Usually, when promoting a book, even if the specific content of the book is not disclosed, the reader will be told what type the book is, suspense, science fiction, fantasy, romance...
But YU's books are very different. Starting from "Old Book", Deep Space Company has maintained a sense of mystery in promoting YU's new books, making readers unable to guess what the new books are about.
When Ge Hongwei saw the title "Snowman" for the first time, the first picture that came to his mind was of a couple walking hand in hand in the heavy snow.
Since YU has written "Old Book", it is not impossible to write another tender novel.
Of course, it is very likely that it is not this kind of novel... but Ge Hongwei never expected that "The Snowman" would be a very scary novel.
Moreover, the cover of the novel looks very normal, it is just an ordinary house with a normal-looking snowman piled next to it.
The first snow has fallen, and the snowman is about to reappear. When the ice and snow melt, he will take someone with him.
Just reading this sentence, Ge Hongwei didn't feel anything, but after reading the novel, when he read this sentence again, he felt a little chill in his back.
The heating in the room was obviously very warm, but the coolness penetrated his body.
The tall snowman in the yard - in order to make the snowman more conspicuous, Ge Hongwei piled the snowman to a height of 1.67 meters. At this time, its two dark eyes were staring at Ge Hongwei through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Although it was daytime, the light outside was very weak. A gust of wind rolled up a piece of snow on the ground and fell at the snowman's feet. Suddenly, it seemed as if the snowman moved.
Ge Hongwei shrank his neck. He was going to pour himself a cup of coffee, but he didn't dare to turn around. He was afraid of turning his back on the snowman.
His feet moved, and there was a creaking sound from the floor. He had never noticed that the floor of his house could make such an obvious sound, as if there was someone hiding under the floor.
Ge Hongwei wanted to finish the novel, but he did not dare to lower his head for a long time. He was afraid that if he lowered his head for a long time, the snowman in the yard would disappear and then appear behind him.
This novel describes the details very well, especially the part where the snowman chases the victim, which made Ge Hongwei's hair stand on end with horror.
Many things that can be seen everywhere will become very scary in this novel. He didn't even dare to look up, for fear that he would find something special on the ceiling when he looked up, because there was also a description about the ceiling in the novel.
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As for the snowman, he was afraid to stare at it, but he didn't dare not to stare at him. Anyway, it was very contradictory.
Just when Ge Hongwen was about to finish the book despite his fear, the phone next to the sofa rang.
beep--
The extremely ordinary ringing tone of the phone startled Ge Hongwei, and he almost threw the book in his hand.
After coughing slightly and calming down, he gently picked up the phone and asked, "Hello, who is this?"
There was only a rustling sound on the other end of the phone. It was quiet and no one spoke.
Ge Hongwei thought that the signal was not good, or that the other party did not realize that the call was connected. This was a normal situation, and he often encountered it before, so he asked again, "Hello, who can I call?"
This time, a harsh friction sound suddenly sounded on the other end of the phone, as if someone was scratching the microphone with their fingernails. This high-frequency, chaotic sound made Ge Hongwei uncomfortable to listen to.
The key is that he was reading a very thriller novel, and the sudden phone call made him feel a little uncomfortable.
It was as if several needles were inserted into his temples, stirring around in his head, turning his brain into a pile of paste, making it impossible for him to concentrate.
"If you don't speak, I'm going to hang up the phone."
Maybe someone dialed the wrong number, or maybe it was a prank played by a kid, and he was about to hang up.
When he was about to hang up the phone, a very strange voice sounded from the opposite side, "Don't look up... the ceiling... there is a face there, and he is smiling at you..."
Snapped!
This was the sound of Ge Hongwei throwing the microphone away.
He swallowed and looked at the phone that fell to the ground in horror. He had no idea who was on the other end of the phone and why he was doing this.
The other party's voice was very special, a bit low and a bit hoarse, but not rich enough, and it was hard to tell whether it was a man or a woman. Coupled with the sound of electricity, it made people feel very scary.
