlight in the sky seemed to be smiling.
At the end of the video, a few lovely words appeared in the starry night sky: Dedicated to you who work hard in life.
Seeing this line, Zhou Yuxing felt a little warm in her eyes. She thought, how wonderful! It's so nice to be able to see such a lovely video during the early morning rush hour!
Fantasy Park has always been very popular on the Internet. After watching the video, you can easily scroll through it and countless comments will pop up.
——Ahhhhh, this feeling is so good, does anyone understand?
——I understand, I understand. The rolling sheep who stores food diligently like a small animal, the little thorny king who mobilizes an army to prove his innocence, the two cute creatures fighting each other, the tree spirit baby who shouts the slogan of storing food in order to restore the country and then runs to steal food, the perfect parent who sincerely apologizes and makes amends after catching the naughty child, and finally the red-eyed elf and the rolling sheep who become good friends from enemies... Woo woo woo, it's such a fairy tale!
Yes, the cautiously surviving Rolling Sheep earned the friendship of the park's tyrant, the Little Thorn King, and successfully integrated into the Fantasy Park family. The little king, defiantly dispatched his army instead of hastily explaining himself when falsely accused. And the fair and just director! A naughty child without a naughty parent—what else could this be but a fairy tale?
—Ahhh, there are cute creatures and a cute plot, and a happy ending, my love, Yuanyuanzi, I love you so much. By the way, please make more short films like this.
——Hahaha, you just saw it now. As a resident of the hot spring center, I finished watching it on the internal channel a few days ago. By the way, the video on the internal channel is longer than this one. This can only be regarded as the quintessential version. The internal channel also includes the plot where Mao Tuanzi gives potatoes to the headmaster!
—What? Is that so? Damn, I'm so jealous of the residents of the hot springs.
——Hahaha, the two armies engaged in a fierce battle in a small area less than the size of a bed. Hahaha, I was dying of laughter.
——The fight between the furry ball and the red-eyed elf is so cute that I watched it several times.
When will the Rolling Sheep Park open? I was there yesterday and didn't see it!
——Go back upstairs, it should be soon, it will definitely be open during the summer vacation.
—Summer vacation? You're underestimating our garden's efficiency. At our rate, it should be open tomorrow, right? [Image: jpg]
Are there any peripheral collaborations you'd like? Yongyong Toys has announced a collaboration with the theme park and is looking for your feedback! Vote for your favorites now!
Yongyong Toy Factory is the most well-known toy manufacturer in China. It has a super luxurious manufacturing line. It has a presence in many domestic entertainment product derivatives and peripherals, and its quality has always been guaranteed.
The park actually collaborated with them to produce peripheral products!
Zhou Yuxing's heart raced. She quickly followed the link provided by the netizen and saw that the Yongyong Toy Factory had launched a poll, inviting netizens to choose the peripherals they wanted.
The peripheral products to be released include stickers, notebooks, plush toys, pendants, figures, etc. The options include the dwarf elf, the puff bird, the red-eyed elf, the tree spirit, the ground dragon, and even the rolling sheep that has not been released yet!
More importantly, the figurine selection also includes Atelan and Ajinlan.
Zhou Yuxing's eyes were already filled with tears. Without hesitation, she chose "All!" After checking her selection, the voting page was revealed, revealing that the vast majority of people had chosen "All!"
Beep beep, we’ve arrived at our stop!
Zhou Yuxing stood up quickly. She had shared a lot of knowledge about the fantasy park with the strange girl along the way. Looking at the girl's eyes lighting up and her incredible expression, her heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment and happiness.
Ah, although today is Thursday, it is indeed the best Thursday ever!
Zhou Yuxing's steps became lighter, and he was no longer as impatient as before when his cell phone rang.
"Hello? Um... Fantasy Paradise? Yes, that's me... My manuscript was selected? Really?" Zhou Yuxing was so excited that she started spinning in circles. "Okay, okay, I'll email you right away."
Half a month ago, during the Fantasy Park’s Lantern Festival essay contest, Zhou Yuxing submitted a manuscript titled “The Lonely Monster” to the park.