Moreover, what the other party said was related to "The Snowman". Ge Hongwei subconsciously wanted to raise his head to look at the ceiling, but as soon as he raised it to 45 degrees, he did not dare to raise it any higher. He was worried that when he raised his head, he would find that there was really something on the ceiling.
Zhang smiled at him.
Just when Ge Hongwei was looking at the microphone at a loss, he suddenly heard a burst of laughter coming from the microphone.
"Hahaha, Nate, I knew it must have scared you, hahaha."
Hearing this voice, fear receded from Ge Hongwei like a tide, but then, the shame and anger of being teased came up again. He blushed and shouted towards the microphone on the ground: "Chris, I'm with you."
Said, I was not scared at all."
As he spoke, as if he was worried that the other party didn't hear him, he bent down and picked up the phone and said harshly again: "Chris, let me tell you, I was not scared at all, no!"
Chris laughed on the other end of the phone: "Really, what happened to that sound just now? Didn't you get so scared that you threw the phone away?"
"Not at all, you heard wrong."
Chrissy didn't believe him at all, "You must have watched "The Snowman", right, and there was a rut in front of my house that didn't belong to my car. It probably belonged to a blue Ford, and the owner of the car was a man who liked to wear
A man in black clothes and fussing over everything. But we’ll talk about this later. I’m calling you to ask if your new book is good."
Ge Hongwei wanted to deny Chris's speculation about Rut, but he bit his tongue and talked about the new book, "I haven't finished reading it yet, but the performance of the new book did not disappoint me. Although it is a thriller and suspense novel, its style is very
In particular, the description of details is YU's usual level..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hearing Ge Hongwei's words, Kris seemed very happy, "I also like the new book very much. Although in the reasoning part, the protagonist seems a bit not powerful enough, but the case
The development is satisfying, and as a thriller and suspense novel, "The Snowman" has unexpected literary qualities, and it shows enough concern for some social issues..."
Although Ge Hongwei and Chris are always noisy when they meet, they can always reach a consensus every time they talk about novels.
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On the day "The Snowman" was released, major bookstores were of course as busy as ever.
In order to attract readers to enter the bookstore, many bookstores will even build a lifelike snowman at the door. Of course, this is a privilege exclusive to the north.
In order to make the snowman more human-like, the bookstore will put glasses, noses, ears, and even clothes on the snowman. Some snowmen will have special smiles on their faces.
However, these somewhat human-like snowmen have become a catalyst for fear, allowing readers to experience real horror while reading the book.
But that day, a strange thing happened on the Deep Space Tribe.
The cause of the incident was that a reader posted a new blog post, which read: The snowman in front of my house just smiled at me.
It was an ordinary tribe at first, but it quickly caused a craze, and many similar tribes followed.
【My snowman keeps staring at me.】
[The snowman opposite just opened his mouth to me, as if to say, everyone must die.]
[The snowman next door...]
In the beginning, the blogs posted by netizens were all one or two sentences, similar to the original one. But gradually, these netizens were not satisfied with just writing one or two sentences, and they began to make up more things and add details.
become richer.
There are many people who just wrote short stories, basically all of them are snowmen killing people, each one is more horrifying than the last one, and each one is more perverted than the last one.
Deep Space Tribe official saw everyone's enthusiastic response and simply launched a second creation event. Netizens are welcome to make second creations of "Snowman". If the second creation is of high quality, it may be selected into "Snowman Special".
Any article selected into "Snowman Special" will receive a substantial remuneration.
This action once again stimulated netizens' passion for second creation.
In fact, this is a short story essay competition, but it just borrows the inspiration from "The Snowman" and uses "The Snowman" as the theme. If the event is done well, it should be able to build momentum for "The Snowman", and then those novels will be made into a collection.
It can also be sold to make money. Taking full advantage of the popularity of "Snowman" can be said to be a multi-purpose achievement.
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When Yu Dong met Mike Mohan and Alan Adham, it had just been three days since the release of "The Snowman". Each of them held a copy of "The Snowman" and asked Yu Dong to sign it for them.
After Yu Dong finished signing the two books, Alan Adhan took the signed books and said with a smile: "YU, to be honest, when I saw the official release of Deep Space Tribe, I was very happy, because
I think "Snowman" was written for us at Blizzard."
Yu Dong was drinking water from a cup, glanced over the rim of the cup at Alan Adhan, and couldn't help but smile.
Alan Adhan's statement is really far-fetched. Although snowman has snow and blizzard also has snow, in English, the two words have little relationship.
Yu Dong can understand why Alan Adhan said this. Now that Deep Space has become the parent company of Blizzard, the future development of Blizzard will depend on the attitude of Deep Space.
Even if they don't know the specific relationship between Yu Dong and Deep Space America, they understand that they are right to flatter him.
Yu Dong did not pick a fight with Alan Adham, but instead talked about their schedule, "There are still several days until the World Video Game Competition, so I thought you would come over later."
Mike Mohan said with a smile: "There just hasn't been much happening recently, so Allen and I came over. I heard that the Deep Space Park is doing very well, and we wanted to come over and have a look in advance."
"Have you already gone to see it?" Yu Dong asked with a smile.
"No, we will come to visit you as soon as we arrive in Aurous Hill." Mike Mohan shook his head with a smile, and then asked tentatively: "We heard..."
Yu Dong knew what he was going to ask and laughed, "You heard that Deep Space is going to acquire Blizzard. Does it have anything to do with me?"
The two of them didn't speak, just nodded and looked at Yu Dong.
"The news you heard is correct." Yu Dong answered affirmatively, "It was indeed my proposal to acquire your company, because I am very optimistic about the development of your company, especially the theme of Warcraft."
Alan Yardham and Mike Mohan looked at each other. Both of them were a little surprised. On the one hand, the unexpected acquisition was really promoted by YU. On the other hand, what was surprising was that YU actually took a fancy to them.
Warcraft theme, not StarCraft.
Compared with "StarCraft", which is popular all over the world, "Warcraft" has much less appeal, because there is no essential difference between the gameplay of "Warcraft" and StarCraft.
In the opinion of most people, there is no need to play "Warcraft" after finishing "StarCraft", unless the player prefers the style and characters in "Warcraft".
Seeing the doubts of the two people, Yu Dong did not explain them more. He just smiled and said: "Although I am more optimistic about "Warcraft", I have not added it to the World Electronic Game Competition because it is not yet available.
This is not the time. If "Warcraft" wants to differentiate itself from "StarCraft", it has to make some breakthroughs. Otherwise, as long as "StarCraft" is around, "Warcraft" will not be able to get started."
Mike Mohan said with a surprised look, "We were really thinking about this problem some time ago, and we also thought of a solution. As long as we add heroes to the game..."
Hearing Mike Mohan mention heroes, Alan Adham on the side quickly coughed, "Ahem."
Mike Mohan also reacted and stopped in time without saying any more.
Yu Dong glanced at the two of them with a smile and understood what they were thinking. Although Deep Space Company was the parent company of Blizzard, they still wanted to guard against him.
Yu Dong understood this. As for what Mike Mohan didn't finish, Yu Dong could probably guess what it was.
"Warcraft" became popular because of the emergence of "Warcraft 3", and the biggest difference between "Warcraft 3" and "Warcraft 2" is the increased importance of heroes in the game.
Because the role of heroes is enriched, "Warcraft" and "StarCraft" are essentially different from each other, and they truly become two games.
Because of this, wcg later added "Warcraft 3" to the game.
Later, the emergence of Dota can also be said to be due to this change in "Warcraft 3".
But since Mike Mohan and the others didn't talk about it, Yu Dong didn't bring it up. All he needed to know was that Mike Mohan and the others had also thought about it.
As long as Mike Mohan and others think of it, there should be no surprises in "Warcraft 3".
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Chapter completed!