Chapter 202 Reverse Contamination
"That Lonely Monster" was written by Zhou Yuxing more than a month ago.
It was almost the end of the year, and she had almost finished her work, so she put a live stream of Fantasy Park on her computer. Fantasy Park was so popular online that many streamers made a living from it.
Those who are good at fighting monsters, such as the very popular Xiao Zhou, mainly live broadcast fighting monsters and opening blind boxes of props. He will also live broadcast when the park launches new projects and new gameplay.
Those who love cute creatures can livestream the dwarfs in the Dwarf Restaurant; those who enjoy pranks can livestream the transformed tourists in the City of Pranks; and after the opening of the Sky Aquarium, many livestreamers have emerged, creating different creations out of dream bubbles every day according to audience requests...
Besides these, there are many bizarre live broadcasts, some of which are downright boring, yet still attract a lot of viewers. Zhou Yuxing is one of these boring people.
She likes to watch other people live broadcast monsters, that is, to watch the monsters coming and going in the corridor.
It’s not that she likes monsters that much, after all, most monsters look weird and unpleasant, but she has a faint sympathy for monsters.
In Paradise's worldview, monsters are the source of all evil, bringing blood and suffering. However, Zhou Yuxing felt that monsters, unlike the alien races, possessed no intelligence and understood no distinction between good and evil. They were merely tools created by the evil gods to create KPIs.
That's not true. There are still intelligent monsters, such as the level 30 monster in the last Frost Descent event, but those monsters are too rare. Most of them are the kind that come and go in the viewing corridor and are not welcomed.
They were either pointed at and pointed at for their curious appearance in the viewing corridors, or beaten up by tourists in places like the Abandoned Park, Jasmine Town, and the Fantasy Haunted House. Furthermore, Mischief City scheduled a weekly monster wave event, during which they were driven to Mischief City or the Fantasy Ranch, where they were beaten up by tourists, along with Red-Eyed Pokémon, Ground Dragon, and Puff Bird.
Every time Zhou Yuxing saw them pounce on tourists with excited and evil expressions, she couldn't help but cover her face, because she knew that these monsters couldn't eat anything and they were just tools for tourists to earn points.
This is so unfair!
Zhou Yuxing often had this thought. In her eyes, monsters were the signature of Fantasyland. When Fantasyland was first established, it had used monsters to attract tourists. Even now, fighting monsters was still one of the important ways to play in the park.
They have made great contributions to the park. They are treated as clowns and are played with by tourists in various ways. They are scolded wherever they go. The strange races in the park have a large number of fans, but the monsters are just constantly refreshing monsters and are not worth any attention.
Every time Zhou Yuxing saw a monster, he would think of his ordinary self, drowned in the crowd and ignored by everyone. He worked hard every day, exhausted himself to be an insignificant screw, and could not afford the down payment even after saving money for many years.
The monster walked through the viewing corridor every day and was beaten up when it entered other places. She squeezed into the subway to go to work every day and took the last subway home late at night. It seemed as if she had lived for many years and spent many days, but in fact, she just copied and pasted the same day countless times, and she didn't know when it would end.
When others watched Monster Live, they either used Monster as material for their creative pursuits, or they watched professional gold-farming teams analyzing their weaknesses. Only she was expecting a miracle to add a little variety to her life, which was as calm as stagnant water.
Until one day, something unexpected happened and she discovered a strange monster.
That monster didn't look good at all. To be exact, all monsters didn't look good, but that monster was particularly special because it looked... dejected, very much like a lifeless waste.
It's like if you give it a noodle, it will think of a rope for hanging; if you give it a sugar pill, it will think of deadly poison.
It was different from other monsters. After entering the viewing corridor, it found a place to lie down. It did not anxiously bang on the glass, nor did it rush into the deserted park following the smell of human flesh and blood.
Although it was different from the kind of incident Zhou Yuxing expected, which was like a divine weapon descending and disrupting everything, it seemed pretty good.
So for many days in a row, she watched the monster in the live broadcast room. She thought she would lose interest soon, but after watching it for a long time and getting used to it, she suddenly thought that the monster looked okay, silly and cute.
Slowly, she began to imagine what story that monster had.
Fantasyland created so many stories for those strange races, so why is it so stingy with monsters?
The fantasy proved fruitless, so Zhou Yuxing picked up a pen and wrote a story for the monster himself.
"It's a monster, a lonely monster..."
Perhaps because she had been accumulating so many ideas, Zhou Yuxing's writing flowed exceptionally smoothly, as if a guiding hand had assisted her in completing her work. She wrote for several days straight, churning out nearly 30,000 words. She even posted the manuscript anonymously online, and the loneliness between the lines seemed to resonate with netizens, many of whom left comments saying her writing was very engaging.
They also said that they watched the live broadcast of the monster, and it looked just like what she described in the text, and so netizens named the monster "Sangsang" since then.
Encouraged, Zhou Yuxing's creative drive intensified. She spent her daily commute typing on her phone. She planned a lot of plots for the monster, Sangsang. Since it was currently in the park's viewing gallery, she tried to imagine its past; it certainly didn't enter the viewing gallery the moment it was born!
In the worldview presented by the park, monsters emerged from the Great Rift in the Abyss, entering this world through a rift. But it wasn't as if it had found a rift the moment it was born! A lot of interesting things must have happened before that, which is why it looked so hopeless after arriving at the viewing corridor.
When Zhou Yuxing had written about 90,000 words, the park launched a Lantern Festival essay contest.
Her article just met the requirements, and with the encouragement of netizens, Zhou Yuxing mustered up the courage to submit it.
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"The Lonely Monster."
In a conference room in Paradise, Duoduo read out the name. In front of her were several printed manuscripts, and "The Lonely Monster" was one of them.
Sal, sitting across from her, picked up the manuscript and took a look. The original text was 90,000 words long, and what was printed here couldn't be the entire text, but rather a brief summary of the article and a comment from the employee who recommended it.
"It's a lovely article about the monster Sangsang's adventures in another world, where he makes friends with many exotic races, including earth dragons, dwarfs, red-eyed elves, and telepathic dolls..." Before Thrall could finish his sentence, he couldn't help but laugh. "Monsters making friends with red-eyed elves? If the little king saw this article, he'd probably knock the author out with a stick."
Chi Xiaozhen: "Although this is completely impossible, your imagination is worthy of praise."
Thrall commented, "Childish."
Chi Xiaozhen: "It's childish, but also excellent. It's very suitable for producing derivative works for the general public. Movies, TV series, and cartoons can all be arranged."
Sal pondered, "Will it work?"
Chi Xiaozhen: "This is the director's plan."
Sal: "Precisely because this is Dad's plan, we have to be cautious. I think the writing style of this article is not refined enough, there is too much nonsense, and the pace is not fast enough..." He listed a bunch of shortcomings until Duoduo pushed a few photos in front of him.
There are four photos in total.
Duoduo pointed at them one by one, "This is the photo of the monster when it first entered the viewing corridor. This is the photo of it half a month after entering the viewing corridor. This is the photo a month and a half later. This is the current photo."
There is no difference between the first and second pictures. One can only say that if you look closely at the eyes and mouth, you can see a hint of dejection. But this does not mean that the monster is really dejected. In fact, its eyes are still evil. The reason why it lies there without moving is because it is disabled and its legs can only move, so it can only stay in the viewing corridor. It is not as Zhou Yuxing imagined that it disdains to compete with its companions for meat. The drooping eyes are just because of weakness.
However, starting with the second photo, the monster's mental state began to change, gradually moving in the direction described by Zhou Yuxing. This stage appeared after Zhou Yuxing's novel gained a certain amount of attention online.
Duoduo said, "The power of the evil god comes from human faith, and the terror of the monster comes from human fear. So when many people sincerely believe that the monster is this image, they will change accordingly. This is the power of consciousness."
Chi Xiaozhen said, "In other words, we can change the image of monsters in people's minds and in turn pollute the evil gods."
Duoduo: "Besides, we already have a semi-successful case to refer to."
Thrall frowned. "Half-successful? Just this monster called Sangsang."
Chi Xiaozhen smiled slightly and mouthed something to him.
——Poseidon.
She said.
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